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Saturday, June 11, 2011

11 June - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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renewable recycling conservation
Mainstream dives into US offshore
reNews Europe
- Jun 11, 2011
- 3 hours ago
Mainstream Renewable Power has joined a total of 11 companies that have put their hats in the ring for potential wind energy leases on the outer contintental shelf off New Jersey. The newcomer to the increasingly popular US offshore sector was joined ...
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Germany's Phaseout Puts a Spotlight on the Cost of Its Renewables Strategy
New York Times
- Jun 10, 2011
- 23 hours ago
By PETER BEHR of ClimateWire Germany's decision to phase out nuclear energy by 2022 will transform Europe's largest economy into a multibillion-dollar laboratory experiment on the rapid deployment of renewable energy and smart grid technologies, ...
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Coalition seizes on electricity report
Sydney Morning Herald
- Jun 11, 2011
- 28 minutes ago
The federal coalition has jumped on reports electricity bills will rise over the next few years, partly due to the government's renewable energy scheme. The government's chief energy adviser predicts household bills will jump 30 per cent by mid-2013, ...
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Brazil to Triple Renewable Energy by 2020
Reuters
- Jun 10, 2011
- 18 hours ago
By Zachary Shahan by Zachary Shahan Germany, South Korea, Japan, and China aren't the only countries looking to up step on the renewable energy pedal. Brazil, another major world economy, has also recently announced big renewable energy plans. ...
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Ecology certifies Clark County wetland mitigation bank
Access Washington
- Jun 09, 2011
- Jun 09, 2011
OLYMPIA – The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) has certified the construction and operation of a privately owned, 113-acre wetland mitigation bank near La Center, Wash., in Clark County. East Fork Lewis Mitigation Partners, the company that ...
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Our view: In 'green' trade-off, ecology is the bottom line
Kitsap Sun
- Jun 09, 2011
- Jun 09, 2011
By Kitsap Sun staff In South Kitsap, a developer who's taking an environmentally green approach is drawing criticism from others in the immediate community. In part, that's because “environment” comes in two shades of green — in this case ecological ...
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St. Elizabeth Community Hospital receives Green Health Award
Contra Costa Times
- Jun 10, 2011
- 19 hours ago
St. Elizabeth Community Hospital, a member of CHW, has been awarded the Practice GreenHealth Partner Award for its systems and support of ecology as a health care provider. The award was presented during the CleanMed 2011 conference held in Arizona to ...
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WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY ISSUES BRIGHTWATER SEWER TREATMENT PERMITS
Water World
- Jun 11, 2011
- 6 hours ago
The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) has issued two new permits to King County's Wastewater Treatment Division for the Brightwater Treatment Plant system located outside of Woodinville. Ecology's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination ...
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Water Power

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Watching the weather, worrying about water
Rapid City Journal
- Jun 11, 2011
- 16 minutes ago
But each forecast of rain, from Rapid City to Billings and beyond, worries those who wonder what will happen if even more water hits the already bloated Missouri River reservoirs upstream. "Oh, I watch the weather," Fort Pierre Mayor Sam Tidball said. ...
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Farms battle for survival against Mo. River flooding
USA Today
- Jun 11, 2011
- 1 hour ago
By Jonathan Ellis, USA TODAY The water came fast, in just a few days. Dave Reinschmidt and Barbara Yelverton, a brother and sister who have a farm south of Wagner, needed help just as fast. By Devin Wagner, Argus Leader A house on Dave Reinschmidt's ...
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The new water wars? Study shows broad decline in Rockies snowpack.
Christian Science Monitor
- Jun 10, 2011
- 15 hours ago
While the shrinking snowpack in the 20th and early 21st centuries is not unprecedented from a climate-history standpoint, at no time in the past 800 years have so many people relied so heavily on these winter snows for their fresh water. ...
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After Neptune teen is swept under water in Bradley Beach, friends, family ...
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
- Jun 11, 2011
- 4 hours ago
They lined up ankle deep in the water and formed a 100-person chain for a moment of silence. "In all my years, I haven't seen this outpouring of support," Bradley Beach Police Chief Leonard Guida, who has been with the squad for 31 years. ...
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The Intelligence Daily

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CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • AMERICA’S ON-AGAIN / OFF-AGAIN LOVE AFFAIR WIT ...
    Summary: Seymour HershSeymour Hersh, the acclaimed journalist who, in 1970, won a Pulitzer Prize for uncovering the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and has subsequently broken many other important stories dealing with America’s foreign and national security policies (e.g., prisoner abuse at Abu G ...
  • THE AMERICAN MISREADING OF IRAN AND THE CHANG ...
    Summary: Egypt protestsIt is clear that the United States and its Western European allies were caught completely unprepared for the revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, and Bahrain, as well as the upheavals throughout the Arab world. On the other hand, many of us in the region have been re ...
  • MISREPRESENTING THE IRAN-AL-QA’IDA “CONNECTION”
    Summary: National Public Radio recently broadcast a piece, see here, asserting that Seif al-Adel, a likely candidate to head or be deputy leader of al-Qaida, owes his life to the Islamic Republic of Iran. This story is part of a small wave of “news reports” claiming extensive ties between T ...
  • RAND Researcher's Claim of Iranian Nuke Doesn' ...
    Summary: Natanz plantA five page article from RAND researcher Gregory S. Jones released late last week reaches a grim conclusion: that without an immediate US military occupation of Iran, the Islamic Republic will have a nuclear weapon in two months. source: Antiwar.comread more
  • Despite Intelligence Rejecting Iran as Nuclear ...
    Summary: Seymour Hersh"There is a large body of evidence, however, including some of America’s most highly classified intelligence assessments, suggesting that the United States could be in danger of repeating a mistake similar to the one made with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq eight years ago" so ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Massive Plasma Waves Sweep the Sun --NASA: "We ...
    A huge storm on the sun this past week unleashed what some have called the most massive eruption of solar plasma ever seen. NASA astronomers said the huge June 7 solar eruption, called a coronal mass ejection, probably wasn't the...
  • "The Virus Planet" --The Rising Threat of Supe ...
    In the invisible, parallel world of Earth's they kill half the bacteria in the ocean every day, and invade a microbe host 10 trillion times a second around the world. There are 10 billion trillion, trillion viruses inhabiting Planet Earth,...
  • Meteorites --Clues to Organic Chemistry of Ear ...
    Carbonaceous chondrites are a type of organic-rich meteorite that contain samples of the materials that took part in the creation of our planets nearly 4.6 billion years ago, including materials that were likely formed before our solar system was created...
  • Image of the Day: "War of the Worlds" above Ch ...
    These stunning images are from last week's eruption in the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcanic chain, about 575 miles south of the capital, Santiago. It was not immediately clear which of the chain's four volcanoes had erupted because of ash cover and...
  • Nine-Billion Miles from Earth: Voyager Yields ...
    NASA's Voyager probes are truly going where no one has gone before. Gliding silently toward the stars, nine billion miles from Earth, they are beaming back news from the most distant, unexplored reaches of the solar system. According to computer...

Natural News

  • Marijuana and Radiation Protection
    (NaturalNews) Marijuana offers strong protective qualities against radiation exposure. Since fewer and fewer people have the financial resources to continually purchase all the helpful things they will need perhaps growing weed in our backyard will offer the public one of the best anti-radiation ...
  • UK hospital staff heartlessly left man to die ...
    (NaturalNews) In a shocking display of utter disregard for their fellow man, staff at Edale House in Manchester, England, which is part of the Manchester Health and Social Care Trust (MHSCT), denied entry to drunk and intoxicated 41-year-old Peter Thompson, whom they left to die on a hallway flo ...
  • Dental surgery causes American woman to speak ...
    (NaturalNews) "When I talk now people ask me where I got my accent from. Well, I got it from a dentist in Toledo." jokes Karen Butler.Butler believes she has foreign accent syndrome, a condition so rare that there are only 60 known cases worldwide. Butler, a 56-year-old tax consultant who grew u ...
  • Feds to start directly targeting drug company ...
    (NaturalNews) The days of drug companies simply settling out of court every time they break the law may soon be coming to an end. In a move that represents a significant shift toward punishing individuals for crimes rather than faceless corporations, federal officials say they will begin persona ...
  • Is lithium the next fluoride? Medication may b ...
    (NaturalNews) Lithium, the psychiatric drug prescribed for depression, mania and bipolar disorder, is now being viewed as the new fluoride by some experts. These experts are calling for the addition of lithium to the water supply as a cure-all for social problems, including suicide, violent crim ...

Threat Level

  • Nude Nuns Mass BitTorrent Lawsuit is Terminated
    A Utah investment company late Friday dropped its copyright-infringement lawsuit against 5,865 BitTorrent users who allegedly downloaded the movie Nude Nuns with Big Guns between January and March of this year. Incentive Capital, which is embroiled in litigation with another company called Came ...
  • Police Arrest 3 Anonymous Members Allegedly Co ...
    Spanish authorities announced Friday they have arrested three members of the hacking group, Anonymous, in connection to attacks against Sony’s online Playstation network and other sites. The police said the three, whose identities were not disclosed, carried out the attacks from a server based i ...
  • Studio Might Alter Tattoo in Hangover DVD Release
    Warner Bros. says it would digitally alter the tattoo on a character in the upcoming DVD version of its new comedy, The Hangover: Part II, if the studio is unable to resolve copyright litigation surrounding the ink design. A lawsuit brought by a Missouri tattooist asserts the movie features a “ ...
  • NSA Whistleblower to Plead Guilty to Misdemeanor
    Days before he was set to go on trial on charges that he illegally retained classified documents, NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake has agreed to plead guilty to a lesser misdemeanor count of exceeding authorized access to a computer. Drake had been charged under the Espionage Act after he alleged ...
  • Citi Credit Card Data Breached for 200,000 Cus ...
    Citigroup said Thursday hackers acquired personal information on about 200,000 credit-card holders, the financial institution’s second announced breach this week. The attack, first reported by the Financial Times, comes amid a host of cyber intrusions into well-known companies, including Google ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Pawlenty Moves from Sam's Club to the Country Club
    The Republican Party, Tim Pawlenty often lectures, "should be the party of Sam's Club, not just the country club." If so, the GOP White House hopeful miserably failed his own Sam's Club test this week. Unveiling his economic plan draining $7.8 trillion from the U.S. Treasury in order to give m ...
  • Romney Flip-Flops on Religious Test
    Unfortunately for Mitt Romney and American religious tolerance alike, a new Quinnipiac survey this week found that over a third of voters have misgivings about a Mormon President. So it came as no surprise that the Republican frontrunner told CNN's Piers Morgan, "I'm not a spokesman for my chu ...
  • 10 Years, 10 Failures for the Bush Tax Cuts
    Today's 10th anniversary of the Bush tax cuts arrives at a particularly ironic time. Ironic, that is, because even as talk of deficits dominates the debate in Washington, that windfall for the wealthy was the single-biggest driver of U.S national debt over the past decade and, if made permanent, ...
  • Cantor Defends Geithner on Debt Ceiling
    An interesting split is occurring within the ranks of the Republicans holding the American economy hostage over the debt ceiling. Led by Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Pat Toomey and Tim Pawlenty, the "Default Deniers" not only refuse the acknowledge the global economic calamity that would ensu ...
  • The Republicans' Medicare Bumper Sticker
    The growing backlash against their plan to end the Medicare guaranteed government insurance program for 46 million Americans is producing near-panic in Republican ranks. With polls showing overwhelming opposition to the Ryan rationing scheme, House GOP leaders begged President Obama to stop the ...

Blackspot News Feed

Consortium News

  • America's Need for a 'Public Good'
    America's Christian churches have failed to provide moral leadership on behalf of a "public good," observes Rev. Howard Bess. May 7, 2011
  • The Curious Bush/Bin Laden Symbiosis
    George W. Bush engaged in a feckless eight-year pursuit of Osama bin Laden while using him for a political edge, says Robert Parry. May 7, 2011
  • The Anti-War Message of Mother's Day
    The first Mother's Day wasn't a sentimental celebration of moms; it was a fierce call to end the horrors of war, writes Gary G. Kohls. May 8, 2011
  • US Policy Still Misreads the Middle East
    By focusing on the how of "targeted killings," not the why of Muslim anger, U.S. runs the risk of endless war, warns Lawrence Davidson. May 9, 2011
  • Post-Bin Laden Peace Hopes Dim
    U.S. demands for an Afghan "footprint" dims hopes that Osama bin Laden's death had opened a path to peace, reports Gareth Porter. May 9, 2011

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

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Public Citizen in Texas

  • State Senator Attempts to Get Rid of His Own A ...
    Texas State Senator Mike Jackson added an amendment to the ethics bill (HB 1616) only 48 hours before the regular session ended and seems to be regretting that decision.  Now he wants Gov. Rick Perry to veto his own legislation.  The amendment was written so that candidates would have been able ...
  • Shareholders Fight Back Against Citizens United
    In a shareholder meeting yesterday, Target executives addressed growing concerns over political actions of the company as well as performance. Shareholders were upset over the $150,000 donation to Minnesota Forward, which is a political group that backed Tom Emmer as a gubernatorial candidate in ...
  • Massive Opposition to Tar Sands Pipeline
    Over 260,000 Americans have told the State Department that they do not want the Keystone XL Tar Sands pipeline to receive a permit. After two recent spills (and averaging one a month) on the 1 year old Keystone pipeline (Keystone XL would extend that pipeline into Texas) it seems obvious that Am ...
  • Clean Air Act Restrictions Pushed Aside in Wak ...
    Election season is imminent and advocates for environmental welfare and public health need not look very far for the hyper-political red tape and drawbacks to pollution legislation. Like many of her colleagues in the Democratic Party, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson ha ...
  • How Many Tar Sands Pipeline Spills Does Texas ...
    U.S. Stops Keystone I Line from Restarting After 12th Spill in 12 Months, Days Before Comment Period Ends on Keystone XL For over a year, TransCanada has been trying to get its hands on a Presidential Permit from the U.S. Department of State to extend its Keystone I tar sands pipeline with a pip ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • AIPAC: Dangerous for Jews and Other Living Things
    Over the last couple of days official Washington has been abuzz with what President Obama said, and didn't say, about the 1967 borders between Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. The president didn't say anything that hasn't been official U.S. policy under both Republican and Democr ...
  • Indigenous Farmers Hostage in Guatemala -- Eco ...
    � In this third blog of the Field Notes series, Grassroots� Program Coordinator for Latin America Saulo Araújo analyzes the situation in which Guatemala�s indigenous Mayans are facing fear and despair in their own land. Saulo is currently visiting partners and ally organizations in Central Ameri ...
  • Gaza Diaries: Leaving a Legacy of Seeds
    gaza_seed_bank.jpg RAFAH, Gaza—I’m sitting around a table at the Rural Women’s Development Society (RWDS) near the Gaza Strip’s southernmost border with a group of women discussing grassroots agricultural initiatives and drinking sugary sa ...
  • Peasant women learn to fight for their land ri ...
    el_estribo_womens_group.jpg This is second blog in the Field Notes series. Read the first one here. Grassroots’ Program Coordinator for Latin America Saulo Araújo is reporting as he visits partners and allies in Central America.read more
  • Al-Nakba demonstrations experience violence
    Below is an article from Grassroots International�s ally, the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, outlining actions planned for the commemoration of the 63rd�anniversary of the Nakba on May 15, 2011. Al-Nakba, which means �the catastrophe� in Arabic, commemorates the day in 1948 on which ...

Climate

  • EU Insists on Right to Curb Airline CO2 Emissions
    Source:� Reuters The European Union has a right to impose legislation to cut emissions from aviation. Global airlines have attacked the EU over its plan to force them into the region's carbon market.
  • Groups Sue to Stop Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico
    Source:� Reuters Environmental activists are suing the Obama administration over its approval of a Royal Dutch Shell Plc plan to drill for oil in the Gulf of Mexico.
  • Oil Firm Wins Injunction against Greenpeace
    Source:� Independent British oil company Cairn Energy has been granted an injunction by a Dutch court to prevent Greenpeace activists from boarding its two deep sea drilling rigs 180km off the coast of Greenland.
  • ADB Commits to Fund 500MW Bangladesh Solar PV ...
    Source:� PV-Tech News The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has agreed to help finance a 500MW solar systemto power irrigation pumps and mini solar grid plants in rural areas across Bangladesh.
  • Climate Change 'Will Cut Water for Farmers': UN
    Source:� AFP The UN food agency warned climate change will restrict the availability of water for farming in decades to come, including in the Mediterranean region, and urged governments to take action.

GreenBiz

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Booman Tribune

  • Casual Observation
    If you drink Miller Beer products you deserve to burn in hell. Discuss
  • Music Thread
    We're off to see a free show of Dengue Fever at the World Cafe Live in Wilmington. Cambodian surfer music rules. Our friend Brendan will be appearing at the same venue on July 21st. While I'm away, don't shoot anyone in the face. What weird bands are you into? Discuss
  • US Firms Invest in Machines not People
    US companies are making record profits. Hooray! That must mean that new hiring of workers is just around the corner, right? Not so fast, my friend. Workers are expensive, especially in a county without universal healthcare that helps limit rising health care costs. So what's a company to do ...
  • I'm Tired of All These Damn Snakes
    I've heard about these giant pythons that are taking over the Everglades. I gotta say, I've never liked snakes, and I'm happy that we don't have too many of them around here. I really don't like the idea of 19-foot snakes. The whole thing creeps me out, and I don't even live in Florida. I've ...
  • Gates is Right About NATO
    It may be an ugly American trait to be critical of Europe's military muscularity, and we no doubt have wanted a relatively neutered Europe for a variety of reasons. I think Europe has benefited greatly from their dependency, not just culturally in an "unlearning war" kind of way, but also finan ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Personal Information: episode 24
    Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness! Share and Enjoy:Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
  • Arguments against life extension
    Via Michael Anissimov, here’s a spectacularly empty diatribe against “deathhackers” by TechCrunch‘s Paul Carr. Carr objects to the idea of radical life extension as advocated by transhumanists, which is fair enough, but as written here most of his objections seem to boil down to personal distate ...
  • Daddy, where does innovation come from?
    Plenty of folk have been linking to this excerpt from Matt Ridley’s new book The Rational Optimist, and with good reason – it’s a provocative piece that plays to advocates (and opponents) of free trade, open exchange, copyright reform and much more. The basic thesis? The one persistent factor th ...
  • Replacement arms: mechanical or biological?
    Prosthetic limbs are still in their infancy, but there’s a lot of progress being made: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is working with Darpa (who else?), and has a research grant for trying out their mind-controlled modular prosthetic arm on five test subjects over the next couple of ye ...
  • How to be a futurist
    The irrepressible Scott “Basic Instructions” Meyer has the lowdown if you’re thinking of a career in futurism: Click through for the whole thing. But take it from me, being a futurist is a lot of work for no money. Or maybe that’s just the way I do it… and I’ve never been featured in a [...]Foll ...

Therapy News

  • Gay and Lesbian Teens More Likely to Engage in ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Gay teenagers are faced with the same peer pressures as heterosexual teens. But a new study suggests their sexuality can lead them to be at a greater risk for engaging in unhealthy behaviors. According to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( ...
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Useful in Substan ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline New research shows the importance of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in the recovery of those with drug and alcohol use problems and depression. The researchers, from the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, note that many people with substance abuse i ...
  • Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
    A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up Happy weekend! We wish you a joyful weekend with your loved ones, and happy reading of this week’s news! Let us know your take :-) Therapists Judged by Their Offices, Study Shows Knowledge of Mental Health Increases Likelihood of Seeking Help ...
  • Children with Outpatient Mental Health Care St ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Even with regular treatment from mental health professionals in an outpatient setting, many teens and children with psychiatric and behavioral challenges still wind up visiting the emergency room more often than their healthy counterparts. According to a new study ...
  • What Can Couples Do When They Don’t Speak the ...
    By Linda Nusbaum, MA., MFT, Relationships & Marriage Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Linda and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile This is not a post about people speaking two different languages such as English and Spanish.  This is a story about couples that talk to each other bu ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Fayette citizens taking aim at mountaintop rem ...
    Fayette citizens taking aim at mountaintop removal mining Beckley Register-Herald Rose compared the Frasure site, and other mountaintop removal sites like it, to a cancer spreading across West Virginia mountains. An issue that hit home with several of the participants was that the company minin ...
  • Coalfield citizens come to nation's capital wi ...
    Film School Rejects Coalfield citizens come to nation's capital with message: Save them, end ... Media Newswire (press release) (Media-Newswire.com) - Washington, DC � A group of coalfield citizens traveled to Washington, DC, during the March on Blair Mountain to renew their call for the end of ...
  • Daryl Hannah to join OC at Tree Huggers Ball - ...
    Daryl Hannah to join OC at Tree Huggers Ball OCRegister The Hollywood actor, known for protesting against mountaintop removal in the coal mining industry, fighting human trafficking and speaking out against environmental toxins, is coming to Orange County on Saturday as the featured speaker for ...
  • Bonnaroo: Mountaintop Removal, Bluegrass Tripl ...
    New York Times (blog) Bonnaroo: Mountaintop Removal, Bluegrass Triplets and Other Things in the Air New York Times (blog) Ben Ratliff is at Bonnaroo and will be posting dispatches on ArtsBeat throughout the festival. Also: follow along with @nytimesarts/bonnaroo on Twitter for news from the fes ...
  • Will Obama Stand Up to Fraud and Protect Blair ...
    Will Obama Stand Up to Fraud and Protect Blair Mountain It's Getting Hot In Here Tomorrow, thousands will gather at Blair Mountain, to protect this historic site and end mountaintop removal. They are marching toward a mountain that is slated to be destroyed because Big Coal used dead people's n ...

