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Thomas Paine

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Monday, June 13, 2011

13 June - RSS SnapShot ! Pt I

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Renewable Energy vs. Fossil Fuels
New York Times
- Jun 13, 2011
- 1 hour ago
Environmental organizations, including America's largest, the Sierra Club, have been engaging communities across the country to build support for renewable energy projects because the toll that fossil fuels take on our health, economy and climate has ...
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Renewable energy sources a priority for military, says report
UPI.com
- Jun 13, 2011
- 4 hours ago
WASHINGTON, June 13 (UPI) -- Military establishments, notorious for wasteful energy practices, are being drawn to renewable energy development as part of efficiency-increasing strategies, Pike Research said in a report Monday. The report said increased ...
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State Roundup: NJ Scales Back Renewables; NY Expands Net Metering; CT Supports ...
SustainableBusiness.com
- Jun 13, 2011
- 9 hours ago
New Jersey's Republican Governor Chris Christie announced last week he will scale back the state's Renewable Energy Standard (RES). Christie says he modify the RES in state's new 10-year energy master plan, to make it more "achievable," implying the ...
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Tidal energy vessel visits Maine for conference
Wall Street Journal
- Jun 13, 2011
- 4 hours ago
Ocean Renewable Power Co. is in the process of building a larger unit — about 90 feet long — that will be deployed this fall and connected to the Bangor Hydro-Electric Co. grid by year's end. "Tidal energy has come to Portland, and it's here to stay ...
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Human Habitat

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Ecology is focus of downtown festival
WSBT-TV
- Jun 12, 2011
- Jun 12, 2011
SOUTH BEND - Eco Fest, a family-friendly free event, is set for 10 am to 3 pm Saturday in Howard Park downtown. The event will showcase initiatives, programs and activities that help protect and preserve our natural environment and health, according to ...
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Cleanup proposed for old Eldridge Municipal Landfill in Bellingham park
Bellingham Herald
- Jun 13, 2011
- 12 hours ago
The state Department of Ecology is opening a comment period through July 6 on what is being called an interim cleanup of the Eldridge Municipal Landfill site, which would cost an estimated $850000. The project could start in August. ...
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Ecology book teaches do-it-yourself 'worm poo tea,' more
OCRegister
- Jun 13, 2011
- 7 hours ago
By FARZAD MASHHOOD New handbook from The Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano is a collection of 19 lessons from its workshops the past year on sustainable, environmentally friendly household practices. Ecology Center Executive Director Evan Marks, ...
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Chillingham cattle cowed by climate change
PhysOrg.com
- Jun 13, 2011
- 2 hours ago
Now, a new study on Northumberland's iconic Chillingham cattle published in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Animal Ecology shows climate change is altering when these animals breed, and fewer calves are surviving as a result. ...
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Water Power

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Worst Drought in More Than a Century Threatens Texas Oil Boom
Bloomberg
- Jun 12, 2011
- 19 hours ago
By Joe Carroll - Mon Jun 13 20:49:49 GMT 2011 The water crisis in Texas, the biggest oil- and gas- producing state in the US, highlights a continuing debate in North America and Europe over the impact on water supplies of an oil and gas production ...
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Snow, big run-off celebrated in water-hungry West
The Associated Press
- Jun 13, 2011
- 4 hours ago
There will be more water for Nevada, California and Arizona this year, sparing them from having to take emergency measures, such as water rationing, for at least another three years. The three states can thank the heavy and, in some cases, ...
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Crews assemble huge digging machine to carve first-ever tunnel under San ...
San Jose Mercury News
- Jun 13, 2011
- 30 minutes ago
By Paul Rogers These are two of the existing water pipes, the closer one is riveted and was made in the 1920's before welding, as seen in Menlo Park on Monday, June 13, 2011. Crews are beginning to dig the first tunnel ever to be built under San ...
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Calif. water groups want conveyance in delta plan
Sacramento Bee
- Jun 13, 2011
- 47 minutes ago
A coalition of California water groups wants a state agency to include a canal or pipeline, groundwater and surface water storage, and ecosystem restoration investments in its plan for the fragile freshwater delta. The alternate proposal comes as the ...
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The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran urges pressure on Israel to join Non-Prol ...
    Summary: Dimona nuclear plantTehran - Iran called on the world community Sunday to pressure Israel to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and subject its nuclear programmes to international oversight. source: Monsters and Criticsread more
  • Nuclear proliferation: Engaging Iran
    Summary: IAEA Inspectors at an Iranian Uranium Conversion PlantIn principle, however, nothing in international law or in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty forbids the enrichment of uranium. Besides Iran, several other countries, parties or not to the treaty, enrich uranium without being a ...
  • American Activist: US Fearful of Iran's Region ...
    Summary: Phil Wilayto"In all these situations, it should be clear that, whatever legitimate grievances the peoples of all these various countries may have, the criteria used by the West to decide whether or not to support particular opposition movements has been consistent: will Western inte ...
  • AMERICA’S ON-AGAIN / OFF-AGAIN LOVE AFFAIR WIT ...
    Summary: Seymour HershSeymour Hersh, the acclaimed journalist who, in 1970, won a Pulitzer Prize for uncovering the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and has subsequently broken many other important stories dealing with America’s foreign and national security policies (e.g., prisoner abuse at Abu G ...
  • THE AMERICAN MISREADING OF IRAN AND THE CHANG ...
    Summary: Egypt protestsIt is clear that the United States and its Western European allies were caught completely unprepared for the revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, and Bahrain, as well as the upheavals throughout the Arab world. On the other hand, many of us in the region have been re ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • The Daily Flash --Sci, Space, Tech (6/13)
    This week’s solar flare illuminates the grid’s vulnerability The next peak cycle of sunspot activity is predicted for 2012–2014, bringing with it a greater risk of large geomagnetic storms that can generate powerful rogue currents in transmission lines, potentially damaging...
  • A Biological Beacon --Laser Beam Made from a L ...
    In most instances, a laser consists of two mirrors on either side of a material whose structural properties allow it to amplify light. A source of energy such as a flash tube or electrical discharge excites the atoms in the...
  • EcoAlert: New Mystery Infection Attacks Tornad ...
    Several people who were injured when a tornado devastated Joplin, Mo., last month have become sickened by an uncommon, deadly fungal infection known as nfection, which is believed to be mucormycosis, is most commonly found in soil and wood. At...
  • Mar's Moon Phoebe --Cosmic Mystery with a Viol ...
    Saturn's moon, Phoebe's violent, cratered past is evident in this 3-D image of the tiny moon. The Sun is coming from the left, illuminating craters and bumps on the surface, along with a prominent ridge-like feature in the middle. Bright...
  • Image of the Day: Twin Gigantic Black Holes Fo ...
    A galaxy already known to have one enormous black hole at its core is actually home to two of these scary giants. Astronomers discovered the second monster black hole at the center of the galaxy Markarian 739, which is about...

