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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

1 June - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Where's the Plan, Paul?
    Jon Huntsman in the Wall Street Journal today: I admire Congressman Paul Ryan's honest attempt to save Medicare. Those who disagree with his approach incur a moral responsibility to propose reforms that would ensure Medicare's ability to meet its responsibilities to retirees without impos ...
  • Where's the Plan, Paul?
    Jon Huntsman in the Wall Street Journal today: I admire Congressman Paul Ryan's honest attempt to save Medicare. Those who disagree with his approach incur a moral responsibility to propose reforms that would ensure Medicare's ability to meet its responsibilities to retirees without impos ...
  • Return to Kurdistan - Part 1
    Several years ago I published a series of blog posts from Jonathan Dworkin, a medical student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. He spent a year organizing a collaboration between Kurdish and American doctors in order to assess the long-term consequences of Baathist chemical atta ...
  • Time to Get Off the Bus
    I think I've now read at least half a dozen mainstream media figures lamenting the absurd level of coverage that the mainstream media is giving to Sarah Palin's bus tour cum summer vacation cum presidential campaign tryout. Note to the nation's editors: your own reporters think that chasing he ...
  • What's Your Problem?
    Gallup says today that doctor-assisted suicide is the "most controversial cultural issue" in its recent poll. Why? Because it's the issue where opinion is divided most closely. I'm not sure that's really much of a proxy for "most controversial," but I guess it's their poll, not mine. What s ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 250: The Mini-4LOKO Podcast Party
    Topics: The last 4Loko podcast party was so successful we decided to do it again. This time in studio. Fuckery ensues… Share with your friends:
  • What to Pack for the Rapture Tomorrow
    So you might have heard that the Rapture is happening tomorrow.  Yup.  Some random white guy who looks like he’s old, wears depends and smells is telling everyone that May 21, 2011 is when Jesus is coming back.  Yeah I know.  It’s 2011 and people are still falling for the “Yeah I spoke to Je ...
  • IC 249: Happy Rapture Day
    Topics: Apparently Jesus comes back on Kriss’ birthday this Saturday Woman wins the right to masturbate at her job Some work place survival tips The Governator has a secret love child Dr. West & Tavis Smiley get in their feelings about the President Share with your friends:
  • Some Random Thoughts on Dr. West, President Ob ...
    So if you’re one of those people that pays attention to politics and the rumblings back and forth between different sides, then you’ve undoubtedly heard about the beef Dr. Cornel West has with President Obama. You probably also know that he’s not alone as he has people like Tavis Smiley, some of ...
  • Jesus Is Back…And He’s on Youtube
    The Rapture won’t be televised, but apparently it will be Youtubed…. Something about “Jesus” using a whiteboard that just makes me LMAO out loud. What’s really hilarious (or sad depending on how you look at it) is that he’s actually convincing some fools. Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

  • Greenland melt studies need greater accuracy
    Lack of detail undermines previous efforts to predict future Greenland ice melt from recent observations, says Ohio State University's Ian Howat, whose new method finds the island's three largest outlet glaciers lost enough ice to fill Lake Erie between 2000 and 2010
  • Greenland melt studies need greater accuracy
    Lack of detail undermines previous efforts to predict future Greenland ice melt from recent observations, says Ohio State University's Ian Howat, whose new method finds the island's three largest outlet glaciers lost enough ice to fill Lake Erie between 2000 and 2010
  • Native tip-off reveals unmatched Arctic storm ...
    Sea-water algae living in a lake 6 km inland for the first time in 1,000 years underline how extreme the Arctic's current conditions are, explain Queen's University, Canada's Joshua Thienpont and colleagues.
  • Native tip-off reveals unmatched Arctic storm ...
    Sea-water algae living in a lake 6 km inland for the first time in 1,000 years underline how extreme the Arctic's current conditions are, explain Queen's University, Canada's Joshua Thienpont and colleagues.
  • Driest monsoons in 1,000 years warn of catastrophe
    Monsoons in the Andes get drier as the world warms, find Union College, New York's Don Rodbell and colleagues, which combined with shrinking glaciers could reduce the run-off relied on by the west of the continent to a trickle.

e!Science News

  • Radiology benefit managers adversely affect re ...
    Radiology benefit managers (RBMs) — which provide prior authorization for imaging services using proprietary algorithms to determine appropriateness — shift significant costs to physicians and have the potential to either increase or decrease societal costs, according to a study in the June issu ...
  • Steady relationships reduce amphetamine's rewa ...
    Long-term relationships make the commonly abused drug amphetamine less appealing, according to a new animal study in the June 1 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The findings suggest that social bonds formed during adulthood lead to changes in the brain that may protect against drug abuse. ...
  • Ocean acidification leaves clownfish deaf to p ...
    Since the Industrial Revolution, over half of all the CO2 produced by burning fossil fuels has been absorbed by the ocean, making pH drop faster than any time in the last 650,000 years and resulting in ocean acidification. Recent studies have shown that this causes fish to lose their sense of sm ...
  • People with mental illness have higher mortali ...
    New research from the University of Leicester raises concerns about higher than expected mortality following acute coronary events such as heart attack in those with significant mental ill health. read more
  • People with mental illness have higher mortali ...
    New research from the University of Leicester raises concerns about higher than expected mortality following acute coronary events such as heart attack in those with significant mental ill health. read more

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

  • Critique of MIT future of nuclear fuel cycle study
    MIT (energy initiative) recently released a controversial and well-publicized report on the future of the nuclear fuel cycle. In it, they argue that there is sufficient uranium to allow ongoing deployment of water-cooled reactors for many decades; they recommend that no far-reaching decision be ...
  • Critique of MIT future of nuclear fuel cycle study
    MIT (energy initiative) recently released a controversial and well-publicized report on the future of the nuclear fuel cycle. In it, they argue that there is sufficient uranium to allow ongoing deployment of water-cooled reactors for many decades; they recommend that no far-reaching decision be ...
  • Nuclear power and climate change – what now?
    I’m currently on a 3-week trip to North America, and will be returning to Australia in mid-June. At the end of my travels I’ll be attending an energy futures conference in Waterloo, Canada (and will write more about that in an upcoming blog). But at present, I’m in Davis, California, and have be ...
  • Nuclear power and climate change – what now?
    I’m currently on a 3-week trip to North America, and will be returning to Australia in mid-June. At the end of my travels I’ll be attending an energy futures conference in Waterloo, Canada (and will write more about that in an upcoming blog). But at present, I’m in Davis, California, and have be ...
  • What price of Indian independence? Greenpeace ...
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. To see a list of other BNC posts by Geoff, click here. —————— India declared itself a republic in 1950 after more than a century of ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • In defence of Dr. Cornel West and all other co ...
    Editorial: The Fine Art of Stepping Back: Why I have decided to stop writing about race. By TheAngryindian -�04.06.2008 Editor's Note: This editorial is a re-print of a older article I wrote during the electoral run-up to the historical Obama presidency on my (not defunct) decision t ...
  • TheAngryindian: Why I have decided to stop wri ...
    Editorial: The Fine Art of Stepping Back: Why I have decided to stop writing about race. | APNS Why I have decided to stop writing about race. By TheAngryindian 04.06.2008 *Editor's Note: This editorial is a re-print of a older article I wrote during the electoral run-up to the his ...
  • Hard Work or Hardly Working? How White People ...
    Hard Work or Hardly Working? How White People Got So Rich Part I: "(FinalCall.com) - [THE HISTORICAL RESEARCH DEPARTMENT OF THE NATION OF ISLAM] The foundation of American White supremacy sits tenuously on a rickety base of lies and deceptions about how Whites gained their wealth and status. A ...
  • Wide Asleep in America: The Call Bob Dylan Won ...
    Wide Asleep in America: The Call Bob Dylan Won't Heed:BDS, Bullies, and Blowing Wind: "A recent letter by the Israeli peace and justice group 'Boycott From Within' (BfW) implores legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan to heed the Palestinian call for BDS and therefore not perform in Israel. The l ...
  • AAP: Are Corporate Black Blogs Destroying Blac ...
    Are Corporate Black Blogs Destroying Black Employment In Mainstream Media? [ AfricanAmericanPundit] I knew that folks at the Washington Post and NBC were getting concerned that black bloggers groups like the afrospear/afrosphere were getting too organized. I also felt in my gut that white media ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Boehner Ready to Cut a Deal on Raising the Deb ...
    If President Obama would agree to cut “entitlements” and put thousands of Americans to death from lack of food, or proper medical attention John Boehner guarantees he will put raising the debt ceiling to a vote! What a deal? I think the CBO should “score” how many Americans will die needlessly f ...
  • Let Me Get This Straight Mitch
    So the Republicans are threatening to “not” raise the debt ceiling. They want to “work together” with Dems slashing spending on “entitlements” (helping poor and old people survive) and not raise taxes on anyone anywhere regardless how much money they are making. Sound like a bargain? Hey Mitch. ...
  • Congratulations Senator McCain – Telling ...
    I would personally like to commend Mr. McCain for telling the world the truth about torture. Most of the time when a Republican does anything it could be considered an act of sabotage, but in this case one Republican actually did something good for our nation. Congratulations. Now let’s talk abo ...
  • The Republicans are Demanding Osama Show His D ...
  • Obama Releases Long Copy of Birth Certificate
    We now have a new term. Anyone that still questions where Obama was born after today will be called an “Afterbirther”… Now Trump, show us your white hood….

Appalachia Rising

  • Day of Action and Conference Vision Statements
    Appalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a f ...
  • Press Conference to be Held on June 15
    Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Press Conference June 15 in Charleston, WV Announces Mass Mobilization Appalachia Rising WHEN: June 15, 10:00 AM WHERE: WV State Capitol Back Steps Near Fountain, Charleston, WV CONTACTS: West Virginia Bo Webb – 304-237-26 ...
  • Press Inquiries
    All media inquiries should be sent to Bo Webb webb.bo@gmail.com Set up interviews via email. Previous Press Releases and Media Public Launch Press Conference Report Back, with video Press Conference Held on June 15 Announces Appalachia Rising Video June 15 Appalachia Public Launch Press Conferen ...
  • New Flier for Appalachia Rising
  • Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalac ...
    Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachians, and Scientists for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Ashley Judd, Woody Harrelson, Gloria Reuben, Kyra Sedgewick, Kevin Bacon, Ed Begley Jr., Kathy Mattea, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, James Hansen, and Darryl Hannah rallying behind co ...

Amped Status

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  • Israeli anchorwoman accused of interpreting Ne ...
    Referring to the discrimination of Arabs got Yonit Levi into troubles with Israel’s regulating body for commercial broadcasting Yesterday Israeli news reported that the county’s Second Authority for Television and Radio would be investigating the conduct of Channel 2 broadcaster Yonit Levy duri ...
  • Watch: Israeli Channel 2 (poorly) covers the p ...
    Recently, a popular Israeli news program visited the village of Nabi Saleh, just west of Ramallah, in order to investigate the demonstrations for an Israeli audience. They ended up producing half of hour of misleading Border Police testimonies while missing the fascinating story of Palestinian-I ...
  • A song of peace for Jerusalem Day
    JERUSALEM by Ami Yares (Youtube clip of the song appears at the end) O, Jerusalem Peace unto you, peace unto whom? A million faces staring you, wondering what to do City named for peace stands on the edge of a sword Too many prophets, poets, and pilgrims have died at your doors Th ...
  • What’s the mysterious story behind the O ...
    The controversy surrounding business ties of shipping companies owned by Israeli tycoons to Iran took a surprising turn in the Knesset today, leading to a torrent of security-oriented rumors and hints of covert operations It’s been several days that the Israeli media is revealing information reg ...
  • What’s the mysterious story behind the O ...
    The controversy surrounding business ties of shipping companies owned by Israeli tycoons to Iran took a surprising turn in the Knesset today, leading to a torrent of security-oriented rumors and hints of covert operations It’s been several days that the Israeli media is revealing information reg ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

  • A Gut Wrenching Appellate Loss- Please Share Y ...
    This blog has been a great forum to discuss the occasional triumphs of justice and the victory of the rule of law over the fraud, the deceit and the abject criminality of the banks and their law firms.  It has also been an open forum for me to discuss the frustrations over a legal system [...]
  • THE ULTIMATE SELL OUT- THE BANKS AVOID ALL LIA ...
    We have become a disgusting, lawless and overtly corrupt nation where no rules or laws apply to the banks and institutions.  Dispense with all your naive notions of justice, fairness and law, because in this new era these concepts do not apply if your crimes and conspiracies are big enough. WASH ...
  • The Banks Can’t Count…
    Every single day we receive more and more evidence of the banks and their wrongdoing.  I long ago gave up on any government official to do anything about it and I never had any faith that any of the banks or the industry could self police  I had faith that our courts would do something, [...]
  • The LPS Sanctions Decision- Bankruptcy Court S ...
    The Federal judges are really stepping in and calling all this mess what it really is… Read the In Re Wilson, Order HERE Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
  • Two Days/Two Summary Judgement Vacated/Two Sal ...
    It’s only Tuesday, but it has been a very good week already…I got two Summary Judgments vacated and two sales canceled! Now mind you, there was no way these two judgments should have been entered in first place, but that’s a whole other story.  The bottom line is we worked very hard, briefed th ...

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • Grassroots Elitism
    We decided to have a final get-together for all those who assisted during the last campaign, just as a way of saying thank you and for me to express my commitment to our local riding association. I was surprised by how many showed up. My wife Jane and I mingled among them, encouraging them to [...]
  • Grassroots Elitism
    We decided to have a final get-together for all those who assisted during the last campaign, just as a way of saying thank you and for me to express my commitment to our local riding association. I was surprised by how many showed up. My wife Jane and I mingled among them, encouraging them to [...]
  • How Not To Judge Our Leaders
    There’s a strong tendency among all of us as Liberals right now to criticize so much of the party’s ruling elite, some of it unfair, other portions bang-on. Something of a “revolt of the grassroots” is evolving, not without merit, but often with a collective bias unworthy of our great traditions ...
  • Binary Code
    So much of what we do digitally these days is based on the binary number system, the use of the digits 0 and 1 to produce what we see on our screens. Simple in concept, it is remarkably complex in what it all produces. Two digits can create an entire digital reality. Politics in Canada [...]
  • Bath Water Out With The Baby
    Perusing the social media over the weekend, it was remarkable how many people are providing input into what the Liberal party must engage in to renew itself. It was comforting in its own way, though it left the lingering impression on me that my own meagre posts are likely inconsequential. A mos ...

Vaccine Awakening

  • In Memoriam: Infant Deaths & Vaccination
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Memorial Day is for remembering those, who have fought and died to defend America and preserve our civil liberties, including freedom of thought, speech, religious belief and conscience. So every Memorial Day I remember the children, who have died after receiving state ma ...
  • Whooping Cough Outbreaks & Vaccine Failures
    UPDATE: CLICK HERE TO VIEW NVIC'S PERTUSSIS VACCINE & DISEASE PAGE by Barbara Loe Fisher Reports of whooping cough outbreaks in California1,2 and in other states this summer are nothing new. Every four to five years – no matter how high the vaccination rate is - there are reports of w ...
  • Using Fear & Prejudice to Attack Vaccine Exemp ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher This summer, inaccurate and misleading information about B. pertussis whooping cough and the pertussis vaccine is being put out there by medical doctors, who should know better. Media campaigns designed to create fear about infectious disease are nothing new. This ...
  • Amy Wallace & Yellow Journalism
    by Barbara Loe Fisher On October 17, 2009 I was at the Atlanta airport on my way back to Washington, D.C. when I stopped at a newsstand. Like most weary travelers waiting for a plane, I was looking for something to read that would give me a break from my work, which included, two weeks earl ...
  • Forcing Flu Shots on Health Care Workers: Who ...
    By Barbara Loe Fisher Doctors at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia are ordering all employees to get a flu shot every year or be sent home for two weeks without pay to “think about it.” Anyone, who still refuses to get a flu shot after that, is fired.1 60 percent of all U.S. health care p ...