Memeorandum

  • Gates rebukes European allies in farewell spee ...
    Greg Jaffe / Washington Post: Gates rebukes European allies in farewell speech  —  BERLIN — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates rebuked some of America's staunchest allies Friday, saying the United States has a “dwindling appetite” to serve as the heavyweight partner in the military order that h ...
  • Senior Gingrich Campaign Staffers Demanded Gin ...
    Political Punch: Senior Gingrich Campaign Staffers Demanded Gingrich End Films and Books: 'We Didn't Sign Up to Be Hucksters'  —  ABC News' Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) reports:  —  ABC News has learned that one of the major issues between former Speaker Newt Gingrich and his (now former) …
  • Does Cain's test for Muslims fail the Constitu ...
    WorldNetDaily: Does Cain's test for Muslims fail the Constitution?  —  This week I received a piece in which the Tea Party Nation's Judson Phillips heaps praise upon Herman Cain as someone who “stands in face of political correctness and says what needs to be said”:
  • Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's War On Craft Bee ...
    Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's War On Craft Beer  —  Tucked into Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's (R) much-discussed budget was a little-noticed provision to overhaul the state's regulation of the beer industry.  In a state long associated with beer, the provision ...
  • Weiner Confirms He Sent Private Messages to Gi ...
    Jennifer Preston / New York Times: Weiner Confirms He Sent Private Messages to Girl, 17  —  Representative Anthony D. Weiner said on Friday that he exchanged at least five private messages on Twitter this spring with a 17-year-old Delaware girl who became an admirer of his after hearing him spe ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Bearing the standard
    If it grasps the opportunities offered by sustainable certification, China can reap commercial, environmental and social rewards, while helping set the rules for a greener global economy, argues Joshua Wickerham.International voluntary sustainability standards – such as the Forest Stewardship Co ...
  • A two-wheeled future?
    While China’s thriving bike culture is threatened by cars, the US is trying to inspire passion for cycling. Following a chinadialogue seminar, Justin Gerdes reports on efforts to promote this sustainable form of transport.At its founding, the People’s Republic of China reserved a special place f ...
  • Between rail and road in Beijing
    China’s capital is restricting car numbers and pumping money into trains. Is it headed for a less congested future – or already a city beyond help? Liu Xuan reports.On December 30 last year, in a new subway station on Beijing’s Line 15 – Wangjing West – the two most senior members of the municip ...
  • Driven from the land
    As desertification and bitter winters increasingly destroy the livelihoods of Mongolia’s herders, hundreds of thousands are moving into Ulan Bator’s shantytowns from the dry, desolate countryside. Kit Gillet reports.It is a supreme irony in a country once known as the land without fences. Stretc ...
  • The great reformer of Brazil
    As mayor of Curitiba, Jaime Lerner revamped a grubby city into the envy of urban planners worldwide – without spending much money. How did he do it? And what is he up to now? Jared Green spoke to him.Jared Green: In a talk you gave at a recent conference organised by The Economist, you argued th ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Nude Nuns Mass BitTorrent Lawsuit is Terminated
    A Utah investment company late Friday dropped its copyright-infringement lawsuit against 5,865 BitTorrent users who allegedly downloaded the movie Nude Nuns with Big Guns between January and March of this year. Incentive Capital, which is embroiled in litigation with another company called Came ...
  • Police Arrest 3 Anonymous Members Allegedly Co ...
    Spanish authorities announced Friday they have arrested three members of the hacking group, Anonymous, in connection to attacks against Sony’s online Playstation network and other sites. The police said the three, whose identities were not disclosed, carried out the attacks from a server based i ...
  • Studio Might Alter Tattoo in Hangover DVD Release
    Warner Bros. says it would digitally alter the tattoo on a character in the upcoming DVD version of its new comedy, The Hangover: Part II, if the studio is unable to resolve copyright litigation surrounding the ink design. A lawsuit brought by a Missouri tattooist asserts the movie features a “ ...
  • NSA Whistleblower to Plead Guilty to Misdemeanor
    Days before he was set to go on trial on charges that he illegally retained classified documents, NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake has agreed to plead guilty to a lesser misdemeanor count of exceeding authorized access to a computer. Drake had been charged under the Espionage Act after he alleged ...
  • Citi Credit Card Data Breached for 200,000 Cus ...
    Citigroup said Thursday hackers acquired personal information on about 200,000 credit-card holders, the financial institution’s second announced breach this week. The attack, first reported by the Financial Times, comes amid a host of cyber intrusions into well-known companies, including Google ...

Equality Trust

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  • Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
    Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.â–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
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    Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. IntroductionsâDr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer MovementâKatie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchio, Healthcare ...
  • PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
    Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
  • War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
    WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Sha ...
  • An American Suicide Terrorist
    William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...

Marler Blog

  • Five German E. coli cases likely now in Massac ...
    The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday added a case to the count – from 4 to 5. Unlike the previous four, the new case was not someone who had been to Germany in May — it was a family member who apparently was infected from close contact with the ill traveler. One case ha ...
  • Is it Time for a Warning on Sprouts?
    With well over 40 outbreaks linked to sprouts over the last few decades, it should come as no surprise that the 31 dead, 3,086 ill (789 with HUS) in Europe and the United States have been linked to German grown, locally-consumed, organic sprouts. In fact (via my friend at efoodalert), the Chemi ...
  • EU and US E. coli O104:H4 update - 31 Dead, 3, ...
    The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control reports that Since 2 May 2011, 795 cases of HUS and 2287 non-HUS STEC cases have been reported from European Union Member States, including 759 HUS cases and 2229 non-HUS STEC cases in Germany. There are reports of 4 illnesses in U.S. (3 wit ...
  • German E. coli O104:H4 Linked Epidemiologicall ...
    AP reports a few moments ago that German organic vegetable sprouts have been linked epidemiologically to the E. coli O104:H4 outbreak that has killed 30 people and sickened nearly 3,000 - nearly 750 with Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome. Reinhard Burger, president of the Robert Koch Institute, German ...
  • 39 Sickened by Salmonella Tainted Chicks
    The CDC is collaborating with public health and agriculture officials in many states and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Poultry Improvement Plan (NPIP) to investigate a multistate outbreak of human Salmonella serotype Altona infections. As of June 8, 2011, a total of 39 ind ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Report: Glenn Beck goes off on GM's Akerson ov ...
    Filed under: GM, Electric Glenn Beck on the gas tax - Click above to watch video after the jump If there's one thing that is fast becoming true about the Chevy Volt, it's that right-wing political pundits really, really don't like it. So, we will admit up front that this story comes straigh ...
  • Official: Mitsubishi sets Canadian i-MiEV pric ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Budget, Hatchback, Mitsubishi, Canada, Electric $32,998. That's the price that Mitsubishi Motors has announced for the i-MiEV in Canada when the little space egg goes on sale there later this year. (That's $33,891 U.S. at today's exchange rate). Yes, Canada will ge ...
  • Official: New pictures of Tesla Model S Alpha ...
    Filed under: Sedan, Tesla, Design/Style Tesla Model S Alpha - Click above for high-res image gallery Tesla Motors has put up some new pictures of the Tesla Model S Alpha, and its gorgeous new model looks more production-ready than ever. The changes we can see are subtle, but compared to ...
  • Official: New pictures of Tesla Model S Alpha ...
    Filed under: Sedan, Tesla, Design/Style Tesla Model S Alpha - Click above for high-res image gallery Tesla Motors has put up some new pictures of the Tesla Model S Alpha, and its gorgeous new model looks more production-ready than ever. The changes we can see are subtle, but compared to ...
  • Chevy Volt earns five-star NHTSA crash rating ...
    2011 Chevrolet Volt - Click above for high-res image gallery The 2011 Chevrolet Volt has earned "good" marks in crash tests before, and new tests by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's New Car Assessment Program prove that the earlier results were not a fluke. The Volt scor ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • AIDS Activists Rally at U.N.: "We Are Asking W ...
    The 2011 U.N. High-Level meeting on AIDS kicked off on June 8 in New York, with more than 30 world leaders attending to discuss the progress and future of the global AIDS response. Outside, hundreds of AIDS activists rallied to call on the world leaders to fulfill their commitment from the 2006 ...
  • Annie Jacobsen, Author of "Area 51: An Uncenso ...
    We continue our interview with Annie Jacobsen, author of the new book, Area 51: An Uncensored History of Americaâs Top Secret Military Base. Jacobson describes the disk-shaped A-12 Oxcart spy plane developed at the Nevada military base, her interview with the plane’s pilot, and discusses how ...
  • Weiner’s No Longfellow
    “The troubled sky reveals The grief it feels.” These two lines were written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his poem “Snow-Flakes,” published in a volume in 1863 alongside his epic and better-known “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.” Much of the news chatter this week has been about Sarah ...
  • Two Reporters Taken Into Police Custody At Pro ...
    (Photo courtesy of Rebecca Kemble) More than a thousand Wisconsin workers marched through Madison, Wisconsin, today to protest Gov. Scott Walker’s "budget repair" bill that slashes collective bargaining rights and funding for education, health care, and seniors’ programs. During the mar ...
  • Dr. Gabor Maté: More Compassion, Less Violence ...
    In part two of our interview about a new report declaring the so-called "war on drugs" a failure, Dr. Gabor Maté notes that "where violent suppression of drug activity increases, so does killings and violence related to drug use." The Canadian physician and author also relates the study’s find ...

Digg Green

  • New Study Claims Excessive Coffee Consump ...
    A recent study from La Trobe University, which may or may not be a made up institution, determined that stressed coffee lovers are three times more likely to see or hear imaginary things than everyone else. This explains so much.
  • National Geographic: Warming to Blame for ...
    Much of the U.S. West's water supply is under threat as rapidly warming temperatures melt more snow pack annually than is created by precipitation, a new government study suggests. Each spring, melted snow and ice from the Rocky Mountains recharge up to 80 percent of the Columbia, Missouri ...
  • NASA Releases New Video To Understand How ...
    In anticipation of the upcoming lunar eclipse later this month, NASA has released a new video that shows how lunar eclipses work.
  • Faster computer graphics: A better blur i ...
    Digitally mimicking the photographic blur caused by moving objects is surprisingly hard, but new research offers ways to make it easier.
  • Are Dogs Telepathic?
    It's a question that has perplexed many a pet owner - how do their dogs seem to know who is most likely to pass them food under the table?

Invisible Opportunity

  • Voyagers ride ‘magnetic bubbles’
    Humankind’s most distant emissaries are flying through a turbulent sea of magnetism as they seek to break free of our Solar System. Nasa’s Voyager probes, which were launched in 1977, are now approaching the very edge of our Sun’s influence, more than 14 billion km from Earth; and they are still ...
  • ‘JTA’ reports that as much as 2/3 of Democrati ...
    by Philip Weiss on June 8, 2011 I admire Ron Kampeas of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency for telling readers that he is a settler in East Jerusalem. Well Kampeas has also been more honest than other reporters about the role of Jewish money in the American political process. Here he says that the ba ...
  • Ohio restaurant referenced by Obama is closing ...
    OLEDO, Ohio (AP) – An Ohio restaurant mentioned last week by President Barack Obama as an indirect beneficiary of the government’s Chrysler bailout will go out of business Sunday after a more than 70-year history. Co-owner Richard Lawrence of New Chet’s Restaurant in Toledo says business has fal ...
  • Just the Facts Ma’am
    By Les Visible You can see it happening in the way it has happened before, that certain interests jump the ship; run down the cruise line ropes for the next staging ground, even though they are on the ultimate staging ground. What happens next is anybodies guess but history shows the record of t ...
  • Roundup Birth Defects: Regulators Knew World&# ...
    By Lucia Graves Industry regulators have known for years that Roundup, the world’s best-selling herbicide produced by U.S. company Monsanto, causes birth defects, according to a new report released Tuesday. The report, “Roundup and birth defects: Is the public being kept in the dark?” found regu ...

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • Cartoon caption contest
    Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
  • Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
    Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
  • Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
    The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Ec ...
  • Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
    US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Governmentâs Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: The USDA cav ...
  • BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
    Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable). Dea ...

Inhabitat

  • Wave and Solar-Powered Robot Receives $22 Mill ...
    The Wave Glider is a solar and wave-powered robot designed by Liquid Robotics to serve as a platform for ocean observation, data collection, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. The project has just been awarded $22 million in Series D financing, which will go to further its developmen ...
  • Top 10 Green Gifts for Father’s Day
    Read the rest of Top 10 Green Gifts for Father’s Day Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: bamboo macbook case, Black + Blum, cascadia gift pack, eco gift guide, father's day, father's day 2011, figs ties, green dad, green design, green gift guide, green gifts for father's day, green ...
  • Tom Mollnow’s Brilliant Paper Pulp Task Lamp i ...
    Made from a single recycled paper cone, the Pulp Task Lamp by Tom Mollnow is designed to have as little environmental impact as possible. It consists of locally sourced biodegradable post-consumer cardboard and paper, which are mashed to a pulp and then shaped into a conic mold and left to dry. ...
  • The Wi-Fly is a Semi-Autonomous Stand-Up Publi ...
    Phil Pauley‘s Wi-Fly is a semi-autonomous public transport pod that incorporates a range of street recognition software and GPS guidance systems to aid drivers. The system has a top speed of 30 mph, and it sets itself apart from other forms of public transportation since the driver stands up ins ...
  • Delicate Leaf Lamp Mimics Nature With a Beauti ...
    This beautiful felt Leaf Lamp features a light-as-air design that mimics the structural geometric forms found in plants and trees. Designer Peter Schumacher sought to use as little material as possible to create the lamp, which is composed entirely of wood and unbleached wool. All of the lamp’s ...

Pogue's Posts

  • A Look Back at the Space Shuttle
    A chat with William Gerstenmaier, who's the head of NASA's Shuttle and Space Station programs.
  • We're Here All Week, Folks...
    Sony's mishaps with users' security provides ample fodder for Tweeting jokesters.
  • Sorting Through Apple's Many Announcements
    Today, at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference, Steve Jobs took the stage to reveal what the company's been up to. Turns out the answer is: a lot.
  • Flipping to Grilled Cheese
    The creator of the late, great Flip videocamera is ready for his next venture--grilled cheese sandwiches. Meanwhile, he mused on the Flip's demise.
  • Flipping to Grilled Cheese
    The creator of the late, great Flip videocamera is ready for his next venture--grilled cheese sandwiches. Meanwhile, he mused on the Flip's demise.

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Final Space Shuttle Mission Will Feature iPhones
    NASA’s final shuttle mission will feature outer space’s first iPhone, tricked out with an app to measure spacecraft radiation levels, orbital location and altitude. The iOS-based software, called SpaceLab, will come pre-loaded on two iPhone 4s. Testing the software isnât mission-critical, but ...
  • New Tevatron Particle May Be a Mirage
    The Tevatron’s Hail Mary shot at particle-physics glory may be fizzling in a puff of protons. New particles recently claimed one of the particle collider’s detectors could not be confirmed by its other detector. In April, the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) researchers reported hints that p ...
  • Extra Gene Copies May Trigger Some Cases of Autism
    By John Timmer, Ars Technica Viewed from some perspectives, autism is a genetic disease. Studies of identical twins show that, when one sibling is affected, the other is also, with a frequency approaching 90 percent. Several genes associated with autism have been identified due to their pre ...
  • Explore the Deep Seas With Google Oceans Update
    Thanks to a Google Earth update containing two decades of data from seafloor-scanning expeditions, armchair explorers can take a virtual submarine ride into Earth’s last frontier. Oceanographers say that more is known about the surface of Mars than the deep seafloor of Earth. They’re right: Onl ...
  • Giant Ground Sloth For Sale, $450K OBO
    Images and captions courtesy of Heritage Auctions. See Also: Want Your Own Dinosaur? Place Your Bids For Sale: Slightly Used Spacesuit, $500K OBO Space, the Final Collectible Frontier T. Rex Skeleton Can Finally Be Ogled by the Public NASA Announces Space Shuttles’ Final Homes

PakAlert

  • New NASA Research Points To Possible HAARP Con ...
    Recent data released by Dimitar Ouzounov and colleagues from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland highlights some strange atmospheric anomalies over Japan just days before the massive earthquake and tsunami struck on March 11. Seemingly inexplicable and rapid heating of the ionosp ...
  • Video: US is Using Chemical Weapons in Drone S ...
    Experts revealed that those Pakistani civilians who have come under the unauthorized drone airstrike in Pakistan's troubled northwest have been afflicted with complicated skin, eye and respiratory diseases due to the deadly chemical materials used in the missiles, the Press TV correspondent in P ...
  • Israel Created Hamas to Avoid Peace
    Israel created Hamas as an excuse to wage war on the Palestinians. For example, on May 18, a Hamas MP said all Israelis must be annihilated. This is a perfect excuse for Zionists and their supporters to forestall the peace process.This report suggests the Hamas MP could easily work for Israel. ...
  • Another CIA Blunder – ‘Kidnapped US Lesbian’ I ...
    The reported kidnap of a U.S. lesbian blogger in Syria has come into question after a woman in Britain claimed that photos being used to call for her release are actually her. Thousands of campaigners joined protest groups after media outlets across the world reported that Amina Arraf, a blog ...
  • US Debt $61 TRILLLION – Over $500K Per Household
    When the U.S. government reports its debt, it does not include payment that it is required to make to seniors, veterans and retired employee. If those were included, as they should be, the US debt would be an far greater number than the already outrageous number the government does publish. ...

Andy Worthington

  • On the 5th Anniversary of the Disputed Guantán ...
    Back in January 2010, law professor and Harper’s columnist Scott Horton had a fascinating and alarming article published in Harper’s Magazine (it was online in January, and in the March print edition), entitled, “The Guantánamo ‘Suicides’: A Camp Delta Sergeant Blows the Whistle,” a devastating ...
  • Quarterly Fundraiser: An End of Week Appeal fo ...
    Please support my work! When certain pundits gaze over the media landscape in the second decade of the 21st century and warn apocalyptically of the demise of newspapers and of serious journalism, they tend to overlook the fact that, ever since formatted blogging first became massively pop ...
  • WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo ...
    One of the great publicity coups in WikiLeaks’ recent release of classified military documents relating to the majority of the 779 prisoners held at Guantánamo, as I explained in the first part of this five-part series, was to shine a light on the stories of the first 201 prisoners to be freed f ...
  • Video: Andy Worthington Discusses the Omar Kha ...
    Last week, I was pleased to take part in a studio discussion at Press TV’s London studios of the documentary film, “You Don’t Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantánamo,” directed by Luc Cote and Patricio Hernandez, and focusing on the story of Guantánamo prisoner Omar Khadr, which will be offic ...
  • Bring Shaker Aamer Home: Parliamentary Screeni ...
    ââOutside the Lawâ is a powerful film that has helped ensure that Guantánamo and the men unlawfully held there have not been forgotten.â Kate Allen, Director, Amnesty International UK â[T]his is a strong movie examining the imprisonment and subsequent torture of those falsely accused of anti-Am ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
    The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
  • Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
    Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
  • Much like the "conservative" GOP...
    The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
  • Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
    Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
  • The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
    So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...

SPL Center

  • Your Black Muslim Bakery Leader Found Guilty o ...
    The longtime leader of Your Black Muslim Bakery, a business at the center of a militant black Muslim network in the Oakland, Calif., area, was convicted yesterday of three counts of first-degree murder for ordering the 2007 slayings of Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey and two other men. Yusuf ...
  • Nativist Group Honors Arizona Writer for &#821 ...
    Amidst much fanfare and immigrant-bashing, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) Wednesday presented Tucson Weekly reporter Leo W. Banks with its annual Eugene Katz Award for Excellence in the Coverage of Immigration. CIS is the research arm of an intertwining network of groups started by Joh ...
  • Tea Party Patriots, Among Many, Pushing Distor ...
    Former Alaska governor and Tea Party favorite Sarah Palin this week tried to sell the bizarrely twisted story that the midnight ride of Paul Revere to warn colonists that the British were coming was actually a ride to warn the British not to mess with the colonies. “I know my American history,” ...
  • California Latino Gang is Latest Accused of Ta ...
    The Latino Azusa 13 gang conspired to rid a Southern California community of its black residents, according to a federal indictment unsealed yesterday. The indictment alleges that the gang engaged in a two-decades-long campaign involving intimidation, threats and violence to push black residents ...
  • Two Governors Turn Down Invitation to Hate Gro ...
    In the wake of revelations that Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s planned Aug. 6 prayer gathering in Houston is being funded by the anti-gay hate group American Family Association (AFA), at least two governors have declined an invitation to attend. Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels and Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal b ...

change: org.