Natural News

  • Doctor indicted for falsely diagnosing patient ...
    (NaturalNews) At a cost of up to $15,000 a year, the antiretroviral drugs used for treating HIV and AIDS are a big money-maker for drug companies. But apparently they are also a good choice for corrupt doctors who are illegally trying to make a quick buck off the US Medicare system. A federal in ...
  • Stealth Vaccine Laws Allow Children to Consent ...
    (NaturalNews) A current California bill, AB 499, would "allow a minor who is 12 years of age or older to consent to medical care related to the prevention of a sexually transmitted disease."[1] That is, children as young as 12 will be able to get a Gardasil or other STD vaccine without their par ...
  • Japan not hit by 9.0 quake? False flag nuclear ...
    (NaturalNews) What if the alleged 9.0+ magnitude mega earthquake that was said to have hit off the coast of Japan back on March 11 never actually happened, and the resultant tsunami that destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was actually a deliberate, false flag attack using nuclear weap ...
  • Tennessee passes law criminalizing posting of ...
    (NaturalNews) Just when you thought lawmaking in America couldn't get any more ridiculous comes a new piece of legislation that quite possibly could be the most outrageous, if not unconstitutional law ever passed.The geniuses in the Tennessee legislature passed a bill which makes it a crime to " ...
  • Develop a Retirement Health Plan: It's Never t ...
    (NaturalNews) If you are planning to retire, will you be healthy enough to enjoy retirement? This should be a time of pleasure, travel, getting involved in those hobbies you have postponed, and fostering relationships with loved ones. All the things you have wanted to do all these years. You don ...

Threat Level

  • U.S. Facing Legal Challenge to Internet Domain ...
    One of Spain’s most popular websites, whose American domains were seized as part of a crackdown on internet piracy, asked a U.S. judge Monday to return its property that it claims was wrongly taken. The Rojadirecta .com and .org domains were seized in January along with eight others connected t ...
  • IMF Breached by Sophisticated Hack Attack
    The International Monetary Fund is the latest victim in an epidemic of sophisticated computer breaches, according to reports.
  • ‘Anonymous’ Attacks, Shutters Spanish Police W ...
    The web site of Spain’s federal police was hit by the hacking group Anonymous on Sunday, forcing it offline for about an hour. The distributed denial of service attack against www.policia.es, Anonymous said, was in retaliation for the Spanish government’s arrest of three Anonymous members accus ...
  • Nude Nuns Mass BitTorrent Lawsuit is Terminated
    A Utah investment company late Friday dropped its copyright-infringement lawsuit against 5,865 BitTorrent users who allegedly downloaded the movie Nude Nuns with Big Guns between January and March of this year. Incentive Capital, which is embroiled in litigation with another company called Came ...
  • Police Arrest 3 Anonymous Members Allegedly Co ...
    Spanish authorities announced Friday they have arrested three members of the hacking group, Anonymous, in connection to attacks against Sony’s online Playstation network and other sites. The police said the three, whose identities were not disclosed, carried out the attacks from a server based i ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • 10 Missing Questions from the CNN GOP Debate
    Tonight in Manchester, New Hampshire, CNN will broadcast the first major debate featuring the 2012 Republican presidential candidates. Predictably, the media are hyping a clash of personalities featuring the front-runner (Romney) vs. the challenger (Pawlenty), the cult heroes (Paul, Cain), the ...
  • Killing Medicare in Pictures
    "We want to save Medicare," a senior GOP aide put it, "while Democrats would let it die." Sadly for him, it appears that Republicans spouting that talking point are about to be mugged by reality. For starters, recent polling shows the American people are overwhelmingly opposed to the Ryan plan ...
  • Pawlenty Moves from Sam's Club to the Country Club
    The Republican Party, Tim Pawlenty often lectures, "should be the party of Sam's Club, not just the country club." If so, the GOP White House hopeful miserably failed his own Sam's Club test this week. Unveiling his economic plan draining $7.8 trillion from the U.S. Treasury in order to give m ...
  • Romney Flip-Flops on Religious Test
    Unfortunately for Mitt Romney and American religious tolerance alike, a new Quinnipiac survey this week found that over a third of voters have misgivings about a Mormon President. So it came as no surprise that the Republican frontrunner told CNN's Piers Morgan, "I'm not a spokesman for my chu ...
  • 10 Years, 10 Failures for the Bush Tax Cuts
    Today's 10th anniversary of the Bush tax cuts arrives at a particularly ironic time. Ironic, that is, because even as talk of deficits dominates the debate in Washington, that windfall for the wealthy was the single-biggest driver of U.S national debt over the past decade and, if made permanent, ...

Blackspot News Feed

Consortium News

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

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Austin Taxi Industry Influences City Council Race
    Although the taxi cab industry in Austin is not often considered a power player in politics, individuals, top executives and owners have spent thousands of dollars in this city council election cycle. In particular, the election for the Austin City Council Place 3 seat has seen substantial amoun ...
  • News Roundup for June 13, 2011
    The Texas Progressive Alliance is wishing — not praying — for rain as it brings you the week’s roundup of the best blog posts from last week.  (Note from Citizen Andy: I am praying for rain, and also hoping everyone heading to Netroots Nation this week from Texas has an amazing time. I think wh ...
  • Texas forges ahead into the 20th Century
    Last week, Public Citizen, the Sustainable Energy and Economic Development (SEED) Coalition, Texas League of Conservation Voters, Environmental Defense Fund and the Natural Resources Defense Council wrote to Governor Rick Perry urging him to veto House Bill 2510, “An Act relating to exempting th ...
  • Fukushima may have been worse than a core meltdown
    According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Japanese authorities are now admitting the crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant in March may have been worse than a core meltdown. In an official report that will go to the UN’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) ...
  • State Senator Attempts to Get Rid of His Own A ...
    Texas State Senator Mike Jackson added an amendment to the ethics bill (HB 1616) only 48 hours before the regular session ended and seems to be regretting that decision.  Now he wants Gov. Rick Perry to veto his own legislation.  The amendment was written so that candidates would have been able ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • UFO filmed over Rotorua, New Zealand
    A film of a strange light in the sky taken by a farmer in New Zealand has become an internet hit. "(I) drove up the farm in a truck and seen a large o...
  • New drug could cure cat allergies
    Scientists have developed a treatment that stops the reactions triggered by an allergy to cats. The research involves understanding the way that the i...
  • Man builds world's tallest sandcastle
    Ed Jarrett needed a whopping 1.6 million pounds of sand and 1500 volunteers to make the 37ft castle. It took over 2,500 hours of work to complete and ...
  • Nuclear fears over bunny with no ears
    New concerns have been raised over the Fukushima plant incident after a rabbit was found with no ears. The rabbit was born close to the scene of the d...
  • Triple-barrelled cannon found in Croatia
    A forerunner to the modern machine gun invented by Leonardo Da Vinci himself has been found in Croatia. The triple-barrelled cannon was discovered by ...

Grassroots

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

Climate

  • Italy Votes on Scrapping Nuclear Energy
    Source:� Wall Street Journal Italians began voting in a referendum on whether to indefinitely shelve government plans to revive the country's nuclear-energy plans, following the nuclear crisis at Japan 's Fukushima Daiichi pla ...
  • Bad News for People Who Breathe in California
    Source:� SF Chronicle A report by the Union of Concerned Scientists found California would likely suffer more than any other state when it comes to health effects from worsening ozone pollution from climate change.
  • CA Releases Final Guidance on Low Carbon Fuel ...
    Source:� Green Car Congress The California Air Resources Board (ARB) released the final LCFS Guidance Document Version 1.0, intended to help answer questions the Board received regarding the LCFS regulation
  • Poor Countries Say Rich Evade New Climate Pledges
    Source:� AP Developing countries said that rich nations are refusing to negotiate an extension of their commitments to reduce GHG emissions, to "maintain their privileges and levels of consumption" at the expense of the poor.
  • Federal Agency Allows Construction to Resume o ...
    Source:� Washington Post Construction can resume on a massive Southern California solar energy project after wildlife officials determined it will not jeopardize the threatened desert tortoise, federal officials said Friday ...

