15 June - RSS SnapShot ! Pt II

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

• Activists to Occupy Financial District’s ...
  On June 14th at 1pm EST, a group of activists will begin occupation of Liberty Park in lower Manhattan's Financial District, a few blocks from Wall Street.
• Activists to Occupy Financial District’s ...
  On June 14th at 1pm EST, a group of activists will begin occupation of Liberty Park in lower Manhattan's Financial District, a few blocks from Wall Street.
• Anonymous Vs. The Federal Reserve (OpESR June ...
  In this new video release, "as a first step," Anonymous has called for public protests beginning on June 14th, continuing "until Ben Bernanke steps down as Federal Reserve Chairman."
• June 14th Economic Rebellion Update – This Is ...
  The June 14th Flag Day Rebellion against economic tyranny is growing much stronger and more rapidly than anticipated. Here's the latest...
• Some Much Needed Comic Relief from Lee Camp: F ...
  To keep our sanity in an insane world we have to turn to comedians like Lee Camp.

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• It’s official: Bibi’s plan is to w ...
  Today we learned of Netanyahuâs plan for the conflict: Do nothing. Oh, and get 30 countries to counter the Palestinian unilateral declaration of independence at the UN Today Haaretz came out with its annual Writers’ Edition, where famous authors replace the paperâs reporters for a day and try t ...
• Glenn Beck, do me a favor: Don’t come to Israel
  Glen Beck today unveiled his program for the ârestore courageâ rally he plans on holding in Jerusalem in August 24. YNET reports: This year, the Wailing Wall will replace Lincoln Memorial as the backdrop for the event, which will take place at Jerusalem’s Old City and the Teddy Stadium simu ...
• A homage to David Grossman, who has a new nove ...
  I’d like to step away from the relentless discussion of Grossman’s activism and to explain why he hold such a tremendous place for me and many more as an author – and what his last novel to appear in English tells of this country’s future. David Grossman has a new book coming out today in Israe ...
• Yellow Pages scramble to defend “No arab ...
  Yellow Pages have responded to demands to take down ads advertising “Jews Only” businesses by claiming they can’t refuse ads carrying business names approved by the company registrar. This doesn’t stand up to even the most rudimentary fact-checking. My colleague Roi Maor took the case of the “ ...
• WATCH: Violent dispersal of unarmed demonstration
  Btselem video from the unarmed demonstration in Nabi Saleh: For context on the protest in Nabi Saleh, check out this post. Protest organizer Bassem Tamimi is currently in Israeli prison; read his statement before court here.

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

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

Matt Weidner Blog

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

abelard - news

• the effect of fascist 'new' labour's profligac ...
  The effects of the last government's squandering of the UK's wealth may well weaken more than just the economy.
• the medieval stained glass of noyon cathedral ...
  The only medieval stained glass remaining in this cathedral after centuries of assaults.
• other major materials used in building cathedr ...
  You see stone walls, pillars, floors, buttresses - but what else makes up these extrodinary edifices?
• a very small price to pay to maintain the powe ...
  Clearly, being above society's fray enables judges to be above common sense.
• socialist governments don't pay bills | polit ...
  Straight from the 1984/Animal Farm dictionary of definitions.

The Parallel Parliament

• “But Still We Have It”
  My wife spoke on the phone yesterday with an incumbent MP from another region that lost his seat in the last election. He and his family have been friends for years and so the conversation was an open and frank one. When asked if he would run again his response was interesting. “It’s like a [...]
• Advancing Civilization
  It suddenly dawned on me yesterday that I might be getting anachronistic. Once a year I smoke dad’s old pipe as a way of remembering him. Sitting on the porch swing, I recalled the smell of that pipe when I was a boy, listening to him as he expounded on some of his war experiences [...]
• No Labels
  I was fascinated to read Susan Delacourt’s recent blog posting “Chretien: The Modern Conservative?” in which she points to some of the ironies in the Manning Centre’s recent conclusion that Canada is surely becoming more Conservative. Pollster Allan Gregg, one of the participants, made an observ ...
• Critical Mass
  Thomas Friedman of the New York Times didn’t win the Pulitzer Prize three times for being cute. His insights on issues such as world trade, the environment, Middle East developments, and foreign affairs have made him a force with which to be reckoned. Yesterday, in an article titled “The World i ...
• Progressives On A Pin
  There were a good number of messages from the last post about a Conservative MP bemoaning the lack of institution building in this country. The preoccupation was on the identity of the MP when it should have been on the cause of his disillusionment. In the broader Canadian political context we a ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

• Ten weeks to save the world: Nature does the S ...
  You’ve heard the rumors and read the hype – but what really goes on at the Singularity University, based at the NASA Ames campus in Silicon Valley?  Nature’s Nicola Jones recently went along to take a look, and her report has just been posted – it’s well worth reading. The Singularity Universit ...
• Prepare and Inspire: The President’s Council o ...
  The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology – PCAST – has just released a new report on US K-12 education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (the STEM subjects).  The report provides, in the words of the Presidentâs Science Advisor John Holdren, “a strategy fo ...
• Lost in the Maize
  This week I exchanged the maze of academia for an entirely different maze – I spent most of the week at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, China. World Economic Forum meetings are usually rather grand, complex, intimidating, stimulating and serendipitous aff ...
• Lost in the Maize
  This week my life has been dominated by writing a new review of nanotoxicology.  Not that the world needs another review – far from it, as there are a number of excellent ones out there (I’ve even contributed to some).  But in a moment of abject weakness, I agreed to help a good colleague out ...
• Lost in the Maize
  A weekly reflection on life in academia Note to self: Try not to fall asleep before important interviews with smart journalists. It’s been a tough week.  My gift from last week’s meeting in San Francisco was a lovely ripe cold – something of an occupational hazard these days being cooped up in ...

Reader Supported News

• Will New York Help Kill the Electoral College?
  Dan Amira reports: "Many people became acutely attuned to the drawbacks of the Electoral College when Al Gore received over a half-million more votes in 2000 than George W. Bush yet lost the Electoral College, and hence, the election. This system seemed unfair, illogical, archaic. Now a movement ...
• Gingrich's Charity Paid Money to Gingrich's Bu ...
  Elspeth Reeve reports: "A charity founded by Newt Gingrich paid Gingrich's for-profit company $220,000 over two years, ABC News reports. The non-profit, Renewing American Leadership, was meant to spur conversation about restoring Christian principles in Washington, and mostly did that through le ...
• Ninety Percent of Petraeus' Captured "Tal ...
  Gareth Porter reports: "The deliberate confusion sowed by Petraeus by referring to anyone picked up for interrogation as a captured rank-and-file Taliban was a key element of a carefully considered strategy for creating a more favourable image of the war." A boy, injured during a NATO air str ...
• Ninety Percent of Petraeus' Captured "Tal ...
  Gareth Porter reports: "The deliberate confusion sowed by Petraeus by referring to anyone picked up for interrogation as a captured rank-and-file Taliban was a key element of a carefully considered strategy for creating a more favourable image of the war." A boy, injured during a NATO air str ...
• Alaska to Release Sarah Palin's E-Mail
  Excerpt: "On Friday, more than 24,000 pages of e-mails Ms. Palin sent as governor, mostly using private accounts, are to be released in response to public records requests first made in 2008.... Ms. Palin's past and personal life have since been scoured in depth by news outlets (and exposed thro ...

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

• CLF opposes Rehberg amendment, antibiotic-resi ...
  The FY 2012 Agriculture appropriations bill, voted out of the House Appropriations Committee last week, includes an amendment that would severely limit the authority of FDA to regulate the use of antimicrobials, including antibiotics, in food animal production-a key concern of public health rese ...
• Food and Farm Policy: this is not the image an ...
  Recently, my boyfriend offered to give me a dollar for every blog I started with, “Stop what you’re doing, ’cause I’m about to ruin the image and the style that you’re used to.” I responded to his idea with a barrage of reasons why it was ridiculous and certainly not appropriate in my line of [. ...
• Pfizer will voluntary suspend sale of roxarson ...
  The FDA announced today that Pfizer Inc., will voluntarily suspend the sale of 3-Nitro (better known as the arsenical drug roxarsone) following the results of an FDA study which found elevated levels of inorganic arsenic in the livers of chicken fed roxarsone compared to a control group. The ann ...
• 100 years of artificial nitrogen - but how man ...
  I recently was asked in an interview to name the one thing I would change in the world if I had the power to do so. Surprising even myself, I replied quickly “the Haber-Bosch (H-B) process for industrial nitrogen fixation. Imagine - a world without synthetic N! One can imagine the blank look I g ...
• Study finds new MRSA strain in European milk
  Researchers at Cambridge University say they have found a new strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in milk from England, Scotland and Denmark, which they are calling LGA251. The findings - published online by The Lancet Infectious Diseases - can be seen as a further sign ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• International Day of Action Against the Tar Sands
  International Stop the Tar Sands Day 17 Jun 2011 - 10:30 On the weekend of June 17th people all over the globe will be taking to the streets as part of an International Day of Acti ...
• RBC Blue Water Project Grants
  Organization:� RBC The RBC Blue Water Project is an innovative, 10-year, global commitment to help protect the world's most precious natural resource: fresh�water. Under the RBC Blue Water Project, ...
• Healing Walk 2011
  Keepers of the Athabasca Sierra Club Prairie 25 Jun 2011 - 10:00 Calling all community members and allies: Join us and walk for the heali ...
• Environmental Law Centre Position
  Position:  Staff Counsel Organization:  Environmental Law Centre ...
• Grizzly Bear Deaths Too High in the Castle Region
  Rally Planned to Protest Logging CPAWS â Southern Alberta Alberta Wilderness Association National Parks Conservati ...

Stop NATO

• Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 15, 2011
  ==== Huge Columns Of Smoke Over Tripoli After NATO Strikes U.S., French Amphibious Assault Ships Link Up In Mediterranean Britain Mulls Continuing War In Libya Global Military Dominance Becoming Unaffordable When Will U.S. And NATO Decide It’s Venezuela’s Turn? Belgrade: NATO Conference Has Tri- ...
• William Godwin: Inventions of a barbarous age, ...
  Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts William Godwin From Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) War and conquest cannot be beneficial to the community. Their tendency is to elevate a few at the expence of the rest, and consequently they will never be undertaken but wh ...
• Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 14, 2011
  ==== South Africa Condemns NATO Over Plans For Regime Change, Assassinations, Military Occupation Of Libya Washington Using NATO For Proxy Conflict With China In Libya Video And Text: Libyan Civilians: “NATO Damaged Our City, Destroyed Our Lives” Video And Text: NATO Operation In Libya Is Collec ...
• Voltaire: War
  Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Voltaire: War From Philosophical Dictionary Translated by William F. Fleming All animals are perpetually at war; every species is born to devour another. There are none, even to sheep and doves, who do not swallow a prodigious number of ...
• Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 13, 2011
  ==== Pentagon Chief Praises NATO’s Arab Monarch Allies For Libyan War Aid U.S., NATO Hold Proliferation Security Initiative Drills In Mediterranean Libya: NATO Conducts 10,822 Sorties, 4,102 Strike Missions German Foreign Minister In Benghazi Syria On The Boil, U.S. Warship In The Black Sea Pola ...

Before It's News

• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: American ...
• ‘I’ve been forward to Shen Yun for years!’ Say ...
• Arkansas Storms: Tornadoes Wreak Havoc Across ...
• Eats on Feets
• Introducing "Canadas Alex Jones", Dr. Judy Janzen

Intel Hub

• Televizing The (Second) Greek Revolution &#821 ...
  Zero Hedge Tyler Durden June 15th, 2011 Greece’s D-Day has arrived: June 15 may soon be the 2011 equivalent of May 6, 2010 when the reaction to the realization that Greece was insolvent hit the population, together with a peak in hostilities, not to mention the US market flash crashing. In addit ...
• FBI: 9/11 Controlled Demolition Theory Is “Bac ...
  By Bob Tuskin June 14th, 2011 Yet there has been no follow-through on their commitment to justice. Many people know that Osama Bin Laden was never wanted by the FBI for the crimes of 9/11. In fact, when the FBI was presented with evidence of controlled demolition, it was acknowledged as, “an int ...
• Inuits: Sun Barely Clearing the Horizon In Arctic
  The Intel Hub Shepard Ambellas June 15, 2011 As you know, we have be covering the shifting earth changes and relevant positions of the sun and moon. The Inuit in the Canadian Arctic might have more insight into the matter than the average person due to their unique perspective in which they can ...
• Full Scale Takeover: TSA “Security Exercise” C ...
  Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com June 15, 2011 Image: Wikipedia Commons If you’re still living under the delusion that the TSA is just restricted to airports then think again. A joint VIPR “security exercise” involving military personnel has Transportation Security Administration workers covering ...
• Volcanic Eruptions WorldWide
  Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcanic chain, about 575 miles south of the capital, Santiago Chile The Intel Hub By Dr. Mark Sircus - Contributing Writer June 15th, 2011 Several Latin American countries in the path of volcanic ash unleashed from a Chilean Andean crater are facing critical shortages of w ...

FRS

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

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

• Today in Courtroom 3B
  Testimony continued in the second day of the second St. Francis child sex abuse trial at Waterbury Superior Court. Witnesses called to the stand included West Hartford police Capt. Donald Melanson, one of the investigators�in 2007 when between 50,000 and 60,000 pornographic photos and slides we ...
• A field guide to avoiding intellectual black holes
  This has a naughty word on it...but you've been warned. And thanks, Stan, for letting me steal this from you on Facebook. Flickr photo
• Hey! Fairly-traded Father's Day gifts!
  Ratchere. (Except I'm not seeing any ties...) How do you remember your father on Father's Day?
• It may not be Twitter that scares you
  It just may be old age. And thanks, DickG., for the link.
• How to fix broken goals
  Bjorn Lomborg has a plan to fix the United Nations' Millenium Development Goals. Lomborg writes: Finding the smartest solutions to problems requires prioritizing—an effort that the MDGs do not explicitly make and that many people find distasteful. But if we do not explicitly choose between po ...

Associated Content

• Romney, Pawlenty, Bachmann Break Ground with G ...
  While no single candidate differentiated him/herself in the second Republican debate, three candidates revealed their initial campaign themes.Contributor: Mark Vansetti Published: Jun 14, 2011
• How Clarence Clemons Made 'Born to Run' a Classic
  In light of recent news of E Street Band sax player Clarence Clemons' stroke, here is a look back at favorite moments in his storied career.Contributor: W. A. Vesper Published: Jun 14, 2011
• Falling Gas Prices Reduce Used Car Values for ...
  If you bought a hybrid with an eye on reselling it for big bucks after a short period of use time, beware! The value of used vehicles in this class is dropping. To blame are cheaper fuel costs. Where is the trend heading? Was GM CEO Dan Akerson right?Contributor: Sylvia Cochran Published: Jun 14 ...
• Factbox: Why, How We Celebrate Flag Day
  Why do we celebrate Flag Day? What is the appropriate way to celebrate Flag Day? Read on as I answer these questions, and give you some other fun facts concerning June 14, the day we celebrate our nation's banner.Contributor: Adam Justice Published: Jun 14, 2011
• GOP Debate Does Little to Clear Up Wide Open P ...
  An extremely cordial and unexciting GOP "debate" in New Hampshire will probably lead to more potential candidates deciding to make a run at the GOP nomination.Contributor: Matt Savarese Published: Jun 14, 2011

Popsci - Science

• Voyager 1 Might Leave the Solar System Any Day ...
  It was not projected to happen until 2014 The Voyager 1 spacecraft might be crossing the interstellar boundary at the edge of our solar system much sooner than scientists thought, according to new data from the probe itself and from the Cassini spacecraft. This milestone — marking the first Ear ...
• Coming Solar Minimum Could Chill the Earth, Ne ...
  Sunspots may be entering a hibernation period unseen in 400 years Sunspots may be going into hibernation, a phenomenon unseen since the 17th century that could lead to cooler global temperatures, scientists said Tuesday. It’s not clear how rising temperatures from greenhouse gas emissions may o ...
• Japanese Neutrino Finding Could Explain Why Th ...
  A new kind of oscillation could be the key to life, the universe, and everything Japan’s “T2K,” one of our favorite neutrino experiments (we’re keen on several), might have just cracked the mystery of why matter triumphed over antimatter after the Big Bang (they should have canceled each other ...
• Video: How to Build a Dinosaur from a Chicken
  How does one build a dinosaur? There’s the much-celebrated Crichton/Spielberg method, in which you extract dino DNA from a preserved prehistoric mosquito. But there are problems with this approach, says paleontologist Jack Horner in a recent TED Talk, and besides: there are plenty of spare dino ...
• Stem-Cell Therapy Works Wonders for Race Horse ...
  The same techniques used by vets to speed horse rehab might work for humans, too Over the course of the three races at this year’s Triple Crown, the odds are 10 to 1 that at least one horse will suffer a career-ending injury. “Orthopedically, the horse is a disaster waiting to happen,” says vet ...

Veterans Today

• US Congressman Asks Iraqis to Pay for Iraq War
  Republican representative Dana Rohrabacher asked Iraqis to pay for the destruction, invasion, and occupation of Iraq. f the law and legal precedent mean anything, it is the US that should pay reparations to Iraq.
• “Stop The War Coalition” Afghanist ...
  Before long public pressure might just lead Britain to drop out of participation in US wars, a move that would seriously damage future pretenses of acting as an international coalition.
• The Power of the Veteran and Active Military Vote
  25 million veterans and military personnel must use the power of the vote to preserve the rights and benefits we've earned
• Osama bin Laden: Closing the Case on an Innoce ...
  This system is totally controlled by American Zionists whose first priority is Israel, not the USA. Zionist Slaves, the American people are forced to live according to principles and laws laid by them.
• Pakistan “Do More or Else!”
  The statement of the Secretary of State for US has become a joke in Pakistani drawing rooms. “Pakistan must Do more”.

War is Business

• China-Pakistan Port Deal Another Sign Of Wanin ...
  Buy Baluchistan Buy Baluchistan • Read more at WSJ.com: World News
• Temptations Of The Flesh: GOP Freshmen Can&#82 ...
  Sell promises Sell promises • Read more at National Security on iWatch News
• CJ Chivers Examines Libyan Rebels’ Seabo ...
  Buy scarcity Buy scarcity • Read more at NYT > Home Page
• Afghan Soldier Says ‘The Quality Of Ever ...
  Buy bad apples Buy bad apples • Read more at The Killid Group website - News on Afghanistan reports analysis pictures cartoon
• Louis Berger Group Fudges The Numbers In $343 ...
  Buy superfood Buy superfood • Read more at Accountability on iWatch News

Hudson's Weather & Climate

• Deluge follows drought order
  Sunday saw the heaviest rainfall of the year across parts of Lincolnshire, only 48 hours on from the drought order issued by the Environment Agency for parts of Eastern England. 14.4mm of rain was recorded at Coningsby yesterday. This brings the total since Friday to 28mm of rain, more than hal ...
• Flaming June could end up a washout
  June's weather looks set to deteriorate further as low pressure intensifies its grip across the UK. The timing couldn't be more awkward for the Environment Agency who this morning issued a drought order for parts of Eastern England. Only hours later, the Met Office issued yellow warnings in ...
• Global temperature update for May
  The global temperature according to the UAH satellite measure was +0.13C above the 30 year running mean in May, showing virtually no change from April's anomaly. Global temperatures are slowly recovering as La Nina fades in the Pacific, but remain much cooler compared with May last year, ...
• A truly memorable Spring
  Provisional figures released by the Met Office show that Spring 2011 (March 1st to May 31st inclusive) with a mean temperature 10.2C was the equal warmest in the Central England Temperature series which dates back to 1659. Only Spring 1893 was as warm as Spring 2011. Spring 2007 with a mean te ...
• Is summer 2011 set to be a scorcher?
  There's been almost a frenzy of tabloid stories in the last few weeks about this summer. Many will recall how summer was supposed to begin last weekend with a heatwave that would lead to temperatures averaging 29C for a fortnight! So the tabloids and some private weather companies (I will ...

Internat'l Political Economy

• Trichet@LSE: EU as Viable a Currency Area as US
  Flashing sirens, extra security guards, financial journalists baying for blood, and the incessant chatter of students and faculty debating the virtues of "EU bonds" and "haircuts": Where else could it have been but at the LSE in eager anticipation of the ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet deliver ...
• Space, the Final Frontier for Governance
  Remember when we did the moonshot and Pony Trekker led the way? We'd move to the Canaveral moonstop and everynaut would dance and sway We got music in our solar system; we're space truckin' round the stars Come on...let's go...Space Truckin'! How do we keep on space truckin' in the 21st centur ...
• India Needs Jets: Sweden's Saab, US Overstretch
  [NOTE: This still is the IPE Zone, not Jane's Defence Weekly. Still, you may want to pull the bomber jacket out of the closet and groove to Steve Stevens for old time's sake.] Here's an interesting IPE angle on the machinations of defence procurement that I came upon totally at random alike much ...
• Cyber Attack: Hacking Into the IMF
  Being rather underwhelmed about former IMF Deputy Managing Director and current Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer going for the top job (has holds both US and Israeli citizenships), let's talk about IMF hacking instead of Asian financial crisis-era dinosaurs. These sorts of attacks are usu ...
• On Hillary Clinton Angling to be World Bank Chief
  You've probably seen the headline that Hillary Clinton is agitating to become the White House's pick to succeed Bush-era appointee (and former USTR) Robert Zoellick as the World Bank president when his term runs out next year. While it's the rumour of the day (evening?), consider: I'd believe it ...

Economic Collapse Blog

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

Infoshop - Alt Media

• Iron Rail Infoshop Re-Opens It's Doors in New ...
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• Announcing the Re-release of Flaming Arrows by ...
  After falling out of print some time ago, the re-release of Flaming Arrows by Rod Coronado is back from the printer. This edition has 17 additio...
• Free Radio Berkeley Summer Radio Camps
  Free Radio Berkeley is pleased to announce the 2011 schedule of the Summer Radio Camp program. In the fifth year of being offered, these Su...
• North Eastern Anarchist #15, 2011
  The Northeastern Anarchist is the English-language magazine of the Northeastern Federation of Anarchist-Communists (NEFAC), covering class strug...
• Radio Interview with Tre Arrow
  Interview with environmental activist and former international political prisoner Tre Arrow. Tre talks about his current activities in Portl...

E U 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% [...]

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

• 2011-06-15 Grand Jury Meets to Question WikiLe ...
  TweetA federal grand jury empanelled to investigate WikiLeaks meets again in Alexandria, Virginia today. David House, co-founder of the Bradley Manning Support Network, is expected to appear before the grand jury. He and others in the Greater Boston area have been subjected to this process, whic ...
• 2011-06-14 Torture Accountability After All?
  TweetAuthored by Stephen Soldz. Those of us who opposed the Bush administration torture program have been demoralized by the lack of accountability for the numerous abuses committed as part of that program. President Obama decried torture, and said he would end it, but he also said he wanted to ...
• 2011-06-14 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...
  TweetThis is a "WikiLeaks News Update," constantly updated throughout each day. The blog tracks stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks but also follows stories related to freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, freedom of expression, and sometimes the national security esta ...
• 2011-06-14 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...
  TweetThis is a "WikiLeaks News Update," constantly updated throughout each day. The blog tracks stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks but also follows stories related to freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, freedom of expression, and sometimes the national security esta ...
• 2011-06-14 Rallies Planned to Protest WikiLeak ...
  TweetDavid House of the Bradley Manning Support Network to Appear Wednesday Morning, June 15th in Alexandria, VA ALEXANDRIA, Va. — David House, a founding member of the Bradley Manning Support Network, is among several Boston area residents who have been ordered to testify before a federal grand ...

U N News

• Secretary-General hails Uruguay's contribution ...
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today thanked Uruguay for being one of the largest contributors to United Nations peacekeeping worldwide.
• UN-backed meeting aims to eradicate torture in ...
  Human rights experts and government officials from 11 countries today began a United Nations-backed meeting aimed at eradicating torture from Latin America and the Caribbean, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reported.
• Visiting Haiti, UN Goodwill Ambassador Carl Le ...
  The legendary track and field athlete and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Carl Lewis today concluded a two-day visit to Haiti to witness reforestation efforts aimed at helping the Caribbean country to protect itself against flash floods and mudslides as the annual hurricane season begins.
• Senior UN official lauds new initiative to get ...
  The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has welcomed the $360 million fund launched by Haiti's new President to ensure the most disadvantaged children in the country can go to school.
• Ban moved by flood devastation in Colombia, vo ...
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was deeply moved by the devastation he saw when he flew over the flood-affected areas of Colombia at the weekend and expressed the United Nations readiness to help the Government to continue providing succour to the estimated three million people affected.

Conspiracy Reality TV

• The Age of Transitions – Eugenics and Transhum ...
  In 1921, the American Eugenics Society was formed and began propaganda campaigns which included the promotion of eugenics in churches, schools, and state fair exhibitions. Funding for American eugenics came from the Carnegie, Harriman, and Rockefeller families among others. Eugenics was being ac ...
• CNN News Crew Threatened By Police in Joplin M ...
  We can tell you about some strange things going on here. The morgue, where these bodies are right now, is a secret morgue. And it literally is secret. You call up officials that can tell us where the morgue is an they say it's a secret we can't tell you. Families don't know where the morgue is. ...
• JFK Assassination and Executive Order 11110 – ...
  Executive order 11110, signed into law early 1963. Where with the stroke of his pen he took away the power of the Federal Reserve to print the money. He out 4 billion dollars into circulation in 2 dollar and 5 dollar denominations, but all 4 billion was backed by silver. Six months later, like i ...
• NASA Issues Agency Wide Preparedness Alert
  NASA recently participated in a FEMA exercise called Eagle Horizon that was a part of a continuity of operations and government exercise that we do annually. And, I became aware of some things that concern me about our family preparedness and I wanted to talk to you very briefly. you know we at ...
• Department of Education Sends Swat Raid Over S ...
  Department of Education Sends Swat Raid Over Student Loan

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

• Hong Kong's lackluster Chief Exec Crop
  Beijing doesn't want anybody to make waves
• China's Ominous South China Sea Claims
  The confrontation between China and Vietnam is a confrontation over ownership of the whole body of water
• Japan's Lost Year
  Naoto Kan's Annus Horribilis
• Lynas Malaysia and the rare earth controversy
  Lynas should win, but maybe after elections
• Thailand's Specious Conspiracy Map
  The military creates a six-degrees-of-separation chart to attempt to conflate a plot to overthrow the monarchy

We Know the Lies

• Congress To Vote On Declaration of World War l ...
• Congress To Vote On Declaration of World War l ...
• HAARP... Government MANDATED! Floods Being C ...
• HAARP... Government MANDATED! Floods Being C ...
• POTENTAL Fukushima Fallout Forecast ... May 7- ...

Tatumba 2.0

• Burzynski Cures Cancer – The Magic of Antineop ...
  THIS VIDEO WILL BE TAKEN DOWN BY THE OWNER ON JUNE 20 2011 Curing cancer is frowned upon big government and BIG PHARMA, especially when the patent for the cure is owned by a single doctor, and they can’t have a taste of the pie. So what do they do? They sick their hound dog, [...] Related p ...
• French Whistleblowers reaveal the set up of Do ...
  I saw this over at SGTReport.com and it is worth repeating here. French insiders reveal the reason why DSK had to be taken out. It was all about the missing gold baby. Watch this one explode before summer is out. Gold, The Real Reason for the Fall of Dominique Strauss-Kahn Commodities / Gold and ...
• Greece Yesterday – Largest Uprising Todate
  This was the center of Athens yesterday, June 12, 2011. Any questions? More Postcards From A Pre-Revolutionary Greece; Presenting “Goldman’s Employee Of The Decade” Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/13/2011 11:05 -0400 Ben Bernanke Goldman Sachs Greece Testimony Last night’s major anti-IMF rally a ...
• Flag Worship and Voting Ensures Slavery
  Many times I have tried to explain to Charles Leblanc, a local Fredericton Blogger, that voting ensures a continuation of our slavery. To further drive this home here is a video from Stefan Molyneux of Feedomain Radio that eloquently explains how we are nothing more than cattle to our leaders. W ...
• Bix Weir: ALERT: The Takedown Begins: Cash In ...
  I received an email from Bix Weir tonight as follows. If he is right Financial Armageddon has arrived. ALERT: The Takedown Begins: Cash In Your Paper Metal If You Still Can. Late word out yesterday that the crackdown of the gold and silver manipulators has begun. Kitco, one of the partners in Go ...

Truth About Our World

• FALSE FLAG OPERATIONS: PAST, PRESENT AND THE I ...
  By Aaron http://truthsurvival.com/2011/06/13/false-flag-operations-past-present-and-the-inevitable-future/ False Flag Operations have been a strategic method of Elite Governments to gain control on many platforms through out history. One of the earliest accounts of a False Flag Operation taking ...
• Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Bank? An Unc ...
• Americans Are Not Being Leveled With
  The deal with the Weiner story, is to take the attention off other things happening that “they” don’t want the public to know. Coincidence that the Bilderberg conference is happening right about the same time as the Weiner scandal? Let’s keep everyone focused on Weiner and away from what really ...
• Gold, Oil, Africa and Why the West Wants Gadha ...
  BY BRIAN E. MUHAMMAD Muammar Gadhafi’s decision to pursue gold standard and reject dollars for oil payments may have sealed his fate   Colonel Muammar Gadhafi Photo: MGN Online Attacking Col. Gadhafi can be understood in the context ofAmerica and Europe fightingfor their survival, which anindep ...
• Japan not hit by 9.0 quake? False flag nuclear ...
  June 12, 2011 by: Ethan A. Huff What if the alleged 9.0+ magnitude mega earthquake that was said to have hit off the coast of Japan back on March 11 never actually happened, and the resultant tsunami that destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was actually a deliberate, false flag attack ...

Bloomberg

• Can't Stop the Big Mo
  Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
• Grading Back-to-School Stocks
  Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
• Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
  Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
• IGN Entertainment: Where the Boys Are
  The Web outfit has drawn a huge, male-dominated following and has an IPO in the works. But will a big Net player come calling?
• At Motorola, "a Hop in Everybody's Step"
  CEO Ed Zander admits he hasn't checked every box on his to-do list. But he's happy to take credit for kick-starting innovation

Enviroblog

• U.S. (finally) Labels Formaldehyde "Known Huma ...
  By Paul Pestano, Research Analyst After decades of debate, the Obama administration last week classified formaldehyde as a known human carcinogen, a label that is likely to advance regulatory steps to restrict this widely used hazardous chemical. The... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
• Arsenic Found in... Chicken
  By: Press Intern Margot Pagan and Senior Scientist Rebecca Sutton, PhD Did you think you were eating a carcinogen along with your favorite chicken sandwich last week? Probably not, but a new Food and Drug Administration study has found arsenic... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
• Here Comes the Sun, What Now?
  By Lisa Frack, EWG Social Media Manager Every year about this time my friends want to me to tell them exactly which sunscreen to buy. They want the one that works the best to protect skin with the least toxic... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other conte ...
• Hey Baby, Your Stuff is Toxic!
  By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Scientist Last year I cut small squares of foam from my sons' car seats, our glider rocker and my breastfeeding pillow, wrapped them in foil to prevent contamination and mailed them off to Duke University... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ...
• Stacking a Fracking Panel
  By Dusty Horwitt and Leeann BrownEnergy secretary Stephen Chu claims that his panel studying the safety and environmental dangers of natural gas hydraulic fracturing is "diverse" and "respected."Respected, yes. Diverse, hardly. Six of the seven panelists... [[ This is a content summary only ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• Patty Baena's hair competes with cheap falafel ...
  Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
• A scene from City Hall before gay marriage bec ...
  Yesterday morning, on a day that would end with same-sex marriage one vote in the State Senate away from passage in New York State, a group of religious opponents of the proposed new law made what may amount to a last stand at City Hall. More ...
• Charles Barron on fracking, natural gas, and ' ...
  Councilman Charles Barron walked to the stairs at City Hall yesterday carrying a small podium bearing the city seal and a dozen activists unfurled a banner and put on stickers that said “Ban Fracking Now.” It was time to start the rally. More ...
• Obama shames Weiner, Harlem stabber shames himself
  Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
• The breaking point: Ethics watchdog changed he ...
  Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said without hesitation that it had been news of Weiner's Twitter D.M. correspondence with a 17-year-old girl in Delaware."There is that email that's creepy about th ...

