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Thomas Paine

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

Sunday, June 19, 2011

19 June - RSS SnapShot ! Pt I

To Do

renewable recycling conservation
Renewable energy fair sparks interest
Wisconsin Rapids Tribune
- Jun 19, 2011
- 9 hours ago
Exhibitor Connie Tisor, left, explains the features of the Sonkyo Energy power windmill to Dan Holperin on Saturday during the Midwest Renewable Energy Association Fair in Custer. / (Photos by Xai Kha/for central Wisconsin Sunday) CUSTER -- The first ...
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Wind power faces multiple hurdles
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
- Jun 19, 2011
- 9 hours ago
By 2015, he pledged, 45 percent of the state's electricity would come from renewable resources and improved efficiency. Wind power was a big part of the plan. Paterson's deadline is only four years away. Chances of making 45 percent are flickering like ...
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A Fathers Day Conversation: What Happened To Renewable Energy?
Care2.com
- Jun 19, 2011
- 1 hour ago
Ronnie: What happened to renewable energy? I thought solar, wind, and geothermal were going to make a clean sweep over the power companies and offer homeowners real energy solutions for the future. Was that just a fantasy? ...
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Renewable energy challenged
Springfield News-Leader
- Jun 19, 2011
- 10 hours ago
Today, despite predictions no less dire, advocates for such renewable, carbon-free sources of electricity are in full defense mode because of the recession and resurgent Republicans. "Five years ago the world was ending," said James Cotton, ...
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Human Habitat

ecology water energy
Deadline nears for Pasco biofuels firm
TheNewsTribune.com
- Jun 19, 2011
- 10 hours ago
Port officials have seen nothing change at the partially built biofuels plant in the Big Pasco Industrial Center since the Department of Ecology closed down the project in August. And there still is a long line of creditors claiming Green Power owes ...
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Time-Traveling Male Sea Monkeys Make Bad Mates
Wired News (blog)
- Jun 18, 2011
- Jun 18, 2011
Nicolas Rode from the Centre for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology took advantage of sea monkeys' ability to weather droughts by remaining in their eggs for years before hatching once the water returns. He gathered eggs from layers of dirt formed in ...
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PUD: Timing not right for pricey water project
The Wenatchee World Online
- Jun 15, 2011
- Jun 15, 2011
A $165000 study commissioned by the PUD and paid for by the state Department of Ecology concluded that the project would cost between $1 billion and $4 billion, and the estimated range of revenue or loss over the project's life is considered too ...
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US Movers: Aveo, Clarcor, Ecology, Korn/Ferry, Owens-Illinois
Ticker Magazine
- Jun 15, 2011
- Jun 15, 2011
Ecology and Environment, Inc. (EEI) declined 9.6% or $1.84 to $17.30 after the environmental consultation company said third quarter revenues increased 24% to $41.4 million from $33.3 million in the same quarter last year. Net income in the quarter ...
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Water Power

water floods pollution
Eight million gallons of water drained from reservoir after man urinates in it
Telegraph.co.uk
- Jun 19, 2011
- 4 hours ago
Eight million gallons of water had to be drained from a reservoir in Oregon after a man urinated in it. By Nick Allen, Los Angeles The operation is costing the state's taxpayers $36000 (£22000) and was ordered after Joshua Seater, 21, was caught on a ...
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Budget cuts may hamper flooding research
USA Today
- Jun 18, 2011
- 13 hours ago
By Elisha Page, Gannett Water covers the front lawn of a house in Dakota Dunes, SD, on Saturday. But this disaster is happening at a time when a weak economy and belt-tightening in Congress may limit the chance to do any studies. ...
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Residents wait, watch rising waters of the Missouri
Chicago Tribune
- Jun 19, 2011
- 5 minutes ago
It's about cubic feet of water. After weeks of worrying about the rising Missouri River, people are fluent in the language of flood and names like Oahe, Fort Randall and Gavins Point. Those are the dams that control what happens here and downstream ...
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Tepco Says Failure at Water Decontamination Won't Delay Nuclear Shutdown
Bloomberg
- Jun 19, 2011
- 10 hours ago
Oil and sludge in the water contained more radiation than expected, Junichi Matsumoto, a spokesman for the utility said yesterday at a press briefing. Work on a self-contained cooling system has been suspended while the company solves this problem, ...
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The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • AIPAC Pushes Hard for War With Iran
    Summary: The overarching problem is the Israel lobby’s subversion of American governance through election fraud, the evasion of tax regulations and laws regulating foreign lobbies, and the systematized, ongoing infiltration of operatives into key government posts to advance the interests of ...
  • BASIC's Paul Ingram reports from Tehran
    Summary: I’m in Tehran for BASIC in the middle of the second annual two day international conference on Disarmament and Non-proliferation laid on by IPIS, the Foreign Ministry’s think tank. I am here to present a paper today on why Iran should engage in the conference that is supposed to h ...
  • Iran Renews Strong Opposition to Discriminatio ...
    Summary: Tehran is resolved to confront discriminatory attitudes to the adoption of international treaties, a prominent member of the Iranian parliament stressed on Sunday. source: Bernamaread more
  • Seymour Hersh and Iranian Nukes: A Primer
    Summary: Seymour Hersh’s new piece in the New Yorker has generated a fair amount of buzz, so much so that Iran hawks have quickly leaped into action to try to discredit it. source: LobeLogread more
  • Military Attack on Iran Recedes, but Tensions ...
    Summary: The likelihood of a U.S. or Israeli military attack on Iran's nuclear installations seems miniscule during the remaining months of the Barack Obama administration's first term. source: IPSread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Weekend Feature: New Video Released of Mars' M ...
    Earlier this month, ESA's Mars Express performed a special manoeuvre to observe an unusual alignment of Jupiter and the martian moon Phobos. The impressive images have now been processed into a movie of this rare event. The origin of Phobos...
  • X-ray Images of Earliest Galaxies Reveals Infa ...
    Completing the deepest X-ray images ever made, NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory has detected numerous massive black holes lurking in the dusty hearts of galaxies that formed within a billion years of the big bang birth of the cosmos, astronomers announced...
  • X-ray Images of Earliest Galaxies Reveals Infa ...
    Completing the deepest X-ray images ever made, NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory has detected numerous massive black holes lurking in the dusty hearts of galaxies that formed within a billion years of the big bang birth of the cosmos, astronomers announced...
  • The Universe: "Something peculiar is going on."
    Simulations based on the standard cosmological model indicate that galaxies should be uniformly distributed. But the universe appears to be clumpier than astronomers expected, according to the largest galaxy survey ever conducted. The extra clumps could call for a redesign...
  • "Dark energy is a fiction --The appearance of ...
    Remember a little thing called the space-time continuum? Well what if the time part of the equation was literally running out? New evidence is suggesting that time is slowly disappearing from our universe, and will one day vanish completely. This...

Natural News

  • Dog registry mandate hits Atlanta: Owners of R ...
    (NaturalNews) Millions of Americans have, for years, been aware of a growing police state mentality in the U.S. If you're a dog owner in an Atlanta suburb you are especially aware of this because many of you just got singled out for, shall we say, special consideration.According to local reports ...
  • FAA declares 'no-fly' zone directly over cripp ...
    (NaturalNews) Last week, NaturalNews reported that rising Missouri River flood waters prompted officials to declare a "Notification of Unusual Event" as the Fort Calhoun Nuclear plant just outside of Omaha, Neb. (http://www.naturalnews.com/032672_nuclear_power_plant_Nebraska.html). Since that ti ...
  • Fukushima: Strontium levels up to 240 times ov ...
    (NaturalNews) Representing the first time the substance has been detected at the crippled plant, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) reported on Sunday that seawater and groundwater samples taken near the ravaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility in Japan have tested positive for rad ...
  • Philosophical Musings on the Juxtaposition of ...
    (NaturalNews) So, how did it happen? How did we all get complacent enough to accept the phrase "commercially produced food" without even blinking an eye? How did Uncle Sam, in WWII public service announcements, go from advising the US public "to garden" to later telling the post-911 US public "t ...
  • Los Angeles schools ditch corn dogs, chicken n ...
    (NaturalNews) If you've been watching Jamie Oliver's show, Food Revolution, you know he's been battling the Los Angeles School Board for months now. The show may be canceled but his efforts have proved fruitful, as the L.A. School Board has finally agreed to remove corn dogs, chicken nuggets and ...

Threat Level

  • Can Microsoft Use the DMCA to Kill Competing X ...
    Can Microsoft remotely disable third-party accessories from working with the Xbox 360 and get away with it? The Redmond, Washington software- and console-maker did just that, and claims copyright law gave it the right. At issue is Microsoft’s 2009 remote disabling of Datel memory cards, which ...
  • New Malware Steals Your Bitcoin
    In a sure sign that the virtual currency Bitcoin has hit the mainstream, a new Trojan horse program discovered in the wild Thursday seeks out and steals victims’ Bitcoin wallets, the same way other malware goes for their banking passwords or credit card numbers. The malware, Infostealer.Coinbit ...
  • Citi Credit Card Hack Bigger Than Originally D ...
    Citigroup has been forced to reveal that a recent hack of its network exposed the financial data of more than 360,000 customers, a much higher number than the bank originally disclosed.
  • Bloggers Mull Legal Action Against Righthaven
    Bloggers who paid thousands of dollars each to settle copyright-infringement allegations with Righthaven were mulling their legal options Wednesday, a day after a federal judge said the copyright troll had no legal standing to bring that kind of lawsuits. “We’re thinking seriously about what to ...
  • Lawmakers Propose Warrant Requirement for GPS Data
    Two lawmakers announced legislation Wednesday that for the first time clearly would mandate the authorities obtain a court warrant to acquire geolocational information of a suspect’s movements, a position clearly at odds with the Obama administration. The “Geolocational Privacy and Surveillance ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • God Sends a New Messenger from Texas
    As his aides head off to Iowa to assess his prospects for a run at the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, Texas Governor Rick Perry has been hinting that he may be more than just the savior of the Republican Party. After issuing his invitation to the other 49 governors for an August 6 "day of pr ...
  • You Know Mitt Romney Is Out of Touch When...
    I'm also unemployed." Of course, one feeble attempt at humor doesn't make Mitt out of touch; that takes a lifetime of experience. Here are just some of the ways you know Mitt Romney is out of touch: You know Mitt Romney is out of touch when the $250,000,000 son of an auto magnate jokes about ...
  • It's Time for Reverse Federalism on Medicaid
    If ever there was bad idea whose time never came, it is Paul Ryan's plan to slash Medicaid spending and convert what remains into a system of block grants administered by the states. The $300 billion federal-state program providing health care for millions of poor, elderly and disabled American ...
  • GOP Frets as Romney's Tough Talk on Terror Dis ...
    To be sure, Mitt Romney is the man Republican hard-liners love to hate. While anti-abortion groups and free-market fundamentalists ramp up their all-out "stop Romney" efforts, the Manchester Union Leader blasted Mitt as "high-falutin' and haughty" for acting as if had the GOP presidential nomin ...
  • Home Sweet Homes for Mitt Romney?
    Among the defining moments of the 2008 presidential campaign was John McCain's inability to remember how many homes he owned. But if that episode crystallized the image of McCain as an out of touch stooge for the gilded class, his would-be successor Mitt Romney may have his own home ownership c ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Oregon Country Fair - Culture Jam Youth Camp - ...
    Culture Jam is the Oregon Country Fair's exciting 8-day, sleep away summer youth gathering located on a parcel of land at the site we call Alice's Wonderland. ...
  • behnke | culture jamming
    Culture Jamming and Advertising Techniques. The close-up of a lipstick ... The producers of culture jamming, if we think of actors such as those from the ...
  • How to Culture Jam - wikiHow
    Culture jamming is the art of hijacking the mainstream media, corporate advertisers, and the public domain to get across a message against one-way communication. ...
  • ccit300-f06 - Culture Jamming
    Culture jamming is manipulating existing mass media and changing its original message to ... Culture jamming communicates public awareness, such as environmental and human ...
  • Culture Jamming...What is it? " Jammin' Ladies
    Culture jamming is a practice that has been around for decades; to determine it's exact ... The idea behind culture jamming is that individuals are not given the ...

Consortium News

  • America's Need for a 'Public Good'
    America's Christian churches have failed to provide moral leadership on behalf of a "public good," observes Rev. Howard Bess. May 7, 2011
  • The Curious Bush/Bin Laden Symbiosis
    George W. Bush engaged in a feckless eight-year pursuit of Osama bin Laden while using him for a political edge, says Robert Parry. May 7, 2011
  • The Anti-War Message of Mother's Day
    The first Mother's Day wasn't a sentimental celebration of moms; it was a fierce call to end the horrors of war, writes Gary G. Kohls. May 8, 2011
  • US Policy Still Misreads the Middle East
    By focusing on the how of "targeted killings," not the why of Muslim anger, U.S. runs the risk of endless war, warns Lawrence Davidson. May 9, 2011
  • Post-Bin Laden Peace Hopes Dim
    U.S. demands for an Afghan "footprint" dims hopes that Osama bin Laden's death had opened a path to peace, reports Gareth Porter. May 9, 2011

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • NRC testimony inspires fear, not confidence, i ...
    In an earlier blog we mentioned the hearings on Capitol Hill being held by the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on the implications of Japan’s nuclear accident for the United States.  Besides the concern that the nation’s nuclear safety rules had failed to consider the possibilit ...
  • Austin City Council Run-off Election Debate
    Solar Austin held a debate between Austin City Council Place 3 candidates Randi Shade and Kathy Tovo. The focus was on energy issues. Here is a brief excerpt from the debates where each candidate addresses a question about how an increase of electricity rates should be handled. The election is t ...
  • Disclosure Forms Show Texas Lawmakers Invest i ...
    Public disclosure forms released Wednesday show that Texas lawmakers have widely varying financial situations.  In an OpenSecrets blog post, Tarini Parti breaks down how many members of Congress invest in media organizations.  Parti explains that this could be a conflict of interest because ma ...
  • The Shroud of Fukushima
    According to the London Telegraph, Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) has announced that they will start construction of a shroud over the No. 1 reactor at the ill-fated Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant where a hydrogen explosion destroyed the walls and roof of the reactor building on March 12, the d ...
  • White Stallion Coal Plant Fails to Obtain Wate ...
    Today the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) Board of Directors delayed a vote on providing water to the “White Stallion” coal plant proposed for Matagorda County. Though White Stallion’s Chief Operation Officer, Randy Bird, was expecting and asking for approval of a contract today, the board ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Atlantis prepares for final shuttle mission
    After 30 years of space shuttle launches next month will see the end of an era for manned space flight. The launch of Atlantis will mark the end of th...
  • World's oldest bulb shines for 110 years
    An old light bulb first used in 1901 is still working today after being in use for over 110 years. The bulb has been a staple of fire stations in Live...
  • Man's sight restored after 55 years
    A man who was blind in one eye for 55 years can see again after surgeons reattached his retina. In a medical first the man, who lost sight in one eye ...
  • Bigfoot investigators to test hair DNA
    Strange hair samples found on two trucks during Memorial Day weekend are thought to be from Bigfoot. Jeffrey Gonzalez and his team were searching for ...
  • Did the Nazis have a space program ?
    As fans anticipate the release of the film "Iron Sky" we ask was there ever a real Nazi space program ? While its been the subject of conspiracy theo...

