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Thomas Paine

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

Saturday, June 11, 2011

11 June - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

  • RBC Blue Water Project Grants
    Organization:� RBC The RBC Blue Water Project is an innovative, 10-year, global commitment to help protect the world's most precious natural resource: fresh�water. Under the RBC Blue Water Project, ...
  • Healing Walk 2011
    Keepers of the Athabasca Sierra Club Prairie 25 Jun 2011 - 10:00 Calling all community members and allies: Join us and walk for the heali ...
  • Environmental Law Centre Position
    Position:  Staff Counsel Organization:  Environmental Law Centre ...
  • Grizzly Bear Deaths Too High in the Castle Region
    Rally Planned to Protest Logging CPAWS â Southern Alberta Alberta Wilderness Association National Parks Conservati ...
  • Stop Castle Logging Rally
    Stop Castle Logging Castle-Crown Wilderness Coalition CPAWS - Southern Alberta 8 Jun 2011 - 12:00 - 13:00 ...

Stop NATO

  • Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 10, 2011
    ==== $2 Million A Day: Pentagon’s Billion Dollar Libyan War USS George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group In Mediterranean Cairo: Top U.S. Military Commander Supports Egyptian Junta, Libyan War NATO Official: Gaddafi “Legitimate Target” U.S. Military Chief Applauds Germany’s Role In Global NATO NATO ...
  • Fichte: The inexorable law of universal peace
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Johann Gottlieb Fichte From The Vocation of Man (1800) Translated by William Smith ***** By the establishment of this only true State, this firm foundation of internal peace, the possibility of foreign war…is cut off. The law concerning ...
  • Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 9, 2011
    ==== NATO Defense Chiefs Endorse Extension Of Libyan War To End Of September Pentagon Chief Pressures More NATO Allies For Libyan War Support 83-Day Air War: 10,290 NATO Sorties, Almost 4,000 Combat Flights Namibia: Call For Marches, Other Actions Against NATO’s Atrocities In Libya NATO Escalate ...
  • Arnold Zweig: Education Before Verdun
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Arnold Zweig From Education Before Verdun (1936) Translated by Eric Sutton Since the middle of May the battle had come to a deadlock. Now, half-way through July, its formless shape still rolled over the low ground between Fleury village ...
  • Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 8, 2011
    ==== NATO’s Libyan Air War: 10,177 Sorties, 3,860 Combat Missions Sixty Blasts Tear Through Tripoli As NATO Steps Up Bombing No NATO Operations In Syria And Yemen…Except With UN Resolutions Expanded Shanghai Cooperation Organization Can Offset U.S.-Dominated Unipolar World, Eastern NATO New Silk ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Physician and Epidemiologist Say 35% Spike in ...
    Related: Joseph Mangano on The Intel Hub Radio The Intel Hub By Alexander Higgins - Contributing Writer June 11th, 2011 As I’ve previously noted, infants are much more vulnerable to radiation than adults. And see this. However, radiation safety standards are set based on the assumption that ever ...
  • The Intel Hub: Support Independent, Honest Rep ...
    The Intel Hub June 10th, 2011 This is the third part of our on going fund-raising to secure new servers and cover website costs. The Intel Hub is an independent news outlet that is not funded by major corporations or foundations that limit content. The ONLY way a 24/7 news outlet can survive wit ...
  • TEPCO Cam Blocked Out By Vapor Event Around Re ...
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  • Bob Tuskin & Popeye call CNN Tips Line On Air ...
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  • MEP ‘Bloodied’ Sneaking Into Bilde ...
    TheLocal.ch June 10th, 2011 Italian MEP Mario Borghezio was reportedly given a bloody nose on Thursday as he attempted to sneak into the secretive Bilderberg conference in St. Moritz. Borghezio, of right-wing Italian party Lega Nord, was reportedly with another Italian as he attempted to infiltr ...

FRS

  • “Is Your Community Under Government Atta ...
    “Know Your Rights When the FBI Knocks”   In this presentation, Zahra Billoo of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (San Francisco Bay Area) discusses the government targeting of Arab and Muslim communities in the US. This targeting continues a long history of many state-targetted communit ...
  • Statement exposing and opposing the World Econ ...
    [On the event of the meeting of the World Economic Forum in Austria, a number of European anti-imperialist and revolutionary organizations have released this joint statement, analyzing the present world economic crisis, the role of the WEF, and the growing revolutionary struggles against the imp ...
  • Indian Maoists on the Deployment of Army Troop ...
    [The recent announcement that the Indian Army is deploying troops, ostensibly for "training," into indigenous areas deemed "rebel" or "extremist" has drawn much attention and growing opposition from various sectors. (see the prior news report at http://revolutionaryfrontlines.wordpress.com/2011/ ...
  • India, The Telegraph: “Red terror hits L ...
    The Telegraph, Calcutta, India AMIT GUPTA, Sunday , June 5 , 2011   Ranchi, June 4: Mining, dispatch and transportation of bauxite from Pakhar mines in the Naxalite-hit Kisko police station area of Lohardaga district have come to a grinding halt since Wednesday evening after a group of rebels to ...
  • Revolutionary Front for the Defense of the Peo ...
    [This is an updated translation of an important analysis of the war in Libya, from the Revolutionary Front for the Defense of People's Rights of Brazil. -- Frontlines ed.] ——————————– Down with the imperialist aggression against Libya! Long live the war of resistance of the people of the world! ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Announcing the Gaza to Ireland Youth Exchange
    am beyond excited to announce that we are formalising a partnership that will ensure one of my fondest goals shall be achieved, that of a youth exchange between the children of Gaza and those of Europe. I am even more excited because we are focusing on the youth of Gaza as well as Belfast and F ...
  • One for the Women
    It is said that behind every great man you will find a great woman. I do not look at myself as a great man per se, but I do see the greatness of the women in my life, and if I do indeed succeed in my ultimate goals, you can thank these women every bit as much as me. They have played the essent ...
  • Samouni Inter-Trade Palestine, Trade Not Aid
    Our Mission Samouni Inter-Trade Palestine (SIP) is a social enterprise international trade mission. We endeavour to catalyse the end of Gaza’s charitable dependency through import and export trade. We do not seek simply to alleviate the suffering of the people in Gaza. Our ultimate objective i ...
  • Slander vs. Sanity
    Lesson number one, the actual agents who direct slander campaigns, those working for MI6, CIA, Mossad and other so-called “intelligence” agencies, they and their tactics are rendered useless without the presence of the most important element for successful subversion, and that would be… the idio ...
  • NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE
    On Thursday April 21st we shall make a human chain with the children of Gaza to spell out NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE so as to tell the world that Israel’s bombings of Gaza must stop. We intend to remind the world how the children of Palestine are terrorized and murdered by Israeli air power [...]

StillSmallVoice

  • Seen at the Carterville, Mo., cemetery
    And happy Saturday!
  • A woman's health is not a loophole
    Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum believes that a health exception for abortions�-- abortions allowed when a�mother's health is threatened -- is "phony." And thanks, Cliff, for the link.
  • Christians and creationism
    Or: Is Accepting Evolution 'Optional' for Christians? Karl Giberson writes at Huffington Post: It is correct that a small percentage of credentialed scholars reject evolution. But this is true in every field. A small percentage of climatologists reject global warming; a few historians think t ...
  • Must we kill the Fairness Doctrine?
    And isn't it already dead? So shouldn't Rush Limbaugh calm down about it? For more on the Fairness Doctrine, go here. Getty photo
  • Do you use Roundup weedkiller?
    You might want to think twice about that. Monsanto's wildly popular product contains glyphosate, which is known to cause endocrine disruption, damage to DNA, reproductive and developmental toxicity, neurotoxicity, and cancer, as well as birth defects �-- and this is something that's been known ...

Associated Content

  • When Juggalos Attack: What MC Hammer Should Kn ...
    Last year, Tila Tequila was the victim of violent protest at the annual Gathering Of The Juggalos. This year, MC Hammer has agreed to perform. I discuss what happened last year, and other instances when "Juggalos attacked."Contributor: Josh Tuper Published: Jun 09, 2011
  • The Best News at E3: Microsoft to Provide Live ...
    The ability to integrate all of our media into one machine is still a pipe-dream at this point. However, Mircosoft's announcement to provide live television service on XBox 360 is a step toward making this a reality.Contributor: Michael C. Jones Published: Jun 09, 2011
  • The Top Three Bands to See at Bonnaroo in 2011
    You have three tickets, and only three tickets, to the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tenn., this year. Who do you spend your hard-earned money on?Contributor: Victor Filoromo Published: Jun 09, 2011
  • Loss of Staff Only Exacerbates Weaknesses of G ...
    Almost the entire campaign staff for Newt Gingrich resigned Thursday. As of this writing, the reason is not readily apparent, but, considering the somewhat erratic behavior of the former speaker as a candidate so far, it can be guessed at.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Jun 09, 2011
  • Factbox: New 'Today' Anchor Ann Curry
    Here are some facts about the new anchor for the "Today" show.Contributor: Kristin Watt Published: Jun 09, 2011

Popsci - Science

  • This Week In The Future, June 6-10, 2011
    Any aquatic travelers lucky enough to stumble upon the world's first amphibious ice cream truck in this week's image would find it well stocked with not just frozen treats, but diamonds and super-heavy newly-official elements as well. Just the thing to beat the summer heat. You can win this i ...
  • Tevatron Did Not See A New Particle After All, ...
    America’s grand particle smasher may not go out with a bang after all. A bump in data at the Tevatron, reported earlier this spring, turns out to be a false alarm — not a new particle or a new force of nature. Physicists at Fermilab say they looked at 200 trillion particle collisions and did n ...
  • Japan Pledges to Save the World With Hawaiian ...
    At Japan's Environment Ministry offices, the employees conform to a new energy-saving dress code known as Super Cool Biz (what, you have a better name?). Super Cool Biz (which I will refer to by its full name as often as possible, for obvious reasons) is an effort to tamp down Japan's skyrocket ...
  • Approaching Solar System's Edge, Voyager Probe ...
    A frothy moat, not a shield, protects us from cosmic rays For decades, scientists have believed there to be a fairly well-defined boundary at the edges of our solar system, a region where the sun appears only slightly brighter than the rest of the spangled heavens. But as they sail through the ...
  • Google Earth Goes Under the Sea
    Google Earth broke new ground (new water?) when they took the world of virtual-earth-exploring into the oceans. Of course, the oceans are kind of big. They fill up nearly three-quarters of the earth's surface area, and most of that area hasn't been mapped out. But now you can tour roughly half ...

Veterans Today

  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – June ...
    The PTSD Coach smart-phone application (app), jointly launched in April by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense has already helped more than 5,000 users connect with important mental health information and resources.
  • Nuclear Power should have…. Why didn’t I ...
    Nuclear technology is the most practical solution to the gluttonous need we have for electric power; no two ways about it. Despite the credit-monopoly scamming that has mucked it up for 50 years there is a saving grace for the people, not that we deserve it.
  • Palestinian Divisions on Statehood
    Senior Palestinian Authority (PA) officials are "sharply divided over the unilateral move to seek" UN General Assembly recognition in September. Abbas wants it. Others don't "because they believe (it) could do more harm than good to their cause," hurting Israel perhaps but not helping themselves.
  • What the American Public Shouldn’t Know
    The American people are deprived of listening to the propaganda of Radio Farda and VOA; however, it is vital for them to know that their government does not really represent a "beacon of freedom"
  • The Obama Doctrine: Lawless Imperial Aggression
    Wikipedia says US presidential doctrines state "key goals, attitudes, or stances for United States foreign affairs."

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Flaming June could end up a washout
    June's weather looks set to deteriorate further as low pressure intensifies its grip across the UK. The timing couldn't be more awkward for the Environment Agency who this morning issued a drought order for parts of Eastern England. Only hours later, the Met Office issued yellow warnings in ...
  • Global temperature update for May
    The global temperature according to the UAH satellite measure was +0.13C above the 30 year running mean in May, showing virtually no change from April's anomaly. Global temperatures are slowly recovering as La Nina fades in the Pacific, but remain much cooler compared with May last year, ...
  • A truly memorable Spring
    Provisional figures released by the Met Office show that Spring 2011 (March 1st to May 31st inclusive) with a mean temperature 10.2C was the equal warmest in the Central England Temperature series which dates back to 1659. Only Spring 1893 was as warm as Spring 2011. Spring 2007 with a mean te ...
  • Is summer 2011 set to be a scorcher?
    There's been almost a frenzy of tabloid stories in the last few weeks about this summer. Many will recall how summer was supposed to begin last weekend with a heatwave that would lead to temperatures averaging 29C for a fortnight! So the tabloids and some private weather companies (I will ...
  • Possible disruption: Severe Gales & Volcanic ash
    SEVERE GALES An unusually deep area of low pressure for the time of year is battering parts of Northern Britain at the moment. The highest gust recorded so far is 90mph at Belmullet in Northern Ireland. The Met office have yellow and Amber warnings in force until midnight tonight, shown below ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • On Hillary Clinton Angling to be World Bank Chief
    You've probably seen the headline that Hillary Clinton is agitating to become the White House's pick to succeed Bush-era appointee (and former USTR) Robert Zoellick as the World Bank president when his term runs out next year. While it's the rumour of the day (evening?), consider: I'd believe it ...
  • Georgia, Still Russia's Roadblock to Joining WTO
    I just wanted to add this update to my ever-growing collection of posts pertaining to Russia joining the WTO [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]. The gist of it is that Georgia remains the main obstacle to Russia joining the international trade body. Given Georgia's outright conflict and cont ...
  • The Inevitable National Sales Tax in America
    With more and more American retail spending happening online and not in bricks and mortar outlets, a previous cash cow of American towns has gone the way of, well, many retail chains. Montgomery Ward, Circuit City...the list of outlets that have found their way to the Great Mall in the Sky is lo ...
  • Christine Lagarde Answers Your Questions
    OK, let me get this out of the way: I hold French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde in high regard, but chafe at the notion of her becoming the next IMF managing director. Do we need another European head when international financial institutions are striving to be in touch with the times when ...
  • Junk Treasuries: Time for US 'Technical Default'
    In three simple points, let me explain the concept of subprime globalization before moving on to the enticing prospect of American securities being junked in 2011: 1. Free money policies have done America next to no good; 2. These free money policies are ultimately costly in adding to the burde ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Stock Prices Have Fallen For Six Weeks In A Row
    Well, it's official.  U.S. stock prices have fallen for six weeks in a row.  So will next week make it seven?  The last time stocks declined for seven weeks in a row was back in May 2001 when the "dot-com" bubble was bursting.  At this point, the Dow has declined by approximatel ...
  • 12 More Signs That Society Is Collapsing
    What we are now witnessing is the slow motion unraveling of America.  Our economy is dying, the American people have lost faith in the government and in almost all of our other major institutions, and our society is collapsing.  Most Americans don't understand why all of this is ...
  • 18 Signs The Collapse Of Society Is Accelerating
    As the U.S. economy collapses, the thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted is going to begin to disappear.  In fact, there are already an increasing number of signs that the collapse of society is accelerating.  In cities such as Chicago, roving packs of young p ...
  • 10 Tipping Points Which Could Potentially Plun ...
    The global economy has become so incredibly unstable at this point that it is not going to take much to plunge the world into a horrific economic nightmare.  The foundations of the world economic system are so decayed and so corrupted that even a stiff breeze could potentially t ...
  • Will The Banksters And The Corpocracy Eventual ...
    Today, average Americans have less power relative to the monolithic corporate and governmental institutions that dominate our society than at any other point in U.S. history.  Sadly, this is not what our founding fathers ever envisioned.  Our founding fathers established a gover ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U 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 [...]

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • 2011-06-10 Józef Pinior: there were regulation ...
    TweetPoland is under increasing pressure to investigate fully whether the CIA operated secret torture and detention facilities in Stare Kiejkuty. As Peter Kemp predicted, the European Parliament has now intervened. In a resolution from the eighth of June it says that it: "5. Reiterates its call ...
  • 2011-06-10 Józef Pinior: there were regulation ...
    TweetPoland is under increasing pressure to investigate fully whether the CIA operated secret torture and detention facilities in Stare Kiejkuty. As Peter Kemp predicted, the European Parliament has now intervened. In a resolution from the eighth of June it says that it: "5. Reiterates its call ...
  • 2011-06-10 A Conversation with @WLLegal on Gra ...
    Tweet The past twenty four hours saw some big stories related to WikiLeaks break. -The Grand Jury investigation into WikiLeaks widened as news subpoenas were issued to individuals like David House, co-founder of the Bradley Manning Support Network. -The US government's case against Thomas Drake ...
  • 2011-06-09 Police attack protesters in #Valenc ...
    TweetToday at 13.30 hours the Spanish national police attacked protesters who had been occupying the steps of parliament since last night. This comes after the official page for the camp in Valencia called for a protest before the Corts Valencianes, the main legislative organ of the Comunitat Va ...
  • 2011-06-09 New Subpoenas Issued in WikiLeaks G ...
    TweetThe grand jury investigation into WikiLeaks has widened. A subpoena has been issued to David House, co-founder of the Bradley Manning Support Network. Manning’s ex-boyfriend, Tyler Watkins, who recently appeared in PBS Frontline’s “WikiSecrets” documentary, and Nadia Heninger, who has done ...

U N News

  • Death toll from floods in Haiti rises to 23 - UN
    Floods caused by heavy rainfall and mudslides in Haiti claimed the lives of 23 people and damaged 470 homes earlier this week, the United Nations humanitarian office reported today, citing information provided by the country's authorities.
  • Senior UN official commends Mexican human righ ...
    A top United Nations official has lauded Mexico's enactment of constitutional changes on human rights as a positive reform that will pave the way for greater protection of internationally recognized rights in that country.
  • Track star and UN advocate Carl Lewis to visit ...
    Nine-time Olympic gold medallist and United Nations advocate Carl Lewis will embark tomorrow on a visit to the Dominican Republic and Haiti to meet with national leaders and visit forestry and agricultural projects.
  • UN chief to embark on four-nation Latin Americ ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will depart New York on Friday for a week-long trip that will take the United Nations chief to Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil, the world body announced today.
  • UN agency hails Panama's decision to join trea ...
    The United Nations refugee agency today hailed Panama's recent decision to accede to two major international treaties on statelessness, a problem which affects up to 12 million people worldwide.

Conspiracy Reality TV

Rewilding Institute

  • Trekking for Rewilding – Exploring Strands of ...
    Text and photos by John Davis Wildlands Network/TrekEast Dave Foreman summarized brilliantly in his latest Around the Campfire why we need an Eastern Wildway and what basic steps need to be taken to achieve it.  As a Rewilding Fellow, and co-founder of the Wildlands Project with Dave and other s ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Rewildin ...
    Part One For nigh onto fifteen years, I’ve been talking and writing about a North American Wildlands Network anchored by four Continental Wildways (at first named MegaLinkages).  The North American Wildlands Network is rooted in the conservation pathway of Rewilding, an offshoot of the scientifi ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Rewildin ...
    Part One For nigh onto fifteen years, I’ve been talking and writing about a North American Wildlands Network anchored by four Continental Wildways (at first named MegaLinkages).  The North American Wildlands Network is rooted in the conservation pathway of Rewilding, an offshoot of the scientifi ...
  • Record Big Game Die-offs in Northern Rockies
    Winter die-offs are always characteristic of ungulate populations that have exceeded natural carrying capacity, usually because of management efforts to increase numbers for the benefit of hunters. In areas where wolves and other large predators are well established, ungulates seldom perish from ...
  • Record Big Game Die-offs in Northern Rockies
    Winter die-offs are always characteristic of ungulate populations that have exceeded natural carrying capacity, usually because of management efforts to increase numbers for the benefit of hunters. In areas where wolves and other large predators are well established, ungulates seldom perish from ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

Tatumba 2.0

  • Registered vs Eligible Silver Explained
    The difference between registered vs eligible silver is explained in this video. Listen up and learn: See today’s video: http://www.lind-waldock.com/market_insights/metals_futures.shtml Lind-Waldock Strategist Jim Comiskey discusses the metals futures markets. Jim shows his viewers how to exactl ...
  • Bilderberg 2011 Attendees List Leaked
    The 2011 Attendees of Bilderberg has been leaked. It took alternative media to expose this because the Mainstream Media said that Bilderberg only existed in the minds of loons and conspiracy theorists. For a  who’s who of traitors to your country: USA Alexander, Keith B., Commander, USCYBERCOM; ...
  • Yes Teacher – The New Math – Open Source Energ ...
    With all of the doom and gloom, conflict, and an apparent drift towards global collapse, one needs to rejoice when researchers bring something new to the forefront. Having taught math in my past, I always cringed when someone would say that kids are not learning when exposed “to the new math”. I ...
  • Would you like a piece of Pi?
    Would you like a piece of Pi? Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels No related posts. No related posts.
  • Illuminati Reveals Global Agenda to Graduating ...
    I have heard Bob Chapman say many times that the Illuminati have a compelling obsession to tell the masses of their intentions. This is an example of one of these scumbags revealing their agenda. This is James Wolfensohn, former President of the World Bank, addressing graduate students at Stanfo ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • IGN Entertainment: Where the Boys Are
    The Web outfit has drawn a huge, male-dominated following and has an IPO in the works. But will a big Net player come calling?

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Former PM now honorary Palestinian
    KÃ¥re Willoch, the former Norwegian prime minister for the Conservative Party who once considered the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat a terrorist, laid a wreath on Arafat’s grave this week and accepted a Palestinian passport from current President Mahmoud Abbas. Willoch, now an elder state ...
  • Former PM now honorary Palestinian
    KÃ¥re Willoch, the former Norwegian prime minister for the Conservative Party who once considered the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat a terrorist, laid a wreath on Arafat’s grave this week and accepted a Palestinian passport from current President Mahmoud Abbas. Willoch, now an elder state ...
  • Treholt vows to take case further
    Convicted Cold War spy Arne Treholt has told the Norwegian media that he is considering a number of options for having his case re-opened, after Norway’s Criminal Cases Review Commission rejected his application to have the near 30-year-old conviction taken up again in court. Meanwhile, bitter r ...
  • Treholt vows to take case further
    Convicted Cold War spy Arne Treholt has told the Norwegian media that he is considering a number of options for having his case re-opened, after Norway’s Criminal Cases Review Commission rejected his application to have the near 30-year-old conviction taken up again in court. Meanwhile, bitter r ...
  • World’s biggest Ikea may open in Oslo
    Norwegians shop so much at the giant Swedish home furnishings chain Ikea that Ikea officials are considering tripling the size of their already large store at Furuset on Oslo’s east side. That would make it the largest Ikea store in the world. Ikea (pronounced “ee-KAY-ah” in Scandinavia) has bee ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Planetary Permaculture Pilgrimage
    A once in a lifetime opportunity to do advanced study with many of the greatest teachers of permaculture. Join a group of advanced students and teachers to pilgrimage to Australia to learn from the grandmothers and grandfathers of permaculture. Whether you are a new permaculture designer or al ...
  • Why Societies Fail and a Lesson from the Game ...
    They say if we don’t study history, we’re destined to repeat it. Many of you will be familiar with Jared Diamond and his work. Author of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Mr. Diamond has put a lot of energy into studying various cultures that have come, and, significantly, gone ...
  • The Driest Inhabited Continent on Earth is Als ...
    While the Murray-Darling Basin Authority apparently struggles to find even a paltry 7,600 gigalitres of water in its increasingly compromised attempt to restore the nation’s most vital and productive river system, a new report reveals Australia to be the world’s largest nett exporter of virtual ...
  • Planning Our Organic Market Garden
    I never thought we would get excited about, let along plan to do, the whole market garden thing. But while I’m all for no-dig polycultures like our domestic-scale kitchen garden, I’m also a pragmatist. These days, we need more vegetables than we currently produce, especially from Spring throu ...
  • Milkwood Farm: Spring 2011 Internships Applica ...
    Want to come and get your hands dirty while skilling-up for a future in permaculture and regenerative agriculture? A Milkwood Farm internship might be just the ticket! Digg this! Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Shar ...

Telecrap Urinal

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

Anna's News

  • Hackers warn NHS over security
    A notorious hacker group has warned the NHS that its computer networks are vulnerable to cyber attack.Lulz Security, which claims to have been behind a recent hack on Sony, sent an email to NHS administrators revealing it had found a way to breach the....Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech ...
  • Fund vaccines for poorest children, pleads charity
    Save the Children is urging David Cameron and other world leaders to help fund the £2.3 billion cost of immunising the world's poorest children over the next four years.The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) would use the money to.......Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Welln ...
  • Historic First Images of Rod Photoreceptors in ...
    Scientists have just reported that the tiny light-sensing cells known as rods have been clearly and directly imaged in the living eye for the first time. Using adaptive optics (AO), the same technology astronomers use to study distant stars and galaxies, Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech ...
  • A Tribute to MF Husain - The Painting Legend
    Maqbool Fida Husain (MF Husain) passed away on Thursday in London at the age of 95. He is also known as 'Picasso of India'. India and world pay rich tributes to the painting legend MF Husain. His demise is a big loss to the nation and world. Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • Millionaire dog dies at age 12
    A millionaire heiress died at age 12 in December, and the world is just finding out now.Don't feel too bad, though. Trouble Helmsley, perhaps the world's most pampered pet, was 84 in dog years when she succumbed to illness and died, according to the......Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� � ...

Medical Marijuana

  • 6/8/11 - John Edwards' 2007 statement on wheth ...
    2008election.procon.org - John Edwards' 2007 statement on whether infidelity should disqualify a candidate for public office. We found this quote for our 2008 presidential election website and, although the site has been archived, we wanted our readers to be able to read what John Edwards told K ...
  • 6/7/11 - 20 highest and lowest radiation cell ...
    cellphones.procon.org - UPDATED: 20 highest and lowest radiation cell phones in the US - All cell phones emit radiofrequency radiation, but not all phones emit the same amount. The FCC has set the limit (standard absorption rate: SAR) for cell phone radiation at a maximum of 1.6 watts. Our upd ...
  • 6/6/11 - International Guide to Minimum Legal ...
    drinkingage.procon.org - NEW: International Guide to Minimum Legal Drinking Ages (MLDAs) in 138 Countries - The United States along with five other countries (Fiji, Indonesia, Micronesia, Palau, and Sri Lanka) have an MLDA of 21 - the highest of any country where alcohol is legal. In Brunei, Ga ...
  • 6/3/11 - Did Jack Kevorkian ethically serve th ...
    euthanasia.procon.org - Dr. Jack Kevorkian dead at age 83. In light of his passing today, ProCon.org presents two questions about the man who polarized millions around the issues of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in the United States.
  • 6/3/11 - Who was Dr. Jack Kevorkian?
    euthanasia.procon.org - Dr. Jack Kevorkian dead at age 83. In light of his passing today, ProCon.org presents two questions about the man who polarized millions around the issues of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in the United States.