2020 Science

  • Texas Instruments Graphing calculators – essen ...
    Last September regular readers of 2020 Science will recall that I was somewhat taken aback at having to fork out $100 for a Texas Instruments graphing calculator as my son started 7th grade math. One academic year on, was the purchase worth it? (Yes, despite my shock, we did reluctant acquiesce ...
  • I’m A Scientist – where the prize money went
    I love books – the old fashioned kind, printed with ink on paper.  As a kid, books were my source of education, inspiration and entertainment.  As an adult, I still find there’s something oddly satisfying about picking up a sheaf of printed and bound pages and immersing myself in them. So it’s ...
  • The safety of nanotechnology-based sunscreens ...
    A few weeks ago, I set Friends of the Earth a challenge - What is your worst case estimate of the human health risk from titanium dioxide and/or zinc oxide nanoparticles in sunscreens? The challenge came out of an article from FoE on nanomaterials and sunscreens, which I subsequently critiqued o ...
  • Knitting science
    Sitting in a meeting on informal science education recently, I was intrigued to see a respected academic working on her knitting.  And she wasn’t the only one.  Now I may have had a something of a sheltered life, but in over twenty years of attending scientific conferences and workshops, I thi ...
  • Smart science, biopunks and nanoparticles – Au ...
    I‘m going to be taking a break from 2020 Science over the next few weeks, as I finally make the move with my family from DC to Ann Arbor.  But rather than let the blog languish, I thought I would use this as an opportunity to revisit some of my old posts.  So through August, [...]

Reader Supported News

  • Egypt Opens Rafah Border With Gaza
    Intro: "Egypt has reopened its Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip, allowing the coastal territory's Palestinian residents to cross freely for the first time in four years." Palestinian Mohammed Ahmed holds his father's passport at the Egyptian passport control, 05/28/11. (photo: Amr Na ...
  • Egypt Opens Rafah Border With Gaza
    Intro: "Egypt has reopened its Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip, allowing the coastal territory's Palestinian residents to cross freely for the first time in four years." Palestinian Mohammed Ahmed holds his father's passport at the Egyptian passport control, 05/28/11. (photo: Amr Na ...
  • New Spike in Unemployment Claims
    Intro: "More Americans than forecast filed applications for unemployment benefits last week, a sign the labor market is struggling to gain momentum. Jobless claims increased by 10,000 to 424,000 in the week ended May 21, Labor Department figures showed today in Washington." Job seekers wait f ...
  • New Spike in Unemployment Claims
    Intro: "More Americans than forecast filed applications for unemployment benefits last week, a sign the labor market is struggling to gain momentum. Jobless claims increased by 10,000 to 424,000 in the week ended May 21, Labor Department figures showed today in Washington." Job seekers wait f ...
  • Senator: "The 'Real' Patriot Act Is Class ...
    Zack Whittaker reports: "The Patriot Act has been extended with hours to spare, and will soon be signed electronically by President Obama, who is currently at the G8 conference in Paris, France. But the vast majority of those who voted to extend the bill may not know the full extent to which the ...

War Resisters League

  • Not Justice, Not Victory: Just Another Murder ...
    “I keep thinking of how awful it was to hear that there were people actually celebrating on 9-11. Now I look at the TV and see the same thing.” -Family member of a man killed in the World Trade Center of September 11, 2001. The reported killing of Osama bin Laden by a CIA operation [...]
  • The Broken Rifle in Kabul
    The above photograph, of Scott Schaeffer-Duffy from the Catholic Worker in Worcester, Massachusetts standing beside street art made by local Afghan youth, was taken in Kabul by WRL National Committee and Organizing Task Force member Jim Haber when he was on a recent delegation with Voices for Cr ...
  • WRL Organizers Hit the West Coast
    From February 25th to March 7th,WRL organizing coordinator Kimber Heinz and field organizer Ali Issa began a three-stop trip on the West Coast where they met with WRL locals and affiliates, as well as allied organizations working on GI resistance, civilian support for anti-war veteran organizing ...
  • Iraq/Wisconson Labor Solidarity: Two Statements
    In the wake of the threat posed to what remain of labor rights in Wisconsin, and the public’s powerful response, two Iraqi labor leaders, Hassan Jum’a and Faleh Abood, penned solidarity statements in late February on behalf the 26,000 member strong Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions, and the 15,000 ...
  • Stepping up the Resistance to U.S. Islamophobia
    As Peter King, the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, steps up the U.S. government attack against Muslims living in the U.S., saying that he will “rely on Muslims to make his case that American Muslim leaders have failed to cooperate with law enforcement officials in the effo ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Nationwide Poll: 80% of America’s Moms are Con ...
    When moms talk you can bet lawmakers listen, not to mention food retailers. That is exactly what the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming is counting on following the release of a nationwide poll of 804 American moms, which found that 80 percent are concerned that food animals pro ...
  • India develops sound policy on antibiotic use ...
    India is the most recent country to address the public health concerns associated with the use of non-therapeutic antimicrobials in food animal production, and in doing so, may just leap-frog the United States. India’s Directorate General of Health Services recently released a policy docume ...
  • Study on Drug-Resistant Staph and Store-Bought ...
    According to a recently published nationwide study of grocery store meats, the next time you handle a piece of meat or poultry bought at your local supermarket there is nearly a 50 percent chance that it will be carrying drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (Staph). The Translational Genomics Re ...
  • U.S. Dept. of the Interior among 2,000 Sodexo ...
    The Meatless Monday campaign just gained America’s protector of natural resources and heritage as one of its latest supporters. The U.S. Department of the Interior is one of Sodexo’s more than 2,000 corporate and government clients, which the food service giant encouraged to adopt its Meatless M ...
  • Corn Panic
    By Dr. Dennis Keeney, Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future The USDA 2011 Prospective Plantings Report was one of the most anticipated planting reports in several years. It came on the heels of a shocking Grain Stocks Report issued last month, which showed that corn stocks ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

  • Raging at Rawalpindi
    American leaders are furious with Pakistan’s military in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing. But twisting arms will only backfire.
  • The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest War
    An FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
  • Crazy Like a Fox
    In a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
  • Addicted to Contractors
    The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.
  • How to Whip the Afghan Army Into Shape
    Much of President Barack Obama's strategy rests on the creation of a new, more competent Afghan military. Here's what he'll need to know to get the job done.

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

  • Job Opportunity: Project Manager, Clean Air St ...
    Position:� Project Manager Organization:� Clean Air Strategic Alliance ...
  • Commuter Challenge
    Commuter Challenge Sustainable Alberta Association 5 Jun 2011 - 00:00 - 11 Jun 2011 - 00:00 Commuter Challenge… Is a week-long event ...
  • Environment Week 2011
    5 Jun 2011 - 00:00 - 11 Jun 2011 - 00:00 Environment Week 2011 takes place from June 5th to 11th. Check out Alberta Environment's website for Environment Week events near you. The City of Edmonton is helping to organize events around tow ...
  • Edmonton Bike Month
    1 Jun 2011 - 00:00 - 30 Jun 2011 - 00:00 June is Bike Month in Edmonton. Celebrate cycling with events throughout the month. Check out the Bikeology on the web, on Facebook, or follow them on Twitter for the latest Bike Month news, updat ...
  • AEN Groups weigh in on the proposed Lower Atha ...
    As the consultation period on the Government of Alberta's proposed Lower Athabasca Regional Plan comes to a close— submissions are due June 6, 2011— AEN member groups have weighed in on the proposed plan, regulations, and frameworks. In a recent op-ed, the Pembina Institute's Jennifer Grant ...

Stop NATO

  • Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 1, 2011
    ==== Libya: NATO Has Killed 718 Civilians, Wounded 4,067 NATO Spurns, Sabotages African Union Peace Plan By Bombarding Tripoli NATO’s Devastastion Of Libya’s Infrastructure Unacceptable: Iranian Official Rasmussen: NATO To Replicate Eastern European Model In Arab World Iraq: NATO Builds Another ...
  • Edward Young: Draw the murd’ring sword t ...
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Edward Young From The Love of Fame, the Universal Passion (1728) Satire VII While I survey the blessings of our isle, Her arts triumphant in the royal smile, Her public wounds bound up, her credit high, Her commerce spreading sails in e ...
  • Audio And Text: Obama Convicting Himself Of Wa ...
    http://www.presstv.com/usdetail/182594.html Press TV May 31, 2011 ‘Obama is convicting himself of war crimes in Afghanistan’ Audio President Obama is “convicting himself of war crimes” by saying, “I am ultimately accountable” for civilian deaths in Afghanistan, says Rick Rozoff manager of the Ch ...
  • Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: May 31, 2011
    ==== Libyan War: Over 9,000 NATO Air Missions, Nearly 3,500 Strike Sorties Rebels Reject Truce Offer, NATO Bombs Libyan Cities Western Troops Seen On The Ground In Libya Mediterranean: U.S. Leads Naval Exercises With NATO, North African Partners NATO In Afghanistan “As Long As It Takes To Finish ...
  • Alexander Herzen: War and “international ...
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Alexander Herzen From My Past and Thoughts Letter 4 (1862) Translated by Constance Garnett ***** Napoleon waged this war as a remedial measure to pacify the French by the gymnastics of liberation and the galvanic shocks of victory…How w ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Kevin Annett Arrest: No Bomb That Ever Bursts ...
    I wear as a badge of honor my deportation from a country of liars and cut throats. - Big Bill Haywood, IWW leader and revolutionary, 1920 The Intel Hub By Kevin Annett May 31st, 2011 The filthy fiction calling itself the Crown of England finally vomited me from its midst this week, only five day ...
  • Pentagon Seeks Mini-Weapons For New Age of Warfare
    Los Angeles Times W.J. Hennagin May 31, 2011 Under mounting pressure to keep its massive budget in check, the Pentagon is looking to cheaper, smaller weapons to wage war in the 21st century. A new generation of weaponry is being readied in clandestine laboratories across the nation that puts a p ...
  • Why is the Crown of England Afraid of this Man?
    The Intel Hub May 31st, 2011 Rev. Kevin Annett was jailed and deported from England on May 30, 2011 His crime: Speaking out publicly about child trafficking and murder by church and state Who will be next? Picket your local British consulate with a sign: “You can jail the Truth tellers but never ...
  • Adam Kokesh And Others ARRESTED For Dancing At ...
    The Intel Hub May 28th, 2011 Feds Release Prisoners, Next Dance Party Scheduled for June 4th! Dancing protestors arrested at the Jefferson Memorial - Notice as the police officer attempts to choke Adam. These police are openly working towards the end of America and should be immediately investig ...
  • The Stage Is Set For a Nuclear False Flag
    The Intel Hub By Alex Thomas May 29th, 2011 The stage has been set for a nuclear false flag in America. Many in the alternative media have wondered if a false flag nuke attack within America is a real possibility. Would they do it? Who would it be? What cities would be targeted? Recently, The [...]

FRS

  • On “Obama vs. Netanyahu” — W ...
    from the series, “All People’s Liberation”, by Collision Course Video: The political establishments of the US and Israel — long time partners in settler-colonialist and ethnic cleansing projects against the Palestinian people in historic Palestine — had a series of exchanges from May 19-May 24, ...
  • On Kashmir India acts as a police state, not a ...
    Delhi has been unwilling to solve this tragic and brutal conflict, and has scuttled any attempt at meaningful discourse Mirza Waheed, guardian.co.uk, Sunday 29 May 2011 Many years ago, I met two journalists from India in London and we found ourselves talking about Kashmir. Mostly, they listened ...
  • US government blocking information, controllin ...
    AlterNet: “Let’s Fight the Obama Administration’s Crusade to Jail Another Journalist” By Rory O’Connor, AlterNet Posted on May 26, 2011, Printed on May 29, 2011 German theologian Martin Niemoller was a staunch anti-Communist who supported Hitler’s rise to power — at first. He later became disill ...
  • Tribune Magazine (UK): Tunisia’s brutal regime ...
    Since the Tunisian dictator Ben Ali was ousted by mass unarmed demonstrations, successive waves of protest and self-organisation have dismantled many of the old structures of that dictatorship. by Amanda Sebestyen Friday, May 27th, 2011 But earlier this month the old regime showed it could still ...
  • Jewish-American activist: Why I disrupted Net ...
    Why did I disrupt? by Rae Abileah on May 26, 2011 Do you know that our Congress gave 29 standing ovations to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he spoke in the Capital on Tuesday, May 24? I couldn’t watch this hero’s welcome for a man who supports the continued building of illegal se ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • One for the Women
    It is said that behind every great man you will find a great woman. I do not look at myself as a great man per se, but I do see the greatness of the women in my life, and if I do indeed succeed in my ultimate goals, you can thank these women every bit as much as me. They have played the essent ...
  • Samouni Inter-Trade Palestine, Trade Not Aid
    Our Mission Samouni Inter-Trade Palestine (SIP) is a social enterprise international trade mission. We endeavour to catalyse the end of Gaza’s charitable dependency through import and export trade. We do not seek simply to alleviate the suffering of the people in Gaza. Our ultimate objective i ...
  • Slander vs. Sanity
    Lesson number one, the actual agents who direct slander campaigns, those working for MI6, CIA, Mossad and other so-called “intelligence” agencies, they and their tactics are rendered useless without the presence of the most important element for successful subversion, and that would be… the idio ...
  • NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE
    On Thursday April 21st we shall make a human chain with the children of Gaza to spell out NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE so as to tell the world that Israel’s bombings of Gaza must stop. We intend to remind the world how the children of Palestine are terrorized and murdered by Israeli air power [...]
  • Samouni Family Responds to Goldstone Backtrack ...
    During Operation Cast Lead Israel committed massive war crimes for all the world to see. Among these crimes the use of White Phosphorus in densely populated areas, use of Depleted Uranium, bombing civilian targets of all sorts without military necessity, destroying civilian infrastructure with ...

StillSmallVoice

  • Reader, I am leaving home to come home
    Today, I am leaving Missouri to fly back to Connecticut. I flew out here on Friday with no idea what to expect, or what would be expected of me in this, my broken town. "It's worse than it looks on TV," my family told me. "Much worse." Ah, but I was in New York City after the terrorist attacks ...
  • Reader, I am leaving home to come home
    Today, I am leaving Missouri to fly back to Connecticut. I flew out here on Friday with no idea what to expect, or what would be expected of me in this, my broken town. "It's worse than it looks on TV," my family told me. "Much worse." Ah, but I was in New York City after the terrorist attacks ...
  • A little more reading with Wednesaday's column...
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    To read more about Christ's Church of Oronogo, go here.
  • In which Susan gives blood
    Today, I went to Joplin's relatively�unscathed�Northpark Mall to take a photo of a donation center that's in an empty storefront. I saw "relatively unscathed" because physically, the building is fine, but in the short time I was there, I eavesdropped on some horrific stories from the tornado. I ...

Associated Content

  • Men and War: Memorial Day from a Veteran's Pe ...
    Men die in war. I was in Vietnam, where 58,000 died. What does Memorial Day really represent?Contributor: Gary Davis Published: May 30, 2011
  • What Parents Should Know about Measles, By the ...
    The first 118 days of 2011 has seen the largest amount of reported measles cases in the United States since 1996. Of those cases, 90 percent were imported from overseas. Here are some important number for parents to be aware of.Contributor: Ken Muise Published: May 30, 2011
  • Jim Tressel Resigns from Ohio State Amid NCAA ...
    Embattled Ohio State coach Jim Tressel has had his days numbered for months, although the university has done everything to prevent him -- to its detriment. But now he is finally alleged to have resigned, even if it comes too late to spare the Buckeyes.Contributor: Robert Dougherty Published: Ma ...
  • Sarah Palin was Invited to Rolling Thunder, Sh ...
    Sarah Palin cannot show up at a pro veteran event without stirring controversy. The latest kerfuffle caused by her enemies in the question of whether or not she was invited to the Rolling Thunder rally to take place in Washington tomorrow.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: May 28, 2011
  • Mitt Romney Supports the Ethanol Subsidy, Thou ...
    For Republicans running for president, one of the most vexing problems is what to do about Iowa's signature issue, which is to say ethanol subsidies. Following principles suggests opposition. Following political expediency suggests support.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: May 28, 2011

Popsci - Science

  • Panasonic Plans to Build a 'Sustainable Smart ...
    Unprecedented private-sector development Japan may still be recovering from earthquake-related woes, but that’s not stopping Panasonic and eight partner companies from pushing ahead with their own rebuilding effort that could reshape the way future cities and towns are built. Part demonstration ...
  • Japanese Elderly Offer to Take Over Fukushima ...
    Older men argue they have less chance of developing radiation-induced cancer in their lifetimes Let the young rebuild Japan, says Yasuteru Yamada, but let the old clean up the most difficult mess leftover from March’s devastating earthquake and tsunamis. The 72-year-old former engineer is recru ...
  • Drug Suppresses Recall of Bad Memories, Leaves ...
    At the University of Montreal, researchers have found a drug that seems able to decrease a person's recall of a bad memory. It's not exactly Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but it's a pretty remarkable step down the road to active memory modification. And it worked out so well in the mov ...
  • Researchers Transform Skin Cells Into Working ...
    In a critical first step toward treating nervous system disorders and other degenerative conditions, researchers at Stanford have for the first time transformed human skin cells into functioning neurons. This isn’t stem cell technology--using tissue derived from aborted fetuses and the foreskin ...
  • Firefighters' Flame-Throwing Toolkits Keep Wil ...
    The U.S. Forest Service has battled fire with fire for nearly a century, but it wasn't until the past decade that backburning--in which professionals set brush alight before a wildfire does--became an exact science. Wildfire experts call this science prescribed burning, and its practitioners ar ...