Grassroots

  • AIPAC: Dangerous for Jews and Other Living Things
    Over the last couple of days official Washington has been abuzz with what President Obama said, and didn't say, about the 1967 borders between Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. The president didn't say anything that hasn't been official U.S. policy under both Republican and Democr ...
  • Indigenous Farmers Hostage in Guatemala -- Eco ...
    � In this third blog of the Field Notes series, Grassroots� Program Coordinator for Latin America Saulo Araújo analyzes the situation in which Guatemala�s indigenous Mayans are facing fear and despair in their own land. Saulo is currently visiting partners and ally organizations in Central Ameri ...
  • Gaza Diaries: Leaving a Legacy of Seeds
    gaza_seed_bank.jpg RAFAH, Gaza—I’m sitting around a table at the Rural Women’s Development Society (RWDS) near the Gaza Strip’s southernmost border with a group of women discussing grassroots agricultural initiatives and drinking sugary sa ...
  • Peasant women learn to fight for their land ri ...
    el_estribo_womens_group.jpg This is second blog in the Field Notes series. Read the first one here. Grassroots’ Program Coordinator for Latin America Saulo Araújo is reporting as he visits partners and allies in Central America.read more
  • Al-Nakba demonstrations experience violence
    Below is an article from Grassroots International�s ally, the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, outlining actions planned for the commemoration of the 63rd�anniversary of the Nakba on May 15, 2011. Al-Nakba, which means �the catastrophe� in Arabic, commemorates the day in 1948 on which ...

Climate

  • UN: CDM Sapped by Uncertainty, No Plans to Kil ...
    Source:� Reuters Uncertainty about the fate of the Kyoto Protocol has sapped investment in the Clean Development Mechanism but there are no plans to kill the CDM, the UN said.
  • EU to Watch CO2 Price to Gauge Fallout of Ener ...
    Source:� Bloomberg Regulators will watch carbon prices to gauge whether new energy efficiency measures cut demand for emission permits, a senior official at the European Union said.
  • JinkoSolar to Increase Cell Conversion Efficie ...
    Source:� Reuters China-based JinkoSolar Holding said it is targeting to raise the conversion efficiency rate of its solar cells to more than 18.6% by the end of this year to meet demand for cost-effective products.
  • Enel CEO Sees Coal as Alternative to Nuclear
    Source:� Wall Street Journal Enel SpA's Chief Executive Fulvio Conti said the Italian utility will invest more in coal plants following a ban on nuclear energy and expects coal could account for 20% of Italy's total energy con ...
  • Solar Firm May Open in Old Ohio GM Plant
    Source:� Reuters The U.S. Department of Energy said Thursday it is offering a $275 million loan guarantee to Calisolar Inc. to locate a solar silicon plant near Mansfield, Ohio.

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

  • Taliban talks: the new mirage in Afghanistan
    Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said publicly the United States is holding talks with the Taliban. But is it already too late to reach a peaceful settlement to the war?
  • “Fearsome risks” driving policy ov ...
    In China, where a rash of protests, sometimes violent, have recently flared up and been slapped down, echoes from this year's 'Arab Spring' of rebellion against iron-fisted rulers in the Middle East and North Africa are resonating loudly.
  • Ten years on, still trying to frame the Afghan War
    U.S. President Barack Obama is in the midst of a wrenching decision on whether to quickly bring home the 100,000 troops deployed in Afghanistan or stay the course in the hope that the situation will stabilise in the country
  • No room at the Inn … but maybe a job in ...
    Lucille Lievaux, a 25-year-old French geologist, commutes to work on a plane, a 1,300-km journey from Australia's Indian Ocean city of Perth to the mining town of Karratha, a smudge of suburbia on the continent's barren northwest coast. She is part of growing army of foreigners being recruited f ...
  • A slow-burning revolution in Pakistan
    Never before has the power struggle between civilian and military authority in Pakistan been debated so openly in public.

Booman Tribune

  • Bachmann and Intelligent Design
    I don't know if it's truly conservative to throw federal education dollars to the states without setting any expectations for how the money will be used. But that's basically what Michele Bachmann is proposing. Of course, she also thinks it would be a swell idea if local education boards inclu ...
  • Obama Impersonator Gets the Hook
    Unless you're simply not paying attention, a day never goes by when the Republicans fail to let blacks, gays, Latinos, Muslims, and anyone else they don't like realize that they're unwelcome in their party. Today our prime example came at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans. Th ...
  • Wanker of the Day: Helene Cooper
    I guess Helene Cooper drew the short stick at the New York Times and got stuck live-blogging the golf game between President Obama, Vice President Biden, Speaker Boehner, and Governor John Kasich (R-OH). As of an hour ago, she didn't even know where they were playing. But she's going to keep u ...
  • My Sucky Analysis of Debt Ceiling Negotiations
    Imagine you are a hostage negotiator. A crazed terrorist has a doomsday nuclear device hidden where no one can reach it. He also has a remote control detonation device and his finger is on the red button that will trigger the explosion. If he detonates the bomb it will possibly kill 300 millio ...
  • Huntsman and New Hampshire
    Matt Bai makes some good points about Jon Huntsman, and an even better point about New Hampshire. One thing people forget is that independents can vote in the New Hampshire primary simply by showing up and declaring for one party or the other. In some years, like 2000, there are compelling con ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
    A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up Happy Father’s Day weekend from all of us at GT :-) This week’s articles feature a number of articles about fathers and men’s issues, as well as new research on family and relationships. Let us know what you think and we wish you a wonderful w ...
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy May Reduce Suicid ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline According to new research, people who suffer with insomnia may experience a reduction in suicidal ideation when they undergo cognitive-behavioral therapy. The research involved 303 people with insomnia and revealed that over one-fifth of them had experienced suici ...
  • Could MRI’s on Preschoolers Lead to Early ADHD ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline New research reveals brain differences in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Experts at the Kennedy Krieger Institute used magnetic resonance imaging to study the brains of preschool children who exhibited symptoms of ADHD. Although man ...
  • Clients Judge Quality of Therapist by Office A ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline According to a new study, people judge the quality of their therapists by the appearance of their office. Jack Nasar, professor of city and regional planning at Ohio State University, and co-author of the study, said, “People seem to agree on what the office of a ...
  • Maximize Your Similarities and Appreciate Your ...
    By Yvonne Sinclair, MA, MFCC, Relationship Enhancement Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Yvonne and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile When we are having a disagreement with our spouse, we may not want to recognize or acknowledge that the very basis for our disagreement is w ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Think Big: Energy spring is here and you can j ...
    Think Big: Energy spring is here and you can join the uprising Daily Kos Immediately eliminate the use of mountaintop removal mining. Mountaintop removal produces less than 5% of coal in the United States, an amount easily made up from other sources. Yet this small sliver of coal production acc ...
  • Boston Happy Hour for the Mountains – and Excl ...
    Boston Happy Hour for the Mountains – and Exclusive Tickets to the Boston ... Fly Rod & Reel Magazine (blog) Join with members from the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition – an inspiring group working to end mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia - to learn what you can do to support ...
  • Historic Blair Mountain should be preserved, n ...
    Historic Blair Mountain should be preserved, not razed Asheville Citizen-Times Despite its historical significance, today Blair Mountain is being threatened by mountaintop removal coal mining, which not only destroys mountains but also devastates the communities in which it takes place. In orde ...
  • History made: March on Blair Mountain is a har ...
    History made: March on Blair Mountain is a hard-earned success Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Last week, six hundred people set out from Marmet, WV for the March on Blair Mountain, a fifty-mile effort calling for an end to mountaintop removal, preservation of historic Blair Mountain, ...
  • East Kentucky Mayor Alleges County-Level Threa ...
    East Kentucky Mayor Alleges County-Level Threats Over Opposition to Mining WFPL The mayor of a small eastern Kentucky town says a Harlan County executive is threatening to withhold money unless the town compromises with coal companies hoping to open mountaintop removal operations in the area. T ...

Memeorandum

  • Christians are more militant than Muslims, say ...
    Jonathan Wynne-Jones / Telegraph: Christians are more militant than Muslims, says Government's equalities boss  —  Muslims are integrating into British society better than many Christians, according to the head of the Government's equality watchdog.  —  Trevor Phillips, Chairman of the Equalit ...
  • 'Obama' Stuns Crowd at Republican Event (Jeff ...
    Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus: ‘Obama’ Stuns Crowd at Republican Event  —  NEW ORLEANS - The Republican Leadership Conference was interrupted on Saturday by a visit from an actor impersonating President Obama, who offered a mocking assessment of the Republican presidential candidates and joked about ...
  • Lefty Feminists Expose Themselves by Putting O ...
    Lori Ziganto / Human Events: Lefty Feminists Expose Themselves by Putting Out for Weiner  —  Termus Interruptus for creepy Rep. Antony Weiner (D.-N.Y.), who finally resigned at a press conference on Thursday, to heckles of “Good-bye, Pervert.”  This caused leftist feminists to once again defend ...
  • Qaeda Woes Fuel Talk of Speeding Afghan Pullba ...
    New York Times: Qaeda Woes Fuel Talk of Speeding Afghan Pullback  —  WASHINGTON — As the Obama administration nears a crucial decision on how rapidly to withdraw combat forces from Afghanistan, high-ranking officials say that Al Qaeda's original network in the region has been crippled, providi ...
  • House panel proposes slapping restrictions on ...
    John T. Bennett / The Hill: House panel proposes slapping restrictions on aid to Pakistan  —  House appropriators have proposed slapping new restrictions on the aid that Washington will send to Pakistan next year amid a chill in relations following the killing of Osama bin Laden.  —  A provisio ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Bashang’s tourist trail
    A holidaymaking boom on Beijing’s nearest grassland has lined the pockets of some – but worsened life for others. Zhou Wei went to the vacation town of Datan to see the impacts.Beijing residents may remember seeing adverts for the Bashang Grassland: visit the nearest grassland to the city, get a ...
  • Climate conspiracy: a flimsy fantasy
    Global warming is no plot, writes Chen Jiliang. Why would thousands of scientists risk their careers to fabricate a consensus?After the Copenhagen climate talks of 2009, public concern about climate change reached higher levels than ever, but scepticism and suspicion also soared. In the west, so ...
  • Power politics in Germany
    Angela Merkel’s decision to abandon nuclear has been hailed as revolutionary by some – and dismissed as a political stunt by others. Here, Jürgen Maier gives an insider’s view.The Fukushima nuclear meltdown had its greatest political impact not so much in Japan itself but in faraway Germany, whe ...
  • Trading blows in America
    The United States’ first regional cap-and-trade programme is in peril, the latest victim of the country’s divided climate politics. Joan Bien reports.The future of an environmental programme that aims to cut the carbon emissions of a swathe of the north-eastern United States by 10% over the next ...
  • Diversion debate
    The zeal for engineering China’s rivers continues unabated among hydrologists. But will the latest proposal – to move water from Tibet to Xinjiang – get the backing of the authorities? Zhang Ke reports.Chinese scientists have dreamed up yet another mega engineering scheme: to divert water from T ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Are High Gas Prices Leaving You “Gas&#82 ...
    Commuter Spending Accounts Can Help! Recently a friend emailed me a photo from a gas station. It showed a $100 price tag for filling up the tank on his 2004, fully-paid-for SUV. The message said:  “Holy Cow – I’ve never seen a bill like this before.” Welcome to the new normal in transportation. ...
  • Did Qaddafi Really Order Mass Rapes? Or is the ...
    Is massive rape a tool of Qaddafi—or of war propagandists? ARTICLE SUMMARY: After all the other fake stories used to whip up public support for wars, youâd think we had learned something. Apparently not, judging from the mediaâs unquestioning spreading of claims that Qaddafi ordered Viagra-fu ...
  • 13 Ways that the New Hampshire Republican Pres ...
    They say that great trees–like great republics–rot not from outside, but fall apart from within. How did the United States arrive at a place where policy positions held by the lunatic, late night, talk radio crowd of the Right-wing could catapult into a televised debate, espoused by “serious” ca ...
  • GOP-Style Dems Moving to Sell Out Poor, Libera ...
    It’s been less than two weeks since a>a href=”http://www.saveoursafetynet.com/content/dc-council-budget-vote-run-down” target=”_hplink”> guerilla campaign by local activists>/a> managed to restore about 20 percent from $131 million in budget cuts targeting Washington, D.C.’s neediest residents  ...
  • Arizona’s Precious Knowledge: Blockbuste ...
    As ethnic studies defenders in Arizona prepare for the latest showdown in the state’s controversial ban this week, a blockbuster new film chronicling the unknown back story behind the crisis is gearing up for national release. Rarely has a film been so timely and downright revelatory. Casting as ...

