- Half-Baked: FDA's New Sunscreen Regulations Fa ...
By: Thomas Cluderay, EWG staff attorney and David Andrews, Ph.D., EWG senior scientist Imagine grabbing a cookbook to find the perfect recipe for key lime pie to present at your summer barbeque. Thumbing through the pages, you locate an... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website ...
- U.S. (finally) Labels Formaldehyde "Known Huma ...
By Paul Pestano, Research Analyst After decades of debate, the Obama administration last week classified formaldehyde as a known human carcinogen, a label that is likely to advance regulatory steps to restrict this widely used hazardous chemical. The... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
- Arsenic Found in... Chicken
By: Press Intern Margot Pagan and Senior Scientist Rebecca Sutton, PhD Did you think you were eating a carcinogen along with your favorite chicken sandwich last week? Probably not, but a new Food and Drug Administration study has found arsenic... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
- Here Comes the Sun, What Now?
By Lisa Frack, EWG Social Media Manager Every year about this time my friends want to me to tell them exactly which sunscreen to buy. They want the one that works the best to protect skin with the least toxic... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other conte ...
- Hey Baby, Your Stuff is Toxic!
By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Scientist Last year I cut small squares of foam from my sons' car seats, our glider rocker and my breastfeeding pillow, wrapped them in foil to prevent contamination and mailed them off to Duke University... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ...
- Congressman Weiner plays the Council Center fo ...
He would like to be able to "continue the work" he was elected to do but "unfortunately the distraction that I created has made that impossible."He was resigning, "so my colleagues can get back to work, my neighbors can choose a new representative." He, me ...
- There is a lot of interest in the Anthony Wein ...
From Dan Rosenblum: A picture of people taking pictures of people taking pictures at the Anthony Weiner press conference in Brooklyn, before Weiner's arrival.Watch it live here. More
- The return of Huma Abedin; Beyonce pictures an ...
Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
- Wilpons sell Mets control to stave off a Madof ...
So it turns out that David Einhorn, the man who bought a 33 percent stake in the New York Mets this month, might be able to increase his stake to 60 percent three years from now, for a dollar. Which brings the true financial state of the Mets’ owners into ...
- F.A.Q.: What's holding up gay marriage now?
Right now it's all about timing. Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos really needs that tax cap, which Silver has linked to the rent regs. So the big ugly is now: Rent regs, tax cap, gay marriage. If Skelos holds out will only be until the end of the week an ...
- NRK launches marathon TV voyage
After months of planning and technical preparation, state broadcaster NRK went live Thursday night with its marathon coverage of a Hurtigruten voyage from Bergen north to the line’s turnaround point in Kirkenes. Viewers will be able to follow every minute of the trip on NRK’s channel 2, until it ...
- Investigation underway into train fire
Railway and railroad officials narrowly avoided a major catastrophe on the train line between Oslo and Bergen, after fire broke out in a snow shelter along the tracks and eventually engulfed an entire train of eight carriages. Questions were flying over how the near-tragedy could have occurred, ...
- King to visit flooded areas
King Harald was planning to visit several areas hit by flooding during the past week, as residents still tried to come to grips with massive destruction. The train line through Gudbrandsdalen re-opened, but more rain caused new worries. It was raining again over much of southern Norway on Friday ...
- ‘Hytte’ prices hit new highs
The average price of a holiday home (hytte) along the Norwegian coast has jumped 18 percent since last year, reports a survey by TNS Gallup, hitting a new high of NOK 2.5 million (nearly USD 500,000 after sales fees are paid). The Gallup survey, conducted for the national real estate brokers ass ...
- Sherpas blaze new trails in Norway
Sherpas from Nepal, known for their mountaineering skills and for guiding hikers up Mt Everest, have been brought to Norway to rebuild a famous trail along a steep mountainside in Bergen. Other summer jobs for the Nepalese trail experts are lining up. The website for newspaper Bergens Tidende, b ...
- A Solar Powered Life, Part XIII – Wire and Myt ...
So far in the series, A Solar Powered Life, we’ve covered most of the components of a solar power system. To have a complete system though, you have to connect all of the separate components using wire and fuses. You wouldn’t think it, but the wire used is one of the most important (and potenti ...
- The Timeless Way of Building
by Øyvind Holmstad This timeless book from Christopher Alexander was released back in the seventies, and it’s just as much a book on philosophy as on architecture. Still, the main purpose of the book is as an introduction to A Pattern Language. Alexander’s architectural writings at the same ti ...
- From Grass to Habitat Garden – Our Front Yard ...
A detailed account of the transition from a sparse and chemical dependent landscape to an ecologically diverse and resource efficient garden. by Stephanie Ladwig-Cooper Our rural 1/3 acre of land in Northern California has been our home and office as well as a continual experiment in ecological ...
- Sepp Holzer’s Permaculture – a Review
by Harry Byrne Wykman Sepp Holzer’s Permaculture is the work of a man of unique sensitivity and imagination. Holzer has combined a lifetime of practical experience with clarity of expression and intellect to produce a book which will satisfy a practically-minded farmer or gardener as well as the ...
- Soil Decision Making
Winona paddock Pasture cropped & time control grazed Adjoining paddock Traditional Crop and set stock grazed When you are trying to decide which method of soil improvement to take, sometimes it seems like there are as many different approaches as there are bacteria in a teaspoon of ...
- Lulz attacks: US orders review as Senate site ...
US officials said they have ordered a security review after hackers managed to break into the Senate website at the weekend.An official said the incident had been "inconvenient", but had not compromised the security of the staff. Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Cloned Cows to Produce Human-Like Milk
An Argentine laboratory announced that it had created the world's first transgenic cow, using human genes that will allow the animal to produce the equivalent of mothers' milk. Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- 10 Sports Media Scandals That Shook the Industry
Studios consisting of sports reporters and analysts, most of whom are guys, often resemble high school locker rooms more than professional work environments.These sports media members victimized themselves � just one was victimized by someone else........Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
- Donors promise $4 billion to global vaccines body
Donors promised to give a global vaccines body more than $4 billion to help it protect millions of children from diseases like measles, pneumonia and yellow fever. Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- 11 Conspiracy Theories That Just Wont Die
The most unforgettable moments in history almost always come with a conspiracy theory that provides alternative, and often outlandish, explanations for past events. Although most conspiracy theories are rarely supported by conclusive evidence, they do....Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
- 6/14/11 - Prescription drugs advertised direct ...
prescriptiondrugs.procon.org - Prescription drugs advertised directly to consumers sell nine times better than drugs without such ads. On May 26, 2011 the Congressional Budget Office released a study on direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising of new prescription drugs. According to the study, the a ...
- 6/8/11 - John Edwards' 2007 statement on wheth ...
2008election.procon.org - John Edwards' 2007 statement on whether infidelity should disqualify a candidate for public office. We found this quote for our 2008 presidential election website and, although the site has been archived, we wanted our readers to be able to read what John Edwards told K ...
- 6/7/11 - 20 highest and lowest radiation cell ...
cellphones.procon.org - UPDATED: 20 highest and lowest radiation cell phones in the US - All cell phones emit radiofrequency radiation, but not all phones emit the same amount. The FCC has set the limit (standard absorption rate: SAR) for cell phone radiation at a maximum of 1.6 watts. Our upd ...
- 6/6/11 - International Guide to Minimum Legal ...
drinkingage.procon.org - NEW: International Guide to Minimum Legal Drinking Ages (MLDAs) in 138 Countries - The United States along with five other countries (Fiji, Indonesia, Micronesia, Palau, and Sri Lanka) have an MLDA of 21 - the highest of any country where alcohol is legal. In Brunei, Ga ...
- 6/3/11 - Did Jack Kevorkian ethically serve th ...
euthanasia.procon.org - Dr. Jack Kevorkian dead at age 83. In light of his passing today, ProCon.org presents two questions about the man who polarized millions around the issues of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in the United States.
- The Uses of Tedium
Rachel Shteir TWO MILLIGRAMS OF The Big B, the doctor will say not so long from now after you have come in for relief from the Theme Park Adventure that is your life. It will cure what ails your restless iPodded, iPadded, and Kindled existence. Boredom, which begins, as Walter Benjamin put it, w ...
- Thinking Inside the Box
Why some of America’s most prominent minds fell for the wildly eccentric ideas of Wilhelm Reich. By HENRY ALLEN This maddening, saddening account of Wilhelm Reich’s crash-and-burn life leaves you yearning for a poet or philosopher who understands a fundamental truth: Nothing explains everything. ...
- The truth is in there
When we realize everyone might be lying, most of us just give up. For Errol Morris, thatâs just the beginning. By Leon Neyfakh IT USED TO BE that Errol Morris would come into his office in Inman Square every morning knowing more or less what he and his staff were going to do that day. … Read more
- Readin’ Machines!
James Floyd Kelly I read a lot of books. A lot. I think my wife probably wishes sometimes that Iâd take up cigarettes or drinking⦠itâd probably be a cheaper vice. My split is fairly even between fiction and non-fiction, but I also separately classify computer/technology books in their own cate ...
- How Jason Mraz Crafts Tantalizing Tunes
Mario Aguilar Illustration: Peter Horride Love songs donât have to be gooey, open-mic gaucheries. In canny hands, the amorous tune can be an elegant way to publicly express affection (or lure in your next conquest). Songwriter Jason Mraz is a master of the form: His folkie, reggae-inspired singl ...
- Frontiers of Science UK-Germany: is sound fast ...
FROM RUTH COOPER, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Last week 35 early career British scientists met with their German counterparts in the UK, for the third UK-German Frontiers of Science meeting. The meeting was co-organised with the Junge Akademie with logistical support from the Alexander von Humbold ...
- Frontiers of Science UK-Germany: is sound fast ...
FROM RUTH COOPER, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Last week 35 early career British scientists met with their German counterparts in the UK, for the third UK-German Frontiers of Science meeting. The meeting was co-organised with the Junge Akademie with logistical support from the Alexander von Humbold ...
- Opening up scientific information: a shared hi ...
There are two parts to the story of the birth of the internet. Networked computers exchanging packets of information have existed since the 1960s, facilitated largely by a government project in the USA. Â Â The interface that allows anyone to share anything with anyone, anywhere – the combinatio ...
- Opening up scientific information: a shared hi ...
There are two parts to the story of the birth of the internet. Networked computers exchanging packets of information have existed since the 1960s, facilitated largely by a government project in the USA. Â Â The interface that allows anyone to share anything with anyone, anywhere – the combinatio ...
- Six academies synthetic biology symposium: eng ...
Synthetic biology can be described in quite simple terms; it is the design and production of novel biological systems and organisms. It is not so simply constituted. Biological research is a vast and heterogeneous enterprise. And so the engineering of biological entities, despite its simple des ...
- Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
- ?Neanderthals shopped at stone-age Tiffany?s? ...
LONDON - In 1959 in the Grotte du Renne in central France, archaeologists found a wide range of ornaments and tools, indicating the existence of a stone-age Tiffany’s, but a new study has disproved that theory. University of Oxford researchers have shown that the artefacts were jumbled up with ...
- Laser surgery for long-sightedness to make spe ...