Veterans Today

  • UN Secretary-General trying to scupper flotill ...
    PACK YOUR BAGS BAN KI-MOON Blockade illegal… collective punishment illegal… interception illegal… The UN called for “unimpeded” humanitarian assistance for Gaza
  • Confronting the Tamil Genocide in Sri Lanka
    Genocide is unacceptable, too bad the western nations are so busy killing innocent people in Middle east false flag wars to notice? I guess it leaves little time for resolving problems in countries that are 'friends' of the U.S.
  • Face of Defense: Mission Brings Father, Son To ...
    Long duty days far away from home can be tough. A chance to speak with or see a loved one often can offer relief from the stresses of deployment. Ask almost any soldier, sailor, airman or Marine deployed overseas, and they will tell you that family and friends are always on their mind.
  • Military Families Expect To Reduce Spending Fo ...
    A recent survey of more than 800 military families making at least $50,000 a year reveals that 63 percent of respondents plan to curtail household spending for a year or more.
  • DOD Announces Charges Sworn Against Five Detai ...
    The Department of Defense announced today the office of military commissions prosecutors have sworn charges against five individuals detained at Guantanamo Bay

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Is summer 2011 set to be a scorcher?
    There's been almost a frenzy of tabloid stories in the last few weeks about this summer. Many will recall how summer was supposed to begin last weekend with a heatwave that would lead to temperatures averaging 29C for a fortnight! So the tabloids and some private weather companies (I will ...
  • Possible disruption: Severe Gales & Volcanic ash
    SEVERE GALES An unusually deep area of low pressure for the time of year is battering parts of Northern Britain at the moment. The highest gust recorded so far is 90mph at Belmullet in Northern Ireland. The Met office have yellow and Amber warnings in force until midnight tonight, shown below ...
  • Leading climate scientist: IPCC forecasts coul ...
    UPADTE 9pm, Sat 21st May As always I read all comments on this blog with interest. Climate change science is a serious subject with the potential for far reaching consequences, and so I am more than happy to point out that on this occasion I think some of the criticisms of my article are valid, ...
  • Political cracks appear on carbon reduction
    It's been one of the most remarkable things in British politics for many years: The political consensus, across all the main parties, on the need and the speed at which the UK is to cut its carbon emissions to avoid so called 'dangerous climate change'. And yet, lurking just beneath the surfac ...
  • Global temperature update
    UPDATE at 6pm Tue 10th May The UAH anomaly for April rose to +0.12C above the 30 year running mean, from -0.1C below the mean in March. Early indications suggest that Global temperatures have bottomed out above the levels reached following the previous La Nina of 2007. ENDS I am still waiting ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Labour Costs Pricing China Out of the Market?
    I almost forgot about this one. It is with no small trepidation that I mention this bit given that the transition of China out of being the world's low-labour cost producer has been bandied about before. Time and again, in fact. Take this BusinessWeek piece from 2005: Wait a minute. Doesn't Chin ...
  • US Free Trade Lies, PRC / Pentagon Bids Edition
    Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel - Samuel Johnson Is it just me or is the United States fast becoming a nation of scoundrels? I've long pointed out the hypocrisy of bankrupt America continually posing as the world's free trade champion when, in reality, it has been distinctly protec ...
  • Fukushima Fallout: German Hypocrisy on Nukes?
    As someone with an interest in both the introduction of innovations and sources of energy, I have closely followed developments in the public acceptance of nuclear power. To be sure, this acceptance varies country by country. What's more, harrowing incidences alike those of the Fukushima power p ...
  • American Badass: Kraft Gordon Gekko'd Cadbury
    [NOTE: The candyman is often portrayed in popular culture as a sweet-talking but devious character. Here's one named...Kraft. I almost forgot about it until I witnessed the sickly sweet made-for-TV Obama visit to the UK. Unlike fawning by the uninformed over an insubstantial political figure, he ...
  • On the Record: Fukuyama On PRC's History Ending
    Non revocare--I will not recant. Despite penning probably the biggest crock of them all--the end of history in which all political-economic forms were to converge on capitalist democracies--ex-neocon Francis Fukuyama remains one of the foremost commentators on the political economy scene. Which, ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Suddenly Everyone Is Warning About The Next Fi ...
    Are we about to see a repeat of 2008 (or something even worse)? Suddenly all kinds of people are coming out of the woodwork and warning that we could be on the verge of the next major financial collapse. Of course many economists and financial pundits just enjoy hearing themse ...
  • Suddenly Everyone Is Warning About The Next Fi ...
    Are we about to see a repeat of 2008 (or something even worse)? Suddenly all kinds of people are coming out of the woodwork and warning that we could be on the verge of the next major financial collapse. Of course many economists and financial pundits just enjoy hearing themse ...
  • When Faith In U.S. Dollars And U.S. Debt Is De ...
    A day is coming when the rest of the world will decide that it no longer has faith in U.S. dollars or in U.S. debt.  When that day arrives, the game will be over.  Traditionally, two of the biggest things that the U.S. economy has had going for it were the U.S. dollar and U.S. [...]
  • Extreme Paranoia
    Have you noticed that our entire society operates on fear now? Everyone is afraid of everybody else. We are taught not to trust anyone that we do not know and that we should literally spy on our neighbors because they might be a threat. If you do not participate in all of [...]
  • 20 Questions To Ask Anyone Foolish Enough To B ...
    If you listen to Ben Bernanke, Barack Obama and the mainstream media long enough, and if you didn't know any better, you might be tempted to think that the economic crisis is long gone and that we are in the midst of a burgeoning economic recovery.  Unfortunately, the truth is t ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Former CIA Officer says Barack Obama and David ...
    David Cameron and Barack Obama ”don’t have a clue” about dealing with the war on terror, a former senior member of the CIA has claimed. Speaking at The Daily Telegraph-sponsored Hay Festival, Michael Scheuer said western politicians had to accept that the conflict in the Middle East was caused b ...
  • Canadian government to ban free speech on internet
    Bill C-51: Investigative Powers for the 21st Century Act Yesterday we examined how the Canadian government is planning to effectively outlaw internet linking by making Canadians permanently legally responsible for the content of any webpage they link to using the Investigative Powers for the 21s ...
  • EU ambassadors in Ireland warned that tap wate ...
    EU ambassadors in Dublin have been informed that their nationals living in Ireland should not make up baby bottles with tap water. Following an Open Letter (1) to the European Commission by leading Dutch paediatrician, Dr Gavin ten Tusscher and others associated with Amsterdam University and the ...
  • Australia bans some live cattle exports to Ind ...
    Australia has suspended exports of live cattle to a number of killing facilities in Indonesia following exposure of brutal practices in some of the country’s abattoirs. Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig said the decision was based on footage collected by Animals Australia that showed cattle being ...
  • Germany pledges to shut down all its nuclear p ...
    Germany is to shut its entire nuclear power network over safety fears triggered by the meltdown of the Fukushima atomic plant in Japan. Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that her country will pull the plug on nuclear energy by 2022. Germany – a country without natural gas or oil supplies and vi ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Lies, Damn Lies, and Catholic Church Funded St ...
    I used to think the John Jay College  of Criminal Justice was a well meaning independent organisation exploited by the Catholic Church into giving credence to Catholic lies, distractions and excuses on the issue of endemic child rape within its ranks. But with the release of the latest dangerous ...
  • Vatican Guidelines Just Another PR Stunt
    This weeks’ latest Vatican guidelines on child sexual abuse continue efforts over recent years to appear as if things have changed, while actually doing everything possible to avoid being forced to take effective action. The Vatican love to pretend they are doing the right thing in dealing wi ...
  • Top 10 Reasons Why John Paul II Is No Saint &# ...
    Here is the first part of my Top 10 Reasons Why John Paul II Is No Saint. This list refers only to the child rape epidemic. There are many more issues on which the Patron Saint of Paedophiles has left the world a far, far worse place than he found it, and many instances where [...]
  • Catholic Sainthood – More Expediency Tha ...
    The former Cardinal Ratzinger, now known as Pope Benedict XVI, may be criminally culpable, disgracefully neglectful, deliberately deceitful, and horribly, horribly wrong in his approach to the child rape epidemic within the ranks of the Catholic Church, but there is some truth to the claims made ...
  • John Paul II Ain’t No Saint
    Does your idea of a saint involve sacrificing innocent, vulnerable children to be preyed upon by hordes of ruthless sexual predators? Does it involve covering up for child rape on a massive scale? Does it involve creating the very conditions most likely to encourage child rape to flourish? Does ...

WL Central

  • 2011-05-31: Wikileaks: The Ireland Cables | Da ...
    TweetBackground After months during which the Irish media appeared to display little interest in the content of the State Department cables held by Wikileaks, The Irish Independent has finally initiated publication as part of a Wikileaks partnership. This is the first and hitherto only Wikileaks ...
  • 2011-05-31: Wikileaks: The Ireland Cables | Da ...
    TweetBackground After months during which the Irish media appeared to display little interest in the content of the State Department cables held by Wikileaks, The Irish Independent has finally initiated publication as part of a Wikileaks partnership. This is the first and hitherto only Wikileaks ...
  • 2011-05-30 Democracy Now - What Amy didn't say ...
    TweetOn Friday's Democracy Now, Amy Goodman spent a long segment with Eli Pariser of MoveOn.org talking about threats to the Internet. The timing was particularly appropriate because an extremely serious threat to our Internet freedoms made important advances last week and an alarm needs to be ...
  • 2011-05-30 Democracy Now - What Amy didn't say ...
    TweetOn Friday's Democracy Now, Amy Goodman spent a long segment with Eli Pariser of MoveOn.org talking about threats to the Internet. The timing was particularly appropriate because an extremely serious threat to our Internet freedoms made important advances last week and an alarm needs to be ...
  • 2011-05-31 More from Raza Rumi on the Pakistan ...
    TweetThe Dawn Media Group in partnership with WikiLeaks has been releasing the "Pakistan Papers." Thus far, some of the revelations include the following: US was concerned that Pakistan would oppose its policies at the United Nations; US was worried Pakistan would purchase oil from Iran, allowin ...

U N News

  • UN voices concern at targeting of prosecutors ...
    The United Nations human rights office today sounded the alarm on the recent killings of public prosecutors in Guatemala and Honduras, as well as the increasing vulnerability of human rights defenders in the two Central American countries.
  • UN and partners responding to rising cholera c ...
    Health partners in Haiti are responding promptly to increasing cases of cholera in the Ouest department to ensure that the new infections do not spread to the capital, Port-au-Prince, a spokesperson for the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) said today.
  • UNESCO to name three Brazilians as Goodwill Am ...
    Three Brazilians - a businessman, a designer and an artist - will be formally named Goodwill Ambassadors for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Friday, the agency announced today.
  • Peru must do more to combat scourge of slavery ...
    A United Nations human rights expert on slavery today urged Peru to do more to combat abuses in the country's logging, mining and domestic services sectors.
  • Grenada becomes latest country to back Interna ...
    Grenada has become the latest country to agree to be bound by the International Criminal Court (ICC), the permanent global tribunal tasked with trying people accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Conspiracy Reality TV

Rewilding Institute

  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Rewildin ...
    Part One For nigh onto fifteen years, I’ve been talking and writing about a North American Wildlands Network anchored by four Continental Wildways (at first named MegaLinkages).  The North American Wildlands Network is rooted in the conservation pathway of Rewilding, an offshoot of the scientifi ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Rewildin ...
    Part One For nigh onto fifteen years, I’ve been talking and writing about a North American Wildlands Network anchored by four Continental Wildways (at first named MegaLinkages).  The North American Wildlands Network is rooted in the conservation pathway of Rewilding, an offshoot of the scientifi ...
  • Record Big Game Die-offs in Northern Rockies
    Winter die-offs are always characteristic of ungulate populations that have exceeded natural carrying capacity, usually because of management efforts to increase numbers for the benefit of hunters. In areas where wolves and other large predators are well established, ungulates seldom perish from ...
  • Record Big Game Die-offs in Northern Rockies
    Winter die-offs are always characteristic of ungulate populations that have exceeded natural carrying capacity, usually because of management efforts to increase numbers for the benefit of hunters. In areas where wolves and other large predators are well established, ungulates seldom perish from ...
  • Dave Foreman’s Around the Campfire – Urban Sol ...
    Itâs the Gobi Desert.  Thereâs not much other use for it. –Wang Yu All over the world is a widely held belief that we have an energy shortage.  Garret Hardin long ago warned that what we think is a shortage is often a longage.  Instead of a shortage of stock, it is a longage of [...]

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

Tatumba 2.0

  • THE SECOND U.S. REVOLUTION BEGINS JULY 4TH
    PATRIOTS, GET READY, IT HAPPENS JULY 4TH 2011 This is what happens when humanity is pushed to the brink…the youth mobilize and natural born leaders rise to the top. Make this go viral. 4th of July Protest on facebook Here we go boys and girls, It is happening whether you are ready or not, so [.. ...
  • One Man Band covers Dandy Warhols ‘Bohemian Li ...
    This is pretty awesome for a one-man band, singing 2000 hit Bohemian Like You by the Dandy Warhols. This is of the few pop-songs that I like. Enjoy! Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Playing For Change Band: A Change Is Gonna Come (live) playingforchange.com – This perfor ...
  • Here we go folks. Hang on to your sanity.
    The Euro is about to take a shit kicking and Greece, in order to prevent all out civil war, must default on debt to the world’s Banksters, wipe the slate clean, and suck it up. If any Greek politician accepts the deal that the Eurozone is proposing, then the Greek citizens need to arrest and [.. ...
  • BREAKING NEWS FROM ZERO HEDGE. GREECE TO BE PR ...
    BREAKING NEWS FROM ZERO HEDGE. GREECE TO BE PRIVATIZED IN EXCHANGE FOR LOANS FROM FINANCIAL TERRORISTS The Greek “Ultimatum”: Bailout (For The Bankers) And (Loss Of) Sovereignty Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/29/2011 19:19 -0400 So after one year of beating around the bush, it is finally made c ...
  • The World’s First Bitcoin Road Trip
    As Max Keiser reported yesterday; Anonymous has launched a new global currency, Bitcoin,  to compete with fiat currency. It is uses a business model of decentralization without a need for bank or government involvement. In fact this model is a great way to acquire money, while not being part of ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • The Driving Force of Dividends
    Jeffrey Kleintop of PNC Advisors sees dividend growth as a positive force for the current market -- and even some tech stocks
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley

Enviroblog

  • Here Comes the Sun, What Now?
    By Lisa Frack, EWG Social Media Manager Every year about this time my friends want to me to tell them exactly which sunscreen to buy. They want the one that works the best to protect skin with the least toxic... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other conte ...
  • Hey Baby, Your Stuff is Toxic!
    By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Scientist Last year I cut small squares of foam from my sons' car seats, our glider rocker and my breastfeeding pillow, wrapped them in foil to prevent contamination and mailed them off to Duke University... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ...
  • Stacking a Fracking Panel
    By Dusty Horwitt and Leeann BrownEnergy secretary Stephen Chu claims that his panel studying the safety and environmental dangers of natural gas hydraulic fracturing is "diverse" and "respected."Respected, yes. Diverse, hardly. Six of the seven panelists... [[ This is a content summary only ...
  • U.S. Pediatricians to Congress: Reform Chemica ...
    By Leeann Brown and Lisa Frack U.S. pediatricians are putting their considerable muscle behind the calls for Congress to overhaul the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), a failed federal law that has exposed millions of children, beginning in the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
  • Why we (still) don't trust Chesapeake Energy
    By Leeann Brown, EWG Press SecretaryApril was a busy month for the natural gas industry in Pennsylvania, especially for one company in particular - Chesapeake Energy Corporation. And that's saying a lot for one of the country's most active natural... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