Threat Level

  • Can Microsoft Use the DMCA to Kill Competing X ...
    Can Microsoft remotely disable third-party accessories from working with the Xbox 360 and get away with it? The Redmond, Washington software- and console-maker did just that, and claims copyright law gave it the right. At issue is Microsoft’s 2009 remote disabling of Datel memory cards, which ...
  • New Malware Steals Your Bitcoin
    In a sure sign that the virtual currency Bitcoin has hit the mainstream, a new Trojan horse program discovered in the wild Thursday seeks out and steals victims’ Bitcoin wallets, the same way other malware goes for their banking passwords or credit card numbers. The malware, Infostealer.Coinbit ...
  • Citi Credit Card Hack Bigger Than Originally D ...
    Citigroup has been forced to reveal that a recent hack of its network exposed the financial data of more than 360,000 customers, a much higher number than the bank originally disclosed.
  • Bloggers Mull Legal Action Against Righthaven
    Bloggers who paid thousands of dollars each to settle copyright-infringement allegations with Righthaven were mulling their legal options Wednesday, a day after a federal judge said the copyright troll had no legal standing to bring that kind of lawsuits. “We’re thinking seriously about what to ...
  • Lawmakers Propose Warrant Requirement for GPS Data
    Two lawmakers announced legislation Wednesday that for the first time clearly would mandate the authorities obtain a court warrant to acquire geolocational information of a suspect’s movements, a position clearly at odds with the Obama administration. The “Geolocational Privacy and Surveillance ...

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • Ohio Family of Woman Killed by Salmonella to F ...
    The family of a woman killed in an Athens Ohio Salmonella outbreak will file a lawsuit Monday in the Athens County Court of Common Please against the Athens-based restaurant Casa Lopez. The suit is the second filed by Seattle-based food poisoning law firm Marler Clark on behalf of victims made ...
  • Tennessee Virginia E. coli O157:H7, E. coli O1 ...
    According to Mac McLean, an E. coli outbreak involving E. coli O157:H7, E. coli O103 and E. coli O169 and outbreak that’s plagued Northeast Tennessee since mid-May has sickened two more people – bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the eight-county Northeast Tennessee region so far th ...
  • E. coli Outbreak Linked to Killeen, Texas Jaso ...
    Kudo’s to KXXV for confirming that at least 11 people became sick after eating at Jason’s Deli in Killeen, Texas. Doctors confirmed five of them had a strain of the bacteria escherichia coli (O157:H7) that has been known to result in hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS), a potentially fatal complica ...
  • Really? Scientist Creates Shit Sandwich?
    I was just finishing up my speech this morning at the National Environmental Health Association Conference in Columbus, Ohio when I got this video via one of my followers on twitter: I can only assume that this is not a joke - althought it should be.� This is disturbing at sever ...
  • Tennessee and Virginia E. coli O157:H7 and non ...
    Mac McLean of the Herald Courier is quickly becoming the go to reporter on the E. coli cases that are adding up in Eastern Tennessee and Southwestern Virginia. Mac McLean wrote that the outbreak that has plagued Northeast Tennessee since mid-May has sickened two more people – bringing the total ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Video: New Prius rap video takes to cruising W ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Etc., Videos, Hatchback, Toyota, Humor Whole Foods Parking Lot - Click above to watch video after the jump Turns out, you can spin the whole "cashed up greenie" bit into a few minutes of enjoyable parody rap. Don't believe us? Check out "Whole Foods Parking Lot," the fi ...
  • Report: Glenn Beck goes off on GM's Akerson ov ...
    Filed under: GM, Electric Glenn Beck on the gas tax - Click above to watch video after the jump If there's one thing that is fast becoming true about the Chevy Volt, it's that right-wing political pundits really, really don't like it. So, we will admit up front that this story comes straigh ...
  • Official: Mitsubishi sets Canadian i-MiEV pric ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Budget, Hatchback, Mitsubishi, Canada, Electric $32,998. That's the price that Mitsubishi Motors has announced for the i-MiEV in Canada when the little space egg goes on sale there later this year. (That's $33,891 U.S. at today's exchange rate). Yes, Canada will ge ...
  • Official: New pictures of Tesla Model S Alpha ...
    Filed under: Sedan, Tesla, Design/Style Tesla Model S Alpha - Click above for high-res image gallery Tesla Motors has put up some new pictures of the Tesla Model S Alpha, and its gorgeous new model looks more production-ready than ever. The changes we can see are subtle, but compared to ...
  • Official: New pictures of Tesla Model S Alpha ...
    Filed under: Sedan, Tesla, Design/Style Tesla Model S Alpha - Click above for high-res image gallery Tesla Motors has put up some new pictures of the Tesla Model S Alpha, and its gorgeous new model looks more production-ready than ever. The changes we can see are subtle, but compared to ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • TONIGHT Amy Goodman on CNN's John King USA
    Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman appears on CNN’s John King USA tonight, Friday, June 17th, at 7pm EST.
  • War on Drugs: Fast, Furious and Fueled by the U.S.
    The violent deaths of Brian Terry and Juan Francisco Sicilia, separated by the span of just a few months and by the increasingly bloody U.S.-Mexico border, have sparked separate but overdue examinations of the so-called War on Drugs, and how the U.S. government is ultimately exacerbating the pr ...
  • "Former Mitt Romney" Was "Reasonable, Very Mod ...
    Tonight’s debate between Republican presidential candidates marks the first national debate appearance of Mitt Romney, former Massachusetts governor. Meanwhile fellow Mormon and former Utah governor, Jon Huntsman, has yet to announce, and will skip the debate. While in Utah last January reporti ...
  • "Don't Believe the Hype About U.S. Debt": Sall ...
    Vice President Joe Biden met with congressional negotiators last Thursday to discuss ways to curb the federal deficit and permit new borrowing after August 2, the day the U.S. government is expected to reach its $14.3 trillion borrowing limit. Democrats want to curb the federal deficit by pushi ...
  • AIDS Activists Rally at U.N.: "We Are Asking W ...
    The 2011 U.N. High-Level meeting on AIDS kicked off on June 8 in New York, with more than 30 world leaders attending to discuss the progress and future of the global AIDS response. Outside, hundreds of AIDS activists rallied to call on the world leaders to fulfill their commitment from the 2006 ...

Digg Green

  • Archaeologists Unscramble Ancient Graffit ...
    Tomb graffiti is "a spontaneous verbal outburst" that can help archaeologists learn more about ancient communities. The history sleuths decipher the messages and learn about the personal and private lives of ancient Jews.
  • Archaeologists Unscramble Ancient Graffit ...
    Tomb graffiti is "a spontaneous verbal outburst" that can help archaeologists learn more about ancient communities. The history sleuths decipher the messages and learn about the personal and private lives of ancient Jews.
  • Incredible images from Nasa probe reveal ...
    Initial data gathered by Nasa's Messenger probe reveal that the cratered planet contains rich deposits of sulphur, unlike other planets in our solar system.
  • Lightning Eclipse from the Planet of the ...
    Thunderstorms almost spoiled this view of the spectacular June 15 total lunar eclipse. Instead, storm clouds parted for 10 minutes during the total eclipse phase and lightning bolts contributed to this dramatic skyview. Captured with a 30 second exposure, the scene also inspired what the ed ...
  • Superconductivity's third side unmasked
    The debate over the mechanism that causes superconductivity in a class of materials called the pnictides has been settled by a research team from Japan and China. Superconductivity was discovered in the pnictides only recently, and they belong to the class of so-called 'high-temperature sup ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Cognitive Dissonance on Revolution Road
    By Les Visible What’s the big event headed our way- metaphorically speaking- that’s not being talked about? That would be the large flotilla endeavor. This is a great deal more massive than its predecessor and we remember what happened to its predecessor. People were shot dead in cold blood and ...
  • Cognitive Dissonance on Revolution Road
    By Les Visible What’s the big event headed our way- metaphorically speaking- that’s not being talked about? That would be the large flotilla endeavor. This is a great deal more massive than its predecessor and we remember what happened to its predecessor. People were shot dead in cold blood and ...
  • 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? [...]

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Airbus Unveils Incredible Design for a Transpa ...
    If you’re a jet-setter who feels that air travel has lost some of its luster, then put your seat back in its upright position and get ready for a thrilling ride. Aerospace company Airbus has just announced that in the future, their planes will not only mimic the flight efficiency of a bird’s sk ...
  • POOP BURGER: Japanese Researcher Creates Artif ...
    Some hardcore carnivores have a hard time finding meat alternatives such as soy protein or tofu burgers to be palatable. But non-meat eaters may lose their appetite along with their carnivorous friends over this one – a meat alternative made from HUMAN EXCREMENT. Yep, you heard me correctly — Ja ...
  • ASK A TECH GEEK: How Can I Recycle Old Cables ...
    Each week renowned gadget expert Peter Rojas from gadget Q&A site GDGT.com answers your questions about green technology in our Ask A Tech Geek Series. Read on for this week’s installment and submit your questions below! QUESTION: Iâve got boxes full of old USB cords and cell phone adapters that ...
  • Edward Chew Creates Stunning Geometric Lamps F ...
    Read the rest of Edward Chew Creates Stunning Geometric Lamps From Recycled Tetra Paks Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: bright ideas lighting contest, bright ideas lighting design competition, diy lamps, diy lighting, eco friendly lamps, eco lamps, eco lighting designs, Edward Ch ...
  • Marek Tomasik Creates a Spectacular Room Insta ...
    Read the rest of Marek Tomasik Creates a Spectacular Room Installation from Electronic Waste Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: “You sometimes have to be open”, eco-art, electronic waste, electronic waste art, Marek Tomasik, reusing electronic waste, Room Installation from Electron ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Time-Traveling Male Sea Monkeys Make Bad Mates
    By Duncan Geere, Wired UK Evolutionary ecologists have discovered that having sex with a male sea monkey from the future can be hazardous to a female sea monkey’s health. Nicolas Rode from the Centre for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology took advantage of sea monkeys’ ability to weather droug ...
  • Eagle Cam: Babies Hop Out of Nest, May Fly Soon
    The three baby eagles who hatched on live webcam for an audience of thousands have finally left the nest to hop onto nearby branches. They may take their first flights soon.
  • Photos of Total Lunar Eclipse From Around the ...
    The Earth passed between the moon and the sun yesterday, giving people a brilliant, rusty-orange lunar light show from the ground and the web. The 100-minute total lunar eclipse on June 16 was the longest in more than a decade. The last similarly lengthy lunar eclipse was in 2000, and it pain ...
  • Honeybees Might Have Emotions
    Honeybees have become the first invertebrates to exhibit pessimism, a benchmark cognitive trait supposedly limited to “higher” animals. If these honeybee blues are interpreted as they would be in dogs or horses or humans, then insects might have feelings. Honeybee response “has more in common ...
  • Brilliant New Images of Mercury From First Yea ...
    After one Mercury year (88 Earth days) in orbit, NASA's Messenger spacecraft is getting comfortable around the first rock from the sun. This gallery highlights the early science results from the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury.

PakAlert

  • All The Proof In The World: HAARP Is Wrecking ...
    Weather modification/manipulation is, on record, 100% real. Those that continue to claim it is not are either ignorant or knowingly lying. For anyone still “on the fence” about weather modification / manipulation : All links below should satisfy MOST questions: Save the pdf’s before they’re gone ...
  • Doomsday Ice Age Fears Fuel US-China Land Grab ...
    A grim secret report prepared by the Russian Foreign Ministry for President Medvedev is warning that American fears of an “Ice Age Doomsday” caused by the Sun could ‘very well likely’ lead to open Global conflict between the US and China as both of these Superpower Nations have begun a vicious f ...
  • 10 Really Stupid Things The Mainstream Media H ...
    This weekend, dozens upon dozens of the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world will be gathering behind closed doors at a luxury hotel in Switzerland. All of the participants are sworn to secrecy and swarms of heavily armed security guards are making sure that nobody unauthorized gets ...
  • China Flood Alert At Top Level – 555,000 Moved
    China has mobilized troops to help with flood relief and raised its disaster alert to the highest level after days of downpours forced the evacuation of more than half a million people in central and southern provinces. The official China Daily said more than 555,000 people had been evacuated ...
  • Afghanistan Facing Insolvency In A Month
    The Afghan government will struggle to pay its bills "within a month" after the International Monetary Fund rejected proposals for resolving theKabul Bank scandal, western officials have warned.

Andy Worthington

  • Come to a Public Rally on the International Da ...
    âThis is a day on which we pay our respects to those who have endured the unimaginable. This is an occasion for the world to speak up against the unspeakable.â Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General On Sunday June 26, 2011, the International Day in Support of the Victims of Torture, I’ll be spe ...
  • Video: Andy Worthington Discusses the Omar Kha ...
    Two weeks ago, as I explained in a previous article here, I took part in a studio discussion at Press TV’s London studios, commenting on the excellent new documentary film, “You Don’t Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantánamo.” Directed by Luc Cote and Patricio Hernandez, this award-winning film ...
  • WikiLeaks and the Lawyers: Justice Department ...
    In the US government’s farcical world of overclassification, four reporters were banned from Guantánamo last year for reporting the name of a witness in the trial by Military Commission of the Canadian citizen and former child prisoner Omar Khadr, even though his name had been widely reported i ...
  • Andy Worthington Discusses Obama’s Perma ...
    A few days ago, I spoke for the 28th time to Scott Horton, who has had me on his Antiwar Radio show on a refreshingly regular basis over the last few years to vent my spleen at the continuing abomination that is Guantánamo, Obama’s failure to close it, and the disgraceful behaviour of other par ...
  • WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo ...
    One of the great publicity coups in WikiLeaks’ recent release of classified military documents relating to the majority of the 779 prisoners held at Guantánamo, as I explained in the first part of this five-part series, was to shine a light on the stories of the first 201 prisoners to be freed f ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • A Parade of Anti-Gay Figures Joins Texas Gover ...
    For more than a week now, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has been under fire for his plans to lead a prayer rally in Houston later this summer that is sponsored by the American Family Association (AFA), a particularly virulent gay-bashing group. A petition is circulating demanding that Perry abandon the ...
  • ‘Study’ of Mosques Reflects Anti-Muslim Bias o ...
    A new “study” co-authored by a man who staunchly believes America’s mosques are incubators of violent jihad has determined – surprise, surprise! – that America’s mosques are incubators of violent jihad. The report, entitled “Shari’a and Violence in American Mosques” and published last week by th ...
  • Tea Party Patriots Wallow in Muslim-Bashing Gu ...
    The Tea Party Patriots has already gained notoriety as the Tea Party group that’s most willing to fraternize with some of the most extreme elements of the right. The group further cemented that reputation last weekend by hosting an address by Pam Geller, the shrill co-head of the New York-based ...
  • DOJ Study Finds Decline in Hate Crimes Over La ...
    The Department of Justice (DOJ) yesterday released a major new report showing that hate crimes have decreased nationally since 2003 — a trend that mirrors a general drop in all kinds of violent crime over the same period. The study by the DOJ’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) was based on det ...
  • Farrakhan Assails the ‘Murderer in the White H ...
    Some spiritual leaders distinguish themselves by speaking truth to power. Louis Farrakhan, head of the black separatist hate group Nation of Islam (NOI), instead harangues it with deluded half-truths and hate-laced rhetoric. Lately, his rage has been piqued by U.S. intervention on behalf of Liby ...

change: org.