  • 4 Lame Excuses for Shark Finning and Why It Mu ...
    This is a guest post by Casson Trenor, a senior seafood campaigner with the non-profit, Greenpeace. This piece originally appeared on Alternet.org. A powerful conservation movement is afoot in the United States. Shark finning -- the practice of catching sharks, slicing their fins off, and the ...
  • Justice Department: Take Action Against the Of ...
    More than two-and-a-half years have passed since Oscar Grant was fatally shot by a police officer as he lay face down on a train platform in Oakland, California. Now his family and friends are bracing for the release of his killer from jail. As soon as June 13, ex-Bay Area Rapid Transit cop Joha ...
  • Michigan's Canned Hunt Ranches Fight to Keep E ...
    The feral swine problem in Michigan has gotten so out of control that the state wants to declare the animals an invasive species in the hopes of stopping the damage that the exploding population of pigs can cause to the ecosystem and farms. Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environmen ...
  • Is Your Local River one of the Most Endangered ...
    Last month, the non-profit American Rivers announced its annual list of the country’s ten most endangered rivers, complete with ten Change.org petitions working to save each one. Less than three weeks later, that campaign is already making a difference. American Rivers and other activists declar ...
  • Victory! Maeng Family Won't Be Forced to Leav ...
    Victory! For a loving Canadian family from Korea, justice has finally been served. After more than 7,000 Change.org members spoke out, and an entire community rushed to the family's aide, top immigration officials have decided not to banish the Moncton-based Maeng family from Canada because of c ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Humanitarian Crisis as World's Largest Refugee ...
    The biggest refugee camp in the world is full, creating a humanitarian emergency that threatens thousands of malnourished children, a medical charity has warned. read more
  • Why the President Must Come Up With Demand-Sid ...
    “I am concerned about the fact that the recovery that we’re on is not producing jobs as fast as I want it to happen,” President Obama said Tuesday, amid the flood of bad economic news, including last Friday’s alarming jobs report. Does this mean we’re about to see a bold package of ideas from th ...
  • Pentagon Papers to be Declassified at Last
    WASHINGTON - The disclosure of the Pentagon Papers four decades ago stands as one of the most significant leaks of classified material in American history. Ever since, in the eyes of the government, the voluminous record of U.S. involvement in Vietnam has remained something else: classified. ...
  • Canada Blasted for Record on Oilsands
    OTTAWA -- Foreign diplomats bombarded Canadian climate-change negotiators with questions Thursday in Bonn, Germany, as they challenged the Harper government's transparency and policies to fight global warming. read more
  • Canada Blasted for Record on Oilsands
    OTTAWA -- Foreign diplomats bombarded Canadian climate-change negotiators with questions Thursday in Bonn, Germany, as they challenged the Harper government's transparency and policies to fight global warming. read more

Lifehacker

  • Minimalist Mixer Desktop [Featured Desktop]
    Today's featured desktop is a moderately modified Windows 7 creation by whyXXII, creating a simple white look that provides plenty of room for work without sacrificing functionality. Want to get this look? Here's what you'll need: Mo ...
  • From the Tips Box: Workday Rituals, Ruined Woo ...
    Readers offer their best tips for signing out of IM accounts remotely, getting more vertical space out of Firefox, and getting through long articles on the web. More��
  • Ask Lifehacker Live: Dachis Is In [Update: Don ...
    For the next half hour, I'll be answering all your questions live, as fast as possible, in the comments of this post. More��
  • This Week's Most Popular Posts
    This week we took a hands-on look at Mac OS X Lion, examined how sugar actually does to our brains and bodies, stopped Facebook from automatically recognizing your face in photos, prevented a little online embarrassment, and a lot more. He ...
  • Thinking Only in the Short Term Halts Your Abi ...
    If you're one of those people who has many goals and feels compelled to do everything at once, you're probably familiar with the disappointment of accomplishing very few of them. This is likely because you're pursuing everything at once, ...

Water Privatization

  • Tampa proposes privatizing some water meter re ...
    By Biz Carson, Times Staff Writer Friday, June 10, 2011 TAMPA — The Tampa Water Department is proposing to privatize half of its water meter reading, hoping to soothe customer frustrations after hundreds complained about higher than normal water bills this winter. The plan, which would cost the ...
  • Tampa proposes privatizing water meter reading
    By Biz Carson, Times Staff Writer Friday, June 10, 2011 TAMPA -- The Tampa Water Department is proposing to privatize half of its water meter reading, hoping to soothe customer frustrations after hundreds complained about higher than normal water bills this winter. The plan, which would cost the ...
  • Italians vote on nuclear, water policies
    Premier Silvio Berlusconi would rather Italians head to the beach and not to the polls this weekend. Referendums on the ballot Sunday and Monday seek to block the Italian leader's plans to revive nuclear energy and privatize the water supply.
  • Sutter Creek rejects privatization of wastewat ...
    Dwindling cash reserves, the cost to collect trash generated in the city, and the staggering costs of running a wastewater treatment facility were just three of the major topics under consideration by the Sutter Creek City Council during their first regular meeting of the month June 6.
  • Water fight: A new Catholic issue emerges in Italy
    VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A referendum in Italy has spotlighted an emerging social justice issue for the Catholic Church: access to safe water as a basic human right.

Guardian

  • Pakistan troops caught on film shooting unarme ...
    Footage of Sarfaraz Shah's shooting likely to further undermine faith in Pakistan's security forcesPakistan's security forces are facing criticism after paramilitary troops were caught on camera apparently shooting dead a teenager at point-blank range.The footage, broadcast repeatedly on local t ...
  • David Miliband: the speech he would have given ...
    Draft of speech shows divisions with Ed Miliband on deficit reduction and support for Office of Budgetary ResponsibilityDavid Miliband planned to use his first speech as Labour leader to warn that the party's greatest danger lay in underestimating the challenge of the deficit - and that it was i ...
  • Sarah Palin emails show life in Alaska, from t ...
    Thousands of emails, published by the Guardian and US media, offer intimate portrait of Palin when she was governor of AlaskaTens of thousands of pages of Sarah Palin's emails released on Friday offer an intimate portrait of a politician caught in an almost daily battle on issues ranging from oi ...
  • Essex police fail on domestic violence again, ...
    Celia Peachey, whose mother was murdered by abusive husband, shocked by news of similar incidentThe daughter of a woman killed by an abusive partner after serious failings by Essex police has spoken of her anguish following the double murder this week of Christine Chambers and her child in an al ...
  • 1,500 BBC News jobs at risk in attempt to cut ...
    Reporters among 8,000 staff under most threat from World Service merger with News after licence fee dealBBC News tabled proposals for widespread cuts to its 8,000 news staff in the UK and abroad, as part a plan to make annual savings of £89m.Senior members were informed of the plans tabled by H ...

McClatchey

  • U.S. lawmakers, Iraq's Maliki clash over killi ...
    BAGHDAD — After a "very frank" exchange with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, a prominent House Republican announced Friday his subcommittee is investigating whether forces under Maliki's command had committed a "crime against humanity" when they killed 35 Iranian dissidents at a camp north ...
  • Kansas heat burst sends temp to 102 degrees at ...
    Jerilyn Billings thought she had been teleported from Wichita to the desert.
  • Palin's Alaska emails show her obsession with ...
    WASHINGTON — Emails released Friday from Sarah Palin's time as Alaska's governor show a doubled-fisted Blackberry user fully comfortable with handling nearly every aspect of state government from her private and state email accounts.
  • Speculation grows about presidential run by Te ...
    WASHINGTON — Texas Gov. Rick Perry's "sit back and wait" strategy to be asked to run for president seems to be paying off as he prepares to give the keynote speech Tuesday at a GOP dinner in New York — where he was a last-minute sub for flamed-out aspirant Donald Trump — and welcomes back ...
  • Gates gives grim account of NATO's Libya efforts
    LONDON — U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Friday painted a bleak picture of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's mission in Libya in a speech designed to encourage alliance members to spend more money on defense.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • New beginnings
    Thanks for having read my blog over the last few years. As of today, it is moving to a new home with a new look - as are the BBC's other blogs. The new page will carry all my posts, as well as other bits of analysis from around the site. It'll carry tweets as soon as I'm up and running on that p ...
  • Megafires - a vicious climate circle?
    The term "megafire" sounds a bit serious... and so it is. Even more serious is the idea - raised in a report compiled for a UN meeting this week - that megafires are becoming more frequent. Still more alarming is the notion that these magafires are somehow quantitatively different from their sma ...
  • Generation game warms legal climate
    There are times when writing articles about climate change brings a distinct feeling of deja vu. There was a time five or six years ago when litigation over climate impacts featured regularly on this website. Scientists were working up methods of attribution - methods that would allow you to ...
  • Money in trees: The poor end of forest protection
    Some of the world's most important forests may emerge from this week in a more secure state than they were before. � Others may end it worse off. The latest stage in the European Union's plans to help developing countries clean up illegal logging is the signing of a potentially important agree ...
  • Personal tales: a climate-changer?
    Even before the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) made its much-discussed error in glacier melting dates, the question of how climate change impacts were being felt across the Himalayas was something of a hot topic. � One of the problems back then, which remains a problem now, i ...

The Wonk Room

  • Tina Fey Responds To Tracy Morgan’s Homo ...
    Today it was reported that comedian Tracy Morgan recently delivered a homophobic rant at a show in Nashville, TN. Calling homosexuality inherently âbullshit,â Morgan declared that âif my son were gay,â Morgan would âpull out a knife and stabâ him if he failed to âtalk to [him] like a man.â Tina ...
  • Blue Shield of California Invests In The LGBT ...
    Our guest bloggers are Kellan Baker and Mark Hines. In an unprecedented announcement on Tuesday, Blue Shield of California announced that it will cap profits moving forward at 2 percent of total annual revenue. To kick off this initiative, Blue Shield is giving back $180 million of its 2010 prof ...
  • Tim Pawlenty Believes In The Tax Fairy: Tax Cu ...
    One of the most persistent myths amongst conservatives is that tax cuts magically produce an increase in revenues. Despite all evidence to the contrary, they continue to make this thoroughly debunked claim, keeping the story of the “tax fairy” alive and well. Last year, during the debate over wh ...
  • Stephen Colbert Grills Fracking Lobbyist Tom Ridge
    Stephen Colbert grilled former Pennsylvania governor and current natural gas lobbyist Tom Ridge on the dangers of hydraulic fracturing last night: “One of the things I like about this is that during the Bush administration, Vice President Cheneyâs energy taskforce made sure that the gas companie ...
  • Methodology Question Swirl Around McKinsey&#82 ...
    Earlier this week, McKinsey published an employer survey which found that 30 percent of businesses could drop coverage as a result of the Affordable Care Act. Republicans quickly seized on the story to further their argument that American’s won’t be able to keep the coverage they have, even thou ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Some Reminders ...
    The votes of ignorant people tend not to demand respect. How can they? "Huh? When you said 'exterminate the poor' we thought you were talking about bed-bugs n' stuff!" Which is not to say that people need to pass a test or something before they vote. It's just that, if, combined with the votes ...
  • Arts Funding in Canada
    There's a huge discussion at Dr. Dawg's which I haven't read very much of. It's in regards to the wingnut-welfare Sun Media's attack on government cultural grants. In an update, Dawg provides a link to this article, critiquing the Sun Media attack (which was apparently delivered in a show called ...
  • Talking About Bridgette DePape
    Over at EnMasse.
  • harpercon Complaints About Bridgette DePape
    You see harpercons, here is what you can't grasp. There are CONSEQUENCES for your actions. To whit: If you believe that Parliament is a joke, to be treated with contempt, you cannot then turn around and bitch and moan if some brave, principled individual like Bridgette DePape interrupts your co ...
  • The Beginning of the Resistance
    Bridgette Marcelle (aka Brigette DePape), a Senate page, was evicted from the Senate Chamber for holding up a sign saying "Stop Harper" during the Throne Speech of the witless, stupid, evil turds government. Hurrah for Bridgette! Let's make this the first sign of the successful resistance to th ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Abuse Is Abuse, Says Top Philippine Diplomat i ...
    A day after a judge ordered a $5,000 settlement of a Filipino caregiver's case against former MP Ruby Dhalla, the new Philippine consul general in Toronto remarked that abuse is abuse in any language wherever.
  • RCMP forced to neglect core duties, underfunded
    The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) will be forced to roll back its operations on matters of organized crime, drugs, gangs and white collar crime after an Auditor-General report revealed a traumatic lack of funding for the national police service.
  • Mayor Ford planning to sell 900 social housing ...
    In order to garner millions of dollars to tackle the upcoming $774 million budget shortfall, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is looking at selling more than 900 city community housing units to the highest bidders.
  • RIM to expand PlayBook market
    Less than two months after releasing their PlayBook tablet in North America, Research In Motion is preparing to invade 16 new markets, bringing it into more direct competition with Apple's popular iPad device.
  • Innocent man's death in Montreal police shooti ...
    On Tuesday two men were dead after Montreal police officers opened fire on a homeless man. One of the bullets hit an innocent bystander who died that evening in hospital. The incident has people protesting in the streets.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
    Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state.  What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe a ...
  • Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
    This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
  • Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
    What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 10 ...
  • LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
    Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
  • Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
    Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Leger & Dorn: Re-engage in peacekeeping
    Canadaâs role on the international stage is in urgent need of clear direction. Dominic Leger and Walter Dorn argue that the time has come for Canada to re-engage in UN peacekeeping (Dominic Leger & Walter Dorn, “Itâs time to keep the peace again,” National Post, 3 June 2011): Peacekeeping is a k ...
  • Edmonton Journal: Libya mission deserves debate
    The Edmonton Journal adds its name to the list of those urging Canadians to conduct a more thorough debate on Canada’s role in Libya and expeditionary operations in general (Libya Mission Deserves Debate, Edmonton Journal, 7 June 2011): Debate about Canada’s role in Libya is long overdue. Discus ...
  • All your base are lease to us?
    The Conservative government is negotiating to establish a series of military support bases around the world, Defence Minister Peter MacKay has confirmed (Tristin Hopper, Canada to expand military reach with new facilities across the globe, National Post, 2 June 2011): The plan, dubbed the Operat ...
  • Should Canada extend Libya mission?
    Last week the Conservative government let it be known that it intends to extend Canada’s military mission in Libya (Jordan Press, “Critics say future of Libyan mission requires clarity to avoid another Afghanistan,” Postmedia News, 1 June 2011): The federal government indicated Wednesday it will ...
  • More concerns over F-35
    There are increasing concerns about spiralling costs and prolonged delays for the F-35 (David Pugliese, Delivery of F-35s could be delayed beyond 2016, Ottawa Citizen, 28 May 2011). Pentagon officials have recently testified before Congress to address the questions surrounding the aircraft. Asht ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Eskimo Study Highlights Obesity and Disease Pr ...
    April 6th, 2011 Natural News By: Jonathan Benson High consumption of foods naturally rich in omega-3 fatty acids helps to reduce the risk of developing obesity-related illnesses like heart disease and diabetes, says a new study published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Even among ...
  • Studies Show Coffee Drinkers Get Health Perks
    April 6th, 2011 AOL News By: Jane Healey Coffee lovers have a reason to celebrate. Recent studies have shown that rather than being harmful, coffee actually provides a variety of health benefits. In a study published last week in Stroke: the Journal of the American Heart Association, Swedish res ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 4-6-11
    Today, Kevin explains how there is one very unique ability that ALL successful people have. Find out what it is and if YOU have what it takes to become a part of this exclusive club! Self Help: Your Wish Is YOUR Command Lose Weight The Safe Way Improve Your Health & Vitality Give Kevin YOUR [...]
  • Glenn Beck to End Daily Fox News Program
    April 7th, 2011 New York Times By: Brian Stelter Glenn Beck will end his daily Fox News Channel program later this year. His departure was jointly announced in a statement on Wednesday by Fox and Mr. Beck’s company, Mercury Radio Arts. Fox News and Mercury Radio Arts, which have clashed over the ...
  • Government Shutdown Threat Prompts Obama, GOP ...
    April 8th, 2011 The Huffington Post Uncomfortably close to a deadline, President Barack Obama and top congressional leaders have only hours to avert a Friday midnight government shutdown that all sides say would inconvenience millions of people and damage a still fragile economy. Obama said he s ...

Pambazuka News

  • Haiti: Haitian inspiration: On the bicentenary ...
    Two hundred years ago last month (January 2004), the French colony of saint-Domingue on the island of Hispaniola became the independent nation of Haiti. Few transformations in world history have been more momentous, few required more sacrifice or prom...
  • Haiti: Petition for safe return of Lovinsky Pi ...
    Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine has been missing since the night of the 12th August 2007. It is believed that his kidnapping was politically motivated and someone in the Haitian government and or the UN forces in Haiti led by Brazil must know what happened...
  • Venezuela: The Afrovenezuelan Network and the ...
    From its foundation in 2000, the Afrovenezuelan Network had systematically denounced first the threat from Plan Colombia, and second the so called Plan Patriotic as a threat to the stability of the Andean region, this plan is based on military aims w...
  • Haiti: Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine petition
    As women and men in the Caribbean Region, in the wider diaspora, and in many parts of the world, we are writing to urge you to make resources available without delay for the search for Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine, and to do everything in your power to se...
  • Caribbean: Civil society demands Haiti debt ca ...
    Organizations representing Caribbean civil society organizations and social movements have written to G8 finance ministers, the World Bank, and the IMF, to demand an immediate and unconditional cancellation of Haiti's external debt....

War in Context

  • Time to disband the Bahrain-based U.S. Fifth Fleet
    Toby Jones writes: After months of popular protests against the regime, Bahraini officials are desperate to convince anyone who will listen, and most importantly to their long time allies in Washington, that the Persian Gulf island nation is returning to normal. On Tuesday Crown Prince Salman b ...
  • Ex-NSA aide gains plea deal in leak case; setb ...
    The New York Times reports: A former spy agency employee agreed late Thursday to plead guilty to a minor charge in a highly publicized leak prosecution, undercutting the Obama administration’s unusual campaign to prosecute government officials who disclose classified information to the press. ...
  • Syria in turmoil as resistance turns to insurr ...
    Robert Fisk writes: Syria’s revolt against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad is turning into an armed insurrection, with previously peaceful demonstrators taking up arms to fight their own army and the “shabiha” â meaning “the ghosts”, in English â of Alawi militiamen who have been killing ...
  • Egyptian woman tells of ‘virginity tests’
    Der Spiegel reports: On the day Husseini Gouda was arrested, Hosni Mubarak, the country’s deposed president, had been in self-imposed exile in the seaside resort of Sharm el-Sheik for nearly four weeks. A month before the arrest, the masses at Tahrir Square had cheered for the military, which t ...
  • Secret cables show Israel’s battle plan over P ...
    Haaretz reports: Israel has started mobilizing its embassies for the battle against UN recognition of a Palestinian state in September, ordering its diplomats to convey that this would delegitimize Israel and foil any chance for future peace talks. Envoys are being asked to lobby the highest p ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Gotta Admire The Chutzpah
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The abstract of a new study from Science Magazine entitled “The Unusual Nature of Recent Snowpack Declines in the North American Cordillera”, Gregory Pederson et al., 9 June 2011 (paywalled, all data available here, figures … Continue reading →
  • New sea level dataset now available – st ...
    NEW NODC DATASET: THERMOSTERIC SEA LEVEL ANOMALIES Posted by Bob Tisdale Just a quick one-graph post. The NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) has added Thermosteric Sea Level Anomaly data to its GLOBAL OCEAN HEAT CONTENT webpage. The NODC describes the … Continue reading →
  • Venice to be hit hard by Climate Change? Never ...
    I guess they won’t need any more “Green Economic Conferences” there the like this: Where they say: “Venice is particularly hard hit by climate change and this conference is an attempt to provide solutions that various parts of Italy are … Continue reading →
  • Sulfur Dioxide plume from the Chilean volcano
    Here’s the eruption seen from NASA MODIS: This visible image was taken on June 8 at 18:30 UTC (2:30 p.m. EDT) by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument that flies aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite. The plume from the Puyehue-Cordón … Continue reading →
  • Nature to world’s people: stop your mode ...
    More of this “climate justice” rubbish, now “legitimized” by a publication in a leading science journal From the Hockey Schtick: The journal Nature suggests billions of people could be sued for legal breach of duty to care for the climate … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • An open letter to Noam Chomsky and the general ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by John Pilger Information Clearing House June 10, 2011 Dear Noam, I am writing to you and a number of other friends mostly in the US to alert you to the extraordinary banning of my film on war and media, ‘The War You Don’t See’, and the abrupt cancellation ...
  • Is It Time for Another Award for Obama? by Sib ...
    by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post June 10, 2011 A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Obama as the worst president when it comes to whistleblowers and transparency, and the only one to actually receive an award for it. Of course I had mixed ...
  • Wiki Wha? by William Bowles
    by William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info 10 June, 2011 The monopolization and digitization of the media has industrialized the production process. This has resulted in virtually identical output regardless of its source. Not only the nature of the ‘news’ but also wha ...
  • A concerted effort from Europe against Israeli ...
    by Stephanie Westbrook Guest Writer Dandelion Salad June 10, 2011 This past weekend in the Montpellier, France, over 100 activists from 9 countries gathered for the first ever European Forum Against Agrexco. Delegates from Italy, UK, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Germany and Palestin ...
  • Readout of the President’s Meeting With His Hi ...
    Dandelion Salad The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release June 07, 2011 The President met today and had a productive discussion with His Highness Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince of Bahrain, following the Crown Prince’s meeting with National Security Advisor To ...