LONDON - Conventionally, laser surgery tackles shortsightedness, but doctors are now using laser treatment to restore 20/20 vision in those suffering from long-sightedness too. By the age of 50, most adults find they can’t read a menu, book or newspaper without holding it at arm’s length. Th ...
- Elusive green comet Hartley 2 will be visible ...
WASHINGTON - Hartley 2, the comet that was discovered in 1986 by Australian astronomer Malcolm Hartley, has been shrouded in mystery for a very long time, but today it will make its closest pass, offering prime viewing via binoculars and telescopes. Hartley 2 will be passing the brilliant star ...
- New fluorescent light surface may kill MRSA
WASHINGTON - Scientists at the University of New Mexico are working on a new type of antimicrobial surface which, equipped with fluorescent lights, would be able to fight off prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection. The new polymer-type material, “conjugated ...
- 911: The side they’ll never print
The events of September 11, 2011 were a catastrophe that shook the global population by its roots. An inhumane act largely unprecedented in the modern world was unleashed onto society causing a wave of fear and ‘terror’ that would significantly effect the years to come. Islamaphobia increased, r ...
- A British radiographer speaks out against air ...
Anthony Hall is a Senior Reporting Radiographer, holding a Bsc (hons) in Diagnostic Radiography. He is responsible both for the imaging of patients and producing medical reports. He is also one of the radiation protection supervisors at the hospital where he works - ensuring the equipment is ...
- Free Mind Report – Guest Hereward Fenton
This week our guest�was Hereward Fenton http://www.truthnews.com.au Hereward Fenton is a 9/11 researcher and host of Truth News Australia. As a leader in the Australian Truth movement his passion for Truth has led him down some deep rabbit holes. Listen live Wednesday January 5, 2011 from 8P ...
- Hereward Fenton on Live and Let Live (Rule of ...
Live and Let Live, with Gary Johnson (Sundays 8-10 pm CST). Robert Guest, (http://www.robertguest.com/, http://www.dallascriminaldefenselawyerblog.com/) president of the Kaufman County, Texas, Bar Association, promotes Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, LEAP, (http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.ph ...
- Letter From America
Dear Truth News Readers, At the time of writing I am in Austin, Texas - a beautiful city whose citizens have an amazing passion for liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I travelled here via OKC and Dallas. During the short time I've been here I've met great people and had the opportunity ...
- Close Encounters With Humpback Whales and Orcas
An orca breaching in Monterey Bay. © Oceana This is part of a series of posts about our Pacific Hotspots expedition. Today's highlights: humpback whales and orcas! Day 3 Yesterday was a spectacular day as we saw some of the most colorful and rich habitats we�ve seen yet! The objective wa ...
- Plastic Bag Makers Sue ChicoBag
© Flickr user doviende. ChicoBag is one of the most popular brands of reusable bags. Their totes are colorful and stylish, and they help us avoid the need to create more of the plastic waste that is clogging our rivers and streams and creating massive garbage patches in our oceans. But in ...
- A Trove of Marine Life in Monterey Bay
This is part of a series of posts about our Pacific Hotspots expedition. Day 2 This morning after we passed the barking sea lions on the breakwater at the end of the harbor, we traversed through fog so thick there were no signs of land anywhere to be seen. We pushed trough swells upwards ...
- Unpacking the Shark Myth: ‘Demon Fish’
Washington Post environment and politics reporter Juliet Eilperin has a new book out today that explores the science and mythology behind the ocean�s top predators. In �Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks,� Eilperin travels the globe -- she swims with whale sharks in Beli ...
- Ted on The Diane Rehm Show
Ted Danson. � Kate Danson Last Thursday Oceana board member Ted Danson was the featured guest on WAMU�s The Diane Rehm Show. He covers a lot of ground in the hour, including overfishing, seafood fraud, aquaculture and bottom trawling. He explains to Diane, ���It's one of those amazing pot ...
- Shell Casing Chess Set Built By Marines In Afg ...
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- Battle Of Chesapeake Bay
Lord Charles Cornwallis August of 1781. It’s hot and wet in Yorktown. Cornwallis’s troops are inside an ever-widening noose of cannonades and entrenchments, and withering artillery bombardment. General Clinton, in New York, is playing the violin. Meanwhile 3000 colonial militia, 8,000 regulars, ...
- Stalin’s Feckless Response To Barbarossa
Germans On Captued Russian Armored Train Stalin purged his officer corps in the mid thirties. Too many people with access to the hard power of war machines were chafing under the thumb of the dictator, and he didn’t wait around until they took action. Three out of five Field Marshals, 90% percen ...
- Liberty Bell, Famous B-17 That Took Part In th ...
This old bird took off yesterday from Aurora Airport and crew smelled smoke. A Texan T-6 chase plane from the same era reported fire and the plane crash landed at Highway 71 and Minkler Road in Oswego. This was a historic plane and should have been left on the ground. Heck, Civil War re-enacters ...
- Take A Look. The Sikorsky X-2 Rotor Hub Assemb ...
"As an all-new design, the X2 LTH represents one extreme of the aircraft known to be on offer for the AAS requirement to replace the Army's OH-58D Kiowa Warriors. At the other extreme is start-up AVX Aircraft's proposal to upgrade the OH-58Ds with coaxial rotors and ducted fans. In the middle is ...
- Forging a Bond, Feeling Your Economic Pain
Something rather amazing happened this week and it’s the emergence of Michele Bachmann as a serious candidate for president. John H. Hinderaker over at Powerline knows her and didn’t want her to run, but has been awakened, “Suddenly, Bachmann doesn’t look like a fringe candidate anymore.” More: ...
- Romney: ‘I’m also unemployed’
“I should tell my story,” Mr. Romney said. “I’m also unemployed.” – via Jeff Zeleny The article from Zeleny portrays an honest conversation with Mitt Romney, someone who can’t seem to catch any good press. That’s his toughest challenge, actually. Fighting the media and cable talking heads and ho ...
- Norquist Loses as Ethanol Subsidies Go Down
The Senate voted 73-27 Thursday to kill a major tax break that benefits the ethanol industry, handing a political win to a bipartisan group of lawmakers that call the incentive needless and expensive.â¨â¨ – Senate kills off ethanol tax credits in possible break with tax pledge OMG. OMG! Republic ...
- Romney, T-Paw and Huntsman to Skip Republican ...
Citing “bad cold,” Huntsman joins Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty, who also are not attending. Although he was slated to speak at a major gathering of Republicans taking place in New Orleans this weekend — just days before the official rollout of his presidential campaign — former U.S. Ambassador t ...
- Speaker Boehner to Pres. Obama
A debate has actually broken out between Congress and the Executive Branch about what we’re doing in Libya: âThe White House says there are no hostilities taking place, yet weâve got drone attacks under way, weâre spending $10 million a day, [and] part of the mission is to drop bombs on [Libyan ...
- Syria Calls on Refugees in Turkey to Return
Syria's government is calling for the return of thousands of refugees who fled to Turkey to escape violence in a northern town. Syrian Information Minister Adnan Mahmoud says security, electricity, water and communications have now been restored in Jisr
- Britain Creating Parallel Islamic Financial System
A British firm has launched a Sharia-compliant pension fund that will enable Muslims to save for retirement in compliance with Islamic principles. The British government will begin offering Muslim workers Sharia-compliant pensions as of 2012. The
- Refugees Suffer as Turkey Presses Syria
Turkey ramps up its response to the crisis in Syria as the influx of refugees on the border grows, and they are reportedly lacking adequate food, water and shelter. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who recently strengthened his criticisms of
- German Energy Policy: The New Geopolitics of C ...
While the decision by Germany's governing coalition, led by Chancellor Angela Merkel, to phase out all of Germany's nuclear power plants -- which provide 28% of German electricity -- may be politically popular, it may do serious damage to the German
- What Happens When America Outsources Foreign P ...
The Western democracies are finally facing up to the reality of the mission in Libya: Containment is impossible and Moammar Gaddafi must go. But American leadership is still missing, and it is unclear if some NATO countries have the necessary willpower
- MIND CONTROL 66: The Test
Still on the issue of what type of people we are…… lets look at a different scenario with Jesus. Luke 19:11-28 11 While they were listening to this, he went on to tell them a parable, because he was near Jerusalem and the people thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear at [...]
- DO GOVERNMENTS SECRETLY KILL WITH THE WEATHER ...
It started off like one of those hypothetical questions you ask yourself when you are feeling in a particularly imaginative mood. You know what i mean. Lying down and wondering what it would be like to have super powers, or waiting for a bus and wishing you could hold back a storm that you can [...]
- MIND CONTROL 65: He Who Has Ears, Let Him Hear
In an effort to open our eyes……. It is important for us to take a look at more of the parables that Jesus spoke. Christians believe that the reason why Jesus spoke in parables was because he did not want anyone to understand. This is completely untrue. Jesus spoke in parables “precisely because ...
- ARE WE THE AUTHORS OF OUR OWN THOUGHTS AND ACT ...
In his recent book, “Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values”, Neuroscientist, Sam Harris discusses how science can provide the basis for morality. This piece is not a review of Harris’ diatribe on organized religion and his lengthy thesis on the science of morality. My focus her ...
- MIND CONTROL 64: Pastoral Hypocrisy
Take a look at this scenario: Matt 20:30-34 30 Two blind men were sitting by the roadside, and when they heard that Jesus was going by, they shouted, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!” 31 The crowd rebuked them and told them to be quiet, but they shouted all the louder, “Lord, Son [...]
- Ha! The science of laughter
Emerson College is known for producing journalists and actors. And some of them are pretty funny, Grads include Jay Leno, Denis Leary, Andrea Martin, and Seth Grahame-Smith, author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. So, it's only appropriate that the school host a conference on laughter. The e ...
- Pub meet-up tonight and more events for scient ...
Tonight Mike Farzan and his colleagues will chat about communication between viruses and your cells at a Science by the Pint, event. Tuesday June 14, 6:30pm - 7:30pm Tavern in the Square - Porter - 1815 Massachusetts Ave. - Cambridge (There are a couple of Tavern on the Square restauran ...
- Can hackers mess with your medical device?
Scary, but true. MIT reports on how its working with partners at UMass to pretect device users. Millions of Americans have implantable medical devices, from pacemakers and defibrillators to brain stimulators and drug pumps; worldwide, 300,000 more people receive them every year. Most such d ...
- Beyond subway ads: Wired enrollment for clinic ...
The Forbes Medicine Show blog highlights the clinical trails search site today from "Patients Like Me." Patients enter their illness, age, and zip code and get a list of clinical trials into that they can enter. Hopefully this will help more patients find studies that might offer them some h ...
- Not really "chemical-free" in Cambridge, the N ...
On the Speakeasy Science blog, Debra Blum put down her paper today to rant against the term "chemical-free." I do understand that the phrase is just an advertising gimmick, implying a product's freedom from mysterious but toxic industrial chemicals. I also understand that it's basically ridicu ...
- Senate votes overwhelmingly to end corn ethano ...
Nathanael Greene, Director of Renewable Energy Policy, New York City This afternoon, the U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bipartisan amendment offered by Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Tom Coburn (R-OK) to end the main corn eth ...
- Cause to celebrate - two million acres protect ...
Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Director International Program, Washington, D.C. So often, we hear of commitments to protect wilderness areas and the final, legal protection then takes years to realize. Today, the Canadian province of Manitoba and Popla ...
- Rough Rider Revisited: Who Flip-Flopped on Cle ...
Jon Devine, Senior Attorney, Washington, D.C. On Tuesday, I wrote about a dirty water rider in the appropriations bill for energy and water development for fiscal year 2012. In addition to being bad legislating – it co-opts the usual process of c ...
- Race to Rio - Earth Summit 2012 News
Jacob Scherr, Director, Global Strategy & Advocacy, Washington, DC We are just a year away from the next Earth Summit scheduled for June 4-6, 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, and interest in the gathering – officially labeled the UN Conference on Sustainab ...
- A Better Transportation Vision for Los Angeles
Adrian Martinez, Project Attorney, Southern California Air Team, Santa Monica An important report was released today about transportation in Los Angeles. The Vision Los Angeles report is the product of extensive work by business representatives, t ...
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 20 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, June 15, 2011: Mt Vernon NY appeals $315k brutality judgment to cop against cop facing 2nd brutality suit involving 12yr-old [3] http://bit.ly/mrBNnM Williamsburg County SC deputy ...
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 20 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, June 15, 2011: Mt Vernon NY appeals $315k brutality judgment to cop against cop facing 2nd brutality suit involving 12yr-old [3] http://bit.ly/mrBNnM Williamsburg County SC deputy ...
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 22 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, June 13, 2011: Bountiful City UT settles suit for undisclosed sum to man tasered 6-10 times on video in stop for crooked plates [3] http://bit.ly/iB5rnn 2 Los Angeles Co CA deputie ...
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 19 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, June 13, 2011: Midland MI cop sentenced to 6-20yrs in no contest plea to charges for sexual assault of disabled crime victim [0] http://bit.ly/mjEKQU Denver CO settles suit for $45k ...
- Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 06-10 ...
Here are the 8 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this weekend, June 10-11, 2011: An Orlando FL police officer is accused by several witnesses of shooting a man in the back as he fled from a drug sting and it appears as though he may have [...]
- 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 -Â 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, Â 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 ...
- MIDEAST: Sphinx Avenue Paved With Bitter Memories
Mohamed Saeed's battle with a wrecking crew ended predictably. His refusal to leave the home his grandfather built and defiant attempts to throw himself in front of the giant hydraulic hammer bought his family some time, but by the end of the day their two-storey house was reduced to rub ...
- MIDEAST: Where Freelance Means Abandoned
Sitting by the hospital bed of freelance photographer Mohammed Othman, Ashraf Abu Amrah knows that nobody owns a freelance journalist from Gaza who gets injured, or dies.
- LABOUR: Neither Servants nor Family Members, S ...
The world's tens of millions of domestic workers finally won international recognition that they have the same basic labour rights as other workers, in a convention adopted Thursday at the annual meeting of the ILO.
- Al-Zawahiri Named New Al-Qaeda Chief
Al-Qaeda has named Ayman al-Zawahiri as its new chief following the killing of Osama bin Laden, the group has said in a statement issued in the name of the group's general command.
- Greek PM Talks Tough Amid Worsening Crisis
George Papandreou, the Greek prime minister, has vowed to pursue reforms aimed at tiding over the country's crippling debt crisis, despite popular resentment.
- 'Chatter' Fad movie about chatter rings wins D ...
Southern film-makers shoot to success in 48-hour production: Forty-eight hours of frantic writing, travelling and filming has turned into silverscreen gold for a group of Southland film-makers. The production crew known as Rabies Babies has claimed top spot in the regional section of the V 48 Ho ...
- Petraeus' captured 'Taliban' were civilians
During his intensive initial round of media interviews as commander in Afghanistan in August 2010, General David Petraeus released figures to the news media that claimed spectacular success for raids by Special Operations Forces (SOF): in a 90-day period from May through July, SOF units had capt ...
- Who benefited from NeoLiberalism In NZ?
The top 0.1% made out like bandits, more than doubling their average real incomes. Everyone else, not so much (and in fact, if you look at ordinary people, we got screwed). These are policies of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich. And National wants to re-impose them if it gets a second term.
- Christchurch residents: Patience Has Expired.
Agitated Christchurch residents are warning of street protests if the Government does not reveal which quake-hit suburbs will be abandoned. In an opinion piece published in The Press today, Earthquake Recovery Minister Brownlee has asked for patience, acknowledging the frustration of residen ...
- Our Vaccines: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Simpsonwood was the transcripts of a secret meeting that was held between CDC and seventy-five representatives of the vaccine industry, in which they reviewed a report that CDC had ordered, the Stratton study of the hundred-thousand children in the United States Vaccine Safety Database. And whe ...
- Living on the edge
It’s not unusual for scientists to become excited when talking about their research. But Ken Storey is an explosion of exuberance, repeatedly interrupting his own discourse to head in new directions. Such frenetic energy is paradoxical for a man whose research deals with organisms that can delib ...
- Giving thanks
“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good,” Michael Douglas’s character famously declared in the movie Wall Street. “Greed is right. Greed works.” It was after filming last year’s sequel, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, that Douglas noticed a strain in his larynx and soreness in his jaw. His d ...
- The people’s museum
While the recent major renovations to the University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology (MOA) involved plenty of additions and upgrades to its infrastructure, it’s the way people can now use the space that’s really transformed it. When MOA moved from the basement of the UBC Library int ...
- Opening up
“It has truly been a partnership with reciprocal benefits,” says Kathy Hegadoren when asked about her work with immigrant women. And when the professor of nursing at the University of Alberta tells her story, it’s easy to see why. Holder of a Canada Research Chair in Stress-related Disorders in ...
- Firing up a new social network
The summer of 2003 was as hot and dry in Kelowna, B.C., as anyone could remember. On Aug. 16, lightning struck, sparking a forest fire in Okanagan Mountain Provincial Park that quickly blazed out of control. The Kelowna Fire Department, more familiar with fighting house fires, suddenly faced an ...
- Fukushima and the Nuclear Establishment
The Big Lies Fly High The global nuclear industry and its allies in government are making a desperate effort to cover up the consequences of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. "The big lie flies high," comments Kevin Kamps of the organization Beyond Nuclear. Not only is this nuclear estab ...
- Fukushima's Apocalyptic Threat
Fukushima may be in an apocalyptic downward spiral. Forget the corporate-induced media coma that says otherwise ... or nothing at all. Lethal radiation is spewing unabated. Emission levels could seriously escalate. There is no end in sight. The potential is many times worse than Chernobyl. Co ...
- Ghostly Rainbow Floats Over Washington
A colorful apparition materialized over Washington this week; the rarely glimpsed, rainbow-tinted specter appeared and vanished in the space of just minutes. Fortunately for anyone who didn't look up at precisely the right moment, an enterprising resident of Anacortes, a small town about 80 m ...
- Electrical Fire Knocks Out Spent Fuel Cooling ...
A fire in an electrical switch room on Tuesday briefly knocked out cooling for a pool holding spent nuclear fuel at the Fort Calhoun nuclear plant outside Omaha, Neb., plant officials said. The safety of deep pools used to store used radioactive fuel at nuclear plants has been an issue since th ...
- Path of the Skinwalker: A small ranch in north ...
I'm sitting on a white plastic chair in what seems like total darkness. Strapped to my chest and shoulders is an array of electronic gear--microphones, a video camera, a box that detects magnetic changes and a Geiger counter. Somewhere in the mix is a flashlight, the only device whose function ...
- Continuing Attack On Tucson Ethnic Studies Cla ...
Glenn Beck said that "the top education official" in Arizona ruled that an ethnic studies program, which Beck claimed "called for the overthrow of the United States government," was in violation of state law. But Beck didn't note that a study commissioned by that same Arizona official found no ...
- Fox Wildly Misrepresents Allegation That Boein ...
Fox repeatedly spread misinformation about a case brought by the National Labor Relations Board's office of general counsel alleging that Boeing retaliated against workers in Washington state who had previously gone on strike by moving work to South Carolina. One Fox News personality went so fa ...
- In WSJ Column, Rove Advances Dubious ...
In a Wall Street Journal column, Karl Rove advanced the misleading claim that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) "added $115 billion to administer" the health care reform law, which "reduced ... claimed savings to $28 billion." Rove also hyped a dubious study that he claimed found that "78 m ...
- Fox Continues To Misinform About WI Anti-Union ...
Fox & Friends hosted Glenn Grothman, a Republican state senator from Wisconsin, to promote Wisconsin GOP Gov. Scott Walker's anti-union bill and to misleadingly suggest that the legal challenges to the bill simply involved state employees' contributions to their pensions. In fact, the controver ...
- Right-Wing Media Attack Wasserman Schultz For ...
Several right-wing media figures and outlets have attacked Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz for accurately saying that President Obama "began to turn the economy around."DNC Chair Wasserman Schultz: "We Began To Turn The Economy Around" Wasserman Schultz: "We B ...
- Arab-Jewish dialogue: Is there a purpose?
The word dialogue inherently bears a soft, constructive meaning that few people would quibble about. Dialogue is surely better than arguing, unquestionably better than fighting, and absolutely necessary if we are to have any success whatsoever in connecting with others on common ground, be it ou ...
- Power Tools: How Clean Energy Makes Environmen ...
By Reed Hundt and Aaron Zubaty Robert Bryce, author of Power Hungry: The Myths of 'Green' Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future, missed the mark in his June 8th New York Times editorial in which he argued that environmental justifications for clean energy are misplaced because producing ...
- Charade
It's time to end the charade that Pakistan is an ally in the battle against Al Qaeda and the Taliban. Pakistan's top military spy agency has arrested some of the Pakistani informants who fed information to the Central Intelligence Agency in the months leading up to the raid that led to the dea ...
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- Just You Wait and See....
All my friends are laughing at me for posting "Ready for Rudy's Comeback?" here below, not least because the only other bloviator who thinks that Giuiliani will run, and that it matters, is William Kristol. Now, whenever Kristol makes an electoral prediction, you can bet the ranch on its not ...
- NASA Shows Chilean Volcano Plume Moving Around ...
In early June the Chilean Volcano called Puyehue-Cordón Caulle erupted, sending a massive plume of ash around the Southern Hemisphere, stalling flights out of many airports and causing havoc for millions of passengers. NASA Satellite imagery captured the plume as it made its way around the world.
- Rhino Crisis Round-Up: Tragedy, With a Side of ...
In what has become one of the worst assaults on the world's rhinos in recent history, the news continues to shock even the most seasoned wildlife conservationists.
- Canadian Arctic Barrier Islands from Space
The Advanced Land Imager on NASA's Earth Observing-1 satellite captured this image of a barrier island facing the Beaufort Sea, on the northern edge of Canada's Northwest Territories on June 23, 2004, before the ice had melted or retreated during the summer thaw.
- Playboy Model Victoria Eisermann Advocates to ...
Playboy model Victoria Eisermann joined in Animal Aid's efforts to ban the use of whips on racehorses today, Ladies' Day, by "offering punters the surprise experience of a spanking, using a diamond studded whip" at the gates of Royal Ascot. As Animal Aid reports: "This will allow race-goers a ch ...