Views & News from Norway

• ‘Monster Masts’ activists strike again
  Campaigners protesting the building of overhead power lines in Hardanger Fjord – nicknamed “Monster Masts” by detractors – took part in a sit-in protest to ground a helicopter used by state electricity authorities to install the lines on Monday. The activists are part of an ongoing campaign to ...
• Cyclist Hushovd back to winning ways
  Norwegian cyclist Thor Hushovd – seen by many as the country’s biggest hope for the Tour de France - won the fourth stage of the Tour de Suisse on Tuesday, ending an eight-month period without a win. The win is Hushovd’s first since the Road World Championships held between September and Octobe ...
• Carew among ‘most unwanted’
  Norwegian football’s star striker, John Carew, has been described as one of “Europe’s 26 most unwanted” football players by English newspaper The Guardian. The 31-year-old Carew is currently without a team after being released from his contract with English Premier League club Aston Villa. The ...
• Viking is ‘forefather to British royals& ...
  A joint Norwegian-French investigation hopes to reveal that Norwegian Viking noble Ganger Hrólf was the same person as Rollo, the first Duke of Normandy – and the forefather of the British royal family. Rollo, sometimes known as Robert I, is estimated to have lived between 846 and 931 AD, and w ...
• Boat tourists protest local taxes
  Foreign boat owners who sail into Norwegian harbours are unhappy about special Norwegian taxes and regulations that greatly restrict how much time they can spend in Norway. They’re lobbying for a change in the law, so they can extend their visits beyond just six weeks. The Royal Norwegian Boatin ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• From Grass to Habitat Garden – Our Front Yard ...
  A detailed account of the transition from a sparse and chemical dependent landscape to an ecologically diverse and resource efficient garden. by Stephanie Ladwig-Cooper Our rural 1/3 acre of land in Northern California has been our home and office as well as a continual experiment in ecological ...
• Sepp Holzer’s Permaculture – a Review
  by Harry Byrne Wykman Sepp Holzer’s Permaculture is the work of a man of unique sensitivity and imagination. Holzer has combined a lifetime of practical experience with clarity of expression and intellect to produce a book which will satisfy a practically-minded farmer or gardener as well as the ...
• Soil Decision Making
  Winona paddock Pasture cropped & time control grazed Adjoining paddock Traditional Crop and set stock grazed When you are trying to decide which method of soil improvement to take, sometimes it seems like there are as many different approaches as there are bacteria in a teaspoon of ...
• Chop-N-Drop – Mulching Permaculture Style
  Chop-N-Drop is a Permaculture term used to describe a simple, yet highly-efficient system of creating mulch. Plants that make good mulch are pruned frequently and the cuttings are dropped directly on the ground below. This creates a beneficial layer of organic material that helps conserve w ...
• Chop-N-Drop – Mulching Permaculture Style
  Chop-N-Drop is a Permaculture term used to describe a simple, yet highly-efficient system of creating mulch. Plants that make good mulch are pruned frequently and the cuttings are dropped directly on the ground below. This creates a beneficial layer of organic material that helps conserve w ...

Telecrap Urinal

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

Anna's News

• Lulz attacks: US orders review as Senate site ...
  US officials said they have ordered a security review after hackers managed to break into the Senate website at the weekend.An official said the incident had been "inconvenient", but had not compromised the security of the staff. Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Cloned Cows to Produce Human-Like Milk
  An Argentine laboratory announced that it had created the world's first transgenic cow, using human genes that will allow the animal to produce the equivalent of mothers' milk. Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• 10 Sports Media Scandals That Shook the Industry
  Studios consisting of sports reporters and analysts, most of whom are guys, often resemble high school locker rooms more than professional work environments.These sports media members victimized themselves � just one was victimized by someone else........Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
• Donors promise $4 billion to global vaccines body
  Donors promised to give a global vaccines body more than $4 billion to help it protect millions of children from diseases like measles, pneumonia and yellow fever. Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• 11 Conspiracy Theories That Just Wont Die
  The most unforgettable moments in history almost always come with a conspiracy theory that provides alternative, and often outlandish, explanations for past events. Although most conspiracy theories are rarely supported by conclusive evidence, they do....Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...

Medical Marijuana

• 6/14/11 - Prescription drugs advertised direct ...
  prescriptiondrugs.procon.org - Prescription drugs advertised directly to consumers sell nine times better than drugs without such ads. On May 26, 2011 the Congressional Budget Office released a study on direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising of new prescription drugs. According to the study, the a ...
• 6/8/11 - John Edwards' 2007 statement on wheth ...
  2008election.procon.org - John Edwards' 2007 statement on whether infidelity should disqualify a candidate for public office. We found this quote for our 2008 presidential election website and, although the site has been archived, we wanted our readers to be able to read what John Edwards told K ...
• 6/7/11 - 20 highest and lowest radiation cell ...
  cellphones.procon.org - UPDATED: 20 highest and lowest radiation cell phones in the US - All cell phones emit radiofrequency radiation, but not all phones emit the same amount. The FCC has set the limit (standard absorption rate: SAR) for cell phone radiation at a maximum of 1.6 watts. Our upd ...
• 6/6/11 - International Guide to Minimum Legal ...
  drinkingage.procon.org - NEW: International Guide to Minimum Legal Drinking Ages (MLDAs) in 138 Countries - The United States along with five other countries (Fiji, Indonesia, Micronesia, Palau, and Sri Lanka) have an MLDA of 21 - the highest of any country where alcohol is legal. In Brunei, Ga ...
• 6/3/11 - Did Jack Kevorkian ethically serve th ...
  euthanasia.procon.org - Dr. Jack Kevorkian dead at age 83. In light of his passing today, ProCon.org presents two questions about the man who polarized millions around the issues of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in the United States.

Truth About Our World

• FALSE FLAG OPERATIONS: PAST, PRESENT AND THE I ...
  By Aaron http://truthsurvival.com/2011/06/13/false-flag-operations-past-present-and-the-inevitable-future/ False Flag Operations have been a strategic method of Elite Governments to gain control on many platforms through out history. One of the earliest accounts of a False Flag Operation taking ...
• Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Bank? An Unc ...
• Americans Are Not Being Leveled With
  The deal with the Weiner story, is to take the attention off other things happening that “they” don’t want the public to know. Coincidence that the Bilderberg conference is happening right about the same time as the Weiner scandal? Let’s keep everyone focused on Weiner and away from what really ...
• Gold, Oil, Africa and Why the West Wants Gadha ...
  BY BRIAN E. MUHAMMAD Muammar Gadhafi’s decision to pursue gold standard and reject dollars for oil payments may have sealed his fate   Colonel Muammar Gadhafi Photo: MGN Online Attacking Col. Gadhafi can be understood in the context ofAmerica and Europe fightingfor their survival, which anindep ...
• Japan not hit by 9.0 quake? False flag nuclear ...
  June 12, 2011 by: Ethan A. Huff What if the alleged 9.0+ magnitude mega earthquake that was said to have hit off the coast of Japan back on March 11 never actually happened, and the resultant tsunami that destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was actually a deliberate, false flag attack ...

Gyrovague's Raves

• Heavy sentences
  On How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One, by Stanley Fish. Joseph Epstein After thirty years of teaching a university course in something called advanced prose style, my accumulated wisdom on the subject, inspissated into a single thought, is that writing cannot be taught, though it can be ...
• I Didn’t Always Wash After Peeing; Now I ...
  Cord Jefferson I’m going to be straight with you: I used to not wash my hands after peeing. Before you write me off completely, you should know that I’ve always washed my hands after shitting (I’m not a monster!), just as I’ve always scrubbed up if I’m about to eat food. But for as long … Read more
• Criminal Minds
  Adrian Raine thinks brain scans can identify children who may become killers By Josh Fischman He was locked in a van in England with violent criminals, repeatedly, during his late 20s, says Adrian Raine, lifting a fork of salmon ravioli from his plate at a tony restaurant on Walnut Street. "I wa ...
• Farewell to the Moleskine?
  Michael Parsons I always remember one of the editors on a Silicon Valley start-up I worked at who was so defiantly digital that he had nothing on his desk but his Mac and a gnarled, aggressive piece of wrought iron sculpture. The message was simple: âIâm digital. I donât do paper. So donât even ...
• Egypt’s Copts
  Will the Regionâs Largest Non-Muslim Religious Community Simply Disappear? Nina Shea In July 2008, Bishop Thomas, the Coptic Orthodox Bishop of El-Qussia Diocese in Upper Egypt, delivered a talk in Washington about the cultural history of his co-religionists, entitled âThe Experience of the Midd ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

• IF 50%+1 IS BINDING, THE “NO” WON IN 1995!
  All that changes is the name. But it all means NORTH AMERICAN UNION. “In both 1980 and 1995, Quebec showed a willingness to negotiate … an association or partnership agreement with Canada once it became a sovereign state so that people, goods and capital could circulate freely between the two co ...
• My Fellow Canadian and American Friends
  "It should be quite obvious to you by now that the national sovereignty of Canada and the United States is under threat. We as Canadians and you as Americans both have something equal to lose."
• Canadian Government Extends Deadline For Publi ...
  The Canadian government has decided to extend the deadline for public input into the Harper governments "common security perimeter agenda" until June 3rd 2011
• Canadian Government Extends Deadline For Publi ...
  The Canadian government has decided to extend the deadline for public input into the Harper governments "common security perimeter agenda" until June 3rd 2011
• You’re Losing National Sovereignty- How Transp ...
  "As a matter of principle, we are currently fighting to make sure that Canadians are allowed to know what's being negotiated. We further believe that this deal needs to be reviewed by Parliament and we will fight to make sure that this happens."- Jack Layton

Gaea Times

• Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
  WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
• Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
  LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
• Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
  SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
• Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
  WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of child ...
• How sex hormones influence right heart function
  WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

• Plastic Bag Makers Sue ChicoBag
  © Flickr user doviende. ChicoBag is one of the most popular brands of reusable bags. Their totes are colorful and stylish, and they help us avoid the need to create more of the plastic waste that is clogging our rivers and streams and creating massive garbage patches in our oceans. But in ...
• Unpacking the Shark Myth: ‘Demon Fish’
  Washington Post environment and politics reporter Juliet Eilperin has a new book out today that explores the science and mythology behind the ocean�s top predators. In �Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks,� Eilperin travels the globe -- she swims with whale sharks in Beli ...
• Ted on The Diane Rehm Show
  Ted Danson. � Kate Danson Last Thursday Oceana board member Ted Danson was the featured guest on WAMU�s The Diane Rehm Show. He covers a lot of ground in the hour, including overfishing, seafood fraud, aquaculture and bottom trawling. He explains to Diane, ���It's one of those amazing pot ...
• Slideshow: NYC World Oceans Day Clean-up
  How did you celebrate World Oceans Day? Oceana headed straight to the river. Teaming up with Nautica, we braved the heat and skimmed trash out of the Hudson River in an effort to protect both the river’s natural beauty and the health of its marine life. What did we find? Fewer cigarette butts ...
• Seafood Fraud on the CBS Early Show
  Today’s CBS Early Show featured a segment about seafood fraud, and they spoke with Oceana marine scientist Margot Stiles, one of the authors of our new “Bait and Switch” report. They even went on a field trip to the Washington, DC fish market, check it out:

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

• Stalin’s Feckless Response To Barbarossa
  Germans On Captued Russian Armored Train Stalin purged his officer corps in the mid thirties. Too many people with access to the hard power of war machines were chafing under the thumb of the dictator, and he didn’t wait around until they took action. Three out of five Field Marshals, 90% percen ...
• Liberty Bell, Famous B-17 That Took Part In th ...
  This old bird took off yesterday from Aurora Airport and crew smelled smoke. A Texan T-6 chase plane from the same era reported fire and the plane crash landed at Highway 71 and Minkler Road in Oswego. This was a historic plane and should have been left on the ground. Heck, Civil War re-enacters ...
• Take A Look. The Sikorsky X-2 Rotor Hub Assemb ...
  "As an all-new design, the X2 LTH represents one extreme of the aircraft known to be on offer for the AAS requirement to replace the Army's OH-58D Kiowa Warriors. At the other extreme is start-up AVX Aircraft's proposal to upgrade the OH-58Ds with coaxial rotors and ducted fans. In the middle is ...
• Take A Look. The Sikorsky X-2 Rotor Hub Assemb ...
  "As an all-new design, the X2 LTH represents one extreme of the aircraft known to be on offer for the AAS requirement to replace the Army's OH-58D Kiowa Warriors. At the other extreme is start-up AVX Aircraft's proposal to upgrade the OH-58Ds with coaxial rotors and ducted fans. In the middle is ...
• The Soccer War
  � The Honduras had twice the land areas of their neighbor El Salvador. Yet the population of El Salvador was five times the population of the Honduras. By the mid twentieth century, tens of thousands of Salvadorans Honduras Vs El Salvador In 1970 FIFA Playoffs and Hondurans lived in each other�s ...

Taylor Marsh

• Lawmakers Sue Pres. Obama Over Libya
  Let it be known that the 15th day in June 2011, ten brave members of the United States Congress have found the Institution’s spine, assembled it, and however rickety the experience will be, as they haven’t used it for a very long time, are taking on the Executive Branch on the War Powers Act. Fr ...
• A Second Term for the Sake of It
  Norquist might have to take a hard line and pretend he’s appalled to see it crossed, but in focusing everyone on that line, he’s effectively distracting them from how far the goalposts have been moved. Instead of revenues being an assumed part of a deficit deal, with the only question being how ...
• Suddenly Silence on Palin Email Story
  The Daily Show – PmailTags: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook Althouse on Palin email saga. She’s absolutely correct about one item. That nothing of note was found, still hasn’t been found, should be reported as widely as the frenzy Jon Stewart moc ...
• Cue Obama’s Next Non-War Speech for Yemen
  This is another edition in empire. Pres. Obama started bombing Libya out of humanitarian reasoning, with there no strategic interest there for the U.S. Now he’s turning to Yemen, which is no doubt a dangerous place that does have wider implications. However, why is everyone just shrugging at his ...
• Post-Debate, Tammy Bruce Makes Pitch for Palin ...
  Over on Breitbart’s site, at the moment of writing this piece, there were only 36 Facebook recommends for Bruce’s plea for Palin to run, which has been up for hours. Bruce’s rationale is ridiculous, but it’s shared by a lot of Palin devotees. They fear a Palin nomination because they know if she ...

Hudson New York

• German Energy Policy: The New Geopolitics of C ...
  While the decision by Germany's governing coalition, led by Chancellor Angela Merkel, to phase out all of Germany's nuclear power plants -- which provide 28% of German electricity -- may be politically popular, it may do serious damage to the German
• What Happens When America Outsources Foreign P ...
  The Western democracies are finally facing up to the reality of the mission in Libya: Containment is impossible and Moammar Gaddafi must go. But American leadership is still missing, and it is unclear if some NATO countries have the necessary willpower
• Venezuela Freezes Relations with U.S.; Trigger ...
  Venezuela's announcement that it was freezing diplomatic relations with the United States came as a response to the U.S. State Department's sanctions against Venezuela's state-owned giant oil company Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) for providing Iran with
• The World of Political Discourse Enjoins the I ...
  When the president of the United States says we have to control expenditures and then advocates dramatic increases in the budget, I am perplexed. When I am told the economy is in recovery, but according to recent reports the unemployment rate has
• Turkey's New Lawmakers to Take Office in June
  Turkish parliament will open its doors to a new term next week, once official results of Sunday's general elections are announced by Turkey's Supreme Board of Election (YSK). Members of the 24th-term parliament are expected take oaths, and formally take

Urban Survival

• CPI: Where’s Hyperinflation Gone?
  As I’ve been mentioning to Peoplenomics.com subscribers for a month or three, the spectacle of hyperinflation may be more than a bit overblown by the precious metals crowd.  Not that they won’t be right – over time – but for … Continue reading →
• Coping: Dreams, memories, and Stock Tips
  I had one of those marvelous ‘vivid dreams” I get every so often in which bits and pieces of the future sometimes drift  through. THIS IS NOT TRADING NOR INVESTMENT ADVICE but according to my overnight dream, but my Vitamix/Osterizer … Continue reading →
• Big Rally Tuesday?
  This morning’s headline could just as easily have read “Bear George Sells All Shorts!“  since that’s exactly what I did at midsession Monday.  And with good reason.   If we look at a three-month chart of the S&P 500 – … Continue reading →
• Coping: With Angry Earth
  We’ve spoken many times about the major threats from space which in predictive linguistics make up the “space goat farts” part of modelspace.  This is where alien abductions, UFO sighting, huge outbursts from the Sun, and the general off-planet war … Continue reading →
• Bouncing on Wild Earth
  No, that was not fans of the Dallas basketball team ( Mav’s won the NBA title you say?) that caused the little 2.7 earthquake just up the road from us near Waxahachie, Texas.  Just about smack under Maypearl, Texas and … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

• Gerald Celente : Rise up and Fight !
  Gerald Celente on Jeff Rense show 13 June... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• The Real Estate Bubble in China worse than in ...
  The Real Estate bubble in China could be even... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• What is Transhumanism?
  A critical analysis of the transhumanist... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Links for 2011-06-14 [del.icio.us]
  Glenn Beck : The American Dream has gasped its last breath |Gerald Celente Trends Blog Glenn Beck : The American Dream has gasped its last breath Fort Knox Gold Fake or Real ? |Gold and Silver Blog Fort Knox Gold Fake or Real ? Gold will go significantly higher says Michael Yoshikami | ...
• Glenn Beck : The American Dream has gasped its ...
  Glenn Beck : " the American dream is not under... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

• Ha! The science of laughter
  Emerson College is known for producing journalists and actors. And some of them are pretty funny, Grads include Jay Leno, Denis Leary, Andrea Martin, and Seth Grahame-Smith, author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. So, it's only appropriate that the school host a conference on laughter. The e ...
• Pub meet-up tonight and more events for scient ...
  Tonight Mike Farzan and his colleagues will chat about communication between viruses and your cells at a Science by the Pint, event. Tuesday June 14, 6:30pm - 7:30pm Tavern in the Square - Porter - 1815 Massachusetts Ave. - Cambridge (There are a couple of Tavern on the Square restauran ...
• Can hackers mess with your medical device?
  Scary, but true. MIT reports on how its working with partners at UMass to pretect device users. Millions of Americans have implantable medical devices, from pacemakers and defibrillators to brain stimulators and drug pumps; worldwide, 300,000 more people receive them every year. Most such d ...
• Beyond subway ads: Wired enrollment for clinic ...
  The Forbes Medicine Show blog highlights the clinical trails search site today from "Patients Like Me." Patients enter their illness, age, and zip code and get a list of clinical trials into that they can enter. Hopefully this will help more patients find studies that might offer them some h ...
• Not really "chemical-free" in Cambridge, the N ...
  On the Speakeasy Science blog, Debra Blum put down her paper today to rant against the term "chemical-free." I do understand that the phrase is just an advertising gimmick, implying a product's freedom from mysterious but toxic industrial chemicals. I also understand that it's basically ridicu ...

NRDC Switchboard

• Music Saves Mountains at Bonnaroo
  Lauren Zingarelli, Social Advocacy Associate, Washington, D.C. There were a number of unforgettable moments this past weekend after our Music Saves Mountains team traveled to Manchester, Tenn. for the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival to help stop ...
• Attempts to Undermine California's ZEV Program ...
  Simon Mui, Scientist, Clean Vehicles and Fuels, San Francisco The Wall Street Journal recently reported that automakers and their trade associations are now fighting California’s next revision to its Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) program, a long-sta ...
• Eastern Wyoming: one last wild area being dest ...
  Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. Most of the�Powder River Basin�in eastern Wyoming�is�far from its original wild state; instead it is�pockmarked with thousands of�coalbed methane wells, and criss-crossed with�associated roads and ...
• Study Follows Auto Industry Pattern of Overest ...
  Luke Tonachel, Vehicles Analyst, New York City The Center for Automotive Research released a new version of a previously discredited analysis claiming that the cost to meet improved fuel economy and pollution standards for cars and light trucks in ...
• The Clean Air Act and Public Health
  Pete Altman, Climate Campaign Director, Washington, D.C. 11: 39 Senator Vitter recently used his time asking Administrator Jackson about formaldehyde, basing his attack on a recent review by the National Academy of Sciences examining EPA's science ...

Injustice Everywhere

• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 22 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, June 13, 2011: Bountiful City UT settles suit for undisclosed sum to man tasered 6-10 times on video in stop for crooked plates [3] http://bit.ly/iB5rnn 2 Los Angeles Co CA deputie ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 19 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, June 13, 2011: Midland MI cop sentenced to 6-20yrs in no contest plea to charges for sexual assault of disabled crime victim [0] http://bit.ly/mjEKQU Denver CO settles suit for $45k ...
• Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 06-10 ...
  Here are the 8 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this weekend, June 10-11, 2011: An Orlando FL police officer is accused by several witnesses of shooting a man in the back as he fled from a drug sting and it appears as though he may have [...]
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 18 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, June 10, 2011: 4 Montreal QC cops investigated for shooting incident that left bystander & man cutting garbage bags w/knife dead [3] http://bit.ly/mK08sB New Westminster BC cop gets ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 20 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, June 9, 2011: Baltimore MD cop convicted of manslaughter for fatally shooting a veteran 12x outside of a bar while drunk because he grabbed the butt of a woman he was there with. [ ...

Total Collapse

• Military Showdown against Syria – a Trigger fo ...
  June 12, 2011 Israeli Three Top Politicians are Abroad: 1. Netanyahu and 2. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman are in Italy, while 3. Defense Minister Ehud Barak met with the Chinese militaryâs chief of staff in China. [link to www.israelnationalnews.com] and [link to www.israelnationalnews.com] ...
• China-Vietnam maritime row intensifies
  Press TV – Tensions between China and Vietnam have escalated following their recent naval confrontations in the disputed waters off the South China Sea. While China has warned Vietnam against exploring for oil in the disputed waters, Vietnam has hit back by conducting live ammunition naval drill ...
• Europe Braces for Serious Crop Losses and Blac ...
  Scientific American – One of the driest spring seasons on record in northern Europe has sucked soils dry and sharply reduced river levels to the point that governments are starting to fear crop losses and France, in particular, is bracing for blackouts as its river-cooled nuclear power plants m ...
• US naval movements around Syria. Hizballah mov ...
  DEBKAfile - DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources report that Monday, June 13, the US deployed the USS Bataan amphibian air carrier strike vessel opposite Syria’s Mediterranean coast with 2,000 marines, 6 war planes, 15 attack helicopters, including new V-22 Ospreys,  and 27 choppers f ...
• US Congress votes against Libya funding
  AFP – The US House of Representatives voted to prohibit the use of funds for American military operations in Libya. Lawmakers adopted the amendment to a military appropriations bill by a vote of 248 to 163. A number of members of Congress have recently expressed their dissatisfaction at Presiden ...

IPS - Inter Press Services

• U.S.: Neoconservatives Losing Hold Over Republ ...
  Nearly ten years after seizing control of Republican foreign policy, neo- conservatives and other hawks appear to be losing it.
• RIGHTS-COLOMBIA: Murdered Activist's Children ...
  "They are very distressed. Their father, mother and two brothers have been killed. They have expressed the wish to leave the country," Colombian Vice President Angelino Garz�n said after meeting Tuesday with the surviving daughters and son of Ana Fabricia C�rdoba, a prominent land rights activ ...
• AU Concerned With One-Sided Interpretation of ...
  Like Russia, China, India and Brazil, the African nations seem to be getting increasingly wary of the consequences of the Western powers' military strikes in Libya - the oil rich North African country currently embroiled in violent political upheaval.
• OP-ED: G20 Ministers of Agriculture Must Focus ...
  The first-ever official meeting of Ministers of Agriculture from G20 countries, to be held in Paris Jun. 22-23, presents an extraordinary opportunity. Tasked with developing an action plan to address price volatility in food and agricultural markets and its impact on the poor, the minist ...
• BALKANS: Serbia Promoting Partition of Kosovo
  For most of the world the issue of Kosovo is long over. The nation declared independence from Serbia in 2008 and has gained recognition from 76 out of 192 U.N. member states.

Scoop - NZ

• Christchurch residents: Patience Has Expired.
  Agitated Christchurch residents are warning of street protests if the Government does not reveal which quake-hit suburbs will be abandoned. In an opinion piece published in The Press today, Earthquake Recovery Minister Brownlee has asked for patience, acknowledging the frustration of residen ...
• Our Vaccines: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
  Simpsonwood was the transcripts of a secret meeting that was held between CDC and seventy-five representatives of the vaccine industry, in which they reviewed a report that CDC had ordered, the Stratton study of the hundred-thousand children in the United States Vaccine Safety Database. And whe ...
• Downing: Pakistan marches to Saudi tune
  Ties between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are long-standing but for the most part have not stood out in the turbulent affairs of the region. However, increased tensions with Iran, the Arab Spring, and growing disenchantment with the United States are making the relationship more expansive, more pro ...
• Nuclear Reactions Continuing at Fukushima?
  You know that Fukushima reactors 1, 2 and 3 all melted down within hours of the Japanese earthquake. You also know that at least some of the subsequent explosions could have been caused by small-scale nuclear reactions called "prompt moderated criticalities". But you might not know that nu ...
• Credit bubble: Glass no longer half full
  Friday's payroll data were dismal. The unemployment rate jumped back above 9% (to 9.1%), while the 54,000 gain in Non-farm Payrolls was the weakest increase since last September. Most alarming, the manufacturing sector lost 5,000 jobs during May. This was the first decrease since November 2010, ...

Independent - London

• Protesters clash with police in Greece
  Greek workers of all ages and professions, pensioners, students, the old and young marched on parliament in Athens today to vent their anger at the country's politicians and their austerity plans.
• Greek government in power-sharing talks amid riots
  Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou offered today to step down and make way for a national unity government if the opposition agreed on a clear plan on how to proceed with reforms, government sources said.
• Syrians flee northern town
  Thousands of Syrians fled the historic town of Maarat al-Numaan today to escape troops and tanks pushing into the north in a widening military campaign to crush protests against President Bashar al-Assad.
• Syrian forces line up another town
  Syrian troops were poised to sweep into another town to crush anti-government protests today as the government tried to control the spectacle of thousands of terrified refugees streaming across the border into Turkey.
• Spain protesters try to block regional parliam ...
  Politicians in Spain's northeastern Catalonia region used police helicopters to get to the regional parliament to avoid some 2,000 demonstrators protesters who tried to blockade the building today to protest planned budget cuts in education and health.

Rogue Government.com

• PAPER: Global order fractures as US power dec ...
  Harold Macmillan, the prime minister who watched US power rise as the British empire crumbled, used to say that Britain would play ancient Greece to America’s Rome.
• Government Releases Partial List Of Chemicals ...
  A year after the BP Gulf oil disaster and under pressure from environmental groups, the EPA finally released a list of the chemical components in oil dispersants. 
• TSA conducting security exercise
  Today, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and several federal, state and local agencies will participate in a scheduled exercise designed to enhance security in the Ohio-West Virginia area.
• Chicago expanding Big Brother camera network
  Chicago’s Big Brother network of over 10,000 public and private surveillance cameras is already the most extensive and integrated in the nation. But, it’s about to get even bigger.
• Border agents criticize weapons program
  The Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) program “Operation Fast and Furious" allowed gun stores near the Mexican border to sell semiautomatic weapons in bulk to "straw purchasers" and then track their journey. Many of the guns were linked to crimes, including the killing of a Border ...

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

• US: Missouri River states brace for floods
  Omaha - The scramble is nearly over to fill thousands of sandbags and construct last-minute levees to heights that have not been needed in decades, but those preparations were only the first round of what is likely to be a summerlong battle against the bloated Missouri River. Peak flows are e ...
• Massive strike to paralyze Prague, Czech Republic
  Prague - From Madrid to Athens, EU governments are currently seeing mounting opposition of some social sectors against austerity reforms. On Monday 13 June, this protest wave will flood the Czech Republic, and above all its capital, with massive strike and blockades planned by the country's lab ...
• US: Louisvillian Charged in Shooting of 12-Yea ...
  A 56-year-old man charged with attempted murder in the shooting of a 12-year-old Glenmary boy Monday night was described by a neighbor as "low key." "I'm shocked," said Ida Buffat, who lives on Hall Farm Drive just down the street from Michael Bishop, who was arrested and charged with shootin ...
• Canada: Woman's Lawn Goes Missing
  Denise Thompson had a beautiful front lawn, thick and green. It was where her four children and two dogs played, and where she drank coffee on sunny mornings. Then someone stole it. They didn't even leave a note. "Now my place looks like I'm a farmer who just plowed and is ready to put their ...
• US: Religious Relic Stolen From Catholic Churc ...
  A 780-year-old religious relic of the patron saint of lost causes and missing objects was stolen from a Catholic church near Los Angeles on Monday, just hours after it was put on display to commemorate the feast of St. Anthony, police said. The relic, which is only brought out on special occa ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Tar sands...
  TGB Press, 15 June 2015: A rural worker has been shot dead near Canada's Wood Buffalo region - the sixth murder in a month in the region, amid conflicts over land and oil development. The body of John Smith was found in dense forest close to his home in northern Alberta. The 31-year-old had ...
• Heads up . . .
  AUTOBLOG has a report on a clever new helmet for bikers that uses corrugated cardboard as the shock-absorbing medium. If you need a brain-bucket, check it out before you wish you had.The technology is called Kranium, and it uses interlocking ribs made from cardboard housed under a stiff plastic ...
• The eyes have it . . .
  ACCORDING TO IO9, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have genetically engineered the world's first "living laser." That's right - a living cell can shoot laser light. John Wyndham would have been so pleased, as well as Warren Ellis and the FREAKANGELS .
• Fire them.
  This time it's Niagara cops cheating on promotion exams. Several police officers in southern Ontario's Niagara region have been caught cheating on exams that are part of the force's promotion process. This spring, 75 officers wrote tests and went through rounds of interviews, vying for 17 su ...
• Resign, Dr. Baker
  Actually, you can go a little beyond your heartfelt apology and offer your resignation, oh esteemed Dean of Medicine. The dean of medicine at the University of Alberta is apologizing to his colleagues and students after being accused of plagiarizing his convocation speech. "The talk was inte ...

Media Matters for America

• Right-Wing Media Attack Obama For Accurate Rem ...
  Right-wing media have seized on recent comments by President Obama to claim that Obama "blame[d] ATMs for high unemployment." But Obama's full comments show that he was suggesting that businesses are investing more heavily in automated machines than in hiring new employees, a view shared by eco ...
• It's Not Just Race: Fox's Bolling Has A Long H ...
  As Media Matters reported, Fox Business' Eric Bolling recently made unacceptable and bizarre racially charged comments on Fox, including accusing President Obama of inviting "hoodlum" to what he called the "hizzouse." But this wasn't the first time Bolling acted inappropriately while employed b ...
• Wall Street Journal Campaigns Against ...
  A Wall Street Journal editorial calls on Congress to cancel EPA's proposed limits on mercury emissions and other toxic air pollution from power plants, claiming that the action amounts to a "War on Jobs." However, studies have found that the new standards, which have been decades in the maki ...
• Von Spakovsky Spreads Falsehoods To Push For V ...
  In a USA Today op-ed, Pajamas Media blogger and former DOJ Civil Rights Division official Hans von Spakovsky employed numerous falsehoods to defend statutes requiring all voters to show identification before casting ballots. In fact, contrary to von Spakovsky's argument, legal voters have been ...
• Beck Falsely Claims Obama Gave Israel 30-Day " ...
  Glenn Beck falsely claimed that in an "ultimatum," "the Obama administration gave Israel 30 days to comply with the 1967 border rules." In fact, the article Beck cited to back up his claim stated that the administration made a "request" of Israel to accept Obama's proposal as a basis for negoti ...

Global Research.ca

• The Greatest Depression Has Only Begun
  Originating in 2008, the global economic crisis took the world by storm: banks collapsed, the "too big to fail" became bigger...
• Towards a World War III Scenario.
  A fourth war theater has opened up in North Africa, which raises the issue of escalation over a vast geographical area.
• Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg: ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• VIDEO: 'NATO bombs civilians!': Report from Tr ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Canada extends its Participation in the NATO-l ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• Power Tools: How Clean Energy Makes Environmen ...
  By Reed Hundt and Aaron Zubaty Robert Bryce, author of Power Hungry: The Myths of 'Green' Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future, missed the mark in his June 8th New York Times editorial in which he argued that environmental justifications for clean energy are misplaced because producing ...
• Charade
  It's time to end the charade that Pakistan is an ally in the battle against Al Qaeda and the Taliban. 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 dea ...
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• Just You Wait and See....
  All my friends are laughing at me for posting "Ready for Rudy's Comeback?" here below, not least because the only other bloviator who thinks that Giuiliani will run, and that it matters, is William Kristol. Now, whenever Kristol makes an electoral prediction, you can bet the ranch on its not ...
• Portnoy's Revenge
  Not long after Philip Roth published Portnoy's Complaint, Jacqueline Susann went on the Johnny Carson show. Susann, we remember, had become famous for her pulp novel Valley of the Dolls, which triangulated, in what seemed an all-American way, ambition, sex and barbiturates. Everybody was a "user ...

