- Playing with fire
As one of the world’s most powerful natural forces, fire holds many different meanings to everyone. To some, it’s an instrument of destruction — and a cause for worry. For others, it means warmth during chilly weather, or just a way to roast marshmallows. But for George Hadjisophocleous, a Carleton ...
- Painless parenting
Taking a child to the emergency room or to get a routine immunization is an experience most parents dread. Instinctively, they seek to soothe their children by telling them that everything will turn out fine. But Dalhousie University researchers Meghan McMurtry and Christine Chambers have some surpr ...
- Barcoding life
Biologist Paul Hebert couldn’t believe his eyes when a colleague found a species of moth native to Mexico fluttering over the tundra at the fringes of Hudson Bay in Churchill, Man., one summer day in 2006. The huge black witch moth with a 20-centimetre wingspan had never before been found that far n ...
- Building smarts
- Send in the bacteria
The video clip is the stuff of science fiction: a swarm of 5,000 bacteria lift microscopic epoxy bricks and assemble them one by one to form a pyramid, as if they were building a tower of blocks. A computer directs their movement by controlling magnetic fields.But for Sylvain Martel and his team of ...
- Scientists Ponder Dolphin Mystery
Victoria, British Columbia: -- Canadian scientists say they are puzzled why dolphins, which normally stay in offshore waters, are showing up close to shore and in inlets on Vancouver Island. Dolphins started moving closer to land in the mid-1980s but the reason is still unknown, researchers said. I ...
- Gaza hospital chief warns fuel crisis imperiling l ...
The director of Gaza City's Dar Ash-Shifa Hospital warned Monday that dozens of patients in the hospital's care could die as a result of a fuel shortage. Hospital director Hussein Ashour told Ma'an that only 16,000 liters of fuel remained but that generators consume 7,000 liters daily. The generato ...
- The Palestinian resistance in Nilin: "Once winter' ...
When Israel's construction of the wall began in their village May 2008, the people of the occupied West Bank town of Nilin embarked on a campaign of unarmed grassroots resistance against the theft of their land. They have followed a philosophy of direct action, cutting through the electronic fence a ...
- How to Kill Goyim and Influence People: Israeli Ra ...
A rabbinical guidebook for killing non-Jews has sparked an uproar in Israel and exposed the power a bunch of genocidal theocrats wield over the government. When I went into the Jewish religious book emporium, Pomeranz, in central Jerusalem to inquire about the availability of a book called Torat Ha ...
- Possible Breakthrough in Breeding Parasite-Resista ...
A British beekeeper says he may have discovered a strain of honey bee immune to a parasite that has been gradually wiping out populations of the vital insect worldwide. Scientists have been trying to find a way to fight the pesticide-resistant Varroa mite. But now a retired heating engineer who ...
- Beware the alliance which is exclusive
This may look like nothing more than conservative efficiency in action but it carries with it the great dangers which led to the 1914 - 1918 Great War. ... a Defence Ministry source told Reuters that Britain might cancel one or both of its planned new aircraft carriers to cut costs, though there ...
- And that's a little problem we have, Steve.
I almost missed this . Thankfully I came back into cyber-range and caught this . So... little Stevie apparently flaunts the rules, breaks a few regulations and goes out to play on a tundra-based airstrip. Nope. Staged event. His handlers orchestrated this for the dumb and stupid. Security risk? Ze ...
- Stay where you are . . .
NPR has a review of Catherine Price's oeuvre, " 101 Places Not To Visit Before You Die " that is worthy of perusal. The Taj Mahal, the Great Wall of China and the pyramids in Egypt are all likely candidates for a traveler's Must-See-Before-I-Die list. The Seattle Gum Wall, the Beijing Museum of Tap ...
- At the going down of the sun...
With condolences and respect to the family and friends of Corporal Brian Pinksen, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Newfoundland Regiment. This day succumbed to wounds received due to enemy action 22 August, 2010. Better than the best
- Hurricane Earl and Tropical Storm Fiona - 310001Z
Hurricane Earl intensified this afternoon and became a category 4 cyclone. In short, this system is big and powerful. It is tracking through minimal wind shear and very warm sea surface temperatures which will likely see it intensify even further over the next 48 hours. It is still tracking slightl ...
- Fox's Jarrett invents GDP contraction in latest s ...
Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett falsely claimed U.S. gross domestic product "contracted over the last three quarters" to suggest that the stimulus failed. In fact, GDP has increased for four consecutive quarters, and economists agree that GDP and employment levels are higher than they would have ...
- Fox News' latest election "controversy" falls apa ...
Fox News baselessly suggested that Democrats would attempt to "skew" the fall elections by exempting "battleground" states from a requirement that they ship ballots to overseas military personnel at least 45 days before the election. This manufactured controversy has completely fallen apar ...
- Lou Dobbs brings his immigration lies to Fox
Fox News' America Live �repeatedly hosts Lou Dobbs to mislead on immigration issues, despite his history of making false and absurd claims on the issue, such grossly overestimating the number of new leprosy cases in the U.S. and blaming that distorted figure on immigrants. Dobbs pushed falsehood th ...
- "Restoring Honor": Glenn Beck honors Glenn Beck
Much of Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" weekend -- and the run-up to it -- focused on one thing: Glenn Beck. Beck introduced a Beck-sanctioned clergy group that he claimed represented "180 million people," repeatedly associated himself with Martin Luther King Jr., made outlandish claims about t ...
- Fox botches ICE policy to claim feds are granting ...
Fox News falsely reported that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has instituted a new policy of only deporting unauthorized immigrants who have committed serious crimes. In fact, DHS continues to deport those who have not committed crimes, but, in an effort improve the efficiency of the rem ...
- The Bloated Pentagon
Here are four slides that are part of a much larger presentation prepared by the Defense Business Board, an advisory council to the Secretary of Defense that was created in 2001. It is not classified and was sent to me by one of our readers who is as concerned as I am that Eisenhower's warning of th ...
- Become a Deficit Hawk: You Can Be Offensive, Sexis ...
Most people try to be respectful of those around them. They also try to be informed and intelligent about the world. This requires some effort, but most of us consider the rewards to be worth the effort. Of course some people don't make the effort. For these people, there is an alternative route ...
- Warning: Why Cheaper Money Won't Mean More Jobs
Can the Fed rescue the economy by making money even cheaper than it already is? A debate is being played out in the Fed about whether it should return to so-called "quantitative easing" - buying more mortgage-backed securities, Treasury bills, and other bonds - in order to lower the cost of capital ...
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- Crazy Illogic From Israel's Ambassador To United S ...
The New York Times on Monday features a pretty good piec e on the upcoming Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. But it includes one jarring, even nutty, note. Israel's ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, says that if Iran gets the bomb, the peace process will be over. "In practical t ...
- Can the Democrats' Ground Game Overcome GOP Fervor ...
On the same weekend that Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin addressed thousands of followers on the mall in Washington, DC, with a religiously cloaked Tea Party message to "restore honor" to America, the Democratic Party set itself the ambitious goal of knocking on 400,000 doors to start rallying disenchant ...
- Robert Naiman | "Palestinian Gandhi" Convicted for ...
Last week, an Israeli military court convicted Abdullah Abu Rahma, whom progressive Zionists have called a " Palestinian Gandhi ," of "incitement" and "organizing and participating in illegal demonstrations" for organizing protests against the confiscation of Palestinian land by the "Apartheid Wall" ...
- Media Didn't Buy Petraeus Command's Story of Low T ...
Washington - In an effort to introduce a story of "progress" into media coverage, Gen. David Petraeus’s command claimed last week that the Taliban is suffering from reduced morale in Marjah and elsewhere, despite evidence that the population of Marjah still believes the Taliban controls that distric ...
- So, Who Won the War in Iraq? Iran.
Beirut, Lebanon - In February 2003, as he marshaled the United States for war, President George W. Bush declared: “A new regime in Iraq would serve as a dramatic and inspiring example of freedom for other nations in the region.” read more
- News in Brief: UN Report Accuses Rwandan Troops of ...
A forthcoming United Nations report says crimes committed by Rwanda’s Army and Congolese rebels during the 1990s in Congo could be classified as genocide. According to The New York Times, the report challenges the conventional history of events in the area following the 1994 Rwandan genocide, chargi ...
- Electric Car Batteries are Greener than Expected
The lithium ion (Li-ion) batteries that will be powering the electric cars of tomorrow are much greener than originally expected, according to new research conducted. Much has been made of whether electric cars will actually be the saviour of our future, or whether they are just redistributing the e ...
- Newest Electrical Source is in the Air
New research into how lightning forms has started yielding what might be the first opening into a new source of alternative energy. According to a report presented at the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society( ACS), scientists are already in the early stages of developing devices t ...
- How Journalists and Environmentalists are Co-opted ...
This isn’t breaking news, but Change.org has a great piece (via the Atlantic) on the story of a young, idealistic journalist who was offered the opportunity to be paid a mint ($20k) to take a dream trip through indigenous parts of Ecuador, and turned it down when she realized she was essentially bei ...
- El Niños Growing Stronger
Scientists have detected a new type of El Niño that is forming in the warmer waters of the central-equatorial Pacific Ocean, causing the El Niños to become more common and stronger. Researchers found that the intensity of El Niños has nearly doubled in the central Pacific. The research, conducted ...
- Ice Age Melting Caused by CO2 Release
A recent study has shown that a large release of CO2 could in fact speed up the melting following an ice age. Authored by Tom Guilderson from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, the study used radiocarbon dating to trace the pathway of carbon dioxide ...
- Humanity must preserve itself in order to live for ...
"Humanity must preserve itself in order to live for thousands of years," Fidel responded to Russian writer Daniel Estulin, author of the Bilderberg Club trilogy, who is visiting Havana. He stated that in relation to the visitor’s belief that in order to s ...
- LaRouche supporter assaulted by private police thu ...
This first day of the 2010 Alaska State Fair starts with sunny skies and a brutal assault by security personnel on a LaRouche supporter. At about 5pm Alaska Time, Thursday, August 26, 2010, security personnel approach Sidney Hill, a lone man peacefully displaying an impeach Obama sign near Pi ...
- Jesse Jackson, UAW hustle votes for Democrats at D ...
The “Rebuild America: Jobs, Justice and Peace” march held in Detroit August 28, had nothing to do with rebuilding the devastated city, creating jobs, or achieving peace. The event, called by UAW President Bob King and the Reverend Jesse Jackson, was little more than a campaign rally for the D ...
- US arrests 370 immigrants in Midwest raids - World ...
31 August 2010 A large-scale police operation resulted in the arrest of 370 immigrants in ten Midwestern states last week. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) coordinated with other federal authorities in conducting the operation, dubbed “Cross Check.” Arrests of immigrants from ...
- Fourteen more US troops killed in Afghanistan: Wha ...
"These latest deaths bring US fatalities for the month to nearly 50, after the record 65 killed in July." 31 August 2010 Another 14 US troops have been killed in Afghanistan since Saturday, with the death toll so far this year already rising to the level reached for all of...
- I remember when I was a traitor for predicting thi ...
I was one of those wet blankets who was derided and dismissed and called a traitor and accused of hating my country for not jumping on the warwagon in the runup to the invasion of Iraq . I was in the nurses station in a public health clinic, charting the point-of-care lab results for the day's patie ...
- "You knew I was a scorpion..."
This is what happens when you listen to Rahm Emanuel instead of us fucking retards, Mr. President. Daniel S. Loeb, the hedge fund manager, was one of Barack Obama's biggest backers in the 2008 presidential campaign. A registered Democrat, Mr. Loeb has given and raised hundreds of thousands of dolla ...
- Is Your Congress Critter for You or for Coporation ...
Find out - ask him/her to Sign the Pledge to stop corporate control of elections. From Down with Tyranny: A few weeks ago People For the American Way sent a letter to men and women running for Congress calling their attention to a fundamental, even existential, threat to our Democracy. The 5 right- ...
- The Nightowl Newswrap
Pretty cheap for a new lease on life, if you ask us "A pill costing less than ?1.50 a day has the potential to save the lives of thousands of heart failure patients, medical trials suggest. ... The drug, ivabradine, is already available in the UK to treat angina. ... Prof Martin Cowie, who led the U ...
- Annoy a Hate-monger: Help the Slashed Taxi Driver
Unless you're full-blooded Amerindian, you have immigrant ancestors who would relate to this guy - to his struggles, to his courage, to his love for and loyalty to this country. �And they would tell you to open your wallet to help him. Susie Madrak: My heart just breaks for Mr. Sharif and his family ...
- We Hold These Truths to be Completely Malleable
Last week a Pew Research poll showed that an alarming number of Americans believe President Obama to be a Muslim. An even more alarming number question his Christianity. Now, this commentator finds it offensive that this story is picked up by the mainstream media with no examination at all as to why ...
- "Conspiracies R Us" - Wedges Divide the Nation By ...
Before we unprofessional leftists get too high on our horse, blithely scoffing at Beck or Palin's staged chicanery, let us acknowledge our own home-grown "conspiracy theories." Agreed, ours are more realistic, indeed evidence-based, but they're still self-serving, wide-ranging projections, often pr ...
- Withdraw the Last Combat Politicians from Washingt ...
Pretending to end a war and occupation, while stationing 50,000 soldiers, 18,000 mercenaries, and 84,000 support contractors in massive and permanent military bases in Iraq is a far cry from what candidate Barack Obama described as ending "the mind-set that got us into war in the first place." It fi ...
- China and India: War of the Worlds Will there be ...
Will there be a major war between China and India? That's the 64,000 rupee question addressed by the highly respected British magazine "The Economist" in a major article in their 21 August issue. The "Economist" warns that the long contested border between the two giant Asian rivals risks sparking f ...
- Will Ohio execute an innocent man?
Here we go again, this time in Ohio. There, death row inmate Kevin Keith is scheduled to be executed on September 15, despite strong new evidence of his innocence. Keith was convicted in 1994 for a shooting spree that killed three people and wounded three others. Eyewitness testimony was the primary ...
- “Here’s Ya A Sign…” *Open ...
Actually, here are a number of signs, in fact. Allegedly, these are real signs on Northbound I-5 in Washington State, below Seattle (and I wish I knew who to credit for these). With so much going on right now, there is nothing like a little humor to deal with it all, right (even [...]
- Future President?
You may think we are devolving back to 2006 – 08 but pay close attention here. We go a little further back – The 1990s. We start with a young state senator who has a friendly relationship with a businessman who has funding ties in the Middle East. As state [...]
- Last night’s major Emmy winner on PaulieR ...
LAST NIGHT YOU SAW HER on stage at the Emmy’s when the movie of her life (now in DVD, titled “Temple Grandin“), based on her book, won several awards. Few would disagree that Temple Grandin, Ph.D. — tonight’s guest on Paulie Abeles’ radio show at 9:00 p.m. ET — has revolutionized the American me ...
- New Orleans Today, Five Years After Katrina
New Orleans is in the news this week as we mark the Fifth Anniversary of Katrina, and the devastation wreaked on this city. It is remarkable to see how much has changed, and how much hasn’t. But who could forget the images from the Superdome, both the structure itself, and the refuge it provided [ ...
- Obama, Depends on What the Meaning of Muslim Is
Boy, you’d think after a heady vacation at Martha’s Vineyard that Barack Obama would have learned that being a whiner is not a turn on for the voters. Nope. He’s a goddamned cry baby. Here’s the boy-child from Hawaii in a sob fest with Brian Williams: President Barack Obama dismissed a recent pol ...
- Dogs Doing The Dumbest Things
Dog owners will know that though adorable, trusting and great pals most of the time, dogs can do the darndest things. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- The World's Most Amazing Vertical Gardens
It is possible to go green in such a way that you save money, encourage plant and insect life, and enjoy much more pleasant surroundings, even in the heart of the city. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the artic ...
- The Battle of Antietam: The Bloodiest Day in Ameri ...
It cost more US soldiers' lives than any other battle in military history, yet neither side won. The bloodiest battle for the least gain epitomised the futility of war. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the artic ...
- Sensual Snorkeling in Palau's Jellyfish Lake
You might be wondering what sensual snorkeling could be. I had never heard of it before, but then again I only recently learned of Jellyfish Lake as well! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- The Dark World of the Crippled Coffin Fly
Coffin flies are known for their ability to dig 6 feet underground, but they are also waste removal genuises and rid the Earth of pests like ants - here's how. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
- Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K Gov ...
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will be c ...
- President European Commission Advocated World Gove ...
Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International Affa ...
- Billions of People Expected to Die Under Current C ...
Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in the d ...
- Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of a G ...
Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare progr ...
- Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’s p ...
- Video: Lawsuit Zombies fight state repression with ...
Video release of sorts from the Minneapolis zombies, and a fun edit. 1min40s, brevity! Plz subscribe to Youtube & now Scribd document service as well. If you haven't yet, check out Scribd for a marvelous array of all sorts of documents (PDFs, office, etc)...w00pw00p. Press release: Zomb ...
- California rolls out heat cannon torture weapon Ac ...
Oh Shit!!! Let's explain how the mass torture weapon deployment rollout program works in the global scientific dictatorship. First the weapons are used on brown people in the field by the military, then on military prisoners, then on domestic prisoners. Then on protesters, then on random people. Thi ...
- Kanye West Masonic/Egyptian "Power"; Viktor Bout's ...
"In the threatening situation of the world today, when people are beginning to see that everything is at stake, the projection-creating fantasy soars beyond the realm of earthly organizations and powers into the heavens, into interstellar space, where the rulers of human fate, the gods, once had the ...
- Barclays Bank: The design of criminal banking oper ...
Crossposted - Barclays Bank Forfeits $298 Million for Aiding Rogue Nations 18 August 2010 Court filings: http://cryptome.org/0002/barclays/usa-v-barclays.htm Barclays Bank Forfeits $298 Million for Aiding Rogue Nations http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2010/August/10-crm-933.html Department of Ju ...
- LinkBatch for August 19th 2010: In-Q-Tel CIA front ...
Let's start with the FDA's plan to kill everyone: Junk food-addicted rats chose to starve themselves rather than eat healthy food . Kind of amazed that the Iraq 'combat mission' officially ended, as this seven-year epic dominated my college experience & well basically shaped a whole era. But did FOX ...
- Glen Beck Rallies the Faithful
By Numerian posted by Michael Collins Two score and seven years ago the nation’s dispossessed thronged the Lincoln Memorial to hear Martin Luther King define the struggle for African-American civil rights.(Image) Today it was the turn of the nation’s disenfranchised to gather at the same place, lame ...
- The Mosque of Misdirection
o while the neo-con mind control machine gears up the true-believers in the Tea Party for a hate fest at Ground Zero-where they will rail and rant against Islam and no doubt attempt in their comical, over-the-top way to call for revolution and paint Obama as a space alien overlord-the money keeps on ...
- The Puppet Masters
The “New Yorker” magazine is probably the most independent, important mainstream media source in our country. Â I first heard of this article on NPR, when they interviewed the author. Â I doubt that you will be able to finish reading this, but the Koch brothers and their hands in American politics m ...
- Why Economic Growth in the United States Cannot Ha ...
By Joaquin posted by Michael Collins So, you cut back on your lifestyle; performed a so un-Greek personal austerity reset but your credit card balance is still creeping up; or perhaps you are slowly burning through your savings; or you are at the end of the line; abandon ship. Whatever, you have a l ...
- Unspoken Symbols of Terror
The Islamic Community Center and Terrorism Symbols: America’s Quest for Hypocritical Perfection By: Solomon Comissiong A substantial number of Americans seem to savor opportunities that will expose them for the barbaric hypocrites they are. As if it were simply not good enough to be mindless sheep n ...
- Wright County Egg's First every 483 Inspection Rep ...
As I was boarding a plane to Chicago, my inbox filled up with Wright County Egg's and Hillandale Farm's first every FDA inspection - the so called 483. Here are the highlights (more like lowlights) of Wright County Egg. Frankly, it was hard to read this one. I'll leave Hillandale's for another day ...
- AOL's Andrew Schneider weighs in on E. coli O26
I am heading to Chicago to attend two E. coli O157:H7 mediations and the annual CDC PulseNet conference, and just got the chance to read Mr. Schneider’s “USDA Lax on E. Coli Strain Linked to Beef Recall.” I would urge all to do so.
- Why does the AMI not want bacteria that can kill y ...
In a letter to USDA Secretary Vilsack on August 18, 2010, J. Patrick Boyle, President and CEO of AMI stated “outbreaks associated with non-O157:H7 STECs in various foods have been documented, but no reported outbreak in the U.S. has been confirmed to be directly linked to beef products.” Really J. ...
- Doing my part during the Salmonella Egg Mess
I know realistically that raising a few chickens for eggs in my backyard (presently in the guest room shower) will not change what happened over the last few weeks with the US Egg Industry. �And, I know that the eggs are not necessarily safer, but I felt I needed to do something other than sue some ...
- Non - E. coli O157:H7 EHEC (O26, O45, O111, O121, ...
In light of this weekends recall by Cargill Meat Solutions of approximately 8,500 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O26, and the sickening of three people, it is time for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSI ...
- CNET to the Rescue: Leave the world behind
If you're heading out of town and leaving the electronic world behind, don't forget that your e-mail contacts, Facebook friends, and Farmville plants will still be expecting to see you around online, interacting with them. Here are some tips for managing your electronic world when you step away ...
- Reporters' Roundtable: Net neutrality
Today we're talking about an issue that's been in the news a lot in the past few days: Net neutrality -- the concept of a network infrastructure that is nondiscriminatory when it comes to types and sources and the content of Internet traffic. To support Net neutrality is to support freedom, o ...
- CNET to the Rescue: How to look sharp
We've got an interesting topic to talk about before getting into questions today. It's how to look good in your pictures. Dating site OkCupid has aggregated 11.4 million opinions on what its members classify as "great" or otherwise attractive photos. Listen now: Download today's podcast ...
- Reporters' Roundtable: Security report on Black Ha ...
We sent three reporters to the dual security conferences, Black Hat and Defcon , last week in Las Vegas. Each has a different coverage area and perspective: Elinor Mills is CNET's security reporter. Declan McCullagh covers government and policy, and Seth Rosenblatt is an editor and reviewer for C ...
- CNET to the Rescue: Cleaning up the cable mess
Today we get wrapped up in cables. We're talking about the best ways to manager an unruly rat's nest of data and power wires into a thing of beauty and logic. With bonus rat's nest pictures from listeners--so watch the video for the full experience. Also, questions about moving from and to Andro ...
- Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so fre ...
- The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and the ...
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces of ...
- Written on the screen: mediation and immersion in ...
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigorous ...
- Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmine's ...
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of pro ...
- Dangerous spaces: Safe.
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935029/dangerous-spaces-safe.html September 1, 2004... For me, the problem is always in content; we want to define the perspective of a film solely through its content, and not through its form. --Todd Haynes No matter how much we desire, w ...
- Watch: Muslim Taxi Driver Attacked in Hate Crime S ...
New York City Taxi Driver Ahmed Sharif and his supporters hold a press conference on the steps of City Hall on August 26th, just days after he was attacked by a passenger for being Muslim. Speakers include Ahmed Sharif, Bhairavi Desai of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, and CAIR-NY Civil Rights ...
- Rotten Eggs and Our Broken Democracy
What do a half-billion eggs have to do with democracy? The massive recall of salmonella-infected eggs, the largest egg recall in U.S. history, opens a window on the power of large corporations over not only our health, but over our government. While scores of brands have been recalled, they all ...
- Amy Goodman on CNN's John King, USA tonight at 7 p ...
Democracy Now! ’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on CNN’s John King, USA , on Monday, August 23rd at 7pm Eastern Time.
- WATCH: Amy Goodman on CNN's John King, USA
Democracy Now! ’s award-winning host Amy Goodman appeared on CNN’s John King, USA , on Friday, August 20th at 7pm Eastern Time.
- Amy Goodman to appear tonight on CNN's _John King, ...
Democracy Now! ’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on CNN’s John King, USA , on Friday, August 20th at 7pm Eastern Time.
- Imperial Storm Scientists
The Red Army Faction was a communist guerilla group operating 1970-1998 in, of all places, West Germany. The RAF engaged in a variety of operations in the 1970s, including assassinations and bombings, primarily around the German government’s material support of the U.S. war in Vietnam. As depicted i ...
- Does Influenza Evolve in Multiple Tenses?
The past may possess a power greater than prologue. Any one with a social networking account knows that. All of a sudden you find yourself daily interacting with people long thought boxed away. People mature, yes, but sensibilities remain largely intact and an old year, fine wine or vinegar, pours b ...
- Influenza’s Historical Present
I delivered the following speech, co-written with economic geographer Luke Bergmann, at the NIH-FAO-sponsored ‘Second International Workshop on Community-based Data Synthesis, Analysis and Modeling of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 in Asia’ held in Beijing earlier this month. The speech is b ...
- The Alan Greenspan Strain
First, a question with which few biogeographers bother. If a goodly chunk of their discipline is dedicated toward obfuscating the impact capitalism imposes on the natural world (discussed here and here), how can researchers interested in paying their bills study the crises that threaten the croupier ...
- King Leopold’s Pandemic
The origins of HIV offer a great example of the ways treating human impact as an afterthought—discussed in our previous post—locks the study of pathogens into limited and oftentimes downright drunken trajectories. In 2006 Beatrice Hahn and her colleagues identified the likely source for the SIVcpz p ...
- Who Is Behind The Tea Party Movement?
New York Billionaires Behind The Tea Party Movement Posted in Liberaland by Alan • August 23, 2010, 3:20 PMET The myth of the tea party being a grassroots movement takes another hit, as the New Yorker‘s Jane Mayer looks a the Koch brothers, Charles and David, who fund much of the tea party movement ...
- Obama Addresses Gulf, Muslim Rumors, Birthers, Gle ...
Obama: Muslim Rumors Not A Concern (VIDEO) Huff Post- First Posted: 08-29-10 09:56 PMÂ Â Â |Â Â Â Updated: 08-29-10 09:57 PM NEW ORLEANS (Associated Press) – President Barack Obama said Sunday he isn’t worried about a recent poll showing that nearly one-fifth of Americans believe he is a Muslim. “Th ...
- Glenn Beck Regrets Calling Obama Racist: ‘I ...
Glenn Beck Regrets Calling Obama Racist: ‘I Have A Big, Fat Mouth’ (VIDEO) Huff Post- First Posted: 08-30-10 12:30 AMÂ Â Â |Â Â Â Updated: 08-30-10 12:33 AM Speaking on “Fox News Sunday” with Chris Wallace, Glenn Beck gave his first interview after Saturday’s Restoring Honor rally in Washington, DC. ...
- Biden Visits Iraq To Mark Formal End To U.S. Comba ...
Biden Visits Iraq To Mark Formal End To U.S. Combat LARA JAKES and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | 08/30/10 11:22 AM | BAGHDAD â Vice President Joe Biden returned to Iraq Monday to mark this week’s formal end to U.S. combat operations and push the country’s leaders to end a six-month postelection stalemate b ...
- Beck Blasts Obama’s ‘Perversion Of The Gospel,’ Wh ...
Beck Blasts Obama’s ‘Perversion Of The Gospel,’ While Evangelicals Blast Beck’s ‘False Gospel’ Think Progress- By Faiz Shakir at 9:50 am At his “Restoring Honor” rally, rodeo clown-turned-televangelist Glenn Beck told his flock, “America today begins to turn back to God. For too long, this country h ...
- Loving Montana
Flathead Lake, MT I left Hickory Valley on August 21st. I drove into Memphis first, to pack my cooler full of fresh organic salads and fruits. I have learned not to search for fresh food on the road. I was headed to Montana, where I lived for most of 2005 and wrote Dillon, Read & Co. [...]
- The National Security State & the Clash of Civiliz ...
“…This three volume series is the nearest thing to an official history of the UFO phenomenon that we are ever likely to see. While this second volume is an authoritative account, this is no dry history - in this gripping account, Dolan captures the cases, the controversies and the characters, givi ...
- The Abyss
“I don’t want to see this country ever go across the bridge… I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency [NSA] and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross [... ...
- 59% Support Arizona Law; 53% Trust States More tha ...
Despite a judge’s ruling putting key provisions of Arizona’s new immigration law on hold,most U.S. voters still favor passage of such a law in their own state. They also think it’s better to have states enforce immigration law rather than to rely on the federal government. A new Rasmussen Reports na ...
- On the Food “Safety” Bill
If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny. - Thomas Jefferson
- Times Scare
ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job. [. ...
- Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan , Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban . ... and more��
- Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afg ...
BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency ? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in Afghanistan Sri Lanka ...
- Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United Press ...
Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan , Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more��
- Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA new ...
Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more��
- We could reduce government bureaucracy, but much o ...
Summary: We need less government waste and greater efficiency. These are good and important objectives, but we must have realistic expectations about the potential gains. Other than transfer payments (a separate problem) spending on the government machinery funds the military and intelligence ...
- Quote of the Day (with a brief analysis from the F ...
Recommended reading:  ”Policy Options Dwindle as Economic Fears Grow“, New York Times, 29 August 2010 — Plus the graphics here. Esp note this quote from Bruce Bartlett: âWeâre already in a gridlock situation, and nothing substantive is going to change. Clearly, a weak economy in 2012 wil ...
- Update to the Wikeleaks rape story, and why itR ...
Summary: A follow-up to The full story of the rape charges against Julian Assange of Wikileaks, a possible covert op. It’s an important story, deserving your attention. Contents Why it’s important Latest news If it’s a covert op, it’s working Another motive for the possible covert op against ...
- The coming Robotic Nation
Summary: A second post about the coming waves of unemployment from the development of semi-intelligent machines, the next wave of automation. The future will bring large and terrifying changes to our society, especially the inevitable progress of technology. Fortunately we have a few people look ...
- Chronology of the rape charges against Julian Assa ...
Summary: Here’s the chronology for the Wikileaks rape incident, necessary since journalists seldom can assemble data to tell a coherent story. Esp when the story suggests (nothing more than suggests) a US disinformation operation. This is a follow-up to Sad news about the CIA. Contents ...
- For Iraqis, Victims of War Are So Much More Than N ...
New York Times – In a pastel-colored room at the Baghdad morgue known simply as the Missing, where faces of the thousands of unidentified dead of this war are projected onto four screens, Hamid Jassem came on a Sunday searching for answers. In a blue plastic chair, he sat under harsh fluorescent lig ...
- Cleveland residents get RFID-equipped recycling
Register – Residents in Cleveland, Ohio, will have to ensure their recycling is out on time or face a $100 fine for failing to do their bit. RFID tags will be fitted to the recycling bins provide by the city council, and counted by passing rubbish-collection vans. Any residents whose recycling bin i ...
- Smoking cannabis found to ease pain caused by dama ...
Daily Mail – Puffing cannabis from a pipe can significantly reduce chronic pain in patients with damaged nerves, a small study has shown. Pill preparations of cannabis extract have previously been successful in treating certain types of pain. But researchers avoided studying the effects of smoking c ...
- Is BP Still Spraying Toxic Dispersants in the Gulf ...
DailyFinance-The BP (BP) oil spill may be over, but controversy over the company’s use of toxic oil dispersants in the Gulf of Mexico is still going strong. Although BP allegedly stopped using the chemicals more than a month ago, area residents claim it is still spraying Corexit, a chemical dispersa ...
- New Zealand – Public Pressure Compels Council to L ...
Top News – Kapiti Coast District Council had to reduce fluoride dosing in its town supply after it faced public pressure. Previously in the month of June, extremely divided council made the decision that it would retain the usage of fluoride in the water supply for Waikanae, Paraparaumu and Raumati, ...
- Cholera epidemic, a symptom of underdevelopment in ...
Cholera epidemic, a symptom of underdevelopment in Nigeria and the Third World (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Cholera has killed 87 and infected 1,315 over the past month in Nigeria. The two northern states affected most are Bauchi and Borno. In Bauchi alone 47 are dead and 1,200 infected. Born ...
- O sekciarstwie
O sekciarstwie (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) (Polski) (English) „Drodzy trzecioświatowi maoiści, Wasza strona internetowa jest sekciarska. Krytykujecie tak wiele innych grup. Jak można traktować was poważnie? * Dziękujemy za twoje pytanie. Wielu liberałów bierze krytykę wobec innych grup za de ...
- A spy and the use and abuse of history
A spy and the use and abuse of history (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Poland is likely to extradite Uri Brodsky to Germany. Uri Brodsky is suspected of being part of an Israeli death squad that has recently been in the spotlight. The Israeli agent, likely a member of a Mossad hit team, was inv ...
- Israel “purchasing” advanced aircraft from U.S. fo ...
Israel âpurchasingâ advanced aircraft from U.S. for Use Against Iran (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Israel is purchasing roughly 20 F-35I strike jets from the United States. Four billion dollars will be used to purchase the Lockheed Martin “Joint Strike Fighters,” along with services, parts ...
- Who and What are Trotsky-cons?
[An earlier, choppier version of this article was published in September 2006 under a slightly different title. It was removed shortly after its original publication for various reasons. The article has been cleaned up in the newer version. Parts of the article may seem dated with the passing of t ...
- 10 films the US Government would rather you not se ...
These are 10 films that I believe if watched by the majority of US citizens there would be demands of impeachment, a push to pull out of Afghanistan/Iraq and a complete shift in thought or at the very least some questioning of the government.
- William Cooper – Exposing the Illuminati Dajjal Go ...
This is a short yet important video presenting Bill Cooper's 9/11 prediction, rare 9/11 footage and audio from his book "Behold a Pale Horse" and the Illuminati agenda. Bill Cooper was one of the top conspiracy researchers, he was active on exposing the Illuminati (secret government) and most import ...
- Fidel Castro: Osama bin Laden Worked for CIA
Fidel Castro has more reason than most to believe conspiracy theories involving dark forces in Washington. After all, the CIA tried to blow his head off with an exploding cigar.
- Gerald Celente: Economic Collision Course The ‘Cra ...
Following the "Panic of '08" and the subsequent "Great Recession," Washington, Wall Street and the media united to promote the belief that extreme crisis management measures enacted by governments had rescued the world, and staved off even worse disaster. "Recovery" was in the air. "Recovery" was ...
- Pakistan in HAARP-watersnood: Een nieuwe zet op he ...
