17 June - RSS SnapShot ! Pt III

OpEd News

• Seven Republican Dwarfs
  They assumed the stance of the Seven Dwarfs, not as a matter of physical but rather intellectual stature. Not one of the candidates for the GOP presidential nomination who debated Monday night rose to a point of seriousness in addressing the nation's grievous problems.
• Good News for Constitutional Conservatives in ...
  Wisconsin's state Supreme Court Tuesday reinstated Gov. Scott Walker's plan to all but end collective bargaining for tens of thousands of public workers. On the very same day the court decided officially to accept the case, they also issued their verdict. It was a largely predictable one, with a ...
• Ralph Reed and the People Who Want to Impose a ...
  Reconstructionists are not about to take over America, the world, or even most American Evangelical institutions. But their influence has been like a drop of radicalizing flavoring added to a bottle of water. As reported in the Huffington Post, a Pew Research Center poll showed that 42 percent o ...
• Our first responsibility is to accept it
  That ringing in our ears isn't tinnitus; it's our consciences reminding us of a moral fact: Even if the matter of culpability has been diluted by millions of others who also cast the ballots, we must share the blame, when there's blame that ought to be borne.
• Obama's Thinking on Anthony Weiner Reveals a D ...
  Obama's statements on Anthony Weiner make no sense, given his "look forward, not backwards" stance on other misconduct.

Switchboard

• 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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• How American Power Works in Haiti
  I’ve long been fascinated with how the American government exerts power on the ground. We focus on the big events for obvious reasons, but I think you can make a legitimate argument that the full force of American authority comes through behind the scenes. An anecdotal example: A couple of years ...
• Court Finds New Exception To Exclusionary Rule
  Since 1961, the Supreme Court has held that evidence illegally obtained by states is not admissible in court.  Beginning with the Rehnquist Court, however, the Curt has been carving out various exceptions to the rule.   The most important and problematic of these exceptions is the “good faith ...
• Did the Bush administration try to spy illegal ...
  This NYT story presents evidence strongly suggesting it did. A few quick thoughts: (1) I imagine it would surprise most people to discover that it’s still actually illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans inside the United States. (2) Note that, if the accusations in the story are true, the Bush ...
• Weiner
  …will be stepping down. I think Matt is right in general that most sex scandals are survivable if the politician just refuses to resign.  Certainly, Weiner could have stayed on and been re-elected.  But while any U.S. senator has leverage, being a member of the House is a largely powerless pos ...
• The Legislative Roots of “Judicial Activ ...
  As Greenhouse notes, statutory ambiguity often leaves policy choices to judges.   And a lot of legislative empowerment of the judiciary isn’t accidental.

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• Grid Positive Building Coming To Norway
  Surmounting major challenges posed by the climate, a new Trondheim, Norway, building called the Powerhouse One will produce more energy than it consumes.
• CFL Bulbs Become Freebies In New Jersey
  The Porchlight Project -- funded by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities and the Clean Energy Program -- will distribute 185,000 complimentary CFLs.
• ECOtality Pumps Out More EV Charging Staions
  ECOtality is celebrating three expansion programs as part of The EV Project, which looks to install 14,000 charging stations before the end of this year.
• Wind Power Industry Not Thrilled With BPA
  A coalition of clean energy providers in the Pacific Northwest has lodged a complaint about the BPA over issues regarding wind power usage reductions.
• Can Wind Turbines Be Made More Beautiful?
  Frog recently challenged designers to imagine aesthetically pleasing turbine designs which easily integrate with existing infrastructure to generate power.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• In-House Counsel: FCPA Focus: Is there a trend ...
  Recent dispositions have signaled a possible move toward self-policing and direct reporting to agencies.
• WINNING
  Our annual special report highlights 14 litigators whose innovative trial strategies resulted on a big win in the courtroom.
• There are several steps they can take to promo ...
  There are several steps they can take to promote the use of internal compliance programs.
• Five LinkedIn tips that lawyers don't know
  Maximize the power of this growing professional social-networking site.
• U.S. courts could prove a powerful venue to fi ...
  On June 13, a small software firm in California won a partial summary judgment against a Chinese telecom giant, whose employees allegedly accessed software illegally. Diana Torres, a Kirkland & Ellis partner who represents the software company, spoke to the NLJ about how companies protect their ...

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• Arrested Sri Lankan Fishermen Finally Go Home ...
  India declined last year to a shameful position of 87 in the ranks of the latest corruption index and the police forces of the country are blamed for having the biggest share of this despicable situation.
• Horrific Human Rights Crisis Emerges in Syria
  Ms. Donahoe reiterated that the Council unequivocally condemned the use of violence against peaceful protestors by Syrian authorities. It has and called upon the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to urgently dispatch a mission to Syri
• NASA Scientists Make New Discoveries About Pla ...
  Data from MESSENGER, the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury, is giving scientists important clues to the origin of the planet and its geological history and helping them better understand its dynamic interior and exterior processes.
• Iraq Should Continue to Regulate Private Milit ...
  'Despite this decrease in incidents, Iraq continues to grapple with the grant of legal immunity extended to private security contractors,' states a news release issued by the Group.
• Obama Tells Palestinians 'Efforts to Delegitim ...
  Ms. Brimmer also said United States maintains extensive military cooperation and assistance to Israel, which helps maintain Israel's qualitative military edge over potential threats.

environment 360

• Species Behind Unicorn Legend Back from Brink ...
  The Arabian oryx, an antelope species with distinctive horns widely believed to be the source of the unicorn legend, has returned from the brink of extinction in the David Mallon/IUCNArabian oryx wild, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). On the group’s lates ...
• One Million Households Powered by Solar Energy ...
  The number of households powered by solar energy in Bangladesh has passed the one million mark — the fastest expansion of solar power in the world, according to Bangladeshi officials. Aided by non-governmental organizations that provide low-cost loans to install solar panels, Bangladesh’s rural ...
• The Unfulfilled Promise of the World’s Marine ...
  Biologists and conservationists maintain that establishing marine reserves — areas where fishing is off-limits or severely restricted — offers the best hope for recovery for our overstressed oceans. So why is such a small area of the world's oceans protected? BY BRUCE BARCOTT
• Largest Gulf ‘Dead Zone’ Anticipated in Wake o ...
  The Gulf of Mexico’s hypoxic zone, an oxygen-depleted area created by excessive nutrient pollution, is expected to reach record proportions this year as a result of the extreme flooding in the Mississippi River basin, Click to enlarge Nancy Rabalais LUMCON/NOAASize of the ‘dead zone,’ 1985-2011 ...
• New Microchip Technology Eliminates ‘Standby’ ...
  Researchers in Japan have developed microchip technology that eliminates energy consumption in electronic devices while in so-called “standby” mode. While most electronic devices, including televisions and personal computers, now require circuits to be powered continuously to assure instant star ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

• St. Petersburg Economic Forum in full swing
  Top business executives, global innovators and world leaders all gathered together to debate how best to move forward economically and environmentally on various levels. This year, the big players at the forum are China...
• Israel uses terrorism fears to steal money fro ...
  Tax and customs fees collected on behalf of the Palestinian Authority are supposed to be used to pay wages. However, Israel has refused to hand over the cash on several occasions, saying it could be used to fund...
• So sue me! Obama on the warpath
  President Barak Obama is coming under fire from Congress for launching a military operation without approval from the lawmakers. They claim the president is thus violating the US constitution.
• The threat to the West is still there – terror ...
  Al-Qaeda says it has a new leader and the US has a new bogeyman as the long-time deputy to Osama bin Laden takes over the leadership of Al-Qaeda. He is already promising to continue the jihad against America and Israel.
• Russia and China can build new world order – p ...
  As the leaders of two of the world's biggest and fastest-growing emerging economies meet in Moscow, political analysts predict the strategic co-operation between the two nations could shift the balance of power in the...

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

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

Tippers News

• DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
  DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
  Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a C ...
• About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
  Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (:Submitted by Evelyn J. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
  Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �N ...
• Confused cat found wandering streets of of Lin ...
  This hungry kitty thought she was the cat that had got the cream when she found a half-full tin of pet food as she prowled for snacks in bins behind a supermarket.Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

• Trade Agreements, Worker Assistance Near Approval
  “The Obama administration and congressional leaders are nearing consensus on three pending trade agreements and the renewal of support for workers who have been displaced by global trade, ending a standoff that some feared would put U.S. exports at risk, said business, administration and congres ...
• Saved the Economy, Obama Says
  “President Obama told supporters at a fundraiser in Miami on Monday night that he deserves credit for cleaning up the mess he inherited. âMy job over these first two years has frankly been to clean up a big mess,â Mr. Obama said at a $10,000-per-ticket event at a gated mansion in Miami Beach. âW ...
• CBO Sees More Pain Ahead
  “Congressâ official scorekeeper said Tuesday that the United States will continue to see slow economic growth for the next several years as job openings and a lack of demand for goods and services continue to block a speedier rebound. âA great deal of the pain of this downturn lies in front of u ...
• Yes, It Is a Police State
  Since 9/11 the biggest threat to the American people is not radical Muslim terrorists, nor deranged domestic terrorists, but the terrorists with the blue uniforms, badges, and body armor.
• Bernanke Warns Against Linking Debt Ceiling to ...
  “Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Tuesday again urged congressional Republicans to support an increase in the debt ceiling ahead of the early August deadline set by Treasury Sec. Tim Geithner, saying that they are using the âwrong toolâ to cut spending by linking it with the debt limit.” ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

• INSTITUTE INDEX: The formaldehyde follies
  Date on which the Department of Health and Human Services released a report classifying formaldehyde -- a chemical used in the manufacture of consumer goods including carpeting, plywood, personal care products and pharmaceuticals -- as "a known carcinogen": 6/10/2011 Year in which the Environ ...
• GOP donor put on board of NC foundation his gr ...
  When North Carolina Democrats appointed board members of the Golden LEAF Foundation -- a state-charted philanthropy giving out money from the state's tobacco settlement -- conservatives lashed out at the foundation for being a "web of political cronyism" with a board "packed with generous campai ...
• Anti-union Southern companies tolerate -- and ...
  By Joe Atkins, Labor South The latest Labor South Roundup shows that Southern companies remain at the forefront of anti-labor activity in the United States even when at least one is willing -- if forced -- to tolerate unions abroad. First and foremost, of course, is Arkansas-based ...
• Feinberg has received BP cleanup illness claim ...
  By Ada McMahon, Bridge the Gulf "Feinberg says no claims filed on cleanup illnesses" ran an erroneous Associated Press headline last week, stirring up more mistrust of the BP claims process among Gulf Coast residents. It is simply not true that sick cleanup workers have not filed medical cla ...
• U.S. trade policy undercuts Obama's jobs push
  President Obama pledged to create new jobs during a visit yesterday to a high-tech lighting manufacturer in North Carolina, but the destruction of jobs unfolding at another lighting plant next door in Tennessee illustrates how U.S. trade policy is complicating those efforts. Obama met ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

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

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

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

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• Reversing course, US Senate votes to kill corn ...
  What a difference a day can make in the US Senate. Yesterday senators grumbled about obscure procedural issues as they shot down a bid to end a government subsidy and import tariff for corn ethanol. The vote was 40-59. Today, with the obscure procedural issues behind them, the senators did a ...
• FDA speedier than European agency on cancer dr ...
  The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), often denigrated for being slow to approve new drugs for market, has recently been speedier than its European counterpart in approving new cancer drugs, according to a study in the journal Health Affairs released today. Between 2003 and 2010, ...
• Big bucks for 15 plant scientists
  The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has appointed 15 new investigators to its club of well-funded whizzes—all of them plant scientists. What is a medical research organization doing funding plant science? Well, first off, they have joined forces with the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, ...
• Fukushima still wet 'n' wild
  These days, water is the big problem standing in the way of clean up operations at Fukushima. Japanese broadcaster NHK reports 110,000 tons of radioactive water are stagnating in reactor basements and turbine halls. At Unit 2, temperatures inside the reactor building and turbine hall are around ...
• Science live, tweeted by a killer of Pluto
  Open notebook science, in which scientists post their data publicly as fast as they collect it, is taking a fresh turn with the release of results in real time via Twitter. On 11 June, astronomer Mike Brown of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena sparked huge interest by live-tweet ...

new geography

• Hey, Dad: Family Still Matters!
  America is getting older. Those over the age of 65, which currently account for 12% of the population, are expected to make up 20% of the population by 2030. People are marrying later, and a growing group, though still a distinct minority, is choosing not to have children. So if there are propor ...
• The Evolving Urban Form: Shanghai
  According to the results of the 2010 census, Shanghai's population was nearly 1,000,000 people more than had been projected by local authorities. The provincial level of jurisdiction grew from a population of 16.4 million in 2000 to 23.0 million in 2010. Shanghai is one of the world's fastes ...
• Will the Last Family Leaving Seattle Please Tu ...
  New Census data for the Seattle area's population changes, 2000-2010, permit a preliminary look at age and at types of households in the region. Let's look at patterns of geographic variation in selected age groups and household types for places in greater Seattle. It provides more evidence for ...
• The Explosion of Oil and Gas Extraction Jobs
  From Appalachia to Alaska, the growth is eye-popping. Thousands of new jobs have sprouted up, most well-paying and all boons to their regions. There�s no denying oil and gas extraction jobs are on the rise, and not just in Texas and Oklahoma. North Dakota is drilling oil at a blistering pac ...
• Why Compact Cities Aren't so Smart
  I was interested to read the views of Rick Boven of the New Zealand Institute about central and local government needing to resolve their differences about the future of Auckland.  Well, they have worked on that since the establishment of GUEDO in 2005 (now the Auckland Policy Office).  Bu ...