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

• Space News Round Up: Magnetic Bubbles, Mega Bl ...
  Over the past several weeks, a flurry of intriguing and surprising outer space-related discoveries have been made, ones that warrant a recap for those who may have missed them. I have selected four of the more fascinating ones, plus one related, really cool piece with a video, and they are: 1] M ...
• Global Weirding Wednesday
  Good global weirding (aka climate change, global warming) stories from the past week or so:
• Rhino Horn = Medicine? NO! (New Campaign to Bu ...
  A former fellow writer on EcoWorldly.com (which is now EcoLocalizer), Rhishja Larson is the leading rhino expert I've ever run across. She knows rhinos! And, unfortunately, that means she knows more about the current rhino crisis than most. Now, she and Saving Rhinos LLC have started a new camp ...
• Rhino Horn = Medicine? NO! (New Campaign to Bu ...
  A former fellow writer on EcoWorldly.com (which is now EcoLocalizer), Rhishja Larson is the leading rhino expert I've ever run across. She knows rhinos! And, unfortunately, that means she knows more about the current rhino crisis than most. Now, she and Saving Rhinos LLC have started a new ca ...
• 3 Affordable iPhone Apps for the Gardener on a ...
  There is no way to be a casual gardener. Once you begin you become obsessed, and with good reason. The process of gardening is incredibly cathartic and calming. It eases stress, boosts energy, is good for the body and can help clear the mind. The end results are often beneficial, whether in the ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Healing San Pedro Bay
  Some of the new regulations designed to clean up San Pedro Bay are more fork than spoon unfortunatel
• MEAT-The problem finally acknowledged
  This Baltimore Sun reported on a study released last week by the National Research Council, a nine m
• VIPs Visit the Watershed
  by Dan Carney Students from Thailand’s Thammasat University visit the Mt. Tamalpais Watershed. Imagi
• Invasive Exotic Species
  Zebra Mussels get there name from the pattern on their shell. They are impossible to remove from a b
• Methane Contamination of Drinking Water Accomp ...
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Published online before print May 9, 2011; doi: 10.

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Obama Troop Surge Decision Ignored Pak-Taliban ...
  by Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at IPS 22 May, 2011 Image by Omer Wazir
• “The 15% Solution,” Serialization, 16th Instal ...
  Note: The Preface and Chapters One through Thirteen can be found here: The 15% Solution. by Jonathan
• Pepe Escobar: The Hijacking of the Arab Spring ...
  Image by Crethi Plethi via Flickr by Peter B. Collins and Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Sa
• Two Views on Israel by Guadamour
  by Guadamour Featured Writer Dandelion Salad May 21, 2011 photo by Rusty Stewart Attribution Noncomm
• Cindy Sheehan: The Media, the War Machine and ...
  Image by Fibonacci Blue via Flickr with Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’

Axis of Logic

• Great news! We're not going to fry, were going ...
  Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade Physicists say sunspot cycle is 'going into hibernation' What may be the science story of the century is breaking this evening, as heavyweight US solar physicists announce that the Sun appears to be headed into a lengthy spell...
• The Internet’s Unholy Marriage to Capitalism - ...
  The United States and the world are now a good two decades into the Internet revolution, or what was once called the information age. The past generation has seen a blizzard of mind-boggling developments in communication, ranging from the World Wide Web and broadband, to ubiquitous cell phones t ...
• Cuba changing; US stuck - Cuba
  President Obama and his advisers share with most of the mass media the same visual weakness when it comes to Cuba: they don’t see the obvious, the crucial facts and context that stare them in the face. As Cuba begins to undergo basic changes to its economy and governmental structure,...
• Sterilisation: North Carolina grapples with le ...
  Ms Riddick, now 57, suffered decades of depression and illness 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 ...
• Activists to Occupy Financial District’s Liber ...
  On June 14th at 1pm EST, a group of activists will begin occupation of Liberty Park (recently renamed Zuccotti Park) in lower Manhattan’s Financial District, a few blocks from Wall Street (14971 Broadway, 10007). A Google Map featuring the event states the following: “This Flag Day, Tue ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• If Even Lies Won't Work, Then Kill the Truth
  The lies aren't working about the repug plan to kill Medicare, and when the truth got out in one special election in a repug gimme district, it destroyed the GOP candidate and elected the Democratic candidate. What's a desperate GOP to do? Kill the truth, of course. Steve Benen: The word "censor ...
• Get Those Sick Workers Out of My Face, Please
  You know where you picked up that flu that knocked you flat for two weeks this winter? At a restaurant or retail store that forces its sick workers to work if they want to get paid. This isn't an issue of entitlements or even workers' rights; it's an issue of public health. bluegal at Crooks and ...
• The fatal flaws in Ryan's plan that he doesn't ...
  It depends who you are talking to what will be achieved by Privatizing Ryan's roadmap to ruin budget plan should it be enacted. Most people either come down on the side of "it ends Medicare" or "it ends Medicare as we know it," while the Randians like Ryan insist on pretending that it "saves Med ...
• Courting The "Investor Class"
  I dunno about anybody else but I'm beginning to think I'm fighting a battle that was lost before I ever knew we were in it. �Good thing I'm one of those cantankerous old bastards that thinks it would be really boring to only fight battles I knew absolutely I could win... never mind the fact that ...
• Mitch McConnell: Save Me From the Scary Muslin ...
  I mean seriously - Bowling Green? Population 56,598? University town in the heart of Red Kentucky? Any terrists in that town wouldn't make it past the rifle-bristling pickups at the Food Mart. But Mitch McConnell is pissing his pants in fear about putting these pathetic bumblers on trial in a st ...

Care 2

• Dolphins Use Double Sonar
  Dolphins and porpoises use echolocation for hunting and orientation. By sending out high-frequency sound, known as ultrasound, dolphins can use the echoes to determine what type of object the sound beam has hit. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Tell the EPA to Protect Wildlife from Deadly P ...
  Widespread use of the pesticide DDT pushed iconic species like the bald eagle, peregrine falcon and California condor to the brink of extinction before concerned citizens and conservation activists campaigned to have the chemical banned in 1972.Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
• Stop Polluters' Wish List in North Carolina ! ...
  As the end of the 2011 state legislative session nears, big polluters are pushing hard for a massive rollback of environmental standards in North Carolina. There may be only days left before legislators end the session and these 3 majorSubmitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
• Save the Sumatran Tiger ! Tell Mattel to dump ...
  Only 400 wild Sumatran tigers are left in the world. That�s fewer tigers than sheets in a ream of paper. There are no tigers to spare, and there�s no time to spare if we want to save them. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• The Cheetah Run! Video!
  My continuing look into the world of cheetah conservation and an exploration into the lives of ambassador cheetah in the US brought me to Animal Ark, a 70 acre wildlife sanctuary, located roughly between the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation and the citySubmitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-i ...

Smirking Chimp

• I Regret To Inform You That Your Country Is Su ...
• An Amish Criminal Case In Kentucky
• The Revolution Will Not Be Deactualized: On Oc ...
• Creationists infiltrating US geology circles, ...
• Factchecking the Media: More Questions About t ...

Paul Krugman

• One Size Fits One, Redux (Wonkish)
  Careful about those Taylor rules.
• Doubletalk Express
  More on the very unserious Paul Ryan.
• I Ruined The Economy And All I Got Were These ...
  So much for hope and all that.
• The Power of Minus
  Will it make heads explode?
• Mini-Reagan
  But then, Reagan wasn't very credible either ...

No Quarter

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

Environmental Graffiti

• Is Barbie's Latest Career as a Lumberjack in t ...
  It's official: Barbie is bad. Or at least, the packaging she wraps herself is. Greenpeace has revealed how Mattel is using paper that destroys the Indonesian rainforest. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the ...
• Map Reveals World's Green Turtle Nesting Sites
  In a collaborative scientific effort, a map of green sea turtle nesting sites around the world has been created that has won a top prize in conservation mapping. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
• How the Site of the Garden of Eden Has Been Ra ...
  The supposed historic location of Garden of Eden has suffered under years of engineered environmental abuse. Find out how... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Giant Prehistoric 'Shrimp' Discovered
  The recently discovered fossil of a 3 foot-long, prehistoric shrimp-like predator. "It would have made enough scampi to feed an army for a month," said one scientist. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the ar ...
• Spectacular Images of Volcanic Lightning Over ...
  Stunning photographs of volcanic lightning illuminating Chile's Puyehue volcano following its recent eruption... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Iran's Turmoil at the Top
  The president and the clerics have squared off in Tehran. Will it push Iran over the edge?
• Israel's 1981 Osirak Attack Poor Precedent for ...
  Israel's attack on Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor did little to halt Iraq's nuclear-weapons program.
• Postcard from...Soma
  Japan is still digging its way out of the earthquake and tsunami that hit in March. Here's a way to help.
• The Day Obama Decided
  Margit Berman's poem about the day the president decided to end the wars.
• If We Survive the Next 100 Years, Which Came F ...
  Can nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament treaties endure if states fail to resolve the issues between them?

Global Elite

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
  Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will ...
• President European Commission Advocated World ...
  Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International ...
• Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
  Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in t ...
• Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
  Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare p ...
• Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
  Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government ...

Al Jazeera

• Obama resists pressure over Libya campaign
  Ten members of Congress file suit against Obama for committing US forces to Libya without congressional authorisation.
• Agents find US-Mexico 'crime tunnels'
  US agent tells legislators about the many elaborate passageways between the US and its southern neighbour.
• Libyan rebels wrest western mountain villages
  Opposition continues to edge closer to capital, Tripoli, capturing two villages despite shelling by pro-Gaddafi forces.
• Gaddafi forces shell rebel positions
  Troops loyal to Libyan leader shell western mountains in bid to thwart rebels advancing towards capital, Tripoli.
• Greek PM offers to quit amid protests
  Papandreou pushes for unity government as protesters clash with police in capital Athens over austerity measures.

Green Inc. - NYT

• 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.
• 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.
• U.S. Reactors Unprepared for Total Power Loss, ...
  Studies by safety experts have analyzed the risk of losing electricity from the grid or from on-site emergency generators, but not both, officials at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission say.
• Senate Blocks End to Ethanol Subsidies
  The 40-59 vote reflected a split among Republicans and the continued acrimony over the issue.
• Political Volleys Over Nuclear Waste
  At a subcommittee hearing, House members assert that the chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission blocked a waste depository at Yucca Mountain for political reasons. Others counter that the House's long-ago choice of Yucca was political to begin with.

Dot Earth News

• A Solar Scientist Rebuts a Cool Sunspot Prediction
  A solar scientist challenges predictions of a long lull in sunspots.
• A Deeper Look at an Energy Analysis Raises Big ...
  Critics expose problems with an analysis of clean-energy options.
• Would Solar Lull Snuff Climate Action?
  If a prediction of a protracted downturn in solar activity holds up, there are big implications for climate policy.
• An Effort to Clarify the Climate Conversation
  Australian climate scientists band together to lay out the scientific basis for human-driven global warming.
• Seeking New Energy to (Re)Focus the Nation
  A fresh search for young innovators seeking a sustainable energy menu

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• Can Has Wargame, "Southland" Pre-scripting the ...
  "Is this real world or exercise??" --A memorable quote from air traffic controller on 9-11 Logistically speaking, how the hell did the West start bombing Libya so quickly? A French/NATO military exercise (aka wargame) called Southern Mistral was scheduled for almost the exact same time. Are war ...
• NASA Fears Nibiru? Why Not? Emergency Preparat ...
  Here's an interesting one! nasa is the only federal agency responsible for its people's safety and well-being here on earth and in space - Google Search YouTube - NASA Emails ALL Employees to PREPARE! June 10, 2011 - with lolsome "secret star approacheth" type commentary from jcattera. Hat tip K ...
• CIA Whistleblower on the latest American War - ...
  Susan Lindauer sent us over another article, this one turning to the chaotic Western intervention in Libya. It's nice to get a little praise for the post earlier this week: Dashing Wartime Philosopher Bernard Henri Lévy ties Libyan rebels & Netanyahu, lolz at teh Bilderberg conspiracy - and your ...
• CIA Whistleblower Lindauer: Warning: This Mess ...
  CIA whistleblower Susan Lindauer sent in a followup piece to HongPong.com and I'm happy to share it! Earlier: Susan Lindauer on the Patriot Act: "When Truth Becomes Treason" - Thuggish National Security Coverup & Grand Jury Mechanisms for Iraq & 9-11 ******** By Susan Lindauer, former Asset Cove ...
• Dashing Wartime Philosopher Bernard Henri Lévy ...
  Bernard-Henri Lévy gets Libyan rebels to support Israel & doesn't like your Bilderberg conspiracies! Apparently this French philosopher with a penchant for drama is calling more shots than people realize. However, he has had enough with your conspiracies! What is this guy's deal? After reading a ...

Daily Censored

• In Praise of Learning by Bertolt Brecht
  When this was written in 1931 the Weimar republic had died and Hitler was on the road to power. Brecht, of course, was the great playwrite and poet of the early part of the 1900′s.  His poem, “In Praise of Learning” is more important now than ever!  Here it is in its entirety!   Study [...]
• Freedom Flotilla Two: Another Massacre Looms?
  � On June 21, 2011 some 40 to 50 American peace activists will gather in Athens Greece to join up with the 2nd International Freedom Flotilla headed to Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid and essential building materials. The Americans, have named their ship �The Audacity of Hope� after President O ...
• DC Police Brutally Assualt a man in a Wheelcha ...
  Click this link below to listen to the show: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news/2011/06/16/dc-metro-police-assualt-on-a-man-in-a-wheelchair� Please join us Wednesday Night June 15th at 10:30 PM EST as well deconstruct Police Brutality in DC and the US. � The call-in number is: (347) 94 ...
• Obama Embraces The Money Party
  Michael Collins It’s time for Plan B. The White House is about to be sold to the same people who bought in in 2008. The front page of today’s New York Times says it all. President Obama is on the hunt for campaign cash and the Wall Street crowd represents his main target. After all, [...]
• UK government seeks to expand its internet bla ...
  The UK Internet Watch Foundation already blocks websites that contains child sexual abuse content, also known as child porn, but now it wants to expand its powers to include anything that has violent and unlawful content as well. The proposals were outlined in the UK HomeOffice’s latest anti-ter ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• Poll: Little Love For Rick Santorum In Home State
• Bipartisan House group's lawsuit over Libya co ...
• Romney's real opponents weren't on Tuesday's stage
• Gay Jurist’s Legitimacy in ...
• After Accepting $290,000 from Tobacco Industry ...

Institute for Policy Studies

• Webb's Parting Shots
  While Robert Gates is spreading his soothing fictions about the U.S. military, Jim Webb is raising some uncomfortable facts.
• How the Institute for Policy Studies Helped Re ...
  IPS co-founder Marcus Raskin and others provided crucial aid to whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg.
• The Lineup: Week of June 13-19, 2011
  Wenonah Hauter calls for a ban on gas "fracking" and Jim Hightower miraculously finds the humor in the GOP's efforts to kill Medicare.
• Building Resilience: The New Economy in the Sh ...
  "Resilience Circles" are popping up all around the country. They're transformative, hopeful, and fun.
• Blowing the Whistle
  IPS co-founder Marcus Raskin helped whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg release the Pentagon Papers.

IntelNews

• Analysis: Arab revolutions cause blind spot fo ...
  An unusually blunt piece published in Newsweek magazine describes the Arab democratic revolutions in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and elsewhere as serious detriments to US intelligence collection in the Muslim world. Written by Newsweekâs Middle East Regional Editor Christopher Dickey, the lengthy arti ...
• News you may have missed #519
  Australian ex-spy wins right to compensation. Eritrea releases UK citizens detained for espionage. Pakistan to deport US national suspected for spying. Continue reading →
• Massive IMF cyberattack ‘was state-backed’, sa ...
  A massive and sophisticated cyberattack that targeted the computer systems of the International Monetary Fund last month was âlinked to a foreign governmentâ, according to sources familiar with the incident. Continue reading →
• News you may have missed #518
  Pakistan to intensify intel collaboration with China. UAE mercenaries say they have no Blackwater contacts. US spy community launches 'Analytical Olympics'. Continue reading →
• News you may have missed #518
  Pakistan to intensify intel collaboration with China. UAE mercenaries say they have no Blackwater contacts. US spy community launches 'Analytical Olympics'. Continue reading →

War is a Crime.org

• Interview - Andy Thayer of Gay Liberation Net ...
  Andy Thayer of Gay Liberation Network spoke with us during the "Rally for Bradley Manning" at Ft. Leavenworth, KS, Saturday, June 4, 2011. Pfc. Bradley Manning of Oklahoma has been in US military custody without formal charges for over a year. Manning allegedly leaked US secret diplomatic cables ...
• Interview - William Stewart-Starks of Iraq Vet ...
  William Stewart-Starks of Iraq Veterans Against The War (IVAW) spoke with us during the "Rally for Bradley Manning" at Ft. Leavenworth, KS, Saturday, June 4, 2011. Pfc. Bradley Manning of Oklahoma has been in US military custody without formal charges for over a year. Manning allegedly leaked US ...
• Interview - Jeff Paterson of Courage To Resist ...
  Jeff Paterson of Courage To Resist spoke with us during the "Rally for Bradley Manning" at Ft. Leavenworth, KS, Saturday, June 4, 2011. Pfc. Bradley Manning of Oklahoma has been in US military custody without formal charges for over a year. Manning allegedly leaked US secret diplomatic cables to ...
• Interview - Jacob George of A Ride Till The En ...
  Jacob George of A Ride Till The End spoke with us at the "Rally for Bradley" at Ft. Leavenworth, KS on June 4, 2011. Pfc. Bradley Manning of Oklahoma has been in US military custody without formal charges for over a year. Manning allegedly leaked US secret diplomatic cables to Wikileaks. For mor ...
• Interview - Leah Bolger of Veterans for Peace ...
  Leah Bolger of Veterans for Peace spoke with us during the "Rally for Bradley Manning" at Ft. Leavenworth, KS on June 4, 2011. Pfc. Bradley Manning of Oklahoma has been in US military custody without formal charges for over a year. Manning allegedly leaked US secret diplomatic cables to Wikileak ...

Grist - News

• How close are you to the country’s dirti ...
  by Jess Zimmerman. If you live west of D.C. and east of Omaha, there's a good chance you're pretty close to one of the 25 dirtiest coal plants in the U.S. Twenty of them are 50 to 100 miles away from major urban areas, according to Climate Progress. What does "dirtiest" mean? Well, t ...
• Introducing the booze-fueled power plant
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• Google to spend $280 million to give you solar ...
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• Russia building floating nuclear power plants ...
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• Ex-nuclear engineer says it can never be safe
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Suzie-Q

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Solari

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Insurgency Watch - Newswire

• Times Scare
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• Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
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• Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
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• Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
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AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• Pro-Choice Activists: How to Fight the Newest ...
  If you don't speak out about this racist propaganda, the anti-choice zealots will target you next.
• An Exit Strategy from Americaâ€&tra ...
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• UK venue offers rainforest weddings
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• Battery recycling 'too difficult'
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Fabius Maximus

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• Attritionist Letter #1 – the tides turn, ...
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• The Attritionist Letters, volleys in the long ...
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Open Your Eyes News

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• Euro strikes 16-month high against dollar
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The Progressive Realist

• Strategic Air Power Alone Still Doesn’t Really ...
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TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Waiting on the New York Senate to Come Around
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Buzzflash

• Are We on the Brink of Burying Nuke Power Fore ...
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• The Republicans Want a More Ignorant Populatio ...
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• The Pentagon Papers 40 Years Later, By Tony Peyser
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Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• A different kind of candidate and campaign
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• Yet another illegal war -- now in Yemen
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• Headline revelations
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• In a pure coincidence, Gaddafi impeded U.S. oi ...
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• Speech on media propaganda
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The BiPartisan Report

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Sciencebase

• Six signs your wine stinks
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• How to network in science without schmoozing
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• Scerri stuff indeed
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• Listening to digitized vinyl
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Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• War Powers Experts Say Lawsuit Filed Against t ...
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• House Subcommittee Passes Bill to Rush Decisio ...
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• Marco Rubio Sells out Hispanic Community; Thro ...
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• Nearly Two Billion People Worldwide Now Overweight
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Common Dreams-Views

• How the Corporate Right Divided Blacks from Te ...
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• Fig Leaf Nation
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• Sowing the Seeds: Can Wisconsin Uprising Grow ...
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• War on Drugs: Fast, Furious and Fueled by the U.S.
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• America Shouldn't Scrimp on Food Safety
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Newshoggers - AfPak

• A Groundswell for Significant Afghanistan With ...
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• The Carnage Continues in Afghanistan
  By Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe A quiet city in the north of Afghanistan ignited today after yet another NATO night raid reportedly tore another family apart. Thousands of people took to the streets, again chanting, "Death to America!" as they pelted Karzai's billboards with mud and s ...

Water Wars

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

WordPress | Economics

• Mass changes
  by John McMahon Yesterday, Will responded to my earlier post about the lack or large-scale resistanc
• Petrodollars don't fund repression
  The website I’ve been working on for a long time has finally launched its new interface and it
• Sarkozy urges firmer commodities rules
  French President warns that raw materials’ inflation is one of the principal threats to global
• Russia and China hope to reach gas deal
  Hu Jintao begins a visit to Russia that both sides hope will culminate in an agreement between the w
• Luncheon in Olathe to Address Regulatory Compl ...
  The Department of Agricultural Economics at Kansas State University will present a luncheon seminar

Electronic Intifada

• Agrexco forum a milestone in Europe's BDS movement
  Stephanie WestbrookThe Electronic Intifada Earlier this month in Montpellier, France, more than a hundred activists from nine countries gathered for the first ever European Forum Against Agrexco for two full days of workshops aimed at strengthening the boycott campaign against the Israeli agricu ...
• US citizen in Jerusalem arrest video speaks to EI
  Maureen Clare MurphyThe Electronic Intifada Lucas Koerner, the young American Jewish university student shown violently arrested in a Jerusalem Day video, speaks to The Electronic Intifada about his activism and what happened after his�arrest.
• The case for UN recognition of Palestine
  Victor KattanThe Electronic Intifada Victor Kattan argues that UN membership for a State of Palestine would be a strategic asset to the Palestinian struggle for self-determination, although there are risks�involved.
• Rafah border crossing reopens, again
  Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-OmraniThe Electronic IntifadaCairo Egypt’s border with the Hamas-run Gaza Strip was reopened to Palestinian travelers Wednesday after a series of squabbles over operational procedures had temporarily brought cross-border traffic to a halt.
• Gaza's fishing industry under fire
  Eva BartlettThe Electronic IntifadaGaza City The prospects of catching fish — and the future of Gaza’s once strong fishing industry — are more dire than ever with new Israeli restrictions.

Afghanistan Sun

• Senators press Obama for sizable Afghanistan w ...
  WASHINGTON - Democratic and Republican senators are circulating a letter to President Barack Obama pressing for a "sizable and sustained" withdrawal of U.S. troops ...
• Suicide bomber kills 8 in Afghanistan
  SHAR , Afghanistan - A suicide bomber killed eight people and wounded four in a strike today on a governor's office in the northeast, while a mortar targeted a building ...
• Americans Work to Modernize Afghan Agriculture
  Two Afghan women water the soil at the Qalat Department of Women's Affairs, in the Zabul Province of Afghanistan, May 8, 2011 Agriculture is the mainstay of Afghanistan's economy, although ...
• Being an Afghan film actress is no role for th ...
  previous photo KABUL // A young bride silently sobs on the floor watching her mentally disturbed husband gorge on chicken, rub his greasy hands through his hair and scream at her for more, just ...
• Taliban shells police ceremony in bloody intim ...
  Insurgents are pressing forward with their promised campaign to kill government officials and any Afghans working with foreigners, targeting a ceremony today at a new police training centre in ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

• ACLU Drags The State Department To Court For I ...
  Of all the spectacle surrounding the Wikileaks/Cablegate situation, nothing has proven to be more bizarre than the U.S. government's actions and policies concerning the continued classification of the leaked cables. One of its first efforts was its patented "escalating response", in which it fir ...
• Michael Robertson Tempts Copyright Fate Yet Ag ...
  I used to joke that every company founded by Michael Robertson had a very simple "marketing plan": get sued by someone big. So many of his startups ended up in lawsuits with big names, which helped generate even more attention for them. But, of course, part of the reason for that is that he co ...
• Congress Happy To Knock Out Patents That Impac ...
  For about five years now, we've been discussing the ridiculous rise of "tax strategy" patents. There have been a bunch of them. Three years ago, an attempt was made by Congress to effectively dump such patents. It didn't go anywhere. What I hadn't realized is that this particular provision h ...
• ICE Stalling On More FOIA Requests Concerning ...
  We recently noted that Homeland Security's ICE group appeared to be stalling in responding to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from Michael Robertson's NakedGovernment. It turns out that's not the only such request it's been stalling on. The folks over at Muckrock (who helped us wit ...
• When Citizens Elect Comedians Who Run For Offi ...
  The idea of politicians who run for office as a joke has a pretty long history. Comedian Pat Paulsen starting running for US President in the 1960s and ended up taking part in six presidential campaigns. More recently, Stephen Colbert attempted to sort of enter the 2008 election, but was event ...

VacTruth

• Formaldehyde in Vaccines
  It’s official, or as official as it can be: The New York Times reports that formaldehyde is listed as a carcinogen by government scientists, and that “…it is found in worrisome quantities in plywood, particle board, mortuaries and hair salons.” However, both the U.S. government and The New Yo ...
• Vaccination Without Informed Consent Is Medica ...
  What would you say if I told you that a European Union country’s Supreme Court says that vaccinations to attend school are NOT mandatory in that country, and anyone who vaccinates another person who suffers health damages is liable and can be sued for compensatory damages?Vactruth.com
• Part 3 of 3: An Interview About Vaccines with ...
  Part 3 of 3: Catherine J. Frompovich interviews Helen V. Ratajczak, PhD, who worked in the field of immunology and toxicology. She answers questions addressing the role of Vitamin C, peroxidation of the brain, immunostimulation and Autism.Vactruth.com
• MRSA Vaccine Trial Is Halted, Ends In Disaster
  Yesterday Reuters reported US Merck and Co have taken the very unusual step of discontinuing vaccine trials for Intercell's MRSA vaccine. The decision was taken after experts advised the V710 vaccine was 'unlikely to show a significant clinical benefit and expressed concerns about overall mortal ...
• Part 2 of 3: An Interview About Vaccines with ...
  Part 2 of 3: Catherine J. Frompovich interviews Helen V. Ratajczak, PhD, who worked in the field of immunology and toxicology. She answers questions addressing the toxicity of vaccine adjuvants.Vactruth.com

BroadSnark

• Things I Might Have Missed
  I am sitting in the Portland airport waiting for my flight to San Jose and have not been paying any attention to the news. In fact, I didn’t even have internet for a couple days. About the only things I have learned in the last week are: 1. I can actually survive without internet. 2. [...]
• Growing Up Jewish – Bat Mitzvah Edition
  It has been ages since I wrote a Growing Up Jewish post. And since last month was the 25th anniversary of my Bat Mitzvah (Fuck I’m old!), I thought it was time to continue the series. According to Jewish law, at thirteen you are an adult. And that means a party.* Of course, being Jews, [...]
• Things You Might Have Missed
  Hello everyone. We’re leaving tomorrow for vacation in Portlandia and Alta California. I have some almost finished posts that I should be able to get up, but I might be a little slow responding to comments and whatnot between now and the 18th. Please check out this amazing new project from my fr ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  Hello everyone. We’re leaving tomorrow for vacation in Portlandia and Alta California. I have some almost finished posts that I should be able to get up, but I might be a little slow responding to comments and whatnot between now and the 18th. Please check out this amazing new project from my fr ...
• The Bad Actor Objection
  Have you ever seen the movie The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance?  My friend @JamesTulsaALL recommended it. He thought the movie addressed some important issues. He was right. For those of you who have not seen it. Jimmy Stewart is an attorney who heads out to the wild west to carve out his future. ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• China, for Example: A Certain World Map
  by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, June 10, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 23
• LaRouche: The Deadline for Glass-Steagall Is J ...
  by Nancy Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, June 10, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 23
• Documentation: World Opposition to Germany’s N ...
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, June 10, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 23
• Germany’s Nuclear Phase-Out Means Deindustrial ...
  by Helga Zepp-LaRouche Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, June 10, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 23
• LPAC-TV Weekly Report: An Economic Revival Nee ...
  with Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., Oyang Teng, and Sky Shields Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, June 10, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 23

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

• Just What We Needed Dept.: The Happy Hot Dog Man
  Weiners are getting altogether too much exposure these days, but we can't pass up this opportunity to complain about another of what the Unclutterer dubbed Unitaskers- tools or devices that do only one thing and clog up your drawers and cupboards. And what a stupid unitasker the Happy Hot Do ...
• WindMade: New Label for Products Made Using at ...
  Will companies be impelled to make more of an effort to use clean power if they were publicly recognized for their efforts? The folks behind Windmade are betting they will. Windmade is a new initiative spearheaded by Vestas, the Danish wind company, that will eventually allow companies to pl ...
• Timberland, Sustainable Business Leader, Sold ...
  Image: IvanWalsh.com via flickr Timberland, known here at TreeHugger for greening the outdoor clothing industry and for using its corporate weight to press for action on climate change, now has an uncertain future when it comes to keeping up those green business practices. VF Corp., parent ...
• What's The Greenest Insulation? It's Getting H ...
  Screen shot from Youtube video What's wrong with this picture? It is in a video promoting Ultra-touch denim insulation, showing an installer pushing a full-size batt into an irregular cavity. Either the insulation isn't going to work because it is compressed or it is going to pop the drywal ...
• Grilled Fruit and Cheese Plate
  Photos by Jaymi Heimbuch This recipe was created exclusively to pair with a bottle of 2008 Chardonnay from Medlock Ames. The wine is a good balance between mineral and citrus, with some subtle flo...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Biosingularity

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

CFACT

• Improving air quality helps Americans breathe easy
  Air quality has improved so much that Clean Air Act actually saved lives over its first 20 years
• Media taking a pass on Greenpeace investigation
• The New Detroit Lions?
• Follow me to a bridge by a river...
• Hype over population bomb fizzling out

Ria Novosti Online News

• Federation of Russian Motorists to protest aga ...
  The Federation of Russian Motorists (FRM) will on Thursday ride on downtown Moscow roads to protest against rising gasoline prices, FRM head Sergei Kanayev said.
• Russian, Chinese leaders to discuss economic ties
  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will meet with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao on Thursday to discuss trade and economic ties, Medvedev's aide Sergei Prikhodko reported.
• Main news of June 15
  A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours
• Belarusian police peacefully disperse Minsk pr ...
  Police in Minsk peacefully broke up an unsanctioned demonstration of several hundred people in a central square on Wednesday against government measures aimed at propping up Belarus's crippled economy.
• Obama may cool toward Russia to heat up his re ...
  The main contenders for the Republican nomination for president faced off in a debate this week in New Hampshire.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• ISS orbit readjusted by 10.2 km
  Russia's Mission Control has raised the orbit of the International Space Station by 10.2 km (6.3 miles) using Europe's ATV-2 Johannes Kepler, a spokesman for Mission Control said on Wednesday.
• European ATV-2 space freighter to readjust ISS ...
  Russia's Mission Control will raise on Wednesday the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) by 10.2 km (6.3 miles) using Europe's ATV-2 Johannes Kepler to 374.7 km (232.8 miles).
• Russian Mir mini-subs begin Lake Geneva explor ...
  Russia's Mir-1 and Mir-2 self-propelled deep submersibles began on Tuesday a scientific expedition at Lake Geneva, diving to a depth of almost 300 meters in one of western Europe's largest lakes, Swiss media reported.
• E.coli found in Bavarian lettuce - report
  Enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) has been found in lettuce imported from Bavaria, Der Spiegel reported on Tuesday.
• European ATV-2 space freighter to readjust ISS ...
  Russia's Mission Control will raise on Sunday the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) by 20 km (12.4 miles) using Europe's ATV-2 Johannes Kepler to 365 km (226.8 miles).

Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

• Thinking Beyond "Green" to Truly Sustainable
  Ever pass by a beautifully landscaped university and think, "gee, that would make perfectly good farmland?" From edible landscaping to solariums and green roofs, Joel Salatin presents his wish list of possibilities for turning these underutilized acres into thriving, sustainable eco-campuses.Cli ...
• Justice for the Victims of Agent Orange
  The United States must admit its responsibility and compensate the Agent Orange victims in Vietnam. It is a moral obligation. Take action to tell your political representatives.Click here to read this article
• Weaponized E coli Used to Destroy Organic Foods?
  The deadly E. coli in Europe was blamed on fresh organic vegetables. Warnings issued everywhere: "Don't eat your vegetables!" This was followed with rather unseemly rapidity by food safety "experts" calling for the irradiation of fresh food, for more funding for the Food Safety Modernization A ...
• 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.Click here to read this article
• Big Ag Won't Feed the World
  Back in March, USDA secretary Tom Vilsack spoke at an event called the Commodity Classic in Tampa, Fl. Sponsored by agribusiness giants Monsanto, BASF, Syngenta, John Deere, Dow AgroSciences, Dupont, Syngenta, and Archer Daniels Midland, among others, the event hails itself as the "premier natio ...

Center for a Livable Future

• CLF opposes Rehberg amendment, antibiotic-resi ...
  The FY 2012 Agriculture appropriations bill, voted out of the House Appropriations Committee last week, includes an amendment that would severely limit the authority of FDA to regulate the use of antimicrobials, including antibiotics, in food animal production-a key concern of public health rese ...
• Food and Farm Policy: this is not the image an ...
  Recently, my boyfriend offered to give me a dollar for every blog I started with, “Stop what you’re doing, ’cause I’m about to ruin the image and the style that you’re used to.” I responded to his idea with a barrage of reasons why it was ridiculous and certainly not appropriate in my line of [. ...
• Pfizer will voluntary suspend sale of roxarson ...
  The FDA announced today that Pfizer Inc., will voluntarily suspend the sale of 3-Nitro (better known as the arsenical drug roxarsone) following the results of an FDA study which found elevated levels of inorganic arsenic in the livers of chicken fed roxarsone compared to a control group. The ann ...
• 100 years of artificial nitrogen - but how man ...
  I recently was asked in an interview to name the one thing I would change in the world if I had the power to do so. Surprising even myself, I replied quickly “the Haber-Bosch (H-B) process for industrial nitrogen fixation. Imagine - a world without synthetic N! One can imagine the blank look I g ...
• Study finds new MRSA strain in European milk
  Researchers at Cambridge University say they have found a new strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in milk from England, Scotland and Denmark, which they are calling LGA251. The findings - published online by The Lancet Infectious Diseases - can be seen as a further sign ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• Prepare for global cooling - it's official
  To coincide with the release of Air Con Climategate Edition on Kindle, there's been a stunning announcement today that we appear to be seeing major changes in the Sun, of a type that heralded the Little Ice Age. The full...
• The chances of life arising randomly...
  Grant Jacobs from Sciblogs, and another commenter, have been debating on this thread about junk dna and the origin of life. [Update, Grant now admits his phrasing was loose and that he wasn't intending to bring in the origin of...
• Climate scientist admits - climate science is ...
  Former journal editor and climate scientist Hans van Storch has blamed climate scientists around the world for turning their profession into a public laughing stock. Of course, the diplomatic Storch is not quite that blunt, but it's an accurate paraphrase...
• An Intelligent Design debate with Sciblogs...
  I haven't really had a decent design bunfight for a long time....but Sciblogger Grant made this statement in one of our comments threads which I couldn't resist: This seems to fit a different discourse. I didn’t say “evolution disproved G-d”....
• Education propaganda on climate change
  I've come into possession of this year's Year 9 New Zealand high school social studies curriculum book...and would you take a look at the global warming propaganda thinly disguised as "education": The document is ludicrous, has no source citations for...

My Care2 Picks

• Sept. 15 Tribunal to hear evidence on Elizabet ...
  Exclusive interview with Rev. Kevin Annett of the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State. The ITCCS has the endorsement of over thirty organizations, including eight indigenous nations in North America and AsiaSubmitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Top US Official MURDERED for Exposing Cause of ...
  Secret transportation of WMD to Afghanistan by military tanker aircraft was marked by 2 accidents which mass killed birds and fishSubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Science Matters- Davis suzuki in Common Ground ...
  "I turned 75 in March. That means I probably won�t be around to see the worst impacts of climate change or any other looming environmental disasters � or the much brighter future that may emerge if we get off our butts to address the problems."Submitted by Ken Mci to Environment �|� �Note-it! � ...
• Model Behavior: In Climate Science, Its All A ...
  Linked from Coyote Blog : Climate scientists must assume large numbers of amplifying effects to multiply climate sensitivity to get the scary forecasts that we are used to seeing.Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• I Have Zero Respect For The Mainstream Media
  Silvia Cattori: Your political analysis, translated into dozens of languages [1], reaches a wide readership on the web. For whom exactly do you write? Gilad Atzmon: I write mainly for myself. I try to understand the world around meSubmitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

• Posada Carriles convoca a un “almuerzo fratern ...
  Posada Carriles convoca a un “almuerzo fraternal” a 25 dólares | Cubadebate Luis Posada Carriles , author of the bombing of a Cuban airliner with 73 people on board in 1976, hhas invited his... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Chávez talks to Telesur for 30 minutes
  granma.cu - OUR AMERICA: PRESIDENT Hugo Chávez of Venezuela told his people this Sunday that the operation which he underwent in Cuba was highly successful and that his state of health is good."They... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Farrakhan to hold press conference on US/NATO ...
  Farrakhan to hold press conference on US/NATO war on Libya: (FinalCall.com) - The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, of the Nation of Islam, will hold a press conference, Wednesday, June 15,... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Gaza hospitals in critical condition | Occupie ...
  Gaza hospitals in critical condition | Occupied Palestine | فلسطين: Gaza hospitals are suffering from a severe shortage of medical supplies.Medical centers in the Gaza Strip are facing a severe... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Rapa Nui professionals familiar with the work ...
  Rapa Nui professionals familiar with the work of Mapuche Machis | The User Input: "Fulfilling the commitment made in his first visit to Easter Island for 60 days, the National Director of CONADI,... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

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.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Former Blackwater guard sentenced for killing ...
  ShareThisFormer Blackwater guard sentenced for killing of Afghan civilian 14 Jun 2011 A mercenary in Afghanistan for the former Blackwater security firm was sentenced Tuesday in Norfolk, Va., to more than three years in prison for shooting an Afghan civilian in Kabul in May 2009. The contractor, ...
• Traces of radiation found in 2 whales off Japan
  ShareThisTraces of radiation found in 2 whales off Japan 15 Jun 2011 Japanese whalers caught two animals along the northern coast that had traces of radiation, presumably from leaks at a damaged nuclear power plant, officials said Wednesday. Two of 17 minke whales caught off the Pacific coast of ...
• Pakistan arrests 'five CIA informants'
  ShareThisPakistan arrests 'five CIA informants' 15 Jun 2011 Five suspected informants have been detained by Pakistan on accusations they helped the CIA monitor Osama bin Laden's hideaway in the weeks before he was shot dead in a US raid, Pakistani and American officials said. A Pakistani officia ...
• 'Violent Islam' in US prisons to be probed
  ShareThis'Violent Islam' in US prisons to be probed 15 Jun 2011 Congress is holding the second in a series of hearings about [alleged] violent Islamic radicalisation in the US, a subject so controversial that the first event drew days of protests from religious and civil rights groups and tears ...
• Radiation "hotspots" hinder Japan response to ...
  ShareThisRadiation "hotspots" hinder Japan response to nuclear crisis 15 Jun 2011 Hisao Nakamura still can't accept that his crisply cut field of deep green tea bushes south of Tokyo has been turned into a radioactive hazard by a crisis far beyond the horizon. "I was more than shocked," said Nak ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

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

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

• Just What We Needed Dept.: The Happy Hot Dog Man
  Weiners are getting altogether too much exposure these days, but we can't pass up this opportunity to complain about another of what the Unclutterer dubbed Unitaskers- tools or devices that do only one thing and clog up your drawers and cupboards. And what a stupid unitasker the Happy Hot Do ...
• WindMade: New Label for Products Made Using at ...
  Will companies be impelled to make more of an effort to use clean power if they were publicly recognized for their efforts? The folks behind Windmade are betting they will. Windmade is a new initiative spearheaded by Vestas, the Danish wind company, that will eventually allow companies to pl ...
• Timberland, Sustainable Business Leader, Sold ...
  Image: IvanWalsh.com via flickr Timberland, known here at TreeHugger for greening the outdoor clothing industry and for using its corporate weight to press for action on climate change, now has an uncertain future when it comes to keeping up those green business practices. VF Corp., parent ...
• What's The Greenest Insulation? It's Getting H ...
  Screen shot from Youtube video What's wrong with this picture? It is in a video promoting Ultra-touch denim insulation, showing an installer pushing a full-size batt into an irregular cavity. Either the insulation isn't going to work because it is compressed or it is going to pop the drywal ...
• Grilled Fruit and Cheese Plate
  Photos by Jaymi Heimbuch This recipe was created exclusively to pair with a bottle of 2008 Chardonnay from Medlock Ames. The wine is a good balance between mineral and citrus, with some subtle flo...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Missing Chinese engineers feared abducted
  Delegation from the Chinese company involved in the Tasang Dam asks Shan State Army to search for the four missing workers
• Currency crisis hits Burmese remittances
  Operators of informal money transfer system put services on hold as Burma gauges how its unstable currency will fare
• Chinese workers freed from Kachin dam
  Kachin army removes road blocks and allows Chinese engineers in the Taping power plant to return to China as fighting pauses
• Vietnam, Burma seek reciprocal support
  Delegation from Hanoi seeks support from Naypyidaw over South China Sea oil spat while Burma looks to build ASEAN alliance
• Fighting pauses as refugees flood China
  Hiatus in fighting after Kachin army destroys munitions stock, but officials prepare for resumption after both sides reiforce troops

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Climate change should be removed from the nati ...
  Climate change should be removed from the national curriculum, the government adviser conducting a review of the syllabus for five to 16 year olds in England has claimed.
• Industry begins to count the true cost of 'cli ...
  Heavy industry in Europe faces a crippling bill for global warming, says Christopher Booker.
• Australian landmarks threatened by climate change
  Many Australian landmarks are threatened by climate change.
• Australian climate change scientists receive d ...
  Australia's top climate scientists have been forced to move their offices to a secure location after they received death threats relating to their work on global warming.
• Australian landmarks threatened by climate change
  Climate change is threatening many of Australia's landmarks, including the Great Barrier Reef and Bondi Beach. Below is a comprehensive list of natural wonders under threat.

National Geographic | Environment

• Arizona Fire Threatens Hundreds of Ancient Sites
  Arizona's giant Wallow Fire could scorch hundreds of archaeological sites—some dating back 2,000 years—experts say.
• Google Creates $280 Million Fund to Finance So ...
  Search giant Google creates the largest fund ever to finance solar energy in the United States, hoping to break down the cost barrier to cleaner electricity.
• Pictures: Biggest Whale Shark "Swarm" Found
  NoneThe biggest gathering of the world's biggest fish—the whale shark—occurred in 2009 off Mexico, a new study says.
• Pictures: Nat Geo Picks of the Week
  NoneSee National Geographic photo editors' favorite news pictures of the week, including a cross-eyed opossum, an epic ashfall, and more.
• Pictures: At Five Years Old, BTC Pipeline Move ...
  NoneLandlocked Azerbaijan forged a powerful connection to the West five years ago when its oil began flowing to Turkey through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline.

Jurist - Legal Research

• UN denies reports it ordered close of Cambodia ...
  [JURIST] The UN on Tuesday denied reports it instructed the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) [official website] to close further investigations into war crimes committed under the Khmer Rouge [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archives] regime. In a controversial move, the ECC ...
• Kenya selects 5 appointees to serve on first S ...
  [JURIST] The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) [official website] of Kenya on Wednesday selected five appointees to serve on the nation's first Supreme Court. After taking a week to interview 25 candidates, the JSC panel selected [KBC report] one woman and four men to present to Kenyan President ...
• Accused Rwanda war criminal transferred to UN ...
  [JURIST] The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) [official website] announced Wednesday that Rwandan genocide suspect and former Hutu militia leader Bernard Munyagishari was transferred from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to the UN Detention Facility in Tanzania on Tues ...
• US lawmakers file suit against Obama for conti ...
  [JURIST] A group of 10 US congressmen filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] against President Barack Obama on Wednesday for circumventing Congress' authority by increasing military strikes against Libya. Representatives Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and Walter Jones (R-NC) [official websites] held a press c ...
• UN rights body urges investigation of Syria abuses
  [JURIST] The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official websites] on Wednesday published [press release] a preliminary report [text, PDF] describing human rights violations in Syria and calling for an investigation into government-authorized abuses related to pro-democ ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• Explaining Weinergate: When Good Politicians ' ...
  The impulse to do wrong can be irrational and come from a deep and inexplicable place in the psyche  Alex Hoyt The sociologist Laurie Essig asks in her Chronicle of Higher Education blog: Why would anyone destroy his career and perhaps even some of those around him for sexual plea ...
• The GOP's Pleasant Debate
  The New Hampshire GOP debate was, as Carl Cannon writes, a surprisingly friendly affair. Now that was more like it. Seven Republican presidential candidates showed up Monday night to debate one another at New Hampshire's Saint Anselm College, where they looked -- if not entirely president ...
• The Temptation to Go Rogue
  Why a moderate Republican nominee may inspire an especially immoderate campaign season If Mitt Romney wins the Republican primary, as likely an outcome as any if polls are to be believed, he'll have done so despite opposition from talk radio hosts, a policy record that includes a prominent he ...
• Questioning the Role of Patriotism in American ...
  A collectivist sense of nationalism permeates much of American identity, especially among those running for high office Reuters/Jim Young Almost all Americans profess pride in being American, by way of expressing their patriotism. We are indeed a patriotic bunch, although (ex ...
• Withdrawal From Afghanistan Will Likely Be Slow
  The White House's war review is still pending, but it probably won't lead to a speedier departure It's safe to say that Gen. David Petraeus will not present President Obama with a proposal to significantly reduce the footprint of the U.S. military forces in Afghanistan. Correspondin ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] CANSEC Arms Bazaar Protest, June 1, Ott ...
• [COAT] Put a SNAG in CANSEC: Spring Nuremberg ...
• [COAT] WikiWeapons Cda Exposes 18,888 Export C ...
• [COAT] Latest on Cda's Arms Exports & CANSEC r ...
• [COAT] Canada's Top Arms Show & Exporters to M ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

• US and Vietnam sign nuclear energy agreement | ...
• SKorea on alert after ship hit by mysterious b ...
• Obama administration may send U.S.-Russia arms ...
• Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the nation's en ...
• More tritium found at Vt. Yankee, NRC plans cl ...

Tikun Olam

• Israeli Intelligence Leaks Alleged Syrian Memo ...
  A former high ranking Israeli government source revealed to me that Israeli intelligence leaked to a pro-Israel British tabloid blogger an alleged Syrian government document claiming that the Syrian government organized the bus convoys which brought demonstrators to the Syria-Israel armistice li ...
• UN: Gaza Faces Highest Unemployment in World
  A new UNRWA report finds that Gaza, despite the so-called “easing” of Israel’s blockade, faces the highest unemployment in the world.  Almost half of all eligible workers cannot find a job.  By most accounts, the rate hovers at about the same level as the last report in 2009.  The number of p ...
• First Gaza Flotilla Ships Depart Scotland
  Channel 10 Israeli TV reports (Hebrew) along with Israel Radio that the first ships of the massive Gaza flotilla are expected to depart shortly (by now they may already have left port) from Scotland.  They will meet with the rest of the group of blockade-running ships on the high seas later thi ...
• Russian Oligarch Buys 20% Interest in Haaretz
  Leonid Nevzlin, former business associate of imprisoned Russian oil tycoon Mikhael Khodorkovsky, who fled Russia for Israel when the latter was arrested by the authorities, has bought a 20% stake in Haaretz, investing $40-million in the company (amazing to think that Haaretz’s total valuation is ...
• Israeli Entrepreneurs, Fearing BDS and UN Reco ...
  In a sign of the rising specter of BDS and its potential impact on Israel’s export driven economy (50% of its value is in exports), a group of 80 of the nation’s most important business leaders, met in closed session (Hebrew) sponsored by a peace group called Israel Initiates (website), to addre ...

Ode Magazine

• Robert Aitken Roshi's original peace
  By: PeaceCorso Robert Baker Dairyu Chotan Aitken Roshi (June 19, 1917 - August 5, 2010) was a Zen teacher in the Harada-Yasutani lineage. He co-founded the Honolulu Diamond Sangha in 1959 together with his wife. Aitken received Dharma transmission from Koun Yam ...
• Around the world on rubbish
  By: Samuel Rosenzweig When Ode’s managing editor Marco Visscher announced that he would be taking a sabbatical to travel the country with his family, a few heads turned. Not just because Marco would be leaving his San Francisco post to return to the Netherlands ...
• Three words that can help foster inner peace
  By: vdrake Disconnected, confused, harried, and dramatic. That was how I lived every day. Today I am calm, clear, and connected to my world and its surroundings in a peaceful loving way. What’s my secret? I became connected to my body’s sensations, a.k.a., my f ...
• Discovering a message of love
  By: mmlarsen On April 30, 2011, at 7:55 a.m., my sister Renee became an angel. Well, I suppose she already was one, but on that day it became official. Renee had been living with cancer for nearly eight years. What started out as breast cancer, became live ...
• Discovering a message of love
  By: mmlarsen On April 30, 2011, at 7:55 a.m., my sister Renee became an angel. Well, I suppose she already was one, but on that day it became official. Renee had been living with cancer for nearly eight years. What started out as breast cancer, became live ...

OpEd News

• Why the Pentagon Papers Matter Now
  To motivate voters and Congress to extricate us from these presidential wars, we need the Pentagon Papers of the Middle East wars right now. Not 40 years in the future. Not after even two or three more years of further commitment to stalemated and unjustifiable wars.
• The Bizarre Theft of Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski's ...
  "Burzynski, the Movie" is the story of Dr. Stanislaw R. Burzynski, a physician/scientist who has baffled--and apparently terrified--the American cancer industry by his ability to cure "incurable" cancers consistently, inspiring the FDA's 14-year campaign of harassment against him, and the biza ...
• Sound And Fury
  The Republican Presidential Debate: Demonizing President Obama
• The Republican Party Declares War on the Ameri ...
  The American people better heed the warning signs. The leadership of the Republican Party is making no secret of the fact that they intend to strip away all entitlements that exist to benefit Americans in need; this is a major part of the process by which they are waging war on the American peop ...
• The Great Recession's Lasting Effect On This G ...
  A common mistake that young entrepreneurs make is unwittingly starting highly cyclical and highly risky businesses, when it hasn't been all that long since the Great Recession

Switchboard

• Eastern Wyoming: one last wild area being dest ...
  Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. Most of the�Powder River Basin�in eastern Wyoming�is�far from its original wild state; instead it is�pockmarked with thousands of�coalbed methane wells, and criss-crossed with�associated roads and ...
• Attempts to Undermine California's ZEV Program ...
  Simon Mui, Scientist, Clean Vehicles and Fuels, San Francisco The Wall Street Journal recently reported that automakers and their trade associations are now fighting California’s next revision to its Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) program, a long-sta ...
• Study Follows Auto Industry Pattern of Overest ...
  Luke Tonachel, Vehicles Analyst, New York City The Center for Automotive Research released a new version of a previously discredited analysis claiming that the cost to meet improved fuel economy and pollution standards for cars and light trucks in ...
• Live Blogging Today's Senate Hearing, "The Cle ...
  Pete Altman, Climate Campaign Director, Washington, D.C. I attended this morning's Clean Air Act and Public Health hearing before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, jotting notes throughout. The complete batch: 12:48 Ok, as I w ...
• Returning to Rio to Protect and Empower Enviro ...
  Jacob Scherr, Director, Global Strategy & Advocacy, Washington, DC The Chico Mendes story is one that deserves to be told, and retold. A Brazilian rubber tapper, Mendes became a union leader and grassroots activist in the 1980s. He originated the ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Random Airport Blogging: SEA Edition
  I’m at the tail end of a LHR-ORD-SEA-PDX itinerary, on which I can happily state I have not paid for a single drink. That said, as I was (sadly soberly) meandering my way through the warrens that is Heathrow about . . . 20 hours ago, Heathrow seemed to serve as a perfect metaphor for the [...]
• Game 7
  Should be a good one. Even though Vancouver’s defense looks thin, I’ll regretfully say they’ll squeak another one out at home. My plan is to alleviate the tension by seeing a show and watching it on DVR…
• Court Rejects Argument That Only Hetersoexuals ...
  Fortunately, the idea that Judge Walker should recuse himself has been treated with the seriousness it deserves. Ed “But he even lives near San Fransisco!” Whelan doesn’t like the ruling. I look forward to his post arguing that it was inappropriate for the majority in yesterday’s securities liti ...
• Anti VD Propaganda from World War II
  Just wanted to alert people to this excellent collection of anti-venereal disease propaganda from World War II over at Sociological Images. Lisa Wade’s larger point is to explore the virgin/whore binary in this propaganda. Great stuff. Check it out.
• While I’m Enjoying Sunny Long Island…
  I’m traveling, and thus unfamiliar with any arguments, debates, quarrels, or skirmishes that may have developed over the past few days. However, I do have a couple of links. First, this week’s columnnis about reputation and the decision to remain in Afghanistan. Second, I wrote a guest post at T ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• Defense Department Offers Energy Strategy
  The U.S. Department of Defense has issued an energy strategy that is designed to make the U.S. military more energy independent and save soliders' lives.
• Solar Energy Gets $1.8B In Loan Guarantees
  The U.S. Department of Energy announces more federal backing, to the tune of $1.8 billion, for two concentrated solar power projects in California.
• Solar Powered Coffee Roaster Seeks Funding
  Solar Roast Coffee wants to develop a new solar-powered coffee roaster, and is seeking funds through Kickstarter to make this tech publicly available.
• Suntactics Solar USB Charger Gets Refresh
  A solar USB charger from a California-based company gets a new cover, new name and new price, while still using clean energy to charge your gear.
• Clean Energy Via Landfill Art To Power NYC
  Freshkills Park has been selected as the site for the 2012 Land Art Generator competition, which challenges designers to create public art that produces power.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Irvine wins provisional accreditation, but La ...
  The ABA's Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar granted provisional accreditation to UC-Irvine School of Law and revoked the provisional accreditation that the University of La Verne College of Law has held since 2006.
• Judge provisionally certifies classes in case ...
  A Boston federal judge has provisionally certified two classes in a case against Cigna Corp. subsidiaries that are alleged to have invested employee death benefits for their own profit without properly disclosing the practice or making a full accounting to beneficiaries.
• It's certified: These firms empower women
  The Women in Law Empowerment Forum has released the initial list of law firms qualifying for its new Gold Standard Certification — a designation for firms that have integrated women in top leadership positions and compensated them well.
• Dole settles pesticide claims with 5,000 forme ...
  Dole Food Co. Inc. has agreed in principle to settle the pesticide claims of more than 5,000 former banana workers in South and Central America who are represented by Provost Umphrey.
• Boston federal judge awards nearly $680K in fe ...
  A Boston federal judge has awarded a wine association close to $680,000 in attorney fees and expenses after it won a nearly five-year fight against a Massachusetts state agency over a state wine shipment law.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• 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.

environment 360

• Largest Gulf ‘Dead Zone’ Anticipated in Wake o ...
  The Gulf of Mexico’s hypoxic zone, an oxygen-depleted area created by excessive nutrient pollution, is expected to reach record proportions this year as a result of the extreme flooding in the Mississippi River basin, Click to enlarge Nancy Rabalais LUMCON/NOAASize of the ‘dead zone,’ 1985-2011 ...
• River Surge in U.S. Northwest Sparks Wind-Hydr ...
  A surge in hydroelectric power caused by a heavy spring flow in the Columbia River in the U.S. Northwest has forced authorities to shut down nearby wind energy operations for several hours a day to ease the stress on regional electric grid, triggering conflict between the two renewable energy se ...
• Severe Drought in Europe Threatens Crops and N ...
  One of Europe’s most severe droughts in a century is threatening crop production, shrinking some rivers to near-record low levels, and raising the specter that France may experience blackouts as some river-cooled Getty Images nuclear power plants may be forced to shut down. In France, the warm ...
• In Brazil, Palm Oil Plantations Could Help Pre ...
  In recent years, palm oil development in Malaysia and Indonesia has devastated tropical forests there. With Brazil on the verge of its own palm oil boom, can sustainable cultivation of the crop actually help save the rainforest, rather than hastening its destruction? BY RHETT BUTLER
• U.S. Unveils Programs to Modernize Electric Gr ...
  The Obama administration unveiled a series of initiatives to upgrade the nation’s electric grid, including $250 million in loans for so-called smart grid projects in rural areas and steps to secure the grid against cyber attacks. The strategy also calls on state and federal regulators to encoura ...

Red Ice Creations

• Leading Anthropologist Says Human Beings "Exti ...
  The theory that human beings may be extinction-proof has been put forward by a leading anthropologist. His article comes after the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) moved its famous Doomsday clock one minute further from midnight, to six minutes, thanks to ’progress seen around globe in bo ...
• "A Gay Girl in Damascus" - How the Hoax Unfolded
  For months Tom MacMaster convinced thousands of readers - including some media organisations - that his hoax blog "A Gay Girl in Damascus" was genuine. Here were examine how events unfolded which led to the diary being exposed as the work of the a married American man studying at the University ...
• IMF hit by ’very major’ cyber security attack
  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says it has been targeted by a sophisticated cyber attack. Officials at the fund gave few details but said the attack earlier this year had been "a very major breach" of its systems, the New York Times reports.The cyber attack took place over several months, ...
• Woman set to give birth from her own mother’s ...
  A young biology teacher is preparing to have her mother’s womb transplanted into her - in the hope she can have a baby, carrying it in the same womb that carried her. Sara Ottosson, 25, was born without reproductive organs. But her mother, Eva Ottosson, 56, a Nottingham-based businesswoman, has ...
• University films students suspected of extremism
  Confidential documents relating to a "major Islamist plot" have revealed that security staff from a leading university have been filming students on campus as a method of monitoring potential extremists.Student Sabir had downloaded an al-Qaida training manual as part of research for a dissertati ...

Russia Today

• UN Security Council’s politics complicate nucl ...
  Iran is promising transparency and constructive interaction with the UN's nuclear watchdog. In an exclusive interview with RT, Iran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency reiterated that Tehran has nothing to...
• RT crew attacked in Athens
  An RT crew has been hit by tear gas that was being used by police to disperse anti-austerity protests in central Athens. The protesters - said by some reports to number more than 20,000 - had encircled Parliament and...
• What’s going on in Greece now is war – journalist
  Anti-government protests in debt-stricken Greece have turned violent. Demonstrators clashed with police forces after tear gas was used to disperse protesters. People in central Athens are protesting against new...
• Rare lunar eclipse comes
  A total lunar eclipse will happen on Wednesday night, when the moon passes through center of Earth’s shadow as the moon, Earth and sun align. The smaller sphere will remain absolutely in the dark for 120 minutes.
• Czech Republic withdraws from US missile defen ...
  The Czech Republic will not host elements of the controversial antimissile shield. The country did not like the minor role which it was to play in the US defense plan.

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

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

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

• Bernanke Warns Against Linking Debt Ceiling to ...
  “Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Tuesday again urged congressional Republicans to support an increase in the debt ceiling ahead of the early August deadline set by Treasury Sec. Tim Geithner, saying that they are using the âwrong toolâ to cut spending by linking it with the debt limit.” ...
• Senate Maintains Ethanol Tax Favor
  “The Senate beat back a challenge to ethanol fuel subsidies on Tuesday in a demonstration of how the drive to cut the federal deficit can run headlong into a favored interest on Capitol Hill.” (New York Times) Business as usual. FEE Timely Classic “Ethanolics Anonymous” by Lawrence W. Reed
• Small Business Will Shrink Payrolls
  “In the latest sign that the economic recovery may have lost whatever modest oomph it had, more small businesses say that they are planning to shrink their payrolls than say they want to expand them.” (New York Times) When will the stimulus advocates admit they were wrong? FEE Timely Classic “An ...
• Free Banking Blog Comes on the Scene
  I’m happy to report that a new and badly needed blog has appeared: Free Banking, featuring the biggest names in the field, including Lawrence H. White, George, Selgin,  Gerald O’Driscoll, Steven Horwitz, and Kurt Schuler. I especially recommend Selgin’s “The State and 100 Percent Reserve Bankin ...
• Blame the Wheel
  President Obama says automation accounts for high unemployment today. He really said that. And he said: “You see it when you go to a bank and you use an ATM, you don’t go to a bank teller, or you go to the airport and you’re using a kiosk instead of checking in at the gate.” So maybe [...]

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

• GOP donor put on board of NC foundation his gr ...
  When North Carolina Democrats appointed board members of the Golden LEAF Foundation -- a state-charted philanthropy giving out money from the state's tobacco settlement -- conservatives lashed out at the foundation for being a "web of political cronyism" with a board "packed with generous campai ...
• Anti-union Southern companies tolerate -- and ...
  By Joe Atkins, Labor South The latest Labor South Roundup shows that Southern companies remain at the forefront of anti-labor activity in the United States even when at least one is willing -- if forced -- to tolerate unions abroad. First and foremost, of course, is Arkansas-based ...
• Feinberg has received BP cleanup illness claim ...
  By Ada McMahon, Bridge the Gulf "Feinberg says no claims filed on cleanup illnesses" ran an erroneous Associated Press headline last week, stirring up more mistrust of the BP claims process among Gulf Coast residents. It is simply not true that sick cleanup workers have not filed medical cla ...
• U.S. trade policy undercuts Obama's jobs push
  President Obama pledged to create new jobs during a visit yesterday to a high-tech lighting manufacturer in North Carolina, but the destruction of jobs unfolding at another lighting plant next door in Tennessee illustrates how U.S. trade policy is complicating those efforts. Obama met ...
• New Louisiana oil spill highlights industry's ...
  Illustrating the chronic threat that the oil industry presents to coastal communities and ecosystems, a new oil spill was discovered last week in Breton Sound near Venice, La., a rural community in Plaquemines Parish about 80 miles southeast of New Orleans. Fishermen first reported th ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

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

Ian Welsh

• The Psychiatric Drug Industry
  The New York Review of Books looks into the question of why there is an epidemic of mental illness, and if the drugs used to treat problems like depression actually work. Short answer, no, the evidence for the drugs working is exceptionally weak. Longer answer, the drugs mess with the patient’s ...
• The Psychiatric Drug Industry
  The New York Review of Books looks into the question of why there is an epidemic of mental illness, and if the drugs used to treat problems like depression actually work. Short answer, no, the evidence for the drugs working is exceptionally weak. Longer answer, the drugs mess with the patient’s ...
• The shiny
  Some brief points, since apparently the shiny distracts people. 1) This is not the 60s and 70s. This is not then. Repeat after me, “this is not the 60s”. The US then was much richer and fundamentally much stronger and more prosperous. There were many complaints behind the Arab spring, but at bot ...
• The shiny
  Some brief points, since people are apparently the shiny distracts people. 1) This is not the 60s and 70s. This is not then. Repeat after me, “this is not the 60s”. The US then was much richer and fundamentally much stronger and more prosperous. There were many complaints behind the Arab spring, ...
• Strategies for Resistance and Change
  There are multiple strategies for change in a corrupt and oligarchical society.  They aren’t all mutually exclusive.  Let’s run through some of them. Showing Up and Playing Nice (aka. Demonstrations) Demonstrations by themselves work when your lords and masters want them to.  In some time per ...

Media Consortium

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

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• Science live, tweeted by a killer of Pluto
  Open notebook science, in which scientists post their data publicly as fast as they take it, is taking a fresh turn with the release of results in real time via Twitter. On 11 June, astronomer Mike Brown of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena sparked huge interest by live-tweeting ...
• US primate research centre evacuated
  A massive explosion at a nearby chemical plant yesterday forced the evacuation of nearly 250 personnel from the New Iberia Research Center, a major primate center that houses 360 chimpanzees and 6500 macaques and other monkeys in southern Louisiana. No one was hurt in the 3:40 pm explosion at ...
• Neutrino experiments could test matter-antimat ...
  An international collaboration today reported first indications of the production of electron neutrinos from muon neutrinos, raising the prospect that it may be possible for future neutrino experiments to test for violation of an important symmetry of nature; that between matter and antimatter. ...
• Senate rejects bid to kill corn ethanol subsidy
  The US Senate rejected an effort to eliminate costly federal subsidies for corn ethanol Tuesday afternoon, even as lawmakers on both sides of the debate agreed that the time has come to do exactly that. The 40-59 vote came courtesy of Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, whose amendmen ...
• UK health reforms bring research promise
  Britain’s health minister will have a new duty to promote research under the latest revisions to the government's plans to reform the country’s National Health Service (NHS). Public disquiet over aspects of the government’s reform plans, mainly around the role of private providers, has forced ...

new geography

• Will the Last Family Leaving Seattle Please Tu ...
  New Census data for the Seattle area's population changes, 2000-2010, permit a preliminary look at age and at types of households in the region. Let's look at patterns of geographic variation in selected age groups and household types for places in greater Seattle. It provides more evidence for ...
• The Explosion of Oil and Gas Extraction Jobs
  From Appalachia to Alaska, the growth is eye-popping. Thousands of new jobs have sprouted up, most well-paying and all boons to their regions. There�s no denying oil and gas extraction jobs are on the rise, and not just in Texas and Oklahoma. North Dakota is drilling oil at a blistering pac ...
• Why Compact Cities Aren't so Smart
  I was interested to read the views of Rick Boven of the New Zealand Institute about central and local government needing to resolve their differences about the future of Auckland.  Well, they have worked on that since the establishment of GUEDO in 2005 (now the Auckland Policy Office).  Bu ...
• The Streets of Chengdu, A Photo Essay
  We all know or have heard about the overwhelming development going on in China. Journalists enthuse and analysts throw magnificent statistics of what seems to be a miracle. Yet there is little discussion of the daily life of the common people, and their struggle. There are miracles aplenty in ...
• Education as an Export
  A trade deficit is a negative balance between a nation’s imports and its exports, so a country with a trade deficit is spending more on imports than it is receiving for selling its exports. Is there any more that can be done to reduce this deficit over the course of time? One potential solution ...

