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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

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Gov. Bob McDonnell promotes clean, renewable energy at ceremonial signing
Roanoke Times
Bob McDonnell has been an advocate for an "all of the above" strategy to expanding energy production in Virginia, and that includes the development of clean and renewable energy sources. In a ceremonial bill-signing Wednesday, McDonnell highlighted ...
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Reportlinker Adds Renewable Energy for Military Applications
Sacramento Bee
Military investment in renewable energy and related technologies, in many cases, holds the potential to bridge the "valley of death" that lies between research & development and full commercialization of these technologies. As such, the myriad of DOD ...
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Florida PSC approves FPL renewable energy deal
MiamiHerald.com
Florida Power and Light Co. customers will pay $56 million in 2014 to purchase power from an expanded renewable energy facility. State Public Service Commission and FPL officials said Wednesday the one-year energy cost recovery charge will add 71 cents ...
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Commissioner says PUC couldn't rule on Black Hills Power's wind farm request
Rapid City Journal
BHP withdrew its proposal after the state Public Utilities Commission refused to rule on the company's request to have it declared "reasonable and cost-effective" under the state's renewable energy goals. (Ryan Soderlin/Journal staff) Public Utilities ...
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PUD: Timing not right for pricey water project
The Wenatchee World Online
A $165000 study commissioned by the PUD and paid for by the state Department of Ecology concluded that the project would cost between $1 billion and $4 billion, and the estimated range of revenue or loss over the project's life is considered too ...
The ecology of guns
OregonLive.com
It broadens the debate about guns to what is, in effect, their ecology and globalization. Our country's refusal to enact safe and sensible gun policies endangers not only our own people but also people beyond our borders.
China vows to improve ecology in restive Mongolian areas
Monsters and Critics.com
Beijing - Premier Wen Jiabao and other Chinese leaders on Wednesday promised to improve the economy and environment of the country's vast Inner Mongolia region, where ethnic Mongolians have staged recent anti-government protests. ...
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US Movers: Aveo, Clarcor, Ecology, Korn/Ferry, Owens-Illinois
Ticker Magazine
Ecology and Environment, Inc. (EEI) declined 9.6% or $1.84 to $17.30 after the environmental consultation company said third quarter revenues increased 24% to $41.4 million from $33.3 million in the same quarter last year. Net income in the quarter ...
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LCRA postpones water purchase request from White Stallion until August
Victoria Advocate
The board decided to table the water contract request for further review. White Stallion submitted an application for a firm water contract in 2008, requesting 25400 acre-feet per year for 40 years. AUSTIN - The Lower Colorado River Authority decided ...
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San Jose City Council approves rate increases for city services
San Jose Mercury News
By John Woolfolk The San Jose City Council approved rate increases for water, sewer, garbage and storm drain services Tuesday night. The council voted unanimously to raise rates for sewer and storm drain service by 3 percent and municipal water by 5.9 ...
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Bear Lake Report - Water Still Rising
Salt Lake Tribune (blog)
Water levels are currently at 5917.46 and continues to raise approximately ¾” per day. Hydrologist are predicting that Bear Lake will come close to filling this year. It is predicted that Bear Lake will rise 11.2 feet compared the level last fall and ...
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DWP Rate Hike Meeting Held in Van Nuys Wednesday
Los Angeles Times
VAN NUYS (KTLA) -- The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power held a meeting Wednesday evening to discuss raising water and electric rates over the next three years to the tune of $20 every other month. At the meeting, which took place at the Marvin ...
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    (NaturalNews) U.K. authorities recently released a report entitled Global Food and Farming Futures which recommends that "new technologies" in agriculture not be excluded merely on ethical or moral grounds. But Britain's Chief Scientist took this language and perverted it into an endorsement for ...
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    (NaturalNews) Doctors are refusing to help sick kids -- or delaying their treatment for weeks to months -- if the children don't have private insurance. That's because private insurance pays docs bigger bucks in reimbursements than the public kind of insurance like Medicaid. What makes this star ...
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    (NaturalNews) Regulators have known since 1980 that Roundup, the herbicide manufactured by U.S. company Monsanto, causes birth defects, and have done nothing to make the information public, according to a new report released June 7 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/07/roundup-birth-defects- ...
  • Vaccination: The pet controversy
    (NaturalNews) In the history of human vaccines, the numbers clearly show that in every case, the disease itself was already on the decline when the vaccine was introduced. Most vaccines were scarcely a blip on the radar, not affecting the natural decline of the disease at all. In a few unfortuna ...

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    Law enforcement officials announced felony charges against 26 people Tuesday for the possession and distribution of violent child pornography over the internet, in one of most wide-ranging cyber-sex-crime roll-ups in recent memory. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said the defendants ...
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  • America's Need for a 'Public Good'
    America's Christian churches have failed to provide moral leadership on behalf of a "public good," observes Rev. Howard Bess. May 7, 2011
  • The Curious Bush/Bin Laden Symbiosis
    George W. Bush engaged in a feckless eight-year pursuit of Osama bin Laden while using him for a political edge, says Robert Parry. May 7, 2011
  • The Anti-War Message of Mother's Day
    The first Mother's Day wasn't a sentimental celebration of moms; it was a fierce call to end the horrors of war, writes Gary G. Kohls. May 8, 2011
  • US Policy Still Misreads the Middle East
    By focusing on the how of "targeted killings," not the why of Muslim anger, U.S. runs the risk of endless war, warns Lawrence Davidson. May 9, 2011
  • Post-Bin Laden Peace Hopes Dim
    U.S. demands for an Afghan "footprint" dims hopes that Osama bin Laden's death had opened a path to peace, reports Gareth Porter. May 9, 2011

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    Today the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) Board of Directors delayed a vote on providing water to the “White Stallion” coal plant proposed for Matagorda County. Though White Stallion’s Chief Operation Officer, Randy Bird, was expecting and asking for approval of a contract today, the board ...
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    Critiques of nuclear generation have generally revolved around safety risks and high construction fees, but relatively little attention has been paid to what happens when a nuclear plant powers down for good. Costs Can Reach Over $1 Billion Nuclear plants must be decommissioned at the end of the ...
  • LCRA board names first female general manager
    Becky Motal has just been named the first female to become general manager of the Lower Colorado River Authority in its 76-year history. Motal, executive manager of external affairs, was chosen by a unanimous vote of the LCRA board of directors and assumes the helm of the energy and water manage ...
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  • Al-Nakba demonstrations experience violence
    Below is an article from Grassroots International�s ally, the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, outlining actions planned for the commemoration of the 63rd�anniversary of the Nakba on May 15, 2011. Al-Nakba, which means �the catastrophe� in Arabic, commemorates the day in 1948 on which ...

Climate

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Mountaintop Removal

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Memeorandum

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  • 10 U.S. lawmakers sue Obama over Libya strikes ...
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  • Twenty-seven Senators sign bipartisan letter c ...
    Greg Sargent / Washington Post: Twenty-seven Senators sign bipartisan letter calling on Obama to speed up Afghan withdrawal  —  Ever since the killing of Osama Bin Laden, it has seemed inevitable that his death would provide the hook for a major change of course in Afghanistan, and now Dems are ...
  • America's Favorite Talking Hothead (David Carr ...
    David Carr / New York Times: America's Favorite Talking Hothead  —  Keith Olbermann likes looking into a camera.  The return of its gaze animates him and reminds him that he has a million friends on the other side of it.  But he doesn't picture those people.  He talks directly to the camera.

Energy & Environment News

  • China Takes a New Interest in Energy Efficiency
    As the country's construction industry continues to barrel ahead, the government is considering giving developers a financial movitation to build in energy efficiency on new projects.
  • Bringing in the Big Fans
    With energy costs rising, a large, old-fashioned fan has much to recommend it, but the noise can be hard to take.
  • Green: Dracula Lurks in Your Set-Top Box
    Set-top boxes in the United States consume nearly as much energy when not in use as when they are on, costing a cumulative $2 billion a year.
  • Green: New Push on Sustainable Agriculture
    The Food and Agriculture has compiled the best techniques, from minimizing the use of pesticides to meting out water more judiciously, in one document and urged specialists to use it as they plan development projects.
  • Swiss Commodities Trader Expands Into Ethanol ...
    The project by Addax Bioenergy has local and international backing, but comes at a sensitive time, with concerns being raised of exploitation of developing countries for resources.

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China Dialogue

  • Power politics in Germany
    Angela Merkel’s decision to abandon nuclear has been hailed as revolutionary by some – and dismissed as a political stunt by others. Here, Jürgen Maier gives an insider’s view.The Fukushima nuclear meltdown had its greatest political impact not so much in Japan itself but in faraway Germany, whe ...
  • Trading blows in America
    The United States’ first regional cap-and-trade programme is in peril, the latest victim of the country’s divided climate politics. Joan Bien reports.The future of an environmental programme that aims to cut the carbon emissions of a swathe of the north-eastern United States by 10% over the next ...
  • Diversion debate
    The zeal for engineering China’s rivers continues unabated among hydrologists. But will the latest proposal – to move water from Tibet to Xinjiang – get the backing of the authorities? Zhang Ke reports.Chinese scientists have dreamed up yet another mega engineering scheme: to divert water from T ...
  • Bearing the standard
    If it grasps the opportunities offered by sustainable certification, China can reap commercial, environmental and social rewards, while helping set the rules for a greener global economy, argues Joshua Wickerham.International voluntary sustainability standards – such as the Forest Stewardship Co ...
  • A two-wheeled future?
    While China’s thriving bike culture is threatened by cars, the US is trying to inspire passion for cycling. Following a chinadialogue seminar, Justin Gerdes reports on efforts to promote this sustainable form of transport.At its founding, the People’s Republic of China reserved a special place f ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • More Thoughts on X-Men: First Class
    So I saw it again last night, because Iâm an addict, and because I havenât seen a movie since Inglourious Basterds that I wanted to pull apart so much. I swear itâs just coincidence that they both star Michael Fassbender. Iâve already written about the queer subtext (basically text) of the film, ...
  • A Groundswell for Significant Afghanistan With ...
    By Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe As President Obama prepares to announce his intentions for how many troops to withdraw from Afghanistan this year, public opinion polls show the ground is moving under him. Over the past few days, several new surveys show a significant spike in the number of ...
  • We Want Weiner: 5 Reasons & Slogans for Weiner ...
    When Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-PA) became the first democrat to call on Weiner to resign, she claimed to do so in the name of his constituents: “Having the respect of your constituents is fundamental for a Member of Congress. In light of Anthony Weiner’s offensive behavior online, he should res ...
  • Ten Years After Bush Tax Cuts, An Emerging Mov ...
    10 years on, the Bush tax cuts are a disaster—and we’re contemplating more tax breaks for the wealthy. How can we stop the madness? GOP candidate Tim Pawlenty observed the 10th anniversary of the Bush-era tax cuts by proposing $2 trillion in additional tax cuts, primarily for millionaires and gl ...
  • Is the Catholic Church overstepping its bounds ...
    The more the National Organization for Marriage fight against marriage equality statewide, the more it becomes clear just how deep the Catholic Church seems to be involved in the organization’s efforts. And now with the campaigns in New York and Minnesota, possibility is becoming a bit more d ...

Threat Level

  • Bloggers Mull Legal Action Against Righthaven
    Bloggers who paid thousands of dollars each to settle copyright-infringement allegations with Righthaven were mulling their legal options Wednesday, a day after a federal judge said the copyright troll had no legal standing to bring that kind of lawsuits. “We’re thinking seriously about what to ...
  • Lawmakers Propose Warrant Requirement for GPS Data
    Two lawmakers announced legislation Wednesday that for the first time clearly would mandate the authorities obtain a court warrant to acquire geolocational information of a suspect’s movements, a position clearly at odds with the Obama administration. The “Geolocational Privacy and Surveillance ...
  • Nevada Judge Threatens Sanctions for Copyright ...
    A Las Vegas federal judge threatened to sanction copyright troll Righthaven, calling its litigation efforts Tuesday “disingenuous, if not outright deceitful.” The blistering decision also places into doubt the litigation factory’s year-old business model, which is also under a Colorado federal j ...
  • 26 Charged With Using P2P to Swap Child-Sex Videos
    Law enforcement officials announced felony charges against 26 people Tuesday for the possession and distribution of violent child pornography over the internet, in one of most wide-ranging cyber-sex-crime roll-ups in recent memory. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said the defendants ...
  • Schools May Punish Students for Off-Campus, On ...
    Public schools may discipline pupils for their online speech spoken off-campus, a federal appeals court ruled Monday in two long-running cases testing student speech in the online world. However, in the cases decided Monday, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Pennsylvania school distric ...

Equality Trust

  • We work in partnership with One Society
    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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    Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon.   They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future in ...
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     Les preuves en Français Preuves à l’appui: une introduction Preuves à l’appui: la santé physique Preuves à l’appui: la santé mentale Preuves à l’appui: la toxicomanie Preuves à l’appui: l’éducation Preuves à l’appui: la population carcérale      
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PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Raw Milk Linked to Wisconsin Illnesses? Can y ...
    I can hear the gnashing of teeth and the wails of injustice for the “Teat Party” (combination of hippies and the tea party) activist once they see the article in the Racine, Wisconsin Journal Times possibly linking raw milk consumption to school kids becoming ill. According to the Journal Times ...
  • E. coli Outbreak - 2 year old dies and farmers ...
    Think about it. According to German news, the death tool hit 37 on Tuesday after a two-year-old boy from Celle in northern Germany died from kidney failure caused by the infection. He was the first child to die. Until Tuesday, the youngest victim had been 20. Over at Bloomberg it was announced ...
  • E. coli O104:H4 Death Toll Hits 37 with 3335 I ...
    RKI in Germany reports 2453 cases of E. coli O104:H4 infection with 782 cases of HUS and 36 deaths (2 year old died today according to press reports) for a total in Germany of 3235 cases.  The earliest onset of illness on May 1 and the latest on June 9. Other European countries report the follo ...
  • E. coli O103, E. coli O169 and E. coli O157:H7 ...
    According to Dan Flynn at Food Safety News, Tennessee is being assisted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in investigating a total of 11 cases of E. coli infection that involve E. coli O103, E. coli O169 and E. coli O157:H7. Virginia has seen two E. coli O157:H7 cases, inc ...
  • Seeds the Source of the Sprout E. coli Outbreak?
    As of today, new numbers in E. coli O104:H4 outbreak - Robert Koch Institute and the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control – E. coli in Germany – 3228 Ill, 781 with HUS and 35 Dead. 102 Ill, 39 HUS in 14 other countries (including U.S.) and 1 death in Sweden. Today the German Fe ...

