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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 III

Pruning Shears

  • Fracking Mobilization - Saturday, June 4 in Solon
    Saturday, June 43:00 PMPlanning Meeting of Cuyahoga County citizens concerned about slick water hydrofracing in our county.Where: Panera at 6130 Kruse Drive, Solon, OH 44139This meeting is being planned by a coalition of enviornmental and civic groups, among them NE Ohio Sierra Club, Enviornment ...
  • Weekend wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. As in:Hundreds of civilians have been killed in the US-led airstrikes and ground operations in various parts of Afghanistan over the past ...
  • Weekend wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Spc. Brandon M. Kirton, 25, of Centennial, CO.Army Pvt. Cheizray Pressley, 21, of North Charlesto ...
  • 'No On SB 5': Upcoming events, 19-May-2011
    Thursday, May 194:00 - 7:00 PMChillicotheDrive-thru petition signing. Sponsored by OCSEA Chaps. 7130 and 7120, the Shawnee Labor Council and the OEA.Where: 4 Locations:* Chillicothe City Park (Lion’s shelter)* Ross County Service Center on Western Ave.* Glatfelter - 232 E. Eighth St. (employee ...
  • Bills to allow drilling in Ohio state parks ne ...
    Find your state representative at the Ohio House of Representatives home page.Find your state Senator at the Ohio Senate home page.You will need your zip code and the 4 digit extension. When you get the Representative’s name, click on it. That will bring you to their address, phone number or to ...

Organic Consumers.org

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 ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • The chances of life arising randomly...
    Grant Jacobs from Sciblogs, and another commenter, have been debating on this thread about junk dna and the origin of life. [Update, Grant now admits his phrasing was loose and that he wasn't intending to bring in the origin of...
  • Climate scientist admits - climate science is ...
    Former journal editor and climate scientist Hans van Storch has blamed climate scientists around the world for turning their profession into a public laughing stock. Of course, the diplomatic Storch is not quite that blunt, but it's an accurate paraphrase...
  • An Intelligent Design debate with Sciblogs...
    I haven't really had a decent design bunfight for a long time....but Sciblogger Grant made this statement in one of our comments threads which I couldn't resist: This seems to fit a different discourse. I didn’t say “evolution disproved G-d”....
  • Education propaganda on climate change
    I've come into possession of this year's Year 9 New Zealand high school social studies curriculum book...and would you take a look at the global warming propaganda thinly disguised as "education": The document is ludicrous, has no source citations for...
  • Master of the leading question?
    All of us in the polling game can ask some pretty hairy questions occasionally, but the one David Farrar's Curia company carried out for the Republican Movement had me rolling on the floor with laughter. Lewis Holden of the Republicans...

My Care2 Picks

  • Homeland Security demands Mozilla take down MA ...
    Firefox extension MAFIAAfire negates ICE's domain seizures, by automatically rerouting users to alternate domains. DHS demanded that Mozilla take the extension down from its listing of Firefox extensions claiming the add-on "circumvented" DHS's seizuresSubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics & ...
  • Exposure Of Western Mainstream Media Censorshi ...
    There is horrendous Mainstream media (MSM) censorship in the pro-US, pro-Zionist, democratic fascist Western Murdochracies and Lobbyocracies. But how can one begin to expose the nature and extent of this egregious censorship that variously threatens Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to World �| ...
  • Global Carbon Market's Dirty Secret
    Chemplast receives lucrative carbon credits for halting its release of an especially potent greenhouse gas.Many of the villagers that live in Mettur blame Chemplast for a slew of health problems. Pollution causes breathing problems, rashes and stillbirthsSubmitted by John Farnham to Environment ...
  • Tracing corruption in the national army
    ANA/MoD largely acts as a recipient of U.S./NATO aid and military equipments Wardak told a parliamentary session his son was receiving contracts from U.S. agencies w/o his involvement MoD has no knowledge of quality or detailsSubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...
  • Disregarding law,Redefining Justice
    Killing of bin Laden exists in legal limbo.If a military operation it violated a slew of restrictions on the use of military force in a country that is not a formal enemy of the United States If a political assassination illegal.( play the video ! )Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture ...

Angry Indian News

  • French lawyers to sue Sarkozy over crimes in Libya
    French lawyers to sue Sarkozy over crimes in Libya: "Two French lawyers said they planned to initiate legal proceedings against French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday for crimes against humanity... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • French lawyers to sue Sarkozy over crimes in Libya
    French lawyers to sue Sarkozy over crimes in Libya: "Two French lawyers said they planned to initiate legal proceedings against French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday for crimes against humanity... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Syed Saleem Shahzad, RIP — Registan.net
    Syed Saleem Shahzad, RIP — Registan.net: "Syed Saleem Shahzad, the Pakistan Bureau Chief of the Asia Times Online, has been found dead near his car in Sarai Alamgir, about 200 kilometres from... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Peru: 10,000 Aymaras Protesting Transnational ...
    Peru: 10,000 Aymaras Protesting Transnational Mining Company « Earth First! Newswire: cross-posted from Intercontinentalcry.org - For the past three weeks, more than 10,000 Indigenous People, mostly... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Hunger strike spreads to remote jails | Democr ...
    Hunger strike spreads to remote jails | Democratic Voice of Burma: "Influential monk Ashin Gambira is among a group of political prisoners in the remote Kale jail in northern Burma who began a hunger... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Chemtrail Investigators Wanted
    Here is what I am asking you to do. If this project interests you, please go on the Internet and become familiar with a program called Plane Finder: http://planefinder.net/. Play with it a while to see how you can track aircraft anywhere in the world, provided there are receiving stations in tha ...
  • Evergreen Facility Caught on Film: Chemtrail P ...
    VIDEO connecting the Evergreen Facility with chemtrail activity.
  • Chemtrail Alert: Joe Marman Suing Shasta Count ...
    This is a letter from Attorney Joe Marmon who is suing the Shasta County Air Quality District. Although I live in LA, I have included myself as a plaintiff in this case. Please contact Joe to take action against these crimes against nature and humanity.
  • Hawaii Revisited: Further Geoengineering Inves ...
    Michael J. Murphy, Co-Producer of "What in the World are They Spraying?" returns to Hawaii to further invstigate the chemtrail/geoengineering issue one year after filming the groundbreaking documentary.
  • Cesium Rising
    According to U.C. Berkeley, radioactive Cesium is rising in topsoil, grass, and strawberries.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • 2 Iraqis in Kentucky charged with terrorism
    ShareThis2 Iraqis in Kentucky charged with terrorism 31 May 2011 Two Iraqis living in Kentucky have been arrested on charges that they tried to send sniper rifles, stinger missiles and money to Al Qaeda [al-CIAduh] operatives in their home country, according to court documents unsealed Tuesday. ...
  • Tepco confirms oil leakage at Japan's Fukushim ...
    ShareThisTepco confirms oil leakage at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant 31 May 2011 The Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco), which operates the troubled Fukushima nuclear plant, on Tuesday announced that the facility's reactors have been leaking oil into the sea. At about 8:00 a.m. local time Tepco ...
  • Japanese seniors volunteer for Fukushima 'suic ...
    ShareThisJapanese seniors volunteer for Fukushima 'suicide corps' --250-strong group has volunteered to work in contaminated Fukushima plant 01 Jun 2011 Up a narrow flight of stairs in a modest, non-descript office building, three retirees sit in a cramped room, hunched over their computers and ...
  • Browns Ferry nuclear fuel rods 'sitting in poo ...
    ShareThisBrowns Ferry nuclear fuel rods 'sitting in pools of water under tin roof' 31 May 2011 Residents had impassioned questions and concerns about the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant at a public meeting Tuesday at which federal regulators said more scrutiny is needed after plant safety issues crop ...
  • Asia Times Online journalist feared dead
    ShareThisAsia Times Online journalist feared dead --Police: His body bore marks of torture. 01 Jun 2011 Syed Saleem Shahzad, the Pakistan Bureau Chief for Asia Times Online who went missing on Sunday evening, has been killed, according to police. Shahzad, who has been writing for Hong Kong-based ...

Daily Loaf

  • 5 books that are sure to heat up your kitchen life
    I like to read — a lot. I could make lists counting the hundreds of books that make great reads. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time and you may not have the attention span for that. To keep it short and sweet, here’s a list of five books that I feel add depth and meaning [...]
  • Beer Review: Victory Hop Devil/Victory Hop Wallop
    Victory Brewing Company opened up fifteen years ago in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, but only recently entered the Florida market.  With such beers as their highly touted Prima Pils and Storm King Stout, Victory has earned a rightful place among the respected craft brewers in the United States.  ...
  • D’s nuts: Rays’ crazy defense feeds hitting, p ...
    Tampa Bay took the series victory against the Chicago with the win, getting back to .500 and improving to 2 games back in the American League East division. Rays look for sweep tomorrow.
  • Interview with Michael Foley about the Florida ...
    The Florida Dance Festival provides a springboard for raw talent and fresh ideas.
  • Just plain cheesy: Celebrate National Grilled ...
    April is National Grilled Cheese Month: an entire four weeks devoted to the American classic. The following sandwich recipe is from cheese expert and author Laura Werlin’s book, Great Grilled Cheese.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
    Part 2: Dissecting the Universal Flu Vaccine (continued from Part 1: Dissecting the Seasonal influenza Vaccine) To fully unravel the Biondvax Universal Flu Vaccine scandal, a top down approach is necessary. Professor Ruth Arnon, Ph.D, is the official “inventor of BiondVaxâs innovative synthetic ...
  • VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
    Part 2: Dissecting the Universal Flu Vaccine (continued from Part 1: Dissecting the Seasonal influenza Vaccine) To fully unravel the Biondvax Universal Flu Vaccine scandal, a top down approach is necessary. Professor Ruth Arnon, Ph.D, is the official “inventor of BiondVaxâs innovative synthetic ...
  • VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
    “The first century or two of the new millennium will almost certainly be a golden age for eugenics. Through application of new genetic knowledge and reproductive technologies the major change will be to mankind itself. Techniques such as genetic manipulations are not yet efficient enough t ...
  • VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
    “The first century or two of the new millennium will almost certainly be a golden age for eugenics. Through application of new genetic knowledge and reproductive technologies the major change will be to mankind itself. Techniques such as genetic manipulations are not yet efficient enough t ...
  • VRM: L-Histidine, Squaline, & Human Chorionic ...
    “Vaccination is a monstrosity, a misbegotten offspring of error and ignorance; it should have no place in either hygiene or medicine. Believe not in vaccination, it is a world wide delusion, an unscientific practice, a fatal superstition with consequences measured today by tears and sorrow ...

B.C. Preppers Network

  • You Know You're Getting Old When...
    A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.� A cute little luxury fe ...
  • Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
    Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for.�If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditioner ...
  • Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
    After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
  • Strawberry Picking
    Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
  • Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
    I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal f ...

Michael Yon

  • Memorial Day - 2011
    Ben and Elaina 29 May 2011 Ben Morton answered America�s call from Kansas.� He joined the Army and served in Korea, then reenlisted and served as an infantry Sergeant in Mosul, Iraq.� On the night of 22 May 2005, intelligence was received that high value targets were in a certain large house.� ...
  • Embed Approval
    23 May 2011 The US military in Afghanistan has approved my return with US forces.� Embed should start roughly 02 June with no particular end date in mind.� The plan is to start down South, head to Kabul, then elsewhere.� There will be much fighting this summer.� The Taliban appear to be taking ...
  • Loaded Gun
    16 May 2011 Iraq 2005 Combat was relentless in the surrounding city.� Explosions rumbled in from the neighborhoods and washed over base, which was itself under frequent attack by rockets and mortars.� Four days before Christmas, soldiers were having lunch on the heavily guarded Forward Operati ...
  • Death of a Terrorist
    02 May 2011 Our people have hunted down and killed Osama bin Laden.� Thank you to all the military and other good people who tracked him down to his own sanctuary.� We can only hope that the materials captured at his hiding place will lead to more terrorists, and that they will meet similar end ...
  • The Mysterious Well: Part II of II
    Axe Handle Cam Events from Farah Province, Afghanistan Published 24 April 2011 The previous dispatch ended with Kris LeBoutillier lowering his camera into the mysterious well at Kafir Qala, which is believed to be more than 2,000 years old. The depth and contents of the ancient well were unkn ...

The Killing Train

  • Tories would rather shut down the CBC than ans ...
    This is a video that should be watched widely. These are Harper voters.
  • Watch out for election day fraud
    Francis Fox Piven (who has had her own experiences recently with Harper's US mentors) and Richard Cloward wrote a very interesting book called "Why Americans Don't Vote", which showed how a key electoral strategy in the US has always been demobilizing opposing voters, a strategy just as importan ...
  • Today's election thoughts
    Today's election thoughts, and a couple of photos. Jon Elmer sent me this amusing Vintage Voter site. Vincent Pang sent me this photo album of protests against Harper's second proroguing back in 2010. read more
  • 36% is apparently a majority, but not for a wh ...
    The daily polling is suspicious. Every day the media publishes what the electoral outcome is going to be. And every day it changes. They keep saying there's going to be a Harper majority. Saying it won't make it so, but it might contribute to it. Earlier today I saw an article on CityTV.ca throu ...
  • Canadians are annoyed - deliberation vs. engin ...
    Pollsters now get people to press buttons about how they are feeling as they watch debates, and have discovered that Canadians are annoyed. This then feeds back to politicians, who try to, presumably, be less annoying, or, perhaps, try to blame other politicians for the annoyance. read more

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 ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • ECHR finds Khodorkovsky conviction not politic ...
    [JURIST] The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website] on Tuesday found [judgment text] that former Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky [defense website; JURIST news archive] did not prove his conviction for tax evasion and fraud were politically motivated but that his dete ...
  • Military prosecutors bring charges against 9/1 ...
    [JURIST] The Department of Defense (DOD) [official website] on Tuesday announced that military prosecutors have sworn charges [press release] against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] and four other alleged 9/11 conspirators being held at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archi ...
  • Serbia court rejects Mladic appeal of extradit ...
    [JURIST] The Serbia War Crimes Court Tuesday rejected an appeal by alleged war criminal Ratko Mladic [ICTY backgrounder; JURIST news archive] of the decision that he is medically fit for extradition [JURIST report]. Snezana Malovic, Serbia's justice minister, confirmed [Aljazeera report] that th ...
  • Supreme Court rules Ashcroft immune from suit ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Tuesday ruled [opinion, PDF] in Ashcroft v. al-Kidd [Cornell LII Backgrounder] that a witness in a terror investigation cannot challenge the constitutionality of an objectively reasonable arrest pursuant to a validly obtain ...
  • Supreme Court rules in patent infringement case
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] 8-1 Tuesday in Global-Tech Appliances, Inc. v. SEB, SA [Cornell LII backgrounder; JURIST report] that induced patent infringement requires knowledge that the induced acts constitute patent infringement. Under 35 USC � 271(b) [ ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • What Palin and Trump Might Say to Each Other
    What could the billionaire and the former governor possibly have to talk about at their reported dinner meeting? A list of suggestions. Sarah Palin reached out to Donald Trump for a Tuesday-night dinner meeting in New York City, ABC News's Michael Falcone reported. On some levels, the ...
  • Picture of the Day: Sex-Scandal Murals at a D. ...
    Celebrating libertinism in politics, newcomer SAX cabaret lounge in downtown Washington, D.C. displays the above artwork in honor of the American political sex scandal, to go along with nightly burlesque shows on its 20-foot, glass-enclosed stage. The reservations-only SAX is a bi ...
  • Rep. Anthony Weiner's Underwear/Twitter Drama
    Cast of Characters: New York Rep. Anthony Weiner (minorly involved) Andrew Breitbart (lead) Gennette Nicole Cordova, a college student in Washington state Dan Wolfe, random Twitter user @patriotusa76 Assorted BigGovernment bloggers including Dana Loesch, Lee Stranah ...
  • Perpetual War Is a Bigger Threat Than Terrorism
    Neither Barack Obama nor his Republican challengers have a strategy for victory and peace In a scathing Memorial Day jeremiad against American foreign policy, Andrew Bacevich argues that elected officials are exploiting the troops by sending them to war when doing so isn't necessary. His who ...
  • Republicans Launch Effort to Draft Paul Ryan f ...
    It could be a long shot, but with the 2012 field still settling a group of Republicans wants to recruit the House Budget chairman for a White House run Further evidence that this is the summer of Republicans' discontent: Just as one group of well-heeled Iowans jets East today in hop ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Protest Closing of Rape Case Against Yoav Even
    Join hundreds (I hope) of Israelis opposed to sexual violence against women, who will be protesting the prosecutor’s closing of the rape case against Yoav Even.  The demonstration will be on Thursday, June 9th at 6PM in Tel Aviv outside the prosecutor’s office, 1 Henrietta Szold Street.  The p ...
  • Pentagon Readies Cyber Weapons as Part of U.S. ...
    I don’t know about you, but the following two articles scare the bejesus out of me.  The Washington Post reports the Pentagon has integrated U.S. cyber warfare assets into its  conventional military inventory.  So just as we might send jets to bomb Iraq or any other enemy target, we now can e ...
  • Ofer Brothers Fixer, Amidror?
    The Ofer Brothers story is turning into a serious scandal given the digging now being done by Israeli journalists (and my Israeli source).  Earlier today, I reported that Ofer Brothers had transported Mossad agents on secret missions to Iran during the dozens of illegal visits its ships made to ...
  • Who Shut Down Knesset Investigation into Ofer ...
      I haven’t covered or even followed in any great detail the Ofer Brothers scandal involving illegal trade between Israel and Iran.  But developments today really perked up my ears.  First a bit of background: Ofer Brothers are Israel’s wealthiest family, owning shipping and other interests.  ...
  • Protest the Even Rape Gag Order
    Thanks to Michael Levin for creating a stellar new poster protesting the gag order protecting Israeli TV reporter, Yoav Even from facing public accountability for charges that he raped P.  Israeli feminists will be demonstrating against the gag order in early June in Tel Aviv, and if you’re the ...