GM Watch

• Govt backs high security GM test sites for UK
• Govt backs high security GM test sites for UK
• GM regulators chose ignorance over science
• GM regulators chose ignorance over science
• EFSA uses ILSI database and other industry sou ...

spiked

• Who’s really afraid of the working classes?
  Thatcher isn’t to blame for modern-day chav-baiting. It was fashionable anti-Thatcherites who made a mockery of the lower orders.
• Playing for England: glory or chore?
  Why more and more Premier League players just aren't that fussed about playing international football.
• Angry Boys: a smart and funny pop at PC
  Aussie comic Chris Lilley’s new mockumentary is a crude but well-observed swipe at illiberal modern society.
• Too many mouths to feed? Get stuffed
  Food prices aren’t rising because the Earth is full. But Malthusian commentators are certainly full of BS.
• Weiner: what a lame sex scandal
  The Anthony Weiner incident shows that politicians are now so lame that they don’t even do scandal well.

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

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

Desertification

• Growing your own fruits ? Try a tomato tree ! ...
  Many people in the drylands are looking for a fruit tree species to grow in their small kitchen garden.  Many citizens would like to have a such nice fruit tree close to their house.  Here is my recommendation : try … Continue reading →
• The irrefutable evidence of the FAO : decisive ...
  —————————– For many years already we have been promoting family (kitchen) gardens and allotment gardens (the “VICTORY GARDENS” of World War I and WW. II) as the most efficient tool to combat hunger, malnutrition and poverty (see a short list … Continue reading →
• More than 70 percent of the world’s poor ...
  Read at : http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110601/ap_on_re_us/us_food_and_farm_gates_agriculture_2 Gates Foundation spends $1.7B on farming in Africa By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP, Associated Press SEATTLE â The world’s largest charitable foundation announced five years ago it would spend millions of ...
• Previously forgotten under-utilised seeds in s ...
  Read at : http://agro.biodiver.se/2011/06/selling-seed-of-orphan-crops-in-kenya/ Selling seed of orphan crops in Kenya by LUIGI …………… a Kenyan seed company called Leldet, which⦠â¦now offers farmers the opportunity to buy different varieties of previously forgotten under-utilised seeds, more su ...
• Water management in Senegal is often presented ...
  Read at : http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=25385 Senegal: Water privatisation – country at crossroads Summary & Comment: “While the Senegalese government wishes to âdisengage financially from the water sectorâ, it is precisely the previous public management of water that has begun to im ...

The Paper Trail

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

backofthebook.ca

• Debating Libya
  By Alison@Creekside "He simply will not last very long," Harper said of Muammar Gaddafi back in March, as Canada prepared to drop $27-million of smart money smart bombs on Libya in order to oust him. As of now Gaddafi controls most of the country, including the capital. Today Parliament ...
• Revisited: Sun TV’s Ezra problem
  With the Sun News Network lately embarked on a jihad against government funding of the arts, it might be worth remarking: at least when artists are given money, they do what they're supposed to do with it. On the other hand, we have the example of SNN costume rack Ezra ...
• On SunTV and Margie Gillis
  On June 1, 2011, SunTV broadcast an interview with veteran Canadian dancer and choreographer Margie Gillis (see link below), which quickly turned abusive towards the guest. In a message on his facebook page, Canadian dancer Louis Laberge-Côté, currently a teacher at Nationaltheatre Manheim in Ge ...
• Wikileaks on Harper, America, and the “t ...
  By Alison@Creekside An embassy cable written by US Ambassador David Wilkins the day the Cons were first elected in 2006 suggests Harper would be useful in advancing the US agenda for Canada and that giving him " a success story" like the softwood lumber deal would "shore up" his ability to st ...
• Antimatter contained for 17 minutes; hello Vulcans
  by Eric Pettifor Canadian researchers (and others, but we'll focus on lauding our countrypersons) at CERN near North Battleford, Saskatchewan (ok, CERN is really in Switzerland, but it should be in Saskatchewan) have managed to capture and contain antimatter for a whopping 17 minutes (layper ...

libcom

• Insurgent Notes - NYC Demonstration leaflet
  Insurgent Notes flier for the NYC demonstration against the budget cuts, June 14-15, 2011. “These are hard times for our city,” says the billionaire mayor of New York in a voice that could double as a paint scraper in any hardware st ...
• Of Budgt Cuts and Union Officials
  2010_10_18_Trumka.jpg For the full, original article, feel free to visit the Trial by Fire. A great teacher of mine once said that when reading history, and revisiting the atro ...
• Riots in China
  Chines cops march June 2011.jpeg The conflicts began Friday after a fracas between security officers & a pregnant street vendor in Xintang, Guangdong province. Most protesters were migrant workers li ...
• Indignados in Seville and Barcelona: reports f ...
  Reports from anarchists in two different cities in Spain about the assemblies movement there. From late May/Early June 2011. Translated for The Commune. Indignados in Seville I find it difficult to write about the movement of indig ...
• Wildcat strike at Royal Mail sorting office ge ...
  cut-off.jpg Staff at a London sorting office have taken illegal strike action and won the reinstatement of a fellow worker. Around 90 postal workers at the N1 sorting office to ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

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

Scotts Contracting

• Misc Front Porch CAD Designs by Scotty
• Join in: Conversation Shaping St Louis Regiona ...
  Be part of the progress right from your computer! Today is the big day! St. Louis City and County are taking the next steps to move our region forward. You can be part of the progress right from your computer! Watch the conference live on http://live.HECtv.org and participate in the Q&A by tweet ...
• Remind Pres Obama about his Solar Pledge
  Dear Friends, Is President Obama going to miss his own deadline for re-installing solar panels on the White House roof? Last October, after a campaign led by 350.org, the Obama Administration committed to installing a new set of solar panels on the White House roof by the end of Spring 2011. Wit ...
• Residential Solar Electric Systems for $132/month
  My Solar Supplier is offering Residential Financing with monthly payments lower than your current electricity bill from Ameren. Payments as low as $132/month for a 5Kw system. No down payment required. Not a leasing program. Email me for the specifics at: scottscontracting@gmail.com or use the F ...
• USA Energy Savings Bill Targets Net-Zero by 2030
  On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Scotts Contracting wrote: What’s Happening from Environmental Building News â Paula Melton Senators Jeanne Shaheen (center) and Rob Portman (right) recently introduced the Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act, a massive energy bil ...

The View From Abroad

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

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Iran's Turmoil at the Top
  The president and the clerics have squared off in Tehran. Will it push Iran over the edge?
• Israel's 1981 Osirak Attack Poor Precedent for ...
  Israel's attack on Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor did little to halt Iraq's nuclear-weapons program.
• The Day Obama Decided
  Margit Berman's poem about the day the president decided to end the wars.
• If We Survive the Next 100 Years, Which Came F ...
  Can nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament treaties endure if states fail to resolve the issues between them?
• Webb's Parting Shots
  While Robert Gates is spreading his soothing fictions about the U.S. military, Jim Webb is raising some uncomfortable facts.

Law.com

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

Iranian.com

• ديکتاتور ! به پايان سلام کن
   You shall greet the end! or Say hello to the end, photo from Tehran خرداد :عکس:ديکتاتور ! به پايان سلام کن
• Gang rapes in Iran cause fear and religious co ...
  Recent reports of gang rapes in Iran are worrying women and raising questions about social values, reports Mohammad Manzarpour of the BBC Persian Service. In a religiously conservative town near the city of Isfahan, women at a private party were abducted last month and gang raped at knife poi ...
• Video: Iran to intensify dress crackdown
  The Iranian government has launched a crackdown against Western-style clothing. More than 70,000 "moral police" officers have been deployed in the capital Tehran, to enforce a government approved dress code. Women will be arrested if their headscarves do not fully cover their hair or their cloth ...
• China pushes Iran to return to talks
  BEIJING, June 14 (Reuters) - China's President Hu Jintao told his Iranian counterpart on Tuesday that six-nation talks were the best way to guarantee Iran's right of peaceful use of nuclear energy on the eve of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting in Kazakhstan. Hu told President Mahmou ...
• Ahmadinejad joins China, Russia leaders at summit
  ASTANA — Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday joined the Chinese and Russian leaders in a rare encounter at a summit in Kazakhstan, where he launched a new attack on the "slavers and colonisers" of the West. Host Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev urged the Shanghai Cooperation O ...

Most Revolutionary Act

• Has the Revolution Started Already?
  The revolution may be taking place under our noses as thousands of homeless Americans take possession of abandoned foreclosed homes – for the most part without interference by police or the banks that own them. America’s homeless problem predates the October 2008 economic collapse. In addition t ...
• Squatting 101
  With the growing recession and epidemic of foreclosures and homelessness, squatting is becoming increasingly common worldwide. By definition squatting is “illegally” occupying a building that doesn’t belong to you without the owner’s permission. Obviously the simplest form of squatting is remain ...
• The Language of Empire: Abu Ghraib and the Ame ...
  2005 Monthly Review Press Book Review The Language of Empire is an examination of the Abu Ghraib scandal, from the perspective that the US military’s use of torture was primarily an instrument of terror (i.e. a military tactic intended to cause intimidation). In addition to outlining what actua ...
• US vs Islamic Militants: Invisible Balance of ...
  Book Review US vs Islamic Militants: Invisible Balance of Power by Sajjad Shaukat is, in essence, a review of western military history as it relates to Balance of Power theory. The latter is based on the premise that in the absence of an international body capable of enforcing internationa ...
• Medicare for All: The Only Solution to Big Pharma
  Don’t Chop It – Expand It to Everyone for Real Cost Savings! www.healthcare-now.org/ In my view, the only solution to the mess “corporatization” has made of the US health care system is to follow the example of other industrialized countries and establish a single, nationally funded health progr ...

Doug's Darkworld

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

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

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

Discovery Educator Network

• Language Arts Lessons :: Live Angry Birds Vide ...
  Tags: angrybirds, writingprompts, TeachHubby: Dean Mantz
• Life Changine Science - Program 2: Virtual Ope ...
  Tags: science, biology, anatomy, education, Interactive, heart, virtual, surgeryby: Dean Mantz
• Connect-Collaborate-Create with Web 2 Tools
  Tags: web2.0, tools, resources, collaborate, technology, create, moodle, Webby: Dean Mantz
• DESIGN SQUAD NATION . Home | PBS KIDS GO!
  Comments:via @einram36 - Fred DelventhalTags: design, science, engineering, education, technology, projects, kids, students, stemby: Fred Delventhal
• Ideas For Using Edmodo - Google Docs
  Tags: ideas, edmodo, education, collaborationby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

• Farmer's Markets Innovations Make Healthy Food ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—There's often a throwback feel to farmer's markets, where you can seek out the same heirloom vegetable varieties your great-grandmother adored. Old-school, heritage-breed chicken eggs? Yep, a true farmer's market probably offers them. And while the farmer's market is a p ...
• The Nickel Pincher: DIY Wedding Favor Ideas
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—At the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the guests all left with luxurious wool scarves, sporting the Union Jack in various colorful prints, that cost about $75 each. Chances are, you haven't budgeted that amount of money into your next soiree. And do ...
• Have the Best Memorial Day Ever!
  It's almost here...the three-day weekend that marks the beginning of the sunny season of summer. But are you ready? read more
• How to Make Homemade Beer on Father's Day (or ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Father's Day is fast approaching, and it can be hard to think of presents for Dad, especially when his most-coveted gift is spending more time with his family. So give him your time…and fill it with beer-making. Home-brewing has been popular since the late 1970s when it ...
• Bye-Bye, SPF 90: FDA Cracks Down on Sunscreen ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Buying a bottle of sunscreen nowadays is about as confusing as reading the list of unpronounceable ingredients on its label. What's printed on the front of the bottle doesn't help: waterproof or not waterproof? Is SPF 100 really necessary? What does "broad spectrum" prot ...

big think

• Successful Pay-What-You-Can Model Proves Human ...
  A year ago, Ronald Shaich, the founder of Panera Bread, one of the biggest restaurant chains in the States, decided to try something different. He opened the Panera Cares Community Caf� in Colorado, an establishment that looked like and sold the same things as all the rest of the Panera Breads o ...
• Doctors and Medical Associations Join Effort t ...
  As I tracked with several colleagues in a 2009 paper, climate change-related health impacts such as�extreme heat, disease, and respiratory problems, and more vivid threats such as�hurricanes have received relatively limited news and public attention. According to our analysis, these types of hea ...
• Why Things will get worse in Yemen
  A couple of days ago Secretary of Defense Robert Gates gave a wide-ranging interview to the Associated Press, touching on Yemen. The secretary, who earlier this year admitted the US had done little to no post-Salih planning, sounded an optimistic note on Yemen's future, saying he didn't think ...
• A technology broadside against school leadersh ...
  Well, I finally wrote the article I always wanted to write: a letter to my 3,000+ faculty peers in Educational Leadership preparation programs all across the country about how our collective inattention to technology-related issues is an embarrassing indictment of our lack of relevance: Are we ...
• Is the Sun About to Hibernate?
  What's the Latest Development? Despite all the incredible solar flare action we've seen in recent months, solar researchers are actually predicting the sun is about to fall into the doldrums,�again.�Researchers from the National Solar Observatory (NSO) and the Air Force Research Laboratory hav ...

Information Liberation

• Blocking Police Brutality with CopBlock.org
  In this special report Gary Franchi is joined by Nick Saorsa and Drew Phillips, contributors to the website CopBlock.org. They discuss the recent rise in police swat team usage and the practical and ways average Americans can take action to protect...
• Hunt for Man Who Violated Parole, Fired at Pol ...
  Once again, the government and the corporate media are busy at work trying to portray anti-government activists as murderous terrorists. *Montana authorities are on a manhunt for an *extremely dangerous* former militia leader who triggered a shoo...
• A Boatload of Cruelty
  "*ecause they considered (them) *useless eaters* * [Nazi] authorities generally selected [children], along with the elderly, ill, and disabled, for the first deportations to killing centers, or as the first victims led to mass graves to be sho...
• Virginia Is Not for Small Businesses
  No matter how bad the economy gets, governments at all levels will always put their own petty authority ahead of productive market activities. An example is the Batesville Store in rural Albermarle County, Virginia, which was closed -- without notice...
• Don't Text Me, Bro
  Yep. As is usual with the news that comes my way nowadays, I thought this was a joke. The Texter-in-Chief, Herr Obama, has expanded the Federal Communications Commission's emergency alert system to allow the government to terrorize you with its fear ...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• Not A Good Time To Visit Tasmania
  But before Tourism Tasmania sends a hit man out after me, let me tell you why. It’s Chile’s fault. Well, the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcano, anyway. It started up again the other day and ash has been blown eastwards two-thirds of … Continue reading →
• Gone Skiing
  Well, I wish I was anyway. Today marks the start of the Australian ski season, and reports from all resorts indicate it’ll be a ripper. I was reminded of this story from 2008 in which our peak taxpayer-funded science body, … Continue reading →
• My Favourite Pom
  Sorry folks: that’s it for penises and Jews for me for a while. I thought I’d pay brief homage to one of the century’s greatest philosophers, connoisseurs, insanely fast drivers and all-round bon vivants. Every Monday evening, the house stops for … Continue reading →
• The Last Respectable Prejudice
  I can’t believe I’ve just read this in 2011. The Melbourne Herald-Sun’s Andrew Bolt picked up on this article in the Los Angeles Times, regarding a citizen-initiated referendum in the state of California seeking to outlaw male circumcision. Now, I’m not … Continue reading →
• Free Speech, Gag Orders And Accountability
  I’m going to tackle this in more depth a little later. But the other day I was shown (Hat-tip Izen) the existence of something called super-injunctions, of which prior till now I’d been blissfully ignorant. It’s important enough to call … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

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

RFF Library

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

Scientific American - News

• Stricter Regulation of Formaldehyde Remains Un ...
  Late last week, the Department of Health and Human Services classified formaldehyde as "a known carcinogen," adding its verdict to two similar reports released by key agencies since 2009.But despite the growing scientific consensus about how formaldehyde can affect human health, it remains ...
• Beyond Condoms: The Long Quest for a Better Ma ...
  A joke among researchers in the field of male contraception is that a clinically approved alternative to condoms or vasectomy has been five to 10 years away for the past 40 years. The so-close-yet-so-far state of male contraceptive development has persisted in large part because of three serious ...
• The Fog of Cyber War: What Are the Rules of En ...
  There is some speculation among some politicians and pundits that the fog of war will soon extend to the Internet, if it has not already, given a recent report that the U.S. Defense Department will introduce its first cyber warfare doctrine this month, combined with similar announcements from th ...
• Green Fluorescent Protein Makes for Living Lasers
  In a unique fusion of biology and physics, researchers have created the world's first living laser. Single cells containing a special protein that acts as an optical amplifier have been coaxed to emit green laser light, according to a new study. And, perhaps surprisingly, the cell survives its s ...
• Seeking Address: Why Cyber Attacks Are So Diff ...
  Cyber attacks may not be a new phenomenon but the recent successes scored against high-profile targets including CitiGroup , Google , RSA and government contractors such as Lockheed Martin underscore the targets' current failure to block security threats enabled by the Internet. Malicious ...

First Truths

• Operation Empire State Rebellion
• Anarchists against "idlers"
  Excerpted from The Individualist Anarchists: An Anthology of Liberty (1881-1908)�edited by Frank H. Brooks: But, more logical and more honest than [Herbert] Spencer, [anarchists] wish to carry this diminution to the utmost, and destroy all the support which the State gives to one part of its cit ...
• "New Monetary Economics"
  Excerpted from M. June Flanders International Monetary Economics 1870-1960: Between the Classical and the New Classical: Cowen and Kroszner place the roots of the current New Monetary Economics rather in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, primarily in the United States rath ...
• 19th century America and "Indian dispossession"
  From Michael Paul Rogin's Fathers & Children: Andrew Jackson and the Subjugation of the American Indian. Here, Rogin, like so many scholars of Marxism, conflates "free market" and "American capitalism," but the thesis he embarks upon in this book is a crucial one: Liberal America was not a stati ...
• "The Invention of Capitalism"
  The following is a passage from Michael Perelman's The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation. I should add, in response to Perelman, that not all of us are mistaken, readily acknowledging (as he seems to here) the difference between ...

Media Co-Op

• "Students for Posties"
  Montreal student groups rallying behind Canada's postal workers As Canadians woke up to Canada Post's lock-out of the country's postal workers this morning, students across Montreal are rallying to postal workers' sides. Four montreal stud ...
• My Story of Domestic Violence and Child Appreh ...
  âIn Our Own Voices,â Week II I was abused by my ex partner, who is also my children’s father, for ten and a half years. I had four children with him - Angela, Rosalie, Mike, and Jackson. I was beat all throughout my first pregnancy, and as ...
• A march toward a new chapter in Quebec environ ...
  As La marche pour une moratoire d'une génération arrives in Montreal, we reflect on what 2011 has meant for the Quebec environmental movement “Building a new movement doesn’t come without ruffling some feathers,” says Philippe Duhamel, t ...
• The Tipping Point #1 Project Fly Home
  Creating momentum, creating victories. The Tipping Point is a new column which focuses on a particular political campaigns happening within Canada in hopes of inspiring support, giving it the momentum to become a tangible win. It was easy ...
• Rise up against the Tories! Anti-Harper Anti-C ...
  Hundreds march in Ottawa to oppose the Conservative Party national convention and Prime Minister Harper's keynote speech, his first major address since gaining a majority ...

David Seaton's News Links

• Humanity: up a tree, with no fireman in sight
  Raghuram Rajan�The ultimate reason for all real crises always remains the poverty and restricted consumption of the masses as opposed to the drive of capitalist production to develop the productive forces as though only the absolute consuming power of society constituted their limit.� [ ...
• Movements without "leaders"
  David Seaton's News LinksThe other day, a top American political consultant, Matthew Dowd, was visiting Madrid and was interviewed by the local "newspaper of reference", El País. When he was asked his opinion about Spain's "15th of May" citizen's movement, AKA, "The Spanish Revolution" or "Los I ...
• Times Change
  David Seaton's News LinksI happened on this clip and I began to wonder about how something that was once so mainstream, so top of the line, so wholesome, so American "family" entertainment, now looks so painfully like a charter flight full of scummy, leering, pedophile, sex tourists setting of ...
• Memento Mori: In a hundred years we'll all be bald
  "It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up -- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kubler-RossDavid Seaton's News LinksA favorite subject ...
• Better watch out for the cucumber that ate Ham ...
  The number of people hit by a massive European outbreak of foodborne bacterial infections is a third bigger than previously known and a stunningly high number of patients suffer from a potentially deadly complication than can shut down their kidneys, officials said Wednesday. Associated Press Y ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• 3 Ways to Improve Your Eyesight
  Yahoo Health has collected some tips you can use to sharpen your vision. Here are some of them: 1. Eat Right Vitamins A, C, E, and minerals like copper and zinc are essential to eyesight. Antioxidants protect your macula from sun damage, and foods rich in sulfur, cysteine, and lecithin help ...
• Help Make Your Body 62% Stronger - Flood it Wi ...
  By Dr. Mercola What if you could increase your strength and stamina, decrease your post-exertion recovery time and decrease soreness after physical activity? Sounds too good to be true, doesn't it? There just happens to be a natural compound that clinical studies are proving helps do just ...
• Dairy Farmers Fight Radiation with Boron
  An open letter from organic dairy farmers in Hawaii explains how to reduce radiation in milk and vegetables. The letter explains that boron can be used to capture radioactivity. The letter states that boron is the only mineral capable of accepting and ionizing radiation that never changes the n ...
• The Best Relaxing Sounds Ever -- the Ocean
  Need to de-stress? Listen to something calming, soothing, and relaxing.
• The Popular Food that Turns Your Gut into a Pe ...
  Robyn O’Brien shares her personal story and how it inspired her to become a Real Food evangelist. Her journey started when one of her children had a dangerous allergic reaction to a "typical" breakfast.

JAMA

• Tetanus Surveillance--United States, 2001-2008 ...
• Prevalence of Obesity Among Adults With Arthri ...
• Preventing Malaria [The World in Medicine]
• Treating Snakebites [The World in Medicine]
• Nuclear Sites and Leukemia [The World in Medicine]

Survival - tribal peoples

• 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

• Prostitutes, like everyone else, deserve safety
  Canadians should have realized that prostitution in Canada could never be the same after British Columbia pig farmer Robert Pickton was convicted of the horrific killing of six prostitutes
• Prostitutes, like everyone else, deserve safety
  As details of the shocking case spread across the country, some prostitutes came to believe their only recourse was to fight against a legal system that put them at heightened risk.
• The Gazette's View: Prostitutes, like everyone ...
  Canadians should have realized that prostitution in Canada could never be the same after British Columbia pig farmer Robert Pickton was convicted of the horrific killing of six prostitutes.
• Save Canada Post? Why bother?
  A Gazette editorial last week concluded that "despite its failings, Canada Post is worth saving."
• Save Canada Post? Why bother?
  A Gazette editorial last week concluded that "despite its failings, Canada Post is worth saving."

Food World Order

• 'poisoned' book delivered to obama and all of ...
  from food poison journal: Lindsey Ward of WSLS reported that author Jeff Benedict provided the President, First Lady, Secretary Vilsack and Secretary Sebeilus, along with each member of the House and Senate, a copy of the book ‘Poisoned.’ The book tells the story, from an attorney's perspective, ...
• ewg releases 2011 'dirty dozen'; apples top li ...
  from cbsnews: That shiny little apple you're eating has a dirty little surprise. At least, that's what a food safety watchdog claims in its annual examination of government produce tests. The Environmental Working Group says apples top its "Dirty Dozen" list of fruits and vegetables with the hig ...
• e.coli won't have 'significant impact' on orga ...
  from bloomberg: A deadly E.coli outbreak that is being blamed on sprouts grown without chemicals probably won’t dent people’s support for the organic food industry in the long term, according to London-based analyst Organic Monitor. The outbreak has killed 22 and made 2,263 people ill, accordin ...
• coffee scandal brewing: did portland's stumpto ...
  from gothamist: Coffee crisis! Maybe! Flatiron's favorite cuppa, Stumptown, is at the center of a highly caffeinated brouhaha over whether or not it's been sold. Here's what's going on: Esquire's "Eat Like A Man" blog published an article today written by high-end roaster La Colombe Torrefa ...
• food pyramid being replaced with plate-shaped logo
  from ibtimes: The US federal government will stop using the food pyramid it first introduced in 1992. The 20 year old food pyramid was a basis for nutritional guideline throughout the United States. However, there were many shortcomings to the old Food Pyramid. For instance, it never advised how ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

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

CASSE

• Why Stop at Massive Economic Growth when Infin ...
  Dr. Mountebank urges economists, lesser scientists and all citizens to try on infinite growth for size.
• What Should We Tax?
  Herman Daly suggests a simple rule: tax what we want less of, not what we want more of.
• The Role of Religious Congregations in Promoti ...
  Stewardship of creation requires people to accept the limits to growth and manage the economy accordingly. Religious congregations can help spread this idea.
• Mountebank Wins Nobel for Infinite Planet Theory
  Infinite planet theory gets a well-deserved nod from the establishment.
• Two Schools and the Path to the Steady State
  Concerned about the fate of civilization? Maybe there's some good news from an unlikely source.

The Talking Clock

• Quote of the Day: 15th June 2011
  "We have absolutely no business complying with any demand of the European Parliament. They have no status whatsoever." - Bill Cash MP ...couldn't agree more. And as we keep on saying, under our constitution of England, every single signature on every single European Union piece of legis ...
• England, know your law: Magna Carta, 796 years ...
  Today is the 796th anniversary of one of the key pillars of the REAL laws of England. Yes, this is Magna Carta. Magna Carta is supreme and beyond the reach of those treacherous scumbags who, on the whole, form our Parliament. Readers are reminded and requested to pay particular attention t ...
• In a sentence, why Cameron must now sack outed ...
  In just one sentence... David Cameron must sack his now-outed Bilderberg-attending Chancellor George Osborne because nobody can trust that this is not a smokescreen for the direct result of instructions received while in Switzerland with his Bilderberg slimeball mates last week. Bilderberg ...
• Quote of the Day: 12th June 2011
  "For such a person, who is primarily responsible for countless sleepless nights, suffered by British subjects in foreign prison cells, and their relatives, such a reward is, in my humble opinion, an affront." - William Dartmouth, UKIP, is disgusted by the knighthood of Lib Dem MEP Graham Wats ...
• Italian foreign ministry demanding answers aft ...
  The Bilderberg Conference looks set to end up at the centre of an international diplomatic row. The Italian Foreign Ministry and the Italian Embassy in Switzerland are demanding answers after Italian MEP Mario Borghezio was assaulted by Bilderberg security. More info: Swissinfo.ch H/T: ...

Facing South

• GOP donor put on board of NC foundation his gr ...
  When North Carolina Democrats appointed board members of the Golden LEAF Foundation -- a state-charted philanthropy giving out money from the state's tobacco settlement -- conservatives lashed out at the foundation for being a "web of political cronyism" with a board "packed with generous campai ...
• Anti-union Southern companies tolerate -- and ...
  By Joe Atkins, Labor South The latest Labor South Roundup shows that Southern companies remain at the forefront of anti-labor activity in the United States even when at least one is willing -- if forced -- to tolerate unions abroad. First and foremost, of course, is Arkansas-based ...
• Feinberg has received BP cleanup illness claim ...
  By Ada McMahon, Bridge the Gulf "Feinberg says no claims filed on cleanup illnesses" ran an erroneous Associated Press headline last week, stirring up more mistrust of the BP claims process among Gulf Coast residents. It is simply not true that sick cleanup workers have not filed medical cla ...
• U.S. trade policy undercuts Obama's jobs push
  President Obama pledged to create new jobs during a visit yesterday to a high-tech lighting manufacturer in North Carolina, but the destruction of jobs unfolding at another lighting plant next door in Tennessee illustrates how U.S. trade policy is complicating those efforts. Obama met ...
• New Louisiana oil spill highlights industry's ...
  Illustrating the chronic threat that the oil industry presents to coastal communities and ecosystems, a new oil spill was discovered last week in Breton Sound near Venice, La., a rural community in Plaquemines Parish about 80 miles southeast of New Orleans. Fishermen first reported th ...

CenterLine

• Today’s Terrorism News
  In Association with The Soufan Group Pakistan Arrests CIA Informants Who Helped with bin Laden Search Pakistanâs top military spy agency has arrested some of the Pakistani informants who helped the CIA locate Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, according to … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  In Association with The Soufan Group New CIA Drone Campaign Planned for Yemen The CIA plans to launch an armed drone campaign against militants in Yemen, according to news first reported by the Wall Street Journal. For the past 18 … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  In Association with The Soufan Group Mastermind of U.S. Embassy Bombings Killed in Somalia Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, al Qaedaâs leader in East Africa and the alleged architect of the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, was killed … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Mixed Verdict in Chicago Terrorism Trial After two days of deliberation, a Chicago jury found Tahawwur Rana guilty of supporting a thwarted attack on a Danish newspaper and of providing support to the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-i-Taiba, but not guilty … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Zawahiri Releases Video Praising bin Laden Al Qaedaâs Ayman al-Zawahiri appeared in a video released Wednesday eulogizing Osama bin Laden and warning the United States that it will face reprisals for his death, according to reports. But terrorism analysts were … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

• New ice age? Don't count on it
  A host of media outlets are claiming that the sun is about to stall and plunge us into a new ice age, but it won't
• Today on New Scientist: 15 June 2011
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: DNA testing divides American Indians, ketamine kills bladder cells, and colourful kite photography
• Arizona wildfire creeps toward small town
  The Wallow fire has consumed over 190,000 hectares, burned out dozens of houses and displaced 10,000 people
• Today on New Scientist: 14 June 2011
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: What makes cephalopods clever, mother-to-daughter womb transplants, and the internet in a suitcase
• Chytrid fungus spreads to last protected region
  A devastating fungal disease has reached the last disease-free region of Central America, threatening Panama's endangered frogs

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

• Anti-austerity clashes erupt in Athens, report ...
  Riot police fire tear gas and protesters hurl Greek yoghurt as anti-austerity clashes erupt in Athens By Wil Longbottom, Daily Mail Last updated at 3:06 PM on 15th June 2011 Riot police clash with protesters outside parliament in Athens EU Commission warns Greece may need an extra £17.6billion t ...
• “The most flagrant violation of the law ...
   Greece’s economy is shrinking; its national debt is soaring towards 170% of the GDP ; it now has the worst credit rating in the world. This is the result one year after the EU, IMF and ECB arranged a three-year, â¬110bn loan for Greece to pay its creditors – and in spite of the evidence tha ...
• FT’s Alphaville discusses downgrade of F ...
  French exposure to Greece, an Argentine deja vu Posted by Joseph Cotterill on Jun 15 08:52. http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2011/06/15/594571/french-exposure-to-greece-an-argentine-deja-vu/ “One question here, by the way â how could SocGen possibly have reduced Greece exposure in any significant ...
• Germany and ECB/France continue stand off over ...
  BRUSSELS, June 15 (Xinhua) — Finance ministers of eurozone countries failed to agree on a new financing plan for Greece at an emergency meeting Tuesday, fighting over the degree of private sector involvement in additional rescue for Athens. Read more at: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/bus ...
• ECB increases loans to Spanish banks to 53 bil ...
  *The number of ECB loans to Spanish banks increased by 11 billion euros in May, up from 42 billion in April to 53 billion euros *what quality of collateral are Spanish banks offering? Will tax payers have to bleed again? *Spanish banks are borrowing directly from the ECB because of the higher co ...

