13 June - RSS SnapShot ! Pt III

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• MIT Artificial Solar Leaf Closer To Reality
  MIT scientists have made another breakthrough in the effort to create an artificial leaf, a device that produces energy from sunlight and water by separating hydrogen and water molecules.
• Solar Powered Monitor Concept A Sunflower
  A new concept from industrial designer Marko Vuckovic uses solar power to operate a monitor that can also act like a mini-computer.
• Whiskey Becomes Unique Biofuel In Scotland
  A new combined heat and power plant in Scotland will use distillery whiskey by-products to generate electricity that is fed back into the grid.
• Solar Energy Gauntlet Thrown Down By China
  China, already pretty much a global leader in wind power, is now making a huge solar energy push with plans for a nationwide 10 gigawatt solar capacity by 2015.
• SDSU Green Student Union Breaks Ground
  The new Aztec Student Union at San Diego State University will feature solar power, a geothermal system, and other green features expected to be LEED certified.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• WEST COAST REPORT
  Law firms with the largest offices on the West Coast were back in the black for the most part during 2010, with revenues edging up slightly or remaining flat. Many managed to boost profits per partner, largely due to their reduced headcounts.
• INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: A SPECIAL REPORT
  From the courts to the halls of Congress, our latest special report delves deep into the latest developments in intellectual property law — including an examination of the controversial joint infringement rulings that have divided the Federal Circuit, a look at a case that could restore copyrigh ...
• In-House Counsel: FCPA Focus: New focus on tru ...
  Recent prosecutions have targeted these two classes of defendants — thought for years to be beyond the reach of U.S. law enforcement.
• In-House Counsel: FCPA Focus: Companies should ...
  Doing so may enable them to avoid or successfully defend against collateral government agency inquiries or civil litigation.
• In-House Counsel: FCPA Focus: Nigeria: an FCPA ...
  Outsiders face significant difficulties avoiding corruption pitfalls without assistance of local counsel.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• Improving Health for Societies Begins With Imp ...
  At the Buguruni Health Center, Ms. Clinton said commended the health center for rendering services for those looking for healthcare and family planning services.
• Tanzania Expands Energy Supply
  In her visit to Symbion Power Plant, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said she found herself standing in front of a very large jet engine which will bring electricity to thousands of homes here in Tanzania, is a good metaphor.
• Ban Voices Alarm Over Escalating Violence in S ...
  The Secretary-General also said he remained deeply concerned about the situation in the disputed area of Abyei and the plight of those affected by the conflict there. He welcomed the forthcoming meetings of the Sudanese parties concerned in Addis Ab
• Tanzania a Land of Optimism and Promise
  Ms. Clinton happily recalled that she was very touched by the people that she met, particularly the women and the civil society groups. They also enjoyed their time traveling around the country from the visit to Arusha, to the crater, to the Serenge
• Giffords Gorgeous in First Photo Shown Since A ...
  Five months ago on the 8th of January, 2011 while holding an event to meet and greet constituents outside a local grocery store, tragedy struck when Congresswomen Gabrielle Giffords was gunned down in an assassination attempt.

environment 360

• U.S. Unveils Programs to Modernize Electric Gr ...
  The Obama administration unveiled a series of initiatives to upgrade the nation’s electric grid, including $250 million in loans for so-called smart grid projects in rural areas and steps to secure the grid against cyber attacks. The strategy also calls on state and federal regulators to encoura ...
• Scottish Whisky Distillery Converts Waste into ...
  A Scottish whisky distillery has developed a process to convert thousands of tons of yeasty by-product into methane, which can be burned to produce electricity. Using a process known as anaerobic digestion, the Bruichladdich distillery, located on the southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides, h ...
• Snowpack Decline in Rockies Has Rapidly Accele ...
  A new study says snowpack decline in the northern Rocky Mountains over the last 30 years has been more severe than at any other time in nearly 1,000 years. In an analysis of 66 tree-ring records, researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) found that the average spring snowpack in the nor ...
• Mattel Vows to Stop Using Paper from Accused A ...
  Toymaker Mattel Inc. says it will stop using packaging from a Singapore-based company accused of clear-cutting swaths of Indonesian rainforest. Mattel’s action follows a campaign by Greenpeace that targeted, among other products, the packaging used in Mattel’s popular GreenpeaceVIDEO: Barbi ...
• Instant Identification of Trees Is Possible Us ...
  Botanists from the Smithsonian Institution have helped develop a smartphone app that can identify tree species within seconds using visual recognition software and then share the location with a database of tree Click to enlarge LeafsnapThe Leafsnap smartphone app populations. After a user t ...

Red Ice Creations

• Did dreams of computer utopia cause economic c ...
  Silicon Valley in the 1990s. Excitement filled the air. Hopeful entrepreneurs drove fast cars to their shiny workplaces, where they discussed the boundless possibilities arising from the technological explosion unfolding before their eyes. They progressed in leaps and bounds towards their utopia ...
• A Review of Adam Curtis's "All Watched Over by ...
  The fear that "too much freedom" leads to anarchy (and that anarchy is inherently unpleasant and dangerous) is one of Curtis’s running themes. Curtis focuses heavily on Rand throughout the programme, creating "an Ayn Rand shaped straw man" that he proceeded to beat like a child going at a piñata ...
• Prince Andrew should be questioned because he ...
  Prince Andrew should be questioned in the FBI investigation against Jeffrey Epstein, says Virginia Roberts The Duke of York should be questioned over his knowledge of billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, one the American financier's victims said today. Virginia Roberts alleged that the Royal ...
• Swedish Zionist Ewa Björling Attends the Bilde ...
  Here is Ewa Björling at the 2009 Sweden-Israel National Association held at Västerås City Hall. I'm always amused to see whom of the Bilderberg Attendants are from Sweden. Usually there are three to five ...or so. You always get "the regulars" like former Prime Minister of Sweden and current Min ...
• Hillary Clinton to Head World Bank?
  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been in discussions with the White House about leaving her job next year to become head of the World Bank, sources familiar with the discussions said on Thursday. The former first lady and onetime political rival to President Barack Obama quickly became one ...

Russia Today

• Germany officially recognizes Libya’s rebel co ...
  Germany has given official recognition to the Libyan National Transitional Council, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle announced on Monday. It comes as fighting within the country intensifies and NATO steps up...
• Iran deploys new air defense system with super ...
  Iranian air forces said the tests of the new air defense system “Mersad” equipped with Shahin missiles were accomplished successfully. Meanwhile, the country’s nuclear industry boasts to have enriched over 50kg of...
• US whistleblowing scandal finale: Vietnam War ...
  A once top-secret study of the Vietnam War, the so-called Pentagon Papers, have been released four decades after parts were published in The New York Times triggering a constitutional crisis over freedom of the press.
• Israel should be interested in Gaza’s economic ...
  EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton discusses with RT the challenges facing EU foreign policy when a rush to regime change has gripped the Arab world and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has become unbearable for...
• Marathon man: 11,000 km in a wheelchair
  Despite being in a wheelchair, one Russian hero has covered 11,000 kilometers, right across Russia, with an electric buggy to draw attention to the plight of disabled people.

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

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

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

• Obama Works for Big Banks’ Campaign Money
  “A few weeks before announcing his re-election campaign, President Obama convened two dozen Wall Street executives, many of them longtime donors, in the White Houseâs Blue Room. The guests were asked for their thoughts on how to speed the economic recovery, then the president opened the floor fo ...
• FBI Agents Given More Surveillance Powers
  “The Federal Bureau of Investigation is giving significant new powers to its roughly 14,000 agents, allowing them more leeway to search databases, go through household trash or use surveillance teams to scrutinize the lives of people who have attracted their attention.” (New York Times) âAll pow ...
• Presidential Jobs Council Calls for Economic G ...
  “Eager to show he is doing something about jobs, President Obama receives a âprogress reportâ today from his Jobs and Competitiveness Council — a group of industry leaders who are warning that the economy is a long way from full recovery. âAmerica needs more growth,â a pair of council members wr ...
• Affording It All
  People who don’t understand -- or don’t care about -- economics say funny things.
• Senate Votes to Cap Debit-Card Fees
  “Main Street out-muscled Wall Street on Wednesday as the Senate reaffirmed its support of limits on what banks can charge businesses for debit card transactions.” (USA Today) Look to see who jockeyed for advantage. FEE Timely Classic “What Price Control Really Means” by Lawrence W. Reed

Teaching Online Journalism

• Tune up your skills this summer
  Looking over my Google Analytics data today, I found that these are some of the most-visited pages on this blog: How to shoot video interviews Why does anyone major in journalism? A few words about digital audio recorders Recording phone calls: For reporters Now printable! Reporterâs Guid ...
• Using WordPress in reporting classes
  Journalism educators who teach reporting or writing classes often come to the conclusion that it would be nice to put their students’ work online so that everyone in the class can see one another’s work — and possibly even comment on the stories written by others. This is a great idea, and I th ...
• Updating Reporter’s Guide to Multimedia Profic ...
  It’s been two years since I wrote this free guide. Do you think it’s worth my while to update it? I’ve been thinking it might be good to put it on Wikia and allow others to edit and add to it. Then it could be updated any time, and translations could be contributed too. Please comment.   It’ ...
• New WordPress theme for this blog
  Don’t be alarmed — I’ve changed to a new blog theme for Teaching Online Journalism. This is the free Fiver theme from WordPress.org. It uses HTML5 and CSS3, and the style sheet is nice and clean. I will be making some adjustments to it (especially the colors). All the content is still here, an ...
• Is it stupid to major in journalism?
  A funny thing about writing a blog for a long time is that sometimes you want to write a post … and you discover that you have already written it. My original post (from two years ago) seems to be just as valid today: Why does anyone major in journalism? So I read it and thought about whether ...

Facing South

• New Louisiana oil spill highlights industry's ...
  Illustrating the chronic threat that the oil industry presents to coastal communities and ecosystems, a new oil spill was discovered last week in Breton Sound near Venice, La., a rural community in Plaquemines Parish about 80 miles southeast of New Orleans. Fishermen first reported th ...
• Labor and environment: A match made in 'almost ...
  By Matt Wasson, Appalachian Voices Something extraordinary is happening this week in southern West Virginia. For the first time in years, the United Mineworkers of America (UMWA), the largest union representing coal miners, has found common cause with environmental and community advocates who ...
• VOICES: Fighting unions in bizarro world
  By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest Some right-wingers in Congress appear to be envious of their state counterparts who have been attacking labor rights in legislatures across the country. They were given an opportunity to engage in some union-bashing of their own at a recent hearing of the H ...
• Southern states seek end run around Justice De ...
  If you're a Republican legislator eager to redraw your state's political lines to your party's favor in time for the 2012 elections, but fear opposition from a state Democratic attorney general and the Obama Justice Department, what to do? Sneak little-noticed language into the bottom ...
• John Edwards cheat sheet: What are the facts, ...
  By Marian Wang, ProPublica First, a sex scandal, followed by a messy cover-up and an even messier fessing-up. The sequence has become all but routine in Washington. But the�criminal case�against two-time Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is anything but run-of-the-mill. While ...

Worldpress - Africa

• Living in Chains: Sierra Leone's Mentally Ill
• Piracy and Pigeonholed Security in Somalia
  Somali pirates are a menace to local waters as well as international security. Outside assistance should be provided to bolster the country's coast guard.
• Piracy and Pigeonholed Security in Somalia
  Somali pirates are a menace to local waters as well as international security. Outside assistance should be provided to bolster the country's coast guard.
• Repression of the Press in Zimbabwe
  Although Zimbabwe has a more open press than in the past, journalists and news organizations that threaten the government still regularly feel the hand of the crackdown.
• Repression of the Press in Zimbabwe
  Although Zimbabwe has a more open press than in the past, journalists and news organizations that threaten the government still regularly feel the hand of the crackdown.

Telegraph UK - oil

• Oil refinery blast: Chevron site has excellent ...
  The safety record at the Chevron oil refinery in Pembroke has been praised following the fire and explosion which killed four contractors.
• Petrol retailers told to help motorists as oil ...
  Petrol retailers are under pressure to cut the cost of motoring after oil prices plummeted on the world market.
• Chris Huhne needs a lesson in economics
  Plundering the profits from North Sea oil will only hold back Britain's recovery, argues Jeremy Warner.
• The Gulf of Mexico is not as clean as they say
  Assessing the true toll of the Deepwater Horizon blow-out is only starting, says Geoffrey Lean.
• BP oil spill: 30 pictures of the Deepwater Hor ...
  30 pictures of the oil spill on the first anniversary of the disaster.

Ian Welsh

• The Psychiatric Drug Industry
  The New York Review of Books looks into the question of why there is an epidemic of mental illness, and if the drugs used to treat problems like depression actually work. Short answer, no, the evidence for the drugs working is exceptionally weak. Longer answer, the drugs mess with the patient’s ...
• The shiny
  Some brief points, since people are apparently the shiny distracts people. 1) This is not the 60s and 70s. This is not then. Repeat after me, “this is not the 60s”. The US then was much richer and fundamentally much stronger and more prosperous. There were many complaints behind the Arab spring, ...
• Strategies for Resistance and Change
  There are multiple strategies for change in a corrupt and oligarchical society.  They aren’t all mutually exclusive.  Let’s run through some of them. Showing Up and Playing Nice (aka. Demonstrations) Demonstrations by themselves work when your lords and masters want them to.  In some time per ...
• Stephen Ross tells us the powerful do as they ...
  So, here’s Stephen Ross interviewing Arundhati Roy: I want to talk more about Mary Roy â and eventually we do â but there’s one important point to clear up first. Guerrillas use violence, generally directed against the police and army, but sometimes causing injury and death to civilians caught i ...
• Portugal votes for austerity
  Yet another nation: Portugal’s opposition Social Democrats (PSD) won a conclusive victory in a general election on Sunday, paving the way for a new centre-right government coalition to implement the country’s €78bn bail-out programme. The PSD had gained 39 per cent of the vote, against 28 per ce ...

Media Consortium

• Top 6 Mistakes to Avoid in Mobile Usability | ...
  Mobile applications are important for providing users with an alternate means of accessing your web page, as well as keeping connected anywhere and at any time. The programs are an integral part of staying competitive within your market, so they should be created wisely.
• 1.4 million fans can’t be wrong: NPR’s Faceboo ...
  But Carvin also emphasized the importance of audience expectations. “They still see our site as mainly dedicated to consuming news,” he said. Facebook, on the other hand, is a web venue in which people are used to chatting with their family and friends. ..NPR’s Facebook page is a complement to, ...
• The Newsonomics of 2011 news metrics to watch ...
• Gallery: 15 iPad news apps
  Thinking about creating an iPad app for your newsroom? Want to see what other news media have come up with? Below are screengrabs of several news apps from newspapers, magazines radio, television, and online-only news websites.
• Five Months on Tumblr as Seen Through Pummelvi ...