  • Scare quotes return for 'rape cop' victim stor ...
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
  • Scare quotes return for 'rape cop' victim stor ...
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
  • Why is Anthony Weiner talking about pie?
    Weiner doesn't want to engage with a pie-throwing mischief-maker, he says here. But then why did he bother going out to talk to journalists who were obviously going to ask him about the pie?"This was a prank that I've been talking about for a couple of day ...
  • David Einhorn: Bearish on the Wilpons, bullish ...
    What we thought we knew about what Greenlight Capital’s David Einhorn is playing at by becoming a minority owner of the New York Mets has been confirmed. The fact that he's giving the current ownership team a short-term bailout is a distraction; he's actua ...
  • Cut Time: Capital presents "Angel Dust," a tri ...
    Welcome to Cut Time! It's a music mix series carefully beat-matched for Capital readers' listening pleasure. Brooklyn D.J. Chris Hires presents a mix of Gil Scott-Heron's songs, in honor of the poet and music pioneer. More

Views & News from Norway

  • Sun set to shine over long weekend
    Norwegians were finally heading into the much-cherished Kristi himmelfarts (Ascension Day) weekend that traditionally signals the start of the summer hytte (cottage) season. The four-day holiday came late this year, because of the late Easter, but the sun was due to shine over much of the countr ...
  • Ronaldo and Portugal await Norway
    Norway’s national football team (landslaget) will be in Lisbon this weekend for a potentially decisive match on Saturday against Portugal in their campaign to qualify for the European Championships in 2012. Landslaget is currently at the top of their qualifying group for the “Euro 2012″ tournam ...
  • Sun set to shine over long weekend
    Norwegians were finally heading into the much-cherished Kristi himmelfarts (Ascension Day) weekend that traditionally signals the start of the summer hytte (cottage) season. The four-day holiday came late this year, because of the late Easter, but the sun was due to shine over much of the countr ...
  • Ronaldo and Portugal await Norway
    Norway’s national football team (landslaget) will be in Lisbon this weekend for a potentially decisive match on Saturday against Portugal in their campaign to qualify for the European Championships in 2012. Landslaget is currently at the top of their qualifying group for the “Euro 2012″ tournam ...
  • Nuclear ban good news for Statoil
    Germany’s decision to phase out its nuclear power plants was greeted warmly by Norwegian state oil company Statoil, which sees potential for more gas sales and higher prices. Norwegian consumers will likely face higher energy prices, though, as well. “This is very positive for Statoil,” Rune Bjà ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Thought for the Day – Shooting Ourselves in th ...
    I think the irony to be found in the following quote will likely have been completely unnoticed by its author: Australia’s economy is heavily reliant on exporting its natural resources. — BBC It’s a statement nestled near the beginning of the article. The alarming thing is that we can be so fu ...
  • PDC Teacher Training Course
    Ninety nine percent of the people who come to take a PDC do so because they are concerned — concerned about the state of their environment, concerned about the state of themselves, concerned about the state of the planet. They want to change something, to take action in response to the growing ...
  • Dangerous Toxins From Genetically Modified Pla ...
    When U.S. regulators approved Monsanto’s genetically modified “Bt” corn, they knew it would add a deadly poison into our food supply. That’s what it was designed to do. The corn’s DNA is equipped with a gene from soil bacteria called Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) that produces the Bt-toxin. I ...
  • Permaculture Pyromania – 2-Day Rocket Stove Co ...
    Here at the PRI we love our Rocket Stoves and foremost with this love is our in-house pyromaniac, Tim Barker. During this fun 2-day course at Zaytuna Farm we will explore the fascinating world of super efficient, super cheap, super simple Rocket Stoves. We will look at the history of heating and ...
  • Gravity Chicken Run Design
    by Milkwood Permaculture Gravity and chickens are two of our favorite natural forces at Milkwood Farm. Chickens scratch, poo, give eggs and good company, plus a trillion other benefits. Gravity draws things down. Great if you want stuff to end up down the bottom. Which, in the case of our gravi ...

Telecrap Urinal

  • US Soldier Waterboards His 4-Year Old Daughter
    Can you believe this? A US soldier, upset that his 4-year old daughter could not recite the alphabet, waterboarded her. He knew that she was afraid of water and that is why he chose this form of punishment. Related posts:Cops Bust Up Frail 84-Year Old Woman With Alzheimers Local Blogger Catche ...
  • Fish Hat Pope – Wake Up Soon
    Studio version of Fish Hat Pope' song 'Wake Up Soon' (altered lyrics to sunny afternoon by The Kinks!) Fish Hat Pope performed this live at the British Constitution Group meeting in London on Oct 31st 2009. Related posts:A little sniff for the dog mate? – Everything is OK Whistle Blowers W ...
  • US Government: Why we let the Underwear Bomber ...
    The US Government now admits that they allowed the Underwear Bomber to board the Christmas Flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. Related posts:BREAKING NEWS: US Government Admits It Helped Underwear Bomber Board Plane Extensive Interview with Kurt Haskell – Witness to Underwear Bomber Flight 253: ...
  • United Breaks Guitars – Don’t mess ...
    Well the United Airlines baggage handlers broke the guitar in to two pieces. Then Mr. Carroll complained to United and it fell on deaf ears. Because of that he vowed to write three songs about their callous disregard and uncaring attitude. Related posts:United We Fall – Canada is a figment of ...
  • Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth by Ric ...
    9/11 was an inside job. Nano thermite and thermate were used to pulverize these buildings, and in the process murdered thousands of innocent people. Related posts:Nigerian Man is a Al-CIA-Duh Terrorist – USA Caught in False-Flag Terror Plot National Security Alert from the CIT Climategate Scan ...

Anna's News

  • Global Warming May Increase the Capacity of Tr ...
    One helpful action anyone can take in response to global warming is to plant trees and preserve forests. Trees and plants capture carbon dioxide during photosynthesis, thereby removing the most abundant greenhouse gas from the atmosphere and storing some Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment � ...
  • Cell Phones and Cancer: Assessment Classifies ...
    The WHO/International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B), based on an increased risk for glioma, a malignant type of brain cancer1, associated with ......Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Welln ...
  • 10 Darkest Days in Wall Street History
    In recent months, some doomsayers have predicted there will be another market crash in 2011, and that Wall Street's "con game" will be once again exposed. As the years have passed, it has become more apparent that we're incapable of learning from our.....Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
  • Japan Earthquake Appears to Increase Quake Ris ...
    Japan's recent magnitude 9.0 earthquake, which triggered a devastating tsunami, relieved stress along part of the quake fault but also has contributed to the build up of stress in other areas, putting some of the country at risk for up to years of .......Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
  • The 8 Most Dangerous Border Towns in America
    For many years, border towns were safe and attractive places for tourists to visit and get a taste of foreign culture, food, shopping and nightlife. Today, these towns have a very different image that is often overshadowed by violence and crime happening Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...

Medical Marijuana

  • 5/27/11 - Study Reveals US House Members Beat ...
    insidertrading.procon.org - Study Reveals US House Members Beat Stock Market by 6% - A May 2011 study found that members of the US House of Representatives outperformed the overall stock market by about 6% annually. It was a follow up to a 2004 study showing that members of the US Senate outperf ...
  • 5/27/11 - Study Reveals US House Members Beat ...
    insidertrading.procon.org - Study Reveals US House Members Beat Stock Market by 6% - A May 2011 study found that members of the US House of Representatives outperformed the overall stock market by about 6% annually. It was a follow up to a 2004 study showing that members of the US Senate outperf ...
  • 5/27/11 - Should people become vegetarian?
    vegetarian.procon.org - NEW: Should people become vegetarian? - Read pro, con, and other arguments from experts and celebrities including Ingrid Newkirk (PETA), Michael Pollan, Jane Goodall, Anthony Bourdain, Paul McCartney, Ted Nugent, the American Dietetic Association, and the North American V ...
  • 5/27/11 - US Supreme Court Upholds Arizona Law ...
    immigration.procon.org - US Supreme Court Upholds Arizona Law Penalizing Businesses That Hire Illegal Immigrants
  • 5/25/11 - Interactive Readers Comments for Isr ...
    israelipalestinian.procon.org - NEW! Interactive Readers Comments - You can now share your comments about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with millions of other people, and reply to, vote on, or just read already posted comments. If you want, you can also get emails telling you when your commen ...

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Frenemies
    An anthology on the concept of philo-Semitism shows that âJew loversâ have often been just a shade better than anti-Semitesâand sometimes no better at all By Adam Kirsch Original photo Peter Asquith/Flickr Books about anti-Semitism are depressingly numerous. New studies of the subject appear in ...
  • The places in between
    By Paul Theroux Paul Theroux in Papagayo, Costa Rica, in 2007 ⦠In 1972, in a blasé magazine piece of postmodernism, entitled âProject for a Trip to Chinaâ, the American writer Susan Sontag sat in her New York apartment ruminating on China. Sontag was that singular pedant, a theorist of travel ...
  • 4th Time a Charm for Apple? From iDisk to .Mac ...
    Brian X. Chen Steve Jobs introduces the iPad in a January 2010 event. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com Apple has revealed the name of its upcoming online media service: iCloud. But donât let the cute branding fool you. The company has tried this service before, and the iCloud rebranding signals a do- ...
  • Second Defense Contractor L-3 ‘Actively ...
    Kevin Poulsen An executive at defense giant L-3 Communications warned employees last month that hackers were targeting the company using inside information on the SecurID keyfob system freshly stolen from an acknowledged breach at RSA Security. The L-3 attack makes the company the second hacker ...
  • Underwater Camera Is Cheap Enough to Drown
    Charlie Sorrel One of the quickest ways to add some impact to your photos is to change your perspective. If youâre tall, crouch or sit on the floor. If youâre short, climb up high. Even better, get in the water. Photojojo has a new waterproof camera and it costs just $35. Thatâs the cost of … Re ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • Frontiers of Science UK-Germany: is sound fast ...
    FROM RUTH COOPER, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Last week 35 early career British scientists met with their German counterparts in the UK, for the third UK-German Frontiers of Science meeting.  The   meeting was co-organised with the Junge Akademie  with logistical support from the Alexander von Humbold ...
  • Frontiers of Science UK-Germany: is sound fast ...
    FROM RUTH COOPER, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Last week 35 early career British scientists met with their German counterparts in the UK, for the third UK-German Frontiers of Science meeting.  The   meeting was co-organised with the Junge Akademie  with logistical support from the Alexander von Humbold ...
  • Opening up scientific information: a shared hi ...
    There are two parts to the story of the birth of the internet. Networked computers exchanging packets of information have existed since the 1960s, facilitated largely by a government project in the USA.   The interface that allows anyone to share anything with anyone, anywhere – the combinatio ...
  • Opening up scientific information: a shared hi ...
    There are two parts to the story of the birth of the internet. Networked computers exchanging packets of information have existed since the 1960s, facilitated largely by a government project in the USA.   The interface that allows anyone to share anything with anyone, anywhere – the combinatio ...
  • Six academies synthetic biology symposium: eng ...
    Synthetic biology can be described in quite simple terms; it is the design and production of novel biological systems and organisms. It is not so simply constituted.  Biological research is a vast and heterogeneous enterprise. And so the engineering of biological entities, despite its simple des ...

NAU Resistance

  • Canadian Government Extends Deadline For Publi ...
    The Canadian government has decided to extend the deadline for public input into the Harper governments "common security perimeter agenda" until June 3rd 2011
  • Canadian Government Extends Deadline For Publi ...
    The Canadian government has decided to extend the deadline for public input into the Harper governments "common security perimeter agenda" until June 3rd 2011
  • You’re Losing National Sovereignty- How Transp ...
    "As a matter of principle, we are currently fighting to make sure that Canadians are allowed to know what's being negotiated. We further believe that this deal needs to be reviewed by Parliament and we will fight to make sure that this happens."- Jack Layton
  • You’re Losing National Sovereignty- How Transp ...
    "As a matter of principle, we are currently fighting to make sure that Canadians are allowed to know what's being negotiated. We further believe that this deal needs to be reviewed by Parliament and we will fight to make sure that this happens."- Jack Layton
  • Wikileaks Cable Confirms North American Union ...
    "At this time, an "incremental" approach to integration is probably better than a "big deal" approach. However, governments should focus on choosing their objectives, and not on choosing a process."

Gaea Times

  • Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
    WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
  • Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
    LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
  • Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
    SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
  • Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
    WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of child ...
  • How sex hormones influence right heart function
    WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...

TruthNews Australia

  • 911: The side they’ll never print
    The events of September 11, 2011 were a catastrophe that shook the global population by its roots. An inhumane act largely unprecedented in the modern world was unleashed onto society causing a wave of fear and ‘terror’ that would significantly effect the years to come. Islamaphobia increased, r ...
  • A British radiographer speaks out against air ...
    Anthony Hall is a Senior Reporting Radiographer,  holding a Bsc (hons) in Diagnostic Radiography. He is responsible both for the imaging of patients and producing medical reports. He is also one of the radiation protection supervisors at the hospital where he works - ensuring the equipment is ...
  • Free Mind Report – Guest Hereward Fenton
    This week our guest�was Hereward Fenton http://www.truthnews.com.au Hereward Fenton is a 9/11 researcher and host of Truth News Australia. As a leader in the Australian Truth movement his passion for Truth has led him down some deep rabbit holes. Listen live Wednesday January 5, 2011 from 8P ...
  • Hereward Fenton on Live and Let Live (Rule of ...
    Live and Let Live, with Gary Johnson (Sundays 8-10 pm CST). Robert Guest, (http://www.robertguest.com/, http://www.dallascriminaldefenselawyerblog.com/) president of the Kaufman County, Texas, Bar Association, promotes Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, LEAP, (http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.ph ...
  • Letter From America
    Dear Truth News Readers, At the time of writing I am in Austin, Texas - a beautiful city whose citizens have an amazing passion for liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I travelled here via OKC and Dallas. During the short time I've been here I've met great people and had the opportunity ...

Beacon

  • Fish Fraud on ABC World News
    ABC World News spotlighted Oceana’s new seafood fraud report “Bait and Switch”, including a cameo by Dr. Mike Hirshfield, Oceana’s senior vice president and chief scientist:
  • Ending Shark Finning, One Wedding at a Time?
    Shark fin soup. [Image via Wikimedia Commons] Shark fin soup is bad for sharks -- we all know this. But can you have a Chinese wedding without it? The folks at Shark Truth say you can, and they're running a contest to prove it. Shark Truth asks couples holding traditional Chinese weddi ...
  • Oceana’s Seafood Fraud Report in the NYT
    Today�s New York Times features a great story about seafood fraud -- and guess whose report is front and center? That�s right, Oceana�s new report, �Bait and Switch� forms the core of the article, and our chief scientist Mike Hirshfield has several excellent quotes, including the following, whi ...
  • Would You Pass the Seafood Pop Quiz?
    The fish pop quiz. © Oceana/Vincent Ricardel. Andy Sharpless is the CEO of Oceana. Oceana’s new Seafood Fraud campaign kicked off Wednesday with an event at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. As the Washington Post reported, it wasn’t just a press conference; it was also a seafood ...
  • Ocean Hero Finalists: Andrew Hayford
    Andrew teaches kids about ocean pollution. This is the twelfth and final in a series of posts about this year’s Ocean Hero finalists. We’re rounding out our series on the Ocean Hero finalists today with Andrew Hayford, a high school junior who has been an ocean conservation stand-out in hi ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Deserters In The Civil War
    Deserter Executed By Firing Squad � There were a million ways to desert. When an army of say 75,000 men is marching somewhere, you could slip into the woods as if to relieve yourself. Perhaps you could wait until a platoon or so passes by and you can work your way with the same trick to the [...]
  • Tibetan Soldiers Fought For Russia.
    Tibetan Soldiers � In 1944, some of the prisoners that belonged to the Wehrmacht were Russians. Keep in mind that not all Russian wanted to die for Mother Russia. Stalin killed in between 25 and 35 million people in his great purges, and other operations meant to despoil political opponents� eff ...
  • CMIG Tribute To Unknown Soldiers
    Click here to view the [...]
  • The Bobbin Tank
    Mk. III Bobbin Tank Churchill's Bobbin Tank Defeated Mine Fields On Beaches The British constructed a bevy of special purpose automobiles to be used in combat engineering roles. One of these ‘Funnies” as they called them was the Carpet-Layer Mark III or the “Bobbin”. Invented to lay down a mesh ...
  • The Sling Shot That Shoots Machetes. I Am Not ...
    Click here to view the [...]