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. [...]

Veterans Today

• US Congressman Asks Iraqis to Pay for Iraq War
  Republican representative Dana Rohrabacher asked Iraqis to pay for the destruction, invasion, and occupation of Iraq. f the law and legal precedent mean anything, it is the US that should pay reparations to Iraq.
• “Stop The War Coalition” Afghanist ...
  Before long public pressure might just lead Britain to drop out of participation in US wars, a move that would seriously damage future pretenses of acting as an international coalition.
• The Power of the Veteran and Active Military Vote
  25 million veterans and military personnel must use the power of the vote to preserve the rights and benefits we've earned
• Osama bin Laden: Closing the Case on an Innoce ...
  This system is totally controlled by American Zionists whose first priority is Israel, not the USA. Zionist Slaves, the American people are forced to live according to principles and laws laid by them.
• Pakistan “Do More or Else!”
  The statement of the Secretary of State for US has become a joke in Pakistani drawing rooms. “Pakistan must Do more”.

electric politics

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

PR News

• Sealy folds PR into overall strategy
  TRINITY, NC: With a new communications team in place, Sealy has placed a greater emphasis on integrating PR into its overall marketing strategy.
• Sealy folds PR into overall strategy
  TRINITY, NC: With a new communications team in place, Sealy has placed a greater emphasis on integrating PR into its overall marketing strategy.
• Aflac taps PainePR for corporate communications
  COLUMBUS, GA: Aflac has hired PainePR to handle its corporate communications, following a competitive RFP process.
• Aflac taps PainePR for corporate communications
  COLUMBUS, GA: Aflac has hired PainePR to handle its corporate communications, following a competitive RFP process.
• Latergy and iPressroom join forces
  ORLANDO, FL: iPressroom, an online newsroom and social media developer, partnered with video marketing and comms firm Latergy.

The Story Behind the Story

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

k2p blog

• An inconvenient solar minimum..
  Solar science and the possibility that a Maunder-like Minimum may be approaching seems to have caught the fancy of the MSM.
• Gaddafi gets tickets for the Olympics
  The Libyan regime has successfully requested close to 1,000 tickets to events at the London Olympics.
• Major Drop In Solar Activity Predicted: Landsc ...
  As the current sunspot cycle, Cycle 24 approaches its low maximum, independent studies of the solar interior, visible surface, and the corona all indicate that the next 11-year solar sunspot cycle, Cycle 25, will be greatly reduced or may not happen at all.
• Sun goes quiet again but proton events and hei ...
  While sunspot numbers and 10.7 radio flux have gone quiet again in May after springing to life in April, proton events on the sun continue to indicate a period of heightened volcanic and earthquake activity.
• Climate change teaching to get back to science ...
  Climate change should not be included in the national curriculum so as to get back to the science in science, the government adviser in charge of overhauling the school syllabus in England has said.

Left Foot Forward

• NATO’s stabilising role following the Arab Spring
  With Gaddafi's regime on the brink NATO has begun to consider post-conflict plans for Libya - but what role can the alliance play? Felix Grenfell Bozek reports.
• Former undercover cop’s media circus is just a ...
  This morning BBC Radio Five Live demonstrated the utter futility of interviewing former undercover police officer Mark Kennedy - a career liar.
• Looking behind the headlines in today’s employ ...
  Today’s job figures are good, but the news on public sector employment is turning gloomy much faster than expected - and there are quite a few other worries.
• Democratic erosion, profiteering and tax haven ...
  The vast profits made by contractors and banks selling equity in Private Finance Initiative project companies was exposed this week, reports Dexter Whitfield.
• Attwood calls on councils to practice a “new o ...
  The Northern Ireland minister overseeing local government has called on councillors to put aside their sectarian differences following a series of disputes.

Consumerist

• Homeowners Find Out Their House Is Stolen, Con ...
  A family in California thought they'd purchased their dream home last summer, only to later find out that the property had been stolen and illegally sold to them. Now they're stuck making mortgage payments on a house they could be evicted from at any moment. According to KABC-TV, the previous ...
• I Just Want A Nintendo 3DS That's Not Broken
  Ray is a huge Nintendo fan. Which is why it hurts so much that every time he tries to get his defective 3DS replaced, they send him another one that has a different defect. The first 3DS had dead pixels, the second had deep scratches, and the top screen was sliding on the third. Now he's on his ...
• Starbucks Responds To Alleged "Attack" On Gay ...
  After a woman's story about a Starbucks worker she allegedly saw getting forced to hand in his keys while being told by a shift supervisor his co-workers didn't want to hear about his homosexual lifestyle anymore went viral, the coffee giant has pledged to investigate. Her partner posted on he ...
• Cable Companies Finally Realizing They Might H ...
  What has cable company executives losing sleep at night? It's certainly not thoughts on how to improve customer service or billing. But it's also not Netflix, Hulu, BitTorrent or any other obvious customer siphon. No, cable suits confess, it's actually the fact that a growing number of American ...
• PR Company Tells Reviewers To Write Nice Thing ...
  The publicist for the long-awaited Duke Nukem Forever video game isn't too thrilled that the video game reviewers of the world haven't crowned the game as the greatest thing since the wheel. But instead of internalizing his frustration or making whispered threats and promises to reviewers, he w ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

• EU Corporate Social Media in 2011: “Mixed and ...
  LONDON: The 6th annual Social Media Influence 2011 programme in London Tuesday was notable for organisers bringing top international brands to the dais and stunning verbal missteps. It has been quite a year since their 2010 edition. Major corporations seemed stymied at the pace of market develop ...
• We Get the Media We Want
  “The media” is our favorite whipping boy. It’s shallow, petty and often stupid. It misses points, focuses on the wrong things, and completely ignores the bigger issues. It’s prone to obsess on trivial rivalries and scandals instead of thoughtful substantive discussions about things which affect ...
• The Swamp of Washington and the Morass of the ...
  Washington was built on a swamp. In the summer, temperatures can reach over 100 degrees — as they did over the last few days when I made the rounds of Washington Democrats, repeatedly asking why no bold jobs plan is emerging. Here’s a sample of their responses: “Dead in the water. We’ll be lucky ...
• The Swamp of Washington and the Morass of the ...
  Washington was built on a swamp. In the summer, temperatures can reach over 100 degrees — as they did over the last few days when I made the rounds of Washington Democrats, repeatedly asking why no bold jobs plan is emerging. Here’s a sample of their responses: “Dead in the water. We’ll be lucky ...
• Why Bill Gates, Syngenta and Rockefeller Are N ...
  When names like Gates, Rockefeller and Syngenta show up as key players on the same project, I find time to dig a bit deeper. One thing this elite group can not be accused of is a reluctance to make an impact on the world, be it positive or negative. So what could get them all [...]

NewsAlert

• Worst in nation: 83 percent of Chicago arreste ...
  The Chicago Sun-Times
• Google denies special deal for Barack Obama
  Politico
• The 'Achievement Gap' Fraud
  The American Thinker reports:Our educational system is self-destructing because of a fraud known as the "achievement gap." One result of that fraud is that public school bureaucrats are taking away opportunities from good students in a misguided effort to help underperforming students. When th ...
• Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders Prepares Legi ...
  The Huffington Post
• Top radio talkers sell endorsements
  Politico reports:The Heritage Foundation pays about $2 million to sponsor Limbaugh’s show and about $1.3 million to do the same with Hannity’s – and considers it money well spent.

JoNova

• Mark the moment! The first renegade science co ...
  Apart from conferences organized by the Heartland Foundation I don’t recall a skeptic dominated professional conference or science association convention. Skeptics have spoken at many conferences before, but this time the skeptical speakers vastly outnumbered the fans of the IPCC, ten to one. Th ...
• Climate helped drive Vikings from Greenland
  For the first time temperatures over the last 5,600 years have been reassembled from the inhabited area of Greenland. (Other estimates were from ice-cores that are far inland.) William DâAndrea, the paperâs first author says: â.. we can say there is a definite cooling trend in the region right b ...
• Killing people with “concern”? Bio ...
  The precautionary principle is exposed again for the insidious mindless posturing that it is. Biofuel policies push more people into poverty as food prices rise and the poor are forced to spend more of their income on food. In a study  published in  Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, I ...
• Killing people with “concern”? Biofuels lead t ...
  The precautionary principle is exposed again for the insidious mindless posturing that it is. Biofuel policies push more people into poverty as food prices rise and the poor are forced to spend more of their income on food. In a study  published in  Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, I ...
• When top scientists take 2 years to publish, i ...
  Ladies and Gentlemen this is the front line trench of modern science. If climate science is so important, and there is no time to waste, why does the system try so hard to discourage dissent (because they don’t want to find the truth, only the “correct” answer)? This paper by Lindzen and Choi wa ...

ReNew America

• The meaning of big government
  (Patrick Garry, RA analyst) - Ever since the 2010 elections, with the prominent role of the Tea Party, there has been much discussion about big, centralized government. Conservatives, libertarians, and Tea Party activists argue that America has drifted too far from the constitutional principle o ...
• Media blackout: CIA director accused of links ...
  (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - If you have been depending on the mainstream media for your news the past few days, you are probably learning here for the first time that CIA Director Leon Panetta has been called out for his links to an important open member of the Communist Party...
• 2012 Obama victory: reaching socialism's tippi ...
  (Gary Bauer) - In a recent meeting with a leading Republican presidential hopeful, I asked the candidate why he's running for the nation's highest office. He looked me in the eye and stated flatly his belief that America may not survive a second Obama term--that President Obama's policy agenda i ...
• The trouble with libertarians
  (Joseph Farah) - There was a time when I considered myself something of a libertarian. I never liked the label "conservative." Conservatives for me were ... well ... too conservative, for lack of a better way of saying it. I actually wanted to shrink the federal government down to a size reflect ...
• Astonishing lawsuit: Hamas DC lobby sues to ba ...
  (WorldNetDaily) - The powerful Washington, D.C., Islamic lobby group established as a front for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas is asking a federal judge to expunge all copies of a WND book that exposes its ties to radical jihad through original documents secured in a daring undercover ope ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

• Vivos: Budget Bunker Space in Nebraska
  The Vivos mega-bunker in Nebraska was already going to house up to 250 strangers together for as along as a year, at a price of $25,000 each. Presumably sales are slower than expected, as they have now released a budget offering. For just $9,950 you get a bed in a shared room, with curtains sepa ...
• Harold Camping / Christchurch Quake
  Sad news today – 89-year-old Harold Camping the failed doomsday prophet, has suffered a mild stroke. He is recovering but not making any radio broadcasts, the future of which are unknown. More heartache for Christchurch folk, with a 6.0 earthquake causing more damage but thankfully no fatalities ...
• Central Lunar Eclipse in 5 Days
  Obviously the Earth is much bigger than the Moon, so a lunar eclipse doesn’t require a precise alignment. When the moon passes in front of the center of the Earth’s shadow, it is called a central total lunar eclipse. The last of these was on August 28 2007, the one of interest to us is [...] R ...
• Nothing Skeptical About 2012
  One of the world’s leading skeptics is Michael Shermer. Not only is he the founder of the Skeptics Society, and head honcho and primary contributor for Skeptic Magazine, he has also penned an opinion piece for New Scientist this week: The End is Always Nigh in the Human Mind. When I finished rea ...
• The Winged Warriors of Ek’ Balam
  I came across this image on Facebook via Korinna and others… at Wikipedia they are described as “winged warriors“.The wall is found at the ancient Mayan site Ek’ Balam. A huge version of the image is here. Winged beings were regularly depicted in the past, and a recent episode of Ancient Aliens ...

Facing South

• GOP donor put on board of NC foundation his gr ...
  When North Carolina Democrats appointed board members of the Golden LEAF Foundation -- a state-charted philanthropy giving out money from the state's tobacco settlement -- conservatives lashed out at the foundation for being a "web of political cronyism" with a board "packed with generous campai ...
• Anti-union Southern companies tolerate -- and ...
  By Joe Atkins, Labor South The latest Labor South Roundup shows that Southern companies remain at the forefront of anti-labor activity in the United States even when at least one is willing -- if forced -- to tolerate unions abroad. First and foremost, of course, is Arkansas-based ...
• Feinberg has received BP cleanup illness claim ...
  By Ada McMahon, Bridge the Gulf "Feinberg says no claims filed on cleanup illnesses" ran an erroneous Associated Press headline last week, stirring up more mistrust of the BP claims process among Gulf Coast residents. It is simply not true that sick cleanup workers have not filed medical cla ...
• U.S. trade policy undercuts Obama's jobs push
  President Obama pledged to create new jobs during a visit yesterday to a high-tech lighting manufacturer in North Carolina, but the destruction of jobs unfolding at another lighting plant next door in Tennessee illustrates how U.S. trade policy is complicating those efforts. Obama met ...
• New Louisiana oil spill highlights industry's ...
  Illustrating the chronic threat that the oil industry presents to coastal communities and ecosystems, a new oil spill was discovered last week in Breton Sound near Venice, La., a rural community in Plaquemines Parish about 80 miles southeast of New Orleans. Fishermen first reported th ...

One News Page

• Country witnesses century's longest and darkes ...
  Moon's bright white glow turned crimson brick red when it delved into the dark centre of the Earth's shadow during the century's longest and darkest lunar eclipse.
• Karnal murder case witness found dead
  A prosecution witness, Chamail Singh, in the Karam Singh murder case in Karnal was found dead on Wednesday
• McDonald's to Offer Free Wi-Fi, Starbucks Beware?
  McDonald's will offer customers free Wi-Fi come January, according to reports. Coupling Wi-Fi with its new coffee offerings, will the Golden Arches steal some green from Starbucks? Verizon says it is also now offering free Wi-Fi to some subscribers. - Not even the Dollar Menu can top this ...
• Swami Nigamanand's death: Uttarakhand govt agr ...
  Two days after Swami Nigamanand died at the Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences (HIMS) after fasting in protest against the illegal mining along the Ganga, the Uttarakhand government on Wednesday said the crusader was not poisoned.
• Hackers say attacked CIA site, service disrupted
  BOSTON (Reuters) - The Lulz Security group of hackers said they had launched an attack on the public website of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

Global Research TV

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

Daily Tech

• Winklevoss Twins Continue Facebook Fight
  Twins are challenging appeals court decision
• LulzSec Downs CIA's Public Site, Appears to be ...
  Group's attack continue to grow more flagrant, as do its detractors
• Leaked Docs Showcase Apple's Meticulous Contro ...
  Apple employees ordered to stick to a careful script to avoid making sensitive customers feel inferior or sad
• Report Claims Cost to Hit 62 MPG by 2025 Would ...
  Supporters of increased efficiency standards claim the numbers are inflated
• Take-Two Stock Tumbles on Disappointing 'Duke ...
  Company's year-end earnings target "crumbles like a shit cookie"

Oriental Review

• Iran is too important for Moscow…
  Recently Iranian Revolutionary Guards posted a text on their website in favor of the country’s conducting a nuclear weapon test, the quintessential idea being that it would give the nation a renewed sense of might and dignity. While Tehran continues to deny that its nuclear program has a militar ...
• The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation`s Impact ...
  On June 15th the Shanghai Cooperation organisation will have its Summit meeting in Astana marking the 10th Anniversary of its founding.This organisation that brings together the two major powers of the region – China and Russia – had its origin in a Chinese initiative to enhance cooperation betw ...
• Fascist Historical Myth Reanimated
  There is no shortage of arguments to challenge the groundless and deeply unfair claim that the USSR and the fascist Germany were equally responsible for the outbreak of World War II. Even a sketchy juxtaposition of Berlin’s and Moscow’s pre-war military plans highlights the fundamental differenc ...
• Let’s Have a Warm Gesture, Mr. Gates!
  When the Soviet Union collapsed, there was great glee in the “West” especially in America. “We won” they shouted as if their team had won the World Cup. Capitalism, in the struggle against Communism, had carried the day. Khrushchev had the right slogan when he said the Americans, “we will smothe ...
• The CIA/ISI Soap Opera In South Waziristan
  The American/Pakistani/British shenanigans in S. Waziristan are once again exposing the old patterns–America makes more demands, unidentified militants attack Frontier troops, British press releases misleading disinformation (SEE:  Deadly militant attack on Pakistan security checkpoint), making ...

BlogHer

• Dog Bless America
  Dog Bless You, a non-profit organization that celebrates all things canine, has teamed up with other like-minded groups to donate free service dogs to recent war veterans. All they are asking is to be liked��on Facebook.Lasting through the Fourth of July, Dog Bless You has posed a $500K challen ...
• How to Make Sunshine
  Today we rose to a sun that was trying it's darndest to burn through the mist that shrouds the redwoods. It'd peek through momentarily, lighting up the whole living room, and within minutes hide again beyond the mist. Finally at ten o'clock the entire sky opened up, the great blue visible ...
• Sausage-Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms
  Here is a simple recipe for stuffed portobello mushrooms that I made last night. You can use any kind of sausage you prefer. Hillshire Farms has a wonderful line of gluten free sausages. However, their sausage does contain MSG (monosodium glutamate) preservative and soy; just in case any of you ...
• Calling all Women Tech Bloggers
  Hi everyone, Virginia here. For the last month or so, I've been settling into a new job here at BlogHer as the Section Editor for Tech. As Section Editor for Tech, my whole job is to find great content about tech by women bloggers and bring it into BlogHer to feature or spotlight. I'm always l ...
• 25 Things That Make Me ME
  “You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you. There's only one person in this whole world like you. And people can like you exactly as you are.” - Mr. RogersMy high school had a magnet for the Creative and Performing Arts, and I was involved in the drama program. After ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• FDA Skirts Legal Challenge – Eliminates ...
  FDA purports public health when it cracks down on the likes of Amish Farmer Dan Allgyer for transferring raw milk over state lines for a buying club. But since it’s legal to drink raw milk ...
• Protesters Destroy GM Belgium Field Trial
  Belgian Field Liberation Movement (FLM) announced a peaceful protest to publicly remove GM potatoes and replant non-GM blight resistant potatoes. Police were waiting in advance but couldn’t contain the several hundred, diverse group who arrived, climbed ...
• Farmageddon: New Food Freedom Documentary Debut
  Kristin Canty started out like any mom, who educated herself on the best diet and healing path of her children. She knew she would have to do something about the alarming amount of small farm ...
• City Ordinance Demands Keys From Citizens for ...
  For citizens of Cedar Falls, Iowa, ordinance 2740 (unfunded city-wide mandate) means a forceful requirement to hand the government their keys for their safety. Keys will be kept “safe” on mostly commercial properties through universal ...
• The Ugly Truth About Body Care Products (For M ...
  The beauty (or handsome) industry reveals its ugly side with its unbridled use of the most toxic ingredients know to man, woman, and babykind. Below you will find a great video and print outs that ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• UMWA releases some contract details
  This just in from the United Mine Workers of America: The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) today released highlights of the tentative agreement reached earlier this week with the Bituminous Coal Operators Association (BCOA). The tentative agreement, which would be effective from July 1, 201 ...
• Judge to set hearing on whether to hold Massey ...
  Yesterday, Kanawha Circuit Judge James C. Stucky issued what could be the beginning of a major development in the cases against former members of Massey Energy’s board of directors. Judge Stucky ruled that stockholder groups who sued the board members have made a “prima facie” case that the defe ...
• Arch completes ICG deal, announces team
  Arch Coal Inc. announced this morning that it has completed its acquisition of International Coal Group, and Arch CEO Steve Leer said: We are pleased with the swift and successful completion of the ICG transaction, which will add tremendous value for Arch’s stakeholders in the coming years. This ...
• Ignoring inconvenient facts on AEP announcement
  Gazette photo by Lawrence Pierce The Gazette’s late publisher, Ned Chilton, was know for his criticism of what he called West Virginia’s “insipid press,” local newspapers that didn’t question the actions of local politicians and powerful institutions. I’ve thought of this as I’ve read through th ...
• Alpha’s Crutchfield ‘doesn’t ...
  Kevin Crutchfield, the president and CEO of Alpha Natural Resources, was on statewide radio here in West Virginia this morning, being interviewed by Talkline host Hoppy Kercheval. Hoppy asked Crutchfield what he thought happened back on April 5, 2010, when Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Mine b ...

Daniel Miessler

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

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

• 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 ...

reference frame

• Strikers should be fired
  A general strike is crippling Greece today. In principle, strike may be a legitimate tool of the employees to show or try to show that their work is more important and valuable than what the employer seems to indicate by her behavior. This claim may turn out to be right. However, this ...
• Will Solar Cycle 25 be annihilated?
  PhysOrg.com and others are writing about a talk in New Mexico where solar physicists have hypothesized that the Solar Cycle 25 will be delayed or it won't occur at all. The black region on the picture indicates the absence of activity near the Sun's poles. This activity should be ...
• Living lasers
  You may have read about living lasers that were built out of proteins. Fun. The cell stayed alive while being hired as a laser. :-) It's not necessarily the most handy thing in the world but it is kind of cool what people have managed to do. A similar recent news was about DNA-ba ...
• Tornado CO2 propaganda
  Warning: the video below is amazingly offensive. It still got 95% of upvotes among the 1,000 votes from 50,000 viewers. An op-ed by Bill McKibben is being read and illustrated by a Stephen Thomson of Plomomedia.com. Just imagine how hopeless psychopaths those viewer ...
• Italy abandons nuclear energy
  A two-day referendum in Italy has just ended. Silvio Berlusconi has encouraged people not to vote. Italy has its Greenpeace whackos, too The referendum will be valid because almost 60 percent of the voters participated. They were asked to answer four questions. About 94% of ...

No Frakking Consensus

• IPCC: These People Haven’t Learned a Thing
  A recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report once again relies on research conducted by Greenpeace. Once again, Greenpeace personnel are serving as IPCC lead authors.
• Science is Not a Tyrant
  Activists, politicians, and journalists love to play the 'science says' game when talking about global warming. But scientific facts are one thing. How best to respond to those facts is a completely different discussion - in which we all deserve a voice.
• How Much Harm to Humans is OK?
  An IPCC official thinks that quadrupling gasoline prices could help save the planet. What effect such a policy would have on human beings appears to be irrelevant.
• The IPCC as UN Funding Mechanism
  You gotta love the UN. The 31-member IPCC bureau includes representatives from undemocratic and unsavoury countries such as Sudan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Malaysia, Madagascar and the Maldives. Soon, these countries may be deciding the fate of billions of UN-administered climate change funds.
• Climate Change & Violent Fantasies
  When did it become acceptable to pen violent fantasies about people with whom you disagree? When did it become OK to talk - luridly and out loud - about their death?

Tarpley

• США и ПАКИСТАН НА ПОРОГЕ ОТКРЫТОЙ ВОЙНЫ. КИТАЙ ...
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• Gates’ Hysteria About NATO Running Out o ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV June 12, 2011 [
• US Wages Irregular War on Pakistan Beneath Nuc ...
  Moslem Brotherhood in Worldwide Alliance with CIA Against Nation-States Webster G. Tarpley on the Kevin Barrett Show The Kevin Barrett Show June 6, 2011 [download audio]
• NATO Aggressors in Flight Forward over Libya S ...
  Obama will be Impeachment Bait on June 20 for Flagrant Violation of War Powers Act Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV June 5, 2011 [
• La Chine apporte son soutien militaire au Paki ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net | traduction de Voltairenet.org 29 mai 2011 Venu à Beijing le 18 mai 2011 appeler la Chine au secours, le Premier ministre pakistanais s’est vu offrir 50 avions de chasse JF-17 pour défendre son pays en cas d’attaque états-unienne ou indienne. La Chine a ...

Modern Survivalism

• Houston – We Have a Problem
  Set the stage: The ‘S’ has hit the fan. The dollar has collapsed and is now worth just 30% of what it could purchase just 6 months ago. The reasons for the collapse are not relevant any more. Most people don’t understand why it happened, and are now truly in dire straights. They are just [...]
• Arizona Fire Could Become Largest Ever
  The Arizona fire raging since May 29 through more than 670 square miles so far, is threatening more than homes and property. According to the Associated Press, “The eye-stinging, throat burning haze of smoke spewing from a gigantic wildfire in eastern Arizona is beginning to stretch as far east ...
• Message to Graduates
  Being graduation season, be it from High School or College, and having been through that stage of life myself, here is a little friendly advice… Even though at this stage of life you probably don’t have a-lot of money and ‘things’, and no doubt you want things because other people around you hav ...
• Just-in-Time Technology, Food Disaster Looming
  Guest Post: by Jim Presley …a fear I have had for some time: We have little or no warehousing backup in the event of a supply shortage. Our concentrated supermarket supply system uses JIT (Just-in-Time) technology efficiencies allowed by computers and the Internet. But my fears have centered upo ...
• People are Owned and Consumed by their Possesions
  A recent post comment got me to thinking about how so many people today are truly “owned and consumed by their possessions”, as recently stated by an observant M.S.B. Reader. This ‘condition’ is arguably one of the core root causes attributing to the high stress of modern day life. Don’t get me ...

Fast Company

• Forget 3-D Net-Connected HDTV; We Want Smell-o ...
  Researchers at the University of California and the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology in Korea have been looking at the technology for two years now, and have come up with a proof-of-concept design that really could result in smell-o-vision, TV that pumps out odors to heighten to your imm ...
• Want A Website Brought Down? Just Dial 614-LULZSEC
  Hacktivist collective LulzSec's 614 area-code phone line is answered by a recorded message from Pierre Dubois--possibly the name of the seemingly French cartoon character that's been popping up in LulzSec's online messages. You leave a message suggesting a target for a distributed denial of serv ...
• Another Oliver Twist: British Library Builds 6 ...
  An ambitious new project by the British Library will place a huge number of 19th-century books--including original illustrations, page layouts, and design--on Apple's tablet for leisure reading.The British Library is launching a new library-in-an-iPad application that gives tablet users access t ...
• If Google Maps Explores China, Will It Mean Mo ...
  Launching a maps product in China requires jumping formidable bureaucratic hurdles and navigating thorny ethical issues. Google's still determined to make it work, but at what cost?Yesterday, Dow Jones Newswires, citing an official at China's State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping, reported that ...
• Facebook To Launch New Photo App, Airbnb Faces ...
  The Fast Company reader's essential rundown of who's breaking into and shaking up your tech space--updated all day. Facebook's New Photo Sharing AppThe new standalone app will reportedly challenge the likes of�Instagram, Color, and Path. Little is known about the "killer" new app, but speculatio ...

Jadaliyya

• BBC Interview with Bassam Haddad on the Questi ...
  This is an interview conducted by the BBC with Jadaliyya Co-Editor�Bassam Haddad�on the question of "sectarianism" in Syria. It was recorded a few weeks prior, but we have decided to publish it because of the magnitude that this topic has occupied in the past days.�
• A Poetry of Resistance: The Disappearance of A ...
  After reciting her poetry at Lulu Square where Bahrainâs protests were centered in February and March 2011, twenty-year-old poet Ayat al- Qormezi disappeared. Although al-Qormezi has been reported dead, her death has also been reported to be a rumor. Traces of the square that galvanized ...
• The Voice Is Obama's; The Hands are Bush's
  President Obamaâs June 2009 speech in Cairo was widely received as a sincere expression of his desire for a ânew beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world.â He acknowledged the historic injuries of colonialism, quoted the Qurâanic injunction to âspeak always the tr ...
• قرض الصندوق ضد الديمقراطية
  �� عام 2002 استعاد م�ات�ر محمد� صا�ع ا���ضة ا�ما��ز�ة� ذ�ر�ات معر�ة ر�ض ب�اد� مساعدة ص�د�� ا���د ا�د��� ا�مشر�طة خ�ا� ا�أزمة ا�آس���ة �ب��ا بأربع س��ات �ائ�ا: "ا�ت�دت�ا� ا�د�� ا�غرب�ة بسبب ذ�� ����ا �م ��ح� أبدا أمام�م �� أ� مجا� �أ��ا مسئ���� ع� ب�د�ا �ع� شعب�ا. �م ��س�ا مسئ���� ع� ب�د� ...
• Culture IX
  Before the Arab Summer sets in, four more Spring sowings: � Amira Hanafi translates "Dawn,"�another piece from Hamdy El-Gazzar's revolution/ary series, "Palm-Sized Stories." � Chris Stone translates Adania Shibli's short fiction, "The United Transport Company - Jerusalem."� � Anny Gau ...

mediagazer

• Here's Why There Are (Almost) No Women In The ...
  Glynnis MacNicol / The Wire: Here's Why There Are (Almost) No Women In The Big NYT ‘Page One’ Documentary  —  It's not entirely true to say there are no women in Page One: Inside the New York Times, the new documentary that spends a year following the NYT media desk as they cover an imploding ...
• Gawker Gets Into the TV Business - The Japanes ...
  Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: Gawker Gets Into the TV Business — The Japanese Cult Hit Game Show TV Business  —  Gawker Media boss Nick Denton says he wants his blog empire to be more than a blog empire - he wants it to be like TV.  So here's the next logical step: He's going to start running a TV ...
• That Chris Evans Profile In GQ, Or Why I Want ...
  Alyssa Rosenberg / ThinkProgress: That Chris Evans Profile In GQ, Or Why I Want Mac McClelland To Hang Out With Sean Bean  —  At a moment when there's a serious debate about the representation of women in the pages of major American publication, and serious efforts to spotlight the great work ...
• Using Twitter as Your Database (Andrei Scheink ...
  Andrei Scheinkman / Open: Using Twitter as Your Database  —  For the 2010 election, we built a continuously updated election guide that let readers explore data related to each of the 509 congressional and gubernatorial races.  —  After adding candidate information, race ratings, polls, electio ...
• Cross Platform Report: Americans Watching More ...
  Nielsen Wire: Cross Platform Report: Americans Watching More TV, Mobile and Web Video  —  The average American today has more ways to watch video — whenever, however and wherever they choose.  In the Cross-Platform Report, Nielsen finds that the resounding trend is this: Americans are spending …

Chemtrail News

• Chemtrail Activity Northwest Indiana, p ...
  but you know what a chemtrail looks like-dozens of lines everywhere. It's not " chemtrail", it's CONtrail. And they've looked like that for three-quarters of ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread716306/pg1
• Omega 707 Chemtrail Plane Crashes In Ca ...
  Gloomylunatic's video about chemtrail plane crashes documentary on Disclose.tv.www.disclose.tv/.../Omega_707_chemtrail_plane_crashes_in_...
• YouTube Chemtrails and Evergreen Air In ...
  Evergreen Air In Pinal country Arizona Former Secret Chemtrail Facility Revealed, Evergreen Air ...www.youtube.com/watch?v=97CsZz-Natw
• CHEMTRAIL PLANE CRASHES Four Winds 10 f ...
  Boeing 707 crashes in Point Mugu (SCROLL DOWN) * * * * * * * A Boeing 707 plane with three people onboard crashed in Point Mugu naval air base in Ventura ...www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/.../humans/.../news.php?...
• Chemtrail Poisons Video
  Djdamm's video about chemtrails poison secret gov projects nwo documentary on Disclose.tv.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/74010/Chemtrail_poisons/

World News - Top Stories

• 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 ...

no frakking consensus

• IPCC: These People Haven’t Learned a Thing
  A recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report once again relies on research conducted by Greenpeace. Once again, Greenpeace personnel are serving as IPCC lead authors.
• Science is Not a Tyrant
  Activists, politicians, and journalists love to play the 'science says' game when talking about global warming. But scientific facts are one thing. How best to respond to those facts is a completely different discussion - in which we all deserve a voice.
• How Much Harm to Humans is OK?
  An IPCC official thinks that quadrupling gasoline prices could help save the planet. What effect such a policy would have on human beings appears to be irrelevant.
• The IPCC as UN Funding Mechanism
  You gotta love the UN. The 31-member IPCC bureau includes representatives from undemocratic and unsavoury countries such as Sudan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Malaysia, Madagascar and the Maldives. Soon, these countries may be deciding the fate of billions of UN-administered climate change funds.
• Climate Change & Violent Fantasies
  When did it become acceptable to pen violent fantasies about people with whom you disagree? When did it become OK to talk - luridly and out loud - about their death?