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • War on Drugs: Fast, Furious and Fueled by the U.S.
    The violent deaths of Brian Terry and Juan Francisco Sicilia, separated by the span of just a few months and by the increasingly bloody U.S.-Mexico border, have sparked separate but overdue examinations of the so-called War on Drugs, and how the U.S. government is ultimately exacerbating the pr ...
  • "Former Mitt Romney" Was "Reasonable, Very Mod ...
    Tonight’s debate between Republican presidential candidates marks the first national debate appearance of Mitt Romney, former Massachusetts governor. Meanwhile fellow Mormon and former Utah governor, Jon Huntsman, has yet to announce, and will skip the debate. While in Utah last January reporti ...
  • "Don't Believe the Hype About U.S. Debt": Sall ...
    Vice President Joe Biden met with congressional negotiators last Thursday to discuss ways to curb the federal deficit and permit new borrowing after August 2, the day the U.S. government is expected to reach its $14.3 trillion borrowing limit. Democrats want to curb the federal deficit by pushi ...
  • AIDS Activists Rally at U.N.: "We Are Asking W ...
    The 2011 U.N. High-Level meeting on AIDS kicked off on June 8 in New York, with more than 30 world leaders attending to discuss the progress and future of the global AIDS response. Outside, hundreds of AIDS activists rallied to call on the world leaders to fulfill their commitment from the 2006 ...
  • Annie Jacobsen, Author of "Area 51: An Uncenso ...
    We continue our interview with Annie Jacobsen, author of the new book, Area 51: An Uncensored History of Americaâs Top Secret Military Base. Jacobson describes the disk-shaped A-12 Oxcart spy plane developed at the Nevada military base, her interview with the plane’s pilot, and discusses how ...

Digg Green

  • Top 10 Light-Emitting Creatures
    Fireflies are not the only light-emitting creatures. There are a number of species that demonstrate the phenomenon of bioluminescence - the ability of living
  • Apples Beat Out Celery As Most Contaminat ...
    The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has released its 2011 Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce.
  • Fear Boosts Activation of Immature Brain ...
    A new study describes one way by which emotions can affect memory: The brain's emotional center, the amygdala, induces the hippocampus, a relay hub for memory, to generate new neurons. In a fearful situation, these newborn neurons are activated by the amygdala, providing a "blank slate" to ...
  • Best-Educated Americans Experience the Mo ...
    The highest educated employees are experiencing increased stress levels and a challenge managing the work life balance, which researchers say could lead to high turnover for businesses most valued staff.
  • Magic mushrooms could have medical benefi ...
    The hallucinogen in magic mushrooms may no longer just be for hippies seeking a trippy high. Researchers at John Hopkins University School of Medicine have been studying the effects of psilocybin, a chemical found in some psychedelic mushrooms, that's credited with inducing transcendental ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • China Wants To Construct A 50 Square Mile Self ...
    By wmw_admin on June 10, 2011 The End of the American Dream – June 8, 2011 Thanks to the trillions of dollars that the Chinese have made flooding our shores with cheap products, China is now in a position of tremendous economic power. So what is China going to do with all of that money? [...]
  • Stealth Vaccine Laws Allow Children to Consent ...
    by: Alan Phillips, J.D. (NaturalNews) A current California bill, AB 499, would “allow a minor who is 12 years of age or older to consent to medical care related to the prevention of a sexually transmitted disease.”[1] That is, children as young as 12 will be able to get a Gardasil or other STD v ...
  • Pravda and Isvestia Are Alive and Well in the USA
    By Servando Gonzalez Pravda (truth) and Isveztia (news) were the two main official newspapers in the Soviet Union. But the Russians were totally aware that, as the joke said, the Truth carried no News and the News had no Truth. Actually, they systematically distrusted anything published in the o ...
  • It’s the End of the Beginning of the End
    By Les Visible It’s staggering. It’s stunning. Things like this just heighten the absurdity that is epidemic on all sides of us. China is also building large cities with no one in them, somewhere to the north of what everyone else is south of. I can’t make head or tails of any of it anymore. [...]
  • It’s the End of the Beginning of the End
    By Les Visible It’s staggering. It’s stunning. Things like this just heighten the absurdity that is epidemic on all sides of us. China is also building large cities with no one in them, somewhere to the north of what everyone else is south of. I can’t make head or tails of any of it anymore. [...]

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Announcing the Winners of the Bright Ideas Lig ...
    Read the rest of Announcing the Winners of the Bright Ideas Lighting Design Competition! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Andrea Carvajal, “lighting design”, blowfish lamp, bright ideas lighting design competition, cardboard lamp, Carolyn Joan Lau, coffee pot lamp, Competition, d ...
  • Nestlé Innovation Lab Is a High-Tech Willy Won ...
    Read the rest of Nestlé Innovation Lab Is a High-Tech Willy Wonka Candy Factory In Mexico Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", candy manufacturer, chocolate, eco design, eco lab, green architecture, Green Building, green design, lab, mexico, Nestlé, Nestlé ...
  • POOP BURGER: Japanese Researcher Creates Artif ...
    Some hardcore carnivores have a hard time finding meat alternatives such as soy protein or tofu burgers to be palatable. But non-meat eaters may lose their appetite along with their carnivorous friends over this one – a meat alternative made from HUMAN EXCREMENT. Yep, you heard me correctly — Ja ...
  • China Launches Plan to Extend High-Speed Rail ...
    Last year we reported on China’s plans to extend its high-speed rail network all the way to Europe, and today the country announced that the first step of this grand plan is underway with work in progress to stretch the nation’s rail system across Asia. China stated that they will first begin ...
  • Casa Troyana: Wooden Trojan Horse House Has So ...
    Read the rest of Casa Troyana: Wooden Trojan Horse House Has Some Tricks Up Its Sleeve Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: casa troyana, eco design, green design, green home, jackson clements burrows, passive home, sustainable design, trojan horse, troyana

Pogue's Posts

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

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Video: Year of Moon Motion in 2.5 Minutes
    Many claim to see a man in the moon, but now an animation showcases a year's worth of moon movements in less than three minutes.
  • Watch Now: Live Feed of Total Lunar Eclipse
    Starting at 2:20 p.m. EDT today, the Earth will pass between sun and the moon, casting a ruddy orange glow across the shiny, meteorite-battered lunar surface. The 100-minute-long celestial event will be spotted best from South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia, but you don’t have to ...
  • Massive, Bubble-Blowing Stars Sculpt Emerald R ...
    A glowing green nebula gets its ring-like shape from the powerful light of the most massive stars known to exist.
  • Op-Ed: Why Science Drama Would Make Great TV
    No matter what new sitcoms and dramas the networks dream up this coming fall, I can almost guarantee the absence of one type of show: a show about academia. But a television show about academics — professors, scientist and graduate students — is more necessary than ever before. And with a film ...
  • The Mismeasures of Stephen Jay Gould
    In the rush to prove bias in a scientist who erroneously used skull-size measurements to demonstrate racial differences, the great historian Stephen Jay Gould may have succumbed to bias himself. The argument centers on the work of Samuel Morton, who rose to 19th century acclaim by rigorously me ...

PakAlert

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

Andy Worthington

  • WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo ...
    One of the great publicity coups in WikiLeaks’ recent release of classified military documents relating to the majority of the 779 prisoners held at Guantánamo, as I explained in the first part of this five-part series, was to shine a light on the stories of the first 201 prisoners to be freed f ...
  • Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner Adel Al-Gazzar Returns ...
    Yesterday, former Guantánamo prisoner Adel al-Gazzar (aka Adel El-Gazzar), who had been living in Slovakia since being freed last January from America’s notorious prison on Cuban soil, returned, for the first time in ten years, to his home county, Egypt, where he was promptly arrested. This was ...
  • Relatives of Disputed Guantánamo Suicides Spea ...
    Late on Sunday evening, I publicized a conference call taking place on Monday to discuss an appeal in a court case brought by the families of two of the three men who died at Guantánamo on June 9, 2006 under mysterious circumstances. The supposed triple suicide of the three men — Yasser Talal a ...
  • Relatives of Disputed Guantánamo Suicides Spea ...
    Late on Sunday evening, I publicized a conference call taking place on Monday to discuss an appeal in a court case brought by the families of two of the three men who died at Guantánamo on June 9, 2006 under mysterious circumstances. The supposed triple suicide of the three men — Yasser Talal a ...
  • Teleconference: Five Years After Disputed &#82 ...
    Friday June 10, as I explained in an article at the time, marked the fifth anniversary of the disputed triple suicide of three prisoners at Guantánamo, and on Monday June 13, to mark the filing of new legal documents as part of the families’ attempts to secure justice, lawyers at the Center for ...

Environment _ National Geographic

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

SPL Center

  • Businessman, Using ‘Sovereign’ Tac ...
    This is a story for the “So you thought rich business owners are smarter than you are” file. A man who epitomizes the American dream â a Greek immigrant who started out as a cook in a Giordano’s Pizza restaurant in Chicago and rose to become owner of the 45-location chain â is on the verge [...]
  • Militia Leader Sought After Shots Fired at Off ...
    A manhunt was underway Monday in a remote area near the Idaho-Montana border for an antigovernment militia leader who fired shots at pursuing deputies a day earlier. David Burgert, recently released from federal prison for involvement in a plot to assassinate police and elected officials, was be ...
  • ‘Study’ of Mosques Reflects Anti-Muslim Bias o ...
    A new “study” co-authored by a man who staunchly believes America’s mosques are incubators of violent jihad has determined – surprise, surprise! – that America’s mosques are incubators of violent jihad. The report, entitled “Shari’a and Violence in American Mosques” and published last week by th ...
  • Tea Party Patriots Wallow in Muslim-Bashing Gu ...
    The Tea Party Patriots has already gained notoriety as the Tea Party group that’s most willing to fraternize with some of the most extreme elements of the right. The group further cemented that reputation last weekend by hosting an address by Pam Geller, the shrill co-head of the New York-based ...
  • Report Aiming to Prove ‘Creeping Shariah ...
    The relentless campaign to fool Americans into believing the nation’s 220-year-old rock-steady Constitution could be toppled any moment by Muslim extremists intent on imposing Islamic Shariah law grinds on. One of the latest entries into this charade is a study released last month by Frank Gaffn ...

change: org.

  • NYPD Won't Apologize to Woman Pulled Over for ...
    Dutch tourist Jasmijn Rijcken reported that she was biking down a Manhattan street, minding her own business, when a cop pulled her over -- for wearing too short a skirt. Apparently, Rijcken's bare legs were "distracting the cars" and "dangerous." It seemed so absurd to be pulled over for "cycli ...
  • Victory: Donors Pledge $4.3 Billion for Vaccines
    This is a post by Erin Hohlfhelder cross-posted ONE Blog. The good news in development often gets buried, deep below wars and debt and disaster. But yesterday, world leaders made bold new pledges to the GAVI Alliance (Global Aliance for Vaccines and Immunisations) in support of child vaccines, ...
  • "Life in Plastic" Not So Fantastic for Endange ...
    A few weeks ago, the World Wildlife Fund gave the world some serious aww factor when they released footage of adorable tiger cubs playing in the Indonesian forest of Bukit Tigapuluh. The video was posted on YouTube along with footage of other tigers caught on tape in the same area, and soon they ...
  • Victory: Government Drops Espionage Charge Aga ...
    Thomas Drake is a former National Security Agency (NSA) employee who was being prosecuted under the Espionage Act for retaining, not leaking, classified information about a data collection program that was costly, threatening to Americans' privacy rights, and wholly undeveloped. He did everythin ...
  • Space Needle Challenge: Pride Flag Will be Rai ...
    In a dramatic change of course, Seattle’s Space Needle has announced that they will fly the Pride flag again this year during Seattle Pride Weekend, if the community can help raise $50,000 for four organizations that support the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. The news ...

Common Dreams -News

  • US Lawmakers File Suit over Obama's Libya War
    WASHINGTON — The White House will deliver a report to Congress Wednesday explaining its involvement in Libya, as a bipartisan group of lawmakers filed suit charging US military action in the war-torn nation is unconstitutional. The report will include legal analysis arguing that President Barack ...
  • Record 'Dead Zone' Predicted in Gulf of Mexico
    The "Dead Zone" in the Gulf of Mexico – a region of oxygen-depleted water off the Louisiana and Texas coasts that is harmful to sea life and the commercial fishing industry – is predicted to be the largest ever recorded this year, federal scientists announced Tuesday. The unusually large size of ...
  • Bradley Manning Supporters Rally at WikiLeaks ...
    ALEXANDRIA, VA - Supporters of an Army private accused of supplying classified documents to the WikiLeaks website are rallying on his behalf as a federal grand jury meets in northern Virginia to investigate the matter. David House is a founding member of the Bradley Manning Support Network. He h ...
  • Chuck Schumer Targeted By Progressives Over Jo ...
    WASHINGTON -- Progressives are targeting the Senate Democrats’ top message and policy maestro, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, telling him not to "cave" on key investment priorities in spending negotiations with Republicans. read more
  • Spanish Politicians Take to the Skies to Avoid ...
    Politicians in Catalonia have used police helicopters to get to the regional parliament to avoid about 2,000 demonstrators who are trying to blockade the building in protest against planned budget cuts in education and health. read more

Lifehacker

  • What’s the Best Credit Card for Amazon Purchas ...
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  • When Freelancers Should Turn Down Projects [Fr ...
    It's hard to turn down work, especially in an uncertain economy. But sometimes it's in your best interests to say no to some projects or clients, such as when those projects might pigeonhole you into an area you don't want to specialize in ...
  • The Ten Coolest DIY Cars [In Brief]
    The government makes it hard to sell cars in the United States, but they've left open one huge loophole for cars you build yourself - i.e. kit cars. Here are the ten all-time coolest DIY cars. [Jalopnik] More��
  • Sony's Cloud Music Superstore Beats Rivals to ...
    You've waited months for iCloud. You've waited years for Spotify. But Sony just beat both of those to the punch on your phone, with an all-you-can-hear, cloud-based music buffet available right now in the Android Market. More�� ...
  • Calibrate Your Oven with Sugar, Keep Its Tempe ...
    Your cooking and baking, especially, depend a lot on your oven's ability to regulate heat and accurately hit the target temperature. Cooking for Geeks author Jeff Potter explains how to ensure your oven's properly calibrated and has better ...