Taylor Marsh

  • Waiting for Wall Street
    In an ode to symbolism or maybe it’s amateur theater, the House rejected raising the debt ceiling late on Tuesday, 97-318. Steny Hoyer was encouraging Democrats to go along with Republicans, according to The Hill, so they wouldn’t get caught in a 30-second ad come electin season. That’s how thes ...
  • Weiner Can’t Win
    If he keeps answering questions he’ll have to keep answering questions. If he walks away from the media then people will write he’s hiding something. So he stands to talk to the media without answering questions with the result a surreal back and forth that comes off strained and sounds worse. A ...
  • Pentagon Sends Warning on Cyber Attack
    The Pentagon has concluded that computer sabotage coming from another country can constitute an act of war, a finding that for the first time opens the door for the U.S. to respond using traditional military force. [...] In part, the Pentagon intends its plan as a warning to potential adversarie ...
  • Assad’s Evil Regime, No One is Safe
    Hamza al-Khateeb was 13 years-old. The details are horrifyingly shocking. From Al Jazeera and be prepared if you’re going to read on: Arrested during a protest in Saida, 10km east of Daraa, on April 29, Hamza’s body was returned to his family on Tuesday 24th May, horribly mutilated. The child ha ...
  • System Update
    Most of our big tasks are done.   We still want to tweak the mobile settings… did you know about 5% of you read TM.com on a mobile screen?  I also want to streamline the logging in/out process a bit to make it easier for you to comment and post new “In the News” articles. Webmaster [...]

Hudson New York

  • Final Remarks of Geert Wilders at His Trial in ...
    Mister President, members of the Court, I am here because of what I have said. I am here for having spoken. I have spoken, I speak and I shall continue to speak. Many have kept silent, but not Pim Fortuyn, not Theo Van Gogh, and not me. I am obliged to
  • Egypt's Revolution: What Happened?
    A Description of What Happened: There is a point at which a popular uprising -- or any popular movement - must be described as a revolution, and that is when it succeeds in rallying huge numbers under its banner and when it produces effects and brings
  • Ratko Mladić and Myths of the Bosnian War
    The recent arrest of the Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladić should mark the end of a dark chapter in the Balkans' history. The military leader is charged with fifteen counts of genocide and crimes against humanity, including accusations of involvement in
  • Venezuela: Anti-Semitism Keeps Escalating
    The Jewish Community Confederation of Venezuela (CAIV) filed a complaint to the Venezuelan attorney general to denounce the promotion of the pamphlet The Protocols of the Elders of Zion by the main state-owned radio. On April 4, the known radio host of
  • Saudi Arabia: The Exception?
    With the assassination of Obama bin Laden and the active political movements in North Africa, there are murmurs of reform in the most traditional of Arab states: Saudi Arabia. After all, bin Laden was one of their own. If his invulnerability has been

Urban Survival

  • Housing Data Out
    Just released by Case Shiller/S&P the 20-City Housing Numbers: “Data through March 2011, released today by Standard & Poorâs for its S&P/Case-Shiller1 Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, show that the U.S. National Home Price Index … Continue reading →
  • Coping: The “Interesting Index”
    Elaine & I take begin what will be about 5,200 miles spread over 20 days of driving, transiting enough states to develop butt calluses, and staying in a variety of circumstances.  If you perceive there’s a difference between the Detroit … Continue reading →
  • Waiting For a Big Quake?
    Earthquakes sometimes  almost seem to have a preference for holidays.  Examples like the 1964 Good Friday quake in Alaska and the Boxing Day tsunami in Banda Aceh are just two examples that come to mind.  (Not bad considering it’s a … Continue reading →
  • Coping: George, the “socialist”?
    Sunday morning, first thing to hit my eyes was a reader complaint that had come in via email overnight under the subject line: “You’re not a socialist?” and he began by flipping my own words back on me: “We begin … Continue reading →
  • Holiday Reader Notes
    Before we jump into the headlines this morning, a couple of notes about the long holiday weekend:  Saturday, www.peoplenomics.com will be on schedule, and ditto Sunday.  Our in-depth report Sunday, by the way is about “The Last Days of Cash” … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

  • Jeff Rense and Gerald Celente - (2011-05-23)
    You better get used to eating radio active food. Japan cannot afford to close off 400... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
  • The Collapsing European Project
    The Collapsing European Project : Unless you are paying attention you wouldn't know the... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
  • David Icke - Puppet Obama
    David Icke on Puppet Obama :Obama is a NWO puppet that is trying to fool you.He will use... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
  • America has a permanent War Agenda
    NATO is boosting its military potential near the border with Russia, despite objections... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
  • The 2012 Deception [Full Video] ?
    Many people have heard the rumors that the world will end in 2012 -- and that some... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]

Radical Chic

  • MIND CONTROL 62: The Blind Leading the Blind
    Jesus says: Luke 6:39-49 39 “CAN A BLIND MAN LEAD A BLIND MAN? WILL THEY NOT BOTH FALL INTO A PIT? Pastors are blind. Blind men leading blind men. We donât allow ourselves to follow Christâ¦â¦.. because we choose to listen to âpastorsâ instead of Christ. Whet exactly is the purpose of a church? ...
  • MIND CONTROL 55: Wheat vs Weeds
    Jesus came with a very unusual category of people who he considered to be blessed When we look at the set of people that he described we discover that they are the complete opposite of what mankind desires to be like. This shouldn’t be surprising considering the fact that whatever is highly valu ...
  • MIND CONTROL 56
    Lets take a look at a few more parables that Jesus used to describe the kingdom of heaven. Matt 20:1-16 1 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire men to work in his vineyard. 2 He agreed to pay them a denarius for the [...]
  • MIND CONTROL 57: The Kingdom of Heaven
    Jesus made a series of collective statements about the kingdom of heaven that we may need to take a look at: Matt 13:44-53 44 “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had [...]
  • LOOK HER IN THE EYE
    I must say from a man’s perspective that it is becoming more and more difficult to look a woman in the eye. Women make such an effort for other bits and pieces to be noticed that men can really only be blamed for this to a certain degree. It has to be a deliberate strategy [...]

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

  • June 2011: Boston area events for the science- ...
    Here's a list of what's up this week. Check out our new Google calendar for updates. Origins and Applications of Pluripotent Stem Cells Wed, June 1, 7pm - 8pm Pfizer Auditorium Hall at Harvard University (Mallinckrodt Building, 12 Oxford St, Cambridge) (map) Join Science in the News (SITN ...
  • Summer science for the kids: Harvard Natural H ...
    Summer Science Weeks 2011 Spend a week of your summer at the museum. Through games, activities, and observation in the galleries, students will learn while having fun. Time and Location Monday through Friday, 9:30 am to noon at the Harvard Museum of Natural History Fees $160 nonme ...
  • 3-D Dino show opens today at Boston science museum
    You can get your T.Rex fix three ways at the Boston Museum of Science. There's the '60 era, Godzilla-like dino, now relegated to the parking lot. While he or she guards the Duck Boat meeting spot, a new, bird-like, updated model anchors the fossil exhibit inside. Now, you can see the beast com ...
  • Contamination, not causation, links virus to c ...
    Oya Cingöz of Tufts is part of research team that has found a retrovirus linked to chronic fatigue syndrome is not related to the illness but was likely introduced after "contamination of laboratories and research reagents with the virus." Science, which published the original study linking the ...
  • Contamination, not causation, links virus to c ...
    Oya Cingöz of Tufts is part of research team that has found a retrovirus linked to chronic fatigue syndrome is not related to the illness but was likely introduced after "contamination of laboratories and research reagents with the virus." Science, which published the original study linking the ...

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • OP-ED: The Crimes of Ratko Mladic
    Ratko Mladic is an easy man to hate.
  • OP-ED: The Crimes of Ratko Mladic
    Ratko Mladic is an easy man to hate.
  • MEDIA-PAKISTAN: What Price Truth
    When journalist Umar Cheema, 35, first heard of the death of his colleague Syed Saleem Shahzad, considered an expert on Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants, on May 31, he could not help but relive his day-long captivity with one of Pakistan's intelligence agencies last year on Sept. 4.
  • MEDIA-PAKISTAN: What Price Truth
    When journalist Umar Cheema, 35, first heard of the death of his colleague Syed Saleem Shahzad, considered an expert on Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants, on May 31, he could not help but relive his day-long captivity with one of Pakistan's intelligence agencies last year on Sept. 4.
  • CHILE: HidroAysén Dam Project is Dividing ...
    The area that will be flooded to build the HidroAys�n project's five dams represents barely 0.05 percent of the Chilean region of Ays�n. But it is made up precisely of the valleys where the majority of the population lives, according to local residents.

Scoop - NZ

  • WELLYWOOD backdown
    Wellington Airport has backed away from its idea of putting up the Wellywood sign and will now consult with residents. The airport's decision last month to go ahead with the sign on Miramar Cutting sparked outrage in the city. Today, the airport announced it would form a panel to consider ...
  • High Frequency Traders Descend onto Forex
    According to a recent report by the Wall Street Journal, high-speed traders are quickly establishing themselves as the main force in forex markets. Just like in other financial markets, a significant portion of trading volume is dominated by computerized trading, in which huge blocks of currency ...
  • America's Foreclosure Wastelands
    Enter next phase of the housing crisis. First quarter sales data released yesterday by RealtyTrac showed that foreclosure accounted for 28 percent of all sales -- the highest amount in a year. The slow return of millions of REO homes to the market will keep home prices from recovering. Rea ...
  • Breakup of the Eurozone?
    By permitting Britain and the Netherlands to blackball Iceland to pay for the mistakes of Gordon Brown and his Dutch counterparts, Europe has made Icelandic membership conditional upon imposing financial austerity and poverty on the population – all to pay money that legally it does not owe... ...
  • The great debt myth
    New Zealand’s government debt is actually third or fourth lowest in the OECD. Where we do have a serious problem is in private debt with mortages and business loans.

Independent - London

  • Rowling campaigns for Europe's 1m institutiona ...
    Today is International Children's Day. Although it doesn't have a particularly high profile in Britain, it is celebrated widely across Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia and South America and markes the anniversary of the world conference or the Well-being of Children held in Geneva in 1 ...
  • Space shuttle Endeavour makes final touch-down
    The space shuttle Endeavour and its crew of six landed at Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida, early today.
  • Japan underestimated tsunami hazard says UN
    UN inspectors criticised Japan today for under-estimating the threat of a devastating tsunami on its crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, but praised its overall response to the crisis as exemplary.
  • How Goldmans cost Gaddafi a $1.3bn fortune
    Goldman Sachs managed to lose nearly all of the money it had been given to invest by the Libyan government, which eventually led the giant Wall Street bank to offer shares as compensation that would have effectively made Colonel Gaddafi one of its largest single investors.
  • Manhattan still loves the high life
    The stereotypical New Yorker: assertive, fast, sceptical, focused on making money and determined to turn every moment into an achievement. This month, a linear sanctuary elevated above Manhattan is being doubled in length, challenging our ideas of these ultimate urban dwellers with lessons for ...

Rogue Government.com

  • PENTAGON: Cyber Combat Can Count as Act of War
    The Pentagon has concluded that computer sabotage coming from another country can constitute an act of war, a finding that for the first time opens the door for the U.S. to respond using traditional military force. 
  • Video games being blamed for divorce as men ‘ ...
    A growing number of marriages are being wrecked by video game addiction.  More women filing for divorce are complaining that their husbands spend too long playing video games, according to research. 
  • One Brain, Hundreds of Eyes: Darpa Plots Manh ...
    Thought military tracking technology couldn’t get any creepier? Hold onto your tinfoil hats and hide behind the nearest curtain because the next generation of manhunting gear just took another step closer to reality.
  • BP among founding members of World Bank carbo ...
    BP, responsible for the loss of around 5m barrels of oil in the Gulf of Mexico last year and annual carbon emissions greater than more than 120 developing countries put together, has become the world's first company to try to profit from a new World Bank carbon fund. 
  • U.S. spies want computers to analyze metaphors
    Here's a linguistic can of worms for you: a U.S. intelligence agency is training computers to analyze metaphors used in foreigners' conversations to determine if they are a threat to national security. 

Innovation Canada

  • The people’s museum
    While the recent major renovations to the University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology (MOA) involved plenty of additions and upgrades to its infrastructure, it’s the way people can now use the space that’s really transformed it. When MOA moved from the basement of the UBC Library int ...
  • Opening up
    “It has truly been a partnership with reciprocal benefits,” says Kathy Hegadoren when asked about her work with immigrant women. And when the professor of nursing at the University of Alberta tells her story, it’s easy to see why. Holder of a Canada Research Chair in Stress-related Disorders in ...
  • Firing up a new social network
    The summer of 2003 was as hot and dry in Kelowna, B.C., as anyone could remember. On Aug. 16, lightning struck, sparking a forest fire in Okanagan Mountain Provincial Park that quickly blazed out of control. The Kelowna Fire Department, more familiar with fighting house fires, suddenly faced an ...
  • Defining religious freedom
    For some, the freedom to practise their religion is vitally important while for others, the freedom not to practise any religion is equally so. How does Canada balance the rights and freedoms of its multicultural population with its state-defined limits on religious freedom? University of Ottawa ...
  • Manitoba gets physical
    Jonathan McGavock is unequivocal and unapologetic. He’s seriously worried about the next generation of Canadian kids. “Ninety percent are physically inactive, with 25 to 30 percent being overweight or obese,” says the University of Manitoba researcher. “Chronic medical conditions like type 2 dia ...

Signs of the times

  • Texas, US: Mysterious shootings have neighbors ...
    Apparent random shootings in a southwest Houston neighborhood have residents on edge. A victim who was shot in the back has been upgraded to good condition. For the first time, we're hearing from a second victim who was shot in the same neighborhood, also for no apparent reason. The ...
  • Texas, US: Mysterious shootings have neighbors ...
    Apparent random shootings in a southwest Houston neighborhood have residents on edge. A victim who was shot in the back has been upgraded to good condition. For the first time, we're hearing from a second victim who was shot in the same neighborhood, also for no apparent reason. The ...
  • Volcano Expert Fears We'll See a Super Eruption
    Volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer yesterday warned there was a one-in-500 chance of the world being hit by a super- volcano this century. The reader in vulcanology at Cambridge University told a Hay audience: "That might not sound like much, but it is a lot more likely than an asteroid impact. ...
  • Volcano Expert Fears We'll See a Super Eruption
    Volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer yesterday warned there was a one-in-500 chance of the world being hit by a super- volcano this century. The reader in vulcanology at Cambridge University told a Hay audience: "That might not sound like much, but it is a lot more likely than an asteroid impact. ...
  • Alarm Clocks Blow up at Ikea Stores in Belgium ...
    Small explosives concealed in alarm clocks detonated at Ikea furniture stores in Belgium, France and The Netherlands, Belgian authorities said Tuesday. The explosions in stores in the Belgian city of Ghent, Lille in northern France and Eindhoven in The Netherlands caused no damage or injur ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • At the going down of the sun...
    With condolences and respect to the family and friends of Bombardier Karl Manning, 5e Régiment d'artillerie légère du Canada, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, Valcartier Quebec. Honi soit qui mal y pense� Ubique
  • Generation moxie
    This is fascinating. A group of more than 200 Japanese pensioners are volunteering to tackle the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima power station.The Skilled Veterans Corps, as they call themselves, is made up of retired engineers and other professionals, all over the age of 60. They say they sh ...
  • Generation moxie
    This is fascinating. A group of more than 200 Japanese pensioners are volunteering to tackle the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima power station.The Skilled Veterans Corps, as they call themselves, is made up of retired engineers and other professionals, all over the age of 60. They say they sh ...
  • Can you imagine...
    ...a world without cell phones? Using cellphones is considered a possible cause of malignant brain cancer, an international panel of scientists says. "The WHO/International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified radio frequency electromagnetic fields as possibly carcinogenic to humans, ...
  • Can you imagine...
    ...a world without cell phones? Using cellphones is considered a possible cause of malignant brain cancer, an international panel of scientists says. "The WHO/International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified radio frequency electromagnetic fields as possibly carcinogenic to humans, ...