De grote machten achter de schermen van het wereldtoneel, hebben hun eigen -uiterst geheime- agenda. Een van de grootste wapens in de wereld is het HAARP systeem in Alaska (en waarschijnlijk andere delen van de wereld). Dit systeem is tot heel heftige zaken in staat. Wij wijzen je graag op diverse ...
- Disgraceful: The Ground Zero Mosque Controversy
I don’t want to spend much time discussing the opposition to the building of the Park51 Project, a $100 million mosque and cultural center two blocks from the site of the terrorist attacks in New York on September 11, 2001, as such a response to an assault on the First Amendment to the US Constituti ...
- Would Al-Qaeda Terrorists Really Be Reading Harry ...
Every now and then, when the authorities at Guantánamo want to demonstrate how well catered for the prisoners are, a story emerges that purports to demonstrate how well-stocked the prison library is, and how the prisoners are enjoying a range of titles, including J.K. Rowling’s best-selling series o ...
- An interview with Faraj Hassan Alsaadi (from 2007)
The following interview with Faraj Hassan Alsaadi was conducted by Cageprisoners and published in August 2007, and I’m cross-posting it in memory of Faraj, who died in a motorbike accident on August 16. Imprisoned without charge or trial, or held under a control order, from May 2002 until December 2 ...
- In Memoriam: Faraj Hassan Alsaadi (1980-2010)
As I sit here trying to come to terms with the death of Faraj Hassan Alsaadi, who died in a motorbike accident on August 16, it seems to me that nothing can throw us as much as an unexpected death. In Faraj’s case, it is deeply distressing that he leaves behind a wife and three [...]
- Lawlessness Haunts Omar Khadr’s Blighted War Crime ...
On August 12, the US administration’s intention to proceed with the war crimes trial of Omar Khadr, a Canadian who was just 15 years old when he was seized after a firefight in Afghanistan in July 2002, was temporarily delayed when Khadr’s military lawyer, Army Lt. Col. Jon Jackson, collapsed in the ...
- The Root Of The Problem: Education
From former New Milford raised a glass and brewed Todd Umbarger and without further comment since it says enough on its own (and I could add an essay to this BUT...) : click on this for larger With previous permission from Todd Umbarger . Todd is a New York-based illustrator and draws the politi ...
- Add hawk
I’m a regular citizen. I love my town, I love my town’s school system. I hate arbitrarily high taxes, and I hate wasting time and money. Like most people, I have ideas on how things in my town could be improved. But I’m not an elected official, or a personal friend of the mayor, and I don’t have ...
- Is Walter Bayer a DINO?
Walter Bayer was at the Republican fundraiser for Probate Judge Martin Landgrebe last night. He appeared to be meeting and greeting like a member of the "R" crowd. And you can sometimes find him tipping back a beverage with Roger Szendy and other "R's" at local watering holes. Considering how eas ...
- Simmons Running Senate Ads
Considering Simmons is running neck and neck with Linda McMahon in the primaries even after he dropped out of the race. Why not? From The Day: Rob Simmons, who halted his campaign for the Republican Senate nomination after losing the party endorsement to former WWE CEO Linda McMahon, will begin ai ...
- No Big Surprises In the Latest CT Gov Race Q-Poll
The latest KWIN-uh-pe-ack© numbers are out for the CT-Gov race of 2010 and ctblogger looks at the data overall and the questions a bit , while Ct Bob looks at the inside game of the likely voter numbers . Needless to say, the numbers look good for the Democratic party candidates no matter how it go ...
- Neo-Nazi Official Patrolling Arizona Border Lauds ...
As if Arizona wasnât already unfriendly enough territory for immigrants, now they have to face angry, armed neo-Nazis. Incredibly, a small group of heavily armed racists patrolled for migrants and drug cartels last week on the Southern border. Led by J.T. Ready â a recent member of the neo-Nazi ...
- A Kinder, Gentler Lou Dobbs?
Ever since he was bounced from his high-profile gig at CNN nearly nine months ago, we have seen a kinder, gentler Lou Dobbs than the commentator who became synonymous with vilifying undocumented immigrants. The latest from Dobbs came this week, when he told Megyn Kelly at Fox News and George Stephan ...
- Author Interview: Journalist Probes ‘Backlash’ Und ...
After Barrack Obama’s 2008 election as the nation’s 44 th president, the Tea Party movement sprang up, as did increasingly shrill assertions that the president was a socialist, a communist, a Muslim and more. Gun-rights advocates fretted that the new administration would impose draconian gun control ...
- Racists Need Funds to Give Terrorist a Viking Fune ...
So many causes, so little money. With groups beseeching us for financial help to find cures for diseases, to protect the environment, to help the less fortunate and so forth, it can be tough to decide to whom and what to dole out donations. And now this: An appeal for money so that a murderous terro ...
- Anti-Latino Hate Crimes Seen From Baltimore to Ari ...
Record-breaking high temperatures have been the norm this summer in the United States and other countries. But for Latinos, it’s been even hotter than the thermometer suggests, with one after another targeted for hate crimes around the country. Here’s a sampling of recent incidents: Early last Satu ...
- Abduction, Bombings Follow Massacre of Migrants in ...
Last week, we reported on the brutal deaths of 72 migrants in Mexico, butchered by an organization affiliated with a major Mexican drug cartel. A wave of violence has descended on northern Mexico since then, blanketing the region with more incidents of abduction, assassination, and devastating bombi ...
- Missouri’s 2010 Abortion Restriction Law Goes into ...
Even though philosophers, theologians, scientists, lawyers, and the general human population have never been able to conclusively determine or agree upon the exact moment when life begins, the Missouri state legislature decided this year that they’d just go ahead and answer that pesky question for u ...
- Will China Tax Environmental Impact Before the U.S ...
Was the U.S. Senate's climate bill dead on arrival? Is it about to die? Is it nearly dead? Speculation ran rampant for awhile, but by now, everyone's pretty sure this year's verdict on climate legislation in the United States is "R.I.P." In China, deliberations happen behind closed doors and are wra ...
- Why Are We So Fascinated With the "Cat Bin Lady?"
In Coventry, England, a woman was caught by a security camera petting a cat and then dumping her in a nearby trash bin , where the cat was stuck without food or water for 15 hours before her owners found her. Lola, the cat, was okay, but her owners posted the video online to try and find out the ide ...
- The Great Porn Debate
Pornography: one of the great dividing points in the feminist movement. Is it good? Is it bad? Do anti-porn feminists feel uncomfortable getting in bed with the Religious Right? Do sex-positive pro-porn (or "erotica") feminists get a funny feeling about objectification? Clarisse Thorn has an article ...
- Iraq Special Report: 'American Soldiers Sacrificed ...
by Jonathan Steele In Saddam Hussein's home town of Tikrit, the ruins of the Farouk palace, one of his many mansions, stand bereft and strewn with rubble. It seems only yesterday that I walked through them with the first Iraqi looters in April 2003. During the night Hellfire missiles from US Cobra h ...
- Anger as US Conservatives Hold Washington Rally
by Amanda Lee Myers Tens of thousands of people are attending a controversial rally in Washington DC organised by conservative talk show host Glenn Beck. Civil rights leaders criticised Mr Beck for holding the rally at the Lincoln Memorial, the place where Martin Luther King Jr made his "I Have a Dr ...
- Nato Afghan Bases Come Under Attack
Up to 30 Taliban-linked fighters, including suicide bombers, have attacked two Nato bases in Afghanistan's east. At least 21 fighters were killed and four Nato soldiers wounded in the pre-dawn attacks on Saturday, officials told Al Jazeera. ...
- Exodus as Floods Threaten More Pakistan Towns
THATTA, Pakistan - Hundreds of thousands of people were fleeing areas of southern Pakistan Saturday as rising floodwaters breached more defences and inundated towns. For nearly a month torrential monsoon rains have triggered massive floods, moving steadily from north to south in Pakistan, affecting ...
- Can Our Schools Run on Duncan?
by David Moberg When President Barack Obama announced that his choice for Secretary of Education was Arne Duncan, chief executive of the Chicago Public Schools, he extolled his basketball buddy as a pragmatic, successful school reformer. read more
- Water execs willing to cut 13 bonuses
Under fire for alleged excessive salaries and bonuses of its officials and employees, the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System has recommended to President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III the immediate suspension of nine months' bonuses and a review of four other bonuses.
- Senate: GOCCs liable in paying fat bonuses to exec ...
MANILA, Philippines - The Senate Committee on Finance said government-owned and -controlled corporations (GOCCs) violated several laws in their allocation of excessive bonuses to their officials.
- State official wants to ease rules about businesse ...
TRENTON — State Transportation Commissioner James Simpson wants the federal government to relax the prohibition on commercial enterprises at interstate highway rest stops, which he said would allow the state to reopen rest areas closed for economic reasons.
- In The Pipeline: CoStar Development and Constructi ...
In this week's Pipeline, Forest City Enterprises will privatize and build family housing at four military bases in South Carolina, Tennessee and Mississippi; in Rockville, MD, business and government leaders will officially kick off a $200 million expansion...
- W. Cross Country. Lukens Has Big Plans For Postgra ...
USC senior cross country runner Zara Lukens is applying for four different postgraduate scholarships abroad to pursue her interest in water policy and management issues. Lukens, the co-captain on USC's cross country team, is in the process of applying for the Rhodes scholarship for study at Oxford U ...
- Meek, Rubio take aim at Crist in Florida's U.S. Se ...
A longtime target of finger-to-the-wind accusations, Gov. Charlie Crist has engaged in an unusual amount of hedging, backpedaling and two-stepping since Tuesday's primary crystallized his opposition in the U.S. Senate race.
- Washington Democrat sees progress during Afghan tr ...
WASHINGTON — Since he last visited Afghanistan, Rep. Rick Larsen said, the lights are on in Kabul 24/7, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has opened a chapter in the Afghan capital, and the market there is so jammed with traffic that he and the three other congressmen he was with couldn't get in.
- Templeton, embattled Missouri DNR leader, joins Gu ...
JEFFERSON CITY — Mark Templeton, the embattled and then marginalized leader of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, is leaving state government for a role in the gulf oil spill response effort.
- S.C. Senate candidate Alvin Greene offers few answ ...
Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Alvin Greene traveled by limo from his S.C. home to a Charlotte radio studio Monday, where he danced to a rap song about himself and waltzed around questions about his military record, obscenity charges and issues that seemed to baffle him.
- Fidel Castro gives details of his health problems
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, in his most revealing comments yet on his health crisis four years ago, says he "came to be dead" and "the only thing I hoped for was for the world to stop."
- Mea culpa and au revoir
As several readers have pointed out in comments on my previous post , and several more by e-mail, I made a schoolboy howler in this week's article about how rice yields are responding to temperature rise in Asia. There are 101 reasons I could bore you with as to why it happened, but essentially it ...
- Delivering biochar's triple win
Last year, there seemed to be an unwritten rule in enviro-circles: whenever two or more enviro-folks were gathered together in a place of meeting, talk must turn to biochar . Accounts would be exchanged of articles half-read and half-digested...the pros would be arrayed against the cons...the words ...
- Noaa: The right answer to the wrong question?
While listening to the latest briefing on the Gulf of Mexico oil leak , I've been wondering whether the questions being answered are the right ones. The key factoid presented by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) is that about three-quarters of the 4.9 million barrels that e ...
- An equal partnership with the land?
The journal Nature this week debates one of the most important questions of our age: how can we feed the Earth's growing population such that no-one goes hungry and nature is left with some land and water of its own? Being a science journal, you'll not be surprised to hear that one of the things it ...
- Climate campaigns down the pan
Apologies issued by two campaign groups, WWF and Oxfam , may or may not bring to a close one of the more bizarre yet telling episodes that have materialised within the UN climate convention. At the convention's annual two-week session in June in Bonn , activists removed the nameplate of the Saudi A ...
- Perry To Accept Education Money, But Will ‘L ...
When Congress approved $10 billion in funding for states to preserve education jobs earlier this month, it included the requirement that Texas maintain its current education funding for the next few years if it wants to claim its share of the money. The justification for the move was solid: when the ...
- Charlie Crist Was Against Civil Unions Before He W ...
Yesterday, after initially suggesting that he supported a constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage, Florida Governor Charlie Crist issued a clarification statement saying that while he does not support same sex marriage, he opposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting it. He favors c ...
- Miss Universe 2009 Secures A U.S. Green Card
A little over a week ago, the law firm of Wildes & Weinberg announced that it had successfully helped Venezuelan Miss Universe 2009, Stefania Fernandez, obtain a greed card. Meanwhile, it appears the Mexican Miss Universe 2010, Jimena Navarrete, was seen “chatting away cozily with immigration attor ...
- Corker Demands Check For Nuclear Pork That Adminis ...
Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) — who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that is due to take up a vote on the New START treaty in mid-September — wrote an op-ed over the weekend defending himself against charges that he is holding the New START treaty hostage in exchange for nuclear pork. Cork ...
- Rick Perry: ‘Would You Rather Live In A Stat ...
Over at Change.org, Mike Jones highlights this latest bit of gay-baiting from Texas Governor Rick Perry (R), who is running for re-election in the state. In a rather bizarre exchange about economic growth, Perry suggested that same sex marriage would depress job creation: Social issues might be i ...
- Bankrupt Politics
I would say that there's now only a few millimetres separating Canada's dismal political culture from the thoroughly debased political culture in the United States. I'm linking to this Glenn Greenwald article about the morass of US politics simply because it's so well written and insightful: There a ...
- Sympathy For The Devil?
Okay, somebody can correct me if I'm wrong, I don't follow Canadian personalities as much as I do Miley Cyrus, but there's some half-witted shit-back named Kory Tennuckooluck or something, who wants to bring Glenn Beck to Canada so that he can fellate him and then they can both snort cocaine off of ...
- G-20 Anatomy
Saturday's Toronto Star had an " Anatomy of the G20 " that described the confluence of circumstances that led to the police overreacting to the Black Block rioters and curtailing the civil, political, and legal rights of hundreds of innocent people. I found the whole thing a stupid waste of time. L ...
- Toronto Election: Ford or Smitherman?
Indicative of the intellectual bankruptcy of Canadian politics in general is the Toronto mayoral race where the front-runner is the shithead Toronto Sun's golden slab of rancid pork Rob Ford and the great white hope of the "liberals" is George Smitherman (who Ford rightly slammed for having presided ...
- Paradox
Canadians didn't seem to care about the state's abuse of our civil, legal, and political rights at the G-20 because it didn't really affect them directly. But why do they go along with, or even agree with the assaults on our freedoms from the asinine war on terrorism? Most Canadians are never going ...
- NWC Executive Director Appears on C-Span
Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center , appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal. He talked about legislative efforts to protect congressional employees who report corruption, waste and other violations committed by Members of Congress. "Everyone loves a whistle ...
- Katrina documentary in theaters for one-night only
Five years after Hurricane Katrina a new feature-length documentary “The Big Uneasy” is taking a look at the true cause of the disaster. Humorist and New Orleans resident Harry Shearer speaks to an Army Corp of Engineers whistleblower who reveals that “some of the same flawed methods responsible for ...
- DOL's ARB announces two new members and new briefi ...
The U.S. Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB) has issued a letter announcing the appointment of two new judges, and a new policy on briefing schedules. The two new judges are Joanne Royce and Luis Corchado. Royce previously worked for the Government Accountability Project (GAP) an ...
- Filipino whistleblower protection prompts more dis ...
The new president of the Philippines, Benigno Aquino III (pictured), has granted security guarantees to a group of whistleblowers under the Witness Protection Program. Now those whistleblowers are disclosing more information about corruption under the prior administration. GMA News TV is reporting t ...
- Remembering Beth Daley
Beth Daley was a champion for environmental whistleblowers, and a passionate advocate for government oversight.� She is particularly remembered for her work holding oil companies accountable for their environmental compliance and honesty in government contracts. As a strategist for whistleblower l ...
- Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant radio ...
- Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratospheric ...
The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the glo ...
- After growth spurt, supermassive black holes spend ...
Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
- Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20th c ...
- New approach precisely tracks evolution's footprin ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for example. T ...
- Academic Journals Seeing Benefits In More Open Pee ...
We recently discussed the idea of much more open , online-based peer review processes. In the ensuing discussion some claimed that such things might work for subject areas like math, where concepts could be reviewed and tested by others, but might not work as well in other areas. However, a recent ...
- Microsoft, Who Supports Software Patents, Now Asks ...
Microsoft, who has become a strongly pro-software patent company (despite Bill Gates' old claim that patents would have harmed the software industry in the early days), is finding out (yet again) that such a stance can come back to bite you. We've already covered the somewhat ridiculous lawsuit tha ...
- Story Recycler: Oh Look, Google Interested In Rent ...
Almost exactly a year ago, the tech press went nuts over rumors that Google was negotiating with movie studios to allow movie rentals via YouTube. At the time, we pointed out how odd it was that none of the press coverage seemed to point out that when Google first launched its Google Video offering ...
- How Involved Should The Government Be In Protectin ...
The Economist is having one of its regular debates, this time on the question of whether or not governments should do more to protect online privacy . Speaking for the motion that government should do more is Marc Rotenberg of EPIC, while arguing that there are better ways to protect your privacy t ...
- Is Paul Allen's Patent Madness Really An Attempt T ...
Last week, in writing about Paul Allen's decision to sue (nearly) every big tech company south of Seattle (notably absent: Microsoft and Amazon), I had seen a few people suggest that maybe Allen was doing this to prove how ridiculous the patent system is. Larry Downes is now exploring that option i ...
- India halts vaccine programme after the deaths of ...
The four children were reported to have fainted soon after they were vaccinated and witnesses reported seeing the children's eyes roll back as they began to have seizures.
- Part II: Rockefeller Vaccine Secret Revealed
Many people understand the Rockefellers, along with corporate interests, manipulate the United States money supply through the private Federal Reserve Bank. The Rockefeller Institution also had heavy influence pushing through a vaccine as the only answer to the false-flag polio epidemic.
- Penn and Teller kick out at anti vaccine lobby
In a recently released video 'Penn and Teller Bullshit – Vaccination', the pair of magicians Penn and Teller, use their usual male chauvinistic and pratt like abilities, to go all out to prove to the world that vaccines are safe, that they have eradicated illnesses, that they are super efficient and ...
- Autistic girl uses laptop to break silence
A child displaying autistic behaviours suddenly, at aged eleven, broke out of her autistic state and with the help of a computer, describe exactly what was making her act in this way. Here suddenly was the breakthrough that scientists have been waiting for.
- Mothers are killing their Autistic children
Support and care for the families with an autistic child is a battle daily. Often they feel isolated from friends and family who do not understand and with no one to understand they feel pressured to take the only way they can see out of their situation.
- Wondering About Wage Labor
I generally stay away from economics, as I’m still doing my 101. But I’ve been pondering some things and hope you might share your wisdom with me. If you read my post on How I Became an Anarchist, you know that it was facing the corrupting influence of organizational hierarchies that finally pushe ...
- Things You Might Have Missed
Really important post over at Womanist Musings on the rape of an elderly woman and how we treat rape in general – in society, in the media… Read it. And then there are the perpetrators. Or are they victims? Smoke em if you got em, ladies. Looks like weed might treat breast cancer. Speaking of sm ...
- Who Will Notice?
I met a Palestinian woman who came to the United States for her graduate degree. She picked the U.S. because she wanted to see imperialism from the inside. She wanted to understand the richest, most powerful country on earth. Imagine her surprise when she learned that the kind of economic develop ...
- Things You Might Have Missed
You have probably heard about the seven year old whose lemonade stand was protected by anarchists and who subsequently raised enough cash to go to Disney. Somehow I think that little girl will never have a bad view of anarchists. And on the opposite end of the spectrum, this article explains perfec ...
- Where are the Men Do-Gooders?
I signed up to be a literacy tutor with an organization here in DC. The program requires a half day training class. Looking around at the other trainees, I noticed a huge gender imbalance. Sure enough, the trainer soon confirmed that, while 55% of the learners are male, only 22% of the tutors are ...
- The blockade of South Yemen follows tactics of Saa ...
As Yemen’s blockade on southern Yemen enters its third week, stocks of food, medicine and oil have dwindled to dangerous levels. Prices have skyrocketed and already malnourished children bear the brunt of the military action. The blockade began 17 days ago when the Western Armored Division establish ...
- بقلم الكاتبة الامريكية جين نوفاك : ثلاثة أسابيع من ...
مع دخول الحصار اليمني على اليمن الجنوبي أسبوعه الثالث ، إنخفضت المخزونات من المواد الغذائية والدواء و المشتقات النفطية الى مستويات تنذر بالخطر. و ارتفعت الأسعار و أصبح الأطفال يعانون بالفعل من سوء التغذية تحت وطأة العمليات العسكرية. وبدأ الحصار قبل 17 يوما عندما قامت وحدات المنطقة الغربية المدرعة بإ ...
- السلام مع الكرامة في اليمن: هل يمكن ايقاف دوامه ال ...
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- Peace with Dignity in Yemen, Can the Cycle of Endl ...
Each of the six Sa’ada wars in Yemen was a photo copy of the one before, except the bombs got bigger, the children more frail and the jails more crowded. The Yemeni government systematically denied food, medicine and international aid to civilians in the northern Sa’ada province as a tactic of war s ...
- Would Yemeni law find Anwar Awlaki guilty?
Yemen’s Foreign Minister Abu Baker al Qirby urged Anwar Awlaki to turn himself to be tried under Yemeni law, vowing that no Yemeni citizen would be extradited to the US or any other country. The US announced last week that it had authorized Awlaki’s kill or capture, having determined he is an active ...
- Establishment Exploits OKC Bombing Victims To Push ...
- Knee-Jerk No Fly Ban Discredits Global Warming Ala ...
Fearmongering by Met Office voodoo scientists about planes dropping out of the sky contradicted by numerous successful test flights Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 19, 2010 With European governments coming under increasing pressure from airline groups to re-open airspace follow ...
- Air France, Lufthansa Press for Airspace Re-Openin ...
Gregory Viscusi and Brian Parkin Bloomberg April 19, 2010 Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air France- KLM Group and industry groups pressed European governments to loosen the unprecedented closing of the region’s airspace from last week’s Icelandic volcanic eruption as losses from the grounding of aircraft p ...
- NPR and CNN worry that Global Warming may have cau ...
John Lott’s Website April 19, 2010 This is just too bizarre: Diana Rehm (NPR): We do wonder whether there’s human involvement in all of these eruptions, earthquakes, storms - Elise Labott (senior State Department producer for CNN): – and how much global warming has a role in it. You know we’ve seen ...
- Poll: Americans’ distrust of federal government is ...
Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers April 19, 2010 Already wary of the federal government, Americans have grown even more critical, less trusting and even fearful of Uncle Sam since President Barack Obama took office, according to an exhaustive new study being released Monday. The in-depth poll found ...
- USDA Goes Back to the Drawing Board On Better Trac ...
In early February, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) pleasantly surprised small farmers and food protection advocacy groups alike by abandoning its National Animal Identification System (NAIS). NAIS was a program put in place after a 2003 occurrence of mad cow disease with intention ...
- Two options for tap water at Vancouver Olympics: O ...
Metro Vancouver recently took on the task of promoting the consumption of tap water over bottled water and is now battling it out with Coca-Cola at the Olympic games. As one of the Olympics biggest official sponsors, Coca-Cola, who claims their bottled water “doesn’t compete with tap water,” is of ...
- Farm to School Needs More Support
It seems the Obama administration is starting to take some steps toward addressing the childhood obesity epidemic. The President recently requested the inclusion of an additional $1 billion in funding for child nutrition programs in the national budget. This commitment preceded the unveiling of Fir ...
- Food & Water Watch Partners With University of New ...
Today, Food & Water Watch and the University of New Hampshire’s Office of Sustainability kickoff “Tap In,” a series of films and lectures about water privatization, access, and quality. An initiative of our Take Back the Tap campaign, the series will commence with a showing of, and discussion abou ...
- USDA Admits Lack of Food Safety Follow-Through
The USDA finally admitted to a small group of consumer group representatives last week that its official policy is to take very little action when it finds ground beef contaminated with E. coli in commerce. That is, unless several human illnesses have already been identified with the product. I pre ...
- Green Fashion Pioneer Kuyichi Opens First Concept ...
Image via TreeHugger We've been covering eco-fashion denim brand Kuyichi since 2004 , when TreeHugger was still in its formative years. Founded in 2001, by international NGO Solidaridad , the sustainable brand -- and winner of our Best of Green Award for Non-U.S.--based Casual Brand -- has spre ...
- Old Newspapers Get a Colorful (and Functional) Mak ...
Photo: courtesy of Holstee. From the makers of the eco-hipster tee comes a recycled wallet made from old plastic bags and newspapers collected from the streets of Delhi. New York-based eco-fashion brand Holstee has partnered with a non-profit in India to help provide employment to those often r ...
- Africa's Agbogbloshie Market is a Computer Graveya ...
Images from flavorwire A good documentary photographer takes us to places that we never could imagine and teaches us something at the same time. The Canadian Ed Burtynsky has been photographing the impact of China's massive industrial revolution and the environmental devastation it has left ...
- Robotic Plants Serve an Altruistic Purpose (Video)
Photo via Designboom Japanese artist Akira Nakayasu's specialty is robotic plants. He creates things like sunflowers that react to human movement, making the flower seem to communicate with the people around it. His latest work is called "Plant," an interactive piece that was inspired by grass ...
- Protesters Create "Oil Slick" on Major Roads, or D ...
Image credit: Climate Camp From beautiful images of a climate camp protest in Wales , to skepticism over protesters' targeting of offset companies —the ever growing Climate Camp movement never fails to get a reaction—both here on TreeHugger and elsewhere. But it seems the latest Climate Camp pr ...
- Exercise, calorie restrictions can rejuvenate olde ...
Harvard researchers have uncovered a mechanism in mice through which caloric restriction and exercise delay some of the debilitating effects of aging by rejuvenating the connections between nerves and the muscles that they control. The research, published online by the journal Proceedings of the Nat ...
- Researchers discover that gut bacteria affect mult ...
Biologists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have demonstrated a connection between multiple sclerosis (MS)—an autoimmune disorder that affects the brain and spinal cord—and gut bacteria. The work—led by Sarkis K. Mazmanian, an assistant professor of biology at Caltech, and postdoc ...
- HIV prevention science scores a victory — th ...
Today at the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria, members of the International Rectal Microbicide Advocates (IRMA) and thousands of other HIV advocates and scientists cheered a long-awaited, much anticipated success in the quest for new HIV prevention technologies. Researchers ann ...
- Novozymes reveals knowledge on new antibiotic agai ...
Scientists from Novozymes have now found the mechanism by which plectasin, an anti-microbial peptide, kills bacteria that cause severe infections in humans. Peptide antibiotics such as plectasin have retained antibiotic activity throughout evolution. The new knowledge shows that plectasin and other ...
- First Self-Replicating, Synthetic Bacterial Cell C ...
Researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute JCVI, a not-for-profit genomic research organization, published results today describing the successful construction of the first self-replicating, synthetic bacterial cell. The team synthesized the 1.08 million base pair chromosome of a modified Mycoplas ...
- This Week In Tyranny
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. It probably is not too great an idea to bomb our allies even if they assure us it’s totally fine with them and they really don’t mind at all. ...
- All Those Partnerships With Business Might Not Be ...
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post On last Sunday’s “Meet the Press” Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm discussed the economy, and did so with an unmistakable emphasis: smartly, strategically, surgically intervening to invest with the private sector [snip] smartly in ...
- This Week In Tyranny
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Julian Assange got an agreement with the Swedish Pirate Party (my second favorite political party in the whole world) to provide hosting for WikiLeaks, thus giving it a measure of protection. Which it clearly needs. Assange was acc ...
- America's Bad Reputation Gets a Little Worse
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post On Monday U.S. District Court Judge Henry Kennedy ruled in what Carol Rosenberg described as a “heavily censored 28-page ruling” that Guantánamo detainee Adnan Abdul Latif was to be released. While he was locked up at least four ye ...
- This Week In Tyranny
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Scott Horton on the depressingly cynical logic behind the Guantánamo show trials : “You can count on it that the convening authority will not get around to announcing the actual sentence until sometime after the midterm elections in ...
- U.S. Climate Bill Is Dead While So Much Life on Ou ...
Between 2001 and 2005, aerial surveys were conducted over 6.4 million acres of New Mexico. Some 816,000 affected acres were mapped and it was found that during this short period Ips confusus, a tiny bark beetle, had killed 54.5 million of the state tree, the piñon. In many areas of northern New Mexi ...
- What the Cluck? Backyard Chickens Make a Comeback
Video on backyard chicken farming. Click here to read this article
- Monsanto Uprooted
Germany announced plans today to ban the cultivation and seeds of MON 810 by biotech giant Monsanto. The cultivation of MON 810 is already banned in five other EU member states, namely Austria, Hungary, Greece, France and Luxembourg. Click here to read this article
- Salmonella Outbreaks Spur Nationwide Egg Recall
Over half a billion eggs from two Iowa farms have now been recalled, after authorities linked them to more than 1,000 cases of salmonella poisoning across the United States. Click here to read this article
- Why Food is Costing Us the Earth
Hardly a morning passes without food making the headlines. This week has brought us the burger that thinks it's a pizza and news that eating asparagus makes you stay slim (fingers crossed it's the type covered in melted butter). And we heard that, if you eat pickled squid guts and single cream toget ...
- Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes IV
Para ser sincero, no me imaginaba la enorme cantidad de suscriptores que me escribirían para darme las gracias ante nuestra nueva serie llamada 'Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes'. Lo que no saben, es que es a ustedes a quienes debo mi agradecimiento por su confianza y preferencia. Y para ...
- Imágenes para escribir tus reflexiones (11 element ...
Cuando veo un paisaje, las montañas nevadas, la playa, el bosque, el desierto, lagos, o el pantano, siempre siento deseos de escribir una pequeña obra poética que de cierta forma sintetice la belleza de ese paraje o escenario campestre. Si a usted le pasa lo mismo y aún si no, aquí le tengo 11 bellí ...
- Colección de fondos para tu pc, laptop y ipad
Cambiar el fondo de mi computadora, ha sido desde hace mucho tiempo una tradición. Pensando en ustedes, he seleccionado 8 lindas imágenes que harán lucir el monitor de su ordenador realmente bonito y diferente. Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLIC ...
- Gotas de rocío sobre las hojas verdes (7 fotos)
La naturaleza es sinónomo de belleza. ¿Saben por qué se los digo? Por que cada vez que observo con detalles las formas, colores y texturas de los árboles y sus hojas, quedo sorprendido ante tanta hermosura y perfeccción. Vea usted las siguientes 7 imágenes y compruebe que me faltaron palabras para d ...
- Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes III
Qué rápido pasa el tiempo y ha llegado el momento de presentarles la tercera parte de la serie 'Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes'. Debido al impacto que han tenido este tipo de fotografías en nuestros suscriptores, me permito reinvidicar mi compromiso con ustedes para ofrecerles cada día ...
- Tour dem veggies: An East Baltimore bicycle garden ...
Fueled by cherry tomatoes and lemonade, three-dozen bikers (this blogger included) hit the pavement last Saturday afternoon for a seven-mile tour of seven great community gardens in East Baltimore. We started the ride at the 22-year old Duncan Street Miracle Garden, a one-acre fruit and vegetable ha ...
- Richmond’s Urban Agriculture Institutes: A First ...
I wanted to post an impact study that I performed this year of the Urban Agriculture Institutes that I used to run in Richmond, Calif. This paper represents the first step in a program evaluation of Urban Tilth’s Urban Agriculture Institutes. While this study had an intervention/control cross se ...
- Response to “Math Lessons for Locavores” op-ed
Grist.org recently invited bloggers through it’s Grist Talk: Food Fight series to respond to an August 20th op-ed piece, “Math Lessons for Locavores,” by Stephen Budiansky in the New York Times. Â What follows is my response: “I agree with Mr. Budiansky that freight is by some measures cheap, and ...
- Exposing the role of the food industry in conditio ...
Book Review: The end of overeating. By David Kessler, MD David Kessler the former FDA Chief under George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton has written a very important book in the evolution of public thinking about food, nutrition and the obesity epidemic that is gripping our nation. The basic premise ...
- Government officials sent ‘clarifying’ letter from ...
Congressional testimony by two high-ranking government officials in April revealed some misconceptions about the mounting evidence over the use of antibiotics in industrial farm animal production and links to antibiotic resistance in humans. To clarify the case, Keeve Nachman, PhD, MHS, and directo ...
- Aprés Beck with a side of papaya salad hash
The last time a Democrat sat in the White House, he faced a nonstop witch hunt by his political opponents. Prominent figures on the right accused Bill and Hillary Clinton of everything from drug smuggling to murder. And once Republicans took control of Congress, they subjected the Clinton administra ...
- Oral Beck’s swaggartly strut
By the time I woke up the NYTimes had already buried Glenn Beck’s rally on an inside page and I had to search for it. The Strib’s story veered into some classic Michele Bachmann: While the main event’s organizers portrayed it as a patriotic exercise to restore traditional moral values, Bachmann wade ...
- Triumph of the Propaganda Mill
I think the plan is for Glenn to keep talking until the media all agree to use his crowd estimate. I don’t have cable so I’m just seeing the Post’s online feed, but it’s telling that they don’t pan the audience. The few pictures I’ve seen suggest the estimates of “tens of thousands” should perhaps [ ...
- PALM Saturday
The Paleo-Americans at the Lincoln Memorial (PALM) Saturday fun fest is underway. Michele Bachmann: The focus of the rally will be on American exceptionalism. Hence, the title Restoring Honor…. I have had African Americans, Latino’s, men, woman, young, old, retired and people from every economic str ...
- Links on a stick
We export terror. And yes, it’s profoundly unAmerican of me to point out what complete and total hypocritical fucking bastards we’ve become. - Politics: T minus one day until Glenn Beck restores our honor by puking his brains out on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial [more from John Avlon, Will Bunch ...
- AZ Union Leader: Little to Celebrate This Labor Da ...
AZ Union Leader: Little to Celebrate This Labor Day Phoenix, AZ – The head of Arizona’s largest labor organization says unemployment has yet to bottom out in the state, and that the political climate is making things worse. AFL-CIO Executive Director Rebekah Friend says the federal stimulus program ...