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Greece's prime minister George Papandreou pled ...
    PM invites opposite number, Antonis Samaras, to form unity government in effort to halt economy's tailspinThe economic and social mayhem gripping Europe's peripheries appeared to have claimed the scalp of another government after the Greek prime minister announced his intention to create a new g ...
  • Syrian gunmen appear to have shot down protest ...
    Chilling mobile phone footage purports to show men having been gunned down in Homs, shedding new light on crackdownFresh evidence has emerged of the scale of Syria's crackdown on demonstrators, with a video smuggled into Lebanon that shows unarmed protesters having been shot, some seriously inju ...
  • Ryan Giggs launches legal action over News of ...
    Footballer is latest celebrity to sue paper, as police show NI's Rebekah Brooks evidence she may also have been targetedRyan Giggs is the latest celebrity to begin legal proceedings against the News of the World and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire over phone hacking.The Manchester United foo ...
  • Nelson Mandela's ex-charity chief found not gu ...
    Jeremy Ractliffe, who hid uncut diamonds given by supermodel Naomi Campbell, says he has no regretsThe former head of Nelson Mandela's children's charity, who received alleged "blood diamonds" from the British supermodel Naomi Campbell, has been cleared of wrongdoing by a South African court.Jer ...
  • Osborne hopes to sell Northern Rock by end of year
    Chancellor to announce ambitious plan for nationalised lender in Mansion House speechThe government is to begin extricating taxpayers from their stakes in the bailed-out banks by kickstarting the sales process for Northern Rock.In his annual Mansion House speech, the chancellor is understood to ...

McClatchey

  • Arrests in Pakistan may include neighbor who l ...
    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The occupant of a large house about 100 yards behind the compound where U.S. special forces shot and killed Osama bin Laden may be among the people Pakistan has arrested for helping the CIA track the terrorist leader down.
  • White House defends U.S. role in Libya after l ...
    WASHINGTON — Facing growing opposition on Capitol Hill, the White House insisted Wednesday that it's within its legal rights to wage war in Libya without explicit authorization from Congress, essentially because no American lives are at risk.
  • Afghan vice president unhurt in attack on poli ...
    KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan's second vice president and the country's interior minister were uninjured Wednesday when Taliban insurgents fired a mortar at the opening ceremony of a vast new police training academy outside Kabul.
  • Students, lawmakers question value of for-prof ...
    WASHINGTON — Taryn Zychal thought she'd be working as an industrial designer after graduating from the Art Institute of Philadelphia. Instead, it's the debt collection agencies that are working overtime, calling her nearly 30 times a day from 8:30 in the morning to 9:30 at night.
  • Turkey vows to keep border open as Syrians see ...
    GUVECCI, Turkey — The Turkish government moved Wednesday to take control of a rapidly worsening humanitarian crisis along its border with Syria, cutting off unofficial supply routes, holding crisis talks with a Syrian envoy and dispatching Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to visit frontier villa ...

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

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

The Wonk Room

  • Sadly, If Sun Goes Into ‘Hibernation&#82 ...
    The anti-science disinformers are ecstatic over an analysis that says by 2020 we might be entering a long period of anomalously low solar activity.  The headline at Fox Nation is: Not.  Not even close, actually. Yes, there is a credible prediction based on independent studies that we could possi ...
  • GOP Civil War Erupts: Tea Party Freshman Rips ...
    The Chamber of Commerce, as ThinkProgress has extensively documented, went to great lengths to elect Republicans in 2010, funding attack ads against several Democrats. The Chamber has also launched a series of broadsides against the Obama administration agenda, working with Republicans to underm ...
  • Closing Credits
    -Has cable won the war to make television better, and lost its competitive advantage in the process? -Relatedly, cable companies join the war on poverty. -Rob Lowe will kill his wife. Er, fictionally, that is. -Because what we really need is a Dane Cook-related teen romantic comedy apocalypse mo ...
  • Sudan On The Verge Of War?
    Our guest blogger is Laura Heaton, the writer/editor of the Enough Project’s blog, reporting from Abyei in Sudan. Achol’s face and neck were dotted with white burns from the sparks of a cluster bomb. Her daughter, one-year-old Nyibach, suffered from the same painful sores. Achol’s family, which ...
  • Report: Stimulus Helped Nearly 300,000 Familie ...
    Since it was passed in 2009, Republicans have derided the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which passed without a single House Republican vote. House Republicans called the stimulus a “sham“, nothing more a “a massive spending binge by the Democrat-controlled Congress.” Just this ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • stephen harper's "Muscular" Foreign Policy
    Speech from stephen harper on the foreign policy of his new majority government: My fellow Conservatives (for you are the only people that matter to me when I make my policies), welcome to the new reality of 21st Century Canada: A Conservative majority! Now that I have my majority government, y ...
  • An Important Cause and an Illegitimate Government
    I've said before that the environment isn't my main focus. I hate camping. I hate flies and mosquitoes. I like cities, books, bars, ... that sort of thing. Then there's the science. It's all I've got to grasp political-economy, ... were someone to come up with some scholarly paper about soil dep ...
  • Some Reminders ...
    The votes of ignorant people tend not to demand respect. How can they? "Huh? When you said 'exterminate the poor' we thought you were talking about bed-bugs n' stuff!" Which is not to say that people need to pass a test or something before they vote. It's just that, if, combined with the votes ...
  • Arts Funding in Canada
    There's a huge discussion at Dr. Dawg's which I haven't read very much of. It's in regards to the wingnut-welfare Sun Media's attack on government cultural grants. In an update, Dawg provides a link to this article, critiquing the Sun Media attack (which was apparently delivered in a show called ...
  • Talking About Bridgette DePape
    Over at EnMasse.

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Principled PM to sell more LAVs to dictators?
    Prime Minister Stephen Harper treated Canadians to a self-righteous description of his government’s “principled” foreign policy stance at the recent Conservative Party convention (Steven Chase, “Canadian foreign policy needs to be more independent: Harper,” Globe and Mail, 10 June 2011; see also ...
  • June 25th: Nuclear Abolition Day
    The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) is coordinating ‘Nuclear Abolition Day’ to mobilize for a treaty to outlaw and eliminate all nuclear weapons. See how you can get involved by going to nuclearabolition.org. At last year’s Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, the ...
  • Leger & Dorn: Re-engage in peacekeeping
    Canadaâs role on the international stage is in urgent need of clear direction. Dominic Leger and Walter Dorn argue that the time has come for Canada to re-engage in UN peacekeeping (Dominic Leger & Walter Dorn, “Itâs time to keep the peace again,” National Post, 3 June 2011): Peacekeeping is a k ...
  • Edmonton Journal: Libya mission deserves debate
    The Edmonton Journal adds its name to the list of those urging Canadians to conduct a more thorough debate on Canada’s role in Libya and expeditionary operations in general (Libya Mission Deserves Debate, Edmonton Journal, 7 June 2011): Debate about Canada’s role in Libya is long overdue. Discus ...
  • All your base are lease to us?
    The Conservative government is negotiating to establish a series of military support bases around the world, Defence Minister Peter MacKay has confirmed (Tristin Hopper, Canada to expand military reach with new facilities across the globe, National Post, 2 June 2011): The plan, dubbed the Operat ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • Secret US and Afghanistan talks could see troo ...
    The Guardian reports: American and Afghan officials are locked in increasingly acrimonious secret talks about a long-term security agreement which is likely to see US troops, spies and air power based in the troubled country for decades. Though not publicised, negotiations have been under way ...
  • Pakistan arrests CIA informants in Bin Laden raid
    The New York Times reports: Pakistan’s top military spy agency has arrested some of the Pakistani informants who fed information to the Central Intelligence Agency in the months leading up to the raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden, according to American officials. Pakistan’s detenti ...
  • Federal grand jury investigates war crimes and ...
    Adam Zagorin reports: It has been nearly a decade since Manadel al-Jamadi, an Iraqi prisoner known as “the Iceman” â for the bungled attempt to cool his body and make him look less dead â perished in CIA custody at Abu Ghraib. But now there are rumbles in Washington that the notorious case, as ...
  • Who tried to kill Ali Abdullah Saleh?
    Sarah Phillips writes: There aren’t many foreigners traveling to Sanaa these days, but one group of outsiders is getting a lot of attention: an FBI forensics team, which reportedly arrived last week to investigate the attempted assassination of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who is now co ...
  • Iran postulates first nuclear test
    Jamsheed K. Choksy writes: Media outlets and blogs in Israel, England, and the U.S. have responded with considerable incredulity to claims by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of sanguine reactions if Iran tests an atom bomb. The IRGC’s scenario underscores an unfortunate reality, h ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Another stupid polar publicity stunt – & ...
    I thought when I saw the Catlin expedition and their faked biotelemetry on their website I had seen the epitome of stupid when it comes to polar publicity stunts. I was wrong. Enter the new candidate: Not only is it … Continue reading →
  • Scientists Prove Existence of ‘Magnetic ...
    Seems like GMU doesn’t stop wating for Dave Clarke and John Mashey to launch the next copygate volley. Here’s some interesting research. FAIRFAX, Va., June 15, 2011âGeorge Mason University scientists discovered recently that a phenomenon called a giant magnetic rope … Continue reading →
  • Quote of the Week – a climate sanity ple ...
    Some surprising sanity from one of the most insane places on the web. This could be a Nike ad, all it needs is a swoosh to go with the slogan. Joe Romm and Bill McKibben, this message is for you … Continue reading →
  • Quote of the Week – a climate sanity ple ...
    Some surprising sanity from one of the most insane places on the web. This could be a Nike ad, all it needs is a swoosh to go with the slogan. Joe Romm and Bill McKibben, this message is for you … Continue reading →
  • “All three of these lines of research to ...
    I’ve managed to get a copy of the official press release provided by the Southwest Research Institute Planetary Science Directorate to MSM journalists, for today’s stunning AAS announcement and it is reprinted in full here: WHATâS DOWN WITH THE SUN? … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Sen. Al Franken Introduces the Location Privac ...
    Dandelion Salad SenatorFranken on Jun 15, 2011 Today, U.S. Sens. Al Franken (D-Minn.), chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law, and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) introduced legislation that would require companies like Apple and Google as well as app developers t ...
  • 10 Members of Congress Sue President Obama ove ...
    Dandelion Salad by Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich Washington, Jun 15, 2011 Congressmen Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and Walter Jones (R-NC) today led a bipartisan group of 10 Members of Congress to file a suit in federal court against President Barack Obama to challenge the commitment of the United St ...
  • SPIN: The Art of Selling War
    Dandelion Salad http://video.google.com 22:37 - 4 years ago Directed by Josh Rushing, a veteran Marine Corps media spokesman, “SPIN: The Art of Selling War” is an investigative documentary that looks at the standard justification for going to war by the American administrations of past and pre ...
  • SPIN: The Art of Selling War
    Dandelion Salad http://video.google.com 22:37 - 4 years ago Directed by Josh Rushing, a veteran Marine Corps media spokesman, “SPIN: The Art of Selling War” is an investigative documentary that looks at the standard justification for going to war by the American administrations of past and pre ...
  • How can we live without crying?
    Hakim Guest Writer Dandelion Salad http://ourjourneytosmile.com June 15, 2011 Dear friends, Peace from Afghanistan, specially to those with the Caravan of Solace far-away in Mexico, who strengthen us with their poetic struggle. From Afghanistan, we need you to know : Walking together is not a we ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Video: Year of Moon Motion in 2.5 Minutes
    Many claim to see a man in the moon, but now an animation showcases a year's worth of moon movements in less than three minutes.
  • Watch Now: Live Feed of Total Lunar Eclipse
    Starting at 2:20 p.m. EDT today, the Earth will pass between sun and the moon, casting a ruddy orange glow across the shiny, meteorite-battered lunar surface. The 100-minute-long celestial event will be spotted best from South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia, but you don’t have to ...
  • Massive, Bubble-Blowing Stars Sculpt Emerald R ...
    A glowing green nebula gets its ring-like shape from the powerful light of the most massive stars known to exist.
  • Op-Ed: Why Science Drama Would Make Great TV
    No matter what new sitcoms and dramas the networks dream up this coming fall, I can almost guarantee the absence of one type of show: a show about academia. But a television show about academics — professors, scientist and graduate students — is more necessary than ever before. And with a film ...
  • The Mismeasures of Stephen Jay Gould
    In the rush to prove bias in a scientist who erroneously used skull-size measurements to demonstrate racial differences, the great historian Stephen Jay Gould may have succumbed to bias himself. The argument centers on the work of Samuel Morton, who rose to 19th century acclaim by rigorously me ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Tanya Reinhart: In memory of Edward Said
    The 2006 Edward Said Memorial lecture of Adelaide University,Australia, delivered by Tanya Reinhart on 7 October 2006. Tanya Reinhart covers important issues in this lecture: the Nakba in the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Unofficial Nakba study kit a hit with teachers
    The kit called 'How do you say Nakba in Hebrew?' did not receive Israel's Education Ministry's approval and most of the teachers using it conceal their source. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the I ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: Palestinian Political Prisone ...
    Bassem Tamimi of Nabi Saleh delivered a court statement at the start of his trial last Sunday saying 'I reject [these laws] and cannot recognize their validity.' The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the ...
  • Video shows police violently arresting Jewish ...
    "Israel is occupying the Palestinian people in my name, in the name of world Jewry," Lucas, clutching his American passport, tells the camera. "And I myself, an American Jew, is here to say that is... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Zeev Sternhell: Netanyahu’s tidings of destruction
    The right wing considers recognition of the reality created in 1949 to be the chief enemy of Zionism. The dynamic of a conquering nationalism can never recognize that any situation created at any... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Specialty Physicians Turn Away Two Thirds of C ...
    Sixty-six percent of publicly-insured children were unable to get a doctor's appointment for serious medical conditions including diabetes and seizures, while children with identical symptoms and private insurance were turned away only 11 percent of the time, according to an audit study of speci ...
  • Pesticide Impact: Comparing Lab, Field-Scale R ...
    Researchers analyze data collection methods for examining the environmental impacts of pesticide use.
  • $2 Million Gift Funds Competition for Student ...
    Baylor University announced today a $2 million gift, given anonymously to Baylor's Hankamer School of Business, to endow the Baylor Entrepreneurship Innovation Challenge, a business plan competition for students from all over the nation as they seek to develop their business ideas.
  • Researchers Find Genetic Changes in Majority o ...
    Some lung-cancer patients at UT Southwestern Medical Center are responding well to potential new drug therapies targeting genetic mutations. Their participation in a national study is helping to forge new avenues to attack the disease.
  • Using Olive Oil in Your Diet May Prevent a Stroke
    A new study suggests that consuming olive oil may help prevent a stroke in older people. The research is published in the June 15, 2011, online issue of Neurology(r), the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