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • The politics of authenticity
    by W.W. | IOWA CITY JOSHUA KNOBE, a pioneer in the field of "experimental philosophy" at Yale, has contributed a fascinating piece to the New York Times‘ online philosophy forum on the intuitions of ordinary folk about what constitutes the "true self". Mr Knobe takes up the illustrative example ...
  • Evolution: Darwin’s city
    David Sloan Wilson is using the lens of evolution to understand life in the struggling city of Binghamton, New York. Next, he wants to improve it. Emma Marris Download a PDF of this article David Sloan Wilson is holding a white ceramic dog dish and making the rounds at the Lost Dog Café in Bing ...
  • A Portrait of India
    Isaac Chotiner VISITING NEW DELHI and Calcutta not long after the smashing international success of Slumdog Millionaire, I was surprised by the number of Indians who wanted to hear my opinion of Danny Boyleâs film. This was a nice inversion of the clichéd travelerâs narrative, wherein the visit ...
  • The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
    HENRY PETROSKI In Goethe’s 1797 poem "The Sorcerer’s Apprentice"âand in countless later versions of the story, including the famous sequence in Disney’s "Fantasia" in 1940âdisaster results when a young man, taking advantage of his wizardly master’s absence, uses sorcery to lighten his chores. Th ...
  • How nicotine works as an appetite suppressant
    Yun Xie Smoking has been associated with weight loss for centuries. In the modern world, advertisements and other aspects of popular culture often link slimness with cigarettes. Scientific research generally supports this link as well; researchers have found that smokers have a lower body mass i ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

  • My Fellow Canadian and American Friends
    "It should be quite obvious to you by now that the national sovereignty of Canada and the United States is under threat. We as Canadians and you as Americans both have something equal to lose."
  • Canadian Government Extends Deadline For Publi ...
    The Canadian government has decided to extend the deadline for public input into the Harper governments "common security perimeter agenda" until June 3rd 2011
  • Canadian Government Extends Deadline For Publi ...
    The Canadian government has decided to extend the deadline for public input into the Harper governments "common security perimeter agenda" until June 3rd 2011
  • You’re Losing National Sovereignty- How Transp ...
    "As a matter of principle, we are currently fighting to make sure that Canadians are allowed to know what's being negotiated. We further believe that this deal needs to be reviewed by Parliament and we will fight to make sure that this happens."- Jack Layton
  • You’re Losing National Sovereignty- How Transp ...
    "As a matter of principle, we are currently fighting to make sure that Canadians are allowed to know what's being negotiated. We further believe that this deal needs to be reviewed by Parliament and we will fight to make sure that this happens."- Jack Layton

Gaea Times

  • PCB boss Butt was forced to choose reforms to ...
    LAHORE - The prospect of expelling Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Ijaz Butt as an International Cricket Council (ICC) Director was reportedly raised at the ICC board meeting in Dubai last week. Well-placed observers believe that Butt was compelled to accept a series of ... R ...
  • Shoaib Malik named Pak captain for Hong Kong S ...
    LAHORE - Pakistan all-rounder Shoaib Malik will lead the country’s challenge in next month’s Super Sixes in Hong Kong. Malik will lead a seven-member second-string Pakistan team for the Hong Kong event that will be held on November 6 and 7. “We have selected Malik to lead the team for the ...
  • ?Arsenal is better side than Barcelona?
    LONDON - Arsenal is a better side than Barcelona at the moment, according to Shakhtar Donetsk defender Darijo Srna. The Ukrainian club plays Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium in a Champions League game between the two sides. Shakhtar Donetsk reached London last night, The Sun reports. Shak ...
  • Strauss defends England boot camp despite Ande ...
    LONDON - England captain Andrew Strauss has defended the team’s five day boot camp in Germany, even though it might have wrecked fast bowler James Anderson’s Ashes dreams. The England and Wales Cricket Board was well aware about the risks. So they timed the .... Source  : Strauss d ...
  • Pakistan?s overreach thwarted July 15 talks: India
    NEW DELHI - India Tuesday blamed Pakistan’s overreach for the failure of their foreign minister-level talks in July and underlined that New Delhi’s incremental and graduated approach to address the trust deficit was not directed at avoiding sensitive issues. “Our efforts to bridge the trust d ...

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

  • Slideshow: NYC World Oceans Day Clean-up
    How did you celebrate World Oceans Day? Oceana headed straight to the river. Teaming up with Nautica, we braved the heat and skimmed trash out of the Hudson River in an effort to protect both the river’s natural beauty and the health of its marine life. What did we find? Fewer cigarette butts ...
  • Seafood Fraud on the CBS Early Show
    Today’s CBS Early Show featured a segment about seafood fraud, and they spoke with Oceana marine scientist Margot Stiles, one of the authors of our new “Bait and Switch” report. They even went on a field trip to the Washington, DC fish market, check it out:
  • How to Be an Ocean Hero this Summer
    © zeroXTE.com It's World Oceans Day, so what better time to take a moment to think about doing your part to help protect our water planet? Don’t worry, you don’t have to be a Peter Wallerstein or a Sophi Bromenshenkel to be an everyday ocean hero. This summer, we’re asking everyone to take ...
  • Announcing the 2011 Ocean Heroes
    Peter Wallerstein (left) releases a sea lion back into the wild. Happy World Oceans Day, everyone! Whether you’re on the coast today or not, we hope you pause to recognize the beauty and bounty of the oceans. Starting today, we're asking all of you to take a pledge to protect the world's o ...
  • Gulf Shrimpers to Blame for Record-High Sea Tu ...
    A loggerhead sea turtle hatchling in North Carolina. � Oceana/Cory Wilson Sea turtles have had a rough year. In 2010, more than 600 sea turtles were found either dead or injured on Gulf of Mexico shores, and 563 have already washed up just halfway into 2011. This sudden spike in sea turtl ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Robert Gate’s Wake-Up Call.
    "The blunt reality is that there will be dwindling appetite and patience in the U.S. Congress — and in the American body politic writ large — to expend increasingly precious funds on behalf of nations that are apparently unwilling to devote the necessary resources or make the necessary changes t ...
  • Sheriff’s Audio Recording Of 1981 UFO
    Click here to view the [...]
  • Friend Of Mine Found This Film His Dad Made Of ...
    Click here to view the embedded video. � 65 Years Ago my Dad shot this film along Kalakaua Ave. in Waikiki capturing spontaneous celebrations that broke out upon first hearing news of the Japanese surrender. Kodachrome 16mm film: God Bless Kodachrome, right? I was able to find an outfit (mymovie ...
  • Fighting On Two Fronts, The Wehrmacht Knew The ...
    Red Army Officers In Poland By the end of 1942, Hitler commanded an Empire that stretched East to West from the Pyrenees to the Ural Mountains. In two years time Germany was on the verge of defeat. Eisenhower realized that Germany was terribly attenuated and a second front in Normandy had put th ...
  • It’s Steven Segall Day. Here’s Som ...
    Click here to view the [...]

Taylor Marsh

  • Republicans Wake Up to Romney
    Suddenly, the election theme has changed. The Republican line in 2010 was: He’s a leftist. Now it is: He’s a failure. The issue is shifting from ideology to stewardship. As in 1992, it’s the economy, with everything else a distant second. The economic numbers explain why Obama’s job approval has ...
  • Panetta in Pakistan
    Coming after his confirmation hearings for SecDef, Leon Panetta arrives in Pakistan: CIA director Leon Panetta arrived here Friday on an unannounced visit that marked his first trip to Pakistan since al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed in a Navy SEAL raid more than a month ago, U.S. and P ...
  • National Enquirer Claims New Scoop on Edwards Saga
    From the tabloid that broke the story to begin with, which vaulted them into We Can’t Afford To Ignore What They Print Anymore territory: âIt was Elizabethâs idea to secret­ly record a video and tell what knew of the affair and Johnâs horrific betrayal.â [...] âIt was then â without Cateâs know ...
  • Karl Rove & Republicans Take Hit Out on Debbie ...
    … Wasserman Schultz is kind of an easy target. Any âaggressive messengerâ is. Extreme and shrill is always far easier to spoof than subtle and nuanced. – Hot Air …and the D.C. political class is sucking it up. Democrats are freaked that Karl Rove is leading the Right, The Hill and other Republic ...
  • Get Yer Palin Propaganda Before the Emails Drop
    Keeping her fans hopes alive and her options open. …at least until the 24,000 emails drop later today. From the New York Times: Even as Ms. Palin orchestrates much of her messaging through digital media â one moment she tweaks President Obama via Twitter, then she elaborates on Facebook, all fro ...

Hudson New York

  • A Ladder for the PA, Please?
    The Palestinian Authority is searching for a ladder to climb down the high tree it climbed up regarding its intention to ask the UN in September to recognize a Palestinian state along the pre-1967 lines. Already this week there were signs that the
  • Bolivia Welcomes Wanted Iranian Defense Minister
    On May 30, Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi, paying a visit to Bolivia as part of an official trip, was warmly welcomed by Bolivian President Evo Morales; Morales and Vahidi attended a military celebration together that aired on the country's
  • The Nation's Economic Future
    For most of the last few months the Obama administration has maintained a "recovery" is underway. Seizing on a modest reduction in the unemployment rate, the president has waxed lyrical about the upswing in the nation's economy. But the most recent
  • Turkey Calls for 'Peaceful Transition,' Readie ...
    Turkey will not close its doors to Syrians fleeing unrest in their country, said Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday, after a group of approximately169 Syrians fled the border town of Jisr al-Shughour overnight, and fearing bloodshed
  • Anti-Semitism on the Rise in Germany
    A highly-anticipated new report, "Anti-Semites as a Coalition Partner," which examines the increasing anti-Israel activism of politicians belonging to the German Left Party (Die Linke), has sparked a debate over the rise of anti-Semitism disguised as

Urban Survival

  • One More Leg Down?
    Judging by the price of gold this morning (down) and the value of the US dollar (inverse moving, so it’s up, at least early on) we seem now to be finishing a short (4) after which, the Dow could (should?) … Continue reading →
  • Coping: here Comes DSL – Maybe
    One of the few disadvantages of living out here at the “end of the string” in East Taxus (sic) is that we haven’t been able to get DSL internet service since day one.  The whole misadventure started off when I … Continue reading →
  • A Global Crash Libretto
    With more than half the country thinking we’re heading into a Second Depression (we likely are…) I assume you would like an update to your libretto as to exactly when that might be?  Librettos being, of course, the little ‘cheat-sheet’ … Continue reading →
  • Coping: The Never-ending Climate Debate
    One of the remaining Global Warming believers sent me a note yesterday questioning my ancestry and character for not mentioning the recent heat wave up north and generally labeling me as a climate denier. Well, no.  Climate is always getting … Continue reading →
  • 12,000 to Fail: Social Trauma Ahead?
    Remember yesterday when I told you the Consumer Debt figures would be out from the Fed and my outlook for Tuesday’s session was “Rally this morning and we’ll talk tomorrow…“?    My comments on the lack of consumer pull-through as … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

  • MIND CONTROL 66: The Test
    Still on the issue of what type of people we are…… lets look at a different scenario with Jesus. Luke 19:11-28 11 While they were listening to this, he went on to tell them a parable, because he was near Jerusalem and the people thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear at [...]
  • DO GOVERNMENTS SECRETLY KILL WITH THE WEATHER ...
    It started off like one of those hypothetical questions you ask yourself when you are feeling in a particularly imaginative mood. You know what i mean. Lying down and wondering what it would be like to have super powers, or waiting for a bus and wishing you could hold back a storm that you can [...]
  • MIND CONTROL 65: He Who Has Ears, Let Him Hear
    In an effort to open our eyes……. It is important for us to take a look at more of the parables that Jesus spoke. Christians believe that the reason why Jesus spoke in parables was because he did not want anyone to understand. This is completely untrue. Jesus spoke in parables “precisely because ...
  • ARE WE THE AUTHORS OF OUR OWN THOUGHTS AND ACT ...
    In his recent book, “Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values”, Neuroscientist, Sam Harris discusses how science can provide the basis for morality. This piece is not a review of Harris’ diatribe on organized religion and his lengthy thesis on the science of morality. My focus her ...
  • MIND CONTROL 64: Pastoral Hypocrisy
    Take a look at this scenario: Matt 20:30-34 30 Two blind men were sitting by the roadside, and when they heard that Jesus was going by, they shouted, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!” 31 The crowd rebuked them and told them to be quiet, but they shouted all the louder, “Lord, Son [...]

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

  • Far from the clinic, Tufts virologists hear fr ...
    Researchers in John Coffin's Boston lab thought the 2009 study linking Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) with an unusual virus looked solid. But, when it wasn't replicated by other scientists, Coffin, a Tuft Medical School professor and grad student Oya Cingöz went looking for an answ ...
  • Pfizer looks to Boston academics to fill its p ...
    The Globe reports today that Pfizer is going to set up a small drug development shop in collaboration with basically every teaching hospital on Boston. As the story points out, universities often complain that they don't have the resources to turn promising discoveries into potential product ...
  • UMass prof takes the heat for global warming s ...
    We thought this story was about tonight's hockey game. The Globe op-ed page features a column on Raymond Bradley. The UMass climatologist is co-author of a graph known as "the hockey stick," which shows of the temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere shot up in the 20th century after 100 years ...
  • Supreme Court sides w/ prof, nixes university ...
    Memo to university tech transfer offices: Review contracts From The Washington Post: Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said that a 1980 federal statute allocating patent rights involving federally funded research did not change that basic tenet. And so Stanford University does not fully ow ...
  • Boston science events this week: Stem cells, c ...
    The college students are gone, the arboretum is in bloom and the museums are open late, Check out our new Google calendar for details on the consumer genetics meeting and other events.

NRDC Switchboard

  • H.R. 1837 Offers No Solutions for California's ...
    Barry Nelson, Senior Policy Analyst, Water Program, San Francisco Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the June 2 House Subcommittee hearing on Congressman Nunes’ H.R. 1837 was the lack of focus on solutions.  California faces real water challeng ...
  • Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile On June 4th the Puyehue Volcano erupted in an Andean volcano chain, prompting the evacuation of 3500 people from nearby villages.  The eruption was preceded by a series of earthquakes, ...
  • Hey California! Millions of Sharks Need Your ...
    Leila Monroe, Staff Attorney, Oceans Program, San Francisco Sharks are in serious trouble as a result of the international shark fin trade, with some populations declined by 99%.  Why should you care?  Because sharks are amazing creatures – they a ...
  • NRDC in the News 6/10: Radiation exposure, dr ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide The Wall Street Journal cited a NRDC report regarding health concerns from increased radiation exposure that may arise as a result of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident… In an Associated Press  ...
  • Despite Industry Pressure, Government Cancer R ...
    Jennifer Sass, Senior Scientist, Washington, D.C. Today the government released its 12th Report on Carcinogens (RoC) - naming styrene and formaldehyde as among the chemicals that are known (formaldehyde) or reasonably anticipated (styrene) to caus ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 18 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, June 10, 2011: 4 Montreal QC cops investigated for shooting incident that left bystander & man cutting garbage bags w/knife dead [3] http://bit.ly/mK08sB New Westminster BC cop gets ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 20 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, June 9, 2011: Baltimore MD cop convicted of manslaughter for fatally shooting a veteran 12x outside of a bar while drunk because he grabbed the butt of a woman he was there with. [ ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 18 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, June 8, 2011: US Dept of Education SWAT team conducts wrong door raid on man’s home in search of student loan debtor [4] http://bit.ly/mUhj3X Los Angeles CA police sued by couple ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 19 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, June 7, 2011: Washington DC Metro cops investigated after video shows at least 2 cops repeatedly punching man on ground [0] http://bit.ly/mxDKFf Albuquerque NM police ordered to pay ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    After a good start with about five questions asked yesterday and one today, I had to shut down our Ask A Cop program due to some technical difficulties. So that feature is disabled until I have time to figure out what the problem is. Thank you for your patience. Here are the 13 reports [...]

Total Collapse

  • China Wants To Construct A 50 Square Mile Self ...
    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 [...] ...
  • US destroyer sent to South China Sea
    Philstar – One of the most formidable warships in the United States Navy has been deployed in the South China Sea and Sulu Sea for âfreedom of navigation operations,â reports said. Yahoo Online News said that USS Chung-Hoon, a guided-missile destroyer, has been sent on an independent deployment ...
  • Missile Defense: Moscow threatens military res ...
    Moscow (dpa) – The dispute over a NATO missile defense system in Central Europe, Russia has threatened a military response in case of failure of the talks. “If we are not NATO guarantees that the system is not directed against Russia, we will respond fully,” warned Russia’s NATO envoy Dmitry Rog ...
  • The Federal Reserve Cartel: The Eight Families
    by Dean Henderson Global Research, June 1, 2011 (Part one of a four-part series) The Four Horsemen of Banking (Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo) own the Four Horsemen of Oil (Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, BP and Chevron Texaco); in tandem with Deutsche Bank, BNP, Bar ...
  • Russia Warns American Police State Now Rivals ...
    A grim report prepared by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for President Medvedev warns that the ‘Deep State’ intelligence and security organizations in the United States have now grown larger than those same forces established under the fascist dictatorship of Nazi Germany in the 1920’s. ...

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • INDIA: Gandhism Returns to Fight Corruption
    Almost 65 years after Mahatma Gandhi used "satyagraha" or "truth force" to lead a movement against British rule in India, Gandhism is back, this time facing an enemy more pernicious than colonialism: corrupt politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen stashing stolen wealth abroad.
  • Q&A: "Full Reparations Must Be Guaranteed" for ...
    Human rights groups and small farmers' associations will keep close watch in Colombia to make sure the new Victims' and Land Restitution Law, signed by President Juan Manuel Santos Friday, is effectively implemented.
  • U.S.: Alabama's Immigration Bill "Turns Back C ...
    On Dec. 1, 1955, at the height of racial segregation in the United States, a little-known middle-aged seamstress named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery City bus in the southern state of Alabama.
  • Q&A: Land and Victims Law Crucial for Millions ...
    The Victims and Land Restitution Law, signed Friday by Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, "is an important message for reconciliation in the country," said lawmaker Guillermo Rivera, one of the sponsors of the law.
  • OP-ED: Global CO2 Emissions Reach a New Record ...
    The alarm bells this time are not being rung by climate scientists or by environmental activists. They are being rung by none other than the International Energy Agency (IEA) - the institution established in the 1970s to defend the interests of Western oil consuming nations.

Scoop - NZ

  • Nuclear Reactions Continuing at Fukushima?
    You know that Fukushima reactors 1, 2 and 3 all melted down within hours of the Japanese earthquake. You also know that at least some of the subsequent explosions could have been caused by small-scale nuclear reactions called "prompt moderated criticalities". But you might not know that nu ...
  • Credit bubble: Glass no longer half full
    Friday's payroll data were dismal. The unemployment rate jumped back above 9% (to 9.1%), while the 54,000 gain in Non-farm Payrolls was the weakest increase since last September. Most alarming, the manufacturing sector lost 5,000 jobs during May. This was the first decrease since November 2010, ...
  • Video: Max Keiser Explains 'Financial Terroris ...
    "...Of course this all goes back to 2004 when Tony Blair was in Libya doing deals with Muammar Gaddafi. Even at that time my understanding is that he was setting banks up in the west to swoop in and start to pick apart the sovereign wealth fund and of course when Tony Blair left number 10 downi ...
  • Religions, Banks and Power
    The following is offered as background to the forces at play in the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his resultant resignation from the IMF which was the subject of my previous post. I don't have any definitive answer as to who is doing what and why but I can offer some thoughts on some of t ...
  • US on the Verge of Another Credit Crisis?
    Late yesterday, the highly respected credit rating firm, Moody’s Investor Services, officially warned that if there is no imminent progress in Congress on the debt ceiling fight, the United States of America’s Aaa credit rating would be cut. Understanding that such a draconian event as a U.S. cr ...

Independent - London

  • How Sarah Palin's road trip turned into a car ...
    The real Sarah Palin – unedited, unguarded, and not always on-message – was being slowly revealed to the public last night after the state of Alaska released tens of thousands of public and private emails she sent during her first two years as Governor of Alaska.
  • Nikolaos van Dam: Tragically, a bloodbath may ...
    The latest actions of the Syrian regime yesterday indicate that all this is bound to lead to further bloody confrontation. The leadership knows that it is in danger, but it simply will not give up peacefully.
  • Syrians torn between terror and defiance as re ...
    In a calculated show of defiance to the international community, Syrian helicopter gunships fired on protesters and army tanks shelled civilian homes yesterday, driving hundreds of people out of the country in brutal retaliation for protests against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad.
  • Burma's opposition leader set to speak
    Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's pro-democracy leader who spent 15 years under house arrest, will give two of the 2011 BBC Reith lectures.
  • Shoe mogul comes to the rescue of Italy's cult ...
    La Scala opera house has become the latest Italian cultural landmark to benefit from the largesse of Diego Della Valle, of Tod's luxury leather goods.

Rogue Government.com

  • China ratings house says US defaulting: report
    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.
  • Americans' equity in their homes near a recor ...
    Falling real estate prices are eating away at home equity. The percentage of their homes that Americans own is near its lowest point since World War II, the Federal Reserve said Thursday. 
  • Many of us won’t be able to retire until our 80s
    Many Americans will have to keep on working well into their 70s and 80s to afford retirement, according to the study, titled “The Impact of Deferring Retirement Age on Retirement Income Adequacy.”
  • MEP 'bloodied' sneaking into Bilderberg hotel
    Italian MEP Mario Borghezio was reportedly given a bloody nose on Thursday as he attempted to sneak into the secretive Bilderberg conference in St. Moritz.
  • Bilderberg: The Uber-Powerful Global Elite Me ...
    The Bilderberg group is one of the world's most famous clubs, it gathers bankers, politicians, industrialists, media moves and shakers, scholars and billionaires in a different location each year, usually in Europe. All the attendees share one condition of membership: discretion.

Innovation Canada

  • Living on the edge
    It’s not unusual for scientists to become excited when talking about their research. But Ken Storey is an explosion of exuberance, repeatedly interrupting his own discourse to head in new directions. Such frenetic energy is paradoxical for a man whose research deals with organisms that can delib ...
  • Giving thanks
    “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good,” Michael Douglas’s character famously declared in the movie Wall Street. “Greed is right. Greed works.” It was after filming last year’s sequel, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, that Douglas noticed a strain in his larynx and soreness in his jaw. His d ...
  • The people’s museum
    While the recent major renovations to the University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology (MOA) involved plenty of additions and upgrades to its infrastructure, it’s the way people can now use the space that’s really transformed it. When MOA moved from the basement of the UBC Library int ...
  • Opening up
    “It has truly been a partnership with reciprocal benefits,” says Kathy Hegadoren when asked about her work with immigrant women. And when the professor of nursing at the University of Alberta tells her story, it’s easy to see why. Holder of a Canada Research Chair in Stress-related Disorders in ...
  • Firing up a new social network
    The summer of 2003 was as hot and dry in Kelowna, B.C., as anyone could remember. On Aug. 16, lightning struck, sparking a forest fire in Okanagan Mountain Provincial Park that quickly blazed out of control. The Kelowna Fire Department, more familiar with fighting house fires, suddenly faced an ...

Signs of the times

  • 3 reasons why coconut milk may not be your friend
    Coconut milk is often a staple fat source for those following a Paleo diet. From a nutritional perspective, it's an excellent choice. It's high in saturated fatty acids and medium-chain triglycerides (MCT), which are both easily burned as fuel by the body. MCTs are particularly beneficial in tha ...
  • Funny Thing: It's not the end of the world
    The good news is we aren't dead. The bad news is we will be soon. And that's a real shame, given how close I am to amassing a complete set of Smurfs glasses from Hardee's. If only I had another year to find a mint-condition Gargamel glass. But sadly, according to doomsday preacher Harold Campin ...
  • Huge sun explosion rocks astronomers' world
    Analysis, research ramped up: 'We're seeing things we've never seen before' A huge storm on the sun this week unleashed what some have called the most massive eruption of solar plasma ever seen. While that's up for review, the solar storm has revealed a tantalizing glimpse at the inner working ...
  • Massive Plasma Waves Sweep the Sun -- NASA: "W ...
    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 biggest ever, but it is notable both for its size and its odd be ...
  • BEST OF THE WEB: Why TSA, Wars, State Defined ...
    Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose of the dictator state, since it is based on the greatest accumulation of depotentiated social units. ~ Carl Jung The title of this article encompas ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Cesar goes home . . .
    ACCORDING TO COTTAGECOUNTRYNOW.CA, Cesar is back, after a year's rehab. PORT CARMEN – Cesar, a snapping turtle who has lived in captivity for more than a year, has returned home to his natural habitat. The turtle, weighing more than 37 pounds, was struck by a car in April of 2010 and was taken t ...
  • The McKibben Op-ed
    Pay attention, Alberta. Text of McKibben's op-ed here.
  • Civil rights . . .
    ACCORDING TO THE CBC, Nova Scotia Registry of Motor Vehicles are in need of some oversight: "Man has licence revoked without driving conviction".Wilbur was never convicted. His case was dismissed, but he still can't get his licence back. Time to sue the NS Registry and the people he contacted, w ...
  • Dear Senator Tkachuk
    I quote you, “There are those who have characterized what she did as heroic,” Ontario Conservative Senator David Tkachuk told his colleagues in the red-carpeted chamber on Tuesday, according to a news release from his office. “No. Heroic are the men and women, many of them her age or younger ...
  • June 7, 1975
    ON THIS DAY, SONY released the first Betamax video recorder, and the video world changed forever, to the glee of the porn industry. According to WIRED,Revolutionary for its day, the Betamax format was on its way to becoming the industry standard until the appearance of JVC’s VHS a year later. Be ...

Media Matters for America

  • Wash. Times Uses E. Coli Outbrea ...
    The Washington Times used the recent�deaths in Germany resulting from people eating produce contaminated by E. coli bacteria�to claim that organic food is dangerous. In fact, not only does the article lack data to support the�claim but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it has no data t ...
  • Dead Wrong: Fox's Gretchen Carlson Says Texas ...
    While guest hosting the Fox News show�America Live,�Fox & Friends�co-host Gretchen Carlson claimed that Republican Texas Governor Rick Perry "turned away the federal stimulus money." In fact, despite initially refusing a portion of stimulus funds, Perry ultimately accepted much of the money for ...
  • Right-Wing Media Attack Sec. Napolitano For Ad ...
    Right-wing media have attacked Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano for recently saying that it is "not good logic" to target Muslim men younger than 35 for security screenings at airports. In her comments, Napolitano instead recommended screening based on travel plans, behavior, and ex ...
  • Fox & Friends Misleadingly Attack ...
    Fox & Friends�attacked President Obama's economic record, saying that the president "seems to be differing from the facts" and that administration has not "fired up the job machine." However, the evidence shows Obama's policies have contributed to a trend of job creation.Kilmeade: "The Presiden ...
  • Wash. Times Smears Yet Another Obama ...
    The Washington Times attacked John Bryson, President Obama's Commerce Secretary nominee, as a "radical environmentalist" and a "job destroyer." In fact, Bryson is a former energy company executive who sits on the boards of several major corporations, and his nomination reportedly has the suppor ...

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TPM Cafe

  • Jamie Dimon's Bizarre Idea About Why The Recov ...
    According to JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, the recovery has stalled because of strict banking regulation. I'm not making this up. At a financial conference today, Dimon told Fed chief Ben Bernanke there's no longer any reason to crack down on Wall Street. "Most of the bad actors are gone ...
  • 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 f ...
  • Recreating the success story of job creation i ...
    McKinsey Global Institute put out today a thoughtful report on job creation that describes three possible futures for employment in this decade -- only one of which is remotely satisfactory for the preservation of the American Dream of leaving the next generation better off than the previous one ...
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  • Sderot: Nostalgia For The Future
    You would think Prime Minister's Netanyahu's insistence that Israel could never go back to the "indefensible" borders of 1967 would play at least as well in bombarded Sderot as it did in the Congress. He certainly thought it would, or that Congresspeople could be suckered into thinking it would. ...

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Crazy Environmental Politics News of the Week
    Good (or crazy) environmental politics stories from the past week or so.
  • Penis Deforming Chemicals? Chemicals that Caus ...
    Yes, it's as ridiculous as it sounds. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is so pro chemical, so bought by the chemical industry, that it would rather have chemicals in our plastic that cause penis deformations than go against the chemical industry. Furthermore, it is so interested in protecting the in ...
  • Jeff Masters on Severe Weather: “We Have Never ...
    This is a good video, not brand new (from about a week ago, which might mean ancient on the internet), but worth a looksy.
  • Arizona Wildfires Have Burned Down 30 Homes, F ...
    Wildfires sparked in part by exceptionally severe drought in Arizona (and plenty of other U.S. states) as well as extreme heat are out of control, have already taken out 31 homes, 24 outbuildings, and a truck. 30,000 people have also been forced to evacuate so far.
  • Heat Records: Nearly 3,000 Set in U.S. This We ...
    Think it's hot? Well, it is! Cities all across the U.S. have shattered heat records this week. (Don't forget, though, don't try to connect them to climate change or global warming!) Of course, its worth knowing, the hottest summers these days will be comparable to the coolest summers in 2050 if ...