Ode Magazine

  • Bearing the message of peace
    By: PeaceCorso Sadako Sasaki (January 7, 1943 - October 25, 1955) was a Japanese girl who was two years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945, near her home by Misasa Bridge in Hiroshima, Japan. Sadako is remembered through the story of attempt ...
  • Prelude to courage
    How anger can improve health, enhance intimacy, spur creativity and even inspire social change. It’s the 1980s, and I am sitting in the Beverly Hills living room of a major 1950s television star, alongside my romantic and sometimes writing partner. I have obtained a magazine assign ...
  • The importance of visualization (and being unr ...
    By: Sam_Rosenzweig When you create a goal and set out to achieve it, it’s easy to get distracted by obstacles along the way. Although it’s smart to address hindrances as they come, there’s something to be said for looking ahead, far ahead, at your destination e ...
  • Rebuilding life in Sendai
    By: Anne Thomas It has been well over a month since I have been in touch. Much has happened in that time, both in Japan and in my personal life. Of course, the world’s attention has mostly sifted away from the disasters here, but even so, there is a lot still g ...
  • Defining the modern expert
    By: Roz Zander Most advice columns offer tried and true practices, and they are soothing to us, but they also limit our options, and often render us complacent. Rhoda is about possibility; I approach the questions I receive and the answers I deliver as inventio ...

OpEd News

  • Obama Comes for the Journalists
    Citizens as well as journalists need to stand up for Risen and against the sleazy, Bush-like tactics of the Obamacrats and the burgeoning national security state. Otherwise, if you don't speak out when they come, first for the whistleblowers, and then for the journalists, when they come for you, ...
  • Interested in Veganism?
    I think medicine may be catching up to science when it comes to our diet. And then of course, Hippocrates got it so right so very long ago when he said "Let food be your medicine."
  • The Night I Forgave My Daughter's Killer
    Using the same mindset as killers to solve our problems demeans our own worth and dignity. Victims' families have every right initially to feelings of revenge. But the laws of our land should not be based on bloodthirsty, gut-level state-sanctioned killings: They should call us to higher moral p ...
  • Increasing the Deficits Will Fire-up The Econo ...
    This political burlesque on Capital Hill so excruciating to watch, because it's such a waste. Peoples lives are being ruined for nothing, just because Congress doesn't have the courage to do the right thing. Do you think they'd hesitate if they had to pony-up for another multi-billion dollar wea ...
  • In Memoriam to Memorial Day
    I no longer stand when the National Anthem is played. It is an abject lie. We are not the "home of the brave." Fewer than three percent of Americans bear the burden of defending on the ground any part of the ground we walk upon. And virtually none care to draw a cent from their personal accounts ...

Switchboard

  • The Chicago River is Broken
    Henry Henderson, Director, Midwest Program NRDC, Chicago, Illinois In recent weeks a couple of high profile boat rides have been used to highlight giant problems facing this region. The first, a cruise taken by Illinois Senators Durbin and Kirk to ...
  • New Film on Destructive Mountaintop Removal Sh ...
    Eric Goldstein, Director of NRDC's New York City Environment, NY Last week, I attended the New York City premiere of “The Last Mountain,” a sobering documentary about the coal industry’s devastating mountaintop removal practices in the Appalachian ...
  • NY AG makes good on his threat to sue to prote ...
    Kate Sinding, Senior Attorney, New York City Today NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sued the federal government for its failure to evaluate the environmental and health risks of new fracking in the critical Delaware River Basin.  We applaud t ...
  • New York mortgage bankers denying mortgage app ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. My colleague Kate Sinding and I have both blogged in the past about how potential homebuyers have been denied mortgages for properties with natural gas leases in Pennsylvania, how FHA will not�insu ...
  • 62 MPG by 2025? Rapid Adoption of Ford's Fuel- ...
    Roland Hwang, Transportation Program Director, San Francisco Nothing will pry the hands of true red-blooded Americans from the steering wheels of their V8 pick-up trucks.  That’s what automakers have suggested for decades.   It doesn’t matter, the ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Introduction
    I’d like to start my first post at LGM by thanking everyone else here for asking me to join the blog. I’ve been blogging in obscurity at Alterdestiny since 2004 and expanding my audience by 20 times or more is going to be fun. I also want to say how intimidating it is to be [...]
  • Introduction
    I’d like to start my first post at LGM by thanking everyone else here for asking me to join the blog. I’ve been blogging in obscurity at Alterdestiny since 2004 and expanding my audience by 20 times or more is going to be fun. I also want to say how intimidating it is to be [...]
  • A New Contributor
    First, I’d like to thank Charli for her contribution to LGM. She has moved to other projects for the time being, but we hope that someday she’ll be able to return. Second, I’d like to welcome our newest regular contributor. Many of you will be familiar with Erik Loomis from his plentiful comment ...
  • A New Contributor
    First, I’d like to thank Charli for her contribution to LGM. She has moved to other projects for the time being, but we hope that someday she’ll be able to return. Second, I’d like to welcome our newest regular contributor. Many of you will be familiar with Erik Loomis from his plentiful comment ...
  • Will Anyone Be Held Accountable?
    I approached yesterday’s decision on the Ashcroft DOJ’s practice of using material witness warrants as a pretext to detain suspects without probable cause with a certain weary resignation; I don’t like the fact that in American politics people with theoretical power and responsibility tend to be ...

Desert Research Institute

  • What effect do clouds have on climate?
    What is the climate effect of tiny particles such as aerosols, soot, and dust, in the atmosphere? Dr. Eric Wilcox, a world-class sailor and researcher, is exploring the answers to these questions linking the ever-changing composition of Earth’s atmosphere and climate change.
  • Best Management Practices for Preserving the L ...
    Alan Heyvaert not only works at Lake Tahoe but that’s where he plays too. “My wife and I are often kayaking around the lake when we have some free time,” said Alan Heyvaert, Ph.D., DRI assistant research professor.
  • DRI researchers work to boost consumer energy ...
    The patented software and hardware gives energy customers the power to realize energy savings. -- DRI scientists Hampden Kuhns, Ph.D. and Morien Roberts, Ph.D are empowering business owners and eventually residents to manage their energy consumption and adopt efficiency measures that will have ...
  • DRI Scientist Featured in Changing Planet Series
    NBC Learn's latest "Changing Planet" video features DRI's Dr. Joe McConnell and black carbon. Black carbon –small soot-like particles that are produced whenever fossil fuels or other organic substances are incompletely burned– is one of the leading contributors to global warming.
  • Rina Schumer Named 2011 Rising Researcher
    The Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents named Dr. Rina Schumer as one of the 2011 Rising Researchers, in recognition of her early-career accomplishments and potential for future advancement. A faculty member in DHS, her current research at DR is focused on the science of s ...

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Civil Rights staffs up
    Some of the lawyers who left the U.S. Depart­ment of Justice's Civil Rights Division during George W. Bush's presidency and complained they were the target of ideological warfare have returned during the past two years as part of a wave of hiring.
  • Bands get all aboard to manage their own joint ...
    In April, three bands boarded a vintage train for a tour through the American Southwest. The bands formed a joint venture to manage the tour and control revenues and related intellectual property. Matthew Wilson, an associate at Atlanta's Arnall Golden Gregory, who structured the deal, described ...
  • 1st Circuit: Voice of the Arab World no longer ...
    Applying the standard set out in the U.S. Supreme Court's 2006 eBay v. MercExchange decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit has vacated a preliminary injunction that barred health care media company Voice of the Arab World Inc. from using the trademark "MDTV."
  • Supreme Court finds former AG John Ashcroft im ...
    Former Attorney General John Ashcroft is immune from a damages suit claiming he used the federal material witness statute in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks as a pretext to detain terrorism suspects, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday.
  • New deans in San Diego and Boulder ? one from ...
    Two law schools named new deans on Monday. The University of San Diego hired Goodwin Procter partner Stephen Ferruolo. The University of Colorado School of Law chose law professor Philip Weiser for its top administrative post.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Forced Pooling: When Landowners Can’t Say No t ...
    by Marie C. Baca, Special to ProPublica May 19, 2011 As the shale gas boom sweeps across the United States, drillers are turning to a controversial legal tool called forced pooling to gain access to minerals beneath private property–in many cases, without the landowners’ permission. Forced poo ...
  • Gas industry no longer must comply with stric ...
    Deadline for policy reversal looms TAKE ACTION TODAY The facts: In December, 2010, a policy document was put in place by DEP, advising air quality professionals responsible for permitting of gas industry compressors and other sites to consider the aggregation (total toxic accumulation) of air em ...
  • SPORTSMEN MARCELLUS SHALE SUMMIT
    Saturday, June 4th University of Pittsburgh – Johnstown Campus In the heart of the Marcellus Shale region, sportsmen and women, and conservation groups are working together to identify and propose solutions to mitigate the impacts from gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing on hunting, fishing an ...
  • Water Well Owner Network Training in Wellsboro, PA
    I’d like to pass this info along from the RDA —- This just in from the Master Well Owners Network. This is a group within Penn State which trains people who have private wells. My husband and several of our friends have received this training, which we all found quite valuable. You learn about t ...
  • Susquehanna River Sentinel
    I just wanted to pass along this link to another blogger’s site who is offering some great information. His recent post addresses water withdrawls and there is a note about Pine Creek (the one that runs through Tioga County, PA) and the water that is being taken from that source. http://srs444.b ...

News Blaze

  • 10 Lives Lost in Latest Smuggling Boat Tragedy ...
    The United Nations refugee agency today voiced shock and sadness after at least 10 people died while making the perilous journey from the Horn of Africa to Yemen aboard a smuggling boat.
  • You Are Funding Forced Abortions in China
    You are funding forced abortions in China. So am I. Not only elective abortions. Forced abortions. It doesn't matter whether you are pro-life or pro-choice on this issue. No one can support forced abortion, because it is not a choice.
  • Money Scripts Affect People's Behavior
    They say money makes the world go 'round, but it sure does spin in epic proportions that we don't notice it at all.
  • NASA Satellite Data Creates The Most Precise M ...
    A NASA-led research team has used a variety of NASA satellite data to create the most precise map ever produced depicting the amount and location of carbon stored in Earth's tropical forests.
  • Bow Wow 'Madea's Big Happy Family' Interview w ...
    It was clear from an early age that Shad 'Bow Wow' Moss was destined for the spotlight. At just 5, he was discovered by Snoop Dogg and featured on the rap icon's groundbreaking 'Doggystyle' album.

environment 360

  • Staple Food Prices Could More than Double by 2 ...
    The prices of staple foods, which have already reached record levels in 2011, could more than double over the next two decades, a new Oxfam report says. According to the report, "Growing a Better Future", a combination of factors — including climate change, diminished natural resources worldwide ...
  • Fish DNA Test Can Help in Fight Against Illega ...
    An international consortium has developed a DNA test that can trace the origin of fish and fish products, an innovation that could improve enforcement of marine fisheries laws and reduce overfishing worldwide. Using forensic technologies, the group FishPopTrace — a Wikimedia coalition of resear ...
  • Drought-Resistant GM Corn Poses Limited Risk - ...
    The U.S. Department of Agriculture is expected to allow the sale of drought-tolerant corn, making it the first commercial crop genetically modified to resist environmental conditions such as drought rather than pests or insecticides. But while the agency says the strain of GM corn engineered by ...
  • Majority of New Buses Will Use Alternative Fue ...
    More than 50 percent of the 64,000 new transit buses expected to arrive on roadways worldwide by 2015 will be fueled by alternative sources of energy, compared with 28 percent of new bus deliveries in 2010, Mercedes Benz according to a report by U.S.-based Pike Research. The most significant gro ...
  • An African Success: In Namibia, The People and ...
    Shortly after gaining independence in 1990, Namibia turned ownership of its wildlife back to the people. By using a system of community-based management, this southern African nation has avoided the fate of most others on the continent and registered a sharp increase in its key wildlife populati ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Adding lithium to the taps "could lower suicid ...
    Lithium has been heralded by some experts as the next potential flouride, after scientists found suicide rates were lower in areas where the drinking water had higher concentrations of the element. Researchers from the Medical University of Vienna compared the suicide rates in different regions ...
  • Terrorist "pre-crime" detector field tested in ...
    Planning a sojourn in the northeastern United States? You could soon be taking part in a novel security programme that can supposedly "sense" whether you are planning to commit a crime. Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST), a US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) programme designed to ...
  • Footage of Western Troops Confirms Criminality ...
    Proof that armed western forces are on the ground in Libya advising rebels confirms that the entire legal premise behind the NATO-led intervention has been shattered and the campaign is now a criminal act of warfare that has nothing whatsoever to do with the original justification of protecting ...
  • "Radiation-Eating" Fungi Finding Could Trigger ...
    Scientists have long assumed that fungi exist mainly to decompose matter into chemicals that other organisms can then use. But researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found evidence that fungi possess a previously undiscovered talent with profound implic ...
  • Ex-CIA PR Firm Crafts Strauss-Kahn's Comeback ...
    Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn strongly denied the attempted rape charges filed against him, in an e-mail to his former Fund colleagues Sunday. Strauss-Kahn's missive came as his lawyer gave interviews to French and Israeli media outlets vowing that his client wo ...

Russia Today

  • Silence of the pets
    Dogs, cats and other pets are now officially banned from making noise at night time in a city in Ukraine. Whenever the new law is violated, tailed delinquents will be fined.
  • Russia’s Olympics and Universiade find common ...
    The organizing committee of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics and Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan, host of Universiade 2013, have signed an agreement to co-ordinate their efforts in preparation for the major sporting events...
  • NATO extends military operation in Libya
    NATO has decided to prolong its military operation in Libya till the end of September, the secretary-general of the alliance, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, announced. Meanwhile, Libya has blamed NATO for killing more than 700...
  • Syria pushes more reforms, West says “not good ...
    The Syrian government has announced a general amnesty of political prisoners, including those sentenced for the 1982 armed uprising. The US and France said it was not enough to reconsider their positions to Bashar...
  • Terrorist talks worth risks if they can save a ...
    Head of Russia’s Republic of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Yevkurov told RT it is important to perceive terrorists not as monsters, but as victims lured into joining terrorist groups. The reasons that motivate them are different...

    Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a C ...
  • Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
    Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �N ...

The Freeman

  • Local Food Makes Strange Dining Companions
    Ironically enough, while many so-called liberals express skepticism about laissez-faire economies, they are the first to indignantly resist intrusion by bureaucrats into local farmers’ markets.
  • Hospitals Balk at Medicare Changes
    “For the first time in its history, Medicare will soon track spending on millions of individual beneficiaries, reward hospitals that hold down costs and penalize those whose patients prove most expensive.” (New York Times) What about the pledge that Medicare would never interfere with the practi ...
  • House to Vote Symbolically on Debt Ceiling Tonight
    “Setting the stage for a long summer of heated negotiations, the House is expected to reject a proposal Tuesday that would increase the nationâs ability to borrow money without also making major cuts in federal spending. A day before they huddle with President Obama at the White House, Republica ...
  • Is a Nation Something That Can Be Built?
    In the wake of both the collapse of the Soviet empire and the more recent U.S. interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, we have seen a lively debate on nation-building. Many people who are ordinarily skeptical about the power of the U.S. government as a force for good, either at home or around the ...
  • Must a Formal Legal System Come Before Prosperity?
    Capital Letters It was disheartening to read John Stossel’s uncritical endorsement of Hernando de Soto’s diagnosis of the causes of poverty in Third World nations as their lack of street addresses and legal titles to property (“Why Do the Poor Stay Poor?,” March 2011). The error of these claims ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Is it stupid to major in journalism?
    A funny thing about writing a blog for a long time is that sometimes you want to write a post … and you discover that you have already written it. My original post (from two years ago) seems to be just as valid today: Why does anyone major in journalism? So I read it and thought about whether ...
  • Ideas for using Encyclo in journalism classes
    Have you looked at Encyclo, the new project from Nieman Journalism Lab? This is a really neat site for the present moment in journalism — when all kinds of new sites and apps are sprouting up like flowers in springtime. Entries include groundbreaking news sites such as the Texas Tribune, techno ...
  • Social media guidelines for journalists
    For the generation that came of age on Facebook, you might think there’s nothing they don’t already know about social media. Think again. Traditional ethics rules still apply online. Assume everything you write online will become public. Use social media to engage with readers, but profess ...
  • Meta research on online journalism
    Usually I do not write about research here, but a new publication prompts me to note that now — almost 20 years after the first “online newspapers” made their debut — some research is beginning to appear about the research that has been done to date. This is great news, because it lays a founda ...
  • Skills for journalists: The basics
    Jennifer Peebles — a self-described “old geezer who used to work at a newspaper” — wrote a post at the SPJ Net Worked blog titled Digital media skills every young journalist needs. Like a lot of old geezers (I say that with affection!), she started with the fundamentals: Be honest, accurate, fai ...

Facing South

  • Top 10 Facing South stories: May 2011
    Didn't catch all of Facing South's coverage this month? Here are some of the hottest stories on Facing South in May: 1 - The dirty energy money behind the Senate move to dismantle the EPA Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) and 15 GOP co-sponsors want to merge the Environmental Protection Agency and ...
  • Exxon ad makes gas drilling seem simpler -- an ...
    By Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica ExxonMobil has been running a series of ads aimed at assuring people that shale gas drilling is safe. One of those ads, a full-page spread in last Monday's New York Times and Washington Post, shows what a well looks like as it extends more than a mile and a half ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The Southern roots of Memoria ...
    Year in which former slaves in Charleston, S.C. held a funeral procession to honor Union soldiers who died in a local Confederate prison camp: 1865 Number of people who took part in the May 1 procession, called Decoration Day, held after the freedmen dug individual graves for the soldiers (in p ...
  • Supreme Court gives Southern states more incen ...
    The Supreme Court's ruling this week that California's prisons are so overcrowded it amounts to cruel and unusual punishment -- requiring the release of 30,000 prisoners -- is rightly being heralded as a landmark case for the rights of the incarcerated. But it's also the latest in a d ...
  • After tornadoes, Alabama's rural communities f ...
    By Ada McMahon, Bridge the Gulf On a beautiful late afternoon in early May, Dedrick Benison and Michael Calvin are quietly surveying the house that came crashing down around them just a week before (photo right). On April 27th they were watching a movie here, a neighbor's house on the catfis ...