  • Does Tanya McDowell's Arrest Make Her Guilty o ...
    Commenters are having a field day. Tanya McDowell was recently arrested on charges of selling marijuana and crack cocaine to an undercover officer. Take a look at people's reactions on the internet: "Why steal someone else's education to get your kid out of a bad, drug-infested school if you're ...
  • ICE Announces Reforms to “Secure Communi ...
    Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), under DHS and President Obama, has certainly been feeling the heat on their so-called “Secure Communities" program. Amidst growing controversy, Illinois and New York ended their participation. Massachusetts decided not to join. Los Angeles and Oakland p ...
  • A Labor Election and Target's Union-Busting Ca ...
    Today, mployees at the Target store in Valley Stream, New York, on Long Island will vote on whether they want the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union local 1500 to represent them in labor negotiations. If you are wondering why Target employees might vote for union representation, che ...
  • Insurance Company Takes Backdoor Approach to D ...
    When Holly Yeager got the news that she was expecting her third child, she wanted to make sure that she could have the same incredible, safe birthing experience that she had with her first two babies. So, Holly contacted her new insurance company, Geisinger Choice, to find out if her midwives we ...
  • Dolphin Lovers Put Pressure on Singapore Resor ...
    The waters of the Solomon Islands are some of the most beautiful in the world, full of diverse marine life. Sadly, 27 wild bottlenose dolphins were captured from paradise and sent to live a life in captivity. Two dolphins have already died and, statistically, many more of the remaining 25 dolphi ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Obama Overrides Lawyers Who Warned War on Liby ...
    WASHINGTON  – President Barack Obama overruled two senior government lawyers in deciding that he had the authority to continue US military operations in Libya without Congressional approval, The New York Times reported. In reaching his conclusion Obama rejected the opinions of Jeh Johnson, the P ...
  • United States is Talking to Taliban, says Karzai
    KABUL - The United States is in contact with the Taliban about a possible settlement to the war in Afghanistan, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Saturday, the first official confirmation of U.S. involvement in negotiations. Karzai said that an Afghan push towards peace talks, after nearly a ...
  • Radiation Spike Halts Water 'Cleaning' at Fuku ...
    TOKYO  – Tokyo Electric Power Co. Saturday halted an operation to clean highly contaminated waste water at a crippled Japanese nuclear plant due to higher-than-expected radiation levels. The embattled operator of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi facility said it had suspended the procedure just ho ...
  • Food Price Explosion 'Will Devastate the World ...
    Food prices will soar by as much as 30% over the next 10 years, the United Nations and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development have predicted. read more
  • Mayors Debate War Resolution
    BALTIMORE — Money spent on wars in Afghanistan and Iraq should be spent at home under a resolution proposed Friday by U.S. mayors that calls on Congress to hasten the end of the wars.read more

Lifehacker

  • Seek Droid Is Free to Download Today and Tomor ...
    If you didn't download Seek Droid the last time we mentioned it, now you have a chance to grab it free of charge. The developers behind the app, which allows you to find your lost Android phone whether it's in your home or in the back of ...
  • This Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup]
    Brain Workshop Is a Brain-Training App That Might Actually Make You a Little Bit Smarter (Windows/Mac/Linux) Though it may not look very different from other (dubiously beneficial) brain-training games, Brain Workshop is special in that there's a growing body of evidence to sug ...
  • Give Berries a Hot Water Bath to Prevent Mold ...
    It can be disappointing to come home with a fresh batch of berries, stash it in the fridge, and return to it the next day or so to find it moldy and unsalvageable. Thankfully, with a quick bath in some good hot water, you berries can live ...
  • HideIt Minimizes Any App to Your Windows Syste ...
    Windows: If you're tired of a taskbar cluttered with applications that you need to have open but can't be properly hidden or minimized, HideIt allows you to minimize any application to your Windows system tray by right-clicking its minimi ...
  • This DIY Fire Piston Can Start a Fire With Com ...
    Fire pistons are no secret to avid campers and survival enthusiasts, but you don't have to be the outdoorsy type to build one of your own. All you need is a few dollars worth of spare parts and some time. Here's how. More�� ...

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Greek debt crisis: eurozone ministers meet ami ...
    Finance ministers to throw Greece a ��12bn lifeline but meeting marked by pessimism over fate of euroEurope's single currency governments are expected to throw Greece a summer lifeline, agreeing to disburse ��12bn by next month to keep the debt-stricken country from going broke and triggering an ...
  • China floods bring steep food price rises
    Regional vegetable prices rise by 40% as rains flood more that 1m acres of farmland and affect lives of 5.7 million peopleFood prices are expected to rise steeply in China after flooding inundated more than 1 million acres of farmland in eastern provinces, killing at least 100 people and displac ...
  • World heritage list panel weighs forests again ...
    Carvings in Mongolia, Buddhist sites in Japan and modernist architecture of Le Corbusier among 42 nominations to join listAncient German beech forests, rock carvings in Mongolia, Buddhist sites in Japan and the architectural works of the modernist genius Le Corbusier are among the nominations be ...
  • G20 protest death officer to appear in court
    PC Simon Harwood to face charge of manslaughter over death of Ian Tomlinson at G20 demonstration in April 2009The Scotland Yard officer accused of killing homeless newspaper vendor Ian Tomlinson during the G20 protests is to appear in court on Monday.PC Simon Harwood, from Carshalton, south Lond ...
  • Libya accuses Nato of deadly air strike on res ...
    Nato says it is investigating after at least four people, including two children, reported killed in TripoliThe Libyan government has accused Nato of bombing a residential neighbourhood in the capital and killing civilians. At least four people, including two children, were reported killed.It wa ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

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

The Wonk Room

  • Campaign Spending And Broadcast Media
    Tom Lee wants to get real about money and speech: I love philosophical abstractions as much as the next guy, but let’s get real: most types of communication are cheap. This is about broadcast media. The money-in-politics discussion is about domination of a small number of more-or-less zero-sum d ...
  • Jon Stewart Appears on Fox News, Says It&#8217 ...
    This morning Jon Stewart appeared on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace and delivered a blistering critique of the network on its own air. Watch it: Stewart also noted polls have found that Fox News viewers are the most uniformed. Chris Wallace did not respond.
  • Daddy, could we have our planet back now?
    A Father’s Day essay on the world we’re leaving our children On the one hand, should I be blogging on Father’s Day?  On the other hand, what more important day is there to blog on climate change than Father’s Day?  So as a compromise, I’m doing some cross-posts and reposts. Last year, Salon pu ...
  • Sen. Franken sees ‘hypocrisy’ in t ...
    In an interview with ThinkProgress today at the Netroots Nation conference in Minneapolis, MN, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) said he saw “hypocrisy” in the way Republicans called for former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) to step down in the wake of his Twitter sex scandal, while they largely ignored Sen. D ...
  • English Food And The Problem With Inflation
    On his RSS feed, Paul Krugman’s photo of gourmet mushy peas is accompanied by the tagline “What has happened to English food?” It reminded me that his old essay “Supply, Demand, and English Food” is one of the great short pieces on economic history. But the short version of the story is that Eng ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Belated Thoughts on the Vancouver Hockey Riot
    I remember way back in 1986 or 1987, when the Hamilton Tiger-Cats won the coveted Grey Cup (and the whole world cheered). I was living in London, Ontario at the time and I could only chuckle at watching the news that in response to the win a bunch of goofs went downtown and trashed the place. My ...
  • NDP Declares War on Qaddafi?
    Libya's Qaddafi, however much he was unfairly demonized by the ever-hypocritical, sanctimonious United States of America, appears to be a genuinely unpopular Arab dictator. I say "Arab" dictator because he looked ready to be another much needed victim of the Arab Spring. Still, when the mainstr ...
  • All that is necessary for the triumph of evil ..
    ... is that good men do nothing. That's a neat quote. But anybody can say that. For instance, some people imagined that the non-existent threat of Saddam Hussein's imaginary "weapons of mass destruction" put the whole world at risk. Furthermore, given Saddam's non-existent alliance with Al Qaed ...
  • stephen harper's "Muscular" Foreign Policy
    Speech from stephen harper on the foreign policy of his new majority government: My fellow Conservatives (for you are the only people that matter to me when I make my policies), welcome to the new reality of 21st Century Canada: A Conservative majority! Now that I have my majority government, y ...
  • An Important Cause and an Illegitimate Government
    I've said before that the environment isn't my main focus. I hate camping. I hate flies and mosquitoes. I like cities, books, bars, ... that sort of thing. Then there's the science. It's all I've got to grasp political-economy, ... were someone to come up with some scholarly paper about soil dep ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Liberal party agrees to delay leadership vote ...
    Canada's federal Liberal party will wait two full years before choosing its next leader in order to give the party time to rebuild and avoid extinction within the Canadian political landscape.
  • Celebrity chefs rejoice Toronto's annual Straw ...
    It's berry season and that means it's time to celebrate the berry at the annual St. Lawrence Market Strawberry Festival in downtown Toronto. Local celebrity chefs Michael Bonacini and Massimo Capra came out to commemorate the event.
  • Mother of Terry Fox dies
    The mother of Canadian hero Terry Fox has passed away. Mrs. Betty Fox died this morning in Chilliwack. She had been suffering from complications from diabetes and arthritis.
  • Canada Day 2011 – Events in Ottawa on Canada's ...
    Ottawa – Goings On for Canada Day 2011. Celebrate a unique nation with an international flair--here are some of the most interesting events happening in Ottawa on July 1, 2011.
  • Shopping for food at Toronto's Kensington Mark ...
    Food costs are soaring in Toronto like everywhere else. One way to save money on food is to use Kensington Market for most of your purchases.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Challenging Canada’s involvement in Libya: New ...
    As the House of Commons debated extending Canada’s military presence in Libya this week, the Rideau Institute garnered media attention by calling for clarity in the purpose and methods of the mission, and by providing an alternative estimate of the cost of the war that suggests the Conservative ...
  • Sign the petition! – Stop Bombing Lybia
    Embed this petition on your website or blog:
  • Principled PM to sell more LAVs to dictators?
    Prime Minister Stephen Harper treated Canadians to a self-righteous description of his government’s “principled” foreign policy stance at the recent Conservative Party convention (Steven Chase, “Canadian foreign policy needs to be more independent: Harper,” Globe and Mail, 10 June 2011; see also ...
  • June 25th: Nuclear Abolition Day
    The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) is coordinating ‘Nuclear Abolition Day’ to mobilize for a treaty to outlaw and eliminate all nuclear weapons. See how you can get involved by going to nuclearabolition.org. At last year’s Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, the ...
  • Leger & Dorn: Re-engage in peacekeeping
    Canadaâs role on the international stage is in urgent need of clear direction. Dominic Leger and Walter Dorn argue that the time has come for Canada to re-engage in UN peacekeeping (Dominic Leger & Walter Dorn, “Itâs time to keep the peace again,” National Post, 3 June 2011): Peacekeeping is a k ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • Obama overruled top lawyers in Libya war polic ...
    The New York Times reports: President Obama rejected the views of top lawyers at the Pentagon and the Justice Department when he decided that he had the legal authority to continue American military participation in the air war in Libya without Congressional authorization, according to official ...
  • The new Ottomans?
  • Turkey says Syria only has a few days left to ...
    Today’s Zaman reports: Turkey has delivered a blunt message to the Syrian leadership, saying the regime’s willingness to undertake sweeping reforms in the unrest-laden country will determine the position of Turkey in the coming days, if not weeks, diplomatic sources told Today’s Zaman. The Tur ...
  • Don’t let the Amina hoax distract attention fr ...
    “Daniel Nassar” (the pseudonym of a Syrian man based in Damascus), writes: In a city like Damascus, with its beautiful culture, amazing people, lovely food, and unmatchable history, one feels like they could be anything — anything but gay, that is. When Tom MacMaster, an American master’s degr ...
  • Interview: Abdrahman Bafadel, Yemen opposition ...

Watts Up With That?