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Axis of Logic

  • June 14th Economic Rebellion Update – This Is ...
    “There’s something happening here… Hey, what’s that sound? Everybody look what’s going down…” - Buffalo Springfield Exciting times over here, to say the least! The June 14th Flag Day Rebellion against economic tyranny is growing much stronger and more rapidly than anticipate ...
  • A concerted effort from Europe against Israeli ...
    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 Palestine joined the French organizers for two full days of workshops aime ...
  • German Chancellor Merkel visits the US - World ...
    10 June 2011 The most common translation of the German phrase “Zuckerbrot und Peitsche” is the somewhat inadequate phrase “carrot and stick”. After all, a Peitsche is a whip and not just a stick. Nevertheless, this phrase, made popular by the policy of the 19th Century German Chancellor Otto ...
  • Washington exploits uprising to escalate secre ...
    10 June 2011 The Obama administration has seized upon the popular upheavals in Yemen to step up bombings and missile attacks against alleged Al-Qaeda militants, effectively opening up yet another war in the region. Citing unnamed government sources, the New York Times reported Thursday th ...
  • U.S. militarization in Latin America condemned ...
    Intellectuals, representatives of social movements and political forces gathered in Buenos Aires, Argentina, last Wednesday (1st) to discuss the process of re-militarization of Latin America by the United States. The Continental Conference on Imperialist Militarization was attended by the writer ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Save Money: Let Public Employees Do the Job
    Kentucky's last attempt to let a private corporation ended predictably - said corporation stole/wasted millions of taxpayer dollars - so I'm glad to see the state lawmakers are at least skeptical about the state's newest attempt to waste money by paying a corporation to do work state employees u ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Well, Duh! Freud postulated that those have the most volatile and hateful reaction to things that they secretly crave but think they shouldn't have. This is borne out by a new study that first asked straight men about their attitudes toward homosexuality, then divided them into two groups, those ...
  • Liberal Jujitsu
    Planned Parenthood of North Texas (Dallas area), surrounded by enemies and faithless political "friends" on all sides, facing attack by the most despicable and growing segment of the misogynist, sex-terrified, anti-contraceptive death cult, turned to fight. And won. Visit msnbc.com for breaking ...
  • Not That Anybody in D.C. Gives a Shit
    OK, Indefatigable Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders cares. But nobody else. Jon Walker at Firedoglake: With our political leaders foolishly insistent on focusing on the issue of long term deficits at a time of high unemployment, it would be nice if they at least acknowledged that regular American ...
  • The unbearable lightness of being...Peter Kinder
    In the wake of their stunning sweep of virtually every race in which they had a viable candidate in last November, the Missouri GOP has started to look like the dog that finally caught the car...Yeah, they caught it, but so what? They can't drive, either. They would dearly love to take the Gover ...

Care 2

  • Free Syrian Blogger Amina Abdullah PLEASE TAKE ...
    Syrian blogger Amina Arraf, who blogs under the name Amina Abdullah and whose blog A Gay Girl in Damascus has readers all over the world, has been missing since Monday night. She and a friend were going to see a person involved with the Local CoordinatingSubmitted by BarbCat Sunshine Lady to Wor ...
  • TAKE ACTION! Sign the petition to protect Al ...
    Ask the EPA to protect Bristol Bay from toxic mine waste! The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has authority under the Clean Water Act to restrict mine waste dumping in the pristine waters and wetlands of the Bristol Bay watershed. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environm ...
  • Anonymous Hacks Monsanto's Website | Before It ...
    Monsanto is using bribery, the law, intimidation and any other means available to it to start to control the world food supply with it's genetically modified and patented seeds. Industry regulators have known for years that Roundup...Submitted by Diane Harris to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • Dont Abandon Afghanistan!
    The choices for America in Afghanistan are simpler than they appear in the fog of political debate: We can win or we can lose. Definitions can be debated, but in short, victory will mean that Afghanistan will not be a sustainable operational haven forSubmitted by Lilith Cohen to US Politics & Go ...
  • Declaration of Rights for Cetaceans: Whales an ...
    Sign the declaration and join a global call to have rights formally declared for cetaceans Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

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No Quarter

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

Environmental Graffiti

  • Giant Prehistoric 'Shrimp' Discovered
    The recently discovered fossil of a 3 foot-long, prehistoric shrimp-like predator. "It would have made enough scampi to feed an army for a month," said one scientist. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the ar ...
  • Spectacular Images of Volcanic Lightning Over ...
    Stunning photographs of volcanic lightning illuminating Chile's Puyehue volcano following its recent eruption... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Six Hundred Unknown Species Discovered in Mada ...
    Amazing pink snakes, chameleons that turn bright blue during courtship, and the tiniest primate in the world have all been discovered in Madagascar in one decade! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • 7 Tips to Save the World's Oceans
    On World Oceans Day, we have seven tips on how you can help in conserving the planet's most significant bodies of water. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • What Do Skunk and Badger Stripes Mean?
    A new study shows how predators may be given advanced warning of ferocious fighters and stinky anal glands among would-be prey species. Stay clear of that skunk! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...

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Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • CIA Whistleblower on the latest American War - ...
    Susan Lindauer sent us over another article, this one turning to the chaotic Western intervention in Libya. It's nice to get a little praise for the post earlier this week: Dashing Wartime Philosopher Bernard Henri Lévy ties Libyan rebels & Netanyahu, lolz at teh Bilderberg conspiracy - and your ...
  • CIA Whistleblower Lindauer: Warning: This Mess ...
    CIA whistleblower Susan Lindauer sent in a followup piece to HongPong.com and I'm happy to share it! Earlier: Susan Lindauer on the Patriot Act: "When Truth Becomes Treason" - Thuggish National Security Coverup & Grand Jury Mechanisms for Iraq & 9-11 ******** By Susan Lindauer, former Asset Cove ...
  • Dashing Wartime Philosopher Bernard Henri Lévy ...
    Bernard-Henri Lévy gets Libyan rebels to support Israel & doesn't like your Bilderberg conspiracies! Apparently this French philosopher with a penchant for drama is calling more shots than people realize. However, he has had enough with your conspiracies! What is this guy's deal? After reading a ...
  • Comedy Central has weird faux-subliminal meme ...
    Several videos and a GLP post cover the New Subliminal Messages on Comedy Channel. Looks like an internet meme campaign to me. Not too shabby though. The colored words (not all legible) form strange thoughts.... In the end the joke assures us they're in on it all. Thanks Viacom. This one satiriz ...
  • Special Guest Column! CIA Whistleblower Susan ...
    Sweet: CIA Whistleblower & 9/11 covert ops witness sends an important essay for HongPong.com! National Security Whistleblowers are a tough bunch. Susan Lindauer worked as a CIA asset for many years before 9-11, including issues related to Libya & the Lockerbie bombing, as well as a major backcha ...

Daily Censored

  • Republicans, Ayn Rand, and Satanism?
    � In the interest of full disclosure, I consider myself spiritually agnostic. That said, can I get a Hallelujah! Some Christians are finally getting hip to the fact that Republicans have been worshiping at the altar of Ayn Rand, and unwittingly the Church of Satan. I kid you not. Well, at least ...
  • 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 days w ...
  • You Heard It Here Firstght
    Gadhafi will leave and soon and spend the rest of his days in Venezuela.  The rebels in Libya will ask China to help them with their oil.  The GOP primary dance will continue because not all primary elections take place on Diebold machines.  However, when it is all done, the media and the GOP wi ...
  • Spanish 15M goes out of Puerta del Sol: An eth ...
    By Concha Mateos The camp in the Puerta del Sol (Spanish for Gate of the Sun) will be taken down next Sunday June 12. On Wednesday June 7 after five hours debate the Assambly of Sol decided on the continuity of ‘acampadasol’ as it is known in the web. It took ten days make the [...]
  • The Peace Corps: A Government Organization tha ...
    If you are an average American, chances are that you have donated to a âcause’ at some point in your life. Whether it be giving 5 bucks to Red Cross when a disaster strikes a third-world country, dropping 10 cents into the red Salvation Army container, or donating your entire estate to the worth ...

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IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #518
    Pakistan to intensify intel collaboration with China. UAE mercenaries say they have no Blackwater contacts. US spy community launches 'Analytical Olympics'. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #518
    Pakistan to intensify intel collaboration with China. UAE mercenaries say they have no Blackwater contacts. US spy community launches 'Analytical Olympics'. Continue reading →
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    New Zealand to launch new cybersecurity agency. Over 1,000 cyber attacks against UK MoD last year. New book on China-US spy wars. Continue reading →
  • One in four US hackers is FBI informant, says ...
    Experienced observers with strong links in the American computer hacker community estimate that around 25 percent of its members are working as informants for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other US government agencies. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #516
    UK government will continue to spy on Muslims says official. UK government outed IRA double agent. Legendary CIA airline now in danger of crashing. Continue reading →

War is a Crime.org

  • The Obama Doctrine: Lawless Imperial Aggressio ...
    The Obama Doctrine: Lawless Imperial Aggression (Part II) - by Stephen Lendman Previous articles discussed America's permanent war agenda, culture of violence, imperial lawlessness, daily atrocities, blood-drenched history, glorification of killing in the name of peace, and support for the world ...
  • Vote for the America YOU want!
    There is finally a solid proposal in Washington for a budget that defunds the wars, cuts the base Pentagon budget, taxes corporations, creates jobs and saves services people need. It’s called the People’s Budget. On June 5 the New Priorities Network launched a summer campaign to shift our nation ...
  • How Should The West Engage With the Muslim World?
    By David Swanson Opening Remarks at a Dialogue With Islam. I want to thank Shahinoor Ali and http://dialoguewithislam.org for inviting me and I'm honored to speak together with Dr. Azzam Tamami. I don't know about the West, but I have some thoughts on the United States. I recently flew from Cal ...
  • Do Not Make Connections
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Grist - News

  • Buy new sunglasses, save someone’s sight ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. Men and women probably do make passes at people who use their sunglasses purchase to provide someone in the developing world with vision surgery, eye care, or glasses. Okay, the scansion needs a little work, but the point is that buy-one-give-one shoe company TOMS is ...
  • Bikes are now the hottest accessory
    by Jess Zimmerman. Bike lanes and bike riders may be controversial, but bikes as an image are marketing gold right now. Want to sell it? Put a bike on it! Transportation Nation found bikes for sale or used as display elements at Kate Spade, CB2, Club Monaco, Anthropologie, the Gap, Urban ...
  • Solar panels to match your couch
    by Jess Zimmerman. Excited about your inevitable solar panels, but concerned they'll clash with your decor? Qsolar has you covered, you fashion victim. Their colored solar panels aren't just for the roof -- they can be integrated into the design of a building as cool-looking and functi ...
  • Montreal has so many cyclists, it has bike tra ...
    by Sarah Laskow. Like a shortage of bikes in a new bike sharing project, congestion in bike lanes is a problem cities should want to have, at least temporarily. And Montreal has that problem! So many people have begun using the city's most popular bike routes that more than 20 bi ...
  • The race to build the world’s most impro ...
    by Christopher Mims. Modern wind turbines already have blades as big as the wings of jumbo jets, and the tips of them can move at up to 200 mph. Now Britain's Energy Technologies Institute wants to nearly double the generating capacity of the world's largest wind turbines by making the bl ...

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Farming Pathogens

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

Suzie-Q

  • Making the US Economy “Scream”
    Making the US Economy “Scream” Friday 10 June 2011 by: Robert Parry, Consortium News   Via:  Truthout Modern Republicans have a simple approach to politics when they are not in the White House: Make America as ungovernable as possible by using almost any means available, from challenging the ...
  • Afternoon Jukebox: White Wedding
    Billy Idol- White Wedding �
  • Bill Moyers: ‘Democracy Should Be a Brak ...
    , Bill Moyers: ‘Democracy Should Be a Brake on Unbridled Greed and Power’ Crooks and Liars By Heather June 08, 2011 12:00 PM Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now spent the hour with Bill Moyers discussing his new book and his career as a journalist. I really miss his weekly show on PBS now that he’s off ...
  • Afternoon Jukebox: Price Tag
    Price Tag- Jessie J
  • Trump Roasts the Weiner: If only Hedda Hopper ...
    By G: June 8, 2011 If only Hedda Hopper were around to see this one. Here we are at war with the whole Middle East while in the middle of another great depression, and the most important news on main stream media is about a weiner roast. TMZ, who is noted for their coverage of [...]

Solari

  • Canadidan Tax Probe in Gold Sector
    By Paul Delean and Lynn Moore Claiming widespread tax fraud in the gold refining and trading sector, Revenue Quebec and police investigators this week conducted searches and seizures at 70 locations in and around Montreal Island and as far as St. Bernard de Lacolle. No arrests were announced, b ...
  • Bilderberg 2011: Full Official Attendee List
    Thanks to the fantastic work of Bilderberg activists, journalists and the Swiss media, we have now been able to obtain the full official list of 2011 Bilderberg attendees. Routinely, some members request that their names be kept off the roster so there will be additional Bilderbergers in attend ...
  • Transcript of Jim Norman’s Interview Ava ...
    A transcript of Catherine’s May 19, 2011 interview of Jim Norman on Oil Card Geopolitics is now available to Solari Report Subscribers. Subscribers can navigate to the Subscriber Control Panel, after logging in, click on Archive of Previous Calls, and scroll to the Resource section of the May 19 ...
  • Urban Roots
    Produced by Leila Conners (The 11th Hour) and Mathew Schmid and directed by Mark Mac-Innis A documentary from Tree Media. The film follows the urban farming phenomenon in Detroit. Urban Roots is a timely, moving and inspiring film that speaks to a nation grappling with collapsed industrial towns ...
  • Bank Not Responsible for Hackers Stealing $300 ...
    By Kim Zetter A judge in Maine has ruled that a bank that allowed hackers to steal more than $300,000 from a customer’s online account isn’t responsible for the lost money, saying the customer should have done more to protect the account credentials. Magistrate Judge John Rich sided with Ocean ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Times Scare
    ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
  • Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
    Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more��
  • Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
    BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri Lank ...
  • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
    Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more��
  • Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
    Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more��

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

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

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Peter King Wants More Muslim Radicalization He ...
    House Homeland Security Chairman Peter King has announced more Muslim radicalization hearings for next week on "The Threat of Muslim-American Radicalization in U.S. Prisons.” These hearings at least have a more specific focus than his last attempt at examining the subject, but he's still barking ...
  • Danielle Pletka: “The Choices for America in A ...
    We have a simple choice in Afghanistan, argues Danielle Pletka of the American Enterprise Institute: “we can win or we can lose.”  But can we actually win?  Pletka thinks so, and she helpfully counters eight arguments which have been raised by war skeptics.  Here a counter-counter argument to ...
  • Selectively Prosecuting Leaks
    On Monday, the Washington Post published an editorial critical of the prosecution of NSA whistle-blower Thomas Drake under the Espionage Act: Mr. Drake’s prosecution smacks of overkill and could scare others with legitimate concerns about government programs from coming forward. For example, ...
  • Gates: NATO a Two-Tiered Alliance with a Dim, ...
    Rumors that�Robert Gates would deliver a provocative farewell to the European allies�were well founded. Going further than he had to date, he bluntly warned that�NATO has become a two-tiered Alliance�and said it�faces a "dim, if not dismal" future. Gates has been displaying increasing frustratio ...
  • How NATO Is Like a Boyfriend or Girlfriend Who ...
    So you ever know those couples where one of the two really wants to get married, settle down and have kids and the other one just refuses to commit and is evasive about the future of the relationship . . . I think this is a good descriptor of the US-NATO alliance today. Allow me to explain. Y ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • What Action on Climate Change Would Romney Sup ...
    Conor Friedersdorf argues this morning at The Atlantic that the right and its talk radio hosts are not doing conservatives any favors by pushing the conversation on climate in a way that will allow only conservative candidates who disavow climate change to get the nomination. (Rick Santorum argu ...
  • Tim Pawlenty Should Spend Less Money on Videos ...
    Tim Pawlenty has a new campaign video out, in which he brings the Michael Bay treatment to his budget plan and attacks President Obama for the economy's slow growth and high unemployment: It's notable that Pawlenty doesn't actually highlight anything substantive about his plan. Instead, he o ...
  • Today at the Prospect
    Scott Lemieux explains the impact of Griswold v. Connecticut on the conservative understanding of the constitutional right to privacy. Scott Flaherty talks with Janet Redman, co-director of the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network at the Institute for Policy Studies, about the U.N.'s Framewor ...
  • Harry Reid's Power Plays
    Sometimes, it's good to be Harry Reid. You get to announce that the Department of Energy is loaning your state $350 million to create a geothermal power plant, which draws energy from water heated deep in the earth. It also create jobs! (Okay, not too many jobs, but 330 temporary construction jo ...
  • Vilifying Contraception
    The most important way for conservatives to roll back access to family planning is to link it to abortion. To wit, at the Faith and Freedom Conference last week, Susan B. Anthony List president Marjorie Dannenfelser declared: �Every year that contraception and family planning increases, the abo ...

Buzzflash

  • Putting on Sunglasses Won't Stop Global Warmin ...
    JACQUELINE MARCUS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The Weiner controversy consumed the media right when Newsweek cover story, "Weather Panic," hit the magazine racks. This alarming report describes the crisis we're all facing: Extreme climate change conditions at "biblical proportions". As this articl ...
  • Senator Bernie Sanders Introduces Bill to Lowe ...
    BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT NEWS ALERT A press release from the office of Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont): Washington - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Sen. John Boozman (R-Ark.) introduced a bill that would lower the cost of solar power and put the United States on track to install 10 million sola ...
  • Will Texas Be the First State to Eliminate Pub ...
    PETER STERN FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Texas Legislature doing what it does best... removing tax dollars from public education. Slightly more than 10 years ago, Texas provided up to 70 percent of the total budget for public education. Local government, mostly via home property taxes, provided t ...
  • Ten Ways in Which American Exceptionalism Hurt ...
    STEVEN JONAS, MD, MPH FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUTAh Newt Gingrich, how you have disappointed me. The moment that I heard that you had decided to enter the race for the GOP Presidential nomination a few weeks back, I started planning this column. After all, based upon what you had been saying abou ...
  • Herman Cain Won’t Sign Any Bill Over Three Pag ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT As far as bold new ideas go, this one Bravely crosses a new border (But maybe it just means he has a bit Of attention deficit disorder.) read more

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • How to network in science without schmoozing
    How to network in science without schmoozing – Professional networking is not about schmoozing and "leveraging" the who-you-know in a selfish way, it's about getting to know people and having people get to know you. It's about being curious, asking honest questions and finding out about what you ...
  • Scerri stuff indeed
    Scerri stuff indeed – Non-chemists, and perhaps a few chemists, might have assumed that once all the holes in Mendeleev's Periodic Table were filled with modern discoveries and the lanthanides and actinides added, that the Table was forever immutable, a stone tablet to adorn high school chemistr ...
  • Listening to digitized vinyl
    Listening to digitized vinyl – I'm currently writing a piece for sciencetext about the price of digital goods, including mp3s and CDs etc. While researching the article, I discovered this interesting item on being an audiophile in the modern age and listening to digital recordings of vinyl recor ...
  • Gossip, grooming, and your Dunbar number
    Gossip, grooming, and your Dunbar number – David Dobbs waxes lyrical in Wired this week on the subject of the Dunbar number, that fairly well-known social science icon that says that our brains are powerful enough to handle only 150 friends (+/-50 or so). It's a bit of a truism, I think. Some pe ...
  • Safety in the nano sphere
    Safety in the nano sphere – The safety of nanotechnology is high on the scientific and political agenda. Qualifying and quantifying the issues remains difficult. An Italia team has now devised and tested what they describe as a "systematic and reproducible evaluation of nanoparticle toxicology i ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • White House Proposal to Exempt Employers from ...
    White House advisors are reportedly considering relieving employers  from their obligation to contribute to Social Security.  This proposal, if enacted, would eliminate billions of dollars of revenue dedicated to Social Security at a time when some members of Congress argue that Social Security’ ...
  • Iraqi Human Rights Activists Protesting for De ...
    Today, MADRE learned that pro-democracy activists who gathered in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square were brutally attacked by un-uniformed forces. MADRE’s Iraqi partner group, the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), states that activists who gathered in the square to continue their weeks of pr ...
  • ACLU Calls on President Obama to Address Polic ...
    The American Civil Liberties Union today called on President Obama to press Puerto Rican leaders about a pattern of police brutality and governmental suppression of First Amendment rights during his scheduled visit Tuesday to the U.S. commonwealth. In a letter sent today to the president, ACLU E ...
  • Before Presidential Debate, New TV Ad Encourag ...
    Less than a week before the first Republican presidential debate in New Hampshire, two public interest groups, environmental advocate Friends of the Earth and budget watchdog Taxpayers for Common Sense, released a TV ad today asking whether presidential candidates will oppose the $6 billion fede ...
  • Before Presidential Debate, New TV Ad Encourag ...
    Less than a week before the first Republican presidential debate in New Hampshire, two public interest groups, environmental advocate Friends of the Earth and budget watchdog Taxpayers for Common Sense, released a TV ad today asking whether presidential candidates will oppose the $6 billion fede ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Without Immigration Reform E-Verify Is Just Pr ...
    Jacob Lesniewski The need for comprehensive immigration reform at the federal is even more pressing as immigrants face the hodgepodge of state and local legislative efforts and federal enforcement programs that vary from county to county. ...
  • When Breaking the Law Is Justified
    Antonia Zerbisias The recent bad news about climate change thundered through the scientific community like those twisters through the U.S. First, the International Energy Association (IEA) announced global greenhouse gas emissions hit reco ...
  • Pollution: Africa’s Real Resource Curse?
    Khadija Sharife Africa has long been synonymous as the poster child of the resource curse. Illicit financial flows, often siphoned through corruption and mis-pricing, are estimated to cost the continent $200-billion annually. Flowing back ...
  • The Faith-Based Economics of Deficit Reduction
    Dean Baker Sometimes, it can be fun to get inside a crazy worldview to ask how it deals with contradictory evidence. For example, how do creationists reconcile their view that all plants and animals were created in their current form aroun ...
  • R.I.P., Fairness Doctrine
    Anne Landman On June 8, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Julius Genachowski agreed to wipe the Fairness Doctrine completely off the agency's books, even though the rule has been officially dead since 1987.read more

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • The new water wars? Study shows broad decline ...
    Many studies have documented the West's declining snowpack. But a new one, published Friday in the journal Science, covers the length of the Rockies over an 800-year period.
  • 2nd Lake Erie water use plan in the works
    COLUMBUS -- Environmental groups are preparing to fire the second volley in Ohio's water wars as they counter a business-backed plan for withdrawals from Lake Erie with one they say will better protect the watershed.
  • Water Wars Cooling Down Blue Plum Festival
    Despite the heat, families spent the day in downtown Johnson City for the 12th Annual Blue Plum Festival.
  • Water wars threaten credit of metro governments
    Credit rating agency Fitch Ratings issued a report this week warning that it may downgrade the credit scores of metro Atlanta governments if a federal court does not side with Georgia on access to drinking water from Lake Lanier.
  • Nature Photography By Alison Jones Highlights ...
    As water wars loom locally and globally, No Water No Life ® is dedicated to combining the powers of photography, science and stakeholder knowledge to raise awareness of the values of freshwater, consequences of watershed degradation and opportunities for sustainable water-resource management.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • From Palestine to Tucson, solidifying the bond ...
    Yusi El Boujami, Gabriel Schivone and Ryan VelasquezThe Electronic Intifada A review of the history of modern Palestine reflects a startling image of the conquest and colonization of traditional indigenous lands settled by the�US.
  • Salaita skewers liberalism in "Israel's Dead Soul"
    Raymond DeaneThe Electronic Intifada Steven Salaita is an associate professor of English at Virginia Tech who has written several books on the failure of liberal civil rights discourse to counter anti-Arab racism, particularly in the United States. In his new book, Israel’s Dead Soul, he evaluat ...
  • US activists prepare to break Israel's blockad ...
    Alex KaneThe Electronic Intifada Final preparations are underway for the next big flotilla to Gaza, which is scheduled to occur in late June. The US Boat to Gaza will take part in the largest planned fleet yet, with an estimated 1,000 passengers from an array of countries collaborating to break ...
  • Frustrations rise as Rafah crossing closed again
    Mohammed OmerThe Electronic IntifadaRafah Many hoping to find free movement between Egypt and Gaza have found the border gates at the Rafah crossing closed. Egyptian officials closed the gates on Saturday, according to Palestinian�officials.
  • Interview: Antony Loewenstein on Palestine's s ...
    Sarah IrvingThe Electronic Intifada Antony Loewenstein, a writer and journalist based in Sydney and a founder of Independent Australian Jewish Voices, speaks to The Electronic Intifada about the growing boycott, divestment and santions movement and the resistance to it in�Australia.

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

  • Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
    If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
  • Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratosph ...
    The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
    Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
  • Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
    A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
  • New approach precisely tracks evolution's foot ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for exampl ...

TechDirt

  • Ideas Do Matter, But That Has Nothing To Do Wi ...
    Glyn Moody points us to a website put together by Microsoft, Philips and DSM -- three giant companies that have relied heavily on intellectual property laws to fend off upstart competitors and disruptive innovation -- called Ideas Matter - the value of intellectual property. As you can tell fro ...
  • National Archives Hires 'Wikipedian In Residence'
    Didn't see this coming. Via Glyn Moody, we learn that the National Archives has hired its first "Wikipedian in Residence" -- though it appears to only be a summer internship position. The Archives says [Dominic] McDevitt-Parks has more than seven years of Wikipedia editing experience. His jo ...
  • Publishers Realizing It's Silly To 'Fight Piracy'
    We're seeing more and more stories like this, but it's great to see yet another one, pointed out by Glyn Moody, of a publisher -- in this case, the University of Chicago Press director Garrett Kiely -- arguing that worrying about book "piracy" is a mistake, and in many cases embracing such infri ...
  • DailyDirt: Better Food Through Science
    The art and science of cooking has a bright future, especially given all the different cooking shows and TV networks dedicated to food. As more and more people discover and learn about the science behind cooking, it stands to reason that there will be a growing number of interesting ways to cook ...
  • Apple Caves In, Bans DUI Checkpoint Apps For N ...
    We've noted that a bunch of senators were on a silly and uninformed grandstanding mission against various apps for the iPhone and Android phones that alert people to the locations of various police DUI checkpoints. Of course, all the grandstanding really did was to massively pump up the sales o ...

VacTruth

  • Part 3 of 3: An Interview About Vaccines with ...
    Part 3 of 3: Catherine J. Frompovich interviews Helen V. Ratajczak, PhD, who worked in the field of immunology and toxicology. She answers questions addressing the role of Vitamin C, peroxidation of the brain, immunostimulation and Autism.Vactruth.com
  • MRSA Vaccine Trial Is Halted, Ends In Disaster
    Yesterday Reuters reported US Merck and Co have taken the very unusual step of discontinuing vaccine trials for Intercell's MRSA vaccine. The decision was taken after experts advised the V710 vaccine was 'unlikely to show a significant clinical benefit and expressed concerns about overall mortal ...
  • Part 2 of 3: An Interview About Vaccines with ...
    Part 2 of 3: Catherine J. Frompovich interviews Helen V. Ratajczak, PhD, who worked in the field of immunology and toxicology. She answers questions addressing the toxicity of vaccine adjuvants.Vactruth.com
  • GlaxoSmithKline Schemes with GAVI to Offer Rot ...
    Is GlaxoSmithKline dumping their Rotarix Vaccine on Third World countries because it was discovered it was contaminated with DNA from this animal?Vactruth.com
  • Part 1 of 3: An Interview About Vaccines with ...
    Part 1 of 3: Catherine J. Frompovich interviews Helen V. Ratajczak, PhD, who worked in the field of immunology and toxicology. She answers questions on immunological and hypersensitivity issues currently surrounding mandatory vaccinations for infants, toddlers, and teens in the United States.Vac ...