Worldpress - Africa

  • Piracy and Pigeonholed Security in Somalia
    Somali pirates are a menace to local waters as well as international security. Outside assistance should be provided to bolster the country's coast guard.
  • Piracy and Pigeonholed Security in Somalia
    Somali pirates are a menace to local waters as well as international security. Outside assistance should be provided to bolster the country's coast guard.
  • Repression of the Press in Zimbabwe
    Although Zimbabwe has a more open press than in the past, journalists and news organizations that threaten the government still regularly feel the hand of the crackdown.
  • Repression of the Press in Zimbabwe
    Although Zimbabwe has a more open press than in the past, journalists and news organizations that threaten the government still regularly feel the hand of the crackdown.
  • Nigeria Post-Presidential-Election Violence
    Post-election violence has put Nigeria has resulted in more than 200 dead and more than 40,000 displaced. Nigeria needs comprehensive political reforms to safeguard its democracy and the future of its citizens.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Virtually Speaking with Stirling Newberry and ...
    Last night, starting hour 2.  More Stirling than me, though as I was sick last night, I was even more straightforward than usual.  A lot of talk about political and cultural dysfunction.
  • Illness and the price of prosperity
    One of the pathologies of American, and to a lesser extent, Western society, which really stands out yet is rarely remarked on, is the absolute epidemic of chronic diseases we suffer from.  From historically apocalyptic rates of cancer to asthma, to heart and stroke disease, we’re one sick bunc ...
  • Looting Greece while the Greeks Riot
    So, apparently EU finance ministers are encouraging Greece to speed up privatization.  Which is to say, let themselves be looted faster, and transfer public goods into private hands at firesale prices.  Meanwhile, the Greeks themselves continue to riot in all the wrong places.  Folks, if you’ ...
  • Why The Assassination Strategy Doesn’t Work
    So, Osama is dead.  Which is to say, he’s a martyr.  Of the many gifts the US gave him in his life, and they were many, this may be the last one.  Some say he didn’t want to be martyred, at least not right this moment, and no doubt that’s true.  But the difference between [...]
  • More Concrete Bin Laden #’s
    60% is certainly better than 87%, but it doesn’t change the fundamental argument.  Go to it. Click on the image for full size and more legible.

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • The end of a grand Endeavour
    Space shuttle Endeavour touched down for the last time today. Mission STS-134 carried the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer instrument to the International Space Station. Some physicists hope it will spot particles emanating from antigalaxies (see: Antiuniverse here we come) “They’re getting ...
  • Science raises questions about XMRV study - up ...
    XMRV is running out of legs to stand on. The journal Science, which published a controversial 2009 paper linking the retrovirus to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), has published two follow-up papers undermining the association, as well as an “editorial expression of concern” indicating that th ...
  • Science raises questions about XMRV study - up ...
    XMRV is running out of legs to stand on. The journal Science, which published a controversial 2009 paper linking the retrovirus to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), has published two follow-up papers undermining the association, as well as an “editorial expression of concern” indicating that th ...
  • The sexual politics of sexual conflict
    Posted on behalf of Jo Marchant. The emerging field of “sexual conflict” covers everything from hermaphrodite snails that digest each other’s sperm to female spiders that cannabilise their mates. So researchers in this area should have a pretty enlightened view of the sexes, right? Not accord ...
  • The sexual politics of sexual conflict
    Posted on behalf of Jo Marchant. The emerging field of “sexual conflict” covers everything from hermaphrodite snails that digest each other’s sperm to female spiders that cannabilise their mates. So researchers in this area should have a pretty enlightened view of the sexes, right? Not accord ...

new geography

  • The Katrina Effect: Renaissance On The Mississippi
    In this most insipid of recoveries, perhaps the most hopeful story comes from New Orleans. Today, its comeback story could serve as a model of regional recovery for other parts of the country � and even the world. You could call it the Katrina effect. A lovely city, rich in history, all�too com ...
  • The Evolving Urban Form: Jakarta (Jabotabek)
    There is probably no large urban area in the world that better illustrates the continuing dispersion of urban population and declining urban population density than Jakarta. Recently released 2010 census data indicates over the past decade that 84 percent of the metropolitan area (Jabotabek) ...
  • Recover, Rebuild: Christchurch New Zealand Aft ...
    Lincoln University in New Zealand did a great job of assembling some leaders in the principles and practice of disaster recovery for its Resilient Futures workshop recently in support of recovery in Christchurch after the February earthquake.  And in keeping with one of the themes � the import ...
  • Goodbye, New York State Residents are Rushing ...
    For more than 15 years, New York State has led the country in domestic outmigration: for every American who comes to New York, roughly two depart for other states. This outmigration slowed briefly following the onset of the Great Recession. But a new Marist poll released last week suggests th ...
  • Transit: The 4 Percent Solution
    A new Brookings Institution report provides an unprecedented glimpse into the lack of potential for transit to make a more meaningful contribution to mobility in the nation's metropolitan areas. The report, entitled Missed Opportunity: Transit and Jobs in Metropolitan America, provides estim ...

GM Watch

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Cryptogon

  • Local Food Makes Strange Dining Companions
    Via: The Freeman: The litany of abuses by centralized power against the individual is long and predictable. But centralization in agriculture, that hazy realm from which our food spontaneously appears, poses its own set of dangers to individual aspirations. Now that fewer than 2 percent of the p ...
  • CONGRESS MULLS CUTS TO FOOD STAMPS PROGRAM AMI ...
    Millions of broke, hungry, armed people? What could possibly go wrong? Besides, there are robotic, long range nuclear bombers to be built. Via: ABC News: Congress is under pressure to cut the rapidly rising costs of the federal government’s food stamps program at a time when a record number of A ...
  • Mobius Says Fresh Financial Crisis Around Corner
    Via: Bloomberg: Mark Mobius, executive chairman of Templeton Asset Management’s emerging markets group, said another financial crisis is inevitable because the causes of the previous one haven’t been resolved. “There is definitely going to be another financial crisis around the corner because we ...
  • Libya Lost $1.3 Billion on Options Trades Done ...
    But first, remember this one? The Long and Short of It at Goldman Sachs: The point to bear in mind, as Mr. Sloan brilliantly makes clear, is that as Goldman was peddling C.M.O.’s, it was also shorting the junk on a titanic scale through index sales â showing, at least to me, how horrible a [...]
  • Ex-Egypt Bank Head Arrested on Sex Charges
    Via: Bloomberg: The former chairman of Egypt’s Bank of Alexandria was charged with sexually abusing a maid at the Pierre Hotel in New York, police said. Mahmoud Abdel Salam Omar, 74, chairman of El-Mex Salines Co., was arrested yesterday after a 44 year-old female maid alleged he attacked her Ma ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 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 ...

Desertification

  • Grow food on vertical panels or on Phytopod co ...
    Read at : http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/high-density-vertical-growth-systems/ High Density Vertical Growth Systems A couple different systems are featured here â one for large commercial operations and one for the balcony. Valcent Products makes the commercial system, noting that â ...
  • European countries must abandon subsidies and ...
    Read at : http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=55854 âEurope Worsening Hunger Worldwideâ By Timothy Spence BRUSSELS, May 31, 2011 (IPS) – With spiralling food prices threatening to leave millions more people hungry every year, European countries must abandon subsidies and higher production targets ...
  • IFAD will have financed seven projects in Chad ...
    Read at : http://www.africanagricultureblog.com/2011/05/un-grant-to-help-rural-farmers-in-chad.html UN grant to help rural farmers in Chad The United Nations agency tasked with trying to alleviate rural poverty has announced a $17.4 million loan and grant agreement aimed at helping some 132,000 ...
  • The extraordinary success of Burkina Faso (Afr ...
    Read at : http://www.africanagricultureblog.com/2011/05/burkina-fasos-farming-miracle.html Burkina Fasoâs farming miracle by Duncan Green Just been reading âHelping Africa to Feed Itself: Promoting Agriculture to Reduce Poverty and Hungerâ, a paper by Steve Wiggins and Henri Leturque, both of th ...
  • China: lowest rainfall levels for at least 60 ...
    Read at : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/china-business/8321368/Chinas-drought-could-have-devastating-consequences.html China’s drought could have ‘devastating’ consequences Lowest rainfall for 60 years in the North China Plain threatens wheat harvest, food prices and the global economy. By ...

The Paper Trail

  • Center staff honored with awards
    Spring is journalism awards season and we’re delighted that the Center for Public Integrity and partner NPR have received a prestigious Dart Award for the story “Seeking Justice in Campus Rapes.” The award is bestowed by the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University.
  • A new site, a new era
    Make iWatch News your daily source for investigative and accountability news from around the corner – and across the globe.
  • Accountant gets $4.5 million from IRS for whis ...
    PHILADELPHIA — An accountant who tipped off the IRS that his employer was skimping on taxes has received $4.5 million in the first IRS whistleblower award.
  • Hey Congressman! How many federal workers are ...
    When Republican Mike Pence stood in front of a crowd of conservative activists at the end of March, he left no question as to his views on a possible government shutdown.
  • E-mails allege strife within ATF over Grassley ...
    An employee of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives alleged that he was “called to the carpet” by supervisors, accused of lying and ordered to write down everything that was said in meetings that were held with Senate staffers conducting an inquiry, according to newly release ...

backofthebook.ca

  • SIU tries, tries again to identify G20 cop thug
    By Alison@Creekside Oversight - noun 1) the action of overseeing something 2) an omission, the failure to do something Dorian Barton was taking a picture of police horses in the park at the G20 summit in downtown Toronto last summer when he was suddenly knocked to the ground from beh ...
  • Kevin Annett’s unfinished testament &#82 ...
    Continued from page 1 On August 9th, 2010, Annett took a phone call on his long-running radio show, “Hidden from History.” The caller wanted to discuss rumours of police complicity in the murders committed by Robert Pickton. “I have specific evidence of what you’re talking about,” Annett repl ...
  • Kevin Annett’s unfinished testament
    By Frank Moher Kevin Annett lives in a small white house facing onto a plain street in downtown Nanaimo, BC. The local RCMP detachment, with its lot full of solid, square cop cars, is just around the corner. Inside, on a watery day in mid-January, the living room is lit only ...
  • Wikileaked: The “incremental approach&#8 ...
    By Alison@Creekside I guess everyone has their favorite US Ambassador to Canada. Mine has always been Paul Cellucci, who once suggested building huge aqueducts to carry Canadian water to the US and worried in 2008 that the election of Obama would "imperil the future economic integration of ...
  • Farm This Way
    By Rachel Krueger When it comes to pop cultural infections, the only thing worse than hearing "Born This Way" AGAIN (again from when I heard it this morning, but also again from when I heard it in 1989) is getting a facebook notification that Jodie just bought me a cow and ...

libcom

  • Clashes in Italian ports over job cuts
    italy.jpg Italian portworkers have clashed with police in a number of protests following the announcement of sweeping job cuts. The job cuts constitute part of the Berlusconi g ...
  • Clashes in Italian ports over job cuts
    italy.jpg Italian portworkers have clashed with police in a number of protests following the announcement of sweeping job cuts. The job cuts constitute part of the Berlusconi g ...
  • Hyundai strike hit with police repression in S ...
    hyundai.jpg Riot police have broken up a strike and occupation of Yoosung Enterprise factory in Asan, south of Seoul. Around 3000 riot police have attacked 500 strikers staging ...
  • Hyundai strike hit with police repression in S ...
    hyundai.jpg Riot police have broken up a strike and occupation of Yoosung Enterprise factory in Asan, south of Seoul. Around 3000 riot police have attacked 500 strikers staging ...
  • Spain: It's our moment: May the occupations an ...
    graphic.jpg A statement by the anarchosyndicalist CNT of Spain on the May protests and occupations which have swept the country. The countless demonstrations and occupations th ...

Free Range International

  • There’s Fire
    Fighting season is now on. This year the villains strategy appears to involve deliberate attacks on aid projects and let me tell you something we (the outside the wire aid community) are getting hammered.  In the last week a majority of us have had to deal with murders, intimidation, shootings, ...
  • Where There Is Smoke
    In the Helmand Province, this year’s fighting season has started off with a whimper.  On May Day (as predicted) the only action was in Paktika Province where a child suicide bomber violated the latest Taliban public announcement by blowing himself up in a police station.  The Taliban had just ...
  • Leadership 101
    Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory is never pleasant to observe, especially when it is an American President doing the snatching.  President Obama was running strong:  1. He just announced The Dream Team taking over the Afghan campaign,  2. He launched a unilateral direct action mission d ...
  • May Day
    The ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) has taken an unusual step by issuing a warning to all internationals, alerting of coordinated “spectacular attacks”,  kidnapping of internationals, suicide bombings, and all manner of general mayhem to kick off  Sunday, 1 May.  To the bes ...
  • Victory Day
    Well, here we are, a week away from Victory Day, the third annual national holiday celebrating the martial history of Afghanistan.  There is Independence Day in August, which celebrates running the Brits out of the country in the 1800’s. Then, there is Liberation Day, in February, which mark ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • McKinney Bombshell
    Cynthia McKinney Drops Bombshell: Candidates to sign pledges of support for “Israel” by Richard Edmondson, source In an interview which aired on Press TV on Saturday–one day before the AIPAC conference got under way in Washington–former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney revealed what amount ...
  • Sometimes It’s Nice to be Proven RIGHT!!
    During the years 2005-2008, I spent hundreds of hours on radio and TV talk shows, and gave dozens of PowerPoint presentations on what I labeled the “BIRD FLU SCAM”.  This, of course, evolved into the “SWINE FLU SCAM” – a non-existent “pandemic” which I at that time declared was designed primari ...
  • Sometimes It’s Nice to be Proven RIGHT!!
    During the years 2005-2008, I spent hundreds of hours on radio and TV talk shows, and gave dozens of PowerPoint presentations on what I labeled the “BIRD FLU SCAM”.  This, of course, evolved into the “SWINE FLU SCAM” – a non-existent “pandemic” which I at that time declared was designed primari ...
  • More Zombiology 101 — Why Rational Think ...
    During the PANDEMIC FLU HYPE of 2006-2008, I poured over dozens of research texts.  Most were authored by individuals associated with the W.H.O. (The World Health Organization – a division of the Zionist Club of Rome), the U.S. Army Biological Weapons Lab, Ft. Detrich, Maryland, and/or the CENT ...
  • More Zombiology 101 — Why Rational Think ...
    During the PANDEMIC FLU HYPE of 2006-2008, I poured over dozens of research texts.  Most were authored by individuals associated with the W.H.O. (The World Health Organization – a division of the Zionist Club of Rome), the U.S. Army Biological Weapons Lab, Ft. Detrich, Maryland, and/or the CENT ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

  • Downsizing – downscaling? See these tiny ...
    Here’s a great company doing inspiring work www.tumbleweedhouses.com The company creator, Jay Shafer started off making a super small mobile home for himself measuring  just 89 square feet! Their video is a testament to less being more – they’re now selling ready made mobile cabins and the plan ...
  • Air powered environmentally friendly car being ...
    Sounds a little strange right – an air powered car – why isn’t this big news I wonder… There’s a great company in France operated by a former Formula 1 engineer now producing cars running on compressed air. They’re not great to look at, super fast, or I’m guessing really comfortable, but they’re ...
  • Deforestation – environmental & human ef ...
    There are many types of forest in the world from Temperate Forest to Tropical forest. The one thing all forests have in common is that the trees in them act as the lungs to our planet converting CO2 to Oxygen.  In addition, forests provide a canopy or shading of the earth which helps maintain te ...
  • Could cancer be Fungus? If so, maybe here&#821 ...
    Recently I visited a dear friend who has been dealing with breast cancer for over ten years. After a long attempt to avoid surgery and medication, she was forced to have a double mastectomy. She has chosen to avoid the chemo treatments. This takes a lot of courage given that the standard thing t ...
  • Doctors Warn about GM Food Risks
    It’s barely been a week since I wrote about the dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and now the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has released a strongly-worded warning about the health dangers associated with Frankenfoods. Calling for a moratorium on GM foods, the AAEM sa ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • Memorial Day Thank You
    Happy Memorial Day to all my fellow Veterans -- Scotty- My Best to you and yours and thank you .
  • Scotts Contracting Storm Damage Repair and Wat ...
    Storm Damage Repair- Roofing, Skylights, Waterproofing, and misc General Repairs. See Hail Storm Photos taken by Amateur Climatologist Sharon Wendel http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2126076955683.2123535.1358693673 and **Hail Storm Photos 5/25/2011 http://www.kmov.com/younews/122619894.h ...
  • Cut the St Louis Coal Electric Plant Emissions by
    Energy Efficient Homes use Less Coal Fired Electricity and Reduce Carbon Emissions-"if every home in America reduces their energy use by the average in this program, projected energy usage would drop by more than 26,000 GWh per year-equal to the emissions from three 500-MW coal-fired power plant ...
  • Rapture
    If for some reason I’m not wisked away in the upcoming Rapture on May 21st 2011. I’ll be available for your Green Building Needs in St Louis. email: scottscontracting about your project. With Cooling season is approaching- Proper Insulation Levels in your Attic coupled with Ventilation will save ...
  • Share Your Ideas With MO Sen Claire McCaskill
    “Kitchen Table Talk” in St. Louis at the St. Louis Public Library – Buder Branch (4401 Hampton Avenue) from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The purpose of this meeting is to reach out to you, to listen to your thoughts and ideas about federal policies and legislation and to take them back to the Senato ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Daughter of Deceased Dissident Dies Following ...
    (1 June 2011) Interference by security and plainclothes agents in the funeral of prominent Iranian political activist Ezatollah Sahabi, including beatings of mourners, led to the death of Sahabi’s daughter Haleh, who suffered a fatal heart attack at the event today. “The shameful actions of gove ...
  • Daughter of Deceased Dissident Dies Following ...
    (1 June 2011) Interference by security and plainclothes agents in the funeral of prominent Iranian political activist Ezatollah Sahabi, including beatings of mourners, led to the death of Sahabi’s daughter Haleh, who suffered a fatal heart attack at the event today. “The shameful actions of gove ...
  • هاله سحابی درپی حمله نیروهای امنیتی به مراسم خ ...
    برپایه برخی گزارش‌ها، هاله سحابی با تصمیم مأموران امنیتی برای تغییر مسیر تشییع جنازه  مخالفت کرده و به همین دلیل مورد حمله قرار گرفته است.
  • هاله سحابی درپی حمله نیروهای امنیتی به مراسم خ ...
    برپایه برخی گزارش‌ها، هاله سحابی با تصمیم مأموران امنیتی برای تغییر مسیر تشییع جنازه  مخالفت کرده و به همین دلیل مورد حمله قرار گرفته است.
  • هاله سحابی به پدرش پیوست
    جرس: هاله سحابی در مراسم تشییع پدرش در اثر پنجه بوکس لباس شخصی ها درگذشت. به گزارش جرس، هاله سحابی که صبح امروز در صف جلو تشییع کنندگان پیکر مهندس سحابی به رفتار خشونت آمیز نیروهای امنیتی و لباس شخصی اعتراض کرد و مورد حمله آنان قرار گرفت. read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The “Me-Too” Drug Rip-Off
    www.oldthinkernews.com In addition to the billions of health care dollars drug companies waste on disease mongering – convincing the public that everyday human problems are  illnesses requiring treatment – billions more are wasted on developing and marketing hundreds of “me-too” drugs. By defini ...
  • Childhood Bipolar Disorder – the Role o ...
    Dr Peter Parry (see 5/21 blog) puts the blame for the dangerous fad of prescribing unapproved antipsychotic drugs for children squarely where it belongs: on drug and insurance companies. While internal memos (see http://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/docs/Paediatricbipolardisorderacontroversyfromt ...
  • The Book of Mormon: the Musical
    This past week NPR (Terry Gross Fresh Air) played a selection of tunes from the new Broadway smash hit The Book of Mormon, by the creators of the irreverent TV series South Park -  (Trey Parker and Matt Stone  – with musical assistance from Robert Lopez). The digital cast recording is already ...
  • Childhood Bipolar Disorder: Scapegoating Kids ...
    Understanding why foreign psychiatrists are so scandalized by their American colleagues’ cavalier attitude towards pediatric bipolar disorder requires some understanding of the child development model psychiatrist and psychologists use in assessing emotional and behavioral problems. The mode ...
  • Drug Companies: Killing Kids for Profit
    Practicing psychiatry for eight and a half years in New Zealand has given me a unique perspective on childhood bipolar disorder, in my view the most dangerous “made in America” condition. This, too, is a condition virtually unknown outside the US. My membership in the Royal Australian and New ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • The Carrington Event
    Early in the morning of September 2nd 1859 the sky brightened and gold miners in Colorado got up and started cooking their breakfast. Gold miners get up with the Sun of course, at least the gold miners of that era. It wasn’t long before they noticed that while the sky was amazingly bright and co ...
  • Netanyahu Makes Israel’s Position Clear: ...
    Netanyahu gave  a speech to Congress where he clarified Israel’s position on a negotiated settlement with the Palestinians, and his opinion of Obama’s recent policy speech on the Middle East. The title of the post pretty much sums it up. And how did our elected leaders respond to this man? He g ...
  • Through Thick and Thin
    Well, no rapture. No surprise. It really is dismaying how people can believe prima facie nonsense in this day and age. It’s especially galling because so many Americans, especially the ones who fall for this kind of crap, have an especially high opinion of America and Americans. A country where ...
  • God sent an angel to me, he said that unless e ...
    Heck, if even one person in a thousand comes though, I’ll still clear over $300K. Beats working for a living, that’s for sure. Yes, unless the gentle reader has been in a  coma, the rapture is scheduled for this Saturday. I’ve had people actually tell me that I would make a great cult leader. I ...
  • Obama is a genius, liberals are stupid
    I’m firing blind here, since I really haven’t kept up with any more than the gist of current  events the last day or two. However, Obama’s speech about the Middle East and Israel deserves a response. I in fact read it, I can see why people are getting excited. It contains some truly stirring pr ...