  • IPCC’s Pachauri – no retroactive c ...
    Gobsmacking arrogance from Pachauri as reported by Steve McIntyre at his Climate Audit blog. Steve writes: Yesterday, IPCC chairman Pachauri told Oliver Morton of The Economist at an IPCC event in Brussels that conflict of interest policies would not not … Continue reading →
  • Greenpeace in our time
    Josh from cartoonsbyjosh.com has been extra busy this week. He writes of the latest IPCC debacle: Christopher Booker suggested a lovely idea for his latest article They did not use it there… it is here instead ;-) Oh but wait…there’s … Continue reading →
  • The ARCUS June Arctic Sea Ice Outlook
    WUWT readers may recall last month when I asked them to complete a web poll for the ARCUS Arctic Sea Ice Outlook. Readers obliged and I submitted the results to ARCUS to be included in their June Outlook, as shown … Continue reading →
  • Ask and ye shall receive NOAA
    A while back, I highlighted this, and now comments are open to the public and I’m sure there will be many readers who would like to contribute. NOAA seeks public comments on scientific integrity policy June 16, 2011 NOAAâs draft … Continue reading →
  • The wit and wisdom of ‘Real’ Clima ...
    Over at Judith Curry’s place she draws attention to a comment left at Keith Kloor’s Collide-a-Scape by RealClimate founder Dr. Ray Pierrehumbert of the University of Chicago. At left is his photo direct from his department website. Along with the … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Learning from the Community of the Land By She ...
    By Shepherd Bliss Guest Writer Dandelion Salad http://www.vowvop.org June 18, 2011 While recently shoveling aged horse manure around berry vines on my small organic farm to fertilize them, which gives me great pleasure, I thought about what I have learned about the community of the land by farmi ...
  • NATO Incorporates Libyan Experience For Global ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism June 18, 2011 As the West’s war against Libya has entered its fourth month and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has flown more than 11,000 missions, including 4,300 strike sorties, over the s ...
  • Waging Another Unconstitutional War by Ralph Nader
    Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page June 17, 2011 The meticulous Harvard Law Review editors should be rolling over in their footnotes. The recidivist violations of constitutional and statutory requirements by their celebrated predecessor at that journal – Barack Obama has reached Orwel ...
  • Rise Up To The Occasion… It Could Very Well Ha ...
    by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post June 17, 2011 Every Single Person, Every Voice & Every Signature Counts Have you ever pulled over your car on a highway shoulder to be a Good Samaritan and help a driver of a broken car desperately in nee ...
  • Bilderberg 2011: The Rockefeller World Order a ...
    by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad June 18, 2011 To say we were striving for a one-world government is exaggerated, but not wholly unfair. Those of us in Bilderberg felt we couldn’t go on forever fighting one another for nothing and killing people and rendering millions ho ...

Your New Reality

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    "Fear And Panic, Heroism And Cowardice, Sadism And Self-Sacrifice, Hysteria And Mass Emotion" In this LA Times' Hero Complex piece, Super 8 director JJ Abrams cites the startling poster of 1974's disaster movie epic Earthquake as a childhood obsession (along with Famous Monsters, Dick Smith m ...
  • No title
    A perfect example of what the human race can do when it embraces co-operation, instead of confrontation :
  • No title
    Join The Marines, Fight Balrog They're not really showing much reality in these US military recruiting ads, are they? Unless there are special Marines now fighting dragons in alternate universes : From Salon (excerpts) :"...the New York Times this week tells us that the Pentagon is -- shock ...
  • No title
    The Fake Knight Rises By Darryl Mason The new Christopher Nolan Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises, is still shooting but something of a teaser clip campaign has already begun on YouTube. An account called The Fire Rises has been posting short clips, with a focus on what appears to be the bur ...
  • No title
    Murdoch Media Blames 300,000 'Global Warming Deaths' A Year On Obese People By Darryl Mason Two headines from the UK Sun, proudly linked to by Rupert Murdoch's Corporate Green Agenda HQ, to show how hard they've been working to Sell The Fear : The stories themselves make exactly the ki ...

Wired - Science

  • Time-Traveling Male Sea Monkeys Make Bad Mates
    By Duncan Geere, Wired UK Evolutionary ecologists have discovered that having sex with a male sea monkey from the future can be hazardous to a female sea monkey’s health. Nicolas Rode from the Centre for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology took advantage of sea monkeys’ ability to weather droug ...
  • Eagle Cam: Babies Hop Out of Nest, May Fly Soon
    The three baby eagles who hatched on live webcam for an audience of thousands have finally left the nest to hop onto nearby branches. They may take their first flights soon.
  • Photos of Total Lunar Eclipse From Around the ...
    The Earth passed between the moon and the sun yesterday, giving people a brilliant, rusty-orange lunar light show from the ground and the web. The 100-minute total lunar eclipse on June 16 was the longest in more than a decade. The last similarly lengthy lunar eclipse was in 2000, and it pain ...
  • Honeybees Might Have Emotions
    Honeybees have become the first invertebrates to exhibit pessimism, a benchmark cognitive trait supposedly limited to “higher” animals. If these honeybee blues are interpreted as they would be in dogs or horses or humans, then insects might have feelings. Honeybee response “has more in common ...
  • Brilliant New Images of Mercury From First Yea ...
    After one Mercury year (88 Earth days) in orbit, NASA's Messenger spacecraft is getting comfortable around the first rock from the sun. This gallery highlights the early science results from the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Video shows IDF preparing for next Gaza flotilla
    The Israeli Defense Forces held a large drill Wednesday in preparation of the flotilla that intends to set sail to the Gaza Strip later this month. The drill focused on different scenarios that... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Settling a score
    According to the [Israeli] court decision, the custodian of abandoned property in the West Bank area allocated the land on which the farm stands to the World Zionist Organization, which granted a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Tanya Reinhart: In memory of Edward Said
    The 2006 Edward Said Memorial lecture of Adelaide University,Australia, delivered by Tanya Reinhart on 7 October 2006. Tanya Reinhart covers important issues in this lecture: the Nakba in the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Unofficial Nakba study kit a hit with teachers
    The kit called 'How do you say Nakba in Hebrew?' did not receive Israel's Education Ministry's approval and most of the teachers using it conceal their source. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the I ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: Palestinian Political Prisone ...
    Bassem Tamimi of Nabi Saleh delivered a court statement at the start of his trial last Sunday saying 'I reject [these laws] and cannot recognize their validity.' The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

Natural Health News

  • Does a Teen Age Tan Lower Your Risk of Breast ...
    Many recent studies have suggested that vitamin D may be associated with reduced breast cancer risk. However, most studies have evaluated only the impact of dietary vitamin D. A new study examined the associations among ultraviolet radiation from sunlight, factors related to cutaneous vitamin D ...
  • Obesity Raises Breast Cancer Patients' Risk of ...
    Women who are at a healthy body weight before and after a diagnosis of breast cancer are more likely to survive the disease long term. A study looked at nearly 4,000 breast cancer survivors, and found that obesity is strongly linked to death due to breast cancer. In particular, overweight or ob ...
  • Can Cranberry Juice Can Cure Ulcers?
    Cranberry juice is well known as a natural remedy for bladder infections. But scientists have also been studying whether it might also help fight Helicobacter pylori, the bacteria responsible for ulcers. It is thought that proanthocyanidins, which are compounds found in cranberry juice, may kee ...
  • Cut Down On Carbs to Reduce Body Fat
    Even a modest reduction in consumption of carbohydrate-rich foods may promote loss of deep belly fat. This could help reduce the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, stroke and coronary artery disease. Excess visceral fat (intra-abdominal fat) raises the risk of these diseases. According to Eu ...
  • Yoga Helps Stroke Victims Improve Balance
    A pilot study that exposed older veterans with stroke to yoga has produced "exciting" results. For eight weeks, the veterans participated in a twice weekly hour-long group yoga class with modified poses.� Their balance improved by 34 percent according to one measure, and they also showed a meas ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Will the Supreme Court Revisit Missouri v. Hol ...
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro The Supreme yesterday gave the green light to an individual asserting a Tenth Amendment defense in a criminal prosecution under a federal statute enacted pursuant to the Chemical Weapons Convention (Bond v. United States).  The facts of the case are certainly mor ...
  • Torture by Non-State Actors Not Actionable Und ...
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford The D.C. Circuit held this week that torture by non-state actors was not actionable under the Alien Tort Statute. The case, Ali Shafi v. Palestinian Authority, arose from the alleged torture in the West Bank by the Palestinian Authority and the PLO of a Palest ...
  • Latest on War Powers and Libya: Resurrecting t ...
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Here is the Administration’s legal analysis (in full) of why the 60/90-day clock of the War Powers Resolution doesn’t apply to the continuing Libya operation: The President is of the view that the current U.S. military operations in Libya are consistent with the ...
  • DOD or CIA in Yemen?
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson The Wall Street Journal national security reporting team, followed closely by the Washington Post and the AP, have been reporting in the last couple of days on the CIA being tasked to carry out an expanded Predator drone targeted killing program in Yeme ...
  • New AUMF in the Senate

Public News Service

  • Is AZ Serving "Next Gen" Voters? Survey says Y ...
    Is AZ Serving "Next Gen" Voters? Survey says Yes – and No Phoenix, AZ – Arizona ranks 17th among the states in a new national survey of young voters' access to and instruction about voting and the political process. However, its overall score is only 47 out of 100. Comments about how to improve ...
  • Is AZ Serving "Next Gen" Voters? Survey says Y ...
    Is AZ Serving "Next Gen" Voters? Survey says Yes – and No Phoenix, AZ – Arizona ranks 17th among the states in a new national survey of young voters' access to and instruction about voting and the political process. However, its overall score is only 47 out of 100. Comments about how to improve ...
  • AZ Weighs Cancelling Clean Cars Program
    AZ Weighs Cancelling Clean Cars Program Phoenix, AZ – Repeal of Arizona’s Clean Cars Program will be the subject of a public hearing next week in Phoenix. Arizona currently follows the most stringent air quality standards in the nation. Comments from Diane Brown, director, Arizona PIRG (Public I ...
  • Los habitantes de Arizona mayores enfrentan un ...
    Los habitantes de Arizona mayores enfrentan un futuro de movilidad limitada Phoenix, AZ – Más de la mitad de las personas en edad avanzada que viven en ciudades de Arizona pronto tendrán poco o ningún acceso al transporte público, según un estudio reciente. Y como los "Baby Boomers" están alcan ...
  • Older Arizonans Face Future of Limited Mobility
    Older Arizonans Face Future of Limited Mobility Phoenix, AZ – More than half the seniors in Arizona cities will soon have little or no access to public transportation, according to a new study. And with baby boomers reaching retirement age and eventually giving up driving, the problem is expecte ...

Center for Food Safety

  • U.S. House Of Representatives Passes Amendment ...
    Sixty-Seven Organizations and Businesses Endorse Amendment;  CFS Calls upon FDA to Reject Approval of GE Salmon The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauds the U.S. House of Representatives for its decision yesterday to prohibit the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from approving genetically eng ...
  • FDA temporarily suspends use of some arsenic i ...
    Center for Food Safety and Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy urge continued action to remove all arsenic from animal feeds permanently The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced that Alpharma, a division of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, has agreed to stop sellin ...
  • Family Farmers Amplify Complaint Against Monsa ...
    Monsanto’s Failure to Provide Binding Legal Covenant To Protect Family Farmers Threatened by GMO Contamination Necessitates Amended Complaint New threats by Monsanto have led to the filing of an amended complaint by the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) in its suit on behalf of family farmers, s ...
  • Environmental Groups Petition Federal Governme ...
    FDA poised to take action on the first-ever application to market a genetically engineered salmon without adequate consideration of environmental risks and public input Earthjustice, on behalf of Ocean Conservancy, Friends of the Earth, Center for Food Safety, Food & Water Watch, the Center for ...
  • CA GE Fish Labeling Bill Held
    Today, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) was informed by Assemblymember Huffman’s office that they have decided to hold AB 88—the California bill which would require that all genetically engineered (GE) fish sold in California contain clear and prominent labeling—as a 2-year bill. This means it w ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Are New Zealand and Australia serious about de ...
    : "Sunday, June 19, 2011 Are New Zealand and Australia serious about democracy in Fiji? RALLYING FOR VITI: Australian pro-democracy supporters. photo: Matavuvale Where is Fiji's Regional Support? By Sanjay Ramesh In February a new commanding officer of the Fiji Third Infant ...
  • Leonard Peltier Remembers Geronimo Pratt - Bla ...
    Leonard Peltier Remembers Geronimo Pratt - Black Unity Greetings to all my friends and compatriots, Everyone it seems knows something about Geronimo Pratt. To all of us, to every human being on the planet, he was a beacon of principle that we should all aspire to emulate. To those directly inv ...
  • The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي ...
    The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: Hussam sent me this: "This interview is in Portuguese (the page translate isn't bad) and revealing of his racist orientalist views. He thinks he should be praised. "Who is the man behind Amina? Can I say I'm a lesbian trapped in a man's ...
  • EduBlog:Last Poets
    EduBlog:Last Poets - Black Unity The Last Poets is a group of poets and musicians who arose from the late 1960s African American civil rights movement's black nationalist thread. Their name is taken from a poem by the South African revolutionary poet Keorapetse Kgositsile, who believed he was in ...
  • Amigos de la infancia, de viajes y de combate, ...
    Amigos de la infancia, de viajes y de combate, en homenaje al Che | Cubadebate A moving tribute to the memory of Ernesto Che Guevara surrendered here today, the second largest in the country, where 83 years ago (June 14, 1928) was born the man who would move to Latin America and is a symbol in t ...