- AZ Ranchers and Conservationists Begin New Era in ...
AZ Ranchers and Conservationists Begin New Era in Wolf Management Tucson, AZ – Compensation programs for livestock losses in the Mexican gray wolf reintroduction program are being taken over by the federal government. At the same time, new efforts are underway to prevent livestock losses in the firs ...
- AZ Clean Elections Chief: Big Spending Candidates ...
AZ Clean Elections Chief: Big Spending Candidates a “Mixed Blessing” Phoenix, AZ – As one of California’s candidates for Governor goes over the 100-million dollar mark in spending, the head of Arizona’s public campaign finance system says it’s “a mixed blessing” when candidates rely on personal weal ...
- Tax Cuts for the Rich: Bad for Budget, Not Good fo ...
Tax Cuts for the Rich: Bad for Budget, Not Good for Economy? Phoenix, AZ – Congress is gearing up for a debate on the Bush era tax cuts for the wealthy, which are set to expire at the end of this year. Some economists say the tax cuts are among the key reasons the U.S. moved from a budget surplus to ...
- Report: Arizonans Have Chance to Save Big on Elect ...
Report: Arizonans Have Chance to Save Big on Electric Bills Phoenix, AZ – Future electric rate hikes can be blunted with widespread adoption of energy efficiency strategies, according to a new report from the Arizona Public Interest Research Group (PIRG). It says energy efficiency is a proven, relia ...
- Nathan Hale Institute for Intelligence and Militar ...
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- Is the US Pulling the Plug on Iraqi Workers?
A shamefaced officer told Hashmeya Muhsin, the first woman to head a national union in Iraq, that they'd come to carry out the orders of Electricity Minister Hussain al-Shahristani to shut the union down. As more police arrived, they took the membership.. Submitted by Ellyn S. to US Politics & Gov't ...
- Security and Environment in Pakistan
A U.S. foreign policy that gave greater emphasis to relief and reconstruction would have much to recommend it, even (or especially) from a national security point of view.Congress does not permit CRS to make its publications available to general public. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov ...
- More BP- Employee's "Cover-Up" Claims Related to ...
For example, the employee's letter said the pipeline has been shut down numerous times over the past four years because equipment is neglected and routinely breaks and repairs are not being addressed in a timely manner due to a personnel shortage -> Read Submitted by Kit B. to Environment �|� �Note ...
- Pentagon's New Global Military Partner: Sweden
Scores of other previously non-aligned nations around the world are being pulled into the Pentagon's orbit in the post-Cold War period. Partnership for Peace program integrates nations in Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia for NATO operations abroad. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov ...
- NATO reports 8th casualty in a day
ShareThis NATO reports 8th casualty in a day 31 Aug 2010 NATO NATO reports 8th casualty in a day 31 Aug 2010 NATO has announced the death of an eighth soldier in a day of concentrated violence in war-torn Afghanistan. NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement on Tuesd ...
- Gunmen attack Pakistan govt. buildings
ShareThis Gunmen attack Pakistan govt. buildings 28 Aug 2010 Gunmen have launched an attack on Pakistani government buildings near the US consulate in the country's northwestern city of Peshawar, police say. Police officials say a group of gunmen tried to break into the buildings early Saturday. The ...
- NATO fuel tankers torched in Pakistan
ShareThis NATO fuel tankers torched in Pakistan 31 Aug 2010 Unknown militants in southwestern Pakistan have destroyed two fuel tankers destined for NATO and US forces in Afghanistan amid rising violence in the country. Police officials told Press TV that militants set the tankers on fire in Mastung ...
- Two Men Arrested on Terror Suspicion on Flight Fro ...
ShareThis Two Men Arrested on Terror Suspicion on Flight From Chicago to Amsterdam 30 Aug 2010 Two men from the Detroit area were arrested in Amsterdam on a flight arriving from Chicago, reportedly suspected of assessing the aviation system for a potential future terror attack... "Suspicious items w ...
- After Katrina, Cops Given OK to Shoot 'Looters'
ShareThis After Katrina, Cops Given OK to Shoot 'Looters' -- ProPublica : Hazy Directives to "Take Back the City" and Word of Martial Law Contributed to Itchy Trigger Fingers 25 Aug 2010 In the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina [ and exploded levies ], an order circulated among New Orleans police ...
- History in colour
We've all seen the black and white photos of yesteryear, a time before the invention of colour photography. So how's this picture from the days of Imperial Russia, 1909, grab you: They were taken by a process involving three b&w...
- Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story by Ian Wisha ...
It's just been brought to my attention that I haven't offered non-subscribers the chance to pre-order the new book on the Crewe murders being released by us next month. Accordingly, here's the gist of the email that went out to...
- ClimateDepot locates possibly the world’s dumbest ...
As an indicator of just how dumbed-down global warming believers are on the science of climate change, Climate Depot's Mark Morano revealed tonight a seminar delegate seriously believed the CO2 from car exhaust fumes would kill him in an enclosed...
- Sins of Science Media Centre’s Omission
PR hack Peter Griffin is at it again, this time complaining that a Waikato farmer should have been left to die by medical science, rather than allowing his family to administer the unproven Vitamin C therapy now claimed to have...
- Free TGIF Edition just out
We're making TGIF available free for now...you can either click on the flash version below, or click the link below it to download the pdf: Open publication - Free publishing - More sport http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/?attachment_id=975
- Yale conference was ‘anti-Arab hate-mongerin ...
Last week we reported on a disgraceful 3-day conference at Yale that described criticism of Israel as anti-Semitism. Today Maen Rashid Areikat, the PLO Representative to the United States, sent a letter to Yale President Richard C. Levin, objecting to the conference. It follows: August 30, 2010 Dear ...
- Rocket Redux, the Israeli fiction
A few months ago, I authored a post on the fiction that when Israel withdrew from two decades of military occupation of southern Lebanon in 2000, Hezbollah responded with thousands of rockets rained down on Israeli communities. At the time, I cited false statements to that effect made by Michael Or ...
- Writers Oz, Yehoshua, Grossman back artists’ ...
Where are the liberal American Zionists on this one? What will J Street do? Important news:Ynet learned on Monday that prominent Israeli authors A. B. Yehoshua, Amos Oz, David Grossman and Sami Michael are supporting a long line of actors, playwrights and artists who announced they would refuse ...
- Stuck inside of Cairo with the Gaza blues again
Susan Johnson is a Doylestown, Pa., grandmother with two volunteer gigs in Gaza waiting for her. She's written about her big trip earlier this summer. And here I sit in Cairo, exhausted and disappointed. I have been denied entrance to Gaza twice! I'm amazed I'm not angry and ready to give up, even t ...
- 40 percent of Palestinian prisoners from Jenin are ...
and other news from Today in Palestine:Land and Property Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Israel won't extend settlement freeze ahead of direct negotiations The Israeli cabinet will not vote on extending a partial freeze in West Bank settlement construction before the start of the peace talks ...
- VRM: New Generation Cancer Vaccine Will Cause Infe ...
In the race to the top of the Vaccine manufacturing foodchain product side effects such as infertility are being overlooked in favor of scientific advancement. One competitor, U.S. firm Celldex Theraputics are vying for major positioning in the ranks with a radical new generation cancer vaccine now ...
- VRM: United States 2010-11 Flu Vaccine Affluria &# ...
The United States flu vaccine for 2010-2011/AFLURIA® will be manufactured by CSL Laboratories in partnership with Merck Pharmaceuticals. Ingredients: 24.5 mcg of thimerosal mercury (safe level for a 2450 pound adult), Neomycin & Polymyxin (antibiotics associated with Kidney Failure, hazardous to ...
- VRM: Multi-Virus Vaccine Quinvaxem Proving Deadly
Quinvaxem, a powerful 5 in 1 vaccine currently being distributed in India, containing live Diphtheria, Tetanus, Hib oligosaccharide (Haemophilus influenzae) & Hepatitis B virus plus an inactivated B. pertussis virus (heat treated or attenuated), has already caused the deaths of at least 5 children i ...
- VRM: The Rockefeller Foundation – Rulers of ...
“Will you walk into my parlour?” said the Spider to the Fly, ‘Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy; The way into my parlour is up a winding stair, And I’ve a many curious things to shew when you are there.” Oh no, no,” said the little Fly, “to ask me is in vain, For who goes [...]
- VRM: Britain’s National Health Service ̵ ...
Britain’s National Health Service is rapidly destroying the UK Health Care system; dismantling local programs, stripping hospitals of essential service staff, downsizing hospitals altogether, refusing to upgrade old equipment – all under the guise of tightening the belt, preserving what’s left of di ...
- Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for. � If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditioner fo ...
- Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new low- ...
- Strawberry Picking
Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller. T ...
- Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal for o ...
- Green Building and Remodeling for Dummies: Book Re ...
I love the Dummies series of books.� They're quick reads packed with info that's presented in a clear and organized way. Plus I love the fact that most of them are available in Kindle versions for much less than the paper version. With the popularity of the Dummies books though, there are oft ...
- Even While the World Watched: Part I
Michael Yon 20 June 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand Recent violence focused world attention on the Kingdom of Thailand. As the attention flowed in, foreigners poured out, even though fighting was tightly localized and not focused on travelers. Tourists literally had to search for trouble to find it. ...
- Perspective
Published: 21 July 2010 Apologies that this article is available only in Thai language. Please click here to view the entire article. {loadposition user8}
- Even as the World Watched IV: Peaceful, or Pistol?
12 July 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand During the Thailand fighting in May, the rain of media mixed with the dust of politics, creating mud that left honest people feeling bogged down. People desiring clarity slogged knee deep, then waist deep, and it kept coming. My reports avoided politics largely ...
- Even as the World Watched III: Getting Hit to Get ...
Published: 07 July 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand During the Bangkok fighting in May, radio interviewers back America kept asking about the overuse of force by the Thai Army. I answered that’s not happening, and there seem to be hundreds of journalists crawling over the streets, and I see them with ...
- Even as the World Watched II: Tasting the Kool-Aid
Published: 05 July 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand This journalist was all over the place. She stood out from the crowd for obvious reasons. One evening, as the sun was setting, she was walking down a mostly desolate street not far from Dusit Thani hotel, and she was alone with that little camera. ...
- The Rwandan Election
Paul Kagame is headed for a landslide victory at the Rwandan polls. Exit polls indicate 93% of the electorate voted for him. If some Western media commentators could vote in Rwandan elections, the number would likely be even higher. Take Stephen Kinzer, who wrote a biography of Kagame subtitled “Rwa ...
- The Afghan War Diary Data - an initial look
An initial look at the first 76,000 records in the "Afghan War Diary" leaked by Wikileaks yields some important information, much of which has been known or suspected by analysts for years. Given the sheer size of the database, there is a great deal more to be learned, but here are some initial find ...
- The Drug War in Afghanistan - the Dyncorp connecti ...
Just reading some of the 800+ hits on the drug war in Afghanistan, and these are real - the US is fighting a drug war in Afghanistan. There are DEA agents running around arresting people, there are troops eradicating poppy in farmers fields, and they are finding and burning piles of opium, heroin, h ...
- Reading the incidents in Pakistan - some notes
[Analysis of the Wikileaks Afghan War Diary]. I pulled out the 170-or-so incidents that mention Pakistan and are actually in Pakistan. A lot of them involve coordination with the Pakistani military, getting it, failing to get it, etc. An observation post comes under indirect fire, they track the poi ...
- Afghan War Diary incidents in Pakistan
[Analysis of Wikileaks's Afghan War Diary]. I thought it might be useful to show a map of the (approx. 170) incidents in the Afghan War Diary that mention Pakistan and also take place within Pakistan's borders. I will be reading the summaries to see what happened here, but take a look at it - there ...
- Green Fashion Pioneer Kuyichi Opens First Concept ...
Image via TreeHugger We've been covering eco-fashion denim brand Kuyichi since 2004 , when TreeHugger was still in its formative years. Founded in 2001, by international NGO Solidaridad , the sustainable brand -- and winner of our Best of Green Award for Non-U.S.--based Casual Brand -- has spre ...
- Old Newspapers Get a Colorful (and Functional) Mak ...
Photo: courtesy of Holstee. From the makers of the eco-hipster tee comes a recycled wallet made from old plastic bags and newspapers collected from the streets of Delhi. New York-based eco-fashion brand Holstee has partnered with a non-profit in India to help provide employment to those often r ...
- Africa's Agbogbloshie Market is a Computer Graveya ...
Images from flavorwire A good documentary photographer takes us to places that we never could imagine and teaches us something at the same time. The Canadian Ed Burtynsky has been photographing the impact of China's massive industrial revolution and the environmental devastation it has left ...
- Robotic Plants Serve an Altruistic Purpose (Video)
Photo via Designboom Japanese artist Akira Nakayasu's specialty is robotic plants. He creates things like sunflowers that react to human movement, making the flower seem to communicate with the people around it. His latest work is called "Plant," an interactive piece that was inspired by grass ...
- Protesters Create "Oil Slick" on Major Roads, or D ...
Image credit: Climate Camp From beautiful images of a climate camp protest in Wales , to skepticism over protesters' targeting of offset companies —the ever growing Climate Camp movement never fails to get a reaction—both here on TreeHugger and elsewhere. But it seems the latest Climate Camp pr ...
- Sri Lanka cabinet approves constitutional changes ...
[JURIST] The Sri Lankan cabinet on Monday approved proposed constitutional reforms [press release] that would permit current President Mahinda Rajapaksa [official website] to seek an unlimited number of terms in office. The current number of terms for the executive, codified within Chapter VII of th ...
- Congo rebel leader Bemba claims lack of funds prec ...
[JURIST] Defense lawyers for Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) former vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba [case materials; JURIST news archive] argued before the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] Monday that Bemba lacks the financial resources to ensure a fair trial over war crimes ...
- Forthcoming UN DRC report suggests genocide by Rwa ...
[JURIST] A forthcoming UN report claims that troops from Rwanda and allied rebels committed crimes in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) [JURIST news archives] that could be classified as genocide if proven by the appropriate court, according to media reports. The draft report, first publicized ...
- Arizona governor asks State Department to drop imm ...
[JURIST] Arizona Governor Jan Brewer [official website] on Friday called on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to remove any mention of Arizona [letter, PDF] and its passage of SB 1070 [JURIST news archive] from a human rights report [text, PDF; JURIST report] issued by the State Department. The rep ...
- Iran prosecutor reportedly suspended over detainee ...
[JURIST] Tehran prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi has been named by multiple Iranian news sources as one of three top judicial officials who were suspended in connection with the torture deaths of three detained protesters, multiple Iranian media outlets reported [AFP report] Monday. The suspensions were a ...
- 15 Minutes: What the President Will Say Tonight
President Obama has asked the television networks for 15 minutes tonight, and he's going to pack quite a bit of messaging into that short period of time.� Why do we need a speech marking the end of the combat mission in Iraq?� It's because we're going to need, according to Obama, to understand the f ...
- ACLU Challenges the Joint Special Operations Comma ...
The Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC, is the official executive agent for counterterrorism, reporting directly to the president and secretary of defense through the Joint Chiefs of Staff. JSOC kills people, mostly in�war zones. Since 9/11, JSOC's assets, called "special missions units," hav ...
- Texas Is a Long Way From ... Iowa
Further evidence that Texas Gov. Rick Perry, running for his third full term, is not running for president: "There is still a land of opportunity, friends --�it's called Texas," Perry said. "We're creating more jobs than any other state in the nation. ... Would you rather live in a state like t ...
- The Afghanistan Policy Review Begins Sooner Than Y ...
We've gotten used to thinking about the Afghanistan policy review as a December agenda item, but in point of fact, the review has already begun. Granted, it's at the level of staff to deputy assistant secretaries at various departments, but an American government policy review is not something that ...
- Ovide's Metamorphosis in New Hampshire
In 1996, Ovide Lamontagne surged during the final three weeks of a competitive GOP gubernatorial primary and closed a huge gap, knocking off the establishment choice, Bill Zeliff.� LaMontagne has been uncomfortably�ensconced�in third place in the race to get the GOP nod to succeed retiring Sen. Judd ...
- ‘President Peres: Save Us from Ourselves’
Noted Yediot Achronot columist, Yigal Sarna, writes a plaintive “letter to the President,” asking Shimon Peres to intercede to stop war with Iran. Â It is a touching and deeply- felt piece: A Letter to the President: Save Us from Ourselves ["from our own hands"] Mr. President: I turn to you because ...
- Links for 2010-03-18 [Digg]
Shin Bet Secretly Detains Reporter Leaking Top-Secret Docume I was the first blogger or journalist to break this story outside Israel. Anat Kam, a young Israeli reporter was secretly arrested and imprisoned for allegedly leaking top secret IDF documents about targeted assassinations.
- New Israel Fund ‘Jewish Homeland’ Controversy
I posted here about the controversy concerning NIF’s new guidelines as reported by Nathan Guttman in The Forward. Â He reported that the group would require grantees to acknowledge Israel as a Jewish homeland. Â On that basis, I wrote a post harshly critical of what I perceived as a one-sided set of ...
- Israeli Intelligence Leaks Syrian-Hezbollah War De ...
The Kuwaiti newspaper, al Rai, reports that Syria and Hezbollah have agreed to a wide ranging intelligence sharing operation which also includes a joint operations center staffed by Hezbollah and Syrian military officers in the event of a war with Israel: Hizbullah concluded “field understandings” w ...
- New Israel Fund Caving to Im Tirzu Pressure?
New Jewish Israel Fund or Not Arab Israel Fund The Forward brings distressing news that the New Israel Fund has prepared draft funding guidelines that would bar any Israeli NGO which did not endorse Israel as a Jewish state: The New Israel Fund, the target of attacks by right-wing organizations accu ...
- Wholesome 'junk' food
By: sjmikiten The article "Forget Finicky Food" by Elbrich Fennema caught my attention. As a stay-at-home mom in the 70’s and 80’s I cooked everything from scratch. I started with wholesome ingredients, decreased the amount of sugar, and the result was wholesome sn ...
- Jurriaan Kamp speaks at EcoTuesday event
By: KimberlyTwardochleb EcoTuesday is a networking event held for sustainable business professionals in nine cities across the U.S. on the fourth Tuesday of each month. Ode Magazine’s Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Jurriaan Kamp, will be the keynote speaker in the up ...
- Passing down traditions
By: Anne Thomas Several years ago some friends and I went to a small town north of where I live. We wanted to see the old "kura" that had been converted into shops. "Kura" are thick-walled store houses once used for important family items. They usually held kimonos ...
- In praise of dissent
Want to spur innovation, creativity and social justice? Get to know a dissenter. Mabel Yu didn’t trust the numbers. It was 2006 and Yu was an analyst with The Vanguard Group, a financial firm based in Malvern, Pennsylvania, that manages almost $1 trillion in investment funds. Bond seller ...
- The dissent of man
A brief history of some of the world's great dissenters. Henry David Thoreau, author In 1846, Henry David Thoreau spent a night in jail for refusing to pay his poll tax. He refused to pay because he objected to the U.S. government’s support of slavery. His night in a cell in Conco ...
- Clean energy solutions needed; Frustration with ut ...
Peter Lehner wrote a “buzz board” piece for TheDailyBeast.com suggesting that folks read actor Ryan Reynold’s recent blog post on the Gulf oil disaster and the need for clean energy solutions; Peter also highlighted Ryan’s recent PSA with NRDC… In a Washington Post article, David Donig ...
- Seafood Safety: Lessons Learned from Exxon Valdez
After the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the scientific Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry ( SETAC ) issued a technical publication, Evaluating and Communicating Subsistence Seafood Safety in a Cross-Cultural Context: Lessons Learned from The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill . Let’s loo ...
- Appalachia Rising in Washington
This morning I got to�join�coal country speakers�at a�press conference to announce Appalachia Rising , a mass mobilization of people against mountaintop removal mining, coming to Washington in September.� Organized by a consortium of coal country groups and�community leaders, this�effo ...
- Gulf coast fishermen join Katrina victims and vow ...
Five years ago today, the deadly floodwaters of Katrina breached the levies near New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward, flooding this working class neighborhood to the rooftops. People clung like Titanic survivors to anything they could find. Some climbed trees and others perched on rooftops, d ...
- New Labels Could Make Finding Efficient Cars Easie ...
Looking for the most efficient vehicle that meets you daily needs? Look for the car that gets an “A” for efficiency. Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) proposed new fuel economy labels for cars and light-truck ...
- You’ll learn nothing at all from thems et al ...
Do you know what happens when you allow “scholars” like Jonah Goldberg to invent historical movements and monsters? You end up with uncited statements of obvious provenance that mask sheer lunacy behind the rhetorical scrim of conventional wisdom: [T]he principles that inspired the American foundi ...
- Sterling and Draper
Just ahead of their time? Related posts:Ads without products; or, “Don Draper” is now never himself Don Draper as an unraptured Emma Bovary Don Draper is, of course, never himself. Related posts: Ads without products; or, “Don Draper” is now never himself Don Draper as an unraptured Emma Bovary ...
- Mad Men: “Enforced intimacy” in “ ...
Thirty-six minutes into “The Chrysanthemum and the Sword,” a surprisingly intimate conversation between Don and Dr. Faye Miller takes an uncertain turn when the subject of analysis comes up: “Why does everybody need to talk about everything?” “I don’t know, but they do.” Which reminded me of this ...
- Mann Hunt
Good to see that a state judge has quashed the efforts of all-purpose winger Ken Cuccinelli to sue the climate scientist Michael Mann for the crime of practicing science. Unfortunately, while Mann can win in the courts, as Brad Plumer notes Cuccinelli can’t really lose: The odds seem pretty slim th ...
- Next Week In SundayStyles
A very sober-minded and even-handed 2000 word essay, complete with extensive scholarly references, about the possibility that using astrological charts can help you win at roulette. Related posts:Major League Chutzpah Of The Week Headline of the Week Craven Liar of the Week Related posts: Major ...
- 'Fundamental' IPCC Reforms Proposed by Independent ...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) needs to fundamentally change its management structure , more carefully review the conclusions stated in its periodic reports, and more fully reflect the views of dissenting scientists, according to an independent report. The report , conducted by ...
- First Genetically-Altered Fish for Human Consumpti ...
U.S. officials are reviewing an application for what would be the first genetically-engineered animal approved for human consumption , an Atlantic salmon modified to grow at twice the rate of normal salmon. The Food and Drug Administration will consult experts and review scientific data to evaluate ...
- Canada Lists BPA as Toxic
The Canadian government is adding bisphenol A (BPA) , a chemical found in thousands of everyday plastics, to its register of toxic substances. The primary component of hard and clear polycarbonate plastics, BPA is found in many water bottles, baby bottles, and the linings of canned foods. Among oth ...
- Spurred by Warming Climate, Beetles Threaten Coffe ...
Coffee production has long been vulnerable to drought or excess rains. But recently, a tiny insect that thrives in warmer temperatures — the coffee berry borer — has been spreading steadily, devastating coffee plants in Africa, Latin America, and around the world. BY ERICA WESTLY
- Electric Car Made of Hemp Is Developed by Canadian ...
A group of Canadian companies is developing an electric vehicle made of hemp , a compact car developers say will reach top speeds of 55 miles per hour and will have a range of 25 to 100 miles before requiring a battery re-charge. The Kestrel, being developed by Calgary-based Motive Industries Inc. , ...
- Mysteries Abound In WTC Ship Remains
On July 12 the remains of an 18th-century ship were found buried 20 feet below street level at the site of the World Trade Center in New York City. The question is -- how did they get there? Nobody knows for sure -- yet. And even though there are timbers from the front half of the ship, nobody can i ...
- "Plug and Play" Solar Panel Kits Offer Homeowners ...
Imagine a modular solar array that you can install—without too much fear of electrocuting yourself—at a relatively low price. That's the vision of Chad Maglaque and Clarian Technologies, and one that hopes to become a reality by spring 2011. "The key here is slowing the [electricity] meter down," Ma ...
- Protesters support swine flu sceptic
Supporters demonstrated over the charges being faced by blogger Jane Burgermeister, a swine and bird flu sceptic. One protester said she "exposed bird flu as a scam which pharmaceutical companies have tried to make millions out of". "They make the bugs, they make the drugs."
- Turkey Discovers Ancient Underground Tomb
Police have raided a house used by people suspected of digging illegally for antiquities and discovered two tunnels leading to an underground tomb that housed an ancient marble coffin and frescoes, officials said...
- Parents say Wi-Fi making their kids sick
A group of central Ontario parents is demanding their children’s schools turn off wireless internet before they head back to school next month, fearing the technology is making the kids sick. Some parents in the Barrie, Ont., area say their children are showing a host of symptoms, ranging from heada ...
- Fortean Frankensteins
Recently, Dr. Craig Venter has made the claim of “creating life” by constructing a bacterium from dead material. While not a 9 foot tall monster, the artificial bacterium has the potential to become the first practical biological nano-particle that could have industrial and medical applications. But ...
- Is Space Colonization Still Just Fantasy?
Space colonization has been a theme (or meme?) in literature for over 150 years, probably thousands of years earlier than that really (Book of Enoch). Anyway, humans have dreamed of traveling to alien worlds in the heavens for a very long time, it isn’t a recent phenomenon. Dr. Stephen Hawking is on ...
- NASAWatch: Should Congress Design the Next Big Boo ...
From NASAWatch: Frank Sietzen, Jr.: Consider how many space initiatives the United States didn’t pursue in the past half century. A fully reusable launch vehicle. A 20-person expendable space station. New heavy lift boosters. A permanent lunar colony. The Orbital Space Plane. NERVA and Prometheus. A ...
- Danish Rockets: Or Those Incredible Young Men in T ...
Move over Elon Musk and Burt Rutan. Here are a couple of adventurous Danish inventors who are willing to put their money, and their lives, where the rubber meets the road so to speak. Or to put it more exactly; The Amazing Flying Danes: It might not look much. In fact, it looks practically suicidal. ...
- Star Child Update
The Star Child, the skull of a supposed “alien” child, does seem to have anomalous DNA on the father’s side of the family. Lloyd Pye explains: ] Proof of genetic engineering 900 years ago? The more time goes on and empirical evidence such as DNA from the Star Child, and I’m sure others will crop [.. ...
- Boettke Profiled in WSJ
Peter Boettke, professor of economics at George Mason University, FEE trustee, and a great champion of Austrian economics, was profiled in the Wall Street Journal this past weekend (subscription site). A sample: [T]he 50-year-old professor of economics at George Mason University in Virginia is emerg ...
- Government Programs for Poor Expand Briskly
“Government anti-poverty programs that have grown to meet the needs of recession victims now serve a record one in six Americans and are continuing to expand.” (USA Today) Government breaks peopleâs legs then generously distributes crutches. FEE Timely Classic “Scratching By: How Government Create ...
- Obama Promises to Restore New Orleans
“Five years after failed levees and a slow federal response wrought disaster here, people in this once-drowned city and across the Gulf Coast remembered the catastrophic floods of Hurricane Katrina with candlelight vigils, parades and a visit from the president. President Obama, in town Sunday for t ...
- Sputtering Recovery Creates Second Thoughts on Tax ...
“With the economy rapidly weakening, some senior Democrats are having second thoughts about raising taxes on the nation’s wealthiest families and are pressing party leaders to consider extending the full array of Bush administration tax cuts, at least through next year.” (Washington Post) Starve the ...
- Court Says Government Can Track People by GPS
“Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn’t violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway — and no r ...
- New York Times seeks multimedia journalism interns
Poking around in The New York Times’s job listings, I found this description of three distinct internships “in the Web Newsroom of The New York Times”: Front-end Interactive Designer: full skill-set of client-side technologies including HTML, CSS and JavaScript/Prototype. Experience with Ruby on ...
- A fresh look at reporting skills
In June I posted a ranked list of skills needed by todayâs journalists . In reviewing it today, I wondered whether it would be different if instead of saying journalist we said reporter . Say you want to hire a reporter — for a Web-only organization, a magazine, a newspaper, a TV or documentary o ...
- Getting started with WordPress
Here’s a new, stripped-down, easy-to-follow introduction to WordPress — the free blogging platform that also works as a versatile content management system: WordPress Basics This short tutorial is based on the second installment in my Reporter’s Guide to Multimedia Proficiency , but I have shorten ...
- Online video still growing, gaining viewers
Just because comedy or humorous videos are the most popular among U.S. adults ( source ) does not mean journalists should wring their hands and despair about public tastes. What’s more important, I think, is that among people who have broadband Internet access at home, 75 percent watch online video ...
- Is J-school relevant? (#wjchat)
@killbutton Q1 Yes, because the foundation of journalism is SO important. Journos need a strong foundation in ethics! #wjchat @dnvolz Brian Williams never got any college degree and is considered a top journalist even in an ever-changing market #wjchat @mhinojosa Q1 Yes, I think it’s more importa ...
- What are Obama's next steps in the Gulf Coast?
In his speech from New Orleans on the fifth anniversary of Katrina yesterday, President Obama declared that he intended to honor the nation's promise to help rebuild the Gulf Coast: [W]hile an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and t ...
- Hearings begin on federal coal ash rules as eviden ...
The Environmental Protection Agency is holding the first in a series of seven official public hearings today to collect comments on a proposal to federally regulate coal ash. Today's hearing will take place at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, Va. from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and is expected to ...
- VOICES: Workers who win the South change the natio ...
By MaryBe McMillan Forty-seven years after the 1963 March on Washington, the union movement and our allies are preparing for our own march in October. Under the banner of One Nation Working Together , union members, civil rights activists and other concerned citizens will rally in support of good j ...
- SPECIAL REPORT: Washington has yet to address key ...
As we approach the five year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, today the Institute is releasing a new report which looks at what has changed -- and what hasn't changed -- since the deadly storm took over 1,800 lives and devastated the Gulf Coast. Our report, Learning from Katrina: Lessons fr ...
- U.S. human rights report fails to address the less ...
The Obama administration released the first-ever U.S. report to the U.N. Human Rights Council this week. Prepared as part of the ongoing U.N. Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process that involved consultations with civil society groups nationwide, the report [pdf] acknowledges that the U.S. human r ...
- Great Depression
Few countries were affected as severely as Canada by the worldwide Depression of the 1930s. It is estimated that between 1929 and 1933 Gross National Expenditure declined by 42%, by the latter year 30% of the LABOUR FORCE was
- Riel, Louis
Louis Riel, M�tis leader, founder of Manitoba, central figure in the NORTH-WEST REBELLION (b at Red River Settlement [Man] 22 Oct 1844; d at Regina 16 Nov 1885). Riel was educated at St Boniface and studied for the
- Macdonald, Sir John Alexander
Sir John Alexander Macdonald, lawyer, businessman, politician, first prime minister of Canada (b at Brunswick Place, across the Clyde R from Glasgow, Scot 10 Jan 1815; d at Ottawa 6 June 1891). He was the dominant creative mind
- Confederation
Confederation, the union of the British North American colonies of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Canada (Canada being an earlier 1841 union of Lower Canada and Upper Canada), was achieved 1 July 1867 under the new name,
- Vimy Ridge
Vimy Ridge, battle fought 9-14 April 1917 during WORLD WAR I . The long, low ridge formed a key position linking the Germans' new HINDENBURG LINE to their main trench lines leading north from HILL 70 near Arras, France.
- Five fantastic reuses for plastic milk bottles
With their semi-rigid sides & strong handle, plastic milk bottles are very easily reusable – which is useful since there are bajillions generated every day. We’ve had loads of great suggestions about them over the years but here are some of my favourites: 1. Pencil sorter Mentioned as a featured lin ...
- How can I reuse or recycle squash or marrow leaves ...
I always feel a bit silly asking for suggestions for vegetable/garden waste because the vast majority of the time, it just goes in the compost bin, job done — but sometimes I think it’s worth asking because what is a common place use/reuse to someone is completely mindblowing to the next (for exampl ...
- What can I reuse/recycle to make plant/vegetable f ...
So how is your garden/allotment/window box doing this summer? Due to a combination of a underestimation of seed germination rates, disorganisation/ignoring plans and demon slugs, my growing hasn’t gone quite as I thought it might but we’re doing ok and I’ve learned a lot about growing here. One thin ...
- How can I reuse or recycle leather/suede purse/bag ...
We’ve had an email from Joanne: Hi, I have an old leather zipped wallet type purse which is old, worn and quite grubby. I would rather recycle it somehow than put it in the bin but am not sure how to do this. Do you have any ideas? First, it obviously depends on the state [...]
- How can I reuse or recycle jigsaws?
We’ve had an email from Kathy asking about getting rid of her children’s old jigsaws: I just know they’ve got pieces missing so would feel bad about giving them to a charity shop. They’re cardboard with a shiny paper top so they could be recycled? Probably – as long as it’s just paper and not [...]
- Yale conference was ‘anti-Arab hate-mongerin ...
Last week we reported on a disgraceful 3-day conference at Yale that described criticism of Israel as anti-Semitism. Today Maen Rashid Areikat, the PLO Representative to the United States, sent a letter to Yale President Richard C. Levin, objecting to the conference. It follows: August 30, 2010 Dear ...
- Rocket Redux, the Israeli fiction
A few months ago, I authored a post on the fiction that when Israel withdrew from two decades of military occupation of southern Lebanon in 2000, Hezbollah responded with thousands of rockets rained down on Israeli communities. At the time, I cited false statements to that effect made by Michael Or ...
- Writers Oz, Yehoshua, Grossman back artists’ ...
Where are the liberal American Zionists on this one? What will J Street do? Important news:Ynet learned on Monday that prominent Israeli authors A. B. Yehoshua, Amos Oz, David Grossman and Sami Michael are supporting a long line of actors, playwrights and artists who announced they would refuse ...
- Stuck inside of Cairo with the Gaza blues again
Susan Johnson is a Doylestown, Pa., grandmother with two volunteer gigs in Gaza waiting for her. She's written about her big trip earlier this summer. And here I sit in Cairo, exhausted and disappointed. I have been denied entrance to Gaza twice! I'm amazed I'm not angry and ready to give up, even t ...
- 40 percent of Palestinian prisoners from Jenin are ...
and other news from Today in Palestine:Land and Property Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Israel won't extend settlement freeze ahead of direct negotiations The Israeli cabinet will not vote on extending a partial freeze in West Bank settlement construction before the start of the peace talks ...
- FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END FEAR ...
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 such a phenomena ( ...
- PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. Gen ...
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 claim many, many more l ...
- 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 world politi ...
- "Martial Law" G20 charge disappears
It appears government doesn't want to test Public Works Protection Act in court. [View:http://www.youtube.com/user/TheRealNews#p/u/3/ZdFj9EsKM5Y:640:360]
- Investing in schools and infrastructure is the bes ...
In Washington, a great debate has broken out. The Republicans want to keep the Bush tax cuts in place, saying that it's a good stimulant for the economy. Others are saying direct funding by states in infrastructure and schools is a much better form of stimulus and growth. A new study by Jeff Thompso ...
- US Government announces export control reforms
A series of long-awaited reforms to the US export-control system, which President Barack Obama is set to announce on 31 August, will likely benefit defense manufacturers but leave research scientists and academics waiting in the wings for regulatory relief. Currently, anyone distributing America ...
- NIH stops its own human embryonic stem cell exper ...
In a move not unexpected, but still shocking, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Monday halted human embryonic stem cell experiments being conducted by researchers on its own campus in Bethesda, Maryland. The directive, communicated to researchers by Michael Gottesman (pictured), the agency' ...
- Monkeypox emerges in Africa in the wake of smallpo ...
Few human accomplishments match the eradication of smallpox virus in the late 1970s. It was, and still is, the only disease wiped from the face of the Earth. However, three decades later, a related virus, monkeypox, is on the rise in parts of central Africa - precisely because of the success of s ...
- IAC review recommends beefing up IPCC structures
The InterAcademy Council representing the world's science academies released its much-anticipated review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Monday, recommending a beefed-up management infrastructure as well as various reforms for reviewing science, managing potential conflicts of inte ...
- Algorithms battle to map the brain
In the brain, as in business, success has a lot to do with making the right connections. In fact, it's not a stretch to say that our subjective perceptions of ourselves, of one another and of the world around us all come down to how our neurons are connected. Yet the awesome complexity of these con ...
- What’s Behind China’s Big Traffic Jam
The world press has been fixated on the "Beijing" traffic jam that lasted for nearly two weeks. There is a potential lesson here for the United States, which is that if traffic is allowed to far exceed roadway capacity, unprecedented traffic jams can occur. The Inner Mongolia Traffic Jam: First we ...
- Australia 2010: Unstable Politics in a Prosperous ...
2010 has been something of an annus mirabilis in Australian politics. On 24 June a prime minister was dumped before facing the voters a second time. This was the first time ever for such an early exit. Then the election on 22 August produced a “hung parliament”, an outcome not seen since the 1940s. ...
- Summer in the Hamptons: UnReal Estate
If you are looking for a place where you can, in your day dreams, ride out the recession, might I suggest one of the Hamptons? These are the celebrity-drenched villages that stretch for thirty miles across the sand dunes and potato fields of Long Island’s South Fork, which ends at Montauk Point and ...
- Has America Caught the British Disease?
As the economy stalls, analysts are worrying that the United States might repeat the experience of Japan’s “lost decade” (actually, two lost decades). Is America turning Japanese? We should be more worried about the prospect that America is turning British. The United Kingdom went from creating t ...
- The Housing Bubble: The Economists Should Have Kno ...
Paul Krugman got it right . But it should not have taken a Nobel Laureate to note that the emperor's nakedness with respect to the connection between the housing bubble and more restrictive land use regulation. A just published piece by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, however, shows that much ...
- More Than 20,000 American Mortgagees at Palm Beach ...
Related/Triage America: Thousands Line Up for Free Health Care at the Los Angeles Sports Arena. Via: Guardian: In the pre-dawn darkness of a steamy night of sub-tropical rain, a queue of anxious, soggy people snakes around the palm trees outside a cavernous Florida convention centre. Some have erect ...
- Predator Drones to Patrol Entire U.S.-Mexico borde ...
Via: Reuters: The U.S. government will have unmanned surveillance aircraft monitoring the whole southwest border with Mexico from September 1, as it ramps up border security in this election year, a top official said on Monday. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said U.S. Customs and Borde ...
- Enslaved
Mmm hmm. Research Credit: DW
- Britain: Terrorists Use “Conspiracy Theories ...
Obviously, too many people are figuring out the scam. The-bloggers-are-with-Al-Queda meme seems hilarious and dumb now, but this is the set up phase. After the false flag nuke is lit off (or whatever the spectacle will entail), guess where the fingers will point… See: DoJ Terrorism and Criminal Extr ...
- California Students Get Tracking Devices
Make sure that the little zombies-in-training get a breakfast stick or two to start the day off right. *sigh* Similar: In-School Suspension Program Via: San Jose Mercury News / AP: California officials are outfitting preschoolers in Contra Costa County with tracking devices they say will save staff ...
- 5 Trillion MORE Dollars To Fix Fannie Mae And Fred ...
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have become gigantic financial black holes that the U.S. government endlessly pours massive quantities of money into. Unfortunately, if the U.S. government did allow Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to totally implode, both the mortgage industry and the housing ...
- 30 Statistics That Prove The Elite Are Getting Ric ...
Not everyone has been doing badly during the economic turmoil of the last few years. In fact, there are some Americans that are doing really, really well. While the vast majority of us struggle, there is one small segment of society that is seemingly doing better than ever. This ...
- The American People Don’t Need More Handouts ...
Without millions more good jobs, the U.S. economy is simply never, ever going to recover. But at this point, there is every indication that the U.S. economy is going to continue to bleed jobs. In the past, employment would bounce up and down as the economy went through various cyc ...
- Bancor: The Name Of The Global Currency That A Sho ...
Sometimes there are things that are so shocking that you just do not want to report them unless they can be completely and totally documented. Over the past few years, there have been many rumors about a coming global currency, but at times it has been difficult to pin down evidenc ...
- One Economic Chart That You Should Permanently Bur ...
Today most Americans are completely obsessed with the silliest of things. They wonder how Lindsay Lohan is going to fare in jail and they agonize over who LeBron James is going to play basketball for. But when it comes to the things that really matter, most Americans are completel ...
- The REDD+ concept (IISD)
Read at : Forest Policy Info Mailing List REDD+ Online Course UPDATED! ONLINE INTRODUCTORY COURSE ON REDD+: www.conservationtraining.org The Nature Conservancy; Conservation International; the Climate, Community, and Biodiversity Alliance; Rainforest Alliance, the World Wil ...
- Drought, Disease-Resistant Coffee Trees (Google / ...
Read at : Google Alert – drought http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-30/rwanda-plans-to-boost-coffee-output-with-drought-disease-resistant-trees.html Rwanda Plans to Boost Coffee Output With Drought, Disease-Resistant Trees By David Malingha Doya Rwanda will distribute half-a- million high-yield c ...
- China Desertification (Google / CRI)
Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://english.cri.cn/7146/2010/08/18/2041s589215.htm Anchor: As more and more Chinese people continue to move west in the search for opportunities, one thing is growing scarce: land to live on. Now developers are venturing into the desert, … Continue reading ...
- The Fog Catcher (Google / Clean Technica)
Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://cleantechnica.com/2010/08/30/watering-deserts/ Watering Deserts Written by Susan Kraemer The increasing desertification of the planet due to climate change is a serious threat to future humans, so technology that can create water in deserts is … Cont ...
- Desertification in Inner Mongolia (Google / The St ...
Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2010/8/31/lifefocus/6921492&sec=lifefocus The desert is overtaking Inner Mongolia By TAN CHENG LI In Inner Mongolia, trees are being planted to stop the march of the desert. AS a child growing up in Inner Mongol ...
- ENVIRONMENT: Green Groups See Red In Recent ...
The environmental groups that helped propel Barack Obama to the White House are feeling betrayed during a summer of discontent and climate inaction.
- MONEY & POLITICS: Conservative Fund Taps ̶ ...
The American Future Fund , which aims to almost triple its issue advertisement spending for this year’s election, launched a hard-hitting television ad today using the proposed Islamic mosque in New York City to attack Iowa GOP candidate Ben Lange’s Democratic opponent.
- MONEY & POLITICS: Boehner’s Pro-Business ...
House Republican Leader John Boehner’s high-profile speech yesterday urging the Obama administration to fire its top economic advisers and offering advice on job creation reflects the Ohio congressman’s long ties to the business sector, detailed in the Center for Public Integrity’s investigation, “ ...
- ENVIRONMENT: Volunteer Vessels at BP Rig Were R ...
One of the many lessons learned from the BP disaster is to better coordinate responses by private boats that hurry to an offshore rig explosion, the retired Coast Guard admiral leading the federal relief effort said today, referring to an issue spotlighted in a Center for Public Integrity story.
- MONEY & POLITICS: American Crossroads Spin-off ...
Conservative group American Crossroads , launched barely six months ago with help from GOP uber-consultants Ed Gillespie and Karl Rove, has raised $17.6 million through August 20, the group’s president Steven Law told the Center for Public Integrity.
- Lessons for Project Samosa
By Alison@Creekside The publication ban on Project Samosa, the RCMP's latest salvo in the war on terror, has the media scrambling to get unnamed sources and security experts to augment and substitute for accounts of court proceedings. By a happy coincidence for war on terror fans, this allows ...
- Lady Gaga twats Edmonton
By Frank Moher Could Edmonton mayor Stephen Mandel have been any more humourless in his response to Lady Gaga's cheerful twit-pic from Rexall Place on Saturday? (That's it to the left.) Crews had removed the letter "O" from a sign to position a spotlight; our lady, or one among her entourage, ...
- Anatomy of a G20 mishmash
By Frank Moher The massive article, "Anatomy of the G20," published by the Toronto Star last Friday, is a curious document indeed, especially coming from a newspaper that has taken a hard editorial line against the police's actions that weekend. It feels like one of those articles that has gone a ...
- Oil sands science seeps out
By Alison@Creekside Remember that two year Environment Committee study on the tarsands that was ultimately shredded because the four parties at the table couldn't agree on the wording of the witnesses's testimony? The Lib members of that committee have now released their own report on the testimo ...
- Who needs a BC arts council when we have the Liber ...
By Frank Moher Jane Danzo, in her letter of resignation as Chair of the BC Arts Council and in various exit interviews that followed, has confirmed what most of us already suspected: that the Liberal government now sees itself as arbiter of all things cultural in the province. At last, we ...
- JAL to slash workforce as part of restructuri ...
AP Photo - Japan Airlines planes park at Tokyo's Haneda Airport Tuesday, Aug 31, 2010. Japan Airlines Corp. outlined restructuring plans Tuesday, including job cuts of about 30 percent of its global work force and additional financing, to keep flying after filing for bankruptcy in...
- Pakistan to send investigators to probe crick ...
Islamabad - Pakistan's government is to send a team of investigators to probe bribe allegations against some players of the national cricket team, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said Tuesday. The three-member team, comprising two officials from the Federal Investigation Agency and...
- We Are Family is no melodrama: Karan Johar ...
Karan Johar is known for his tear-jerkers like Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Kal Ho Naa Ho but the producer says his upcoming film We Are Family is not a melodramatic film. "The film is not melodramatic. There are emotions but there light moments too", said Johar....
- Pakistan's problem is deeper than match fixin ...
In Pakistan, cricket is a matter of special pride. Cricketers have for decades been ambassadors for a more positive image of the country and a source of hope and enjoyment for those whose everyday life is both difficult and joyless. In Pakistan, we are generally averse to public displays of hed ...
- SRK the man, say producers
Prithwish Ganguly | TNN Posted On Tuesday, August 31, 2010 at 03:15:40 PM Shah Rukh Khan is set to become the first actor who is being considered to be in the core committee of the film industry's Producers' Association. We�learned from reliable sources that the producers will be suggesting tha ...
- Iraq Special Report: 'American Soldiers Sacrificed ...
by Jonathan Steele In Saddam Hussein's home town of Tikrit, the ruins of the Farouk palace, one of his many mansions, stand bereft and strewn with rubble. It seems only yesterday that I walked through them with the first Iraqi looters in April 2003. During the night Hellfire missiles from US Cobra h ...
- Anger as US Conservatives Hold Washington Rally
by Amanda Lee Myers Tens of thousands of people are attending a controversial rally in Washington DC organised by conservative talk show host Glenn Beck. Civil rights leaders criticised Mr Beck for holding the rally at the Lincoln Memorial, the place where Martin Luther King Jr made his "I Have a Dr ...
- Nato Afghan Bases Come Under Attack
Up to 30 Taliban-linked fighters, including suicide bombers, have attacked two Nato bases in Afghanistan's east. At least 21 fighters were killed and four Nato soldiers wounded in the pre-dawn attacks on Saturday, officials told Al Jazeera. ...
- Exodus as Floods Threaten More Pakistan Towns
THATTA, Pakistan - Hundreds of thousands of people were fleeing areas of southern Pakistan Saturday as rising floodwaters breached more defences and inundated towns. For nearly a month torrential monsoon rains have triggered massive floods, moving steadily from north to south in Pakistan, affecting ...
- Can Our Schools Run on Duncan?
by David Moberg When President Barack Obama announced that his choice for Secretary of Education was Arne Duncan, chief executive of the Chicago Public Schools, he extolled his basketball buddy as a pragmatic, successful school reformer. read more
- Paul Allen v. The Internet
Former Microsoft executive and billionaire Paul Allen sued several major Internet companies and three large retailers for patent infringement today, asserting that four patents originating at Interval Research, Allen's dot-com era think tank, cover basic web browsing and e-commerce technologies....
- Citing Possible Bias, ACLU Asks Rader to Recuse Hi ...
With the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit set to consider a landmark case over the validity of human gene patents, attorneys for the plaintiffs in the suit are asking the court's chief judge to recuse himself from the matter—before the panel that will hear it has even been selec ...
- Law360 Calls Lawyer-Owned Shell Company a "Public ...
seems to have a pretty flexible definition of that term. Last month, it included . Who is so concerned about such fairness? That would be , the Texas law firm that owns Americans for Fair Patent Use, which is a limited liability company set up to prosecute a false marking lawsuit filed in E ...
- Eben Moglen on Bilski, software patents, and big p ...
Moglen's position on the subject of software patents—that they should be banned—is, to say the least, outside the mainstream in legal circles. It has, however, garnered support among software developers and other techies, especially those who work in the world of open-source and free softw ...
- Patent Litigation Weekly: International Trade Comm ...
Over the past two decades, the question of what constitutes a domestic industry has typically been heard by the same ITC administrative law judges who ultimately rule on the patent disputes that come before the agency. It's rare that the full commission considers the issue. On April 14, th ...
- Message to Glenn Beck Christians regarding the Hol ...
eileen fleming On 8/28/10 Glenn Beck announced that "America today begins to turn back to God" at his "Restoring Honor" rally at the Lincoln Memorial. Beck caused me to recall Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" a scalding critique of American Christianity that King ...
- Bye Bye American Pie
By Timothy V. Gatto Sometimes I become more than just a little bit angry when I read what passes for news in America. What makes me even angrier is what passes for opinion on the left side of the blogosphere. Don’t get me wrong, some of the articles and op-ed pieces are nothing less than astounding ...
- 'I Decline to Accept the End of Man'
by Len Hart, the Existentialist Cowboy We look back at New Orleans recalling Katrina and more recently the reckless disregard shown the Gulf of Mexico by BP, a 'person' by SCOTUS reckoning. BP, of course, proved SCOTUS to be as wrong as they are stupid by going unpunished. That --of course --is the ...
- Israel will not choose to attack Iran: Harun Yahya
Kourosh Ziabari Adnan Oktar, internationally known by his pen name Harun Yahya, is a Turkish public intellectual, writer and speaker. He is a proponent of Islamic creationism and anti-Zionism. He condemns Zionism and denounces Darwinism as the source of terrorism. He runs the Turkey-based Science R ...
- Will Ohio execute an innocent man?
Mary Shaw Here we go again, this time in Ohio. There, death row inmate Kevin Keith is scheduled to be executed on September 15, despite strong new evidence of his innocence. Keith was convicted in 1994 for a shooting spree that killed three people and wounded three others. Eyewitness testimony wa ...
- Canada's housing bubble
A new CCPA study finds that for the first time in 30 years, six of Canada's hottest real estate markets are in a housing bubble. Canada’s Housing Bubble: An Accident Waiting to Happen examines trends in house prices in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal and Ottawa between 1980 and 2010 ...
- Reflections on the Tamil migrants from the child o ...
Many of us at the CCPA have been troubled by Canada's reaction to the arrival of 492 Tamil asylum seekers on the MV Sun Sea. Seth Klein, Director of our BC Office, put words to this discomfort in an excellent post on PolicyNote.ca (our blog on BC public policy issues). Seth, son of Vietnam war resis ...
- Climate Change: Who's Carrying the Burden? CCPA b ...
The Education Project's latest publication is now in the bookstore.� Climate Change -- Who's Carrying the Burden? The chilly climates of the global environmental dilemma, goes beyond the traditional analyses of climate change that focus on global techno-fixes and free-market solutions. Instead, ...
- Post-recession report: Looking at the past tells u ...
A new report by CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan warns that if past recessions are any guide, between 750,000 and 1.8 million more Canadians will be counted as poor before recovery is complete. "Some will argue that this recession was brutal but short, and that Canada has been recovering fast ...
- Canada has one of the worst income-to-debt ratios ...
Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman has a warning for Canadians: we have one of the worst income-to-debt ratios in the world. CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan writes about the problem in this blog .
- Bad Cops: A Round-up
Circumstances of girl’s death investigated | ABC “I got 25 cops inside looking to give my wife a ticket for going up the wrong-way, as soon as they found out from the doctors that my daughter was dead, they all walked out with their tails between their legs,” Michael Ojeda said. Officer-involved s ...
- Should We Ignore Fox Propaganda?
Should Progressive Media Ignore Fox Propaganda? | Politics Plus Since President Obama took office, the Republican Party’s agenda has dominated the public debate. Fox News and right-wing talk radio decide what’s news, and the traditional media either echoes the story or is criticized for not doing so ...
- CIA in Yemen
CIA wants to cover up US war crimes in Yemen | War in Context A missile strike on December 17 in Yemen last year that killed 41 people including 21 children and 14 women was most likely the result of a US cruise missile strike — an opening shot in a US military campaign that began [...]
- Ever Feel Like Someone Is Watching You?
ACLU: Spying on Citizens At Nearly Cold War Level | Government Against The People Welcome to the New McCarthyism, where there’s presumed to be an Al-Qaeda terrorist hiding under every bed. Speaking of which, have we mentioned recently that since Sept. 11, 2001, only around 140 U.S. citizens have bee ...
- Got My Goat Award – Corporate Media make Kat ...
WWH-With few exceptions, the major news networks seemed to be celebrating the anniversary of Katrina.- Instead of an in-depth conversation and critical look at the worst failure of so many systems and government agencies. The focus was, for the most part, Up Beat and Giddy. CNN, MSNBC,HLN,ABC,CBS… ...
- The Mutiny on the Batavia. Part One: Shipwrecked
28 October 1628, the newly built Batavia, pride of the Dutch East India company, sailed for Indonesia with 322 people on board. It was a trade and passenger ship, and carried a cargo of gold and silver that would be used to buy spices in Indonesia. It sailed under one Captain Francisco Pelsaert (hi ...
- Through Thick and Thin
Another week gone. First, the economy. It’s in big trouble. The “stimulus” of last year has run its course. Printing a huge pile of money and spending it was never any more than a stopgap solution, and there doesn’t seem to have been a “Plan B.” In fact in a very real sense that sums [...]
- The Pont St Esprit Affair
Pont St Esprit, a small town in southern France. August 1951. There was nothing remarkable about Pont St Esprit, it was just a typical French town in post war Europe. It had been a wet summer, but otherwise unremarkable. And the war had been over for six years, so things were getting back to normal ...
- USMC General Warns Obama that Pulling Troops out o ...
Yes, that’s right, the head of the USMC, general James Conway, has warned that President Obama’s deadline to begin pulling troops out of Afghanistan is encouraging the Taliban. Anyone who knows anything about how the military works should be worried right now. What this general has done is called in ...
- “Hello Gliese 581d inhabitant. Can you help ...
There’s been some new thinking in SETI research. Well, it’s not that new, but it’s been brought into prominence by an important SETI researcher recently. His theory is that biological intelligences such as ourselves will quickly evolve into, or spawn, thinking machines. And those machines will also ...
- Economic Musings VI: Modern Economies – Dyin ...
There is a great debate in the history of economics whether there can be under-consumption in any real historic moment of the state of an economy and if so, whether it has detrimental effects and if so, what is to be done about it. And modern economists seem to have found a magic wand with [...]
- Blogs and Web Sites you may want to follow
The following is a list of blogs and websites that CrisisMaven has followed and observed over the last few months and that readers may want to check out from time to time. Note: neither the sequence of how the blogs are listed here nor any comments by CrisisMaven are an endorsement nor criticism of ...
- Economic Musings VII: Marketing doesn’t adve ...
Have you ever wondered if marketing and advertising are the same, if not, what’s the difference and which is the more important of the two? And why should you care? The most successful economic model is without doubt the market economy. It is the consequence of the wealth effects of the division of ...
- CrisisMaven’s Blog News 2010-03-07: Over 25,000 We ...
Yesterday around 16:37 GMT we passed the 25,000 threshold … - next report will probably be posted when we’re past the 50,000 mark. Thanks to all avid readers: on 2010-03-18 at around 19:25 GMT we went past our first 20,000 views on our blog in about eight weeks since we began publishing! After that, ...
- Economic Musings VIII: Is there a limit to economi ...
Something which puzzles many thinkers and frightens many young people concerned about waste or the pillaging of our natural resources is the question: can “an economy” (whatever that is – we’ll come to that in a minute) grow indefinitely? How can there be unlimited economic growth if we’ve never hea ...
- Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further evid ...
In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted. The following ...
- Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagflatio ...
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 bus ...
- How long would it take to work off the US trade de ...
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 porte ...
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 current crisis. This articl ...
- 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 were ...
- E85 Case Study: Iowa
Join the forum discussion on this post The Saudi Arabia of Ethanol Iowa is to corn ethanol what Saudi Arabia is to oil. At present Iowa has the capacity to produce 3.5 billion gallons of ethanol per year, which is 26% of the nation’s total (Source). This is of course due to the large amount of [.. ...
- It’s the Oil, Stupid
Join the forum discussion on this post I am no economist, but bear with me while I try to explain why I think we are in for a very long and difficult economic period. My thesis for The Long Recession goes something like this: Historically, when oil prices rose quickly and remained high the economy ...
- Guest Essay: Why Conservatives Are Bad on Energy
Join the forum discussion on this post I am working on yet another project, due at the end of this week. Therefore, I haven’t had a chance to work much on my next essay, which will be about the potential for E85 to push Iowa much closer to energy self-sufficiency. Meanwhile, I have been sent [...]
- What’s Really Holding Cellulosic Biofuels Back
Join the forum discussion on this post There was a recent article in MIT Technology review called What’s Holding Biofuels Back? There is a relatively simple answer to the question that I will delve into below, but the short answer is “what’s holding biofuels back” is that we placed unreasonable exp ...
- Range Fuels Produces Something
Join the forum discussion on this post I began to hear rumors about a week ago that Range Fuels had started to produce some methanol from their plant in Soperton, Georgia. This week they announced that they have indeed begun to make some product: Range Fuels Finally Gets its Cellulosic Plant Runni ...
- iLearn Technology » Blog Archive » Bloom’s Taxonom ...
Comments: Digital Age Blooms Taxonomy along with Web 2.0 tools per Blooms level via Kelly Tenkely on Twitter. - Dean Mantz Tags: technology , taxonomy , blog , bloomstaxonomy , KellyTenkely by: Dean Mantz
- 10 Personal Response Systems Teaching Strategies: ...
Tags: clickers , strategies , response , teaching , systems , learning by: Dean Mantz
- iFontMaker for iPad on the iTunes App Store
Comments: Create custom fonts using your handwriting and an iPad. - Randy Rodgers Tags: ipad , ifontmaker , fonts , customizable , apps , handwriting by: Randy Rodgers
- Photoshop.com
Comments: Streamlined, online version of Photoshop. - Randy Rodgers Tags: photoshop , photography , software , editor , graphics , design , web2.0 by: Randy Rodgers
- PikiFriends
Comments: Site connects junior and senior high school students with penpals from other schools. - Randy Rodgers Tags: pikifriends , penpals , 6-12 , web2.0 , education , writing , ELA , secondary by: Randy Rodgers
- Mind-Body-Mood Advisor: Why You Should Ride Like a ...
RODALE NEWS, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK—The first thing I noticed on my recent trip to this charming seaside city is people on bicycles—everywhere. It would be hard not to notice them. Here, in one of the most bike-friendly cities in the world, over a third of Copenhagen’s residents bicycle to work, and m ...
- School Lunch Program Makes Kids Fat
RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—As parents gear up for the back-to-school grind, planning some homemade lunch menus might be a smart addition to the to-do list. New research published in the Journal of Human Resources has found that the national school lunch program could be contributing to the childhood o ...
- Heavy Traffic a Possible Cause of Diabetes
RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—According to the American Diabetic Association, 7.3 percent of the population suffers from type 2 diabetes, and while many people develop the condition as a result of being overweight or obese, increasing research has found that others seem to develop it as a result environm ...
- Surefire Shellfish-Grilling Tips, and 5 Fabulous R ...
RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Tired of barbecuing burgers, salmon, and chicken? OK, even if you’re not (we’re not either), maybe it's about time to mix things up a bit anyway. With summer winding down, now's the time to try your hand at grilling seafood. If you've never done it, don't worry. We've pick o ...
- Want to Prevent Dementia? Eat an Anti-Diabetes Die ...
RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—No one wants to experience, or watch a loved one experience, the stages of dementia: memory loss, difficulty communicating, paranoia, hallucinations. So when a recent report from the National Institutes of Health found that no solid scientific evidence exists to support theo ...
- 478 - The Shotgun Tracts of the Lower Mississippi
Your average shotgun shack (1) is only as wide as the single room it spans, but as long as all the rooms it consecutively contains. If you’d be so inclined, and if your aim was straight enough, you could fire a shotgun through the entirety of the house and have the bullet exit through the back door ...
- #30: Tax Fat People
If Americans were paid to eat less and exercise more they might be motivated to lose some weight—and save us a bundle on health care—says Dr. Barry M. Popkin , director of University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's Interdisciplinary Center for Obesity. According to a report released by the Center . ...
- The Afterlife of Chair Backs
In the age of reuse-is-better-than-recycle, Italian designer Antonello Fusè has come up with an ingenious, elegant twist on used furniture: Abitudini , a line of unique, asymmetrical coat hangers made from old chair backs. Fusè cuts the chairs at different points and attaches a metal hook to the to ...
- Are Lap Dancers Really Smarter Than the Average Br ...
Many years ago, when I was an undergraduate student, I frequented a local bar with my friends that we liked because it had cheap long-island ice tea. It also happened to have strippers, which none of us paid much attention to. (We really were there just for the cheap drinks.) That all ended one ... ...
- Islamophobia: Researcher On America's Irrational F ...
Do Americans have an irrational and prejudicial fear of Islam? That was the focus of the cover story last week at Time magazine. "Islamophobia in the U.S. doesn't approach levels seen in other countries where Muslims are in a minority," wrote Time senior editor Bobby Ghosh. "But to be a Muslim in . ...
- The Next Emperor?
Even the Middle Kingdom is no match for one small sniffer dog when he’s in the mood! LibertyGibbert’s grand master of mirth, Fenbeagle, this week aims his pencil at an oft-forgotten but oddly familiar chapter in Chinese history…
- Libertarianism And The Welfare State
Today I’d like to talk about an aspect of Libertarianism that is often widely misunderstood. Those of you that have been following my series on Libertarianism will know that, around a century ago, most of the societies of the West … Continue reading →
- Dobson, Dykes And Diverse Disputes
G’day All, Ozboy here. As you may have noticed recently, I haven’t had as much time as I’d like to spend here creating posts. Rather than me offering another mere one-paragraph “spill post”, MemoryVault has kindly offered his services in … Continue reading →
- The Dragon’s Dissent
As you’re probably aware, most warmists appear to believe it vitally important that the reputed consensus in the scientific community regarding CAGW remains inviolate. Any questioning of this consensus, any appearance of pockets of dissent anywhere in the world, is ruthlessly … Continue reading →
- Milanković And The Exploding Chook Shed
I thought I’d cover another science topic today, after this week’s fill of politics. Most of you have probably heard mention of MilankoviÄ Cycles (the spelling usually Anglicized to Milankovitch Cycles) in relation to the study of the earth’s climate. Today I’ll explain what … Continue reading ...
- Another Leak Prosecution
The Obama Administration continued its pursuit of individuals who leak classified information to the press with another indictment of a suspected leaker. The Department of Justice announced last week that Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, a State Department contractor, had been indicted (pdf) under the Espionage ...
- Geoengineering, and More from CRS
Technologies to modify the Earth’s climate are at least conceivable and, in the absence of a comprehensive national and international climate change policy, may soon emerge as practical alternatives, a new survey of the subject from the Congressional Research Service suggests. “The term ‘geoengineer ...
- Wikileaks: Giving Leaks a Bad Name
Unauthorized disclosures of classified information (“leaks”) often play an important role in the proper functioning of American democracy. They can serve as a safety valve against official excess, and an implicit check against government misconduct. Even the mere possibility of a leak can have a ...
- Who is an Intelligence Employee?
Could someone be considered an intelligence community employee even if his salary is not paid out of the intelligence budget? Intelligence officials say yes, claiming that a person’s status as an intelligence employee can be based on an “assessment of the functions [he] performs.” This novel app ...
- Army Doctrine from Arms Control to Marching Bands
The U.S. Army has issued several new doctrinal or regulatory publications that may be of interest beyond their intended audience (all pdf). A new Army regulation “provides a broad overview of [arms control] treaties and agreements with which the U.S. Army must implement and comply.” See “Army Arms C ...
- Renewable Energy Annual 2008
US DOE, Energy Information Admin. http://www.eia.gov/cneaf/solar.renewables/page/rea_data/rea.pdf?src=email The Renewable Energy Annual (2008) is the fourteenth in a series of annual publications on renewable energy by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). The 2008 edition presents five ...
- The Economic Impact of Karnal Bunt Phytosanitary W ...
USDA Economic Research Service / By Gary Vocke, Edward W. Allen, and J. Michael Price http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/WHS/2010/08Aug/WHS10H01/#2010-8-25 This report provides the results of ERS research on the economic consequences of ending the USDA Karnal bunt certification program for U.S. ex ...
- Onshore Oil and Gas: BLM’s Management of Pub ...
Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-670?source=ra The development of oil and natural gas resources on federal lands contributes to domestic energy production but also results in concerns over potential impacts on those lands. Numerous public protests about oil and gas ...
- Hurricane Recovery: Federal Government Provided a ...
Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-800?source=ra Residents of the Gulf Coast continue to struggle to recover almost 5 years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the area in August and September of 2005. In many cases the federal government coordinates with, a ...
- Energy Use in the US Food System
USDA Economic Research Service / by Patrick Canning, Ainsley Charles, Sonya Huang, Karen R. Polenske, and Arnold Waters http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/ERR94/ERR94.pdf Energy is an important input in growing, processing, packaging, distributing, storing, preparing, serving, and disposing of foo ...
- Thank You Mr Curley: Debunker PROMOTES the "Buildi ...
Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog was nice enough to help promote the " BuildingWhat? "campaign recently by posting their ad. Pat, your strategy of posting their video to help out and then inspiring truthers to donate more by insisting that the campaign is failing is brilliant, simply br ...
- As Screw Loose Change Would Say: Moron Dave Thomas
So, I've had a chance to listen to some of the Richard Gage and Dave Thomas debate and have a few things to add to the already stellar debunking job of Gage and others . Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog posted this bingo card mocking the evidence that Gage would raise. Let's examine an ...
- CIT's corruption spreads...
Dammit, just when I thought we were making progress in distancing ourselves from these clowns . I'm sure this will make them some more money as more activists waste $1,000 on 500 copies of their 'movie' that's mostly just white scrolling text on a black background, and contribute to the the discredi ...
- 9/11 Heroes Ask for Medical Attention; Receive Nai ...
The House of Representatives recently voted down the 9/11 workers' health fund and Rep. Weiner of New York "blasted" them for it . Now I would like to do a bit of blasting myself in the blogosphere. In a post that presented only one side of the story about the cause of death of 9/11 hero James Zad ...
- Debunking the Debunkers
Permanent Top Post--Scroll Down for Newer Posts Comments are only open to blog contributors , but feel free to contact us here if you have a point of contention or some kind words you would like to share. Ad hominems will be ignored, but well-formed rebuttals may be addressed (and that is a subjec ...
- IPCC told to stop lobbying and restrict role to ex ...
An independent investigation into the UN’s climate change body has warned it to stop lobbying and to restrict its role to explaining the science behind any changes in global temperature.
- Record number in government anti-poverty programs
Government anti-poverty programs that have grown to meet the needs of recession victims now serve a record one in six Americans and are continuing to expand.
- Army: U.S. soldiers plotted to randomly execute Af ...
Five soldiers accused of killing civilians in Afghanistan are now facing additional charges of conspiracy to commit premeditated murder -- a plot that allegedly began when one soldier discussed how easy it would be to "toss a grenade" at Afghan civilians, The Seattle Times reported Wednesday.
- Gates Foundation Puts Its Money Where Its Mouth Is
Well, well, well. It’s about time. Kind of like when Fox News gave $1 million in campaign contributions to Republicans . It wasn’t exactly a secret before, but now it’s official. The Gates Foundation just bought a whopping 500,000 shares of Monsanto stock.
- Two Non-GMO farming innovations that show great pr ...
- Iran: Any negotiation with the U.S. should be unde ...
Summary: US Nuclear Posture Report (April 2010) Amid strained relations between Tehran and Washington, Iran says it will enter talks with the US only under "equal and respectful conditions" and without any prejudice. "If the US seriously seeks to revive relations with Iran, it should make chan ...
- Larijani: Iran ready for nuclear talks
Summary: As the US expresses optimism about future talks on Iran's nuclear program, Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani says Tehran has never refused nuclear talks. source: Press TV read more
- Goldberg’s bogus ‘ticking clock’ on Iran
Summary: America's march to a disastrous war in Iraq began in the media, where an unprovoked U.S. invasion of an Arab country was introduced as a legitimate policy option, then debated as a prudent and necessary one. Now, a similarly flawed media conversation on Iran is gaining momentum. sour ...