FourWinds10

  • SYNTHETIC SEA -- OCEANS OF PLASTIC
  • Military Debris Threaten Oceans
    BANGALORE, Apr 14, 2011 (IPS) - Military debris dumped into the world’s oceans are hazardous to coral ecosystems, reefs, fish and marine wildlife, say experts, who also warn - in light of the recent tragedy in Japan - that earthquakes and tsunamis could disturb this debris and even wash it ashor ...
  • Ocean Garbage: Floating Landmines
    No matter where you travel on the Canada's West Coast, no matter how remote or seemingly untrammelled and pristine the fiord or inlet, a piece of plastic, Styrofoam or other garbage has been there before you. God knows how it got there: Dumped recklessly off a vessel, swept down a river or throu ...
  • Fight Against Marine Garbage Runs Into Plastic ...
    HONOLULU, Hawaii, U.S., Mar 28, 2011 (IPS) - Every day, billions of plastic bags and bottles are discarded, and every day, millions of these become plastic pollution, fouling the oceans and endangering marine life. No one wants this, but there is wide disagreement about how to stop it. "Every ti ...
  • Florida spring breakers find the oil (VIDEO)

Crisis Maven

  • Why Our Future Must Be Solar As Our Past Once Was
    When you put a pot on the hot plate on your stove and switch on the heat â do you not expect the pot to get hot? When you add energy on the earth’s surface to what the sun and geothermal influences already provide would you not expect the earth respectively the atmosphere to get [...]
  • Why Our Future Must Be Solar As Our Past Once Was
    When you put a pot on the hot plate on your stove and switch on the heat â do you not expect the pot to get hot? When you add energy on the earth’s surface to what the sun and geothermal influences already provide would you not expect the earth respectively the atmosphere to get [...]
  • Update: Greenpeace measures Caesium 40 miles f ...
    … and hence in areas not yet evacuated though they should obviously have been. Map of Radiation Measurements by Greenpeace team See also: Call for further evacuation around Fukushima Now, if nothing should happen, those within these areas and of course also further beyond, even in adjacent count ...
  • How to protect your garden patch or field agai ...
    Do you own a garden, a patch of land, a field where you plant, esp. for human food or animal feed? Then you should prepare against letting the radioactive fall-out from Japan into your soil, where it will remain and contaminate your plants and e.g. livestock for probably decades. Here’s the advi ...
  • Politicians of all countries, recollect yourse ...
    Dear politicians, there’s no alternative to forever turning our backs on nuclear energy and fast. Sure, the nuclear industry will protest vigorously and will see profits dwindle but they will survive without much problem – as opposed to many Japanese. It is but a question of time until another c ...

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Scientists Create Ethanol From Hydrogen They C ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Alas, today I had intended to put up my book review of Amanda Littleâs book Power Trip, but I left the book on my desk in the office and I need to review some notes first. So that should be posted for my Thursday column. If you haven’t [...]
  • Scientists Create Ethanol From Hydrogen They C ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Alas, today I had intended to put up my book review of Amanda Littleâs book Power Trip, but I left the book on my desk in the office and I need to review some notes first. So that should be posted for my Thursday column. If you haven’t [...]
  • Air Force Says Biomass-Based Jet Fuel is 10 Ti ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Just over a year ago, I wrote an article called Is Camelina the Next Jatropha? If you recall, a few years ago jatropha was all the rage. It could grow in marginal soil, didn’t need much water, and could provide fuel that didn’t compete with food. Farmers i ...
  • Air Force Says Biomass-Based Jet Fuel is 10 Ti ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Just over a year ago, I wrote an article called Is Camelina the Next Jatropha? If you recall, a few years ago jatropha was all the rage. It could grow in marginal soil, didn’t need much water, and could provide fuel that didn’t compete with food. Farmers i ...
  • Democrats and Energy Policy
    Join the forum discussion on this post An Energy Epiphany I have often thought that if all domestic oil production and refining ceased in this country for a month, we would see an energy epiphany in the U.S. the likes of which we have never seen. Such an event would really drive home our depe ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

big think

  • One Month, Three Eclipses
    What's the Latest Development? During the month of June, the world will experience two partial solar eclipses�separated�by a full lunar eclipse. The cosmic events begin with a rare midnight solar eclipse that will take place at the zenith of the planet, the high�Arctic, on June 1 and 2, and wi ...
  • Mining Uranus for Fuel
    What's the Latest Development? Adam Crowl is the leader of fuel acquisition for Project Icarus, an ambitious five-year study into launching an unmanned spacecraft to an interstellar destination. Travelling to another star requires great distances to be�traversed, distances that are currently b ...
  • Testing String Theory
    What's the Latest Development? Jennifer Oriel, an academic at�Deakin University, calls the Large Hadron Collider "poetry in motion", so wide-reaching and powerful is its potential. The world's most important particle�accelerator�will put physics' latest theories to the test in the coming year ...
  • Tracking Water Shortages From Space
    What's the Latest Development? Researchers at the University of California are beginning to get a better idea of how much water people across the globe are consuming and from where they are drawing it. Using twin satellites�orbiting�the Earth that measure gravitational�fluctuation, Dr.�Jay ... ...
  • More Water Discovered on the Moon
    What's the Latest Development? New research has found that the moon's insides are likely as wet as the Earth's upper mantle, the region just below its miles-thick surface crust. The prevailing theory of the moon's formation holds that it coalesced from pieces of the early Earth blasted into sp ...

Information Liberation

  • Abolish the Police
    On May 13, 1985, in the twilight of the Cold War, residents of Philadelphia were ruthlessly bombed from the sky. The enemy government was conducting a political mission, but innocent inhabitants of that distinctly American city were caught up in ...
  • FBI seizes Ferrari, takes joy ride, crashes an ...
    In 2008 the FBI managed to track down a stolen Ferrari -- much to the owners delight -- but not for long. An agent decided to take the car for a spin before it was returned to the owner. He crashed it and no one is willing to pay-up. The owner is ...
  • 32 Signs That The Entire World Is Being Transf ...
    Do you want your children and grandchildren to live in a futuristic "big brother" control grid where everything they do is watched, recorded, tracked and tightly controlled?* Well, that is exactly where things are headed.* We witnessed some really ba...
  • Harry Reid Accuses Rand Paul of Supporting Ter ...
    "...he's fighting for an amendment to protect the right, not of average citizens, but of terrorists to cover up their gun purchases." Here's Rand's response: ...
  • Where'd the Patriot Act's Malcontents Go?
    It seems like only yesterday that a power-hungry president and administration, bent on starting preventive wars, shredding due process rights, stripping detainees of habeas corpus, and asserting executive supremacy in almost everything was trying to ...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Free Speech, Gag Orders And Accountability
    I’m going to tackle this in more depth a little later. But the other day I was shown (Hat-tip Izen) the existence of something called super-injunctions, of which prior till now I’d been blissfully ignorant. It’s important enough to call … Continue reading →
  • Playing the Race Card
    I couldn’t let the current events at the DT pass by without a comment or two, and a chance for us to have a somewhat more sane discussion if at all possible. For those who haven’t seen it, James Delingpole … Continue reading →
  • Animal Welfare: A Good Cause Gone Bad
    Very few things burn me more than cruelty to animals. Every time I see a story in the news regarding the mistreatment of horses, dogs or other domestic or wild animals, it produces a visceral reaction in me not unlike … Continue reading →
  • The Sixty-Four Foot Cube
    As I write this, the United States of America today reached its statutory debt ceiling of 14.294 trillion dollars. Treasury has announced that, unless Congress grants the Obama administration an increase in the debt ceiling in the next few weeks, … Continue reading →
  • That Pigs Might Fly
    Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation and I care not who makes its laws. Mayer Amschel Rothschild 1744-1812 Thanks everyone for holding the fort during my absence; as a matter of fact, I’ve been on … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

RFF Library

  • The Motor Vehicle Supply Chain: Effects of the ...
    Congressional Research Service http://bit.ly/joAzzV The March 2011 Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami devastated the northeast coast of Japan with the most powerful natural disaster in Japanâs modern history…The effect of these disasters has been first and foremost borne by Japanese automakers, ...
  • Climate Change: Key Terms in 23 Languages
    European Commission, IATE (InterActive Terminology for Europe) database http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/librairie/PDF/Climatechange_Key-terms_bookmarks.pdf A climate change glossary in all the languages of the European Union. Look up terms for “Clean Development Mechanism”, “Clima ...
  • CO2 Emissions Induced by EU’s Final Use ...
    Eurostat http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-SF-11-022/EN/KS-SF-11-022-EN.PDF Eurostat estimates the emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) induced by EU’s final use of products to be 9 tonnes per capita and year. The modelling-estimations are based on environmentally extended input- ...
  • Garnaut Climate Change Review – Update 2011: A ...
    Ross Gaunaut for the Commonwealth of Australia http://www.garnautreview.org.au/update-2011/garnaut-review-2011.html [Green Car Congress]  It will be much harder and more expensive for Australia to do its fair share on climate change without a carbon pricing scheme, according to the final report ...
  • Annual European Union Greenhouse Gas Inventory ...
    European Environment Agency www.eea.europa.eu/publications/european-union-greenhouse-gas-inventory-2011 [From Executive Summary] EU‑27 : Total GHG emissions, without Land Use, Land‑Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF), in the EU‑27 decreased by 17.4 % between 1990 and 2009 (974 million tonnes CO2-eq ...

Scientific American - News

  • String Theory: Violinist Taps Artificial Intel ...
    Halfway into a recent performance at New York City's Bohemian National Hall violinist Mari Kimura had already performed "Preludio" from Bach's Partita No. 3 in E Major followed by several pieces in which she deftly demonstrated her innovative "subharmonics" techniques for extending the ...
  • Climate Change Linked to Social Collapses in G ...
    The Norse came to a new land around the end of the first millennium, borne on the backs of their Viking long ships and lured away from Iceland by the promise of Erik the Red's Greenland. The land was indeed green when they landed--and stayed that way for several centuries until natural variation ...
  • Astronomical Deficit Forces Downsizing of U.S. ...
    BOSTON--Astronomy is facing a lean decade. That was the message handed down by senior representatives of the federal agencies that fund much of the field's research in the U.S. during "town halls" with scientists here at the semiannual meeting of the American Astronomical Society. [More] ...
  • Kepler Spacecraft Shows That Smaller Planets A ...
    BOSTON--Score one for the little guys. After years of obscurity in the corners of distant planetary systems smaller exoplanets are finally shuffling into the spotlight. [More]
  • Good Vibrations: U.S. Consumer Web Site Aims t ...
    We take it for granted that our hair dryers won't send us to the emergency room and our toothbrushes won't make us go numb. Unfortunately, the same can't be said about sex toys.It's entirely possible that someone's favorite cyclotron vibrator can shell-shock nerves, penis rings might lead to a g ...

First Truths

  • "Pre-Existing Revolutionary Practices"
    Jeff Shantz's Constructive Anarchy: Building Infrastructures of Resistance:
  • "The Leviathan is stronger than ever..."
    From Daniel Singer's 1970 book, Prelude to Revolution: France in May 1968: “Anarchy” is one of the most fashionable words of our time. It was flogged in France during the May crisis, though clearly not to death, since it lives on in every newspaper and flourishes in conservative conversation. Th ...
  • Lowenthal: Hodgskin not a socialist
    In her 1911 dissertation, The Ricardian Socialists, Esther Lowenthal wrote the following of Thomas Hodgskin, arguing that he was “not wholly a socialist,” and that socialism per se stresses “social control.” Benjamin Tucker would have disagreed: It may be said that the economic element in social ...
  • Woodcock on Proudhon and "industrial gigantism"
    In the introduction to his celebrated biography of Proudhon, George Woodcock remarks upon some of the pitfalls of largeness and capital accumulation that have become so pronounced in the world today. That so many today should be so sure that hierarchy and rigidity develop naturally from a free m ...
  • Hoppe on Austrian and Marxist class analyses
    In the following passage, Hans-Hermann Hoppe notes a similitude as it exists between Marxist and Austrian class analyses, an intersection that has long gripped me and directed my own reading. Before the passage I’ve set forth, Hoppe argues that exploitation inheres in the “nonrecognition of the ...