- New Climate Consensus Shirt & Mug (Chime in on ...
Some of the folks at one of my favorite sites on the internet, Skeptical Science, are going to make t-shirts and mugs broadcasting one portion of the scientific consensus on global warming, the fact that 97% of climate experts conclude global warming is happening and is caused by humans (while 2 ...
- Global Economic Agenda Hits a Roadblock in Gre ...
The global austerity agenda is encountering a hurdle in Greece: The Greek people aren’t prepared to put up with forced deprivation. In order to have loans to foreign creditors made good, international institutions, led by the European Union, are demanding ever-harsher assaults on Greek soci ...
- What do we deserve? - Critical Analysis
I often think of the good life I have. By most common measures—say, type of work, income, health, leisure, and social status—I’m doing well. Despite the adage, “call no man happy until he is dead,” I wonder no less often: How much of my good life do I really deserve?...
- Six Wars and Counting: Washington Reaches for ...
President Obama recently reshuffled his top Washington warriors, sending CIA Director Leon Panetta, a man who knows Congress well, on to the Pentagon to replace retiring Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. In turn, the president is bringing in General David Petraeus, present Afghan War Commander ...
- US talks peace and prepares for war in Sudan - ...
16 June 2011 In the worsening conflict in Sudan between the Khartoum government and the southern states that voted for independence in the January referendum, an estimated 1,500 people have been killed since the referendum and up to 150,000 people have fled their homes. Aid agencies are warn ...
- Espionage charges dropped against ex-NSA manag ...
Thomas Drake is expected to plead guilty to a misdemeanor in a leak case under a deal with prosecutors. A former National Security Agency manager accepted a plea deal Thursday that cleared him of espionage charges stemming from the alleged leak of classified information to a Ba ...
- Core Democratic Values
Sixty-seven years is too long to wait for these. Ken in NY at Down with Tyranny: WHAT DO I MEAN BY "CORE DEMOCRATIC VALUES"? I would encourage you to take a list at the 1944 State of the Union address of Franklin D. Roosevelt, which Howie, again from China, appended to my post yesterday on the C ...
- The Nightowl Newswrap
This is a very real problem, but the fault lies with the states that have intentionally set the program up to be as impossible to access as they possibly can. "Children with Medicaid are far more likely than those with private insurance to be turned away by medical specialists or be made to wait ...
- 'No On SB 5': Final weeks of the petition drive
There are less than two weeks left to gather signatures to get Ohio's anti-collective bargaining law on the November ballot for the citizen veto. �Here are some details, as well as some notes on what's coming up. Cross posted from Pruning Shears. The first phase of the effort to overturn John ...
- More of this, please
Not every member of Congress from Texas is republican, white, male and a corporate-owned freakazoid. From Crooks and Liars: When Rep. Peter King (R-NY) called a hearing on Muslim radicalism, he probably didn't expect Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) to turn the spotlight on "Christian militants." ...
- Former Senator John Danforth at Missouri Boys ...
Former Missouri Attorney General, U.S. Senator and U.N. Ambassador John Danforth was the keynote speaker and recipient of the George W. Lehr Memorial Speakers Chair at the American Legion Boys State of Missouri in Warrensburg on Tuesday night. After his speech Senator Danforth took questions fro ...
- YouTube - NWO propaganda four visions of city ...
The second scenario is Planned Opolis, where individual cars are made to be super expensive. Food is only available according to a calorie card, meat only on birthdays, and Cry Freedom Ghetto is also introduced here. Have a look...Submitted by Judith Kwoba to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Co ...
- Conservation group urges ban of bear bile mass ...
The bile, extracted from the gall bladder of live bears, is believed to cure fevers, liver ailments and muscle injuries, and is sometimes used as an aphrodisiac. The practice originated in China 2,000 years ago before spreading to other East Asian countriSubmitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� ...
- Tell President Obama to reduce smog pollution ...
Millions of Americans, including nearly 37 million children, live in areas where smog makes the air unhealthy to breathe. Sometime this summer, the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to adopt more protective health standards for smog pollution.Submitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �N ...
- Leading environmental and development organisa ...
As the latest United Nations climate change talks reach their final stages, CARE International, Greenpeace and WWF are calling on the world�s governments to show leadership and unite on efforts to halt forest loss by 2020. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Co ...
- Australia: Ban Cruel Jumps Racing Now ! PLEASE ...
They weigh at least 1,000 pounds, they have legs that are supported by ankles the size of a human's, and they're forced to run around dirt tracks at speeds of nearly 50 kilometers per hour and to jump over hurdles up to 1 meter high while carrying peopleSubmitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note ...
- Contenders for 2012: the Cult of Personality ...
Friday, John Phillips of the LA Times ruminated on the method by which New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will be “courted” and drafted to run for President in 2012. Christie has stated repeatedly that he is not ready for the office, will not be induced to enter the race and is committed to fulf ...
- Blog Roadwork Update!
The new comments software is being installed, so expect some hiccups along the way until the installation is complete. Additionally: I am writing a short how-to (FAQ) so that you can take advantage of the myriad of options and goodies that come with this software. I’ll tell you how to add video, ...
- Barack Obama’s Jewish Problem
Spent the last four days hanging with one of my dearest friends, who also happens to be Jewish. He’s an accomplished man. We had the chance to sit and chat with some other prominent, successful Jewish businessmen and leaders. Several of these guys admitted voting for Obama in 2008. I learned one ...
- Florida Money (& Larry Johnson on Radio Tonight)
Editor’s Note: Larry Johnson joins the weekly Sunday experts panel on John Batchelor’s Show tonight @ 9:30 or 10:30 p.m. ET. (FYI: Batchelor’s show airs nightly, 9 p.m.-1:00 a.m. ET.) Listen via iTunes (see instructions), or go to the show’s NYC anchor station, WABC. Scroll down and click “Liste ...
- Comment Hell
Ladies and Gents, Please be patient. We should have the new comment software up and running by Monday. I’ve been out of pocket for the last four days and have been unable to rescue folks trapped in Comment Hell. You are free now. Best LJ
- Tiny Jungles Grow in the Cracks of Madrid's Si ...
Drawing attention to the lack of green spaces in the environment, a group has been creating mini ecosystems throughout Madrid, complete with tiny animals! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Periodical Cicada: The Insect that Can Live fo ...
The periodical cicada is a family of insects mistakenly called "locusts" by some. What are they? Are they harmful? And do they have enemies? Let's find out... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
- Microscopic Insect Pictures As You've Never Se ...
Mosquitoes, flies and beetles, all taken using micro (yes that's right, not macro but micro) photography. You've never seen insect like this before! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Strange Hooded Guardians Appear All Over Europe
The eerie and powerful Guardians of Time and Light in the art of Manfred Kielnhofer. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Is Barbie's Latest Career as a Lumberjack in t ...
It's official: Barbie is bad. Or at least, the packaging she wraps herself is. Greenpeace has revealed how Mattel is using paper that destroys the Indonesian rainforest. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the ...
- Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will ...
- President European Commission Advocated World ...
Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International ...
- Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in t ...
- Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare p ...
- Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government ...
- Can Has Wargame, "Southland" Pre-scripting the ...
"Is this real world or exercise??" --A memorable quote from air traffic controller on 9-11 Logistically speaking, how the hell did the West start bombing Libya so quickly? A French/NATO military exercise (aka wargame) called Southern Mistral was scheduled for almost the exact same time. Are war ...
- NASA Fears Nibiru? Why Not? Emergency Preparat ...
Here's an interesting one! nasa is the only federal agency responsible for its people's safety and well-being here on earth and in space - Google Search YouTube - NASA Emails ALL Employees to PREPARE! June 10, 2011 - with lolsome "secret star approacheth" type commentary from jcattera. Hat tip K ...
- CIA Whistleblower on the latest American War - ...
Susan Lindauer sent us over another article, this one turning to the chaotic Western intervention in Libya. It's nice to get a little praise for the post earlier this week: Dashing Wartime Philosopher Bernard Henri Lévy ties Libyan rebels & Netanyahu, lolz at teh Bilderberg conspiracy - and your ...
- CIA Whistleblower Lindauer: Warning: This Mess ...
CIA whistleblower Susan Lindauer sent in a followup piece to HongPong.com and I'm happy to share it! Earlier: Susan Lindauer on the Patriot Act: "When Truth Becomes Treason" - Thuggish National Security Coverup & Grand Jury Mechanisms for Iraq & 9-11 ******** By Susan Lindauer, former Asset Cove ...
- Dashing Wartime Philosopher Bernard Henri Lévy ...
Bernard-Henri Lévy gets Libyan rebels to support Israel & doesn't like your Bilderberg conspiracies! Apparently this French philosopher with a penchant for drama is calling more shots than people realize. However, he has had enough with your conspiracies! What is this guy's deal? After reading a ...
- (EXCLUSIVE) What is Really Happening on the Gr ...
Click this link below to listen to the show: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news/2011/06/16/what-is-really-happening-on-the-ground-in-libya Please join us as we exposed the truth about what is going on in Libya…This was an exclusive interview with Dr. Randy Short who just came back ...
- More on secret black money and the ruling elit ...
Vishv Bandhu Gupta traces the less than honorable origin and growth of black money swilling within the ruling elite underground in an interview with Tehelka (India’s independent magazine // 15 June 2011 Wednesday, http://www.tehelka.com/story_main49.asp?filename=Ws130611SwissBanks.asp) In what ...
- In Praise of Learning by Bertolt Brecht
When this was written in 1931 the Weimar republic had died and Hitler was on the road to power. Brecht, of course, was the great playwrite and poet of the early part of the 1900′s. His poem, “In Praise of Learning” is more important now than ever! Here it is in its entirety!  Study [...]
- Freedom Flotilla Two: Another Massacre Looms?
� On June 21, 2011 some 40 to 50 American peace activists will gather in Athens Greece to join up with the 2nd International Freedom Flotilla headed to Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid and essential building materials. The Americans, have named their ship �The Audacity of Hope� after President O ...
- DC Police Brutally Assualt a man in a Wheelcha ...
Click this link below to listen to the show: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news/2011/06/16/dc-metro-police-assualt-on-a-man-in-a-wheelchair� Please join us Wednesday Night June 15th at 10:30 PM EST as well deconstruct Police Brutality in DC and the US. � The call-in number is: (347) 94 ...
- Detroit farm school for teen moms has been saved
by Jess Zimmerman. Catherine Ferguson Academy, the awesome urban farm high school for pregnant and parenting teens, has risen from the ashes. Michigan's emergency financial manager decided last week to shutter the school, which has a 90 percent graduation rate. But it's been rescued by a ...
- New map of NYC shows how much you could save w ...
by Jess Zimmerman. Solar power in New York could meet half of the city's peak energy demands. The city's been fully assessed for solar capability, using a plane-mounted radar system called Lidar that checks out whether rooftops are suitable for solar panels. Turns out a full 66 percent ...
- Dying to save the rainforest
by Sarah Laskow. At the end of May, José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife, Mario do Espírito Santo, were killed. Both lived in Brazil's Amazon rainforest and had fought back against loggers illegally harvesting wood. Da Silva had expected death for a long time, but said he wouldn’t l ...