Media Matters for America

  • Fox News Helps "Renew Interest" In Sarah ...
    Fox News hosts and analysts helped portray Sarah Palin's bus tour, organized by her Political Action Committee, as an effort�to revitalize�Palin's "brand."�Palin then sat for an interview on the bus tour with Greta Van Susteren, who devoted the first half of her Fox News show to what Fox itself ...
  • Fox's Krauthammer Pushes Myth That&n ...
    On�Special Report�Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer�pushed the canard that the 2009 economic stimulus has failed.�Nonpartisan studies have said that�the economy would be far worse today without the 2009 stimulus.Krauthammer Falsely Claims Stimulus Bill�Has Provided No�Benefit�To The�Econ ...
  • Special Report's Bret Baier Uses Loaded Term " ...
    Fox News' Bret Baier, using the word "illegals" to describe undocumented�immigrants in the United States,�said that a U.S. Supreme Court decision would have the effect of "penalizing businesses for hiring illegals."�However, prominent media outlets and journalists' associations have denounced t ...
  • Conservative Media Mangle Memo To Attack The NLRB
    Conservative media outlets are deriding a memo recently released by the National Labor Relations Board, claiming that it "shows that the board wants to give unions much greater power over employers and their investment and management decisions." In reality, the memo addresses a narrow portion o ...
  • GOP Agenda Setting: Fox Strains To Make Debt " ...
    Fox News figures have aggressively pushed the canard that national debt is the number one issue facing America. Yet experts argue that job growth and the economy should be our top priority instead -- a sentiment shared by voters, according to public opinion polls.Fox News�Pushes�Debt�Reduction ...

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  • The Volt: More Good News
    The New York Times leads today with a piece about Detroit's recovery, but somehow manages to overlook the continuing and crucial good-news story of the Chevy Volt, which will eventually do for General Motors what the iPhone did for Apple. This would only be a business story if electric cars were ...
  • Gates's Swan Song: Rhetoric Versus Reality
    Today Secretary of Defense Robert Gates gave what was billed in some circles as his "last major policy speech." He chose to do so at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a think tank whose analysts have been highly critical of the Obama administration's proposal to reduce national security ...
  • Gates's Swan Song: Rhetoric Versus Reality
    Today Secretary of Defense Robert Gates gave what was billed in some circles as his "last major policy speech." He chose to do so at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a think tank whose analysts have been highly critical of the Obama administration's proposal to reduce national security ...
  • Palin Factor
    Sarah Palin has reinserted herself into the Republican Presidential race and it is causing a great deal of handwringing among the party elite. Politico's Mike Allen notes an email he got from "a top Bush strategist". "You heard it here first ... as much as it pains me, Sarah Palin may win the ...
  • Netanyahu's House: Knowing Your Audience
    Anyone with a shred of knowledge about the Middle East conflict knows that yesterday's performance alienated its most critical audience. I am not speaking about Netanyahu's performance. He played the Israeli center, American Jews, and American media like Isaac Stern playing the Brahms. I mean th ...

TruthOut

  • Congress Must Debate the Libya War
    The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds that the ...
  • News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...
    Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
  • In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...
    In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
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    About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...

Planetsave

  • Onekotan Island from Space {Photo of the Day}
    Paolo Nespoli, a European Space Agency Astronaut and Flight Engineer of ISS Expedition 26/27 which extended from December 2010 to May 2011 took the following photo before leaving the International Space Station for home, at the end of his 6 month stay.
  • Living & Bicycling in Silicon Valley, Northern ...
    Following up on my posts about what I loved about living and bicycling in Sarasota, FL and Chapel Hill-Carrboro, NC, here are 7 things I loved about living and bicycling in Northern California. In the middle of graduate school, I lived in Sunnyvale for a summer, worked in Redwood City, and did m ...
  • Living & Bicycling in Silicon Valley, Northern ...
    Following up on my posts about what I loved about living and bicycling in Sarasota, FL and Chapel Hill-Carrboro, NC, here are 7 things I loved about living and bicycling in Northern California. In the middle of graduate school, I lived in Sunnyvale for a summer, worked in Redwood City, and did m ...
  • 10 Things I Loved about Living & Bicycling in ...
    Continuing on with things I loved about living and bicycling in the various cities I’ve lived and bicycled in (to wrap up National Bike Month), here are 10 things I loved about living and bicycling in Chapel Hill & Carrboro, North Carolina (which are two small towns that are pretty much merged).
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    Continuing on with things I loved about living and bicycling in the various cities I’ve lived and bicycled in (to wrap up National Bike Month), here are 10 things I loved about living and bicycling in Chapel Hill & Carrboro, North Carolina (which are two small towns that are pretty much merged).

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  • United Nations report warns of dollar "collaps ...
    “Given the large-scale government bailout programmes over the past two years, risks in the private financial sector, particularly banking, have been transferred to the public sector.” - UN Report 31 May 2011 The world economy faces the “looming risk of a collapse of the dollar, ...
  • Prisoner Released by the CDCR - Debra Saunders ...
    The CDCR (California Department of Confinement and Rigor-mortis) announced today that it released 84 year-old prisoner, Frank Smith, from prison. Smith had been imprisoned for 56 years for possession of an ounce of marijuana, and was the first prisoner in the last 16 years to be released by the ...
  • Japan pensioners volunteer to tackle nuclear c ...
    A group of more than 200 Japanese pensioners are volunteering to tackle the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima power station. The Skilled Veterans Corps, as they call themselves, is made up of retired engineers and other professionals, all over the age of 60. They say they should be facing th ...
  • Spain issues El Salvador warrants for soldiers ...
    A Spanish judge has issued warrants for 20 soldiers from El Salvador to be put on trial for the killing of five Spanish and one Salvadoran Jesuit priests during the Central American country's bloody 12-year civil war in 1989. Judge Eloy Velasco ordered the arrest of 19 of those accused...
  • A Bloody Business. Exposé on Australian cattle ...
    Broadcast: 30/05/2011 Next on Four Corners: A Bloody Business. An explosive exposé of the cruelty inflicted on Australian cattle exported to the slaughterhouses of Indonesia. Right now in northern Australia, ships are being readied to load thousands of cattle to be transported to Indonesi ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    We trust this refers to people who permanently attach the abominable things to their heads. "The World Health Organization's cancer research agency says mobile phones are "possibly carcinogenic". A review of evidence suggests an increased risk of a malignant type of brain cancer cannot be ruled ...
  • That Spirit That Says "Send Me"
    It's a day late, but still worth watching President Obama at Arlington on Memorial Day. He gets it. Full transcript here, courtesy of David Niewert, who singles out this passage: That's what we memorialize today. That spirit that says, send me, no matter the mission. Send me, no matter the risk ...
  • Newt's Frugality
  • If the Saudis Are Against It, Let's Do It Imme ...
    From Zandar: Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal admits he wants to see oil prices drop to keep the US and Europe from switching to green energy sources. Remember the Saudis? They stuck the first shiv in the back of the U.S. economy 38 years ago with the first Oil Embargo. If you don't remember 19 ...
  • Paul Ryan's Budget and opening another front i ...
    The budget proposal put forth by Paul Ryan is a vicious and cruel all-out attack on everyone under the age of 55, but the cuts to Medicare and Medicaid that the Ryan plan would be felt acutely by women, who make up more than half of the beneficiaries of both programs, and women retire closer to ...

Care 2

  • Explain "what the big deal is" about cockfight ...
    The Tennessean newspaper reported "cockfighting crackdown stalls again" in describing the repeated failure of the Tennessee General Assembly to criminalize this blood sportSubmitted by SUE BARKO H. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Cell Phones and Cancer: Assessment Classifies ...
    The WHO/International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B), based on an increased risk for glioma, a malignant type of brain cancer1, associated with ......Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Welln ...
  • DOJ Investigating Abuse by Police
    See 1st comment.Submitted by Tom S. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • END the Dolphin Breeding Program at the Indy Z ...
    The Indy Zoo dolphin breeding program is NOT working. Since 1993 their dolphins have been pregnant time and time again, with heartbreaking results: 25 births with only 3 surviving - or a 12% success rate.Submitted by SUE BARKO H. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Republicans Question Healthier Eating Proposals
    House Republicans are pushing back against Obama administration efforts to promote healthier eating in a spending bill that pays for food and farm spending.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

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No Quarter

  • Contenders for 2012: the Cult of Personality ...
    Friday, John Phillips of the LA Times ruminated on the method by which New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will be “courted” and drafted to run for President in 2012. Christie has stated repeatedly that he is not ready for the office, will not be induced to enter the race and is committed to fulf ...
  • Blog Roadwork Update!
    The new comments software is being installed, so expect some hiccups along the way until the installation is complete. Additionally: I am writing a short how-to (FAQ) so that you can take advantage of the myriad of options and goodies that come with this software. I’ll tell you how to add video, ...
  • Barack Obama’s Jewish Problem
    Spent the last four days hanging with one of my dearest friends, who also happens to be Jewish. He’s an accomplished man. We had the chance to sit and chat with some other prominent, successful Jewish businessmen and leaders. Several of these guys admitted voting for Obama in 2008. I learned one ...
  • Florida Money (& Larry Johnson on Radio Tonight)
    Editor’s Note: Larry Johnson joins the weekly Sunday experts panel on John Batchelor’s Show tonight @ 9:30 or 10:30 p.m. ET. (FYI: Batchelor’s show airs nightly, 9 p.m.-1:00 a.m. ET.) Listen via iTunes (see instructions), or go to the show’s NYC anchor station, WABC. Scroll down and click “Liste ...
  • Comment Hell
    Ladies and Gents, Please be patient. We should have the new comment software up and running by Monday. I’ve been out of pocket for the last four days and have been unable to rescue folks trapped in Comment Hell. You are free now. Best LJ

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Reindeer Superpower: Ultraviolet Vision
    Reindeer, unlike most mammals, can see in ultraviolet. This special ability helps reindeer survive in the arctic because they can see both food and trouble. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • The Bizarre Neck Rings of Thailand's Kayan Women
    Body modification takes many forms, but surely one of the oddest comes in the form of the neck rings worn by the Kayan women of Thailand. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • How Flyer the Eaglet Got Rescued from a Fishin ...
    Read the story of how Flyer the eaglet got rescued from a fishing line that could have killed him. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Thousands Invade the EU's Scientific Joint Res ...
    For one day, Saturday 14 May, 2011, one of Europe's science sanctuaries – set in beautiful surrounds – opened its doors as thousands of members of the public descended. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the a ...
  • Amazing Buildings that Could Clean Themselves ...
    Green building panels have a special architecture that eliminate pollution naturally from the environment. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

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  • Comedy Central has weird faux-subliminal meme ...
    Several videos and a GLP post cover the New Subliminal Messages on Comedy Channel. Looks like an internet meme campaign to me. Not too shabby though. The colored words (not all legible) form strange thoughts.... In the end the joke assures us they're in on it all. Thanks Viacom. This one satiriz ...
  • Special Guest Column! CIA Whistleblower Susan ...
    Sweet: CIA Whistleblower & 9/11 covert ops witness sends an important essay for HongPong.com! National Security Whistleblowers are a tough bunch. Susan Lindauer worked as a CIA asset for many years before 9-11, including issues related to Libya & the Lockerbie bombing, as well as a major backcha ...
  • HG Wells: The City of London is taking over th ...
    “But where was the Central Observation Bureau? Where was the professorial and student body which should have been recording these irregularities and producing plans for adjustment?” What I like about HG Wells The Shape of Things to Come, is it all comes down to the World State, the C ...
  • Chaos & curfew as tornado strikes North Minnea ...
    North Minneapolis and parts of nearby suburbs were hit by tornado damage on Sunday, leaving at least one man dead and many wounded. The tornado was part of a huge weather system that also killed many people in Joplin, Missouri. The city is enforcing a curfew into Monday morning, for possibly a ...
  • TCIMC Exclusive: Contracts for IntelliDrive Mn ...
    Minnesota taxpayers give intelligence contractor SAIC a cost-plus contract to evaluate MnDOT's GPS tracking program! By Dan Feidt for Twin Cities Indymedia – Key info about Minnesota's elusive "GPS Mileage Tax" test program has finally turned up. It's actually part of a federal program called ...

Daily Censored

  • University of Maryland employees come forward ...
      The saga involving the abuse of workers at the University of Maryland goes on without promise for remedies.  Below you will find the latest issues regarding the degradation of workers and the demands made. The situation is very bad at the ‘university’ and although a ‘committee’ has been conv ...
  • Cultural Misnomers: America’s Planned Cu ...
    http://www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news/2011/05/27/cultural-misnomers-americas-planned-cultual-ignorance Please tune into this episode as we deconstructed the roots, causes, and detrimental impact of America’s Cultural Ignorance. We will explore America’s white supremacist history and how i ...
  • How Do Teachers Matter? Not as Cause Agents Bu ...
    Lost in the exaggerated claims of “bad” teachers being at the core of all that ails education and the concurrent calls for greater teacher accountability, often linked to student test scores, is a careful consideration of why we have universal public education in a free society and what the role ...
  • Libya: The After Dinar Mint
    � Under the War Powers Resolution of 1973, the President of the United States may order troops into combat for 60 days without seeking congressional approval. On May 20,  2011, 60 days after the attacks on Libya began, Obama sent a letter to Congress stating that while he would like them to supp ...
  • Enlightening The President and Press
    Cuba: Facts and realities By Saul Landau and Nelson Valdés “No hay peor ciego que el que no quiere ver” – Spanish saying (There is no worse blind person than the one who does not wish to see.) On May 13, Miami newspaper headlines and TV leads should have said: “Obama makes fool of himself.” [...]

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  • News you may have missed #515
    US spies tracked suspected terrorists in Sweden. Aussie spy agency reported on WikiLeaks. Former Taiwanese general accused of spying. Continue reading →
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    Israel sells spy camera to Turkey despite concerns. Listening bug found in NZ MP's home. The story of Nathaniel James Nicholson. Continue reading →
  • US SEALs ‘pocket guide’ left behind in bin Lad ...
    A document provided to members of the US Navy SEALs who assassinated Osama bin Laden, was left behind in bin Ladenâs compound by mistake, and has reportedly been accessed by The London Times. Continue reading →
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    Pakistan spy chief tells US to end drone strikes. CIA-ISI back in business. Leaked cables reveal joint US-Pakistan missions. Continue reading →
  • Spy defectors claim Iran had foreknowledge of 9/11
    A new filing in a nine-year court case in Manhattan contains testimony by two defectors from Iranâs intelligence service, who claim that Tehran had âforeknowledge of the 9/11 attacksâ. Continue reading →

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  • Egypt's Mubarak, sons to be tried August 3
    By Dina Zayed, Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, overthrown by a popular uprising this year, was ordered on Wednesday to stand trial in August for the killing of protesters on charges that could carry the death penalty. Mubarak, ousted on February 11 after mass p ...
  • Egypt's Mubarak, sons to be tried August 3
    By Dina Zayed, Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, overthrown by a popular uprising this year, was ordered on Wednesday to stand trial in August for the killing of protesters on charges that could carry the death penalty. Mubarak, ousted on February 11 after mass p ...
  • WHAT OBAMA'S AFGHANISTAN "PROGRESS" LOOKS LIKE
    STOP THE WAR COALITION Newsletter No. 1207 01 June 2011 Email office@stopwar.org.uk Tel: 020 7801 2768 Web: http://stopwar.org.uk Twitter: http://twitter.com/STWuk Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/stopthewarcoalition IN THIS NEWSLETTER: 1) WHAT OBAMA'S AFGHANISTAN "PROGRESS" LOOKS LIKE ...
  • WHAT OBAMA'S AFGHANISTAN "PROGRESS" LOOKS LIKE
    STOP THE WAR COALITION Newsletter No. 1207 01 June 2011 Email office@stopwar.org.uk Tel: 020 7801 2768 Web: http://stopwar.org.uk Twitter: http://twitter.com/STWuk Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/stopthewarcoalition IN THIS NEWSLETTER: 1) WHAT OBAMA'S AFGHANISTAN "PROGRESS" LOOKS LIKE ...
  • Scottish Court to Rule on Whether Anti-Israel ...
    By Ken Ferguson Cupar, Scotland--This county town of Fife, is not exactly a news hot spot. Probably the last big story here was the landing of Italian balloonist Vincenzo Lunardi nearby in 1785 at the end of a 43-mile flight from Edinburgh. However the small town’s sleepy Sheriff court is abou ...