Media Co-Op

  • 24 hours to go! Be part of a media revolution!
    "The best old school journalism understood that its purpose was to challenge power with unassailable facts; the best activist journalism knows that constructive resistance is fueled by media we can actually use. The Dominion represents the vital fusion of these two traditions: it deserves massi ...
  • Art from behind bars
    Female prisoners find their voice in first-of-its-kind art project and exhibit   Agir: art des femmes en prison allows visitors to explore the haunting realities of female incarceration in a unique multi-medium exhibit. “L’art est un engag ...
  • The Downtown Eastside Power of Women Group Pre ...
    The Downtown Eastside Power of Women Group is launching the In Our Own Voices writing project in June 2011. After a six-week period of intensive writing, we are ready to share our stories about hope, struggle, love and resistance in the Downtown Eastside. During the month of June 2011, you will ...
  • Why We All Must Support Our Postal Workers
    In all honesty it is as simple as this: You want to fight Harper? Then support the posties! Any day now, 45,000 postal workers could be on strike or be locked out from their job by their employer, Canada Post Corporation (CPC). The Canadi ...
  • Marching for Status for All
    Over 200 people marched in the streets of Montreal to call for all migrants and undocumented people to be granted status. In the meantime, they are calling on social service providers to join them in calling for adequate service ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • The Bradley Manning Video
    David Seaton's News Links This video raises many, many issues... but the most significant thing is how somebody like this was ever kept in the army in the first place and then was sent to Iraq and then given the access to the classified information he was given access to. This is very, very s ...
  • The Middle East made simple(r)
    David Seaton's News LinksWhen very complex situations become very simple is when they become most dangerous. The situation that America finds itself in today's Middle East is such a situation: simple and potentially deadly for American prestige and power, two things which feed off each other, an ...
  • The Arab Spring, Israel, the dollar and gasoli ...
    Arm wrestling?In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning � along with China, Russia, Japan and France � to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new ...
  • UPDATED: Protests in Spain: waiting till the f ...
    UPDATE: The results of the election were exactly what the polls projected: the 15-M Movement appears to have had no affect on the voting... Whether this movement consolidates into something meaningful remains to be seen. The Socialists got trounced because they applied neoliberal recipes an ...
  • My Tribute to New York's Finest
    �In some ways, last weekend was not especially remarkable for the New York Police Department�s Special Victims Squad. About 30 new cases came in, typical for the citywide unit of 190 specially trained investigators and supervisors. But of those cases, among the 6,000 sex-based cases that the squ ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Save Hundreds if Not Thousands of Dollars on F ...
    A full 30 percent of all food produced in the world each year is wasted or lost -- about 1.3 billion tons of it. Europeans and North Americans waste between 95 and 115 kilograms of food apiece each year. Those living in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia waste much, much less -- ...
  • 43% of Americans Damage Their Brain by Making ...
    Crazy Art Ideas, the website linked below, contains a number of facts about sleep you might not ever have heard of.� For example: Men dream about other men 70 percent of the time; women dream about men and women equally A quarter of married couples sleep in separate beds ...
  • Study Found Toxin from GM Crops is Showing up ...
    A new study is causing fresh doubts about the safety of genetically modified crops. The research found Bt toxin, which is present in many GM crops, in human blood. Bt toxin makes crops toxic to pests, but it has been claimed that the toxin poses no danger to the environment and human health; th ...
  • The Root Cause of Acne Your Doctor Will Never ...
    By Dr. Mercola Your teen's months of prom planning are finally in place, complete with dinner reservations, the perfect gown, the dream date�� and the dreaded last-minute acne flare-up! It's another crushing blow from this notorious villain�that manages to crash every momentous adolescent eve ...
  • These Undeniable Facts are Ignored by Mainstre ...
    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 ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Peru in shock move to abolish uncontacted trib ...
    A Murunahua man, contacted by loggers in 1995. Half his people died after initial contact. © Chris Fagan/Upper Amazon Conservancy The survival of the uncontacted tribe whose images caused a worldwide sensation in February is in jeopardy, after Peruvian government plans to abolish a reserv ...
  • Peru in shock move to abolish uncontacted trib ...
    A Murunahua man, contacted by loggers in 1995. Half his people died after initial contact. © Chris Fagan/Upper Amazon Conservancy The survival of the uncontacted tribe whose images caused a worldwide sensation in February is in jeopardy, after Peruvian government plans to abolish a reserv ...
  • Death threat from Shell supplier on Brazilian ...
    Energy giant Shell's joint venture partner, Cosan, is buying sugarcane grown on Guarani land. © João Ripper/Survival A Brazilian rancher supplying sugarcane to a joint venture partner of energy giant Shell has reportedly issued a death threat against a political opponent.â¨â¨José Teixeir ...
  • Protests at UN for action on peace accord
    Jummas and indigenous people from around the world call for the Chittagong Hill Tract peace treaty to be honored outside the UN in New York. © Ben Powless Jumma tribal people from Bangladesh, protested outside the United Nations in New York this week to demand a fourteen year-old peace trea ...
  • Tension mounts as Brazilian Indians retake land
    Much of the Guarani's land has been stolen from them to make way for cattle ranching. © F. Watson/Survival A community of Guarani Indians in Brazil has retaken part of its ancestral land in an act of desperation, having lived by the side of a highway for a year and a half. The Guarani mar ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • food pyramid being replaced with plate-shaped logo
    from ibtimes: The US federal government will stop using the food pyramid it first introduced in 1992. The 20 year old food pyramid was a basis for nutritional guideline throughout the United States. However, there were many shortcomings to the old Food Pyramid. For instance, it never advised how ...
  • 5/26 binge & purge: declarations, doomsday & m ...
    a modern declaration of independence: a real revolution starting in our own backyards* keepers of the seeds: how seed-saving native farmers preserve agricultural heritage* fitnessgoop.com's top 12 food films* factory farms produce 100x more waste than all people in US combined - a ...
  • global food inflation hits hemp seed, coconut ...
    from natural news: Food inflation is hitting the superfood industry right where it hurts - in the wallet. Thanks to several factors you'll read about here, prices on hemp seeds, hemp oils, coconut oil and other superfoods are set to skyrocket beginning in just a few days. One of the largest supe ...
  • should ronald mcdonald go the way of joe camel?
    from boston globe: RE "Pressure could make Ronald grimace" (Business, May 18): Finally, people are beginning to see Ronald McDonald for who he is, and he is certainly not a pro-health do-gooder, as described by McDonald’s. Ronald is a sophisticated marketing tool, used by McDonald’s to hook kid ...
  • 5/19 binge & purge: fizzy drinks & touchscreens
    vitamin d deficiency linked to all diseases & illnesses* melatonin makes a comeback, leaving experts unrelaxed* 10 food additives that you're eating . . . right . . . now* toxin from gm crops found in human blood* fracking & farming don't mix: isn't it time we exhibited some preca ...

CrusadeWatch

  • Study suggests 'born-again' believers have sma ...
    source:  USA today, May 24, 2011  DURHAM, N.C. � For decades, mainline Protestants have been beset by bad news: declining numbers, aging membership, waning cultural influence.A new study from  Duke University Medical Center, however, gives these Protestants one reason for cheer: they seem ...
  • Study suggests 'born-again' believers have sma ...
    source:  USA today, May 24, 2011  DURHAM, N.C. � For decades, mainline Protestants have been beset by bad news: declining numbers, aging membership, waning cultural influence.A new study from  Duke University Medical Center, however, gives these Protestants one reason for cheer: they seem ...
  • Sanford-based New Tribes Mission sued for alle ...
    source:  Orlando Sentinel, May 9, 2011 New Tribes Mission, one of the largest Christian missionary organizations in the world, was sued Monday in Seminole County by a woman who says she was raped repeatedly from age 8 while she lived in a dormitory for missionary children run by the Sanfo ...
  • Sanford-based New Tribes Mission sued for alle ...
    source:  Orlando Sentinel, May 9, 2011 New Tribes Mission, one of the largest Christian missionary organizations in the world, was sued Monday in Seminole County by a woman who says she was raped repeatedly from age 8 while she lived in a dormitory for missionary children run by the Sanfo ...
  • ACLU files lawsuit against school system
    source:  The Tennessean, May 2, 2011 The American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee (ACLU-TN) filed a lawsuit in federal court on Monday claiming a widespread, unconstitutional pattern and practice of religious activities in the Sumner County school system. The complaint was filed o ...

Whole Truth Coalition

  • The Big Awakening Conference 2011
    Click here for more information …
  • Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...
    “Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators travel ...
  • Truthjuice Gathering 2011
                                                         SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...
  • COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...
    COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6JLgar45sU
  • Announcing “This Is Disclosure” co ...
    After the success of the 2nd Annual Leeds Exopolitics Expo in August 2010 the organisers of the UKs only UFO Disclosure & Exopolitics conference announced in September 2010 that the next conference was going to be bigger and better! 2011 sees us bring the global attention on UFO Disclosure and ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 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 ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • 'Caroline Lucas ate my alien!'
    A sensational, out-of-this-world story has been beamed across our radar here at The Talking Clock. It centres on Green Party MP Caroline Lucas, to whom we apologise for the completely untrue nature of our fun headline - a homage to one of The Sun's most famous headlines ever. Before we go ...
  • EU & The Banksters: Good grief! Signs of life ...
    Think I'm in shock. I've just detected signs of 'life in the brain department creating independent thought' in one of our Members of Parliament! What else could account for a MP putting a statement on public record which reads: "With another Greek “rescue” on the cards, I wonder if the chu ...
  • Sixty-Six Years After WWII... Gold Confiscatio ...
    As, again, tens upon tens of thousands of people from all walks of life assemble to protest at Syntagma Square in the Greek capital, Athens... (watch here) As thousands continue their three week long encampment protest in Madrid's Puerta del Sol and across Spain... ...gold confiscations re ...
  • Want to know about popular uprisings in Spain, ...
    The things we don't see in our own media... Want to know more still on the popular uprisings in Spain, Greece and France..? Turn to the blogosphere, to social media... or tune into Iranian-linked broadcasters. How ironic... Thing is, we all know what's going on with protests all aroun ...
  • Land of the free and home of the brave... body ...
    Quiz question. To whom is the following quote attributed? "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." That's right, it was Thomas Jefferson - described at Wikipedia as: "...the third President of the United ...

Facing South

  • Top 10 Facing South stories: May 2011
    Didn't catch all of Facing South's coverage this month? Here are some of the hottest stories on Facing South in May: 1 - The dirty energy money behind the Senate move to dismantle the EPA Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) and 15 GOP co-sponsors want to merge the Environmental Protection Agency and ...
  • Exxon ad makes gas drilling seem simpler -- an ...
    By Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica ExxonMobil has been running a series of ads aimed at assuring people that shale gas drilling is safe. One of those ads, a full-page spread in last Monday's New York Times and Washington Post, shows what a well looks like as it extends more than a mile and a half ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The Southern roots of Memoria ...
    Year in which former slaves in Charleston, S.C. held a funeral procession to honor Union soldiers who died in a local Confederate prison camp: 1865 Number of people who took part in the May 1 procession, called Decoration Day, held after the freedmen dug individual graves for the soldiers (in p ...
  • Supreme Court gives Southern states more incen ...
    The Supreme Court's ruling this week that California's prisons are so overcrowded it amounts to cruel and unusual punishment -- requiring the release of 30,000 prisoners -- is rightly being heralded as a landmark case for the rights of the incarcerated. But it's also the latest in a d ...
  • After tornadoes, Alabama's rural communities f ...
    By Ada McMahon, Bridge the Gulf On a beautiful late afternoon in early May, Dedrick Benison and Michael Calvin are quietly surveying the house that came crashing down around them just a week before (photo right). On April 27th they were watching a movie here, a neighbor's house on the catfis ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Four Others to Face Military Tribunal Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other accused 9/11 conspirators have been recharged with terrorism and murder charges in connection with the 9/11 attacks in preparation for a military tribunal at Guantanamo. … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Pentagon Upholds 8-Year Sentence for Omar Khadr The Pentagon has upheld the eight-year sentence given to Omar Khadr, a Guantanamo detainee who last year pleaded guilty to five war crimes. Vice-Admiral Bruce MacDonald, a Pentagon official overseeing war crimes tribunals, … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Pentagon Upholds 8-Year Sentence for Omar Khadr The Pentagon has upheld the eight-year sentence given to Omar Khadr, a Guantanamo detainee who last year pleaded guilty to five war crimes. Vice-Admiral Bruce MacDonald, a Pentagon official overseeing war crimes tribunals, … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    At the Wire, Patriot Act Provisions Are Extended Today’s Terrorism News will return Tuesday, May 31. Just hours before they were set to expire, three key Patriot Act provisions were extended for four years by the Senate and House, and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Senator Delays Patriot Act Extension Vote Provisions of the Patriot Act could lapse at midnight on Thursday after Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ken.) delayed Senate action on the measures this week, pushing for continued debate and consideration of amendments he wants … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Chaufr Chrome Extension Lets You Navigate the ...
    Chrome Web Store is becoming more and more interesting everyday. The super addictive games from Chrome Web Store that we featured almost a week ago is a telling example. Chaufr Chrome Extension is another great find. This extension lets you navigate and search the web using voice commands. And i ...
  • 5 Stunning Plymouth Screen Themes for Ubuntu 11.04
    Plymouth is simply an application that provides a graphical boot animation while the boot process happens in the background. Ubuntu has a�simple yet�beautiful�Plymouth screen by default. But that doesn't mean that you should not experiment with some really cool alternative Plymouth screens in yo ...
  • Canonical and Ubuntu Needs to Settle Down
    I am not averse to changes. I like experimenting with new applications and features every now and then. I have no problem with that. But that is not the case with majority of Computer users out there. For them, Computer is just a tool to get things done in a much faster and efficient manner. The ...
  • 4 LibreOffice Splash Screens Worth Checking Out
    Alternative LibreOffice splash screens. If you don't like the default LibreOffice splash screen or if you just want to try something new, here is a collection of 4 LibreOffice splash screens for Ubuntu with installation instructions.� Backup! Before getting started, you need to back up th ...
  • Zorin Splash Screen Manager - Install, Manage ...
    Zorin Splash Screen Manager is a nice and simple application to install, change and manage different plymouth themes in Ubuntu. It has got a GUI which is very easy to understand and use.�Zorin Splash Screen Manager is available in both 32bit and 64bit versions. Zorin Splash Screen Manager ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • GREEK DEFAULT NEARS AS BILD REPORTS STIRRINGS ...
    The likelihood of a default by Greece – a trigger for the insolvency of the ECB – has grown after IMF inspectors are reported to be preparing to say this week that  Greece has failed to meet all its fiscal targets and to withhold the IMF’s share of a fifth tranche of a â¬110bn EU and IMF ...
  • ECB INCREASINGLY ISOLATED IN RESISTING GREEK D ...
    European Central Bank (ECB) board member Lorenzo Bini Smaghi told the Financial Times that the idea a Greek debt restructuring could be carried out in an orderly way is a “fairytale” as the confrontation between the ECB and the eurozone escalates. Last week, it emerged that the ECB has abandoned ...
  • Der Spiegel reports on Titanic battle between ...
    The Haircut War Tensions Worsen Between Berlin and European Central Bank By Christian Reiermann and Michael Sauga, Der Spiegel What’s best for Greece and Europe – a soft debt restructuring or billions of euros in loans for years to come? Berlin and the ECB are deeply divided over the best way ...
  • Irish Minister admits Ireland will need more m ...
    Irish Transport Minister Leo Varadkar said in an interview with The Sunday Times that Ireland will need another emergency loan from the European Union and IMF. Varadkar is absolutely right as Tom Molloy points out in The Irish Independent. The penal EU and IMF bailout to pay interest on private ...
  • Euro is running out of time
    Roger Bootle, The Telegraph They can try to ‘delay and pray’ but the euro is running out of time As a doomsayer from the start, who has written several times on the subject, I have recently been reluctant to burden my readers with more jeremiads about the euro. But fasten your seatbelts. Here I ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Brazil approves start of Belo Monte dam constr ...
    Ibama approved the clearing of forest at the planned site for the Belo Monte hydroelectric plant. On Wednesday, Ibama gave approval for 238 hectares (588 acres) of land to be cleared. However, further legal challenges are likely, correspondents say. Last month, the head of Ibama, Abelardo Bayma, ...
  • Apparently you can’t dance at the Jeffer ...
    Wait a minute! Dancing is not protected by the Bill of Rights??? TPTB are looking sillier every day.  Arresting people for dancing? Dancers are now a threat to the TPTB Watch this unbelievable display of the police state in action…
  • Vermont Enacts Conditional Universal Healthcar ...
    by Stephen Lendman May 29, 2011 Numerous previous articles discussed Obamacare, described accurately as a rationing scheme to enrich insurers, drug companies and large hospital chains in lieu of universal single payer coverage. Obama hailed its March 2010 passage as answering “the call of histor ...
  • Did the Dimona Dozen murder the Fukushima 50?
    Jim Stone, Freelance Journalist, Updated Saturday May 28, 2011 This is a complex article. If you have troubles understanding it, just look at THIS picture of the vanished reactor, THIS picture of the destroyed facility and THIS picture, of Magna BSP’s camera and think for a while. The pictures s ...
  • Is the Arab Spring spreading to US Congression ...
    By Franklin Lamb A surprising number of Congressional staffers explain that they feel they are stigmatized abroad and particularly in the Middle East as being part of the Israel lobby when they are not. One staffer explained: “This sounds arrogant but we who work in Congress know this subject mu ...

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

electric politics

  • It Became Necessary to Destroy Libya In Order ...
    At some point the blood-thirsty hawks who got us into a war against Libya must realize that, with Col. Gaddafi or without him, the various Libyan tribes and factions do not mean to settle their differences amicably. What then? Do we admit a strategic defeat and end the war? Or pick sides and fo ...
  • It Became Necessary to Destroy Libya In Order ...
    At some point the blood-thirsty hawks who got us into a war against Libya must realize that, with Col. Gaddafi or without him, the various Libyan tribes and factions do not mean to settle their differences amicably. What then? Do we admit a strategic defeat and end the war? Or pick sides and fo ...
  • The Science of Interrogation
    Memory is such an elusive thing. Not the sort of thing you can pound out of a person's skull. If you want access to a person's memories, to accurate memories, they must be given freely. If you want a false confession for propaganda purposes then use coercion, but for useful memories, don't. To ...
  • The Science of Interrogation
    Memory is such an elusive thing. Not the sort of thing you can pound out of a person's skull. If you want access to a person's memories, to accurate memories, they must be given freely. If you want a false confession for propaganda purposes then use coercion, but for useful memories, don't. To ...
  • Wherefore Bradley Manning?
    Punishing Bradley Manning before he's even had a trial doesn't make sense. It's unjust, it's immoral, and later on it will tend to make it more difficult to establish the facts. To talk about Manning's case and related issues, including so-called "humanitarian intervention," I turned to Chase M ...