- How oil and gas companies that deny climate ch ...
by Christopher Mims. Next to agriculture, the industry most vulnerable to climate change is, arguably, the extraction of the very fossil fuels that are causing it, says Michael Cote at GOOD. And while this industry is spending millions to deny that climate change even exists and to block ...
- Cardboard bike helmets are safer than plastic
by Jess Zimmerman. Yeah, it sounds a little Calvin & Hobbes, but riding around with corrugated cardboard on your head can actually be safer than the plastic and Styrofoam concoctions you get at the bike store. The Kranium cardboard bike helmet absorbs four times more impact energy than ...
- Hiatus
‘Farming Pathogens’ will be taking a break while we finish up a book on many of the topics discussed here, including influenza and agribusiness. Thank you for your support and feedback. We’ll be back soon, promise, and in all likelihood will drop a post now and again. Agriculture, disease and ev ...
- Tiger By the Tale
–Landlady… –My name is Rosenberg. –I didn’t know there were Jews in Dublin! She grimaces, palpably, and says, –Yes, there are Jews in Dublin. –Well, then, Mrs. O’Rosenberg, what can you tell me about the Celtic Tiger? Has it bitten anybody lately? –Bitten? –Yes. Where is this tiger now, and does ...
- Marable’s Malcolm
It’s Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution (and he’ll cry if he wants to). But do he and other lambrusco liberals bandying about the term know what revolution really means, or even care? In the first of several posts on food and revolution over the next couple months, I retweet passing thoughts I poste ...
- A Bayesian Market
Found this job posting: Your research will cover any area of evolutionary biology, including adaptation, phylogenetics, population genetics and environmental genomics. You should be using advanced data acquisition and/or analytical approaches (e.g., high-throughput sequencing or other “omics”, B ...
- Fork in the Road
This is the final installment of the ‘big picture’ on global food crises I co-authored with Richard Kock and Robyn Alders. The first two can be found here and here. We learned food insecurity and disease outbreaks can serve as a cover for a particular capital-securitized science tied into spread ...
- Obama’s Hypocrisy – Whistleblowers ...
Boiling Frogs Monday, 13. June 2011 by Sibel Edmonds Exclusive Boiling Frogs Video with James Corbett Here is an exclusive video by James Corbett with the inaugural edition of the EyeOpener, a new weekly video series produced in conjunction with Boiling Frogs Post, on Obama’s Secret Transparency ...
- Andrew Cuomo Faces Strategic Choices In Fillin ...
Andrew Cuomo Faces Strategic Choices In Filling Anthony Weiner’s Seat Huffington Post – Sam Stein First Posted: 06/16/11 12:09 PM ETÂ Updated: 06/16/11 02:10 PM ET WASHINGTON — The process to fill the soon-to-be-vacant seat of Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) may not be as smooth or as simple as ini ...
- Afternoon Jukebox: Take My Breath Away (Top Gu ...
Berlin – Take My Breath Away (Top Gun soundtrack)
- Conservative Journalist Takes Every Single Rep ...
Conservative Journalist Takes Every Single Republican To Task Politicususa June 15, 2011 By Ray Medeiros Will the GOP listen to one of their own? Liberals have been saying this for 10+ years now, but had obviously been cast aside by the GOP and conservatives as not important, divisive, and just ...
- Look What the Republicans Have Done to My Country
Look What the Republicans Have Done to My Country Politicususa June 11, 2011 By Hrafnkell Haraldsson and Sarah Jones On March 14 we published a list of thirty pieces of Republican legislation “that Republicans are using to destroy America.” That list was updated on March 17 with several new item ...
- NY Times Dealbook: Hold Goldman Accountable
By Jesse Eisinger Goldman Sachs appears to be trying to clear its name. The compelling Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations report on the financial crisis is wrong, the bank says. Goldman Sachs didn’t have a Big Short against the housing market. But the size of Goldman’s short is irrelevan ...
- TV Watching Raises Risk of Health Problems, Dy ...
By Amanda Gardner, No one ever claimed that watching TV was healthy, but doctors are only now discovering just how bad it can be. Evidence from a spate of recent studies suggests that the more TV you watch, the more likely you are to develop a host of health problems and to die at an earlier ag ...
- Quote du Jour
“You should be scared. I am scared. You can’t not be scared. You can’t look at what happened in the run-up to 2008 and see how it is not going to repeat itself, given what we have done.” ~ Neil Barofsky (former TARP Fund Inspector General) Related reading: Neil Barofsky Wikipedia
- Tennessee Law Bans Posting Images that ‘Cause ...
A new Tennessee law makes it a crime to “transmit or display an image” online that is likely to “frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress” to someone who sees it. Violations can get you almost a year in jail time or up to $2500 in fines. The Tennessee legislature has been busy updating ...
- Transcript of Catherine’s Interview of & ...
A transcript of Catherineâs June 2, 2011 interview of director of the documentary film “Scientists Under Attack,” Bertram Verhaag, is now available to Solari Report Subscribers. Subscribers can navigate to the Subscriber Control Panel, after logging in, click on Previous Solari Reports, and scro ...
- Times Scare
ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
- Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more��
- Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri Lank ...
- Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more��
- Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more��
- Attritionist Letter #1 – the tides turn, ...
Summary:   With US military forces engaged around the world in the long war, with three conflicts burning at once (on very different scales), the doctrines we choose may have a large effect on American history. This, the first of the Attritionist Letters, describes the issues and the sta ...
- Attritionist Letter #1 – the tides turn, ...
Summary:   With US military forces engaged around the world in the long war, with three conflicts burning at once (on very different scales), the doctrines we choose may have a large effect on American history. This, the first of the Attritionist Letters, describes the issues and the sta ...
- The Attritionist Letters, volleys in the long ...
Summary: Key points of military history are marked by debates among soldiers, usually invisible to the public but affecting the course of nations. Such a debate is underway now about the doctrines by which we wage the long war against jihadists and their allies. With the permission of the th ...
- The Attritionist Letters, volleys in the long ...
Summary: Key points of military history are marked by debates among soldiers, usually invisible to the public but affecting the course of nations. Such a debate is underway now about the doctrines by which we wage the long war against jihadists and their allies. With the permission of the th ...
- Could a new Constitutional Convention help ref ...
Summary: Many people seek changes to the Constitution as a palliative to our problems. Disappointment awaits them, especially if they succeed. Proper treatment requires accurate diagnosis, and even a cursory look at America shows that our problems have a simple cause. Us. Tinkering with the ...
- Vatican kicks out Roma on Easter
Press TV – About 150 Roma gypsies were barred from participating in the Easter vigil of the basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, after temporarily taking shelter there on Good Friday, The Telegraph reported. Local and foreign pilgrims, who had gathered to attend the vigil, calle ...
- Euro strikes 16-month high against dollar
Breitbart – The euro struck a 16-month high against the dollar and the Swiss franc notched a record high versus the US unit Tuesday amid heightened investor nerves over this week’s busy economic calendar. The European single currency hit $1.4653 in morning trade, the highest point since mid-Dece ...
- British pound devalues by 94% in 50yrs
PressTV – A new survey shows that the value of money in the UK has dropped by 94 percent over the past 50 years, which means an 18-time increase in retail prices. The survey carried out by BM Savings has found that almost £1,800 is needed to match the buying power of £100 in 1960, [...]
- Peru suffers an ‘environmental tragedy’
IOL – The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years, a study published on Tuesday said. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of 7,000 ...
- Next step humans? Every new pet dog in Britain ...
Daily Mail – Every new pet dog will be microchipped under sweeping Government regulations to combat dangerous animals. Each puppy born and dog sold will have an electronic chip implanted under the skin. Details will then be placed on a national database accessible by police and the RSPCA. A conf ...
- Kissinger Offers Mixed Reviews of Obama China ...
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger wonders whether something like the opening to China he and President Nixon undertook would be possible today. He believes that the U.S. government is "too complex" these days, with "too many urgent things" forcing a focus on the everyday and preventing b ...
- Always Taqiyya
Andrew McCarthy defends Rep. Peter King's Muslim hearings, mostly because he thinks Islam is inherently bad ("What “radicalizes” Muslims is Islam") and so anything that paints Muslims broadly as dangerous is a good thing. In the course of offering the necessary rhetorical excuse that "not all Mu ...
- Increasing US Power in an Age of Economic Decline
The Great Recession has appropriately focused America’s attention on its expected long-term economic decline relative to rising economies such as China, India, and Brazil. However, commentators have misconstrued this trend as necessarily implying a decrease in aggregate U.S. power without explo ...
- Yemen and the CIA
Robert Chesney offers another reason why the Obama administration is pushing an increased role for the CIA in Yemen--if President Ali Abdullah Saleh goes, with him goes the consent necessary to operate drone strikes conducted by the military, but thinks this is unnecessary from a legal perspecti ...
- Curbing “Unwarranted Influence” from the Milit ...
Heather Hurlburt has a piece out in the new issue of the journal Democracy entitled, “Peace Is Our Profession.” It reviews James Ledbetter’s “Unwarranted Influence: Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Military-Industrial Complex” and William Hartung’s “Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of ...
- Exit Weiner
Anthony Weiner's resignation has been the first piece of good news since the scandal broke. It was never plausible to believe that because Weiner may not have broken any law and still enjoyed the trust of some constituents, he should keep his seat. Those who made Talmudic distinctions between ...
- Meet the New Mitt, Ever So Slightly Different ...
The candidate, amidst fellow humanoids. (Flickr/World Affairs Council of Philadelphia) Mitt Romney used to be a flip-flopper, but now he can't connect with ordinary people: TAMPA, Fla. — Mitt Romney sat at the head of the table at a coffee shop here on Thursday, listening to a group of unemplo ...
- Today at The Prospect
Adam Serwer explains how Rep. Peter King's radicalization hearings miss the real problem. Robert Hiltonsmith explores why the right is attacking public employee pensions.
- Weiner Should Spend More Time With His Family
The Atlantic's Joshua Green sees Weiner's future in TV, "battling conservatives on cable shout shows, only this time as a host rather than guest." He just might be right, because, really, what else is Weiner going to do? He's spent his entire career working in politics; unlike Eliot Spitzer, w ...
- Misinforming the Public
ThinkProgress reports on a rift between the Chamber of Commerce and many GOP freshmen over the debt ceiling. The Chamber wants the debt ceiling raised because they know the economic results of not doing so would be bad for businesses. The freshmen, who have sworn not to raise the debt ceiling, r ...
- Mitt (Who's Worth $200 Million) Says, "I'm Al ...
TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT When it comes to understanding voters Romney just can't do this. Here's yet another example that proves How he's totally clueless.read more
- "The Book of Mormon" Wins Tony for Best Musica ...
BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Some are calling it the Mormon 'moment'; others are writing 'They're here, they're square, get used to it!' But some conservative Christian evangelicals are adamant that Romney's Mormonism disqualifies him from the presidency. Given that the Republ ...
- Insurance Companies Increase Cost of Medical T ...
MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The Republican effort to privatize Medicare insurance is nothing but a strategy to redistribute wealth upward. It has nothing to do with improving care and cutting costs. In fact, it would decrease access and the quality of health care for seniors, ...