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

Booman Tribune

  • Petraeus Lied about Captured Taliban
    Didn't we see this movie before? You know, the one where the generals lie about the success of their Asian land war by cooking the books (i.e., inflating numbers of enemies killed and/or captured). In December, Petraeus's command said a total of 4,100 Taliban rank and file had been captured ...
  • It's Time to Buckle Up
    There will be a debate tonight in New Hampshire between frontrunner Mitt Romney and Rep. Michele Bachmann (Minn.), former House speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.), Rep. Ron Paul (Tex.), former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty, former senator Rick Santorum (Pa.) and Georgia businessman Herman Cain. Tha ...
  • Wallace and Moyers On Our Precarious Future
    An old interview has surfaced between Russian journalist Ostap Karmodi and the now-deceased American author David Foster Wallace. It took place in 2006. Wallace committed suicide exactly two years after this interview. I think the following excerpt is interesting because it talks about things ...
  • Know Your Enemies
    A lot of police cars have some kind of motto printed on them. A classic example is "To Serve and Protect." It's a reminder that police officers are public servants. We have a lot of public servants. Here in Pennsylvania, you have to take a civil service exam to work at our liquor stores. I' ...
  • Santorum's Wimpy Abortion Extremism
    Rick Santorum went on Meet the Press this morning and reiterated his extreme views on abortion. Specifically, he said that since, in his view, life begins at conception, the government should prosecute doctors who perform abortions even in cases of rape and incest. That seems logical if you ac ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Gay and Lesbian Teens More Likely to Engage in ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Gay teenagers are faced with the same peer pressures as heterosexual teens. But a new study suggests their sexuality can lead them to be at a greater risk for engaging in unhealthy behaviors. According to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( ...
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Useful in Substan ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline New research shows the importance of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in the recovery of those with drug and alcohol use problems and depression. The researchers, from the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, note that many people with substance abuse i ...
  • Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
    A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up Happy weekend! We wish you a joyful weekend with your loved ones, and happy reading of this week’s news! Let us know your take :-) Therapists Judged by Their Offices, Study Shows Knowledge of Mental Health Increases Likelihood of Seeking Help ...
  • Transcendental Meditation Has Positive Effect ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline New evidence suggests that soldiers suffering post-traumatic stress may benefit from transcendental meditation. After only two months of engaging in this widely accepted method of meditation, five war veterans showed marked improvement, a decrease of nearly fifty ...
  • Focalizing Disease Transformation
    By Michael Picucci, PhD, MAC, SEP, Focalizing Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Michael and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile Over three decades ago, amidst a sea of healthy, young gay men whose consciousness and life-styles could be described as expansive, I celebrated a hard-earn ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Mountaintop Removal: Environmental and Human D ...
    WJLA Mountaintop Removal: Environmental and Human Destruction for Profit Bay Area Indymedia As a result, she moved downstream and joined Coal River Mountain Watch (CRMW), an activist group against mountaintop removal. CRMW is an initiative "to stop the destruction of our communities and environ ...
  • Al Cross | Clear the air over the EPA's action ...
    Mother Nature Network Al Cross | Clear the air over the EPA's actions Louisville Courier-Journal But such significant details are usually obscured in the debate over mountaintop removal and other coal-related issues such as human-caused climate change (a scientific reality, we were told again l ...
  • Daryl Hannah joins hundreds at Tree Huggers Ba ...
    Daryl Hannah joins hundreds at Tree Huggers Ball OCRegister The Hollywood actor, known for protesting against mountaintop removal in the coal mining industry, fighting human trafficking and speaking out against environmental toxins, was the featured speaker at the popular canyon event where pro ...
  • Marchers scale Blair Mountain - Charleston Gazette
    Marchers scale Blair Mountain Charleston Gazette Hundreds of protesters reached the summit of Blair Mountain on Saturday, marking the end of a weeklong, 50-mile march to raise awareness of mountaintop-removal mining and labor rights in West Virginia. The protesters came from far and wide to ... ...
  • Kennedy, protesters finish march, call for end ...
    Charleston Gazette (blog) Kennedy, protesters finish march, call for end to mountaintop removal mining ... The Republic Kennedy is also pushing a documentary film that presents an unflattering view of mountaintop removal mining, a technique that involves clear-cutting trees and blasting away ro ...

Memeorandum

  • The Campaign to Cut Government Waste: Efficien ...
    Sarah Laskow / TAPPED: The Campaign to Cut Government Waste: Efficiency Theater  —  Ah, waste, fraud, and abuse.  Nobody likes those, do they?  Of course not!  That's why the Obama administration is going to eliminate it.  A lot of it.  Just don't ask exactly what.  Or how.  —  The White House ...
  • Republican Debate Prep: What to Watch For in N ...
    Michael D. Shear / The Caucus: Republican Debate Prep: What to Watch For in New Hampshire  —  The first Republican presidential debate of the 2012 campaign, held in South Carolina several weeks ago, produced precious little drama, in part because some of the major candidates chose not to partic ...
  • The health care skeletons of 2012 (The Politico)
    The Politico: The health care skeletons of 2012  —  Huntsman also fancied some aspects of the Massachusetts model.  Shortly after he took office, Huntsman's team flew there to meet with experts on how the state had implemented the exchange with the individual mandate and met with many policy e ...
  • White House won't say Weiner should resign (Sa ...
    Sam Youngman / The Hill: White House won't say Weiner should resign  —  A White House spokesman said Monday that Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) is a “distraction” from important issues, but he stopped short of calling for Weiner's resignation.  —  White House press secretary Jay Carney, who refus ...
  • McLean woman committed in Red Line bomb threat ...
    Dana Hedgpeth / Washington Post: McLean woman committed in Red Line bomb threat  —  2:33 p.m. Update: The 51-year-old Mclean woman has been “involuntarily committed” at a facility that “has better resources to handle mental issues,” Metro spokesman Dan Stessel said.  —  The bomb scare at Rockvi ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Diversion debate
    The zeal for engineering China’s rivers continues unabated among hydrologists. But will the latest proposal – to move water from Tibet to Xinjiang – get the backing of the authorities? Zhang Ke reports.Chinese scientists have dreamed up yet another mega engineering scheme: to divert water from T ...
  • Bearing the standard
    If it grasps the opportunities offered by sustainable certification, China can reap commercial, environmental and social rewards, while helping set the rules for a greener global economy, argues Joshua Wickerham.International voluntary sustainability standards – such as the Forest Stewardship Co ...
  • A two-wheeled future?
    While China’s thriving bike culture is threatened by cars, the US is trying to inspire passion for cycling. Following a chinadialogue seminar, Justin Gerdes reports on efforts to promote this sustainable form of transport.At its founding, the People’s Republic of China reserved a special place f ...
  • Between rail and road in Beijing
    China’s capital is restricting car numbers and pumping money into trains. Is it headed for a less congested future – or already a city beyond help? Liu Xuan reports.On December 30 last year, in a new subway station on Beijing’s Line 15 – Wangjing West – the two most senior members of the municip ...
  • Driven from the land
    As desertification and bitter winters increasingly destroy the livelihoods of Mongolia’s herders, hundreds of thousands are moving into Ulan Bator’s shantytowns from the dry, desolate countryside. Kit Gillet reports.It is a supreme irony in a country once known as the land without fences. Stretc ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Intellectual Scatology: Ann Coulter’s Ne ...
    In “Demonic,” Coulter traces the words and movements of groups from the Ku Klux Klan and the SDS to anti-war protesters and Democrats today to argue her point that liberals have “consistently used mob tactics to implement their idea of the ‘general will.’” “Just as fire seeks oxygen, Democrats s ...
  • Arizona Ethnic Studies Showdown This Week: Wil ...
    Only days after college-bound Ethnic Studies graduates collected their diplomas and a widely praised Tucson forum allowed the community to discuss the city’s acclaimed Ethnic Studies/Mexican American Studies Program, the increasingly isolated state superintendent of education plans to release th ...
  • US Government Experiments on Americans— ...
    Readers have shown considerable interest in the trailer we ran recently for the video about unknown radiation experiments on African American children. Continuing our exploration of secret government experiments on American citizens, we now re-publish an article I wrote in 1999 about the CIA and ...
  • How the Ohio Court Decision on RU-486 Set Back ...
    Written for RHRealityCheck.org by Editor-in-Chief Jodi Jacobson. In 2004, the Ohio legislature passed a law barring use of RU-486, the combination drug used for early termination of pregnancy, unless it was prescribed strictly in accordance with official labeling by the Food and Drug Administrat ...
  • Will President Obama Screen “The Last Mo ...
    While The Last Mountain film exposé on mountaintop removal mining opens in theaters across the country on Friday, its most important screening should take place at the White House Family Theater. And when the lights turn on after President Obama has viewed the devastating film in the air-condit ...