Grist - News

  • Rejecting high-speed rail is not a good politi ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. Hey, it turns out people don't want to get divorced and die because of long car commutes! Actually, we're just guessing about that (makes sense, though, right?), but what's clear is that constituents won't thank you for nixing rail projects. Gas 2.0 checked in with the ...
  • Manhattanhenge makes life in the city a little ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. Today is Manhattanhenge, one of the two days a year when the setting sun lines up perfectly with the New York City street grid. Next to Central Park and possibly the High Line, it might be the best demonstration that living in the city doesn't rule out natural beauty ...
  • The wind money windfall in Sherman County, Oregon
    by Sarah Laskow. Residents of Oregon's Sherman County used to hate on the strong winds endemic to the area. But now they pull in $590 per year, per household, just for tolerating the wind and the many wind turbines marring their viewshed. It’s like the oil payout for living in Alaska, onl ...
  • Canada omitted 20 percent increase in oil sand ...
    by Sarah Laskow. Canada reported to the United National that the country's greenhouse gas emissions were dropping, down 6 percent in the last year. But the government left out one teensy little detail in its report. The emissions from the oil sands industry, which extracts hard-to-reach o ...
  • Sarah Palin loves the smell of emissions in th ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. Sarah Palin is still being coy about whether she's going to run for president, but as usual, she's enjoying whatever attention she can get. Her latest stunt: Hopping on the back of a Harley to ride with 400,000 bikers through D.C., like she was Hell's own angel. Palin's ...

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Farming Pathogens

  • Hiatus
    ‘Farming Pathogens’ will be taking a break while we finish up a book on many of the topics discussed here, including influenza and agribusiness. Thank you for your support and feedback. We’ll be back soon, promise, and in all likelihood will drop a post now and again. Agriculture, disease and ev ...
  • Tiger By the Tale
    –Landlady… –My name is Rosenberg. –I didn’t know there were Jews in Dublin! She grimaces, palpably, and says, –Yes, there are Jews in Dublin. –Well, then, Mrs. O’Rosenberg, what can you tell me about the Celtic Tiger? Has it bitten anybody lately? –Bitten? –Yes. Where is this tiger now, and does ...
  • Marable’s Malcolm
    It’s Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution (and he’ll cry if he wants to). But do he and other lambrusco liberals bandying about the term know what revolution really means, or even care? In the first of several posts on food and revolution over the next couple months, I retweet passing thoughts I poste ...
  • A Bayesian Market
    Found this job posting: Your research will cover any area of evolutionary biology, including adaptation, phylogenetics, population genetics and environmental genomics. You should be using advanced data acquisition and/or analytical approaches (e.g., high-throughput sequencing or other “omics”, B ...
  • Fork in the Road
    This is the final installment of the ‘big picture’ on global food crises I co-authored with Richard Kock and Robyn Alders. The first two can be found here and here. We learned food insecurity and disease outbreaks can serve as a cover for a particular capital-securitized science tied into spread ...

Suzie-Q

  • Afghanistan War Cost To Be Biggest Factor In T ...
    Cost of war in Afghanistan will be major factor in troop-reduction talks The Washington Post via: Huff Post By Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Published: May 30 Of all the statistics that President Obama’s national security team will consider when it debates the size of forthcoming troop reductions in Afg ...
  • Why Even Have “Memorial Day?”
    I’m going to start this post out properly. This is a day meant to honor fallen veterans, so let’s do that first. This is a list of United States Armed Forces members killed in Afghanistan in the month of May, 2011. Army Pfc. William S. Blevins Army Pvt. Andrew M. Krippner Army Pvt. Thomas C. [...]
  • Gas Prices Tightening Family Budgets Just In T ...
    Gas Prices Tightening Family Budgets Just In Time For Summer JONATHAN FAHEY   05/27/11 05:17 PM ET   via HuffPost NEW YORK â There’s less money this summer for hotel rooms, surfboards and bathing suits. It’s all going into the gas tank. High prices at the pump are putting a squeeze on the fami ...
  • Gas Prices Tightening Family Budgets Just In T ...
    Gas Prices Tightening Family Budgets Just In Time For Summer JONATHAN FAHEY   05/27/11 05:17 PM ET   via HuffPost NEW YORK â There’s less money this summer for hotel rooms, surfboards and bathing suits. It’s all going into the gas tank. High prices at the pump are putting a squeeze on the fami ...
  • Is the American Revolution Dead?
    A few years ago, on my very first day in the United States, I read these stirring words on an information plaque on Boston Common. What do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and he ...

Solari

  • U.S. Trust Survey on Wealth and Worth
    U.S. Trust Insights on Wealth and Worth explores both the rational and emotional perspectives of the high net worth in the United States. Key topics covered in the 2011 U.S. Trust Insights on Wealth and Worth are: • Attitudes about wealth, worth and the use of wealth • Estate planning, financ ...
  • Why the Germans and French Prefer to Rent
    By Tony Paterson and John Lichfield Englishmen may see themselves as king of their own castles, but the fact that Europe largely did away with its monarchies many years ago does not necessarily explain why those on the Continent are happier to rent, even if the situation is starting to change. ...
  • Goldman Sachs Offered Libya the Chance to Be B ...
    By Alan Purkiss Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) offered Libya the opportunity to become one of its biggest shareholders two years ago, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unidentified people familiar with the matter and Libyan and Goldman documents that it’s reviewed. The offer of preferred ...
  • Goldman Sachs Offered Libya the Chance to Be B ...
    By Alan Purkiss Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) offered Libya the opportunity to become one of its biggest shareholders two years ago, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unidentified people familiar with the matter and Libyan and Goldman documents that it’s reviewed. The offer of preferred ...
  • Financial Geoengineering Anyone?
    By Tony Arnold There are a lot of investment options out there — but have you ever considered weather? The Chicago Mercantile Exchange has, and starting today, you can invest in rain futures. But are you any better at predicting weather than your weatherman? Jeremy Hobson: The futures market at ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • 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 ...
    BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri Lank ...
  • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
    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��
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    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��

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  • Could you be a 10:10 community champion?
    The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign, challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.
  • Brit mums strict about eco-chores
    Families in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.
  • UK venue offers rainforest weddings
    Getting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project.
  • Battery recycling 'too difficult'
    The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
  • 10 green resolutions to save you money
    By taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become o ...

Fabius Maximus

  • Attritionist Letter #1 – the tides turn, ...
    Summary:   With US military forces engaged around the world in the long war, with three conflicts burning at once (on very different scales), the doctrines we choose may have a large effect on American history.  This, the first of the Attritionist Letters, describes the issues and the sta ...
  • Attritionist Letter #1 – the tides turn, ...
    Summary:   With US military forces engaged around the world in the long war, with three conflicts burning at once (on very different scales), the doctrines we choose may have a large effect on American history.  This, the first of the Attritionist Letters, describes the issues and the sta ...
  • The Attritionist Letters, volleys in the long ...
    Summary:   Key points of military history are marked by debates among soldiers, usually invisible to the public but affecting the course of nations.  Such a debate is underway now about the doctrines by which we wage the long war against jihadists and their allies.  With the permission of the th ...
  • The Attritionist Letters, volleys in the long ...
    Summary:   Key points of military history are marked by debates among soldiers, usually invisible to the public but affecting the course of nations.  Such a debate is underway now about the doctrines by which we wage the long war against jihadists and their allies.  With the permission of the th ...
  • Could a new Constitutional Convention help ref ...
    Summary:  Many people seek changes to the Constitution as a palliative to our problems.  Disappointment awaits them, especially if they succeed.  Proper treatment requires accurate diagnosis, and even a cursory look at America shows that our problems have a simple cause.  Us.  Tinkering with the ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Vatican kicks out Roma on Easter
    Press TV – About 150 Roma gypsies were barred from participating in the Easter vigil of the basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, after temporarily taking shelter there on Good Friday, The Telegraph reported.  Local and foreign pilgrims, who had gathered to attend the vigil, calle ...
  • Euro strikes 16-month high against dollar
    Breitbart – The euro struck a 16-month high against the dollar and the Swiss franc notched a record high versus the US unit Tuesday amid heightened investor nerves over this week’s busy economic calendar. The European single currency hit $1.4653 in morning trade, the highest point since mid-Dece ...
  • British pound devalues by 94% in 50yrs
    PressTV – A new survey shows that the value of money in the UK has dropped by 94 percent over the past 50 years, which means an 18-time increase in retail prices. The survey carried out by BM Savings has found that almost £1,800 is needed to match the buying power of £100 in 1960, [...]
  • Peru suffers an ‘environmental tragedy’
    IOL – The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years, a study published on Tuesday said. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of 7,000 ...
  • Next step humans? Every new pet dog in Britain ...
    Daily Mail – Every new pet dog will be microchipped under sweeping Government regulations to combat dangerous animals. Each puppy born and dog sold will have an electronic chip implanted under the skin. Details will then be placed on a national database accessible by police and the RSPCA. A conf ...

The Progressive Realist

  • More Escapes from Iraq’s Prisons
    (Black Anthem) On May 20, 2011 it was reported that five Mahdi Army commanders escaped from Taji Prison, Salahaddin. A number of prisoners were going to be transferred to Karkh Prison, Baghdad under the supervision of the Rapid Reaction Force, when three were reported missing. Another sou ...
  • Iran Stands to Lose Chance at OPEC Chair
    Iran has waited thirty-six years to become the chair of OPEC, but President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s decision May 15 to remove Iran’s oil minister and lead the oil ministry himself may have jeopardized Iran’s chances of leading the world’s largest oil exporting cartel. According to OPEC’s charter, ...
  • In Afghanistan, It's the Strategy, Stupid
    In a piece looking at the outlines of the debate inside Obama's war cabinet about Afghanistan policy Rajiv Chandrasakaran previews the arguments of war opponents - it is too expensive: Of all the statistics that President Obama’s national security team will consider when it debates the size of f ...
  • Syria Security Council Resolution Hits Chinese ...
    The Europeans have been circulating the draft of a Security Council resolution condemning the Syrian government for its violent suppression of non-violent protests.  China and Russia have always been lukewarm to the idea.  Russia in particular has been outspoken in its belief that NATO has ove ...
  • Taliban Reconciliation: Then and Now
    About eight months ago, a spate of articles were published in major American newspapers suggesting that the U.S. and Afghan governments had begun serious overtures to the Taliban.  At the time, some optimists suggested that the U.S. was turning a corner in its Afghan strategy, particularly with ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Ah, the Sunshine State
    The war on drugs requires constant vigilance, so it's good that Florida governor Rick Scott is doing his part. Yesterday, Scott signed a bill requiring the CEOs of businesses getting state contracts to submit to drug testing. "The goal of this is to make sure we don't waste taxpayers' money," Sc ...
  • Little Picture
    Dr. George Tiller was murdered by Scott Roeder two years ago today. Dr. Tiller was one of three doctors nation-wide who performed abortions after the 21st week of pregnancy. Above, people gather for a vigil in Dr. Tiller's honor. (Wikimedia Commons/Twp)
  • Supreme Court: Ashcroft Immune From Suit, but ...
    The Supreme Court today handed down its opinion in Ashcroft v. al-Kidd. The case concerned the Department of Justice's practice after 9/11 of using material witness warrants to detain suspects even though they had no intention of actually calling them as witnesses. Unanimously (with Kagan n ...
  • Today at the Prospect
    Rep. Raúl Grijalva explains how Democrats will face an enthusiasm problem in 2012 if we stay in Afghanistan. Robert Dreyfuss further argues that even the Democratic base will revolt against Obama if we don't get out of Afghanistan soon. Paul Waldman compares the Republican Party and the Underp ...
  • Herman Cain: Now With Music. And a Hat.
    Should presidential candidates commission songs about themselves? The answer is probably no. While it's possible to write a great song about political themes, once the candidate's name gets sung, something happens to you as a listener, as you are reminded that you aren't enjoying a piece of musi ...

Buzzflash

  • How the Republicans Repackage Repeated Failure ...
    Body It sure seems as if we have surrendered to the very worst compulsions a society can devise and tried to make them acceptable forms of social organization. We have allowed ignorant, self-serving political aspirants to overwhelm whatever decent motivations used to animate th ...
  • Unless We Stop Endlessly Repeating Cliches Abo ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT On Memorial Day we remember those who gave their lives in battle for the survival of this nation. In doing so, we implicitly honor their sacrifice for upholding the "values" of this nation. That certainly must have been a heartfelt feeling coming ou ...
  • White House Bid Will Make Santorum Lose His Ra ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT I'd hazard to guess his program is Certainly a bad one --- The bigger issue is how few people Even knew he had one.read more
  • Memorial Day 2011: Two Names That Matter
    WALTER BRASCH FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Unless you were in a coma the past few years, you probably know who Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, and Paris Hilton are. You heard about them on radio, saw them on television. You read about them in newspapers and magazines, on Facebook, Twitter, and ...
  • The Ignorant Certainty of Rapture
    ROBERT C. KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Now that the end of the world didn't happen, I can't stop thinking about it. What chutzpah, what a diminished worldview, not simply to make such a prediction, but - even more incomprehensible, to my relentlessly self-questioning mind - to know you' ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • This week’s happenings on The Alchemist
    This weel’s happenings on The Alchemist – This week, The Alchemist is looking to the sun for record-breaking power and sniffing the air to catch a whiff of blackcurrant. Testing times ahead for heavy metal in the pharmaceutical industry we learn, and logical molecules come to the for in potentia ...
  • Weighing up green credentials
    Weighing up green credentials – Distillation in the USA consumes the same amount of energy as all electricity used in Switzerland. Also, to produce enough wool to replace the output of a 500 ktpa polymer plant for insulation you’d need enough land for the sheep to cover the whole of The Netherla ...
  • Size isn’t everything, or is it? Nano or non-nano
    Is the “nano” label just marketing buzz and PR puff? You might think so given the huge number of products and press releases that exist where this little prefix, from the Greek meaning dwarf, is used instead of a more everyday description. Particles become far more interesting to consumers and g ...
  • 60 million chemicals
    There are now 60 million chemicals in the CAS Registry, that’s a number equivalent to 3G users in China, the population of the Roman Empire in 70 BC, the age of the Rocky Mountains in years, the number of casualties in WWII, and the votes cast in American Idol. The last time I mentioned the [... ...
  • You are not full of *%$!
    You are not full of *%$! – I remember reading probably, 25 years ago, an article in the "health" section of a magazine that claimed we're all getting ill because of the impact fecal matter in our colons. 10 kilos of the stuff, clogging us up, making us sick, causing joint pain and dulling the [. ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • WHO Finds Cell Phone Radiation Possible Carcin ...
    The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer announced today it has classified cell phone radiation as “possibly carcinogenic to humans,” based on an increased risk for glioma, a malignant type of brain cancer associated with wireless phone use. Research has also i ...
  • Lawsuit Launched to Protect Sea Turtles From D ...
    Conservation groups formally notified the National Marine Fisheries Service today of their intent to sue the agency and three Gulf of Mexico states for failing to protect endangered sea turtles from entanglement and drowning in shrimp trawls. Record numbers of dead sea turtles are turning up on ...
  • Lawsuit Launched to Protect Sea Turtles From D ...
    Conservation groups formally notified the National Marine Fisheries Service today of their intent to sue the agency and three Gulf of Mexico states for failing to protect endangered sea turtles from entanglement and drowning in shrimp trawls. Record numbers of dead sea turtles are turning up on ...
  • Feds Overlook Environmental Impacts of Controv ...
    In an environmental assessment issued today by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the agency tried to make the case that a 39-mile pipeline project that would slice through the Endless Mountains region of Pennsylvania and tear up almost 600 acres of land would have ‘no significant impact’ ...
  • Feds Overlook Environmental Impacts of Controv ...
    In an environmental assessment issued today by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the agency tried to make the case that a 39-mile pipeline project that would slice through the Endless Mountains region of Pennsylvania and tear up almost 600 acres of land would have ‘no significant impact’ ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Geithner and Goldman, Thick as Thieves
    Robert Scheer What was Timothy Geithner thinking back in 2008 when, as president of the New York Fed, he decided to give Goldman Sachs a $30 billion interest-free loan as part of an $80 billion secret float to favored banks? The sordid det ...
  • Geithner and Goldman, Thick as Thieves
    Robert Scheer What was Timothy Geithner thinking back in 2008 when, as president of the New York Fed, he decided to give Goldman Sachs a $30 billion interest-free loan as part of an $80 billion secret float to favored banks? The sordid det ...
  • But What About My 401(k)?
    The first reaction of most people to the call to shut down Wall Street is one of jubilant enthusiasm.read more
  • But What About My 401(k)?
    The first reaction of most people to the call to shut down Wall Street is one of jubilant enthusiasm.read more
  • A Volatile Agenda on Agriculture
    Karen Hansen-Kuhn Barack Obama's trade policy, as embodied by the pending U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement, sadly resembles George W. Bush's blueprint. It promotes export growth and investment at the expense of local economies and resili ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Lassen College introduces new summer program f ...
    May 31, 2011 — A healthy, active lifestyle is becoming more important with the steady rise of obesity throughout the country.
  • Guy Laroche: Commanding officer in Quebec’s wa ...
    Former brigadier-general has brought a calm determination to the task of helping flood victims
  • Water Wars 2011 By RYAN HORNS
    With summer break starting next week, Marysville High School students let off some steam Wednesday with the traditional “Water War” at the edge of the baseball fields off Amrine Mill Road after 4 p.m. The youths had a war with squirt guns and water balloons and most eventually took a mud bath.
  • The silent water wars have begun
    Q: THE Tibetan plateau supplies water to 47 per cent of the world's population. How would you rate cooperation between upstream and downstream countries on managing water resources?
  • The silent water wars have begun
    Q: THE Tibetan plateau supplies water to 47 per cent of the world's population. How would you rate cooperation between upstream and downstream countries on managing water resources?