PR News

The Story Behind the Story

  • McKinney Bombshell
    Cynthia McKinney Drops Bombshell: Candidates to sign pledges of support for “Israel” by Richard Edmondson, source In an interview which aired on Press TV on Saturday–one day before the AIPAC conference got under way in Washington–former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney revealed what amount ...
  • Sometimes It’s Nice to be Proven RIGHT!!
    During the years 2005-2008, I spent hundreds of hours on radio and TV talk shows, and gave dozens of PowerPoint presentations on what I labeled the “BIRD FLU SCAM”.  This, of course, evolved into the “SWINE FLU SCAM” – a non-existent “pandemic” which I at that time declared was designed primari ...
  • Sometimes It’s Nice to be Proven RIGHT!!
    During the years 2005-2008, I spent hundreds of hours on radio and TV talk shows, and gave dozens of PowerPoint presentations on what I labeled the “BIRD FLU SCAM”.  This, of course, evolved into the “SWINE FLU SCAM” – a non-existent “pandemic” which I at that time declared was designed primari ...
  • More Zombiology 101 — Why Rational Think ...
    During the PANDEMIC FLU HYPE of 2006-2008, I poured over dozens of research texts.  Most were authored by individuals associated with the W.H.O. (The World Health Organization – a division of the Zionist Club of Rome), the U.S. Army Biological Weapons Lab, Ft. Detrich, Maryland, and/or the CENT ...
  • More Zombiology 101 — Why Rational Think ...
    During the PANDEMIC FLU HYPE of 2006-2008, I poured over dozens of research texts.  Most were authored by individuals associated with the W.H.O. (The World Health Organization – a division of the Zionist Club of Rome), the U.S. Army Biological Weapons Lab, Ft. Detrich, Maryland, and/or the CENT ...

k2p blog

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Atlanta Thrashers Still Selling Season Tickets ...
    Great news, hockey fans! Earlier today, you could still buy season tickets to watch the Atlanta Thrashers play during the 2011-12 NHL season. Even the best seats in the house are going to be pretty terrible, though, because the team announced this morning that it has been sold and is moving. To ...
  • Skin-Care Mall Kiosk Flirts $666 Right Out Of ...
    Beware of beautiful women wielding skin-care products in mall kiosks. Kevin was on his way toward the mall exit when a skin-care kiosk saleswoman approached him, putting a product in his hand. An hour later, he somehow had spent about $666 on skin-care products that he never really wanted in th ...
  • Theft Of Pittsburgh's Iron Trash Cans Allegedl ...
    After a police investigation, the mystery of where fifty of the city of Pittsburgh's metal trash cans ran off to has been solved. The culprit wasn't who Consumerist readers suspected. The cans were installed through a partnership with Lamar Advertising, and the man arrested for trying to recycl ...
  • Report: Cellphone Use Is "Possibly Carcinogenic"
    Since the first Gordon Gekkos of the world picked up their 10-pound brick mobile phones more than two decades ago, there have been numerous studies into the relationship, if any, between mobile phone use and cancer. And it's a debate that won't disappear anytime soon thanks to the World Health ...
  • Michaels Hit With Possible Class-Action Suit O ...
    Three weeks after craft store Michaels fell victim to a data breach that compromised customers' credit and debit card information, the chain has been hit with a lawsuit seeking class-action status for all those who directly affected by the hack. The suit was filed late last week in the U.S. Di ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Development Agencies Fail to Take On Corruptio ...
    Canadian Press: Darling of Development World, Stung by Corruption Problems, Says Others in Worse Shape The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria – a $21.7 billion health fund backed by prominent celebrities – is responding to allegations that the fund has lost up to $34 millio ...
  • Feds Subpoena Lawyer in CIA Leak Case: Whistle ...
    St. Louis Beacon: Feds Take Unusual Step of Subpoenaing Sterling's Lawyer The lawyer representing Jeffrey Sterling – the former CIA officer charged with leaking national security secrets to the press – was subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury in order to discuss Sterling’s case. Fed ...
  • Teresa Chambers Case Highlights Limitations of ...
    Last week, the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) ordered the National Park Service to reinstate whistleblower Teresa Chambers as Chief of the U.S. Park Police, as well as to reimburse her for back pay and legal costs. Her case garnered national attention when she was removed by the Bush ...
  • Orange County Register: Which Mystery Senator ...
    By Wikimedia user Markus Schweiss Orange County Register: Which Mystery Senator Killed Whistleblower Bill? This article details how the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) – a bill that would have strengthened protections for federal employees – was killed by one senator’s d ...
  • Justice Department Leakers of Classified Info. ...
    Three months ago, journalist Michael Isikoff noted the disturbing "Double Standard" in White House Leak Inquiries.  But now it's not just the Executive Branch.  Josh Gerstein of Politico just published an article on how a judge ruled that the Justice Department can keep secret names of its own ...

UK Progressive

  • The Truth About the American Economy
    The U.S. economy continues to stagnate. It’s growing at the rate of 1.8 percent, which is barely growing at all. Consumer spending is down. Home prices are down. Jobs and wages are going nowhere. It’s vital that we understand the truth about the American economy. How did we go from the Great Dep ...
  • An Elephant for Sister Sarah
    Just in time to take advantage of the uptick in movie ticket sales is The Undefeated, a film that will hopefully ‘reflate’ the political life of Americaâs Republican sweetheart, Sarah Palin. The documentary will be released next month in Iowa, a state not known for â…corn as high as an elephantâ ...
  • An Elephant for Sister Sarah
    Just in time to take advantage of the uptick in movie ticket sales is The Undefeated, a film that will hopefully ‘reflate’ the political life of Americaâs Republican sweetheart, Sarah Palin. The documentary will be released next month in Iowa, a state not known for â…corn as high as an elephantâ ...
  • Europe’s Austerity Measures Spark Outrage & Pr ...
    “We want jobs, growth, our welfare state intact, and we are not going to pay for bankers’ mistakes,” European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) leader John Monks said in front of a crowd estimated at 45,000 people in Budapest, this April. Tens of thousands of marchers from Spain to Romania crowde ...
  • California Prisons Typify the Incarceration So ...
    Last week’s Supreme Court decision ordering California to reduce its overcrowded prisons by 30,000 inmates is as welcome as a ray of sunlight streaming through prison bars. State officials have known for decades of the horrific, if not criminal, neglect of prisoners. Five years ago, then-Governo ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Let’s say “Yes” to real science
    Let’s say “Yes” to real science, the way it’s meant to be, science that relies on  measurements from things like thermometers, ice cores, and satellites. Real science is about observations of the real deal, not “simulations” on a computer. 28 million weather balloons, 6000 boreholes, 3000 ocean ...
  • Climate Scientists who were right 30 years ago?
    Stephen Goddard has found a gem of a news article. 1979 : Before The Hockey Team Destroyed Climate Science. Drs Leona Libby and Louise Pandolfi projected world temperatures in 1979 for the next 70 years and got results that, 30 years later, appear to have been broadly correct if out by 5 – 7 ye ...
  • Climate Scientists who were right 30 years ago?
    Stephen Goddard has found a gem of a news article. 1979 : Before The Hockey Team Destroyed Climate Science. Drs Leona Libby and Louise Pandolfi projected world temperatures in 1979 for the next 70 years and got results that, 30 years later, appear to have been broadly correct if out by 5 – 7 ye ...
  • Climate Commission Report Debunked
    Scientific audit of the Climate Commission Report âThe Critical Decade – Climate science, risks and responsesâ May, 2011 Bob Carter, David Evans, Stewart Franks, William Kininmonth PART I â INTRODUCTION, DISCUSSION & CONCLUSIONS For PART II â SCIENCE AUDIT see the Full PDF file of Part I & II Al ...
  • Climate Commission Report Debunked
    Scientific audit of the Climate Commission Report âThe Critical Decade – Climate science, risks and responsesâ May, 2011 Bob Carter, David Evans, Stewart Franks, William Kininmonth PART I â INTRODUCTION, DISCUSSION & CONCLUSIONS For PART II â SCIENCE AUDIT see the Full PDF file of Part I & II Al ...

ReNew America

  • Getting the conservative message across
    (Patrick Garry, RA analyst) - Republicans seem to be on the defensive in the debate over Medicare and the federal budget deficit. They are being branded extremists willing and eager to shut down the government. They are depicted as turning their backs on American values -- bent on robbing senior ...
  • A salute to the military, bedrock of American ...
    (Washington Examiner) - To say that the military is what makes America great could perhaps give other nations the wrong impression, but it is true all the same. This is not because Americans are a particularly militaristic people. Nor is it because other aspects of the national identity -- our f ...
  • Memorial Day: a family story
    (Washington Times) - Maj. Gen. John Alexander "Black Jack" Logan, the father of Memorial Day, was also the father of a hero. Gen. Logan was a noted Union officer in the Civil War, and after the conflict served in Congress from Illinois and led the veteran's organization the Grand Army of the Rep ...
  • Hill fight intensifies over consumer czar
    (Washington Times) - A long-simmering dispute over a powerful new consumer protection agency created in last year's landmark Wall Street reform law broke out into a full-fledged political battle last week as Senate Republicans moved to prevent the White House from installing a new czar at the ag ...
  • Pastor wins battle to cite Jesus in Memorial D ...
    (NewsMax) - The Department of Veterans Affairs cannot bar a Houston pastor from invoking Jesus Christ in a Memorial Day prayer, a federal judge ruled in a case that is yet another illustration of anti-Christian animus in the country...

Truth Offering

  • HAARP: Is It to Blame?
    With all the crazy, extreme weather we've had lately -- not just near the Mississippi where we've had Biblical flooding, or in Missouri where an unearthly number of powerful tornados have destroyed thousands of lives, but also all along the Pacific rim where strong earthquakes have rocked the re ...
  • Levi's: All-American or Neo-Communist
    It seems that everywhere I go recently, I see these massive Levi's billboards along the side of the road. At first, I thought nothing of them. After all, they're just billboards, right? Plus Levi's is an all-American company, right? Visually, these ads are quite striking; mostly black and white, ...
  • US Falls In Level of Overall Economic Freedom ...
    The Heritage Foundation just released its annual Economic Freedom List. The list "measures ten components of economic freedom, assigning a grade in each using a scale from 0 to 100, where 100 represents the maximum freedom. The ten component scores are then averaged to give an overall economic f ...
  • Did J.P. Morgan Sink the Titanic!?
    1st Row: JP Morgan, Joseph Bruce Ismay, John Jacob Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim. 2nd Row: The Federal Reserve and the TitanicAs youngsters, we're all told the infamous story of the Titanic, the supposedly indestructible ship that sunk on its maiden voyage. We're all familiar with the story: the ...
  • Our Diet Is Killing Our DNA!
    Few people are aware of this simple fact: what you eat directly impacts your DNA. This likely seems like a strange new concept to most, considering we're all brought up with such an incorrect understanding of human health and wellness. Five years back, I was no different -- well, I always cared ...

2012 Blog

  • Ascension Rubbish
    For me there are four 2012 angles: 1) Scientific, with some connection to reality 2) Scientific, but seemingly just made up 3) New Age, sounds nice, but purely based on faith 4) New Age, making false claims of having a scientific basis In general, I don’t mind the faith-based New Age 2012 ideas. ...
  • Naples Supervolcano – Should It Be Drilled?
    The Daily Mail has an excellent article explaining the pros and cons of drilling into the supervolcano at the edge of Naples, and why scientists are concerned: Now an international team, including scientists from the UK, wants to drill down inside the caldera to try to better understand exactly ...
  • Lunar Eclipses Are Dangerous Times
    I’ve just been through the tedious task of checking every lunar and solar eclipse since 1973 ( as far back as the USGS records reliably go), against every earthquake measuring 6.5, 7.0, 7.5 and 8.0 in magnitude. For solar eclipses the odds of an earthquake were slightly higher than average, but ...
  • Bunker News from Russia and Beyond!
    Spetsgeoproekt (Special Geological Projects) is a Russian business cashing in on 2012 fears and recent natural disasters. They are selling 15 bunkers that range in size from 35 to 90 square meters (378 to 970 square feet), with some costing as much as $US400,000.  Locations are secret, although ...
  • NYC Author Advertises May 21 Judgement Day
    Robert Fitzpatrick is the author of The Doomsday Code (available at Amazon, where people ask why he doesn’t give the book away for free…), and has just spent a whopping $140,000 promoting the subject of his book, rather than the book itself. Plastered over New York subway cars (1,000 placards) a ...

Facing South

  • Top 10 Facing South stories: May 2011
    Didn't catch all of Facing South's coverage this month? Here are some of the hottest stories on Facing South in May: 1 - The dirty energy money behind the Senate move to dismantle the EPA Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) and 15 GOP co-sponsors want to merge the Environmental Protection Agency and ...
  • Exxon ad makes gas drilling seem simpler -- an ...
    By Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica ExxonMobil has been running a series of ads aimed at assuring people that shale gas drilling is safe. One of those ads, a full-page spread in last Monday's New York Times and Washington Post, shows what a well looks like as it extends more than a mile and a half ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The Southern roots of Memoria ...
    Year in which former slaves in Charleston, S.C. held a funeral procession to honor Union soldiers who died in a local Confederate prison camp: 1865 Number of people who took part in the May 1 procession, called Decoration Day, held after the freedmen dug individual graves for the soldiers (in p ...
  • Supreme Court gives Southern states more incen ...
    The Supreme Court's ruling this week that California's prisons are so overcrowded it amounts to cruel and unusual punishment -- requiring the release of 30,000 prisoners -- is rightly being heralded as a landmark case for the rights of the incarcerated. But it's also the latest in a d ...
  • After tornadoes, Alabama's rural communities f ...
    By Ada McMahon, Bridge the Gulf On a beautiful late afternoon in early May, Dedrick Benison and Michael Calvin are quietly surveying the house that came crashing down around them just a week before (photo right). On April 27th they were watching a movie here, a neighbor's house on the catfis ...

One News Page

  • AcelRx Announces $5.6 Million Department of De ...
    AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACRX) today announced that the US Army Medical Research and Material Command has awarded AcelRx a $5.6 million grant to support the development of a new product candidate, ARX-04, a proprietary non-invasive, fast-onset sublingual product for the treatment ...
  • Body in bag: Woman identified as Myanmar national
    The woman whose body was found stuffed in a travel  ag three days ago in west Delhi has been identified as a 22-year-old  yanmar national brought up in Manipur, police said Monday.
  • Alleged Baby Killer Casey Anthony -- The $68,0 ...
    Filed under: Casey Anthony, Celebrity Justice Accused child murderer *Casey Anthony *is in more hot water with the feds -- the I.R.S. believes she failed to pay $68k in taxes back in 2008 ... the same year she allegedly killed her 2-year-old daughter. TMZ obtained a tax lien filed ...
  • EU hails Mladic’s transfer to UN war crimes court
    European Union foreign policy Chief Catherine Ashton on Tuesday hailed the transfer of former Bosnian Serb army Chief Ratko Mladic to a UN court as a key moment for international justice. “I welcome the transfer of Ratko Mladic to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ...
  • Mizoram has 216 HIV-affected children

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • The «Responsibility to Protect» – The Li ...
    The carnage in Libya continues. In the last two weeks NATO bombardment of Tripoli has intensified. Economic sanctions have created gas and food shortages throughout the government controlled parts of the country… The French and British have now inducted helicopters into the air power they are de ...
  • World On Course For Next Crisis?
    In his recent article in The Telegraph, Gordon Brown, the ex British PM, has urged politicians at the next G20 summit, which takes place in Cannes in November, to take control of a globalised financial system which is still “perilously” unregulated. The West is following a practiceâand a very da ...
  • Battle For Minds: Is Russia Destroying America ...
    What kind of danger does the Russia Today TV-channel threaten the USA with? The answer is plain — with an ability to quickly win over the sympathies of the viewers. Currently its auditory makes up 380 million people from around the world. RT is not trying to hide the fact, that American public i ...
  • Obama Caught Between Israel and Palestine
    A border dispute In a 45-minute Middle East speech on May 19, Barack Obama became the first U.S. president to say the future Palestinian state should be formed within the borders established before 1967. He specifically said that the border between Israel and the future State of Palestine should ...
  • Could Obama “Betray” Israel?
    The most striking statement in US President Barack Obama’s speech on “the Arab Spring” was his appeal to Israel to return to the borders of 1967, in other words to abandon control over the occupied Palestinian territories. “The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines wi ...

BlogHer

  • How to Make an Ice Cream Cone Piñata
    Summer is in full swing, which means parties galore. Think icy, cool, and tasty - as in ice cream cones! Whether you are organizing a kids' get-together or an evening soiree, Tiffany Bird's ice cream cone piñata will be the hit of your gathering. Not only is it fun to admire (and filled with ca ...
  • State of the Sex: How Do You Compare to the Stats?
    In 1983, after surveying the sexual habits of 65,396 male and 14,928 female readers, Playboy magazine published their report. Not long after in January of 1984, Apple released the Macintosh, which would become the first commercially successful personal computer. It’s been 28 years and in that t ...
  • Are You Being Too Nice? It's Hurting Your Career
    [Editor's Note: So you thought "nice" was a pretty good career move. Think again. All those platitudes about being nice and getting along may be holding you back in your career. - Paula G] Women in the Workplace are Just Too Nice Many of us are pleased when our bosses use words like “tea ...
  • Are You Being Too Nice? It's Hurting Your Career
    [Editor's Note: So you thought "nice" was a pretty good career move. Think again. All those platitudes about being nice and getting along may be holding you back in your career. - Paula G] Women in the Workplace are Just Too Nice Many of us are pleased when our bosses use words like “tea ...
  • Look Ma! It's Screenwriter Barbie!
    [Editor's Note: It's been a hot topic as of late, and we all know it.� Women writers - that's most of us - are just not equals in the halls of Hollywood Agencies and probably the literary agencies of NYC as well.� But I'm not here to complain, I just love the way Alex writes.� --Morgan]Only in ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Food Pyramid Revamped With Plate Shape
    Will a plate shaped food guide spur Americans to eat healthy? The nutritional guidelines have had a rocky past, including the original food pyramid that only made the cut after heavy revisions, giving extra emphasis to ...
  • Monsanto Lavishes University With $500K Gift
    Monsanto has bottomless funds to throw around and influence USDA approvals and legislation. As if they do not have enough pull, it is now “gifting” at least one university with half a million dollars, but ...
  • Sleep to Skinny
    If the sleep research adds up, Americans can spend less time at the gym and more time in a comfy bed with nearly the same results. One of the most overlooked factors in weight gain ...
  • Vaccines & Blue Foot Syndrome
    Where’s the proof? More research! Inconclusive! Vaccines don’t cause autism, that’s a kooky theory. Yet who would vaccinate if there was ANY doubt? Each year that the outcry gets ignored is one more year millions ...
  • GMO Toxins in Vast Majority of Pregnant Women ...
    Last week we posted about the people in South America falling ill from the intense unregulated spraying of GM soy crops. Roundup Ready plants always allow and warrant the most dousing yet. We are well ...

Live News Wire

  • Editorial: As The Country Mourned, Tucson Need ...
    Those who criticized the reaction of the crowd at Wednesday night's memorial have it ingrained that a perfect memorial is one with candles, flowers and tears. The citizens of Tucson and the American people have mourned for five days. Wednesday's event was not a time to mourn some more. It was a ...
  • Police Made Visits To Loughner Home Before Sho ...
    The Tucson, Arizona family home of 22-year-old Jared Loughner had been visited by authorities before the shooting of a congresswoman and 18 others last Saturday, new information by the New York Times revealed Wednesday. It's unclear what the visits were about or what prompted the call to author ...
  • Criminal Charges Filed Against Congresswoman’s ...
    Newly-released court documents offer a glimpse into the motive behind Jared Loughner's attempted assassination of Tucson Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday. Recovered from Loughner's home was a letter addressed to Jared Loughner from Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords mailed a ...
  • “Unbelievable Tragedy:” Congresswoman Shot By ...
    At least fifteen gunshots rang out shortly after 10:10am Arizona Time Saturday, bullets fatally striking a Federal Judge and injuring a prominent Congresswoman. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) of Arizona's Eighth District was wounded at a public meet-and-greet event outside a grocery s ...
  • Queensland Facing Flood Of “Biblical” Proportions
    The worst floods in 50 years to hit Queensland, Australia are being described as nothing short of Biblical. More than 1,000 people have been evacuated, though officials say as the floodwaters get worse, as many as 4,000 residents could be asked to vacate their homes and businesses later this we ...