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Green Times

  • Environmental News 16/06/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Fruit: What else?
      What is more natural than eating fruit? A great nutritional source of real vitamins, consuming fruit every day prevents diseases and gives us energy for having a better day! But sometimes all those benefits are ruined by pesticides (glossary/wildlife/pesticide.html) or plastic containers or ...
  • Environmental News 15/06/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Switch the light off, switch Earth on
    New York, Las Vegas (pictured), Tokyo, Beijing and Moscow might be very dynamic and attractive cities, but they are also some of the largest consumers of electricity all around world. Why is it that in cities the buildings stay lit up all night long? It might be beautiful but it’s more important ...
  • What's On 14 June 2011
    In November 2010, Ross Garnaut was commissioned by the Australian Government to provide an independent update to his 2008 Climate Change Review. Now's your chance to hear and see Ross Garnaut's update live…

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Palestinian imprisoned for flashing the peace sign
    From the Occupied Palestine blog comes this report of another nonviolent activist arrested. Khaled Zawahre’s military hearing has concluded delayed ruling until Sunday they will either release him or keep him in custody for 101 days. We want to ask your support to keep sharing this informatio ...
  • Top 10 Reasons why Rafah opening doesn’t ...
    From Gisha’s Gaza Gateway, more on the inadequacy of the new Rafah Crossing rules on the Egypt-Gaza border. The top 10 reasons why the opening of Rafah Crossing just doesnât cut it In no particular order of importance, we thought weâd list some of the reasons why the opening of Rafah, while si ...
  • Guardian series of videos by Palestinians in E ...
    If, like me, you are disgusted by the minstrelry of Tom MacMaster pretending he was a queer Syrian woman here’s a good antidote. The Guardian has published a series of videos made by Palestinians and Israelis in  occupied East Jerusalem who were given cameras by the Israeli human rights group B ...
  • Restrooms and Sanitation at Umm-Al-Kheir (a st ...
    Mohammed Salem is about 30 years old. He lives in Umm-Al-Kheir, in a home inherited from his late father right next to the fence of the Carmel settlement (sometimes spelled “Karmel”; see picture). In 2005, when Carmel built an expansion neighborhood, Mohammed was beaten by settlers involved in t ...
  • Gaza not un-besieged after all
    When I was arguing with AIPAC attendees in Washington D.C., the one thing they didn’t seem to have an answer for was if the occupation of Gaza was supposedly over, why was Israel controlling all its borders? Well, with the seemingly heartening news that Egypt’s military government was opening th ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Embed Twitter posts easily in WordPress
    Use the Twitter Blackbird Pie plugin. It’s easy! WP Candy has the details and a video.
  • Legalizing marijuana won’t kill the drug cartels
    Sylvia Longmire in the New York Times. Marijuana makes up 60 percent of the cartels’ profits, that still leaves another 40 percent, which includes the sale of methamphetamine, cocaine, and brown-powder and black-tar heroin. If marijuana were legalized, the cartels would still make huge profits f ...
  • Legalizing marijuana won’t kill the drug cartels
    Sylvia Longmire in the New York Times. Marijuana makes up 60 percent of the cartels’ profits, that still leaves another 40 percent, which includes the sale of methamphetamine, cocaine, and brown-powder and black-tar heroin. If marijuana were legalized, the cartels would still make huge profits f ...
  • Bill Gates says solar and wind is “cute” but n ...
    Bill Gates says] it doesn’t matter how efficient wind and solar technology become. Neither tech possesses the necessary oomph to “deal with our climate problem ⦠because the climate problem requires more than 90% reduction of CO2 emitted, and no amount of efficiency improvement is enough.” For ...
  • Bill Gates says solar and wind is “cute” but n ...
    Bill Gates says] it doesn’t matter how efficient wind and solar technology become. Neither tech possesses the necessary oomph to “deal with our climate problem ⦠because the climate problem requires more than 90% reduction of CO2 emitted, and no amount of efficiency improvement is enough.” For ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

The Air Vent

  • Sea Level – A little wet?
    The MSM is usually several days behind the blogs on issues regarding data quality.  In this case, I don’t recall reading about it on the main climate blogs, missing it isn’t impossible with my current schedule. Fox news covered this.  As we all know Fox does not deliver real news and only libera ...
  • Certainly
    See, this is what happens when there is no time for deep research or calculation.  You get opinions.  Certainly, they are more informed than average but average doesn’t spend a lot of time at climate blogs. Ice ages, ugly things those. ___Frozen fruit, _____and Garden hose. Starvation comes wh ...
  • Scammin the Public
    Bishop Hill has an interesting post on the nature of the Clean Energy Scam.
  • Autumn for the Leaf? Part Two
    by Robert Allaband According to the Bureau of Transportaion their was 255,917,664 total registered vehicles in the United States as of 2008. Of that total 137,079,843 were passenger cars and 101,234,849 were classified as other 2-axle 4-tire vehicle (SUV’s, Pickups and such). http://www.bts.gov/ ...
  • Autumn for the Leaf? Part One
    If we are to achieve a truly zero carbon economy using discontinuous sources like wind, then energy storage is key.    I follow the news on this topic closely and storage advancements are coming almost daily but how far and fast will the technology progress?  – Jeff Id/Elmer Fudd ——– guest p ...

Focal Point

  • The Real Face of Vancouver: Hockey Fans Clean ...
    Volunteers are still taking to the streets of Vancouver to clean up after Wednesday night's hockey riots. In the immediate aftermath, citizens worked alongside city crews, sweeping and bagging through the night. An estimated 90% of the mess was cleaned up by noon on Thursday morning. Cleanup ...
  • Understanding the Vancouver Hockey Riots
    As a native Vancouverite and a Canucks fan, I was heartbroken by the riots that followed Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final. Dave Zirin of The Nation has a great analysis of the Vancouver hockey riot. Don't blame phantom anarchists, blame drunk gay-bashing thugs, exurban troublemakers, and the .. ...
  • Understanding the Vancouver Hockey Riots
    As a native Vancouverite and a Canucks fan, I was heartbroken by the riots that followed Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final. Dave Zirin of The Nation has a great analysis of the Vancouver hockey riot. Don't blame phantom anarchists, blame drunk gay-bashing thugs, exurban troublemakers, and the .. ...
  • Did the Bush Administration Illegally Spy on A ...
    Did the Bush administration illegally spy on Middle Eastern studies professor and blogger Juan Cole in an attempt to discredit him? Glenn L. Carle, a former Central Intelligence Agency officer who was a top counterterrorism official during the administration of President George W. Bush, s ...
  • Did the Bush Administration Illegally Spy on A ...
    Did the Bush administration illegally spy on Middle Eastern studies professor and blogger Juan Cole in an attempt to discredit him? Glenn L. Carle, a former Central Intelligence Agency officer who was a top counterterrorism official during the administration of President George W. Bush, s ...

Inside Facebook

  • New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this weekâs highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Daglow Entertainment, Context Optional, Atari, Wild Needle, V ...
  • Facebook’s iPad Plans, Mobile Platform Strateg ...
    Inside Network founder Justin Smith spoke with Bloomberg TV’s Emily Chang yesterday on the expected launch of Facebook’s iPad app. The 3-minute interview also covers Facebook’s plans for monetizing on mobile platforms, Project Spartan, and the company’s traffic growth prospects in maturing marke ...
  • Facebook Roundup: IPO, Political Ads, Well Bei ...
    New Rules Could Delay Facebook IPO – Congress may change laws regulating companies with shareholders, ultimately meaning that Facebook could delay its IPO if it wanted to. Fortune Magazine reported that the rules currently state that companies breaking 500 shareholders must go public, but the ne ...
  • Facebook Readying Official iPad App: What It M ...
    Facebook has developed a free official iPad app which may launch in the next few weeks, according to anonymous sources quoted by the New York Times. To date, Facebook has left iPad owners to use the Facebook for iPhone app or m.facebook.com, neither of which are optimized for the tablet device. ...
  • Last Day to Register — Inside Facebook’s Josh ...
    Inside Facebook lead writer Josh Constine will be leading a how-to session at the Social Media Marketing Bootcamp, an online conference featuring weekly keynotes from current leaders in social media and marketing. About the Session Executing a Facebook Marketing Campaign: Advertising + Content U ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Why does Britain tolerate its leaders? The pow ...
    Christopher King considers the bubble of deception and lies that underpins the British political establishment and the ignorance and self-delusion that sustain public support for this establishment.
  • The forthcoming Gaza flotilla: heroism vs viol ...
    Richard Lightbown summarizes the situation ahead of the forthcoming Freedom Flotilla II - Stay Human in plain language bereft of the doublespeak that the Israeli government would like us to hear. "No Nobel Peace Laureate will be able to disguise the guilt if more Israeli hoods batter more human ...
  • 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 ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Podcast Show #47
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Lew Rockwell Lew Rockwell, founder and Chairman of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, joins us to discuss the constitutional rule and the roll back of our liberties and constitutional rights during the past decade, the rise of the police state, the PATRIOT ACT and our tyr ...
  • Rise Up To The Occasion… It Could Very Well Ha ...
    Every Single Person, Every Voice & Every Signature Counts Have you ever pulled over your car on a highway shoulder to be a Good Samaritan and help a driver of a broken car desperately in need of assistance? Have you done it despite the heavy traffic, and a remaining long commute to get home afte ...
  • POGO Refuses to Rescind Obama’s Transparency Award
    Blowing the Whistle on Those Who Falsely Claimed to Act on our Behalf By Julia Davis In response to the petition from numerous groups and whistleblowers, Danielle Brian of the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) authored a blog on POGO’s website. While POGO’s response doesn’t contain any eart ...
  • POGO : Obama Deserves Transparency Award &“ ha ...
    Project on Government Oversight Refuses to Take Back Obama Transparency Award  In a very wordy, hollow words that is, public response, Danielle Brian of Project on Government Oversight (POGO) not only adamantly declines to rescind Obama’s Transparency Award given to him in secrecy, but she actua ...
  • Peter B Collins Interviews Coleen Rowley: Take ...
    Listen to the show here. Please Sign the Petition Here:Take Award Back.Com This site depends exclusively on readers’ support. Please help us continue by contributing directly and or purchasing Boiling Frogs showcased products.

Afro Spear

  • Father’s Day Medley
    1. Far Better Men Than I: My Vision for My Sons  2. My Contribution to Society 3. We Were Once Kings 4. Sunday Chat with Dad 5. Call to Fatherhood 6. Rebirth of a Cool Dad 7. The Trials of Single Fatherhood
  • Report from Detroit for AfroSpear: Porn Shows ...
    “Democracy is a proposal (rarely realised) about decision-making; it has little to do with election campaigns. Its promise is that political decisions be made after, and in the light of, consultation with the governed. This is dependent upon the governed being adequately informed about the issue ...
  • The Struggle for Dignity
    One of the most arduous struggle one can go through, is the struggle to safeguard one’s human dignity, as well as the right to safeguard the integrity of one’s own body. These go hand in hand. This struggle is more intense than the struggle for food, shelter, clothing, political rights, relig ...
  • Kola Boof: “Cultural Blackness without P ...
    I read a lot of commentators and there are currently 3 people I would love to meet. These are people I respect for their opinions, not that I agree with all that they believe, but I applaud them for not being slaves to the groupthink of their respective communities. I would considerate it a priv ...
  • Byts and Bytes
    Truthdig:    1. The Obama Deception: Why Cornel West Went Ballistic    2. Why Liberal Sellout Attack Prophets Like Cornel West AfroDaddy:    1. The Plight of Blue People    2. The Plight of Blue People – Part II The Great Blue Uprising    3. The Plight of Blue People – Part III The Fin ...

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

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

Cutting Edge News

  • The Battle for Libya - NATO Investigates Libya ...
    According to an official advisory on June 19th, NATO is investigating reports by the Libyan government that NATO air strikes resulted in civilian deaths and injuries during the early morning hours of June 19th. The incident is said to have occurred in a residential area in northern Tripoli follo ...
  • Yale Bowed to Foreign Donations in Cutting YIISA
    Yale University has shown itself to be cowardly in cutting out its distinguished Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism (YIISA). This university has now figured out that foreign donations are now more�important than promoting American values of tolerance and religious f ...
  • Urban Edge - Cockroach Allergens Explain Why C ...
    Children living on New York City blocks where asthma is common have higher levels of exposure to cockroach allergens and are more likely to be sensitized to it. In New York City, the prevalence of asthma among children entering school varies by neighborhood anywhere from 3 percent to 19 percent, ...
  • Mexico's Wars - Political Gamesmanship in Mexi ...
    We talk to a lot of people in our effort to track Mexico’s criminal cartels and to help our readers understand the dynamics that shape the violence in Mexico. Our contacts include a wide range of people, from Mexican and U.S. government officials, journalists and business owners to taxi drivers ...
  • Edge on Travel - Road Warriors at Risk for Inc ...
    Road warriors who travel for business two weeks or more a month have higher body mass index, higher rates of obesity and poorer self-rated health than those who travel less often, according to researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. The study, conducted by Andrew G. ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Dana Milbank Speaks of Shanda (Embarrassment) ...
    Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank tends to use an unusual barometer to select his topics.� He likes to write about subjects for which he has a very strong opinion, but very little knowledge. His latest column, Joe Lieberman joining Glenn Beck: a shanda proves my point.� Unfortunately Milban ...
  • Manufacturing Execs Give WH Chief of Staff Dal ...
    �I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.� Harry S. TrumanThe thirty-third president's words never rang more true than at yesterday's meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM). White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley was the "guest of honor." It was ...
  • Newsbusted Exclusive From Afghanistan: Obama K ...
    For the second time this week� Newsbusted Anchor Jodi Miller is reporting from Afghanistan and she has used her superior investigative skills in an exclusive report proving that President Obama has killed more than just Usama Bin Laden since the terrorist's death in early May. This is just ...
  • Scientists Agree, Salon Is Making Fake Claims ...
    Whenever there is an unusual weather pattern, members of the Holy Church of Global Warming Moonbats start spreading new scare-tactics. Usually it sounds something like: This planet is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions. Old Testament real wrath of God type stuff.� Fire and brimston ...
  • Obama Claims The UN Can Usurp Congressional Wa ...
    �The Congress shall have Power....� To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; To provide and maintain a Navy; To ...

The Real Agenda

  • Libyan War is a training ground for Global War ...
    by Rick Rozoff June 19, 2011 As the West’s war against Libya has entered its fourth month and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has flown more than 11,000 missions, including 4,300 strike sorties, over the small nation, the world’s only military bloc is already integrating lessons learned f ...
  • Libyan War is a training ground for Global War ...
    by Rick Rozoff June 19, 2011 As the West’s war against Libya has entered its fourth month and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has flown more than 11,000 missions, including 4,300 strike sorties, over the small nation, the world’s only military bloc is already integrating lessons learned f ...
  • Destabilization of Syria and the Broader Middl ...
    by Michel Chossudovsky Global Research June 19, 2011 What is unfolding in Syria is an armed insurrection supported covertly by foreign powers including the US, Turkey and Israel. Armed insurgents belonging to Islamist organizations have crossed the border from Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. The US ...
  • Destabilization of Syria and the Broader Middl ...
    by Michel Chossudovsky Global Research June 19, 2011 What is unfolding in Syria is an armed insurrection supported covertly by foreign powers including the US, Turkey and Israel. Armed insurgents belonging to Islamist organizations have crossed the border from Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. The US ...
  • Research Center ‘Adjusted’ Sea-Lev ...
    Fox News June 17, 2011 Is climate change raising sea levels, as Al Gore has argued — or are climate scientists doctoring the data? The University of Coloradoâs Sea Level Research Group decided in May to add 0.3 millimeters — or about the thickness of a fingernail — every year to its actual measu ...