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • British prime minister steps down as JNF patron
    Asa WinstanleyThe Electronic IntifadaLondon The British prime minister has stepped down from his position as honorary patron of the Jewish National Fund (JNF). The move comes as pressure on the JNF steps up in Britain, and is being hailed by activists as a big victory in the boycott, divestment ...
  • Returning to Safed in shackles
    Budour Youssef HassanThe Electronic Intifada Much attention has been paid to the marches of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and Syria to the borders with occupied Palestine, as well as the courageous protests at the Qalandiya checkpoint in the occupied West Bank and in Gaza. But Palestinians ins ...
  • Israeli settlers emboldened by Netanyahu’s US ...
    Mel FrykbergThe Electronic IntifadaRamallah The leader of Israel�s most right-wing government since the establishment of the state 63 years ago, has returned to Israel with his popularity surging since talks with US President Barack Obama in�Washington.
  • Rights groups challenge Israeli secret service ...
    The Electronic Intifada Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority rights in Israel, and Nadi al-Aseer, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, filed a pre-petition on 11 May demanding an end to detention in prison facilities run by Israel’s secret service agency.
  • Time to tear down the fences
    Rahela MizrahiThe Electronic IntifadaTel Aviv Last week, behind the fence of my childhood, Palestinian refugees gathered to demand return. They protesters looked and sounded exactly like the revolutionaries of Cairo’s Tahrir square.

Afghanistan Sun

  • Polish troops acquitted in civilian Afghan deaths
    A military court on Wednesday acquitted seven Polish soldiers in the killing of Afghan civilians in a 2007 attack in which they fired mortars and machine guns on a village in Afghanistan, killing ...
  • Arrests made in deadly north Afghan bombing
    KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - NATO and Afghan forces captured a man they believe took part in a bomb attack that killed two prominent Afghan police officials and wounded the German general who commands ...
  • US trolling for Taliban to open talks
    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - After 10 years of bloody battle in Afghanistan, the United States is trolling for Taliban officials to talk peace with before the July drawdown of American troops. ...
  • Afghan Defence Minister condemns militant atta ...
    Afghan Defence Minister General Abdul Rahim Wardak, who is on a visit to India has condemned the militant attacks on foreign embassies and dignitaries, as cowardly acts against civilian organs.
  • India committed to strengthen Afghan forces, a ...
    Defence Minister A K Antony on Wednesday said ndia is committed to building the capabilities of the Afghan security forces.

Futurismic

  • 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 ...
  • 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 th ...
  • 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 ye ...
  • 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 [...]Foll ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • EPA tells POLITICO it will investigate DeLeon
    POLITICO reporter Robin Bravender released a story on Friday saying that EPA spokesperson Brendan Gilfillan promised that EPA would "look into" the allegations of the open letter the National Whistleblowers Center released last week. Gilfillan told Bravender that Jackson is “deeply committed to ...
  • NWC calls on EPA to oust Civil Rights Director
    Today I am writing to Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and asking her to remove Mr. Rafael DeLeon, the Director of the EPA's Office of Civil Rights (OCR). Last month, Deloitte Consulting issued a report on OCR finding that it is essentially dysfunctio ...
  • Senate confirms Carolyn Lerner
    Last Thursday, April 14, 2011, the Senate confirmed Carolyn Lerner as Special Counsel. This post, which investigates and takes positions on federal employee whistleblower allegations, has been vacant for over two years. I reported here last month about her confirmation hearing. Ms. Lerner has a ...
  • Dodd-Frank CLE Seminar on April 28th in Austin ...
    On April 28th, Stephen Kohn, Executive Director at the National Whistleblowers Center will host a seminar entitled "The NEW Corporate Whistleblower Protections and Reward Provisions" from 2:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. (CST) in Austin, Texas.�The seminar is at the Radisson Hotel in Austin and is CLE-app ...
  • NWC Executive Director will hold an open forum ...
    On Sunday April 10, 2011, Stephen Kohn, Executive Director at the National Whistleblowers Center, will be available at 5:00 pm (EST) for an online chat forum at Firedoglake’s Book Salon. The topic of this book salon will be The Whistleblower’s Handbook. For two hours Mr. Kohn will be holding an ...

Science Express

  • 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 r ...
  • Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratosph ...
    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 ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
    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 20 ...
  • New approach precisely tracks evolution's foot ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for exampl ...

TechDirt

  • So Much Fuss Over A Photo That The Photographe ...
    Over the years we've seen various legal battles surrounding news organizations using amateur photographs that were posted to social networking or photo hosting sites. However, MSNBC has a long and detailed story about the legal issues surrounding news organizations using a photo that Stefanie G ...
  • Polish Prime Minister Says Things Funded With ...
    Slashdot points us to a report that Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has declared that anything funded with public money will be in the public domain (Google translation from the original Polish). It sounds like there was some hedging on this, as he perhaps suggests that they still need to cla ...
  • Hacking Egypt For Better Democracy
    Having already covered how hackers from Anonymous have been taking part from afar in various middle east uprisings, it's probably worth noting that some other folks are doing some cool hacking projects as well, including a Hackathon for Egypt effort, that brought together hackers and activists t ...
  • Two Can Play At This Game: Samsung Wants To Se ...
    Last week, we noted that Apple had successfully convinced a court that Samsung should be forced to hand over unreleased prototypes of its new phones and tablet computers as part of its patent dispute with Samsung. In response, Samsung (which filed countersuits over other patents) is demanding A ...
  • DailyDirt: In Money We Trust
    Fiat money only has value because governments have established its value by decree. And the value of currencies can be reset -- such as Brazil's cruzeiro currency when it was replaced by the Unit of Real Value (URV). Here are just a few quick links on other somewhat "temporary" currencies. L ...

VacTruth

  • Top 5 Vaccine Stories for May
    We have scoured the web to bring you the top news headlines from around the world. Stay current in the latest affairs surrounding vaccines, Pharma, and the authorities who support them.Vactruth.com
  • Vaccines Alternative to Thimerosal
    There’s an adage that goes something like this: “Jumping from the frying pan into the fire.” Perhaps that can apply to what’s been happening in vaccine manufacture since the trend is to replace Thimerosal (49.6% mercury) with this ‘safer’ and ‘less toxic’ substitute...Vactruth.com
  • Rise In Childhood Food Allergies Being Linked ...
    UK newspapers played down the subject of food allergies, blaming anything from faddy eating to mental illness and stating that the incidence of true allergies were actually very low. I found many professionals are saying food allergies in children are on the increase. They are attributing this t ...
  • Aluminum in Vaccines: Where Are the Safety Stu ...
    Since the 1930s vaccine makers have been using aluminum as an adjuvant in vaccines. As a matter of fact, when Congressman Dan Burton held his vaccine-autism link hearings from 1999-2004, the question that FDA was asked repeatedly was, Where are your [safety] studies? Vactruth.com
  • UK Paediatrician and MSBP Expert Knew Babies S ...
    A UK paediatrician recorded 5 cases of sudden infant death syndrome, documenting the children's full vaccine status. Two of these children died very shortly after routine childhood vaccinations. If you want to see how the adverse reactions were ignored, read on.Vactruth.com

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Apparently, a bunch of activists have been killed in Brazil. Any of you know the details behind this? I’ve always been really annoyed that my mother didn’t teach me the other two languages she knows. Lots of my friends were in the same situation. In the sixties and early seventies, they were tel ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Apparently, a bunch of activists have been killed in Brazil. Any of you know the details behind this? I’ve always been really annoyed that my mother didn’t teach me the other two languages she knows. Lots of my friends were in the same situation. In the sixties and early seventies, they were tel ...
  • But Who Would Do ___ ?
    One thing that really seems to throw people for a loop, when I talk about a world without rulers, is how we would decide who does what. The really interesting thing about that question is what it says about life today. By asking that question, you are pretty much admitting that 1. People spend m ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    So Latin Americans seem to be digging up the past – literally, in the case of Chile. They exhumed Salvador Allende’s body and are hoping to determine once and for all if he committed suicide or was murdered during the U.S. sponsored coup. Meanwhile, in Guatemala, they are adding Arbenz (also, ...
  • Why Slutwalk?
    One morning, when I was in eighth grade, I got dressed for school and went outside to wait for my father to drive me. I was wearing a long knit skirt, sweater, and some boots. My outfit would have met the requirements for an orthodox family temple outing. But when my father walked out the [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

  • Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should ...
    Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should begin locally by Jane Novak After three months of bloody protests, millions of Yemenis remain steadfast—and on the streets—throughout the nation. They want Saleh and his entire regime gone. In Sanaa, skirmishes have broken out between opposing tribes ...
  • Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should ...
    Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should begin locally by Jane Novak After three months of bloody protests, millions of Yemenis remain steadfast—and on the streets—throughout the nation. They want Saleh and his entire regime gone. In Sanaa, skirmishes have broken out between opposing tribes ...
  • Injuries and fatalities in Yemen after anti-go ...
    In what may be the bloodiest day yet since anti-government protests broke out in Yemen two weeks ago, residents around Aden are reporting numerous fatalities as security forces opened fire on protesters in many districts throughout the day and evening Friday. Human Rights Watch issued a statemen ...
  • Game changer in Yemen as protests swell
    In Egypt and Tunisia, the stance of the military was pivotal in the success of popular uprisings; in Yemen, it may be the tribes that are the determining factor. Anti-government protests across Yemen show no signs of abating. In Taiz, Yemen’s largest governorate, many who arrived last Friday are ...
  • In Yemen, Many Protests, One Villain
    It was only sheer chance or serendipity perhaps that southern Yemen’s “Day of Rage” was scheduled for Friday, earning the #Feb11 hashtag on Twitter. The Southern Uprising Facebook page drew nearly two thousand members since its founding two weeks ago in a nation with 2 percent Internet penetrati ...

Dark Politricks

  • Establishment Exploits OKC Bombing Victims To ...
  • Knee-Jerk No Fly Ban Discredits Global Warming ...
    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 fo ...
  • Air France, Lufthansa Press for Airspace Re-Op ...
    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 aircra ...
  • NPR and CNN worry that Global Warming may have ...
    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 ...
  • Poll: Americans’ distrust of federal governmen ...
    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 f ...

food and water watch

  • By: April
    Please read Blue Gold and When the Rivers Run Dry....I am officially against the majority of desalination due to the fact that all the water we have now is all the water we will EVER have!
  • By: Rich's coworker
    In an effort to de-spin your story, the real reason there were no muffins or treats of any sort was because the bearer of treats was absent, and had been gone for the past few days. Perhaps if you "wish real hard" again, parabens can turn into magical antioxidants that are part of a complete ...
  • By: Top 50 Global Food Security Blogs
    [...] Food and Water Watch: Food & Water Watch works to ensure the food, water and fish we consume is safe, accessible and sustainable. [...]
  • By: Online Degree 30 Best Water Conservation Blogs
    [...] Food & Water Watch: The Food & Water Watch site advocates strong conservation measures, promoting policies that'll result in quality drinking water for everyone. [...]
  • By: Food and Water | Roland's Ramblings
    [...] would also like to suggest you go over to read the blog of Food & Water Watch. You should find that to be very [...]

treehugger

  • Do Workplace Gifts Force Us to Consume?
    Image credit: jenniferworthen, used under Creative Commons license. From making the case for laziness to the benefits of throwing stuff away, GetRichSlowly.org's take on frugality and personal finance often intersects with issues related to green living....Read the full story on TreeHugger ...
  • Entrepreneur Won't Build Wind Turbines at Turk ...
    Dale Vince became one of Britain's richest men building wind turbines, and he's picked fights with French nuclear companies and major utilities in the process (Ecotricity's attempts to brand its biogas efforts the "real British Gas" were not met with amusement in all quarters.) Perhaps his m ...
  • REACHing the People: Europe Assesses Public Un ...
    Image: Europa.eu Europe's REACH Regulation modernizes governmental approach to controlling the chemicals we are exposed to in our everyday lives. Industry has been involved in a massive effort to re-review all available data on the chemicals in their products, as required by the Registratio ...
  • Green Roofs are Covering the Chelsea Flower Show
    Photo: B. Alter Green roofs are getting a lot of coverage this year at the Chelsea Flower Show and it's great that their popularity is spreading. Seen first at Chelsea and next year on your street... The roofs can be landscapes in themselves, with different kinds of wild flowers and plac ...
  • Food For Thought As The Future Heats Up
    USA Drought Monitor Map, May 24, 2011. Image credit:USDA Texas farmers could potentially be rescued from the grip of drought by hurricane-delivered precipitation. (NOAA's 2011 Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook calls for a 65% chance of an above normal season,...) The longer the delay i ...

Biosingularity

  • Functional MRI shows how mindfulness meditatio ...
    If a friend or relative won $100 and then offered you a few dollars, would you accept this windfall? The logical answer would seem to be, sure, why not? “But human decision making does not always appear rational,” said Read Montague, professor of physics at Virginia Tech and director of the Huma ...
  • Control the cursor with power of thought
    The act of mind reading is something usually reserved for science-fiction movies but researchers in America have used a technique, usually associated with identifying epilepsy, for the first time to show that a computer can listen to our thoughts. In a new study, scientists from Washington Unive ...
  • Study shows how inflammation can lead to cancer
    A new study shows how inflammation can help cause cancer. Chronic inflammation due to infection or to conditions such as chronic inflammatory bowel disease is associated with up to 25 percent of all cancers. This study by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Art ...
  • Calcium Supplements May Increase Heart Risk
    The calcium supplements that many older women take to boost their bone health may increase their risk for heart disease, a study shows. “Calcium supplements, with or without vitamin D, mostly increase the risk of cardiovascular events, especially [heart attack],” concludes study researcher Ian R ...
  • FDA approves Rituxan to treat two rare disorders
    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Rituxan (rituximab), in combination with glucocorticoids (steroids), to treat patients with Wegener’s granulomatosis (WG) and microscopic polyangiitis (MPA), two rare disorders that cause blood vessel inflammation (vasculitis). Vasculitis in p ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Foreign carmakers to invest over $5 bln in Russia
    The Russian government has signed four car assembly agreements with a total investment of over $5 billion, including $1.1 billion which Fiat plans to invest in the expansion of a local automobile factory and the creation of a factory to produce engines, an Economic Development Ministry official ...
  • Foreign carmakers to invest over $5 bln in Russia
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    Russia and the European Union have reached an agreement on long-term visas, for up to five years, a Foreign Ministry official said on Wednesday.

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