- Iran joins peaceful nuclear club
Summary: On August 21, 2010, a long awaited launch of the first unit of Iran's first nuclear power plant Bushehr was held. The first stage of Iran’s peaceful nuclear program has been completed and we can congratulate the Iranian people with such a significant achievement. source: Strategic C ...
- Turning Back From the Point of No Return
Summary: The drums for war on Iran have been banging louder than ever lately, with a spate of articles by political commentators either directly encouraging the bombing of the Islamic Republic or otherwise offering a narrative in which this is effectively portrayed as the only option to preven ...
- Galaxy Cluster Mashups -The Most Violent Events in ...
This composite image shows the effects of a collision between two small galaxy clusters in the northern part of the galaxy cluster Abell 1758, located about 3.2 billion light years from Earth. Galaxy clusters are the largest structures in the...
- Do Jupiter's Radio Emissions Hint that Dark Energ ...
Utane Sawangwit and Tom Shanks of Durham University believe that errors on the “gold standard” cosmic microwave background results from the WMAP satellite that includes dark matter, dark energy and the exponential expansion after the big bang known as inflation...
- Extraterrestrial Water Sources of the Milky Way Ma ...
The Herschel Space Observatory's HIFI instrument was designed to follow the water trail in the Universe over a wide range of scales, from the Solar System out to extragalactic sources. Early results, presented this week at the Herschel First Results...
- Neutrino Discovery Could Reveal Why Antimatter Fai ...
A team of physicists, including some from MIT, has found surprising differences between the flavor-switching behavior of neutrinos and antineutrinos. If confirmed, the finding could help explain why matter, and not antimatter, dominates our universe. Neutrinos, elementary particles generated by... ...
- Image of the Day: A Massive Jet of Color from a Bl ...
A new false-colored image from NASA's Hubble, Chandra and Spitzer space telescopes shows a giant jet of particles that has been shot out from the vicinity of a type of supermassive black hole called a quasar. The jet is enormous,...
- Natural health movement achieving key victories ov ...
(NaturalNews) It's hard to see it sometimes, but the natural health community has achieved many important victories over the last few years in exposing the truth about dangerous chemicals and food ingredients. Here are some of the major victories we've collectively achieved: High-Fructose Corn Syrup ...
- Boost your athletic performance with this proven a ...
(NaturalNews) Getting that extra push in the gym or out on the sports field might be as simple as supplementing with an important, nitric oxide-producing amino acid. In a recent study out of the University of Exeter (UE), researchers discovered that L-arginine, one of the 20 most common natural amin ...
- Even tiny exposure to BPA turns offspring into gen ...
(NaturalNews) A recent study published online in the journal Biology of Reproduction further reveals the disruptive nature of bisphenol A (BPA) in gene expression. According to the data, pregnant mice exposed to BPA experience significant genetic changes in their fetal ovaries, indicating that the n ...
- Vaccine Zombie hip hop song questions safety of fl ...
(NaturalNews) A new hip hop song and video hits the 'net today, just in time for the flu season vaccination push: "Vaccine Zombie" unleashes a rocking, hard-hitting message about the health risks of routine flu season vaccination and the availability of safer, less expensive and more effective alter ...
- Prescription painkillers now gateway drugs to hard ...
(NaturalNews) Shocking new research out of the University of Buffalo has revealed that popular prescription opioid medications are causing people to become addicted to street drugs. Once addicted, nearly half of patients prescribed opioid pain pills end up transitioning to street drugs like heroin b ...
- Dead Codebreaker Was Linked to NSA Intercept Case
A top British codebreaker found mysteriously dead last week in his flat had worked with the NSA and British intelligence to intercept e-mail messages that helped convict would-be bombers in the U.K., according to a news report. Gareth Williams, 31, made repeated visits to the U.S. to meet with the ...
- Alleged WikiLeaks Leaker Hires Civilian Defense At ...
Pfc. Bradley Manning, the former intelligence analyst suspected of leaking classified information to WikiLeaks, has hired a civilian attorney to defend him, according to a report. David Coombs, a former U.S. Army attorney in Rhode Island, was named as Manning’s new attorney, according to the Associ ...
- Second Newspaper Chain Joins Copyright Trolling Op ...
A Las Vegas company established to sue bloggers who clip news content is expanding its operations to a second newspaper chain. Righthaven LLC has struck a deal with Arkansas-based WEHCO Media to expand its copyright litigation campaign, in which bloggers and aggregators across the country are being ...
- Alleged Carder ‘BadB’ Charged in $9 Million ATM He ...
An alleged carder arrested earlier this month in France has been added to a long list of defendants charged with participating in the coordinated $9.5 million global heist against Atlanta-based card processing company RBS WorldPay, in a revised federal indictment issued in Georgia last week. Vladis ...
- Hackers Plant Tardis Atop MIT Building
What the heck is that blue box on top of the Small Dome at MIT? Students starting school this week at the venerable geek institution were wondering that themselves. Let’s take a closer look … Yep, it turns out that the Doctor is stopping by to give the first lecture in 6.01, the infamously hard a ...
- Glenn Beck Playing with Fire on Religious Faith
In his pivotal address to the Southern Baptists in 1960, John F. Kennedy cautioned those suspicious of his Catholic faith, "Today, I may be the victim, but tomorrow it may be you -- until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped apart at a time of great national peril." But with his fur ...
- The Conservatives' Cafeteria-Style Constitution
On Saturday, Glenn Beck and tens of thousands of his Tea Party faithful descended on Washington supposedly to " restore honor " to America and defend the Constitution of the United States. Or, more accurately, parts of it . After all, once they get past their enthusiasm for the Second and Tenth Am ...
- Everybody Expects the Republican Inquisition
Back in the 1970's, the British comedy troupe Monty Python introduced the expression " nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition " into the popular culture. Now, with the prospect of the GOP retaking control of the House of Representatives, everybody expects the Republican Inquisition. That is, the P ...
- Republicans Resurrect 1993 Talking Points on Taxes
With Democrats proposing to set the top two income tax rates at 36% and 39.6% respectively, Republican leaders waged a ferocious battle on behalf of the wealthiest American taxpayers. Former House Majority Leader and current Tea Party moneyman Dick Armey warned, "This program will not give you defi ...
- John Boehner's Fuzzy Math and Missing Cojones
With his much-hyped call for the firing of President Obama's economic team, House Minority Leader John Boehner ensured his speech in Cleveland today would get a lot of attention. But sadly for the would-be House Speaker, the address also spotlighted his unique combination of political cowardice and ...
- Texas’ Dirty-Energy Money Affects California’s Cle ...
Not only does the pollution of dirty energy companies extend across other states but so does their influence. Not far from Texas, California is fighting two big Texas oil companies to keep its air cleaner. To give you some background, California passed historic legislation in 2006 that mandates the ...
- Texas sends Hot-headed letter to EPA on CO2: parti ...
On Monday Aug 2, the Texas Attorney General and TCEQ Commissioner sent a strongly-worded (read: childish and churlish) letter to the EPA saying in no way would Texas comply with regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. But their ploy reeks more of politics than sound public policy.
- Could Texas’ Continued Defiance of EPA on Regulati ...
Public Citizen Calls For A Moratorium On Permitting All New Sources Of Greenhouse Gases Until Texas Gets Plan In Place EPA issued proposed rules today that will require Texas to modify its state implementation plan to cover Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG). If Texas does not, then EPA is proposing a ...
- PUC Chair’s TX Tribune Interview: Needs Lege Direc ...
Public Utility Commission Chairman Barry Smitherman recently sat down with Texas Tribune reporter Kate Galbraith to talk about energy efficiency, CREZ, smart-meters, non-wind renewables, the switch-hold rule, the Lege, and Federal climate legislation (or lack thereof?). It’s a good read/listen if y ...
- EDF’s Jim Marston in HouChron on Single State Agen ...
Some great points from the director of Environmental Defense Fund’s Texas Regional Office (and Energy Program), Jim Marston. If you’re concerned about government spending, consolidating existing efficiency programs and oversight into one agency has the potential to reduce overlap and redundancy in g ...
- August 30, 2010
Elevated Levels of Toxins Found in Athabasca River (Globe and Mail) A study set to be published today has found elevated levels of 13 toxic elements in the oil sands' main fresh water source, the Athabasca River, refuting government and industry claims that water quality there hasn't been af ...
- August 28-29, 2010
Probe Seeks UN Climate Panel Changes (Wall Street Journal) A group investigating the UN IPCC will recommend in a report Monday that the organization beef up its capacity to ferret out errors in its scientific assessments. Engineers to Remove Temporary Cap from Gulf Well (AP) En ...
- August 27, 2010
More Major U.S. Corporations Join Boycott of Alberta Oilsands Fuels (Canadian Press) Another four major U.S. companies — Walgreens, Gap, Timberland and Levi Strauss — are joining the move to either avoid or completely boycott fuel produced from Alberta's oilsands. Experts: Drilling Ban ...
- August 26, 2010
U.S. Spill Panel Question Drilling Policy (Reuters) The BP spill was a massive "failure" in government oversight and administrations should be forced to consult with experts in the field before making drilling policy, top spill commission officials said on Wednesday. On Doomed Rig's La ...
- August 25, 2010
Biden Says Country on Track to Double Renewable Energy Capacity (Reuters) Government stimulus spending has put the country on track to double renewable energy production capacity by 2012 and halve solar power costs by 2015, Vice President Joseph Biden said on Tuesday. TVA Targets 9 Ol ...
- Have a Drink
This is odd. I had read somewhere that drinking red wine in moderation was good for your heart, but I've never before encountered anything that suggested that it's healthier to be a heavy drinker than to completely abstain from alcohol. But, apparently, never drinking alcohol is a bad idea if you ...
- Wrong Answer
This is not good enough: Asked if the stimulus bill was too small, [White House press secretary Robert] Gibbs says: "I think it makes sense to step back just for a second. ... Nobody had, in January of 2009, a sufficient grasp of ... what we were facing." He adds that any stimulus was "unlikely t ...
- More on The Stupid
I came across an interesting response to my It's The Stupid, Stupid piece. Parts of it struck me as a touch pedantic and triumphant, but I thought the conclusion was stimulating. I think it is crucial to grasp, first, that Republican discourse is suffused with non-argumentative subcultural si ...
- Pet Peeve
Pretty much every article published by The Hill has a comments section that looks like this one: I'm all for free speech, but there isn't any moderation of The Hill's comments section at all. This has bothered me for a long time, but the suggestion that we feed Latinos to zoo animals kind of ...
- Froggy Bottom Cafe
- Personal Information: episode 24
Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness! Share and Enjoy: Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
- Arguments against life extension
Via Michael Anissimov, here’s a spectacularly empty diatribe against “deathhackers” by TechCrunch‘s Paul Carr. Carr objects to the idea of radical life extension as advocated by transhumanists, which is fair enough, but as written here most of his objections seem to boil down to personal distate tow ...
- Daddy, where does innovation come from?
Plenty of folk have been linking to this excerpt from Matt Ridley’s new book The Rational Optimist, and with good reason – it’s a provocative piece that plays to advocates (and opponents) of free trade, open exchange, copyright reform and much more. The basic thesis? The one persistent factor that h ...
- Replacement arms: mechanical or biological?
Prosthetic limbs are still in their infancy, but there’s a lot of progress being made: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is working with Darpa (who else?), and has a research grant for trying out their mind-controlled modular prosthetic arm on five test subjects over the next couple of years ...
- How to be a futurist
The irrepressible Scott “Basic Instructions” Meyer has the lowdown if you’re thinking of a career in futurism: Click through for the whole thing. But take it from me, being a futurist is a lot of work for no money. Or maybe that’s just the way I do it… and I’ve never been featured in a [...] Follow ...
- Emotional Highs and Lows are Almost Always Social, ...
A GoodTherapy.org News Headline One might imagine that major success and failure (such as winning an award or losing a job) would account for people’s self-described best and worst life moments. Implications from previous research would back this up. But a new study suggests that our best and worst ...
- Tend and Befriend
By Gail Post, Ph.D., Women’s Issues Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Gail and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile For decades, researchers have assumed that the fight-or-flight response is how human beings react to stress. This response, with its associated increase in blood pressure, h ...
- Can We Make Our Children Happy?
By Jackie Pearson, LMFT, Parenting Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jackie and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile An elementary school principal once discussed with me an important issue in parenting. The context was her concern with parents who ask their children each year who they wo ...
- Experiential Psychotherapy
By Marc Handelman, Ph.D. Humanistic Psychology Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Marc and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile We know this, even if we have to stop and make ourselves think about it – everything we know begins with our perception of it. The color of a car parked in the sh ...
- For Teens, Smoking May Worsen Depression, Not Alle ...
A GoodTherapy.org News Summary A common belief holds that some teens smoke cigarettes as a way to “self medicate” against depression or depressive thoughts. A new study shows this to be true. But the study also shows that teens who use tobacco for mood enhancement then experience greater rates of de ...
- Slide show to educate on mountaintop removal minin ...
Slide show to educate on mountaintop removal mining Redwood Times Andy Caffrey presents the Climate Ground Zero Road Show on West Virginia mountaintop removal coal mining on Monday, August 30, at the Heart of the Redwoods ... EDITORIAL: Indiana Hechler and the Last Crusade HNN Huntingtonnews.net a ...
- Franzen's "Freedom": Brilliant portrait of our tim ...
Salon Franzen's "Freedom": Brilliant portrait of our times Salon ... treated to lengthy passages on how to resolve the estate of the deceased, or we disappear into the folds of mountaintop removal mining in West Virginia. ... and more��
- Hechler speaks against mountaintop removal at Lair ...
Student Operated Press Hechler speaks against mountaintop removal at Lair campaign rally The Daily Athenaeum Joe Manchin, held a campaign rally in front of the Mountainlair in support of his anti- mountaintop removal mining agenda. "Mountaintop mining is leveling ... Hechler Getting Younger Voter S ...
- Low Turnout, Predictable Results - WTAP-TV
Low Turnout, Predictable Results WTAP-TV "The governor's enormous popularity, and his chief competitor had a single-issue agenda, which was the Mountaintop Removal ," says Dr. Rob Anderson, ... and more��
- Activists seek ban on mountaintop removal mining - ...
Activists seek ban on mountaintop removal mining Mansfield News Journal In mountaintop removal mining, forests are clear-cut, explosives blast apart the rock, and machines scoop out the exposed coal. ...
- Lomborg: $100bn a year to fight global warming (Ju ...
Juliette Jowit / Guardian : Lomborg: $100bn a year to fight global warming — Exclusive ‘Sceptical environmentalist’ and critic of climate scientists to declare global warming a chief concern facing world — • Climate change voice who changed his tune — • Rajendra Pachauri under pressure to st ...
- Education secretary urged his employees to attend ...
Lisa Gartner / Washington Examiner : Education secretary urged his employees to attend Sharpton's rally — President Obama's top education official urged government employees to attend a rally that the Rev. Al Sharpton organized to counter a larger conservative event on the Mall. — “ED staff a ...
- Man Already Knows Everything He Needs To Know Abou ...
The Onion : Man Already Knows Everything He Needs To Know About Muslims — SALINA, KS—Local man Scott Gentries told reporters Wednesday that his deliberately limited grasp of Islamic history and culture was still more than sufficient to shape his views of the entire Muslim world.
- Confirmed: Sarah Palin to Headline Iowa GOP Dinner ...
Craig Robinson / The Iowa Republican : Confirmed: Sarah Palin to Headline Iowa GOP Dinner in September — Well-placed sources tell TheIowaRepublican.com that Sarah Palin is slated to be the keynote speaker at the Republican Party of Iowa's Ronald Reagan Dinner on Friday, September 17th. The sta ...
- Tea Party Express ready to spend on Rep. Castle ch ...
Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box : Tea Party Express ready to spend on Rep. Castle challenger — The Tea Party Express, which spent some $600,000 on Alaska Republican Joe Miller's primary challenge to Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R), says it's preparing to do the same on behalf of Christine O'Donnell (R) in D ...
- M 5.0, western Indian-Antarctic Ridge
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 04:06:17 UTC Wednesday, August 25, 2010 12:06:17 PM at epicenter Depth : 9.90 km (6.15 mi)
- M 5.2, near the west coast of Honshu, Japan
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 02:30:36 UTC Tuesday, August 31, 2010 11:30:36 AM at epicenter Depth : 49.00 km (30.45 mi)
- M 5.3, Tonga
Monday, August 30, 2010 23:25:40 UTC Tuesday, August 31, 2010 12:25:40 PM at epicenter Depth : 38.70 km (24.05 mi)
- M 5.2, South Sandwich Islands region
Friday, August 27, 2010 09:10:13 UTC Friday, August 27, 2010 07:10:13 AM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
- M 5.3, Kepulauan Aru region, Indonesia
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 06:07:57 UTC Tuesday, August 24, 2010 03:07:57 PM at epicenter Depth : 45.20 km (28.09 mi)
- “China’s interests must come firstR ...
Until recently, Yu Qingtai was Beijing’s top climate negotiator. At a speech earlier this month, Yu argued that the developing world must continue to resist unfair demands from rich countries. Here, chinadialogue publishes a summary of his remarks. On August 6, Yu Qingtai – until recently China’s sp ...
- Invisible heroes of Dharavi
In the chaos of Mumbai’s best-known slum, thousands of recyclers process the megacity’s garbage and provide an invaluable environmental service. But the health and social costs are high, writes Anna da Costa. “It’s funny how we popularise our movie stars,” said Vinod Shetty, director of the Acorn Fo ...
- Why Chinese firms don’t apologise
Unlike BP, China’s state-owned polluters have been allowed by friends in government to ignore the consequences of their actions, writes Tang Hao. There is more than one BP in this world. On July 3, toxic waste from a Zijin Mining copper plant spilled into the Ting River in Fujian, south-east China, ...
- Demystifying nuclear power
Zhou Shirong is deputy director of nuclear safety at China’s environmental protection ministry. Here, he talks to Cao Haidong and Meng Dengke about managing construction standards – and public anxiety. This article was originally published by Southern Weekend on July 1, 2010. Southern Weekend: The ...
- Panic stations
As China pushes ahead with its ambitious nuclear programme, public safety fears are growing. Education, open information and citizen engagement are all essential for improving trust, writes Meng Dengke. In mid -June, Hong Kong media reported that the Daya Bay nuclear-power station in Shenzhen, south ...
- Dead Codebreaker Was Linked to NSA Intercept Case
A top British codebreaker found mysteriously dead last week in his flat had worked with the NSA and British intelligence to intercept e-mail messages that helped convict would-be bombers in the U.K., according to a news report. Gareth Williams, 31, made repeated visits to the U.S. to meet with the ...
- Alleged WikiLeaks Leaker Hires Civilian Defense At ...
Pfc. Bradley Manning, the former intelligence analyst suspected of leaking classified information to WikiLeaks, has hired a civilian attorney to defend him, according to a report. David Coombs, a former U.S. Army attorney in Rhode Island, was named as Manning’s new attorney, according to the Associ ...
- Second Newspaper Chain Joins Copyright Trolling Op ...
A Las Vegas company established to sue bloggers who clip news content is expanding its operations to a second newspaper chain. Righthaven LLC has struck a deal with Arkansas-based WEHCO Media to expand its copyright litigation campaign, in which bloggers and aggregators across the country are being ...
- Alleged Carder ‘BadB’ Charged in $9 Million ATM He ...
An alleged carder arrested earlier this month in France has been added to a long list of defendants charged with participating in the coordinated $9.5 million global heist against Atlanta-based card processing company RBS WorldPay, in a revised federal indictment issued in Georgia last week. Vladis ...
- Hackers Plant Tardis Atop MIT Building
What the heck is that blue box on top of the Small Dome at MIT? Students starting school this week at the venerable geek institution were wondering that themselves. Let’s take a closer look … Yep, it turns out that the Doctor is stopping by to give the first lecture in 6.01, the infamously hard a ...
- News you may have missed #421 (‘not newsR ...
Not news: Senior Afghan officials on CIA payroll. The New York Times‘ Mark Mazzetti and Dexter Filkins are right to air this story, but the real news here is the media industryâs collective gasp of fake shock and horror. Really? … Continue reading →
- Police see ‘professional job’ in Briti ...
By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | As authorities investigate the recent death of British spy Dr. Gareth Williams, the countryâs notorious tabloid media industry is having a field day disorienting interested observers. It is thus easy to miss important news … Continue reading →
- News you may have missed #420
Nokia and Siemens deny helping Iranian spying. Isa Saharkhiz, a one-time reporter for the Islamic Republic News Agency, is suing Nokia Siemens Networks in US federal court, claiming the companies facilitated his capture and torture at the hands of the … Continue reading →
- News you may have missed #419 (Gareth Williams edi ...
Media suggest sexual motive behind MI6 man’s murder. British media claim police suspect sexual jealousy to be behind the death of GCHQ and MI6 employee Dr. Gareth Williams. The Sun suggests Williams was “a secret transvestite who may have been … Continue reading →
- British MI6 employee found dead in London flat
By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | British authorities are keeping silent on the mysterious death of a Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) employee, whose body was found in the bath of his London apartment, stuffed in a sports duffle bag. By … Continue reading →
- Iraq's Unknown Casulties
Restoring Names to Iraq War’s Unknown Casualties Plastic roses adorn an unmarked grave in the Cemetery of the Martyrs, built the day after Saddam Hussein’s fall on a park along the Tigris. 30 August 2010 - In a pastel-colored room at the Baghdad morgue known simply as the Missing, where faces of t ...
- Legislation for Greater Agribusiness Empowerment
Legislation for Greater Agribusiness Empowerment - by Stephen Lendman On July 29, 2009, the House passed HR 2749: Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009 "To amend the (1938 as amended) Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to improve the safety of food in the global market, and for other purposes." An e ...
- Lawsuit Challenges Obama Administration's Targeted ...
Lawsuit Challenges Obama Administration's Targeted Assassination Policy - by Stephen Lendman An earlier article addressed the issue, accessed through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/08/targeted-assassinations-challengin... In February, then Director of National Intelligence De ...
- Bring Our War $ Home: gathering and vigil in Walnu ...
By Janet Weil Seven codepinkers including myself gathered at my home to remember, reflect, sing, read and consider the past 7 and 1/2 years of US bombing, invasion and occupation of Iraq. The deep roots of the tragedy, going back 20 years this August to the so-called "Gulf War", were remembered wit ...
- Audio: Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, David Swanso ...
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- ‘Skeptical environmentalist’ Bjørn Lom ...
by Jonathan Hiskes. Bjørn Lomborg -- Danish statistician, self-styled " Skeptical Environmentalist ," shrewd self-promoter -- is updating his long-held position that climate change isn't much of a problem, the Guardian reports : The world's most high-profile climate change sceptic is to declar ...
- With drilling stalled in the Gulf, Big Oil sets it ...
by Randy Rieland. Sure, deepwater drilling is on hold in the Gulf of Mexico, but it's about to go into high gear in the Arctic. You know the drill: Last week, the Scottish company Cairn Energy announced that it had found natural gas deposits off the coast of Greenland, and right away there ...
- U.N. climate panel needs to ‘fundamentally r ...
by Agence France-Presse. UNITED NATIONS -- A U.N.-ordered review said Monday that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) needed to "fundamentally reform" how it operates after embarrassing errors in a landmark report dented its credibility. The five-month probe recommended an overh ...
- Fires could cost Russia $300 billion in forest los ...
by Agence France-Presse. MOSCOW -- Russia lost forests with an economic value of at least $300 billion in the wildfires during its worst ever heatwave, environmentalists said on Thursday. The economic damage amounted to $25,000 dollars per every 2.4 acres, or at least $300 billion, according t ...
- Exclusive: Fannie regulator digs in on clean-energ ...
by Jonathan Hiskes. The Federal Housing Finance Agency solidified its opposition to the home-greening program Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) in a letter to members of Congress Thursday, telling them it doesn't see a way to let the program move forward. FHFA Acting Director Edward DeMarco ...
- DOJ Sues Arizona Over Immigration Practices, Again
The Justice Department filed another suit Monday against Arizona for immigration actions by its officials, claiming a network of community colleges engaged in illegal discriminatory practices toward noncitizens. Justice officials said Phoenix-area Maricopa Community Colleges violated the federal Im ...
- Who Gets to Rebuild New Orleans?
“We’re dealing with local contractors on a daily basis and they’re not getting the work,” says Barry Kaufman of the Construction and General Laborers Union Local 689. “There are more out-of-state contractors in here than holes in cheese."
- Tea Party Express Picks Its Next GOP Target in Del ...
Republicans have been thrilled that Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) is looking like a shoo-in for a Senate seat in the traditionally blue state of Delaware. Which explains why they’re reacting with such hostility to the announcement by Tea Party Express that the group is backing his challenger, Christine ...
- Bjorn Lomborg, Climate Skeptic, Has a Change of He ...
Controversial climate change skeptic Bjorn Lomborg will call global warming “a challenge humanity must confront” and push for a massive global financial investment to confront this issue, according to The Guardian. The Danish academic, whose change in position just happens to be timed with the relea ...
- In Praise of USA Today
Today, two newspaper articles made a splash in the blogosphere. One noted that one in six Americans — 50 million people — relies on food stamps, welfare payments, Medicaid, unemployment insurance or other anti-poverty programs — a point picked up by, among others, Daniel Foster at The National Revie ...
- Put Down the Electronics and Back Away
I know, it's TechStuff, so I should be telling you to pick up the electronics, right? According to a study at the University of California, San Francisco quoted by Matt Richtel of The New York Times, rats engaged with new experiences go through periods of intense brain activity. But the rats do ...
- Sunspot Photo is Most Detailed Ever (pic)
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- Top 10 Least Environmentally Friendly Governm ...
Urban sprawl, pollution, over-consumption, deforestation…like it or not, U.S. taxpayers are still paying for all of these things to occur in America. Despite recent investments in green jobs and technology, an array of government subsidies pay big dirty industries like oil, coal and factory far ...
- The Largest Hailstone Ever Recorded In The Un ...
"Even after melting, the stone [produced from the thunderstorm that struck Vivian, South Dakota, U.S. of A., on 23 July 2010] still measured 8.0 inches in diameter and weighed nearly 2 pounds (1 pound, 15 ounces) with a circumference of 18.62 inches." Photo credit: National Oceanic and Atmosphe ...
- How Blind People See the Internet
Your eyes are absorbing this webpage. They're passing over this, this, then this word, right now. That's how reading works, online: you take this for granted. But what if you couldn't?
- Less Than a Week Away
We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware. George Green will be a featured speaker. September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CA Click here for Tickets & Reservations
- The Georgia Guidestones
On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the Ame ...
- The Creation
THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to put an ...
- The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catas ...
In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-openin ...
- About George Green
Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to focus ...
- Pesticides and ADHD (cartoon)
From Grist: More research linking pesticide exposure to ADHD in kids Follow all of Mean Joe Green’s environmental cartoons on JoeMohrToons.com and on Twitter at @GreenCartoons. Related posts:Chemicals and Obesity Speeding up Puberty in Girls (cartoon) BP’s Getting All Cap-Happy (cartoon) Tea ...
- Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon)
A victory for anyone who likes healthy food, soil, and water! Monsanto’s sour plans for the sweet beet were spoiled as a federal judge banned genetically modified sugar beets. This is great news and hopefully a large step forward to getting food production back on a less toxic track. Sugar beet, ...
- Chemicals and Obesity Speeding up Puberty in Girls ...
The news that chemicals and obesity causes premature puberty in girls is the latest of thousands of red flags waving high above our food production and consumption status quo. Of course, things are changing, but are they changing fast enough? Nope. The only thing changing quickly is the level of t ...
- BP’s Getting All Cap-Happy (cartoon)
If only BP would put all of this new found cap success to work to stop other toxic gushers… Follow Joe on Twitter @GreenCartoons Follow all of his green cartooning at JoeMohrToons.com. Related posts:Monsanto: They Made good WMD’s–I bet They Make Healthy Food! (cartoon) If Climate Change Was ...
- If Climate Change Was a Dog (cartoon)
We did know about climate change back in the 50’s, as evidenced by this Frank Capra Video on Global Warming. But even though it was a monster of a dog back then, it was still just a harmless little puppy. Today, well, it’s different. And I don’t know how much I trust the little man controlling [... ...
- Taastrup Theater Renovation Boasts a Stunning Pris ...
Read the rest of Taastrup Theater Renovation Boasts a Stunning Prismatic Facadehttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable archit ...
- Test Drive: Amp Electrifies the Chevy Equinox
Looking for an electric vehicle that is larger and has a greater electric drive range than either the Nissan Leaf or the Chevy Volt? There are options — Cincinnati-area-based AMP has started taking orders for their AMP Electric Equinox, which takes a stock model of the 5-seat crossover Chevrolet Equ ...
- Tonecoon Lounger Offers Curvaceous Eco Seating
Looking for a lounger that is every bit as stylish as it is sustainable? Well the Tonecoon by PIE checks off both boxes with its beautiful hand-woven water hyacinth and rattan frame. Water hyacinth is a highly-renewable natural fiber that grows so quickly in parts of Asia that it is often considered ...
- A Living Brick that Supports Building Structure an ...
Two students experimented with a mixture of soil and cement trying to create a brick that would be strong enough to keep its form, but also be porous enough to support plant life. Their idea, dubbed the ‘Earth Bank Living Wall System’, was recently installed on a shipping container at the Eugene Fe ...
- Boris Bally Creates Unique Chairs from Urban Stree ...
Sculptor, jeweler and industrial designer Boris Bally has created a beautiful series of colorful geometric chairs from old street signs. The unique markings and patina were earned on the road, and the chairs’ pure lines perfectly offset the graphics of the recycled signage. No two chairs are alike! ...
- Heaps of Fossils From Evolutionary ‘Big Bang’ Disc ...
One of paleontology’s most revered fossil sites now has a baby brother. Scientists have discovered a group of astonishing fossils high in the Canadian Rockies, just 40 kilometers from the famous Burgess Shale location. A paper describing the find appears in the September issue of Geology. Since its ...
- New Predatory Dinosaur Discovered in Romania
A stocky, two-clawed relative of Velociraptor and feathered dinosaurs has been discovered in Romania. Balaur bondoc,which means stocky dragon, is the first meat-eating dinosaur to be described that lived in Europe during the final 60 million years of the Age of Dinosaurs. “Balaur might be one of th ...
- In Search of Time
Ever since Einstein, physicists have been telling us that time – this steady tick-tock of the universe – is much weirder than we think. It doesn’t flow in a single, linear direction, or beat like a steady metronome. Instead, it depends on all sorts of peculiar cosmi variables. We speed up, time slo ...
- Tiny Fridge Gets Near Absolute Zero
Annoyingly tiny fridges may not be restricted to hotels or dorm rooms much longer. A new study proposes a way to construct the smallest refrigerator yet, based on just a few particles and capable of cooling to near absolute zero. The study, which will appear in an upcoming issue of Physical Review ...
- Video: 30 Years of Asteroid Discoveries
runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience597218848001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); This animation from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico plots the positions of all the known asteroids in the solar system in 1980, and adds new ones as they are discov ...
- Corker Demands Check for Nuclear Pork
Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) — who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that is due to take up a vote on the New START treaty in mid-September — wrote an op-ed over the weekend defending himself against charges that he is holding the New START treaty hostage in exchange for nuclear pork. Cork ...
- Carnage in Congo -- A Long-Range Witness's Recolle ...
A front-page piece by Howard French in today's New York Times triggered memory banks from an earlier life. For French, covering the new UN report on the history of atrocities in the Democratic Republic of Congo is a return to the story's bloody 1996-97 climax, which he covered for the Times. In the ...
- Fighting the Peace Spoilers in Afghanistan
On January 24th the U.N. Security Council – with backing from the Obama administration – decided to remove five former high-ranking Taliban leaders from its global terrorist blacklist. The move was controversial for a reason: it was the first time sanctions had ever been lifted for Taliban members a ...
- Taliban: We're Using Park51 To Recruit
The thrust of this Newsweek piece is that the Taliban is now using the controversy over the proposed Islamic Center near Ground Zero to draw new recruits, but I think this paragraph deserves emphasis: Zabihullah also claims that the issue is such a propaganda windfall—so tailor-made to show how “ant ...
- Iraq and Afghanistan Eroding Transatlantic Bonds
Wars fundamentally change militaries. For example, the bloody and muddy stalemate of World War I led defeated Germany to invest in the innovative use of armor and firepower to break that stalemate. The U.S. experience in Vietnam led to the rise of the professional and all-volunteer force that is no ...
- Lightning Round: Nothing of any Significance Happe ...
Consider the following: If Republicans had been allowed to pursue their own response to the recession, both the jobs and deficit picture would be worse . The public, on the other hand,� prefers government spending on job creation over deficit reduction by a 20-point margin. Despite this, the�admini ...
- The Little Picture: The Eye From Space.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) Hurricane Katrina as seen from space. From Aug. 25 to Aug. 29 in 2005, Katrina ripped through cities across the Gulf Coast, causing over $150 billion in damage.
- Daily Trial Balloon, CEA Edition.
With Christina Romer departing her job as the Chair of the President's Council of Economic advisers, there's been a steady burbling of potential replacements ; among the top-mentioned candidates is Laura Tyson , who did the same job for Bill Clinton in the nineties. Over the weekend, she had a piece ...
- Chart of the Day: Is Our Grandparents Tweeting?
A few years ago, The Onion did a story entitled " Google Launches 'The Google' For Older Adults ," in which a spokesman explained, "All you have to do to turn the website on is put the little blinking line thing in the cyberspace window at the top of the screen, type 'thegoogle.com,' and press 'retu ...
- If Bernanke Thinks Congress Should Act, He Ought T ...
Sewell's Chan's appreciation of Ben Bernanke is both my favorite and the most frustrating mainstream media depiction I've read so far. It's my favorite because it gets at the total paralysis of our economic policymakers, and it's frustrating because I think it downplays Bernanke's own confidence tha ...