BroadSnark

  • Growing Up Jewish – Bat Mitzvah Edition
    It has been ages since I wrote a Growing Up Jewish post. And since last month was the 25th anniversary of my Bat Mitzvah (Fuck I’m old!), I thought it was time to continue the series. According to Jewish law, at thirteen you are an adult. And that means a party.* Of course, being Jews, [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Hello everyone. We’re leaving tomorrow for vacation in Portlandia and Alta California. I have some almost finished posts that I should be able to get up, but I might be a little slow responding to comments and whatnot between now and the 18th. Please check out this amazing new project from my fr ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Hello everyone. We’re leaving tomorrow for vacation in Portlandia and Alta California. I have some almost finished posts that I should be able to get up, but I might be a little slow responding to comments and whatnot between now and the 18th. Please check out this amazing new project from my fr ...
  • The Bad Actor Objection
    Have you ever seen the movie The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance?  My friend @JamesTulsaALL recommended it. He thought the movie addressed some important issues. He was right. For those of you who have not seen it. Jimmy Stewart is an attorney who heads out to the wild west to carve out his future. ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Apparently, a bunch of activists have been killed in Brazil. Any of you know the details behind this? I’ve always been really annoyed that my mother didn’t teach me the other two languages she knows. Lots of my friends were in the same situation. In the sixties and early seventies, they were tel ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Establishment Exploits OKC Bombing Victims To ...
  • Knee-Jerk No Fly Ban Discredits Global Warming ...
    Fearmongering by Met Office voodoo scientists about planes dropping out of the sky contradicted by numerous successful test flights Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 19, 2010 With European governments coming under increasing pressure from airline groups to re-open airspace fo ...
  • Air France, Lufthansa Press for Airspace Re-Op ...
    Gregory Viscusi and Brian Parkin Bloomberg April 19, 2010 Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air France- KLM Group and industry groups pressed European governments to loosen the unprecedented closing of the region’s airspace from last week’s Icelandic volcanic eruption as losses from the grounding of aircra ...
  • NPR and CNN worry that Global Warming may have ...
    John Lott’s Website April 19, 2010 This is just too bizarre: Diana Rehm (NPR): We do wonder whether there’s human involvement in all of these eruptions, earthquakes, storms - Elise Labott (senior State Department producer for CNN): – and how much global warming has a role in it. You know we’ve ...
  • Poll: Americans’ distrust of federal governmen ...
    Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers April 19, 2010 Already wary of the federal government, Americans have grown even more critical, less trusting and even fearful of Uncle Sam since President Barack Obama took office, according to an exhaustive new study being released Monday. The in-depth poll f ...

food and water watch

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

treehugg

er

  • Clean Water: Who Has It and Who Doesn't (Infog ...
    Image via GOOD I hate to be a Debbie Downer, but we have a serious water crisis on our hands. Over one billion people worldwide lack access to clean water, that is approximately one in six people on earth. In fact--sadly--i...Read the full story on TreeHugger
  • Ruffalo Honored for Anti-Fracking, Begley Crow ...
    Jamie Lee Curtis praises Global Green's Green Schools and Ed Begley Jr. Photos by R.Cruger At last weekend's 15th annual Millennium Awards thrown by Global Green, LA's biggest environmental organization, the honored guests included actor Mark Ruffalo for his anti-hydrofracking efforts, and ...
  • USCC Fights to Keep Potentially Penis-Deformin ...
    Photo credit: olga.palma via Flickr/CC BY Ah, inflammatory headlines. You know I'd never deploy one if it weren't true, though -- and this time, sadly, egregiously, it is. The US Chamber of Commerce is using its vast lobbying muscle to try to block the regulation of some toxic chemicals tha ...
  • "From Dirt to Shirt in Less Than 700 Miles": C ...
    When folks go on about how the market ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
  • Is Consumerism a Mental Illness? (Video)
    Image credit: Slackjaw Earlier today I wrote about the conflict of being an environmentalist in a modern, market-driven world. And many a TreeHugger has warned about a cult of consumerism, even as our paychecks are made up from ad revenue. Now a new documentary is looking at consumerism thr ...

Biosingularity

  • Mother’s diet during pregnancy alters ba ...
    A mother’s diet during pregnancy can alter the DNA of her child and increase the risk of obesity, according to researchers. The study, to be published in the journal Diabetes, showed that eating low levels of carbohydrate changed bits of DNA. It then showed children with these changes were fatt ...
  • Control the cursor with power of thought
    The act of mind reading is something usually reserved for science-fiction movies but researchers in America have used a technique, usually associated with identifying epilepsy, for the first time to show that a computer can listen to our thoughts. In a new study, scientists from Washington Unive ...
  • Study shows how inflammation can lead to cancer
    A new study shows how inflammation can help cause cancer. Chronic inflammation due to infection or to conditions such as chronic inflammatory bowel disease is associated with up to 25 percent of all cancers. This study by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Art ...
  • Calcium Supplements May Increase Heart Risk
    The calcium supplements that many older women take to boost their bone health may increase their risk for heart disease, a study shows. “Calcium supplements, with or without vitamin D, mostly increase the risk of cardiovascular events, especially [heart attack],” concludes study researcher Ian R ...
  • FDA approves Rituxan to treat two rare disorders
    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Rituxan (rituximab), in combination with glucocorticoids (steroids), to treat patients with Wegener’s granulomatosis (WG) and microscopic polyangiitis (MPA), two rare disorders that cause blood vessel inflammation (vasculitis). Vasculitis in p ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Facebook puts even more of your life out there ...
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post“If you aren’t paying for it, you are not the customer; you’re the product being sold.” - blue_beetleOn Tuesday it was reported that Facebook had enabled facial recognition of its photos. Facebook already has a long history of be ...
  • Weekend wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Sgt. Jeffrey C. S. Sherer, 29, of Four Oaks, NC.Army Spc. Richard C. Emmons III, 22, of North Gra ...
  • 'No On SB 5': Petition signing event in Ravenna
    The citizen veto effort continues to be energetically supported. A couple of weeks ago it had received 93% of the signatures required to get it on the ballot, and that was in only a third of the time allotted. Thursday evening I attended a petition signing event at a local restaurant. State r ...
  • Mansfield Frazier: Inclusion is the only answe ...
    Guest post by Mansfield Frazier“White people got more in common with colored people then they do with rich people” - Fictional character Sen. Jay Billington BulworthDuring the 50’s, 60’s and much of the 70’s Blacks literally owned the Civil Rights Movement in America. We went from the back of th ...
  • Mansfield Frazier: Inclusion is the only answe ...
    Guest post by Mansfield Frazier“White people got more in common with colored people then they do with rich people” - Fictional character Sen. Jay Billington BulworthDuring the 50’s, 60’s and much of the 70’s Blacks literally owned the Civil Rights Movement in America. We went from the back of th ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • OCA Cancels Boulder's Peaceful Picket
    Earlier this year, OCA put out a call to retailers within the "natural" products industry, and "natural" products companies that have not taken steps to go non-GMO, to voluntarily label products that contain ingredients that may come from genetically engineering. When we were invited to partici ...
  • The Good News in Wisconsin That the Media Isn' ...
    This week in Madison, Wis., has seen the largest protests since a "budget repair bill" virtually outlawing collective bargaining proposed by Gov. Scott Walker inspired an occupation of the state capitol building and massive street protests this past winter.Click here to read this article
  • US Universities Get in on Africa Land Grab
    Harvard and other major American universities are working through British hedge funds and European financial speculators to buy or lease vast areas of African farmland in deals, some of which may force many thousands of people off their land, according to a new study.Click here to read this article
  • FDA Admits Supermarket Chickens Test Positive ...
    The industry emphasizes that the arsenic is applied in organic form, which isn't immediately toxic. "Organic" in the chemistry sense, that is, not the agricultural sense -- i.e., molecules containing carbon atoms as well as arsenic.Click here to read this article
  • What's Wrong with the USDA's New MyPlate Graph ...
    The collective wisdom in press reports last week was that the USDA's new "easy to understand" ChooseMyPlate image is "better" than the old pyramid. Well, that's not saying much. But it's also completely beside the point. Click here to read this article

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 ...

Investigate - Breaking News

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

My Care2 Picks

  • Model Behavior: In Climate Science, Its All A ...
    Linked from Coyote Blog : Climate scientists must assume large numbers of amplifying effects to multiply climate sensitivity to get the scary forecasts that we are used to seeing.Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • I Have Zero Respect For The Mainstream Media
    Silvia Cattori: Your political analysis, translated into dozens of languages [1], reaches a wide readership on the web. For whom exactly do you write? Gilad Atzmon: I write mainly for myself. I try to understand the world around meSubmitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Forensic evidence emerges that European e.coli ...
    If you're not familiar with the backstory on flogging vaccines - and Jane is the 'go to' on this - I have a file http://oldephartte.livejournal.com/4649.html Of course, you could Search Care2 !Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Anti-poaching idea gets wings
    �It�s like we are fighting a war with our hands tied behind our backs. Poachers are always one step ahead of us. We have guns; they have guns. But the Bantam will give us the edge,� Submitted by Jill Vickerman to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • European Commission wants to immunize DHS coll ...
    A leaked copy of the latest draft of proposed �Agreement between the United States of America and the European Union on the use transfer of Passenger Name Record [PNR] data to United States Department of Homeland Security� has been publisheds/b FatherlandSubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics ...

Angry Indian News

  • Native American Activist Winona LaDuke on Use ...
    Native American Activist Winona LaDuke on Use of “Geronimo” as Code for Osama bin Laden and the “Militarization of Indian Country” : DMZ Hawai'i / Aloha 'Aina: "Winona LaDuke has just published a... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Anti-African Racial Profiling in the United St ...
    Tyranny in NYC: The NYPD's Wasteful, Ineffective, Illegal, and Unjust Targeting of Blacks and Latinos | Drugs | AlterNetThe aggressive arrest-driven policing applied in New York City aimed at minor... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Holocaust survivors denounce pope's Croatia st ...
    Holocaust survivors denounce pope's Croatia statement: [globalresearch.ca] "BELGRADE, WASHINGTON -- The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors on June 6 blasted Pope Benedict XVI over his... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Haiti: Cable Depicts Fraudulent Haiti Election ...
    Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti » Blog Archive » WikiLeaks Haiti: Cable Depicts Fraudulent Haiti Election (The Nation)Dan Cough­lin and Kim Ives, The NationThe United States, the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Intelligentsiya: SMH: Fiji fugitive to campaig ...
    Intelligentsiya: SMH: Fiji fugitive to campaign in Australia: "A former senior Fiji military commander is poised to arrive in Australia and launch a campaign to bring down his nation's 'illegal and... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

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.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Libya 'rebels' to receive huge cash infusion
    ShareThisLibya 'rebels' to receive huge cash infusion 09 Jun 2011 Western and Middle Eastern countries began opening the aid spigots Thursday for Libya's beleaguered rebels [Western-backed mercenaries, fighting for Exxon Mobil], approving measures that will immediately send at least $1 billion t ...
  • Greek public servants strike over privatisatio ...
    ShareThisGreek public servants strike over privatisation measures 09 Jun 2011 Workers in Greek state-owned industries demonstrated on Thursday over the government's austerity plan. Public transport staff, post office, bank and port workers walked out on their jobs in protest at money saving plan ...
  • Capitalism behind environment damage says Iran ...
    ShareThisCapitalism behind environment damage says Iranian president 11 Jun 2011 The Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has blamed "excessive consumerism" for all of the damage inflicted on the environment. Ahmadinejad, during a Thursday meeting with environment officials from Economic Coop ...
  • Arizona lawmakers to let jobless benefits expire
    ShareThisArizona lawmakers to let jobless benefits expire 10 Jun 2011 Gov. Jan Brewer said there was a "total meltdown" at the Legislature as Senate leaders reneged on an agreement she had with them to extend unemployment benefits. As a result, the Legislature will let unemployment benefits for ...
  • Anti-nuke protests in Japan, 3 months after quake
    ShareThisAnti-nuke protests in Japan, 3 months after quake 11 Jun 2011 Protesters in Tokyo are preparing to hold mass demonstrations against the use of nuclear power. The Saturday protests will take place on the three-month anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that killed tens of thousands ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Rest in Peace our Brothers
    09 June 2011 Today, a couple of messages came in from Air Force Combat Search and Rescue personnel.� The first message, reprinted below, caused me to stop and read it a couple of times.� It is important to note that these Air Force personnel are part of the teams that get our warriors off the b ...
  • Biogas Comes to Afghanistan
    08 Jun 2011 Thanks to a Gurkha Soldier, biogas has come to Afghanistan.� In a nutshell, during a British Army tracking school in Borneo, a Gurkha named Lalit convinced me to research biogas for Afghanistan.� More accurately, Lalit kind of bugged me into it.� I travelled to Afghanistan, Nepal (t ...
  • Top Secret Report: Jews in Palestine
    Please click to view or download pdf.
  • Ranger to be awarded the Medal of Honor
    The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release May 31, 2011 ADVISORY: President Obama to Award Medal of Honor On July 12th, President Barack Obama will award Sergeant First Class Leroy Arthur Petry, U.S. Army, the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry.� Sergeant First ...
  • Memorial Day - 2011
    Ben and Elaina 29 May 2011 Ben Morton answered America�s call from Kansas.� He joined the Army and served in Korea, then reenlisted and served as an infantry Sergeant in Mosul, Iraq.� On the night of 22 May 2005, intelligence was received that high value targets were in a certain large house.� ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

  • Clean Water: Who Has It and Who Doesn't (Infog ...
    Image via GOOD I hate to be a Debbie Downer, but we have a serious water crisis on our hands. Over one billion people worldwide lack access to clean water, that is approximately one in six people on earth. In fact--sadly--i...Read the full story on TreeHugger
  • Ruffalo Honored for Anti-Fracking, Begley Crow ...
    Jamie Lee Curtis praises Global Green's Green Schools and Ed Begley Jr. Photos by R.Cruger At last weekend's 15th annual Millennium Awards thrown by Global Green, LA's biggest environmental organization, the honored guests included actor Mark Ruffalo for his anti-hydrofracking efforts, and ...
  • USCC Fights to Keep Potentially Penis-Deformin ...
    Photo credit: olga.palma via Flickr/CC BY Ah, inflammatory headlines. You know I'd never deploy one if it weren't true, though -- and this time, sadly, egregiously, it is. The US Chamber of Commerce is using its vast lobbying muscle to try to block the regulation of some toxic chemicals tha ...
  • "From Dirt to Shirt in Less Than 700 Miles": C ...
    When folks go on about how the market ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
  • Is Consumerism a Mental Illness? (Video)
    Image credit: Slackjaw Earlier today I wrote about the conflict of being an environmentalist in a modern, market-driven world. And many a TreeHugger has warned about a cult of consumerism, even as our paychecks are made up from ad revenue. Now a new documentary is looking at consumerism thr ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Foreign investment soars to $20bn
    Figures for foreign direct investment in Burma for this year alone dwarf the total attracted in the two decades up to 2010
  • Kachin army refutes talk of war
    Clashes yesterday near to Momauk township leave casualties on both sides but KIA claims that dialogue remains the priority
  • Shan community faces Thai eviction
    More than 1,700 ethnic Shan living in Chiang Mai province village ordered to move by October after alleged trickery by Thai locals
  • AIPMC: ‘No surprise if Burma gets chair’
    Burma’s membership of the regional Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has long been dogged by controversy, with complaints centering on fears that its domestic crises are increasingly tarnishing the image of the bloc. But last month Burma’s bid to take the revolving chair in 2014  – ...
  • Stronger kyat triggers alarm in Burma
    Large cross-section of Burma's economy expected to be hit by decline in strength of the US dollar against the national currency

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Iceland drafting new constitution using websit ...
    [JURIST] The government of Iceland [BBC backgrounder] is letting its general population help shape its new constitution through a number of new media formats, including the Constitutional Council website [in Icelandic], where new parts of the working draft [text, in Icelandic] are put on the sit ...
  • UN calls for investigation of Ivory Coast pres ...
    [JURIST] An official for the International Commission of Inquiry on Friday called for an investigation [UN News Centre report] into current Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara and his forces' continuing attacks against supporters of former president Laurent Gbagbo [BBC profiles]. Officials t ...
  • Pakistan high court demands explanation of sec ...
    [JURIST] The Pakistan Supreme Court [official website] on Friday demanded [order, PDF] an explanation of an incident in which Pakistani security forces shot and killed an unarmed man. Several paramilitary soldiers opened fire on an unarmed, 22-year-old man in Benazir Park, then stood by as he di ...
  • Federal jury convicts terror suspect, acquits ...
    [JURIST] A federal jury on Thursday convicted Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a Chicago resident with Canadian citizenship, on two counts of planning to attack a Copenhagen newspaper, but found him not guilty on charges of helping to plan the 2008 Mumbai terror attack [BBC Backgrounder; JURIST news archi ...
  • UN urges Syria to grant freedom of speech to c ...
    [JURIST] The Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) [official website] Irina Bokova [official website] condemned Syria [text] for its human rights violations and repression of journalism and free speech. Bokova called for the government to restore c ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Picture of the Day: Boxes and Boxes of Sarah P ...
    Ever wondered what 24,199 emails look like when they're printed out? The state of Alaska on Friday released that many emails sent to and from former governor Sarah Palin, on her official government account. News outlets began requesting copies of them shortly after John McCain named h ...
  • 2012: The Year Tea Party Divides Will Come Int ...
    There will be no single tea-party candidate in the GOP presidential primary race. Get ready for some activist in-fighting. If you like squabbles, then the 2012 presidential primary is for you. Not only will we be treated, this time around, to squabbling between the candidates and their ...
  • After Weinergate, Members of Congress Tweet Less
    After what happened to their fellow representative, members of Congress have adopted more conservative tweeting habits Two weeks ago Rep. Anthony Weiner meant to DM a picture of his package to an interested lady. Instead, he tweeted it to all his followers. Oops. It's an understandable technica ...
  • Rifling Through Sarah Palin's Emails
    With the state of Alaska releasing emails from Sarah Palin's government account on Friday, The Atlantic Wire's Elspeth Reeve has kept a liveblog of reactions and mini-developments, as newspapers pore over tens of thousands of pages that were given to them in cardboard boxes: This afternoon 24 ...
  • Non-Hilarious E-Mail Forward in Palin's Inbox: ...
    This email forward is not actually funny, but it is kind of funny that it wound up in Sarah Palin's inbox. The state of Alaska released over 24,000 emails from Palin's government account on Friday, after numerous news organizations requested them years ago. This is the oddest one we've seen s ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • ‘An Attack on Iran Will End Israel as We Know It’
    Maariv publishes an important article (Hebrew) noting that Meir Dagan is not the only senior military-intelligence official decrying a possible Israeli strike on Iran.  Among the others who agree with him are former chief of IDF intelligence Shlomo Gazit, former defense minister Benyamin Ben El ...
  • Derfner Blog Partnership Suspended
    A few months ago Larry Derfner came to me with an idea I thought was terrific: co-authoring a blog to debate the burning issues of the nature of Israeli society, Israeli democracy and modern Zionism; and to do this from a progressive perspective.  We’d tackle the big philosophical issues that d ...
  • ‘Israel Reconsidered’ Debate on Nakba, Right o ...
    Larry Derfner and I began our debate about the future of Israel and Zionism at Israel Reconsidered several weeks ago.  Just this week, we really got into it over Nakba and Right of Return.  Frankly, I was surprised at how little Larry was willing to “give” on both subjects since I consider him ...
  • Former Israeli Defense Minister Warns of BDS, ...
    Usually in mainstream Israeli political discourse, BDS is the “love” that dare not speak its name.  If the Knesset is seeking to pass a law to criminalize references to the Nakba, all the more so references to the terrible act of ‘delegitimization’ (what an ugly, ungainly word) that is BDS.  I ...
  • Annals of Israeli Judicial Racism
    James Joyce wrote A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.  Tonight I’m writing a portrait of a judge as an old racist. Some readers develop an allergic reaction when I write posts like the one I’m about to.  All I can say is if Israel’s highest professional leadership didn’t believe these thi ...

Ode Magazine

  • Three words that can help foster inner peace
    By: vdrake Disconnected, confused, harried, and dramatic. That was how I lived every day. Today I am calm, clear, and connected to my world and its surroundings in a peaceful loving way. What’s my secret? I became connected to my body’s sensations, a.k.a., my f ...
  • Discovering a message of love
    By: mmlarsen On April 30, 2011, at 7:55 a.m., my sister Renee became an angel. Well, I suppose she already was one, but on that day it became official. Renee had been living with cancer for nearly eight years. What started out as breast cancer, became live ...
  • Discovering a message of love
    By: mmlarsen On April 30, 2011, at 7:55 a.m., my sister Renee became an angel. Well, I suppose she already was one, but on that day it became official. Renee had been living with cancer for nearly eight years. What started out as breast cancer, became live ...
  • Oran Hesterman's vision of fair food
    By: EmilyAviles For the founder of the Fair Food Network, fixing our broken food system means going beyond eating local and organic foods. In Fair Food, Oran B. Hesterman firmly argues this vision: "It’s not unimportant to focus on what you’re doing in your kit ...
  • "We're not just another ape"
    By: Ode ‘Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.’ (‘I am human: nothinghuman is alien to me’) Terentius Lucanus, (ca.195BC–159BC) Today we are continually reminded about the damage done to our planet and its many living species by ‘selfish’, ‘greedy’ and ...

OpEd News

  • Todd Pollak on The Green Press Initiative
    It's a nonprofit program that takes a collaborative approach to working with publishers and their suppliers to reduce the environmental impacts of the book and newspaper industries. Since paper accounts for the largest part of most publishers' environmental footprint, a lot of our focus is on so ...
  • The Fight for Peace Heats Up
    An Obama refusal to decide on a significant troop reduction may jeopardize his re-election and will reveal much about power in Washington. Is there an institutional mindset firmly committed to the Long War in spite of huge public opposition, or does democratic sentiment matter enough overrule th ...
  • Skating to the Financial Abyss
    Even as another potential Great Depression looms, the U.S. political/media system seems incapable of addressing the crisis and devising coherent answers. Instead, the old partisan and lobbying games dominate the political world and obsession with trivia commands the news media's focus.
  • Three Deadly War Myths
    The U.S. wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya have involved myths pleasing to Official Washington -- about its own wisdom and the evil of the enemy -- but these false narratives have caused President Barack Obama and other U.S. policymakers to base decisions on illusion rather than reality.
  • Missy Wants a Bridge
    Growth is a good thing most of the time. Growth with the aim of good community development is a good thing but growth for the sake of growth alone is nothing more than the manipulation of government in the name of greed.

Switchboard

  • H.R. 1837 Offers No Solutions for California's ...
    Barry Nelson, Senior Policy Analyst, Water Program, San Francisco Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the June 2 House Subcommittee hearing on Congressman Nunes’ H.R. 1837 was the lack of focus on solutions.  California faces real water challeng ...
  • NRDC in the News 6/10: Radiation exposure, dr ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide The Wall Street Journal cited a NRDC report regarding health concerns from increased radiation exposure that may arise as a result of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident… In an Associated Press  ...
  • Despite Industry Pressure, Government Cancer R ...
    Jennifer Sass, Senior Scientist, Washington, D.C. Today the government released its 12th Report on Carcinogens (RoC) - naming styrene and formaldehyde as among the chemicals that are known (formaldehyde) or reasonably anticipated (styrene) to caus ...
  • Hey California! Millions of Sharks Need Your ...
    Leila Monroe, Staff Attorney, Oceans Program, San Francisco Sharks are in serious trouble as a result of the international shark fin trade, with some populations declined by 99%.  Why should you care?  Because sharks are amazing creatures – they a ...
  • Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile On June 4th the Puyehue Volcano erupted in an Andean volcano chain, prompting the evacuation of 3500 people from nearby villages.  The eruption was preceded by a series of earthquakes, ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • An Almost Perfect Record
    Can we get Kristol to predict that the Canucks will win the Stanley Cup and the Yankess will win the World Series?
  • The Entrenchment of the Right to Privacy
    I have some reflections on the anniversary of Griswold v. Connecticut. The focus of the article is that conservatives have managed to turn the phrase “penumbras and emanations” into a punchline even though it expresses an idea that is 1)perfectly logical and that 2)everyone agrees with. Douglas’ ...
  • Some People Claim That There’s A Woman t ...
    Right. His wife. His political instincts are absolutely surefire otherwise. …I mean, he has Zell Miller on board! If it wasn’t for that meddling Calista Newt could be rehearsing his inaugural speech right now.
  • Addendum
    I won’t fully repeat myself, but my arguments for why Andrew Johnson is the worst president in history and also making the case against Woodrow Wilson are here. To add a bit on Buchanan, essentially to qualify for the worst there has to be some combination of 1)inept performance and 2)bad policy ...
  • “And the issues that matter to Puerto Ri ...
    No, really?  The President makes the first “state visit” to the Commonwealth since JFK in 1961, and oddly the final disposition of Puerto Rico is somewhat on the agenda.  Regarding this, apparently there are two referenda on the agenda by the end of 2012.  The first will force the choice to b ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Abnormal Spring
    If you're new to Northern Nevada, you've probably already asked yourself this question: is this a normal spring? The calendar says we're three weeks from the start of summer, but winter still holds us in its grip. It leads us to wonder if something bigger is a foot, Dr. Kelly Redmond explains.
  • What effect do clouds have on climate?
    What is the climate effect of tiny particles such as aerosols, soot, and dust, in the atmosphere? Dr. Eric Wilcox, a world-class sailor and researcher, is exploring the answers to these questions linking the ever-changing composition of Earth’s atmosphere and climate change.
  • Best Management Practices for Preserving the L ...
    Alan Heyvaert not only works at Lake Tahoe but that’s where he plays too. “My wife and I are often kayaking around the lake when we have some free time,” said Alan Heyvaert, Ph.D., DRI assistant research professor.
  • DRI researchers work to boost consumer energy ...
    The patented software and hardware gives energy customers the power to realize energy savings. -- DRI scientists Hampden Kuhns, Ph.D. and Morien Roberts, Ph.D are empowering business owners and eventually residents to manage their energy consumption and adopt efficiency measures that will have ...
  • DRI Scientist Featured in Changing Planet Series
    NBC Learn's latest "Changing Planet" video features DRI's Dr. Joe McConnell and black carbon. Black carbon –small soot-like particles that are produced whenever fossil fuels or other organic substances are incompletely burned– is one of the leading contributors to global warming.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • 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.

environment 360

  • Carbon Released 10 Times Faster Than in Past E ...
    Carbon is being released into the atmosphere 10 times faster today than during a previous geological era when the Earth experienced significant warming, a new study says. In the study, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, scientists used rock and sediment samples from a coal mining operat ...
  • Two-Mile ‘Solar Tunnel’ Built on Belgian High- ...
    A European high-speed rail network has begun generating electricity from 16,000 solar panels installed atop a two-mile rail tunnel on the line running from Paris to Amsterdam. The panels, built by the Belgian EnfinityVIDEO: Belgium’s ‘solar tunnel’ renewable energy company Enfinity, will pr ...
  • As Arctic Sea Ice Retreats, Storms Take Toll o ...
    For millennia, the blanket of ice covering the Arctic Ocean protected the shore from damaging storms. But as that ice buffer disappears, increasingly powerful storm surges are eroding the coastline and sending walls of seawater inland, devastating Arctic ecosystems that support abundant wildlife ...
  • China Faces ‘Very Grave’ Environmental Situati ...
    Despite some progress in recent years, Chinese officials say that the nation still faces a “very grave” environmental situation, from industrial pollution that has triggered protests in numerous regions to a troubling decline in biodiversity. Speaking to reporters, officials from China’s Ministr ...
  • Interactive Devices To Be Used to Spur Consume ...
    Stanford researchers are developing interactive software that they say will provide insight into the energy decisions consumers make each day and ultimately encourage them to significantly improve the energy efficiency of their homes and offices. The program aims to collect data from so-called “ ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Papal call to the Space Station
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  • New Airport Security Check Will Feature Iris S ...
    "Eye scanners and information chips inside passports may soon be coming to an airport near you as the airline industry seeks to sharply reduce security check-in time and inconvenience." In the IATA prototype, passengers would be categorized based on the results of a government risk assessment th ...
  • Apple’s Jobs shows off "spaceship" headquarter ...
    Cupertino City Council is likely to approve Apple’s plans to build a new four-story spaceship-like HQ in the city, which would house around 12,000 staff. In response to Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ presentation to the council, Cupertino Mayor Gilbert Wong said: "There is no chance that we’re saying no ...
  • Worse than meltdown, ’melt-through’ has occurr ...
    Recent reports confirming that Reactors 1, 2, and 3 of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility completely melted just hours after the devastating earthquake and tsunami hit the area on March 11 (http://www.naturalnews.com/032537_F...) have been trumped by even worse news that those same reactors ...
  • ’Dramatic’ solar flare could disrupt Earth com ...
    An unusual solar flare observed by a NASA space observatory on Tuesday could cause some disruptions to satellite communications and power on Earth over the next day or so, officials said. The potent blast from the Sun unleashed a firestorm of radiation on a level not witnessed since 2006, and wi ...