Natural Health News

  • High Amounts of Leptin are Linked to Decreased ...
    According to new evidence, women who have higher levels of the appetite-controlling hormone leptin have fewer symptoms of depression. Animal studies have suggested that that leptin may reduce anxiety and improve depression. The new research is another step towards confirming that leptin may ind ...
  • Bariatric Surgery Linked to Increased Fracture ...
    New findings show that people who have had gastric bypass surgery, or other bariatric weight-loss surgery, have an even higher increased risk of breaking bones than had previously been thought. The research indicates that patients who had bariatric surgery have 2.3 times the chance of fractures ...
  • Do Antidepressants Make You Sad?
    New research suggests that people who take antidepressant drugs are actually more likely to suffer relapses of depression. In fact, used over the long term, antidepressants may “do more harm than good.” The data indicates that the longer the period of drug administration, the more likely the pa ...
  • How High Heels Change Your Muscle Shape
    High heels can do serious injury to your legs and feet. A recent study determined that high heels can result in shorter calf muscles, stiffer Achilles tendons and reduced ankle motion. If you must wear heels, FYI Living offers a few tips to reduce your chances of injury: Make sure yo ...
  • This Common Recreational Activity Actually Inc ...
    A number of recent studies have suggested that the more TV you watch, the more likely you are to develop a plethora of health problems and die at an earlier age.� A new analysis that looked at eight such studies determined that for every two additional hours you spend watching TV each day, your ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • New AUMF in the Senate
  • Drones and Targeting
    by Deborah Pearlstein For those who follow these topics, two items of note. First, an AP story today reports that the United States is building a secret CIA air base in the Persian Gulf region to support U.S. targeting operations in Yemen. The story is sourced to anonymous government officials ...
  • Proposed Legislation Seeks VCCR Compliance by ...
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis Those who have followed the cases relating to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (VCCR) here in the United States and at the ICJ know that the United States has a compliance problem. The United States does not provide the ‘judicial review and recons ...
  • Proposed Legislation Seeks VCCR Compliance by ...
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis Those who have followed the cases relating to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (VCCR) here in the United States and at the ICJ know that the United States has a compliance problem. The United States does not provide the ‘judicial review and recons ...
  • Third Biennial Conference of Asian Society of ...
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen Passed along by Tony Anghie: The Asian Society of International Law will be holding its Third Biennial Conference in Beijing, China, on August 27th and 28th. The topics that will be addressed include human rights, international economic law and private interna ...

Public News Service

  • Plowing a Level Playing Field for AZ Farmers
    Plowing a Level Playing Field for AZ Farmers Phoenix, AZ – Two U.S. Senators have introduced the Rural America Preservation Act of 2011. Sponsored by Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Tim Johnson (D-South Dakota), the bill could help small and mid-sized farmers. It changes the cap on farm commodity pr ...
  • Pets a Part of AZ Fire Disaster Plan
    Pets a Part of AZ Fire Disaster Plan Show Low, AZ – Pets aren’t being forgotten as towns are being evacuated because of the Wallow wildfire. As the state’s designated responder for animals in distress during natural disasters, the Arizona Humane Society has deployed an emergency team to provide ...
  • Rescued Research Beagles Get New "Leash" on Life
    Rescued Research Beagles Get New "Leash" on Life San Jose, CA - Nine rescued research dogs came out of their cages - for the first time ever - yesterday (Wednesday). Some research facilities that use live animals in their testing are giving them a second chance by contacting rescue groups to pic ...
  • AARP & NASCAR Drive to End Hunger
    AARP & NASCAR Drive to End Hunger Phoenix, AZ - AARP and NASCAR's Hendricks Motorsports have paired-up on a nationwide campaign to end hunger among seniors. Comments from AARP national board member George Rowan.
  • Jobless Checks for 15,000 AZ Families Hang On ...
    Jobless Checks for 15,000 AZ Families Hang On a Single Word Phoenix, AZ – Extended unemployment benefits for 15,000 Arizona workers will end next week, unless the Legislature makes a one-word change in state law. Advocates say failing to act will cost the state’s economy $167 million. Comments f ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Amigos de la infancia, de viajes y de combate, ...
    Amigos de la infancia, de viajes y de combate, en homenaje al Che | Cubadebate A moving tribute to the memory of Ernesto Che Guevara surrendered here today, the second largest in the country, where 83 years ago (June 14, 1928) was born the man who would move to Latin America and is a symbol in t ...
  • GLEN FORD : NATO: Free Africa from the Africans!
    granma.cu - INTERNATIONAL: AS far as the United States and Europe are concerned, Africans have nothing to say about what happens in Africa. South African President Jacob Zuma made a second trip to Libya this week, on behalf of the African Union, seeking a diplomatic end to NATO’s war against Mou ...
  • Now That Rape Matters in Africa...[updated int ...
    Now That Rape Matters in Africa... | Examining the Political Hypocrisy of Western Concern For Sexual Assault in Libya: Editor's Note: This editorial was written before Ms. al-Obeidi was released. The US news site Raw Replay has a brief story about her First on-camera interview who they describe ...
  •  Pilger Film Banned By Lannan Foundation  :    ...
    Pilger Film Banned By Lannan Foundation : Information Clearing House: ICH: By John Pilger June 10 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- An open letter to Noam Chomsky and the general public. Dear Noam I am writing to you and a number of other friends mostly in the US to alert you to the ...
  • Yusi El Boujami, Gabriel Schivone and Ryan Vel ...
    From Palestine to Tucson, solidifying the bonds of solidarity | The Electronic Intifada Today, in the Western world, as Arizona and the United States await the fateful decision by Arizona Schools Chief John Huppenthal on whether Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) is non-compliant with the Eth ...

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Green Times

  • Herbicide
    1. DEFINITION Herbicide refers to the chemical which is used in farming to get rid of unwanted weeds. The term herbicide is derived from the prefix herb- which means plant, and the suffix �cide which means killer, so herbicide literally means plant-killer. Herbicides can have nega ...
  • Organic Fertiliser
    1. DEFINITION A natural fertiliser, which uses natural matter to fertilise soil, is referred to as an organic fertiliser. The term organic (http://www.greentimes.com.au/lifestyle/organic.html) is used because its process wholly relies on natural matter and imitates nature. Natural ...
  • Environmental News 25/03/2011
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  • Environmental News 24/03/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Questioning Coal
    A controversial song about Australia's open-slather approach to mining that raises quite a few questions… Should we be accountable for the use of our coal? Can we really wash our hands once we ship it off our shores? And what about the open scars it leaves behind? Is this really the beautifu ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Guardian series of videos by Palestinians in E ...
    If, like me, you are disgusted by the minstrelry of Tom MacMaster pretending he was a queer Syrian woman here’s a good antidote. The Guardian has published a series of videos made by Palestinians and Israelis in  occupied East Jerusalem who were given cameras by the Israeli human rights group B ...
  • Restrooms and Sanitation at Umm-Al-Kheir (a st ...
    Mohammed Salem is about 30 years old. He lives in Umm-Al-Kheir, in a home inherited from his late father right next to the fence of the Carmel settlement (sometimes spelled “Karmel”; see picture). In 2005, when Carmel built an expansion neighborhood, Mohammed was beaten by settlers involved in t ...
  • Gaza not un-besieged after all
    When I was arguing with AIPAC attendees in Washington D.C., the one thing they didn’t seem to have an answer for was if the occupation of Gaza was supposedly over, why was Israel controlling all its borders? Well, with the seemingly heartening news that Egypt’s military government was opening th ...
  • Why do protesters only count in Syria?
    Mitchell Plitnick has an argument here about why Syria should stay out of Palestinian protests. It’s an interesting case though I am happy to see the larger issue of the Palestinian refugee diaspora raised, I agree that Syria is a deeply flawed messenger, given its current brutal crackdown on i ...
  • Bassem Tamimi speaks out in Israeli Court at t ...
    from the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Bassem Tamimi, the subject of an action alert by Jewish Voice for Peace, speaks up for freedom on the 44th anniversary of Israel’s Occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza, June 5th, 2011. Tamimi’s full statement: Your Honor, I hol ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Speaker Boehner questions Obama on War Powers Act
    The Agonist I applaud House Republicans and the few Democrats who are pushing back on Obama’s twin illegal wars in Yemen and Libya. I don’t care if this is a partisan gambit on the part of House Republicans. And I don’t care of Boehner has flip-flopped on the issue. Of course, the Hosanna Obama ...
  • Greece about to call bankster’s bluff
    Greek PM may step down, opposition party demands renegotiation of Greek bailout terms. I can hear European bankster howls of pain from here. C’mon Greece, do what Iceland did. Tell the banksters “no”, then arrest them.
  • Water scarcity. The End of Abundance
    Amazon In a past of abundance, we had clean water to meet our demands for showers, pools, farms and rivers. Our laws and customs did not need to regulate or ration demand. Over time, our demand has grown, and scarcity has replaced abundance. We don’t have as much clean water as we want. We can [...]
  • Moody’s puts France’s main banks on downgrade ...
    Why, it’s beginning to feel a lot like a Lehman Brothers event, isn’t it? You remember Lehman, that bank everyone said could not possibly collapse because banks that big just don’t do that. But collapse it did, triggering mass chaos in the financial markets. Greece will default soon. Many banks ...
  • 6 megawatt wind turbines installed off Portuga ...
    Siemens just installed a test of their next-gen wind turbine in the ocean off Portugal. It weighs in at less than 350 tons, light for a behemoth with a rotor diameter of 120 meters. Depending on whose figures you use and whether it’s in Europe or the US, 1 megawatt is enough to power 300-1,000 [...]

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • TSA Agents Execute Grope Downs At Texas Capito ...
  • Start from Square One: An Introduction to Sept ...
    June 16, 2011 by: Paul Zarembka,Professor of Economics, State University of New York at Buffalo ITHP The 10th anniversary of September 11, 2001 is approaching and we all know how important 9/11 has been as motivation for a vast array of new U.S. policies, including wars and domestic surveillance ...
  • BATF sent Guns to Terrorists: Will Obama AG be ...
    By Jack Blood Deadlinelive.info TheBloodReport.info The headline reads: “House Committee demands documents regarding Operation Fast and Furious.” The buck does not stop with Obama and Holder though. Asked about prior knowledge of Operation Gun Runner / Fast and Furious… They just didn’t know wha ...
  • Truth in Advertising? Don’t fall for the ...
    Editor Note: I know for a fact that this works the same way on Drudge (Just ask Alex Jones), and in your local media too. Just buy a lot of advertising and watch how much attention you suddenly get. For activists it could be a chink in the armor of the gate-keeping media… As long [...]
  • Egypt arrests “Mossad operative” a ...
    mwcnews.net Egypt’s official MENA news agency says authorities have arrested an Israeli national on charges of working for the Israeli spy agency, Mossad. Judge Hesham Badawi of the supreme state security prosecution ordered the man’s detention for 15 days pending investigations into alleged “sp ...

The Air Vent

  • Autumn for the Leaf? Part Two
    by Robert Allaband According to the Bureau of Transportaion their was 255,917,664 total registered vehicles in the United States as of 2008. Of that total 137,079,843 were passenger cars and 101,234,849 were classified as other 2-axle 4-tire vehicle (SUV’s, Pickups and such). http://www.bts.gov/ ...
  • Autumn for the Leaf? Part One
    If we are to achieve a truly zero carbon economy using discontinuous sources like wind, then energy storage is key.    I follow the news on this topic closely and storage advancements are coming almost daily but how far and fast will the technology progress?  – Jeff Id/Elmer Fudd ——– guest p ...
  • Zero Tolerance!
    I’ve been blogging this weekend, much to the chagrin of my far-better half. I’m  a lousy quitter, what can I say.  I tried — hard.  I read math, papers, did calcs, did some CAD, played with the kids, watched movies.  We’re babysitting an awesome golden retreiver.   You know, fun stuff. So ...
  • Experts
    Phil Jones made a few famous quotes around the time of climategate.  One of them was brought up again in a happy correction to the record as reported by the BBC on June 10th.  Lucia covered it here already.  Back a year and a half ago, Phil let slip in an unusually difficult interview for [...]
  • People
    There is a basic reality of our modern existence which we ignore at our collective peril.   So eloquently spoken by Dr. Christy. H/T Brian Hall. To imagine that our world or our existence is anything other than this, is foolish narcissism.  It is the false educations of our liberal universities ...