Your New Reality

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    A perfect example of what the human race can do when it embraces co-operation, instead of confrontation :
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    Join The Marines, Fight Balrog They're not really showing much reality in these US military recruiting ads, are they? Unless there are special Marines now fighting dragons in alternate universes : From Salon (excerpts) :"...the New York Times this week tells us that the Pentagon is -- shock ...
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    The Fake Knight Rises By Darryl Mason The new Christopher Nolan Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises, is still shooting but something of a teaser clip campaign has already begun on YouTube. An account called The Fire Rises has been posting short clips, with a focus on what appears to be the bur ...
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    Murdoch Media Blames 300,000 'Global Warming Deaths' A Year On Obese People By Darryl Mason Two headines from the UK Sun, proudly linked to by Rupert Murdoch's Corporate Green Agenda HQ, to show how hard they've been working to Sell The Fear : The stories themselves make exactly the ki ...
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    Nice to hear Weezer rocking out, on an 90s classic :

Wired - Science

  • Final Space Shuttle Mission Will Feature iPhones
    NASA’s final shuttle mission will feature outer space’s first iPhone, tricked out with an app to measure spacecraft radiation levels, orbital location and altitude. The iOS-based software, called SpaceLab, will come pre-loaded on two iPhone 4s. Testing the software isnât mission-critical, but ...
  • New Tevatron Particle May Be a Mirage
    The Tevatron’s Hail Mary shot at particle-physics glory may be fizzling in a puff of protons. New particles recently claimed one of the particle collider’s detectors could not be confirmed by its other detector. In April, the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) researchers reported hints that p ...
  • Extra Gene Copies May Trigger Some Cases of Autism
    By John Timmer, Ars Technica Viewed from some perspectives, autism is a genetic disease. Studies of identical twins show that, when one sibling is affected, the other is also, with a frequency approaching 90 percent. Several genes associated with autism have been identified due to their pre ...
  • Explore the Deep Seas With Google Oceans Update
    Thanks to a Google Earth update containing two decades of data from seafloor-scanning expeditions, armchair explorers can take a virtual submarine ride into Earth’s last frontier. Oceanographers say that more is known about the surface of Mars than the deep seafloor of Earth. They’re right: Onl ...
  • Giant Ground Sloth For Sale, $450K OBO
    Images and captions courtesy of Heritage Auctions. See Also: Want Your Own Dinosaur? Place Your Bids For Sale: Slightly Used Spacesuit, $500K OBO Space, the Final Collectible Frontier T. Rex Skeleton Can Finally Be Ogled by the Public NASA Announces Space Shuttles’ Final Homes

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Zeev Sternhell: Netanyahu’s tidings of destruction
    The right wing considers recognition of the reality created in 1949 to be the chief enemy of Zionism. The dynamic of a conquering nationalism can never recognize that any situation created at any... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Secret cables show Israel’s battle plan over P ...
    Israeli Foreign Ministry Director General: "The goal we have set is to have the maximum number of countries oppose the process of having the UN recognize a Palestinian state... The Palestinian... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Secret cables show Israel’s battle plan over P ...
    Israeli Foreign Ministry Director General: "The goal we have set is to have the maximum number of countries oppose the process of having the UN recognize a Palestinian state... The Palestinian... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • East Jerusalem: Sharing our house with settlers
    Muna and Muhammed are 12-year-old twins living in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem. Settlers have taken over the front of their home, but the family continue to live in the rest of the house. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now i ...
  • Francis A. Boyle: Could Obama veto Palestine’s ...
    The votes are there already in the U.N. General Assembly to admit Palestine pursuant to the terms of its Uniting for Peace Resolution (1950). It is the U.N. General Assembly that admits a Member... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • George Berci, MD, FACS, Is Recipientof the 2 ...
    George Berci, MD, FACS, FRCS, Ed. (Hon), is the recipient of the 2011 Jacobson Innovation Award of the American College of Surgeons
  • Johns Hopkins Researchers Link Cell Division a ...
    Cells grow abundant when oxygen is available, and generally stop when it is scarce. Although this seems straightforward, no direct link ever has been established between the cellular machinery that senses oxygen and that which controls cell division. Now, in the June 10 issue of Molecular Cell, ...
  • Photovoltaic Invention Brings Inventor Acclaim
    An invention by a South Dakota State University engineer could improve alternative energy technologies by making it easier for scientists to test new devices. Assistant professor Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi developed a multivariable photovoltaic measurement system.
  • New Substances Added to HHS Report on Carcinogens
    The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today added eight substances to its Report on Carcinogens, a science-based document that identifies chemicals and biological agents that may put people at increased risk for cancer.
  • UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center Hosts Surviv ...
    Hundreds of surfers, cancer survivors and friends will gather together, with surfboards in hand, on La Jolla Shores Sunday, June 19 for an annual San Diego tradition: Survivor Beach.

Natural Health News

  • What is the Safest Phone Carrier to Use?
    CDMA-based cell phones may be safer than GSM phones, and W-CDMA may be safer than UMTS. Your cell phone carrier may matter more than your cell phone model in terms of your average exposure to cell phone radiation for voice communication. The CDMA phones used by companies such as Verizon and Spr ...
  • Hair Loss Drug Found to Increase Risk of Prost ...
    Drugs in the “5-ARI class”, which includes the hair-loss drug Propecia, have been found to increase the risk of a serious form of prostate cancer. The finding comes from an FDA review of two large, randomized controlled trials– -- the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial (PCPT) and the Reduction by ...
  • U.S. News Ranks Best Diets
    U.S. News evaluated and ranked 20 diets with input from a panel of health experts. They looked at whether or not a diet was easy to follow, nutritious, safe, effective for weight loss, and effective against diabetes and heart disease. According to U.S. News, the top rated diet was the U.S. gove ...
  • FDA Finally Listened to Us and Removed Arsenic ...
    The U.S. FDA has announced that Pfizer will stop the sale of the animal drug 3-Nitro. The drug is used in chicken feed, but an agency analysis detected inorganic arsenic in the livers of chickens treated with the drug. 3-Nitro is used to help control coccidiosis, a parasitic disease that affec ...
  • Best Web Apps to Help You and Your Family Eat ...
    Eating Rules has assembled a grand list of apps to help you eat more healthily. The list includes apps for -- Healthier shopping and eating Sustainable, organic, and non-GMO food Eating locally and in-season Allergy, gluten-free, and vegetarian/vegan food ...

Climategate

  • Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
    Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
  • ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks mor ...
    ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
  • How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
    What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “smoki ...
  • What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...
    A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
  • Schools call for a “balanced teaching of globa ...
    USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris

  • Predator Drone Faces Court-Martial
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson The Predator has asked that OJ’s own KJH serve as its defense lawyer in the ICC.  Joke!!  But here, from The Onion: Predator Drone Court-Martialed For Afghani Civilian Deaths
  • Scott Horton’s Six Questions for Laura Dickinson
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen Over at the Harper’s Magazine site Scott Horton interviews Laura Dickinson about her new book Outsourcing War and Peace: Preserving Public Values in a World of Privatized Foreign Affairs. Horton begins: Waging war and engaging in diplomacy would generally be re ...
  • Did You Hear? But for the ICC, the War in Lib ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller This according to the Washington Post’s Jackson Diehl, in Screed Number 1345 about how the evil ICC is preventing peace on earth and goodwill toward men: Libyans are stuck in a civil war in large part because of Gaddafiâs international prosecution. Dieh ...
  • Did You Hear? But for the ICC, the War in Lib ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller This according to the Washington Post’s Jackson Diehl, in Screed Number 1345 about how the evil ICC is preventing peace on earth and goodwill toward men: Libyans are stuck in a civil war in large part because of Gaddafiâs international prosecution. Dieh ...
  • CFR Study Advocates National Prosecutions for ...
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis My former State Department colleague, David Kaye, now the Executive Director of UCLA Law’s human rights program, has just authored a study under the auspices of the Council on Foreign Relations (John Bellinger and Matt Waxman also particiapted in the effor ...

Public News Service

  • Pets a Part of AZ Fire Disaster Plan
    Pets a Part of AZ Fire Disaster Plan Show Low, AZ – Pets aren’t being forgotten as towns are being evacuated because of the Wallow wildfire. As the state’s designated responder for animals in distress during natural disasters, the Arizona Humane Society has deployed an emergency team to provide ...
  • Rescued Research Beagles Get New "Leash" on Life
    Rescued Research Beagles Get New "Leash" on Life San Jose, CA - Nine rescued research dogs came out of their cages - for the first time ever - yesterday (Wednesday). Some research facilities that use live animals in their testing are giving them a second chance by contacting rescue groups to pic ...
  • AARP & NASCAR Drive to End Hunger
    AARP & NASCAR Drive to End Hunger Phoenix, AZ - AARP and NASCAR's Hendricks Motorsports have paired-up on a nationwide campaign to end hunger among seniors. Comments from AARP national board member George Rowan.
  • Jobless Checks for 15,000 AZ Families Hang On ...
    Jobless Checks for 15,000 AZ Families Hang On a Single Word Phoenix, AZ – Extended unemployment benefits for 15,000 Arizona workers will end next week, unless the Legislature makes a one-word change in state law. Advocates say failing to act will cost the state’s economy $167 million. Comments f ...
  • Time to Let the Bush Tax Cuts Expire?
    Time to Let the Bush Tax Cuts Expire? Phoenix, AZ – This week is the ten-year anniversary of the Bush tax cuts. Their critics say they've never been good for the economy, and have turned out to be a disaster for the nation's budget deficit. Comments from Mike Konczal (KON-zul), a research fellow ...

Center for Food Safety

  • FDA temporarily suspends use of some arsenic i ...
    Center for Food Safety and Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy urge continued action to remove all arsenic from animal feeds permanently The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced that Alpharma, a division of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, has agreed to stop sellin ...
  • Family Farmers Amplify Complaint Against Monsa ...
    Monsanto’s Failure to Provide Binding Legal Covenant To Protect Family Farmers Threatened by GMO Contamination Necessitates Amended Complaint New threats by Monsanto have led to the filing of an amended complaint by the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) in its suit on behalf of family farmers, s ...
  • Environmental Groups Petition Federal Governme ...
    FDA poised to take action on the first-ever application to market a genetically engineered salmon without adequate consideration of environmental risks and public input Earthjustice, on behalf of Ocean Conservancy, Friends of the Earth, Center for Food Safety, Food & Water Watch, the Center for ...
  • CA GE Fish Labeling Bill Held
    Today, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) was informed by Assemblymember Huffman’s office that they have decided to hold AB 88—the California bill which would require that all genetically engineered (GE) fish sold in California contain clear and prominent labeling—as a 2-year bill. This means it w ...
  • Court of Appeals Dismisses Monsanto’s Appeal o ...
    Upholds Lower Court’s Rulings Requiring New USDA Approval Decision And Rigorous Review of the Crop’s Impacts Litigation Over USDA’s Interim Approval of Planting Continues Today the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a summary order concluding a long-standing laws ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Naksa Day 2011 when Non-Violent Protests were ...
    Naksa Day 2011 when Non-Violent Protests were answered with Violence & Manslaughter – in pictures | Occupied Palestine | فلسطين: UDHR 20(1) states: “Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.”(Universal Declaration of Human Rights)Not in Palestine and as it seems not ...
  • Settlers Set Fire to Palestinian Crops Near He ...
    Settlers Set Fire to Palestinian Crops Near Hebron | Occupied Palestine | فلسطين: "Hebron – PNN Exclusive – As part of the daily attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinian villages, on Wednesday afternoon settlers set fire to crops owned by Palestinian farmers from the village of Bani Naim, near ...
  • UNDERNEWS: America's lonely disrespect for Pal ...
    UNDERNEWS: America's lonely disrespect for Palestine: Francis A. Boyle - On November 15, 1988 the Palestine National Council meeting in Algiers proclaimed the Palestinian Declaration of Independence that created the independent state of Palestine. Today the State of Palestine is bilaterally reco ...
  • In defence of Dr. Cornel West and all other co ...
    Editorial: The Fine Art of Stepping Back: Why I have decided to stop writing about race. By TheAngryindian -�04.06.2008 Editor's Note: This editorial is a re-print of a older article I wrote during the electoral run-up to the historical Obama presidency on my (not defunct) decision t ...
  • TheAngryindian: Why I have decided to stop wri ...
    Editorial: The Fine Art of Stepping Back: Why I have decided to stop writing about race. | APNS Why I have decided to stop writing about race. By TheAngryindian 04.06.2008 *Editor's Note: This editorial is a re-print of a older article I wrote during the electoral run-up to the his ...

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Green Times

  • Environmental News 09/06/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • World Oceans Day
    World Oceans Day is 8 June. The oceans are vital to the health of the planet and this day is dedicated to respecting and conserving what are essentially the lungs of the planet. Check out this sublime video by Greenpeace: Why we need Oceans (http://www.greentimes.com.au/videos/why-we-need-oce ...
  • Why we need Oceans
    BREATHE IN, BREATHE OUT Oceans are absolutely vital for Earth and for life! It's scary to think that 80% of all the life on Earth depends on the world's oceans. It's time to save them and it's time to save us!! This beautiful video is a great reminder of just how integral the o ...
  • Without nature, no life
    Look at this fantastic, beautiful old tree in downtown Sydney. There’s recently been a spate of tree poisoning (glossary/wildlife/pesticide.html) across a range of suburbs in Sydney, supposedly by people hoping to improve their view. But what better view could here be than this? If the view is ...
  • Environmental News 07/06/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Restrooms and Sanitation at Umm-Al-Kheir (a st ...
    Mohammed Salem is about 30 years old. He lives in Umm-Al-Kheir, in a home inherited from his late father right next to the fence of the Carmel settlement (sometimes spelled “Karmel”; see picture). In 2005, when Carmel built an expansion neighborhood, Mohammed was beaten by settlers involved in t ...
  • Gaza not un-besieged after all
    When I was arguing with AIPAC attendees in Washington D.C., the one thing they didn’t seem to have an answer for was if the occupation of Gaza was supposedly over, why was Israel controlling all its borders? Well, with the seemingly heartening news that Egypt’s military government was opening th ...
  • Why do protesters only count in Syria?
    Mitchell Plitnick has an argument here about why Syria should stay out of Palestinian protests. It’s an interesting case though I am happy to see the larger issue of the Palestinian refugee diaspora raised, I agree that Syria is a deeply flawed messenger, given its current brutal crackdown on i ...
  • Bassem Tamimi speaks out in Israeli Court at t ...
    from the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Bassem Tamimi, the subject of an action alert by Jewish Voice for Peace, speaks up for freedom on the 44th anniversary of Israel’s Occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza, June 5th, 2011. Tamimi’s full statement: Your Honor, I hol ...
  • Ras al-Amud
    May 27, 2011 We gather at 4:00 outside the settlers’ multi-story stone building opposite the old police station at Ras al-Amud, on the Mount of Olives. This was the week of Netanyahu’s speech before Congress; if,  utterly  unlikely as this  may be, there is anyone in the  world who failed to no ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Ray Wylie Hubbard on Redneck Mother
    The Inimitable Ray Wylie Hubbard tells the story of his inspiration behind his classic song “Up Against The Wall Redneck Mother”. This was filmed at Jerry Jeff walker’s Birthday Bash at the Paramount Theater in Downtown Austin Texas. You can see Jerry Jeff laughing in disbelief as Ray says to hi ...
  • US falling behind in renewable energy and clea ...
    It’s not because we don’t have the ability. Rather it’s because there is no clear leadership or national policies. Instead, we have the usual squabbling, which leads to paralysis. “If we donât invest in ways to efficiently produce sustainable energy, then I worry that once we stop importing from ...
  • ECB. Everyone takes a haircut but us. Because ...
    The ECB itself knowingly took in bonds they knew were not going to be able to be paid in full, and now having done so is demanding that everyone except them cover the cost of restructuring Greece’s problems. So what? Greece has the upper hand here. In fact, they have the ECB and the Germans [...]
  • Polizeros podcast. Rick Perry gains by Gingric ...
    Steve Hynd, who lives in Texas, makes a convincing case that Rick Perry could become the Republican candidate for president in 2012 after Newt Gingrich’s campaign crated yesterday. Perry could be a compromise candidate, given the weak field and hard-right Tea Partiers who will split that vote am ...
  • Study of 800-year-old tree rings backs global ...
    Scientists… measured tree-ring growth from forests that included 800-year-old trees. They learned that snowpack reductions in the late 20th and early 21st centuries were unlike any other period dating to at least the year 1200. But no more than half of the declines can be explained by natural sh ...

Coteret

  • Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
    On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan shared wi ...
  • “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
    As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here’s the latest example, fro ...
  • New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot: &#8 ...
    On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. Note that th ...
  • Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
    Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
  • Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
    This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers and the ...

Deadline Live

The Air Vent

  • People
    There is a basic reality of our modern existence which we ignore at our collective peril.   So eloquently spoken by Dr. Christy. H/T Brian Hall. To imagine that our world or our existence is anything other than this, is foolish narcissism.  It is the false educations of our liberal universities ...
  • On The AMO+PDO Dataset
    Guest post by Bob Tisdale Including A Discussion Of Its Use In Wyatt el al (2011) INTRODUCTION Graphs that illustrate the sum of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) and Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) data, Figure 1, have appeared in blog posts for more than three years. The first exam ...
  • We’re the Echo Chamber Crowd?
    Ben Lawson? at Wotts up with that, the believer site attacks Pat Frank’s Air Vent post where he found some interesting details in various surface temperature datasets. What’s really funny is he referred to this blog as the ‘echo chamber’, for WUWT! Anthony helpfully offers a new example of his e ...
  • Carbon Reduction
    Guest post by Tony Brown Two weeks ago I started a thread over at Climate Etc. entitled ‘The futility of Carbon reduction?’ (note the important question mark.) It came about when I received some calculations on likely temperature reductions from carbon mitigation policies, from a colleague, Ed H ...
  • Lightsabers and Thermodynamics
    Sometimes I’m too short with people.  It comes from some of the pressures of the rest of life, I really should show more patience though, after all we’re all just trying to understand. There are a group of people on who have published articles on global warming (on the internet only) who claim ...