Threat Level

  • U.S. Facing Legal Challenge to Internet Domain ...
    One of Spain’s most popular websites, whose American domains were seized as part of a crackdown on internet piracy, asked a U.S. judge Monday to return its property that it claims was wrongly taken. The Rojadirecta .com and .org domains were seized in January along with eight others connected t ...
  • IMF Breached by Sophisticated Hack Attack
    The International Monetary Fund is the latest victim in an epidemic of sophisticated computer breaches, according to reports.
  • ‘Anonymous’ Attacks, Shutters Spanish Police W ...
    The web site of Spain’s federal police was hit by the hacking group Anonymous on Sunday, forcing it offline for about an hour. The distributed denial of service attack against www.policia.es, Anonymous said, was in retaliation for the Spanish government’s arrest of three Anonymous members accus ...
  • Nude Nuns Mass BitTorrent Lawsuit is Terminated
    A Utah investment company late Friday dropped its copyright-infringement lawsuit against 5,865 BitTorrent users who allegedly downloaded the movie Nude Nuns with Big Guns between January and March of this year. Incentive Capital, which is embroiled in litigation with another company called Came ...
  • Police Arrest 3 Anonymous Members Allegedly Co ...
    Spanish authorities announced Friday they have arrested three members of the hacking group, Anonymous, in connection to attacks against Sony’s online Playstation network and other sites. The police said the three, whose identities were not disclosed, carried out the attacks from a server based i ...

Equality Trust

  • Among Equals: read our newsletter
    Read the latest edition of our supporter newsletter  
  • Action for Happiness
    Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon.   They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future in ...
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     Les preuves en Français Preuves à l’appui: une introduction Preuves à l’appui: la santé physique Preuves à l’appui: la santé mentale Preuves à l’appui: la toxicomanie Preuves à l’appui: l’éducation Preuves à l’appui: la population carcérale      
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      Find our full response to criticism of The Spirit Level here.  
  • The Wrong Cure - alternatives to the cuts
    The False Economy website is an excellent and still-developing resource exploring the alternatives to cuts. False Economy includes: a discussion of why the cuts are not progressive details of campaign actions a comprehensive further reading list ... and this short film [youtube:ynUCYo ...

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Seeds the Source of the Sprout E. coli Outbreak?
    As of today, new numbers in E. coli O104:H4 outbreak - Robert Koch Institute and the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control – E. coli in Germany – 3228 Ill, 781 with HUS and 35 Dead. 102 Ill, 39 HUS in 14 other countries (including U.S.) and 1 death in Sweden. Today the German Fe ...
  • What if there was a foodborne illness outbreak ...
    In 2010 “Team Diarrhea's” funding was jeopardized by funding cuts.  Now the Minnesota Government may just shut them down instead of raising taxes on millionaires and billionaires to support foodborne illness investigations. This is what landed in the mail boxes of Minnesota’s public servants las ...
  • German Sprout Farmer's "Bad Luck" - I say E. c ...
    Reuters a few days ago reported that German authorities had linked the E. coli O104:H4 outbreak that has killed 35, sickened over 3,255 – 812 with acute kidney failure – some with brain complications – to contaminated bean sprouts grown on a local organic farm. At least one German official sees ...
  • 100 Expect Kidney Transplants in German E. col ...
    With over 3,100 ill in over a dozen European countries and the United States and 33 dead, this E. coli O104:H4 outbreak should be a sobering reminder of the power of bacteria and the need to deal with effectively with them as the public health threat that they are. But, that discussion will con ...
  • Off to the Council of State and Territorial Ep ...
    I am off this morning to speak Monday at the annual Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) Conference in Pittsburgh. My Speech is entitled: “Consumers, Canaries in the Coal Mine.” Consumers place great trust in our food supply. Since foodborne pathogens are generally odorless ...

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

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

Digg Green

  • Views from Cassini at Saturn: APOD June 1 ...
    What has the Cassini orbiter seen since arriving at Saturn? This music video shows some of the highlights. In the first time-lapse sequence (00:07), a vertical line appears that is really Saturn's thin rings seen nearly edge-on. Soon some of Saturn's moon shoot past. The next sequence (00:1 ...
  • Can Evolution Outpace Climate Change?
    Animals and plants may not be able to evolve their way out of the threat posed by climate change, according to a UC Davis study of a tiny seashore animal. The work was published today (June 8) in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
  • Why wildlife programmes continue to captu ...
    Filming wildlife has ushered in new technology and techniques, but the audience's fascination with the natural world remains unchanged.
  • Turning off cancer's growth signals
    One hallmark of cancer cells is uncontrollable growth, provoked by inappropriate signals that instruct the cells to keep dividing. Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Womens Hospital have now identified a new way to shut off one of the proteins that spreads those signals a receptor known .. ...
  • Longest lunar eclipse occurs on June 15
    The eclipse will last for nearly six hours, but won't be viewable from North America.