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• New Orleans Activists Plan Secondline to Comme ...
  From our friends at Women With A Vision and Drug Policy Alliance: A Secondline parade this Friday in New Orleans will epitomize the funeral for Nixon’s War on Drugs and provide a launching point for future community action and dialogue concerning this issue. June 17 will mark forty years sinc ...
• Louisiana Moves One Step Closer to Eliminating ...
  From our friends at Women With a Vision: Just two years ago, we launched the NO Justice Project to challenge the use of Louisiana’s Crime Against Nature statute for prosecuting women engaged in sex work. Today, the Louisiana Senate voted UNANIMOUSLY in support of our bill to remove Solicitat ...
• Jena Six Activist Sentenced to Fifteen Years i ...
  Last week, one week past her 31st birthday, civil rights activist Catrina Wallace was sentenced to fifteen years in prison. This was first arrest for Wallace, a single mother who became politically active when her brother was arrested in the case that later became known as the "Jena Six." On Ma ...
• Muslim Woman in Lafayette Parish Forced by She ...
  From our friends at ACLU of Louisiana: When a Muslim woman was incarcerated in the Lafayette Parish Jail last year, she was forced by the Sheriff to remove her religiously mandated head covering, known as a hijab, because jail policies do not provide for head coverings of any kind. Today the ...
• Cracking, Stovepipes and Gerrymandering: Redis ...
  Nearly six years ago, the African American community in Greater New Orleans suffered a devastating and disproportionate blow from Hurricane Katrina, as the storm's wrath and subsequent failures of relief and recovery programs drove thousands of minority residents from their neighborhoods an ...

Information Underground

• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  E. Michael Jones claims he sold the US out to Jewyleaks because he couldn't serve "openly". I don't think that bottom picture is him, dude.Statistics: Posted by SPECTEC — Wed Jun 15, 2011 10:18 pm
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Before torture: After torture in US jail: Statistics: Posted by MikeWB — Wed Jun 15, 2011 9:55 pm
• The Information Underground Radio Show • Re: J ...
  Timothy_Fitzpatrick wrote: So, Joe is yet another who believes TIU has been hijacked—and he would be in a position to know. So who the hell banned Joe? Tim, Please don't start stories. Joe is not "Banned". His show was just a rant. If people trash talk TIU on their "show", they are just t ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Open Question http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index ... 048AA7XoNQ When was Magneto's Holocaust survivor past first introduced in the X-Men comics? Answer It took Marvel Comics almost 15 years after his first comic book appearance in 1963 to reveal that Magneto was a "holocaut survivor ...
• The Information Underground Radio Show • Re: J ...
  Timothy_fitzpatrick wrote : So who the hell banned Joe? Is he banned? I looked at his profile, it still says admin.Statistics: Posted by pas — Wed Jun 15, 2011 5:45 pm

TVNZ

• Greek PM to form new government amid protests
  George Papandreou will form a new government to vote through tough austerity measures.
• More trouble for Weiner
  Porn star Ginger Lee says Anthony Weiner urged her to lie about their e-mail relationship.
• Pakistan arrests CIA's bin Laden informant
  Pakistan has arrested five CIA informants who supplied information to on Osama bin Laden.
• Two men arrested over Josh Stone kidnap plot
  Two men have been arrested over a plot to kidnap Joss Stone.
• Greek protesters blockcade parliament, prepare ...
  Greek demonstrators prepared to cordon off parliament and unions to strike in protest at the Socialist government.

environment 360

• Largest Gulf ‘Dead Zone’ Anticipated in Wake o ...
  The Gulf of Mexico’s hypoxic zone, an oxygen-depleted area created by excessive nutrient pollution, is expected to reach record proportions this year as a result of the extreme flooding in the Mississippi River basin, Click to enlarge Nancy Rabalais LUMCON/NOAASize of the ‘dead zone,’ 1985-2011 ...
• River Surge in U.S. Northwest Sparks Wind-Hydr ...
  A surge in hydroelectric power caused by a heavy spring flow in the Columbia River in the U.S. Northwest has forced authorities to shut down nearby wind energy operations for several hours a day to ease the stress on regional electric grid, triggering conflict between the two renewable energy se ...
• Severe Drought in Europe Threatens Crops and N ...
  One of Europe’s most severe droughts in a century is threatening crop production, shrinking some rivers to near-record low levels, and raising the specter that France may experience blackouts as some river-cooled Getty Images nuclear power plants may be forced to shut down. In France, the warm ...
• In Brazil, Palm Oil Plantations Could Help Pre ...
  In recent years, palm oil development in Malaysia and Indonesia has devastated tropical forests there. With Brazil on the verge of its own palm oil boom, can sustainable cultivation of the crop actually help save the rainforest, rather than hastening its destruction? BY RHETT BUTLER
• U.S. Unveils Programs to Modernize Electric Gr ...
  The Obama administration unveiled a series of initiatives to upgrade the nation’s electric grid, including $250 million in loans for so-called smart grid projects in rural areas and steps to secure the grid against cyber attacks. The strategy also calls on state and federal regulators to encoura ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• World Affairs Brief
  Joel Skousen Tags: geopolitics
• Home - DJ6ual - An Irish Girl
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• NAFWA -News & Media
  Tags: news media health nutrition
• Helen Caldicott, MD | PHYSICIAN – AUTHOR – SPEAKER
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• Low Dose Radiation Research Program: U.S. Depa ...
  Tags: radiation research dose low health

backofthebook

• Debating Libya
  By Alison@Creekside "He simply will not last very long," Harper said of Muammar Gaddafi back in March, as Canada prepared to drop $27-million of smart money smart bombs on Libya in order to oust him. As of now Gaddafi controls most of the country, including the capital. Today Parliament ...
• Revisited: Sun TV’s Ezra problem
  With the Sun News Network lately embarked on a jihad against government funding of the arts, it might be worth remarking: at least when artists are given money, they do what they're supposed to do with it. On the other hand, we have the example of SNN costume rack Ezra ...
• On SunTV and Margie Gillis
  On June 1, 2011, SunTV broadcast an interview with veteran Canadian dancer and choreographer Margie Gillis (see link below), which quickly turned abusive towards the guest. In a message on his facebook page, Canadian dancer Louis Laberge-Côté, currently a teacher at Nationaltheatre Manheim in Ge ...
• Wikileaks on Harper, America, and the “t ...
  By Alison@Creekside An embassy cable written by US Ambassador David Wilkins the day the Cons were first elected in 2006 suggests Harper would be useful in advancing the US agenda for Canada and that giving him " a success story" like the softwood lumber deal would "shore up" his ability to st ...
• Antimatter contained for 17 minutes; hello Vulcans
  by Eric Pettifor Canadian researchers (and others, but we'll focus on lauding our countrypersons) at CERN near North Battleford, Saskatchewan (ok, CERN is really in Switzerland, but it should be in Saskatchewan) have managed to capture and contain antimatter for a whopping 17 minutes (layper ...

Daily Beast

• Kathie Lee Gifford's Favorite Books
  When she's not busy on TV, Today show host Kathie Lee Gifford is an avid reader and writer. With her ninth book, The Legend of Messy M'Cheany, debuting this summer, we asked her to pick her favorite novels. Daytime talk show hosts will sometimes...
• Novelist Kate Christensen's Winning Novels Abo ...
  Kate Christensen is famous for her wickedly drawn characters, but this time her setting, Brooklyn, almost steals the show. Kate Christensen's substantial literary reputation is based on a series of artful, wickedly comic novels centered on...
• Anthony Weiner in Treatment: Eight Facts About ...
  Anthony Weiner is on a leave of absence from Congress to attend an unspecified treatment center following his cybersex scandal. Dr. Charles Sophy talks to Lizzie Crocker about what that rehab means. After his Twitter sex scandal imploded last week,...
• Corporate Tax Cuts Won't Work
  President Obama's advisers think a corporate tax cut will make America more competitive, but is he getting advice from the wrong people? Marshall Auerback on where the real key to recovery lies. Message to Barack Obama: It is time to panic. Our...
• Spider-Man, Lion King, More: Broadway's Injury ...
  Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark has officially opened, finally-after costly delays, rewrites, cast changes, the sacking of auteur/director Julie Taymor, and numerous injuries. See photos from the controversial Broadway spectacle and other shows and...

Loonwatch

• Peter King and “Prislam”: Round 2 ...
  King might get into the dictionary with the second hearing wasting taxpayer money.
• Amy Sullivan: The sharia myth sweeps America
  The boogey monster of a Sharia' takeover has been sweeping America.
• Lesley Hazleton: Soccer v. Headscarf: 0-1
  Double standards abound as FIFA bans the Iranian soccer team.
• Sofia Mosque Warden Assaulted, Beaten – ...
  An injured Muslim worshipper holds a towel on his head after suffering a wound in clashes supporters of the Bulgarian ultra-nationalist party.
• Beck: I Would Be ‘Uncomfortable’ W ...
  Glenn Beck is at it again.

Energy News

• Radioactive lava hitting pool of underground w ...
  The Battle of Chernobyl, 2006: at 32:55 in; Minsk, 320 km ...Read More
• “Huge spike” in US infant mortalit ...
  FUKUSHIMA FALLOUT -- Lessons from Chernobyl, March 18, 2011: At 15:40 ...Read More
• Yellow-colored water found in Unit No. 3 &#821 ...
  Footage of Fukushima No.3 reactor released, NHK, June 16, 2011: Tokyo ...Read More
• Carnegie experts: Real possibility of addition ...
  Radiation ‘hotspots’ hinder Japan response to nuclear crisis, Reuters, June 14, ...Read More
• Japanese media blackout of words: MOX, plutoni ...
  David McNeill: Who’s telling the truth on the Fukushima meltdown?, CNN ...Read More

Japan Times

• In the record bag: Satoshi Otsuki
  Tokyo-based DJ Satoshi Otsuki has been making waves in Japan's house and techno scene. He spun at the recent Big Beach Festival, and has played the main floor of almost every big club in the country. The Japan Times takes a look in his record bag. Golden Oldie: Kenny Dixon Jr. — Track 2 Track ...
• Rays' Shields shuts down red-hot BoSox
  James Shields pitched his AL-leading third shutout for the Tampa Bay Rays in a 4-0 victory that ended the first-place Boston Red Sox's nine-game winning streak on Tuesday. In addition to cutting into their deficit in the AL East standings, the third-place Rays ruined a Tropicana Field homecomi ...
• Chechen club Terek dumps Gullit
  Ruud Gullit has left Russia after being fired as coach of Chechen club Terek Grozny, parting on good terms with the club's president and the province's leader, Ramzan Kadyrov. Kadyrov spokesman Alvi Karimov said that Gullit and Kadyrov, who fired the Dutchman on Tuesday barely six months into ...
• 'Green curtains' surge in face of power shortage
  Sales of "Green curtain" gardening kits are surging, shoppers are buying clothes designed to help them stay cool and a pizzeria owner is losing weight as Tokyo residents brace for a summer with less air conditioning. Sales of gear to grow "goya" gourd vines that provide shade for buildings hav ...
• JOC considers 2020 Olympic bid
  Japanese Olympic officials expect to know within weeks if Tokyo will bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics. "Tokyo had a great plan for 2016 and has excellent financing, "Japan Olympic Committee president Tsunekazu Takeda said. "We expect a decision will be in late June or early July."

Alexander Higgins

• False Flag? After Hacking Senate Web Site Lulz ...
  False Flag? A single hacker group claims responsibility for launching a DDOS attack that takes out the official CIA website after the group just announced it hacked the official Senate website.
• (Update 5) Revolution Succeeds In Greece!!! Pr ...
  The Greek Revolution Has Succeeded In Forcing The Government To Step Down In The Midst Of Massive Protests Calling For The Regime of Corrupt Government And Crooked Banks To Be Replaced With Real Democracy.
• Action Alert: Congress Wants To Make Uploading ...
  A new being voted on in the Senate THIS Week will make it a felony crime to post copyrighted videos on YouTube, Facebook and other sites with criminal penalties worse than the crime of child molestation - 10 years in prison!
• Operation Payback – Hacker Group Anonymo ...
  The Hacker group Anonymous has issued a digital call to arms called Operation payback to protest the internet censorship bill called the PROTECT IP act.
• Greek Protestors Firebomb Riot Police In Prote ...
  Millions of Greek protestors clash with police during the largest protest to date against draconian austerity measures and terms of an IMF banker bailout loan that is holding the economy hostage.

Macleans - Central

• Journal de Montreal: xenophobic, lazy or both? ...
  Picture courtesy la Clique du Plateau Last week, Journal de Montréal columnist Richard Martineau wrote
• Goin’ To Cabletown
  There’s more discussion lately (See here and also here for starters) about whether cable has
• A point of clarification
  In response to Monday’s sketch, Tony Clement’s office sends along the following note of clarification,
• To reform the Senate: Why term limits?
  Let’s set aside, for now, the inherent ridiculousness of Bert Brown chiding fellow Conservative members
• The quiet cuts
  The hunt for the government’s mysterious cutsâas initiated by our Paul Wellsâcontinues. Bill Curry finds

Making It Count - CCPA

• Incomes in Canada – Booming and Busted
  Today’s release of the annual Income in Canada report is Statistics Canada’s first word on the impact of the Great Recession on Canadians’ incomes. The report in The Daily is a snore. Market incomes fell, but governments did their job. After-tax family incomes haven’t changed since 2007, poverty ...
• Incomes and the Recession
  Today’s Statscan release “Incomes of Canadians” provides data for 2009 and a partial reading on the impacts of the recession. (I say partial because the 2008 annual average data were impacted by the onset of the recession in the last quarter of the year, and since these impacts continued well in ...
• Evaluating Corporate Tax Cuts
  Don Drummond has an op-ed in today’s Toronto Star concluding: Federal and provincial governments and the Canadian business sector should [establish] monitoring mechanisms that will permit regular reports to Canadians on whether the Canadian corporate tax revolution is producing benefits for them ...
• The Benefits of Higher Resource Royalties
  The Canadian Union of Public Employees has launched a great new blog, Imagine What We Could Do, about the things that Saskatchewan should accomplish by raising resource royalties. It draws upon a Relentlessly Progressive Economic analysis of how the province could collect more royalty revenue an ...
• Brigitte DePape: Silently Speaking Truth to Power
  Most Canadians will now have seen the striking image of Brigette DePape. The determined solitary young woman, surrounded by the highest ranking public officials in the land, stood in silence holding her crumpled ‘Stop Harper’ sign, as the Governor General read the Conservative government’s thron ...

ReDress

• 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.

Physics Today

• Researchers in Japan find that neutrinos can f ...
  BBC: Researchers at Japan’s multinational T2K project say they have seen indications that neutrinos—electrically neutral elementary particles—can spontaneously change into any of their types, or flavors: electron neutrinos, muon neutrinos, or tau neutrinos, writes Jonathan Amos for the BBC. The ...
• New technique produces superlong nanowires
  Science News: Scientists have spun a multitude of high-tech materials into bundles of superfine nanowires that are more than 1000 meters long, writes Rachel Ehrenberg for Science News. Although trimming big, bulky materials down to nanosize has proven difficult in the past, Mehmet Bayindir of th ...
• NASA spacecraft captures video of asteroid
  Space.com: Launched in 2007 to study Vesta and Ceres, the two most massive members of the asteroid belt, NASA’s robotic spacecraft Dawn is already sending back scientifically significant photos of Vesta, even though the spacecraft is not scheduled to enter the second largest asteroid’s orbit unt ...
• Italy votes no to nuclear power
  Science: In four referendums held 12–13 June, Italians voted overwhelmingly to overturn key policies—including the reintroduction of nuclear power—of Italy’s controversial prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi. Despite Berlusconi’s various political maneuvers to try to stop the referendums, Italy’s ...
• Magnetic-bubble sea found at solar system's edge
  National Geographic: The heliosphere, our solar system's magnetic barrier, was once thought to be a smooth shield but may instead be a sea of long magnetic bubbles that function more like a porous membrane than an impermeable shield. Galactic cosmic rays and energetic particles can become trappe ...

Revolutionary Politics

• America addicted to War
  by Rev333 (Posted Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:13:09 GMT) US economy fails due to 'military arrogance'. “The US economy is collapsing morally, the society is collapsing morally and in particularly it is collapsing economically because of the huge levels of debt the huge levels of 61.2 trillion in unfund ...
• Fake Holocaust Memoirs
  by Rev333 (Posted Mon, 13 Jun 2011 23:55:39 GMT) A Schwindler's List
• News media won't report
  by katsung47 (Posted Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:34:28 GMT) Quote, "FBI expands agents’ investigative power The New York Times First published Jun 12 2011 07:40PM Updated Jun 12, 2011 11:28PM Washington • The Federal Bureau of Investigation is giving significant new powers to its roughly 14,000 ag ...
• The Fake Osama Bin Laden Image
  by katsung47 (Posted Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:27:04 GMT) Bin Laden died ten years ago. The Feds use him again for another big plot, to justify a false flag 'dirty bomb attack" for the last oil looting war - Iran war. They say they dropped Bin Laden's body into sea - because there was no body at all ...
• Oil price and Iran war
  by katsung47 (Posted Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:14:30 GMT) 10. The real hand behind oil price manipulation (10/14/08) An article on September 11 revealed the hand behind oil price manipulation. Quote, "Speculators blamed for wild swings in oil" By H. Josef Hebert Associated Press Washington - Spec ...

Peakwater

• DWP seeks to reclaim sewage water through indi ...
  “Los Angeles wastewater may soon become cleaner than a mountain spring. “But officials say a plan to spend $700 million to recycle sewage into drinking water rests on the future of rates being proposed today. “One of our key strategies to becoming less reliant on imported water is to recycle wat ...
• China’s Drought Threatens Farm Income, D ...
  “To cope with the drought, Beijing ordered the Three Gorges Dam — the world’s largest hydroelectric plant, built at the upstream Yangtze River — to sacrifice its power generation for irrigation and drinking water. Over the last three weeks, every minute, some 600,000 cubic meters of water — equi ...
• Struggle Over The Nile
  “For centuries, Egypt has sought to be Master of the Nile – seeking to tame the river’s unpredictable flow and ensure exclusive control over its use. “We are wholly dependent on the Nile. We have no other water sources. So, the truth is any threat against the Nile waters will result in the reduc ...
• Sri Lanka Rural Communities Bank On Safe Drink ...
  “The Eastern Baticaloa district is in a region that was ravaged by war for three decades. The government is now building water supply sanitation projects both in the East and the North. Sri Lanka provides safe drinking water to 92.5 percent of urban households but only 39.0 percent of rural popu ...
• Florida hopes to block new federal water-pollu ...
  “In a groundbreaking dispute between federal and state officials, Florida officials want the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to abandon its pollution-prevention rules and give the state back legal responsibility for cleaning up its waters, even though the state hasn’t rewritten its rules y ...

Total Collapse

• Military Showdown against Syria – a Trigger fo ...
  June 12, 2011 Israeli Three Top Politicians are Abroad: 1. Netanyahu and 2. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman are in Italy, while 3. Defense Minister Ehud Barak met with the Chinese militaryâs chief of staff in China. [link to www.israelnationalnews.com] and [link to www.israelnationalnews.com] ...
• China-Vietnam maritime row intensifies
  Press TV – Tensions between China and Vietnam have escalated following their recent naval confrontations in the disputed waters off the South China Sea. While China has warned Vietnam against exploring for oil in the disputed waters, Vietnam has hit back by conducting live ammunition naval drill ...
• Europe Braces for Serious Crop Losses and Blac ...
  Scientific American – One of the driest spring seasons on record in northern Europe has sucked soils dry and sharply reduced river levels to the point that governments are starting to fear crop losses and France, in particular, is bracing for blackouts as its river-cooled nuclear power plants m ...
• US naval movements around Syria. Hizballah mov ...
  DEBKAfile - DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources report that Monday, June 13, the US deployed the USS Bataan amphibian air carrier strike vessel opposite Syria’s Mediterranean coast with 2,000 marines, 6 war planes, 15 attack helicopters, including new V-22 Ospreys,  and 27 choppers f ...
• US Congress votes against Libya funding
  AFP – The US House of Representatives voted to prohibit the use of funds for American military operations in Libya. Lawmakers adopted the amendment to a military appropriations bill by a vote of 248 to 163. A number of members of Congress have recently expressed their dissatisfaction at Presiden ...

IPS - Inter Press Services

• U.S.: Neoconservatives Losing Hold Over Republ ...
  Nearly ten years after seizing control of Republican foreign policy, neo- conservatives and other hawks appear to be losing it.
• RIGHTS-COLOMBIA: Murdered Activist's Children ...
  "They are very distressed. Their father, mother and two brothers have been killed. They have expressed the wish to leave the country," Colombian Vice President Angelino Garz�n said after meeting Tuesday with the surviving daughters and son of Ana Fabricia C�rdoba, a prominent land rights activ ...
• AU Concerned With One-Sided Interpretation of ...
  Like Russia, China, India and Brazil, the African nations seem to be getting increasingly wary of the consequences of the Western powers' military strikes in Libya - the oil rich North African country currently embroiled in violent political upheaval.
• OP-ED: G20 Ministers of Agriculture Must Focus ...
  The first-ever official meeting of Ministers of Agriculture from G20 countries, to be held in Paris Jun. 22-23, presents an extraordinary opportunity. Tasked with developing an action plan to address price volatility in food and agricultural markets and its impact on the poor, the minist ...
• BALKANS: Serbia Promoting Partition of Kosovo
  For most of the world the issue of Kosovo is long over. The nation declared independence from Serbia in 2008 and has gained recognition from 76 out of 192 U.N. member states.

Scoop - NZ

• Christchurch residents: Patience Has Expired.
  Agitated Christchurch residents are warning of street protests if the Government does not reveal which quake-hit suburbs will be abandoned. In an opinion piece published in The Press today, Earthquake Recovery Minister Brownlee has asked for patience, acknowledging the frustration of residen ...
• Our Vaccines: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
  Simpsonwood was the transcripts of a secret meeting that was held between CDC and seventy-five representatives of the vaccine industry, in which they reviewed a report that CDC had ordered, the Stratton study of the hundred-thousand children in the United States Vaccine Safety Database. And whe ...
• Downing: Pakistan marches to Saudi tune
  Ties between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are long-standing but for the most part have not stood out in the turbulent affairs of the region. However, increased tensions with Iran, the Arab Spring, and growing disenchantment with the United States are making the relationship more expansive, more pro ...
• Nuclear Reactions Continuing at Fukushima?
  You know that Fukushima reactors 1, 2 and 3 all melted down within hours of the Japanese earthquake. You also know that at least some of the subsequent explosions could have been caused by small-scale nuclear reactions called "prompt moderated criticalities". But you might not know that nu ...
• Credit bubble: Glass no longer half full
  Friday's payroll data were dismal. The unemployment rate jumped back above 9% (to 9.1%), while the 54,000 gain in Non-farm Payrolls was the weakest increase since last September. Most alarming, the manufacturing sector lost 5,000 jobs during May. This was the first decrease since November 2010, ...

Independent - London

• Protesters clash with police in Greece
  Greek workers of all ages and professions, pensioners, students, the old and young marched on parliament in Athens today to vent their anger at the country's politicians and their austerity plans.
• Greek government in power-sharing talks amid riots
  Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou offered today to step down and make way for a national unity government if the opposition agreed on a clear plan on how to proceed with reforms, government sources said.
• Syrians flee northern town
  Thousands of Syrians fled the historic town of Maarat al-Numaan today to escape troops and tanks pushing into the north in a widening military campaign to crush protests against President Bashar al-Assad.
• Syrian forces line up another town
  Syrian troops were poised to sweep into another town to crush anti-government protests today as the government tried to control the spectacle of thousands of terrified refugees streaming across the border into Turkey.
• Spain protesters try to block regional parliam ...
  Politicians in Spain's northeastern Catalonia region used police helicopters to get to the regional parliament to avoid some 2,000 demonstrators protesters who tried to blockade the building today to protest planned budget cuts in education and health.

Rogue Government.com

• PAPER: Global order fractures as US power dec ...
  Harold Macmillan, the prime minister who watched US power rise as the British empire crumbled, used to say that Britain would play ancient Greece to America’s Rome.
• Government Releases Partial List Of Chemicals ...
  A year after the BP Gulf oil disaster and under pressure from environmental groups, the EPA finally released a list of the chemical components in oil dispersants. 
• TSA conducting security exercise
  Today, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and several federal, state and local agencies will participate in a scheduled exercise designed to enhance security in the Ohio-West Virginia area.
• Chicago expanding Big Brother camera network
  Chicago’s Big Brother network of over 10,000 public and private surveillance cameras is already the most extensive and integrated in the nation. But, it’s about to get even bigger.
• Border agents criticize weapons program
  The Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) program “Operation Fast and Furious" allowed gun stores near the Mexican border to sell semiautomatic weapons in bulk to "straw purchasers" and then track their journey. Many of the guns were linked to crimes, including the killing of a Border ...

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

• US: Missouri River states brace for floods
  Omaha - The scramble is nearly over to fill thousands of sandbags and construct last-minute levees to heights that have not been needed in decades, but those preparations were only the first round of what is likely to be a summerlong battle against the bloated Missouri River. Peak flows are e ...
• Massive strike to paralyze Prague, Czech Republic
  Prague - From Madrid to Athens, EU governments are currently seeing mounting opposition of some social sectors against austerity reforms. On Monday 13 June, this protest wave will flood the Czech Republic, and above all its capital, with massive strike and blockades planned by the country's lab ...
• US: Louisvillian Charged in Shooting of 12-Yea ...
  A 56-year-old man charged with attempted murder in the shooting of a 12-year-old Glenmary boy Monday night was described by a neighbor as "low key." "I'm shocked," said Ida Buffat, who lives on Hall Farm Drive just down the street from Michael Bishop, who was arrested and charged with shootin ...
• Canada: Woman's Lawn Goes Missing
  Denise Thompson had a beautiful front lawn, thick and green. It was where her four children and two dogs played, and where she drank coffee on sunny mornings. Then someone stole it. They didn't even leave a note. "Now my place looks like I'm a farmer who just plowed and is ready to put their ...
• US: Religious Relic Stolen From Catholic Churc ...
  A 780-year-old religious relic of the patron saint of lost causes and missing objects was stolen from a Catholic church near Los Angeles on Monday, just hours after it was put on display to commemorate the feast of St. Anthony, police said. The relic, which is only brought out on special occa ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Tar sands...
  TGB Press, 15 June 2015: A rural worker has been shot dead near Canada's Wood Buffalo region - the sixth murder in a month in the region, amid conflicts over land and oil development. The body of John Smith was found in dense forest close to his home in northern Alberta. The 31-year-old had ...
• Heads up . . .
  AUTOBLOG has a report on a clever new helmet for bikers that uses corrugated cardboard as the shock-absorbing medium. If you need a brain-bucket, check it out before you wish you had.The technology is called Kranium, and it uses interlocking ribs made from cardboard housed under a stiff plastic ...
• The eyes have it . . .
  ACCORDING TO IO9, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have genetically engineered the world's first "living laser." That's right - a living cell can shoot laser light. John Wyndham would have been so pleased, as well as Warren Ellis and the FREAKANGELS .
• Fire them.
  This time it's Niagara cops cheating on promotion exams. Several police officers in southern Ontario's Niagara region have been caught cheating on exams that are part of the force's promotion process. This spring, 75 officers wrote tests and went through rounds of interviews, vying for 17 su ...
• Resign, Dr. Baker
  Actually, you can go a little beyond your heartfelt apology and offer your resignation, oh esteemed Dean of Medicine. The dean of medicine at the University of Alberta is apologizing to his colleagues and students after being accused of plagiarizing his convocation speech. "The talk was inte ...

Media Matters for America

• Right-Wing Media Attack Obama For Accurate Rem ...
  Right-wing media have seized on recent comments by President Obama to claim that Obama "blame[d] ATMs for high unemployment." But Obama's full comments show that he was suggesting that businesses are investing more heavily in automated machines than in hiring new employees, a view shared by eco ...
• It's Not Just Race: Fox's Bolling Has A Long H ...
  As Media Matters reported, Fox Business' Eric Bolling recently made unacceptable and bizarre racially charged comments on Fox, including accusing President Obama of inviting "hoodlum" to what he called the "hizzouse." But this wasn't the first time Bolling acted inappropriately while employed b ...
• Wall Street Journal Campaigns Against ...
  A Wall Street Journal editorial calls on Congress to cancel EPA's proposed limits on mercury emissions and other toxic air pollution from power plants, claiming that the action amounts to a "War on Jobs." However, studies have found that the new standards, which have been decades in the maki ...
• Von Spakovsky Spreads Falsehoods To Push For V ...
  In a USA Today op-ed, Pajamas Media blogger and former DOJ Civil Rights Division official Hans von Spakovsky employed numerous falsehoods to defend statutes requiring all voters to show identification before casting ballots. In fact, contrary to von Spakovsky's argument, legal voters have been ...
• Beck Falsely Claims Obama Gave Israel 30-Day " ...
  Glenn Beck falsely claimed that in an "ultimatum," "the Obama administration gave Israel 30 days to comply with the 1967 border rules." In fact, the article Beck cited to back up his claim stated that the administration made a "request" of Israel to accept Obama's proposal as a basis for negoti ...

Global Research.ca

• The Greatest Depression Has Only Begun
  Originating in 2008, the global economic crisis took the world by storm: banks collapsed, the "too big to fail" became bigger...
• Towards a World War III Scenario.
  A fourth war theater has opened up in North Africa, which raises the issue of escalation over a vast geographical area.
• Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg: ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• VIDEO: 'NATO bombs civilians!': Report from Tr ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Canada extends its Participation in the NATO-l ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• Power Tools: How Clean Energy Makes Environmen ...
  By Reed Hundt and Aaron Zubaty Robert Bryce, author of Power Hungry: The Myths of 'Green' Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future, missed the mark in his June 8th New York Times editorial in which he argued that environmental justifications for clean energy are misplaced because producing ...
• Charade
  It's time to end the charade that Pakistan is an ally in the battle against Al Qaeda and the Taliban. 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 dea ...
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• Just You Wait and See....
  All my friends are laughing at me for posting "Ready for Rudy's Comeback?" here below, not least because the only other bloviator who thinks that Giuiliani will run, and that it matters, is William Kristol. Now, whenever Kristol makes an electoral prediction, you can bet the ranch on its not ...
• Portnoy's Revenge
  Not long after Philip Roth published Portnoy's Complaint, Jacqueline Susann went on the Johnny Carson show. Susann, we remember, had become famous for her pulp novel Valley of the Dolls, which triangulated, in what seemed an all-American way, ambition, sex and barbiturates. Everybody was a "user ...

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

• Space News Round Up: Magnetic Bubbles, Mega Bl ...
  Over the past several weeks, a flurry of intriguing and surprising outer space-related discoveries have been made, ones that warrant a recap for those who may have missed them. I have selected four of the more fascinating ones, plus one related, really cool piece with a video, and they are: 1] M ...
• Global Weirding Wednesday
  Good global weirding (aka climate change, global warming) stories from the past week or so:
• Rhino Horn = Medicine? NO! (New Campaign to Bu ...
  A former fellow writer on EcoWorldly.com (which is now EcoLocalizer), Rhishja Larson is the leading rhino expert I've ever run across. She knows rhinos! And, unfortunately, that means she knows more about the current rhino crisis than most. Now, she and Saving Rhinos LLC have started a new camp ...
• Rhino Horn = Medicine? NO! (New Campaign to Bu ...
  A former fellow writer on EcoWorldly.com (which is now EcoLocalizer), Rhishja Larson is the leading rhino expert I've ever run across. She knows rhinos! And, unfortunately, that means she knows more about the current rhino crisis than most. Now, she and Saving Rhinos LLC have started a new ca ...
• 3 Affordable iPhone Apps for the Gardener on a ...
  There is no way to be a casual gardener. Once you begin you become obsessed, and with good reason. The process of gardening is incredibly cathartic and calming. It eases stress, boosts energy, is good for the body and can help clear the mind. The end results are often beneficial, whether in the ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Healing San Pedro Bay
  Some of the new regulations designed to clean up San Pedro Bay are more fork than spoon unfortunatel
• MEAT-The problem finally acknowledged
  This Baltimore Sun reported on a study released last week by the National Research Council, a nine m
• VIPs Visit the Watershed
  by Dan Carney Students from Thailand’s Thammasat University visit the Mt. Tamalpais Watershed. Imagi
• Invasive Exotic Species
  Zebra Mussels get there name from the pattern on their shell. They are impossible to remove from a b
• Methane Contamination of Drinking Water Accomp ...
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Published online before print May 9, 2011; doi: 10.