Focal Point

  • James Taranto Calls Feminists "Hypocrites" for ...
    James Taranto has a strange op/ed in the Wall Street Journal accusing feminists of being hypocrites for defending Anthony Weiner, the liberal Democratic congressman who inadvertently exposed his boxer-brief-clad crotch to the entire Internet in a botched online flirtation with a stranger. Tara ...
  • Fruits, Fingerprints, and Forensics
    Every so often, I find a paper with a title that's too good not to share. Here's today's edition: Trapecar M, Vinkovic MK. Techniques for fingerprint recovery on vegetable and fruit surfaces used in Slovenia--a preliminary study. Sci Justice. 2008 Dec;48(4):192-5. The upshot is that if you w ...
  • "Use-By" Date Fundamentalism Wastes Tons of Fo ...
    Americans waste 14% of all the food we buy, and rote adherence to "use-by" dates is part of the problem, explains an Iowa food scientist: But, it turns out, in going strictly by use-by dates — the great drivers of waste — we throw out a lot of perfectly good food. Use-by dates aren't enti ...
  • Dairy Industry Milks New "MyPlate"
    This week, the USDA unveiled a new icon for healthy eating, MyPlate, a successor to the Food Pyramid and MyPyramid. There's a lot to like about the new visual. The share-of-plate metaphor is easier to grok at a glance than the multi-layered pyramid. You can tell by looking that about half your ...
  • "Psychology Today" Cans Satoshi Kanazawa
    75,000 ColorofChange Members, 1; Santoshi Kanazawa, 0. [Photo credit: proligde, Creative Commons.]Read More

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Roundup: Sharing, AT&T, Buddy Media, ...
    ShareThis: 56% Of Sharing Is Via Facebook – ShareThis, the maker of a sharing widget available on a variety of web sites, conducted a study finding that 56% of all content shared online goes through Facebook. Facebook, Tech Companies Back AT&T, T-Mobile Merger – Facebook, along with Yahoo and M ...
  • Join Inside Facebook’s Josh Constine at the So ...
    We’re happy to announce that Inside Facebook lead writer Josh Constine will be leading a how-to session at the Social Media Marketing Bootcamp, an online conference featuring weekly keynotes from current leaders in social media and marketing. About the Session Executing a Facebook Marketing Camp ...
  • Facebook Account Groups Let Agencies Access Mu ...
    Yesterday, Facebook launched a new feature in its Ads Manager called “Account Groups”. It allows advertising agencies to aggregate the Facebook Ads accounts of multiple users so they can be accessed simultaneously by any member of an Account Group. The feature reduces friction and improves secur ...
  • Facebook Testing “Happening Now” Column That C ...
    Facebook is testing a new version of the home page that displays a column titled “Happening Now”  listing recent actions of friends in the right sidebar where the “Upcoming Events” section usually is. The short Happening Now entries such as status updates, Likes, new friendships, posted links, ...
  • Facebook Now Reaches 687 Million Users – Traff ...
    Facebook hit 687 million users worldwide in the month of May, increasing its total monthly audience by 1.7%. Growth rates came in below April numbers, which were themselves just under March numbers. The company’s upward growth touched all regional markets outside with the exception of North Amer ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Iran and the issue of nuclear weapons
    Lawrence Davidson considers the roles of Israel, the Israeli lobby in the USA and the conservative Arab Gulf rulers in creating and sustaining the fantasy of an Iranian nuclear threat, and highlights the failure - through cowardice, expediency and duplicity - of politicians who know better and t ...
  • Muddle and mixed messages precede Palestinian ...
    With the date for the purported Palestinian bid for UN recognition fast approaching, Stuart Littlewood views the mixed messages emanating from the Palestinian Authority, the inept messengers and the absence of a competent and credible public relations campaign ahead of the bid.
  • Breaches of international law lay behind unres ...
    While much of the Western media have ignored the recent bloodshed on the Golan Heights, the limited reports that have been released appear to misunderstand the background to the present confrontation. Richard Lightbown explains the history.
  • Barack Obama's betrayal of Abraham Lincoln's i ...
    Paul J. Balles argues that US President Barack Obama has defiled the ideals of his idol, Abraham Lincoln, and instead of working to bring about government "of the people, by the people, for the people", he has presided over government "controlled by corporate barons, lobbies and Wall Street". " ...
  • International law and the problem of enforcement
    Lawrence Davidson traces the flaws built into the International Criminal Court that allow some states to get away with crimes to the exceptionalism and superiority complexes afflicting countries such as Russia, China and the US, which is "tied so closely to the criminal behaviour of the Israelis ...

Amazon Rainforest

  • World’s largest beef company signs Amazo ...
    The world’s largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Acre. The deal absolves JBS-Friboi from 2 billion reals ($1.3 billion) in pote ...
  • World’s largest beef company signs Amazo ...
    The world’s largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Acre. The deal absolves JBS-Friboi from 2 billion reals ($1.3 billion) in pote ...
  • Peru suffers an environmental tragedy!
    The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years.  Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of 7,000 hectares of virgin and extremely divers ...
  • Earth’s Living Treasure- Celebrating Forests f ...
    United Nations declared 2o11 as the International Year of Forests (Forests 2o11), and why Forests are the theme of the International Day for Biological Diversity on 22 May 2o11. In this special year, the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are ...
  • Belo Monte hydroelectric dam construction work ...
    The company leading the dam project, Norte Energia, announced that infrastructure work on roads that will provide access to the region started on Monday morning. The £7bn Belo Monte dam on the Amazon’s Xingu river is scheduled to start producing energy on 31 December 2014 and would be the seco ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • More on Obama’s War Against Transparency & Whi ...
    Is It Time for Another Award for Obama? A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Obama as the worst president when it comes to whistleblowers and transparency, and the only one to actually receive an award for it. Of course I had mixed reactions and greatly varying reception. On one hand those who va ...
  • New York Times’ Exposé: Imam Gulen’s Charter S ...
    Is the Media Catching Up with the Turkish Imam’s US Operations? For the last two years I have been pounding on Imam Fethullah Gulen’s web of organizations and his charter schools empire in the US. For years I have been marveling about the consistent media blackout on the Turkish Imam Fethullah G ...
  • Coming Up Soon: Boiling Frogs Video
    Boiling Frogs Post Site Update & Upcoming Subscription Program We have a few updates on Boiling Frogs Post and our soon to be launched subscription program. I am excited to announce our upcoming Boiling Frogs Video series to be produced by our new partner James Corbett, an independent journalist ...
  • Podcast Show #45
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Paul Craig Roberts Paul Craig Roberts joins us to discuss the September 11 terrorist attacks as the defining event of our time, which has launched our nation on interminable wars of aggression, a domestic police state where the American President is a Caesar and comp ...
  • Paul Craig Roberts: “American Presidents Are D ...
    Coming Up Tomorrow at Boiling Frogs Show: Paul Craig Roberts Tomorrow morning we’ll publish our interview with Paul Craig Roberts. We had a sobering interview session on the rise of the police state, the US media’s role in ever-declining liberties, the never-investigated September 11 terrorist a ...

Afro Spear

  • Kola Boof: “Cultural Blackness without P ...
    I read a lot of commentators and there are currently 3 people I would love to meet. These are people I respect for their opinions, not that I agree with all that they believe, but I applaud them for not being slaves to the groupthink of their respective communities. I would considerate it a priv ...
  • Byts and Bytes
    Truthdig:    1. The Obama Deception: Why Cornel West Went Ballistic    2. Why Liberal Sellout Attack Prophets Like Cornel West AfroDaddy:    1. The Plight of Blue People    2. The Plight of Blue People – Part II The Great Blue Uprising    3. The Plight of Blue People – Part III The Fin ...
  • No Welcome Home for Canadian Jamaicans
    Janet Silvera, Senior Gleaner Writer Jamaican Gleaner WESTERN BUREAU: As children born in Jamaica, they played dandy shandy, bat and ball, hopscotch and jacks. As adults, they have invested in real estate and played a pivotal role in sustaining remittances to the country. However, once they land ...
  • I guess this is what they really mean by &#822 ...
    First Obama had to release his birth certificate to prove that he is an American. Now he has released his ancestoral tree to prove that he is actually Irish: The President and the First Lady are on a visit today to his Irish ancestoral home of Moneygall. This will of-course greatly improve his r ...
  • “Better or Bitter Life for all?” b ...
    When I deeply muse on how an arrogant and brutal cabal of hoity toity (Coverted Con Men (CCM)) is tirelessly hoodwinking and dividing the hoi polloi of ill-fated Africa, like a bomb, I feel like exploding. I’m not a medical doctor. But thanks to my knowledge in psychology, education, journalism, ...

Expose the BNP

  • Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
    Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
  • Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
    A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
  • Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
    The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
  • Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
    On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
  • Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
    On yesterdayâs Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that âLiberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.â The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parentsâ finances as well. Gr ...

Sen4Earth

  • The Battle Continues-Grand Canyon Update
    Sharing information is a powerful tool â one of the most powerful tools for any campaign to have â a tool that I will keep using with the Worldwide Campaign to Save the Grand Canyon even now as public comments to the government have officially closed. So now we wait. But we don’t have to [...]
  • Ecofeminism: Book by Jytte Nhanenge
    Ecofeminism: Towards Integrating the Concerns of Women, Poor People, and Nature into Development Authored by Jytte Nhanenge Sustainability Education Network is doubly honored to announce and review the newly published work of author Jytte Nhanenge, and applauds University Press of America for it ...
  • Will the Grand Canyon Survive?
    Last week Change.org contacted us about the Worldwide Campaign to Save the Grand Canyon. Working together with environmental editor, Jess Leber, the petition housed on Change.org was updated with the current urgency in the need of signatures to make this campaign a successful one. With Change.or ...
  • Turtle Island: Our Earth Mother
    Japan in Crisis By Sheryl Goodwin, SEN Contributor and Honorary Advisor Kway. Hello. First off let me state what an Honor it is to be asked by my brother Gregory and sister Suzanne to join the team. What a privilege to be among such fine people listed on the biography page of Sustainability Educ ...
  • Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall
    Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall “We are sending the power of love, peace and compassion, which can change the world.” â Hugh MacDougall, Australia, SEN Honorary Advisor Hugh was more to Suzanne and I than SEN’s Honorary Spiritual Advisor. He was the beloved friend we called brother, and he w ...

If Americans Knew

  • Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
    In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.
  • Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is ...
    US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention ...
  • Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
    Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.
  • Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
    Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
  • As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed ...
    Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage ...

David J. Gregory

  • High Time in the Old town TONIGHT, MAYBE/
    O.K., most of you have heard of all the doomsayers that have been around the last few years and all have heard in one form, or another, about the 2012 Mayan prophecy, so you put it all in a sack and shake it up. What do you get? Well, whether, or not, any of these [...]
  • CHANGING SERVERS: EYEONCITRUS.COM
    EYEONCITRUS.COM IS CHANGING SERVERS AND MAY BE DOWN FOR UP TO 48 HOURS, PLEASE KEEP CHECKING, WE WILL BE BACK AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
  • Pentagon Whistleblower Franz Gayl Saved Our Tr ...
    For virtually his entire adult life, Franz Gayl has served his country. Enlisting in the United States Marine Corps from an early age, he moved over to become a civilian Science and Technology Advisor at the Pentagon after retiring from his position as officer. While he was deployed in Iraq, Mr. ...
  • LONE GUNMEN PILOT EPISODE COMPLETE IN IT&#8217 ...
    This is the spin-off from the X-files, first shown on March 4, 2001, six months before 911. Apparently someone was trying to get the word out, they are probably no longer around, this video is out there on torrent downloads, yet as with all the other videos that help shed light on dispecable act ...
  • THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT, THE LONE GUNMEN WARNINGS
    These two presentations each gave warnings of dire events to come, specifically 911. The Long Kiss Goodnight was produce in 1996 and described the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and the circumstances that led up to it. The Pilot Episode of The Lone Gunmen gave the exact scenario of what ...

Unsuitable Blog

  • I’m On The Run
    Actually I’m not. It would have been quite exciting to have been writing a blog from an internet cafe somewhere, or hijacking a wireless connection outside an office building, but it seems I am safe and snug in my home completely bereft of law enforcement officers hammering at my door demanding ...
  • Everyone Must Follow The Rules (Apart From Tho ...
    Enjoy the moment – the personification of Evil is dead. Take to the streets and express your sheer joy at the end of a symbol. Paint your banners and hold them high; unfurl your flags and wave them in the night sky; don your army surplus trousers and bare your chests: we have a winner [...]
  • Scholastic U-Turn On Coal: Shame About Their O ...
    Well, that didn’t last long. From the first outrage to a “Move along, nothing to see here!” clean up of the website, Scholastic seem to have recovered relatively easily from what they claim was just a mistake. When Scholastic published a set of four worksheets and a printable map (see here for a ...
  • Los Alamitos School Board Member Makes U-Turn ...
    I’ve just had a very interesting and productive email discussion with Dr Jeffrey Barke. Some of you may be familiar with his position on the teaching of climate science. Here’s some background information, from MSNBC: LOS ALAMITOS — A new high school advanced placement class that addresses globa ...
  • A Billion Acts of Greenwash
    Tomorrow is Earth Day – whoopee doo! It’s that time of year that all the environmental NGOs and countless businesses work towards in order to bring about a sudden upsurge in pointless symbolic actions and purchases of “green” things like (I’ll just have a look in my Deleted Items folder) LED can ...

Subalternate Reality

  • Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
    Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
  • Praying On Qasr al-Nil
    One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
  • “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
    The Atlanticâs Jeffrey Goldberg â one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq â has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement thatâs taken over the streets of Egypt. âI support democratization, but,â he cautions, âthe democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
  • All That Happens In The Middle East Can’ ...
    Uncertainly rules the day in Tunisia. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the countryâs strong-armed and authoritarian ruler since 1987, is in Saudi Arabia while the interim government struggles to restore some semblance of order.  âConfusion, fear and horror in Tunisia as old regime’s militia carries on ...
  • Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
    Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…”  Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constr ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • DocumentCloud Merges With IRE
    DocumentCloud is beyond delighted to announce we've found a long-term home for our project. We're merging our operation with Investigative Reporters and Editors, a non-profit grassroots organization committed to fostering excellence in investigative journalism. This transition means that Doc ...
  • Reporters Bring Sources Right Into the Story W ...
    Embedding notes makes it even easier for reporters to bring source documents right into the story. One of DocumentCloud's primary goals is to make it simpler for news organizations to show their work -- to invite readers to review the very same documents the journalists used to draw the conclusi ...
  • Time to Bake Smart Correction Tools Into New P ...
    A window of opportunity is open right now for online journalists to build accuracy and accountability into the publishing systems we use every day. To understand why this is such a big deal, first hop with me for a minute into the Wayback Machine. It's the mid-1990s. Journalists have just a ...
  • CityCircles Explains How to Make a Killer Mobi ...
    What a difference a year makes. Last year, the CityCircles team was solely focused on building an audience for our unique, web-based publishing platform for the Phoenix light rail community. CityCircles has one of the slickest, easiest experiences for posting geo-tagged content (at least we lik ...
  • Stroome Reels Filmmakers Into Online Collabora ...
    While speaking in Tribeca a couple of months ago in front of a packed theater of New York independent fiction and documentary filmmakers, I introduced Stroome, a collaborative online video editing community, and was astonished to receive a standing ovation. One filmmaker explained to me that she ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Race for Alt Fuel - Chips for Solar, Wind ...
    The market for semiconductors for solar and wind energy-generation systems will grow 26.5 percent in 2011, after expanding 25.4 percent in 2010 to reach revenues of $1.4 billion.The chips are “riding on the coattails of huge increases in alternative energy installs in 2010,” said Robert Castella ...
  • South Korea Gets Edgy - More South Koreans Bre ...
    Tattoos have been a part of Asian culture for hundreds of years. But body ink in Asia traditionally has been the mark of an unsavory character. Thus, until recently, Asians in the mainstream rarely got tattoos. But, that is changing.More people in South Korea these days are not ashamed to show a ...
  • Nepal on Edge - Nepal’s Youth Turn to Social M ...
    In Nepal, thousands of young Nepalese have launched a campaign, using social networking sites, to pressure political parties to draw up a new constitution for the country.For four straight Saturdays, hundreds of young Nepalese men and women have demonstrated in the capital, Kathmandu, demanding ...
  • Madagascar on Edge - Madagascar Moves to Prote ...
    Madagascar’s Ministry of Environment is heralding the success of a crackdown on illegal logging, notably in the country’s northeast where vast protected areas have been the focus of huge trafficking scandals. The ministry says more than 1,000 precious rosewood logs have been seized in the last t ...
  • After the Balkans Genocide - Mladić Refus ...
    The former military commander of the Bosnian Serbs, Ratko Mladić, made his first public appearance at the war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia after 16 years as a fugitive. During his arraignment, he refused to plead to the 11 counts against himâincluding genocide, extermination and mur ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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  • Fear And Loathing In The Housing Market- The G ...
    By William HicksContinuing the recent run of bad economic news, an S&P/Case Shiller report on Tuesday confirmed that U.S. home prices in most major markets have resumed falling after stabilizing for a couple of years
  • Disastrous US Jobs Report Points To Deepening ...
    By Barry GreyUS payrolls grew by a paltry 54,000 in May and the official unemployment rate rose to 9.1 percent, an increase of 0.3 percent since March, according to the monthly employment report released Friday by the Labor Department
  • A State For Jews
    By William James Martin Why are we providing almost incalculable support and sustenance to a state - Israel- which is a state for Jews, and exclusively for Jews, at the expense of the indigenous native Palestinians
  • Israelis Rush For Second Passports
    By Franklin Lamb Several studies in Israel and one conducted by AIPAC and another by the Jewish National Fund in Germany show that perhaps as many as half of the Jews living in Israel will consider leaving Palestine in the next few years if current political and social trends continue. A 2008 s ...

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Practicing Peace in the New Year
    A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young people. ...
  • Sharing the writing of another Stieber
    My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. � Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber � Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The main thing o ...
  • Article in FOR
    The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out: http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement   Rhetoric and Re ...
  • Slate Interview: My Country Right or Wrong: Co ...
    Interview I did with a fascinating writer for SLATE whose special interest is on transformation and how people come to admit they’re wrong:   Address to article: http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/thewrongstuff/archive/2010/12/16/my-country-right-or-wrong-conscientious-objector-josh-stieber-on-bei ...

Yid With Lid

  • Is Russell Crowe Anti-Semitic or Just Stupid? ...
    Between the controversy surrounding the proposed local laws in California against circumcision. and the Weinergate scandal, so far the month of June can be called the month of the schmeckel (Yiddish for penis). �There has been more schmeckel talk in the main stream media over the past two weeks ...
  • Newsbusted Exclusive: Obama's Secret Plan To U ...
    Many Federal programs are designed to help people in need.� According to Newsbusted Anchor Jodi Miller, there is at least one program were that person in need is President Obama.� In this exclusive (and funny) report Ms Miller explains how the administration may be using federal programs to crea ...
  • U.S. Government Cheers As Turkey Goes Islamist ...
    By Barry Rubin On Sunday, June 12, Turkey will hold what might well be its most important elections in modern history. It may also be the worst thing that�s happened to the country in modern history. If the current regime is reelected�and it could do so, given Turkey�s electoral syste ...
  • President Obama, al-Qaida's New Leader, and Th ...
    By Barry Rubin Ayman al-Zawahiri, nephew of a Nazi collaborator and grandson of the man who helped produce the genocidal antisemitic doctrine in Islamism, now seems to be head of al-Qaida. In what appears to be his inaugural speech as al-Qaida leader, al-Zawahiri thanked Ismail H ...
  • Mrs. Weiner's Pregnancy Reads Like A Broadway ...
    Yesterday we got the big announcement that Representative Anthony Weiner and� his wife,� are expecting their first child. The scenario of a disgraced politician about to be forced from office, and his wife announcing her pregnancy at the nick of time, seemed so very familiar. Then I remembered t ...

The Real Agenda

  • China to allow more sulfur dioxide residue in ...
    Xingua June 10, 2011 The nation’s drug watchdog on Friday publicized a draft national standard of sulfur dioxide residue in Chinese herbal medicine, which is open for public opinion until Sept. 9 this year. The maximum amount of sulfur dioxide residue is 400 mg in one kg of each of 11 specified ...
  • El Cartel de la Reserva Federal: El Banco Masó ...
    Por Dean Henderson Traducción de Luis R. Miranda 8 de Junio, 2011 Parte II En 1789 Alexander Hamilton se convirtió en el primer Secretario del Tesoro de los Estados Unidos. Hamilton fue uno de los muchos ‘padres de la patria’ que fueron masones. El tenía una estrecha relación con la familia ...
  • Swiss Parliamentarians to Force Way Into Bilde ...
    By Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com June 10, 2011 Dominic Schreiber of We Are Change in Switzerland appeared on the Alex Jones Show today and said a number of Swiss MPS are moving forward with an effort to have Bilderberg member and war criminal Henry Kissinger and others arrested. On June 6, Paul Joseph ...
  • China ratings house says US already defaulting
    AFP June 10, 2011 A Chinese ratings house has accused the United States of defaulting on its massive debt, state media said Friday, a day after Beijing urged Washington to put its fiscal house in order. “In our opinion, the United States has already been defaulting,” Guan Jianzhong, president of ...
  • Peru bans GMO crops for 10 years
    Brazil accelerates the approval of GMO beans to be planted and distributed mainly in the north of the country GM Watch.org June 8, 2011 The Plenary Session of the Congress, approved the opinion of the law project that declares a moratorium of ten years that prevents the import of Genetically Mod ...

Wind Watch

  • Exasperated planners shut wind farm down
    The local authority has forced Scottish and Southern Electricity to shut down a Sutherland wind farm after the company breached planning controls by failing to deal with excessive noise from the development. People living close to the Achany wind farm near Rosehall are claiming their lives are b ...
  • Wind groups spend big on lobbying
    ST. PAUL � Two wind companies with plans to build wind farm projects in Goodhue County shelled out $480,000 in lobbying expenditures in 2010, according to a new report. AWA Goodhue, which has proposed a 78-megawatt project, spent $380,000 on lobbying. That company ranked 17th highest when it cam ...
  • Turbine talk: New state panel to study health ...
    Falmouth selectmen organized a Monday night forum to discuss the issue of wind turbines and received a standing-room-only crowd of state and local officials, expert consultants and mostly angry residents. Discussions of noise, low frequency noise, shadow flicker, proper setback distances and pos ...
  • Wind power turbines in Altamont Pass threaten ...
    Scores of protected golden eagles have been dying each year after colliding with the blades of about 5,000 wind turbines along the ridgelines of the Bay Area’s Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area, raising troubling questions about the state’s push for alternative power sources. The death count, ave ...
  • Opponents rail against Siting Council’s ...
    Regulators approved the state’s first commercial wind farm Thursday, but the announcement drew a swift response from opponents Friday who said the Connecticut Siting Council ignored testimony from Colebrook residents concerned about health and wildlife issues and the turbines proximity to local ...