Focal Point

  • Sugar Ray Leonard Says He Was Abused By Coach
    In his forthcoming memoir, boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard describes being sexually assaulted by an unnamed Olympic boxing coach. This is the first time Leonard has publicly identified himself as a survivor. According to the summary in the New York Times, Leonard first became suspicious when t ...
  • True Selves and Closet Cases
    My friend Josh Knobe has an interesting piece in the New York Times about his research on the concept of the true self. Most people would agree that the crusading anti-gay pastor who feigns interest in his wife for the sake of propriety while lusting after men is not being true to himself. But ...
  • James Taranto Calls Feminists "Hypocrites" for ...
    James Taranto has a strange op/ed in the Wall Street Journal accusing feminists of being hypocrites for defending Anthony Weiner, the liberal Democratic congressman who inadvertently exposed his boxer-brief-clad crotch to the entire Internet in a botched online flirtation with a stranger. Tara ...
  • Fruits, Fingerprints, and Forensics
    Every so often, I find a paper with a title that's too good not to share. Here's today's edition: Trapecar M, Vinkovic MK. Techniques for fingerprint recovery on vegetable and fruit surfaces used in Slovenia--a preliminary study. Sci Justice. 2008 Dec;48(4):192-5. The upshot is that if you w ...
  • "Use-By" Date Fundamentalism Wastes Tons of Fo ...
    Americans waste 14% of all the food we buy, and rote adherence to "use-by" dates is part of the problem, explains an Iowa food scientist: But, it turns out, in going strictly by use-by dates — the great drivers of waste — we throw out a lot of perfectly good food. Use-by dates aren't enti ...

Inside Facebook

  • How Businesses Can Use Facebook’s “Recommend T ...
    Businesses with physical locations have a new way to gain exposure in the news feed and get more users to Like their Pages through a new feature on Facebook Pages called “Recommend This Place”. Those that list a street address in the Page can potentially use this new feature to build their fan b ...
  • Facebook Alerting Users to Facial Recognition ...
    Facebook is now showing in-house ads on users’ home pages promoting its “Suggest photos of me to friends” facial recognition feature and linking users to the privacy setting that controls it. The in-house ads seem designed to counter criticism Facebook receives about a lack of transparency aroun ...
  • More Measurement Firms Show Stronger May US Fa ...
    Three third-party measurement services agreed on United States Facebook traffic in May, at least directionally. They each showed the company making a net gain in monthly unique visitors to help make up for what has been a slower year by each of their accounts. Beyond this initial point of agreem ...
  • New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this weekâs highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Daglow Entertainment, Context Optional, Wild Needle, Voxer, P ...
  • Facebook Appears to Be Finally Moving Away Fro ...
    Since launching its first native iPhone app in 2008, Facebook has taken an all-in-one approach to building mobile apps with most major features of the site accessible in a single application. But it looks like that may be about to change with leaked photos of a forthcoming photo-sharing app, whi ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Will the Gaza flotilla be safe from Israel’s m ...
    Stuart Littllewood highlights the British government's willful failure to take measures to protect UK nationals intending to take part in the upcoming humanitarian flotilla to Gaza, and laments the failure of the various flotilla organizers to engage the mainstream media or even to answer emails.
  • 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.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • POGO : Obama Deserves Transparency Award &“ ha ...
    Project on Government Oversight Refuses to Take Back Obama Transparency Award  In a very wordy, hollow words that is, public response, Danielle Brian of Project on Government Oversight (POGO) not only adamantly declines to rescind Obama’s Transparency Award given to him in secrecy, but she actua ...
  • Peter B Collins Interviews Coleen Rowley: Take ...
    Listen to the show here. Please Sign the Petition Here:Take Award Back.Com This site depends exclusively on readers’ support. Please help us continue by contributing directly and or purchasing Boiling Frogs showcased products.
  • Rescind Obama’s “Transparency Award” Now!
    Tell POGO, OMB Watch, the National Security Archive, Open the Government.Org, and the Reporters Committee to publicly take back their Transparency Award to President Obama The following petition was co-written by Coleen Rowley and me, and has been backed by more than 25 government whistleblowers ...
  • The EyeOpener: Whistleblowers & Activists Line ...
    Exclusive Boiling Frogs Video with James Corbett Here is an exclusive video by James Corbett with the inaugural edition of the EyeOpener, a new weekly video series produced in conjunction with Boiling Frogs Post, on Obama’s Secret Transparency Award. This news clip is a prelude to our petition, ...
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Afro Spear

  • The Struggle for Dignity
    One of the most arduous struggle one can go through, is the struggle to safeguard one’s human dignity, as well as the right to safeguard the integrity of one’s own body. These go hand in hand. This struggle is more intense than the struggle for food, shelter, clothing, political rights, relig ...
  • Kola Boof: “Cultural Blackness without P ...
    I read a lot of commentators and there are currently 3 people I would love to meet. These are people I respect for their opinions, not that I agree with all that they believe, but I applaud them for not being slaves to the groupthink of their respective communities. I would considerate it a priv ...
  • Byts and Bytes
    Truthdig:    1. The Obama Deception: Why Cornel West Went Ballistic    2. Why Liberal Sellout Attack Prophets Like Cornel West AfroDaddy:    1. The Plight of Blue People    2. The Plight of Blue People – Part II The Great Blue Uprising    3. The Plight of Blue People – Part III The Fin ...
  • No Welcome Home for Canadian Jamaicans
    Janet Silvera, Senior Gleaner Writer Jamaican Gleaner WESTERN BUREAU: As children born in Jamaica, they played dandy shandy, bat and ball, hopscotch and jacks. As adults, they have invested in real estate and played a pivotal role in sustaining remittances to the country. However, once they land ...
  • I guess this is what they really mean by &#822 ...
    First Obama had to release his birth certificate to prove that he is an American. Now he has released his ancestoral tree to prove that he is actually Irish: The President and the First Lady are on a visit today to his Irish ancestoral home of Moneygall. This will of-course greatly improve his r ...

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

  • FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PLEASE REPOST
    by David Gregory on Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 1:56pm For those who may not know, my name is David Gregory, I have Osteogenesis imperfecta (O.I.), a brittle bone disease. I use a Jazzy electric wheelchair and a 1993 Ford van. Both the chair and especially the van are on the last legs of years [...]
  • My Predicament
    For those who may not know, my name is David Gregory, I have Osteogenesis imperfecta (O.I.), a brittle bone disease. I use a Jazzy electric wheelchair and a 1993 Ford van. Both the chair and especially the van are on the last legs of years of service. Unfortunately, because I work I do not quali ...
  • High Time in the Old town TONIGHT, MAYBE/
    O.K., most of you have heard of all the doomsayers that have been around the last few years and all have heard in one form, or another, about the 2012 Mayan prophecy, so you put it all in a sack and shake it up. What do you get? Well, whether, or not, any of these [...]
  • CHANGING SERVERS: EYEONCITRUS.COM
    EYEONCITRUS.COM IS CHANGING SERVERS AND MAY BE DOWN FOR UP TO 48 HOURS, PLEASE KEEP CHECKING, WE WILL BE BACK AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
  • Pentagon Whistleblower Franz Gayl Saved Our Tr ...
    For virtually his entire adult life, Franz Gayl has served his country. Enlisting in the United States Marine Corps from an early age, he moved over to become a civilian Science and Technology Advisor at the Pentagon after retiring from his position as officer. While he was deployed in Iraq, Mr. ...

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Tanzania Media Copes with Wild Success of Feed ...
    For the largest civil society media platform in Tanzania, back talk is good. 

 In fact, talking back is the objective of a new service at Femina HIP called Speak Up! The service aims to increase access of marginalized youth and rural communities and promote a participatory, user-driven media ...
  • What Augmented Reality Can Do for the Media In ...
    I attended the second annual Augmented Reality Event conference in Santa Clara, Calif., in May and it was ... interesting. OK, it was a huge geekfest. The opening session was interrupted by people dressed in hazardous waste -- or maybe they were supposed to be pseudo-astronaut -- outfits, yel ...
  • DocumentCloud Merges With IRE
    DocumentCloud is beyond delighted to announce we've found a long-term home for our project. We're merging our operation with Investigative Reporters and Editors, a non-profit grassroots organization committed to fostering excellence in investigative journalism. This transition means that Doc ...
  • Reporters Bring Sources Right Into the Story W ...
    Embedding notes makes it even easier for reporters to bring source documents right into the story. One of DocumentCloud's primary goals is to make it simpler for news organizations to show their work -- to invite readers to review the very same documents the journalists used to draw the conclusi ...
  • Time to Bake Smart Correction Tools Into New P ...
    A window of opportunity is open right now for online journalists to build accuracy and accountability into the publishing systems we use every day. To understand why this is such a big deal, first hop with me for a minute into the Wayback Machine. It's the mid-1990s. Journalists have just a ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Edge on Computing - Wireless Charging Will Exp ...
    The expected revenue from shipments of wireless charging devices in 2011 is expected to surge by an astonishing 616 percent, according to market research firm IHS iSuppli. The firm attributes the growth to consumers who are weary of portable electronics devices with tangled cords and cumbersome ...
  • The 2012 Vote - Time for the Republicans to Ge ...
    Let me tell you a quick story about one of the most marvelous and intriguing beasts in the animal kingdom. The African impala is a graceful animal yet full of raw force and power. It possesses the ability to jump 13 feet high from a standing position and as much as 30 feet out, with little more ...
  • The Nano Edge - New Technique for Producing Lo ...
    A simple technique for stamping patterns invisible to the human eye onto a special class of nanomaterials provides a new, cost-effective way to produce novel devices in areas ranging from drug delivery to solar cells. The technique was developed by Vanderbilt University engineers and described i ...
  • Edge on Transportation - Paved Surfaces and Ur ...
    New research focusing on the Houston, Texas,�area suggests that widespread urban development alters weather patterns in a way that can make it easier for pollutants to accumulate during warm summer weather instead of being blown out to sea. The international study, led by the National Center for ...
  • Israel and Palestine - Upcoming UN Vote on Pal ...
    For more than 60 years, the United Nations has worked mightily to prevent the Arabs from paying the price of their rejection of the independence of Israel in 1948 and to stoke the fires of Palestinian irredentism: denying resettlement to Arabs who fled the Arab war against Israel; five separate ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Practicing Peace in the New Year
    A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young people. ...
  • Sharing the writing of another Stieber
    My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. � Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber � Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The main thing o ...
  • Article in FOR
    The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out: http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement   Rhetoric and Re ...

Yid With Lid

  • Congressional Report on Operation Fast And Fur ...
    To Err is Human..to really screw thing up you need government to take it over -Unknown Conservative Philosopher One of the arguments against government intrusion into every aspect of our lives is that a government can never run a business as well as private industry. Lets face it, th ...
  • Peter King Bitch Slaps Sheila Jackson Lee At T ...
    With each passing day we learn more about Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. It as been long known that she is not the sharpest crayon in the playroom, her gaffes are legendary (only they aren't really gaffes she really believe this nonsense). There was the time she stood on the floor of the ...
  • Boehner and Obama Heading For War Powers Act ...
    Ten days ago, on June 4th speaker Boehner gave President Obama some breathing room.� A privileged resolution introduced by a member of his own party Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)� directing the President, to remove U.S. armed forces from Libya was pulled from the floor at the last minute by Speake ...
  • Obama’s Ludicrous Proposal to Israel Unpacked
    By Barry Rubin Could President Barack Obama�s strategy possibly be more obvious to Israel? Not for the mass media, of course, but for Israel. Here�s a summary: Due to the Obama Administration�s ineptness, the Palestinian Authority (PA) is planning to ask the UN to give it unilateral indepen ...
  • Last Night's New Hampshire GOP Debate CNN and ...
    There was something terribly bothersome about about last night's debate between Republican candidates for President, and I couldn't figure it out until I watched it a second time this morning. First of all there were either too many candidates or not enough time.� It seemed as if the candid ...

The Real Agenda

  • Una Enfermedad Saludable: Fatiga de Facebook
    Cientos de miles de personas en Europa y Canadá cierran sus cuentas de Facebook. ¿Qué harán los demás? Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 14 de junio 2011 Violaciones a la privacidad, invasión de la intimidad y el aburrimiento hicieron que cientos de miles de usuarios de Facebook cerraran sus c ...
  • U.S. Government Ordered Media not to question ...
    Washington’s Blog June 14, 2011 It’s big news that the Pentagon Papers have finally been released by the government. But the statements from Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg about 9/11 have not been covered by the corporate media. As Fire Dog Lake’s Jeff Kaye writes today: The entir ...
  • Two Strains of GMO Rice Spread illegally in China
    AFP June 15, 2011 Genetically modified rice has been spreading illegally for years in China, officials have admitted, triggering a debate on a sensitive aspect of the food security plan in the world’s most populous nation. Two strains of GM rice were approved for open-field experiments but not c ...
  • Americans Have Been Bugged For 20 Years
    Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com June 14, 2011 Outrage over the revelation that Chinese authorities have been installing spying devices on all dual-plate Chinese-Hong Kong vehicles is nothing compared to the fact that Americans and European have had all their communications tracked for at least t ...
  • Killing for Amusement: Narco Cartels kick it u ...
    By Dane Schiller Houston Chronicle June 13, 2011 The elderly are killed. Young women are raped. And able-bodied men are given hammers, machetes and sticks and forced to fight to the death. In one of the most chilling revelations yet about the violence in Mexico, a drug cartel-connected trafficke ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind turbines switched off on 38 days every year
    Wind turbines will have to be switched off on 38 days every year because it is too windy, the National Grid said yesterday. In a new report, the grid said it could not cope with the surge of power from wind farms and will have to switch off turbines to avoid overloading the power transmission ne ...
  • Osage Nation opposes wind farm development in ...
    PAWHUSKSA, Oklahoma — The Osage Nation announced its opposition Monday to the development of large-scale wind farms near Pawhuska. The tribe’s chief counted up the economic costs and the environmental ones and he says wind energy just isn’t worth it. “The major thing that we’re concerned about i ...
  • Communities rally to fight wind projects on Ma ...
    “We are standing with our neighbours.” This simple but powerful statement was made to the Council of Northeastern Manitoulin and the Islands (NEMI) by Wikwemikong elder Rosemary Wakegijig as she handed over a petition with 658 names showing their opposition to industrial wind turbines on “Great ...
  • Big Wind discussion stymied
    The Maui mayor�s office has joined a growing chorus of voices calling for greater openness and public input in the way the state and Hawaiian Electric Co. are handling a proposal to develop wind energy projects on Lanai and Molokai that would transmit the electricity to Oahu via undersea cables. ...
  • State asked to intercede on wind farm
    The question of whether to allow a 20 megawatt wind farm in Antrim – which has enraged neighbors and pitted the planning board against selectmen – may not be a local decision for much longer. Antrim Wind Energy LLC, part of Eolian Renewable Energy of Delaware, Antrim selectmen and about 100 resi ...