Invisible Opportunity

  • FDA finally admits chicken meat contains cance ...
    by Mike Adams (NaturalNews) After years of sweeping the issue under the rug and hoping no one would notice, the FDA has now finally admitted that chicken meat sold in the USA contains arsenic, a cancer-causing toxic chemical that’s fatal in high doses. But the real story is where this arsenic co ...
  • New NASA research points to possible HAARP con ...
    Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) Recent data released by Dimitar Ouzounov and colleagues from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland highlights some strange atmospheric anomalies over Japan just days before the massive earthquake and tsunami struck on March 11. Seemingly inexp ...
  • Apple accused of ripping off student’s i ...
    A student who launched a hugely successful iPhone App last year is considering legal action, after Apple allegedly released their own application with the same name, functions and a near-identical logo. The downloadable software synchronises a user’s iPhone and computer wirelessly. The computer ...
  • World Bank creating poverty (BBC Newsnight)
  • 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 ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Bubble Chandelier is an Effervescent Light Fix ...
    The effervescent Bubble Chandelier truly lives up to its name with its globular shape and fun form. Designed by Shaun Kasperbauer, this finalist in our Bright Ideas Lighting Design Competition was inspired by – you guessed it – bubbles and is appropriately made out of bottles that formerly held ...
  • Mercedes-Benz Bus Train Provides Cheap Public ...
    We have covered a lot of bizarre hybrid vehicles here at Inhabitat, such as the VW Tank, however this ranks amongst the most intriguing and (for the local population) useful. While traveling in Boliva, travelers Mike Powell and Juergen Horn came across a unique piece of public transport – the Me ...
  • Top 10 Green Gifts for Father’s Day
    Read the rest of Top 10 Green Gifts for Father’s Day Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: bamboo macbook case, Black + Blum, cascadia gift pack, eco gift guide, father's day, father's day 2011, figs ties, green dad, green design, green gift guide, green gifts for father's day, green ...
  • The Sofa-Bike: The Perfect Green Transport For ...
    There’s nothing harder than getting off the sofa to go do exercise, but designer Jacek Holubowicz has solved that problem with the sofa-bike. By combining a two person sofa with a tandem bicycle, Holunowicz has created the perfect mode of transport for sofa-bound couples or a challenging ride fo ...
  • London Unveils Groundbreaking Recyclable Baske ...
    Read the rest of London Unveils Groundbreaking Recyclable Basketball Stadium for 2012 Olympic Games Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable development", 2011 London Olympic Games, basketball arena, eco design, kss, recyclable design, Sinclair Knight Merz, steel, sustainabl ...

Pogue's Posts

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

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • ‘Living Laser’ Engineered From Human Cells
    By Mark Brown, Wired UK Medical researchers from Harvard University have created the first “living laser”; a biological cell that’s been genetically engineered to produce a visible laser beam. Lasers need two things to generate beams. They need a gain medium that amplifies light, and an arrang ...
  • Animals’ Most Amazing Acoustic Feats
    From deafening monkey howls to snapping crustacean claws, animals use powerful sounds to do everything from claim territory to stun prey. In this gallery, we have collected some of the best, and look at the physics that produce them.
  • Final Space Shuttle Mission Will Feature iPhones
    NASA’s final shuttle mission will feature outer space’s first iPhone, tricked out with an app to measure spacecraft radiation levels, orbital location and altitude. The iOS-based software, called SpaceLab, will come pre-loaded on two iPhone 4s. Testing the software isnât mission-critical, but ...
  • New Tevatron Particle May Be a Mirage
    The Tevatron’s Hail Mary shot at particle-physics glory may be fizzling in a puff of protons. New particles recently claimed one of the particle collider’s detectors could not be confirmed by its other detector. In April, the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) researchers reported hints that p ...
  • Extra Gene Copies May Trigger Some Cases of Autism
    By John Timmer, Ars Technica Viewed from some perspectives, autism is a genetic disease. Studies of identical twins show that, when one sibling is affected, the other is also, with a frequency approaching 90 percent. Several genes associated with autism have been identified due to their pre ...

PakAlert

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  • New NASA Research Points To Possible HAARP Con ...
    Recent data released by Dimitar Ouzounov and colleagues from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland highlights some strange atmospheric anomalies over Japan just days before the massive earthquake and tsunami struck on March 11. Seemingly inexplicable and rapid heating of the ionosp ...
  • Video: US is Using Chemical Weapons in Drone S ...
    Experts revealed that those Pakistani civilians who have come under the unauthorized drone airstrike in Pakistan's troubled northwest have been afflicted with complicated skin, eye and respiratory diseases due to the deadly chemical materials used in the missiles, the Press TV correspondent in P ...
  • Israel Created Hamas to Avoid Peace
    Israel created Hamas as an excuse to wage war on the Palestinians. For example, on May 18, a Hamas MP said all Israelis must be annihilated. This is a perfect excuse for Zionists and their supporters to forestall the peace process.This report suggests the Hamas MP could easily work for Israel. ...
  • Another CIA Blunder – ‘Kidnapped US Lesbian’ I ...
    The reported kidnap of a U.S. lesbian blogger in Syria has come into question after a woman in Britain claimed that photos being used to call for her release are actually her. Thousands of campaigners joined protest groups after media outlets across the world reported that Amina Arraf, a blog ...

Andy Worthington

  • Teleconference: Five Years After Disputed &#82 ...
    Friday June 10, as I explained in an article at the time, marked the fifth anniversary of the disputed triple suicide of three prisoners at Guantánamo, and on Monday June 13, to mark the filing of new legal documents as part of the families’ attempts to secure justice, lawyers at the Center for ...
  • WikiLeaks and the 22 Children of Guantánamo
    In May 2008, in a submission to the 48th Session of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (PDF), the Pentagon claimed that it had only held eight juveniles — those under the age of 18 when their alleged crimes took place — during the life of the Guantánamo Bay prison. This, however, [...]
  • On the 5th Anniversary of the Disputed Guantán ...
    Back in January 2010, law professor and Harper’s columnist Scott Horton had a fascinating and alarming article published in Harper’s Magazine (it was online in January, and in the March print edition), entitled, “The Guantánamo ‘Suicides’: A Camp Delta Sergeant Blows the Whistle,” a devastating ...
  • Quarterly Fundraiser: An End of Week Appeal fo ...
    Please support my work! When certain pundits gaze over the media landscape in the second decade of the 21st century and warn apocalyptically of the demise of newspapers and of serious journalism, they tend to overlook the fact that, ever since formatted blogging first became massively pop ...
  • WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo ...
    One of the great publicity coups in WikiLeaks’ recent release of classified military documents relating to the majority of the 779 prisoners held at Guantánamo, as I explained in the first part of this five-part series, was to shine a light on the stories of the first 201 prisoners to be freed f ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Militia Leader Sought After Shots Fired at Off ...
    A manhunt was underway Monday in a remote area near the Idaho-Montana border for an antigovernment militia leader who fired shots at pursuing deputies a day earlier. David Burgert, recently released from federal prison for involvement in a plot to assassinate police and elected officials, was be ...
  • Criticism Grows of Texas Governor’s Hate Group ...
    After news spread last week that Texas Gov. Rick Perry is planning to hold a prayer rally in August funded and organized by the stridently anti-gay group, the American Family Association (AFA), the governor and his staff have worked feverishly to distance themselves from the group’s hateful view ...
  • ‘Study’ of Mosques Reflects Anti-Muslim Bias o ...
    A new “study” co-authored by a man who staunchly believes America’s mosques are incubators of violent jihad has determined – surprise, surprise! – that America’s mosques are incubators of violent jihad. The report, entitled “Shari’a and Violence in American Mosques” and published last week by th ...
  • Your Black Muslim Bakery Leader Found Guilty o ...
    The longtime leader of Your Black Muslim Bakery, a business at the center of a militant black Muslim network in the Oakland, Calif., area, was convicted yesterday of three counts of first-degree murder for ordering the 2007 slayings of Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey and two other men. Yusuf ...
  • Nativist Group Honors Arizona Writer for &#821 ...
    Amidst much fanfare and immigrant-bashing, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) Wednesday presented Tucson Weekly reporter Leo W. Banks with its annual Eugene Katz Award for Excellence in the Coverage of Immigration. CIS is the research arm of an intertwining network of groups started by Joh ...

change: org.