- British PM Whose Son Dies of a Disability to C ...
TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT David Cameron is cutting funds to the disabled; That kind of move really is rather ballsy Although it's an odd way to honor the memory Of his son, Ivan, who had cerebral palsy.read more
- Senator Bernie Sanders Introduces Bill to Stop ...
BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT NEWS ALERT The following is a June 15th news release from the office of Senator Bernie Sanders: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today introduced legislation to make federal commodity regulators halt excessive oil speculation that has driven up gasoline prices. A provision in l ...
- Sharing on the global scale
There are obvious differences in quality of life in terms of food availability, access to fresh water, disease prevalence and medicine across many parts of the world. Until recently, the notion of the Third World had a far greater poignancy than the politically correct term “developing world”. W ...
- The return of the arsenic-munching microbes
The return of the arsenic-munching microbes – ChemBark sums up what he sees as the state of S(s)cience with respect to the infamous arsenic-exploiting bacteria reported by Wolfe-Simon et al: "…a study as flawed as Wolfe-Simon’s should never had been published in Science in the first place. The m ...
- Earth Alerts for natural disasters
Earth Alerts for natural disasters – Earth Alerts is a Windows-based application that allows you to keep a weather eye on natural disasters as they occur across the globe. Alert notifications, reports, and imagery gleaned from National Weather Service, U.S. Geological Survey and Smithsonian Inst ...
- Scoop the gloop
Scoop the gloop – Japanese technology known as "SWITL" uses a hydrophobic (water hating) material to scoop up gels and other semi-liquids on to a motorized conveyor-belt system without disturbing the material’s shape. Watch the video, it looks like a trick, but seemingly is just great tech. This ...
- 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 ...
- Sanders to NRC: Stay Out of Vt. Yankee Fight
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday blasted the Nuclear Regulatory Commission during an appearance before a Senate panel for asking the Department of Justice to intervene in an Entergy Corp. lawsuit against the state of Vermont over the future of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant. "I was deeply distu ...
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administratio ...
A new scientific integrity policy released today by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) received high praise from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), but the organization cautioned that NOAA will need the support of its parent agency, the Department of Commerce, to su ...
- House Rural Spending Bill Would Strand Extreme ...
A rural appropriations bill passed in the House of Representatives today by a vote of 217 to 203 would result in severe hardship for low income people in rural America. This bill, H.R. 2112, the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food & Drug Administration and Related Agencies Appropriation Act of ...
- Haiti Gov Continues Evicting Earthquake Surviv ...
Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IJDH), Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI), You.Me.We., and TransAfrica Forum jointly filed a request to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to take further action on the increasi ...
- Senate Votes to End $6 Billion Giveaway for Co ...
The Senate voted 73-27 this afternoon to end ethanol blender tax credits, a $6 billion dollar annual giveaway for dirty corn ethanol. “Senators scored a win for the public and for the environment by voting to end this $6 billion giveaway,” said Kate McMahon, biofuels campaign coordinator at Frie ...
- End the 'War on Drugs'
Peter Rothberg Tomorrow's 40th anniversary of President Nixon's declaration of the War on Drugs comes amid growing recognition that the policy, and all that it wrought, is a complete disaster.read more
- Arizona's Next Scandal? Tea Party State Offici ...
Jeff Biggers Arizona could have a new Ethnic Studies scandal on its hands, though not with the students or teachers.read more
- Who Is Tim DeChristopher?
Subhankar Banerjee Often we focus on a single act—more heroic the act is, more attention we pay. We also focus on a single result—more it tends toward either end of a good–bad spectrum, more attention we pay. Along the way, we skip the jou ...
- The Big Fukushima Lie Flies High
Karl Grossman The global nuclear industry and its allies in government are making a desperate effort to cover up the consequences of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. “The big lie flies high,” comments Kevin Kamps of the organization ...
- How the West Was Lost: The American West in Flames
Chip Ward Arizona is burning. Texas, too. New Mexico is next. If you need a grim reminder that an already arid West is burning up and blowing away, here it is.� As I write this, more than 700 square miles of Arizona and more than 4,300 squ ...
- Interview: Mazin Qumsiyeh on popular resistanc ...
David CroninThe Electronic Intifada David Cronin interviews Palestinian activist Mazin Qumsiyeh, author of the new book Popular Resistance in Palestine: A History of Hope and Empowerment, on the popular struggle in the occupied West Bank and his experience being arrested and detained by Israeli� ...
- Israel plans to forcibly transfer 40,000 Bedou ...
Jillian Kestler-D'AmoursThe Electronic Intifada A new Israeli proposal that would forcibly transfer more than 40,000 Bedouin citizens into government-planned townships in the Negev (Naqab) desert has raised the ire of Bedouin communities and their supporters, who say that the plan is both discri ...
- Agrexco forum a milestone in Europe's BDS movement
Stephanie WestbrookThe Electronic Intifada Earlier this month in Montpellier, France, more than a hundred activists from nine countries gathered for the first ever European Forum Against Agrexco for two full days of workshops aimed at strengthening the boycott campaign against the Israeli agricu ...
- US citizen in Jerusalem arrest video speaks to EI
Maureen Clare MurphyThe Electronic Intifada Lucas Koerner, the young American Jewish university student shown violently arrested in a Jerusalem Day video, speaks to The Electronic Intifada about his activism and what happened after his�arrest.
- The case for UN recognition of Palestine
Victor KattanThe Electronic Intifada Victor Kattan argues that UN membership for a State of Palestine would be a strategic asset to the Palestinian struggle for self-determination, although there are risks�involved.
- Personal Information: episode 24
Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness! Share and Enjoy:Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
- Arguments against life extension
Via Michael Anissimov, here’s a spectacularly empty diatribe against “deathhackers” by TechCrunch‘s Paul Carr. Carr objects to the idea of radical life extension as advocated by transhumanists, which is fair enough, but as written here most of his objections seem to boil down to personal distate ...
- Daddy, where does innovation come from?
Plenty of folk have been linking to this excerpt from Matt Ridley’s new book The Rational Optimist, and with good reason – it’s a provocative piece that plays to advocates (and opponents) of free trade, open exchange, copyright reform and much more. The basic thesis? The one persistent factor th ...
- Replacement arms: mechanical or biological?
Prosthetic limbs are still in their infancy, but there’s a lot of progress being made: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is working with Darpa (who else?), and has a research grant for trying out their mind-controlled modular prosthetic arm on five test subjects over the next couple of ye ...
- How to be a futurist
The irrepressible Scott “Basic Instructions” Meyer has the lowdown if you’re thinking of a career in futurism: Click through for the whole thing. But take it from me, being a futurist is a lot of work for no money. Or maybe that’s just the way I do it… and I’ve never been featured in a [...]Foll ...
- EPA tells POLITICO it will investigate DeLeon
POLITICO reporter Robin Bravender released a story on Friday saying that EPA spokesperson Brendan Gilfillan promised that EPA would "look into" the allegations of the open letter the National Whistleblowers Center released last week. Gilfillan told Bravender that Jackson is “deeply committed to ...
- NWC calls on EPA to oust Civil Rights Director
Today I am writing to Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and asking her to remove Mr. Rafael DeLeon, the Director of the EPA's Office of Civil Rights (OCR). Last month, Deloitte Consulting issued a report on OCR finding that it is essentially dysfunctio ...
- Senate confirms Carolyn Lerner
Last Thursday, April 14, 2011, the Senate confirmed Carolyn Lerner as Special Counsel. This post, which investigates and takes positions on federal employee whistleblower allegations, has been vacant for over two years. I reported here last month about her confirmation hearing. Ms. Lerner has a ...
- Dodd-Frank CLE Seminar on April 28th in Austin ...
On April 28th, Stephen Kohn, Executive Director at the National Whistleblowers Center will host a seminar entitled "The NEW Corporate Whistleblower Protections and Reward Provisions" from 2:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. (CST) in Austin, Texas.�The seminar is at the Radisson Hotel in Austin and is CLE-app ...
- NWC Executive Director will hold an open forum ...
On Sunday April 10, 2011, Stephen Kohn, Executive Director at the National Whistleblowers Center, will be available at 5:00 pm (EST) for an online chat forum at Firedoglake’s Book Salon. The topic of this book salon will be The Whistleblower’s Handbook. For two hours Mr. Kohn will be holding an ...
- Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
- Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratosph ...
The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the ...
- After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
- Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
- New approach precisely tracks evolution's foot ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for exampl ...
- Does It Make Sense For Governments To Make The ...
One of the few good things that the US government has done on the copyright front was the decision decades back that nearly all works produced by the federal government automatically go into the public domain, and don't receive any form of copyright protection. This makes perfect sense, conside ...
- Talking On Radio And Podcasts About PROTECT IP ...
In the past few days I've been a guest on both Bulletproof Radio and the Peer Press podcast (along with Ernesto from TorrentFreak and K. Matthew Dames from Copycense). Both discussions spend time on PROTECT IP, but wander into other areas as well. I actually have a really bad cold this week (a ...
- DailyDirt: Weird Foods That Are Also Natural A ...
In the strict chemical sense, it's actually not that easy to find inorganic foods (ie. foods that are not organic). But you might find some if you practice geophagy. Here are just some examples of foods made from all-natural ingredients. Coffee made from beans excreted by civets seems to be ...
- US Porn Company Wins Default Judgment Against ...
Suing fans is not a business model. And yet, so many companies still do it. We've written a few times about porn producer Corbin Fisher/Liberty Media, who has become a very aggressive supporter of mass lawsuits against fans who it accuses of sharing its works. This is a dumb business strategy ...
- Mystery Writers Of America: Real Writers Don't ...
J.A. Konrath -- whose success as a self-published e-book author has been featured on Techdirt before -- recently kicked out a post concerning the Mystery Writers of America's submission policy as proof that the more things change, the more the "old guard" increases its efforts to pretend that th ...
- Formaldehyde in Vaccines
It’s official, or as official as it can be: The New York Times reports that formaldehyde is listed as a carcinogen by government scientists, and that “…it is found in worrisome quantities in plywood, particle board, mortuaries and hair salons.” However, both the U.S. government and The New Yo ...
- Vaccination Without Informed Consent Is Medica ...
What would you say if I told you that a European Union country’s Supreme Court says that vaccinations to attend school are NOT mandatory in that country, and anyone who vaccinates another person who suffers health damages is liable and can be sued for compensatory damages?Vactruth.com
- Part 3 of 3: An Interview About Vaccines with ...
Part 3 of 3: Catherine J. Frompovich interviews Helen V. Ratajczak, PhD, who worked in the field of immunology and toxicology. She answers questions addressing the role of Vitamin C, peroxidation of the brain, immunostimulation and Autism.Vactruth.com
- MRSA Vaccine Trial Is Halted, Ends In Disaster
Yesterday Reuters reported US Merck and Co have taken the very unusual step of discontinuing vaccine trials for Intercell's MRSA vaccine. The decision was taken after experts advised the V710 vaccine was 'unlikely to show a significant clinical benefit and expressed concerns about overall mortal ...
- Part 2 of 3: An Interview About Vaccines with ...
Part 2 of 3: Catherine J. Frompovich interviews Helen V. Ratajczak, PhD, who worked in the field of immunology and toxicology. She answers questions addressing the toxicity of vaccine adjuvants.Vactruth.com
- Things I Might Have Missed
I am sitting in the Portland airport waiting for my flight to San Jose and have not been paying any attention to the news. In fact, I didn’t even have internet for a couple days. About the only things I have learned in the last week are: 1. I can actually survive without internet. 2. [...]
- Growing Up Jewish – Bat Mitzvah Edition
It has been ages since I wrote a Growing Up Jewish post. And since last month was the 25th anniversary of my Bat Mitzvah (Fuck I’m old!), I thought it was time to continue the series. According to Jewish law, at thirteen you are an adult. And that means a party.* Of course, being Jews, [...]
- Things You Might Have Missed
Hello everyone. We’re leaving tomorrow for vacation in Portlandia and Alta California. I have some almost finished posts that I should be able to get up, but I might be a little slow responding to comments and whatnot between now and the 18th. Please check out this amazing new project from my fr ...
- Things You Might Have Missed
Hello everyone. We’re leaving tomorrow for vacation in Portlandia and Alta California. I have some almost finished posts that I should be able to get up, but I might be a little slow responding to comments and whatnot between now and the 18th. Please check out this amazing new project from my fr ...
- The Bad Actor Objection
Have you ever seen the movie The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance? My friend @JamesTulsaALL recommended it. He thought the movie addressed some important issues. He was right. For those of you who have not seen it. Jimmy Stewart is an attorney who heads out to the wild west to carve out his future. ...
- Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should ...
Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should begin locally by Jane Novak After three months of bloody protests, millions of Yemenis remain steadfast—and on the streets—throughout the nation. They want Saleh and his entire regime gone. In Sanaa, skirmishes have broken out between opposing tribes ...
- Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should ...
Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should begin locally by Jane Novak After three months of bloody protests, millions of Yemenis remain steadfast—and on the streets—throughout the nation. They want Saleh and his entire regime gone. In Sanaa, skirmishes have broken out between opposing tribes ...
- Injuries and fatalities in Yemen after anti-go ...
In what may be the bloodiest day yet since anti-government protests broke out in Yemen two weeks ago, residents around Aden are reporting numerous fatalities as security forces opened fire on protesters in many districts throughout the day and evening Friday. Human Rights Watch issued a statemen ...
- Game changer in Yemen as protests swell
In Egypt and Tunisia, the stance of the military was pivotal in the success of popular uprisings; in Yemen, it may be the tribes that are the determining factor. Anti-government protests across Yemen show no signs of abating. In Taiz, Yemen’s largest governorate, many who arrived last Friday are ...
- In Yemen, Many Protests, One Villain
It was only sheer chance or serendipity perhaps that southern Yemen’s “Day of Rage” was scheduled for Friday, earning the #Feb11 hashtag on Twitter. The Southern Uprising Facebook page drew nearly two thousand members since its founding two weeks ago in a nation with 2 percent Internet penetrati ...
- Establishment Exploits OKC Bombing Victims To ...
- Knee-Jerk No Fly Ban Discredits Global Warming ...
Fearmongering by Met Office voodoo scientists about planes dropping out of the sky contradicted by numerous successful test flights Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 19, 2010 With European governments coming under increasing pressure from airline groups to re-open airspace fo ...
- Air France, Lufthansa Press for Airspace Re-Op ...
Gregory Viscusi and Brian Parkin Bloomberg April 19, 2010 Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air France- KLM Group and industry groups pressed European governments to loosen the unprecedented closing of the region’s airspace from last week’s Icelandic volcanic eruption as losses from the grounding of aircra ...
- NPR and CNN worry that Global Warming may have ...
John Lott’s Website April 19, 2010 This is just too bizarre: Diana Rehm (NPR): We do wonder whether there’s human involvement in all of these eruptions, earthquakes, storms - Elise Labott (senior State Department producer for CNN): – and how much global warming has a role in it. You know we’ve ...
- Poll: Americans’ distrust of federal governmen ...
Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers April 19, 2010 Already wary of the federal government, Americans have grown even more critical, less trusting and even fearful of Uncle Sam since President Barack Obama took office, according to an exhaustive new study being released Monday. The in-depth poll f ...
- Stray Puppies Being Cooked Alive in Eastern China
Photo via 7sur7 Every day in China, countless dogs are cooked and eaten -- part of a culinary tradition that dates back thousands of years. Rarely, however, has the grim reality of the cruelties these animals face been so horrifically displayed. The image of a woman cooking a live puppy outs ...
- 2011 or 1899? Sexy Cyclist Deemed Traffic Dist ...
Photo from Dr. Neesen's Book On Wheeling, 1899. While it would be great to get the police officer's side of the story, the Internet is nevertheless circulating a "news" item that a visiting female Dutch cyclist was stopped by a New York City policeman and threatened with a ticket for wearin ...
- Senate Votes to End Billions in Ethanol Subsidies
Photo credit: Phil Roeder via Flickr/CC BY A measure that would remove roughly $6 billion in annual ethanol subsidies just passed the U.S. Senate, signaling, among other things, a shift in public attitude towards the once-heralded alternative fuel. It wasn't so long ago that corn ethanol wa ...
- Robert Llewellyn Drives Nissan CEO Carlos Ghos ...
Heart to Heart Talk About the Future of the Auto Industry The latest Fully Charged episode is out and this is a very special one. Robert Llewellyn gives a ride to Nissan and Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn, the man who can be considered the father of the electric LEAF and one of the few people tha ...
- More NYC Geese To Be Killed This Year - And Se ...
Image: passer-by via flickr New York City has just started another round of killing hundreds of geese, at taxpayer expense, despite that the cull has so far failed to limit geese population growth or improve air safety. The geese culls have
- Oxygen on the Brain
AN ANCIENT CELLULAR PROGRAM to protect cells when oxygen is low seems crucial for the production of new brain cells. For more than two billion years on this planet, O2 has been the go-to gas for generating efficient cellular energy. But life on Earth never takes oxygen for granted. “When it runs ...
- A Nanotube Patch to Help Heal the Heart
Researchers create carbon nanotubes that mimic natural tissue and can regenerate heart cells in a dish. A conductive patch of carbon nanotubes can regenerate heart tissue growing in a dish, according to preliminary research from Brown University. The patch, made of tiny chains of carbon atoms th ...
- Study shows common lab dye is a wonder life ex ...
Basic Yellow 1, a dye used in neuroscience laboratories around the world to detect damaged protein in Alzheimer’s disease, is a wonder drug for nematode worms. In a study appearing in the March 30, online edition of Nature, the dye, also known as Thioflavin T, (ThT) extended lifespan in healthy ...
- DNA Origami on Vimeo
- Long-Term Ecstasy Use May Damage the Brain
Long-term users of the street drug ecstasy may be at increased risk of structural brain damage, new research suggests. Researchers in the Netherlands enlisted 10 men in their mid-20s and seven in their early 20s for the study. The 10 in the mid-20s were long-term users of ecstasy. The other seve ...
- 'No On SB 5': Final weeks of the petition drive
The first phase of the effort to overturn John Kasich’s union busting law is almost complete. Last night I attended a meeting of local activists that has been getting together regularly throughout the process, and was filled in on some of the details. None of it was for official publication so ...
- Facebook puts even more of your life out there ...
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post“If you aren’t paying for it, you are not the customer; you’re the product being sold.” - blue_beetleOn Tuesday it was reported that Facebook had enabled facial recognition of its photos. Facebook already has a long history of be ...
- Weekend wrapup
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Sgt. Jeffrey C. S. Sherer, 29, of Four Oaks, NC.Army Spc. Richard C. Emmons III, 22, of North Gra ...
- 'No On SB 5': Petition signing event in Ravenna
The citizen veto effort continues to be energetically supported. A couple of weeks ago it had received 93% of the signatures required to get it on the ballot, and that was in only a third of the time allotted. Thursday evening I attended a petition signing event at a local restaurant. State r ...
- Mansfield Frazier: Inclusion is the only answe ...
Guest post by Mansfield Frazier“White people got more in common with colored people then they do with rich people” - Fictional character Sen. Jay Billington BulworthDuring the 50’s, 60’s and much of the 70’s Blacks literally owned the Civil Rights Movement in America. We went from the back of th ...
- New USDA Report Stresses Regulations on Antibi ...
A new technical review by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, “A Focus on Antimicrobial Resistance,” calls the issue a growing public health concern worldwide, stating the misuse of antimicrobial drugs in food animal production and human medicine is the main factor accelerating antimicrobial res ...
- CLF opposes Rehberg amendment, antibiotic-resi ...
The FY 2012 Agriculture appropriations bill, voted out of the House Appropriations Committee last week, includes an amendment that would severely limit the authority of FDA to regulate the use of antimicrobials, including antibiotics, in food animal production-a key concern of public health rese ...
- Food and Farm Policy: this is not the image an ...
Recently, my boyfriend offered to give me a dollar for every blog I started with, “Stop what you’re doing, ’cause I’m about to ruin the image and the style that you’re used to.” I responded to his idea with a barrage of reasons why it was ridiculous and certainly not appropriate in my line of [. ...
- Pfizer will voluntary suspend sale of roxarson ...
The FDA announced today that Pfizer Inc., will voluntarily suspend the sale of 3-Nitro (better known as the arsenical drug roxarsone) following the results of an FDA study which found elevated levels of inorganic arsenic in the livers of chicken fed roxarsone compared to a control group. The ann ...
- 100 years of artificial nitrogen - but how man ...
I recently was asked in an interview to name the one thing I would change in the world if I had the power to do so. Surprising even myself, I replied quickly “the Haber-Bosch (H-B) process for industrial nitrogen fixation. Imagine - a world without synthetic N! One can imagine the blank look I g ...
- Prepare for global cooling - it's official
To coincide with the release of Air Con Climategate Edition on Kindle, there's been a stunning announcement today that we appear to be seeing major changes in the Sun, of a type that heralded the Little Ice Age. The full...
- The chances of life arising randomly...
Grant Jacobs from Sciblogs, and another commenter, have been debating on this thread about junk dna and the origin of life. [Update, Grant now admits his phrasing was loose and that he wasn't intending to bring in the origin of...
- Climate scientist admits - climate science is ...
Former journal editor and climate scientist Hans van Storch has blamed climate scientists around the world for turning their profession into a public laughing stock. Of course, the diplomatic Storch is not quite that blunt, but it's an accurate paraphrase...
- An Intelligent Design debate with Sciblogs...
I haven't really had a decent design bunfight for a long time....but Sciblogger Grant made this statement in one of our comments threads which I couldn't resist: This seems to fit a different discourse. I didn’t say “evolution disproved G-d”....
- Education propaganda on climate change
I've come into possession of this year's Year 9 New Zealand high school social studies curriculum book...and would you take a look at the global warming propaganda thinly disguised as "education": The document is ludicrous, has no source citations for...
- Sept. 15 Tribunal to hear evidence on Elizabet ...