GM Watch

• No 'Frankensalmon' in America: Congress bans F ...
• No 'Frankensalmon' in America: Congress bans F ...
• The true cost of monoculture: 15 years of GM s ...
• The true cost of monoculture: 15 years of GM s ...
• Nigerian biosafety bill: in whose interest?

spiked

• Putting Palin on the rack, twenty-first-centur ...
  The liberal media’s gleeful ogling of Sarah Palin’s private emails captures what lies at the heart of today’s leaking culture: low political prurience.
• Mental-health continuum: the unhelpful myth th ...
  The notion that everyone is in some way mentally ill distracts attention from those who really need help.
• Higher education should be free - of state control
  In the row about AC Grayling’s new college, the suffocating effect of state funding has been overlooked.
• Who’s really afraid of the working classes?
  Thatcher isn’t to blame for modern-day chav-baiting. It was fashionable anti-Thatcherites who made a mockery of the lower orders.
• Playing for England: glory or chore?
  Why more and more Premier League players just aren't that fussed about playing international football.

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

• A Glimmer Of Hope
  If you want to feel better about America, just spend some time in some of the really great small towns and rural communities that are scattered across this country.  Over the past several days, that is exactly what I had the privilege to do.  I have often written about how the " ...
• Stock Prices Have Fallen For Six Weeks In A Row
  Well, it's official.  U.S. stock prices have fallen for six weeks in a row.  So will next week make it seven?  The last time stocks declined for seven weeks in a row was back in May 2001 when the "dot-com" bubble was bursting.  At this point, the Dow has declined by approximatel ...
• 18 Signs The Collapse Of Society Is Accelerating
  As the U.S. economy collapses, the thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted is going to begin to disappear.  In fact, there are already an increasing number of signs that the collapse of society is accelerating.  In cities such as Chicago, roving packs of young p ...
• The Coming Economic Hell For American Families
  Tens of millions of American families are about to go through economic hell and most of them don't even realize it. Most Americans don't spend a whole lot of time thinking about things like "monetary policy" or "economic cycles".  The vast majority of people just want to be able ...
• 10 Tipping Points Which Could Potentially Plun ...
  The global economy has become so incredibly unstable at this point that it is not going to take much to plunge the world into a horrific economic nightmare.  The foundations of the world economic system are so decayed and so corrupted that even a stiff breeze could potentially t ...

Desertification

• Dry forests are central to combating desertifi ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.irna.ir/ENNewsShow.aspx?NID=30432672&SRCH=1 Development of dry forests central to combating desertification: Ban Tehran, June 15, IRNA â UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his message on World Day to Combat Desertification, June 17, 2011, emph ...
• Halting net desertification by 2030 to help ea ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.dawn.com/2011/06/16/world-urged-to-stop-net-desertification-by-2030.html World urged to stop net desertification by 2030 BONN: The world should set a goal of halting net desertification by 2030 to stem annual losses of farmland equivalent to th ...
• Growing your own fruits ? Try a tomato tree ! ...
  Many people in the drylands are looking for a fruit tree species to grow in their small kitchen garden.  Many citizens would like to have a such nice fruit tree close to their house.  Here is my recommendation : try … Continue reading →
• The irrefutable evidence of the FAO : decisive ...
  —————————– For many years already we have been promoting family (kitchen) gardens and allotment gardens (the “VICTORY GARDENS” of World War I and WW. II) as the most efficient tool to combat hunger, malnutrition and poverty (see a short list … Continue reading →
• More than 70 percent of the world’s poor ...
  Read at : http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110601/ap_on_re_us/us_food_and_farm_gates_agriculture_2 Gates Foundation spends $1.7B on farming in Africa By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP, Associated Press SEATTLE â The world’s largest charitable foundation announced five years ago it would spend millions of ...

The Paper Trail

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

backofthebook.ca

• The face of Vancouver’s Stanley Cup riot
  By Frank Moher Overnight, a certain Brock Anton became the face of the Vancouver Stanley Cup riot on the internet. Downtown for the abortive festivities yesterday, Mr. Anton apparently took time out from his busy schedule to post this on his Facebook page: It reads: Maced in the face, ...
• Debating Libya
  By Alison@Creekside "He simply will not last very long," Harper said of Muammar Gaddafi back in March, as Canada prepared to drop $27-million of smart money smart bombs on Libya in order to oust him. As of now Gaddafi controls most of the country, including the capital. Today Parliament ...
• Revisited: Sun TV’s Ezra problem
  With the Sun News Network lately embarked on a jihad against government funding of the arts, it might be worth remarking: at least when artists are given money, they do what they're supposed to do with it. On the other hand, we have the example of SNN costume rack Ezra ...
• On SunTV and Margie Gillis
  On June 1, 2011, SunTV broadcast an interview with veteran Canadian dancer and choreographer Margie Gillis (see link below), which quickly turned abusive towards the guest. In a message on his facebook page, Canadian dancer Louis Laberge-Côté, currently a teacher at Nationaltheatre Manheim in Ge ...
• Wikileaks on Harper, America, and the “t ...
  By Alison@Creekside An embassy cable written by US Ambassador David Wilkins the day the Cons were first elected in 2006 suggests Harper would be useful in advancing the US agenda for Canada and that giving him " a success story" like the softwood lumber deal would "shore up" his ability to st ...

libcom

• Everyone plays a part in fighting wage theft
  ssbn09-web.jpg Seattle recently joined San Francisco, Austin, Kansas City and Denver in making wage theft — bosses cheating workers out of their earned pay — a criminal offense, and rightfully so. ...
• Locked out workers' anger grows at Canada Post
  Canada.jpg Following weeks of rolling strike action, Canada Post locked out its 50,000 workers on the night of 14 June. Here follows an exciting personal account of workers fighting back and locking ...
• Insurgent Notes - NYC Demonstration leaflet
  Insurgent Notes flier for the NYC demonstration against the budget cuts, June 14-15, 2011. “These are hard times for our city,” says the billionaire mayor of New York in a voice that could double as a paint scraper in any hardware st ...
• Of Budgt Cuts and Union Officials
  2010_10_18_Trumka.jpg For the full, original article, feel free to visit the Trial by Fire. A great teacher of mine once said that when reading history, and revisiting the atro ...
• Riots in China
  Chines cops march June 2011.jpeg The conflicts began Friday after a fracas between security officers & a pregnant street vendor in Xintang, Guangdong province. Most protesters were migrant workers li ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Bob McDonald Part 2 (Apr 9, 2011)
  Part two of our annual show where CBC's Science Correspondent answers your questions about the mysteries of the world that have always puzzled you.
• Milos Raonic, ATP Tennis Player (Apr 2, 2011)
  The Canadian tennis star and his power serve are making waves around the world. Peter talks with Raonic about childhood ambition, focus and the sport he loves.
• Almas Jiwani, Women's Rights Advocate
  President of National Committee of UN Women in Canada on the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day and the state of women around the world.
• Prime Minister Stephen Harper (Jan 22, 2011)
  Highlights of the conversation with Peter originally broadcast Jan 17 and 18, 2011.
• Olivia Chow, NDP MP (Jan 15, 2011)
  Jack Layton and Olivia Chow: Ottawa’s political power couple -- he’s a party leader, she’s one of his backbenchers. But only one of them makes the cut for this week’s program, and its not him! Olivia Chow is our guest and there’s lots to talk about.

Scotts Contracting

• Outside Congressional Funding Info
  Congressional Finance Report- High-ranking congressmen made a concerted effort to financially distance themselves from BP Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) gave up all or a significant amount of their holdings in BP after the 2010 spill hundreds of individuals donated t ...
• Report: Solar grows in 2011
  solar-,fastest growing industries in the country New SEIA/GTM Research Report shows solar still growing in Q1 2011 Scotty, A new report released today by SEIA and GTM Research shows that solar energy continues to be one of the fastest growing industries in the country. While the overall U.S. eco ...
• Misc Front Porch CAD Designs by Scotty
• Join in: Conversation Shaping St Louis Regiona ...
  Be part of the progress right from your computer! Today is the big day! St. Louis City and County are taking the next steps to move our region forward. You can be part of the progress right from your computer! Watch the conference live on http://live.HECtv.org and participate in the Q&A by tweet ...
• Remind Pres Obama about his Solar Pledge
  Dear Friends, Is President Obama going to miss his own deadline for re-installing solar panels on the White House roof? Last October, after a campaign led by 350.org, the Obama Administration committed to installing a new set of solar panels on the White House roof by the end of Spring 2011. Wit ...

The View From Abroad

• Western Imperialism Strikes Again
  The invasion of Libya is about imperialism not protection of civilians.
• What Obama Should Have Said
  As I was reading President Obama's speech last week, I dozed off into a glorious daydream.
• “Where’s the Beef”?
  After Osama bin Laden was killed, why wasn't his body displayed for verification.
• Bernanke is Still Clueless
  Ben Bernanke has been consistently wrong in the past. Why does anybody listen to him anymore?
• Dangers are Inherent in the War with Qaddafi
  Libya could become the next quagmire for American forces.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Other Mothers
  A mother confronts her son going off to the army in this powerful poem.
• Gen. Kayani's Tenure as Most Powerful Man in P ...
  Since the bin Laden raid, the Pakistani army's anger at its chief over his relationship with the United States has come to a head.
• Iran's Turmoil at the Top
  The president and the clerics have squared off in Tehran. Will it push Iran over the edge?
• Israel's 1981 Osirak Attack Poor Precedent for ...
  Israel's attack on Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor did little to halt Iraq's nuclear-weapons program.
• The Day Obama Decided
  Margit Berman's poem about the day the president decided to end the wars.

Law.com

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

Iranian.com

• List of historical photographs of the famous F ...
  List of historical photographs of the famous French Iranian School in Tehran since it's inception in the 1930's. Photos include visit by Shah, Soraya the Shahbanou as student as well as visits of French President De Gaulle and his successor President George Pompidou. 
• آدرس و مشخصات مزار گروهی
  گروهی از فعالان جنبش، آدرس و کروکیِ مزارِ دهها تن از جانباختگان جنبش را منتشر کرده و جهت ایجاد تسهیلات و هماهنگیِ تجمعاتِ گرامیداشتِ شهدا، آنرا در اختیار حامیان و مردم قرار داده اند.
• گل زنبقی كه از حياط زندان چيده بودي، پژمرد
  يادت مي‌آيد گفته بودى زندان براى تو تجربه‌اى مشابه اردوى آموزشى _ تفريحى است؟ يادت مي‌آيد عاشقانه همه را دوست داشتى و بچه‌ها تو را عاشقانه دوست داشتند؟ عمر با صفايت چه كوتاه بود، اما داستان آزادگى تو در لابلاى گل‌هاى چادرت باقى است كه به يادگار گذاشته‌اى.
• علت مرگ صابر: شخصی بنام «عظمت» با مشت بر ايشان ...
  دانشجو نيوز برخی از هم بنديان هدی صابر، زندانی جان باخته در زندان، با شرح آخرين لحظات قبل از شهادت وی ابعاد جديدی از نحوه جان باختن اين زندانی سياسی را افشا نموده اند.
• فشار روسیه و چین بر ایران در اجلاس شانگهای
  رهبران چین و روسیه روز چهارشنبه از محمود احمدی نژاد رئیس جمهور ایران خواسته اند برای رفع بن بست ناشی از اختلاف بر سر برنامه اتمی ایران بیشتر بکوشد. این درخواست در اجلاس منطقه ای سازمان همکاری شانگهای که در شهر آستانا پایتخت قزاقستان برگزار می شد مطرح شد. read more

Most Revolutionary Act

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

Doug's Darkworld

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

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• Q&A With Virent CTO Randy Cortright
  Join the forum discussion on this post In the previous essay, I discussed the National Advanced Biofuels Consortium (NABC) and the recently announced success of Virent Energy Systems (Virent), a member of the consortium. In this essay I try to dig into the process details a bit more with a seri ...
• Virent Pulling Ahead of the Pack?
  Join the forum discussion on this post The National Advanced Biofuels Consortium In January 2010, Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the investment of nearly $80 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for advanced biofuels research and fueling infrastructure. About $35 mi ...
• Roundtable on China’s Energy Future
  Join the forum discussion on this post Just a note that this weekend I leave for an extended business trip, with visits to Seattle, Washington D.C., Germany, Massachusetts, Vermont, and California. I will be on the road for about four weeks, but will try to keep to my schedule of posting new co ...
• Taking Care of the Topsoil
  Following my inclusion in the Top 10 list of ethanol enemies, I sought to Set the Ethanol Record Straight on my actual views on ethanol. I set out three broad tenets that shape my views. They are: Tenet One: We must transition from fossil fuels with a sense of urgency. Tenet Two: We need to ...
• Book Review: Power Trip
  Join the forum discussion on this post Introduction I tend to accumulate a lot of books – sent to me by publishers and publicists – and they pile up on my desk until I have to make a trip somewhere. Because it takes a long time to get from Hawaii to anywhere else, [...]