Coal Tattoo

  • Reps. Miller, Woolsey question Alpha’s h ...
    U.S. Reps. George Miller and Lynn Woolsey, top  Democrats on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, have written a letter to Alpha Natural Resources CEO Kevin Crutchfield, questioning the company’s plans to retain top executives of Massey Energy if the merger of the two coal giants ...
  • MSHA announces results of latest inspection sweeps
    This just in from the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration today announced that federal inspectors issued 255 citations and orders during special impact inspections conducted at eight coal mines and seven metal/nonmetal ...
  • Documents: Alpha CEO Crutchfield made secret d ...
    In newly unsealed documents field with the West Virginia Supreme Court, lawyers for Massey Energy shareholders alleged that Alpha Natural Resources CEO Kevin Crutchfield (right) made a secret deal to hire key Massey executives linked to the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster. The allegations are out ...
  • Supreme Court refuses to block Alpha-Massey deal
    Breaking news: The West Virginia Supreme Court just issued this order declining to block the proposed buyout of Massey Energy by Alpha Natural Resources. Justices also voted to unseal and make public the petition for a preliminary injunction filed by some Massey shareholder groups and this respo ...
  • Friday roundup, May 27, 2011
    Miner Albeiro Areiza, right, is embraced by his wife after he was rescued from the Loma Gorda caved-in coal mine in Montebello, southern Colombia, Tuesday, May 17, 2011. Emergency crews rescued eight miners who had spent six hours trapped in the mine. (AP Photo/Carlos Julio Martinez) There was s ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Coffee Joulies | The Best Coffee Accessory You ...
    via kickstarter.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsThe Coffee Trinity is CompleteDon’t Be a Cryptic AssCare WolfThe Herman Miller Nelson BenchBurp 1.4 Will Support MacrosI must not copy what I see on the Simpsons | BanksyXKCD Radiation Dose Chart
  • Advanced Nmap | Security Aegis
    Ncrack Ncrack is a command line password bruteforcer like hydra and medusa. Up until recently I was a�stalwart�Medusa user but what brought me over (mostly) was the superior SSH library, RDP password bruting, and easy nmap-like syntax. Should you want to audit a whole class C for ssh passwords N ...
  • Chrome Wins Again: Now Clears Flash Cookies Na ...
    Google has maintained since they started bundling Flash that it was mainly to ensure they could make it more secure for their Chrome users. They do this by both sandboxing it and auto-updating it when the security patches regularly appear. But a new feature has just hit the Chrome dev builds whi ...
  • Care Wolf
    via izit.org Yeah! Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsA Grey Wolf in the Apple StoreDon’t Be a Cryptic AssCouldn’t Care LessBurp 1.4 Will Support MacrosI must not copy what I see on the Simpsons | BanksyXKCD Radiation Dose ChartA Pink Flower in Palo Alto
  • The Annoyed Geek’s Response to Stupid Computer ...
    via i.imgur.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsDon’t LikeDon’t Be a Cryptic AssObama and Jesus | ImgurHalley’s CometAnatidaephobiaReaganomicsVery Gradual Change We Can Believe In

Fitwatch

  • FIT teams in plain clothes come out for UKuncu ...
    The 41 ukuncut demonstrations taking place around the UK yesterday resulted in only nine arrests, in Manchester. It is interesting that the arrests were for breach of the peace. Given that Ukuncut protesters elsewhere were also threatened with BOP arrests, it seems there was a bit of a tendency ...
  • FIT teams in plain clothes come out for UKuncu ...
    The 41 ukuncut demonstrations taking place around the UK yesterday resulted in only nine arrests, in Manchester. It is interesting that the arrests were for breach of the peace. Given that Ukuncut protesters elsewhere were also threatened with BOP arrests, it seems there was a bit of a tendency ...
  • FIT cops cover up attack on Ian Tomlinson.
    Two years ago, FIT cops Steve Discombe, Alan Palfrey and Ryan Cowlin stood only feet away from Ian Tomlinson when he was hit by PC Harwood, a blow which led to Tomlinson’s death.  But, according to an IPCC report out today, they claim to have seen very little of the attack and didn’t even bother ...
  • FIT cops cover up attack on Ian Tomlinson.
    Two years ago, FIT cops Steve Discombe, Alan Palfrey and Ryan Cowlin stood only feet away from Ian Tomlinson when he was hit by PC Harwood, a blow which led to Tomlinson’s death.  But, according to an IPCC report out today, they claim to have seen very little of the attack and didn’t even bother ...
  • Congratulations to the Met for manufacturing a ...
    It was never going to be convenient for the cops to admit that all their intelligence was pointing towards the fact most anarchists couldn’t care less about a couple of toffs getting married. Having endured not only the humiliation of a large mobile black bloc on 26th March, but also the earlier ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • Brown Sugar-Rolling Stones
    “Brown Sugar” is a song by The Rolling Stones. It is the opening track and lead single from the English rock band’s 1971 album Sticky Fingers. Rolling Stone magazine ranked it #490 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
  • Southern Man — Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Y ...
    Video taken from a live show in 2000. Very energetic, and it’s always hard to beat the CSNY vocal harmony.
  • INXS – Never Tear Us Apart – Hard ...
    INXS (pronounced “in excess”, In-X-S) are an Australian rock band, formed as The Farriss Brothers in 1977 in Sydney, New South Wales. Mainstays are Garry Gary Beers on bass guitar, Andrew Farriss on guitar/keyboards, Jon Farriss on drums, Tim Farriss on lead guitar and Kirk Pengilly on guitar/sa ...
  • Wake’N'Bake 101: Snooki’d
    WWH – She’s BACK: The chill-billy from Wassilly! Somebody full of the Spirit of the Lord called her the “Sno-Queen Snooki of the Great White North” the other day, and yer ol’ Doc just about fell OUT! To those struggling to comprehend how “Snow-Queen Snooki” can command the national spotlight wit ...
  • Experts say cellphones are possibly carcinogen ...
    WWH – An international panel of experts says cellphones are possibly carcinogenic to humans after reviewing previously published studies on the matter, from many sources. The statement yesterday by the International Agency for Research on Cancer – the cancer agency of the World Health Organizati ...

reference frame

  • Seeing D-branes at the Tevatron and the LHC
    Off-topic: Today, Facebook made an interesting step in its (not quite) cold war against Google when it enabled the e-mail addresses on Facebook. If you have a Facebook account, you may start to use your.own.email@facebook.com that will be sent and readable on Facebook. Try to log into Faceb ...
  • Greece: can the infusion remain permanent?
    Since the last year, the sick fat socialist pig called the Hellenic Republic has devoured EUR 110 billion - a package that was pumped into that country a year ago - and it's hungry again. It needs another package of EUR 100 billion or so, Fitch calculated. So the EUR 110 billion ...
  • Climate Progress becomes a directory on a far ...
    I want to applaud Joseph Romm. Kind of. He has abolished the ClimateProgress.org domain and redirected all traffic to a directory hosted by the server called ThinkProgress.org owned by a radical far left political organization, The Center for American Progress. Because of that cha ...
  • CDF: Wjj 150 GeV bump grows to almost 5 sigma
    Adam Jester (see also Sean Carroll, Phil Gibbs, and Tommaso Dorigo) has pointed out that the bizarre bump near 144 GeV has become much more statistically significant, according to a talk by Giovanni Punzi (pages 30-35 or so) at the 23rd Rencontres de Blois conference at a cute French chatea ...
  • Tsunami: swimming houses and cars live
    If you want to have an idea about the amount of time you have when tsunami arrives, look at this 5-minute video of tsunami attacking in Minami-Sanriku. Warning: the video gets tough. Not much is happening in the first two minutes or so - except for some dust above the distan ...

No Frakking Consensus

  • That Wobbly Foundation: Peer-Reviewed Research
    Climate activists have long argued that scientific research that has been peer-reviewed is reliable, trustworthy & true.
  • A Story about a Farmer, a Flood & Fish
    A flooded-out farmer is fighting for his economic survival. Rather than assisting him, environmental bureaucrats are contributing to his nightmare.
  • Lord Turnbull Trashes the IPCC
    A prominent UK civil servant has issued a plea for climate sanity that is less-than-kind to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
  • No Harmony with Hogweed
    People who think we should live in harmony with nature usually forget to mention poisonous plants.
  • E-Book Tipping Point
    Amazon.com says e-books have begun out-selling hardcover and paperback books combined. Climate titles that don't have an e-book edition are now at a serious disadvantage.

Tarpley

  • Italiano
    International Main Menu Arabic Ceské Deutsch Español Français Italiano Greek Nippon Polski Português Russki Svenska Türk Zhongwén            1 2  >  >| page: 1 of 2   total items: 13 Gli Stati Uniti e il Pakistan vicini a una guerra aperta, un ultimatum cinese avverte gli Stati U ...
  • Gli Stati Uniti e il Pakistan vicini a una gue ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net 24 maggio 2011 La Cina ha già avvertito gli Stati Uniti che un qualsiasi attacco contro il Pakistan da parte di Washington, sarebbe interpretato come un atto di aggressione contro la Cina. Questo avvertimento è il primo secco ultimatum strategico ricevuto da ...
  • Deutsch
    International Main Menu Arabic Ceské Deutsch Español Français Italiano Greek Nippon Polski Português Russki Svenska Türk Zhongwén            1 2  >  >| page: 1 of 2   total items: 11 USA und Pakistan fast im offenen Krieg. Chinesisches Ultimatum an die Adresse Washingtons: kein A ...
  • Français
    International Main Menu Arabic Ceské Deutsch Español Français Italiano Greek Nippon Polski Português Russki Svenska Türk Zhongwén   Ennemis de lâOTAN en Irak et en Afghanistan, alliés en Libye VoltaireNet.org – 21 mai 2011 [permalink] Les EtatsUnis et le Pakistan tout près de la ...
  • تنظيم القاعدة : بيادق من العصيان المسلح وكالة ...
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Modern Survivalism

  • Home Door Stop Alarm
    I happened across this simple but effective security device while browsing Amazon today. It is an ingenious little door-stop wedge shaped device which will alert a very loud alarm (120 db) if someone opens the door. This door stop alarm is small, lightweight and portable. You could throw it in y ...
  • Why So Many Tornado Deaths This Year?
    2011 has been a devastating year for tornado related deaths in the U.S., despite years of advancement with early warning technologies, radar technology, and public alert systems. Perhaps all this science is enabling too much of a sense of false security and complacency. During April 25-28 more t ...
  • How is La Nina Affecting Food Prices and What ...
    Guest Post: by Kalen Smith La Nina is a phenomenon where the surface temperature of the ocean drops significantly in parts of the Pacific. It has a major impact on the world’s weather and typically makes an appearance every few years. This year’s La Nina has been particularly hard on people arou ...
  • 50 Ways To Prepare For Survival
    Guest Post: by ‘Be Informed’ As more catastrophes seem to be accelerating more and more people are becoming convinced that the collapse of society is only a matter of time. The true survivalist can feel that they are ready for the chaos, but without actually experiencing these extreme adversitie ...
  • Children and Natural Disasters
    Guest Post: by ‘Be Informed’ Children and the way they feel are often forgotten during these perilous times. Kids of all ages are quite perceptive to what is going on but not actually understanding it fully. The horrified adultsâ reactions and expressions to these disasters both on the news and ...

Fast Company

  • Biodegradable Products Are Good For Landfills, ...
    Damned if you do, damned if you don't. A new study finds that while biodegradable products help reduce mass in landfills, they may be worsening global warning. Luckily, there's a solution: Make earth-friendly plastics that actually disintegrate more slowly. Biodegradable products, which slowly d ...
  • Why Obama Nominated NRDC Cofounder John Bryson ...
    Is it possible to separate economic growth from environmental damage? President Obama's nomination today of Natural Resources Defense Council cofounder John Bryson as Commerce Secretary means we're trying.President Obama's nomination today of businessman and Natural Resources Defense Council cof ...
  • Pixel Qi's Screens Are Now Ready To Change How ...
    After years bubbling under the success radar, Pixel Qi has revealed a large high-resolution screen that works indoors and outdoors with equal ease. If it succeeds, it could change how and where you use computers.Pixel Qi's story is a long and complex one, starting with a falling out over the des ...
  • Catching Balkan War Criminals The Digital Way
    An ambitious effort to digitize 300 years of Serbian military records has led to the indictment of more than a dozen war criminals and the discovery of unmarked mass graves.The digitization of the Serbian Defense Ministry's archives, which includes paperwork dating back to 1716, set out to spot ...
  • Fast Company Is Hiring A Web Production Coordi ...
    We are looking for a web production coordinator to join the Fast Company development team. This position is deeply involved in the production of our web content--you will be working with our web producer, editorial staff, writers, and photo editors in order to implement stories within our con ...

Jadaliyya

  • Reflections on Egypt after March 19
    Return of Identity Politics The March 19 constitutional referendum and the lead-up to it have tempered the strong feeling of unity that Tahrir Square had instilled in the country’s political community. The referendum marked the return of adversity and competition to Egypt’s political ar ...
  • نصيبنا من كعكة الإقتصاد
    إجراء مد�ش ذ�� ا�ذ� أع��ت� ا�ح��مة م�ذ أ�ام بتجم�د ا�ضر�بة ا�ع�ار�ة. �م تختر ح��مة شر� ا�تأج�� ب� ا�تجم�د مما �ع�� أ� أمد� أط�� �غ�ر محدد. ��ج� ا�د�شة ��� �� أ� �ذ� ا�ضر�بة �� إجراء ا�تصاد� �ادر م� ��ع� �� ح��مة �ظ�� م� ح�ث إ�� �ضع ا�عبء ع�� ا�أغ��اء �ا ا���راء. ��� زم� ث�رة �امت م� أج� ...
  • "V for Vendetta": The Other Face of Egypt's Yo ...
    âBeneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea […] and ideas are bulletproof.â - From the film V for Vendetta In the summer of 2010 the youth of Facebook, âshebab al-Facebook,â began a campaign of peaceful civil disobedience through the Arabic âWe are al ...
  • The Year of the Citizen
    During the Spring of the so-called Arab Spring, the euphoria that characterized the Winter of 2010/2011 has increasingly given way to more somber attitudes associated with Winter. For those who were expecting a linear progression towards freedom, in which vain autocrats and sclerotic reg ...
  • Culture VII
    Spring is about to end (not the Arab one though). Sarah Palin wants to be Empress, but we still have culture. This week's picks:� *�Prose of a Growing Movement�by Rayya El Zein * The Persistence of Jokes by Elliott Colla * To the Master of the Banquet�by Sargon Boulus (tr. Sinan Antoo ...

mediagazer

  • THE ATLANTIC: Andrew Sullivan Who? We're Crush ...
    Henry Blodget / The Wire: THE ATLANTIC: Andrew Sullivan Who?  We're Crushing It!  —  A few months ago, when The Atlantic's biggest star, Andrew Sullivan, ran off with The Daily Beast, some folks worried that he would take The Atlantic's online business with him.  —  Nope!  —  Like a lot of oth ...
  • THE ATLANTIC: Andrew Sullivan Who? We're Crush ...
    Henry Blodget / The Wire: THE ATLANTIC: Andrew Sullivan Who?  We're Crushing It!  —  A few months ago, when The Atlantic's biggest star, Andrew Sullivan, ran off with The Daily Beast, some folks worried that he would take The Atlantic's online business with him.  —  Nope!  —  Like a lot of oth ...
  • Mozambique's free newspaper becomes a tool for ...
    Richard M Kavuma / Guardian: Mozambique's free newspaper becomes a tool for social transformation |  Richard M Kavuma  —  @Verdade's goal is to ‘feed the brain’ of people who barely manage to ‘feed the stomach’, proving information as a tool for development  —  When Jornal@Verdade hit the stree ...
  • Mozambique's free newspaper becomes a tool for ...
    Richard M Kavuma / Guardian: Mozambique's free newspaper becomes a tool for social transformation |  Richard M Kavuma  —  @Verdade's goal is to ‘feed the brain’ of people who barely manage to ‘feed the stomach’, proving information as a tool for development  —  When Jornal@Verdade hit the stree ...
  • Les Filles du Blog (Kat Stoeffel/New York Obse ...
    Kat Stoeffel / New York Observer: Les Filles du Blog  —  Although many intellectual and literary magazines have come under scrutiny lately for a lack of female bylines (yes, again; it's an annual event), two of those publication's blogs have become visible launch pads for female writers: The N ...

Chemtrail News

  • Chemtrails 101 page 1
    According to all United States federal government organizations chemtrails do not exist andor are a conspiracy theory They say the white lines in the sky ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread710566/pg1
  • (the chemtrail song) A PLANE TRAIL OF D ...
    just had a quick question im currently living in arizona and for the last 6 days i have seen no chemtrails its actually pretty great but my fear is that ...chemtruth.ning.com/video/the-chemtrail-song-a-plane-2
  • YouTube - Chemtrail Lietuva,
    Chemtrail Lietuva, purškimas. ... Added to queue chemija chemtrail Lietuva Lithuaniaby koreliacija344 views · Thumbnail 0:41. Add to ...www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX-rMbNaFiU
  • Chemtrails, geoengineering exposed on m ...
    After years of mainstream news silence on the topic of chemtrails, NBC-affiliated KMIR News has become the latest media source to report on the phenomenon ...
  • CHEMTRAIL PLANES ARE FAKE UFO's ATT ...
    Discussion about CHEMTRAIL PLANES ARE FAKE? UFO's ATTACK CHEM PLANS? CRAZY STUFF MUST SEE! at the GodlikeProductions Conspiracy Forum.www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1510548/pg1

World News - Top Stories

  • Sepp Blatter ready for fourth term at FIF ...
    Sepp Blatter is today expected to win a fourth term as head of Fifa as he stands unopposed in the presidential election - despite calls from the English and Scottish FA to postpone the vote. Prince William,...
  • Cell phone use may cause cancer: WHO
    PARIS - Mobile phone users may be at increased risk from brain cancer and should use texting and free-hands devices to reduce exposure, the World Health Organisation's cancer experts said on Tuesday. Radio-frequency electromagnetic fields generated by such devices are 'possibly carcinogenic ...
  • Germany upholds warning for vegetables
    BERLIN (AP) — Germany's health minister says researchers still have not been able to pinpoint the cause for a food borne bacterial outbreak that has hit Germany and other European nations. Ilse Aigner told German ARD Television on Wednesday that scientists are working nonstop to try to find ...
  • Care for your hair
    A recent study suggests that nearly 70% Indians suffer from dandruff. And before you think it’s not a cause to worry, trust us it is. The number is the second highest in the world, next only to China. “Dandruff has very...
  • Japanese seniors volunteer for Fukushima ...
    Elderly volunteers for nuclear crisis Tokyo (CNN) -- Up a narrow flight of stairs in a modest, non-descript office building, three retirees sit in a cramped room, hunched over their computers and mobile phones. They look like the planning committee for a neighborhood senior breakfast, not t ...

no frakking consensus

  • That Wobbly Foundation: Peer-Reviewed Research
    Climate activists have long argued that scientific research that has been peer-reviewed is reliable, trustworthy & true.
  • A Story about a Farmer, a Flood & Fish
    A flooded-out farmer is fighting for his economic survival. Rather than assisting him, environmental bureaucrats are contributing to his nightmare.
  • Lord Turnbull Trashes the IPCC
    A prominent UK civil servant has issued a plea for climate sanity that is less-than-kind to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
  • No Harmony with Hogweed
    People who think we should live in harmony with nature usually forget to mention poisonous plants.
  • E-Book Tipping Point
    Amazon.com says e-books have begun out-selling hardcover and paperback books combined. Climate titles that don't have an e-book edition are now at a serious disadvantage.