- The Idiocy of the Pew Poll on Obama's Religion
DEE EVANS FOR BUZZFLASH The latest Pew Research Poll that’s being touted around the country to ask people what religion they think President Obama is truly boarders on the pathetic.� From reading the poll, you would think that there were only 2 religions in the world: Christian and Muslim. � He ...
- Obama’s Delusions: The Economy and Iraq
SHAMUS COOKE FOR BUZZFLASH If you’ve listened to recent speeches the President has given about the economy and the Iraq war, you’d think that two of the biggest social issues facing working Americans are improving.� But facts are stubborn things. Take for example the numbers of jobs lost in the ...
- "Mosquerade": Republicans Love the "Constitution," ...
WILL DURST FOR BUZZFLASH There is only one halfway decent reason why a Mosque should be built 2 blocks away from Ground Zero in New York. It’s called the 1 st Amendment. Maybe you’ve heard of it: that’s the one that lets pretty much anybody say pretty much anything they want, and yes, that includes ...
- No Punishment for Deadly, Toxic Oil Spills or War ...
JACQUELINE MARCUS FOR BUZZFLASH Last night, it was reported that scientists discovered a twenty-two mile long plume in the Gulf that poses a continuing threat to wildlife for months or years.� Truthout brought to our attention that other countries are investigating war crimes, specifically tortur ...
- Conservatives Chew Up Their Own in Battle Over Isl ...
BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH Ryan Mauro, taking off the gloves in the battle over the building of an Islamic community center two blocks from Ground Zero, claims Grover Norquist is palling around with terrorist sympathizers, and, ‘is likely a convert to Islam.' read more
- Sciencebase science news links for August 23rd thr ...
These are the latest science news links and snippets from Sciencebase: Chemical news – Two years on, a simple color change test emerges from China for melamine in milk, The Alchemist learns. Also, with a Chinese connection, new insights into the mode of action of a former herbal remedy for fever cou ...
- Sciencebase science news links for August 16th thr ...
These are the latest science news links and snippets from Sciencebase: That underwater hydrocarbon plume is still there – Things in the Gulf of Mexico may not be cleaning themselves up quite as fast as some had claimed and many had hoped. Surprise, surprise Paracetamol use and risk of asthma in teen ...
- What’s the point of the semantic web?
I was scanning journal tables of contents as usual this week and it occurred to me that there must be a better way to find relevant and timely research information that would be of interest to Sciencebase readers…and, of course, out pops the following title: Technically approaching the semantic web ...
- Cleaning up emissions
Emissions trading is an economic workaround, a fudge if you will, to reducing one’s pollution levels by buying off the emissions credits of others who are polluting less. Emissions trading (also known as cap and trade) is a market-based approach used to control pollution by providing economic incent ...
- Drug testing, solar fullerenes, chemicalization
These are my recent science picks, including my latest contributions to spectroscopyNOW.com Drug testing – A simple analytical approach to identifying drugs of abuse would be a boon to forensic scientists and law enforcement agencies. A collaboration between researchers in the US and Europe demonstr ...
- Was Flooding of New Orleans a "Natural Disaster"?
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 30, 2010 Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) IVOR VAN HEERDEN SANDY ROSENTHAL Author of The Storm: What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina -- the Inside Story from One Louisiana Scientist , van Heerden is featured in the new film " The Big Uneasy ," a d ...
- GAO: FCC Should Do More for Wireless Competition
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 26, 2010 Free Press Today, Reps. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), Rick Boucher (D-Va.) and Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) released a report by the Government Accountability Office on the wireless industry. The GAO report acknowledges the views of many stakeholders that spectrum poli ...
- War Effort Rife with Corrupt Subcontractors
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 30, 2010 Center for Public Integrity (CPI) The U.S. military is working with allegedly corrupt subcontractors in Afghanistan and Iraq where bribery and kickbacks are the norm, according to an investigative story and video by the Center for Public Integrity and the Huf ...
- CREW: Bush White House Ignored Warnings About Emai ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 30, 2010 CREW Just how far did the Bush White House go to hide its actions from the American people? A new report released today by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), " The Untold Story of the Bush White House Emails ," attempts to answer th ...
- Rights Groups File Challenge to Targeted Killing b ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 30, 2010 ACLU and CCR The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) today filed a lawsuit challenging the government's asserted authority to carry out "targeted killings" of U.S. citizens located far from any armed conflict zone. r ...
- Nine Years Later, Afghanistan Looks Much the Same: ...
by Ted Rall HERAT, AFGHANISTAN--OK. The roads are impressive. Specifically, the fact that they exist. When the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001, more than two decades of civil conflict had left the country bereft of basic infrastructure. Roads, bridges and tunnels had been bombed and mined. What did ...
- The Prince and the Punishment
by Christopher Brauchli Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; You do not find it among gross people.— Samuel Johnson, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides read more
- Katsuko Nomura: Consumer Champion
by Ralph Nader Katsuko Nomura—a builder of consumer, labor, cooperative and women’s rights groups for over 55 years in Japan—passed away this month at the age of 99. She was one of the most remarkable civic leaders anywhere in the world. With her range of activities, she could be called a world ci ...
- Our Bloody Valentine
by David Michael Green So – mounting evidence to the contrary – we’re being told that the American adventure in Iraq is coming to an end now. All I can say is, “Damn fine war, damn fine war.” Yup. We sure showed ‘em, didn’t we? Showed ‘em how to really fight a war. Showed ‘em how to kick so ...
- Glenn Beck’s Redemption Song
by Robert Jensen About halfway through Saturday's "Restoring Honor" rally on the DC mall, I realized that I was starting to like Glenn Beck. Before any friends of mine initiate involuntary commitment proceedings, let me explain. It's not that I really liked Beck, but more that I experienced his ...
- China Deploys Troops In Pakistani Kashmir
By Steve Hynd On Thursday, veteran correspondent and director of the Asia Program at the Center for International Policy Selig S. Harrison had some important geopolitical news in an op-ed piece for the New York Times. Harrison reports that Pakistan has effectively handed control of an entire strateg ...
- Head of Special Forces Says Wars Slowing Hunt For ...
By Steve Hynd Thus, the final prop under the cracked foundations of justification for two ongoing occupations disappears. From Bloomberg: The effort to keep weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of terrorists has been slowed by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the head of U.S. s ...
- "Half the palace is on the payroll" (Updated)
By Steve Hynd The Washington Post has a piece today entitled "CIA making secret payments to members of Karzai administration". The CIA is making secret payments to multiple members of President Hamid Karzai's administration, in part to maintain sources of information in a government in which the Afg ...
- China And India or China Vs India?
By Steve Hynd The competition between rising Asian powers China and India has been described as the contest of the coming century: China has officially become the world’s second-biggest economy, overtaking Japan. In the West this has prompted concerns about China overtaking the United States sooner ...
- The Amazing Disappearing Afghan Security Forces
By Steve Hynd Afghan security forces are disappearing almost as fast as they can be recruited and trained , but like King Canute in reverse the US general in charge, Bill Caldwell, says everything will turn out alright. The American commander in charge of building up Afghanistan ’s security fo ...
- Personal Information: episode 24
Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness! Share and Enjoy: Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
- Arguments against life extension
Via Michael Anissimov, here’s a spectacularly empty diatribe against “deathhackers” by TechCrunch‘s Paul Carr. Carr objects to the idea of radical life extension as advocated by transhumanists, which is fair enough, but as written here most of his objections seem to boil down to personal distate tow ...
- Daddy, where does innovation come from?
Plenty of folk have been linking to this excerpt from Matt Ridley’s new book The Rational Optimist, and with good reason – it’s a provocative piece that plays to advocates (and opponents) of free trade, open exchange, copyright reform and much more. The basic thesis? The one persistent factor that h ...
- Replacement arms: mechanical or biological?
Prosthetic limbs are still in their infancy, but there’s a lot of progress being made: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is working with Darpa (who else?), and has a research grant for trying out their mind-controlled modular prosthetic arm on five test subjects over the next couple of years ...
- How to be a futurist
The irrepressible Scott “Basic Instructions” Meyer has the lowdown if you’re thinking of a career in futurism: Click through for the whole thing. But take it from me, being a futurist is a lot of work for no money. Or maybe that’s just the way I do it… and I’ve never been featured in a [...] Follow ...
- What Panhandlers Buy
A journalist in Toronto was intrigued, as many of us were, by the recent story (and sensationalistic coverage) of a New York City ad exec who handed her credit card over to a homeless man and got it back after he purchased water, deodorant and cigarettes. Many, like the New York Post , were surprise ...
- Lessons on Ending Homelessness from The Netherland ...
Social change through social media, an increasingly popular idea, is real. Here's one way it works: a couple of months ago Rich was contacted through the networking site LinkedIn by Alexander Hogendoorn , a social worker and homeless advocate from The Netherlands. Alexander was on holiday in New Yor ...
- The Day the Coroner Calls
Ryan stood in the middle of the room, orange juice trickling down his wild brown beard, with pure defiance in his deep eyes. He clutched the half gallon in his hand, legs akimbo, dressed in studded black leather. The staff summoned me, complaining that he was not listening to them when they asked hi ...
- Full Shelters = Hotel Homelessness
This new video comes from Mark's InvisiblePeople.tv 30-city, 11,000-mile, 75-day road trip , going on now. Mark has been producing videos faster than we can post them, so we're devoting the blog to InvisiblePeople.tv all day today. This is the real face of homelessness that is rarely seen. Candace l ...
- He Can Adapt to Anything, Even Living in the Woods
This new video comes from Mark's InvisiblePeople.tv 30-city, 11,000-mile, 75-day road trip , going on now. Mark has been producing videos faster than we can post them, so we're devoting the blog to InvisiblePeople.tv all day today. Richard is living in the woods outside Sanford, Florida. He lost his ...
- Petraeus tightens rules of engagement
U.S. Gen. David Petraeus, the recently appointed commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, has reportedly added further restrictions to the “rules of engagement” that govern the use of force by most international forces in Afghanistan (Jason Motlagh, “Petraeus Toughens Afghan Rules of Engage ...
- Canadians still want out of Afghanistan
Almost 80 percent of Canadians want Canadian soldiers out of Afghanistan by the end of 2011, as currently scheduled, reports a recent Ipsos-Reid poll (Carmen Chai, âCanadians want to end Afghan mission by 2011, poll shows,â Postmedia News, 5 August 2010): “These numbers are very indicative of a ...
- Ex-Pakistani spy chief says Afghanistan war cannot ...
A former head of Pakistani intelligence, Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul, has stated that the conflict in Afghanistan cannot be won. Gul, whose agency worked closely with the Taliban prior to the U.S. invasion and continues to maintain ties with the organization, argued in an interview with CNN that the U.S. pre ...
- BATTLE FOR KANDAHAR IS ON - Real News Network
In Afghanistan, the battle for Kandahar is on. That's receiving strangely little attention in the American media—quite low-key if you compare it to other major American campaigns in Afghanistan. Joining us from England, from Essex, is Muhammad Junaid, who's a research scholar studying the Pashtun na ...
- Ceasefire.ca ad campaign continues in the Hill Tim ...
The Ceasefire.ca ad campaign continued this week, targeting political circles in Ottawa by running a second ad in the Hill Times. The ad calls on Prime Minister Harper to "Call off the attack on Kandahar," an Afghanistan military offensive expected at the end of the summer.
- Toothpaste, Soap, Make-Up Can Harm You
August 30, 2010 Alter Net by Jill Richardson Over the past several months, your bathroom has become the site of a major controversy. In fact, the controversy has been heating up for a while (Environmental Working Group’s Cosmetic Safety Database dates back to 2004), but recently, stories of dangerou ...
- BPA Contamination Found In 90% Of Soup Cans
August 30, 2010 Natural News by David Gutierrez A product survey conducted by The Independent found that the toxic chemical bisphenol-A (BPA) is used in 18 on the 20 top-selling canned food products in the United Kingdom. BPA is one of the most widely produced chemicals in the world. It is used to h ...
- Vitamin D Prevents Cancer, Autoimmune Diseases
August 30, 2010 Natural News by Ethan A. Huff A new study out of Oxford University pinpoints vitamin D deficiency as a culprit in serious illnesses like cancer and autoimmune disorders. According to the report, which was recently published online in the journal Genome Research, genetic receptors thr ...
- Prescription Painkillers Now Gateway Drugs To Hard ...
August 30, 2010 Natural News by Jonathan Benson Shocking new research out of the University of Buffalo has revealed that popular prescription opioid medications are causing people to become addicted to street drugs. Once addicted, nearly half of patients prescribed opioid pain pills end up transitio ...
- First Gene Link To Common Migraine
August 30, 2010 Breitbart.com Gene detectives on Sunday announced they had found the first inherited link to common types of migraine, a finding that boosts hopes for new drugs to curb this painful and costly disorder. Scientists from 40 medical centres pored over the genetic profiles of more than 5 ...
- Global: US city opens doors to Cuban 5
On Saturday March 13, in the auditorium of the Lavonya DeJean Middle School, in the City of Richmond California, a large number of people gathered to commemorate International Women's Day for the third consecutive year. Under the title "Women in Soli...
- Ekiti must hold free, fair elections
The North America-based Ekiti Focus Group has strongly condemned election violence and intimidation in Nigeria’s Ekiti State, describing reported cases of ‘arson, maiming, ballot stuffing, ballot hijacking, and shooting’ as ‘barbaric acts’. In a statement the group called for ‘the release of true an ...
- Global: Why Haiti can't forget its past
Thank you for the attention you have brought to the country of Haiti. In response to your New York Times op ed piece I wanted to widen your perspective a bit. I don't pretend to represent anyone. I've been living in Haiti since 1985. I grew up in New...
- Global: Conference will establish African Socialis ...
On the weekend of May 22-24, African organizers from across the U.S. and Canada will converge on Washington, D.C. for a conference recognizing African Liberation Day (ALD) with the theme, “One Africa, One Nation: Separated by Colonial Slavery, Reunit...
- Global: Guadeloupe paralyzed by widespread strikes
Riot police from mainland France have arrived on the French Caribbean islands as protests threaten to paralyse tourism and spread further afield. Strikes on Guadeloupe and Martinique have closed shops and schools and the reinforcements will help loca...
- Mosque opponents help the Taliban
Newsweek reports: Taliban officials know it’s sacrilegious to hope a mosque will not be built, but that’s exactly what they’re wishing for: the success of the fiery campaign to block the proposed Islamic cultural center and prayer room near the site of the Twin Towers in lower Manhattan. “By preven ...
- How to kill gentiles and influence people: Israeli ...
Max Blumenthal reports: When I went into the Jewish religious book emporium, Pomeranz, in central Jerusalem to inquire about the availability of a book called Torat Ha’Melech, or the King’s Torah, a commotion immediately ensued. “Are you sure you want it?” the owner, M. Pomeranz, asked me half-joki ...
- Gideon Levy in conversation with Jon Snow
Gideon Levy in conversation with Jon Snow from Palestine Campaign UK on Vimeo. Amnesty International UK’s Human Rights Action Center, London, Tuesday August 24, 2010. (H/t Ann El Khoury.)
- Al-Qaida in Yemen: Poverty, corruption and an army ...
In a two-part series, The Guardian’s intrepid Ghaith Abdul-Ahad reports from Yemen: With its conservative Islam, ragged mountains, unruly tribes and problems of illiteracy, unemployment and extreme poverty, Yemen has been dubbed the new Afghanistan by security experts. The Guardian spent two month ...
- Saudi Arabia: the end of progress without change
A reader alerted me to a speech Chas Freeman gave earlier this year in a noble effort to educate fellow Americans on the little understood nation of Saudi Arabia (where Freeman served as US ambassador from 1989 to 1992). I have been asked to speak to you about the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This is a ...
- Cooler times ahead: indicators show deepening La N ...
As shown by the indicators on WUWT’s new ENSO/SST page there is a deeping of the La Niña that is starting to rival 2008 in depth. While it hasn’t yet reached the level of the 2008 event, indications are that … Continue reading →
- Announcements
I have a few very important (and personal) announcements to share with the WUWT community because they will impact content and moderation over the next few weeks. Please take a moment to read this. 1. There is a pressing and … Continue reading →
- Quote of the [expletive deleted] week
Gosh, I try to keep a semblance of decorum here at WUWT. I get upset when name calling starts and moderators are trained to clamp down on this sort of thing. That being said, can you imagine the caterwauling that … Continue reading →
- Younger Dryas space impact theory: missing the dia ...
DEEP IMPACT?: This 40 centimeter band of dark sediment uncovered at Murray Spring, Ariz., may indicate a cosmic impact or explosion that kicked off a period of global cooling and a mass extinction in North America. problem is, a researcher … Continue reading →
- As a man, I feel eco-discriminated against…
I’m (almost) always a supporter of ideas that conserve energy or resources. Theoretically then, I’d be for this minimalist bathroom idea show below, made with a minimum of materials, it looks like something from IKEA. Only one problem…the dual use … Continue reading →
- The Iron Heel (1908) by Jack London (repost)
Reposting The Iron Heel. It’s a must-read book, or you can listen to it via the link. http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Read it online: Jack London: The Iron Heel Table of Contents *** The Iron Heel perÂformed by Matt Soar AudioÂbook verÂsion of The Iron Heel 1908 by Jack London. Foreward Chap ...
- US to Lebanon: Israel can completely destroy Leban ...
Propaganda Alert compiled by Cem Ertür Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 27 August 2010 1) US to Lebanon: Israel can completely destroy Lebanese Army within four hours (27 August 2010) 2) Lebanon’s president: The Lebanese army is called upon to stand in the face of the lurking Israeli enemy (1 August ...
- Ramadan Force-Feeding, and Renewed Secrecy Surroun ...
by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 25 August, 2010 In a disturbing report in the Miami Herald, the ever-vigilant Carol Rosenberg reports that an unknown number of hunger strikers at Guantánamo are being force-fed between dusk and dawn — a mixture of cruelty ...
- END:CIV: F*ck Patience
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ stimulator | August 23, 2010 submedia.tv The final piece from END:CIV is both a reality check and a call to arms. Can we really expect the power structures to change their destructive ways by asking nicely? Do we have unlimited time to stop the destruction of the ...
- Daniel Ellsberg on WikiLeaks, Iran, Iraq and Afgha ...
by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehanâs Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehanâs Soapbox August 22, 2010 (SOAPBOX #69) – Cindy sez: “Greetings! This Sunday, (August 22nd) at 2 pm PST, I hope you tune into Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox to hear my fascinating and informative interview with ...
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Murdoch Newspaper Proudly Endorses Australian Coup Like no other media outlet in his worldwide empire, Rupert Murdoch's The Australian national broadsheet newspaper is the voice of Rupert Murdoch. He's lost tens of millions on The Australian over the years, but Murdoch keeps the newspaper going bec ...
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"We Cannot Allow The Corporate Takeover Of Our Democracy" 1961 : 2010 : .
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Oh yes, this is cynical, and even bitter, but it's also an excellent and short expose of the formula so many, many Hollywood films put into the market every year. In Australia, the pressure is on producers, screenwriters and directors to turn out pap exactly like this, in the belief that the only wa ...
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Okay, Here We Go Just launched the YouTube channel for FTW : The Movie In 2003, during anti-War On Iraq protests, the Australian prime minister was kidnapped by an activist and interrogated for 24 hours. The disappearance of the prime minister was officially covered up as an "unexpected visit ...
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"Mommy! Get The Oil Off!" By Darryl Mason Fucking hell. Thousands of Americans are swimming around in this toxic shit : Morons like this guy below are telling Americans it's okay to swim, and to take their children swimming, and for people from other states to come and swim in this oily stick ...
- Heaps of Fossils From Evolutionary ‘Big Bang’ Disc ...
One of paleontology’s most revered fossil sites now has a baby brother. Scientists have discovered a group of astonishing fossils high in the Canadian Rockies, just 40 kilometers from the famous Burgess Shale location. A paper describing the find appears in the September issue of Geology. Since its ...
- New Predatory Dinosaur Discovered in Romania
A stocky, two-clawed relative of Velociraptor and feathered dinosaurs has been discovered in Romania. Balaur bondoc,which means stocky dragon, is the first meat-eating dinosaur to be described that lived in Europe during the final 60 million years of the Age of Dinosaurs. “Balaur might be one of th ...
- In Search of Time
Ever since Einstein, physicists have been telling us that time – this steady tick-tock of the universe – is much weirder than we think. It doesn’t flow in a single, linear direction, or beat like a steady metronome. Instead, it depends on all sorts of peculiar cosmi variables. We speed up, time slo ...
- Tiny Fridge Gets Near Absolute Zero
Annoyingly tiny fridges may not be restricted to hotels or dorm rooms much longer. A new study proposes a way to construct the smallest refrigerator yet, based on just a few particles and capable of cooling to near absolute zero. The study, which will appear in an upcoming issue of Physical Review ...
- Video: 30 Years of Asteroid Discoveries
runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience597218848001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); This animation from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico plots the positions of all the known asteroids in the solar system in 1980, and adds new ones as they are discov ...
- Assaf Kfoury: Will Israel Attack Lebanon? Will the ...
The thorniest problem for American and Israeli policy-makers when it comes to Lebanon is the same: how to deal with Hezbollah. While American policy is by necessity equivocal, as it tries to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now i ...
- Lamis Adoni: ‘Bullied’ but not surrendering
PLO official: "We are not afraid of the outcome of the talks. There is nothing Abu Mazan (Abbas) would or could accept. But going to the talks has undermined our battle to isolate Israel." The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its ...
- Gideon Levy: Puppet theater
We will know the answer in the coming weeks: Is there genuine theater in Israel, or is it just puppet theater? Are our theater artists really actors, playwrights and directors, or are they... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in i ...
- Netanyahu criticizes theater figures’ West Bank bo ...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized on Sunday the theater figures' boycott of a new theater in the West Bank settlement of Ariel, saying that the government doesn’t need to fund a group... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
- 53 Israeli theater figures vow not to perform in s ...
Fifty-three Israeli theater professionals, including performers, playwrights and directors, have signed a petition stating they would not appear in the West Bank settlement Ariel... Culture and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
- Hooked on Headphones? Personal Listening Devices C ...
Music played through headphones too loud or too long might pose a significant risk to hearing, according to a 24-year study of adolescent girls.
- Food for Thought: The Right Ingredients for Optima ...
Karin Richards, director of the Exercise Science and Wellness Management program and director of Health Sciences at University of the Sciences, provides tips for creating healthy breakfasts, lunches, and snacks for children.
- First Broad Study Out on U.S. Employers' Dental In ...
University of Md. Dental School, AHRQ study found that 63 percent of companies offering health insurance also offer dental insurance coverage, ranging from 43 percent in Vermont to 81 percent in Alaska.
- Workers Rate Safety Most Important Workplace Issue ...
More than eight of ten workers -- 85 percent -- rate workplace safety first in importance among labor standards, even ahead of family and maternity leave, minimum wage, paid sick days, overtime pay and the right to join a union, according to a new study.
- September 2010 Story Tips
1) Using neutron scattering to examine rock formations, researchers are gaining insight into little-understood geologic processes; 2) LandScan's latest edition features improved spatial refinement, especially within urban settings; 3) Four of six teams competing for the top honor among scientific c ...
- Is Interval Cardio Performed on a Treadmill the 30 ...
by Darin L. Steen I definitely believe that interval cardio, performed on a treadmill, is the 30-minute fat loss solution! I have used it almost exclusively for my personal fitness routine for the last 14 years. And because it works so well for me, I have had 95 percent of my personal training ...
- Yoga Shows Potential to Ward Off Diseases
Practicing yoga could help protect you against certain diseases, according to a new study.� Women who practiced yoga had lower levels of inflammation. Chronically high levels of inflammation are known to play a role in illnesses such as asthma, cardiovascular disease and depression.� Inflammati ...
- Figures on Flu Deaths are Misleading
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the much-cited average of 36,000 deaths in a typical influenza season is too high and grossly misleading. The actual average is closer to 23,000 -- but even that figure is misleading, because in some seasons, the number has been as l ...
- Brand Name Drug Prices Skyrocket
In 2009 brand name drug prices rose 8 percent, even though the general inflation rate remained negative that year. Out of 217 brand name prescription medications examined by the AARP, only 6 did not go up in price more than the inflation rate. All of the 25 top selling brand name medications we ...
- Is it Inflation or Deflation That Will Destroy You ...
Many people are worried that economic instability will lead to inflation.� However, the Jerome Levy Forecasting Center warns that this view is exactly backwards -- it is not inflation, but disinflation and ultimately deflation that lie ahead. The main influence on price trends will most likely ...
- ACLU And CCR File Suit Against Obama Administratio ...
In the movie Witness, there is a scene where a little Amish boy, who has witnessed a murder, takes the gun of the detective who is there to protect him from a chest of drawers. He is caught by his grandfather who sits him down for a talk. The grandfather asks if the boy would use this gun to kill. T ...
- Will Republicans Hang Themselves on a Tea Party Pe ...
The Republicans as the party out of power confronting a Democratic Party that elected a president and made legislative gains in the 2008 election had history on their side approaching the 2010 national mid-term election. Absent any analysis or factoring, parties that are out of power, in this case w ...
- The Big Bubble Is Bursting: Is There Life After Ca ...
Paul Jay of the Real News Network talks in November 2008 at The Krahl Academy about US foreign policies, blowback, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the concurrent crises of capitalism, of media, of economies, of terrorism, of fascism, of corporatism, of corruption in US political parties, about the sh ...
- No Way Out: The Greatest Depression, & Becoming Th ...
Daniel Tencer writing at RawStory Friday reported that "The US economic recovery in recent quarters is little more than a "cover-up" and the world is headed for a "Greatest Depression," complete with social unrest and class warfare, says a renowned economic forecaster. Gerald Celente, head of the Tr ...
- George Orwell's Iraq
"Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today challenged the notion that removing 'combat brigades' but leaving 50,000 U.S. troops in Iraq constitutes an end to combat operations, let alone an end to the war", a press release issued by Kucinich datelined Washington, Aug 19, 2010 and published on the Con ...
- Drone Strikes Against Fox News?
by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller The Washington Post is reporting that a State Department contractor has been charged with leaking defense information to Fox News: A State Department contractor was indicted Friday by a federal grand jury in the District, becoming the latest target of a se ...
- ACLU Sues Obama Administration Over Targeted Killi ...
by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I’m a little late (in blogospheric time) to comment on the ACLU/CCR lawsuit today challenging the legality of the Obama Administration’s policy on targeted killings of U.S. citizens. (Hat Tip WSJ Law Blog) Here is the complaint. It’s is not surprising. As I noted before, ...
- 20 Things About Americans and the World
by Julian Ku by Julian Ku OK, that’s not exactly the title of this piece at Huffington Post, but the observations from Gary Arndt about Americans and the World sound true to me. Â Arndt has been traveling around the world since 2007, for no particular reason (see his travel blog here and yes, I’m ...
- Upcoming BIICL Investment Treaty Forum
by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis I wanted to flag for interested readers an upcoming event at the British Institute of International & Comparative Law (BIICL). On September 10, BIICL will host its Fifteenth Investment Treaty Forum, with a focus on recent developments in international arbitration ...
- Second Circuit Gives Successor States a Blank Slat ...
by Roger Alford by Roger Alford Last month the Second Circuit issued a remarkable ruling that threatens to upend the longstanding rule of successor state liability for the credit obligations of predecessor states. It did so by ruling that the automatic assumption of liability of sovereign debt o ...
- Domain Name Being Changed
Some of your might have noticed that i have not been posting for a while. It was mostly out of frustration, you see when i started this site, I figured i would use it as a space to publish information, that i felt needed more attention in our life’s. New, views or even just facts [...]
- One Facebook, Two Faces: A Piece By A Virtually De ...
I had been banned from Facebook and my account had been disabled a night before Facebook was banned in Pakistan. Before all this happened, I visited the blasphemous page “Draw Muhammad Day” and the content on the page hurt me badly. Once again a certain group of westerners called it the “freedom of ...
- New Chemical Element Discovered In Pakistan
Pakistani researchers have discovered the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, so far only discovered and found in Pakistan , has been named Zardarium (Symbol = Zm). It has one Presitron, 1 Priministron, 77 Ministrons, 98 deputy Ministrons, 298 National Assemblions, and 100 Senatr ...
- At least we are not Dubai
We haven’t got a lot to be thankful for these days in Pakistan. But at least we are not Dubai. Fed up with loadshedding, bombs, and TV cynicism pervading Pakistan, I recently escaped to Dubai for a holiday. Big mistake. Huge. Ten days later I returned, gasping for Karachi’s polluted, but far sweete ...
- 9/11 Hijackers Not on Flight Manifests?
The claim that no Arab names appeared on the flight manifests for the planes hijacked on the morning of September 11, 2001 arose shortly after the terrorist attacks, and variations on the theme have persisted to this day. The claim initially arose when lists of passengers published by CNN, The Guar ...
- Coalition Demands FDA Deny Approval Of Controversi ...
FDA Considers Approval of GE Salmon–the First GE Food Animal–Yet Fails to Inform the Public of Environmental and Economic Risks A coalition of 31 consumer, animal welfare and environmental groups, along with commercial and recreational fisheries associations and food retailers submitted a joint stat ...
- Americans to U.S. Food and Drug Administration: Pr ...
More than 100,000 citizens join scientific experts and public interest organizations in calling on FDA to tighten oversight and curtail misuse and overuse of antibiotics on industrial farms Today a broad coalition of organizations hand-delivered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) more than ...
- Obama Administration Announces Hearings On Approva ...
CFS Announces Major Campaign, Calls Decision to Move Forward with Approval of GE Salmon “Misguided and Dangerous” Salmon Would be First-Ever GE Food Animal The Center for Food Safety today criticized an announcement by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that it will potentially approve th ...
- Federal Court Rescinds USDA Approval of Geneticall ...
Order Bans Planting or Sale of Controversial Crop. Court Denies Monsanto Request to Allow Continued Planting. Today Judge Jeffrey White, federal district judge for the Northern District of California, issued a ruling granting the request of plaintiffs Center for Food Safety, Organic Seed Alliance, H ...
- San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Fails to ...
A recent study commissioned by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (PUC) seeks to mislead and confuse San Francisco residents about the quality of sewage sludge-derived compost distributed by the PUC. The PUC claims that this sewage sludge-derived compost “compares favorably” to several br ...
- Jesse Taylor: Whitey McWhiterson, Sam, And Their P ...
(Hat-Tip goes to : Pandagon.net ) Below is a photo from TaniaGail , taken at the 8/28 “I Don’t Have A Dream” Rally. pandagon.net : " As much as it’s comforting to believe that the I Have A Dream speech began 80% of the way in with King’s sonorous voice ringing out parallel exhortations over the ...
- John John: The View From Occupied Canada
'Educating' tribal leaders about the 'benefits' of development in Ghana | World News |Axisoflogic.com The British government has given, through its Department for International Development (DFID), £100,000 to the Institute of Professional Studies (IPS), a management training institute in Ghana, to p ...
- John John: The View From Occupied Canada
Why WikiLeaks Must Be Protected by John Pilger -- Antiwar.com On 26 July, WikiLeaks released thousands of secret US military files on the war in Afghanistan. Cover-ups, a secret assassination unit and the killing of civilians are documented. In file after file, the brutalities echo the colonial past ...
- Racist newspaper cartoon slurs Port Townsend Co-op ...
Racist newspaper cartoon slurs Port Townsend Co-op initiative to boycott Israeli goods - Ali Abunimah : Following the historic decision of the food co-op in Olympia, WA to boycott Israeli goods, a similar effort is underway at the food co-op in Port Townsend, WA, near Seattle. Like all campaigns ...
- Pages From History: Tanzanian Ujamaa and Scientifi ...
Pan-African News Wire: Pages From History: Tanzanian Ujamaa and Scientific Socialism : By Walter Rodney African Review [Dar es Salaam, Tanzania] 1:4 (1972), 61-76. This article attempts to identify Tanzanian Ujamaa with Scientific Socialism in certain ideological essentials. It is an exercise in ...
- When Suffering is Good
Photo by G!zM() 17 We live in a world where hedonism and despair abound. It is as if the black death were knocking at our doors, like in Chaucerâs Canterbury Tales. Imagine a world without pain and suffering. Imagine not ever getting sick, physically or mentally. Imagine no disadvantages. Everyone ...
- Inductee to the Creative Class
Photo by Gui Trento For the past year or so Iâve been flirting with a design college. Iâve been to their events, spoken to their faculty, visited the campus. After 12 years of yearning to return to college, I could very soon enroll again. The degree they are offering sounds slightly business-lik ...
- Asleep (a short story)
Photo by eye of einstein I am holding a thread and staring into a labyrinth. Darkness is falling, and the gold of sunset begins to fade from the moss that drapes its walls. Ancient stones lose their friendliness and succumb to moist cold. Only the sky remains cheerful. Inside the labyrinth darknes ...
- Criminal Rule in Honduras
Photo by markarinafotos While Rome is burning, everyone is hypnotized by the fiddling emperor Chavez. Crime and impunity in Honduras, which steadily worsened during Manuel Zelaya’s administration, has only gotten worse under Porfirio Lobo. But Mr. Lobo is busy courting international opinion, in the ...
- Hurricane Alex Aftermath
(I wrote the following entry on Friday, July 2, but have been unable to post it until today. As of now, there is no water in my house.) I just arrived home after exploring the are around my home after Hurricane Alex tore through Monterrey. The hurricane made landfall Wednesday night as a category tw ...
- NATO reports 8th casualty in a day
ShareThis NATO reports 8th casualty in a day 31 Aug 2010 NATO NATO reports 8th casualty in a day 31 Aug 2010 NATO has announced the death of an eighth soldier in a day of concentrated violence in war-torn Afghanistan. NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement on Tuesd ...
- Gunmen attack Pakistan govt. buildings
ShareThis Gunmen attack Pakistan govt. buildings 28 Aug 2010 Gunmen have launched an attack on Pakistani government buildings near the US consulate in the country's northwestern city of Peshawar, police say. Police officials say a group of gunmen tried to break into the buildings early Saturday. The ...
- NATO fuel tankers torched in Pakistan
ShareThis NATO fuel tankers torched in Pakistan 31 Aug 2010 Unknown militants in southwestern Pakistan have destroyed two fuel tankers destined for NATO and US forces in Afghanistan amid rising violence in the country. Police officials told Press TV that militants set the tankers on fire in Mastung ...