Discovery Educator Network

• Language Arts Lessons :: Live Angry Birds Vide ...
  Tags: angrybirds, writingprompts, TeachHubby: Dean Mantz
• Life Changine Science - Program 2: Virtual Ope ...
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Rodale News

• Farmer's Markets Innovations Make Healthy Food ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—There's often a throwback feel to farmer's markets, where you can seek out the same heirloom vegetable varieties your great-grandmother adored. Old-school, heritage-breed chicken eggs? Yep, a true farmer's market probably offers them. And while the farmer's market is a p ...
• The Nickel Pincher: DIY Wedding Favor Ideas
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—At the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the guests all left with luxurious wool scarves, sporting the Union Jack in various colorful prints, that cost about $75 each. Chances are, you haven't budgeted that amount of money into your next soiree. And do ...
• Have the Best Memorial Day Ever!
  It's almost here...the three-day weekend that marks the beginning of the sunny season of summer. But are you ready? read more
• Good News: Ethical Food Is a Must-Have for 2011
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Earlier this year, the Organic Trade Association announced that organic food sales were booming, despite the bad econo read more
• Chinese Produce Cows That Create Human Breast Milk
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Just as the House of Representatives took an important step toward banning GMO, or genetically engineered, salmon read more

big think

• Greed is Bad. Insatiable Ambition Might Get Yo ...
  Being a fish out of water drove Gurbaksh ‘G’ Chahal to make his own ocean. By the age of 26, he had built and sold two internet ad companies for a total of $340 million. G’s own ravenous appetite for success set him on the path, but hiring people as hungry as himself has kept his companies gr ...
• Julius Shulman’s Los Angeles Love Story
  From neon-lit “La-La Land” to dark, gritty L.A. Confidential and L.A. Noire , the city of angels—Los Angeles—has occupied a place in the public’s imagination in many forms. In Julius Shulman Los Angeles: The Birth of a Modern Metropolis by Sam Lubell and Douglas Woods, we see th ...
• The Day the Internet Shut Down. LOL.
  On June 14, the day designated as Titanic Takeover Tuesday, a group of hackers known as LulzSec took down the website of the CIA, hacked into 62,000 email accounts and organized a telephone call-in request line for hackers to flood the phone lines of the FBI. And that’s just days after they hac ...
• Lesson 15: Fermor; What Does A Soldier Scholar ...
  Robert Kaplan’s op-ed on Patrick Leigh Fermor in the New York Times, “The Humanist in the Foxhole,” stands alone as a cool piece of writing worth studying. Kaplan writes: Unlike the young Winston Churchill in Sudan or the Prussian general Helmuth von Moltke journeying through the Ottoman Emp ...
• Text Based Adventures in the Classroom [Guest ...
  � You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.There is a small mailbox here. � � � This simple, succinct introduction opens the door to the rich immersive environment of 1980's Zork, the most iconic example of the text-based adventure game genre. ...

Information Liberation

• We've Always Been at War With Yemen
  As Congress and the American people are finally waking up to Mr. Nobel Peace Prize*s illegal presidential war in Libya, a nation that never posed a threat to the United States--and as the Bush-Obama wars in Afghanistan and Iraq continue to fatigue th...
• End Game
  Economic data over the past weeks, punctuated by last week's dismal employment reports, confirm the diminishing impact of the stimulus efforts orchestrated by the Obama Administration and the Federal Reserve. In what must be a huge disappointment...
• Study says marijuana no gateway drug
  Marijuana is not a "gateway" drug that predicts or eventually leads to substance abuse, suggests a 12-year University of Pittsburgh study. Moreover, the study's findings call into question the long-held belief that has shaped prevention efforts and g...
• Cop harasses citizen for open carrying, backs ...
  This is a great video. A costume clad taxfeeder approaches an ex-vet who was open carrying an unloaded gun in Oceanside, California, and starts to harass him for exercising his rights. The cop asks if he's a marine to which the man says yes, the ...
• SWAT Team Mania: The War Against the American ...
  "He [a federal agent] had his knee on my back and I had no idea why they were there." - Anthony Wright, victim of a Dept. of Education SWAT team raid The militarization of American police * no doubt a blowback effect of the military empir...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• Science across the spectrum
  Penrose, Escher, back – M.C. Escher‘s famously paradoxical illustration of 1960 depicting a stairway atop an “impossible” building, and made famous recently in a dreamscape of the Hollywood movie “Inception“, that seems to ascend or descend interminably is a good example of how projecting our 3D ...
• 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 ...

RFF Library

• FEMA: Action Needed to Improve Administration ...
  US Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-11-297 [From Summary]  The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) has been on GAO’s high-risk list since March 2006 because of concerns about its long-term financial solvency and related operational issues. Significant managem ...
• The U.S. Automotive Market and Industry in 2025
  Center for Automotive Research http://www.cargroup.org/pdfs/ami.pdf [From a Greenwire story by Jason Plautz, sub. req'd]  Higher fuel economy standards would add as much as $9,000 to the cost of a vehicle and may offer no fuel savings over a five-year period, a nonprofit automotive research grou ...
• Supplement to the AB 32 Scoping Plan Functiona ...
  California EPA, Air Resources Board http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/scopingplan/document/Supplement_to_SP_FED.pdf [From a ClimateWire story by Debra Kahn, sub. req'd]  California regulators have revised their analysis of alternatives to cap and trade in the wake of last month’s court decision that fou ...
• Air Quality: Information on Tall Smokestacks a ...
  US Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/mobile/products/GAO-11-473 [From Summary]  Tall smokestacks–stacks of 500 feet or higher, which are primarily used at coal power plants–release air pollutants such as sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) high into the atmosphere t ...
• Environmental Regulation and Electric Sector R ...
  Bipartisan Policy Center / by Jennifer Macedonia, Joe Kruger, Lourdes Long and Meghan McGuinness http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/library/report/environmental-regulation-and-electric-system-reliability The electric power sector in the United States faces a changing market environment, one that fe ...

Scientific American - News

• Lemonade without the Lemons: New Search Engine ...
  Good news, if you haven't noticed, has always been rare commodity. We all have our ways of coping, but the media's pessimistic proclivity presented a serious problem for Jurriaan Kamp, editor of the San Francisco-based Ode magazine --a must-read for "intelligent optimists "--who was in dire ...
• Stricter Regulation of Formaldehyde Remains Un ...
  Late last week, the Department of Health and Human Services classified formaldehyde as "a known carcinogen," adding its verdict to two similar reports released by key agencies since 2009.But despite the growing scientific consensus about how formaldehyde can affect human health, it remains ...
• Beyond Condoms: The Long Quest for a Better Ma ...
  A joke among researchers in the field of male contraception is that a clinically approved alternative to condoms or vasectomy has been five to 10 years away for the past 40 years. The so-close-yet-so-far state of male contraceptive development has persisted in large part because of three serious ...
• The Fog of Cyber War: What Are the Rules of En ...
  There is some speculation among some politicians and pundits that the fog of war will soon extend to the Internet, if it has not already, given a recent report that the U.S. Defense Department will introduce its first cyber warfare doctrine this month, combined with similar announcements from th ...
• Green Fluorescent Protein Makes for Living Lasers
  In a unique fusion of biology and physics, researchers have created the world's first living laser. Single cells containing a special protein that acts as an optical amplifier have been coaxed to emit green laser light, according to a new study. And, perhaps surprisingly, the cell survives its s ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

• Seeking equipment, contacts for Media Co-op jo ...
  Halifax Media Co-op journalist Miles Howe will join about 30 other Canadians on the Canada Boat to Gaza later this month. The Canadian boat, named the Tahrir after the square in Cairo that took centre-stage during the recent popular revolution in Egypt, will be part of a convoy of ships particip ...
• Nova Scotia Trade Mission to Gaza Launched
  Business community sends local goods aboard the Canadian Boat to Gaza Miles Howe is not your usual businessman, and he is about to embark on a very unusual trade mission.   Howe, founder of Peaceful Waters Trading Company, spoke outside th ...
• "Students for Posties"
  Montreal student groups rallying behind Canada's postal workers As Canadians woke up to Canada Post's lock-out of the country's postal workers this morning, students across Montreal are rallying to postal workers' sides. Four montreal stud ...
• My Story of Domestic Violence and Child Appreh ...
  âIn Our Own Voices,â Week II I was abused by my ex partner, who is also my children’s father, for ten and a half years. I had four children with him - Angela, Rosalie, Mike, and Jackson. I was beat all throughout my first pregnancy, and as ...
• A march toward a new chapter in Quebec environ ...
  As La marche pour une moratoire d'une génération arrives in Montreal, we reflect on what 2011 has meant for the Quebec environmental movement “Building a new movement doesn’t come without ruffling some feathers,” says Philippe Duhamel, t ...

David Seaton's News Links

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

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Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• The Real Reason the Cancer Industry Never Talk ...
  In the video above Robyn O'Brien shares her personal story and how it inspired her to become a Real Food evangelist. Her journey started when one of her children had a dangerous allergic reaction to a "typical" breakfast, and unfolded into discovering one reason why the United States may have th ...
• The Food that Strengthens Your Muscles...
  Ori Hofmekler is the author of The Warrior Diet, The Anti-Estrogenic Diet, Maximum Muscle Minimum Fat, and the upcoming book Unlock Your Muscle Gene. In this interview, he discusses how to build muscle and improve your health through nutrition.
• Sun CAN Actually Help Protect You Against Skin ...
  Sunlight causes your skin to produce vitamin D -- a fact that, ironically, means that sunscreen campaigns may have made�millions of people chronically short of�this critical nutrient, and put them at a greater risk of skin cancer, rather than reducing their risk. Research shows that a very low ...
• This Common Food Additive Now Linked to Weight ...
  The food additive monosodium glutamate (MSG) could lead to obesity. Recent research found that people who eat more MSG are more likely to be overweight or obese. What's more, the link between high MSG intake and being overweight held even after accounting for the total number of calories people ...
• 3 Ways to Improve Your Eyesight
  Yahoo Health has collected some tips you can use to sharpen your vision. Here are some of them: 1. Eat Right Vitamins A, C, E, and minerals like copper and zinc are essential to eyesight. Antioxidants protect your macula from sun damage, and foods rich in sulfur, cysteine, and lecithin help ...

JAMA

• Ovarian Cancer [JAMA Patient Page]
• Omitted Disclosure in: Short-term Use of Unopp ...
• Error in Figure in: Patterns and Intensity of ...
• The Extraordinary Dr Biggs [Literatim]
• Operative Techniques: Pediatric Orthopaedic Su ...

Survival - tribal peoples

• Beef barons exposed by space pics face jail
  Uncontacted Ayoreo house in the middle of a new road. The Indians abandoned it just hours before, hearing the bulldozer approach. © Survival Brazilian beef barons whose illegal clearance of land inhabited by uncontacted Indians in Paraguay was spotted by satellites have now been charged wit ...
• Palawan tribal leaders in capital to protest m ...
  Palawan child © Dario Novellino Nine traditional leaders of the Palawan tribe are in the Philippine capital, Manila, to protest against the MacroAsia company mining on their land. Members of the Palawan tribe who live in the remote Brookes Point region, have consistently opposed mining on ...
• Penan hunter-gatherers to be dumped in vast oi ...
  The Penan depend on their forest for survival. © Robin Hanbury-Tenison/Survival More than 1,000 Penan hunter-gatherers will be taken from their rainforest home and dumped in a vast oil palm plantation – to make way for the controversial Murum dam. The Penan have said they do not want to mo ...
• Success: Peru vows to protect uncontacted trib ...
  Illegal logging in Peru's Murunahua reserve is pushing the Indians into Brazil – the very area where this tribe lives. © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/Survival Peru’s Culture Ministry has promised to protect an uncontacted tribe’s reserve in the Amazon amid fears that it would be shut down. In a ...
• Gillian Anderson becomes Survival ambassador
  Gillian Anderson models a T-shirt designed by Richard Long © Survival Hollywood actor and long-time Survival International supporter Gillian Anderson has become an ambassador for Survival, joining Quentin Blake, Julie Christie, Kurt Jackson, Pippa Small, and Mark Rylance. Anderson recent ...

Montreal Gazette

• On roads and bridges, we need fixes - and info ...
  Even for battle-scarred Montrealers, the sudden partial closure this week of the Mercier Bridge came as a stunning setback.
• The Gazette's View: On roads and bridges, we n ...
  Even for battle-scarred Montrealers, the sudden partial closure this week of the Mercier Bridge came as a stunning setback.
• Legault's apparent stumble could be a strategi ...
  Fran�ois Legault appeared to stumble the other day when asked whether he would never call a new sovereignty referendum if elected premier of Quebec. "Absolutely," he replied, then confused the issue by adding: "Certainly not in a first mandate."
• Comments from montrealgazette.com
  Savemontreal: This city is a complete joke. Only in Quebec would they allow our infrastructure to crumble like this. Maybe they should mention our bridges in the new Quebec anthem!
• Legault's apparent stumble could be a strategi ...
  Fran�ois Legault appeared to stumble the other day when asked whether he would never call a new sovereignty referendum if elected premier of Quebec. "Absolutely," he replied, then confused the issue by adding: "Certainly not in a first mandate."

Food World Order

• 6/16 binge & purge: stumptown sellout, edible ...
  the selling of stumptown: industry sources say stumptown coffee has been sold* flashback: coffee scandal brewing - did portland's stumptown sell out?* ag dept. now allows schools to buy local fruits & veggies* fda sends US marshals to seize elderberry juice concentrate, deemed 'un ...
• 6/16 binge & purge: stumptown sellout, edible ...
  the selling of stumptown: industry sources say stumptown coffee has been sold* flashback: coffee scandal brewing - did portland's stumptown sell out?* ag dept. now allows schools to buy local fruits & veggies* fda sends US marshals to seize elderberry juice concentrate, deemed 'un ...
• 'poisoned' book delivered to obama and all of ...
  from food poison journal: Lindsey Ward of WSLS reported that author Jeff Benedict provided the President, First Lady, Secretary Vilsack and Secretary Sebeilus, along with each member of the House and Senate, a copy of the book ‘Poisoned.’ The book tells the story, from an attorney's perspective, ...
• ewg releases 2011 'dirty dozen'; apples top li ...
  from cbsnews: That shiny little apple you're eating has a dirty little surprise. At least, that's what a food safety watchdog claims in its annual examination of government produce tests. The Environmental Working Group says apples top its "Dirty Dozen" list of fruits and vegetables with the hig ...
• e.coli won't have 'significant impact' on orga ...
  from bloomberg: A deadly E.coli outbreak that is being blamed on sprouts grown without chemicals probably won’t dent people’s support for the organic food industry in the long term, according to London-based analyst Organic Monitor. The outbreak has killed 22 and made 2,263 people ill, accordin ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

• Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation
  COTO Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans for mankind? H ...
• The Big Awakening Conference 2011
  Click here for more information …
• Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...
  “Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators travel ...
• Truthjuice Gathering 2011
                                                       SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...
• Announcing “This Is Disclosure” co ...
  After the success of the 2nd Annual Leeds Exopolitics Expo in August 2010 the organisers of the UKs only UFO Disclosure & Exopolitics conference announced in September 2010 that the next conference was going to be bigger and better! 2011 sees us bring the global attention on UFO Disclosure and ...

The Economic Collapse

• A Glimmer Of Hope
  If you want to feel better about America, just spend some time in some of the really great small towns and rural communities that are scattered across this country.  Over the past several days, that is exactly what I had the privilege to do.  I have often written about how the " ...
• Stock Prices Have Fallen For Six Weeks In A Row
  Well, it's official.  U.S. stock prices have fallen for six weeks in a row.  So will next week make it seven?  The last time stocks declined for seven weeks in a row was back in May 2001 when the "dot-com" bubble was bursting.  At this point, the Dow has declined by approximatel ...
• 18 Signs The Collapse Of Society Is Accelerating
  As the U.S. economy collapses, the thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted is going to begin to disappear.  In fact, there are already an increasing number of signs that the collapse of society is accelerating.  In cities such as Chicago, roving packs of young p ...
• The Coming Economic Hell For American Families
  Tens of millions of American families are about to go through economic hell and most of them don't even realize it. Most Americans don't spend a whole lot of time thinking about things like "monetary policy" or "economic cycles".  The vast majority of people just want to be able ...
• 10 Tipping Points Which Could Potentially Plun ...
  The global economy has become so incredibly unstable at this point that it is not going to take much to plunge the world into a horrific economic nightmare.  The foundations of the world economic system are so decayed and so corrupted that even a stiff breeze could potentially t ...

CASSE

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

The Talking Clock

• The state of play: Britain today
  Banks were bailed out with trillions, countries have been bailed out all over the place with billions, we pay billions to be part of the European Union that we all loathe and want no part of, we donate billions in international aid to countries with space programs and their own armies, we're spe ...
• Greek Bid to Jail Banksters for "financial ter ...
  Alex Jones chats with Max Keiser who is with a Greek Parliamentarian and specialist economic lawyer, talking about efforts to jail the globalist banksters for crimes against the Greek nation state and her people:
• Paying 22.9% to borrow your OWN money? Why don ...
  So, I have to confess... I have a credit card. With a debt amount outstanding on it. Save the lectures - I know all about it. ...but at least I didn't stage the Olympics and build a few new stadiums acquiring my debt. Now, I am quite certain that the amount the bank claims is 'debt' is ...
• Protesters claim agent provocateurs used as th ...
  As ever these days, we turn for coverage of things that matter to the PEOPLE of European NATIONS; not to the EU-complicit BBC... but to a Russian news broadcaster. Here's the latest on the never ending, always descending Greek tragedy from RT: Getting back on form, it seems, UKIP's leade ...
• Quote of the Day: 15th June 2011
  "We have absolutely no business complying with any demand of the European Parliament. They have no status whatsoever." - Bill Cash MP ...couldn't agree more. And as we keep on saying, under our constitution of England, every single signature on every single European Union piece of legis ...

Facing South

• INSTITUTE INDEX: The formaldehyde follies
  Date on which the Department of Health and Human Services released a report classifying formaldehyde -- a chemical used in the manufacture of consumer goods including carpeting, plywood, personal care products and pharmaceuticals -- as "a known carcinogen": 6/10/2011 Year in which the Environ ...
• GOP donor put on board of NC foundation his gr ...
  When North Carolina Democrats appointed board members of the Golden LEAF Foundation -- a state-charted philanthropy giving out money from the state's tobacco settlement -- conservatives lashed out at the foundation for being a "web of political cronyism" with a board "packed with generous campai ...
• Anti-union Southern companies tolerate -- and ...
  By Joe Atkins, Labor South The latest Labor South Roundup shows that Southern companies remain at the forefront of anti-labor activity in the United States even when at least one is willing -- if forced -- to tolerate unions abroad. First and foremost, of course, is Arkansas-based ...
• Feinberg has received BP cleanup illness claim ...
  By Ada McMahon, Bridge the Gulf "Feinberg says no claims filed on cleanup illnesses" ran an erroneous Associated Press headline last week, stirring up more mistrust of the BP claims process among Gulf Coast residents. It is simply not true that sick cleanup workers have not filed medical cla ...
• U.S. trade policy undercuts Obama's jobs push
  President Obama pledged to create new jobs during a visit yesterday to a high-tech lighting manufacturer in North Carolina, but the destruction of jobs unfolding at another lighting plant next door in Tennessee illustrates how U.S. trade policy is complicating those efforts. Obama met ...

CenterLine

• Today’s Terrorism News
  In Association with The Soufan Group Zawahiri Succeeds Bin Laden Ayman al-Zawahiri has succeeded Osama bin Laden as the leader of al Qaeda, according to a statement posted on a Web site affiliated with the group. The statement said that … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  In Association with The Soufan Group Pakistan Arrests CIA Informants Who Helped with bin Laden Search Pakistanâs top military spy agency has arrested some of the Pakistani informants who helped the CIA locate Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, according to … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  In Association with The Soufan Group New CIA Drone Campaign Planned for Yemen The CIA plans to launch an armed drone campaign against militants in Yemen, according to news first reported by the Wall Street Journal. For the past 18 … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  In Association with The Soufan Group Mastermind of U.S. Embassy Bombings Killed in Somalia Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, al Qaedaâs leader in East Africa and the alleged architect of the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, was killed … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Mixed Verdict in Chicago Terrorism Trial After two days of deliberation, a Chicago jury found Tahawwur Rana guilty of supporting a thwarted attack on a Danish newspaper and of providing support to the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-i-Taiba, but not guilty … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

• Mercury likely pummelled in its youth
  The innermost planet probably lost its outer layers in a youthful brawl, suggest new observations from NASA's Messenger probe
• Today on New Scientist: 16 June 2011
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: Neutrinos caught "shape shifting", breeding with Neanderthals, and the Festival of the Spoken Nerd
• Good news: The magnificent Arabian oryx is back
  The last wild Arabian oryx was killed in the 1970s – but following a successful reintroduction project the wild population now numbers around 1000
• New ice age? Don't count on it
  A host of media outlets are claiming that the sun is about to stall and plunge us into a new ice age, but it won't
• Today on New Scientist: 15 June 2011
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: DNA testing divides American Indians, ketamine kills bladder cells, and colourful kite photography

Tech Drive In

• TermKit is Terminal Reimagined, Install TermKi ...
  TermKit by Steven Wittens is a refreshingly beautiful graphic replacement for terminal. If you are wondering, TermKit is not a flashy GUI for Terminal, instead its very much a command line based system made on top of WebKit, the rendering engine used in web browsers like Google Chrome and Chromi ...
• 5 Useful Compiz Tweaks for Ubuntu 11.04 Natty ...
  I have been a Compiz fan ever since I started using Linux. Compiz is also a very integral part of Ubuntu, more so with the introduction of new Unity desktop for Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal. There are many Compiz effects that are not enabled by default and some of them are really good IMO. Useful ...
• How to Hide Mounted Drives from Ubuntu 11.04 D ...
  I want my desktop to be clean and simple, I don't like it look cluttered, especially since I have Unity launcher at my disposal with easy access to favorite applications and 'places'. In Ubuntu, when you mount a drive, it will be shown in your desktop by default. I don't like it that way and thi ...
• Howto Fix Ubuntu 11.04 Won't Boot After Restar ...
  Recently, I had to install Ubuntu 11.04 in a Core 2 Duo Lenovo laptop with Intel Mobile 4 Series Chipset. I had previously installed Ubuntu 10.10 in it and it worked flawlessly. But that was not the case when I installed the latest Ubuntu. Though installation went smooth, Ubuntu 11.04 just won't ...
• How to Remove Lenses from Ubuntu 11.04 Unity L ...
  We have already discussed in length about Lenses, one of the key new feature brought about by Ubuntu's new Unity desktop. Lenses for 'Applications' and 'Files & Folders' are default in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal and then there are these awesome, still-in-development Lenses that you can install a ...

Case About Bird Flu

• GREEK PEOPLE AND PARLIAMENT SCORE HISTORICAL V ...
  The Persian king who marched in 490BC on Athens with a massive army of 200,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry couldn’t believe his luck. There were only 10,000 Hoplites defending the Greek city state and its treasures on foot. The archers were ordered to soften up the Hoplites. But arrows had hardl ...
• BBC journalist makes astonishing admission tha ...
  From: Greek state starting to lose grip on functions of state, by Paul Mason, BBC “This is my third blog post in 24 hours from here, and at the risk of repeating myself, I think the level of mismatch between perception and reality within the Eurozone is worrying. Because last year’s protests wer ...
• Key MEPs back Goldman Sachs banker Draghi for ...
  ANDREW WILLIS EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – Members of the European Parliament’s economic and monetary affairs committee have backed Italian central bank governor Mario Draghi to take over the reins at the European Central Bank this November when outgoing president Jean-Claude Trichet is due to step d ...
• Ireland opens up new flank in battle with ECB ...
  Ireland Opens New Front as ECB Battles to Avert Another Meltdown Thursday, June 16, 2011 June 16 (Bloomberg) — Ireland opened a new front in the drive to restructure debt on the euro area’s periphery, adding to the European Central Bank’s concerns …. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/arti ...
• Germans stand up to ECB Taliban, reports Irish ...
  The Irish Times – Thursday, June 16, 2011 Greek row makes ECB the Taliban of banking for Germany Derek Scally The ECB is making life difficult for Germany â the state which ensured its independence, writes DEREK SCALLY in Berlin THESE ARE interesting times for Berlinâs relationship with the Eur ...

Invisible Opportunity

• A World of Delusion on a Ball of Confusion
  by Les Visible The cosmos wants the motivations and conditions of our times expressed in dramas that showcase them, because the cosmos brought The Apocalypse. Both sides of human consciousness; self interest and ‘enlightened’ self interest are presented in acts that reveal what initiates and car ...
• Video – This kinetic sculpture lives!
• China Wants To Construct A 50 Square Mile Self ...
  By wmw_admin on June 10, 2011 The End of the American Dream – June 8, 2011 Thanks to the trillions of dollars that the Chinese have made flooding our shores with cheap products, China is now in a position of tremendous economic power. So what is China going to do with all of that money? [...]
• Stealth Vaccine Laws Allow Children to Consent ...
  by: Alan Phillips, J.D. (NaturalNews) A current California bill, AB 499, would “allow a minor who is 12 years of age or older to consent to medical care related to the prevention of a sexually transmitted disease.”[1] That is, children as young as 12 will be able to get a Gardasil or other STD v ...
• Pravda and Isvestia Are Alive and Well in the USA
  By Servando Gonzalez Pravda (truth) and Isveztia (news) were the two main official newspapers in the Soviet Union. But the Russians were totally aware that, as the joke said, the Truth carried no News and the News had no Truth. Actually, they systematically distrusted anything published in the o ...

Veterans Today

• Obama’s Libya Defense Makes Bush’s ...
  The arguments made to "legalize" war, torture, warrantless spying, and other crimes by John Yoo and Jay Bybee and their gang are looking rational, well-reasoned, and impeccably researched in comparison with Obama's latest "legalization" of the Libya War.
• People are Vying for Another Quaid-e-Azam
  Till 9/11, Pakistan was a fairly stable and prosperous country but its complexion changed once Gen Musharraf opted to align Pakistan with USA and become its coalition partner.
• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...
  ARINC Engineering Services, LLC, Annapolis, Md. (N61331-11-D-0011); Falcon Fabrication, Inc., Lacey's Spring, Ala. (N61331-11-D-0012); and L-3 Services, Inc., Mount Laurel, N.J. (N61331-11-D-0013), are each being awarded firm-fixed-price
• Face of Defense: Air Force Officer Seeks New C ...
  After completing his reserve officers' training and earning a bachelor and master of science in aerospace engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Air Force 1st Lt. Ryan Castonia could well have gone on to a career as an engineer in the Air Force.
• How Washington Manipulates Economic Data. Tric ...
  Washington likes to remind critics that Americans enjoy the highest living standard in the world. As evidence of this, government “experts” discuss statistics such as GDP growth, employment, wealth, income and wage growth, and other economic data without defining exactly what they are referring ...

electric politics

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

PR News

• Washington transit launches MetroForward campaign
  WASHINGTON: The DC transit authority launched its new MetroForward PR campaign today to raise customer awareness about its $5 billion capital program.
• Gorilla Logic selects Catapult as AOR
  BOULDER, CO: Gorilla Logic, developer of customized enterprise technology application services, recently selected Catapult PR-IR as AOR.
• Despite ad spend slowdown, PR spend outlook strong
  NEW YORK: Interpublic's Magna Global unit downgraded its outlook for US ad spending this year to 2.9% from an initial forecast of 3.1%.
• Mould resigns suddenly as SVP of comms at TVA
  KNOXVILLE, TN: David Mould abruptly resigned as SVP of communications for The Tennessee Valley Authority, a US government-owned corporation that provides electricity to large parts of the Southeast.
• Saha leaves Downing Street for H&K director post
  LONDON: Hill & Knowlton has hired Rishi Saha, former head of digital communications at 10 Downing Street, as regional director for Australia, the Middle East, Africa, and South and Central Asia.

The Story Behind the Story

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

k2p blog

• Rio Tinto wins battle for Riversdale coal as m ...
  Tata Steel accepts Rio Tinto offer of over 1 billion Australian dollars for its 26.27% holding in Riversdale Mining.
• Now IPCC becomes just a lobby for Greenpeace!
  There seems to be an incestuous relationship between the IPCC and a number of advocacy groups with the parties lobbying for each other. In the latest episode the IPCC has become the vehicle for publishing conclusions from a Greenpeace advocacy report on renewables.
• “Only way out of the Eurocrisis is for G ...
  The only way out of the euro crisis is with Greece's exit from EMU, says Dagen Industi’s expert panel. But only after a lengthy process with more emergency loans to avoid the risk of a new financial meltdown a la Lehman Brothers in 2008.
• An inconvenient solar minimum..
  Solar science and the possibility that a Maunder-like Minimum may be approaching seems to have caught the fancy of the MSM.
• Gaddafi gets tickets for the Olympics
  The Libyan regime has successfully requested close to 1,000 tickets to events at the London Olympics.

Left Foot Forward

• Lucas: Drug addiction should be a health issue ...
  Green Party leader Caroline Lucas sets out her calls for a new approach to dealing with drugs, and says drug addiction should be a health issue not a criminal one.
• DEFRA’s B-team face another defeat
  Holding the government to account and exposing bad policies is what opposition is about; poor Gavin Shuker MP has to do this for DEFRA, so never has a quiet day.
• Civil justice “reforms” mean corpo ...
  Class action lawsuits against multinational companies may not be viable in future because of the government’s misconceived reforms of the civil justice system.
• Two women a week die from domestic violence; l ...
  Jonny Mulligan of the Sound off for Justice campaign writes about the disastrous consequences of justice secretary Ken Clarke's cuts to legal aid.
• Shocking news from the high street
  Retail sales fell by 1.4% in May according to Office of National Statistics figures released today, more than reversing the 1.1% increase in April, writes ippr's Tony Dolphin.

Consumerist

• TWC Ends Chat When You Ask Them To Honor To On ...
  In New York City you are entitled to a free month of service if the cable guy doesn't show up on time. It's part of the franchise agreement the cable companies have with the city. But here's a chat transcript showing what happens when a informed consumer tries to claim their credit from Time Wa ...
• US Airways Pilot Arrests Passenger For Having ...
  An entire US Airways flight was evacuated and the pilot placed a passenger under citizen's arrest after he refused to pull up his baggy pants, reports NBC Bay Area. According to his mother, her son initially refused, saying that his hands were full. His mother says he then went to his seat whe ...
• Chase Says No To Credit Increase On One Card B ...
  The inner workings of Chase's credit card business have Consumerist reader Jon scratching his head. After being turned down for small limit increase on one credit card, the bank goes ahead and nearly doubles the credit limit on a second card with an already higher limit. Jon actually has three ...
• Bananas Foster Inferno Possibly Started By Ina ...
  An update on that flaming banana desert that engulfed a customer in flame story from earlier in the week: according to witnesses the waiter poured the alcohol on using the whole bottle instead of using a ladle. The flames then shot back up into the bottle and caused the "explosion of fire." The ...
• AT&T Tells Me I Can't Cancel Without Penalty, ...
  Jack thought he was getting a good deal when he signed up for $15/month DSL service from AT&T seven months ago. But in the short time since, he's experienced a full month's worth of outages and has quickly tired of constantly dealing with AT&T's tech support (or lack thereof). Luckily, Jack rea ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

• Why the Republican War on Workers’ Rights Unde ...
  The battle has resumed in Wisconsin. The state supreme court has allowed Governor Scott Walker to strip bargaining rights from state workers. Meanwhile, governors and legislators in New Hampshire and Missouri are attacking private unions, seeking to make the states so-called “open shop” where wo ...
• March on Washington
  Supporters of Made in the USA jobs should organize a massive Labor Day march on Washington as the 2012 campaign begins in earnest. Let’s take back Amer ica from the futility of punishing joblessness. Let’s begin with a million men coming to Washington, alongside a million women, waving millions ...
• EU Corporate Social Media in 2011: “Mixed and ...
  LONDON: The 6th annual Social Media Influence 2011 programme in London Tuesday was notable for organisers bringing top international brands to the dais and stunning verbal missteps. It has been quite a year since their 2010 edition. Major corporations seemed stymied at the pace of market develop ...
• We Get the Media We Want
  “The media” is our favorite whipping boy. It’s shallow, petty and often stupid. It misses points, focuses on the wrong things, and completely ignores the bigger issues. It’s prone to obsess on trivial rivalries and scandals instead of thoughtful substantive discussions about things which affect ...
• The Swamp of Washington and the Morass of the ...
  Washington was built on a swamp. In the summer, temperatures can reach over 100 degrees — as they did over the last few days when I made the rounds of Washington Democrats, repeatedly asking why no bold jobs plan is emerging. Here’s a sample of their responses: “Dead in the water. We’ll be lucky ...

NewsAlert

• Wall Street Braces for New Layoffs as Profits Wane
  The New York Times
• Obama: Weiner Will ‘Bounce Back’
• Rand Paul: Obama’s unconstitutional Libyan war
  Rand Paul in the Washington Times.
• Mom Files Complaint After Daughters Given Oral ...
• Rick Perry is not the second coming of Bush
  The PJ Tatler

JoNova

• Greenpeace-gate breaks and the IPCC is busted. ...
  What were they thinking? Greenpeace and the IPCC are both bleeding credibility over this one. The silly thing is, if they weren’t so arrogant, they could have hidden this so easily. The obvious conclusion is they are not even trying. Steve McIntyre discovered that a lead-author on an IPCC report ...
• Mark the moment! The first renegade science co ...
  Apart from conferences organized by the Heartland Foundation I don’t recall a skeptic dominated professional conference or science association convention. Skeptics have spoken at many conferences before, but this time the skeptical speakers vastly outnumbered the fans of the IPCC, ten to one. Th ...
• Climate helped drive Vikings from Greenland
  For the first time temperatures over the last 5,600 years have been reassembled from the inhabited area of Greenland. (Other estimates were from ice-cores that are far inland.) William DâAndrea, the paperâs first author says: â.. we can say there is a definite cooling trend in the region right b ...
• Killing people with “concern”? Bio ...
  The precautionary principle is exposed again for the insidious mindless posturing that it is. Biofuel policies push more people into poverty as food prices rise and the poor are forced to spend more of their income on food. In a study  published in  Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, I ...
• Killing people with “concern”? Biofuels lead t ...
  The precautionary principle is exposed again for the insidious mindless posturing that it is. Biofuel policies push more people into poverty as food prices rise and the poor are forced to spend more of their income on food. In a study  published in  Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, I ...

ReNew America

• Obama's SecDef nominee linked to Cold War supp ...
  (WorldNetDaily) - CIA Director Leon Panetta, President Obama's nominee to serve as secretary of defense, has come under newfound scrutiny for his ties to a pro-Marxist think tank accused of anti-CIA activity. The Institute for Policy Studies, or IPS, has long faced criticism for positions some s ...
• Weiner set to step down
  (New York Post) - Randy Rep. Anthony Weiner has finally decided to step down from his congressional seat, sources told The Post. He has informed House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi and other key party leaders of his decision, the sources said. Weiner called Pelosi and Rep. Steve Israel, who hea ...
• N.Y. state assembly OKs same-sex marriage
  (New York Post) - Divided Senate Republicans came under new pressure to vote on gay marriage yesterday after Democrats unexpectedly pushed the measure through the state Assembly, bringing it one step closer to becoming law...
• Get rid of government--but first make me presi ...
  (Ann Coulter) - I consider all Republican debates time-fillers until New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie jumps in, but Monday night's debate did crystallize for me why I dislike libertarians. (Except one, who is a friend of mine and not crazy)...
• The King hearings, round 2: jailhouse Muslim r ...
  (Human Events) - Even without the intense media circus that surrounded the first hearings on the radicalization of Muslims in America, the second round of "King Hearings" had just as much drama and hyperbole, and as many compelling testimonials...

Truth Offering

• Truth Offering Podcast with Matt Gordon - Feb. ...
  Good friend of TruthOffering.com and �ber (yeah, I said "�ber!) talented musician, Chris Phenom, is back to chat with Matt Gordon. �This week's topics range from WikiLeaks, peak oil, and Agenda 21, to genetically modified foods, geoengineering (chemtrails), Libertarianism, and the question of th ...
• Original Music Created for TruthOffering.com b ...
  Talented singer and musician Chris Phenom has created two tracks for TruthOffering.com, and we want to share them with you. Chris's tracks feature some amazing lyrics that relate directly to what we're trying to get at here at TruthOffering.com: the Truth! Listen to what he has to say, and check ...
• Did J.P. Morgan Sink the Titanic!?
  1st Row: JP Morgan, Joseph Bruce Ismay, John Jacob Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim. 2nd Row: The Federal Reserve and the TitanicAs youngsters, we're all told the infamous story of the Titanic, the supposedly indestructible ship that sunk on its maiden voyage. We're all familiar with the story: the ...
• Our Diet Is Killing Our DNA!
  Few people are aware of this simple fact: what you eat directly impacts your DNA. This likely seems like a strange new concept to most, considering we're all brought up with such an incorrect understanding of human health and wellness. Five years back, I was no different -- well, I always cared ...
• Chemtrails: Scars in the Sky
  Geoengineering is a relatively new idea to the world. According to�Wikipedia,�"The modern concept of�geoengineering�(or�climate engineering) is usually taken to mean proposals to deliberately manipulate the�Earth's�climate�to counteract the effects of�global warming�from�greenhouse gas�emissions ...

2012 Blog

• Solar Cycle 25 Will Be Quiet
  As I have said before, once scientists have made predictions ahead of time, and then consequently got them right, for a few cycles in a row, then we might trust their forecasts. So far that hasn’t looked like happening, so take these new predictions with a grain of salt: Three different measurem ...
• 6.6M Earthquake in Papua New Guinea
  This is the first 6.5+ earthquake in 30 days, highlighting how the average of every 6 days doesn’t mean they will be evenly spaced, they can occur in bunches, or be absent for quite some time. The U.S. Geological Survey says a 6.6-magnitude quake struck Thursday just off the island of New Britai ...
• Vivos: Budget Bunker Space in Nebraska
  The Vivos mega-bunker in Nebraska was already going to house up to 250 strangers together for as along as a year, at a price of $25,000 each. Presumably sales are slower than expected, as they have now released a budget offering. For just $9,950 you get a bed in a shared room, with curtains sepa ...
• Harold Camping / Christchurch Quake
  Sad news today – 89-year-old Harold Camping the failed doomsday prophet, has suffered a mild stroke. He is recovering but not making any radio broadcasts, the future of which are unknown. More heartache for Christchurch folk, with a 6.0 earthquake causing more damage but thankfully no fatalities ...
• Central Lunar Eclipse in 5 Days
  Obviously the Earth is much bigger than the Moon, so a lunar eclipse doesn’t require a precise alignment. When the moon passes in front of the center of the Earth’s shadow, it is called a central total lunar eclipse. The last of these was on August 28 2007, the one of interest to us is [...] R ...

Facing South

• INSTITUTE INDEX: The formaldehyde follies
  Date on which the Department of Health and Human Services released a report classifying formaldehyde -- a chemical used in the manufacture of consumer goods including carpeting, plywood, personal care products and pharmaceuticals -- as "a known carcinogen": 6/10/2011 Year in which the Environ ...
• GOP donor put on board of NC foundation his gr ...
  When North Carolina Democrats appointed board members of the Golden LEAF Foundation -- a state-charted philanthropy giving out money from the state's tobacco settlement -- conservatives lashed out at the foundation for being a "web of political cronyism" with a board "packed with generous campai ...
• Anti-union Southern companies tolerate -- and ...
  By Joe Atkins, Labor South The latest Labor South Roundup shows that Southern companies remain at the forefront of anti-labor activity in the United States even when at least one is willing -- if forced -- to tolerate unions abroad. First and foremost, of course, is Arkansas-based ...
• Feinberg has received BP cleanup illness claim ...
  By Ada McMahon, Bridge the Gulf "Feinberg says no claims filed on cleanup illnesses" ran an erroneous Associated Press headline last week, stirring up more mistrust of the BP claims process among Gulf Coast residents. It is simply not true that sick cleanup workers have not filed medical cla ...
• U.S. trade policy undercuts Obama's jobs push
  President Obama pledged to create new jobs during a visit yesterday to a high-tech lighting manufacturer in North Carolina, but the destruction of jobs unfolding at another lighting plant next door in Tennessee illustrates how U.S. trade policy is complicating those efforts. Obama met ...

One News Page

• New York airport geese to be cooked for the poor
• 'Barefoot bandit' is back, to plead guilty
  The 20-year-old Washington state man who gained fame last year as the 'Barefoot Bandit' was expected to plead guilty to criminal charges stemming from his 2-year run from the law in stolen boats, cars and planes, federal officials said Thursday.
• Miley Cyrus back with Liam Hemsworth
  Cyrus, 18, began dating Hemsworth in late 2009 when they co-starred in 'The Last Song'.
• Megan Fox - Megan Fox May Renew Wedding Vows
  Megan Fox is thinking about renewing her wedding vows with husband Brian Austin Green. The screen beauty tied the knot with the actor at the Four Seasons Resort on the Big Island of Hawaii in June 2010, and even though the ceremony only happened a yea...
• Megan Fox, Brian Austin Green to renew vows?
  Megan Fox hints that she and husband Brian Austin Green may renew their wedding vows in Hawaii.

Global Research TV

• Solar Roadways: The Prototype
• War on Libya: Eyewitness Report
• Big Bad Bank: Investigating the U.S. Federal R ...
• Obama Rolls Back Miranda Rights
• Mladic Arrest Will Not Open EU Doors to Serbia

Daily Tech

• LulzSec Leaks Personal Emails of 62,000 People ...
  Facebook, Gmail, and Twitter pages defaced as mob mentality rules
• RIM Ships 500K Playbooks During Fiscal Q2, Wil ...
  RIM stock plummets in after hours trading after it reports fiscal Q2 earnings
• IBM Celebrates 100 Years in Business, Legacy o ...
  Company today is stronger and more profitable than ever
• Lenovo Preparing Two Android Tablets for Summe ...
  Windows tablet coming later this year
• Airline Industry One Step Closer to Cleaner Bi ...
  Final specification for biofuel could be here this summer

Oriental Review

• No Limits When Spooks Have a Brawl
  A war of words has erupted between CIA and ISI. The CIA fired the first shot by giving an exclusive story to NYT that ISI has picked up the US agency’s Pakistani informers who tipped off the location of Osama bin Laden’s villa in Abbottabad. Then in the typical style spy agencies plant stories, ...
• Iran is too important for Moscow…
  Recently Iranian Revolutionary Guards posted a text on their website in favor of the country’s conducting a nuclear weapon test, the quintessential idea being that it would give the nation a renewed sense of might and dignity. While Tehran continues to deny that its nuclear program has a militar ...
• The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation`s Impact ...
  On June 15th the Shanghai Cooperation organisation will have its Summit meeting in Astana marking the 10th Anniversary of its founding.This organisation that brings together the two major powers of the region – China and Russia – had its origin in a Chinese initiative to enhance cooperation betw ...
• Fascist Historical Myth Reanimated
  There is no shortage of arguments to challenge the groundless and deeply unfair claim that the USSR and the fascist Germany were equally responsible for the outbreak of World War II. Even a sketchy juxtaposition of Berlin’s and Moscow’s pre-war military plans highlights the fundamental differenc ...
• Let’s Have a Warm Gesture, Mr. Gates!
  When the Soviet Union collapsed, there was great glee in the “West” especially in America. “We won” they shouted as if their team had won the World Cup. Capitalism, in the struggle against Communism, had carried the day. Khrushchev had the right slogan when he said the Americans, “we will smothe ...

BlogHer

• Is the NEA and WWE’s Anti-Bullying Campaign a ...
  (Editor's Note: Internationally recognized author and educator Rosalind Wiseman plays devil's advocate when taking a look at a new anti-bullying program that encourages people to treat others with respect. Might it be a tad hypocritical for the WWE well-known for over-the-top, to get involved w ...
• Orgasm Meditation: Practicing Sensory Awareness
  "In just fifteen minutes every woman can become orgasmic," the PDF promised. It was part of a press kit for a new book about sex called Slow Sex: The Art and Craft of the Female Orgasm by Nicole Daedone. That the PDF told me all kinds of other things about the book, its philosophy and practice ...
• Terry McMillan: Why I Write
  When I was a little girl, I used to sit upstairs and look out my bedroom window for so long that the field was transformed into a giant playground. It was filled with modern and brand-new monkey bars, tall swings, sliding boards, see-saws -� you name it. My street wasn�t hard-packed dirt, it ...
• So You Think You Can Dance Recap: The Top 20 g ...
  SYTYCD is the reality show that has really "got talent", and when they say "This will be the best season yet", every year it seems actually true. But that can actually be problematic. Just like this season's American Idol...where every contestant was pretty solid, but no one was AMAZING, this y ...
• Lady Gaga Serves as Dov's Anti-Gay Marriage Ar ...
  [Editor's Note: Let me just say, I'm grateful that Allie threw her clever voice in the ring on this one because I was just plain stunned silent on this nonsense. --Morgan]Lady Gaga has taken center stage in the battle for the legalization of gay marriage in New York.She is gathering support fo ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• CNN Disinfo: Refuses to Use OWN Poll – R ...
  CNN presented Monday night’s GOP debate held in Manchester, New Hampshire. Republican candidates included Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Hermain Cain, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul. Candidates discussed government’s role in society, ...
• Life Expectancy of Women Dropping In US Regions
  “Nationwide, women fare more poorly than men. The researchers found that women in 1,373 counties â about 40% of US counties â fell more than five years behind the nations with the best life expectancies. ...
• FDA Skirts Legal Challenge – Eliminates ...
  FDA purports public health when it cracks down on the likes of Amish Farmer Dan Allgyer for transferring raw milk over state lines for a buying club. But since it’s legal to drink raw milk ...
• Protesters Destroy GM Belgium Field Trial
  Belgian Field Liberation Movement (FLM) announced a peaceful protest to publicly remove GM potatoes and replant non-GM blight resistant potatoes. Police were waiting in advance but couldn’t contain the several hundred, diverse group who arrived, climbed ...
• Farmageddon: New Food Freedom Documentary Debut
  Kristin Canty started out like any mom, who educated herself on the best diet and healing path of her children. She knew she would have to do something about the alarming amount of small farm ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Still no criminal charges in Crandall Canyon D ...
  Our friend Howard Berkes over at NPR has a story out today reminding us that there have been no criminal charges filed to date in the August 2007 Crandall Canyon Mine disaster: Four years after nine coal miners and mine rescuers died underground in the Crandall Canyon mine in Utah, federal prose ...
• UMWA releases some contract details
  This just in from the United Mine Workers of America: The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) today released highlights of the tentative agreement reached earlier this week with the Bituminous Coal Operators Association (BCOA). The tentative agreement, which would be effective from July 1, 201 ...
• Judge to set hearing on whether to hold Massey ...
  Yesterday, Kanawha Circuit Judge James C. Stucky issued what could be the beginning of a major development in the cases against former members of Massey Energy’s board of directors. Judge Stucky ruled that stockholder groups who sued the board members have made a “prima facie” case that the defe ...
• Arch completes ICG deal, announces team
  Arch Coal Inc. announced this morning that it has completed its acquisition of International Coal Group, and Arch CEO Steve Leer said: We are pleased with the swift and successful completion of the ICG transaction, which will add tremendous value for Arch’s stakeholders in the coming years. This ...
• Ignoring inconvenient facts on AEP announcement
  Gazette photo by Lawrence Pierce The Gazette’s late publisher, Ned Chilton, was know for his criticism of what he called West Virginia’s “insipid press,” local newspapers that didn’t question the actions of local politicians and powerful institutions. I’ve thought of this as I’ve read through th ...

Daniel Miessler

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

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

• Wake’N'Bake 101: Hegemony
  WWH – It’s probably not inaccurate to describe/understand the behavior of the State of Israel towards the Palestinian Arabs as a unique species of ‘ethnic cleansing.’ It is unique in that an ethnic “minority” is endeavoring to expunge, not merely–as with S.African apartheid–to ‘contain,’ a poten ...
• longest lunar eclipse in more than a decade tu ...
  SYDNEY—The longest lunar eclipse in more than a decade turned the moon blood red on Thursday, yielding a rare visual treat for stargazers across a large swathe of the planet from Asia to Europe. The first eclipse of the year—when the Earth casts its shadow over the moon—was seen in parts of Euro ...
• President launches $5 raffle for private lunch ...
  Obama rewarded party donors with ‘key jobs in government and millions of dollars in contracts’ | Daily Mail President Obama faced fresh controversy today after it emerged that he rewarded rich supporters who donated cash to his election campaign with influential jobs in government. Obama had pre ...
• Pittsburgh in the 60′s: Why ask why?
  But I’m going to ask anyway! Why have we settled for mediocre at best, selfish, greedy, egotistical jackasses at worst for almost everyone in ALL of the major areas of our daily lives? From local to federal and everything in between we have come to expect it as the norm. It’s not. It didn’t used ...
• David Tyree Is An Idiot
  Super Bowl hero warns of ‘anarchy’ if NY approves gay marriage | CNN Former New York Giants receiver David Tyree’s celebrated catch in the closing seconds of Super Bowl XLII was pivotal to his team’s victory. Now out of football, he is trying to claim a last-minute win over another foe — same-se ...

reference frame

• Lindzen and Choi 2011: lots of improvements
  I was preparing a short climate talk and I decided it was sensible to at least mildly study the newest paper by Richard Lindzen and Yong-Sang Choi that will appear in Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences: On the observational determination of climate sensitivity and its implicatio ...
• T2K: hint of neutrino oscillations driven by t ...
  There are three light weakly interacting neutrino flavors. In fact, this figure has been measured by experiments that investigated the decay width of the Z-boson. This width is proportional to the number of the relevant neutrino species and allows you to say that there are roughly 3.01 plus ...
• Lunar eclipse
  If clouds or anything else have prevented from seeing the lunar eclipse, here is a video: Note that people could have used this event to figure out that the Earth was round. You may see the ratio radius(Earth)/radius(Moon) either from the curvature of the boundary of shadow, or f ...
• Strikers should be fired
  A general strike is crippling Greece today. In principle, strike may be a legitimate tool of the employees to show or try to show that their work is more important and valuable than what the employer seems to indicate by her behavior. This claim may turn out to be right. However, this ...
• Will Solar Cycle 25 be annihilated?
  PhysOrg.com and others are writing about a talk in New Mexico where solar physicists have hypothesized that the Solar Cycle 25 will be delayed or it won't occur at all. The black region on the picture indicates the absence of activity near the Sun's poles. This activity should be ...