  • Delivery of Petition Letters Kicks Off Week of ...
    When “sanctuary cities” legislation was defeated in the Texas congress, after it was stopped in the Senate, a broad coalition of immigrant rights activists, business leaders, and law enforcement professionals rejoiced. The measure would block cities and counties from keeping their local police f ...
  • Louisiana Congressman Likens Women Seeking Abo ...
    Reproductive rights are under attack in Louisiana. State Rep. John LaBruzzo recently introduced a bill in the Louisiana House that would have criminalized abortions, even in cases of rape and incest. For the time being, the House has decided not to vote on the matter because federal law mandates ...
  • Wegmans Gives Up the Goose Liver in Cooking Cl ...
    Wegmans is a well-known supermarket, with nearly 80 stores scattered across the Mid-Atlantic region. Wegmans brags that their name "strikes fear into the hearts of [competitor] supermarket owners." I can't speak for Price Chopper or Hannaford, but I am happy to report that geese and ducks can be ...
  • Opponents of California Shark Fin Ban (AB 376) ...
    California's proposed ban on the sale of shark fins has been garnering all kinds of support in the Golden State. Celebrities from reputable chefs to professional basketball player Yao Ming have publicly urged lawmakers to vote in favor of AB 376, a bill that would ban the sale of shark fins in C ...
  • Graphic Designers Fight Against Unfair Spec Work
    For more than a week, graphic designers have been waging a campaign targeting the Department of the Interior for economic justice in their profession. And yes, you read that right. Graphic designers. It’s not a group of professionals you typically hear from. Designers work independently or in sm ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Secret US and Afghanistan Talks Could See Troo ...
    American and Afghan officials are locked in increasingly acrimonious secret talks about a long-term security agreement which is likely to see US troops, spies and air power based in the troubled country for decades. read more
  • Debt-Ceiling Deal's Cuts Could Crash Economy
    Negotiating with crazy people is always a bad idea and negotiating with hostage-takers is dangerous. But negotiating with crazy hostage-takers is worse than dangerously bad. The “debt-ceiling” deal being negotiated to keep the economy from being crashed could crash the economy anyway. Making dra ...
  • Drones Soar in US Plans for Future Aircraft Pu ...
    The military is dramatically upping its investment in drones over the next nine years, according to Pentagon plans. In the Pentagon's 30 year plan for aircraft procurement, medium and high altitude unmanned aircraft like the Global Hawk, Predator, and Reaper will balloon in number to 650 in fisc ...
  • Explosion in Jellyfish Numbers May Lead to Eco ...
    Global warming has long been blamed for the huge rise in the world's jellyfish population. But new research suggests that they, in turn, may be worsening the problem by producing more carbon than the oceans can cope with. read more
  • US-Allied Bahrain Jails Student for Reading of ...
    A 20-year-old woman who recited poems critical of Bahrain's rulers and later claimed she was beaten in jail was sentenced to a year in prison, as part of the kingdom's crackdown on Shia protesters calling for greater rights. read more

Lifehacker

  • Google Adds Copy-and-Paste Picture Insertion t ...
    Gmail added drag-and-drop image insertion last year, but they've pumped up Gmail's image-sharing features even more today by adding clipboard support. Now, if you've copied an image from somewhere, you can paste it right into Gmail's Compo ...
  • These Are the Most Common Lockscreen PINs (and ...
    iPhone developer Daniel Amitay anonymously recorded and analyzed passcodes of users of his Big Brother Camera Security iPhone app, resulting in an interesting list of the ten most common passcodes, which, in order of popularity, include 12 ...
  • Use a White Noise Ringtone to Find Your Lost C ...
    We've featured numerous ways to call your lost phone so you can find it, but reader Java-Princess lets us know that a white noise ringtone on the other end will make it even easier to find. More��
  • Choose the Healthier Contender when You Can't ...
    Plenty of foods are similar enough that we tend to use them interchangeably without giving much thought to the matter. Like almonds and cashews; if you're just feeling like a tin of nuts, they could both satisfy your craving. The differenc ...
  • Use Your Browser's Address Bar as a Calculator ...
    While Google can perform some simple calculations right from its home page, you can actually perform them with JavaScript in your address bar—no internet connection required. More »

Water Privatization

  • Berlusconi suffers stinging referendum defeat
    Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi suffered a humiliating defeat on Monday as Italians turned out in large numbers to vote in referendums which he had encouraged them to boycott.
  • Water fight: A new Catholic environmental issu ...
    VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A referendum in Italy has spotlighted an emerging social justice issue for the Catholic church: access to safe water as a basic human right.
  • Partial results show defeat for Berlusconi
    Italian voters dealt Premier Silvio Berlusconi a serious political blow, overturning laws passed by his government to revive nuclear energy, privatize the water supply and help him avoid prosecution, partial results Monday showed.
  • Partial results show defeat for Berlusconi in ...
    MILAN - Italian voters dealt Premier Silvio Berlusconi a serious political blow, overturning laws passed by his government to revive nuclear energy, privatize the water supply and help him avoid prosecution, partial results Monday showed.
  • Voter turnout strong in Italian referendums
    Voters appear to have ignored Premier Silvio Berlusconi's example, turning out strong for a series of referendums that would block a revival of nuclear power, the privatization of the water supply and undo a law that offers the Italian leader a partial legal shield in criminal prosecutions.

Guardian

  • Second lesbian blogger exposed as a man
    Paula Brooks, who claimed to be editor of LezGetReal.com, admitted to the Washington Post that 'she', too, was a manA second supposedly leading lesbian blogger was exposed as a man masquerading as a gay woman, a day after the Gay Girl in Damascus blog was revealed to be the fictional creation of ...
  • Trial of Tunisia's ousted president Ben Ali to ...
    Authorities prepare to bring charges in absentia of conspiring against the state, voluntary manslaughter and drug traffickingThe trial in absentia of former Tunisian president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, who fled to Saudi Arabia in January, will begin next week, Tunisia's interim prime minister sai ...
  • Republican presidential debate in New Hampshir ...
    Mitt Romney takes on Michele Bachmann, Tim Pawlenty and others in the New Hampshire Republican debate - live8.51pm ET: Crowd shot. Lots of bored people in the audience. And I'm not surprised, each candidate is essentially saying the same thing, and just repeating catchphrases.The format is helpi ...
  • Thousands of children held in police cells ove ...
    Charity calls for stop to 'evil practice' of detaining under 16s for minor offences which causes trauma to the childThousands of children under 16 are being held overnight in police cells every year, figures reveal.At least 53,000 children under the age of 16 were held overnight in police cells ...
  • Research into brain disorders under threat as ...
    Scientists warn of big financial and social impact while fear of litigation and expense is linked to moveA decision by leading drug companies to pull out abruptly from research into brain disorders such as depression and schizophrenia leaves families without hope and will have a huge financial i ...