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• GAVI Alliance vastly exceeds US$3.7bn fundrais ...
  The GAVI Alliance just announced at its replenishment meeting in London that it has not only made up the US$3.7 billion shortfall in its planned $ 6.8 billion expansion of vaccination programmes over the period 2011 to 2015, but exceeded it by $600 million, raising a total of $4.3 bn from donors ...
• NIH finds a few new friends in budget chill
  At a moment in which US politicians are seeking to outdo each other as proponents of fiscal restraint, it is relatively rare to find senators speaking up to defend spending. But today, roughly a third of senators are doing so on behalf of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), asking the S ...
• Sweet relief as salty satellite soars skywards
  Nasa has successfully launched its ‘Aquarius’ satellite mission into orbit. The mission – which will measure ocean salinity – was hefted into space atop a Delta II rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 7:20, Pacific time this morning. “Data from this mission will ...
• Beansprouts: guilty
  "It's the bean sprouts," said Reinhard Burger, head of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the German federal agency for disease surveillance in Berlin. The verdict, delivered earlier today, finally settles weeks of speculation about the source of the Escherichia coli outbreak which has swept acros ...
• Off-target effects of bans on embryonic stem c ...
  A sociological analysis of stem cell publications has generated data to back up an argument that stem-cell researchers have been making for years: hindering embryonic stem cell research also impedes technologies — such as induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells — that don't rely on embryos. “It’ ...

new geography

• Why Compact Cities Aren't so Smart
  I was interested to read the views of Rick Boven of the New Zealand Institute about central and local government needing to resolve their differences about the future of Auckland.  Well, they have worked on that since the establishment of GUEDO in 2005 (now the Auckland Policy Office).  Bu ...
• The Streets of Chengdu, A Photo Essay
  We all know or have heard about the overwhelming development going on in China. Journalists enthuse and analysts throw magnificent statistics of what seems to be a miracle. Yet there is little discussion of the daily life of the common people, and their struggle. There are miracles aplenty in ...
• Education as an Export
  A trade deficit is a negative balance between a nation’s imports and its exports, so a country with a trade deficit is spending more on imports than it is receiving for selling its exports. Is there any more that can be done to reduce this deficit over the course of time? One potential solution ...
• USA: A Net Exporter of Natural Gas?
  Less than a decade ago, major American energy companies were investing billions in constructing new terminals for importing liquefied natural gas — the cooled, dense state of methane that makes it economical for it to be transported by ship. Today, some of those same companies are contemplating ...
• California’s Green Jihad
  Ideas matter, particularly when colored by religious fanaticism, wreaking havoc even in the most favored of places. Take, for instance, Iran, a country blessed with a rich heritage and enormous physical and human resources, but which, thanks to its theocratic regime, is largely an economic baske ...

GM Watch

• Despite industry claims, herbicide use fails t ...
• Transgender GM goats to be milked
• Transgender GM goats to be milked
• Transgender GM goats to be milked
• Chemical trespass! RoundingUp birth defects

spiked

• Who’s really afraid of the working classes?
  Thatcher isn’t to blame for modern-day chav-baiting. It was fashionable anti-Thatcherites who made a mockery of the lower orders.
• Playing for England: glory or chore?
  Why more and more Premier League players just aren't that fussed about playing international football.
• Angry Boys: a smart and funny pop at PC
  Aussie comic Chris Lilley’s new mockumentary is a crude but well-observed swipe at illiberal modern society.
• ‘Western parents need to chill out about ...
  The author of Paranoid Parenting says that far from needing a stricter ‘Asian’ approach, Western parenting is already way too intensive.
• Too many mouths to feed? Get stuffed
  Food prices aren’t rising because the Earth is full. But Malthusian commentators are certainly full of BS.

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

• Stock Prices Have Fallen For Six Weeks In A Row
  Well, it's official.  U.S. stock prices have fallen for six weeks in a row.  So will next week make it seven?  The last time stocks declined for seven weeks in a row was back in May 2001 when the "dot-com" bubble was bursting.  At this point, the Dow has declined by approximatel ...
• 18 Signs The Collapse Of Society Is Accelerating
  As the U.S. economy collapses, the thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted is going to begin to disappear.  In fact, there are already an increasing number of signs that the collapse of society is accelerating.  In cities such as Chicago, roving packs of young p ...
• The Coming Economic Hell For American Families
  Tens of millions of American families are about to go through economic hell and most of them don't even realize it. Most Americans don't spend a whole lot of time thinking about things like "monetary policy" or "economic cycles".  The vast majority of people just want to be able ...
• 10 Tipping Points Which Could Potentially Plun ...
  The global economy has become so incredibly unstable at this point that it is not going to take much to plunge the world into a horrific economic nightmare.  The foundations of the world economic system are so decayed and so corrupted that even a stiff breeze could potentially t ...
• Will The Banksters And The Corpocracy Eventual ...
  Today, average Americans have less power relative to the monolithic corporate and governmental institutions that dominate our society than at any other point in U.S. history.  Sadly, this is not what our founding fathers ever envisioned.  Our founding fathers established a gover ...

Desertification

• The irrefutable evidence of the FAO : decisive ...
  —————————– For many years already we have been promoting family (kitchen) gardens and allotment gardens (the “VICTORY GARDENS” of World War I and WW. II) as the most efficient tool to combat hunger, malnutrition and poverty (see a short list … Continue reading →
• More than 70 percent of the world’s poor ...
  Read at : http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110601/ap_on_re_us/us_food_and_farm_gates_agriculture_2 Gates Foundation spends $1.7B on farming in Africa By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP, Associated Press SEATTLE â The world’s largest charitable foundation announced five years ago it would spend millions of ...
• Previously forgotten under-utilised seeds in s ...
  Read at : http://agro.biodiver.se/2011/06/selling-seed-of-orphan-crops-in-kenya/ Selling seed of orphan crops in Kenya by LUIGI …………… a Kenyan seed company called Leldet, which⦠â¦now offers farmers the opportunity to buy different varieties of previously forgotten under-utilised seeds, more su ...
• Water management in Senegal is often presented ...
  Read at : http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=25385 Senegal: Water privatisation – country at crossroads Summary & Comment: “While the Senegalese government wishes to âdisengage financially from the water sectorâ, it is precisely the previous public management of water that has begun to im ...
• Trees are steadily disappearing from our citie ...
  A serious comment : I am a teacher in Arad, Romania and have just come across your post about desertification in Romania. Unfortunately trees are steadily disappearing from our cities as well, they are simply slaughtered. Even when young trees … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

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

backofthebook.ca

• Revisited: Sun TV’s Ezra problem
  With the Sun News Network lately embarked on a jihad against government funding of the arts, it might be worth remarking: at least when artists are given money, they do what they're supposed to do with it. On the other hand, we have the example of SNN costume rack Ezra ...
• On SunTV and Margie Gillis
  On June 1, 2011, SunTV broadcast an interview with veteran Canadian dancer and choreographer Margie Gillis (see link below), which quickly turned abusive towards the guest. In a message on his facebook page, Canadian dancer Louis Laberge-Côté, currently a teacher at Nationaltheatre Manheim in Ge ...
• Wikileaks on Harper, America, and the “t ...
  By Alison@Creekside An embassy cable written by US Ambassador David Wilkins the day the Cons were first elected in 2006 suggests Harper would be useful in advancing the US agenda for Canada and that giving him " a success story" like the softwood lumber deal would "shore up" his ability to st ...
• Antimatter contained for 17 minutes; hello Vulcans
  by Eric Pettifor Canadian researchers (and others, but we'll focus on lauding our countrypersons) at CERN near North Battleford, Saskatchewan (ok, CERN is really in Switzerland, but it should be in Saskatchewan) have managed to capture and contain antimatter for a whopping 17 minutes (layper ...
• Why Michael Moore isn’t the only Brigett ...
  By Montreal Simon Well I see the legend of Brigette DePape continues to grow, like a red rose of hope in the darkness of Harperland. Quoted in The Globe: "I have been really inspired because there have been thousands of people who have sent messages or commented on the Internet. People kn ...

libcom

• Indignados in Seville and Barcelona: reports f ...
  Reports from anarchists in two different cities in Spain about the assemblies movement there. From late May/Early June 2011. Translated for The Commune. Indignados in Seville I find it difficult to write about the movement of indig ...
• Wildcat strike at Royal Mail sorting office ge ...
  cut-off.jpg Staff at a London sorting office have taken illegal strike action and won the reinstatement of a fellow worker. Around 90 postal workers at the N1 sorting office to ...
• New Zealand: Obscene Pay Rises For Bosses, Pay ...
  budget day rally.jpg The bosses of New Zealand’s biggest companies (including state-owned enterprises) received a massive average pay rise of 14% in the 2010 financial year. This has bumped up their ...
• India: Wildcat strike at Maruti Suzuki continu ...
  maruti_651928f.jpg The strike at the Indian carmaker's Manesar plant has entered its sixth day, with threats of similar strikes at other plants being made. The wildcat strike e ...
• Power strike ongoing in Karachi
  karachi.jpg A strike by workers at Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has yet to come to a resolution, and is disrupting industry across Pakistan. Workers at KESC have been ...

Free Range International

• FabFi on the front page of New York Times
  Here’s an update in an attempt to counteract the thoroughly depressing news of Tim going silent. (Anyone who knows Tim in person knows that you can’t actually silence him; he’s still ranting but we’ve turned off the blog-mike). With Kanani’s help, I’ve put this post in Babatim format. This wee ...
• There’s Fire
  Fighting season is now on. This year the villains strategy appears to involve deliberate attacks on aid projects and let me tell you something we (the outside the wire aid community) are getting hammered.  In the last week a majority of us have had to deal with murders, intimidation, shootings, ...
• Where There Is Smoke
  In the Helmand Province, this year’s fighting season has started off with a whimper.  On May Day (as predicted) the only action was in Paktika Province where a child suicide bomber violated the latest Taliban public announcement by blowing himself up in a police station.  The Taliban had just ...
• Leadership 101
  Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory is never pleasant to observe, especially when it is an American President doing the snatching.  President Obama was running strong:  1. He just announced The Dream Team taking over the Afghan campaign,  2. He launched a unilateral direct action mission d ...
• May Day
  The ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) has taken an unusual step by issuing a warning to all internationals, alerting of coordinated “spectacular attacks”,  kidnapping of internationals, suicide bombings, and all manner of general mayhem to kick off  Sunday, 1 May.  To the bes ...

The Story Behind the Story

• The Good Dentist Says: Open Your Mouth and Say ...
  FOR THE RECORD!!! Let me publicly apologize to Jeff Rense.  It appears that I wrongfully sent him a terse and blistering e-mail yesterday concerning Leonard Horowitz.  You see, my counsel has advised me to print out and totally analyze EVERY e-mail I sent or received from Horowitz and Kane over ...
• Hegelian Dialectics and Jesuitical Arguments & ...
  This is a long post — but I beg you to read and study it in its entirety.   I submit it is critically important information. I know, I know — I can hear the echoes of dismay from those in the “Patriot Community”:  “DON’T FIGHT WITH EACH OTHER!  CAN’T YOU GUYS GET ALONG?  KISS AND [...]
• A HoroKane – AKA The Perfect Storm
  For the record, I am posting PUBLICLY the entire e-mail exchange between myself, A. True Ott, Sherri Kane, and Leonard Horowitz during August, 2010. Despite numerous slanderous attacks and libelous posts targeting myself and others on Ms. Kane’s website and radio talk shows since this initial e- ...
• Public Letter to “Sherri” Kane and ...
  AN OPEN LETTER TO SHERRI KANE AND LEONARD HOROWITZ DDS This public letter is being written and openly posted on my ONLY personal web blog, www.atrueott.com in rebuttal to the baseless, inherently false and libelous allegations posted by Ms. Kane “on behalf of”  Mr. Leonard Horowitz. I do not wis ...
• Jeru-Salem Underground!!!!
  Talk about being “undermined”.   The Rats Run The Sewer – Especially in Jeru-Salem. Check it out: Beneath Jerusalem, an underground city takes shape AP â In this May 17, 2011 photo, a view of Zedekiah’s Cave is seen in Jerusalem’s Old City. Underneath the ⦠Slideshow:Underground Jerusalem B ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Mellissa Fung, Kidnapped in Afghanistan (May 1 ...
  CBC Journalist and author of Under an Afghan Sky tells Peter about her kidnapping in Afghanistan.
• Bob McDonald - Part 1 (Mar 26, 2011)
  Time for our annual show where you ask CBC's Science Correspondent about the mysteries that have always puzzled you!
• Dan Bjarnason (March 19, 2011)
  Former CBC Correspondent and author of Triumph at Kapyong talks about the critical battle won by Canadians in the Korean War.
• Don Tapscott
  Best-selling author Don Tapscott on the "wiki-revolutions" in the Middle East and how mass collaboration is changing our world.
• Roberta Jamieson
  Roberta Jamieson, head of the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation talks about her commitment to the education and success of aboriginal youth.

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

• What Obama Should Have Said
  As I was reading President Obama's speech last week, I dozed off into a glorious daydream.
• “Where’s the Beef”?
  After Osama bin Laden was killed, why wasn't his body displayed for verification.
• Bernanke is Still Clueless
  Ben Bernanke has been consistently wrong in the past. Why does anybody listen to him anymore?
• Dangers are Inherent in the War with Qaddafi
  Libya could become the next quagmire for American forces.
• Abraham Lincoln: Biggest Fraud in American Hi ...
  The 150th anniversary of Lincoln's first inaugural is a good time to re-evaluate the Great Emancipator's record.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Can Lasting Disarmament Be Achieved Without Pe ...
  Is nuclear disarmament a sham between nations hostile to each other?
• Will Flotilla 13 Attack Freedom Flotilla 2?
  Israel's decision to deploy its version of the U.S. Navy Seals to interdict the Gaza flotilla was -- and is -- a recipe for disaster.
• Germans Now Draw as Much of Afghans' Ire as Am ...
  Anti-German sentiment by Afghans peaked when German troops shot Afghan protesters on May 18.
• Desperately Seeking Vindication: Bin Laden and ...
  Members of the Bush administration are still trying to justify "enhanced interrogation."
• Israel and Iran: Partners in Plausible Nuclear ...
  Israel and Iran are playing dangerous games with nuclear weapons by, respectively, denying its program and disavowing its likely intentions.