No Frakking Consensus

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

Tarpley

• US Naval and Troop Movements Toward North Afri ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net June 15, 2011 Washington DC – US Special Forces units based at Fort Hood, Texas, have been told to prepare for deployment to Libya no later than July, according to a US military source. The Special Forces would then be followed in September or October by hea ...
• US Naval Deployments in Mediterranean and Blac ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on the Alex Jones Show
• США и ПАКИСТАН НА ПОРОГЕ ОТКРЫТОЙ ВОЙНЫ. КИТАЙ ...
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• Gates’ Hysteria About NATO Running Out o ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV June 12, 2011 [
• US Wages Irregular War on Pakistan Beneath Nuc ...
  Moslem Brotherhood in Worldwide Alliance with CIA Against Nation-States Webster G. Tarpley on the Kevin Barrett Show The Kevin Barrett Show June 6, 2011 [download audio]

Modern Survivalism

• NSA Allies with Internet Carriers
  During the past few months, I have been increasingly troubled by a feeling of suspicion regarding the fact that there has suddenly been an excess of mainstream news reporting of cyber attacks and hacks into corporate, bank, and government sector computer networks. Something about the rash of rep ...
• Lessons from Russian History for the Prepper C ...
  Guest Post: by Brad Scenario #3: The Kosovo War (1998 – 1999) As many readers will recall (because you are not among the Sheeple who pay no attention to important events), in the mid-1990′s there was escalating violence and tension between the ethnicities and religions in Yugoslavia (for you you ...
• Lessons from Russian History for the Prepper C ...
  Guest Post: by Brad Modern Survival Blog is one of the six websites that I visit on a daily basis. The information and comments on this forum are a treasure trove of warnings, practical advice and food for thought. With respect to the latter, I was struck by the article and comments from the Jun ...
• Lessons from Russian History for the Prepper C ...
  Guest Post: by Brad Scenario #2: The Financial Crisis of 1998 The causes of the Russian financial crisis of 1998 are complex and varied. I do not purport to understand all of these factors fully, and the factors that I do understand I will not attempt to explain in detail. I will, however, attem ...
• Lessons from Russian History for the Prepper C ...
  Guest Post: by Brad Modern Survival Blog is one of the six websites that I visit on a daily basis. The information and comments on this forum are a treasure trove of warnings, practical advice and food for thought. With respect to the latter, I was struck by the article and comments from the Jun ...

Fast Company

• Google Brings Goggles To HTC's TV Ads
  Use Google Goggles to scan bands and art (not clunky codes) to download free stuff in the new HTC Sensation 4G ads, a first-of-its-kind collaboration between Deutsch L.A. and Google. Watch! If you�re aiming a slick and (so far) well reviewed new Android phone at an audience you�re calling �cult ...
• iFive: Facebook's iPad App, Spotify In U.S., S ...
  As you can see the bizarre story of Rebecca Black's "Friday" runaway viral video hit has taken another strange turn. It's been taken down not due to YouTube's strict copyright infringement rules, but by Black's command. Is there a plan to try to monetize the song? It did score nearly 170 million ...
• How Marketing May Save London's Bees
  To stop honeybees--some of the planet's most important food pollinators--from continuing to disappear at an alarming rate, London has launched a tongue-in-cheek campaign to raise awareness about the problem. It's hard to say exactly why honeybees the world over are disappearing. Evidence point ...
• Redbox Adds Video Games, Challenging Gamefly
  On Thurdsay, DVD rental giant Redbox announced that it will expand its offering to include video games at more than 21,000 of its kiosks nationwide. The new service will launch Friday, and include titles from the Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360, and Playstation 3, all for roughly $2 per day. The add ...
• What Tumblr's Success Means For The Future Of ...
  According to numbers dug up by Mashable, microblogging newcomer Tumblr has just surpassed the 20.7 million blogs hosted by WordPress--explosive growth since it only hosted around 7 million blogs as recently as January. Exponential growth like this means it's probably just the beginning of many r ...

Jadaliyya

• Jadaliyya Co-Editor Bassam Haddad on Rami Makh ...
  [From the New York Times. Jadaliyya Co-Editor was interviewed by the New York Times for there first story on the move to charity work by the Syrian Tycoon, Rami Makhlouf] � Reviled Tycoon, Assad�s Cousin, Resigns in Syria By ANTHONY SHADID BEIRUT, Lebanon � Syria�s most powerful busi ...
• Early Observations on Post-Mubarak Egypt
  Egyptian president Hosni Mubarakâs resignation, through a mix of popular revolt and military intercession, sheds light on the ongoing domestic and international challenges to democratization. On January 25 Egyptians launched the Middle Eastâs largest democratic experiment. Mubarakâs exit ...
• Democracy Now! Interview with Toby Jones on Sa ...
  This is an interview conducted with Toby C. Jones on Thursday, June 16, in regards to Saudi Arabia's counter-revolutionary role in both Bahrain and Yemen. Transcripts of the interview follow the below video. While the United States remains heavily involved in the Libya conflict, it has ...
• That Was Hama in 1982. This Is Syria in 2011
  [The below post was sent to us by an author that has asked to remain anonymous and only identified as Hamwia due to safety considerations regarding relatives in Hama and other parts of Syria.] A young man, studying medicine, was alone in his apartment. When the soldiers barged into hi ...
• Striking Back at Egyptian Workers
  Mainstream narratives of the ongoing 2011 Egyptian revolution center around a �crisis of the state.� Among the elements of the crisis were the utter failure of top-down political reform, as shown in the shamelessly rigged 2010 legislative elections; mounting corruption and repression; em ...

mediagazer

• The Devil Made Me Do It. AOL's Regrouped Adver ...
  Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch: The Devil Made Me Do It.  AOL's Regrouped Advertising.com Is A $500 Million Business  —  AOL's advertising platforms, which are grouped under the Advertising.com business, is now a $500 million business, the company revealed today at its Investor Day in New York C ...
• Vancouver Rioters Hunted On Facebook, Twitter ...
  Ryan Tate / Gawker: Vancouver Rioters Hunted On Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr  —  There's little anonymity left in rioting these days.  Thanks to cameraphones and tagging, police will be able to identify some of the Vancouver hooligans who set fires, smashed storefronts and overturned cars in S ...
• Senate Committee Votes to Make Illegal Streami ...
  Alex Ben Block / Hollywood Reporter: Senate Committee Votes to Make Illegal Streaming of Movies, TV a Felony … Moving to close a possible loophole in the laws against the pirating of movies, TV shows and other intellectual property, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved maki ...
• CBS Interactive Picks Marc DeBevoise to Overse ...
  Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter: CBS Interactive Picks Marc DeBevoise to Oversee Entertainment Sites … NEW YORK - CBS Corp.'s CBS Interactive unit has named Marc DeBevoise, who most recently worked at premium TV firm Starz where he oversaw digital strategy, distribution and content, to run i ...
• Rebecca Black Pulls Infamous 'Friday' Video Fr ...
  Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: Rebecca Black Pulls Infamous ‘Friday’ Video From YouTube  —  It's Thursday, Thursday, and Rebecca Black's memetastic “Friday” video is no longer available on YouTube, due to a copyright claim filed by Rebecca Black apparently.  It's not clear what exactly happened ...

Chemtrail News

• Link for Chemtrail petition - 12160
  script type='text/JavaScript'>var Care2P_Parameters=[ http://www.thepetitionsite .com/xml/petitions/669/543/754/feed.rss , small , single ,snardfarker.ning.com/profiles/blogs/link-for-chemtrail-petition
• Chemtrail Activity Northwest Indiana, p ...
  but you know what a chemtrail looks like-dozens of lines everywhere. It's not " chemtrail", it's CONtrail. And they've looked like that for three-quarters of ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread716306/pg1
• Omega 707 Chemtrail Plane Crashes In Ca ...
  Gloomylunatic's video about chemtrail plane crashes documentary on Disclose.tv.www.disclose.tv/.../Omega_707_chemtrail_plane_crashes_in_...
• YouTube Chemtrails and Evergreen Air In ...
  Evergreen Air In Pinal country Arizona Former Secret Chemtrail Facility Revealed, Evergreen Air ...www.youtube.com/watch?v=97CsZz-Natw
• CHEMTRAIL PLANE CRASHES Four Winds 10 f ...
  Boeing 707 crashes in Point Mugu (SCROLL DOWN) * * * * * * * A Boeing 707 plane with three people onboard crashed in Point Mugu naval air base in Ventura ...www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/.../humans/.../news.php?...

World News - Top Stories

• Consensus On Key Kashmir Points: Radha Ku ...
  Srinagar, Jun 16, KONS: A member of New Delhi’s team of interlocutors for Kashmir, Prof Radha Kumar, on Thursday claimed consensus having emerged between diverse groups “ on some key points”...
• Punjab thrashes Bihar
  Bhopal: Punjab routed Bihar 9-0 to storm into the semifinals of Hockey India's inaugural men's senior National championship here on Thursday....
• Rights commission indicted Army: Kashmir ...
  Shujaat Bukhari SRINAGAR: Independent MLA from Langate in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir Abdur Rashid Sheikh has urged Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to take a serious note of the "shocking" judgments of the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC), indicting the security forces for killin ...
• Mamata ready for maiden Delhi visit as Ch ...
  Special Correspondent KOLKATA: Mamata Banerjee is scheduled to go to New Delhi on Saturday for the first time since assuming office as Chief Minister of West Bengal on May 20....
• Lokpal Bill: both sides adopt aggressive ...
  K. Balchand Government not serious: Hazare; we must keep in mind the gap between what is desirable and what is feasible: Chidambaram...

no frakking consensus

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

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Information Underground

• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  No idea who they put on the list... Al-Qaida's Possible Hit List | NBC New York advertisement An al-Qaida-linked website has posted a potential hit list of targets that include names and photos of several U.S. officials and business leaders, calling for terrorists to target these Americans i ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  No idea who they put on the list... Al-Qaida's Possible Hit List | NBC New York advertisement An al-Qaida-linked website has posted a potential hit list of targets that include names and photos of several U.S. officials and business leaders, calling for terrorists to target these Americans i ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  I converted the book into audio...somewhat robotic but you get used to it...If you ask me, this is a pretty good explanation on how Jews create multiple cultural environments...you can apply it to all of their cultural revolutions and movements... Enjoy. http://www.spokentext.net/members/gm ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  I converted the book into audio...somewhat robotic but you get used to it...If you ask me, this is a pretty good explanation on how Jews create multiple cultural environments...you can apply it to all of their cultural revolutions and movements... Enjoy. http://www.spokentext.net/members/gm ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Statistics: Posted by Ognir — Fri Jun 17, 2011 1:33 am

TVNZ

• Japan cleanup of radioactive water hits snag
  Japan's crisis-hit nuclear power plant could spill more radioactive water into the sea within a week unless engineers can fix a glitch in a new system to clean up pools of contaminated water, officials said
• After riot, Vancouver licks its wounds
  Vancouver responded with shock and shame after their team's National Hockey League defeat ended in riots and broken glass.
• Strauss-Kahn tried to plead immunity to arrest
  Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn tried to prevent his arrest for rape allegations.
• 'Love in the riots' picture staged?
  Doubts are being raised about the spontaneity of a kiss amid the Vancouver riots.
• Gaddafi willing to hold elections says son
  Libya's Muammar Gaddafi could be willing to hold elections and step aside if he lost.