Not My Tribe

  • State Dept ties Haitian Aid to acceptance of W ...
    When the outgoing Haitian Govt insisted on the whopping huge $5 a DAY minimum wage instead of the three dollars a day being offered by the Corporate-owned U.S.A.I.D., their pet sellouts at State Dept, which has been trying to put a stranglehold on who does or does not do business with Haiti sinc ...
  • “Psychic Tip” is enough to get a N ...
    So the AP headline was “Texas farmhouse searched on Psychic Tip, no bodies found”. WHAT? I’m not in the least concerned that there wasn’t any evidence found, I myself can “psycho-ly” predict that particular outcome. Not one single Scientifically Empirically Verified psychic prediction of ANY of ...
  • Israel murders 14 protesters in Syria, claims ...
    Shooting through the border fence at a memorial protest in the Golan Heights. The number of dead outnumbers the original IDF account number of injured, the injured outnumbered the IDF account by tenfold. So once again the IDF story is very suspect. IDF usually reserves a different fate for Israe ...
  • Pressure Points Radio on Homelessness.
    Which is radio show in New York City. Todays broadcast, which unfortunately I missed, included Our Little Slice of Hell errr Parrot Dice damn that was a bad joke. Ed hasn’t posted it to youtube yet, his youtube channel is PikesPeakOcean. So, a quick run-through of the basics, for those who just ...
  • Banana Republic Redux
    Like the infamous Case Law which decided over a century ago that Guatemala, Costa Rica and El Salvador to be, while still “sovereign” nations, the property of American Banana Companies      And Cocaine, which was legal at the time, and Coffee, and other “strategic resources”. Only this time ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • The Bilderberg Delusion
    No matter what you think of Alex Jones, his coverage of Bilderberg meetings is always excellent. The mainstream media on the other hand ... On thursday, Mario Borghezio, a member of the EU parliament, tried to enter the Bilderberg meeting with other EU parliament members, he presented his cre ...
  • Lupe Fiasco - Words I Never Said ft. Skylar Grey
    Lyrics: [Skylar Grey] It's so loud Inside my head With words that I should have said! As I drown in my regrets I can't take back the words I never said I can't take back the words I never said [Lupe Fiasco] I really think the war on terror is a bunch of bullshit Just a poor excuse for you t ...
  • Fake al-Qaeda: Adam Gadahn & Yousef Al Khattab ...
    The following videos are posted in light of recent media claims about the threat of "Al Qaeda" in Yemen: In relation to the Al Awlaki video, one would have to guess that the reason he made an "FBI authorised" visit to the US in October 2002 is because this man is an intelligence asset. Indi ...
  • David Aaronovitch's Deep Denialism
    Of all the pseudointellectuals who are rolled out to debunk us, one who annoys me more than any other is David Aaronovitch. He was on the UK radio station talkSPORT a few weeks ago, minutes before Alex Jones was due to come on, and he and the host were basically making fun of him and 9/11 truth ...
  • 9/11 Truth Movement R.I.P.?
    Youtube debunker Ryan Owens recently uploaded his new film titled 9/11 Truth Movement: R.I.P. As one might expect from a common debunker video, the film is riddled with insults and taunting sound effects. However, within this jumble of silliness and insults there are some actual attempts at ...

Fooducate

  • Is Your Workplace the Cause of Obesity?
    One of our favorite food bloggers, Professor Marion Nestle of NYU, has taken issue with the editors at the New York Times. An article by health writer Tara Parker-Pope cites the sedentary workplace as the potential cause for obesity’s meteoric rise in the past few decades. According to a study l ...
  • Fooducate for Android (v 0.92) Released
    A week after our Android app release, we’ve updated the app (to version 0.92) based on your feedback and additional testing. What’s new: Application shortcut â easily create a Fooducate shortcut on your Android home screen: Press an empty area on your Android home screen until a popup “Add to Ho ...
  • Salmonella Posioning Won’t Go Away
    Sources of Salmonella Poisoning The CDC has just published a report on food safety, zooming in on Salmonella. In the past 15 years, the government and food industry have NOT been able to reduce the number of incidents of poisoning from this germ. Compare that to a 50% reduction in e-Coli infecti ...
  • The Anatomy of a Milkshake
    One of the best parts of hot summers is an ice cold milkshake. You’d think a milkshake was a simple thing. Milk and Ice cream. And what’s in the ice cream? A simple vanilla ice cream has milk, cream, sugar, egg yolks, and vanilla. Milkshake ingredient total = 6. While shakes are high in fat, [...]
  • If You Need to Ask, It’s Probably Genetically ...
    Many Fooducate community members and app users email us asking why we don’t focus more on the issue of genetically modified foods. More specifically, they’d like to see our mobile app notify them if a product is GM or not. Unfortunately, product labeling laws in the US do not require disclosure ...

Traffikd

  • Four Pre-Writing Exercises for Inspired Bloggers
    Rebecca Chelsey's recent post on ways to spark our creativity got me thinking about the next step: how to take that creativity and turn it into meaningful sentences on the page. In other words, what we do with that spark of inspiration will determine the success or setbacks we face when we blog. ...
  • 8 Simple Sources of Creative Inspiration
    As a creative person, I've noticed that creativity and creative ideas tend to present themselves whenever they see fit, and rarely otherwise. This is an especially unfortunate habit for my creativity to have because I am in the field of design. Over the years I've researched and stumbled upon ei ...
  • Culture Vulture: Social Strategies for Differe ...
    Social media campaigns are becoming more integrated into the overall online marketing mix. And as with anything on the Web, you need to think global to succeed in the long term. To succeed with social media marketing for different cultures, you need to familiarise yourself with what’s happening ...
  • Internet Marketing and Social Media Degree Pro ...
    Guest post by Brian Jenkins Over a billion and a half people use the Internet, and this has created a plethora of opportunities for talented Internet marketers. Specialized knowledge in Internet marketing and social media is vital for many businesses. Yes, there are successful, self-taught Inte ...
  • How to Find Great Communities, Forums, and Blo ...
    To market your company effectively, you need to find out where your target audience is. In this post I’ll show you how you can do this. I like using examples, so in this case, I’ll assume you sell Star Wars merchandise.

Survival International

  • Outrage as controversial Amazon mega dam approved
    Hundreds of Brazilian indigenous leaders, river-dwellers and dam-affected people joined together to discuss and protest against the development of the Belo Monte dam which will devastate their way of life. © Antonio Bonsorte/Amazon Watch Brazil’s environment agency, IBAMA, has given the gre ...
  • Yanomami Indians seize plane in health protest
    Yanomami Indians protest against chaotic health situation © Hutukara/ Survival Yanomami Indians in the Brazilian Amazon have captured an airplane used by health workers, in protest at corruption within the health service. The Yanomami are outraged by the nomination of a new indigenous hea ...
  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • Strauss-Kahn Screws Africa
    by Greg Palast for The Guardian Now that I've dispensed with the obvious and obnoxious teaser headline, let's drop the towel and expose Dominique Strauss-Kahn's history of arrogant abuse. The truth is, the grandee of the IMF has molested Africans for years. On Wednesday, the New York Times r ...
  • So, Osama walks into this bar...
    by Greg Palast from Armed Madhouse: just so we don't forget... So, Osama walks into this bar, see? And Bush says, “Whad’l’ya have, pardner?” and Osama says... ...But wait a minute. I’d better shut my mouth. The sign here in the airport says, “Security is no joking matter.” But if security’ ...
  • BP's Secret Deepwater Blowout
    by Greg Palast exclusive for Truthout/Buzzflash Greg Palast investigating BP's blowout in the Caspian, Baku, Azerbaijan 2010. Only 17 months before BP's Deepwater Horizon rig suffered a deadly blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, another BP deepwater oil platform also blew out. You've heard and se ...
  • BP In Deep Water: The Making Of the Channel 4 ...
    FEATURES For two decades, investigator Greg Palast has been on BP's trail. In BP: In Deep Water, Palast takes Dispatches viewers along on his world-wide investigation of the oil giant. (Broadcast tonight, 8pm. UK only.) One year after BP's Deepwater Horizon rig blew apart and spewed 170 ...
  • Dispatches UK TVGreg Palast Drills Deep into BP
    One year after the Deepwater Horizon, Palast travels from the Gulf Coast to the Arctic Ocean to the Caspian Sea to drill deep into the heart of BP. Filth, polar bears and oil-crat police states. Catch it Monday night at 8pm GMT on Channel 4's DISPATCHES. Sorry: Only in Britain. Greg Palast ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle little pudding pots?
    We’ve had an email from Debbie: Any ideas what we can do with individual microwave pudding pots from the supermarket? They’re plastic. First up, as always, reduce if you can – I know those puddings are convenient but it doesn’t take that much longer to make your own with a microwave (for example ...
  • Any advice for making a mosiac out of broken c ...
    Leo emailed to ask: Hi, your website is great. I’m interested in reusing broken ceramics, terracotta tiles, stone etc. to do a floor mosaic. Do you have any advice about installing this, e.g. cheap or recyclable adhesive, mortar etc.? The only time I’ve make a “crazy” tile mosiac, I had some nor ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle plastic cat biscuit ...
    Shar left us a message on our “Suggest An Item” page: I have increasing numbers of empty Purina one cat food bags. Because they are plastic foil they are not accepted by my local council for recycling. Bag has a zip lock. Sturdy item. Not sure what to do with them. I [...]
  • Composting teabags
    Over on the Really Good Life the other day, I listed all the consumables I used in one day and their packaging. I think it’s easy to become blind to things you routinely use and listing them helped me realise where I was creating unnecessary waste/exposing myself to unnecessary synthetic chemica ...
  • How can I use up too sweet ginger wine?
    I spotted this question on the Money Saving Expert forums earlier today: I bought some ginger wine from sainsburys to try but it is far too sweet. I don’t want to waste it, but I can’t stand to drink it. Any ideas what else I can do with it? Other forum posters suggested using a [...]

Age of Autism

  • Donna Pessin: Healing the Gut in Autism
    By Donna Pessin “The answer to autism lies in the gut,” say many scientists, researchers, and well-respected health care practitioners. But is it really that simple, and how, exactly, do you heal your child’s gut? For the last 18 years...
  • Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines Meet ...
    Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines (ACCV) The ACCV advises and makes recommendations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services on issues relating to the operation of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP). There are nine voting members who...
  • Mercury Leaves Its Mark: Autism, Cancer & Neur ...
    By Teresa Conrick Having a daughter who regressed into autism compels me to research medical journals because she began having health complications after vaccinations. I have an insatiable hunger for knowledge about mitochondrial dysfunction, inflammatory responses (brain and gut), oxidative... ...
  • My Conversation with Seth Mnookin
    By Jake Crosby Panic Virus author Seth Mnookin blatantly lied about me on his blog this week. He said I chastised him “for ignoring the evidence that vaccines cause autism and repeatedly cited Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 …study in The Lancet...
  • Best of AofA: Autism Road To Recovery (Paved w ...
    Managing Editor's Note: I saw Cody at Autism One last month. We're running a series of "Best of" posts and this one came to mind from last August. By Cody Jordan October 20, 2004 was the day my son came...

Global BDS Movement

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  • BDS campaigners force Ahava shop to move
      The central London flagship store of Ahava, an Israeli cosmetics company whose products come from stolen Palestinian natural resources in the occupied West Bank, and are produced in the illegal settlement of Mitzpe Shalem, has been forced to move … Continue reading →
  • Rawabi remains settler-colonial sub-contractor
    Uri Davis writes on the ongoing links between the Rawabi project and the Jewish National Fund.
  • Stop the Wall release new report on Brazil’s m ...
    Notwithstanding its recent recognition of the Palestinian State and its long tradition of supporting Palestinian rights and upholding international law, the Brazilian government has signed contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars with Israel’s arms industry.
  • Trade Unions
    The global trade union movement has consistently demonstrated its courage and commitment to human rights by adopting concrete, ground-breaking labour-led sanctions against oppressive regimes in a show of effective solidarity with oppressed peoples around the world. Adopting BDS measures has … Co ...

Farm Wars

  • Is Your Governor For Sale to the EPA?
    The EPA is now trying to assert that the CWA "protects" (controls) traditional navigable waters, interstate waters, adjacent wetlands, tributaries, and 'other waters' which account for just about all water except swimming pools.
  • 6 Real Examples of Food Terrorism
    The latest warning coming from British intelligence that al-Qaeda and other political organizations could contaminate the food supply is part of a continuing plot line that hides the obvious: our food already has been poisoned under the auspices of oversight agencies who have been complicit in t ...
  • You might be a tenderfoot if….
    "Son, ridin' em's one thing. It's the stayin' on that's tough."
  • Organic Spies Find Lies – Organic Trade Associ ...
    Why The Organic Trade Association and Corporate Organic Food Brands do NOT want Labeling of Genetically Engineered and Genetically Modified Foods.
  • In the Grip of Mad Scientists: Business as Usu ...
    Imagine, if you will, a world in which health sciences, disease control, cancer research, bio-weapons research, vaccine development, biotechnology, food and agriculture, national defense, and chemical companies all work together under the military.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Were ancient human migrations two-way streets?
    Physorg – A long-studied archaeological site in a mountainous region between Europe and Asia was occupied by early humans as long as 1.85 million years ago, much earlier than the previous estimate of 1.7 million years ago, researchers report in Tuesday’s edition of Proceedings of the National Ac ...
  • US Record exports temper slowdown fears
    Reuters – Record exports in April tempered fears that the economic recovery was running off the rails, even though first-time claims for jobless benefits edged higher last week. A Commerce Department report on Thursday showed the U.S. trade deficit narrowed unexpectedly in April as exports hit a ...
  • Climate Fact Of The Day – Northern Hemis ...
  • Rich, Famous and Powerful Converge at Bilderberg
    CNBC – Dominique Strauss-Kahn, naturally, isn’t attending this year, and his likely successor Christine Lagarde is in China, but the Bilderberg Conference which kicks off in the Swiss resort of St. Moritz on Thursday retains its conspiratorial chic and pulling power.The attendee list of Bilderbe ...
  • Hawaii volcano spews into lava lake
    Reuters – New video released by the U.S. Geological Survey shows orange molten rock surging into a lava lake at the Halema`uma`u vent at the Kilauea volcano.

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Mattel, under siege, promises new rain forest ...
    Toy maker Mattel, under siege by environmental critics, announced Friday that it would develop a new policy to make its packaging suppliers “commit to sustainable forestry management practices.” Greenpeace, which launched a global campaign against Mattel this week, called the...
  • Mattel, under siege, promises new rain forest ...
    Toy maker Mattel, under siege by environmental critics, announced Friday that it would develop a new policy to make its packaging suppliers “commit to sustainable forestry management practices.” Greenpeace, which launched a global campaign against Mattel this week, called the...
  • Greening graduation: Recycled diplomas and pla ...
    It’s graduation season, which for many schools means that it’s also prime time to show off their dedication to sustainability. In New York, The New School decorated with local and seasonal flowers, while Pace University printed its programs on recycled...
  • New Mexico abandons efforts to restore Mexican ...
    New Mexico's Game Commission on Thursday night voted to stop assisting the federal effort to restore Mexican gray wolves in the Southwest, the latest step by new Republican Gov. Susana Martinez's administration to reverse her state's green course. Martinez appointed...
  • Mattel to investigate suppliers for links to r ...
    Mattel Inc., the world’s biggest toy company, said it would direct its suppliers to stop buying wood pulp from Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), an Indonesian-Chinese company that has clear-cut vast swaths of Indonesia’s rain forest. As a global Greenpeace...

water.org

  • You’re Invited: June 1st Conference Call
      Wednesday, June 1 The 45-minute call begins at 9 p.m. ET Call in number: 978-964-0049
 Participant code: 449749# Not everyone who needs water should have to wait for charity to find them. Learn how Water.org is putting microfinance tools and partnerships to use in helping people get safe water ...
  • Brightest students solving the water crisis
    Hult International Business School Global Case Challenge crowd sources solutions to the water crisis with help from the Clinton Global Initiative. Team from Cambridge University wins Case Challenge.
  • Student group Project RightChoice (Dartmouth)
    Student org. hosts fundraising gala (The Dartmouth) – By selling raffle tickets for a $2,500 cash reward and hosting games with prizes from over 50 local business, members of the student group Project RightChoice raised over $20,000 to support the charity organization Water.Org at a Cinco de May ...
  • Hult prize promotes global water strategies (VOA)
    Business School Prize Promotes Global Water Strategies (VOA) – The Hult International Business School teamed up with Water.org, a non-governmental advocacy group, to challenge the worldâs business students to find a way of bringing clean water to 100 million people in the next five years. Teams ...
  • Career spotlight – Water.org’s Eri ...
    Career Spotlight – Erin Swanson, Class of 2008 (Drury Mirror) – I am responsible for developing and managing Water.org’s online presence, community, and partnerships, as well as collaborating with the rest of the team to best connect people to Water.org in dynamic and simple ways. This includes ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

  • The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
    The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...

Margaret's News

  • You're a Yekke? How cooll
    ." On the top of the page, it defines its target audience: "If your memories of your grandmother's home included nursery rhymes in German or total silence between 2 and 4 in the afternoon, you are in the right place."Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Haaretz exclusive: Secret cables show Israel's ...
    Israel has started mobilizing its embassies for the battle against UN recognition of a Palestinian state in September, ordering its diplomats to convey that this would delegitimize Israel and foil any chance for future peace talks. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a C ...
  • Strenger than Fiction-Israel News - Haaretz Is ...
    human rights are universal: the Palestinian right for self-determination is no longer questioned by anybody except Israel�s right wing. Their understanding of the world is roughly half a century out of tune with moral and political reality. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • Help Us And Be Among The First To Read Sarah P ...
    We need your help going through this mass of documents to find notable passages and references to pass on to our reporters. Friday afternoon, we'll post the documents online and provide a place for you to leave notes on the emails you see.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov't �|� � ...
  • Letter to Toronto City Council on Israel, Free ...
    In sometimes surprising ways, this issue affects us all. While it is still legal for anyone to do so, I thought I would share my view on the matter. Submitted by Diane V McLoughlin to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • Hindus Welcome Lord Ganesha Sculpture in Downt ...
    Rajan Zed said the public display of Lord Ganesha would bring more inclusivity in religion and help create a unity that celebrated diversity. Moreover, Ganesha's presence is always considered auspicious.
  • Secretary Clinton Congratulates Citizens of Ru ...
    Ms. Clinton underscored that U.S. and Russia made significant progress together toward increased two-way trade and investment and toward Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization. Ms. Clinton elaborated that entrepreneurs, educators, artis
  • 'Countdown to Zero' Plan to Eliminate HIV Infe ...
    Significant progress has been made in the past decade in reducing mother-to-child transmission, with infection rates among children born to mothers living with HIV having declined by 26 per cent from 2001 to 2009, according to the Joint UN Programme
  • Navi Pillay Lauds Mexican Human Rights Reform
    The changes to the Mexican charter, which give constitutional status to all human rights that are guaranteed in international treaties to which Mexico is party, are aimed at guaranteeing individuals the most favourable interpretation of human rights
  • Pakistan Ratifies Treaty on Sexual Exploitatio ...
    Pakistan has become the 144th country to ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.

Worldnews

  • Monsoon may be active at least for next t ...
    Special Correspondent NEW DELHI: The India Meteorological Department [IMD] on Friday forecast that the monsoon was likely to remain active at least for the next two weeks. It could cover the entire peninsular region, as also advance over most parts of Central India and large parts of the ea ...
  • Left slams ordinance to reclaim Singur la ...
    Special Correspondent KOLKATA: A day after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced that her government had issued an ordinance to reclaim the land at Singur that had been acquired for the since-relocated Tata Motors small car project, a delegation of Left Front legislators met ...
  • RPF constable commits suicide
    Staff Reporter KOLKATA: A Railway Protection Force (RPF) constable committed suicide by shooting himself with his service rifle at the Eastern Railway headquarters here early on Friday....
  • West Bengal to recognise 10,000 madrasas
    Special Correspondent KOLKATA: The West Bengal Government has "decided in principle" to recognise around 10,000 madrasas but without offering financial assistance because of the grim fiscal situation the State finds itself in, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said here on Friday....
  • Jaipal Reddy worried over delay in decisi ...
    Sujay Mehdudia NEW DELHI: Amid speculation of a hike in fuel prices, Petroleum Minister S. Jaipal Reddy on Friday met Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee here, even as under-recoveries of the oil marketing companies (OMCs) touched a record Rs. 450 crore a day....

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • 15 Ways to Wreck Your Teeth and Damage Tooth E ...
    WebMD discusses habits that may be hurting your teeth.
  • Probation, Not Prison, for Scalpers
    Three men get probation and community service for bypassing ticket sellers’ security measures.
  • AGA honors outstanding high school students wi ...
    The American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Research Foundation has announced the 2011 Student Research Fellowship Award recipients. Funded by The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, the awards are intended to stimulate interest in research careers in digestive diseases.
  • Employee Wellness Month and Diabetes: How You ...
    June is National Employee Wellness Month, Folks. Did you know? It’s a campaign created a few years ago by none other than Virgin HealthMiles, a leading provider of employee health programs (go figure). And this year’s initiative is co-sponsored by the Strategies to Overcome and Prevent (STOP) Ob ...
  • Options For Making New Vaccines Affordable
    At the same time as The Lancet publishes its Series on the New Decade of Vaccines (embargoed as above), and ahead of next week's GAVI Pledging meeting, a group of authors led by Dr James R Hargreaves (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK) look at innovative vaccine financing mechan ...

Common Dreams

  • Humanitarian Crisis as World's Largest Refugee ...
    The biggest refugee camp in the world is full, creating a humanitarian emergency that threatens thousands of malnourished children, a medical charity has warned. read more
  • Why the President Must Come Up With Demand-Sid ...
    “I am concerned about the fact that the recovery that we’re on is not producing jobs as fast as I want it to happen,” President Obama said Tuesday, amid the flood of bad economic news, including last Friday’s alarming jobs report. Does this mean we’re about to see a bold package of ideas from th ...
  • Pentagon Papers to be Declassified at Last
    WASHINGTON - The disclosure of the Pentagon Papers four decades ago stands as one of the most significant leaks of classified material in American history. Ever since, in the eyes of the government, the voluminous record of U.S. involvement in Vietnam has remained something else: classified. ...
  • Canada Blasted for Record on Oilsands
    OTTAWA -- Foreign diplomats bombarded Canadian climate-change negotiators with questions Thursday in Bonn, Germany, as they challenged the Harper government's transparency and policies to fight global warming. read more
  • Canada Blasted for Record on Oilsands
    OTTAWA -- Foreign diplomats bombarded Canadian climate-change negotiators with questions Thursday in Bonn, Germany, as they challenged the Harper government's transparency and policies to fight global warming. read more

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Technology To Meet The Energy Challenge
    As this community knows all too well, the demand for energy is rapidly increasing.
  • Earth at Boiling Point
    As long as no tipping points are crossed, many believe, there will only be insignificant rises in temperature and sea level. However, rather than tipping points, a boiling point analogy more appropriately describes the risk of Arctic methane releases.
  • Climate Consequences: Tropical Diseases Moving ...
    � Meet the Aedes aegypti mosquito.
  • Oversimplifying A Complex Topic - Measuring Th ...
    The environmental impact of electricity generation is an incredibly complicated issue.� Each electricity generation option, be it fossil fuel, nuclear or renewable, brings with it environmental costs and challenges.� Some of these same energy technologies (such as renewables) also have environme ...
  • The Carbon Price Debate As Smokescreen For Ina ...
    The following essay was written by Tad Tietze and Elizabeth Humphrys, and originally published at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation website (http://www.abc.net.au/). The opinions expressed in the essay are those of the authors alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Breakthr ...

Green House - USA Today

  • Survey: Fewer states have 'Code Red' smog this ...
    Fewer U.S. states have had dangerous smog levels so far this year than during the same period last year, but the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has yet to update its ozone standard, an environmental group reports Wednesday.
  • EPA bans toxic rat poisons, citing risks to kids
    To protect children, pets and wildlife, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is moving to ban residential sales of the most toxic rat and mouse poisons as well as most loose bait and pellet products. It's also requiring all new such poisons be enclosed in bait stations.
  • U.S.-Canada Keystone pipeline leaks, fuels outrage
    A 1,661-mile extension of a U.S.-Canadian pipeline carrying a controversial form of heavy crude oil is facing intensifying opposition and public hearings as recent leaks prompted a one-week shutdown.
  • Study: BPA chemical exposure is underestimated
    Exposure to the hormone-disrupting chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) has been underestimated, because prior lab tests have looked at single exposures rather than daily diets, the University of Missouri reports.
  • HUD's Donovan sees market rebound, touts green ...
    He doesn't just talk about green building. Housing Secretary Shaun Donovan once gutted a 1780 farmhouse and renovated it with reclaimed materials, soy-based insulation and ground-source heat pumps.

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • A Weiner in Hand
    Michael Collins If you're in the retail business, it's all about packaging. If you're in wholesale, it's about volume. If you're Congressman Anthony Weiner, it's about the double game of liberal packaging without the throw weight to justify the image. I managed to get through the last few ...
  • Warning: This Message Contains Democracy
    By Susan Lindauer, former Asset Covering Iraq and Libya, and the second non-Arab American Indicted on the Patriot Act No great civilization is ever destroyed from without, or conquered by external forces, until it first destroys itself from within. America's leaders should have thought l ...
  • Warning: This Message Contains Democracy
    By Susan Lindauer, former Asset Covering Iraq and Libya, and the second non-Arab American Indicted on the Patriot Act No great civilization is ever destroyed from without, or conquered by external forces, until it first destroys itself from within. America's leaders should have thought l ...
  • Global Economic Crisis Deepening
    by Stephen Lendman In the 1960s, economist Arthur Okum began calculated America's Misery Index by adding the unemployment and inflation rates for a sense of public pain or lack of it in good times. In May, it hit a record high exceeding 25, surpassing the earlier June 1980 21.98 top, bas ...
  • IMF Financial Terrorism
    by Stephen Lendman In July 1944, the IMF and Bank for Reconstruction and Development (now the World Bank) were established to integrate developing nations into the Global North-dominated world economy in ways other than initially mandated. Under a new post-war monetary system, the IMF wa ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • CCPA's new blog: Behind The Numbers
    We had such a positive response to our federal election blog, we've decided to continue blogging. We've just launched Behind the Numbers, which will deliver timely, progressive commentary and analysis from CCPA staff and research associates across the country on issues that affect Canadians, in ...
  • Prairie Strong No Longer? Harper's Renewed Att ...
    � Just one day after the May 2nd federal election, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz made it clear that the Conservative government would move to eliminate the Canadian Wheat Board's single-desk marketing power with legislation as soon as this fall. As Canada's largest farm marketing board, the ...
  • Creeping Privatization
    SImon Enoch, Director of the Saskatchewan Office, comments on the creeping privatization of the provincial crowns. View the editorial in the Regina Leader-Post here.�
  • What's the key to the 'good society'?
    Imagine a country that puts the well-being of the majority ahead of the profits of a tiny minority. They do it in Denmark. In this short video, Affluenza author Oliver James talks about how prosperity has very little to do with wealth — it has everything to do with meeting basic needs. "The rich ...
  • CCPA-NS Director talks women's rights under Ha ...
    What's the future of women under a Harper majority government? Christine Saulnier talks about that, and more, in this CTV interview.

World Wide Hippies

  • Wake’N'Bake 101: Chance
    There’s a growing concensus that the “War on Drugs” has failed, but you know, ol’ Dr. Woody, contrarian to the end, would quibble. If you go back to the origins of TWOD, in the ’20s and ’30s, and read Anslinger and his boys, we discover that it has worked WONDERFULLY well. NO, not at stemming [...]
  • She’s Sneaky, He’s Creepy their Ab ...
    By Brad Friedman | BradBlog – The ‘Judicial Insider Trading’ of Justice Clarence Thomas and Wife ‘Ginni’ He had inappropriate sexual entanglements with a number of women and lied about it repeatedly to the American people. Yet nobody — save for one Colorado law school prof — seems to be calling ...
  • “old hippies who started smoking in thei ...
    Addictions & Answers: The war on drugs in the age of medical marijuana | New York Daily News BILL: On the Internet last Saturday night, I heard an old time radio show, “Dragnet” — so old that Jack Webb was still doing Sgt. Friday. When they busted a dope pusher, Jack declared, in his most [...]
  • Weekly Hippie Trivia
    A new Trivia Question will be posted every Friday at 8:00 pm (EST). You can post your answer in the comments section below the question and be entered into a chance to win a WWH Bumpersticker! An American actor and comedian. nominated for an Academy Award. During his teen years, he worked as a c ...
  • NYT Wants Your Help To Read Sarah Palin’ ...
    Help Us Review the Sarah Palin E-Mail Records | New York Times On Friday, the State of Alaska will release more than 24,000 of Sarah Palin’s e-mails covering much of her tenure as governor of Alaska. Times reporters will be in Juneau, the state capital, to begin the process of reviewing the e-ma ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Glenn Beck on Muslims, Obama and Michael Moore ...
    From Glenn Beck's radio show, June 2, 2011: ... PAT GRAY: How does a guy who immigrated here from -- was it India? I think India. He's got Muslim parenthood and he comes here and he enjoys incredible success. The guy's a national television host and a best-selling author. He probably makes ...
  • In His Latest Attack, Beck's Sidekick Highligh ...
    On today's edition of his radio show, Glenn Beck and�his sidekick�Pat Gray criticized CNN Host and Time editor Fareed Zakaria for comments�suggesting that the U.S. Constitution was not perfect. Zakaria made the comments during an interview with PBS' Charlie Rose earlier this week. (This was part ...
  • TOM MORELLO : THE NIGHTWATCHMAN TO RELEASE UNI ...
    FREE DOWNLOAD OF THE TITLE TRACK “UNION TOWN” AVAILABLE NOW   NEW FULL LENGTH ALBUM, WORLD WIDE REBEL SONGS, TO BE RELEASED LATE SUMMER   April 28th, 2011 -- New York, New York -- Tom Morello is set to release Union Town via New West Records digitally on May 17th with a physical CD and Vinyl rel ...
  • New York Times: Claims Gaddafi Tried to Assass ...
    From 'TARGET QADDAFI' by Seymour Hersh, New York Times, February 22, 1987 ... In the weeks following Sadat's death, newspapers and television reported a barrage of Qaddafi death threats to Reagan and senior Administration officials. Secret Service protection was ordered for the President's ...
  • New York Times: U.S. Specifically Targeted Gad ...
    From 'TARGET QADDAFI' by Seymour Hersh, New York Times, February 22, 1987 ... The mission was the first combat assignment for most of the fliers. Qaddafi's home and his camouflaged Bedouin tent, where he often worked throughout the night, were inside the grounds of El-Azziziya. The notion o ...

Salon

  • When liberal groups promote corporate mergers
    Politico reported Friday morning that a number of liberal advocacy groups lending support to AT&T's acquisition of T-Mobile have "no obvious interest in telecom deals -- except that they’ve received big piles of AT&T’s cash."
  • Gary Johnson debates a bad Obama impersonator ...
    Yes, John Stossel, this is a very good idea, and not at all stupid. Having Gary Johnson "debate" a Barack Obama impersonator is enlightening and compelling television:
  • The perils of ignoring science
    I heard a remarkable thing on the radio the other day and it had nothing to do with a congressman’s nether regions.
  • DC law firm defends Bahrain on human rights cr ...
    The Bahraini government's brutal crackdown on a Shiite protest movement has shifted from the public scenes of police attacking protesters in the streets to the detention and prosecution of opposition figures and doctors.
  • The woman Anthony Weiner smeared speaks out
    Earlier this week, we recounted the long-forgotten story of Anthony Weiner's first run for public office -- an upset victory in a 1991 race for a City Council seat in New York that was keyed by a race-baiting flier that Weiner's campaign anonymously distributed to voters on the eve of the ele ...

SMB News

  • Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
    For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,914-metr ...
  • Kasaba throws spit on the camera
    \Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
  • K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
    For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
  • Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
    For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
  • Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
    For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Technology To Meet The Energy Challenge
    As this community knows all too well, the demand for energy is rapidly increasing.
  • Earth at Boiling Point
    As long as no tipping points are crossed, many believe, there will only be insignificant rises in temperature and sea level. However, rather than tipping points, a boiling point analogy more appropriately describes the risk of Arctic methane releases.
  • Climate Consequences: Tropical Diseases Moving ...
    � Meet the Aedes aegypti mosquito.
  • Oversimplifying A Complex Topic - Measuring Th ...
    The environmental impact of electricity generation is an incredibly complicated issue.� Each electricity generation option, be it fossil fuel, nuclear or renewable, brings with it environmental costs and challenges.� Some of these same energy technologies (such as renewables) also have environme ...
  • The Carbon Price Debate As Smokescreen For Ina ...
    The following essay was written by Tad Tietze and Elizabeth Humphrys, and originally published at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation website (http://www.abc.net.au/). The opinions expressed in the essay are those of the authors alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Breakthr ...

EU Times

  • Bilderberg Security Assaults EU Members of Par ...
    Italian politician, member of the Northern League, and member of the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, Mario Borghezio, was beaten and arrested by Bilderberg Security yesterday as he attempted to enter the meeting and protest its secretive globalist ag ...
  • German Parliament Backs Second Bailout for Greece
    Finance minister urges MPs to support deal and pledges that investors will share burden. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told his country’s Parliament on Friday that MPs had a duty to approve a new aid package for Greece and that private creditors must carry some of the burden. Agence ...
  • Bahrainis hold huge anti-government protests
    Anti-government protesters have once again taken to the streets in Bahrain, demanding an end to the rule of Al Khalifa dynasty. The massive protest rallies were held in towns and villages around the capital, Manama, following the Friday Prayers. Witnesses say Saudi-backed Bahraini forces attacke ...
  • Alabama passes toughest illegal immigrant law ...
    Alabama’s governor has signed the nation’s toughest new immigration law in a major crackdown on illegals. The new law affects education, housing and employment. It requires public schools to document students’ immigration status and even makes it a crime to knowingly give an illegal immigrant a ...
  • China Wants to Build a 50 Square Mile City in ...
    Thanks to the trillions of dollars that the Chinese have made flooding our shores with cheap products, China is now in a position of tremendous economic power. So what is China going to do with all of that money? One thing that they have decided to do is to buy up pieces of the United [...]

Stonecipher News

  • Symptoms and Treatments of Diabetes Insipidus
    Diabetes Insipidus ( or DI ) is a health condition that is often distinguished by extreme thirst along with excessively diluted urination . DI is similar in characteristics to untreated Diabetes ( or Diabetes Mellitus) but without the onset of blood glucose elevation. One of the major differ ...
  • Natural Acne Remedies
    There are several health conditions that hinder many people’s lives and outlook everyday. Acne is a condition which can affect your self esteem and your life. I’ve known several friends and family members with terrible cases of acne. They would purchase expensive remedies prescribed by docto ...
  • Linguistic Observations: Mendoza's Gang Girls ...
    Homegirls by Norma Mendoza Denton is a fascinating, and yet, perplexing, view of gangs in the San Francisco Bay area. Over the course of the next few weeks, I'll be providing you incites on the inner workings of the gangs, symbolism of certain material items, and other such related details. ...
  • Normal Structure and Function of the Musculosk ...
    Mr. Ghaz says: Muscular dystrophies refer to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases which are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles..Studies and estimation show that after sustaining a hip fracture (as a result of osteoporosis) 20% of patients die withi ...
  • Reasons to Donate Blood
    Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • The Truth About iOS 5: Apple Can't Be Beat (AAPL)
    I've spent a week with the beta version of iOS 5 on my iPhone 4. Bottom line: I still think it's awesome . And still the best mobile OS around by a longshot. But that doesn't mean it's without flaws. Apple neglected to announce several features we were hoping for such as voice control and bette ...
  • Spanish police arrest 3 in PlayStation Network ...
    Kotaku Spain arrests three for Sony PlayStation hacks By Brian Crecente Kotaku Spanish police this morning say they have arrested three involved in the hacking of Sony's Playstation Network, which lead to Sony shutting down the PlayStation 3's network for a month, locking nearly 80 million game ...
  • E3 2011: Nintendo And Wii U To Abandon âFrien ...
    Nintendo is known to hang it’s hat on it’s first-party developers.  Developers from which we get great experiences from Zelda, Mario, Starfox and Luigi games.  One thing Nintendo is NOT known for is having a killer multiplayer experience.  Nintendo has no doubt lagged behind Microsoft with X ...
  • Bunter Balls' Blinky Bluster
    âBunter!â The Headâs voice was deep. He looked solemnly across the desk as the Fat Owl quaked inwardly. âIt wasnât me, sirâ¦â âGrant me patience, Bunter. This is a very serious allegation. You have been accused of undermining your form master and plotting to destabilise the smooth running of yo ...
  • Protests Put Down in Iraq and Syria
    The anti-government protest planned for today in Baghdad was put down after protesters were beaten and intimidated. While it was expected that students and activists would gather en mass to press for reforms and improved government services, they were outnumbered and driven away by supporte ...

Groklaw

  • Supreme Court Signals Pending Patent Reform Is ...
    Congress is, unfortunately, on the verge of passing the so-called "America Invents Act" (S. 23 and H.R. 1249) that would change our patent system from the "first to invent" system we've had since our founding, to a "first to file" system. This is not only harmful to small entrepreneurs, but it a ...
  • Commentary: Court retains high standard for pr ...
    Justice Sotomayor's opinion for the Court sidestepped the policy questions that have dominated recent opinions in cases like eBay, KSR, and Bilski. Instead, it relied almost entirely on precedent. The Court readily acknowledged that the statute establishes no particular standard of proof, but i ...
  • Judge who jailed lawyer over pledge faces repr ...
    Chancery Court Judge Talmadge Littlejohn will be publicly reprimanded for ordering a lawyer to jail in 2010 for refusing to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. In a 9-0 vote, the Mississippi Supreme Court on Thursday agreed the New Albany judge misused his powers and violated state judicial canons ...
  • Free Software Foundation favors LibreOffice ov ...
    They're not the only ones. I confess that I also see a brighter future for LibreOffice than I do for OpenOffice. It's not just that the LGPL is the better license, it's that, as Curtis states, LibreOffice is where the developers are. Without top programmers, OpenOffice is little more than a bran ...
  • Pilot Program Will Build Judicial Expertise In ...
    A congressionally-created pilot program to give district court judges greater expertise in patent cases will begin next month in most of 14 selected courts. The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AOUSC) announced this week which district courts will be participating in the 10-year projec ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Ray Wylie Hubbard on Redneck Mother
    The Inimitable Ray Wylie Hubbard tells the story of his inspiration behind his classic song “Up Against The Wall Redneck Mother”. This was filmed at Jerry Jeff walker’s Birthday Bash at the Paramount Theater in Downtown Austin Texas. You can see Jerry Jeff laughing in disbelief as Ray says to hi ...
  • US falling behind in renewable energy and clea ...
    It’s not because we don’t have the ability. Rather it’s because there is no clear leadership or national policies. Instead, we have the usual squabbling, which leads to paralysis. “If we donât invest in ways to efficiently produce sustainable energy, then I worry that once we stop importing from ...
  • ECB. Everyone takes a haircut but us. Because ...
    The ECB itself knowingly took in bonds they knew were not going to be able to be paid in full, and now having done so is demanding that everyone except them cover the cost of restructuring Greece’s problems. So what? Greece has the upper hand here. In fact, they have the ECB and the Germans [...]
  • Polizeros podcast. Rick Perry gains by Gingric ...
    Steve Hynd, who lives in Texas, makes a convincing case that Rick Perry could become the Republican candidate for president in 2012 after Newt Gingrich’s campaign crated yesterday. Perry could be a compromise candidate, given the weak field and hard-right Tea Partiers who will split that vote am ...
  • Study of 800-year-old tree rings backs global ...
    Scientists… measured tree-ring growth from forests that included 800-year-old trees. They learned that snowpack reductions in the late 20th and early 21st centuries were unlike any other period dating to at least the year 1200. But no more than half of the declines can be explained by natural sh ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Publishing: From 140 characters to 150,000 words
    I haven't blogged much recently, I know. I've been incredibly busy. Primarily with the book-publishing but a bit with family things and also, increasingly, with planning for the trip I'm currently on. (This blog post comes to you from London. On Saturday, I'm going to Cairo... ) Also, I've been ...
  • Syria: The strong risk of fitna, and how to pr ...
    Josh Landis has a truly excellent piece on his blog today. It is a lengthy account that he's publishing there, that was written by someone identified only as "An American in Syria." Whoever the writer is, the writing shows the closeness of her/his own connectedness to Syrians in Damascus of a va ...
  • Notes on Turkey and Syria, #2
    Turkish FM Davutoglu today told a couple of media outlets (including the NYT) that Syrian President Bashar al-Asad should launch a "shock therapy" version of political reform. Did he use those words in English? If so, it is a truly lousy turn of phrase. "Shock therapy," as administered to the Ru ...
  • Notes on Turkey and the Syrian transition
    I'm sorry we haven't been able to fix the comments here yet. Meantime, you can go over to this post on my backup blog to read what I just wrote about Turkey and Syria... and what's more, I think you can post comments there.
  • Tweeting the new Palestinian convergence?
    I was just, um, tweeting (@helenacobban, not @justworldnews... ) about the fact that Twitter, especially, gives a lot of new flexibility and capabilities to Palestinian activists who by the nature of their situation are chopped, diced, and spread out between a number of different national jurisd ...