Exclusive interview with Rev. Kevin Annett of the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State. The ITCCS has the endorsement of over thirty organizations, including eight indigenous nations in North America and AsiaSubmitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Top US Official MURDERED for Exposing Cause of ...
Secret transportation of WMD to Afghanistan by military tanker aircraft was marked by 2 accidents which mass killed birds and fishSubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Science Matters- Davis suzuki in Common Ground ...
"I turned 75 in March. That means I probably won�t be around to see the worst impacts of climate change or any other looming environmental disasters � or the much brighter future that may emerge if we get off our butts to address the problems."Submitted by Ken Mci to Environment �|� �Note-it! � ...
- IRAN THE DANGER TO WORLD PEACE? I DON'T THINK SO!
Iran has been an Islamic state since 1979 - without invading anyone. Israel attacked Iraq in 1981,Lebanon in 1982,2006,Gaza 2003,2008, bombed Syria 2007,2010 attacked aid flotilla The US list...is much longerSubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Climate change: evidence from the geological r ...
The Council of the Society is issuing this statement as part of the Society�s work �to promote all forms of education, awareness and understanding of the Earth and their practical applications for the benefit of the public globally�.Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Ad ...
- Israeli court throws out petition to re-open H ...
Israeli court throws out petition to re-open Hebron road | Occupied Palestine | فلسطين: "HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israel’s High Court threw out a petition seeking the re-opening of a market street in... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
- Libyan rebels out of oil business?
Libyan rebels out of oil business?: "(FinalCall.com) - Not anticipating the emergence of a stalemate and the creation of two Libyas may have thrown an unintended monkey wrench in plans by Western... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
- RIGHTS-COLOMBIA: Murdered Activist's Children ...
RIGHTS-COLOMBIA: Murdered Activist's Children Go into Exile - IPS ipsnews.net: By Constanza Vieira - "BOGOTÁ, Jun 15, 2011 (IPS) - 'They are very distressed. Their father, mother and two brothers... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
- No Right Turn: Getting ugly in Greece
No Right Turn: Getting ugly in Greece: "Two years ago, the Icelandic people rebelled and threw out a government who had sold them out to the banks. Now, its happening in Greece. The Greek parliament... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
- 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...]]
- Selling America to China: Treason by any other ...
Let's quit being polite and call this maneuver by corporate governments exactly what it is - treason. Nothing more, nothing less. Selling off pieces of America to a foreign government so that government can plant a sovereign city inside our country that is not subject to our laws amounts to trea ...
- 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."
- Lulzsec takes down the US CIA
ShareThisLulzsec takes down the US CIA 16 Jun 2011 Lulzsec took down the CIA web site yesterday, 'for the lulz'. The group, which hacks or takes down up to three or more online presences a day, announced the hack last night on its twitter feed, saying "Tango down - cia.gov - for the lulz". The a ...
- CIA website hacked by Lulz Security
ShareThisCIA website hacked by Lulz Security 16 Jun 2011 The public website of the US Central Intelligence Agency has gone down after the hacker group Lulz Security said it had launched an attack. Lulz Security has claimed responsibility for recent attacks on the Senate, Sony Corp, News Corp and ...
- Hackers again break into Senate website
ShareThisHackers again break into Senate website 15 Jun 2011 Hackers broke into the Senate's public website for the second time in a week but were prevented from getting any sensitive data, a security spokeswoman said on Wednesday. The Senate's website had also been hacked over the weekend, lead ...
- US Congress threatens to block Libya campaign ...
ShareThisUS Congress threatens to block Libya campaign over lack of consultation 17 Jun 2011 The American military's continuing participation in Nato operations in Libya appeared to be in jeopardy last night as Congressional leaders, angered by what they say has been the White House's refusal to ...
- White House defends legality of Libya mission
ShareThisWhite House defends legality of Libya mission 16 Jun 2011 Defying congressional criticism, the White House insisted Wednesday that President Barack Obama has the authority to continue U.S. military action in Libya even without authorization from Congress. In a detailed, 32-page report t ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Rest in Peace our Brothers
09 June 2011 Today, a couple of messages came in from Air Force Combat Search and Rescue personnel.� The first message, reprinted below, caused me to stop and read it a couple of times.� It is important to note that these Air Force personnel are part of the teams that get our warriors off the b ...
- Biogas Comes to Afghanistan
08 Jun 2011 Thanks to a Gurkha Soldier, biogas has come to Afghanistan.� In a nutshell, during a British Army tracking school in Borneo, a Gurkha named Lalit convinced me to research biogas for Afghanistan.� More accurately, Lalit kind of bugged me into it.� I travelled to Afghanistan, Nepal (t ...
- Top Secret Report: Jews in Palestine
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- Ranger to be awarded the Medal of Honor
The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release May 31, 2011 ADVISORY: President Obama to Award Medal of Honor On July 12th, President Barack Obama will award Sergeant First Class Leroy Arthur Petry, U.S. Army, the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry.� Sergeant First ...
- Memorial Day - 2011
Ben and Elaina 29 May 2011 Ben Morton answered America�s call from Kansas.� He joined the Army and served in Korea, then reenlisted and served as an infantry Sergeant in Mosul, Iraq.� On the night of 22 May 2005, intelligence was received that high value targets were in a certain large house.� ...
- 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
- Stray Puppies Being Cooked Alive in Eastern China
Photo via 7sur7 Every day in China, countless dogs are cooked and eaten -- part of a culinary tradition that dates back thousands of years. Rarely, however, has the grim reality of the cruelties these animals face been so horrifically displayed. The image of a woman cooking a live puppy outs ...
- 2011 or 1899? Sexy Cyclist Deemed Traffic Dist ...
Photo from Dr. Neesen's Book On Wheeling, 1899. While it would be great to get the police officer's side of the story, the Internet is nevertheless circulating a "news" item that a visiting female Dutch cyclist was stopped by a New York City policeman and threatened with a ticket for wearin ...
- Senate Votes to End Billions in Ethanol Subsidies
Photo credit: Phil Roeder via Flickr/CC BY A measure that would remove roughly $6 billion in annual ethanol subsidies just passed the U.S. Senate, signaling, among other things, a shift in public attitude towards the once-heralded alternative fuel. It wasn't so long ago that corn ethanol wa ...
- Robert Llewellyn Drives Nissan CEO Carlos Ghos ...
Heart to Heart Talk About the Future of the Auto Industry The latest Fully Charged episode is out and this is a very special one. Robert Llewellyn gives a ride to Nissan and Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn, the man who can be considered the father of the electric LEAF and one of the few people tha ...
- More NYC Geese To Be Killed This Year - And Se ...
Image: passer-by via flickr New York City has just started another round of killing hundreds of geese, at taxpayer expense, despite that the cull has so far failed to limit geese population growth or improve air safety. The geese culls have
- Supreme Court allows class action suit against ...
[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] on Thursday unanimously reversed [opinion, PDF] the lower court in Smith v. Bayer Corp. [Cornell LII backgrounder; JURIST report], allowing a class action lawsuit against the company to proceed. The Court held that under the re-litigation exceptio ...
- Ivory Coast initiates investigation into post- ...
[JURIST] The Ivory Coast on Wednesday announced it would establish a commission to investigate alleged crimes committed as a result of the disputed presidential elections last November. Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara [BBC profile] vowed to probe human rights violations [AFP report] and ...
- Supreme Court: individuals may challenge feder ...
[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] Thursday ruled in Bond v. United States [Cornell LII Backgrounder; oral arguments transcript; JURIST report] that a private individual can challenge whether a federal criminal law passed to implement an international treaty is ...
- Alabama governor signs bill banning abortions ...
[JURIST] Alabama Governor Robert Bentley [official website] on Wednesday signed into law [press release] a bill [HB 18 text, PDF] that bans abortions [JURIST news archive] after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The bill contains no exceptions for cases of rape or incest, but permits an abortion if necessa ...
- Supreme Court rules evidence not excluded when ...
[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] on Thursday ruled [opinion, PDF] 7-2 in Davis v. United States [Cornell LII backgrounder; JURIST report] that when the law for what constitutes a legal search changes between a search and an accompanying trial, the evidence is not excluded. Justic ...
- Andrew Breitbart Talks Down Talk Radio
The Internet publisher says he wants the right to convey its ideas with the same "sophistication and excellence" as the left The Web TV show Uncommon Knowledge has produced the year's most interesting interview with Andrew Breitbart. Its host, Peter Robinson, alluded to the great strides ...
- The Case for Stiff-Arming Congress on Libya
This note, from long-time Atlantic reader mikey, is in response to my argument that Obama was hurting himself and the country with legalistic (as opposed to broadly convincing and historically legitimate) arguments against involving Congress in the Libya decision. He says: >>You're right, you kn ...
- Obama Is Wrong About Congress and Libya
I am not a Constitutional law expert. But I've lived through enough cycles of America entering, waging, and recovering from wars to be absolutely sure in saying: the Obama Administration is making a big mistake in so stubbornly refusing to involve Congress in the commitment to war in Libya. Le ...
- Mitt Romney's Weirdness
At a campaign stop in Tampa today, Mitt Romney stepped in it a little bit:Mitt Romney sat at the head of the table at a coffee shop here on Thursday, listening to a group of unemployed Floridians explain the challenges of looking for work. When they finished, he weighed in with a predicament of ...
- Picture of the Day: Union Actors in Target's A ...
Target has been using this video to dissuade workers from joining the United Food and Commercial Workers, which wants to unionize Target employees. Gawker posted the 13-minute film on Monday. But as Salon's Justin Elliott points out, the actors in it are actually union members, and the fi ...
- Lying IDF Generals: ‘Israeli Blockade Recogniz ...
Remember that old screed attacking Rush Limbaugh: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell them? Well, IDF Brig. Gen. Yoav Mordechai seems to have studied the book and learned all its lessons down cold. Â He threatened mayhem on the unarmed activists who are about to depart on the Gaza flotilla boats f ...
- IDF Planning for Syrian War
Perhaps in a move designed to warn the Syrian regime that it’s playing with fire if it continues allowing Nakba-Naksa style protests on the Golan Heights armistice line, the IDF website publicized an annual war game exercise which simulates war with Syria. Â It’s armored and engineering forces m ...
- CIA Participated in Smear Campaign Against Jua ...
In 2006, I wrote about a nasty smear campaign mounted against Juan Cole, who’d been nominated for a prestigious endowed chair in history at Yale. Jewish pro-Israel alumni and right-wing blogs trumpeted Cole’s alleged anti-Semitic utterances and his supposed hatred for Israel.  The campaign wo ...
- 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. Â Almost half of all eligible workers cannot find a job. Â By most accounts, the rate hovers at about the same level as the last report in 2009. Â The number of p ...
- Creating work that feeds the planet
By: greentarra "Our calling is where our deepest gladness and the world’s hunger meet." Frederick Buechner, theologian Do you feel a calling to create meaningful work that feeds your soul and the planet? There is no greater legacy than sharing your unique ...
- Choosing happiness over unhappiness
By: ruchiraa The other day I came across the quotation, "Happiness is a state of mind." Though I agree, I think it is a state of mind that needs to be fed and nurtured regularly. After all, we are human beings and thus have feelings that tend to fluctuate. Some ...
- 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 ...
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