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Obama Troop Surge Decision Ignored Pak-Taliban ...
  by Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at IPS 22 May, 2011 Image by Omer Wazir
• “The 15% Solution,” Serialization, 16th Instal ...
  Note: The Preface and Chapters One through Thirteen can be found here: The 15% Solution. by Jonathan
• Pepe Escobar: The Hijacking of the Arab Spring ...
  Image by Crethi Plethi via Flickr by Peter B. Collins and Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Sa
• Two Views on Israel by Guadamour
  by Guadamour Featured Writer Dandelion Salad May 21, 2011 photo by Rusty Stewart Attribution Noncomm
• Cindy Sheehan: The Media, the War Machine and ...
  Image by Fibonacci Blue via Flickr with Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’

Axis of Logic

• Great news! We're not going to fry, were going ...
  Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade Physicists say sunspot cycle is 'going into hibernation' What may be the science story of the century is breaking this evening, as heavyweight US solar physicists announce that the Sun appears to be headed into a lengthy spell...
• The Internet’s Unholy Marriage to Capitalism - ...
  The United States and the world are now a good two decades into the Internet revolution, or what was once called the information age. The past generation has seen a blizzard of mind-boggling developments in communication, ranging from the World Wide Web and broadband, to ubiquitous cell phones t ...
• Cuba changing; US stuck - Cuba
  President Obama and his advisers share with most of the mass media the same visual weakness when it comes to Cuba: they don’t see the obvious, the crucial facts and context that stare them in the face. As Cuba begins to undergo basic changes to its economy and governmental structure,...
• Sterilisation: North Carolina grapples with le ...
  Ms Riddick, now 57, suffered decades of depression and illness 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 ...
• Activists to Occupy Financial District’s Liber ...
  On June 14th at 1pm EST, a group of activists will begin occupation of Liberty Park (recently renamed Zuccotti Park) in lower Manhattan’s Financial District, a few blocks from Wall Street (14971 Broadway, 10007). A Google Map featuring the event states the following: “This Flag Day, Tue ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• If Even Lies Won't Work, Then Kill the Truth
  The lies aren't working about the repug plan to kill Medicare, and when the truth got out in one special election in a repug gimme district, it destroyed the GOP candidate and elected the Democratic candidate. What's a desperate GOP to do? Kill the truth, of course. Steve Benen: The word "censor ...
• Get Those Sick Workers Out of My Face, Please
  You know where you picked up that flu that knocked you flat for two weeks this winter? At a restaurant or retail store that forces its sick workers to work if they want to get paid. This isn't an issue of entitlements or even workers' rights; it's an issue of public health. bluegal at Crooks and ...
• The fatal flaws in Ryan's plan that he doesn't ...
  It depends who you are talking to what will be achieved by Privatizing Ryan's roadmap to ruin budget plan should it be enacted. Most people either come down on the side of "it ends Medicare" or "it ends Medicare as we know it," while the Randians like Ryan insist on pretending that it "saves Med ...
• Courting The "Investor Class"
  I dunno about anybody else but I'm beginning to think I'm fighting a battle that was lost before I ever knew we were in it. �Good thing I'm one of those cantankerous old bastards that thinks it would be really boring to only fight battles I knew absolutely I could win... never mind the fact that ...
• Mitch McConnell: Save Me From the Scary Muslin ...
  I mean seriously - Bowling Green? Population 56,598? University town in the heart of Red Kentucky? Any terrists in that town wouldn't make it past the rifle-bristling pickups at the Food Mart. But Mitch McConnell is pissing his pants in fear about putting these pathetic bumblers on trial in a st ...

Care 2

• Dolphins Use Double Sonar
  Dolphins and porpoises use echolocation for hunting and orientation. By sending out high-frequency sound, known as ultrasound, dolphins can use the echoes to determine what type of object the sound beam has hit. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Tell the EPA to Protect Wildlife from Deadly P ...
  Widespread use of the pesticide DDT pushed iconic species like the bald eagle, peregrine falcon and California condor to the brink of extinction before concerned citizens and conservation activists campaigned to have the chemical banned in 1972.Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
• Stop Polluters' Wish List in North Carolina ! ...
  As the end of the 2011 state legislative session nears, big polluters are pushing hard for a massive rollback of environmental standards in North Carolina. There may be only days left before legislators end the session and these 3 majorSubmitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
• Save the Sumatran Tiger ! Tell Mattel to dump ...
  Only 400 wild Sumatran tigers are left in the world. That�s fewer tigers than sheets in a ream of paper. There are no tigers to spare, and there�s no time to spare if we want to save them. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• The Cheetah Run! Video!
  My continuing look into the world of cheetah conservation and an exploration into the lives of ambassador cheetah in the US brought me to Animal Ark, a 70 acre wildlife sanctuary, located roughly between the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation and the citySubmitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-i ...

Smirking Chimp

• I Regret To Inform You That Your Country Is Su ...
• An Amish Criminal Case In Kentucky
• The Revolution Will Not Be Deactualized: On Oc ...
• Creationists infiltrating US geology circles, ...
• Factchecking the Media: More Questions About t ...

Paul Krugman

• One Size Fits One, Redux (Wonkish)
  Careful about those Taylor rules.
• Doubletalk Express
  More on the very unserious Paul Ryan.
• I Ruined The Economy And All I Got Were These ...
  So much for hope and all that.
• The Power of Minus
  Will it make heads explode?
• Mini-Reagan
  But then, Reagan wasn't very credible either ...

No Quarter

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

Environmental Graffiti

• Is Barbie's Latest Career as a Lumberjack in t ...
  It's official: Barbie is bad. Or at least, the packaging she wraps herself is. Greenpeace has revealed how Mattel is using paper that destroys the Indonesian rainforest. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the ...
• Map Reveals World's Green Turtle Nesting Sites
  In a collaborative scientific effort, a map of green sea turtle nesting sites around the world has been created that has won a top prize in conservation mapping. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
• How the Site of the Garden of Eden Has Been Ra ...
  The supposed historic location of Garden of Eden has suffered under years of engineered environmental abuse. Find out how... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Giant Prehistoric 'Shrimp' Discovered
  The recently discovered fossil of a 3 foot-long, prehistoric shrimp-like predator. "It would have made enough scampi to feed an army for a month," said one scientist. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the ar ...
• Spectacular Images of Volcanic Lightning Over ...
  Stunning photographs of volcanic lightning illuminating Chile's Puyehue volcano following its recent eruption... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Iran's Turmoil at the Top
  The president and the clerics have squared off in Tehran. Will it push Iran over the edge?
• Israel's 1981 Osirak Attack Poor Precedent for ...
  Israel's attack on Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor did little to halt Iraq's nuclear-weapons program.
• Postcard from...Soma
  Japan is still digging its way out of the earthquake and tsunami that hit in March. Here's a way to help.
• The Day Obama Decided
  Margit Berman's poem about the day the president decided to end the wars.
• If We Survive the Next 100 Years, Which Came F ...
  Can nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament treaties endure if states fail to resolve the issues between them?

Global Elite

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
  Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will ...
• President European Commission Advocated World ...
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• Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
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• Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
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• Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
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Al Jazeera

• Obama resists pressure over Libya campaign
  Ten members of Congress file suit against Obama for committing US forces to Libya without congressional authorisation.
• Agents find US-Mexico 'crime tunnels'
  US agent tells legislators about the many elaborate passageways between the US and its southern neighbour.
• Libyan rebels wrest western mountain villages
  Opposition continues to edge closer to capital, Tripoli, capturing two villages despite shelling by pro-Gaddafi forces.
• Gaddafi forces shell rebel positions
  Troops loyal to Libyan leader shell western mountains in bid to thwart rebels advancing towards capital, Tripoli.
• Greek PM offers to quit amid protests
  Papandreou pushes for unity government as protesters clash with police in capital Athens over austerity measures.

Green Inc. - NYT

• 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.
• 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.
• U.S. Reactors Unprepared for Total Power Loss, ...
  Studies by safety experts have analyzed the risk of losing electricity from the grid or from on-site emergency generators, but not both, officials at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission say.
• Senate Blocks End to Ethanol Subsidies
  The 40-59 vote reflected a split among Republicans and the continued acrimony over the issue.
• Political Volleys Over Nuclear Waste
  At a subcommittee hearing, House members assert that the chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission blocked a waste depository at Yucca Mountain for political reasons. Others counter that the House's long-ago choice of Yucca was political to begin with.

Dot Earth News

• A Solar Scientist Rebuts a Cool Sunspot Prediction
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• A Deeper Look at an Energy Analysis Raises Big ...
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• Would Solar Lull Snuff Climate Action?
  If a prediction of a protracted downturn in solar activity holds up, there are big implications for climate policy.
• An Effort to Clarify the Climate Conversation
  Australian climate scientists band together to lay out the scientific basis for human-driven global warming.
• Seeking New Energy to (Re)Focus the Nation
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Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• Can Has Wargame, "Southland" Pre-scripting the ...
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• NASA Fears Nibiru? Why Not? Emergency Preparat ...
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• CIA Whistleblower on the latest American War - ...
  Susan Lindauer sent us over another article, this one turning to the chaotic Western intervention in Libya. It's nice to get a little praise for the post earlier this week: Dashing Wartime Philosopher Bernard Henri Lévy ties Libyan rebels & Netanyahu, lolz at teh Bilderberg conspiracy - and your ...
• CIA Whistleblower Lindauer: Warning: This Mess ...
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• Dashing Wartime Philosopher Bernard Henri Lévy ...
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Daily Censored

• In Praise of Learning by Bertolt Brecht
  When this was written in 1931 the Weimar republic had died and Hitler was on the road to power. Brecht, of course, was the great playwrite and poet of the early part of the 1900′s.  His poem, “In Praise of Learning” is more important now than ever!  Here it is in its entirety!   Study [...]
• Freedom Flotilla Two: Another Massacre Looms?
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• DC Police Brutally Assualt a man in a Wheelcha ...
  Click this link below to listen to the show: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news/2011/06/16/dc-metro-police-assualt-on-a-man-in-a-wheelchair� Please join us Wednesday Night June 15th at 10:30 PM EST as well deconstruct Police Brutality in DC and the US. � The call-in number is: (347) 94 ...
• Obama Embraces The Money Party
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• UK government seeks to expand its internet bla ...
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Institute for Policy Studies

• Webb's Parting Shots
  While Robert Gates is spreading his soothing fictions about the U.S. military, Jim Webb is raising some uncomfortable facts.
• How the Institute for Policy Studies Helped Re ...
  IPS co-founder Marcus Raskin and others provided crucial aid to whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg.
• The Lineup: Week of June 13-19, 2011
  Wenonah Hauter calls for a ban on gas "fracking" and Jim Hightower miraculously finds the humor in the GOP's efforts to kill Medicare.
• Building Resilience: The New Economy in the Sh ...
  "Resilience Circles" are popping up all around the country. They're transformative, hopeful, and fun.
• Blowing the Whistle
  IPS co-founder Marcus Raskin helped whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg release the Pentagon Papers.

IntelNews

• Analysis: Arab revolutions cause blind spot fo ...
  An unusually blunt piece published in Newsweek magazine describes the Arab democratic revolutions in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and elsewhere as serious detriments to US intelligence collection in the Muslim world. Written by Newsweekâs Middle East Regional Editor Christopher Dickey, the lengthy arti ...
• News you may have missed #519
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• Massive IMF cyberattack ‘was state-backed’, sa ...
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War is a Crime.org

• Interview - Andy Thayer of Gay Liberation Net ...
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• Interview - William Stewart-Starks of Iraq Vet ...
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• Interview - Jeff Paterson of Courage To Resist ...
  Jeff Paterson of Courage To Resist spoke with us during the "Rally for Bradley Manning" at Ft. Leavenworth, KS, Saturday, June 4, 2011. Pfc. Bradley Manning of Oklahoma has been in US military custody without formal charges for over a year. Manning allegedly leaked US secret diplomatic cables to ...
• Interview - Jacob George of A Ride Till The En ...
  Jacob George of A Ride Till The End spoke with us at the "Rally for Bradley" at Ft. Leavenworth, KS on June 4, 2011. Pfc. Bradley Manning of Oklahoma has been in US military custody without formal charges for over a year. Manning allegedly leaked US secret diplomatic cables to Wikileaks. For mor ...
• Interview - Leah Bolger of Veterans for Peace ...
  Leah Bolger of Veterans for Peace spoke with us during the "Rally for Bradley Manning" at Ft. Leavenworth, KS on June 4, 2011. Pfc. Bradley Manning of Oklahoma has been in US military custody without formal charges for over a year. Manning allegedly leaked US secret diplomatic cables to Wikileak ...

Grist - News

• How close are you to the country’s dirti ...
  by Jess Zimmerman. If you live west of D.C. and east of Omaha, there's a good chance you're pretty close to one of the 25 dirtiest coal plants in the U.S. Twenty of them are 50 to 100 miles away from major urban areas, according to Climate Progress. What does "dirtiest" mean? Well, t ...
• Introducing the booze-fueled power plant
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• Google to spend $280 million to give you solar ...
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• Russia building floating nuclear power plants ...
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• Ex-nuclear engineer says it can never be safe
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• America’s Energy Ethos: Do, Regardless o ...
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Insurgency Watch - Newswire

• Times Scare
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AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

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• Scerri stuff indeed
  Scerri stuff indeed – Non-chemists, and perhaps a few chemists, might have assumed that once all the holes in Mendeleev's Periodic Table were filled with modern discoveries and the lanthanides and actinides added, that the Table was forever immutable, a stone tablet to adorn high school chemistr ...
• Listening to digitized vinyl
  Listening to digitized vinyl – I'm currently writing a piece for sciencetext about the price of digital goods, including mp3s and CDs etc. While researching the article, I discovered this interesting item on being an audiophile in the modern age and listening to digital recordings of vinyl recor ...
• Gossip, grooming, and your Dunbar number
  Gossip, grooming, and your Dunbar number – David Dobbs waxes lyrical in Wired this week on the subject of the Dunbar number, that fairly well-known social science icon that says that our brains are powerful enough to handle only 150 friends (+/-50 or so). It's a bit of a truism, I think. Some pe ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• War Powers Experts Say Lawsuit Filed Against t ...
  Today, former Members of Congress and Co-Chairs of The Constitution Project (TCP) War Powers Committee David Skaggs (D-CO) and Mickey Edwards (R-OK), as well as TCP War Powers Committee member and renowned war powers scholar Louis Fisher, released a statement in response to the news that a bipar ...
• Greece: Migrants' Medical Problems Due to Inhu ...
  Inhumane living and hygiene conditions in detention facilities in the Evros region in Greece are causing major health problems for migrants and asylum seekers living there, according to a report issued today by the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/M�decins ...
• House Subcommittee Passes Bill to Rush Decisio ...
  Today the Energy and Power Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Panel approved a bill to expedite a decision on the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The bill, from Congressman Lee Terry of Nebraska and Gene Green of Texas, would interfere with the ongoing review of the impa ...
• Marco Rubio Sells out Hispanic Community; Thro ...
  Yesterday, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) each introduced their own versions of mandatory E-Verify legislation.  Freshman senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) is an original cosponsor of the Grassley bill.  Following is a statement from Lynn Tramonte, Deputy Director of America’ ...
• Nearly Two Billion People Worldwide Now Overweight
  There are now approximately 1.934 billion people worldwide who are overweight, a 25 percent increase since 2002, a new Worldwatch analysis shows. A survey of statistics in 177 countries shows 38 percent of adults – those 15 years or older – are now overweight. The trend is strongly correlated to ...

Common Dreams-Views

• How the Corporate Right Divided Blacks from Te ...
  Glen Ford Back in the mid-Nineties, devious right-wing activists at the Bradley Foundation, in Milwaukee, hit upon a “wedge” issue designed to wreck the alliance at the core of the Democratic Party’s urban base. Blacks and public employee ...
• Fig Leaf Nation
  Linh Dinh When any man falls, we laugh, and when an upright citizen is exposed as just ordinary slime, we hoot and holler. Glad it ain’t me, we reflect. At least I’m not important enough to be publicly shamed. Rest assured, us nobodies cou ...
• Sowing the Seeds: Can Wisconsin Uprising Grow ...
  Pat Schneider It may have been a small crowd compared to those that thronged the state Capitol in the winter, but the “It’s Not Over” rally in May drew the kind of numbers that would have been stunning in any other year: 10,000 protesters ...
• War on Drugs: Fast, Furious and Fueled by the U.S.
  Amy Goodman 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 ...
• America Shouldn't Scrimp on Food Safety
  Amanda Hitt Americans are becoming too familiar with imported foodborne illnesses. Remember the tainted dog food from China and those salmonella-laced hot peppers shipped from Mexico? Now a virulent strain of E. coli is racing across Europ ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• A Groundswell for Significant Afghanistan With ...
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• Stagnation, costs and waiting
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• Memorial Day: Remembering Those Who Didn't Hav ...
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• Memorial Day: Remembering Those Who Didn't Hav ...
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• The Carnage Continues in Afghanistan
  By Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe A quiet city in the north of Afghanistan ignited today after yet another NATO night raid reportedly tore another family apart. Thousands of people took to the streets, again chanting, "Death to America!" as they pelted Karzai's billboards with mud and s ...

Water Wars

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

WordPress | Economics

• Mass changes
  by John McMahon Yesterday, Will responded to my earlier post about the lack or large-scale resistanc
• Petrodollars don't fund repression
  The website I’ve been working on for a long time has finally launched its new interface and it
• Sarkozy urges firmer commodities rules
  French President warns that raw materials’ inflation is one of the principal threats to global
• Russia and China hope to reach gas deal
  Hu Jintao begins a visit to Russia that both sides hope will culminate in an agreement between the w
• Luncheon in Olathe to Address Regulatory Compl ...
  The Department of Agricultural Economics at Kansas State University will present a luncheon seminar

Electronic Intifada

• Agrexco forum a milestone in Europe's BDS movement
  Stephanie WestbrookThe Electronic Intifada Earlier this month in Montpellier, France, more than a hundred activists from nine countries gathered for the first ever European Forum Against Agrexco for two full days of workshops aimed at strengthening the boycott campaign against the Israeli agricu ...
• US citizen in Jerusalem arrest video speaks to EI
  Maureen Clare MurphyThe Electronic Intifada Lucas Koerner, the young American Jewish university student shown violently arrested in a Jerusalem Day video, speaks to The Electronic Intifada about his activism and what happened after his�arrest.
• The case for UN recognition of Palestine
  Victor KattanThe Electronic Intifada Victor Kattan argues that UN membership for a State of Palestine would be a strategic asset to the Palestinian struggle for self-determination, although there are risks�involved.
• Rafah border crossing reopens, again
  Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-OmraniThe Electronic IntifadaCairo Egypt’s border with the Hamas-run Gaza Strip was reopened to Palestinian travelers Wednesday after a series of squabbles over operational procedures had temporarily brought cross-border traffic to a halt.
• Gaza's fishing industry under fire
  Eva BartlettThe Electronic IntifadaGaza City The prospects of catching fish — and the future of Gaza’s once strong fishing industry — are more dire than ever with new Israeli restrictions.

Afghanistan Sun

• Senators press Obama for sizable Afghanistan w ...
  WASHINGTON - Democratic and Republican senators are circulating a letter to President Barack Obama pressing for a "sizable and sustained" withdrawal of U.S. troops ...
• Suicide bomber kills 8 in Afghanistan
  SHAR , Afghanistan - A suicide bomber killed eight people and wounded four in a strike today on a governor's office in the northeast, while a mortar targeted a building ...
• Americans Work to Modernize Afghan Agriculture
  Two Afghan women water the soil at the Qalat Department of Women's Affairs, in the Zabul Province of Afghanistan, May 8, 2011 Agriculture is the mainstay of Afghanistan's economy, although ...
• Being an Afghan film actress is no role for th ...
  previous photo KABUL // A young bride silently sobs on the floor watching her mentally disturbed husband gorge on chicken, rub his greasy hands through his hair and scream at her for more, just ...
• Taliban shells police ceremony in bloody intim ...
  Insurgents are pressing forward with their promised campaign to kill government officials and any Afghans working with foreigners, targeting a ceremony today at a new police training centre in ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

• ACLU Drags The State Department To Court For I ...
  Of all the spectacle surrounding the Wikileaks/Cablegate situation, nothing has proven to be more bizarre than the U.S. government's actions and policies concerning the continued classification of the leaked cables. One of its first efforts was its patented "escalating response", in which it fir ...
• Michael Robertson Tempts Copyright Fate Yet Ag ...
  I used to joke that every company founded by Michael Robertson had a very simple "marketing plan": get sued by someone big. So many of his startups ended up in lawsuits with big names, which helped generate even more attention for them. But, of course, part of the reason for that is that he co ...
• Congress Happy To Knock Out Patents That Impac ...
  For about five years now, we've been discussing the ridiculous rise of "tax strategy" patents. There have been a bunch of them. Three years ago, an attempt was made by Congress to effectively dump such patents. It didn't go anywhere. What I hadn't realized is that this particular provision h ...
• ICE Stalling On More FOIA Requests Concerning ...
  We recently noted that Homeland Security's ICE group appeared to be stalling in responding to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from Michael Robertson's NakedGovernment. It turns out that's not the only such request it's been stalling on. The folks over at Muckrock (who helped us wit ...
• When Citizens Elect Comedians Who Run For Offi ...
  The idea of politicians who run for office as a joke has a pretty long history. Comedian Pat Paulsen starting running for US President in the 1960s and ended up taking part in six presidential campaigns. More recently, Stephen Colbert attempted to sort of enter the 2008 election, but was event ...

VacTruth

• Formaldehyde in Vaccines
  It’s official, or as official as it can be: The New York Times reports that formaldehyde is listed as a carcinogen by government scientists, and that “…it is found in worrisome quantities in plywood, particle board, mortuaries and hair salons.” However, both the U.S. government and The New Yo ...
• Vaccination Without Informed Consent Is Medica ...
  What would you say if I told you that a European Union country’s Supreme Court says that vaccinations to attend school are NOT mandatory in that country, and anyone who vaccinates another person who suffers health damages is liable and can be sued for compensatory damages?Vactruth.com
• Part 3 of 3: An Interview About Vaccines with ...
  Part 3 of 3: Catherine J. Frompovich interviews Helen V. Ratajczak, PhD, who worked in the field of immunology and toxicology. She answers questions addressing the role of Vitamin C, peroxidation of the brain, immunostimulation and Autism.Vactruth.com
• MRSA Vaccine Trial Is Halted, Ends In Disaster
  Yesterday Reuters reported US Merck and Co have taken the very unusual step of discontinuing vaccine trials for Intercell's MRSA vaccine. The decision was taken after experts advised the V710 vaccine was 'unlikely to show a significant clinical benefit and expressed concerns about overall mortal ...
• Part 2 of 3: An Interview About Vaccines with ...
  Part 2 of 3: Catherine J. Frompovich interviews Helen V. Ratajczak, PhD, who worked in the field of immunology and toxicology. She answers questions addressing the toxicity of vaccine adjuvants.Vactruth.com

BroadSnark

• Things I Might Have Missed
  I am sitting in the Portland airport waiting for my flight to San Jose and have not been paying any attention to the news. In fact, I didn’t even have internet for a couple days. About the only things I have learned in the last week are: 1. I can actually survive without internet. 2. [...]
• Growing Up Jewish – Bat Mitzvah Edition
  It has been ages since I wrote a Growing Up Jewish post. And since last month was the 25th anniversary of my Bat Mitzvah (Fuck I’m old!), I thought it was time to continue the series. According to Jewish law, at thirteen you are an adult. And that means a party.* Of course, being Jews, [...]
• Things You Might Have Missed
  Hello everyone. We’re leaving tomorrow for vacation in Portlandia and Alta California. I have some almost finished posts that I should be able to get up, but I might be a little slow responding to comments and whatnot between now and the 18th. Please check out this amazing new project from my fr ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  Hello everyone. We’re leaving tomorrow for vacation in Portlandia and Alta California. I have some almost finished posts that I should be able to get up, but I might be a little slow responding to comments and whatnot between now and the 18th. Please check out this amazing new project from my fr ...
• The Bad Actor Objection
  Have you ever seen the movie The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance?  My friend @JamesTulsaALL recommended it. He thought the movie addressed some important issues. He was right. For those of you who have not seen it. Jimmy Stewart is an attorney who heads out to the wild west to carve out his future. ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• China, for Example: A Certain World Map
  by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, June 10, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 23
• LaRouche: The Deadline for Glass-Steagall Is J ...
  by Nancy Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, June 10, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 23
• Documentation: World Opposition to Germany’s N ...
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, June 10, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 23
• Germany’s Nuclear Phase-Out Means Deindustrial ...
  by Helga Zepp-LaRouche Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, June 10, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 23
• LPAC-TV Weekly Report: An Economic Revival Nee ...
  with Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., Oyang Teng, and Sky Shields Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, June 10, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 23

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

• Just What We Needed Dept.: The Happy Hot Dog Man
  Weiners are getting altogether too much exposure these days, but we can't pass up this opportunity to complain about another of what the Unclutterer dubbed Unitaskers- tools or devices that do only one thing and clog up your drawers and cupboards. And what a stupid unitasker the Happy Hot Do ...
• WindMade: New Label for Products Made Using at ...
  Will companies be impelled to make more of an effort to use clean power if they were publicly recognized for their efforts? The folks behind Windmade are betting they will. Windmade is a new initiative spearheaded by Vestas, the Danish wind company, that will eventually allow companies to pl ...
• Timberland, Sustainable Business Leader, Sold ...
  Image: IvanWalsh.com via flickr Timberland, known here at TreeHugger for greening the outdoor clothing industry and for using its corporate weight to press for action on climate change, now has an uncertain future when it comes to keeping up those green business practices. VF Corp., parent ...
• What's The Greenest Insulation? It's Getting H ...
  Screen shot from Youtube video What's wrong with this picture? It is in a video promoting Ultra-touch denim insulation, showing an installer pushing a full-size batt into an irregular cavity. Either the insulation isn't going to work because it is compressed or it is going to pop the drywal ...
• Grilled Fruit and Cheese Plate
  Photos by Jaymi Heimbuch This recipe was created exclusively to pair with a bottle of 2008 Chardonnay from Medlock Ames. The wine is a good balance between mineral and citrus, with some subtle flo...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Biosingularity

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

CFACT

• Improving air quality helps Americans breathe easy
  Air quality has improved so much that Clean Air Act actually saved lives over its first 20 years
• Media taking a pass on Greenpeace investigation
• The New Detroit Lions?
• Follow me to a bridge by a river...
• Hype over population bomb fizzling out

Ria Novosti Online News

• Federation of Russian Motorists to protest aga ...
  The Federation of Russian Motorists (FRM) will on Thursday ride on downtown Moscow roads to protest against rising gasoline prices, FRM head Sergei Kanayev said.
• Russian, Chinese leaders to discuss economic ties
  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will meet with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao on Thursday to discuss trade and economic ties, Medvedev's aide Sergei Prikhodko reported.
• Main news of June 15
  A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours
• Belarusian police peacefully disperse Minsk pr ...
  Police in Minsk peacefully broke up an unsanctioned demonstration of several hundred people in a central square on Wednesday against government measures aimed at propping up Belarus's crippled economy.
• Obama may cool toward Russia to heat up his re ...
  The main contenders for the Republican nomination for president faced off in a debate this week in New Hampshire.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• ISS orbit readjusted by 10.2 km
  Russia's Mission Control has raised the orbit of the International Space Station by 10.2 km (6.3 miles) using Europe's ATV-2 Johannes Kepler, a spokesman for Mission Control said on Wednesday.
• European ATV-2 space freighter to readjust ISS ...
  Russia's Mission Control will raise on Wednesday the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) by 10.2 km (6.3 miles) using Europe's ATV-2 Johannes Kepler to 374.7 km (232.8 miles).
• Russian Mir mini-subs begin Lake Geneva explor ...
  Russia's Mir-1 and Mir-2 self-propelled deep submersibles began on Tuesday a scientific expedition at Lake Geneva, diving to a depth of almost 300 meters in one of western Europe's largest lakes, Swiss media reported.
• E.coli found in Bavarian lettuce - report
  Enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) has been found in lettuce imported from Bavaria, Der Spiegel reported on Tuesday.
• European ATV-2 space freighter to readjust ISS ...
  Russia's Mission Control will raise on Sunday the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) by 20 km (12.4 miles) using Europe's ATV-2 Johannes Kepler to 365 km (226.8 miles).

Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

• Thinking Beyond "Green" to Truly Sustainable
  Ever pass by a beautifully landscaped university and think, "gee, that would make perfectly good farmland?" From edible landscaping to solariums and green roofs, Joel Salatin presents his wish list of possibilities for turning these underutilized acres into thriving, sustainable eco-campuses.Cli ...
• Justice for the Victims of Agent Orange
  The United States must admit its responsibility and compensate the Agent Orange victims in Vietnam. It is a moral obligation. Take action to tell your political representatives.Click here to read this article
• Weaponized E coli Used to Destroy Organic Foods?
  The deadly E. coli in Europe was blamed on fresh organic vegetables. Warnings issued everywhere: "Don't eat your vegetables!" This was followed with rather unseemly rapidity by food safety "experts" calling for the irradiation of fresh food, for more funding for the Food Safety Modernization A ...
• 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.Click here to read this article
• Big Ag Won't Feed the World
  Back in March, USDA secretary Tom Vilsack spoke at an event called the Commodity Classic in Tampa, Fl. Sponsored by agribusiness giants Monsanto, BASF, Syngenta, John Deere, Dow AgroSciences, Dupont, Syngenta, and Archer Daniels Midland, among others, the event hails itself as the "premier natio ...

Center for a Livable Future

• CLF opposes Rehberg amendment, antibiotic-resi ...
  The FY 2012 Agriculture appropriations bill, voted out of the House Appropriations Committee last week, includes an amendment that would severely limit the authority of FDA to regulate the use of antimicrobials, including antibiotics, in food animal production-a key concern of public health rese ...
• Food and Farm Policy: this is not the image an ...
  Recently, my boyfriend offered to give me a dollar for every blog I started with, “Stop what you’re doing, ’cause I’m about to ruin the image and the style that you’re used to.” I responded to his idea with a barrage of reasons why it was ridiculous and certainly not appropriate in my line of [. ...
• Pfizer will voluntary suspend sale of roxarson ...
  The FDA announced today that Pfizer Inc., will voluntarily suspend the sale of 3-Nitro (better known as the arsenical drug roxarsone) following the results of an FDA study which found elevated levels of inorganic arsenic in the livers of chicken fed roxarsone compared to a control group. The ann ...
• 100 years of artificial nitrogen - but how man ...
  I recently was asked in an interview to name the one thing I would change in the world if I had the power to do so. Surprising even myself, I replied quickly “the Haber-Bosch (H-B) process for industrial nitrogen fixation. Imagine - a world without synthetic N! One can imagine the blank look I g ...
• Study finds new MRSA strain in European milk
  Researchers at Cambridge University say they have found a new strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in milk from England, Scotland and Denmark, which they are calling LGA251. The findings - published online by The Lancet Infectious Diseases - can be seen as a further sign ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• Prepare for global cooling - it's official
  To coincide with the release of Air Con Climategate Edition on Kindle, there's been a stunning announcement today that we appear to be seeing major changes in the Sun, of a type that heralded the Little Ice Age. The full...
• The chances of life arising randomly...
  Grant Jacobs from Sciblogs, and another commenter, have been debating on this thread about junk dna and the origin of life. [Update, Grant now admits his phrasing was loose and that he wasn't intending to bring in the origin of...
• Climate scientist admits - climate science is ...
  Former journal editor and climate scientist Hans van Storch has blamed climate scientists around the world for turning their profession into a public laughing stock. Of course, the diplomatic Storch is not quite that blunt, but it's an accurate paraphrase...
• An Intelligent Design debate with Sciblogs...
  I haven't really had a decent design bunfight for a long time....but Sciblogger Grant made this statement in one of our comments threads which I couldn't resist: This seems to fit a different discourse. I didn’t say “evolution disproved G-d”....
• Education propaganda on climate change
  I've come into possession of this year's Year 9 New Zealand high school social studies curriculum book...and would you take a look at the global warming propaganda thinly disguised as "education": The document is ludicrous, has no source citations for...

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• Sept. 15 Tribunal to hear evidence on Elizabet ...
  Exclusive interview with Rev. Kevin Annett of the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State. The ITCCS has the endorsement of over thirty organizations, including eight indigenous nations in North America and AsiaSubmitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Top US Official MURDERED for Exposing Cause of ...
  Secret transportation of WMD to Afghanistan by military tanker aircraft was marked by 2 accidents which mass killed birds and fishSubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Science Matters- Davis suzuki in Common Ground ...
  "I turned 75 in March. That means I probably won�t be around to see the worst impacts of climate change or any other looming environmental disasters � or the much brighter future that may emerge if we get off our butts to address the problems."Submitted by Ken Mci to Environment �|� �Note-it! � ...
• Model Behavior: In Climate Science, Its All A ...
  Linked from Coyote Blog : Climate scientists must assume large numbers of amplifying effects to multiply climate sensitivity to get the scary forecasts that we are used to seeing.Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• I Have Zero Respect For The Mainstream Media
  Silvia Cattori: Your political analysis, translated into dozens of languages [1], reaches a wide readership on the web. For whom exactly do you write? Gilad Atzmon: I write mainly for myself. I try to understand the world around meSubmitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment