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Thomas Paine

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

Thursday, June 16, 2011

15 June - RSS SnapShot ! Pt III

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

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
    Please click to view or download pdf.
  • Ranger to be awarded the Medal of Honor
    The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release May 31, 2011 ADVISORY: President Obama to Award Medal of Honor On July 12th, President Barack Obama will award Sergeant First Class Leroy Arthur Petry, U.S. Army, the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry.� Sergeant First ...
  • Memorial Day - 2011
    Ben and Elaina 29 May 2011 Ben Morton answered America�s call from Kansas.� He joined the Army and served in Korea, then reenlisted and served as an infantry Sergeant in Mosul, Iraq.� On the night of 22 May 2005, intelligence was received that high value targets were in a certain large house.� ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

  • 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

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

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

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

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

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 ...
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    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (:Submitted by Evelyn J. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
    Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �N ...

The Freeman

  • 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

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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

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

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Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Stock Prices Have Fallen For Six Weeks In A Row
    Well, it's official.  U.S. stock prices have fallen for six weeks in a row.  So will next week make it seven?  The last time stocks declined for seven weeks in a row was back in May 2001 when the "dot-com" bubble was bursting.  At this point, the Dow has declined by approximatel ...
  • 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

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

electric politics

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

PR News

The Story Behind the Story

  • 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

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

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

Daily Tech

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 ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net 20 Ð¼Ð°Ñ 2011 ÐиÑай оÑиÑиалÑно пÑедÑпÑедил СШÐ, ÑÑо планиÑÑемое ÐаÑингÑоном нападение на ÐакиÑÑан бÑÐ´ÐµÑ Ð±ÑÐ´ÐµÑ ÑаÑÑмаÑÑиваÑÑÑÑ ÐºÐ°Ðº Ð°ÐºÑ Ð°Ð³ÑеÑÑии в оÑноÑении ÐиÑаÑ. ЭÑÐ¾Ñ Ð¶Ð ...
  • 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

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

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

Energy News

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

Macleans - Central

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 ...
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