Law.com

• Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'
  Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
• Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Po ...
  In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
• MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight W ...
  A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
• Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Di ...
  Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ...
• IRS Throws In Towel on Closely Watched Interna ...

Iranian.com

• UK ship agent in administration on Iran sanctions
  “However, in May 2011 the directors realised that the new line would not start within the immediate future. It then became clear to the directors that the company could not continue to trade due to the historic issues with IRISL,” PKF said.
• Iran Afraid of Living and Dead
  The Iranian government's fear of its own people is obvious from its continuing repression of Iranian journalists, human rights defenders, labor leaders, and women's rights activists.  The sight in May of prominent human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, brought in handcuffs to a court room in Tehra ...
• جهش ناگهانی آمار سرطان در تهران
  وزارت بهداشت و درمان و وزارت کشور، با زیر سئوال بردن این آمار، گفتند اعتقادی به مرگ اشخاص به خاطر آلودگی هوا ندارند.
• Are Libyan rebels backed by Saudi Arabia or Iran?
  Saudi Arabia is not the only country that the Libyan conflict has put in an awkward position. Tehran has tried to balance support for the Libyan opposition, which it views as part of a region-wide "Islamic awakening," with rejection of the Nato-led military strikes. read more
• Iranian Women Prisoners Detail Torture: 'Death ...
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Most Revolutionary Act

• Squatting 101
  With the growing recession and epidemic of foreclosures and homelessness, squatting is becoming increasingly common worldwide. By definition squatting is “illegally” occupying a building that doesn’t belong to you without the owner’s permission. Obviously the simplest form of squatting is remain ...
• The Language of Empire: Abu Ghraib and the Ame ...
  2005 Monthly Review Press Book Review The Language of Empire is an examination of the Abu Ghraib scandal, from the perspective that the US military’s use of torture was primarily an instrument of terror (i.e. a military tactic intended to cause intimidation). In addition to outlining what actua ...
• US vs Islamic Militants: Invisible Balance of ...
  Book Review US vs Islamic Militants: Invisible Balance of Power by Sajjad Shaukat is, in essence, a review of western military history as it relates to Balance of Power theory. The latter is based on the premise that in the absence of an international body capable of enforcing internationa ...
• Medicare for All: The Only Solution to Big Pharma
  Don’t Chop It – Expand It to Everyone for Real Cost Savings! www.healthcare-now.org/ In my view, the only solution to the mess “corporatization” has made of the US health care system is to follow the example of other industrialized countries and establish a single, nationally funded health progr ...
• The Economic Cost of “Me-Too” Drugs
  http://scienceblogs.com The drug companies and pharmaceutical industry analysts that pimp them claim that me-too drugs (see May 30 blog) are beneficial for the US health care system in two ways. First they allegedly lower prescription costs by increasing competition. Secondly they provide doctor ...

Doug's Darkworld

• Crop Circles Revisited
  I recently promised that I would revisit the topic of crop circles, in response to comments left on a previous post on the topic. Many comments. Long comments. Too long to read even. Sigh. I did more research. I gave the topic more thought.  At least as much as I have time for. And while [...]
• D-Day, Dishonouring Their Memory
  Today, well yesterday, was the 67th anniversary of the D-Day Invasion. This was a salient event in American history, glorified in such movies as “The Longest Day” or “Saving Private Ryan.” And, unlike certain recent minor military operations involving a few dozen commandos and a few helicopters, ...
• Socialism for the Rich Illustrated
  This is the former site of Black Oak Books, a once thriving book store in North Berkeley. To say it was an anchor store in the neighbourhood would be an understatement, it as an important part of the community and a serious business draw for its local little business district. It thrived till th ...
• The Carrington Event
  Early in the morning of September 2nd 1859 the sky brightened and gold miners in Colorado got up and started cooking their breakfast. Gold miners get up with the Sun of course, at least the gold miners of that era. It wasn’t long before they noticed that while the sky was amazingly bright and co ...
• Netanyahu Makes Israel’s Position Clear: ...
  Netanyahu gave  a speech to Congress where he clarified Israel’s position on a negotiated settlement with the Palestinians, and his opinion of Obama’s recent policy speech on the Middle East. The title of the post pretty much sums it up. And how did our elected leaders respond to this man? He g ...

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• Virent Pulling Ahead of the Pack?
  Join the forum discussion on this post The National Advanced Biofuels Consortium In January 2010, Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the investment of nearly $80 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for advanced biofuels research and fueling infrastructure. About $35 mi ...
• Roundtable on China’s Energy Future
  Join the forum discussion on this post Just a note that this weekend I leave for an extended business trip, with visits to Seattle, Washington D.C., Germany, Massachusetts, Vermont, and California. I will be on the road for about four weeks, but will try to keep to my schedule of posting new co ...
• Taking Care of the Topsoil
  Following my inclusion in the Top 10 list of ethanol enemies, I sought to Set the Ethanol Record Straight on my actual views on ethanol. I set out three broad tenets that shape my views. They are: Tenet One: We must transition from fossil fuels with a sense of urgency. Tenet Two: We need to ...
• Book Review: Power Trip
  Join the forum discussion on this post Introduction I tend to accumulate a lot of books – sent to me by publishers and publicists – and they pile up on my desk until I have to make a trip somewhere. Because it takes a long time to get from Hawaii to anywhere else, [...]
• Scientists Create Ethanol From Hydrogen They C ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post Alas, today I had intended to put up my book review of Amanda Littleâs book Power Trip, but I left the book on my desk in the office and I need to review some notes first. So that should be posted for my Thursday column. If you haven’t [...]

Discovery Educator Network

• The Flipped Classroom Model: A Full Picture « ...
  Tags: classroom, model, flipped Classroom, learning, video, technologyby: Jackie Gerstein
• How the Internet is Revolutionizing Education
  Comments:Very interesting infographic about the impact of the Internet on education. - Dean MantzTags: no_tagby: Dean Mantz
• This Week In Ed Tech - Home - Stick Pick Now A ...
  Comments:This app allows for asking of questions based on Blooms as well as ESL skills.  - Dean MantzTags: edtech, StickPick, app, BloomsTaxonomy, educationby: Dean Mantz
• teachwithyouripad - Blooms Taxonomy with Apps
  Tags: ipad, apps, BloomsTaxonomy, blooms, bloomsapps, iOS, wikiby: Dean Mantz
• #curation #edtech20 #edtools of the day #bundl ...
  Comments:#Bundlr new and free tool for online #curation: clipping, aggregation and sharing web content easily More https://twitter.com/#!/web20education - LUCIAN DUMATags: curation, edtech20, education20, tools, resources, bundlrby: LUCIAN DUMA

Rodale News

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

big think

• Monkey See, Monkey Do? Risk-taking, Aggression ...
  The perennial question: how does media affect action? Or, to put it in more specific terms, does watching violent things on TV, reading about risk-taking on the internet, or playing a violent video game make us more violent and risky ourselves? Should we be worried? Aggression and observationa ...
• Quick update on the Nabro (Eritrea) and Puyehu ...
  UPDATE (10 AM Eastern): Well, leave it to an eruption this week to not be simple. It appears that the eruption in Eritrea from not from Dubbi but rather from Nabro, an even more mysteries volcano. It is a composite volcano with no known historical eruption - in fact, very little is known about t ...
• Cyber Attack Targets the I.M.F.
  What's the Latest Development? Another setback has befallen the I.M.F. which is still searching for a new director after the arrest of its former leader, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, in New York City on charges of sexual assault. This time, the Fund was the target of a sophisticated cyber attack, t ...
• Syrian Refugees Flee to Turkey
  What's the Latest Development? Syrian state military forces have forcefully taken the northern city of�Jisr al-Shoughour from citizens resisting the ruling Assad family government. Open graves containing the bodies of local police officials were found during the attack in which state tanks and ...
• What's Next for Turkey's Constitution?
  What's the Latest Development? Turkey's centrist Islamic party, the A.K.P., has won a majority of seats in the country's parliamentary elections. With a 90 seat margin over its secular opposition, the A.K.P. is expected to follow through with�constitutional�reform long proposed by the governme ...

Information Liberation

• Patriotism Is the Last Refuge of an Idiot
  While Dr. Johnson was no doubt correct to write that "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel," he just as easily could have written that patriotism is the last refuge of an idiot. The latter phrasing is arguably more useful to commit to me...
• Why Is The Federal Government Running Ads Secr ...
  We certainly suspected this when New York City first announced that it was running a series of silly and misleading videos as part of a media campaign to "Stop Piracy in NYC," but now it's been confirmed that these videos were not, in fact, New York ...
• Anarchy in India
  As Roderick Long notes on his blog, the NYTimes has an interesting article up about the Indian city of Gurgaon, which has flourished under a relative lack of government, despite its lack of natural resources: Before it had malls, a theme park and fa...
• Status Quo (Comic)
  ...
• Janet Napolitano Visits NYU Law School to Disc ...
  Homeland Security head, Janet Napolitano, continued her campus tour in a recent stop at NYU Law School where she gave a speech about the state of security as we approach the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, and following the announced death o...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• Six signs your wine stinks
  Mary Orlin gave a run down on how to spot tainted, corked or just plain bad wine. I’ve distilled down her article to reveal the six chemical signatures that tell you your wine stinks: Oxidized – The wine will smell stale, burnt marshmallows, nutty, sherry-like or of stewed fruit. The ethanol in ...
• How to network in science without schmoozing
  How to network in science without schmoozing – Professional networking is not about schmoozing and "leveraging" the who-you-know in a selfish way, it's about getting to know people and having people get to know you. It's about being curious, asking honest questions and finding out about what you ...
• Scerri stuff indeed
  Scerri stuff indeed – Non-chemists, and perhaps a few chemists, might have assumed that once all the holes in Mendeleev's Periodic Table were filled with modern discoveries and the lanthanides and actinides added, that the Table was forever immutable, a stone tablet to adorn high school chemistr ...
• Listening to digitized vinyl
  Listening to digitized vinyl – I'm currently writing a piece for sciencetext about the price of digital goods, including mp3s and CDs etc. While researching the article, I discovered this interesting item on being an audiophile in the modern age and listening to digital recordings of vinyl recor ...
• Gossip, grooming, and your Dunbar number
  Gossip, grooming, and your Dunbar number – David Dobbs waxes lyrical in Wired this week on the subject of the Dunbar number, that fairly well-known social science icon that says that our brains are powerful enough to handle only 150 friends (+/-50 or so). It's a bit of a truism, I think. Some pe ...

RFF Library

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

Scientific American - News

• The Fog of Cyber War: What Are the Rules of En ...
  There is some speculation among some politicians and pundits that the fog of war will soon extend to the Internet, if it has not already, given a recent report that the U.S. Defense Department will introduce its first cyber warfare doctrine this month, combined with similar announcements from th ...
• Green Fluorescent Protein Makes for Living Lasers
  In a unique fusion of biology and physics, researchers have created the world's first living laser. Single cells containing a special protein that acts as an optical amplifier have been coaxed to emit green laser light, according to a new study. And, perhaps surprisingly, the cell survives its s ...
• Seeking Address: Why Cyber Attacks Are So Diff ...
  Cyber attacks may not be a new phenomenon but the recent successes scored against high-profile targets including CitiGroup , Google , RSA and government contractors such as Lockheed Martin underscore the targets' current failure to block security threats enabled by the Internet. Malicious ...
• Why'd He Have to Go and Cry? Weiner's Tears Ma ...
  Anthony Weiner, the once cheered, now shamed New York congressman, made at least two mistakes in the past two weeks. First, he lied, and then he cried."I have exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years," he admitted, after denying three day ...
• Rings and Worms Tell the Tale of a Shipwreck F ...
  Twenty-three duct-taped packages chilled in a refrigerator at Columbia University's Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y., for months before scientists finally got up the nerve last December to pull them out and peel them open.Neil Pederson's team had initially chickened out. His ...

First Truths

• 19th century America and "Indian dispossession"
  From Michael Paul Rogin's Fathers & Children: Andrew Jackson and the Subjugation of the American Indian. Here, Rogin, like so many scholars of Marxism, conflates "free market" and "American capitalism," but the thesis he embarks upon in this book is a crucial one: Liberal America was not a stati ...
• "The Invention of Capitalism"
  The following is a passage from Michael Perelman's The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation. I should add, in response to Perelman, that not all of us are mistaken, readily acknowledging (as he seems to here) the difference between ...
• Hiroyoshi on Smith's Labor Theory
  A thought-provoking passage from Hayashi Hiroyoshi Marx’s Labor Theory of Value: A Defense, but I wonder how easily this translated from the Japanese: The “real price” of labor is the quantity of use-values—“the necessaries and conveniences of life”—that the worker can obtain in exchange for the ...
• Theories of Value and Metaphysics (Cont.)
  My last post reminded me of this illuminating passage from Wendy McElroy: In hinting that egoistic contracts would have to benefit �the sentiments� as well as meet some material criteria, Tak Kak went against the prevailing and almost unquestioned economic theory of the Liberty circle. The ninet ...
• Theories of Value and Metaphysics
  Although, as a proponent of the Austrian School, I do not accept the labor theory of value, I’ve come to believe that there is considerable confusion about what its advocates themselves mean by it, and that many of its opponents impute to it claims or propositions that it doesn’t per se subsume. ...

Media Co-Op

• The Tipping Point #1 Project Fly Home
  Creating momentum, creating victories. The Tipping Point is a new column which focuses on a particular political campaigns happening within Canada in hopes of inspiring support, giving it the momentum to become a tangible win. It was easy ...
• Rise up against the Tories! Anti-Harper Anti-C ...
  Hundreds march in Ottawa to oppose the Conservative Party national convention and Prime Minister Harper's keynote speech, his first major address since gaining a majority ...
• Campus Co-op Turns 75
  Student Housing Co-op Celebrates 75 Years of Cooperative Living Tucked away in the Toronto's Annex district lie close to 30 houses which make up the oldest and one of the most interesting housing cooperatives in Toronto.      Started in ...
• Pro-Choicers Loud and Proud
  Pro-choicers respond to the pro-life demonstrations in Sudbury   Pro-choicers faced off against pro-lifers last week in front of Laurentian Hospital on Paris St in Sudbury. The pro-lifers have been holding signs at the spot, proclaiming th ...
• Balaclava! VMC Broadsheet, issue 31
  News and views from around Vancouver The June issue explores anti-mining week, gentrification across the city including the Downtown East Side and introduces a roundup from Spartacus Books on new readings. Click here for a PDF of the 31st ...