Russia Today

  • Across Russia in a wheelchair
    A determined wheelchair user, making an epic crossing from Russia's East to West, has reached his final destination of Moscow.
  • Sochi on ski track for Winter Paralympics 2014
    Is it easy for a man in a wheelchair to travel to Sochi? This is a tough question for the mayor and his aides, as the city has exactly 1,000 days left to prepare for hosting the 2014 Winter Paralympics.
  • Ultra-Orthodox Jews campaign for dismantling o ...
    The conflict between Israelis and Palestinians in the Middle East still shows little sign of reaching a peaceful resolution. But in New York, there is a group of ultra-Orthodox Jews who believe an end to the state of...
  • Syrian forces shoot dead dozens of protesters
    Syrian security forces launched a long-feared operation aimed at restoring security in a rebel northern border town, killing dozens of pro-democracy demonstrators.
  • NATO: Gaddafi is legitimate target
    NATO is deliberately targeting Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, media reports have quoted a senior military alliance official as saying. Previously NATO had said that it did not target individuals in its military...

Dad2059′s Webzine of Science Fiction, Science Fact and Esoterica

  • The Cult of SETI is Broke
    Hello folks. I know, I know. I ought to get a smack down for neglecting to post for over two months, personal issues dictated the moment, big time. But today I couldn’t ignore this little tidbit of info about the Cult of SETI, and its’ dilemma: SETI is dead. Or at least, its major organ [...]
  • WikiLeaks, Allnewsweb and the TEA Party
    When one looks at the above title, the individual has to ask, WTF? What could these three things have in common? Well, according to ‘Mirage Men‘ author, Mark Pilkington, not really a whole hell of a lot, just rampant opportunism: When the first mention of UFOs in the tranche of diplomatic paper ...
  • Even Gary Bekkum is skeptical
    Gary Bekkum’s  STARpod.org’s site is usually replete with government conspiracies, psychic spies, hamsters, Bigelow’s Skinwalker Ranch, Laura Eisenhower’s Mars Colony and other wondrous esoteric oddities that it’s hard to believe that Gary could be skeptical of anything. But he is. He is very s ...
  • More Paracast: George Filer
    Yeah I know I’ve been lazy lately (or so it seems), but trust me on this one. You won’t be disappointed with this interview Gene Steinberg and co-host Chris O’Brien of the Paracast had with Eastern MUFON Director George Filer, who also has the website Filer’s Files (which caters to guess what? Y ...
  • The Paracast: Clifford Clift of MUFON
    This week’s Paracast with Gene Steinberg and Chris O’Brien is a conversation with MUFON International’s Clifford Clift. Subjects range from the nuts and bolts aspects of UFOs to the possible paranormal links with ghosts, angels, demons and Sasquatch. This was a down to earth and civil interview, ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a C ...
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The Freeman

  • Affording It All
    People who don’t understand -- or don’t care about -- economics say funny things.
  • Senate Votes to Cap Debit-Card Fees
    “Main Street out-muscled Wall Street on Wednesday as the Senate reaffirmed its support of limits on what banks can charge businesses for debit card transactions.” (USA Today) Look to see who jockeyed for advantage. FEE Timely Classic “What Price Control Really Means” by Lawrence W. Reed
  • Home Equity Hits Postwar Low
    “Falling home prices have shrunk equity so much that the proportion of homes that Americans actually own is near its lowest point since World War II.” (Washington Times) What government has wrought. FEE Timely Classic “The Dynamics of Disintervention” by Sandy Ikeda
  • Economic Stall Changing Terms of Debate
    “Recent signs that the economic recovery is flagging have introduced a new tension into the bipartisan budget negotiations, giving rise to calls especially from liberals to limit the size of immediate spending cuts or even to provide an additional fiscal stimulus.” (New York Times) A âreasonâ fo ...
  • Spending Cuts Would Dishonor U.S., Obama Says
    “President Barack Obama Wednesday argued that budget cuts that choke spending on clean energy and education would dishonor US history, previewing a 2012 campaign row with Republicans.” (AFP) Nice try, Mr. President. FEE Timely Classic “Liberalism and Limited Government” by Israel M. Kirzner

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Using WordPress in reporting classes
    Journalism educators who teach reporting or writing classes often come to the conclusion that it would be nice to put their students’ work online so that everyone in the class can see one another’s work — and possibly even comment on the stories written by others. This is a great idea, and I th ...
  • Updating Reporter’s Guide to Multimedia Profic ...
    It’s been two years since I wrote this free guide. Do you think it’s worth my while to update it? I’ve been thinking it might be good to put it on Wikia and allow others to edit and add to it. Then it could be updated any time, and translations could be contributed too. Please comment.   It’ ...
  • New WordPress theme for this blog
    Don’t be alarmed — I’ve changed to a new blog theme for Teaching Online Journalism. This is the free Fiver theme from WordPress.org. It uses HTML5 and CSS3, and the style sheet is nice and clean. I will be making some adjustments to it (especially the colors). All the content is still here, an ...
  • Is it stupid to major in journalism?
    A funny thing about writing a blog for a long time is that sometimes you want to write a post … and you discover that you have already written it. My original post (from two years ago) seems to be just as valid today: Why does anyone major in journalism? So I read it and thought about whether ...
  • Ideas for using Encyclo in journalism classes
    Have you looked at Encyclo, the new project from Nieman Journalism Lab? This is a really neat site for the present moment in journalism — when all kinds of new sites and apps are sprouting up like flowers in springtime. Entries include groundbreaking news sites such as the Texas Tribune, techno ...

Facing South

  • VOICES: Fighting unions in bizarro world
    By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest Some right-wingers in Congress appear to be envious of their state counterparts who have been attacking labor rights in legislatures across the country. They were given an opportunity to engage in some union-bashing of their own at a recent hearing of the H ...
  • Southern states seek end run around Justice De ...
    If you're a Republican legislator eager to redraw your state's political lines to your party's favor in time for the 2012 elections, but fear opposition from a state Democratic attorney general and the Obama Justice Department, what to do? Sneak little-noticed language into the bottom ...
  • John Edwards cheat sheet: What are the facts, ...
    By Marian Wang, ProPublica First, a sex scandal, followed by a messy cover-up and an even messier fessing-up. The sequence has become all but routine in Washington. But the�criminal case�against two-time Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is anything but run-of-the-mill. While ...
  • Study finds unionization saves coal miners' lives
    A new study has found that coal miners who work in unionized mines have a dramatically lower likelihood of suffering injuries and fatalities. The research was done by Stanford University law professor Alison Morantz with funding from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and ...
  • Kentucky Republican wants to weaken EPA, fast ...
    By Farron Cousins, DeSmogBlog Republican Congressman Ed Whitfield from Kentucky, who serves as chairman of the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power, has made it clear that he will do everything in his power to push several bills that will strip the Environmental Protection Agency of its abi ...

Worldpress - Africa

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Ian Welsh

  • Strategies for Resistance and Change
    There are multiple strategies for change in a corrupt and oligarchical society.  They aren’t all mutually exclusive.  Let’s run through some of them. Showing Up and Playing Nice (aka. Demonstrations) Demonstrations by themselves work when your lords and masters want them to.  In some time per ...
  • Stephen Ross tells us the powerful do as they ...
    So, here’s Stephen Ross interviewing Arundhati Roy: I want to talk more about Mary Roy â and eventually we do â but there’s one important point to clear up first. Guerrillas use violence, generally directed against the police and army, but sometimes causing injury and death to civilians caught i ...
  • Portugal votes for austerity
    Yet another nation: Portugal’s opposition Social Democrats (PSD) won a conclusive victory in a general election on Sunday, paving the way for a new centre-right government coalition to implement the country’s €78bn bail-out programme. The PSD had gained 39 per cent of the vote, against 28 per ce ...
  • The Depression and the future
    Ok, everyone’s talking about the oncoming recession.  What it is is the second downleg of the depression we’ve been in since the financial crisis. All of this has been baked in since 2009.  Since January 2009, when Barack Obama announced his stimulus, which was not just too small, but put toge ...
  • Moral Monster Test
    If you support this, you are one: Members of Orlando Food Not Bombs were arrested Wednesday when police said they violated a city ordinance by feeding the homeless in Lake Eola Park. Jessica Cross, 24, Benjamin Markeson, 49, and Jonathan “Keith” McHenry, 54, were arrested at 6:10 p.m. on a charg ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • NIH finds a few new friends in budget chill
    At a moment in which US politicians are seeking to outdo each other as proponents of fiscal restraint, it is relatively rare to find senators speaking up to defend spending. But today, roughly a third of senators are doing so on behalf of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), asking the S ...
  • Sweet relief as salty satellite soars skywards
    Nasa has successfully launched its ‘Aquarius’ satellite mission into orbit. The mission – which will measure ocean salinity – was hefted into space atop a Delta II rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 7:20, Pacific time this morning. “Data from this mission will ...
  • Beansprouts: guilty
    "It's the bean sprouts," said Reinhard Burger, head of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the German federal agency for disease surveillance in Berlin. The verdict, delivered earlier today, finally settles weeks of speculation about the source of the Escherichia coli outbreak which has swept acros ...
  • Off-target effects of bans on embryonic stem c ...
    A sociological analysis of stem cell publications has generated data to back up an argument that stem-cell researchers have been making for years: hindering embryonic stem cell research also impedes technologies — such as induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells — that don't rely on embryos. “It’ ...
  • Equinox Summit: communiqué outlines vision for ...
    After nearly a week of dialogue, participants at the Equinox Summit in Waterloo, Ontario, released their initial communiqué envisioning a path forward on low-carbon electricity over the next two decades. The document (pdf) lays out a vision for the future of electricity generation, distribut ...

new geography

  • The Streets of Chengdu, A Photo Essay
    We all know or have heard about the overwhelming development going on in China. Journalists enthuse and analysts throw magnificent statistics of what seems to be a miracle. Yet there is little discussion of the daily life of the common people, and their struggle. There are miracles aplenty in ...
  • Education as an Export
    A trade deficit is a negative balance between a nation’s imports and its exports, so a country with a trade deficit is spending more on imports than it is receiving for selling its exports. Is there any more that can be done to reduce this deficit over the course of time? One potential solution ...
  • USA: A Net Exporter of Natural Gas?
    Less than a decade ago, major American energy companies were investing billions in constructing new terminals for importing liquefied natural gas — the cooled, dense state of methane that makes it economical for it to be transported by ship. Today, some of those same companies are contemplating ...
  • California’s Green Jihad
    Ideas matter, particularly when colored by religious fanaticism, wreaking havoc even in the most favored of places. Take, for instance, Iran, a country blessed with a rich heritage and enormous physical and human resources, but which, thanks to its theocratic regime, is largely an economic baske ...
  • Orlando’s Sunrail: Blank Checks Induced by Was ...
    We are supposedly living in an age of austerity, but many federal programs are leading many states into overspending and potential fiscal insolvency.  Transit spending is a case in point, as is indicated by the proposed Orlando Sunrail commuter rail project. How Washington Induces Higher Sta ...

GM Watch

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Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Stock Prices Have Fallen For Six Weeks In A Row
    Well, it's official.  U.S. stock prices have fallen for six weeks in a row.  So will next week make it seven?  The last time stocks declined for seven weeks in a row was back in May 2001 when the "dot-com" bubble was bursting.  At this point, the Dow has declined by approximatel ...
  • 12 More Signs That Society Is Collapsing
    What we are now witnessing is the slow motion unraveling of America.  Our economy is dying, the American people have lost faith in the government and in almost all of our other major institutions, and our society is collapsing.  Most Americans don't understand why all of this is ...
  • 18 Signs The Collapse Of Society Is Accelerating
    As the U.S. economy collapses, the thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted is going to begin to disappear.  In fact, there are already an increasing number of signs that the collapse of society is accelerating.  In cities such as Chicago, roving packs of young p ...
  • 10 Tipping Points Which Could Potentially Plun ...
    The global economy has become so incredibly unstable at this point that it is not going to take much to plunge the world into a horrific economic nightmare.  The foundations of the world economic system are so decayed and so corrupted that even a stiff breeze could potentially t ...
  • Will The Banksters And The Corpocracy Eventual ...
    Today, average Americans have less power relative to the monolithic corporate and governmental institutions that dominate our society than at any other point in U.S. history.  Sadly, this is not what our founding fathers ever envisioned.  Our founding fathers established a gover ...

Desertification

  • More than 70 percent of the world’s poor ...
    Read at : http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110601/ap_on_re_us/us_food_and_farm_gates_agriculture_2 Gates Foundation spends $1.7B on farming in Africa By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP, Associated Press SEATTLE â The world’s largest charitable foundation announced five years ago it would spend millions of ...
  • Previously forgotten under-utilised seeds in s ...
    Read at : http://agro.biodiver.se/2011/06/selling-seed-of-orphan-crops-in-kenya/ Selling seed of orphan crops in Kenya by LUIGI …………… a Kenyan seed company called Leldet, which⦠â¦now offers farmers the opportunity to buy different varieties of previously forgotten under-utilised seeds, more su ...
  • Water management in Senegal is often presented ...
    Read at : http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=25385 Senegal: Water privatisation – country at crossroads Summary & Comment: “While the Senegalese government wishes to âdisengage financially from the water sectorâ, it is precisely the previous public management of water that has begun to im ...
  • Trees are steadily disappearing from our citie ...
    A serious comment : I am a teacher in Arad, Romania and have just come across your post about desertification in Romania. Unfortunately trees are steadily disappearing from our cities as well, they are simply slaughtered. Even when young trees … Continue reading →
  • Video on a Desertification Conference in Israe ...
    Video seen at You Tube (Chinese spoken) : Google Alert – desertification http://youtu.be/Q7ww89IVQwQ The Route to Restoration The 3rd International Conference on Drylands, Deserts & Desertification (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)

The Paper Trail

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

backofthebook.ca

  • On SunTV and Margie Gillis
    On June 1, 2011, SunTV broadcast an interview with veteran Canadian dancer and choreographer Margie Gillis (see link below), which quickly turned abusive towards the guest. In a message on his facebook page, Canadian dancer Louis Laberge-Côté, currently a teacher at Nationaltheatre Manheim in Ge ...
  • Wikileaks on Harper, America, and the “t ...
    By Alison@Creekside An embassy cable written by US Ambassador David Wilkins the day the Cons were first elected in 2006 suggests Harper would be useful in advancing the US agenda for Canada and that giving him " a success story" like the softwood lumber deal would "shore up" his ability to st ...
  • Antimatter contained for 17 minutes; hello Vulcans
    by Eric Pettifor Canadian researchers (and others, but we'll focus on lauding our countrypersons) at CERN near North Battleford, Saskatchewan (ok, CERN is really in Switzerland, but it should be in Saskatchewan) have managed to capture and contain antimatter for a whopping 17 minutes (layper ...
  • Why Michael Moore isn’t the only Brigett ...
    By Montreal Simon Well I see the legend of Brigette DePape continues to grow, like a red rose of hope in the darkness of Harperland. Quoted in The Globe: "I have been really inspired because there have been thousands of people who have sent messages or commented on the Internet. People kn ...
  • Young Adult fiction: the poison is the antidote
    by Rachel Krueger Meghan Cox Gurdon’s Wall Street Journal article on the ‘explicit abuse, violence and depravity’ grown rife in YA fiction must come either from a place of willful blindness or an actual dark rock, under which she has been living.  Granted, YA has gotten much more violent sin ...

libcom

  • Wildcat strike at Royal Mail sorting office ge ...
    cut-off.jpg Staff at a London sorting office have taken illegal strike action and won the reinstatement of a fellow worker. Around 90 postal workers at the N1 sorting office to ...
  • New Zealand: Obscene Pay Rises For Bosses, Pay ...
    budget day rally.jpg The bosses of New Zealand’s biggest companies (including state-owned enterprises) received a massive average pay rise of 14% in the 2010 financial year. This has bumped up their ...
  • India: Wildcat strike at Maruti Suzuki continu ...
    maruti_651928f.jpg The strike at the Indian carmaker's Manesar plant has entered its sixth day, with threats of similar strikes at other plants being made. The wildcat strike e ...
  • Power strike ongoing in Karachi
    karachi.jpg A strike by workers at Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has yet to come to a resolution, and is disrupting industry across Pakistan. Workers at KESC have been ...
  • Dale Farm eviction funding confirmed
    Basildon MP John Baron has announced that eviction of part of Britain's biggest traveller site will go ahead after "worst case" funding of £9.5m was found to evict around 500 people, including around 100 children, from their homes. B ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • A HoroKane – AKA The Perfect Storm
    For the record, I am posting PUBLICLY the entire e-mail exchange between myself, A. True Ott, Sherri Kane, and Leonard Horowitz during August, 2010. Despite numerous slanderous attacks and libelous posts targeting myself and others on Ms. Kane’s website and radio talk shows since this initial e- ...
  • Public Letter to “Sherri” Kane and ...
    AN OPEN LETTER TO SHERRI KANE AND LEONARD HOROWITZ DDS This public letter is being written and openly posted on my ONLY personal web blog, www.atrueott.com in rebuttal to the baseless, inherently false and libelous allegations posted by Ms. Kane “on behalf of”  Mr. Leonard Horowitz. I do not wis ...
  • Jeru-Salem Underground!!!!
    Talk about being “undermined”.   The Rats Run The Sewer – Especially in Jeru-Salem. Check it out: Beneath Jerusalem, an underground city takes shape AP â In this May 17, 2011 photo, a view of Zedekiah’s Cave is seen in Jerusalem’s Old City. Underneath the ⦠Slideshow:Underground Jerusalem B ...
  • McKinney Bombshell
    Cynthia McKinney Drops Bombshell: Candidates to sign pledges of support for “Israel” by Richard Edmondson, source In an interview which aired on Press TV on Saturday–one day before the AIPAC conference got under way in Washington–former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney revealed what amount ...
  • Sometimes It’s Nice to be Proven RIGHT!!
    During the years 2005-2008, I spent hundreds of hours on radio and TV talk shows, and gave dozens of PowerPoint presentations on what I labeled the “BIRD FLU SCAM”.  This, of course, evolved into the “SWINE FLU SCAM” – a non-existent “pandemic” which I at that time declared was designed primari ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Bob McDonald Part 2 (Apr 9, 2011)
    Part two of our annual show where CBC's Science Correspondent answers your questions about the mysteries of the world that have always puzzled you.
  • Milos Raonic, ATP Tennis Player (Apr 2, 2011)
    The Canadian tennis star and his power serve are making waves around the world. Peter talks with Raonic about childhood ambition, focus and the sport he loves.
  • Almas Jiwani, Women's Rights Advocate
    President of National Committee of UN Women in Canada on the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day and the state of women around the world.
  • Don Tapscott
    Best-selling author Don Tapscott on the "wiki-revolutions" in the Middle East and how mass collaboration is changing our world.
  • Roberta Jamieson
    Roberta Jamieson, head of the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation talks about her commitment to the education and success of aboriginal youth.

Scotts Contracting

  • Residential Solar Electric Systems for $132/month
    My Solar Supplier is offering Residential Financing with monthly payments lower than your current electricity bill from Ameren. Payments as low as $132/month for a 5Kw system. No down payment required. Not a leasing program. Email me for the specifics at: scottscontracting@gmail.com or use the F ...
  • USA Energy Savings Bill Targets Net-Zero by 2030
    On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Scotts Contracting wrote: What’s Happening from Environmental Building News â Paula Melton Senators Jeanne Shaheen (center) and Rob Portman (right) recently introduced the Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act, a massive energy bil ...
  • Politicians Return BP Re-Election Donations
    On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Scotts Contracting wrote: Politicians are finally listening to their Constituents and turning away Oil Company Donations. BP Back in Politics, T-Paw Makes it Official and More in Capital Eye Opener: May 24 By Tarini Parti and Kathleen Ronayne ...
  • Climate change: Heat wave a reminder
    EDITORIAL: Climate change: Heat wave a reminder of the urgency of climate change and the need for Maryland — and the nation — to take action now May 31, 2011 The Baltimore Sun, Maryland By The Baltimore Sun May 31–Organizers could scarcely have chosen a more appropriate day to call attention to ...
  • Germany Can Get Rid of Nuclear Power, Why Can& ...
    Germany Can Get Rid of Nuclear Power, Why Can’t the US? Facebook Join List Videos Twitter Website Donate If Germany Can Get Rid of Nuclear Power, Why Can’t the US? Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, will be in Washington DC next week to meet with President Obama. But she wonât be talking to h ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • US vs Islamic Militants: Invisible Balance of ...
    Book Review US vs Islamic Militants: Invisible Balance of Power by Sajjad Shaukat is, in essence, a review of western military history as it relates to Balance of Power theory. The latter is based on the premise that in the absence of an international body capable of enforcing internationa ...
  • Medicare for All: The Only Solution to Big Pharma
    Don’t Chop It – Expand It to Everyone for Real Cost Savings! www.healthcare-now.org/ In my view, the only solution to the mess “corporatization” has made of the US health care system is to follow the example of other industrialized countries and establish a single, nationally funded health progr ...
  • The Economic Cost of “Me-Too” Drugs
    http://scienceblogs.com The drug companies and pharmaceutical industry analysts that pimp them claim that me-too drugs (see May 30 blog) are beneficial for the US health care system in two ways. First they allegedly lower prescription costs by increasing competition. Secondly they provide doctor ...
  • Osama bin Laden: Dead or Alive
    Book Review 2009 Olive Branch Press by David Ray Griffin (author of The New Pearl Harbor) Osama bin Laden: Dead or Alive attempts to explain how America’s favorite terrorist came to release 19 video and audiotapes following his death and funeral – duly reported by ...
  • The “Me-Too” Drug Rip-Off
    www.oldthinkernews.com In addition to the billions of health care dollars drug companies waste on disease mongering – convincing the public that everyday human problems are  illnesses requiring treatment – billions more are wasted on developing and marketing hundreds of “me-too” drugs. By defini ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • D-Day, Dishonouring Their Memory
    Today, well yesterday, was the 67th anniversary of the D-Day Invasion. This was a salient event in American history, glorified in such movies as “The Longest Day” or “Saving Private Ryan.” And, unlike certain recent minor military operations involving a few dozen commandos and a few helicopters, ...
  • Socialism for the Rich Illustrated
    This is the former site of Black Oak Books, a once thriving book store in North Berkeley. To say it was an anchor store in the neighbourhood would be an understatement, it as an important part of the community and a serious business draw for its local little business district. It thrived till th ...
  • The Carrington Event
    Early in the morning of September 2nd 1859 the sky brightened and gold miners in Colorado got up and started cooking their breakfast. Gold miners get up with the Sun of course, at least the gold miners of that era. It wasn’t long before they noticed that while the sky was amazingly bright and co ...
  • Netanyahu Makes Israel’s Position Clear: ...
    Netanyahu gave  a speech to Congress where he clarified Israel’s position on a negotiated settlement with the Palestinians, and his opinion of Obama’s recent policy speech on the Middle East. The title of the post pretty much sums it up. And how did our elected leaders respond to this man? He g ...
  • Through Thick and Thin
    Well, no rapture. No surprise. It really is dismaying how people can believe prima facie nonsense in this day and age. It’s especially galling because so many Americans, especially the ones who fall for this kind of crap, have an especially high opinion of America and Americans. A country where ...

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Roundtable on China’s Energy Future
    Join the forum discussion on this post Just a note that this weekend I leave for an extended business trip, with visits to Seattle, Washington D.C., Germany, Massachusetts, Vermont, and California. I will be on the road for about four weeks, but will try to keep to my schedule of posting new co ...
  • Taking Care of the Topsoil
    Following my inclusion in the Top 10 list of ethanol enemies, I sought to Set the Ethanol Record Straight on my actual views on ethanol. I set out three broad tenets that shape my views. They are: Tenet One: We must transition from fossil fuels with a sense of urgency. Tenet Two: We need to ...
  • Book Review: Power Trip
    Join the forum discussion on this post Introduction I tend to accumulate a lot of books – sent to me by publishers and publicists – and they pile up on my desk until I have to make a trip somewhere. Because it takes a long time to get from Hawaii to anywhere else, [...]
  • Scientists Create Ethanol From Hydrogen They C ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Alas, today I had intended to put up my book review of Amanda Littleâs book Power Trip, but I left the book on my desk in the office and I need to review some notes first. So that should be posted for my Thursday column. If you haven’t [...]
  • Scientists Create Ethanol From Hydrogen They C ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Alas, today I had intended to put up my book review of Amanda Littleâs book Power Trip, but I left the book on my desk in the office and I need to review some notes first. So that should be posted for my Thursday column. If you haven’t [...]

Discovery Educator Network

  • #curation #edtech20 #edtools of the day #bundl ...
    Comments:#Bundlr new and free tool for online #curation: clipping, aggregation and sharing web content easily More https://twitter.com/#!/web20education - LUCIAN DUMATags: curation, edtech20, education20, tools, resources, bundlrby: LUCIAN DUMA
  • momswithapps.com —
    Tags: apps, iPad, ipod, education, iphone, iTouch, momswithapps, blogby: Dean Mantz
  • Stroome | mix it up. mash it out.
    Tags: editing, collaboration, tools, video_editing, collaborative, remix, mixby: Fred Delventhal
  • Photo Ops: 10 Innovative Ways to Use Visual Media
    Tags: photo, media, visualizationby: Dean Mantz
  • HootCourse: About
    Comments:HootCourse uses a combination of social networks and blogging platforms to provide a new type of online classroom. - Jackie GersteinTags: elearning, collaboration, twitter, hootcourse, education, web2.0, blogsby: Jackie Gerstein

Rodale News

  • Modern Farmer's Market Innovations Make Health ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—There's often a throwback feel to farmer's markets. It's a place where you can seek out the same heirloom vegetable varieties your great-grandmother adored. Old-school, heritage breed chicken eggs? Yep, a true farmer's market probably offers them. And while the farmer's ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: DIY Wedding Favor Ideas
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—At the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the guests all left with luxurious wool scarves, sporting the Union Jack in various colorful prints, that cost about $75 each. Chances are you haven't budgeted that amount of money into your next soiree. And do y ...
  • Have the Best Memorial Day Ever!
    It's almost here...the three-day weekend that marks the beginning of the sunny season of summer. But are you ready? read more
  • Easy Sustainable Landscaping Projects for the ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—If you find yourself mumbling "Ick!" every time you walk out onto your doorstep and scan your landscape, or grumbling every time you fire up the lawnmower to clear cut your weed-stricken, uninspiring front lawn, it might be time to cultivate sustainable landscaping techn ...
  • About Sprouts: Don't Eat Them, and Everything ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Tiny bean sprouts, produced on an organic farm in Germany, have been pegged as the source of the massive Eu read more

big think

  • Chef Wylie Dufresne Likes to Play With His Food
    Chef Wylie Dufresne believes in playing with his food—but not in the usual sense of the phrase. In his popular New York restaurant, wd-50, Dufresne applies molecular gastronomy, a field of science that studies the chemistry behind cooking, to create new and unfamiliar dishes. In his Big Thi ...
  • These Chemicals Are Good For You (And Yummy)
    What's the Big Idea?� This is not your grandmother's kitchen. In fact, it much more closely resembles a laboratory, with appliances such as water baths, homog�e�niz�ers and cen�trifuges, and ingre�di�ents such as hydro�col�loids, emul�si�fiers, and enzymes. This is Nathan Myhrvold's kitchen, ...
  • Where Weinergate Stands in a Long (and Strange ...
    New York Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner’s misadventures with his digital camera, Twitter account, and boxers have given us yet another “-gate”— Weinergate. But Weiner’s not the first male figure in power to make some display of his nether regions in a confusion of sexual and political pow ...
  • Help Wanted: Need Campaign Manager, Senior Adv ...
    The Newt Gingrich presidential campaign has suffered more mishaps than you are likely to see in a marathon of The Three Stooges episodes. Almost a dozen campaign staffers have pulled a Mutiny On The Bounty because it seems his wife Callista has too much say so in the direction of his campaign. A ...
  • A Brief Note on the Gingrich Campaign
    Accidents happen. Their causes are physical, and it's our actions that make them likely or unlikely, not the names we call them. I know this. Yet the inherent biases of the human mind are such that it is very, very hard to resist the feeling that the British guy who named his new boat the Titani ...

Information Liberation

  • What Better Time than Now to End the Drug War?
    The Pentagon and the military-industrial complex and other drug-war proponents must be reeling over recent reports on the federal fiasco known as the drug war. Two of the reports were issued by the U.S. government itself. According to the Los A...
  • War Costs Soar, and Yet More War Than We Barga ...
    Those hoping Obama would have been even slightly less belligerent than the last president must be truly disappointed now. I know I am. First, we learn the Libya war, where airstrikes have again intensified, is costing more than previously estimate...
  • Video: LAPD Beat People Up At Kids' Halloween ...
    LOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- A local attorney has released a video that he says shows LAPD officers threatening and attacking people at a children's party. The video, which lasts about 4 minutes, was shot at a Halloween party last October, according to a...
  • Dr. David Mandy: Special Needs Son Harassed by ...
    ROMULUS, Mich. (WJBK) - The Mandy family says they were on their way to the happiest place on earth (Disney), but had to go through hell to get there. "I realize they're trying to keep people safe, but come on, does he look like a terrorist?" said...
  • TSA Considering Banning Photography Of Checkpoints
    The Transportation Security Administration is considering changing its policy on photographing security checkpoints after several videos depicting questionable incidents between passengers and TSA screeners were posted on Youtube. News of the poss...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Gone Skiing
    Well, I wish I was anyway. Today marks the start of the Australian ski season, and reports from all resorts indicate it’ll be a ripper. I was reminded of this story from 2008 in which our peak taxpayer-funded science body, … Continue reading →
  • My Favourite Pom
    Sorry folks: that’s it for penises and Jews for me for a while. I thought I’d pay brief homage to one of the century’s greatest philosophers, connoisseurs, insanely fast drivers and all-round bon vivants. Every Monday evening, the house stops for … Continue reading →
  • The Last Respectable Prejudice
    I can’t believe I’ve just read this in 2011. The Melbourne Herald-Sun’s Andrew Bolt picked up on this article in the Los Angeles Times, regarding a citizen-initiated referendum in the state of California seeking to outlaw male circumcision. Now, I’m not … Continue reading →
  • Free Speech, Gag Orders And Accountability
    I’m going to tackle this in more depth a little later. But the other day I was shown (Hat-tip Izen) the existence of something called super-injunctions, of which prior till now I’d been blissfully ignorant. It’s important enough to call … Continue reading →
  • Playing the Race Card
    I couldn’t let the current events at the DT pass by without a comment or two, and a chance for us to have a somewhat more sane discussion if at all possible. For those who haven’t seen it, James Delingpole … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • How to network in science without schmoozing
    How to network in science without schmoozing – Professional networking is not about schmoozing and "leveraging" the who-you-know in a selfish way, it's about getting to know people and having people get to know you. It's about being curious, asking honest questions and finding out about what you ...
  • Scerri stuff indeed
    Scerri stuff indeed – Non-chemists, and perhaps a few chemists, might have assumed that once all the holes in Mendeleev's Periodic Table were filled with modern discoveries and the lanthanides and actinides added, that the Table was forever immutable, a stone tablet to adorn high school chemistr ...
  • Listening to digitized vinyl
    Listening to digitized vinyl – I'm currently writing a piece for sciencetext about the price of digital goods, including mp3s and CDs etc. While researching the article, I discovered this interesting item on being an audiophile in the modern age and listening to digital recordings of vinyl recor ...
  • Gossip, grooming, and your Dunbar number
    Gossip, grooming, and your Dunbar number – David Dobbs waxes lyrical in Wired this week on the subject of the Dunbar number, that fairly well-known social science icon that says that our brains are powerful enough to handle only 150 friends (+/-50 or so). It's a bit of a truism, I think. Some pe ...
  • Safety in the nano sphere
    Safety in the nano sphere – The safety of nanotechnology is high on the scientific and political agenda. Qualifying and quantifying the issues remains difficult. An Italia team has now devised and tested what they describe as a "systematic and reproducible evaluation of nanoparticle toxicology i ...

RFF Library

  • Department of Energy: Advanced Technology Vehi ...
    Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-11-745T DOE has taken several steps to implement the ATVM program. First, it set three program goals: increase the fuel economy of U.S. passenger vehicles as a whole, advance U.S. automotive technology, and protect taxpayers’ finan ...
  • Cost Estimate for H.R. 1309 Flood Insurance Re ...
    Congressional Budget Office http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/122xx/doc12231/HR1309.pdf H.R. 1309 would authorize the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to enter into and renew flood insurance policies through fiscal year 2016. Under current law, t ...
  • International Workshop on Research, Developmen ...
    Harvard Univ., Kennedy School, Belfer Center / by Laura D. Anadon, Valentina Bosetti, Matthew Bunn, Michela Catenacci, and Audrey Lee http://bit.ly/mlGdz1 …To gather information on the RD&D needs for the future of nuclear energy, the future cost and performance of nuclear technologies, and on th ...
  • The Economic Opportunities of Shale Energy Dev ...
    Manhattan Institute for Policy Research / by Timothy J. Considine, Robert W. Watson and Nicholas B. Considine http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/eper_09.htm (summary) Full Report: http://www.manhattan-institute.org/pdf/eper_09.pdf [From an Ithaca Journal article by Jon Campbell]  New York c ...
  • TSCA Submissions with Newly Declassified Claim ...
    US EPA, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxicology http://1.usa.gov/kE1UjF [From Press Release]  …the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has made public the identities of more than 150 chemicals contained in 104 health and safety studies that had been claimed confidential by industry…For t ...

Scientific American - News

  • Why'd He Have to Go and Cry? Weiner's Tears Ma ...
    Anthony Weiner, the once cheered, now shamed New York congressman, made at least two mistakes in the past two weeks. First, he lied, and then he cried."I have exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years," he admitted, after denying three day ...
  • Rings and Worms Tell the Tale of a Shipwreck F ...
    Twenty-three duct-taped packages chilled in a refrigerator at Columbia University's Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y., for months before scientists finally got up the nerve last December to pull them out and peel them open.Neil Pederson's team had initially chickened out. His ...
  • Electrical Fire Knocks Out Spent Fuel Cooling ...
    A fire in an electrical switch room on Tuesday briefly knocked out cooling for a pool holding spent nuclear fuel at the Fort Calhoun nuclear plant outside Omaha, Neb., plant officials said.The safety of deep pools used to store used radioactive fuel at nuclear plants has been an issue since ...
  • Autism's Tangled Genetics Full of Rare and Var ...
    The underpinnings of autism are turning out to be even more varied than the disease's diverse manifestations. In four new studies and an analysis published June 8 researchers have added some major landmarks in the complex landscape of the disease, uncovering clues as to why the disease is so m ...
  • Shattered Expectations: Ultrabright Supernovae ...
    From the outlook of a planet that resides next to a quiet, relatively predictable star, the circumstances that lead to dramatic stellar explosions elsewhere in the universe can sound somewhat improbable. Some such blasts, known as type Ia supernovae, occur when a small, dense star known as a whi ...

First Truths

  • Theories of Value and Metaphysics (Cont.)
    My last post reminded me of this illuminating passage from Wendy McElroy: In hinting that egoistic contracts would have to benefit �the sentiments� as well as meet some material criteria, Tak Kak went against the prevailing and almost unquestioned economic theory of the Liberty circle. The ninet ...
  • Theories of Value and Metaphysics
    Although, as a proponent of the Austrian School, I do not accept the labor theory of value, I’ve come to believe that there is considerable confusion about what its advocates themselves mean by it, and that many of its opponents impute to it claims or propositions that it doesn’t per se subsume. ...
  • David Goodway on American Individualist Anarchism
    This passage from David Goodway's Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow: Left-Libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward�contains an amusing bit of trivia about James Joyce: The individualist current was influential in the USA, where its adherents, although as opposed t ...
  • Charles A. Beard on the "real origin of the state"
    The following is a notable passage from Beard's lecture,�Politics, first delivered at Columbia University in February of 1908: The real origin of the state . . . is to be found in conquest, although it must be admitted that power-bearing individuals were previously rising within the older patria ...
  • More on Primitive Accumulation and Today's "Fr ...
    Excerpted from Karl Polanyi in Vienna: The Contemporary Significance of The Great Transformation, edited by Kenneth McRobbie and Kari Polanyi Levitt: What prior conditions must pertain in order for capitalist activity to occur and be profitable and how are these conditions brought about? Marx's ...

Media Co-Op

  • Not Taking No For an Answer. Kevin Neish, The ...
    It has been just over a year since Kevin Neish bore witness to the Israeli Defence Force-orchestrated massacre of nine activists aboard the Turkish ship MV Mavi Marmara, events that shocked the world, and brought an end to last year's Fre ...
  • Ethnicize this shit
    "Rogue Page" Brigitte DePape's act of civil disobedience recast into public consciousness the election blues of the left. After accomplishing the unprecedented feat within Canadian political history of being found in contempt of parliamen ...
  • Sea Change with Art and Music
    Youth getting creative at the SPOT   Every Monday and Thursday evening until June 24th, The SPOT is hosting Sea Change, a creative program for Haligonians wanting to get inspired through art and music.   After one year in the making, creat ...
  • Residential Schools and My Journey to the Down ...
    âIn Our Own Voices,â Week I I was 6 years old when I was taken away from my parents and grandparents in Ahousat BC and forced into a residential school. The Department of Indian Affairs came to our reserve every year in the 1950’s, taking ...
  • Residential Schools and My Journey to the Down ...
    âIn Our Own Voices,â Week I I was 6 years old when I was taken away from my parents and grandparents in Ahousat BC and forced into a residential school. The Department of Indian Affairs came to our reserve every year in the 1950’s, taking ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Times Change
    David Seaton's News LinksI happened on this clip and I began to wonder about how something that was once so mainstream, so top of the line, so wholesome, so American "family" entertainment, now looks so painfully like a charter flight full of scummy, leering, pedophile, sex tourists setting of ...
  • Memento Mori: In a hundred years we'll all be bald
    "It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up -- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kubler-RossDavid Seaton's News LinksA favorite subject ...
  • Better watch out for the cucumber that ate Ham ...
    The number of people hit by a massive European outbreak of foodborne bacterial infections is a third bigger than previously known and a stunningly high number of patients suffer from a potentially deadly complication than can shut down their kidneys, officials said Wednesday. Associated Press Y ...
  • The Bradley Manning Video
    David Seaton's News Links This video raises many, many issues... but the most significant thing is how somebody like this was ever kept in the army in the first place and then was sent to Iraq and then given the access to the classified information he was given access to. This is very, very s ...
  • The Middle East made simple(r)
    David Seaton's News LinksWhen very complex situations become very simple is when they become most dangerous. The situation that America finds itself in today's Middle East is such a situation: simple and potentially deadly for American prestige and power, two things which feed off each other, an ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Organic Food May Become a Thing of the Past
    Riceland Foods is the largest rice cooperative in the U.S. �The cooperative filed suit against the Bayer Corporation for damages it suffered as a result of Bayer's unapproved genetically-modified rice contaminating natural long-grain rice -- one of hundreds of similar lawsuits that have been fil ...
  • Why is America the 'No-Vacation Nation'?
    Other than a few national holidays, most American workers only get two or three weeks off each year. This is much less than what people in many other countries receive, and even that amount of vacation often comes with strings attached. A typical German might get six weeks of vacation each year ...
  • The Great Cancer Hoax: The Brilliant Cure the ...
    Burzynski: Cancer Is Serious Business from BurzynskiMovie on Vimeo.Burzynski, the Movie is the story of a medical doctor and Ph.D biochemist named Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski who won the largest, and possibly the most convoluted and intriguing legal battle against the Food and Drug Administration in ...
  • Never Feed Your Child Using This Because You W ...
    By Dr. Mercola With escalating rates of childhood illness these days, it is more important than ever to be careful about what you feed your child, from day one. Babies are already born at considerable risk due to the toxic load of their mothers. Some of this is from exposure to plastics and ...
  • Average Drug Label Lists Over Whopping 70 Side ...
    Using a computer program, scientists analyzed 5,600 drug labels and more than 500,000 labeled effects. They found that the average drug comes with a list of 70 potential reactions, according to researchers. In fact, the more commonly prescribed drugs averaged around 100 side effects each, with ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • What should be done about the Senate?
    The wags had a field day when the prime minister named three defeated Conservative candidates to the Senate the same day he announced his new cabinet.
  • The PQ's pursuit of political fantasy drags it ...
    Parti Qu�b�cois leader Pauline Marois gamely shrugged off a poll taken two days into her party's latest internal convulsion as just one poll taken in the heat of a tense situation.
  • Police probes of other cops sap public confidence
    Undermining public confidence in the police is a recipe for fostering social malaise. Yet this is the effect of Quebec's policy to have police forces investigate shootings by members of fellow police forces in the province without necessarily having to observe rules of conduct that apply to inve ...
  • Anti-SLAPP law: Good idea, poor execution
    The Quebec government admirably took the lead in legislating against so-called SLAPP suits. The law to counter them was passed two years ago this month, the first such in this country. But as a Gazette report this week noted, the law in practice has been less than an unqualified success.
  • Real budget surprise comes when program cuts hit
    The Conservative government's post-election budget purposely did not differ all that greatly from its pre-election budget.

Food World Order

  • e.coli won't have 'significant impact' on orga ...
    from bloomberg: A deadly E.coli outbreak that is being blamed on sprouts grown without chemicals probably won’t dent people’s support for the organic food industry in the long term, according to London-based analyst Organic Monitor. The outbreak has killed 22 and made 2,263 people ill, accordin ...
  • coffee scandal brewing: did portland's stumpto ...
    from gothamist: Coffee crisis! Maybe! Flatiron's favorite cuppa, Stumptown, is at the center of a highly caffeinated brouhaha over whether or not it's been sold. Here's what's going on: Esquire's "Eat Like A Man" blog published an article today written by high-end roaster La Colombe Torrefa ...
  • food pyramid being replaced with plate-shaped logo
    from ibtimes: The US federal government will stop using the food pyramid it first introduced in 1992. The 20 year old food pyramid was a basis for nutritional guideline throughout the United States. However, there were many shortcomings to the old Food Pyramid. For instance, it never advised how ...
  • 5/26 binge & purge: declarations, doomsday & m ...
    a modern declaration of independence: a real revolution starting in our own backyards* keepers of the seeds: how seed-saving native farmers preserve agricultural heritage* fitnessgoop.com's top 12 food films* factory farms produce 100x more waste than all people in US combined - a ...
  • global food inflation hits hemp seed, coconut ...
    from natural news: Food inflation is hitting the superfood industry right where it hurts - in the wallet. Thanks to several factors you'll read about here, prices on hemp seeds, hemp oils, coconut oil and other superfoods are set to skyrocket beginning in just a few days. One of the largest supe ...

CrusadeWatch

  • Conversation with a Convert
    source: The Undercurrent, 26 March, 2011 Somewhere in Tamil Nadu The cab was waiting at the end of the road waiting to take us to our destination. The driver was a 50 something man and there was a picture of the Christian prophet Jesus on his dash board. After a few kilometeres of dr ...
  • Study suggests 'born-again' believers have sma ...
    source:  USA today, May 24, 2011  DURHAM, N.C. � For decades, mainline Protestants have been beset by bad news: declining numbers, aging membership, waning cultural influence.A new study from  Duke University Medical Center, however, gives these Protestants one reason for cheer: they seem ...
  • Study suggests 'born-again' believers have sma ...
    source:  USA today, May 24, 2011  DURHAM, N.C. � For decades, mainline Protestants have been beset by bad news: declining numbers, aging membership, waning cultural influence.A new study from  Duke University Medical Center, however, gives these Protestants one reason for cheer: they seem ...
  • Sanford-based New Tribes Mission sued for alle ...
    source:  Orlando Sentinel, May 9, 2011 New Tribes Mission, one of the largest Christian missionary organizations in the world, was sued Monday in Seminole County by a woman who says she was raped repeatedly from age 8 while she lived in a dormitory for missionary children run by the Sanfo ...
  • Sanford-based New Tribes Mission sued for alle ...
    source:  Orlando Sentinel, May 9, 2011 New Tribes Mission, one of the largest Christian missionary organizations in the world, was sued Monday in Seminole County by a woman who says she was raped repeatedly from age 8 while she lived in a dormitory for missionary children run by the Sanfo ...

Whole Truth Coalition

  • Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation
    COTO Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans for mankind? H ...
  • The Big Awakening Conference 2011
    Click here for more information …
  • Truthjuice Gathering 2011
                                                         SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...
  • COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...
    COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6JLgar45sU
  • Announcing “This Is Disclosure” co ...
    After the success of the 2nd Annual Leeds Exopolitics Expo in August 2010 the organisers of the UKs only UFO Disclosure & Exopolitics conference announced in September 2010 that the next conference was going to be bigger and better! 2011 sees us bring the global attention on UFO Disclosure and ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Stock Prices Have Fallen For Six Weeks In A Row
    Well, it's official.  U.S. stock prices have fallen for six weeks in a row.  So will next week make it seven?  The last time stocks declined for seven weeks in a row was back in May 2001 when the "dot-com" bubble was bursting.  At this point, the Dow has declined by approximatel ...
  • 12 More Signs That Society Is Collapsing
    What we are now witnessing is the slow motion unraveling of America.  Our economy is dying, the American people have lost faith in the government and in almost all of our other major institutions, and our society is collapsing.  Most Americans don't understand why all of this is ...
  • 18 Signs The Collapse Of Society Is Accelerating
    As the U.S. economy collapses, the thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted is going to begin to disappear.  In fact, there are already an increasing number of signs that the collapse of society is accelerating.  In cities such as Chicago, roving packs of young p ...
  • 10 Tipping Points Which Could Potentially Plun ...
    The global economy has become so incredibly unstable at this point that it is not going to take much to plunge the world into a horrific economic nightmare.  The foundations of the world economic system are so decayed and so corrupted that even a stiff breeze could potentially t ...
  • Will The Banksters And The Corpocracy Eventual ...
    Today, average Americans have less power relative to the monolithic corporate and governmental institutions that dominate our society than at any other point in U.S. history.  Sadly, this is not what our founding fathers ever envisioned.  Our founding fathers established a gover ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • BREAKING! Protesting Italian MEP assaulted and ...
    Breaking... "Italian MEP Mario Borghezio was reportedly given a bloody nose on Thursday as he attempted to sneak into the secretive Bilderberg conference in St. Moritz. Borghezio, of right-wing Italian party Lega Nord, was reportedly with another Italian as he attempted to infiltrate the l ...
  • Alleged British Bilderberg 2011 attendees
    The following is a list of alleged British attendees of the Bilderberg meeting in Switzerland: Great Britain Agius, Marcus, Chairman, Barclays PLC Flint, Douglas J., Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings Kerr, John, Member, House of Lords; Deputy Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell Lambert, Richard, Inde ...
  • Thought for the Day: Video version
    Not often this blog does this. ...but we've just been made aware of a performer named David Hoyle: This. Every word of it. Catch the performer concerned, David Hoyle if you can... seems like an awesome mind to us, if this is anything to go by.
  • Daily Telegraph's Labour Revelations: Bilderbe ...
    The revelations in the Daily Telegraph about the plots and skulduggery at the heart of the Labour Party are no great surprise. We learn that Ed Balls and his Merry Marxist Proteges were behind a powerful coup that forced Tony Blair from office. None of this seems terribly new and, what hap ...
  • Government refuses inquest to determine whethe ...
    The Government has announced that it will not hold a full inquest into the death of Dr. David Kelly. Like the Government was going to give a court with jurors the chance to investigate and give a verdict on whether the Government bumped him off... Predictable? You bet! The only reason D ...

    Facing South

  • VOICES: Fighting unions in bizarro world
    By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest Some right-wingers in Congress appear to be envious of their state counterparts who have been attacking labor rights in legislatures across the country. They were given an opportunity to engage in some union-bashing of their own at a recent hearing of the H ...
  • Southern states seek end run around Justice De ...
    If you're a Republican legislator eager to redraw your state's political lines to your party's favor in time for the 2012 elections, but fear opposition from a state Democratic attorney general and the Obama Justice Department, what to do? Sneak little-noticed language into the bottom ...
  • John Edwards cheat sheet: What are the facts, ...
    By Marian Wang, ProPublica First, a sex scandal, followed by a messy cover-up and an even messier fessing-up. The sequence has become all but routine in Washington. But the�criminal case�against two-time Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is anything but run-of-the-mill. While ...
  • Study finds unionization saves coal miners' lives
    A new study has found that coal miners who work in unionized mines have a dramatically lower likelihood of suffering injuries and fatalities. The research was done by Stanford University law professor Alison Morantz with funding from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and ...
  • Kentucky Republican wants to weaken EPA, fast ...
    By Farron Cousins, DeSmogBlog Republican Congressman Ed Whitfield from Kentucky, who serves as chairman of the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power, has made it clear that he will do everything in his power to push several bills that will strip the Environmental Protection Agency of its abi ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Mixed Verdict in Chicago Terrorism Trial After two days of deliberation, a Chicago jury found Tahawwur Rana guilty of supporting a thwarted attack on a Danish newspaper and of providing support to the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-i-Taiba, but not guilty … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Zawahiri Releases Video Praising bin Laden Al Qaedaâs Ayman al-Zawahiri appeared in a video released Wednesday eulogizing Osama bin Laden and warning the United States that it will face reprisals for his death, according to reports. But terrorism analysts were … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Mumbai Terror Case Goes to Jury Jurors in the case against Tahawwur Rana, accused in connection with the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, will begin deliberating Wednesday morning after attorneys completed their closing arguments Tuesday. Prosecutors walked the jury through the … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Closing Arguments Expected in Chicago Terror Trial After calling two witnesses, defense attorneys for Tahawwur Rana, who is on trial in Chicago and accused in connection with the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, rested their case Monday, with closing arguments expected … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Militant Leader in Pakistan Reported Killed Ilyas Kashmiri, one of Pakistanâs most wanted militant leaders, was reportedly killed on Friday by a U.S. drone strike in Pakistanâs South Waziristan. Suspected of being involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks and in … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Gnac - Audio Conversion App That Can Also Extr ...
    Gnac is a very easy to use audio conversion application for Ubuntu/GNOME desktop. Gnac provides easy audio files conversion between all GStreamer supported audio formats. Gnac Ubuntu PPA is available which makes its installation in Ubuntu a breeze. Gnac Audio Conversion Application Can ex ...
  • 5 Useful Unity Lenses You Can Install Right Now!
    Ubuntu 11.04 Unity brought in many important UI improvements and Ubuntu Lens has been one of the highlights. Finding and launching applications and files in Ubuntu have never been easier. But Unity Lens concept is not confined to just applications and files search, it is much bigger than that. A ...
  • Gmediafinder - Search, Stream and Download You ...
    Gmediafinder is a GTK application that lets you search, view and download videos from sites like YouTube. Gmediafinder is a very good alternative to Minitube in Ubuntu. Gmediafinder PPA for Ubuntu is also available which makes its installation even easier. Gmediafinder -�Search, Stream and ...
  • Natty Ubuntu - Natty Narwhal Inspired Theme fo ...
    Looks like Ubuntu 11.04 has its share of fans as well. We featured Natty Narwhal inspired Android skins�few days ago. Now,�here is another theme, this time for Nokia smartphones, again inspired by Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal. Theme is called Natty Ubuntu. Natty Ubuntu Nokia Theme Supposed ...
  • Google Chrome Growing at Breakneck Speed, Fire ...
    Browser wars were supposed to be over years ago. Arrival of Google Chrome changed all that. And with the passage of time, Google Chrome growth story is gaining some serious momentum. Google Chrome might have already breached the magic 20% market share and there are no signs of a slow down. Goo ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • Eurozone financial system heading for collapse ...
    Economist Hans-Werner Sinn has warned that the euro system of central banks is facing collapse because the ECB, acting as a lender of last resort, has directed such a huge proportion of the total eurozone money creation flow â 68% — towards banks in the struggling economies of Greece, Italy, Por ...
  • German government votes for new Greek bankster ...
    Lawmakers in Germany’s coalition government of Christian Democrats and Free Democrats voted today to pass a resolution calling for the involvement of bondholders in any new bailout for Greece after it became clear that country will not be able to return to the bond market in 2012 as planned. The ...
  • ECB chief, Deutsche Bank CEO and Greek Finance ...
    âOrdinary people can only guess at the goings-on at the meetings of the secretive Bilderberg Group, which is bringing together the world’s financial and political elite this week,â says the BBC. In the meantime, it’s possible to  make a pretty accurate guess of  what is going on in the highly ...
  • Bilderberg 2011: Full Official Attendee List
    http://www.infowars.com/bilderberg-2011-full-official-attendee-list/ Infowars Friday, June 10, 2011 Thanks to the fantastic work of Bilderberg activists, journalists and the Swiss media, we have now been able to obtain the full official list of 2011 Bilderberg attendees. Routinely, some members ...
  • Highest court in Germany to hear legal challen ...
    Germany’s highest constitutional court said on Thursday that it will hear a challenge to the bailouts by the Berlin government on July 5th. A recent poll shows that 60% of German oppose the bailouts, which also violate the EU Treaty of Lisbon. http://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/1903 ...

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 ...

Veterans Today

  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – June ...
    The PTSD Coach smart-phone application (app), jointly launched in April by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense has already helped more than 5,000 users connect with important mental health information and resources.
  • Nuclear Power should have…. Why didn’t I ...
    Nuclear technology is the most practical solution to the gluttonous need we have for electric power; no two ways about it. Despite the credit-monopoly scamming that has mucked it up for 50 years there is a saving grace for the people, not that we deserve it.
  • Palestinian Divisions on Statehood
    Senior Palestinian Authority (PA) officials are "sharply divided over the unilateral move to seek" UN General Assembly recognition in September. Abbas wants it. Others don't "because they believe (it) could do more harm than good to their cause," hurting Israel perhaps but not helping themselves.
  • What the American Public Shouldn’t Know
    The American people are deprived of listening to the propaganda of Radio Farda and VOA; however, it is vital for them to know that their government does not really represent a "beacon of freedom"
  • The Obama Doctrine: Lawless Imperial Aggression
    Wikipedia says US presidential doctrines state "key goals, attitudes, or stances for United States foreign affairs."

electric politics

  • Forgetting Vietnam
    America's final retreat from Vietnam could have been a whole lot worse. Ambassador Graham Martin, mistakenly thought to be on the last chopper out, didn't follow through on the fact that he left a final contingent of Marine Security Guards on the Embassy's rooftop. Higher-ups in the military ch ...
  • Constitutional Chains
    The U.S. Constitution has not led to a more perfect union. In some ways — see the Civil War — it was a suicide pact. So must it, indeed, be the only legitimate political expression of who we are as Americans? To think about some of the flaws at the creation I turned to Dr. Mark A. Graber, autho ...
  • It Became Necessary to Destroy Libya In Order ...
    At some point the blood-thirsty hawks who got us into a war against Libya must realize that, with Col. Gaddafi or without him, the various Libyan tribes and factions do not mean to settle their differences amicably. What then? Do we admit a strategic defeat and end the war? Or pick sides and fo ...
  • The Science of Interrogation
    Memory is such an elusive thing. Not the sort of thing you can pound out of a person's skull. If you want access to a person's memories, to accurate memories, they must be given freely. If you want a false confession for propaganda purposes then use coercion, but for useful memories, don't. To ...
  • Wherefore Bradley Manning?
    Punishing Bradley Manning before he's even had a trial doesn't make sense. It's unjust, it's immoral, and later on it will tend to make it more difficult to establish the facts. To talk about Manning's case and related issues, including so-called "humanitarian intervention," I turned to Chase M ...

PR News

The Story Behind the Story

  • A HoroKane – AKA The Perfect Storm
    For the record, I am posting PUBLICLY the entire e-mail exchange between myself, A. True Ott, Sherri Kane, and Leonard Horowitz during August, 2010. Despite numerous slanderous attacks and libelous posts targeting myself and others on Ms. Kane’s website and radio talk shows since this initial e- ...
  • Public Letter to “Sherri” Kane and ...
    AN OPEN LETTER TO SHERRI KANE AND LEONARD HOROWITZ DDS This public letter is being written and openly posted on my ONLY personal web blog, www.atrueott.com in rebuttal to the baseless, inherently false and libelous allegations posted by Ms. Kane “on behalf of”  Mr. Leonard Horowitz. I do not wis ...
  • Jeru-Salem Underground!!!!
    Talk about being “undermined”.   The Rats Run The Sewer – Especially in Jeru-Salem. Check it out: Beneath Jerusalem, an underground city takes shape AP â In this May 17, 2011 photo, a view of Zedekiah’s Cave is seen in Jerusalem’s Old City. Underneath the ⦠Slideshow:Underground Jerusalem B ...
  • McKinney Bombshell
    Cynthia McKinney Drops Bombshell: Candidates to sign pledges of support for “Israel” by Richard Edmondson, source In an interview which aired on Press TV on Saturday–one day before the AIPAC conference got under way in Washington–former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney revealed what amount ...
  • Sometimes It’s Nice to be Proven RIGHT!!
    During the years 2005-2008, I spent hundreds of hours on radio and TV talk shows, and gave dozens of PowerPoint presentations on what I labeled the “BIRD FLU SCAM”.  This, of course, evolved into the “SWINE FLU SCAM” – a non-existent “pandemic” which I at that time declared was designed primari ...

k2p blog

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • NY Court: Lap Dances Not Exempt From Sales Tax
    The owners of a strip club in New York state have spent the last half decade arguing that they do not owe $125,000 in sales tax on cover charges and lap dances because the dirty dances fall under the tax exempt category of "dramatic or musical art performance." Alas, the NY State Supreme Court ...
  • "Breastaurants" Growing In Popularity Nationwide
    Eating establishments known as "breastaurants" -- which pretty much means exactly what you think it does -- are gaining in popularity, as chains with names like Twin Peaks and Tilted Kilt compete with Hooters (which brings in about $1 billion a year in revenue) to offer "a different level of se ...
  • GE: Missing Socks Are Running Away From Us
    If you've lost a sock, or two, or three in the laundry, GE wants to help. Actually, GE wants to help your socks, which, according to the manufacturer, are running away from insensitive consumers who don't treat them right. Actually, the whole thing is a marketing campaign designed to promote GE ...
  • Why Quitting Smoking Makes You Fat
    If you've ever tried to give up a smoking habit, you might have found that you tend to pack on a little extra body weight, too. Now, scientists say they've found out why. Researchers looking into new ways of treating depression made an interesting discovery. While testing nicotine, the primary ...
  • David's Bridal Misled Me About Wait Time, Ruin ...
    Daneen is getting married on Sept. 10 and was hoping to wait until her mother was in town next month to actually purchase her wedding dress. But a casual pop-in to her local David's Bridal store to check out color options with one of her bridesmaids ended with her buying a gown and missing out ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

  • American Jobs NOW!
    President Obama should address the nation from the Oval Office, calling for a bipartisan deal to create more jobs in 2011 and lower the deficit beginning in 2012. He should do this now. Leaders lead. Strong presidents use the bully pulpit to define the debate and rally the nation to action and c ...
  • Pride celebrations? …Haven’t we assimilated?
    June is Pride Month for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) communities across the country — and parades abound. Unlike the revolutionary decade of the 1960s during which the air bred dissent, we LGBTQ people appear to be residing in a sanguine time — rebels without a cause, a ...
  • The Case for Actual Death Panels
    ‘Doctor Death’ is dead. Murad (Jack) Kevorkian, whose name has been synonymous with doctor-assisted suicide, died last week at 83. He spent eight years in a maximum-security prison for helping the sick end their suffering. Kevorkian was no angel â not even an angel of death. He was eccentric, fl ...
  • Thursday’s Special Invitation To Delta Frequen ...
    Yes, you. The road warriors. The men and women who Delta relies on the most, yet seems to screw most out of upgrades, amenities and service. You don’t have to take it any more. You need to say ‘enough is enough’ and here’s how you do it. Last year Delta refused to credit 20,000 miles [...]
  • Jamie Dimon’s Bizarre Idea About Why The Recov ...
    According to JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, the recovery has stalled because of strict banking regulation. I’m not making this up. At a financial conference today, Dimon told Fed chief Ben Bernanke there’s no longer any reason to crack down on Wall Street. “Most of the bad actors are gone,” he ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Monckton Tour Dates
    The Australian 2011 Monckton Tour A Carbon Tax will BANKRUPT AUSTRALIA THE SCIENCE DOES NOT JUSTIFY IT Viscount Christopher Monckton will explain why. Dr David Evans and Jo Nova will accompany him in Sydney and Newcastle 30th June  Perth: “The Climate of Freedom”, Hancock Free Enterprise Lectur ...
  • Greens run and hide from poll results
    The Greens are a community oriented party, and often ask for feedback. Indeed they’ve been searching for feedback on their emissions trading plan for over two years on their blog. “Do you support the Greens’ plan on emissions trading?” Their blog visitors were giving them a clear message. Of 226 ...
  • Study finds global warming over past 400 years ...
    Apparently previous studies of the sun-climate connection looked at the equatorial polar magnetic field which produces sun spots, but they did not consider the polar magnetic component of the solar dynamo. The polar fields are less strong than the equatorial fields, but it is claimed that the to ...
  • Study finds global warming over past 400 years ...
    Apparently previous studies of the sun-climate connection looked at the equatorial polar magnetic field which produces sun spots, but they did not consider the polar magnetic component of the solar dynamo. The polar fields are less strong than the equatorial fields, but it is claimed that the to ...
  • To a climate scientist, *swearing* equals a De ...
    Wait for it, some death threat emails have been released. Number eight is positively sinister with intent (shield your children): Now several of the abusive emails have been published on a blog by environmental writer Graham Readfearn, after the scientists agreed to release the poison pen letter ...

ReNew America

  • Misguided 'conservatives' on debt limit
    (Joseph Farah) - There's a new movement afoot within well-intentioned but misguided conservative circles calling for a compromise on raising the debt limit. It's sponsored by good groups such as 60 Plus, Citizens Against Government Waste, Let Freedom Ring, the Club for Growth and the Family Rese ...
  • Secretary of Defense nominee Panetta linked to ...
    (Trevor Loudon) - New research from writers and researchers Trevor Loudon and Cliff Kincaid shows that Leon Panetta, the CIA director being considered on Thursday for the position of Secretary of Defense, had a previously undisclosed personal and friendly relationship with Hugh DeLacy, a promine ...
  • Alabama governor signs tough illegal immigrati ...
    (Washington Times) - Alabama's governor on Thursday signed a tough new illegal immigration crackdown that contains provisions requiring public schools to determine students' immigration status and making it a crime to knowingly give an illegal immigrant a ride...
  • Moral government and immoral leadership
    (John Hayward) - "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion," wrote John Adams. "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other"...
  • Weinergate exposes party differences
    (Robert Knight) - According to the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual IV, New York Rep. Anthony D. Weiner needs some time on the couch, preferably at $300 an hour or whatever psychiatrists charge in his Long Island district...

Truth Offering

  • The Bilderberg Conference, 2011 - St. Moritz, ...
    If you frequent this site, you've likely heard of the Bilderberg group; a cadre of the world's most wealthy and powerful men and women who decend upon some, often remote, location each year. The reason they're called the "Bilderberg Group" is because their first-ever meeting in 1954, took place ...
  • It's Official: GMO Foods Alter Our Digestive S ...
    As if we needed more proof, can we finally state -- without any asterisks or disclaimers saying we're still not sure -- that genetically modified foods of all types are harmful when eaten by humans!? In my opinion, yes, we can. Check out this article by the Alliance for Natural Health: SOURCE: A ...
  • The Federal Reserve Cartel
    The men who control the world, and their puppets.One of the main focuses at TruthOffering.com is central banking. And just in case you're new to this site, let me explain why. In short, central banking is like allowing the wolves to watch over the hen house. Men who are unaccountable to the voti ...
  • Who Owns the TV Networks?: A Compilation
    The two articles on TruthOffering.com that garner the most attention, both ask the exact same question: Who owns the TV networks? And it's a great question; one you should know the answer to. The first article I posted on this topic was written by Eustace Mullins. It's a great piece that examin ...
  • Poll: Is Dominique Strauss-Kahn Guilty or Was ...
    Do you remember last year when a plane carrying Poland's President and the Governor of Poland's central bank went down in western Russia? It briefly made news headlines and then fizzled out without making much of a stir. When the plane went down, my immediate reaction was "does it seem plausible ...

2012 Blog

  • Central Lunar Eclipse in 5 Days
    Obviously the Earth is much bigger than the Moon, so a lunar eclipse doesn’t require a precise alignment. When the moon passes in front of the center of the Earth’s shadow, it is called a central total lunar eclipse. The last of these was on August 28 2007, the one of interest to us is [...] R ...
  • Nothing Skeptical About 2012
    One of the world’s leading skeptics is Michael Shermer. Not only is he the founder of the Skeptics Society, and head honcho and primary contributor for Skeptic Magazine, he has also penned an opinion piece for New Scientist this week: The End is Always Nigh in the Human Mind. When I finished rea ...
  • The Winged Warriors of Ek’ Balam
    I came across this image on Facebook via Korinna and others… at Wikipedia they are described as “winged warriors“.The wall is found at the ancient Mayan site Ek’ Balam. A huge version of the image is here. Winged beings were regularly depicted in the past, and a recent episode of Ancient Aliens ...
  • Amazing Solar Flare Photo
    It was only a medium-sized flare, but still the biggest we’ve seen since 2006. It wasn’t aimed directly at us, but will be near enough to perhaps create some nice auroras in the next day or so. The video is even more dramatic: Related posts:Solar Flare Update Solar Flare ‘Could Paralyse Earth’ S ...
  • Prophet Will Profit
    As it happened, Doris Schmitt, the NY widow who left $250K to Harold Camping got her timing all screwed up. If her intention was for the preacher to use her bequeathment to advertise his doomsday, it would have arrived too late. Yes she died a few weeks prior to May 21, but the money takes [...] ...

Facing South

  • VOICES: Fighting unions in bizarro world
    By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest Some right-wingers in Congress appear to be envious of their state counterparts who have been attacking labor rights in legislatures across the country. They were given an opportunity to engage in some union-bashing of their own at a recent hearing of the H ...
  • Southern states seek end run around Justice De ...
    If you're a Republican legislator eager to redraw your state's political lines to your party's favor in time for the 2012 elections, but fear opposition from a state Democratic attorney general and the Obama Justice Department, what to do? Sneak little-noticed language into the bottom ...
  • John Edwards cheat sheet: What are the facts, ...
    By Marian Wang, ProPublica First, a sex scandal, followed by a messy cover-up and an even messier fessing-up. The sequence has become all but routine in Washington. But the�criminal case�against two-time Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is anything but run-of-the-mill. While ...
  • Study finds unionization saves coal miners' lives
    A new study has found that coal miners who work in unionized mines have a dramatically lower likelihood of suffering injuries and fatalities. The research was done by Stanford University law professor Alison Morantz with funding from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and ...
  • Kentucky Republican wants to weaken EPA, fast ...
    By Farron Cousins, DeSmogBlog Republican Congressman Ed Whitfield from Kentucky, who serves as chairman of the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power, has made it clear that he will do everything in his power to push several bills that will strip the Environmental Protection Agency of its abi ...

One News Page

  • Justin Bieber takes Selena Gomez home
    After meeting his girlfriend Selena Gomez's family in Texas last week, teen sensation Justin Bieber took her home and showed her the sights of his home town Stratford, Ontario. The lovebirds had good time with Justin's cousins, aunt and uncle at
  • Baba Ramdev 'adamant' on continuing fast: Sri ...
    Spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravishankar reached the Himalayan Hospital in Dehradun today to meet Baba Ramdev. After meeting the yoga guru, Sri Sri said that Mr Ramdev was adamant on continuing his fast. In the same vein he added that he too would not budge till the yoga guru called off his hunger str ...
  • MidDay journalist shot dead in Mumbai
    A senior journalist working with Mid Day was today shot dead by unidentified persons in Mumbai. The victim, Jyotirmoy Dey, was brought to the Hiranandani hospital where he was declared brought dead.
  • Docudrama on Vishnupant Damle to be ready by O ...
    An hour-long docudrama featuring the life and time of V G alias Vishnupant Damle, one of the founding members of the famous Prabhat Film Company, will be ready by October 4. Scripted by Nitin Dixit, the Marathi docu-drama has been produced by the Damle family and directed by Virendra Valsangkar.
  • Gurgaon woman injured during Ramdev crackdown ...
    The condition of 51-year-old Raj Bala, the woman who suffered spinal injuries during police action against fasting yoga guru Baba Ramdev, is 'very critical', said medical superintendent, GB Pant Hospital.

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Let’s Have a Warm Gesture, Mr. Gates!
    When the Soviet Union collapsed, there was great glee in the “West” especially in America. “We won” they shouted as if their team had won the World Cup. Capitalism, in the struggle against Communism, had carried the day. Khrushchev had the right slogan when he said the Americans, “we will smothe ...
  • The CIA/ISI Soap Opera In South Waziristan
    The American/Pakistani/British shenanigans in S. Waziristan are once again exposing the old patterns–America makes more demands, unidentified militants attack Frontier troops, British press releases misleading disinformation (SEE:  Deadly militant attack on Pakistan security checkpoint), making ...
  • How to Not Work and Still Eat
    Let’s assume that planet Earth’s resources are finite, mining neighboring planets is in the distantâvery distantâfuture and the world’s population is growing at an absurd pace. That means we are facing the problem posed by the famous English preacher, Thomas Malthus. Incidentally, here we should ...
  • Dagestan – “How Long Can This Cont ...
    A Muslim university professor who criticised radical Islamists was shot dead in Dagestan in a killing that sent a shockwave around the conflict-torn Russian region, officials confirm Wednesday. Maksud Sadikov, 48 years, was shot in the yard of his home in Makhachkala, the regional capital of Dag ...
  • NATO’s “Alternate Universe” ...
    The Pentagon and its NATO partners are engaged in one of the most obvious and intensive propaganda ploys in their military operations against Libya since the days leading up to the “Coalition of the Willing” attack on Iraq. Suggestions that the government of Muammar Qaddafi is on its last legs a ...

BlogHer

  • Seven Bicycling Tips For Beginners (or Re-Begi ...
    Better weather is finally here, and more people are getting out on their bikes! I know, there are plenty of articles out there with tips for beginners. But�I've been pondering things that I wish I had known when I started bicycling again.Do the MaintenanceSure, you probably just pulled your bik ...
  • A Quick Web Site Design Goals Starter Checklist
    Before you began a new web site design, did you pause for a moment and think about your goals? When you first sat down to consider your plans, did you think about your business requirements? Why do you want a web site? What do you hope to accomplish? How will you do this?Web Site Requirement ...
  • Bring Justin Bieber to Your School (and Help B ...
    Want to make the year of a kid you love? Bringing Justin Bieber for a personal visit to her school would probably do it. Pencils of Promise (PoP), a nonprofit that builds schools in the developing world, is working with two-time Grammy nominee Justin Bieber on our Schools4All.org campaign endin ...
  • The Truth About Market Research
    Market research can be an elusive thing for many entrepreneurs. Yet conducting some is vital to ensure you've got a viable business and not just a great sounding idea. See what you can learn from NASA via the concept of ground truth. Karyn Greenstreet starts by sharing: I know. I know you’r ...
  • The Adult Graduation
    Plenty of fuss lately over the kids' graduations but what of the hardworking adult greeting that exhaustive milestone? Meet Lindsy Floyd - a wife, mother and now, former student: "Since 2003, I have been reading books (most of which sit on my shelves today), writing essays, and taking exams. I ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Elderberry Juice ‘Drug’ Raid
    To punish a crime, you must have a crime. The FDA creates crimes when elderberry juice concentrate magically becomes a drug! Such raids have taken place a lot in the last few years, but lately it’s ...
  • Germany’s Superbug Weaponized With Black ...
    Some alternative health news sites have been leery about posting Germany’s E. Coli outbreak as anything but an unfortunate event probably caused by the overuse of antibiotics and unsanitary factory farm conditions. That is, until ...
  • The Fallacy of US Radiation Readings From Japa ...
    Even though Japan earthquake and nuclear damage media coverage has slowed, there is still much radiation concern here in the States. While some of the products for radiation protection wouldn’t be bad to have, some companies ...
  • Peru Approves 10 Year Ban On GM Crops, Brazil ...
    Bolivia is the main land standing between Peru and a Roundup-Ready Paraguay. Despite South American territories jumping on the GM crop bandwagon, Peru has issued a 10-year moratorium on all GM planting in an effort ...
  • 6 Real Examples of Food Terrorism
    Lately there have been some aggressive, smear campaigns involving supplements and food. FDA attacks on Amish farmers and supplement companies and attempting to trace the European E. coli outbreak to organic sprouts. Then came a warning ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, June 10, 2011
    Hundreds of marchers head out Monday, June 6, 2011, on a five-day, 50-mile trek through West Virginia’s southern coalfields in an effort to draw attention to mining threats to Blair Mountain. (AP Photo/Brian Farkas) Well, it’s been quite a week … as I write this, I guess the Blair Mountain march ...
  • Friday roundup, June 10, 2011
    Hundreds of marchers head out Monday, June 6, 2011, on a five-day, 50-mile trek through West Virginia’s southern coalfields in an effort to draw attention to mining threats to Blair Mountain. (AP Photo/Brian Farkas) Well, it’s been quite a week … as I write this, I guess the Blair Mountain march ...
  • EPA response to AEP plant announcement
    Here’s a statement just issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in response to yesterday’s announcement by American Electric Power: These long-overdue Clean Air Act standards will slash hazardous emissions of mercury and other acid gases, preventing thousands of asthma and heart attac ...
  • EPA response to AEP plant announcement
    Here’s a statement just issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in response to yesterday’s announcement by American Electric Power: These long-overdue Clean Air Act standards will slash hazardous emissions of mercury and other acid gases, preventing thousands of asthma and heart attac ...
  • GAO report: Many plants lack pollution controls
    In light of yesterday’s announcement by American Electric Power about the potential closure of five of its coal-fired power plants, there’s a fascinating new report out from the U.S. Government Accountability Office. The report, called Air Quality: Information on Tall Smokestacks and Their Contr ...

Daniel Miessler

  • iPhone and Android Marketshare in March 2011 | ...
    Android’s share of the smartphone market dipped in the quarter, NPD said, to 50 percent in the first quarter from 53 percent in last year’s fourth quarter. Apple’s iOS rose nine percentage points, accounting for 28 percent of smartphone units sold, while BlackBerry lost five points of market sha ...
  • Rapportive: The Chrome Extension of Doom
    via rapportive.com This is THE Chrome extension. It gives a full contextual view of people right from within GMail. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsDon’t Be a Cryptic AssCare WolfEliminating Redundancies | DilbertThe Confident FeelingYouTube Downloader | Chrome ...
  • Daring Fireball: Why Windows 8 Is Fundamentall ...
    Apple’s radical notion is that touchscreen personal computers should make severely different tradeoffs than traditional computers — and that you can’t design one system that does it all. Windows 8 is trying to have it all, and I don’t think that can be done. You can’t make something conceptually ...
  • FaceNiff – Session Hijacker for Android
    via faceniff.ponury.net This is wicked. It’s an Android app where you join a wireless network and sniff passwords traversing it–like Firesheep but as an Android application. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsWhy do apps from the same company look worse on Android ...
  • Windows 8 Looks Like a Slick Apple Knockoff
    via microsoft.com I like a lot of what they’re doing here, but everything about it screams “catch up with Apple”. It takes away from it significantly. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsThe iPhone is the World’s #1 CameraSaw a Demo of Apple TV TodayThe New MacBook ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • 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 ...

reference frame

  • Editors, reviewers, and bias
    Richard Lindzen has informed me about some adventures he recently experienced while offering his new paper written together with Choi to PNAS, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. While it's standard that 98% of the submissions over there get published, the people in c ...
  • CMS at 190/pb: LHC avoids black hole production
    The CMS Collaboration has published a new paper that also answers the question whether the Earth is going to be swallowed by a man-made black hole. You can be sure that everything is fine and the Earth isn't being eaten yet. To be sure, here are the webcams near the CMS experi ...
  • D0 denounces CDF for 4-5 sigma claim on Wjj 15 ...
    The claim of the CDF Collaboration that they have observed a new particle similar to a Z'-boson near 150 GeV decaying to 2 jets and produced together with a W-boson was just dismissed by their colleagues and competitors at the same Tevatron, the D0 Collaboration, that is working with the ra ...
  • Shoot camels to earn carbon credits
    Bloomberg, dozens of other outlets and my fellow gangster in Mafia Wars :-) Darcy Nelson have informed your humble correspondent that Australia is planning to shoot a portion of its 1.2 million camels. Whoever manages to do it will receive carbon credits. And you know, carbon credits a ...
  • RSS AMSU: all cooling and warming trends throu ...
    There is still a lot of confusion and misinformation concerning the question whether there has been a cooling trend or a warming trend between some moment XY and the most recent months. To lift the confusion, I (and Wolfram Mathematica 7.0.1) have calculated 3500 linear regressions an ...

No Frakking Consensus

  • The IPCC as UN Funding Mechanism
    You gotta love the UN. The 31-member IPCC bureau includes representatives from undemocratic and unsavoury countries such as Sudan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Malaysia, Madagascar and the Maldives. Soon, these countries may be deciding the fate of billions of UN-administered climate change funds.
  • Climate Change & Violent Fantasies
    When did it become acceptable to pen violent fantasies about people with whom you disagree? When did it become OK to talk - luridly and out loud - about their death?
  • David Suzuki is a Drama Queen
    While the rest of us approach challenges with determination, optimism, and faith in ourselves as problem solvers, drama queens see only worst-case scenarios. They exaggerate. They emotionalize.
  • Peer-Reviewed Medical Research Critiqued
    An opinion piece in Scientific America alleges that, over the long term, a great deal of scientific research turns out not to be true. Independent replication of research findings is apparently far less common than we think.
  • That Wobbly Foundation: Peer-Reviewed Research
    Climate activists have long argued that scientific research that has been peer-reviewed is reliable, trustworthy & true.

Tarpley

  • US Wages Irregular War on Pakistan Beneath Nuc ...
    Moslem Brotherhood in Worldwide Alliance with CIA Against Nation-States Webster G. Tarpley on the Kevin Barrett Show The Kevin Barrett Show June 6, 2011 [download audio]
  • NATO Aggressors in Flight Forward over Libya S ...
    Obama will be Impeachment Bait on June 20 for Flagrant Violation of War Powers Act Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV June 5, 2011 [
  • La Chine apporte son soutien militaire au Paki ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net | traduction de Voltairenet.org 29 mai 2011 Venu à Beijing le 18 mai 2011 appeler la Chine au secours, le Premier ministre pakistanais s’est vu offrir 50 avions de chasse JF-17 pour défendre son pays en cas d’attaque états-unienne ou indienne. La Chine a ...
  • EUA, Paquistão, perto de guerra aberta; Ultima ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net 20 de maio de 2011 A China colocou oficialmente os Estados Unidos sob o aviso que o ataque planeado de Washington sobre o Paquistão será interpretado como um ato de agressão contra Pequim. Este aviso frontal representa o primeiro ultimato estratégico conheci ...
  • Italiano
    International Main Menu Arabic Ceské Deutsch Español Français Italiano Greek Nippon Polski Português Russki Svenska Türk Zhongwén            1 2  >  >| page: 1 of 2   total items: 13 Gli Stati Uniti e il Pakistan vicini a una guerra aperta, un ultimatum cinese avverte gli Stati U ...

Modern Survivalism

  • People are Owned and Consumed by their Possesions
    A recent post comment got me to thinking about how so many people today are truly “owned and consumed by their possessions”, as recently stated by an observant M.S.B. Reader. This ‘condition’ is arguably one of the core root causes attributing to the high stress of modern day life. Don’t get me ...
  • Turmeric – A Super Spice
    In a previous article, high-orac-value-antioxidant-foods-top-100, Turmeric ranked number 6 of the top 100 high ORAC value antioxidant foods (OK, it’s a spice). ORAC units measure the antioxidant capacity of foods. Turmeric is a spice that gives curry powder its yellow hue and peppery flavor. Tur ...
  • 21 Things Your Burglar Won’t Tell You
    1. Of course I look familiar. I was here just last week cleaning your carpets, painting your shutters, or delivering your new refrigerator. 2. Hey, thanks for letting me use the bathroom when I was working in your yard last week. While I was in there, I unlatched the back window to make my retur ...
  • The Sun Explodes – But Not Worry…
    The title is purposefully sarcastic to highlight the ‘just’ of what the pros are saying regarding today’s never before seen explosion on the sun. Not that the sun has never released huge solar flares or coronal-mass-ejections, it does it quite frequently… it’s that this one in particular very ef ...
  • Living in a Tiny Home – With No Mortgage
    Here is an interesting video about a family that downsized in a major way.  This is not from a “prep” perspective, but it could be.  This idea could be used for a disaster retreat.  It could also help people to get ready for the coming economic collapse. Two years ago, Debra and her family lived ...