frogblog

  • Kevin Hague talks to Pasifika on ACC privatisation
    Last week, Green ACC spokesperson Kevin Hague and Pasifika lawyer Amelia Saafi were interviewed on Pacific Viewpoint, a programme broadcast on Triangle/Stratos. The interview is 27 minutes long, but it’s well worth a watch to see Kevin and Amelia expose the Government’s economy with the truth in ...
  • Budget 2011: Gareth Hughes’ speech on tr ...
    Kia ora, Mr Assistant Speaker. It is a privilege to take a call in this Budget debate, and I intend to focus on transport issues. When it comes to transport, this Government, under Steven Joyce as transport Minister, is simply on the wrong track. This Government is creating monuments in concrete ...
  • The Biosphere and Politics: Coming to a town n ...
    Yesterday some of the leading authorities in Australasia presented at the IPS conference on Biophysical Limits and their Policy Implications in Wellington. Some 300 people turned up. Two were members of Parliament. Both were from the Green Party.
  • More transparency on lobbying needed
    Is it the case that John Key’s government is so ideologically inspired, evidence averse or economically illiterate that economic policies that are bound to be disastrous for New Zealand get past the Cabinet table with little scrutiny? Or are there more sinister forces at play? Lobbying of publi ...
  • It must be something in the Southland water
    Environment Southland Regional Councillor and Green Party member Robert Guyton has a blog.  He’s had it since 2007, long before his election to the Regional Council last year. But suddenly it has become controversial.  On Wednesday Robert Guyton blogged: Should councillors blog? Nope, I was told ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Humanity at the Crossroads: Business and Jobs
    What's known as the economy has not only had horrid consequences, it is ultimately unsustainable. In two centuries, it has turned human beings into beasts of burden and their rulers into mere teamsters, it has polluted the Earth, extinguished uncounted species and exterminated millions of people ...
  • (Land of the Fee and the Home of the Knave) Mo ...
    President Obama has said that he will not allow people-programs to be cut so that the wealthy can receive tax cuts because our nation is "better than that." But what America is cannot be distinguished from its economy which exists merely to accumulate money. It's why the maxim is let the buy ...
  • The Supreme Court, the Constitution and the Fi ...
    The Supreme Court's First Amendment opinions result not from interpreting the First Amendment but from deliberately and insidiously changing its diction in ways that make the Amendment unrecognizable. The Court's arguments in these opinions are pure cant and do nothing but turn the Justice ...
  • Liberty's Easy Slide into Tyranny
    Huge conspiracies aren't what destroys people's freedom, the accumulation of errors, failed policies, and little and big unfairnesses do. It happens because The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men/ Gang aft agley,/ An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain. The FED, CIA, Executive Privilege, The ...
  • What should be done with illegal immigrants?
    That this question is even being asked reveals something about ourselves. How would you answer it if you were an illegal immigrant? Perhaps you've never heard of the Golden Rule. The rule may not be the best guide to moral behavior but asking yourself how you'd answer the question if you wer ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Yes, the ISI is Still the ISI
    From the Washington Post: Twice in recent weeks, the United States provided Pakistan with the specific locations of insurgent bomb-making factories, only to see the militants learn their cover had been blown and vacate the sites before military action could be taken, according to U.S. and ...
  • Note to Corporate America: Stop Whining
    Michael Linden has made me feel guilty for highlighting the only one of CAP's tax charts that I disliked, rather than the nine I thought were fine. So here's one of the good ones. Keep this in mind the next time you hear some hack from the Heritage Foundation whining that we have the highest ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 10 June 2011
    Today we have cats in a state of nature. Of course, "state of nature" for a housecat means endless brushing, pampering, soft beds to sleep on, and a bottomless food dish. So this is as close as we get. On the left, Inkblot is trying to figure out why there's a pair of ducks in his backyard. ...
  • Tax Loopholes and the Federal Budget
    Matt Yglesias points to a chart from his CAP colleagues showing a dramatic increase in tax credits and deductions since 1982 and comments, "It’s not a good trend. Simpler taxes and efforts to do a more straightforward consideration of what is and isn’t worth spending money on are a much bett ...
  • Addressing Medicare the Wrong Way
    Joe Lieberman has a plan for saving Medicare: First, I will propose raising the Medicare eligibility age every year starting in 2014 by two months until it reaches 67 in 2025. So if you turn 65 in 2014, you will have to wait an additional 60 days before you become eligible for Medicare. T ...

Insanity Report

  • Lupe and the Blissful Ignorance of Not Voting
    So yesterday evening Ryce and I did a podcast, IC 252:  Pedophile Insurance (Cheap Plug) and one of the topics we talked about was Lupe Fiasco’s comments about President Obama being the world’s biggest terrorist. I had a few comments about that issue then but felt the need to write this follow ...
  • IC 252: Pedophile Insurance
    Topics: Lupe acts like Lupe Is Obama a terrorist? How important is voting? A 2 vehicle, 1 bear accident Creflo Dollar defends Eddie Long Herman Cain…the gift that keeps giving…. Share with your friends:
  • Anthony’s Weiner and How Democrats Always Fuck Up
    You’ve probably noticed that writing on the Insanity Report has dropped off a bit.  It’s not that I’ve gotten done blogging.  I’m actually spending more time at my other site MovieTrailerReviews.Net (cheap plug).  But every now and then I’ll still pop in and drop an article here cause some th ...
  • IC 251: It’s Too Damn Hot
    Topics: It’s too hot in the DMV The Eddie Long saga Rep. Anthony Weiner has his “twitter hacked” Sarah Palin leads the media on a goose chase Herman Cain for President Share with your friends:
  • IC 250: The Mini-4LOKO Podcast Party
    Topics: The last 4Loko podcast party was so successful we decided to do it again. This time in studio. Fuckery ensues… Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

  • Vikings’ Greenland demise tells climate tale
    Two civilisations – including the Vikings – disappeared from Greenland at times of rapid climate change William D'Andrea of University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and colleagues find, but understanding how those changes happens is more important than the impact they had, he asserts.
  • Greenland melt studies need greater accuracy
    Lack of detail undermines previous efforts to predict future Greenland ice melt from recent observations, says Ohio State University's Ian Howat, whose new method finds the island's three largest outlet glaciers lost enough ice to fill Lake Erie between 2000 and 2010
  • Greenland melt studies need greater accuracy
    Lack of detail undermines previous efforts to predict future Greenland ice melt from recent observations, says Ohio State University's Ian Howat, whose new method finds the island's three largest outlet glaciers lost enough ice to fill Lake Erie between 2000 and 2010
  • Native tip-off reveals unmatched Arctic storm ...
    Sea-water algae living in a lake 6 km inland for the first time in 1,000 years underline how extreme the Arctic's current conditions are, explain Queen's University, Canada's Joshua Thienpont and colleagues.
  • Native tip-off reveals unmatched Arctic storm ...
    Sea-water algae living in a lake 6 km inland for the first time in 1,000 years underline how extreme the Arctic's current conditions are, explain Queen's University, Canada's Joshua Thienpont and colleagues.

e!Science News

  • 3-D movie shows, for the first time, what happ ...
    Amsterdam, The Netherlands: For the first time researchers have been able to watch what happens to the brain as it loses consciousness. Using sophisticated imaging equipment they have constructed a 3-D movie of the brain as it changes while an anaesthetic drug takes effect. read more
  • Landsat satellite images compare before and af ...
    Satellites provide a lot of useful information and the Landsat 5 satellite captured an image of the long damage track created on June 1, 2011 when a tornado tracked from Springfield to Sturbridge, Mass. An earlier image is now available from 2010 that enables people to more clearly see the damag ...
  • Nearby galaxy boasts 2 monster black holes, bo ...
    A study using NASA's Swift satellite and the Chandra X-ray Observatory has found a second supersized black hole at the heart of an unusual nearby galaxy already known to be sporting one. read more
  • Social scientists study impact of human adult ...
    New research says studying both adult and embryonic stem cells can benefit medical science, but banning the study of either type could harm studies of the other. read more
  • U-M researchers find potential new way to figh ...
    By digging a little deeper, researchers may have found a potential target for reversing the deadly blood infection sepsis. read more

unEarthed

  • Unplugged: In Time for Summer, Energy Efficien ...
    DOE strengthens standards for AC, furnaces and heat pumps The Department of Energy today released stronger new energy efficiency standards for central AC units ...
  • Friday Finds: Deforestation Barbie
    EPA's chemical unveiling, arsenic-laced chicken, contaminated compost Greenpeace says Barbie boxes contribute to deforestation in Indonesia. Photo courtesy photogirl7.1 ...
  • Polluting Our Kids' Report Cards
    Researchers find links between air pollution and poor performance in school The report card was a jumble of Cs and Ds. As my coworker gazed over his kid's late ...
  • Can I Get a Witness Who Cares About Kids' Health?
    Health professionals square off with industry mouthpieces at senate hearing The hearing room on the 4th floor of the Dirksen Senate Office building was packed— ...
  • Babbitt Calls Out Obama on Wilderness
    Says Obama, Congress not doing enough for wildlands Former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt Bruce Babbitt, Bill Clinton's Interior�Secretary for eight years ...

Brave New Climate

  • Open Thread 16
    The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting rules of courtesy apply, and at the very least your chat should relate to the general content of this ...
  • Disposal of UK plutonium stocks with a climate ...
    In the 1950s, following World War II, the United Kingdom and a handful of other nations developed a nuclear weapons arsenal. This required the production of plutonium metal (or highly enriched uranium) purpose-built facilities. ‘Civil’ plutonium was also produced, since the facilities for separa ...
  • Critique of MIT future of nuclear fuel cycle study
    MIT (energy initiative) recently released a controversial and well-publicized report on the future of the nuclear fuel cycle. In it, they argue that there is sufficient uranium to allow ongoing deployment of water-cooled reactors for many decades; they recommend that no far-reaching decision be ...
  • Nuclear power and climate change – what now?
    I’m currently on a 3-week trip to North America, and will be returning to Australia in mid-June. At the end of my travels I’ll be attending an energy futures conference in Waterloo, Canada (and will write more about that in an upcoming blog). But at present, I’m in Davis, California, and have be ...
  • What price of Indian independence? Greenpeace ...
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. To see a list of other BNC posts by Geoff, click here. —————— India declared itself a republic in 1950 after more than a century of ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • Naksa Day 2011 when Non-Violent Protests were ...
    Naksa Day 2011 when Non-Violent Protests were answered with Violence & Manslaughter – in pictures | Occupied Palestine | فلسطين: UDHR 20(1) states: “Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.”(Universal Declaration of Human Rights)Not in Palestine and as it seems not ...
  • Settlers Set Fire to Palestinian Crops Near He ...
    Settlers Set Fire to Palestinian Crops Near Hebron | Occupied Palestine | فلسطين: "Hebron – PNN Exclusive – As part of the daily attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinian villages, on Wednesday afternoon settlers set fire to crops owned by Palestinian farmers from the village of Bani Naim, near ...
  • UNDERNEWS: America's lonely disrespect for Pal ...
    UNDERNEWS: America's lonely disrespect for Palestine: Francis A. Boyle - On November 15, 1988 the Palestine National Council meeting in Algiers proclaimed the Palestinian Declaration of Independence that created the independent state of Palestine. Today the State of Palestine is bilaterally reco ...
  • In defence of Dr. Cornel West and all other co ...
    Editorial: The Fine Art of Stepping Back: Why I have decided to stop writing about race. By TheAngryindian -�04.06.2008 Editor's Note: This editorial is a re-print of a older article I wrote during the electoral run-up to the historical Obama presidency on my (not defunct) decision t ...
  • TheAngryindian: Why I have decided to stop wri ...
    Editorial: The Fine Art of Stepping Back: Why I have decided to stop writing about race. | APNS Why I have decided to stop writing about race. By TheAngryindian 04.06.2008 *Editor's Note: This editorial is a re-print of a older article I wrote during the electoral run-up to the his ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Jobs Boehner?
    When will Boehner and the Republicans in the House stop attacking women, and seniors long enough to pass a bill to create jobs? No Ayn Rand voodoo economics fantasy tax cuts for billionaires trickle down crap. I mean real job creating legislation.
  • Grandma Isn’t Dead Yet Mr. Ryan
    I know how hard you have worked to steal the last few dollars grandma has left to buy her pills. Once she runs out of money and she dies, problem solved right? One less parasite living on government “entitlements” right Mr. Ryan? Gotta pay for them tax breaks for billionaires now don’t we….
  • Boehner Ready to Cut a Deal on Raising the Deb ...
    If President Obama would agree to cut “entitlements” and put thousands of Americans to death from lack of food, or proper medical attention John Boehner guarantees he will put raising the debt ceiling to a vote! What a deal? I think the CBO should “score” how many Americans will die needlessly f ...
  • Let Me Get This Straight Mitch
    So the Republicans are threatening to “not” raise the debt ceiling. They want to “work together” with Dems slashing spending on “entitlements” (helping poor and old people survive) and not raise taxes on anyone anywhere regardless how much money they are making. Sound like a bargain? Hey Mitch. ...
  • Congratulations Senator McCain – Telling ...
    I would personally like to commend Mr. McCain for telling the world the truth about torture. Most of the time when a Republican does anything it could be considered an act of sabotage, but in this case one Republican actually did something good for our nation. Congratulations. Now let’s talk abo ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

+972

  • Closing of Yale institute for antisemitism ref ...
    It was recently announced that Yale University’s Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism (YIISA) will be closing up shop in July due to what  ”was found in its routine faculty review to not have met its academic expectations,” says an official from Yale’s Public Affairs ...
  • PHOTOS: Protest in Nabi Saleh consumed by tear gas
    Unusually high levels of tear gas were used in an attempt to crush the weekly unarmed demonstration today at Nabi Saleh. Roughly 40 new (and many first time) Israeli supporters joined the demonstration today, led by IPCRI director Gershom Baskin. From the demonstration, Baskin repeatedly contact ...
  • De-motivator, Holocaust commemoration style
    The following gem has been circulating the web in the past few days. The author, music critic and blogger Guy Hajaj, says he took the pic at a synagogue in Akko. I’d spin some yarn about how it exemplifies Israel going from trying to move on from the Holocaust to being perpetually consumed by it ...
  • Gay? Girl? Damascus? Plot thickens around Syri ...
    On Monday, this blog was one of the first to spread the world of the abduction of Syrian blogger Amina Abdallah Arraf, author of A Gay Girl in Damascus. A post on AGGID, purportedly written by Arraf’s cousin Rania Ismail, reported that two men bundled Amina into a car with a pro-regime sticker. ...
  • A non-violent demonstration grapples with civi ...
    “The fact that you found yourself a victim of police violence does not mean that you were doing anything wrong. You were doing something right. You might have broken the law, but you were doing so to fight against a deeply entrenched and institutionalized wrong.” By Eitan Grossman A little more ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Water reuse scheme benefits Hawkesbury River
    Construction of a treated wastewater re-use scheme at South Windsor as part of an Australian Government funded project to improve the health of the Hawkesbury River has progressed significantly.
  • World Environment Day delivers $86 million fo ...
    Federal Water and Environment Minister Tony Burke and South Australia’s Water and Environment Minister Paul Caica today outlined $86.7 million for a new project to improve the river’s health and resilience of its wetlands and floodplains from the Victorian border to Wellington.
  • New pipeline benefits Townsville community
    The last piece of a 27 kilometre pipeline to capture and redirect wastewater from the northern areas of Townsville was laid today at the Mt St John Wastewater Treatment Plant.
  • National Wildlife Corridors Plan Advisory Group
    Environment Minister Tony Burke today announced members of an advisory group to inform the Gillard Government's development of a National Wildlife Corridors Plan, to be chaired by former Environment Minister Bob Debus.
  • Statement from the Environment Minister regard ...
    The Victorian Government has advised that cattle have been removed from the Alpine National Park.

Matt Weidner Blog

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

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The Parallel Parliament

  • No Labels
    I was fascinated to read Susan Delacourt’s recent blog posting “Chretien: The Modern Conservative?” in which she points to some of the ironies in the Manning Centre’s recent conclusion that Canada is surely becoming more Conservative. Pollster Allan Gregg, one of the participants, made an observ ...
  • Critical Mass
    Thomas Friedman of the New York Times didn’t win the Pulitzer Prize three times for being cute. His insights on issues such as world trade, the environment, Middle East developments, and foreign affairs have made him a force with which to be reckoned. Yesterday, in an article titled “The World i ...
  • Progressives On A Pin
    There were a good number of messages from the last post about a Conservative MP bemoaning the lack of institution building in this country. The preoccupation was on the identity of the MP when it should have been on the cause of his disillusionment. In the broader Canadian political context we a ...
  • A Knight’s Tale
    “I miss you in this place. I so badly wanted a better form of politics, but now it’s all about power, and who has it, and not participation.” This email popped up on my iPhone a couple of days ago from a Conservative MP who’s tired of the same-old, same-old. We shouldn’t be surprised at [...]
  • The Rough Beast
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Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Ten weeks to save the world: Nature does the S ...
    You’ve heard the rumors and read the hype – but what really goes on at the Singularity University, based at the NASA Ames campus in Silicon Valley?  Nature’s Nicola Jones recently went along to take a look, and her report has just been posted – it’s well worth reading. The Singularity Universit ...
  • Prepare and Inspire: The President’s Council o ...
    The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology – PCAST – has just released a new report on US K-12 education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (the STEM subjects).  The report provides, in the words of the Presidentâs Science Advisor John Holdren, “a strategy fo ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    This week I exchanged the maze of academia for an entirely different maze – I spent most of the week at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, China. World Economic Forum meetings are usually rather grand, complex, intimidating, stimulating and serendipitous aff ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    This week my life has been dominated by writing a new review of nanotoxicology.  Not that the world needs another review – far from it, as there are a number of excellent ones out there (I’ve even contributed to some).  But in a moment of abject weakness, I agreed to help a good colleague out ...
  • Realizing dreams of carbon nanotubes
    A guest blog by John Dorr, Vice President of Business Development Nanocomp Technologies Inc. Despite all the fuss over nanotechnology, it’s surprisingly difficult to get a clear sense of how the technology is contributing to new products.  So when the company Nanocomp Technologies Inc. approache ...

Reader Supported News

  • Alaska to Release Sarah Palin's E-Mail
    Excerpt: "On Friday, more than 24,000 pages of e-mails Ms. Palin sent as governor, mostly using private accounts, are to be released in response to public records requests first made in 2008.... Ms. Palin's past and personal life have since been scoured in depth by news outlets (and exposed thro ...
  • Alaska to Release Sarah Palin's E-Mail
    Excerpt: "On Friday, more than 24,000 pages of e-mails Ms. Palin sent as governor, mostly using private accounts, are to be released in response to public records requests first made in 2008.... Ms. Palin's past and personal life have since been scoured in depth by news outlets (and exposed thro ...
  • Bigger Than Blackwater: Arming the UAE
    Hannah Gurman reports: "Coverage so far has centered on Prince and his notorious company. But the full story of the UAE's employment of foreign companies to build up its military and defense goes well beyond Blackwater/Xe and includes a virtual who's who of Western defense companies." The Int ...
  • Bigger Than Blackwater: Arming the UAE
    Hannah Gurman reports: "Coverage so far has centered on Prince and his notorious company. But the full story of the UAE's employment of foreign companies to build up its military and defense goes well beyond Blackwater/Xe and includes a virtual who's who of Western defense companies." The Int ...
  • Olbermann's Exit: The Inside Story
    Marisa Guthrie writes: "Now with a bigger paycheck but a smaller network, the stand-up-to-management bad boy unloads for the first time about MSNBC, Jeff Zucker, why he's not talking to Rachel Maddow and his plan for Countdown 2.0 on Current TV." Keith Olbermann talks about leaving MSNBC and ...

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • Pfizer will voluntary suspend sale of roxarson ...
    The FDA announced today that Pfizer Inc., will voluntarily suspend the sale of 3-Nitro (better known as the arsenical drug roxarsone) following the results of an FDA study which found elevated levels of inorganic arsenic in the livers of chicken fed roxarsone compared to a control group. The ann ...
  • 100 years of artificial nitrogen - but how man ...
    I recently was asked in an interview to name the one thing I would change in the world if I had the power to do so. Surprising even myself, I replied quickly “the Haber-Bosch (H-B) process for industrial nitrogen fixation. Imagine - a world without synthetic N! One can imagine the blank look I g ...
  • Study finds new MRSA strain in European milk
    Researchers at Cambridge University say they have found a new strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in milk from England, Scotland and Denmark, which they are calling LGA251. The findings - published online by The Lancet Infectious Diseases - can be seen as a further sign ...
  • 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 ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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