David Seaton's News Links

• Movements without "leaders"
  David Seaton's News LinksThe other day, a top American political consultant, Matthew Dowd, was visiting Madrid and was interviewed by the local "newspaper of reference", El País. When he was asked his opinion about Spain's "15th of May" citizen's movement, AKA, "The Spanish Revolution" or "Los I ...
• Times Change
  David Seaton's News LinksI happened on this clip and I began to wonder about how something that was once so mainstream, so top of the line, so wholesome, so American "family" entertainment, now looks so painfully like a charter flight full of scummy, leering, pedophile, sex tourists setting of ...
• Memento Mori: In a hundred years we'll all be bald
  "It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up -- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kubler-RossDavid Seaton's News LinksA favorite subject ...
• Better watch out for the cucumber that ate Ham ...
  The number of people hit by a massive European outbreak of foodborne bacterial infections is a third bigger than previously known and a stunningly high number of patients suffer from a potentially deadly complication than can shut down their kidneys, officials said Wednesday. Associated Press Y ...
• The Bradley Manning Video
  David Seaton's News Links This video raises many, many issues... but the most significant thing is how somebody like this was ever kept in the army in the first place and then was sent to Iraq and then given the access to the classified information he was given access to. This is very, very s ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• Drug Used to Help People Stop Smoking May Caus ...
  A crucial government safety review neglected to include hundreds of reports of suicides and psychotic reactions tied to the stop-smoking drug Chantix because Pfizer submitted years of data through “improper channels.” The information reveals, among other things, that the number of suicides conne ...
• How to Be Alone
  How to Be Alone is a video by filmmaker Andrea Dorfman and poet/singer/songwriter Tanya Davis.
• Cancerous Cells Cannot Thrive Without This
  Not long ago, researchers at the world-renowned University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center published a groundbreaking scientific review of their favorite anti-cancer nutrient -- curcumin. Curcumin, along with several other nutrients, is remarkable in that it can actually tell the difference b ...
• This "Beauty Mistake" Stops You From Producing ...
  By Dr. Mercola That bronzy sun-kissed look has long been associated with health and beauty. Human beings are sun-loving creatures, which makes sense, since countless generations before us have depended on the sun for its warmth, light and nourishment. But, since the 1980s, all of the misguid ...
• Organic Food May Become a Thing of the Past
  Riceland Foods is the largest rice cooperative in the U.S. �The cooperative filed suit against the Bayer Corporation for damages it suffered as a result of Bayer's unapproved genetically-modified rice contaminating natural long-grain rice -- one of hundreds of similar lawsuits that have been fil ...

JAMA

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Survival - tribal peoples

• Gillian Anderson becomes Survival ambassador
  Gillian Anderson models a T-shirt designed by Richard Long © Survival Hollywood actor and long-time Survival International supporter Gillian Anderson has become an ambassador for Survival, joining Quentin Blake, Julie Christie, Kurt Jackson, Pippa Small, and Mark Rylance. Anderson recent ...
• Venezuelan Indians freed from prison
  Yupka family, Sierra de Perijá, Venezuela © Fiona Watson/Survival Two indigenous leaders in Venezuela have been freed, after being falsely imprisoned for a year and a half. Yukpa leaders Sabino Romero and Alexander Fernandez were imprisoned late 2009, after a fight in which two Yukpa wer ...
• Outrage as controversial Amazon mega dam approved
  Hundreds of Brazilian indigenous leaders, river-dwellers and dam-affected people joined together to discuss and protest against the development of the Belo Monte dam which will devastate their way of life. © Antonio Bonsorte/Amazon Watch Brazil’s environment agency, IBAMA, has given the gre ...
• Yanomami Indians seize plane in health protest
  Yanomami Indians protest against chaotic health situation © Hutukara/ Survival Yanomami Indians in the Brazilian Amazon have captured an airplane used by health workers, in protest at corruption within the health service. The Yanomami are outraged by the nomination of a new indigenous hea ...
• Peru in shock move to abolish uncontacted trib ...
  A Murunahua man, contacted by loggers in 1995. Half his people died after initial contact. © Chris Fagan/Upper Amazon Conservancy The survival of the uncontacted tribe whose images caused a worldwide sensation in February is in jeopardy, after Peruvian government plans to abolish a reserv ...

Montreal Gazette

• State of First Nations reserves is a national ...
  The litany of festering problems on First Nations reserves enumerated in the latest auditor general's report is depressingly familiar and attests to a persistent failure on the part of all concerned in the matter to adequately come to grips with this great shame of Canadian governance.
• What should be done about the Senate?
  The wags had a field day when the prime minister named three defeated Conservative candidates to the Senate the same day he announced his new cabinet.
• The PQ's pursuit of political fantasy drags it ...
  Parti Qu�b�cois leader Pauline Marois gamely shrugged off a poll taken two days into her party's latest internal convulsion as just one poll taken in the heat of a tense situation.
• Police probes of other cops sap public confidence
  Undermining public confidence in the police is a recipe for fostering social malaise. Yet this is the effect of Quebec's policy to have police forces investigate shootings by members of fellow police forces in the province without necessarily having to observe rules of conduct that apply to inve ...
• Anti-SLAPP law: Good idea, poor execution
  The Quebec government admirably took the lead in legislating against so-called SLAPP suits. The law to counter them was passed two years ago this month, the first such in this country. But as a Gazette report this week noted, the law in practice has been less than an unqualified success.

Food World Order

• ewg releases 2011 'dirty dozen'; apples top li ...
  from cbsnews: That shiny little apple you're eating has a dirty little surprise. At least, that's what a food safety watchdog claims in its annual examination of government produce tests. The Environmental Working Group says apples top its "Dirty Dozen" list of fruits and vegetables with the hig ...
• e.coli won't have 'significant impact' on orga ...
  from bloomberg: A deadly E.coli outbreak that is being blamed on sprouts grown without chemicals probably won’t dent people’s support for the organic food industry in the long term, according to London-based analyst Organic Monitor. The outbreak has killed 22 and made 2,263 people ill, accordin ...
• coffee scandal brewing: did portland's stumpto ...
  from gothamist: Coffee crisis! Maybe! Flatiron's favorite cuppa, Stumptown, is at the center of a highly caffeinated brouhaha over whether or not it's been sold. Here's what's going on: Esquire's "Eat Like A Man" blog published an article today written by high-end roaster La Colombe Torrefa ...
• food pyramid being replaced with plate-shaped logo
  from ibtimes: The US federal government will stop using the food pyramid it first introduced in 1992. The 20 year old food pyramid was a basis for nutritional guideline throughout the United States. However, there were many shortcomings to the old Food Pyramid. For instance, it never advised how ...
• 5/26 binge & purge: declarations, doomsday & m ...
  a modern declaration of independence: a real revolution starting in our own backyards* keepers of the seeds: how seed-saving native farmers preserve agricultural heritage* fitnessgoop.com's top 12 food films* factory farms produce 100x more waste than all people in US combined - a ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

• Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation
  COTO Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans for mankind? H ...
• The Big Awakening Conference 2011
  Click here for more information …
• Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...
  “Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators travel ...
• Truthjuice Gathering 2011
                                                       SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...
• COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...
  COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6JLgar45sU

The Economic Collapse

• Stock Prices Have Fallen For Six Weeks In A Row
  Well, it's official.  U.S. stock prices have fallen for six weeks in a row.  So will next week make it seven?  The last time stocks declined for seven weeks in a row was back in May 2001 when the "dot-com" bubble was bursting.  At this point, the Dow has declined by approximatel ...
• 18 Signs The Collapse Of Society Is Accelerating
  As the U.S. economy collapses, the thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted is going to begin to disappear.  In fact, there are already an increasing number of signs that the collapse of society is accelerating.  In cities such as Chicago, roving packs of young p ...
• The Coming Economic Hell For American Families
  Tens of millions of American families are about to go through economic hell and most of them don't even realize it. Most Americans don't spend a whole lot of time thinking about things like "monetary policy" or "economic cycles".  The vast majority of people just want to be able ...
• 10 Tipping Points Which Could Potentially Plun ...
  The global economy has become so incredibly unstable at this point that it is not going to take much to plunge the world into a horrific economic nightmare.  The foundations of the world economic system are so decayed and so corrupted that even a stiff breeze could potentially t ...
• Will The Banksters And The Corpocracy Eventual ...
  Today, average Americans have less power relative to the monolithic corporate and governmental institutions that dominate our society than at any other point in U.S. history.  Sadly, this is not what our founding fathers ever envisioned.  Our founding fathers established a gover ...

CASSE

• What Should We Tax?
  Herman Daly suggests a simple rule: tax what we want less of, not what we want more of.
• The Role of Religious Congregations in Promoti ...
  Stewardship of creation requires people to accept the limits to growth and manage the economy accordingly. Religious congregations can help spread this idea.
• Mountebank Wins Nobel for Infinite Planet Theory
  Infinite planet theory gets a well-deserved nod from the establishment.
• Two Schools and the Path to the Steady State
  Concerned about the fate of civilization? Maybe there's some good news from an unlikely source.
• Game Changer: National Wildlife Federation Ado ...
  The National Wildlife Federation Earns the Support of the Common Sense Club.

The Talking Clock

• Quote of the Day: 12th June 2011
  "For such a person, who is primarily responsible for countless sleepless nights, suffered by British subjects in foreign prison cells, and their relatives, such a reward is, in my humble opinion, an affront." - William Dartmouth, UKIP, is disgusted by the knighthood of Lib Dem MEP Graham Wats ...
• Italian foreign ministry demanding answers aft ...
  The Bilderberg Conference looks set to end up at the centre of an international diplomatic row. The Italian Foreign Ministry and the Italian Embassy in Switzerland are demanding answers after Italian MEP Mario Borghezio was assaulted by Bilderberg security. More info: Swissinfo.ch H/T: ...
• Mandelson heckled and booed by Bilderberg Prot ...
  ...that's it, come out of the darkness, you swine... we've flushed you buggers out now. No thanks to the BBC. Oh no. The alternative media have flushed the buggers out... with a little help from the Russians, of all people:
• Bilderberg: An open letter to all British Memb ...
  The Treasury has reportedly told Charlie Skelton for The Guardian that George Osborne is attending the Bilderberg Conference in Switzerland in an official capacity this weekend. Could you, on Monday, ensure that Mr. Osborne gives a statement to the House of Commons detailing what was discusse ...
• BREAKING! Protesting Italian MEP assaulted and ...
  Breaking... "Italian MEP Mario Borghezio was reportedly given a bloody nose on Thursday as he attempted to sneak into the secretive Bilderberg conference in St. Moritz. Borghezio, of right-wing Italian party Lega Nord, was reportedly with another Italian as he attempted to infiltrate the l ...

Facing South

• New Louisiana oil spill highlights industry's ...
  Illustrating the chronic threat that the oil industry presents to coastal communities and ecosystems, a new oil spill was discovered last week in Breton Sound near Venice, La., a rural community in Plaquemines Parish about 80 miles southeast of New Orleans. Fishermen first reported th ...
• Labor and environment: A match made in 'almost ...
  By Matt Wasson, Appalachian Voices Something extraordinary is happening this week in southern West Virginia. For the first time in years, the United Mineworkers of America (UMWA), the largest union representing coal miners, has found common cause with environmental and community advocates who ...
• VOICES: Fighting unions in bizarro world
  By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest Some right-wingers in Congress appear to be envious of their state counterparts who have been attacking labor rights in legislatures across the country. They were given an opportunity to engage in some union-bashing of their own at a recent hearing of the H ...
• Southern states seek end run around Justice De ...
  If you're a Republican legislator eager to redraw your state's political lines to your party's favor in time for the 2012 elections, but fear opposition from a state Democratic attorney general and the Obama Justice Department, what to do? Sneak little-noticed language into the bottom ...
• John Edwards cheat sheet: What are the facts, ...
  By Marian Wang, ProPublica First, a sex scandal, followed by a messy cover-up and an even messier fessing-up. The sequence has become all but routine in Washington. But the�criminal case�against two-time Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is anything but run-of-the-mill. While ...

CenterLine

• Today’s Terrorism News
  In Association with The Soufan Group Mastermind of U.S. Embassy Bombings Killed in Somalia Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, al Qaedaâs leader in East Africa and the alleged architect of the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, was killed … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Mixed Verdict in Chicago Terrorism Trial After two days of deliberation, a Chicago jury found Tahawwur Rana guilty of supporting a thwarted attack on a Danish newspaper and of providing support to the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-i-Taiba, but not guilty … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Zawahiri Releases Video Praising bin Laden Al Qaedaâs Ayman al-Zawahiri appeared in a video released Wednesday eulogizing Osama bin Laden and warning the United States that it will face reprisals for his death, according to reports. But terrorism analysts were … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Mumbai Terror Case Goes to Jury Jurors in the case against Tahawwur Rana, accused in connection with the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, will begin deliberating Wednesday morning after attorneys completed their closing arguments Tuesday. Prosecutors walked the jury through the … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Closing Arguments Expected in Chicago Terror Trial After calling two witnesses, defense attorneys for Tahawwur Rana, who is on trial in Chicago and accused in connection with the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, rested their case Monday, with closing arguments expected … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

• Today on New Scientist: 13 June 2011
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: A laser made from a living cell, the world's biggest radio dish, and a field guide to bullshit
• Preparing for the next-generation of spaceflight
  As the shuttle programme nears retirement, Lockheed Martin readies a new vehicle for deep space exploration
• Today on New Scientist: 10 June 2011
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: Small galaxies may only make small stars, May photo competition winners, and fluorescent fish
• Today on New Scientist: 9 June 2011
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: the next Mars rover's bumpy ride to launch, spiders galore, wired-up Californian forests, and more
• Bolivia's stunning salt flats
  Beneath the mirror-like surface of Salar de Uyuni lies an untapped resource that could one day power our laptops and electric cars

Tech Drive In

• 5 Useful Compiz Tweaks for Ubuntu 11.04 Natty ...
  I have been a Compiz fan ever since I started using Linux. Compiz is also a very integral part of Ubuntu, more so with the introduction of new Unity desktop for Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal. There are many Compiz effects that are not enabled by default and some of them are really good IMO. Useful ...
• How to Hide Mounted Drives from Ubuntu 11.04 D ...
  I want my desktop to be clean and simple, I don't like it look cluttered, especially since I have Unity launcher at my disposal with easy access to favorite applications and 'places'. In Ubuntu, when you mount a drive, it will be shown in your desktop by default. I don't like it that way and thi ...
• Howto Fix Ubuntu 11.04 Won't Boot After Restar ...
  Recently, I had to install Ubuntu 11.04 in a Core 2 Duo Lenovo laptop with Intel Mobile 4 Series Chipset. I had previously installed Ubuntu 10.10 in it and it worked flawlessly. But that was not the case when I installed the latest Ubuntu. Though installation went smooth, Ubuntu 11.04 just won't ...
• How to Remove Lenses from Ubuntu 11.04 Unity L ...
  We have already discussed in length about Lenses, one of the key new feature brought about by Ubuntu's new Unity desktop. Lenses for 'Applications' and 'Files & Folders' are default in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal and then there are these awesome, still-in-development Lenses that you can install a ...
• Gnac - Audio Conversion App That Can Also Extr ...
  Gnac is a very easy to use audio conversion application for Ubuntu/GNOME desktop. Gnac provides easy audio files conversion between all GStreamer supported audio formats. Gnac Ubuntu PPA is available which makes its installation in Ubuntu a breeze. Gnac Audio Conversion Application Can ex ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

• 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 ...

Veterans Today

• How Media Covers Bilderberg Meetings
  As the government education experiment achieved undisputed success in destroying independent and coherent thought, the Bilderberg overlords felt confident that there would be little blowback to their totalitarian collectivism.
• How and Why to Change the Status Quo in Washington
  Action is needed to preserve military and veterans benefits; not apathy
• Why Criticizing Israel is “Third Rail” in Amer ...
  Among the potential donors listed are Haim Saban and Mortimer Zuckerman. There is little to no difference between how Democrats and Republicans in the United States act towards Israel; criticizing Israel is a “third rail” in American politics, and some of the donors included on this list sh ...
• Zionist Zealots Demand Denial
  Zionism's Survival, is upset with my reprint yesterday of The Lone Star Iconoclast editorial, Captain May Witnessed Dr. Kelly Assassination, in Veterans Today. Within half an hour found that ZS had already put VT in its daily screed against anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, the politically correct ...
• For The Sake Of Jewish Sensitivities
  Do you really believe that the discourse of the struggle against the Jewish State should be shaped by ‘Jewish sensitivities’?

electric politics

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

PR News

• Frigidaire, Gowalla team up for fresh food sum ...
  CHARLOTTE, NC: Frigidaire has partnered with Gowalla to spread awareness of farm-to-table foods this summer through a social media effort tied to Save the Children.
• Toronto 2015 hires SapientNitro for social mar ...
  TORONTO: The Toronto 2015 Pan/Parapan American Games (TO2015) hired SapientNitro as its social marketing AOR.
• Rosenberg joins team at Zelo
  DALLAS: Carla Rosenberg has joined Zelo Public Relations as SVP of pro-sports and the entertainment division.
• Cell Marketing Group retains TransMedia
  BOCA RATON, FL: Cell Marketing Group, a mobile marketing company that works with small and large businesses, retained TransMedia Group to handle traditional and social media efforts.
• Fleishman-Hillard to handle IR for BioStar Pha ...
  XIANYANG, CHINA: BioStar Pharmaceuticals, a manufacturer of over-the-counter Hepatitis B medicine for the People's Republic of China, has tapped Fleishman-Hillard as its investor relations agency.

The Story Behind the Story

• The Good Dentist Says: Open Your Mouth and Say ...
  FOR THE RECORD!!! Let me publicly apologize to Jeff Rense.  It appears that I wrongfully sent him a terse and blistering e-mail yesterday concerning Leonard Horowitz.  You see, my counsel has advised me to print out and totally analyze EVERY e-mail I sent or received from Horowitz and Kane over ...
• Hegelian Dialectics and Jesuitical Arguments & ...
  This is a long post — but I beg you to read and study it in its entirety.   I submit it is critically important information. I know, I know — I can hear the echoes of dismay from those in the “Patriot Community”:  “DON’T FIGHT WITH EACH OTHER!  CAN’T YOU GUYS GET ALONG?  KISS AND [...]
• A HoroKane – AKA The Perfect Storm
  For the record, I am posting PUBLICLY the entire e-mail exchange between myself, A. True Ott, Sherri Kane, and Leonard Horowitz during August, 2010. Despite numerous slanderous attacks and libelous posts targeting myself and others on Ms. Kane’s website and radio talk shows since this initial e- ...
• Public Letter to “Sherri” Kane and ...
  AN OPEN LETTER TO SHERRI KANE AND LEONARD HOROWITZ DDS This public letter is being written and openly posted on my ONLY personal web blog, www.atrueott.com in rebuttal to the baseless, inherently false and libelous allegations posted by Ms. Kane “on behalf of”  Mr. Leonard Horowitz. I do not wis ...
• Jeru-Salem Underground!!!!
  Talk about being “undermined”.   The Rats Run The Sewer – Especially in Jeru-Salem. Check it out: Beneath Jerusalem, an underground city takes shape AP â In this May 17, 2011 photo, a view of Zedekiah’s Cave is seen in Jerusalem’s Old City. Underneath the ⦠Slideshow:Underground Jerusalem B ...

k2p blog

• Climate change teaching to get back to science ...
  Climate change should not be included in the national curriculum so as to get back to the science in science, the government adviser in charge of overhauling the school syllabus in England has said.
• Two years of self-imposed exile for zu Guttenberg
  Germany's fallen former defense minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg is preparing to leave the country and rethink his career following the plagiarism that stalled his promising political trajectory.
• The ultimate element anagram
  The periodic table of elements – first put together by Mendeleev in 1869 –  sometimes seems to have almost mystical properties From Slate But for my money, the all-time greatest wordplay related to the periodic table is this “doubly true” anagram, which won Mike Keith the special category prize ...
• Dirty Football: Another corruption trail from ...
  Finnish football has been rocked by a match-fixing scandal which has implications across the world.
• Tokyo Electric close to insolvency
  TEPCO shares are now down to 10% of their pre-quake values and a restructuring is inevitable.

Left Foot Forward

• On housing, while Ed has got it wrong, Boris h ...
  While Ed Miliband has got it wrong on housing policy, Boris Johnson has the answer, writes Vidhya Alakeson, Director of Research and Strategy at the Resolution Foundation.
• The coalition get lost in their own spin cycle ...
  The listening exercise report is being released today, and it remains unclear whether Clegg will get his way on the healthcare bill.
• Aggression is a fact of life for the disabled ...
  Over half of disabled Londoners experience hostility, aggression and violence because of their disability according to a new poll reported by the BBC.
• Miliband gets it right from top to bottom
  A focus on responsibilities of both benefit claimants and the high paid could help the UK economy. Miliband hints at policies that could make a real difference.
• Miliband calls for social responsibility at th ...
  Ed Miliband will today commit Labour to tough action on those at the top and bottom who are not "showing responsibility" and "shirking their duty".

Consumerist

• BK Attacks Japan With Mini Spam Burgers For Women
  Swinging the pendulum away from their "Meat Monsters" offering, Burger King is dropping slider-style BK Bites on Japan in a variety of meat patties. Besides the usual beef, you can get a chicken patty or a Spam patty. That's right, delicious Spam. And it's for the ladies. "What Women Want, Wome ...
• Newegg Respectfully Disagrees With Best Buy's ...
  Last week, we told you about Best Buy sending a cease and desist letter to Newegg.com over its use of the word "geek" on shirts and other marketing materials and Newegg's ad featuring someone that looks like a Best Buy employee. Well, over the weekend, Newegg posted its response to big blue's a ...
• Avoid Credit Card Problems When Traveling Overseas
  Most credit cards in Europe have an embedded PIN chip in them, called an EMV card. Almost no American credit cards do. This causes big problems for Americans traveling in Europe but there are a few ways to minimize the hassle. It's very common to swipe your American credit card over there and ...
• Debt Collectors Out To Prove They Are Not All ...
  For decades, U.S. debt collectors have plied their trade under the watchful but lazy eye of the Federal Trade Commission, which has the authority to go after the worst of the bunch but can't create new rules governing these businesses. But later this summer, debt collectors will come under the ...
• Diners and Employees at Marie Callender's Rest ...
  Marie Callendar's may be known for warm pot pies, but patrons and employees of Marie Callendar's restaurants in Washington got a cold bit of news last night: The eatery's parent company told restaurant managers they needed to shut down and tell customers -- some in the middle of their meals -- ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

• Editorial: CIA Requires Secrecy To Conceal Its ...
  If the CIA routinely lies to the American people, maybe that’s because its got so much to lie about, like killing millions of innocent human beings around the world. As far back as December, 1968, the CIA’s own Covert Operations Study Group gave a secret report to president-elect Richard Nixon t ...
• The Monday Line: UK Nat’l Lottery’s Camelot Ke ...
  Last Monday I raised an alarm that the new EuroMillions Lottery jackpots, essentially doubled the amounts of money wagered in one half of the time, caused people to excessively gamble during a time of economic uncertainty and thus exploited those bettors who can least afford it. Tomorrow night’s ...
• The Monday Line: UK Nat’l Lottery’s Camelot Ke ...
  Last Monday I raised an alarm that the new EuroMillions Lottery jackpots, essentially doubled the amounts of money wagered in one half of the time, caused people to excessively gamble during a time of economic uncertainty and thus exploited those bettors who can least afford it. Tomorrow night’s ...
• From Dodd-Frank to Dud: How Financial Reform M ...
  by Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein, ProPublica Early last year, as they weighed whether to bar banks from speculative trading with their own money, congressional staffers turned to a key regulator for advice. The response from Julie Williams, the chief counsel of the Office of the Comptroller ...
• A Reader’s Guide to the (Still Coming) Sarah P ...
  by Marian Wang and Sergio Hernandez, ProPublica Before Sarah Palin became a political pundit, reality TV star and household name, she did a whole lot of things in Alaska that raised eyebrows once she became a vice presidential nominee. Reporters began exploring some of those things at the time a ...

NewsAlert

• Why ObamaCare Is Losing in the Courts
  The Wall Street Journal
• General Motors and…George Soros Set to Profit ...
  Big Government
• Homeschool: Propaganda Vs. Reality (Shattering ...
  LRC Blog
• Unions Cause Another Trade Show to Leave Chicago
  Crain's Chicago Business reports:The Car Care World Expo has decided against holding its 2013 trade show at McCormick Place due to higher labor costs and instead will go to Las Vegas. Eric Wulf, chief executive officer of the Chicago-based International Carwash Assn., said that the uncertainty ...
• Trading firms put their money on poker experts
  The Chicago Tribune reports:Chris Fargis thought his big job interview was over. But when the partners at Wall Street upstart Toro Trading finished with their questions, they broke out a deck of cards and a green-felt card table. Mind playing a few hands of poker? It was a final test, and Fargi ...

JoNova

• Killing people with “concern”? Biofuels lead t ...
  The precautionary principle is exposed again for the insidious mindless posturing that it is. Biofuel policies push more people into poverty as food prices rise and the poor are forced to spend more of their income on food. In a study  published in  Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, I ...
• When top scientists take 2 years to publish, i ...
  Ladies and Gentlemen this is the front line trench of modern science. If climate science is so important, and there is no time to waste, why does the system try so hard to discourage dissent (because they don’t want to find the truth, only the “correct” answer)? This paper by Lindzen and Choi wa ...
• When top scientists take 2 years to publish, i ...
  Ladies and Gentlemen this is the front line trench of modern science. If climate science is so important, and there is no time to waste, why does the system try so hard to discourage dissent (because they don’t want to find the truth, only the “correct” answer)? This paper by Lindzen and Choi wa ...
• Monckton Tour Dates
  The Australian 2011 Monckton Tour A Carbon Tax will BANKRUPT AUSTRALIA THE SCIENCE DOES NOT JUSTIFY IT Viscount Christopher Monckton will explain why. Dr David Evans and Jo Nova will accompany him in Sydney and Newcastle 30th June  Perth: “The Climate of Freedom”, Hancock Free Enterprise Lectur ...
• Monckton Tour Dates
  The Australian 2011 Monckton Tour A Carbon Tax will BANKRUPT AUSTRALIA THE SCIENCE DOES NOT JUSTIFY IT Viscount Christopher Monckton will explain why. Dr David Evans and Jo Nova will accompany him in Sydney and Newcastle 30th June  Perth: “The Climate of Freedom”, Hancock Free Enterprise Lectur ...

ReNew America

• Media blackout: CIA director accused of links ...
  (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - If you have been depending on the mainstream media for your news the past few days, you are probably learning here for the first time that CIA Director Leon Panetta has been called out for his links to an important open member of the Communist Party...
• 2012 Obama victory: reaching socialism's tippi ...
  (Gary Bauer) - In a recent meeting with a leading Republican presidential hopeful, I asked the candidate why he's running for the nation's highest office. He looked me in the eye and stated flatly his belief that America may not survive a second Obama term--that President Obama's policy agenda i ...
• The trouble with libertarians
  (Joseph Farah) - There was a time when I considered myself something of a libertarian. I never liked the label "conservative." Conservatives for me were ... well ... too conservative, for lack of a better way of saying it. I actually wanted to shrink the federal government down to a size reflect ...
• Astonishing lawsuit: Hamas DC lobby sues to ba ...
  (WorldNetDaily) - The powerful Washington, D.C., Islamic lobby group established as a front for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas is asking a federal judge to expunge all copies of a WND book that exposes its ties to radical jihad through original documents secured in a daring undercover ope ...
• Palin email frenzy backfires on her media anta ...
  (The Telegraph) - The trove of more than 13,000 emails detailing almost every aspect of Sarah Palin's governorship of Alaska, released late on Friday, paints a picture of her as an idealistic, conscientious, humorous and humane woman slightly bemused by the world of politics...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

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

Facing South

• New Louisiana oil spill highlights industry's ...
  Illustrating the chronic threat that the oil industry presents to coastal communities and ecosystems, a new oil spill was discovered last week in Breton Sound near Venice, La., a rural community in Plaquemines Parish about 80 miles southeast of New Orleans. Fishermen first reported th ...
• Labor and environment: A match made in 'almost ...
  By Matt Wasson, Appalachian Voices Something extraordinary is happening this week in southern West Virginia. For the first time in years, the United Mineworkers of America (UMWA), the largest union representing coal miners, has found common cause with environmental and community advocates who ...
• VOICES: Fighting unions in bizarro world
  By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest Some right-wingers in Congress appear to be envious of their state counterparts who have been attacking labor rights in legislatures across the country. They were given an opportunity to engage in some union-bashing of their own at a recent hearing of the H ...
• Southern states seek end run around Justice De ...
  If you're a Republican legislator eager to redraw your state's political lines to your party's favor in time for the 2012 elections, but fear opposition from a state Democratic attorney general and the Obama Justice Department, what to do? Sneak little-noticed language into the bottom ...
• John Edwards cheat sheet: What are the facts, ...
  By Marian Wang, ProPublica First, a sex scandal, followed by a messy cover-up and an even messier fessing-up. The sequence has become all but routine in Washington. But the�criminal case�against two-time Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is anything but run-of-the-mill. While ...

One News Page

• 'Baba Ramdev is one of the symbols of India's ...
  Baba doesn't have cure for graft, writes ex-justice V R Krishna Iyer.
• Audit corporate funding to political parties: CEC
• Despite war of words, Bill panel meets tomorrow
  The meeting of the committee scheduled for June 10 had been re-scheduled for June 15.
• HC green signal for secure car number plates
  The Delhi High Court has given the go-ahead for introduction of the tamper-proof High Security Registration Plates system in the Capital, declining to stay the project on a petition by a private firm.
• Private operators created hurdles in audit: CAG

Global Research TV

• Obama Rolls Back Miranda Rights
• Mladic Arrest Will Not Open EU Doors to Serbia
• Bosnia: Exposing Media Disinformation and Anti ...
• Bosnia: Exposing Media Disinformation and Anti ...
• Fukushima Predicted: Regulatory Commission was ...

Daily Tech

• Report: Samsung to Overtake Nokia in This Quar ...
  Nokia's dramatic fall continues
• Details on Shadowy iPhone 5 Details Emerge
  Dual core is in store, and maybe more
• Hot Deal Alert: Acer Iconia Tab A500 Honeycomb ...
  MacMall's eBay store has slashed $70 from the A500's price tag
• 6/13/2011 Daily Hardware Reviews
  DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Monday
• Microsoft Security Essentials is Most Used AV ...
  Report says Security Essentials is most popular due to offering via Windows Update

Oriental Review

• The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation`s Impact ...
  On June 15th the Shanghai Cooperation organisation will have its Summit meeting in Astana marking the 10th Anniversary of its founding.This organisation that brings together the two major powers of the region – China and Russia – had its origin in a Chinese initiative to enhance cooperation betw ...
• Fascist Historical Myth Reanimated
  There is no shortage of arguments to challenge the groundless and deeply unfair claim that the USSR and the fascist Germany were equally responsible for the outbreak of World War II. Even a sketchy juxtaposition of Berlin’s and Moscow’s pre-war military plans highlights the fundamental differenc ...
• Let’s Have a Warm Gesture, Mr. Gates!
  When the Soviet Union collapsed, there was great glee in the “West” especially in America. “We won” they shouted as if their team had won the World Cup. Capitalism, in the struggle against Communism, had carried the day. Khrushchev had the right slogan when he said the Americans, “we will smothe ...
• The CIA/ISI Soap Opera In South Waziristan
  The American/Pakistani/British shenanigans in S. Waziristan are once again exposing the old patterns–America makes more demands, unidentified militants attack Frontier troops, British press releases misleading disinformation (SEE:  Deadly militant attack on Pakistan security checkpoint), making ...
• How to Not Work and Still Eat
  Let’s assume that planet Earth’s resources are finite, mining neighboring planets is in the distantâvery distantâfuture and the world’s population is growing at an absurd pace. That means we are facing the problem posed by the famous English preacher, Thomas Malthus. Incidentally, here we should ...

BlogHer

• Daisy Martinez to Emeril Show: Too Ethnic?
  Chef Daisy Martinez was invited to be a guest on an episode of Emeril Legasse's cooking show featuring tamales. And she could bring four friends. Daisy writes about what happened when the producers started questioning her choice of guests: �I received a strange phone call, which asked me if the ...
• Living NOW on a Roller Coaster
  The concept of 'living in the moment' always sounds easier than it is - unless you are screaming along with your arms in the air, strapped to a roller coaster and then, it comes naturally. This post provides the perfect reminder for a Monday: "I wasn’t thinking about what I did earlier in the d ...
• Should San Francisco Ban Circumcision?
  A while back, I wrote a hot post --�"A Case Against Circumcision" -- about a super controversial issue�which CNN reports�is showing up in the limelight now that a group seeking to ban circumcision of any male younger than 18 in San Francisco has succeeded in getting their controversial measure ...
• (BOOK GIVEAWAY) Tell Us What Jane Austen Means ...
  In addition to William Deresiewicz's book, reviewers for BlogHer Book Club's A Jane Austen Education review campaign also received a gorgeous Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of, Jane Austen: The Complete Novels. Yes, you read that right -- all of Austen's novels in one beautiful book. Doesn't i ...
• Gay Girl in Damascus Blogging Hoax: Chasing Amina
  [Editor's Note: BlogHer's Liz Henry has uncovered interesting news regarding the Amina hoaxer. We'd love to hear your thoughts on the situation in the comments. -Rita] Background: Over the past few days in speaking with Ali and Ben from Electronic Intifada, we shared information, links and theo ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• GE Food Alters Our Digestive Systems! USDA To ...
  If the idea of eating genetically modified food isn’t disturbing enough, another side effect from its consumption holds baffling and overwhelming implications. What if because of the GM process, your intestines are actually serving as ...
• Small Pox Virus May Become Poor Man’s At ...
  WHO announced recently, that it would hold on to its remaining smallpox virus stocks, delaying a decision for its destruction until 2014. In 1980, smallpox was considered officially eradicated and all countries were asked to ...
• Drug For Chickens Suspended – Arsenic Fo ...
  Drug sales for Pfizer’s 3-Nitro have been suspended after they were found to contain cancer causing Arsenic. Pfizer will continue sales of the drug for 30 days to allow chicken farmers to transition to other ...
• Elderberry Juice ‘Drug’ Raid
  To punish a crime, you must have a crime. The FDA creates crimes when elderberry juice concentrate magically becomes a drug! Such raids have taken place a lot in the last few years, but lately it’s ...
• Germany’s Superbug Weaponized With Black ...
  Some alternative health news sites have been leery about posting Germany’s E. Coli outbreak as anything but an unfortunate event probably caused by the overuse of antibiotics and unsanitary factory farm conditions. That is, until ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Alpha speaks on Blair Mountain strip-mining
  A story in today’s Wall Street Journal by Kris Maher has the first comments I’ve seen from Alpha Natural Resources about the future of Blair Mountain: Alpha Natural Resources Inc. of Abingdon, Va., said it doesn’t intend to conduct mountain-top removal in the historic battleground area, but acqu ...
• UMWA reaches tentative deal with operators
  This just in from the United Mine Workers of America: The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) announced today that it has reached a tentative collective bargaining agreement with the Bituminous Coal Operators Association (BCOA) for a new 5 1/2 year agreement that would become effective July 1, ...
• Bobby Inman is right about one thing: Coal-min ...
  MSHA chief Joe Main is fond of talking about how his agency’s investigation of the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster is the most open probe of its kind ever … Deep down, though, he probably knows this isn’t true. For example, MSHA continues to sit on the transcripts of hundreds of investigation int ...
• Friday roundup, June 10, 2011
  Hundreds of marchers head out Monday, June 6, 2011, on a five-day, 50-mile trek through West Virginia’s southern coalfields in an effort to draw attention to mining threats to Blair Mountain. (AP Photo/Brian Farkas) Well, it’s been quite a week … as I write this, I guess the Blair Mountain march ...
• Friday roundup, June 10, 2011
  Hundreds of marchers head out Monday, June 6, 2011, on a five-day, 50-mile trek through West Virginia’s southern coalfields in an effort to draw attention to mining threats to Blair Mountain. (AP Photo/Brian Farkas) Well, it’s been quite a week … as I write this, I guess the Blair Mountain march ...

Daniel Miessler

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

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

• “Our food often betrays us.”
  When Food Kills | New York Times The deaths of 31 people in Europe from a little-known strain of E. coli have raised alarms worldwide, but we shouldn’t be surprised. Our food often betrays us. Just a few days ago, a 2-year-old girl in Dryden, Va., died in a hospital after suffering bloody diarrh ...
• Aid to Africa does more harm than good
  “For God’s Sake, Please Stop the Aid!” | Spiegel The Kenyan economics expert James Shikwati, 35, says that aid to Africa does more harm than good. The avid proponent of globalization spoke with SPIEGEL about the disastrous effects of Western development policy in Africa, corrupt rulers, and the ...
• Florida Cops Hate Rick Scott
  Florida Police Leave The Republican Party In Mass Exodus | Politicususa Florida Gov. Rick Scott is so unpopular that he has caused the Broward County Police Benevolent Association to leave the Republican Party en mass, and they are encouraging other Floridians to do the same. According to the Br ...
• Christchurch Suffers Another Quake
  Powerful earthquakes rock Christchurch | Stuff.co.nz The magnitude 5.5 quake struck at 1pm, 10 kilometres east of Christchurch at Taylor’s Mistake beach, at a depth of 11 kilometres, and sent people scrambling for cover. It was followed at 2.20pm by a more powerful magnitude 6 quake, centred 10 ...
• The Mythology of Individualism
  By Brian Cooney | OpEdNews – In her Textbook of Americanism, GOP saint Ayn Rand wrote: “The basic principle of the United States of America is Individualism.” At a 2005 celebration honoring Rand, Republican young gun Paul Ryan declared that every battle fought by Republicans “usually comes down ...

reference frame

• Italy abandons nuclear energy
  A two-day referendum in Italy has just ended. Silvio Berlusconi has encouraged people not to vote. Italy has its Greenpeace whackos, too The referendum will be valid because almost 60 percent of the voters participated. They were asked to answer four questions. About 94% of ...
• Porcelain Unicorn
  A genuinely touching mini-movie. This story has won a 2010 short film award. The dialogue, "What is that? It's a unicorn. I've never seen one up close before. Beautiful. Get away, get away. I'm sorry," was pre-determined for all 600 contestants. The people's runner ...
• D0 rejects CDF's claim on top-antitop mass dif ...
  In March, Tommaso Dorigo hyped a preprint by the CDF Collaboration, Measurement of the mass difference between top and antitop quarksAs far as I remember, I hadn't discussed that paper on this blog because I considered it and still consider it a very bad, offensive piece of work. At any r ...
• Lidice anniversary: Klaus vs Sudetenland nuts
  In May 1942, the Czechoslovak government in London decided that the "blonde beast" and one of the main architects of the holocaust, Reinhard Heydrich, has committed too many crimes. Even though he had never run in any elections, he was behaving as a kind of dictator on our territory, c ...
• Ghirardi, Rimini, Weber: a collapsed pseudoscience
  Many people are incapable of understanding that the experimental as well as theoretical evidence shows that quantum mechanics is right. They can't see or don't want to see that the world is described by state vectors that inevitably have a probabilistic interpretation, that evolve acco ...

No Frakking Consensus

• How Much Harm to Humans is OK?
  An IPCC official thinks that quadrupling gasoline prices could help save the planet. What effect such a policy would have on human beings appears to be irrelevant.
• The IPCC as UN Funding Mechanism
  You gotta love the UN. The 31-member IPCC bureau includes representatives from undemocratic and unsavoury countries such as Sudan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Malaysia, Madagascar and the Maldives. Soon, these countries may be deciding the fate of billions of UN-administered climate change funds.
• Climate Change & Violent Fantasies
  When did it become acceptable to pen violent fantasies about people with whom you disagree? When did it become OK to talk - luridly and out loud - about their death?
• David Suzuki is a Drama Queen
  While the rest of us approach challenges with determination, optimism, and faith in ourselves as problem solvers, drama queens see only worst-case scenarios. They exaggerate. They emotionalize.
• Peer-Reviewed Medical Research Critiqued
  An opinion piece in Scientific America alleges that, over the long term, a great deal of scientific research turns out not to be true. Independent replication of research findings is apparently far less common than we think.

Tarpley

• Gates’ Hysteria About NATO Running Out o ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV June 12, 2011 [
• US Wages Irregular War on Pakistan Beneath Nuc ...
  Moslem Brotherhood in Worldwide Alliance with CIA Against Nation-States Webster G. Tarpley on the Kevin Barrett Show The Kevin Barrett Show June 6, 2011 [download audio]
• NATO Aggressors in Flight Forward over Libya S ...
  Obama will be Impeachment Bait on June 20 for Flagrant Violation of War Powers Act Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV June 5, 2011 [
• La Chine apporte son soutien militaire au Paki ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net | traduction de Voltairenet.org 29 mai 2011 Venu à Beijing le 18 mai 2011 appeler la Chine au secours, le Premier ministre pakistanais s’est vu offrir 50 avions de chasse JF-17 pour défendre son pays en cas d’attaque états-unienne ou indienne. La Chine a ...
• EUA, Paquistão, perto de guerra aberta; Ultima ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net 20 de maio de 2011 A China colocou oficialmente os Estados Unidos sob o aviso que o ataque planeado de Washington sobre o Paquistão será interpretado como um ato de agressão contra Pequim. Este aviso frontal representa o primeiro ultimato estratégico conheci ...

Modern Survivalism

• Arizona Fire Could Become Largest Ever
  The Arizona fire raging since May 29 through more than 670 square miles so far, is threatening more than homes and property. According to the Associated Press, “The eye-stinging, throat burning haze of smoke spewing from a gigantic wildfire in eastern Arizona is beginning to stretch as far east ...
• Message to Graduates
  Being graduation season, be it from High School or College, and having been through that stage of life myself, here is a little friendly advice… Even though at this stage of life you probably don’t have a-lot of money and ‘things’, and no doubt you want things because other people around you hav ...
• Just-in-Time Technology, Food Disaster Looming
  Guest Post: by Jim Presley …a fear I have had for some time: We have little or no warehousing backup in the event of a supply shortage. Our concentrated supermarket supply system uses JIT (Just-in-Time) technology efficiencies allowed by computers and the Internet. But my fears have centered upo ...
• People are Owned and Consumed by their Possesions
  A recent post comment got me to thinking about how so many people today are truly “owned and consumed by their possessions”, as recently stated by an observant M.S.B. Reader. This ‘condition’ is arguably one of the core root causes attributing to the high stress of modern day life. Don’t get me ...
• Turmeric – A Super Spice
  In a previous article, high-orac-value-antioxidant-foods-top-100, Turmeric ranked number 6 of the top 100 high ORAC value antioxidant foods (OK, it’s a spice). ORAC units measure the antioxidant capacity of foods. Turmeric is a spice that gives curry powder its yellow hue and peppery flavor. Tur ...

Fast Company

• How CNN And YouTube Forged A Presidential-Deba ...
  CNN runs one of the world's most advanced newsrooms: Holograms stream over the airwaves, touchscreens dot the walls, and reporters and producers practically have iPads attached to their hips. Tonight, that forward-thinking tradition continues with the network's first GOP debate--which will inc ...
• Crowdsourcing The Documentary: Egyptian Filmma ...
  Flimmaker Amr Salama is working on a movie about the Egyptian Revolution. Where better to turn for footage than the people who were there?"The role of social media is to get everyone to know that we all share the same problems, we all share the same needs, we're all asking for the same rights," ...
• Why Kevin Systrom Turned Down Zuckerberg, Left ...
  Kevin Systrom launched popular photo-sharing app Instagram in October--and already it boasts around 5 million users. By comparison, it took years for startups such as Facebook and Twitter to reach that growth. And Instagram, which lets users apply one-click professional filters to photogra ...
• Facebook Hits A Wall
  Usage data suggests that something unusual has happened to Facebook's membership growth in the U.S. and Canada in the last couple of months ... it's shriveled. Facebook may have exhaled just before an IPO. The business of sharing is slightly off.Facebook has seen "big traffic drops" in the U.S. ...
• Power-Generating Artificial Leaf Moves Closer ...
  Mimicking the highly efficient power-generation process of photosynthesis, an artificial leaf could change how the world gets energy. And new developments at MIT mean it could happen in the next few years. Earlier this year, MIT professor Daniel Nocera made a discovery: By dipping a cobalt-and ...

Jadaliyya

• قرض الصندوق ضد الديمقراطية
  �� عام 2002 استعاد م�ات�ر محمد� صا�ع ا���ضة ا�ما��ز�ة� ذ�ر�ات معر�ة ر�ض ب�اد� مساعدة ص�د�� ا���د ا�د��� ا�مشر�طة خ�ا� ا�أزمة ا�آس���ة �ب��ا بأربع س��ات �ائ�ا: "ا�ت�دت�ا� ا�د�� ا�غرب�ة بسبب ذ�� ����ا �م ��ح� أبدا أمام�م �� أ� مجا� �أ��ا مسئ���� ع� ب�د�ا �ع� شعب�ا. �م ��س�ا مسئ���� ع� ب�د� ...
• Culture IX
  Before the Arab Summer sets in, four more Spring sowings: � Amira Hanafi translates "Dawn,"�another piece from Hamdy El-Gazzar's revolution/ary series, "Palm-Sized Stories." � Chris Stone translates Adania Shibli's short fiction, "The United Transport Company - Jerusalem."� � Anny Gau ...
• Dawn
  � Translated from the Arabic by Amira Hanafi Dawn on Saturday, January 29th, the world around us a vacuum, an emptiness steeped in solitude and silence after yesterday�s volcano. Yesterday�day, evening, and night�the day of resurrection, everywhere ablaze, the voice of horror rising, a ...
• The United Transport Company - Jerusalem
  � Translated from the Arabic by Chris Stone. � The United Transport Company stands alone on a square kilometer of land in the heart of Jerusalem.�It is bound on the west by Street Number 1, which falls on the line that divided the city into East and West Jerusalem in 1948. To the east a ...
• From Dance to Transcendence
  Dunia: Kiss Me Not on the Eyes. Directed by Jocelyn Saab. Egypt/Lebanon/France, 2005. It might seem that a dance film about female circumcision can only devolve into a cliché-laden take on an over-exhausted (and over-analyzed) subject, but Dunia: Kiss Me Not on the Eyes manages to encom ...

mediagazer

• Andrew Rossi Goes Inside The New York Times (D ...
  Donya Blaze / FishbowlNY: Andrew Rossi Goes Inside The New York Times  —  Andrew Rossi's Page One: Inside The New York Times hits theaters in New York and Los Angeles June 17, with a special premiere tonight at Lincoln Center.  In the film, Rossi trails reporters at the paper's media desk (incl ...
• Case Study: Using TV Star Tweets to Engage Vie ...
  eMarketer: Case Study: Using TV Star Tweets to Engage Viewers  —  Fans have a new way to participate in the TV viewing experience  —  Television networks and shows are using social media to enhance the viewing experience, encourage tune-in and foster conversation among viewers.
• What Not to Do When Being Profiled by the Medi ...
  Hamilton Nolan / Gawker: What Not to Do When Being Profiled by the Media  —  Philippe Reines (pictured, at left) is Hillary Clinton's longtime adviser/ flack/ purse-toter.  He's an inveterate gossip-spreader, self-promoter, and berater of reporters on behalf of his boss.  And he loves to be re ...
• FT editor: 'Our print and online rivals are hi ...
  Jim Romenesko / Poynter: FT editor: ‘Our print and online rivals are hiring (and poaching)’  —  Romenesko Misc.  —  The Financial Times has been hiring the Wall Street Journal's Americans, and the WSJ has been hiring the FT's Europeans.  First, the FT hired Peter Spiegel away from the WSJ's DC ...
• AMI is on the block - National Enquirer owner ...
  New York Post: AMI is on the block  —  National Enquirer owner American Media Inc. has been shopping itself in recent months and has managed to attract at least one potential buyer, The Post has learned.  —  Sources said private-equity giant Apollo Management had stalked AMI, which also owns S ...

Chemtrail News

• YouTube Chemtrails and Evergreen Air In ...
  Evergreen Air In Pinal country Arizona Former Secret Chemtrail Facility Revealed, Evergreen Air ...www.youtube.com/watch?v=97CsZz-Natw
• CHEMTRAIL PLANE CRASHES Four Winds 10 f ...
  Boeing 707 crashes in Point Mugu (SCROLL DOWN) * * * * * * * A Boeing 707 plane with three people onboard crashed in Point Mugu naval air base in Ventura ...www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/.../humans/.../news.php?...
• Chemtrail Poisons Video
  Djdamm's video about chemtrails poison secret gov projects nwo documentary on Disclose.tv.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/74010/Chemtrail_poisons/
• chemtrails and earthquake in missouri l ...
  they sprayed us in franklin county again yesterday and the day before...last night at about 3:15 a.m. we had a 4.0 earthquake...chemtruth.ning.com/profiles/.../chemtrails-and-earthquake-in
• CHEMTRAILS Elbows Music Blog Aggregator
  Phips presents "Chemtrails," shot and directed by Nesby himself on the iPhone. The video concept is based on the chemtrail conspiracy theory.elbo.ws/video/24937469/

World News - Top Stories

• Clinton calls for peacekeepers; Sudan lea ...
  Quick ReadClinton calls for peacekeeping force in Sudan as north, south leaders meet on contested region Photos (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that the U.S. wants a peacekeeping force to be deployed to a contested region between north and south Sudan that ...
• Is 3-D more of a headache than it's worth ...
  Are you fed up with 3-D movies? Sick of paying extra to wear glasses (or an additional pair of glasses) to watch a film? Tired of movies that are too dark, or were obviously post-converted to 3-D, resulting in a headache-inducing mess? The numbers say you’re not alone: Opening-weekend talli ...
• Nokia, LinkedIn: Analysts' New Ratings
  NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- CHANGE IN RATINGS Arthur J. Gallagher(AJG) was upgraded at Sterne Agee from Neutral to Buy. $33 price target. Stock has underperformed its peers this year, despite posting solid core earnings, Sterne Agee said. Aruba Networks(ARUN) was upgraded from Neutral to Outper ...
• NY bill: Smoking ban in cars with childre ...
  ih8pstercops June 13, 2011 at 8:32AM Follow Seriously, How are they going to enforce this? It can't be that hard to put it down when going be a cop. Inappropriate?�Alert us. Reply Post new syrguy320 June 13, 2011 at 8:34AM Follow Sounds good to me. Bring on more legislation and add more tax ...
• Libya's Gadhafi plays chess with Russian ...
  MOSCOW - As the world awaits Moammar Gadhafi's next move, the Libyan leader has been playing chess with the visiting Russian head of the World Chess Federation. The federation is headed by the eccentric Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, who until last year was the leader of Russia's predominantly Buddhis ...

no frakking consensus

• How Much Harm to Humans is OK?
  An IPCC official thinks that quadrupling gasoline prices could help save the planet. What effect such a policy would have on human beings appears to be irrelevant.
• The IPCC as UN Funding Mechanism
  You gotta love the UN. The 31-member IPCC bureau includes representatives from undemocratic and unsavoury countries such as Sudan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Malaysia, Madagascar and the Maldives. Soon, these countries may be deciding the fate of billions of UN-administered climate change funds.
• Climate Change & Violent Fantasies
  When did it become acceptable to pen violent fantasies about people with whom you disagree? When did it become OK to talk - luridly and out loud - about their death?
• David Suzuki is a Drama Queen
  While the rest of us approach challenges with determination, optimism, and faith in ourselves as problem solvers, drama queens see only worst-case scenarios. They exaggerate. They emotionalize.
• Peer-Reviewed Medical Research Critiqued
  An opinion piece in Scientific America alleges that, over the long term, a great deal of scientific research turns out not to be true. Independent replication of research findings is apparently far less common than we think.

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Information Underground

• Philosophy • controversion de zion--Logic, Fal ...
  . . (douglas reed) Logic, Fallacies, and the Trivium. Tony Myers Interviews Jan Irvin see 1:15:25 about "the controversion de zion" - if about "fallacies" and the 7 liberal arts, see it from the start iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F66h8ViFz4g "the controversion de zion" PDF forma ...
• Historical Events • Academia & Holocaust - ...
  . . Another Zionist Attack on Academic Freedom By Daniel McGowan / Dissident Voice / May 28th, 2011 This is an attempt, admittedly futile, to remove some of the slime thrown at me in a letter addressed to President Gearan and circulated to over 250 people on October 3, 2009. It was written by ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  That's pretty interesting, Brandon. I think maybe you should write part 2 of this series.Statistics: Posted by Timothy_Fitzpatrick — Mon Jun 13, 2011 12:58 pm
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  rodin wrote: 'Jacob Gold' is 'Skunk' from Judicial Inc He and Laconas run a good double act. They are the same person, eh? What was your handle at LF?Statistics: Posted by Timothy_Fitzpatrick — Mon Jun 13, 2011 12:43 pm
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Whaler wrote: Yeah, another delusional Jew that lays the blame on Nazis. Nope, Jews have nothing to do with pornography, it's the Nazis. delusional, or corrupt? the way I see it, there are two things US jews want to hide at all costs: their role in the african slave trade, and their role i ...

TVNZ

• International donors Donors pledge $US4.3b for ...
  International donors led by Britain and Bill Gates have pledged $5.26 billion to buy vaccines for children in poor countries.
• Doomsday prophet Harold Camping suffers stroke
  The man who predicted the world would end last month has been hospitalised.
• Italian PM Berlusconi faces fresh blow in refe ...
  Italians turned out in large numbers to vote in referendums that looked set to deliver another blow to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi following last month's humiliating defeat in local elections
• Ash strands passengers, Air New Zealand flies on
  Volcanic ash from Chile continues to cause flight disruptions due to ash cloud in New Zealand and Australian airspace.
• Jordan King promises to speed democratic reforms
  Jordan's King Abdullah says he is committed to pushing ahead with democratic reforms, but believes street pressure for change is a recipe for chaos

environment 360

• U.S. Unveils Programs to Modernize Electric Gr ...
  The Obama administration unveiled a series of initiatives to upgrade the nation’s electric grid, including $250 million in loans for so-called smart grid projects in rural areas and steps to secure the grid against cyber attacks. The strategy also calls on state and federal regulators to encoura ...
• Scottish Whisky Distillery Converts Waste into ...
  A Scottish whisky distillery has developed a process to convert thousands of tons of yeasty by-product into methane, which can be burned to produce electricity. Using a process known as anaerobic digestion, the Bruichladdich distillery, located on the southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides, h ...
• Snowpack Decline in Rockies Has Rapidly Accele ...
  A new study says snowpack decline in the northern Rocky Mountains over the last 30 years has been more severe than at any other time in nearly 1,000 years. In an analysis of 66 tree-ring records, researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) found that the average spring snowpack in the nor ...
• Mattel Vows to Stop Using Paper from Accused A ...
  Toymaker Mattel Inc. says it will stop using packaging from a Singapore-based company accused of clear-cutting swaths of Indonesian rainforest. Mattel’s action follows a campaign by Greenpeace that targeted, among other products, the packaging used in Mattel’s popular GreenpeaceVIDEO: Barbi ...
• Instant Identification of Trees Is Possible Us ...
  Botanists from the Smithsonian Institution have helped develop a smartphone app that can identify tree species within seconds using visual recognition software and then share the location with a database of tree Click to enlarge LeafsnapThe Leafsnap smartphone app populations. After a user t ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• Low Dose Radiation Research Program: U.S. Depa ...
  Tags: radiation research dose low health
• Women in Journalism
  Tags: journalism women media
• iWatch News | Investigation. Impact. Integrity.
  Tags: news investigation iwatch media journalism
• Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute
  Tags: foreign canadian defence
• Environmental pollution in India
  Tags: environmental pollution india

backofthebook

• Revisited: Sun TV’s Ezra problem
  With the Sun News Network lately embarked on a jihad against government funding of the arts, it might be worth remarking: at least when artists are given money, they do what they're supposed to do with it. On the other hand, we have the example of SNN costume rack Ezra ...
• On SunTV and Margie Gillis
  On June 1, 2011, SunTV broadcast an interview with veteran Canadian dancer and choreographer Margie Gillis (see link below), which quickly turned abusive towards the guest. In a message on his facebook page, Canadian dancer Louis Laberge-Côté, currently a teacher at Nationaltheatre Manheim in Ge ...
• Wikileaks on Harper, America, and the “t ...
  By Alison@Creekside An embassy cable written by US Ambassador David Wilkins the day the Cons were first elected in 2006 suggests Harper would be useful in advancing the US agenda for Canada and that giving him " a success story" like the softwood lumber deal would "shore up" his ability to st ...
• Antimatter contained for 17 minutes; hello Vulcans
  by Eric Pettifor Canadian researchers (and others, but we'll focus on lauding our countrypersons) at CERN near North Battleford, Saskatchewan (ok, CERN is really in Switzerland, but it should be in Saskatchewan) have managed to capture and contain antimatter for a whopping 17 minutes (layper ...
• Why Michael Moore isn’t the only Brigett ...
  By Montreal Simon Well I see the legend of Brigette DePape continues to grow, like a red rose of hope in the darkness of Harperland. Quoted in The Globe: "I have been really inspired because there have been thousands of people who have sent messages or commented on the Internet. People kn ...