- Two Men Arrested on Terror Suspicion on Flight Fro ...
ShareThis Two Men Arrested on Terror Suspicion on Flight From Chicago to Amsterdam 30 Aug 2010 Two men from the Detroit area were arrested in Amsterdam on a flight arriving from Chicago, reportedly suspected of assessing the aviation system for a potential future terror attack... "Suspicious items w ...
- After Katrina, Cops Given OK to Shoot 'Looters'
ShareThis After Katrina, Cops Given OK to Shoot 'Looters' -- ProPublica : Hazy Directives to "Take Back the City" and Word of Martial Law Contributed to Itchy Trigger Fingers 25 Aug 2010 In the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina [ and exploded levies ], an order circulated among New Orleans police ...
- Songs by Ikhlas (“Yasmin”) Jebara from ...
Villages Group friend Ikhlas Jebara from Salem near Nablus, had been mentioned here before under her nickname “Yasmin”. Her father Sa’el was murdered in 2004 by a settler as he was performing his daily work as a van driver (the settler was convicted but escaped justice). Ever since then, we have be ...
- Major Israeli Theaters Embrace The Settlements
Some cultural news from Israel: Several of Israel’s leading theater companies have agreed to perform in the new cultural center in the settlement of Ariel, due to open on November 8. The companies include the Habima National Theater, the Cameri Theater, the Be’er Sheva Theater and Jerusalem’s Khan ...
- For Gaza tailors, market is flooded, external mark ...
From Gisha’s Gaza Gateway What happens to industry when you open a market to consumer products but restrict raw materials and ban export? What doesn’t happen is economic recovery. The Israeli cabinet decision to ease the closure on the Gaza Strip did not change the sweeping ban on Gaza exports. W ...
- Bil’in’s Abdallah Abu Rahmah Cleared o ...
From the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee. Protest organizer Abdallah Abu Rhamah from Bil’in was convicted of incitement and organizing illegal demonstrations today, after an eight months long military trial, during which he was kept behind bars. He was acquitted of a stone-throwing charg ...
- Hudson’s co-founder, the Israeli academic purge an ...
Reposted from Didi Remez’s Coteret blog. Evidence is mounting that the Institute for Zionist Strategies (IZS) â an Israeli NGO at the forefront of an ongoing campaign to purge Israeli Universities of faculty and programs deemed âleft-wingâ â is a creature of  The Hudson Institute, a ma ...
- Hurricane Earl to slam into New England
Hurricane Earl, while not a Nor’easter, is acting like one. In the northern hemisphere storms move counter-clockwise. Thus, the most dangerous area of a big ocean storm is the northeast quandrant. That’s because the wind and waves are moving in the same direction. So, when a Nor’easter slams into th ...
- S.F.’s lone gun store reopens amidst protest
The High Bridge Arms gun store in San Francisco is re-opening after a brief closure. Some in the neighborhood are protesting this saying they’d “rather have something the neighborhood could enjoy – a laundry or wine and cheese shop.” However the Pink Pistols, a local gay gun rights group, would beg ...
- On Glenn Beck’s popularity
Maybe the left should be asking why Glenn Beck’s message resonates with many rather than trying to bash him as extremist and his followers as unwashed trailer trash. (Hint: If you call someone a racist yahoo, chances are you won’t convert him to your side.) Clearly what Glenn Beck says strikes a cho ...
- British SWP says Churchill was real enemy not Hitl ...
In the world of the lunatic Marxist left (apologies to non-deranged Marxists out there), anything that capitalists and imperialists do must automatically be opposed, regardless of fact or even reality. We have a fine new example of this. The British Socialist Workers Party has proclaimed that Hitler ...
- Coast Guard installing wind power in Maine
The Coast Guard wants to implement “net zero” homes at their base at Southwest Harbor, Maine. Wind power is just the first step. In addition, next door to the wind-powered duplex, the Coast Guard has installed a pellet boiler that provides heat and domestic hot water for the two homes in that unit, ...
- Maariv: Israel a significant importer (and re-expo ...
This is a fairly wide-raging, if shallow, review. I found the section the section describing a botched attempt by an Israeli company to re-export Iranian marble to the US interesting. Particularly insightful was the justification for an Israeli double standard on this issue, as articulated by Danny ...
- “A silk purse from a sow’s ear”: Israe ...
As always happens when the diplomatic process resumes, the air is filled with talk of economic and infrastructure projects. For the principals, the buzz helps in creating an “atmosphere of progress.” The bureaucrats and businessmen behind the leaks are usually angling for a share of the funding that ...
- Yediot publishes minutes of White House negotiatio ...
Agreement now, peace later Shimon Shiffer, Yediot, August 27 2010 [front-page] The Obama administration intends to present Israel and the Palestinians with a new outline for ending the conflict. Yedioth Ahronoth has learned that the Americans will pressure the sides to sign a framework agreement f ...
- Is Im Tirzu planning to sue author Meir Shalev?
In February, I joined a number of other activists — Roy Yellin, Yuval Yellin, Noam Wiener, Edan Ring, Ari Remez, Tal Niv and Noam Livne — in establishing a Facebook group aimed at exposing the personae and motivation behind the  Im Tirzu smear campaign against the New Israel Fund. Entitled I ...
- Yediot reports on damage to settlement industry ca ...
The Politics of economics: The boycott on Israel is expanding Daniel Bettini, Navit Zumer and Ofer Petersburg, Yediot, August 25 2010 [Hebrew original here and at bottom of post] The decision made on Monday by the Norwegian oil fund to divest from Africa Israel and Danya Cebus on the grounds that th ...
- Dr. Spencer – Dump the IPCC
I read this post By Dr. Roy Spencer last night with my jaw in my lap. He may have written this kind of thing elsewhere, but I’ve certainly never read it from a climate scientist. There are so many points made which are absolutely true that I had to ask to repost it here. There [...]
- Meeting of the Minds
The recent IAC report was described at WUWT and Fox News as a blasting of the IPCC. The reality IMO is a bit different. While the report is more critical than anything anyone anticipated, it has the same bite as a toothless dog, and it COMPLETELY fails to recognize what created the problems in the ...
- IAC Report on IPCC
I saw the reference to this at CA today. The IAC produced a number of recommendations to the IPCC for improving their structure. Of course it doesn’t and won’t address the key issue which is the recognition of the fundamental pressures on the IPCC report conclusions and the resulting motivations ...
- Climate Science Suffers Yet Another Body Blow
It’s been an extraordinary 12 months in climate science, I’ve often said nobody knows how much warming additional CO2 will cause, including me. The implication being that all the IPCC models could be right. I’ve also often said that the IPCC is a political group before a scientific organization. ...
- Ice Sheet Loss Cut In Half
Ice Sheet Loss Cut In Half Submitted by Doug L. Hoffman on Thu, 08/26/2010 – 13:22 Much concern has been raised by climate scientists regarding ice loss from the world’s two remaining continental ice sheets. Rapid loss of ice-mass from the glaciers of Greenland and Antarctica are cited as proof posi ...
- Center for Inquiry (Kinda) Dials Down Park51 Rheto ...
The secularist Center for Inquiry issued a press release on Friday headlined: " The Center for Inquiry Urges That Ground Zero Be Kept Religion-Free ." The press release outraged many CFI supporters , including me . In the original release, CFI opposed the construction of an Islamic cultural center, ...
- Women Who Wasted Years Fighting Her Divorce Sorry ...
Beverly Willett spent five years and thousands of dollars contesting her divorce in court and lost. Now that New York has become the 50th state to adopt no-fault divorce, she's "heartsick" that others won't have the same opportunity to impoverish themselves and tie up the courts in a grim struggle f ...
- WTF, CFI?: Center For Inquiry Wants "Ground Zero" ...
The secularist Center for Inquiry waded into the Park51 controversy in earnest yesterday, with disastrous results. I love CFI and I've been working with them for years, so it pains me to say that they're playing into the hands of anti-Muslim bigots on this one. Orac is right, this press release is a ...
- Book Review: "The Poisoner's Handbook"
I can't say enough good things about Deborah Blum's "The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York." It's an fast-paced narrative that mixes chemistry, physiology, public policy, and history. The heroes of the story are the New York City medical examiner Dr ...
- Judge: Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Destroys ...
On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lambert ruled that all federally funded research on human embryonic stem cells (hESC) is illegal. He reasoned as follows: If a human embryo was destroyed to make a cell line, then any experiment on any cell descended from that embryo is "research" where a h ...
- MySpace Now Letting Users Syndicate Status Updates ...
After having launched integrations with Twitter and other sites, MySpace has launched a new form of Facebook integration today. Now, it’s easy for MySpace users to syndicate their status updates on Facebook as well. The UI is available to users in a drop-down on MySpace’s status publisher, beneath t ...
- Frosmo Social Optimizer Helps Sites Track Users an ...
Facebook Connect allows websites to know a lot about their users. However, sorting through this data and customizing a site to best fit each user can be difficult and a drain on engineering and design resources. Former gaming network Frosmo wants to help companies simplify this process and increase ...
- LiveWorld Provides Global Brand Management Tools U ...
LiveWorld was founded in 1996 in San Jose, Calif. by a group of Apple veterans who’d worked on Apple’s online services, such as AppleLink and eWorld, and also with starting up AOL and Salon.com. Co-founders Peter Friedman and Jenna Woodul have since grown the company to serve clients all over the wo ...
- Nextstop’s Sjogreen Helps Fill Facebook CTO Taylor ...
Continuing Facebook’s tradition of acquiring and quickly moving up talent, it appears that Carl Sjogreen, a former Google product manager who came to the company through its purchase of online travel guide Nextstop, is taking over many of CTO Bret Taylor’s old responsibilities running the platform. ...
- Friend Quizzes, Dating and Video Chat Reach This W ...
This week’s AppData list of fastest-gaining Facebook apps, measured by growth in monthly active users, doesn’t include a lot of non-game apps — but those that are present offer a nice cross-section of successful concepts. Here’s the top 20: Top Gainers This Week Name MAU Gain Gain,% 1. Pirates Ahoy ...
- Yale University and the problem of anti-Semitism
Lawrence Davidson considers a recent Yale University conference on anti-Semitism which, instead of engaging in an objective discussion of an age old form of racism, ended up tying itself to an ideological view of the world that is itself racist and dedicating itself to the idea that any criticism of ...
- Analysis of BBC Panorama “Death on the Med” expose ...
Ted Clement-Evans introduces a detailed and forensic-like analysis of the transcript of the BBC Panorama programme “Death on the Med”, broadcast on 16 August 2010, which reveals chronic bias and lack of impartiality on the part of the BBC.
- More pointless talks with Israel? Send in the clow ...
Stuart Littlewood argues that instead of embarking on another humiliating round of talks with Israel, the Palestinians should stand on principle, go over the heads of corrupt meddlers and demand from the international community a solution based on the law and justice endorsed by that community.
- Israeli, US Zionists mount ferocious attack on lib ...
Neve Gordon highlights the growing persecution of liberal academics in Israel as Israeli fascists, supported by American Christian Zionists and other neo-conservatives, join forces to root out academic freedom and freedom of expression at Israel’s universities.
- US victory in Iraq?
Lawrence Davidson exposes the baselessness of claims by ignoramuses, simpletons and charlatans such as US senator and former presidential candidate John McCain that the USA has achieved victory in Iraq.
- Second rancher sentenced for contract kill of Doro ...
A second rancher has been sentenced for his role in the murder of Dorothy Stang, an American nun who was gunned down in 2005 for her efforts on behalf of poor farmers in the Amazon Rainforest. Regivaldo Galvao was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a jury in the city of Pará. Last month [...]
- Yasuni National Park- SAVED!
President Raphael Correa now has approved an agreement to leave Ecuador’s largest oil reserves, amounting to some 900 million barrels, underground in Yasuni National Park in exchange for more than $3 billion. Under the unprecedented agreement, known as the Yasuni-ITT Initiative, the government of Ec ...
- Amazon watchgroups SILENT over new Chevron oil spi ...
In the space of a week, a Chevron technical team has discovered two fresh oil spills in Ecuador’s oil-producing Amazon region. One covers three hectares (7.4 acres) near state-owned oil company Petroecuador’s Guanta production station in the heart of Cofan indigenous country. The other impacts half ...
- Amazon River dolphin new stunning photos!
The Amazon River dolphin (Bufeo, Bufeo Colorado, Boto, Boto Cor de Rosa, Boutu, Nay, Tonina) or Pink River Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), is a freshwater River dolphin endemic to the Orinoco, Amazon and Araguaia/Tocantins River systems of Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. These we ...
- Belo Monte dam auction proceeds despite protests!
Bidding for electricity generated by Brazil’s planned Belo Monte Dam in the Amazon rainforest has been marked by protests and legal confusion. A court injunction issued late Monday suspended the dam auction overnight, throwing the bidding process into a state of chaos. Just moments before the aucti ...
- Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep his po ...
- Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative candidat ...
- Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop denying ...
- Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
On yesterdayâs Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that âLiberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.â The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parentsâ finances as well ...
- Nick Griffin: “If Hitler hadn’t been s ...
The following is a transcript of Dominic Carmen’s speech given at the Expose the BNP media briefing, held at the NUJ headquarters on 7th April. At the 1987 General Election, the BNP put up two candidates and received 553 votes. It was beaten hands down by the Monster Raving Loony Party which put up ...
- Seize BP Demonstrations Nationwide
SEN believes these demonstrations will help awaken politicians to outrage over inadequate regulation and control of international corporations, even if they do not succeed in gaining temporary seizure of BP on the basis of national emergency and evidence of criminal neglect and fraud by BP.
- Petition for Global Warming Facts on Fox
SEN's Co-Founder Gregory Hilbert told Huffington bloggers Mary Ellen Harte PhD and John Harte PhD of cooltheearth, "The Discovery Palin Alaska petition-condemnation-boycott campaigns by Defenders of Wildlife, Credo, Change.org, Center for Biodiversity, Care2 Petitioners, Facebook groups and SEN have ...
- Gulf Oil Disaster Action Central
The Gulf Oil Disaster is the latest symptom of the madness being unleashed on Mother Earth, Mankind, Wildlife and Life itself. SEN will here post links to every action you can take. Visit often because more will arise in coming weeks and months. If you learn of one we've missed, please enter it in a ...
- Petition for Global Warming Facts on Fox News, PLU ...
SEN's Co-Founder Gregory Hilbert told Huffington bloggers Mary Ellen Harte PhD and John Harte PhD of cooltheearth, "The Discovery Palin Alaska petition-condemnation-boycott campaigns by Defenders of Wildlife, Credo, Change.org, Center for Biodiversity, Care2 Petitioners, Facebook groups and SEN have ...
- Climate&Energy “Speak Up&Out” Results
In April SENÂ published “Drill Oil and the USA and World to Hell?” To our users we said “Tell Sustainability Education Network’s sen4earth.org what YOU believe and what YOU Demand of government in Energy & Climate policy and legislation.” “SEN will report the overall results to you and to media, AN ...
- As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed at ...
Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage at h ...
- An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Clinic: ...
I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.
- NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again on Ga ...
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 whic ...
- The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised as ...
John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.
- A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and love ...
We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine providence ...
- AUDITING THE FED!
We did this. Together. At every moment, as the Fed and Wall Street sought to undermine this cause, it was the phone calls, letters, e-mails, blogging and sheer power of the people -- ordinary people who cared -- that beat them back. We have delivered a succinct message to Wall Street and the Fed: "W ...
- CORPORATE STATES OF AMERICA
Do you want to continue to have a say, albeit, not very much, in what goes on in this government? If you do, you must act, as outlined below, as soon as possible. We have got to give it a try, even if we go down, we must stop the corporate takeover. This is so [...]
- TEABAGGERS REFRAIN
Government is the only thing standing between us and all those who would harm us, in one form or another! Be it war, medicine, unsafe products, the list is endless. Corporate America has taken over our Government and it is the reason we’re in such a mess. Don’t blindly get on a bandwagon of non-thin ...
- Doomsday: How BP Gulf disaster may have triggered ...
A huge gash on the ocean floor—like a ragged wound hundreds of feet long—has been reported by the NOAA research ship, Thomas Jefferson. Before the curtain of the government enforced news blackout again descended abruptly, scientists aboard the ship voiced their concerns that the widening rift may go ...
- BP BLOCKED WORKERS
BP blocked workers cleaning up the oil disaster in the Gulf from wearing protective respirators.
- Greenpeace Inc. [Guest Article]
As some readers may have noted, an email recently came through Greenpeaceâs UK newsletter inviting its supporters to take part in a poll: We’re carrying out a global poll to find out what Greenpeace means to you and which issues you think are most important. This is to help us do an even better j ...
- Cairn Energy Buries Truth in Business Speak
Below is a verbatim lift from the Corporate Responsibility page on the website of Cairn Energy. I have just highlighted the one key point that you must bear in mind when reading: Cairn’s strategy is to deliver shareholder value through establishing commercial reserves in high potential exploration ...
- Pat Michaels Lets His Funding Veil Slip
After umpteen years denying the (civilized) human influence on climate change, and in parallel denying he was influenced financially or otherwise by fossil fuel interests, uber-denier Pat Michaels let slip some of the source of his funding – and by implication, some of the source of his climate chan ...
- Greenwashing In The BBC [Guest Article]
Greenwashing has a habit of making it into every facet of our society, not just from the obvious sources such as the PR offices of polluting corporations, but also for example from major charities and in the media. A recent example I came across is a blog post from last October by the BBC’s [...]
- Monthly Undermining Task, August 2010: Crash The M ...
They (350.org) refuse to countenance the idea that industrial civilization is the problem – every action leads to the Senate, even requests to non-US “members” lead to the Senate. They are like a stuck record – a really dated record, like Alice Cooper trying to down with the kids when he spends mos ...
- Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…” Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constructi ...
- Wealthy Far More Likely To Default On Mortgages
crossposted at Political Correction For much of the past two years, Congressional Republicans have wasted few opportunities to blame poor and working class Americans for the financial meltdown and the subsequent recession. They’ve argued that through well-intentioned government initiatives, includ ...
- GOP House Candidate: Mosque Near Ground Zero Is A ...
Conservative activists and the Muslim-baiters among them are furious about a proposed Islamic community center to be built near Ground Zero. The debate has become entirely unhinged and some of the more hateful folks are using the controversy as a rallying cry to oppose the construction of all futur ...
- Ex-Muslim Ergun Caner Is A Fraud
Ergun Caner is one of the most prominent figures in the evangelical movement. He is also one of the most deceptive. A self-professed Muslim convert to Christianity, Caner plays an important, and arguably dangerous, role in the community. After the 9/11 attacks, when many Americans were searching for ...
- Aliou Kumbaya
My brother Aliou Niasse has saved the day. He was the first to spot smoke coming out of the Nissan Pathfinder that Faisal Shahzad intended to detonate in crowded Times Square. Thankfully, the incompetence of Shahzab and the alertness of Niasse and two other gentlemen, both of whom are Vietnam War v ...
- SeenReport Helps Citizens Report on Floods in Paki ...
The devastating floods in Pakistan have been covered by trained reporters and mainstream media outlets around the world. Citizens, often on the front lines of the flood, have also been contributing thousands of reports though mobile phones, in part enabled by the citizen journalism service Seen ...
- New Media Tools Play Pivotal Role in Kenya's Const ...
Kenya is moving towards greater democracy and more transparent governance thanks to the recent constitutional referendum that received 70 percent "yes" votes. The new constitution, which is scheduled to be signed into law on Friday, replaces the one drafted during Kenya's colonial era. It includ ...
- Helping D.C. Drinkers and Bikers with Custom Maps
In my last post about TileMill , I outlined some of our general plans and the background for why we’re working on this project to help make it easier for people to design very custom maps online. One question that we get a lot from people who are new to the GIS space is, “When would I need this? How ...
- One-Eight, Afghanistan: Social Media + U.S. Marine ...
As the saying goes, "Be careful what you wish for." In my case, I won a Knight News Challenge grant to launch an online, social media reporting network that follows a battalion of U.S. Marines throughout their deployment to southern Afghanistan. (Congratulations! You've won a year in Helmand Prov ...
- NowSpots: Working to Make Local Web Ads That Work
NowSpots are beautiful online ads that feature the latest social media updates from advertisers, and make it easy for a reader to follow and share their content across the web. For the last year at WindyCitizen.com , a social network for Chicago news aficionados and urban explorers, we've been s ...
- After the Spill - Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Respons ...
The three-month oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been a stark reminder of one of the intangible costs of the transportation sector's near total�dependence on oil. But if there was some hope that from this disaster would emerge policies that aim at strengthening America's energy security now it is ...
- Crimes Against Children - Pedophiles and Popes: Do ...
When Pope John Paul II was still living in Poland as Cardinal Karol Wojtyła, he claimed that the security police would accuse priests of sexual abuse just to hassle and discredit them. ( New York Times , Mar 28, 2010). For Wojtyła, the Polish pedophilia problem was nothing more than a Communist plot ...
- The Way We Are - Decyphering Michigan English
Michiganders know that 'pasty' does not rhyme with 'hasty.'�Last month we reflected on the word terroir. (It's a shortening of the phrase gout de terroir , "taste of the earth." It refers to the mysterious flavor that helps us to taste the difference between strawberries that come from Michigan and ...
- Brazil on the Edge - Why The Quixotic Presidential ...
When Marina Silva was still Brazil’s environment minister, she took a trip to the Xingu River in the Amazon. On the day she began her travels, José Dirceu, President Lula’s incorrigible former chief of staff, invited Germano Rigotto, the governor of Rio Grande do Sul, to fly to Brasilia. The governo ...
- Toxic Edge - Government and Capitalist Alliance Ma ...
In the aptly named city of Asbest, in the Ural Mountains 900 miles (1500 km) northeast of Moscow, the dominance of Russia’s asbestos industry — the world’s largest — is on clear display. Just east of the city is the massive open-pit Uralasbest mine. At seven miles (11 km) long and 1-½ miles (2.5 km) ...
- Kerala Media: A Macabre Dance Of Death
By K.M Sebastian The media hunt down people even in death in Kerala in search of TRP ratings and higher circulation figures. Death becomes a double tragedy for the dear and near ones. This is called Macabre Dance of Death by the Kerala Media. MN Vijayan, OV Vijayan, Lohitadas, Kamala Suraiya and m ...
- How Should Progressives Respond To The End Of The ...
By Erik Lindberg It is highly unlikely that the cheap, easily accessed, highly portable, relatively safe and stable and, most importantly, highly dense and concentrated fossil fuels upon which we have built our entire world, can ever be reproduced by any other source
- Future Wars Or Future Peace?
By James A. Lucas What will happen after the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are ended? Will there be more of the same? The answer is Probably, unless the American public eventually understands that both of the two major political parties, with a few individual exceptions, lead us into such tragic esc ...
- Glenn Becks Redemption Song
By Robert Jensen Does worrying about Becks appeal beyond the far right seem far fetched? The most important rhetorical move Beck made on Saturday was to claim the rally has nothing to do with politics. Many people across the ideological spectrum want desperately to escape from contemporary politics ...
- Another Bubble Is About To Burst
By Martin Borgs This is the story of the greatest financial crisis we will ever see... The one that is on the way. Filmmaker Martin Borgs takes a provocative look at the events leading up the Global Financial Crisis and asks if the attempts to avoid a ruinous collapse of banks and other major finan ...
- MUST Watch Video Busted - Orlando Mosque Finances ...
Organized by the Islamic Society of Central Florida’s Imam Muhammad Musri, the compelling video features leftist former UK MP George Galloway and three-time felon Mahdi Bray of the Muslim American Society’s Freedom Foundation raising at least $55,000 for Hamas. The fundraiser– held at Masjid Al ...
- What Threatens Peace: A Mountain of Hate or A Few ...
By Barry Rubin About twenty-five years ago I had my great success in affecting mass media coverage of the Middle East in one newspaper for one day. I had been complaining to a New York Times correspondent, who was briefly covering the Middle East beat, about the incitement, hatred, and extr ...
- Those Tiny Little Minds Who Bring You The News
� Trying to write eight-ten articles a day makes one something of a news junkie. My days are spent reading one of the five hundred plus feeds input into a feed reader, following up stories on the phone and maneuvering the TV remote between CNN, MSNBC, Fox, and when I can find it, even the BBC. I hav ...
- Once Again The Muslim Nations Fail To Help One of ...
� Muslim Countries talk a good game. Pakistan is facing a horrible disaster, floods, triggered by torrential monsoon rains in the north-west, have moved south through the country, submerging towns and farmland. More than 1,600 people have died and about six million are homeless after Pakista ...
- Congresswoman Gives Scholarships to Relatives, Did ...
More arrogance from a member of Congress. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) violated Congressional Black Caucus Foundation rules by awarding scholarship money to four relatives and a top aide's two children, according to an attorney for the Foundation. The Congresswoman first that she s ...
- OMS Distribuye Vacunas para Esterilizar a la Pobla ...
La OMS, como organismo de coordinación mundial, ha principios de los 70 continuó con el desarrollo de "la vacuna anti-fertilidad", financiada por la Fundación Rockefeller. Lo que también es cada vez más evidente, es que la investigación se ha hecho extensiva a los sistemas de entrega en la que estos ...
- Rockefeller Foundation Presents Anti-Fertility GM ...
It seems there is no limit to the Rockefeller Foundation’s ambitions to introduce anti-fertility compounds into either existing “health-services”, such as vaccines, or — as appears to be the case now — average consumer-products.
- Fidel Castro: Osama bin Laden is a CIA Spy
UK Guardian Former Cuban president says the 9/11 mastermind is in the pay of the CIA and cites WikiLeaks as his source. Fidel Castro has more reason than most to believe conspiracy theories involving dark forces in Washington. After all, the CIA tried to blow his head off with an exploding cigar. Bu ...
- Russia Opens Pipeline for Siberian Oil
By Isabel Gorst Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, on Sunday opened a new pipeline to export east Siberian oil to China that will help Russia reorientate its oil trade towards the east. The pipeline, running 67km from Skovorodino in east Siberia to China’s north-eastern frontier, is an offs ...
- Costa Rica se Degenera
Como todos los animales, los humanos quieren dominar y usar los recursos a su alrededor. Al principio los humanos cazaban, pescaban y comían de la tierra. Pero después, algo terrible acontenció a nuestras mentes: Nos volvimos temerosos, inseguros, dependientes y cínicos y esto nos convirtió en ganad ...
- Human noise ‘leads fish from habitats’
Noise pollution from shipping, drilling for oil or wind farms could lead fish away from their natural habitat into areas where they could die, potentially devastating future fish stocks. A British-led team made the discovery while working on the Great Barrier Reef â as well as debunking the myth t ...
- Villagers ready for another battle against giant t ...
Villagers have stepped up their latest campaign against a wind farm plan believed to be among the most unpopular planning applications Dorset has ever seen. Two years ago, a record 1,987 people wrote to North Dorset District Council to object to plans to build six giant turbines – each 120 metres (3 ...
- JCIDA: all jurisdictions must agree to PILOTs
Jefferson County could see repeats of the rancor that accompanied the Galloo Island Wind Farm payment-in-lieu-of-taxes approval at the county Legislature after changes made Tuesday morning. A payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement for any wind power project will need approval from all of the involved ta ...
- Lightning strike burns down wind turbine
PETERSON, Iowa — A lightening strike started a fire in a wind turbine Saturday morning, destroying the turbine and one of three new blades that had been laid out on the ground beneath it in order to be installed as replacements. Damages totaled $760,000, according to Peterson Fire Chief John Winterb ...
- Wind farms could face new restrictions as Governme ...
Energy companies could face new restrictions on wind farm projects after ministers launched a review of the way noise pollution is taken into account by planners. The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has admitted noise regulations are applied “inconsistently” by councils and planning ...
- Beck says that a flock of geese means he’s G ...
Kind of like the Miracle Inflamed Hemorrhoid that kept his buddy Rush from not only the draft, but enlisting as well. On our blog, one of Glenn’s Peeps wrote the other day that if we don’t join their Hate Speech Mob we must be cowards. What an amazing Epiphany that was! Here I’d always thought [...]
- Twin Towers “christian mecca” accordin ...
I’d been hearing that for the past (few) years from preachers, one of my pastors, gone almost thirty years now called them “Hellevangelists” but they’ve been saying that the Twin Towers were attacked because they were a religious symbol of Christian America. False. They were a trade exposition, a ma ...
- How to discuss the “mosque rule” at th ...
The Powwow will be September 25 at Rock Ledge Ranch, “technically” according to the West Side Pioneer, local newsletter, a part of the Garden of the Gods. Which is a sacred site for American Indians. The same people who put this really offensive sign up at Bancroft Park that Old Colorado City was th ...
- Let them eat cake part however many you wish… ...
FR: Dee Brown The following is an email from the City of Colorado Springs Help Desk support product. CASE_ID_NUM: 10-073910 MESSAGE: ********************** The message for you follows ************************ Thank you for taking the time to alert the Streetlight Deactivation Team of your concerns. ...
- The Love it or Leave it crap again.
America has freedom still, or what little is left, because of the actions of Dissidents, not Conformists. The Army didn’t give us these freedoms, save by surrendering their claims to any authority to do otherwise. Most certainly the wars in which the Army is engaged today, and has been steadily enga ...
- Thank You Mr Curley: Debunker PROMOTES the "Buildi ...
Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog was nice enough to help promote the " BuildingWhat? "campaign recently by posting their ad. Pat, your strategy of posting their video to help out and then inspiring truthers to donate more by insisting that the campaign is failing is brilliant, simply br ...
- As Screw Loose Change Would Say: Moron Dave Thomas
So, I've had a chance to listen to some of the Richard Gage and Dave Thomas debate and have a few things to add to the already stellar debunking job of Gage and others . Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog posted this bingo card mocking the evidence that Gage would raise. Let's examine an ...
- CIT's corruption spreads...
Dammit, just when I thought we were making progress in distancing ourselves from these clowns . I'm sure this will make them some more money as more activists waste $1,000 on 500 copies of their 'movie' that's mostly just white scrolling text on a black background, and contribute to the the discredi ...
- 9/11 Heroes Ask for Medical Attention; Receive Nai ...
The House of Representatives recently voted down the 9/11 workers' health fund and Rep. Weiner of New York "blasted" them for it . Now I would like to do a bit of blasting myself in the blogosphere. In a post that presented only one side of the story about the cause of death of 9/11 hero James Zad ...
- Debunking the Debunkers
Permanent Top Post--Scroll Down for Newer Posts Comments are only open to blog contributors , but feel free to contact us here if you have a point of contention or some kind words you would like to share. Ad hominems will be ignored, but well-formed rebuttals may be addressed (and that is a subjec ...
- What Do People Look For on Nutrition Labels?
Earlier this month, The NPD Group, a market research firm, released a report on consumer trends in reading Nutrition Labels. Hey, that’s our favorite subject matter, so we were eager to take a look. Top 5 items consumers are most interested in (ranked from highest down): total calories total fat c ...
- Bisquick – A Shortcut Loaded with Trans-Fat
We got the following question from Lanette: I do much of our cooking from scratch and am trying to eliminate processed foods. I have found several ‘recipes’ for make-your-own-baking-mix but they all call for shortening. I don’t know which is worse! I’m wondering if you could do a post on Bi ...
- Over 45 yrs old? Try the “Water Before Meal” Diet
Here’s yet another potential diet. Drink 2 glasses of water before every meal, and you’ll lose weight. That’s what a 12 week study has shown in middle aged people. They lost more weight than a control group that did not drink water. Both groups lost weight as they were instructed to follow a low fa ...
- Should We be Happy? It’s Not Our Personal Fault We ...
You know an article is important when you get links to it in multiple emails, tweets and facebook updates. We got numerous links to Saturday’s Fixing a World That Fosters Fat, in the business section of the New York Times. And it truly is an interestin g piece, touching upon a critically important q ...
- Is Chocolate Milk Losing Ground in School Lunches?
Chocolate milk contains way too much sugar. An 8 fl oz serving (the standard carton served in schools) contains 3 teaspoons of added sugar! That sounds more like a treat than a healthy drink. Not something kids should be getting with their lunch at school on a daily basis. The New York Times ran an ...
- 5 Facebook Apps That Really Make Money
Guest post by Alexis Bonari If you aren't on Facebook by now, you are probably the only one who isn't. My grandmother has a Facebook page and anyone who can type, is able to start their own page with no problem. Most everyone uses Facebook as a social meeting place, but did you know that you coul ...
- Online Profits Re-Opens (and now it’s free)!
Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips started a membership site, Online Profits , last year to help people learn about making money online. Daniel has just re-launched and re-vamped Online Profits, and this time there is no charge to get all of the valuable content. The only requirement is that you open ...
- 3 Ways to Ensure Internet Marketing Continues to W ...
This is a guest post by Susan White Gone are the days when Internet marketing was perceived as the bold, new and innovative way to market and publicize your products and services. Today, email marketing and other forms of pushing your products on the web are passé. The Internet is growing faster th ...
- Cloud Living Now Available From Glen Allsopp
One of my friends has just launched a new product that I think may be of interest to many Traffikd readers. Glen Allsopp has written an e-book, Cloud Living , based on his experiences from making a five-figure monthly income from his websites. Cloud Living is actually more than an e-book, it i ...
- 5 Reasons New Bloggers Should Use Niche Social Med ...
I've been talking to some new bloggers recently and I've been asked questions about how they should work on growing their blog, increasing subscribers, and getting more visitors. Most bloggers know about the potential impact of social media and some even spend considerable amounts of time on sites l ...
- Norwegian government blacklists Malaysian timber g ...
A logger handles trees felled in the Penan's region. © Andy Rain/Nick Rain/Survival The Norwegian government has excluded the Malaysian timber giant Samling from its pension fund on ethical grounds. Samling is logging the last remaining forests of the hunter-gatherer Penan tribe . Norwayâs ...
- Brazil’s President signs ‘death sentence’ for Amaz ...
Kayapó Indians at a protest against the Belo Monte dam © T Turner Brazilâs President Lula has signed a contract allowing the construction of the hugely controversial Belo Monte mega-dam on the Amazonian Xingu River to go ahead. Lula said, âI think this is a victory for Brazilâs energy ...