Not My Tribe

  • City Hall ignoring bad publicity from New York
    So Ed went on this radio talk show, called in, broadcast in Nuevo Jork. Did pretty good and, since the station is one of the few LEFT wing media in America, (to paraphrase the DumFox Listener bumper sticker “I don’t believe In The Existence Of the Liberal Media.”) but since Pressure Points radio ...
  • North Carolina “considers” compens ...
    From BBC News “More than 60,000 Americans were sterilised, many against their will, as part of a eugenics movement that finished in 1979, aimed at keeping the poor and mentally ill from having children. Now, decades on, one state is considering compensation.” 2,900 victims still alive, but the S ...
  • Straight blogger confesses he’s lesbian
    So a retired Air Force man has to fess up that he was “Paula Brooks,” editor of the blog LEZ GET REAL. More critically, Bill Graber, 58, of Ohio, was a shill for fellow hoaxer Thomas MacMaster aka the Gay Girl In Demascus, whose wife Britta Froelicher has yet to be implicated directly, though sh ...
  • Surprise, cop who murdered Oscar Grant set fre ...
    But somebody who fights back, maybe stops the Killer Kop Klansman from murdering him, would still do a life sentence upon capture and conviction, for “aggravated Assault”. Pigs get to kill anybody they please. This right on the heels of Alabama, another Historically Racist State, being put on Mi ...
  • Local Paper headline:”Ft Carson Boys die ...
    Meaning, the Afghans who have a LOT more experience with this sort of things keep their heads down while being shot at. So, since all I saw was the headline I wonder if the Yellow Journalists at the Gag-Zette took that into account, mentioning perhaps that going John Wayne on people who are shoo ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • U.S. Diver On a Mission to Retrieve Bin Laden' ...
    U.S. Diver On a Mission to Retrieve Bin Laden's Body Related Info: Not a Deather, but a Doubter; Still a Truther Rashard Mendenhall: 'I just have a hard time believing a plane could take a skyscraper down demolition style' The Death of Osama, 9/11 and the War on Terror Nafeez Mossadeq Ahm ...
  • Right After Bilderberg, Puppet David Cameron P ...
    Today at the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation conference, David Cameron pledged a further £814 million of British taxpayer money towards third-world vaccination programs. Bill Gates, a well known vaccine advocate who jointly hosted the conference with Cameron, pledged a billion d ...
  • The Bilderberg Delusion
    No matter what you think of Alex Jones, his coverage of Bilderberg meetings is always excellent. The mainstream media on the other hand ... On thursday, Mario Borghezio, a member of the EU parliament, tried to enter the Bilderberg meeting with other EU parliament members, he presented his cre ...
  • Lupe Fiasco - Words I Never Said ft. Skylar Grey
    Lyrics: [Skylar Grey] It's so loud Inside my head With words that I should have said! As I drown in my regrets I can't take back the words I never said I can't take back the words I never said [Lupe Fiasco] I really think the war on terror is a bunch of bullshit Just a poor excuse for you t ...
  • Fake al-Qaeda: Adam Gadahn & Yousef Al Khattab ...
    The following videos are posted in light of recent media claims about the threat of "Al Qaeda" in Yemen: In relation to the Al Awlaki video, one would have to guess that the reason he made an "FBI authorised" visit to the US in October 2002 is because this man is an intelligence asset. Indi ...

Fooducate

  • USA = United Snackers of America
    The meal as we know it is disappearing. A recent report from Packaged Facts – Snack Foods in the US (4th Edition) – shows an ever-growing consumer shift to snacking as a result of âfrenzied lifestylesâ. The packaged snack market grew from $56 Billion in 2006 to $64 Billion in 2010 and is expecte ...
  • An Apple a Day…But the Pesticide Won’t Go Away
    The old adage about keeping the doctor away does not take into account the potentially harmful effects of pesticide residue on apples and many other fruits and vegetables. The Environmental Working Group (EWG), a non profit that uses the power of public information to protect public health and t ...
  • More BPA Concerns Surface
    A worrying read on the Civil Eats blog – our exposure to BPA (Bisphenol-A) is much worse than we think: According to a new study, exposure to the gender-bending chemical Bisphenol-A (BPA) is worse than previously estimated. The study, which appeared Monday in Environmental Health Perspectives, i ...
  • Cocoa Krispies False Advertising Lawsuit – The ...
    Kellogg’s has announced a settlement in a class action suit filed against the company last year for false advertising. You may recall the bold claims on Cocoa Krispies boxes alluding to improved immunity for kids. We called that one out back in 2009. The $2.5 million settlement is a way for Kell ...
  • Dieters More Likely to be Duped by Food Labels
    If you’re on a diet, please pay attention. According to a study in the upcoming edition of the Journal of Consumer Research, dieters are more likely than non-dieters to be misled when choosing a food product. The study was conducted on a group of 520 participants. Some examples of responses: Die ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Palawan tribal leaders in capital to protest m ...
    Palawan child © Dario Novellino Nine traditional leaders of the Palawan tribe are in the Philippine capital, Manila, to protest against the MacroAsia company mining on their land. Members of the Palawan tribe who live in the remote Brookes Point region, have consistently opposed mining on ...
  • Penan hunter-gatherers to be dumped in vast oi ...
    The Penan depend on their forest for survival. © Robin Hanbury-Tenison/Survival More than 1,000 Penan hunter-gatherers will be taken from their rainforest home and dumped in a vast oil palm plantation – to make way for the controversial Murum dam. The Penan have said they do not want to mo ...
  • Success: Peru vows to protect uncontacted trib ...
    Illegal logging in Peru's Murunahua reserve is pushing the Indians into Brazil – the very area where this tribe lives. © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/Survival Peru’s Culture Ministry has promised to protect an uncontacted tribe’s reserve in the Amazon amid fears that it would be shut down. In a ...
  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle Ariel Gel Dosing De ...
    Granny Cain emailed about Ariel Gel Dosing Devices: Enough!! I now have enough dosing devices for each child in a classroom…. but what to do with them? Tried poking a hole through the side, adding twine and making a bird feeder, but it kept flipping over. Needed some technical refinement… too mu ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle lots of hair elasti ...
    We’ve had an email from Donna: My 12 year old daughter has just had her long long lovely hair cut off and when we got home from the hairdressers, she cleared out a big box of hair bobbles, loop bands, Alice bands, scrunchies, ribbons, all sorts of things like Claire’s Accessories threw up in a [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle little pudding pots?
    We’ve had an email from Debbie: Any ideas what we can do with individual microwave pudding pots from the supermarket? They’re plastic. First up, as always, reduce if you can – I know those puddings are convenient but it doesn’t take that much longer to make your own with a microwave (for example ...
  • Any advice for making a mosiac out of broken c ...
    Leo emailed to ask: Hi, your website is great. I’m interested in reusing broken ceramics, terracotta tiles, stone etc. to do a floor mosaic. Do you have any advice about installing this, e.g. cheap or recyclable adhesive, mortar etc.? The only time I’ve make a “crazy” tile mosiac, I had some nor ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle plastic cat biscuit ...
    Shar left us a message on our “Suggest An Item” page: I have increasing numbers of empty Purina one cat food bags. Because they are plastic foil they are not accepted by my local council for recycling. Bag has a zip lock. Sturdy item. Not sure what to do with them. I [...]

Age of Autism

  • Age of Autism Contest: Win a "Screw Autism" Co ...
    We have three corkscrews to offer our readers from our friends at The Puzzling Piece. What a great teacher gift too! Listed at $25 in the catalog, you can select where to send $5 of the proceeds, and our sponsor...
  • Mercury Leaves Its Mark: Autism, Cancer & Neur ...
    By Teresa Conrick In Part 1, I discussed some connections between melanin, autism and cancer. I started on this research road as my red-haired, teen daughter, who regressed after vaccines, is brutally affected with health issues, behaviors of autism and...
  • Happy Birthday, Autism SuperSib Zack Gonzalez! ...
    Our good friend autism SuperSibling Zack Gonzalez turns 18 today. Join us in wishing him a very happy birthday! Zack is an author, a comedian, a radio show host and more - all for his brother Ethan, whom he calls...
  • Support National Autism Association in FB Vivi ...
    You'll need to log into FB to vote click here: http://www.vivint.com/givesbackproject/charity/46 Please take 20 seconds to click "vote" for NAA. Their work on wandering alone is enough to make every parent of a child on the spectrum sit up and...
  • National Vaccine Advisory Committee Meeting Ca ...
    Call to listen. You are a stakeholder! June 14-15, 2011 Hubert H. Humphrey Building 200 Independence Avenue, S.W. Room 800, Washington, DC 20201 Participant Call-In: 1-800-857-5054 Passcode: 2529191 Toll Number: 1-517-308-9324

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

  • German E-Coli Outbreak: Accident or Planned “G ...
    What if the deadly e-coli outbreak in Germany that was blamed on organic sprouts with no direct proof, but through circumstantial evidence only, was instituted as part of a deliberate campaign to sway public opinion in favor of compliance with Codex regulations and to call for the irradiation of ...
  • Is Your Governor For Sale to the EPA?
    The EPA is now trying to assert that the CWA "protects" (controls) traditional navigable waters, interstate waters, adjacent wetlands, tributaries, and 'other waters' which account for just about all water except swimming pools.
  • 6 Real Examples of Food Terrorism
    The latest warning coming from British intelligence that al-Qaeda and other political organizations could contaminate the food supply is part of a continuing plot line that hides the obvious: our food already has been poisoned under the auspices of oversight agencies who have been complicit in t ...
  • You might be a tenderfoot if….
    "Son, ridin' em's one thing. It's the stayin' on that's tough."
  • Organic Spies Find Lies – Organic Trade Associ ...
    Why The Organic Trade Association and Corporate Organic Food Brands do NOT want Labeling of Genetically Engineered and Genetically Modified Foods.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Wisconsin Court Reinstates Law on Union Rights
    NYTimes – The Wisconsin Supreme Court cleared the way on Tuesday for significant cuts to collective bargaining rights for public workers in the state, undoing a lower courtâs decision that Wisconsinâs controversial law had been passed improperly. Read article
  • Gaza unemployment levels ‘among worst in ...
    BBC – Gaza’s unemployment rate was among the world’s highest, at 45.2% in late 2010, the UN has found, as Israel’s blockade of the territory enters its fifth year. Read article
  • Prolonged Libya effort unsustainable, warns Na ...
    Guardian - The head of the Royal Navy has warned that the fleet will not be able to continue the current scale of operations around Libya beyond the summer unless ministers take tough decisions about what they want to prioritise. Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope, the First Sea Lord, said the navy had p ...
  • Bank chiefs’ pay rises by 36%
    Financial Times – Bank chiefsâ average pay in the US and Europe leapt 36 per cent last year to $9.7m, according to data compiled for the Financial Times, despite variable performance across the sector. Two of the industryâs biggest names â Jamie Dimon, the JPMorgan Chase chief executive, and Gol ...
  • Gold May Advance on Inflation Concern, Soverei ...
    Bloomberg – Gold may gain for the first time in three days in New York as concern about rising inflation and Europeâs debt crisis spur demand for the metal as a protection of wealth. China ordered lenders to set aside more cash as reserves after inflation accelerated to the fastest pace in almos ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Rare plant, Franciscan Manzanita, subject of f ...
    Federal officials failed to protect a native San Francisco plant that was rediscovered near the Golden Gate Bridge after experts believed it had been extinct for decades, an environmental group claims in a lawsuit. The Wild Equity Institute said in...
  • WindMade label for wind-powered companies debu ...
    Add another certification system to the growing pile of green laurels, eco-friendly standards and sustainability seals that wannabe environmentalist companies can strive for. This fall, businesses can apply for certification from the new WindMade standard, designed for companies that get...
  • Environmental groups tally California Coastal ...
    Environmental groups this week ranked the 12 members of California Coastal Commission and found that they voted “pro-coast” less than two-thirds of the time on key issues. The California Coastal Commission Conservation Voting Chart has been compiled annually for 23...
  • TV DVR units said to waste $2 billion in elect ...
    DVR set-top boxes, even when not recording "The Vampire Diaries," suck out the same amount of energy annually as is produced by nine coal-burning power plants, according to a new report. About 160 million digital video recorders and cable and...
  • Mississippi River floods may bring biggest dea ...
    The flood waters racing down the Mississippi River are forecast to create the largest low-oxygen dead zone on record, according to government and university scientists. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts the deadly low-oxygen waters to spread across an...

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • 10 Year Old Kills Himself On Ritalin and Prozac
    A family struggles with the choices that led to the death of their 10 year old son. This article looks at the pattern emerging in the UK and the US to drug our kids more & more, younger & younger with devastating results. Please read and get informed.Submitted by Iona Kentwell to Society & Cultu ...
  • Six year old child on his own - The Petition Site
    Please sign this petitionSubmitted by Judith Kwoba to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • AMERICA: FREEDOM TO FASCISM. Interview with t ...
    Born in Brooklyn and raised on Long Island, Aaron Russo began promoting rock and roll shows at local theaters while still a high school student. From there, he worked for his family's business, opened a night club in Chicago ...Submitted by Caitlin M. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �A ...
  • Explore tunnels inside Great Pyramid of Giza i ...
    New Scientist was first to reveal some exciting findings from an innovative robotic exploration of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. A robot built at Leeds University in the UK, called Djedi, explored a mysterious tunnel. Submitted by David Buchan to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a C ...
  • Aussie Kronic Australia - Australian Supplier ...
    Why not?Submitted by David Buchan to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • Roma and Victims of Caste Systems Continously ...
    Mr. Muigai stressed tt is essential to avoid establishing any hierarchy among the different manifestations of discrimination, even if they may vary in nature and degree depending on the historical, geographical and cultural contexts.
  • 'Son Preference' Fuels Culture of Discriminati ...
    Often under intense pressure to produce a son, women seek to discover the sex of a foetus through ultrasound. The discovery of a female foetus can then lead to its abortion.
  • Food Insecurity Threatens World Stability
    Food security is at the heart of food supply chain issues. In the current global economic climate, access to affordable, safe and nutritional food is critical for communities.
  • National Conference Raises Awareness on Impact ...
    Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) involves partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other non-medical injury to the female genital organs. FGM is carried out for cultural and religious traditions, but is internationally recognised
  • Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty An Essential Ste ...
    She stated the United States do not expect it will be easy for them or it will happen quickly. She noted the U.S. governmente will work hard to make it happen.