McClatchey

  • Obama drops Weiner a hint: 'I would resign'
    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Monday that he'd resign if he were caught in the same kind of scandal as Rep. Anthony Weiner.
  • Bahrain's government tries dissidents while ca ...
    BAGHDAD — Bahrain's military court Monday pressed the government's case against 47 doctors and nurses, ordering the medics to plead guilty or not guilty to felony or lesser charges but prohibiting any mention of mistreatment while in detention.
  • New Egypt? 7,000 civilians jailed since Mubara ...
    CAIRO — Egypt's military rulers told human rights advocates Monday that at least 7,000 civilians have been sentenced to prison terms by military courts since Hosni Mubarak was ousted — an astoundingly high number likely to fuel debate over how much the revolution has changed the country.
  • Reports find military buildup at Sudan's north ...
    JUBA, Sudan — Offering grave signs that Sudan may slide back into war, the southern Sudanese military is repositioning its forces toward the country's tense north-south border, and it alleges that the north is building up its troops on the other side, according to internal United Nations documen ...
  • Survey: U.S. trails in equal legal treatment o ...
    WASHINGTON — The U.S. lags behind western Europe in access to civil justice and legal assistance, according to an international survey released Monday that also raised questions over whether U.S. police forces treat all citizens equally.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

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

The Wonk Room

  • Rep. Leonard Lance (R-NJ) Grilled By Constitue ...
    At a town hall in Westfield, NJ last Thursday, Rep. Leonard Lance (R-NJ) faced a torrent of critical questions from constituents. CranfordPatch reporter John Celock described the event, where Lance was quizzed on his support for reducing funds to Planned Parenthood, his vote to end Medicare, and ...
  • Closing Credits
    -The Cryptonomicon apparently exists for real. -The case for a dramedy category at awards shows. -Occult detectives! -Terry Pratchett wades into the assisted suicide debate. -I probably would have enjoyed The Hunger Games more if Katniss had been sassier/more willing to consider keeping both Gal ...
  • ThinkProgress is live-blogging the GOP debate ...
    Check back here at 8 pm ET.
  • USGS: Global Warming Drives Rockies Snowpack ...
    A US Geological Survey study released today suggests that snowpack declines in the Rocky Mountains over the last 30 years are unusual compared to the past few centuries. Prior studies by the USGS and other institutions attribute the decline to unusual springtime warming, more precipitation falli ...
  • Will Pennsylvania’s Republicans Reverse ...
    Governors all across the country have chosen to cut back on K-12 education in response to budgets battered by the Great Recession. But not many went as far as Gov. Tom Corbett (R-PA), who not only proposed $1 billion in education cuts, but concentrated his cuts in low-income districts that can l ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • An Important Cause and an Illegitimate Government
    I've said before that the environment isn't my main focus. I hate camping. I hate flies and mosquitoes. I like cities, books, bars, ... that sort of thing. Then there's the science. It's all I've got to grasp political-economy, ... were someone to come up with some scholarly paper about soil dep ...
  • Some Reminders ...
    The votes of ignorant people tend not to demand respect. How can they? "Huh? When you said 'exterminate the poor' we thought you were talking about bed-bugs n' stuff!" Which is not to say that people need to pass a test or something before they vote. It's just that, if, combined with the votes ...
  • Arts Funding in Canada
    There's a huge discussion at Dr. Dawg's which I haven't read very much of. It's in regards to the wingnut-welfare Sun Media's attack on government cultural grants. In an update, Dawg provides a link to this article, critiquing the Sun Media attack (which was apparently delivered in a show called ...
  • Talking About Bridgette DePape
    Over at EnMasse.
  • harpercon Complaints About Bridgette DePape
    You see harpercons, here is what you can't grasp. There are CONSEQUENCES for your actions. To whit: If you believe that Parliament is a joke, to be treated with contempt, you cannot then turn around and bitch and moan if some brave, principled individual like Bridgette DePape interrupts your co ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Air Canada strike likely unless airline makes ...
    Air Canada workers are likely to strike at midnight June 13 unless Canada's largest airline makes concessions to union members.
  • 'Pinoy Fiesta'- Biggest Event in Toronto's Fil ...
    A monster event that promises to rally Filipinos together in Toronto is the "Pinoy Fiesta & Trade Show sa Toronto" on Saturday, June 25 at the Metro Toronto Convention Center on Front St.
  • Toronto group to paint mural to bring hope to ...
    Yesterday Scott Mills and a group from Toronto took off to New York City to take part in the #140conf. While there they plan on painting a mural to give hope to the city's homeless and raise awareness worldwide as part of a project of Invisible People.
  • Turkey’s Islamic Party AKP Wins Third Term In ...
    Prime Minister Erdogan keeps power with stronger mandate but fewer seats. He vows to rewrite the constitution. Kurdish separatists elect 36 members to parliament.
  • Where is Toronto's Mayor Rob Ford?
    On Sunday the Toronto Fallen Firefighter's Memorial service took place without the mayor of the city, a first for the annual ceremony. Ford was also a no show at a parent's meeting he was invited to concerning the closing of a day care centre.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • June 25th: Nuclear Abolition Day
    The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) is coordinating ‘Nuclear Abolition Day’ to mobilize for a treaty to outlaw and eliminate all nuclear weapons. See how you can get involved by going to nuclearabolition.org. At last year’s Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, the ...
  • Leger & Dorn: Re-engage in peacekeeping
    Canadaâs role on the international stage is in urgent need of clear direction. Dominic Leger and Walter Dorn argue that the time has come for Canada to re-engage in UN peacekeeping (Dominic Leger & Walter Dorn, “Itâs time to keep the peace again,” National Post, 3 June 2011): Peacekeeping is a k ...
  • Edmonton Journal: Libya mission deserves debate
    The Edmonton Journal adds its name to the list of those urging Canadians to conduct a more thorough debate on Canada’s role in Libya and expeditionary operations in general (Libya Mission Deserves Debate, Edmonton Journal, 7 June 2011): Debate about Canada’s role in Libya is long overdue. Discus ...
  • All your base are lease to us?
    The Conservative government is negotiating to establish a series of military support bases around the world, Defence Minister Peter MacKay has confirmed (Tristin Hopper, Canada to expand military reach with new facilities across the globe, National Post, 2 June 2011): The plan, dubbed the Operat ...
  • Should Canada extend Libya mission?
    Last week the Conservative government let it be known that it intends to extend Canada’s military mission in Libya (Jordan Press, “Critics say future of Libyan mission requires clarity to avoid another Afghanistan,” Postmedia News, 1 June 2011): The federal government indicated Wednesday it will ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Pambazuka News

  • Extradition threat for Black Liberation activist
    As the US opens up political channels with Cuba, Black Liberation Army - http://www.thetalkingdrum.com/freedomfighters.html activist Assata Shakur faces extradition from the country where she has lived under political asylum since 1984, writes Paul Scott. While the mainstream media portrays Shak ...
  • Katrina victims face eviction
    Following reports of federal government plans to repossess temporary housing from Katrina victims, the US Human Rights Network - http://www.ushrnetwork.org has called for the Obama administration to reverse this decision and provide those affected with substantive directive support.
  • Guadeloupe: Demand for support for the indepen ...
    Felix Alain Flémin, secretary general of the Guadeloupe Communist Party (GCP) has called for international solidarity in support of the struggle for independence and self-determination of the people of those Caribbean islands under French colonial do...
  • Honduras: Implications of coup for Afro-descen ...
    Currently, the country of Honduras in Central America is experiencing its worst political crisis in decades. In the aftermath of the military coup that forcibly removed President Manuel Zelaya Rosales, there have been various developments that have r...
  • USA: Black coalition to protest expanding U.S. ...
    A newly-formed Black coalition has announced a rally and march on the White House to take place November 7, 2009 beginning in Washington, D.C.’s historic Malcolm X Park. The rally and march are to protest the expanding U.S. wars and other policy ini...