- Indians urge Brazil’s next President to protect an ...
Indians at landmark protest for land rights. Brazil. © Gustavo Macedo/ Survival Indians representing many of Brazilâs 233 tribes have demanded that the countryâs next President map out their ancestral land which has been taken from them for industrial projects, cattle ranching, and soya ...
- David v. Goliath: Indian tribe in ‘stunning’ victo ...
The Dongria Kondh and their supporters have won a momentous victory. © Toby Nicholas/Survival A tribe in India has won a stunning victory over one of the worldâs biggest mining companies. In an extraordinary move, Indiaâs Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has blocked Vedanta Resourcesâ ...
- African Commission rules outspoken academic wrongl ...
Bushmen children © Survival The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights has declared that outspoken academic, Professor Kenneth Good, was wrongly deported from Botswana after criticizing the lack of democracy in the country. Professor Good worked as professor of political studies at th ...
- Bush'd again? New Orleans, Mr. O and Mr. Go
by Greg Palast for The Huffington Post Five years ago this week, a beast drowned New Orleans. Don't blame Katrina: the lady never, in fact, touched the city. The hurricane swept east of it. You want to know the name of the S.O.B. who attacked New Orleans? Locals call him "Mr. Go" - the Mississippi ...
- No “Home Sweet Home”Five years after Katrina
Matt Pascarella and I encountered Patricia Thomas while she was breaking into a home at the Lafitte Housing Project in New Orleans. It was her own home. Nevertheless, if caught, she'd end up in the slammer. So would we. Matt was my producer for the film, Big Easy to Big Empty, and he encouraged [.. ...
- Five Years and Still DrowningThe New Orleans CNN W ...
It's been five years already. In New Orleans, more than half the original residents have not, cannot, return. "They don't want no poor niggers back in - that's the bottom line." And that's Malik Rahim, Director of Common Ground, who led the survivors who rebuilt their homes in the teeth of official ...
- Five Years and Still DrowningThe New Orleans CNN w ...
Get Moviefone's top choice of Katrina documentaries Big Easy to Big Empty: The Untold Story of the Drowning of New Orleans "Greg Palast brings you exclusive footage on the hidden political agendas and the suppressed eyewitness reports involved in the disaster." Get the DOWNLOAD Free of Char ...
- Separation of Church and Hate:The Kate Mosque Solu ...
by Greg Palast Since everyone seems to have an opinion about the mosque near Ground Zero (and President Obama has two), I like to ask you all a couple of questions: Given that white Christian supremacist Tim McVeigh bombed the Oklahoma City Federal Building, shouldn't we ban white churches from th ...
- Opposition Pay-offs
The day before the Obama Inaguaration, I outlined the Republican strategy and its payoff matrix: The stimulus has non-symmetrical political pay-offs. Seeing positive impacts of the stimulus package and voting for or against it still leaves the GOP rep SOL. The big project is a Democratic Branded ...
- What Can Obama Really Do?
A zombie argument is going around about why Obama hasn’t accomplished liberal and progressive ends to the extent many would have liked him to: Obama can’t do anything because he needs 60 votes in Congress and he doesn’t have them because Republicans and Dems like Lieberman and Nelson won’t vote for ...
- Liberals aren’t real people—or crazy
As Bill Scher points out, Beck’s rally was pathetic: Glenn Beck: 87,000, Louis Farrakhan 837,000 ‘03 anti-war protests 1,000,000 But the media chooses to massively highlight Beck’s pathetic numbers. Why is that? The two answers I see are as follows. The media has a right wing bias and Beck’s ...
- The purpose of violence (Zeta Edition)
I like Borderland Beat, they provide a great round-up in English about the drug violence in Mexico. However, one of their recent posts concerning both a massacre of migrants and the execution of a Monterrey area mayor posits nihilism or boredom as a motivator of violence. Los Zetas have also bee ...
- The purpose of violence (Zeta Edition)
I like Borderland Beat, they provide a great round-up in English about the drug violence in Mexico. However, one of their recent posts concerning both a massacre of migrants and the execution of a Monterrey area mayor posits nihilism or boredom as a motivator of violence. Los Zetas have also bee ...
- Vaccine-Autism Decision a 'Major Disappointment' S ...
Cedillo vs. Secretary of Health and Human Services Highlights Failure of the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire The Elizabeth Birt Center for Autism Law and Advocacy (EBCALA) is deeply disappointed in the Court of Appeals for the...
- Mercury: Why Don't Pregnant Women Know More?
By Julie Obradovic When I started eating a lot of tuna while breastfeeding my daughter, I had no idea that I was possibly poisoning her. At that time, there was no mention of mercury toxicity and certainly no alarm bell...
- The 1st Annual New York Autism Fashion Show
Annual New York Autism Fashion Show. The 1st Annual New York Autism Fashion Show Friday, October 1, 2010 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm Times Square Art Center 669 8th Avenue (between 42 & 43) New York, NY 10036 www.timessquareartscenter.com Click...
- New York Autism Insurance Bill: Protects and Serve ...
By Chris Petrosino Alison Singer is going rogue. First, she admits that S7000B was drafted by Manatt, the powerful lobbying firm that represents insurance companies. Then, she attempts to torpedo the NYS Assembly campaign of Hon. Thomas Abinanti. We love...
- Do Reliable Thimerosal Estimates Exist?
By Jake Crosby That is, of course, the key question that must be answered before one is to draw any final conclusions about the current autism rates in this country being associated – or not associated – with exposure to...
- For Iraqis, Victims of War Are So Much More Than N ...
New York Times – In a pastel-colored room at the Baghdad morgue known simply as the Missing, where faces of the thousands of unidentified dead of this war are projected onto four screens, Hamid Jassem came on a Sunday searching for answers. In a blue plastic chair, he sat under harsh fluorescent lig ...
- Cleveland residents get RFID-equipped recycling
Register – Residents in Cleveland, Ohio, will have to ensure their recycling is out on time or face a $100 fine for failing to do their bit. RFID tags will be fitted to the recycling bins provide by the city council, and counted by passing rubbish-collection vans. Any residents whose recycling bin i ...
- Smoking cannabis found to ease pain caused by dama ...
Daily Mail – Puffing cannabis from a pipe can significantly reduce chronic pain in patients with damaged nerves, a small study has shown. Pill preparations of cannabis extract have previously been successful in treating certain types of pain. But researchers avoided studying the effects of smoking c ...
- Is BP Still Spraying Toxic Dispersants in the Gulf ...
DailyFinance-The BP (BP) oil spill may be over, but controversy over the company’s use of toxic oil dispersants in the Gulf of Mexico is still going strong. Although BP allegedly stopped using the chemicals more than a month ago, area residents claim it is still spraying Corexit, a chemical dispersa ...
- New Zealand – Public Pressure Compels Counci ...
Top News – Kapiti Coast District Council had to reduce fluoride dosing in its town supply after it faced public pressure. Previously in the month of June, extremely divided council made the decision that it would retain the usage of fluoride in the water supply for Waikanae, Paraparaumu and Raumati, ...
- Videos to support Water.org (One Day on Earth)
Support Water.org with your video creation (One Day on Earth) - CALL TO ACTION: Share video of your water Without water, life would not exist. It is a prerequisite for all human and economic development. This 10.10.10 we invite you to share with the world how you access life’s most precious commodi ...
- Water.org at TEDxKC (Brainzooming)
What the World Needs Now â Innovative Ideas from TEDxKC â Part II (Brainzooming) – For whatever reason, McCamonâs TEDxKC presentation was incredibly brief. It provided staggering statistics about the amount of solid human waste thatâs left untreated globally in a world where more people have ...
- Matt Damon’s trip to Ethiopia for water (Top Cel.)
Matt Damonâs trip to Ethiopia to advocate for clean water (Top Celebrity Headlines) – Matt Damon is advocating for clean water and plumbing throughout the world as part of the charity he co-founded, Water.org. He appeared in a video for CNN to show how difficult it is for people in rural northern ...
- Barclay Martin helping Kenya with Water.org (Pitch ...
Listen to the Barclay Martin Ensemble’s first single from its new album (The Pitch) – This record represents a culmination of years of study, practice, writing and love of making music together. It is a departure stylistically from our previous releases, perhaps a deeper understanding after years of ...
- Bono Street Team: Water.org
Bono Street Team: Water.org (Bono Street Team) – Water.org is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization committed to providing safe drinking water and sanitation to people in developing countries. They have featured projects in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Read full Bono Street Team arti ...
- People For the American Way: Send Sarah Palin a Co ...
Help Us Teach Sarah Palin About the First Amendment It is clear from her recent statements attacking the so-called 'Ground Zero Mosque' and defending Dr. Laura Schlesinger's egregious on-air racial insensitivity -- among other statements -- that Submitted by joan rodriguez to US Politics & Gov't � ...
- Glenn Beck rally in context: Events on the Mall
The Lincoln Memorial -- and the rest of the Mall -- is a popular site for protests and rallies. Here are some noteworthy ones that show how hard it is to measure the size of a protesting crowd. Submitted by Mary Toth to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Muslim 9/11 Debate Is way off the Mark - The Real ...
Fundamentalist religion OF ALL KINDS - Muslim, Christian, Hindu, whatever, is the enemy of peace and progress. The supreme irony in the "mosque debate" is that the Right/Republican Party, Fox News et al is now indistinguishable from the Religious Right. Submitted by Ralph Banned to US Politics & Gov ...
- US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation - Israel ...
The United States is not insisting on any terms of references for the upcoming negotiations. Please sign the petition: Presdent Obama, for the negotiations to be successful they must be based on human rights, international law, and UN resolutions. Submitted by Ralph Banned to US Politics & Gov't �| ...
- Why Americans should oppose Zionism
Americans now have all the evidence they need for a reasonable and morally-sound conclusion, that Zionism produces a cruelty and truculence that they bankroll with their taxes and legitimize with either silence or consent. Submitted by Zahra Pilavdzic to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
- The Dog Days of Summer
Many apologies for the delay on posting.  I was laid low by some sort of viral affliction which mimicked  malaria.  Like most people who get sick maybe once a decade, when I do catch a bug you would think I was on death’s door I’m such a sissy about it.  But the fever is gone [...]
- The Good Don’t Always Die Young
The Godfather of Free Range International – the man who pioneered the techniques, tactics and procedures we use to travel in remote districts was executed last week in Badakhshan Province. Dan Terry was a good man. Â He was humble, self-effacing, and competent. Â He lived in Afghanistan with his fam ...
- Getting After It
One of the Chim Chim’s dropped in for a visit last month. Â He was on some sort of training inspection type team which I didn’t ask too much about and told us that every-time he asked officers from the unit he was looking at what they were doing the reply was “getting after it.” Â They [...]
- Losing Hearts and Minds
Ben Arnoldy at the Christen Science Monitor penned an excellent tale on reconstruction efforts going pear shaped and the consequences resulting from such folly. It is an excellent piece of reporting from one of the truly professional foreign correspondents working the country today. The report was ...
- Restrepo
Last week Kanani Fong at The Kitchen Dispatch arranged an interview for me with Tim Hertherington, who along with Sebastian Junger produced the award winning documentary Restrepo. Kanani signed onto the Restrepo team to spearhead a public relations effort, in conjunction with National Geographic, ...
- Ellen Brown LIVE on The Story Behind the Story  ...
Axing the Bankersâ Money Tree: Homeowners’ Rebellion against Wall Street Recent Rulings Could Shield 62 Million Homes from Foreclosure by Ellen Brown http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20688 Ellen Brown developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in ...
- IMPORTANT INFO ON MORTGAGES!!!!
Every homeowner in America needs to read this very carefully. Homeowners’ Rebellion: Could 62 Million Homes Be Foreclosure-Proof? August 20th, 2010 | Author: Stephanie Over 62 million mortgages are now held in the name of MERS, an electronic recording system devised by and for the convenience of the ...
- WHAT EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT CAP AND TRADE (Cra ...
If You Own A Home You Better Read This .. What we can expect if “Cap & Trade” legislation is enacted? We thought we were in trouble in this nation before, but just wait. It CAN get MUCH WORSE!! Well read this one, it is all verified and double-checked and reference links are at the [...]
- BARRACK OBAMA INDICTED FOR MURDER???
Mom of Murdered Obama Gay Lover Speaks Up Mom of Murdered Obama Gay Lover Speaks Up Posted on July 25, 2010 by Eowyn Donald Young http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.c…ver-speaks-up/ In late May, Wash. DC-based investigative journalist Wayne Madsen had a bombshell revelation about Obamaâs membershi ...
- Dov Zakheim Retires — OH PLEASE!!!!
Dov Zakheim retires from Booz Allen Hamilton Jerry Mazza Online Journal Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:22 EDT For those of you who don’t know who Dov Zakheim is, let me refresh your memory. The ordained rabbi served as comptroller of the Pentagon from May 4, 2001, to March 10, 2004, when he resigned to go [... ...
- Downsizing – downscaling? See these tiny hou ...
Here’s a great company doing inspiring work www.tumbleweedhouses.com The company creator, Jay Shafer started off making a super small mobile home for himself measuring just 89 square feet! Their video is a testament to less being more – they’re now selling ready made mobile cabins and the plans fo ...
- Air powered environmentally friendly car being pro ...
Sounds a little strange right – an air powered car – why isn’t this big news I wonder… There’s a great company in France operated by a former Formula 1 engineer now producing cars running on compressed air. They’re not great to look at, super fast, or I’m guessing really comfortable, but they’re in ...
- Deforestation – environmental & human effect ...
There are many types of forest in the world from Temperate Forest to Tropical forest. The one thing all forests have in common is that the trees in them act as the lungs to our planet converting CO2 to Oxygen. In addition, forests provide a canopy or shading of the earth which helps maintain temper ...
- Could cancer be Fungus? If so, maybe here’s ...
Recently I visited a dear friend who has been dealing with breast cancer for over ten years. After a long attempt to avoid surgery and medication, she was forced to have a double mastectomy. She has chosen to avoid the chemo treatments. This takes a lot of courage given that the standard thing to do ...
- Doctors Warn about GM Food Risks
It’s barely been a week since I wrote about the dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and now the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has released a strongly-worded warning about the health dangers associated with Frankenfoods. Calling for a moratorium on GM foods, the AAEM says t ...
- Robert Fowler, Held Hostage by al Qaeda in Africa ...
Kidnapped by al Qaeda. The very thought causes shudders. But it happened to this week's guest: one of Canada's former senior diplomats in Africa on a special mission for the United Nations. The challenge: solving a dispute between the government of Niger and the rebel movement MNJ. This week, the Un ...
- Steve Nash, Two-time NBA MVP (Sept 19, 2009)
He's one of the best basketball players on the planet, and he's made millions at it. But there's more to this week's guest than just the game. A lot more. This Canadian now makes his name on the courts, in the movies, and doing some pretty good things around the world. This week, he's our guest.
- Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada (Sept ...
We know it was a recession, but do we know if it's really a recovery? And what about that huge deficit? A dollar again approaching parity with its US counterpart? And the unemployment rate -- could it soon be in double digits? Difficult questions for this week's guest, the man who has to consider th ...
- Dr. Shana Kelley, University of Toronto (October 3 ...
Research labs around the world are on the constant hunt for new ways of fighting one of the world's great killers - cancer. In one lab in Toronto, exciting promise on a new technique for early detection. The possibilities are endless: for fighting cancer, and other diseases, both here in our world, ...
- Dr. Susy Hota, Infectious Diseases Specialist (Oct ...
Are you tired of hearing about HINI -- the swine flu? That's not surprising because there's been a half year of information coming your way -- some of it contradictory, much of it confusing. This week's guest helps us get down to basics -- what you need to know, and why you need to know it.
- Aging Divorce Lawyer Sues Former Partners for $26 ...
Prominent divorce lawyer Norman M. Sheresky, 82, lodged a $26 million suit against his former partners at Sheresky Aronson Mayefsky & Sloan on Friday after being pushed out earlier this month. Sheresky -- whose clients have included former supermodel Christie Brinkley's most recent ex-husband and ac ...
- Lawyers Take Swings at Each Other in Dodgers Divor ...
The contentious divorce trial of Frank and Jamie McCourt opened Monday with lawyers for each side accusing the other of engaging in bad faith. Control of the Los Angeles Dodgers could rest on the outcome. Jamie McCourt is attempting to invalidate the marital property agreement the couple signed in 2 ...
- Non-Investor Law Firm Clients to Recoup Bulk of Fu ...
While most victims of lawyer-turned-convicted-felon Scott Rothstein will recover pennies on the dollar in his criminal case, about three dozen clients will be made whole, a judge ruled Monday. The judge decided last week that 25 non-investor clients of Rothstein's defunct law firm would get all or m ...
- Computer Forensics Experts, Who's Your Daddy?
Certifications for computer forensics have become important in civil and criminal courts. Nonprofit and for-profit organizations offer computer forensic certification programs, but no one program or authority has appeared to define what a computer forensic certification should entail.
- Administrative Law Judges Call for More Security
A federal administrative law judge said Monday that in the past four years, there have been more than 200 threats, including death threats, against ALJs and that there is not enough being done to ensure that judges who hear administrative cases are adequately protected. D. Randall Frye, president o ...
- Suspect arrested in West Hollywood fatal shootings
LOMITA, Calif. (KABC) -- A 31-year-old man was arrested during a traffic stop in Lomita Monday in connection to three murders committed in a West Hollywood apartment Thursday night. Los Angeles resident Harold Yong Park was arrested and booked for investigation of murder by Los Angeles County Sheri ...
- وزیراطلاعات:نحوه هزینه17میلیارددلارطی ده ساله گذشت ...
وی برخي از محورهايي كه موضوع مبالغي از هزينهها بوده را به شرح زیر خواند: - برگزاري كارگاههاي آموزشي براي تعليم آخرين روشهاي براندازي و جنگ نرم كه محل برگزاري آنها در داخل و خارج بوده است. مثلاً آموزش تجربيات جنبشهاي غيرخشونتآميز كشورهاي اروپاي شرقي به ايرانيان يكي از محورهاي آموزش بود. read mo ...
- Take Iranian opposition to the streets
MINDFUL of the danger of Iran's regime acquiring nuclear weapons, the international community has passed a new round of sanctions. They aim to persuade Tehran that a negotiated deal is in its best interests. After the UN approved Resolution 1929 in June, Western nations - including the US, the Europ ...
- گور پدر ایران!
عاری بیخته وآمیخته با طنز دلنشین ایرانی، از رسیدن روزی خبر می دهد که سال پیش در چنین ایامی جامه رسمی سی ساله بر تنش دریده شد و رخت سبز ایرانی به تن کرد. شعار طنز آمیز: - هم غزه همه لبنان، گور پدر ایران! یاد آور شعار تاریخی: - نه غزه، نه لبنان جانم فدای ایران read more
- Our World: Accepting the unacceptable
Last weekend the mullahs took a big step towards becoming a nuclear power as they fueled the Bushehr nuclear reactor. Israel’s response? The Foreign Ministry published a statement proclaiming the move “unacceptable.” So why did we accept the unacceptable? When one asks senior officials about the Bus ...
- Income Inequality: the Real Cause of Poor Health
The University of Washington epidemiologist Dr Stephen Bezruchka has been writing and speaking for nearly two decades on the real cause of illness and poor health. As he repeatedly points out, lifestyle factors (including smoking) only account for ten percent of the causation of illness. Accor ...
- Income Inequality: the Real Cause of Poor Health
The University of Washington epidemiologist Dr Stephen Bezruchka has been writing and speaking for nearly two decades on the real cause of illness and poor health. As he repeatedly points out, lifestyle factors (including smoking) only account for ten percent of the causation of illness. According t ...
- The Stigma of Being a Useless Eater
What I find most troubling about the reactionary “useless eater” mentality (see May 24 blog) pushed by policy and opinion makers is the way Americans have internalized the belief that it’s their own fault if they become ill. In fact much of the US population seems more freaked out about gettin ...
- Useless Eaters: the Stigmatization of Health Probl ...
As a psychiatrist battling the stigma of mental illness for more than 30 years, I am gratified by growing public awareness that that schizophrenia, depression and bipolar disorder run in families and are, at least partly, biologically determined. Thankfully the days when it was socially acceptable t ...
- Useless Eaters: The Stigmatization of Health Probl ...
As a psychiatrist battling the stigma of mental illness for more than 30 years, I am gratified by growing public awareness that that schizophrenia, depression and bipolar disorder run in families and are, at least partly, biologically determined. Thankfully the days when it was socially acceptable ...
- Right to work for asylum seekers
UKBA has laid Statement of Changes CM7929 to give effect (or, at least, limited effect) to the judgment of the Supreme Court in ZO (Somalia) [2010] UKSC 36. This was the case in which the Court held that an asylum claim is still an asylum claim for the purposes of the Reception Directive whether it ...
- Post Pankina Rules Update
Following Pankina, UKBA laid Statement of Changes HC382, different parts of which came into effect on 23 July and 12 August 2010. The main changes were to incorporate into the main Immigration Rules some provisions that had previously featured only in the policy guidance and which were declared unla ...
- Temporary immigration cap
I still use this blog as my own personal note book of developments I might well want to look up later. I’m currently updating and re-writing the HJT Immigration Manual (ready first week of September in time for the next round of accreditation, available now for a reduced price if pre-ordering) and t ...
- UKBA seek feedback on settlement application proce ...
Anyone with recent experience of applying for settlement may wish to help UKBA by completing a feedback form, available here.
- Rights of children a primary consideration
Yet more good news, this time for children and their parents. In LD (Article 8 best interests of child) Zimbabwe [2010] UKUT 278 (IAC) the President of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the Upper Tribunal has found that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is highly relevant to Article 8 ...
- Message to NFL players: Proposed 18-game schedule ...
Dear NFL Player: As you surely know, your league is in the process of trying to increase the regular season from 16 to 18 games while eliminating two preseason contests. Perhaps you're excited about this. A little more money in the pocket. Extra exposure. Increased dashes through the secondary an ...
- The Unmaking of a Company Man
Worldly ambition inhibits true learning. Ask me. I know. A young man in a hurry is nearly uneducable: He knows what he wants and where he’s headed; when it comes to looking back or entertaining heretical thoughts, he has neither the time nor the inclination. All that counts is that he is going somew ...
- 90 Years After the Vote, U.S. Women Still Seek Eco ...
Women won the right to vote 90 years ago today. As historian Christine�Stansell points out, the seemingly “no-brainer” move to ensure women have the same political citizenship rights as men was contested in this country until 1984, when Mississippi became the last state to ratify the 19th Amen ...
- Foreign Policy: The Future Of Iraqi Oil
David Bender is an analyst in Eurasia Group's Middle East practice. Bush administration officials predicted that a post-war spike in Iraq's oil production would pay for both the conflict and ease the country's transition to democracy. Anti-war protesters countered that the ...
- KBR wins refinery work contracts in Iraq
Aug 24 ( Reuters ) - KBR Inc, a U.S. engineering and construction firm, said on Tuesday it won contracts from the Iraqi government for work on two refining projects. KBR will provide licensing and basic engineering services for the construction of fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) and Solvent Deasphalt ...
- Iran working against Iraqi democracy: US general
WASHINGTON: Iran is funding extremist groups in Iraq out of fear of a strong democracy as a neighbor, the commander of US forces in Iraq said Sunday. “I think they don’t want to see Iraq turn into a strong democratic country, General Ray Odierno told CNN. “They would rather see it become a weak gove ...
- New flood tide roars into Dera Allah Yar
JAFFERABAD: High flood tide raged its way into Jafferabad area of Dera Allah Yar, rendering thousands of people homeless, these stranded people are waiting for help, Geo News reported Monday. The new flood tide further exacerbated the situation in the area where people are present on the high places ...
- Enraged flood victims get physical with police, Ra ...
SUKKUR: Floods continue to cause devastation in Sukkur and rendered thousands of people stranded in various areas while enraged flood victims burned tyres, blocked road and exchanged blows with police and Rangers after one of the affectees died in a relief camp here at Sukkur-Shikarpur Road. The wat ...
- Qaeda’s cause is gross distortion of Islam: Obama
Qaedaâs cause is gross distortion of Islam: ObamaWASHINGTON: In a passionate defense of religious freedom, President Barack Obama on Friday waded into a bitter controversy by defending the right of Muslims to build a mosque just blocks from Ground Zero. “As a citizen, and as president, I believe t ...
- Do they lock Geo More news from Zardari to throw s ...
Karachi: Geo News blocked the transfer of the road at night in a cold portion of the new country after the news sent threw shoes at President Zardari’s party time in Birmingham, Geo News reported sources as kabelexploitanten zeggend. Meanwhile, many of the singer kabelexploitanten in Karachi was bad ...
- Sweden loses patience with refugee champion role
Six years after his brother was beheaded by Iraqi insurgents, Riyad is still haunted by the memory of identifying the disfigured body and watching the mutilation on a video distributed by the killers. Yet Riyad now has fresh worries to contend with: the threat of deportation from Sweden, which recen ...
- Turkey tells US it won’t adhere to new sanctions o ...
Turkish officials have told an American delegation that it has no intention of following unilateral US sanctions on Iran, a move likely to deepen a rift between the two NATO allies over the Islamic republic’s contentious nuclear program that Washington believes is aimed at developing nuclear weapons ...
- Official US Deficit Put At Staggering $202 Trillio ...
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) forecasts the U.S. budget deficit will hit $1.3 trillion this year. An astronomical figure, to be sure, but thatâs lower than was projected in March. Itâs also less than last yearâs record $1.41 trillion deficit, which was close to 10% of GDP. And, that’s ...
- Goldman Sachs accused of trying to destroy China
Goldman Sachs & Co., reviled in the U.S. for its role in the financial crisis, is now getting hammered in the world’s No. 2 economy with a sensationalist new book accusing the investment bank of trying to destroy China. The “Goldman Sachs Conspiracy,” which has sold over 100,000 copies since it was ...
- Italy inspired by France to expel citizens from ot ...
Italy has said it intends to expel citizens from other EU states if they are not able to support themselves, in a move apparently inspired by France’s current crackdown on Roma. Interior Minister Roberto Maroni told daily newspaper Corriere della Sera on Saturday (21 August) that French president Ni ...
- Studies Claim That One Million Children Misdiagnos ...
According to Jo Oliver "Several studies this month in the Journal of Health Economics are looking at ADHD. Separate studies by researchers at North Carolina State University, Notre Dame, the University of Minnesota, and Michigan State University all arrive at similar conclusions about ADHD. For tho ...
- Education: What Does It Mean For Your Child
From my Factoidz page: The PACER Center is a Minnesota training and information center funded by the U. S. Department of Education Office of Special Education (n.d., http://www.pacer.org/) writes an article for LD online explaining to lay people the evaluation process for special education. The arti ...
- Tests and Measurements for the Parent, Teacher, Ad ...
Peter and Pam Wright compose a comprehensive article for parents, teachers, advocates and attorneys. The purpose of which is to help lay people and professionals recognize the value of reading and understanding educational test scores. Attorney Peter Wright Esq., and Psychotherapist Pam Wright who ...
- Fetal Xrays Can Cause Memory Loss and Schizophreni ...
Alarming as it sounds, I hardly doubt Fetal Xrays can cause Schizophrenia . Schizophrenia is often misdiagnosed by psychiatrists who look for a reasoning for someone's memory loss. In fact, less than 1% of the population actually has Schizophrenia, so I'm in question about these findings.� ...
- Vitamin C Deficiency Symptoms and Why Vitamin C is ...
According to Dr. Kristie Leong : Vitamin C deficiency disease, such as scurvy, is less common these days due to the easy availability of vitamin C rich foods. On the other hand, some people need more vitamin C to stay healthy. Are you one of them? Vitamin C is most commonly found in fresh fruits an ...
- Third World America on Google Maps
Third World America The Huffington Post have created a Google Map to record the experiences of Americans hit by the current economic downturn. The map is obviously also being used as a bit of a marketing tool for Arianna Huffington's new book, 'Third World America'. The map... Tags: third world fina ...
- Tapping The Cleanest Energy Source Today
The reports from experts and scientists that our energy sources are slowly dwindling is very alarming. That is why many have researched about alternative forms of energy that our society can tap. The good news is we can use the available solar power form the sun to use in our... Tags: environment so ...
- EXCLUSIVE: Kate Gosselin's Glamified Emmy Look! Th ...
Splash News Kate Gosselin hit the 2010 Emmy Awards on Sunday night in Los Angeles, debuting a new, beyond glam look on the red carpet. Brushing shoulders with who's who in Hollywood, the mother of eight (who left the kids at home) was competitively dressed at the swanky awards... Tags: emmy awards l ...
- Natural beauty part of overall anti wrinkle routin ...
One writer has told the Daily Mail of her natural beauty and exercise regime - and her plan to stay young forever using home-made anti wrinkle solutions. The appropriately named Elizabeth Young uses natural beauty compounds she puts together herself. Her ingredients can be found in... Tags: anti wri ...
- Radar: Clothing Swap, Bent Words, Electro Night, B ...
FASHION | Clothing Swap & Vintage Trading Post So here's two scenarios: 1) you've been riding your bike, swimming, jogging - being generally active all summer and you've lost so much weight that you don't fit into your fall clothes. Or 2) you've spent every day lying in the... Tags: radar portugal c ...
- Second Newspaper Chain Joins Copyright Trolling Op ...
Righthaven LLC has struck a deal with Arkansas-based WEHCO Media to expand its copyright litigation campaign, in which bloggers and aggregators across the country are being sued on allegations of infringement. - Wired
- Paul Allen v. The Internet
The patents cover "a variety of key processes in e-commerce," said Postman. "Interval Research was early-and right-on key pieces of the Internet," said Postman. "It's important now to protect that investment. We believe these companies are using that technology, in both e-commerce and search." Alle ...
- Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen sues Apple, Google ...
Facebook also issued a response: "We believe this suit is completely without merit and we will fight it vigorously." The social network was accused of infringing one patent; some others are accused of multiple transgressions. eBay, meanwhile, also promised "a vigorous defense." Some of the defendan ...
- Interval Licensing v. AOL, Apple, eBay, Facebook, ...
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen started Interval Research in 1992. During the 1990's, the company filed for several user-interface related patents that were primarily intended to improve a computer user's online experience. The patents focus on what I might call "lightweight" usability ideas such a ...
- Patent lawsuit du jour: Paul Allen versus the worl ...
These patents, like many, appear to plug existing insights and innovations together. And if that combination could be considered obvious to somebody experienced in Web design, these patents should not have been issued in the first place, as per an overdue Supreme Court ruling that in 2007 reaffirmed ...
- Hurricane Earl to slam into New England
Hurricane Earl, while not a Nor’easter, is acting like one. In the northern hemisphere storms move counter-clockwise. Thus, the most dangerous area of a big ocean storm is the northeast quandrant. That’s because the wind and waves are moving in the same direction. So, when a Nor’easter slams into th ...
- S.F.’s lone gun store reopens amidst protest
The High Bridge Arms gun store in San Francisco is re-opening after a brief closure. Some in the neighborhood are protesting this saying they’d “rather have something the neighborhood could enjoy – a laundry or wine and cheese shop.” However the Pink Pistols, a local gay gun rights group, would beg ...
- On Glenn Beck’s popularity
Maybe the left should be asking why Glenn Beck’s message resonates with many rather than trying to bash him as extremist and his followers as unwashed trailer trash. (Hint: If you call someone a racist yahoo, chances are you won’t convert him to your side.) Clearly what Glenn Beck says strikes a cho ...
- British SWP says Churchill was real enemy not Hitl ...
In the world of the lunatic Marxist left (apologies to non-deranged Marxists out there), anything that capitalists and imperialists do must automatically be opposed, regardless of fact or even reality. We have a fine new example of this. The British Socialist Workers Party has proclaimed that Hitler ...
- Coast Guard installing wind power in Maine
The Coast Guard wants to implement “net zero” homes at their base at Southwest Harbor, Maine. Wind power is just the first step. In addition, next door to the wind-powered duplex, the Coast Guard has installed a pellet boiler that provides heat and domestic hot water for the two homes in that unit, ...
- Shades of 'Gray Literature': How Much IPCC Reform ...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 report from the group working on global warming's impacts contained at least one error. "Glaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any other part of the world (see Table 10.9) and, if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them ...
- Sniff Test: Bacteria May Have a Primordial Sense o ...
Bacteria can really stink. It is a truth acknowledged by anyone whose nostrils have confronted a carton of curdling milk or a pair of socks still saturated with memories of a marathon. But a new paper suggests that bacteria do not just reek odor--they also can smell it. Bacterial colonies detect p ...
- Meet the Microbes Eating the Gulf Oil Spill [Slide ...
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill added roughly 800 million liters of hydrocarbons to the Gulf of Mexico. One quarter of that has been burned, captured or skimmed, according to U.S. government estimates. That leaves the rest for trillions of microbes to feast on--a petroleum cornucopia that first be ...
- Toxic Pesticide Banned after Decades of Use
A farm chemical with an infamous history – causing the worst known outbreak of pesticide poisoning in North America – is being phased out under an agreement announced Tuesday by the Environmental Protection Agency. Manufacturer Bayer CropScience agreed to stop producing aldicarb, a highly toxic ...
- Double Shake: Multiple, Nearly Simultaneous Earthq ...
On the morning of September 29, 2009, a violent temblor shook the South Pacific seafloor between the islands of Tonga, Samoa and American Samoa. The earthquake stirred up tsunami waves that quickly pummeled the islands; nearly 200 people were killed, most of them in Samoa. [More] ...
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Los Angeles Times (blog)
- Aug 31, 2010
- 37 minutes ago
-- Waterlogged: "David and Goliath," a painting by the Renaissance artist Titian, is believed to have sustained damage after firefighters sprayed water at a ...
Toledo Blade
- Aug 31, 2010
- 5 hours ago
The blue-green algal blooms have been clogging filters in the village's water treatment plant, slowing down the treatment process at the height of the ...
Calgary Herald
- Aug 31, 2010
- 1 hour ago
"What is in the water has changed," he said, explaining that when they first started collecting data, dioxins were present in the water system because of an ...
Circle of Blue WaterNews
- Aug 31, 2010
- 1 hour ago
In the competition between energy and water, none of the market-ready energy alternatives are free of environmental risks, and only a handful eliminate ...
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