Wind Watch

  • Tehachapi City Council formally opposes wind parks
    At the June 6 regular meeting, the Tehachapi City Council voted 4-0, with council member Linda Vernon absent, to send a letter to the Kern County Planning Commission formally opposing wind parks in the greater Tehachapi region. The approved draft letter states that the city council �would like t ...
  • Wind farm forced to close after complaints ove ...
    A multi-million pound wind farm has been forced to close because it makes too much noise in a landmark ruling that could lead to others being shut down. Residents living near the 23 turbines have won an order making the operators turn off the generators after claiming their lives were being made ...
  • Turbine noise in Rome
    Wind turbine experts gathered in Rome recently to discuss noise. Low frequency noise and amplitude modulation provided plenty to talk about. Noise from wind turbines is still not solved, as evidenced by seemingly endless conferences called to talk about the problem. Not that there is a noise pro ...
  • Wind turbines switched off on 38 days every year
    Wind turbines will have to be switched off on 38 days every year because it is too windy, the National Grid said yesterday. In a new report, the grid said it could not cope with the surge of power from wind farms and will have to switch off turbines to avoid overloading the power transmission ne ...
  • Osage Nation opposes wind farm development in ...
    PAWHUSKSA, Oklahoma — The Osage Nation announced its opposition Monday to the development of large-scale wind farms near Pawhuska. The tribe’s chief counted up the economic costs and the environmental ones and he says wind energy just isn’t worth it. “The major thing that we’re concerned about i ...

Not My Tribe

  • To cure P.T.S.D. we need to spread it
    I never thought the antiwar movement should worry about our soldiers’ PTSD. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a guilty conscience soldier, you’ve earned it. Of course, as have Troop Supporters all, so we need to spread this shit around.
  • A face to launch a thousand protests. Leak you ...
    This is a still from John Pilger’s THE WAR YOU DON’T SEE, recently blocked from its US debut in Santa Fe. Why? Because such images will stop war. In particular this shows a terrified Iraqi girl held at gunpoint as her home is searched. I wonder how many such scenes have been captured by embed [...]
  • Racist Elitist HateFest at Memorial Park/Prosp ...
    Sponsored by the Gazette, Fox, Channel 5, Chamber of Commerce and the Real Estate Developer Cartel in City Hall and the County Commissioners. Springs Spree is designed to put a prettier face on their complete disdain of any citizen who has less than a 7 figure annual income. The Colorado Springs ...
  • Five dollar chance to win Obama dinner should ...
    Democratic fundraisers are hawking the chance to win a dinner with President Obama for the donation of $5 or more to the 2012 election campaign. Rather than sit across the table from the smug insincere technocrat, can I opt for the immediate cash value of the prize? Were I a corporation, that va ...
  • Why “conservatives” shouldn’ ...
    for one…. They conserve abso-damn-lutely NOTHING. Not money, not the resources belonging to America as in ALL Americans, resources belonging to Other Countries, the lives of Soldiers or the lives of Workers, NADA. “Social Conservative” preserving what values exactly? Manifest Destiny, the belief ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Why the experts at New Mexico Tech failed with ...
    …maybe, just maybe, it had something to do with their funding. Related Info: Slicing Through Every Single 'Debunker' Argument, One at a Time Van Romero, Vice President of New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, gained lasting notoriety for candid remarks concerning the collapses of ...
  • U.S. Diver On a Mission to Retrieve Bin Laden' ...
    U.S. Diver On a Mission to Retrieve Bin Laden's Body Related Info: Not a Deather, but a Doubter; Still a Truther Rashard Mendenhall: 'I just have a hard time believing a plane could take a skyscraper down demolition style' The Death of Osama, 9/11 and the War on Terror Nafeez Mossadeq Ahm ...
  • Right After Bilderberg, Puppet David Cameron P ...
    Today at the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation conference, David Cameron pledged a further £814 million of British taxpayer money towards third-world vaccination programs. Bill Gates, a well known vaccine advocate who jointly hosted the conference with Cameron, pledged a billion d ...
  • The Bilderberg Delusion
    No matter what you think of Alex Jones, his coverage of Bilderberg meetings is always excellent. The mainstream media on the other hand ... On thursday, Mario Borghezio, a member of the EU parliament, tried to enter the Bilderberg meeting with other EU parliament members, he presented his cre ...
  • Lupe Fiasco - Words I Never Said ft. Skylar Grey
    Lyrics: [Skylar Grey] It's so loud Inside my head With words that I should have said! As I drown in my regrets I can't take back the words I never said I can't take back the words I never said [Lupe Fiasco] I really think the war on terror is a bunch of bullshit Just a poor excuse for you t ...

Fooducate

  • 6 Thoughts About Dads & Nutrition
    Happy Father’s Day dear families! Happy Father’s Day! Although this holiday is usually associated with buying dads a tie/electronic gizmo/golg club/fishing gear and enjoying a BBQ meal, we’d like to take a minute to ponder the paternal role in a family’s healthy eating habits. 1. Not just moms – ...
  • Getting Real in the Whole Foods Parking Lot
    Check out this funny rap video that went viral. Some of the situations may seem really familiar to some of us. For example “Pay my eighty bucks for six things and get out…” Enjoy! Get Fooducated: iPhone App Android App RSS Subscription or Email Subscription Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/food ...
  • LA Schools Ban Chocolate Milk. Dump 3 Million ...
    Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest in the US after New York, made a bold move this week. Beginning in a few weeks, the only milk served to children in schools will be unflavored. Almost 700,000 school children will be affected by this decision: The proposal by Superintendent ...
  • Those Dirty Little Keebler Elves
    The FDA has issued a warning letter to Kellogg’s, parent company of Keebler and Famous Amos, after finding listeria bacterium in a Georgia manufacturing plant. Here is an excerpt: …investigators from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) conducted an inspection of your food manufa ...
  • USA = United Snackers of America
    The meal as we know it is disappearing. A recent report from Packaged Facts – Snack Foods in the US (4th Edition) – shows an ever-growing consumer shift to snacking as a result of âfrenzied lifestylesâ. The packaged snack market grew from $56 Billion in 2006 to $64 Billion in 2010 and is expecte ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Peru suspends devastating dam
    The Asháninka tribe are protesting against another dam, Pakitzapango, planned under Peru and Brazil's energy pact. © David Dudenhoefer A mega-dam in south-east Peru has been suspended following a month of strikes that involved almost 2,000 local people. The Inambari dam was to be the lar ...
  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • Advice for arguing against plastic credit-type ...
    I’m possibly a bit late with this now (sorry Su!) but I just spotted this question and wondered if anyone had any advice/info/suggestions for further research. Good friend of Recycle This and The Really Good Life Su asked: Next week I am at a conference all week. One of the motions for discussio ...
  • Reusing, recycling and upcycling links – ...
    It’s been a while since I’ve featured some of the wonderful reusing, recycling and upcycling links I’ve spotted recently. So, without further ado…: Drinks can pop top lampshade I love this lampshade made with drinks can pop tops – it’s like modern chainmail :) Drinks can bottoms necklace The oth ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle Ariel Gel Dosing De ...
    Granny Cain emailed about Ariel Gel Dosing Devices: Enough!! I now have enough dosing devices for each child in a classroom…. but what to do with them? Tried poking a hole through the side, adding twine and making a bird feeder, but it kept flipping over. Needed some technical refinement… too mu ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle lots of hair elasti ...
    We’ve had an email from Donna: My 12 year old daughter has just had her long long lovely hair cut off and when we got home from the hairdressers, she cleared out a big box of hair bobbles, loop bands, Alice bands, scrunchies, ribbons, all sorts of things like Claire’s Accessories threw up in a [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle little pudding pots?
    We’ve had an email from Debbie: Any ideas what we can do with individual microwave pudding pots from the supermarket? They’re plastic. First up, as always, reduce if you can – I know those puddings are convenient but it doesn’t take that much longer to make your own with a microwave (for example ...

Age of Autism

  • Happy Father's Day!
  • Winners, Age of Autism "Screw Autism" Corkscre ...
    Jane Williams, Trish Rogers and Evelyn are our winners! I've sent each of you an email. KS We gave 3 corkscrews to readers from our friends at The Puzzling Piece. What a great teacher gift too! Listed at $25 in...
  • Best of AofA: TannersDad on Father's Day
    You know him as the Twitter/Social Media King @TannersDad. He wrote this post for us last year - and we thought it was a good day to bring it to you again. Happy Father's Day. By Tim Welsh I never...
  • Freebies Galore at National Autism Association ...
    Hmmm, Freebies Galore, wasn't she a 007 bad girl? You'll be stirred, not shaken, at the tremendous value for your budget at the NAA conference this November 10 - 13, 2011. (Register HERE) by July 3rd to win a free...
  • "It's Chicken Pox - a Normal Childhood Illness ...
    5:50 seconds into this clip Arthur's Dad says, "It's chicken pox." and reassures his son - "No it's just a normal childhood illness. I had it. Mom had it." Then Mom decides to call Grandma Thora to come take care...

Global BDS Movement

  • Map test
    View Global BDS Day of Action 2011 in a larger map
  • BDS campaigners force Ahava shop to move
      The central London flagship store of Ahava, an Israeli cosmetics company whose products come from stolen Palestinian natural resources in the occupied West Bank, and are produced in the illegal settlement of Mitzpe Shalem, has been forced to move … Continue reading →
  • Rawabi remains settler-colonial sub-contractor
    Uri Davis writes on the ongoing links between the Rawabi project and the Jewish National Fund.
  • Stop the Wall release new report on Brazil’s m ...
    Notwithstanding its recent recognition of the Palestinian State and its long tradition of supporting Palestinian rights and upholding international law, the Brazilian government has signed contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars with Israel’s arms industry.
  • Trade Unions
    The global trade union movement has consistently demonstrated its courage and commitment to human rights by adopting concrete, ground-breaking labour-led sanctions against oppressive regimes in a show of effective solidarity with oppressed peoples around the world. Adopting BDS measures has … Co ...

Farm Wars

  • Monsanto, Agent Orange, and Population Reducti ...
    The company that is killing people on an unprecedented scale due to falsified studies on Agent Orange HAS A MONOPOLY ON OUR FOOD SUPPLY. Do you still think our government is not engaged in population reduction warfare against its own citizens?
  • Monsanto, Agent Orange, and Population Reducti ...
    The company that is killing people on an unprecedented scale due to falsified studies on Agent Orange HAS A MONOPOLY ON OUR FOOD SUPPLY. Do you still think our government is not engaged in population reduction warfare against its own citizens?
  • Wildlife Refuges to be Planted with GMOs
    Say goodbye to GMO-free wild game. GMOs are to be planted in wildlife refuges with no restrictions.
  • Selling America to China: Treason by any other ...
    Let's quit being polite and call this maneuver by corporate governments exactly what it is - treason. Nothing more, nothing less. Selling off pieces of America to a foreign government so that government can plant a sovereign city inside our country that is not subject to our laws amounts to trea ...
  • German E-Coli Outbreak: Accident or Planned “G ...
    What if the deadly e-coli outbreak in Germany that was blamed on organic sprouts with no direct proof, but through circumstantial evidence only, was instituted as part of a deliberate campaign to sway public opinion in favor of compliance with Codex regulations and to call for the irradiation of ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • This Apple Patent Will Shut Down Your Camera A ...
    Business Insider – A new patent may limit your iPhone’s capabilities at concerts. Apple wants to use infra-red receivers that disable your video camera when it’s held up to film live performances. Texting and phone capabilities would still work as usual. Read Article
  • A new discovery could reverse the effects of a ...
    WPTV – Fifty-year-old David Adams used to run a restaurant. Then, five years ago, he had a stroke. His life changed in an instant. Thanks to years of therapy, David’s gotten his independence, and some skills back. While David and countless others face the daily challenges of life after stroke, L ...
  • Gaddafi defies Nato with Misrata attack
    Guardian - Muammar Gaddafi’s forces have defied Nato warnings , reportedly killing a woman and wounding two children in rocket strikes on Misrata and launching a big attack to the east of the city. The rocket attack in Habara , between the port and city centre, was the first time artillery has ...
  • U.S.-Vietnam begin Agent Orange clean-up
    Reuters – A joint project between Vietnam and the United States to clean up defoliant Agent Orange contamination from the Vietnam War has begun, and should help further improve relations between the two countries. Nick Rowlands reports.
  • Saudi Arabia women drive cars in protest at ban235
    BBC – Women in Saudi Arabia have been openly driving cars in defiance of an official ban on female drivers in the ultra-conservative kingdom. The direct action has been organised on social network sites, where women have been posting images and videos of themselves behind the wheel. The Women2Dr ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Oil company sued over Santa Barbara spills
    Federal and state regulators on Friday sued an oil company they say was responsible for numerous spills into onshore waterways over five years in Santa Barbara County. The suit against Greka Oil and Gas. Inc was filed by the U.S....
  • California farmers paid to protect tricolored ...
    Paying three farmers to delay harvesting their fields through the nesting season resulted in the protection of an estimated 50,000 tricolored blackbirds in Riverside County and Central California, where the species’ population has plummeted in recent years. Audubon California negotiated...
  • Louisiana wetlands loss continues, decrease no ...
    Efforts to slow the dramatic loss of Louisiana wetlands appear to be paying off, according to a new study by federal scientists. A report released by the U.S. Geological Survey this month found that the rate of wetland loss has...
  • Rocky mountain flowers dwindle, as climate warms
    New research finds that the brilliant flowers that bloom in Rocky Mountain meadows during midsummer are dwindling, and likely to fade even more as climate change warms the high country. Wildflower season once extended summer-long in the Rockies, but the...
  • Half Dome to reopen after snow delay
    Hikers hoping to summit Half Dome in Yosemite National Park will get their chance next week. The cables that allow access to the granite dome will be in place and open for the season beginning Wednesday, park officials said in...