environment 360

• Species Behind Unicorn Legend Back from Brink ...
  The Arabian oryx, an antelope species with distinctive horns widely believed to be the source of the unicorn legend, has returned from the brink of extinction in the David Mallon/IUCNArabian oryx wild, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). On the group’s lates ...
• One Million Households Powered by Solar Energy ...
  The number of households powered by solar energy in Bangladesh has passed the one million mark — the fastest expansion of solar power in the world, according to Bangladeshi officials. Aided by non-governmental organizations that provide low-cost loans to install solar panels, Bangladesh’s rural ...
• The Unfulfilled Promise of the World’s Marine ...
  Biologists and conservationists maintain that establishing marine reserves — areas where fishing is off-limits or severely restricted — offers the best hope for recovery for our overstressed oceans. So why is such a small area of the world's oceans protected? BY BRUCE BARCOTT
• Largest Gulf ‘Dead Zone’ Anticipated in Wake o ...
  The Gulf of Mexico’s hypoxic zone, an oxygen-depleted area created by excessive nutrient pollution, is expected to reach record proportions this year as a result of the extreme flooding in the Mississippi River basin, Click to enlarge Nancy Rabalais LUMCON/NOAASize of the ‘dead zone,’ 1985-2011 ...
• New Microchip Technology Eliminates ‘Standby’ ...
  Researchers in Japan have developed microchip technology that eliminates energy consumption in electronic devices while in so-called “standby” mode. While most electronic devices, including televisions and personal computers, now require circuits to be powered continuously to assure instant star ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• Canadian Partnership for Children's Health & E ...
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• World Affairs Brief
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backofthebook

• The face of Vancouver’s Stanley Cup riot
  By Frank Moher Overnight, a certain Brock Anton became the face of the Vancouver Stanley Cup riot on the internet. Downtown for the abortive festivities yesterday, Mr. Anton apparently took time out from his busy schedule to post this on his Facebook page: It reads: Maced in the face, ...
• Debating Libya
  By Alison@Creekside "He simply will not last very long," Harper said of Muammar Gaddafi back in March, as Canada prepared to drop $27-million of smart money smart bombs on Libya in order to oust him. As of now Gaddafi controls most of the country, including the capital. Today Parliament ...
• Revisited: Sun TV’s Ezra problem
  With the Sun News Network lately embarked on a jihad against government funding of the arts, it might be worth remarking: at least when artists are given money, they do what they're supposed to do with it. On the other hand, we have the example of SNN costume rack Ezra ...
• On SunTV and Margie Gillis
  On June 1, 2011, SunTV broadcast an interview with veteran Canadian dancer and choreographer Margie Gillis (see link below), which quickly turned abusive towards the guest. In a message on his facebook page, Canadian dancer Louis Laberge-Côté, currently a teacher at Nationaltheatre Manheim in Ge ...
• Wikileaks on Harper, America, and the “t ...
  By Alison@Creekside An embassy cable written by US Ambassador David Wilkins the day the Cons were first elected in 2006 suggests Harper would be useful in advancing the US agenda for Canada and that giving him " a success story" like the softwood lumber deal would "shore up" his ability to st ...

Daily Beast

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

Loonwatch

• Politico.com: Today, Muslims; Tomorrow, You
  Republicans refusal to condemn anti-Muslim bigotry will long be remembered.
• Hasner: We are witnessing a ‘civilizational ji ...
  Adam Hasner, loon politician from Florida says we are at war with "Sharia Islam."
• Europeans Against Islamophobia: Taking a Stand ...
  Combating racism and anti-Muslim hatred in Europe.
• Muslim hearings recall my life in internment camp
  For Michael Honda the Muslim hearings recall his life in the internment camp.
• Peter King and “Prislam”: Round 2 ...
  King might get into the dictionary with the second hearing wasting taxpayer money.

Energy News

• FOX: Is Iodine-131 Killing Babies In Philadelp ...
  Is Iodine-131 Killing Babies In Philly?, Fox Philadelphia, June 16, 2011: ...Read More
• WSJ: 1,500 microsieverts per hour of airborne ...
  Moms Turn Activists in Japanese Crisis, Wall Street Journal by MARIKO ...Read More
• Radioactive releases “not expected&#8221 ...
  Radioactive Releases Not Expected at Omaha Nuclear Power Plant, ABC, June ...Read More
• Radiation level in Tokyo much higher than publ ...
  Radiation levels of the Japanese government spoof, 금.TV, June 16, 2011:Google ...Read More
• Units No. 1, 2, and 3 “have nuclear wast ...
  Fukushima: It’s much worse than you think, Dahr Jamail, June 16, ...Read More

Japan Times

• "MR. T's Collection: Modern Paintings and Scul ...
  "Mr. T's Collection" comprises around 300 art works that were acquired by an unnamed Kinki region-based art collector over a half-century. It includes modern and contemporary paintings, prints, sculptures and ceramics. The impressive collection, which is being shown to the public for the first ...
• Giggs presses action against tabloid
  Manchester United midfielder Ryan Giggs has become the latest celebrity to take legal action against the News of the World newspaper over alleged phone hacking. Giggs' lawyers at the law firm Schillings said Wednesday that "proceedings have been issued" by the soccer player against the Sunday ...
• Iwate makes Itakura No. 1 pick in bj-league ex ...
  Four bj-league expansion teams took small steps in laying the foundation for their inaugural 2011-12 season on Thursday as the league's annual draft was held in Tokyo. All told, 27 players were selected in the expansion, rookie and development drafts.
• "SYNTHESIS"
  "Synthesis" is conceptual artist Kohei Nawa's first large-scale solo exhibition. Recently, Nawa's work has been gaining attention both in Japan and overseas. His Sandwich studio in Kyoto, an old sandwich factory that has been renovated into an art studio, has also become well-known for producing ...
• '127 Hours'
  Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho," released in 1960, famously terrified audiences to the point where a generation was checking the door locks before taking a shower. Stephen Spielberg's "Jaws," released in the baking summer of 1975, kept many people on the beach and out of the water. Now along comes " ...

Alexander Higgins

• Arizona police officer executes man for tellin ...
  After the supreme court recently ruled you may not resist a police officer illegally entering your house without a warrant, a man tells an officer he can not enter without a warrant. The police officer responds "I don't need no warrant, mother fucker" and ends up executing the man
• FOX: Is Japan Nuclear Radiation Killing Babies ...
  FOX news is raising the red flag about a 48% spike in Philadelphia infant deaths since Philly drinking water tests showed the highest levels of Japan nuclear radiation in the nation.
• Japan Bans Research And Medical Checkups On Ra ...
  Japan bans medical checkups and scientific research on radiation affected citizens without first getting government approval.
• America Is Being Raped … Just Like Greec ...
  While American media runs propaganda saying to people in Greece are just whiners, protesting and rioting over issues we consider to be non-issues in the US, the truth is Greece is being raped by the bankers... and so is America.
• ‘Anonymous’ Warns NATO: ‘Thi ...
  The Hacker Group Anonymous warns NATO "This is no longer your world. It is our world - the people's world."

Macleans - Central

• Opening Weekend: Green Lantern, Mr. Popper&#82 ...
  A trio of Canucks in Father's Day tales—Reynolds goes green, Plummer goes gay, Carrey marches with penguins
• Afghanistan: Progress reports, in more than name
  We have paid fairly constant attention to the quarterly Afghanistan progress reports the federal government
• The daily shaming
  Charlie Angus’ two questions in QP this morning, neither of which convinced Tony Clement to
• Heckling the hecklers
  Kate Heartfield considers civility. If you really want your MP to be an amateur off-colour
• Idea alert
  The NDP’s Peter Stoffer is going to try again to ban floor crossing. “If I

Making It Count - CCPA

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

ReDress

• Will the Gaza flotilla be safe from Israel’s m ...
  Stuart Littllewood highlights the British government's willful failure to take measures to protect UK nationals intending to take part in the upcoming humanitarian flotilla to Gaza, and laments the failure of the various flotilla organizers to engage the mainstream media or even to answer emails.
• Media falsifiers: censorship by mainstream lib ...
  Paul J. Balles argues that the media lie of the moment reverberates through liberal TV channels pretending to report the news from all angles and from all points of view but in reality exercising censorship through omission and emphasis.
• Iran and the issue of nuclear weapons
  Lawrence Davidson considers the roles of Israel, the Israeli lobby in the USA and the conservative Arab Gulf rulers in creating and sustaining the fantasy of an Iranian nuclear threat, and highlights the failure - through cowardice, expediency and duplicity - of politicians who know better and t ...
• Muddle and mixed messages precede Palestinian ...
  With the date for the purported Palestinian bid for UN recognition fast approaching, Stuart Littlewood views the mixed messages emanating from the Palestinian Authority, the inept messengers and the absence of a competent and credible public relations campaign ahead of the bid.
• Breaches of international law lay behind unres ...
  While much of the Western media have ignored the recent bloodshed on the Golan Heights, the limited reports that have been released appear to misunderstand the background to the present confrontation. Richard Lightbown explains the history.

Physics Today

• Black holes have been abundant since the Big Bang
  CNN: Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have determined that at least 30 million black holes had formed before the universe was 1 billion years old, quite early in the universe's 13.7-billion-year history, writes Elizabeth Landau for CNN. Black holes are dense regions in space th ...
• Cause of this year's deadly weather events rem ...
  New York Times: This year has seen the second-highest annual total of tornadoes recorded in the US in modern times, with 875 reported in April alone. Heavy rain and snowmelt contributed to the flooding of the Mississippi River, which surpassed the historic floods of 1927 and 1937. And drier than ...
• Researchers in Japan find that neutrinos can f ...
  BBC: Researchers at Japan’s multinational T2K project say they have seen indications that neutrinos—electrically neutral elementary particles—can spontaneously change into any of their types, or flavors: electron neutrinos, muon neutrinos, or tau neutrinos, writes Jonathan Amos for the BBC. The ...
• New technique produces superlong nanowires
  Science News: Scientists have spun a multitude of high-tech materials into bundles of superfine nanowires that are more than 1000 meters long, writes Rachel Ehrenberg for Science News. Although trimming big, bulky materials down to nanosize has proven difficult in the past, Mehmet Bayindir of th ...
• NASA spacecraft captures video of asteroid
  Space.com: Launched in 2007 to study Vesta and Ceres, the two most massive members of the asteroid belt, NASA’s robotic spacecraft Dawn is already sending back scientifically significant photos of Vesta, even though the spacecraft is not scheduled to enter the second largest asteroid’s orbit unt ...

Revolutionary Politics

• Link between dangerous new pathogen and Monsanto
  by christina099 (Posted Thu, 16 Jun 2011 07:36:10 GMT) builders
• America addicted to War
  by Rev333 (Posted Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:13:09 GMT) US economy fails due to 'military arrogance'. “The US economy is collapsing morally, the society is collapsing morally and in particularly it is collapsing economically because of the huge levels of debt the huge levels of 61.2 trillion in unfund ...
• Fake Holocaust Memoirs
  by Rev333 (Posted Mon, 13 Jun 2011 23:55:39 GMT) A Schwindler's List
• News media won't report
  by katsung47 (Posted Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:34:28 GMT) Quote, "FBI expands agents’ investigative power The New York Times First published Jun 12 2011 07:40PM Updated Jun 12, 2011 11:28PM Washington • The Federal Bureau of Investigation is giving significant new powers to its roughly 14,000 ag ...
• The Fake Osama Bin Laden Image
  by katsung47 (Posted Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:27:04 GMT) Bin Laden died ten years ago. The Feds use him again for another big plot, to justify a false flag 'dirty bomb attack" for the last oil looting war - Iran war. They say they dropped Bin Laden's body into sea - because there was no body at all ...

Peakwater

• Dozens Killed In Burma Amid Clashes Over Chine ...
  “Dozens of people in northern Burma have reportedly been killed in the clashes between government troops and the Kachin Independence Army. Thousands more are trying to flee across the border after fierce fighting erupted this month around the construction sites of two Chinese-financed dams in t ...
• Nebraska Water Scientists Warn of Oil Pipeline ...
  “WASHINGTONâGreat Plains states are risking an unknown level of environmental and economic hurt if the U.S. State Department persists in routing a controversial tar sands pipeline atop the Ogallala Aquifer without further study. That is the scientific warning coming from a pair of University of ...
• The Reason For Our Water Crisis
  “The equitable allocation of shared water resources is a principle codified under customary international water law. It applies both to the underground mountain aquifers that straddle the 1967 line separating Israel from the West Bank, as well as to the coastal aquifer that runs the length of ...
• West Texas City Approves Water Use Fines
  “Faced with extreme drought, the Midland City Council approved a plan today to fine residents $500 for violating watering restrictions, the first time the city has ever enacted such restrictions. Midland will also cut allowed outdoor watering from three days a week to two starting next month. Th ...
• Mega-Dam in Peruvian Amazon Cancelled
  “The Peruvian government announced yesterday that the massive Inambari Dam, planned on a major Amazonian tributary, had been cancelled after years of strong community opposition. For the past 36 days, close to 2,000 people in the Puno area had been on strike in an effort to convince the governme ...