Worldnews

  • Walking makes you Perfect Part l
    KNOW ABOUT WALKING Walking stretches your mind and your soul. It is dynamic mind & body process which creates a sense of rhythm. As you listen to your own silent rhythm, the pulse of life, your own heartbeat - you become whole, a complete man - fit in Mind, Body and Soul. Walking energizes ...
  • Lunar eclipse expected to turn the moon r ...
    Skywatchers anticipate spectacular lunar elipse tonight as the moon will rise in the Earth's shadow...
  • They've got it down to a tea: Scientists ...
    Tea is best drunk 'six minutes after it has been made'The optimum brewing time is two minutes and the ideal amount of milk is 10ml Every tea drinker has a specific way of making their perfect cuppa. But scientists today revealed a mathematical formula for the ideal cup of tea - which 'prove ...
  • LG Electronics to double Indian productio ...
    NEW DELHI: Consumer durables maker LG Electronics will expand its smartphone range and adopt an aggressive approach to compete with market leaders in India. LG Electronics president South West Asia and managing director India Soon Kwon says competition in consumer market is increasing and t ...
  • Corn prices rise as multiple floods cut i ...
    DES MOINES, Iowa-Brian Peterson admitted it's hard to watch as floodwaters envelope the bright green cornstalks now about knee-height, but he said he'll survive the loss at his farm along the Missouri River in western Iowa. And experts said the nation will be OK, too, even after another in ...

Alex in Wonderland

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Common Dreams

  • US Lawmakers File Suit over Obama's Libya War
    WASHINGTON — The White House will deliver a report to Congress Wednesday explaining its involvement in Libya, as a bipartisan group of lawmakers filed suit charging US military action in the war-torn nation is unconstitutional. The report will include legal analysis arguing that President Barack ...
  • Record 'Dead Zone' Predicted in Gulf of Mexico
    The "Dead Zone" in the Gulf of Mexico – a region of oxygen-depleted water off the Louisiana and Texas coasts that is harmful to sea life and the commercial fishing industry – is predicted to be the largest ever recorded this year, federal scientists announced Tuesday. The unusually large size of ...
  • Bradley Manning Supporters Rally at WikiLeaks ...
    ALEXANDRIA, VA - Supporters of an Army private accused of supplying classified documents to the WikiLeaks website are rallying on his behalf as a federal grand jury meets in northern Virginia to investigate the matter. David House is a founding member of the Bradley Manning Support Network. He h ...
  • Chuck Schumer Targeted By Progressives Over Jo ...
    WASHINGTON -- Progressives are targeting the Senate Democrats’ top message and policy maestro, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, telling him not to "cave" on key investment priorities in spending negotiations with Republicans. read more
  • Spanish Politicians Take to the Skies to Avoid ...
    Politicians in Catalonia have used police helicopters to get to the regional parliament to avoid about 2,000 demonstrators who are trying to blockade the building in protest against planned budget cuts in education and health. read more

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Yet More Denier Thuggery
    To slightly paraphrase my favorite Lily Tomlin quote, “I grow more cynical every day about climate change deniers, but it’s still hard to keep up.” And in this case, the deniers aren’t up to their usual thuggery and acts of violence, but they’re doing it in a way that makes the US look like a b ...
  • An Argument For Renewable Energy, And Response ...
    On June 8, 2011, Mr. Robert Bryce, author of the recently published Power Hungry, The Myth Of Clean Energy And The Real Fuels Of The Future, wrote an Op-Ed piece to the New York Times. In the piece, Mr. Bryce argues that the recently signed mandate requiring a 30% renewable portfolio standar ...
  • RGGI’s Benefits, Costs, and Why It Should Stay
    Throughout the beginning of 2011, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) —the first mandatory carbon dioxide (CO2) cap-and-trade program in the United States—was successfully defended by state legislators in three states where attempts were made to remove those states from the program.
  • Chicago Program Lights a Path Forward for Ener ...
    Multifamily housing is often seen as one of the most difficult markets to serve for energy retrofits.
  • VID: Demonstrating Efficient CFL and LED Light ...
    Consumer face a confusing and frustrating array of lighting choices today. energyNOW! special correspondent Daniel Sieberg, our gadget and technology expert, sheds new light on the situation by comparing the different types of bulbs in a studio demonstration with anchor Thalia Assuras.

Green House - USA Today

  • WindMade label for companies makes U.S. debut
    WindMade, the first global consumer label for companies using wind energy, made its U.S. debut in New York City on Wednesday, designated as Global Wind Day.
  • U.S. companies take green steps to offset oil ...
    Four out of five chief financial officers of U.S. companies say high oil prices are hurting their firms, and many are cutting business travel and boosting telecommuting as a result, a new survey shows.
  • Solar panels power one million Bangladesh homes
    Solar panels now light more than a million homes in rural, electricity-starved Bangladesh, up from 5,000 homes in 2002, officials said Wednesday.
  • Pay TV boxes hike electric bills, waste energy
    More than 80% of Americans subscribe to pay TV and the 160 million set-top boxes installed in their homes cost $3 billion to operate largely because the boxes never go to sleep, an environmental group Tuesday reports.
  • Survey: Fewer states have 'Code Red' smog this ...
    Fewer U.S. states have had dangerous smog levels so far this year than during the same period last year, but the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has yet to update its ozone standard, an environmental group reports Wednesday.

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • More NATO "Humanitarian Intervention:" The Bo ...
    Cynthia McKinney Since coming to Tripoli to see first hand the consequences of the NATO military operations, it has become clear to me that despite the ongoing silence of the international press on the ground here in Libya, there is clear evidence that civilian targets have been hit and Libyan ...
  • On "The Issue Of Character" And Empire
    by Phil Rockstroh Late last month, poet, musician, and self-termed "bluesologist," Gil Scott-Heron exited the hologram and returned to the source…to begin chanting, eternity will not be televised. In an earlier era, Stephen Spender feted the following tribute to those who fell resisting Fra ...
  • The Revolution Will Not Be Deactualized
    Ted Rall Oct. 6th: Will Tahrir Square Come to Washington? I used to work for Democratic candidates. I was campus activist. I marched in protests. But, in the 1980s, I quit politics. I was fed up. The Left was impotent and inept. They didn’t want to change things. They were content with theate ...
  • Remote Control Killing Like Sport
    by Stephen Lendman Defense contractor giants like Boeing, Lockeed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and others, as well as smaller rivals compete for growing demand for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). They include remote control operated killer drones, also called unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAV ...
  • Mountaintop Removal: Environmental and Human D ...
    by Stephen Lendman Activists call it "strip mining on steroids." So did John Mitchell in his March 2006 National Geographic article titled, "Mining the Summits: When Mountains Move," saying: Julia 'Judy' Bonds, "(a) coal miner's daughter....no longer (could) tolerate the blasting that ra ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • BC Commentary on the HST
    In the lead up to the provincial referendum, our Spring/Summer issue of BC Commentary takes a closer look at the HST. Check it out here. And for commentary after Christy Clark's May 25 HST announcement, visit policynote.ca.�
  • Federal budget commentary and analysis
    Yesterday on our blog, Behind the Numbers, Alternative Federal Budget Coordinator David Macdonald drew back the curtain on Federal Budget 2011, exposing the plan to cut the deficit through an unprecedented cut to a third of public service sector jobs. Click here for more. CCPA Senior Economist ...
  • Vancity now a living wage employer
    Great news! Vancity Credit Union has announced that it is now officially a living wage employer, committed to paying its employees a living wage, as calculated by the CCPA. In Vancouver in 2011, this is $18.81 an hour. Congratulations to the Living Wage for Families campaign! For details, see ...
  • Rising CEO Pay: Could it fuel social unrest?
    BNN (Business News Network) has taken on the thorny topic of soaring CEO pay in Canada. Two former CEOs joined CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan for a discussion about CEO pay and came to agreement on three important points: Executive compensation has gotten out of line; workers at the bot ...
  • What to expect in Monday's federal budget
    Despite the government’s stay-the-course rhetoric, the upcoming federal budget will lay the foundation for one of the most aggressive assaults on public service delivery in Canadian history. David Macdonald and Armine Yalnizyan have written a report to give Canadians a sense of what to expec ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Detroit Couple Fights For Medical Marijuana
    Metro Detroit Couple Fighting for Right to Grow Medical Marijuana | My Fox Detroit Michigan voters said yes to lighting up, but the debate over medical marijuana is far from settled. The ACLU of Michigan is fighting ordinances they say makes patients and their caregivers criminals even if they g ...
  • Fonda, Hopper and Co. reveal how their counter ...
    A Reefer Runs Through It: The Making Of Easy Rider | Sabotage Times The star was a drunken hippy. One of the writers was an acid-fried biker. And the director was a paranoid control freak. But the really bad news was that all three of them were Dennis Hopper It isn’t the huge drug intake [...]
  • Opponents of gay marriage: Why Do They Care?
    When A Gay Judge Rules On Gay Rights | NPR Opponents of gay marriage are challenging notions of judicial neutrality in a San Francisco courtroom on Monday. They’re arguing that a federal judge who struck down California’s ban on same sex marriage last year was biased because he’s in a same-sex r ...
  • FBI Can Now Go Through Your Trash
    FBI gives agents broad new authority for surveillance | STLToday 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 peop ...
  • Drug War Guns Come From U.S.
    Report: Many weapons used by Mexican drug gangs originate in U.S. | CNN A trio of Democratic U.S. senators called for tougher firearms laws and regulations after releasing a report that showed a large number of weapons used by Mexico drug gangs originating north of the border. More than 70 perce ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

  • Is it time to stick a fork in Tim Pawlenty?
    At the risk of being spectacularly and embarrassingly premature with this, I'm increasingly convinced that Tim Pawlenty just doesn't have what it takes to win the Republican presidential nomination.
  • Indoctrinate your children at Tea Party summer ...
    The St. Petersburg Times (via digby) has the amazing story of the 912 Project's "Tampa Liberty School," a liberty-themed "weeklong seminar" for schoolchildren ages 8-12.
  • Why does Allen West hate the American flag?
    Happy Flag Day! The Second Continental Congress selected the stars and stripes as our official flag on June 14, 1777, and each year on that date we think about flags, or something. (It is a state holiday in Pennsylvania, apparently.) Most liberals hate the flag, obviously, but true American T ...
  • The case for outing closeted politicians
    New York's state Senate is going to vote, again, on legalizing same-sex marriage. The last vote, held when Democrats had a tenuous majority, failed after every Republican and a number of Democrats voted against it. This time, though, there is a better chance at passage. Three former Democrati ...
  • Yet another illegal war -- now in Yemen
    Both The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post�report today that the Obama administration is planning to exploit the disorder from the civil war in Yemen by dramatically escalating a CIA-led drone bombing campaign.� In one sense, this is nothing new.��Contrary to�false denials, the U.S. ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

  • Protecting the sharks
    Each year it’s estimated that some 70 million sharks end up slowly dying at the bottom of our oceans, their fins sliced off for the dubious pleasure of a bowl of soup in a restaura ...
  • Don’t give in to energy NIMBYs
    Two years ago Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty said NIMBYism would “no longer prevail,” yet it seems to be thriving.
  • Doing the right thing
    Finally, doing the right thing couldn’t be easier. With a few clicks on a computer Ontarians can now register their consent to be an organ and tissue donor.
  • Public housing: Ford’s futile cash grab
    Trying to reduce the city’s budget shortfall by depriving the poor of housing is not only unfair but also unrealistic.
  • Auditor’s report: Give Mounties clear mandate
    Auditor General cites the RCMP for failing to do its job.

Energy Collective

  • Yet More Denier Thuggery
    To slightly paraphrase my favorite Lily Tomlin quote, “I grow more cynical every day about climate change deniers, but it’s still hard to keep up.” And in this case, the deniers aren’t up to their usual thuggery and acts of violence, but they’re doing it in a way that makes the US look like a b ...
  • An Argument For Renewable Energy, And Response ...
    On June 8, 2011, Mr. Robert Bryce, author of the recently published Power Hungry, The Myth Of Clean Energy And The Real Fuels Of The Future, wrote an Op-Ed piece to the New York Times. In the piece, Mr. Bryce argues that the recently signed mandate requiring a 30% renewable portfolio standar ...
  • RGGI’s Benefits, Costs, and Why It Should Stay
    Throughout the beginning of 2011, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) —the first mandatory carbon dioxide (CO2) cap-and-trade program in the United States—was successfully defended by state legislators in three states where attempts were made to remove those states from the program.
  • Chicago Program Lights a Path Forward for Ener ...
    Multifamily housing is often seen as one of the most difficult markets to serve for energy retrofits.
  • VID: Demonstrating Efficient CFL and LED Light ...
    Consumer face a confusing and frustrating array of lighting choices today. energyNOW! special correspondent Daniel Sieberg, our gadget and technology expert, sheds new light on the situation by comparing the different types of bulbs in a studio demonstration with anchor Thalia Assuras.

EU Times

  • China to build new skyscraper every five days
    In 2011, China is to build 200 skyscrapers. The homeland of high-rise buildings – the United States of America – has 200 skyscrapers today. For the time being, the quantity of such buildings in China and in the States is identical. However, during the upcoming three years, China will take advant ...
  • Australia’s boom lures new wave of European im ...
    About 100 men in their 20s and 30s, filled a conference room at a Dublin hotel last week to hear a migration agent describe the personal fortunes waiting to be made a world away in the booming mining towns of the Australian outback. With unemployment running at close to 15 percent in Ireland, an ...
  • Russia Revives A Cold War Laser Project That T ...
    Back in 1981, when Reagan was preparing to spend the Soviet Union into the ground, the U.S. developed an Airborne Laser Laboratory that could bring down missiles and planes with high-density rays. Never willing to be outdone, the Soviets launched the Beriev A-60, a jumbo-jet with a laser cannon ...
  • 2,500 illegal immigrants a week from North Afr ...
    As many as 2,500 illegal immigrants a week are flooding into the continent from North Africa through Italy, the European Union’s border protection agency has revealed. The official figures, which came from Warsaw based Frontex, show that for the first three months of this year 33,000 people ente ...
  • According to CNN Poll, Ron Paul scores 0%
    Ron Paul scores 0% while Mitt Romney scores 51%? Now what could this be, an error perhaps? No, it’s clearly not an error as you can hear the lady in red saying that congresswoman Bachmann is the only other candidate in double digits (21%). So yes, according to CNN, Ron Paul is below 10%, 0% [...]