Pointman's

  • The power of dreams and the power of nightmares.
    There are patterns in politics which are hardy perennials. Theyâve been there for as long as politics has been around, which is to say forever. Politicians need you to vote for them and the way they do this is to sell you something. The thing they sell you of course is a promise but to … Read more
  • About Harry.
    I went to a christening today. Itâs been a long time since Iâve been inside a place of worship. Things have changed a lot. The toddlers were allowed to walk around and actually called up to the front so they could really see what was going on. No hushing or shushing. There were several babies … ...
  • The big green killing machine: What is VAD?
    This is the first in a series of occasional articles dealing with the human cost of the various policies being pushed by what I call the big green killing machine. Iâve never viewed fighting the perversion that environmentalism has become as some sort of intellectual wrestling match waged in the ...
  • Line of Descent Chapter 25
    Chapter 25 The wounded man’s lifeless eyes stared up at the wooden joists of the ceiling. He had died quietly, slipping away from life unnoticed among the group of people huddled there together in the centre of the room. The maid had been the first to realise he was dead and had backed away from ...
  • The times they are a changing and a righteous ...
    Militant Islam directed at the West, was actually a change in policy. It grew out of the complete failure to politicize the populations of the Arab world. For decades, attempts had been made to topple the totalitarian regimes that ruled with a fist of iron and had not improved the lot of the com ...

Journalists' Toolkit

  • The best video export options
    How do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...
  • Video Resources updated
    The new Video Resources page has been added to this site. This is a carefully curated page with links to good tutorials for video editing software, video shooting tips, and the like. It’s intended for beginners, particularly journalism students and journalism educators who are teaching video in ...
  • Flash Journalism updates
    I have been hard at work updating the Flash Journalism website. New tutorials for ActionScript 3.0 and for working on the Timeline in CS4 and CS5 have been added. The old pages from the original site (created to support the book I wrote about Flash journalism in 2004) are still online, and all t ...
  • New tutorial: Windows Live Movie Maker
    As an aid to a journalism training session I agreed to give, I created a short PowerPoint that is aimed at journalism students. Windows Live Movie Maker Tutorial Windows Live Movie Maker is quite different from its predecessor — Windows Movie Maker (not “live”). It is less versatile in several w ...
  • Convert WMA files with Switch
    Switch Sound File Converter is a free program from NCH Software. You can download it here (Mac or Windows). I have been using this program and recommending it widely for about two years. It’s easy to use, and it’s especially useful for converting WMA format files to WAV so that we can edit them ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Over Two Thousand Six Hundred Activists Arrest ...
    By Bill Quigley Since President Obama was inaugurated, there have been over two thousand six hundred arrests of activists protesting in the US. Research shows over 670 people have been arrested in protests inside the US already in 2011, over 1290 were arrested in 2010, and 665 arrested in 2009 ...
  • Louisiana Legislature Takes Steps Towards Endi ...
    From our friends at Women With a Vision: Tomorrow, Tuesday May 24th, at 9:30am, the Louisiana House of Representatives Criminal Justice Committee will take up the bill to remove Solicitation of a Crime Against Nature (SCAN) from the sex offender registry and make the penalties the same as prost ...
  • Organizing Iberville: Applying Lessons Learned ...
    From our friends at Survivors Village: As Survivors Village and May Day New Orleans begins its campaign to oppose the destruction of the last traditional public housing development in the city of New Orleans, a deep sense of dread and fear courses into my mind. It's been only a few years s ...
  • Thousands of Oil and Gas Wells and Pits to be ...
    From Our Friends at Louisiana Bucket Brigade: No clear plans from industry, state or federal government about preparation or cleanup A map released yesterday details that the opening of the Morganza Spillway is likely to cause the release of oil, diesel, drilling muds and chemical ...
  • The Fight Back Center Works to Maintain the Cu ...
    The property at 3820 Alfred Street has always been the focal point of the St. Bernard community. As the headquarters of the New Day Black Community Development Organization, it provided economic assistance, advocacy against injustice, day care services, job banks, GED programs, a youth club ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Christopher Marlowe wrote: Awesome post Whaler. This article is very convincing. I don't think Japan got hit by a 9.0 As the article points out, there is very little damage that can be seen apart from that caused by the tsunami. The picture of the "camera" that the MagmaBSP people planted ...
  • Historical Events • Re: Carter Glass (Rothschi ...
    Thanks again CSR! These detailed snippets from the rather recent past further solidify my thoughts and knowledge. What were once speculation and musings are now facts.Statistics: Posted by Wimpy — Wed Jun 01, 2011 1:25 am
  • History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
    iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7hwt3IVres Jewish sodomite Frank Kameny debates author of The Born Gay Hoax Ryan Sorba. Jewish sodomites live in an upside down world. Statistics: Posted by SPECTEC — Wed Jun 01, 2011 1:09 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Uhhh, I do hope that you all eventually do a little Google-researching on this London-based Mau-Mau PSYOPS gang like I just did. Acting like this stuff is believable make you guys look a lot less credible when even Shabbos Jones (an admitted Zionist) concludes that these British groups are fak ...
  • Historical Events • Re: Carter Glass (Rothschi ...
    HOW TO BE A UNITED STATES SENATOR - The Hiding Place By Eustace Mullins The CDL Report A Publication of the New Christian Crusade Church P.O. Box 426 Metairie, LA, 70004 Issue 131 August 1990 When one surveys the present crop of United States Senators, it is obvious that that body no longer ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Staple Food Prices Could More than Double by 2 ...
    The prices of staple foods, which have already reached record levels in 2011, could more than double over the next two decades, a new Oxfam report says. According to the report, "Growing a Better Future", a combination of factors — including climate change, diminished natural resources worldwide ...
  • Fish DNA Test Can Help in Fight Against Illega ...
    An international consortium has developed a DNA test that can trace the origin of fish and fish products, an innovation that could improve enforcement of marine fisheries laws and reduce overfishing worldwide. Using forensic technologies, the group FishPopTrace — a Wikimedia coalition of resear ...
  • Drought-Resistant GM Corn Poses Limited Risk - ...
    The U.S. Department of Agriculture is expected to allow the sale of drought-tolerant corn, making it the first commercial crop genetically modified to resist environmental conditions such as drought rather than pests or insecticides. But while the agency says the strain of GM corn engineered by ...
  • Majority of New Buses Will Use Alternative Fue ...
    More than 50 percent of the 64,000 new transit buses expected to arrive on roadways worldwide by 2015 will be fueled by alternative sources of energy, compared with 28 percent of new bus deliveries in 2010, Mercedes Benz according to a report by U.S.-based Pike Research. The most significant gro ...
  • An African Success: In Namibia, The People and ...
    Shortly after gaining independence in 1990, Namibia turned ownership of its wildlife back to the people. By using a system of community-based management, this southern African nation has avoided the fate of most others on the continent and registered a sharp increase in its key wildlife populati ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • SIU tries, tries again to identify G20 cop thug
    By Alison@Creekside Oversight - noun 1) the action of overseeing something 2) an omission, the failure to do something Dorian Barton was taking a picture of police horses in the park at the G20 summit in downtown Toronto last summer when he was suddenly knocked to the ground from beh ...
  • Kevin Annett’s unfinished testament &#82 ...
    Continued from page 1 On August 9th, 2010, Annett took a phone call on his long-running radio show, “Hidden from History.” The caller wanted to discuss rumours of police complicity in the murders committed by Robert Pickton. “I have specific evidence of what you’re talking about,” Annett repl ...
  • Kevin Annett’s unfinished testament
    By Frank Moher Kevin Annett lives in a small white house facing onto a plain street in downtown Nanaimo, BC. The local RCMP detachment, with its lot full of solid, square cop cars, is just around the corner. Inside, on a watery day in mid-January, the living room is lit only ...
  • Wikileaked: The “incremental approach&#8 ...
    By Alison@Creekside I guess everyone has their favorite US Ambassador to Canada. Mine has always been Paul Cellucci, who once suggested building huge aqueducts to carry Canadian water to the US and worried in 2008 that the election of Obama would "imperil the future economic integration of ...
  • Farm This Way
    By Rachel Krueger When it comes to pop cultural infections, the only thing worse than hearing "Born This Way" AGAIN (again from when I heard it this morning, but also again from when I heard it in 1989) is getting a facebook notification that Jodie just bought me a cow and ...

Daily Beast

  • The Vindication of LeBron James
    LeBron James has been vilified for his ego, self-indulgence, and the free-agency spectacle of The Decision to join the Miami Heat. But he should be judged only on his NBA work-and his playoffs performance has been superb, writes sometime critic Buzz...
  • Sarah Palin and Donald Trump's Pizza Summit
    The presidential flirts met in Times Square for a family dinner under a phalanx of cellphone cameras, as Palin's bus tour hit New York. Shushannah Walshe reports on the nascent 2012 campaign's most surreal moment yet. Sarah Palin and Donald Trump, two...
  • Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries and More Tin ...
    Hayden Panetiere, 5'2", just broke up with Wladimir Klitschko, 6'6", and is now linked to Mark Sanchez, 6'2". Kim Kardashian, 5'3", got engaged to Kris Humphries, 6'9". VIEW OUR GALLERY of vertically challenged couples. Gallery: Tiny Women, Giant...
  • Christine Lagarde: Can a Woman Save the IMF?
    The French finance minister's reformist bent, connections with heavyweights like Timothy Geithner, and pledge to make the IMF more representative make her the frontrunner to succeed Dominique Strauss-Kahn-if she can win over the BRIC countries, writes...
  • Weinergate's Twitter Hack?
    Anthony Weiner blames a hacker for sending a Twitter message with a naughty photo and, according to Dan Lyons, that's a lot easier than you think. Weiner denies tweeting the wiener, and there is no proof that the wiener even belongs to Weiner, but if...

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Japan and Peru sign free-trade agreement
    Japan and Peru signed a free-trade agreement Tuesday evening that will eliminate tariffs on goods accounting for about 99 percent of trade between the two countries in 10 years. Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto met with Peruvian Foreign Trade and Tourism Minister Eduardo Ferreyros Kuppers at ...
  • Walsh set to remain with Knicks
    John Calipari couldn't believe his awful luck when he stepped into an almost empty hotel elevator a week ago in Sarasota, Floriday, (site of the Dick Vitale Gala) and the door closed before he recognized its lone occupant. Shortly after the Final Four, I had tried to track down the Kentucky ...
  • Stricken Fukushima nuke plant leaking oil
    Oil was leaking into the sea from heavy oil tanks for reactors 5 and 6 at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Tuesday, adding the spill may have been ongoing since the March 11 quake and tsunami. Tepco said workers at the site saw an oil slick floating on the sea a ...
  • Some Fukushima soil same as Chernobyl 'dead zone'
    Radioactive soil in pockets of areas near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant have reached the same level as Chernobyl, where a "dead zone" remains 25 years after the reactor in the former Soviet Union exploded. Soil samples in areas outside the 20-km exclusion zone around the Fukushima plant me ...
  • Radiation-linked cancer an intangible numbers game
    With contaminated produce continuing to be detected beyond Fukushima Prefecture, public concern over the health effects of radiation exposure continues to mount. Experts agree that exposure to more than 100 millisieverts in total increases the risk of cancer. However, scientists have yet to ac ...

Alexander Higgins

  • Obama to name Panetta defense secretary
    President Barack Obama plans to pick CIA Director Leon Panetta to succeed Robert Gates as defense secretary, a U.S. official said Wednesday.
  • Wednesday’s live events
    Donald Trump holds a news briefing today. Will he discuss a possible run for the presidency? Will he address his "birther" claim that President Obama may not have been born in the United States? Watch CNN.com Live for coverage. 9 am ET - Aviation Summit –  The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Nat ...
  • California Plutonium 43 Times, Hawaii 11 Times ...
    A blog post out Japan says EPA data has been found showing Plutonium levels in California are 43 times an in Hawaii are 11 times higher than the maximum levels detected over the last 20 Years. Plutonium and Uranium has also been detected in Guam and Japan although the Japanese Government is deny ...
  • Bald eagle with Web following struck, killed b ...
    Biologists believe a bald eagle that was a star of a popular Virginia eagle-watching webcam was killed Tuesday morning, struck by an airplane that was landing at Norfolk International Airport. A U.S. Airways jet’s landing gear struck and killed a bald eagle as the plane was trying to land, airpo ...
  • Pregnant Teacher Harassed By TSA On Easter Sun ...
    The Intel Hub April 26th, 2011 The Transportation Security Agency has a long history of harassing innocent, peaceful Americas. From 6 year girls to the elderly, the TSA, an agency that has never arrested a terrorist, has taken the American police state to a whole new level. When i received an em ...

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • When Politics is Personal
    Lately I wonder if there hasn’t been a modification to the feminist adage “the personal is political”. In the aftermath of the recent federal election — a decision that left so many of us cringing in anticipation of the onslaught we know will follow — it became clear that for some, politics is p ...
  • UK Conservatives Put Canada’s to Shame o ...
    Across the pond, the UK Conservative coalition government has taken a very different approach to tackling climate change than the Harper Conservatives. The Canadian government’s “commitment” to addressing climate change makes us a global pariah. Our government says it is committed to reducing Ca ...
  • Will Harper Support Hudak’s Chain Gangs?
    Ontario Conservative leader Tim Hudak has promised to introduce what the Toronto Star calls “modern day chain gangs.” “The Progressive Conservative leader said Thursday that if a Tory government is elected Oct. 6, about 2,700 inmates serving sentences in provincial jails will be forced to work u ...
  • BC to Raise Corporate Taxes
    Amazingly, BC’s government has joined its official opposition in proposing to restore the provincial corporate income tax rate from 10% to 12%. The same government that cut from 12% to 10% would now reverse itself as part of a last-ditch effort to save the HST. Revenue from a higher corporate ta ...
  • Canada Doesn’t Deserve the Silver
    It has been widely reported in the Globe and elsewhere that Canada ranks #2 in the just-released OECD Better Life Index, outstripped only by Australia. I am all for measures of objective and subjective social well-being that go beyond GDP as a measure of progress, and this OECD report offers up ...

ReDress

  • Why is UN secretary-general trying to scupper ...
    Stuart Littlewood challenges UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to explain why he is trying to scupper plans for a humanitarian flotilla to the besieged Gaza Strip instead of taking effective action to protect the flotilla and compel Israel to end its illegal blockade of the Strip.
  • Barack Obama is the wrong target
    Alan Hart argues that rather than attack President Obama for his failure in the Middle East, supporters of justice for the Palestinians should "target ... America's pork-barrel system of politics which puts what passes for democracy up for sale to the highest bidders..." thereby surrendering US ...
  • US Congress mesmerized by Netanyahu’s "lies an ...
    Lawrence Davidson views the "sustained standing ovations" given to Israel's Binyamin Netanyahu at the US Congress on 24 May. He argues that Congress's "accepted version of reality is maintained by Zionist misinformation fortified by donor dollars to the campaigns of both parties" and that in US ...
  • The modi operandi of Barack Obama and Binyamin ...
    Paul J. Balles argues that, faced with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's absolutism, US President Barack Obama's natural tendency to compromise is untenable and renders him weak and ineffectual.
  • International Criminal Court - help or hindrance?
    Stuart Littlewood views the built-in anomalies that allow the International Criminal Court to dispense justice but only selectively by giving impunity to non-signatories such as Israel and the US while prosecuting suspected war criminals from other non-signatories such as Sudan.

Physics Today

  • Rice hires three top biophysicsts from UC San ...
    Chronicle of Higher Education: Biophysicists Herbert Levine, Jos� Onuchic, and Peter Wolynes are leaving their positions at the University of California, San Diego, to join a research center at Rice University in Houston, Texas. All three researchers are members of the National Academy of Scienc ...
  • Rice hires three top biophysicsts from UC San ...
    Chronicle of Higher Education: Biophysicists Herbert Levine, Jos� Onuchic, and Peter Wolynes are leaving their positions at the University of California, San Diego, to join a research center at Rice University in Houston, Texas. All three researchers are members of the National Academy of Scienc ...
  • Charles McMillan is the next head of Los Alamo ...
    Science: Starting on 1 June, the next director of Los Alamos National Laboratory will be Charles McMillan, a former nuclear weapons designer who has more than 28 years of scientific and leadership experience in weapons science, stockpile certification, experimental physics, and computational sci ...
  • Charles McMillan is the next head of Los Alamo ...
    Science: Starting on 1 June, the next director of Los Alamos National Laboratory will be Charles McMillan, a former nuclear weapons designer who has more than 28 years of scientific and leadership experience in weapons science, stockpile certification, experimental physics, and computational sci ...
  • Worldwide emissions of carbon dioxide reach re ...
    BBC: The International Energy Agency, an independent watchdog established by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, has estimated that the world's emissions of carbon dioxide from energy generation amounted to 30.6 gigatons in 2010. The total is the highest on record. The age ...
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