Daily Beast

• 10 Buzziest Moments from the 2011 Tony Awards
  The Book of Mormon wins big, Daniel Radcliffe makes dancing magic, and nobody from Spider-Man is hospitalized. Shannon Donnelly on the wildest moments from theatre's big night. Plus, see the red carpet's best and worst looks. Neil Patrick Harris...
• Republican Presidential Debate Live Chat
  Top GOP presidential contenders sat out last month's first Republican presidential debate, but they'll all duke it out Monday night in New Hampshire. From Romney to Bachmann to Paul, The Daily Beast's John Avlon and Howard Kurtz follow it in real time...
• White House: Weiner Is a 'Distraction'
  Commenting for the first time, the White House said Monday that Obama sees Anthony Weiner's behavior as a "distraction" from the real issues-but declined to press for his resignation. See the latest batch of racy pics, his online messages with a...
• Book of Mormon Sweeps Tonys: Newsweek on Ameri ...
  The Book of Mormon cleaned up at the Tony Awards Sunday night, taking home a cool nine prizes-including awards for best score, best directing and best musical. But the buzzed-about musical is only part of the country's "Mormon moment," writes Walter...
• 14 Juiciest Palin Emails
  Flip-flopping on climate change, denying that Bristol is pregnant, asking God for budget help-read the most "flippin' unbelievable" messages from the Palin email trove. The state of Alaska has released 24,199 printed pages of emails from Sarah Palin's...

Loonwatch

• The “But That’s Just the Old Testa ...
  The Bible can and is interpreted by right-wing Christians to affirm the violence in the Old Testament.
• John Feffer: Mladic v. Bin Laden: A Tale of Tw ...
  Both were responsible for thousands of civilian deaths, one was killed and the other was brought to the international court.
• Rightists in Jerusalem: Muhammad is dead, butc ...
  You think Islamophobes such as Pamela Geller are going to condemn these anti-Freedom goons?
• The Young Conservative’s Hip Hop Guide t ...
  Young Con is doing his thang. Check out the video and the facts below.
• Muslim women’s group launches “Jihad against v ...
  A Jihad for peace? Taking back the word "jihad."

Energy News

• After massive explosion at Reactor No. 3, TEPC ...
  In Nuclear Crisis, Crippling Mistrust, New York Times, June 12, 2011: ...Read More
• First photo released from inside Reactor No. 4 ...
  TEPCO releases photo showing damage to No. 4 reactor building, Mainichi, ...Read More
• Obama told by Kan that helicopter’s fail ...
  In Nuclear Crisis, Crippling Mistrust, New York Times, June 12, 2011: ...Read More
• Residents thought winds usually blew south fro ...
  In Nuclear Crisis, Crippling Mistrust, New York Times, June 12, 2011: ...Read More
• Metallic taste in mouth now being reported in ...
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Japan Times

• Wrestler Kitamura gets doping ban
  Greco-Roman wrestler Katsuya Kitamura has been banned for two years by the Japan Anti-Doping Agency after testing positive for anabolic steroids, the Japan Wrestling Federation announced Monday. The 25-year-old Kitamura is a three-time national champion in the 96-kg category. The suspension wi ...
• DPJ meeting could seal Kan's fate
  The likelihood of Prime Minister Naoto Kan succumbing to persistent calls for his resignation by July rose Monday as members of his own government started pushing for a rapid departure to skirt the risk of legislative gridlock. Accompanying his exit may be a key ruling party pledge: monthly ch ...
• Osaka mayor to Tokyo: It's time to spread risk
  The Great East Japan Earthquake proved the need to spread central government functions beyond Tokyo, and Osaka's location at the center of the nation's second-biggest urban area makes it an ideal candidate, the city's mayor said. "It's nonsense that the central government's workings should be ...
• Button charges to first win of year
  Jenson Button took advantage of a last-lap slide by Sebastian Vettel and passed the runaway championship points leader on the final trip down the backstretch to win the rain-soaked Canadian Grand Prix on Sunday. "I think even if I hadn't won today, I would have enjoyed the race immensely," sai ...
• Darvish second to none since shock loss on Ope ...
  Even in a season that's shaping up to be the Year of the Pitcher, Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters ace Yu Darvish still stands out among the crowd. Darvish has been Japan's premier hurler for years, almost seamlessly taking over upon Daisuke Matsuzaka's departure in 2006. Still, the run the 25-yea ...

Alexander Higgins

• Head of Fukushima health study says 100 mSv/yr ...
  The Head of the Fukushima Health Study says that 100 millisieverts a year of radiation is safe even for pregnant mom and radiation effects do not come to happy people, only those who are weak spirited
• Tepco: 6 More Nuclear Workers Exceeded 250 Mil ...
  6 more Fukushima nuclear power plant workers receive radiation doses higher than the 250 millisievert government limit.
• Japan Nuclear Industry Trying To Hijack Fukush ...
  Japan's largest newspaper is reporting that bureaucrats associated with the nuclear industry in Japan are trying to hijack the Fukushima investigation panel. While the prime minister has rebuked their first attempt, he is excepted to step down any time now at which point they will try to take it ...
• TEPCO Confirms 6,300 Becquerels Per Liter Stro ...
  TEPCO Confirms 6,300 Becquerels Per Liter Strontium Radiation Contamination In Groundwater Along With Radiation 240 Times Higher Than The Legal Safety Limit In Seawater.
• Revolution In America – Protests Schedul ...
  The Hacker group anonymous has called for the first round of operations, protests on June 14th along with calls to move money out of big banks, as part of the plan to bring peaceful revolution in America.

Macleans - Central

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

Making It Count - CCPA

• Evaluating Corporate Tax Cuts
  Don Drummond has an op-ed in today’s Toronto Star concluding: Federal and provincial governments and the Canadian business sector should [establish] monitoring mechanisms that will permit regular reports to Canadians on whether the Canadian corporate tax revolution is producing benefits for them ...
• The Benefits of Higher Resource Royalties
  The Canadian Union of Public Employees has launched a great new blog, Imagine What We Could Do, about the things that Saskatchewan should accomplish by raising resource royalties. It draws upon a Relentlessly Progressive Economic analysis of how the province could collect more royalty revenue an ...
• Brigitte DePape: Silently Speaking Truth to Power
  Most Canadians will now have seen the striking image of Brigette DePape. The determined solitary young woman, surrounded by the highest ranking public officials in the land, stood in silence holding her crumpled ‘Stop Harper’ sign, as the Governor General read the Conservative government’s thron ...
• CETA: A Hot Topic at Gathering of Municipal Le ...
  The Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) was a hot topic of debate at the recent Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) annual conference, held in Halifax. Leading up to the June 3-6 conference, the Union of BC Municipalities called on the FCM to seek a “clear, perman ...
• Budget 2011: Don’t look behind the curtain
  Definitely nothing new to see here.  The boutique tax cuts are still there, so are the small programs from the failed March 22nd budget.  The government was even good enough to put on track changes to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that this is the same budget and little has changed.  The only ...

ReDress

• Media falsifiers: censorship by mainstream lib ...
  Paul J. Balles argues that the media lie of the moment reverberates through liberal TV channels pretending to report the news from all angles and from all points of view but in reality exercising censorship through omission and emphasis.
• Iran and the issue of nuclear weapons
  Lawrence Davidson considers the roles of Israel, the Israeli lobby in the USA and the conservative Arab Gulf rulers in creating and sustaining the fantasy of an Iranian nuclear threat, and highlights the failure - through cowardice, expediency and duplicity - of politicians who know better and t ...
• Muddle and mixed messages precede Palestinian ...
  With the date for the purported Palestinian bid for UN recognition fast approaching, Stuart Littlewood views the mixed messages emanating from the Palestinian Authority, the inept messengers and the absence of a competent and credible public relations campaign ahead of the bid.
• Breaches of international law lay behind unres ...
  While much of the Western media have ignored the recent bloodshed on the Golan Heights, the limited reports that have been released appear to misunderstand the background to the present confrontation. Richard Lightbown explains the history.
• Barack Obama's betrayal of Abraham Lincoln's i ...
  Paul J. Balles argues that US President Barack Obama has defiled the ideals of his idol, Abraham Lincoln, and instead of working to bring about government "of the people, by the people, for the people", he has presided over government "controlled by corporate barons, lobbies and Wall Street". " ...

Physics Today

• Graduation caps and gowns go green
  USA Today: More colleges are turning to eco-friendly materials for their graduates’ caps and gowns, according to Wendy Koch writing for USA Today. Some students, such as Caltech’s 2011 graduating class, wore GreenWeaver gowns made from recycled plastic bottles. More than 250 institutions ordered ...
• China to build world's biggest radio telescope
  New Scientist: China has started building the world’s biggest and most sensitive radio telescope—the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, an instrument that promises to transform radio astronomy, writes Anil Ananthaswamy for New Scientist. FAST, which will be located near the c ...
• Tevatron teams clash over new physics
  Nature: Two groups whose experiments run at Fermilab's Tevatron have reached different conclusions about a possible sighting of new particles that don't fit the standard model of physics, writes Eugenie Samuel Reich for Nature. In April, researchers on the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) rep ...
• A cell becomes a laser
  Science: A laser built into a single cell may one day be used for light-based therapeutics, writes Jon Cartwright for Science. Physicists Malte Gather and Seok-Hyun Yun of Harvard Medical School used cells derived from a human kidney and added the DNA that codes for green fluorescent protein (G ...
• Old spacesuits get new lease on life
  Nature: The spacesuits worn by the first astronauts are being moved from their current home in Maryland to the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. While the new facility will provide a much better environment for the suits, getting them there intact was a puzzle fo ...

Revolutionary Politics

• FF News: 'The Omar Abdulla Show,' 2
  by footprints (Posted Mon, 13 Jun 2011 07:50:42 GMT) The 'Omar Abdulla,' Show Episode One Duration-45 minutes Filmed: 4 July 2011 Welcome to The Omar Abdulla show...This show is hosted by 'me,' Omar Abdulla...This is our first show to be broadcasted on screens in October 2011...The Show has ...
• America addicted to War
  by Rev333 (Posted Mon, 13 Jun 2011 01:30:22 GMT) Most Americans support the many frivolous wars we are fighting worldwide. Yet, few of us are willing to have our taxes raised to pay the steep costs that have accrued over decades. - As a result, we are now bankrupt. Our country is kaput. - The ...
• FF News: 'The Omar Abdulla Show,'
  by footprints (Posted Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:16:32 GMT) Footprints Filmworks edit Welcome to Footprints Filmworks ~~The WoW Starts Now...~~ Since 1881 This website, F I L M , book, newspaper and CD is filmed, p r i n t e d, 'marketed, ...
• The Fake Osama Bin Laden Image
  by Howard T. Lewis III (Posted Sat, 11 Jun 2011 02:25:32 GMT) When I was 15, I worked on a farm where the farm dog, a tailess Australian sheepdog year old pup, carried around a dried up roadflattened cat that he was always tossing up in the air and catching and chewing and otherwise playing arou ...
• Fake Holocaust Memoirs
  by Rev333 (Posted Sat, 11 Jun 2011 01:17:20 GMT) Allegations of Fake Holocaust Claims Just Keep Growing. …. Russian-speaking Claims Conference employees who rubber-stamped hundreds of fraudulent claims over more than a decade. They were aided by so-called “recruiters” who gathered documents fro ...

Peakwater

• Dam Project in Turkey Breeds Controversy
  “HASANKEYF, Turkey, Jun 13, 2011 (IPS) – The tranquillity and mystery of this town on the banks of Tigris River will not last long. The millennia-old town will be nearly totally destroyed once the nearby Ilisu dam, built for energy and irrigation, is complete. “I donât want to be forced to move ...
• Enbridge: Why Just Ride To Conquer Cancer? Sto ...
  “Enbridge has been finessing its plans to construct the Northern Gateway Pipeline, a pipeline originally proposed about 10 years ago and which is being pushed by the Harper agenda. The twin pipelines, which run from Northern Alberta to BCâs coast, will cross through 60 First Nations communitie ...
• As Legislative Session Winds Down, Fracking Bi ...
  “Regulating Water Withdrawal It takes a lot of water – over a million gallons – to frack a new gas well, and make it productive. One bill that’s already passed the assembly would require anyone withdrawing more than 100 thousand gallons of water from streams or rivers to get permission first. Ha ...
• 44% Population Lacks Access To Safe Drinking Water
  “IslamabadâShortage of affordable and safe drinking water is manifested in Pakistan with an estimated 44% of the population without access to safe drinking water, while in rural areas 90% of the population lacks such access. As one indication of the intensity of the problem, it is estimated that ...
• Drought Drinking Up West Texas Water Supply
  “The Colorado River Municipal Water District supplies water to Midland, Odessa, San Angelo, Abilene and other West Texas cities. Each day the district’s director John Grant is seeing its reservoirs drop lower and lower. Grant: “Today Lake Thomas is less than 4% full. The Spence Reservoir is less ...

Total Collapse

• Russia protests arrival of US Navy cruiser in ...
  Space War - Russia on Sunday protested the arrival of a US Navy cruiser equipped with a ballistic missile defence system in the Black Sea to take part in naval exercises with neighbouring Ukraine, saying it was a threat to its national security. “We have a number of questions regarding the arri ...
• Heir To Rothschild Empire Found Dead In Paris ...
  Amschel Rothschild, the man many believed would be the prestigious Rothschild Bank’s next leader, hanged himself in a Paris luxury hotel, a newspaper reported Thursday. Rothschild’s body was found by a cleaning lady Monday in his room at the Hotel Bristol, not far from the presidential Elysee Pa ...
• ‘US, Israel behind unrest in Syria’
  Press TV - The US and Israel have so far carried out a number of plots in Syria to incite unrest, create insecurity and spark a civil war in the Arab nation. At the outset, the White House and the Tel Aviv regime provoked anti-government protests in Syria’s southern city of Daraa near the borde ...
• King Abdullah’s motorcade attacked with stones ...
  Tribune – A group of young men attacked the motorcade of King Abdullah II of Jordan with stones and empty bottles as he visited the southern city of Tafileh on Monday, but no one was hurt, a security official said. Jordanâs government spokesman Taher Adwan denied that the motorcade of King Abdul ...
• White House Insider: Obama’s Rage Over Netanya ...
  News Falvor – An angry and embarrassed President Obama confronts White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley. Received this information late yesterday. Thought you might wish to know. Shortly after the photo-op meeting and âworking lunchâ with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the one that sa ...

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