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Three People Sent to Prison in China Over iPad ...
    The Wall Street Journal reports that three people have been sent to prison in China over their roles in facilitating leaks of information on the iPad 2 prior to its release. The court announced the decision Tuesday in statements on its official account at Sina Weibo, a Twitter-like microbloggin ...
  • Watch The Total Lunar Eclipse Live Now (2pm – ...
    A total lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth passes between the Sun and the Moon, blocking the Sun’s rays from reaching the Moon. In fact, some rays do reach the Moon, accounting for the ruddy orange glow. It starts at 2:20 p.m. ET and Google is broadcasting it live (June 15, 2011) from 2pm to 6 ...
  • Opposition Tells Greek Prime Minister to Step ...
    The crisis in Greece took another step forward today as opposition leader have asked Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou to step down. In response, Papandreou offered to resign. Unfortunately, Papandreou placed strings on the offer
  • HTC Sensation: Another Winner for HTC?
    The HTC Sensation is the long awaited dual core smartphone from this respected mobile manufacturer. Last year the HTC Desire arrived and was considered by many to be the best phone on the planet, so the Sensation has a lot resting on its shoulders. Let us tear down the marketing hype and hyperb ...
  • Prince William and Catherine reveal itinerary ...
    Prince William and his wife, Catherine, have revealed their itinerary for their upcoming trip to Southern California — and no, they’re not going to Disneyland. Now officially known as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, William and Catherine are set to arrive in California on July 8 and stay unt ...

Groklaw

  • F.B.I. Agents Get Leeway to Push Privacy Bounds
    In addition, the manual clarifies a description of what qualifies as a "sensitive investigative matter" - investigations, at any level, that require greater oversight from supervisors because they involve public officials, members of the news media or academic scholars.... The manual clarifies ...
  • Watch the Lunar Eclipse Live on YouTube
    Wednesday, a total, 100-minute-long lunar eclipse will be visible in South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. If you're not from those parts, Google and Slooh have prepared a myriad of options that let you enjoy the lunar eclipse from the relative safety of your couch. - Mashable
  • Go Daddy sued over email alerts
    Its accuser is WhitServe, a patent licensing company based in Connecticut....Go Daddy, like all major domain name registrars, sends periodic email reminders to its customers when their domains are due to expire, enabling them to click through to the Go Daddy website and renew their registrations ...
  • Georgetown Law: Computers, Freedom and Privacy ...
    The 21st Annual Conference Computers, Freedom & Privacy: "The Future is Now". CFP2011 is at the intersection of policy, technology, and action. The meeting will involve technology and policy experts and activists in forums designed to also engage the public and policymakers in discussions about ...
  • UK tech lobbyists call for software patents
    John Mitchell, the chairman of the SME Innovation Alliance, told a Westminster Legal Forum audience on Tuesday that "we don't have a software industry because the UK Intellectual Property Office is out of line with the rest of Europe".... However, Cook also noted that software patents are someti ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Speaker Boehner questions Obama on War Powers Act
    The Agonist I applaud House Republicans and the few Democrats who are pushing back on Obama’s twin illegal wars in Yemen and Libya. I don’t care if this is a partisan gambit on the part of House Republicans. And I don’t care of Boehner has flip-flopped on the issue. Of course, the Hosanna Obama ...
  • Greece about to call bankster’s bluff
    Greek PM may step down, opposition party demands renegotiation of Greek bailout terms. I can hear European bankster howls of pain from here. C’mon Greece, do what Iceland did. Tell the banksters “no”, then arrest them.
  • Water scarcity. The End of Abundance
    Amazon In a past of abundance, we had clean water to meet our demands for showers, pools, farms and rivers. Our laws and customs did not need to regulate or ration demand. Over time, our demand has grown, and scarcity has replaced abundance. We don’t have as much clean water as we want. We can [...]
  • Moody’s puts France’s main banks on downgrade ...
    Why, it’s beginning to feel a lot like a Lehman Brothers event, isn’t it? You remember Lehman, that bank everyone said could not possibly collapse because banks that big just don’t do that. But collapse it did, triggering mass chaos in the financial markets. Greece will default soon. Many banks ...
  • 6 megawatt wind turbines installed off Portuga ...
    Siemens just installed a test of their next-gen wind turbine in the ocean off Portugal. It weighs in at less than 350 tons, light for a behemoth with a rotor diameter of 120 meters. Depending on whose figures you use and whether it’s in Europe or the US, 1 megawatt is enough to power 300-1,000 [...]

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Post-Tahrir Cairo, Day 1
    Bill the spouse and I had an informative, short conversation today with the longtime MB spokesman Dr. Esam El-Erian, who is also the deputy head of the newly emerging, MB-backed Freedom and Justice Party. (You can find descriptions of interviews I conducted with Dr. El-Erian in early 2007 and e ...
  • Publishing: From 140 characters to 150,000 words
    I haven't blogged much recently, I know. I've been incredibly busy. Primarily with the book-publishing but a bit with family things and also, increasingly, with planning for the trip I'm currently on. (This blog post comes to you from London. On Saturday, I'm going to Cairo... ) Also, I've been ...
  • Syria: The strong risk of fitna, and how to pr ...
    Josh Landis has a truly excellent piece on his blog today. It is a lengthy account that he's publishing there, that was written by someone identified only as "An American in Syria." Whoever the writer is, the writing shows the closeness of her/his own connectedness to Syrians in Damascus of a va ...
  • Notes on Turkey and Syria, #2
    Turkish FM Davutoglu today told a couple of media outlets (including the NYT) that Syrian President Bashar al-Asad should launch a "shock therapy" version of political reform. Did he use those words in English? If so, it is a truly lousy turn of phrase. "Shock therapy," as administered to the Ru ...
  • Notes on Turkey and the Syrian transition
    I'm sorry we haven't been able to fix the comments here yet. Meantime, you can go over to this post on my backup blog to read what I just wrote about Turkey and Syria... and what's more, I think you can post comments there.

frogblog

  • Visions for Christchurch
    On Sunday, I convened the 2nd of my series of Vision Christchurch public forums.  Their aim is to engage the public in the challenge of rebuilding greater Christchurch.  This one was held in New Brighton and concentrated on Christchurch East.  What a difference a day makes. Within 20 hours of fi ...
  • Gifted Awareness Week
    This week is Gifted Awareness Week - a week when we celebrate the incredible talents of young citizens who have so much to offer the country.
  • General debate, June 16, 2011
  • NZ responds to internet termination at UN but ...
    New Zealand is one of 40 countries to endorse a speech by Sweden at the United Nations Human Rights Council criticising internet termination. Interestingly the United Kingdom and France, two other nations who have established “three strike” laws similar to ours, refused to sign. This is a respon ...
  • The $8.95 welfare forum
    AnneE at The Hand Mirror blogs: You may have noticed that a conference on Welfare and Social Sector Policy and Reform is due to be held in Wellington on 20-21 June. The discounted advance payment cost to attend is $895. So I won’t be going to it. Nor will I.  Parliamentary budgets don’t allow ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Obama: Libya War Too Small to Count
    Guess what? Unlike every other president since Richard Nixon, Barack Obama apparently thinks the War Powers Act is perfectly reasonable. He just doesn't think it happens to apply to Libya: “We are acting lawfully,” said Harold Koh, the State Department legal adviser, who expanded on the a ...
  • Yet More Healthcare Nonsense Debunked
    No, healthcare reform will not cost America 800,000 jobs. (Link.) What's next up to bat? Oh yes: the claim that the Chicago thugs in the White House are engaged in naked corruption by granting waivers from the law to organizations friendly to the Democratic Party. Take it away, Suzy: Now ...
  • Chart of the Day: Tim Pawlenty's Millionaire T ...
    Tim Pawlenty might not have made a great impression during Monday's debate, but actions speak louder than words. And Pawlenty's actions on the tax front are loud indeed. Just to refresh your memory, here's his plan: We should cut the business tax rate by more than half. I propose reducing ...
  • Map of the Day: Falling Life Expectancies
    In lots of place in the United States, women are living shorter lives than they used to: In 737 U.S. counties out of more than 3,000, life expectancies for women declined between 1997 and 2007. For life expectancy to decline in a developed nation is rare. Setbacks on this scale have not b ...
  • Is the Huffington Post Unfair to Labor?
    Erik Loomis brings our attention to a virtual picket line: As some but by no means all progressives know, the Newspapers Guild and the National Writers Union have called a boycott against Huffington Post for refusing to pay its writers. Unlike unionized workplaces like the New York Times, ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 253: The Great Weiner Debate
    Topics: McDonald’s is racist? The Alamo Drafthouse shows why the customer isn’t always right The great circumcision debate Anthony Weiner and liberals turn an anthill into the Alps… Share with your friends:
  • Lupe and the Blissful Ignorance of Not Voting
    So yesterday evening Ryce and I did a podcast, IC 252:  Pedophile Insurance (Cheap Plug) and one of the topics we talked about was Lupe Fiasco’s comments about President Obama being the world’s biggest terrorist. I had a few comments about that issue then but felt the need to write this follow ...
  • IC 252: Pedophile Insurance
    Topics: Lupe acts like Lupe Is Obama a terrorist? How important is voting? A 2 vehicle, 1 bear accident Creflo Dollar defends Eddie Long Herman Cain…the gift that keeps giving…. Share with your friends:
  • Anthony’s Weiner and How Democrats Always Fuck Up
    You’ve probably noticed that writing on the Insanity Report has dropped off a bit.  It’s not that I’ve gotten done blogging.  I’m actually spending more time at my other site MovieTrailerReviews.Net (cheap plug).  But every now and then I’ll still pop in and drop an article here cause some th ...
  • IC 251: It’s Too Damn Hot
    Topics: It’s too hot in the DMV The Eddie Long saga Rep. Anthony Weiner has his “twitter hacked” Sarah Palin leads the media on a goose chase Herman Cain for President Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • ORNL neutrons, simulations reveal details of b ...
    A first of its kind combination of experiment and simulation at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is providing a close-up look at the molecule that complicates next-generation biofuels. read more
  • Study finds golden algae responsible for killi ...
    A new Baylor University study has found that sunlight decreases the toxicity of golden algae, which kills millions of fish in the southern United States every year. read more
  • Using living cells as an 'invisibility cloak'
    The quest for better ways of encapsulating medicine so that it can reach diseased parts of the body has led scientists to harness — for the first time — living human cells to produce natural capsules with channels for releasing drugs and diagnostic agents. The report appears in ACS' journal Nano ...
  • 'Glowing hands' in the waiting room improves k ...
    Use of a glowing gel that shows kids how well they wash their hands by illustrating bacteria they missed while washing and may significantly improve hand hygiene, according to a study published in the July issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healt ...
  • BU researcher plays key role in discovery of n ...
    The international T2K collaboration announced today that they have observed an indication of a new type of neutrino transformation or oscillation from a muon neutrino to an electron neutrino. Boston University Professor of Physics Edward Kearns is among the team of researchers responsible for th ...

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

  • Equinox Energy 2030 communiqué
    The Equinox Energy 2030 Summit (2011) has  now concluded, and I’ve arrived back in Australia. It was an enthralling and exhausting experience, and I befriended a wonderful group of people — members of the Forum (aged ~25 to 30 years), Advisors (including me — for generalist critiques and ), Quo ...
  • Open Thread 16
    The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting rules of courtesy apply, and at the very least your chat should relate to the general content of this ...
  • Disposal of UK plutonium stocks with a climate ...
    In the 1950s, following World War II, the United Kingdom and a handful of other nations developed a nuclear weapons arsenal. This required the production of plutonium metal (or highly enriched uranium) purpose-built facilities. ‘Civil’ plutonium was also produced, since the facilities for separa ...
  • Critique of MIT future of nuclear fuel cycle study
    MIT (energy initiative) recently released a controversial and well-publicized report on the future of the nuclear fuel cycle. In it, they argue that there is sufficient uranium to allow ongoing deployment of water-cooled reactors for many decades; they recommend that no far-reaching decision be ...
  • Nuclear power and climate change – what now?
    I’m currently on a 3-week trip to North America, and will be returning to Australia in mid-June. At the end of my travels I’ll be attending an energy futures conference in Waterloo, Canada (and will write more about that in an upcoming blog). But at present, I’m in Davis, California, and have be ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • Amigos de la infancia, de viajes y de combate, ...
    Amigos de la infancia, de viajes y de combate, en homenaje al Che | Cubadebate A moving tribute to the memory of Ernesto Che Guevara surrendered here today, the second largest in the country, where 83 years ago (June 14, 1928) was born the man who would move to Latin America and is a symbol in t ...
  • GLEN FORD : NATO: Free Africa from the Africans!
    granma.cu - INTERNATIONAL: AS far as the United States and Europe are concerned, Africans have nothing to say about what happens in Africa. South African President Jacob Zuma made a second trip to Libya this week, on behalf of the African Union, seeking a diplomatic end to NATO’s war against Mou ...
  • Now That Rape Matters in Africa...[updated int ...
    Now That Rape Matters in Africa... | Examining the Political Hypocrisy of Western Concern For Sexual Assault in Libya: Editor's Note: This editorial was written before Ms. al-Obeidi was released. The US news site Raw Replay has a brief story about her First on-camera interview who they describe ...
  •  Pilger Film Banned By Lannan Foundation  :    ...
    Pilger Film Banned By Lannan Foundation : Information Clearing House: ICH: By John Pilger June 10 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- An open letter to Noam Chomsky and the general public. Dear Noam I am writing to you and a number of other friends mostly in the US to alert you to the ...
  • Yusi El Boujami, Gabriel Schivone and Ryan Vel ...
    From Palestine to Tucson, solidifying the bonds of solidarity | The Electronic Intifada Today, in the Western world, as Arizona and the United States await the fateful decision by Arizona Schools Chief John Huppenthal on whether Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) is non-compliant with the Eth ...

Republicans are a Disease

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