Fast Company

  • Your Next Flight May Be Powered By Algae--And ...
    Biofuel-powered aircraft have finally been approved, and could cut airlines' fuel costs in half. When's the maiden flight? Biofuel-powered aircraft have finally moved into the real world now that the U.S.-based Air Transport Association has approved a fuel blend of up to 50% organic waste and n ...
  • Sir Ian McKellan's Alternate Reality PSA Is No ...
    [youtube O5MgeJwhOgU] Sir Ian McKellan has found lifelong success, but it could have turned out very differently. In a PSA released last night, the actor portrays himself as a homeless man sleeping on the street and being cruelly tormented. Could this have been reality for the knighted actor? ...
  • This Week In Bots: Singing, Cookie Baking, Fly ...
    Get your delicious, piping hot robo-cookies here!A robot: Your plastic pal who's fun to be with! Okay, so the future that The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy predicted is still far off, but it's coming closer every week:HRP-4C gynoid sings on cameraWe've seen HPR-4C several times already, but s ...
  • Sarah Palin's Emails And The New York Times's ...
    What makes a crowdsourcing solicitation fall flat on its face?This afternoon the State of Alaska will release some 24,000 of Sarah Palin's emails, covering a good deal of her gubernatorial reign. Though the New York Times, along with pretty much every other publication in the free world, has sen ...
  • DIY U: The Future of Learning
    [video_twistage 1]The future of learning is open--and it's in your hands.�This video series, based in part on my book DIY U,�explains that while the�higher education bubble may be overblown, there is an explosion happening in the edu-world, with technology and openness transforming content, soci ...

Jadaliyya

  • Three Powerfully Wrong--and Wrongly Powerful-- ...
    The âArab Springâ that actually began in the dead of winter has spread from Tunisia to Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, and Syria…and the year only half over. As the media, policymakers, and global audiences struggle to make sense of changes that have inspired hundreds of millions to âjust ...
  • How Do You Finance Social Justice in Egypt? J ...
    This is our third in a series of interviews we conducted in Cairo during our recent trip. We had the fortune to meet with a friend and prominent journalist, Wael Gamal, whose column in al-Shurouq's economy section is closely followed in Egypt and beyond--and is also published here on Jad ...
  • وما نيل المطالب بالتمني: ربيع العرب في زمن اخت ...
    ��د بدا ا�عم� ا�عام �ا�س�اس� تحد�دا� �� ا�ع��د ا�أخ�رة �ع�ا� عبث�ا�. ا�أسباب عد�دة. أ���ا �� �ذا ا�ط��ا� ا�مت�اص� م� ا�أخبار م� �إ�� �� م�ا٠ ب�ع� ما �سم� ث�رة� ا�مع��مات. �ثا���ا �� ا�شع�ر با�عجز ع� است�عاب ا� ا�تأث�ر بما �جر� �� ظ� ا�سرعة ا��ائ�ة �ا�ت�ا� �تغ�ر ا�خبر �ا�مع��مة. �ثا�ث�ا � ...
  • Iraq After Maliki's "100 Days": An Interview w ...
    On February 27, 2011, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki gave his parliament 100 days to "reform" their sometimes totally nonfunctional ministries or face consequences, in response �to people�s demands� as he put it. Those demands have taken the form of some of the least noted events o ...
  • Revisiting Arna's Children
    Arna�s Children. Directed by Juliano Mer Khamis and Danniel Danniel. Israel-Palestine, 2004. It has now been two months since the murder of Juliano Mer Khamis. I have not yet found the words to follow that statement. For me, as for many, the horror of this assasination has compelled a r ...

mediagazer

  • Meredith Makes Big Sales Hire in Ad Slump (Lmo ...
    Lmoses / Adweek: Meredith Makes Big Sales Hire in Ad Slump  —  Mass women's brands publisher Meredith brought in Dick Porter in a new, supercharged sales role, a move that comes at a time when the company has seen ad sales soften as consumer packaged goods advertisers have sliced spending.
  • Journalistic Verification, Amina Arraf, and Ha ...
    Jillian C. York: Journalistic Verification, Amina Arraf, and Haystack  —  How did a Syrian blogger, who told beautiful and heartwrenching stories of life as a lesbian in Damascus, manage to trick so many people?  How did an American software engineer, whose passion for the Iranian cause led hi ...
  • Sebastian Junger reflects on friendship, war a ...
    Reed Johnson / Los Angeles Times: Sebastian Junger reflects on friendship, war and peace  —  After the death of photojournalist and friend Tim Hetherington in Libya, Junger resolves to cease front-line reporting.  But war, he says, remains one of humanity's master narratives.  —  Author Sebast ...
  • Gawker Hires New Head of Sales From Cond&eacut ...
    Dbyers / Adweek: Gawker Hires New Head of Sales From Condé Nast  —  Gawker Media has hired Andrew Gorenstein, currently senior executive director of digital sales at Condé Nast, as its new chief advertising officer, according to an internal Gawker email.  —  Gorenstein has been at Condé …
  • 'A cautionary tale for anyone considering free ...
    Jim Romenesko / Poynter: ‘A cautionary tale for anyone considering freelancing for The Daily’  —  Barbara Correa says she got an assignment from The Daily about the business implications of Oprah's final program and was offered 75 cents a word.  She wrote the story, turned it in and got an ackn ...

Chemtrail News

  • Chemtrail Health and Eco Impacts Prompt ...
    UN Climate Concern Morphs into Chemtrail Glee Club – The People's Voice ... Shoreworld: Chemtrail And Brookdale Guitar Show, April 10 – Aquarian Weekly ...www.paranominal.com/.../chemtrail-health-and-eco-impacts-p...
  • Chemtrail Imagery on ABC Nightly News G ...
    Is it just me, or is the ABC Nightly News using chemtrail imagery in their graphics? Please, chemtrail researchers and experts, bear with me and look for ...chemtruth.ning.com/profiles/blogs/chemtrail-imagery-on-abc
  • Chemtrail Imagery on ABC Nightly News G ...
    Is it just me, or is the ABC Nightly News using chemtrail imagery in their graphics? Please, chemtrail researchers and experts, bear with me and look for ...chemtruth.ning.com/profiles/blogs/chemtrail-imagery-on-abc
  • Chemtrails in my backyard_0001.wmv -
    25th May 2011. The chemtrails over my house in the UK. I pointed all this out to a lady I know at the bus stop and she still didn't believe me...chemtruth.ning.com/video/chemtrails-in-my
  • YouTube military Chemtrail
    Thunderf00t where is your science? Are you too busy drawing cartoons and setting your hard drive full holy books on fire to look up and see what is going on ...www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_6Dn6HY_xE

World News - Top Stories

  • 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....

no frakking consensus

  • The IPCC as UN Funding Mechanism
    You gotta love the UN. The 31-member IPCC bureau includes representatives from undemocratic and unsavoury countries such as Sudan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Malaysia, Madagascar and the Maldives. Soon, these countries may be deciding the fate of billions of UN-administered climate change funds.
  • Climate Change & Violent Fantasies
    When did it become acceptable to pen violent fantasies about people with whom you disagree? When did it become OK to talk - luridly and out loud - about their death?
  • David Suzuki is a Drama Queen
    While the rest of us approach challenges with determination, optimism, and faith in ourselves as problem solvers, drama queens see only worst-case scenarios. They exaggerate. They emotionalize.
  • Peer-Reviewed Medical Research Critiqued
    An opinion piece in Scientific America alleges that, over the long term, a great deal of scientific research turns out not to be true. Independent replication of research findings is apparently far less common than we think.
  • That Wobbly Foundation: Peer-Reviewed Research
    Climate activists have long argued that scientific research that has been peer-reviewed is reliable, trustworthy & true.

Pointman's

  • Line of Descent Chapter 26
    Chapter 26 Krupmeyer stared through the smoke at the black indistinct figure rising up through the hole in the floor in front of him. His eyes watered from the acrid smoke and his ears were filled with a high-pitched ringing from the effects of the explosion. The figure seemed to unbend slowly u ...
  • Love is simply not an option.
    Love is a word in every language. It has a lot of meanings and covers a lot of ground. Itâs a universal. We make love but what weâre actually doing is expressing our love by giving mutual physical pleasure to each other and of course, itâs the best fun. Where thereâs no emotional love there, … R ...
  • The power of dreams and the power of nightmares.
    There are patterns in politics which are hardy perennials. Theyâve been there for as long as politics has been around, which is to say forever. Politicians need you to vote for them and the way they do this is to sell you something. The thing they sell you of course is a promise but to … Read more
  • About Harry.
    I went to a christening today. Itâs been a long time since Iâve been inside a place of worship. Things have changed a lot. The toddlers were allowed to walk around and actually called up to the front so they could really see what was going on. No hushing or shushing. There were several babies … ...
  • The big green killing machine: What is VAD?
    This is the first in a series of occasional articles dealing with the human cost of the various policies being pushed by what I call the big green killing machine. Iâve never viewed fighting the perversion that environmentalism has become as some sort of intellectual wrestling match waged in the ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Jena Six Activist Sentenced to Fifteen Years i ...
    Last week, one week past her 31st birthday, civil rights activist Catrina Wallace was sentenced to fifteen years in prison. This was first arrest for Wallace, a single mother who became politically active when her brother was arrested in the case that later became known as the "Jena Six." On Ma ...
  • Muslim Woman in Lafayette Parish Forced by She ...
    From our friends at ACLU of Louisiana: When a Muslim woman was incarcerated in the Lafayette Parish Jail last year, she was forced by the Sheriff to remove her religiously mandated head covering, known as a hijab, because jail policies do not provide for head coverings of any kind. Today the ...
  • Cracking, Stovepipes and Gerrymandering: Redis ...
    Nearly six years ago, the African American community in Greater New Orleans suffered a devastating and disproportionate blow from Hurricane Katrina, as the storm's wrath and subsequent failures of relief and recovery programs drove thousands of minority residents from their neighborhoods an ...
  • More Investigations Needed into New Orleans Po ...
    The US Department of Justice has shown a real determination to challenge New Orleans police violence and corruption. Their report on the NOPD, released in March, confirmed what community members had been saying about the department for decades. In addition, their investigations led to conviction ...
  • Over Two Thousand Six Hundred Activists Arrest ...
    By Bill Quigley Since President Obama was inaugurated, there have been over two thousand six hundred arrests of activists protesting in the US. Research shows over 670 people have been arrested in protests inside the US already in 2011, over 1290 were arrested in 2010, and 665 arrested in 2009 ...

Information Underground

  • Philosophy • Re: ATHEISM: The Jewish Way of Su ...
    They can't hide their destructive ways for their goal of world domination.Thats impossible and therefor they will get lost terribly. Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine was the founder of the denomination known as Humanistic Judaism and the first humanistic temple in North America, the Birmingham Temple, in ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Brandon Dean is my Buddy...he's a good guy. Not sure what your so wound up about YM??? Anyways, I think it's good for the forum if you continue your antics. It's entertaining and makes for good reading....just lay off Brandon Dean...will ya? He's not even religious.Statistics: Posted by Wha ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    yo mama you've been banned and unbanned this week, take it easyStatistics: Posted by Ognir — Sat Jun 11, 2011 2:46 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Ognir wrote: Calm down boys, this is an old thread, don't make a bollock of it ok, I'll back off...Statistics: Posted by brandon dean — Sat Jun 11, 2011 2:16 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Yo Mama wrote: Who exactly is the one "flaming a thread" here? gee, I don't know: Yo Mama wrote: you're 1/8 Jewish yourself. Statistics: Posted by brandon dean — Sat Jun 11, 2011 2:14 am

TVNZ

  • Actors, bankers and cricketers shine in UK honours
    King's Speech actor Colin Firth and Bank of England governor Mervyn King were among a host of entertainers, business people and sports stars awarded honours by Britain's Queen Elizabeth on Saturday
  • Choppers open fire to disperse Syrian protesters
    Syrian helicopter gunships fired machineguns to disperse pro-democracy protests, witnesses said, in the first reported use of air power to quell unrest in Syria's increasingly bloody three-month-old uprising
  • Thousands of Sarah Palin's emails released
    The state of Alaska has released copies of some of former Governor Sarah Palin's emails, documents that could shed light on how the possible Republican US presidential contender conducted business
  • Woman mauled by chimpanzee gets face transplant
    A Connecticut woman mauled by a chimpanzee in 2009 has received a full face transplant, the third surgery of its kind performed in the country, Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital have said
  • Swine flu starting to show resistance to drugs
    A novel variant of swine flu has emerged in Asia with a genetic adaptation giving some resistance to Roche's Tamiflu and GlaxoSmithKline's Relenza, the two mainstay drugs used to tackle the disease

environment 360

  • Carbon Released 10 Times Faster Than in Past E ...
    Carbon is being released into the atmosphere 10 times faster today than during a previous geological era when the Earth experienced significant warming, a new study says. In the study, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, scientists used rock and sediment samples from a coal mining operat ...
  • Two-Mile ‘Solar Tunnel’ Built on Belgian High- ...
    A European high-speed rail network has begun generating electricity from 16,000 solar panels installed atop a two-mile rail tunnel on the line running from Paris to Amsterdam. The panels, built by the Belgian EnfinityVIDEO: Belgium’s ‘solar tunnel’ renewable energy company Enfinity, will pr ...
  • As Arctic Sea Ice Retreats, Storms Take Toll o ...
    For millennia, the blanket of ice covering the Arctic Ocean protected the shore from damaging storms. But as that ice buffer disappears, increasingly powerful storm surges are eroding the coastline and sending walls of seawater inland, devastating Arctic ecosystems that support abundant wildlife ...
  • China Faces ‘Very Grave’ Environmental Situati ...
    Despite some progress in recent years, Chinese officials say that the nation still faces a “very grave” environmental situation, from industrial pollution that has triggered protests in numerous regions to a troubling decline in biodiversity. Speaking to reporters, officials from China’s Ministr ...
  • Interactive Devices To Be Used to Spur Consume ...
    Stanford researchers are developing interactive software that they say will provide insight into the energy decisions consumers make each day and ultimately encourage them to significantly improve the energy efficiency of their homes and offices. The program aims to collect data from so-called “ ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • On SunTV and Margie Gillis
    On June 1, 2011, SunTV broadcast an interview with veteran Canadian dancer and choreographer Margie Gillis (see link below), which quickly turned abusive towards the guest. In a message on his facebook page, Canadian dancer Louis Laberge-Côté, currently a teacher at Nationaltheatre Manheim in Ge ...
  • Wikileaks on Harper, America, and the “t ...
    By Alison@Creekside An embassy cable written by US Ambassador David Wilkins the day the Cons were first elected in 2006 suggests Harper would be useful in advancing the US agenda for Canada and that giving him " a success story" like the softwood lumber deal would "shore up" his ability to st ...
  • Antimatter contained for 17 minutes; hello Vulcans
    by Eric Pettifor Canadian researchers (and others, but we'll focus on lauding our countrypersons) at CERN near North Battleford, Saskatchewan (ok, CERN is really in Switzerland, but it should be in Saskatchewan) have managed to capture and contain antimatter for a whopping 17 minutes (layper ...
  • Why Michael Moore isn’t the only Brigett ...
    By Montreal Simon Well I see the legend of Brigette DePape continues to grow, like a red rose of hope in the darkness of Harperland. Quoted in The Globe: "I have been really inspired because there have been thousands of people who have sent messages or commented on the Internet. People kn ...
  • Young Adult fiction: the poison is the antidote
    by Rachel Krueger Meghan Cox Gurdon’s Wall Street Journal article on the ‘explicit abuse, violence and depravity’ grown rife in YA fiction must come either from a place of willful blindness or an actual dark rock, under which she has been living.  Granted, YA has gotten much more violent sin ...

Daily Beast

  • Arizona Fires: Mormons Mobilize to Help
    A massive wildfire is hitting Mormon-heavy rural areas hardest. Terry Greene Sterling on the blaze's devastating damage to homes and livelihoods-and the religious group whose helping hand is making a difference. As the largest wildfire now blazing...
  • The Anthony Weiner Scandal: C'mon, America, No ...
    Creepy as Anthony Wiener's photos are, the level of outrage aimed at him is wildly unfair. If we'd scrutinized the private behavior of past leaders to the same ridiculous degree, we'd blow up all our heroes, says Lee Siegel. With all the commotion...
  • This Week's Best Reads
    From the quintessential American materialism of Disney to China's burgeoning effort to go green, The Daily Beast picks the best journalism from around the Web this week. 1. "You Blow My Mind. Hey, Mickey!"John Jeremiah Sullivan, New York Times...
  • The Blue Lobster and 8 More Oddly Colored Animals
    A blue lobster named Fluffy was caught this week off Prince Edward Island. See eight other unnatural creatures, from a purple polar bear to an orange alligator and a green pig. Gallery: Oddly Colored Animals Like The Daily Beast on Facebook and...
  • Callista Gingrich Joins GOP's Worst Wives Club
    So Callista Gingrich forced Newt's campaign implosion by dragging him on an Aegean cruise? Hardly-she's just joined Marsha Barbour and Cheri Daniels as the latest victim of the GOP's ugly new fad: Blame the wife. The more I think about it, I'm...

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Kepco seeks 15% power cut; Hashimoto irked
    Kansai Electric Power Co. said Friday it will ask households and firms in its service area in western Japan to voluntarily cut power consumption by around 15 percent from July 1 to Sept. 22 due to an expected electricity shortage this summer. The move came as some of the utility's atomic react ...
  • Defense pick Panetta to address Futenma plan
    Leon Panetta, nominated to succeed Robert Gates as U.S. defense secretary, indicated Thursday in a congressional panel hearing that he will decide whether to review a plan to realign U.S. forces in Japan, including the relocation of the Futenma base within Okinawa, after assuming his new post. ...
  • Boiling water charges cellphones
    A pot that can be used to charge cellphones by boiling water in it will go on sale as disaster equipment later this month. The Hatsuden-nabe (power-generating pot) made by venture company TES NewEnergy Corp. has the appearance of an ordinary household utensil but can directly convert heat wast ...
  • Athletics blow out manager Geren
    With his banged-up team mired in a nine-game losing streak and rampant speculation about the tenuous status of manager Bob Geren, general manager Billy Beane felt he had no other choice than to make a change at skipper. The A's fired a manager during the season for the first time in a quarter ...
  • FTC dings DeNA for antitrust
    The Fair Trade Commission has determined that cellphone game site operator DeNA Co. violated antitrust law by requesting more than 40 software developers not to provide their games to rival GREE Inc. The watchdog said it ordered DeNA, known for its Mobage website, on Thursday to stop such acti ...

Alexander Higgins

  • Japan To Deal With Radioactive Sewage By Using ...
    Japan approves the use of highly radioactive sewage sludge to produce cement in an attempt to deal with the radioactive sewage crisis.
  • Nuclear Ash Cloud Of Radiation Raining On Toky ...
    Independent scientists and local Japanese Government officials reveal that the burning of radioactive sewage sludge is contaminating the city of Tokyo with an ash cloud of nuclear radiation.
  • Japan Censors Tests Showing Radiation In Tea A ...
    Japan orders tea manufacturer not to post radiation results online because it "may spread unnecessary fear" after nuclear radiation is detected in tea above legal limits 300 miles from Fukushima.
  • Physician and Epidemiologist Say 35% Spike in ...
    As I've previously noted, infants are much more vulnerable to radiation than adults. And see this.However, radiation safety standards are set based on the assumption that everyone exposed is a healthy man in his 20s.Now, a physician (Janette D. Sherm...
  • Is Japan Selling Radioactive Tea?
    NHK notes:Radioactive cesium exceeding the legal limit was detected in tea made in a factory in Shizuoka City, more than 300 kilometers away from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Shizuoka Prefecture is one of the most famous tea producing...

Macleans - Central

  • The Commons: Humble brag
    Across the street and behind a metal barricade, a young man in a bike helmet,
  • Attack of the Bimbots
    Have you ever been suckered into sharing personal information with an attractive stranger who turns
  • Funding without borders?
    The interim auditor general is asked about the Prime Minister’s comment yesterday that the Border
  • Rights and democracy
    Speaking at this weekend’s Conservative convention, Jason Kenney explains the Conservative ethos. âWe donât depend
  • Trojan horses
    On the occasion of her first question in the House, Elizabeth May took the opportunity

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Brigitte DePape: Silently Speaking Truth to Power
    Most Canadians will now have seen the striking image of Brigette DePape. The determined solitary young woman, surrounded by the highest ranking public officials in the land, stood in silence holding her crumpled ‘Stop Harper’ sign, as the Governor General read the Conservative government’s thron ...
  • CETA: A Hot Topic at Gathering of Municipal Le ...
    The Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) was a hot topic of debate at the recent Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) annual conference, held in Halifax. Leading up to the June 3-6 conference, the Union of BC Municipalities called on the FCM to seek a “clear, perman ...
  • Budget 2011: Don’t look behind the curtain
    Definitely nothing new to see here.  The boutique tax cuts are still there, so are the small programs from the failed March 22nd budget.  The government was even good enough to put on track changes to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that this is the same budget and little has changed.  The only ...
  • Jack Mintz is Right on “Small” Business Tax
    One of my main undertakings over at Relentlessly Progressive Economics has been to debunk Jack Mintz’s relentless advocacy of tax cuts for large corporations. However, I also give him credit when he proposes good policy, such as raising potash royalties and the small-business corporate tax rate. ...
  • Thrown Speech: Jobs Rhetoric, Not Jobs Creation
    Perhaps the government’s new mantra for the budget and the throne speech is telling in its ordering.  First priority is low tax, and then if jobs and growth also happen, well that’s a happy coincidence. It was interesting to hear the throne speech acknowledging that government spending like that ...

ReDress

  • 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 ...

Physics Today

  • Old spacesuits get new lease on life
    Nature: The spacesuits worn by the first astronauts are being moved from their current home in Maryland to the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. While the new facility will provide a much better environment for the suits, getting them there intact was a puzzle fo ...
  • Federal agencies to study guidelines on nanoma ...
    Washington Post: Federal agencies announced Thursday that they will seek to clarify the role nanomaterials can have in consumer items such as cosmetics and food production, writes Darryl Fears for the Washington Post. The Environmental Protection Agency will investigate whether nanomaterials in ...
  • Two gamma-ray researchers awarded 2011 Shaw Prize
    Wall Street Journal: Two scientists share this year’s Shaw Prize in astronomy: Gerald Fishman, chief scientist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, and Enrico Costa, director of research at the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics. According to a press release, the two men were picked " ...
  • Some scientists undeterred by Hubble successor ...
    NPR: The James Webb Space Telescope will cost about $6.5 billion, rather than the $5 billion NASA had planned to spend, and the launch date has been pushed forward from 2014 to 2018. Nevertheless, enthusiasm remains high for the massive IR telescope, writes Nell Greenfieldboyce for NPR. It will ...
  • Brightest supernovae are in a class of their own
    Nature: When stars several times more massive than our Sun die, they explode into supernovae, radiating enough energy to outshine a galaxy. The radiation is sometimes produced by radioactive decay, and sometimes by the explosive release of heat, or from a collision between debris ejected by the ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • The Fake Osama Bin Laden Image
    by Howard T. Lewis III (Posted Sat, 11 Jun 2011 02:25:32 GMT) When I was 15, I worked on a farm where the farm dog, a tailess Australian sheepdog year old pup, carried around a dried up roadflattened cat that he was always tossing up in the air and catching and chewing and otherwise playing arou ...
  • America addicted to War
    by Rev333 (Posted Sat, 11 Jun 2011 02:12:31 GMT) Here’s how Afghanistan ends — America loses, Islam wins, and a new Muslim generation joins the jihad. By Michael Scheuer. (former senior member of the CIA) Published: June 10, 2011 Two simple truisms seem appropriate these days whe ...
  • Fake Holocaust Memoirs
    by Rev333 (Posted Sat, 11 Jun 2011 01:17:20 GMT) Allegations of Fake Holocaust Claims Just Keep Growing. …. Russian-speaking Claims Conference employees who rubber-stamped hundreds of fraudulent claims over more than a decade. They were aided by so-called “recruiters” who gathered documents fro ...
  • Goldman investigated over £31m Libyan 'bribe'
    by bronko (Posted Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:47:39 GMT) Goldman Sachs' dealings with Muammar Gaddafi's regime have come under scrutiny from US regulators investigating whether they broke anti-bribery laws. The investment banking giant made the offer of a $50m (£31m) payment, which would have gone to ...
  • GORDON DUFF: BUSTED – WIKILEAKS WORKING FOR ISRAEL
    by deewany (Posted Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:44:50 GMT) If Wikileaks leaked Chinese or Russian information, what do you think would happen? It's obvious that Wikileaks is biased, but hypothetically speaking, what do you think other governments would do to Wikileaks if countries like Russia or China ha ...

Peakwater

  • Mississippi flooding may have spread invasive fish
    “While scientists have been battling to keep a ravenous, invasive fish species out of the Great Lakes, some worry that spring floods along the Mississippi River may be spreading the Asian carp downstream. “Duane Chapman, a U.S. Geological Survey biologist and Asian carp expert, says the fish are ...
  • The Commodification of Water And Land in Mali
    “This ecological representation of water as a common good explains why the creation of the ‘water business’ and the commercial logic of ‘public-private partnerships’ is so unacceptable. This commercially based logic, over and above preaching democratisation and good governance, involves predator ...
  • Chinese Takeaway Kitchen
    “WAIST-DEEP in the muddy water, hundreds of people swirl their pans, scouring the black sediment for the sparkle of gold dust. They have come from all over Myanmar to Kachin state, where the NâMai and Mali rivers merge to form the mighty Irrawaddy, knowing that a good day may yield $1,000-worth ...
  • Shrinking snowpack hurts water supply
    “The Rocky Mountain snowpack has been dwindling at an almost unprecedented rate for the past 30 years, according to an international research team. “The scientists warn the changes, tied to “unparalleled springtime warming,” could have “serious consequences” for western water supplies. “The stud ...
  • All that hydropower, but no rate cuts, as Miss ...
    “The torrents of water pounding through the Missouri Riverâs six dams are generating surplus electricity for utilities across the upper Great Plains, but ratepayers can mostly forget about seeing any benefit on their monthly bills. “Utility officials say power prices already are low, and the fed ...

Total Collapse

  • China Wants To Construct A 50 Square Mile Self ...
    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 [...] ...
  • US destroyer sent to South China Sea
    Philstar – One of the most formidable warships in the United States Navy has been deployed in the South China Sea and Sulu Sea for âfreedom of navigation operations,â reports said. Yahoo Online News said that USS Chung-Hoon, a guided-missile destroyer, has been sent on an independent deployment ...
  • Missile Defense: Moscow threatens military res ...
    Moscow (dpa) – The dispute over a NATO missile defense system in Central Europe, Russia has threatened a military response in case of failure of the talks. “If we are not NATO guarantees that the system is not directed against Russia, we will respond fully,” warned Russia’s NATO envoy Dmitry Rog ...
  • The Federal Reserve Cartel: The Eight Families
    by Dean Henderson Global Research, June 1, 2011 (Part one of a four-part series) The Four Horsemen of Banking (Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo) own the Four Horsemen of Oil (Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, BP and Chevron Texaco); in tandem with Deutsche Bank, BNP, Bar ...
  • Russia Warns American Police State Now Rivals ...
    A grim report prepared by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for President Medvedev warns that the ‘Deep State’ intelligence and security organizations in the United States have now grown larger than those same forces established under the fascist dictatorship of Nazi Germany in the 1920’s. ...

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