War in Context

  • The fall of the house of Assad
    Robin Yassin-Kassab writes: “Selmiyyeh, selmiyyeh” — “peaceful, peaceful” — was one of the Tunisian revolution’s most contagious slogans. It was chanted in Egypt, where in some remarkable cases protesters defused state violence simply by telling policemen to calm down and not be scared. In both ...
  • Syrian lesbian blogger is revealed to be an Am ...
    The Guardian reports: The mysterious identity of a young Arab lesbian blogger who was apparently kidnapped last week in Syria has been revealed conclusively to be a hoax. The blogs were written by not by a gay girl in Damascus, but a middle-aged American man based in Scotland. Tom MacMaster, a ...
  • Bahrain doctors go on trial, alleging torture ...
    CNN reports: Dozens of doctors and nurses went on trial Monday in Bahrain, accused of taking control of a hospital during anti-government protests, storing weapons and keeping people prisoner. The doctors, their lawyers and international human rights activists say the defendants were tortured ...
  • Jordanians ‘welcome’ King Abdullah by pelting ...
    BBC News reports: A group of young men in the Jordanian city of Tafileh have pelted the motorcade of King Abdullah II with stones and bottles, officials say. The king is unharmed, they add. The attack comes a day after King Abdullah announced major reforms, promising to relinquish his right t ...
  • How new is Egypt’s ‘new’ foreign policy?
    Barak Barfi writes: In the months since Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s resignation, his successors have signaled a shift in foreign policy by reaching out to former adversaries. Egypt’s government has welcomed Iranian diplomats and embraced the Palestinian group Hamas. Many interpret such m ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Chris Mooney must not be from Missouri
    Kid blogger Chris Mooney (at left) often writes fascinating articles for their sheer single mindedness of purpose – making anyone who doubts AGW in even the slightest look like fools. I’ve been on the receiving end a few times but … Continue reading →
  • Climate change in UK schools – “we ...
    From the Guardian, a hopeful situation for climate realists everywhere. Climate change should not be included in the national curriculum, the government adviser in charge of overhauling the school syllabus in England has said. Tim Oates, whose wide-ranging review of … Continue reading →
  • Rutgers on Coal vs. Nuclear
    From Rutgers University press room: The Energy Debate: Coal vs. Nuclear Rutgers researcher finds factors other than global warming and potential for plant accidents figure into Americans’ preferences As America struggles down the road toward a coherent energy policy that … Continue reading →
  • Dramatic satellite images of the Ethiopian eru ...
    The MODIS/AQUA rapidfire website finally had a pass overhead online early this AM of the Ethiopian/Eritrean area volcanic eruption of Nabro, and I have them below. The plume stretches well over 1000 miles now. In the photo below, the Red … Continue reading →
  • The Chaos theoretic argument that undermines C ...
    Just to be clear ahead of time, chaos in weather is NOT the same as climate disruption listed below – Anthony Guest submission by Dr. Andy Edwards This is not intended to be a scientific paper, but a discussion of … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • No Justice in Kafka’s America by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig June 13, 2011 In Franz Kafkaâs short story “Before the Law“ a tireless supplicant spends his life praying for admittance into the courts of justice. He sits outside the law court for days, months and years. He makes many attempts to be ad ...
  • Children and War by Cindy Sheehan
    by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox June 13, 2011 Recently, I was listening to KGO radio and in case you don’t know, KGO is the ABC affiliate super-station here in San Francisco that can be heard by millions of people with it’s me ...
  • Ninety Percent of Petraeus’ Captured &#8 ...
    by Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at IPS 12 June, 2011 WASHINGTON, Jun 12, 2011 (IPS) – During his intensive initial round of media interviews as commander in Afghanistan in August 2010, Gen. David Petraeus released figures to the news media that claimed spectacular ...
  • Lie To Me by Joel S. Hirschhorn
    by Joel S. Hirschhorn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.foavc.org June 12, 2011 What is the main lesson from the recent fiascos of former Senator John Edwards and Representative Anthony Weiner?  If you follow the news shows you saw a number of video clips where each of them had lied many times ...
  • Empire Games – but who writes the rules? ...
    by William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info 12 June, 2011 The Western left’s abdication, nay abandonment of principles that go to the heart of the socialist liberation project has been long in the making, centuries even and made all the more obvious by the left’s take o ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • ‘Living Laser’ Engineered From Human Cells
    By Mark Brown, Wired UK Medical researchers from Harvard University have created the first “living laser”; a biological cell that’s been genetically engineered to produce a visible laser beam. Lasers need two things to generate beams. They need a gain medium that amplifies light, and an arrang ...
  • Animals’ Most Amazing Acoustic Feats
    From deafening monkey howls to snapping crustacean claws, animals use powerful sounds to do everything from claim territory to stun prey. In this gallery, we have collected some of the best, and look at the physics that produce them.
  • Final Space Shuttle Mission Will Feature iPhones
    NASA’s final shuttle mission will feature outer space’s first iPhone, tricked out with an app to measure spacecraft radiation levels, orbital location and altitude. The iOS-based software, called SpaceLab, will come pre-loaded on two iPhone 4s. Testing the software isnât mission-critical, but ...
  • New Tevatron Particle May Be a Mirage
    The Tevatron’s Hail Mary shot at particle-physics glory may be fizzling in a puff of protons. New particles recently claimed one of the particle collider’s detectors could not be confirmed by its other detector. In April, the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) researchers reported hints that p ...
  • Extra Gene Copies May Trigger Some Cases of Autism
    By John Timmer, Ars Technica Viewed from some perspectives, autism is a genetic disease. Studies of identical twins show that, when one sibling is affected, the other is also, with a frequency approaching 90 percent. Several genes associated with autism have been identified due to their pre ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Video shows police violently arresting Jewish ...
    "Israel is occupying the Palestinian people in my name, in the name of world Jewry," Lucas, clutching his American passport, tells the camera. "And I myself, an American Jew, is here to say that is... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Zeev Sternhell: Netanyahu’s tidings of destruction
    The right wing considers recognition of the reality created in 1949 to be the chief enemy of Zionism. The dynamic of a conquering nationalism can never recognize that any situation created at any... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Secret cables show Israel’s battle plan over P ...
    Israeli Foreign Ministry Director General: "The goal we have set is to have the maximum number of countries oppose the process of having the UN recognize a Palestinian state... The Palestinian... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Secret cables show Israel’s battle plan over P ...
    Israeli Foreign Ministry Director General: "The goal we have set is to have the maximum number of countries oppose the process of having the UN recognize a Palestinian state... The Palestinian... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • East Jerusalem: Sharing our house with settlers
    Muna and Muhammed are 12-year-old twins living in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem. Settlers have taken over the front of their home, but the family continue to live in the rest of the house. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now i ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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