water.org

  • Interview with Water.org’s April Rinne (GGT)
    INTERVIEW: Water.Org’s April Rinne (Green Global Travel) – While other charities may have similar goals, Water.org’s WaterCredit program is unique in that it is works in partnership with microfinance institutions to establish markets in which there is fair access to affordable loans for everyone ...
  • You’re Invited: June 1st Conference Call
      Wednesday, June 1 The 45-minute call begins at 9 p.m. ET Call in number: 978-964-0049
 Participant code: 449749# Not everyone who needs water should have to wait for charity to find them. Learn how Water.org is putting microfinance tools and partnerships to use in helping people get safe water ...
  • Brightest students solving the water crisis
    Hult International Business School Global Case Challenge crowd sources solutions to the water crisis with help from the Clinton Global Initiative. Team from Cambridge University wins Case Challenge.
  • Student group Project RightChoice (Dartmouth)
    Student org. hosts fundraising gala (The Dartmouth) – By selling raffle tickets for a $2,500 cash reward and hosting games with prizes from over 50 local business, members of the student group Project RightChoice raised over $20,000 to support the charity organization Water.Org at a Cinco de May ...
  • Hult prize promotes global water strategies (VOA)
    Business School Prize Promotes Global Water Strategies (VOA) – The Hult International Business School teamed up with Water.org, a non-governmental advocacy group, to challenge the worldâs business students to find a way of bringing clean water to 100 million people in the next five years. Teams ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • 9 Countries That Do It Better: Why Does Europe ...
    In 2008, the U.S. spent 16 percent of its economic output on health-care and covered 85 percent of its citizens. It was the only OECD country other than Mexico and Turkey to cover less than 90 percent of its people.Submitted by Kit B. to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Breaking the Taboo: A Global Drug War Film
    New documentary is a stark and honest portrayal of the global war on drugs and its failure to resolve the many issues that derive from prohibition. Submitted by Kit B. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Misleading Medicare Mantra
    In fact, if the trust fund were to exhaust in 2024, income coming into the fund would still finance 90% of benefits. That�s something to be avoided, but it�s a different kind insolvency than that implied by the R�s mantra. Submitted by Kit B. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
  • Jimmy Carter says: Call Off the Global Drug War
    The report describes the total failure of the present global anti drug effort, and in particular America�s �war on drugs,� which was declared 40 years ago today. It notes that the global consumption of opiates has increased 34.5 percent, cocaine 27% -->Submitted by Kit B. to World �|� �Note-it! ...
  • There Was a Crooked Man
    See 1st CommentSubmitted by Tom S. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • Governments Respecting Human Rights Have No Re ...
    The Senior Official said modern communications technologies means that nothing can be swept under the rug anymore and that that sunshine is the best disinfectant.
  • New UN Resolution for LGBT Marks Victory for D ...
    U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador E. Rice said today's vote marks a victory for defenders of human rights. She stated that it sends a clear message that abuses based on sexual orientation and gender identity must end.
  • 'Narada Falls' in Washington Attracts Many Ice ...
    Upper part of the waterfall freezes in winter and becomes icicles which attracts many ice climbers from afar. Its source is glacier and it flows year round.
  • US Provides Over $80M For Humanitarian Assista ...
    As of June 9, 2011, the U.S. government is providing over $80 million in humanitarian assistance for those affected by the conflict in Libya. This includes an additional $26.5 million U.S. contribution announced earlier today in Abu Dhabi.
  • Evergreen Park High School Bans Nose Piercing ...
    Indo-American statesman Rajan Zed said nose piercing and nose ornaments have been a tradition of women of India for centuries and the Hindu goddesses had been depicted wearing nose ornaments.

Worldnews

  • Lucas Leiva has matured into a great play ...
    The Reds midfielder grew up last season after a tumultuous arrival on Merseyside to establish himself as the side's chief creator, according to the Brazilian left-back By Nathan Lowe Share Share Find the best odds and bet on the Premier League. Liverpool left-back Fabio Aurelio has heaped p ...
  • Juventus close to signing Lyon's Michel B ...
    The versatile Brazilian, who can operate at either left-back or further forward, looks set for a move to Turin after the Italian giants met the required asking price By Gary Niblock Share Share Find the best odds and bet on Ligue 1....
  • Obama: This economy needs more blacksmith ...
    Don't forget. It's the Republicans who are anti-science. You...
  • Muammar Gaddafi war crimes files revealed
    Rebels find documents implicating Libyan leader in war crimes, and hold them for International Criminal Court investigators Documents implicating Muammar Gaddafi in war crimes have been found, claim Libyan rebels. Photograph: Keystone/Rex Thousands of documents that reveal in chilling detai ...
  • Organizers of Gaza flotilla shocked by Tu ...
    The organizers of the upcoming Gaza flotilla spoke openly over the weekend over their disappointment that key Turkish organization IHH has decided to withdraw all participation. The most surprising development is the withdrawal of the Mavi Marmara, which was at the heart of last year's flot ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • Obama Overrides Lawyers Who Warned War on Liby ...
    WASHINGTON  – President Barack Obama overruled two senior government lawyers in deciding that he had the authority to continue US military operations in Libya without Congressional approval, The New York Times reported. In reaching his conclusion Obama rejected the opinions of Jeh Johnson, the P ...
  • United States is Talking to Taliban, says Karzai
    KABUL - The United States is in contact with the Taliban about a possible settlement to the war in Afghanistan, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Saturday, the first official confirmation of U.S. involvement in negotiations. Karzai said that an Afghan push towards peace talks, after nearly a ...
  • Radiation Spike Halts Water 'Cleaning' at Fuku ...
    TOKYO  – Tokyo Electric Power Co. Saturday halted an operation to clean highly contaminated waste water at a crippled Japanese nuclear plant due to higher-than-expected radiation levels. The embattled operator of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi facility said it had suspended the procedure just ho ...
  • Food Price Explosion 'Will Devastate the World ...
    Food prices will soar by as much as 30% over the next 10 years, the United Nations and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development have predicted. read more
  • Mayors Debate War Resolution
    BALTIMORE — Money spent on wars in Afghanistan and Iraq should be spent at home under a resolution proposed Friday by U.S. mayors that calls on Congress to hasten the end of the wars.read more

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Nuclear Energy: Arnie Gundersen Going Internat ...
    Arnie Gundersen has been making money by spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt about nuclear energy for more than a decade. His career has received a measurable boost since March 11, when a large earthquake and powerful tsunami successfully peeled off most of the many layers of protection at the ...
  • Nuclear Energy: Arnie Gundersen Going Internat ...
    Arnie Gundersen has been making money by spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt about nuclear energy for more than a decade. His career has received a measurable boost since March 11, when a large earthquake and powerful tsunami successfully peeled off most of the many layers of protection at the ...
  • First NAATBatt Members' Site Meeting Shows the ...
    If the U.S. advanced battery industry is to grow and prosper, it cannot be premised on a bunch of competitors searching independently for a one-off breakthrough. The battle for the advanced battery market will be a long term struggle. New ideas and new solutions will be developed, will come i ...
  • 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 ethanol tax credit, known as the VEETC, and the etha ...
  • Spiking Conspiracy Theories About Ft. Calhoun ...
    The reactor is reported to be in no danger as the Missouri River hits flood stage

Green House - USA Today

  • Virginia Tech wins U.S. contest with 82 mpg car
    How feasible is it to engineer a car that gets the equivalent of 82 miles-per-gallon? Quite, for a team of students from Virginia Tech University who won first place in a U.S. car contest.
  • Senate, House vote to end some ethanol subsidies
    Faced with escalating government red ink, the Senate voted Thursday to repeal tax credits worth about $6 billion annually for producing ethanol, a liquid fuel additive that comes mostly from U.S.-grown corn.
  • U.S. solar power industry gaining global marke ...
    Solar energy remains one of the fastest growing sectors of the U.S. economy as its photovoltaics produced 66% more power in the first quarter of this year than during the same time last year, the industry reports Thursday.
  • WindMade label for companies makes U.S. debut
    WindMade, the first global consumer label for companies using wind energy, made its U.S. debut in New York City on Wednesday, designated as Global Wind Day.
  • U.S. companies take green steps to offset oil ...
    Four out of five chief financial officers of U.S. companies say high oil prices are hurting their firms, and many are cutting business travel and boosting telecommuting as a result, a new survey shows.

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • The Pursuit For Truth In The Death, And Life, ...
    by Brian McAfee The body of former Chilean President Salvador Allende was exhumed in May in an attempt to determine whether the democratically elected Socialist president was murdered by the Chilean military in the initial stages of the coup or whether he committed suicide as General Augusto c ...
  • Dennis Ross: go home, you are not welcome
    By Khalid Amayreh So Dennis Ross is back in town in occupied Palestine. He is succeeding the failed U.S. envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell who proved himself too cowardly, too obsequious and too pliant especially in the face of Israeli arrogance and insolence. Mitchell thought that by e ...
  • Medical Care in Gaza Under Siege
    by Stephen Lendman Under siege, Israel continues to strangle Gaza. Poverty and unemployment are extremely high. Over 70% of the population requires humanitarian aid. Virtually everything is in short supply. Except for minimal amounts of some fruits, vegetables and flowers, exports are prohibite ...
  • Working America's Dismal State
    by Stephen Lendman Two recent studies documented it, both discussed below. In May 2011, Northeastern University's Center for Labor Market Studies (NECLMS) headlined, "The 'Jobless and Wageless' Recovery from the Great Recession of 2007 - 2009: The Magnitude and Sources of Economic Growth Throug ...
  • Dismissively Ignoring Hard Times
    by Stephen Lendman Despite a deepening global depression, Washington, Wall Street and America's media remain largely in denial, for how much longer isn't certain as hard times get tougher for growing millions worldwide. Tough enough, in fact, for angry demonstrators to strike and protes ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

  • Libya has accused Nato of killing at least fiv ...
    Nato raid kills five civilians, Libyan officials say | BBC The BBC’s Jeremy Bowen saw rescue teams working at the scene of the alleged strike. A three-storey house was badly damaged at the scene of the alleged raid in the Souk al-Juma residential district. Correspondents were later shown five bo ...
  • ‘Super Breed’ Of Medicinal Cannabi ...
    By NewsCore | myfoxdc – LONDON – A British pharmaceutical company was working Wednesday to develop a new breed of cannabis-based products aimed at treating a range of conditions including diabetes, epilepsy and Crohn’s disease. GW Pharmaceuticals, which launched a cannabis-derived medicine for s ...
  • Clarence Clemons, RIP
    E Street sax man Clarence Clemons dies | CNN Legendary rock saxophonist Clarence Clemons died Saturday of complications from a stroke, bandmate Bruce Springsteen said. He was 69. Clemons had played sax in Springsteen’s E Street Band off and on since 1972. “Clarence lived a wonderful life. He car ...
  • Happy Father’s Day!
    Father’s Day is a celebration honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. It is celebrated on the third Sunday of June in many countries and on other days elsewhere. It complements Mother’s Day, the celebration honoring mothers. Father’s ...
  • Can Saudi women overturn the driving ban?
    BY JUSTIN ELLIOTT | salon. – In the latest protest against Saudi Arabia’s ban on driving by women, about 40 women on Friday took part in what the New York Times called “random acts of women driving.” Friday’s protest actions followed the May 22 arrest of Manal al-Sharif, a 32-year-old Saudi woma ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

  • Libya says NATO airstrike hits residential area
    The Libyan government accused NATO of bombing a residential neighborhood in the capital and killing civilians early Sunday, adding to its charges that the alliance is striking nonmilitary targets. At least four people, including two children, were reported killed.
  • Water cleanup stalled at crippled Japan nuclea ...
    A system to clean massive amounts of contaminated water at the site of Japan's nuclear disaster was shut down Saturday, just hours after it began full operations, because a component filled with radioactivity much more quickly than expected.
  • Obama's Puerto Rico visit spurs anger, discontent
    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- President Barack Obama may have been in Puerto Rico for only four hours, but his brief fundraising visit has unleashed a growing political furor in this U.S. Caribbean territory.
  • Birdies, bogeys and business for Obama, Boehner?
    President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner should get a chance to discuss more than birdies and bogeys during their much anticipated golf outing at a military base outside the nation's capital.
  • Can Saudi women overturn the driving ban?
    In the latest protest against Saudi Arabia's ban on driving by women, about 40 women on Friday took part in what the New York Times called "random acts of women driving."

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Nuclear Energy: Arnie Gundersen Going Internat ...
    Arnie Gundersen has been making money by spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt about nuclear energy for more than a decade. His career has received a measurable boost since March 11, when a large earthquake and powerful tsunami successfully peeled off most of the many layers of protection at the ...
  • Nuclear Energy: Arnie Gundersen Going Internat ...
    Arnie Gundersen has been making money by spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt about nuclear energy for more than a decade. His career has received a measurable boost since March 11, when a large earthquake and powerful tsunami successfully peeled off most of the many layers of protection at the ...
  • First NAATBatt Members' Site Meeting Shows the ...
    If the U.S. advanced battery industry is to grow and prosper, it cannot be premised on a bunch of competitors searching independently for a one-off breakthrough. The battle for the advanced battery market will be a long term struggle. New ideas and new solutions will be developed, will come i ...
  • 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 ethanol tax credit, known as the VEETC, and the etha ...
  • Spiking Conspiracy Theories About Ft. Calhoun ...
    The reactor is reported to be in no danger as the Missouri River hits flood stage

EU Times

  • US asks Russia for UNSC action on Syria
    US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has asked Russia to support a draft United Nations Security Council resolution on Syria. Clinton made the call during a phone conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday, AFP reported. “With regard to Syria, their discussion focused on ...
  • Saudi women launch Women2Drive campaign
    Women in Saudi Arabia have been openly driving cars in defiance of an official ban on female drivers in the ultra-conservative kingdom. The direct action has been organised on social network sites, where women have been posting images and videos of themselves behind the wheel. Saudi women have b ...
  • Clean-up suspended at Fukushima plant
    The operator of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant has stopped the clean-up operation as radiation levels rose faster than expected. “The level of radiation at a machine to absorb cesium has risen faster than our initial projections,” Reuters quoted a spokesman for Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) ...
  • IMF: Europe must deal with Greece or suffer
    Europe’s political elite is âplaying with fireâ through its failure to tackle the economic crisis engulfing Greece, the International Monetary Fund has warned. The Washington-based watchdog predicted that a fresh round of turmoil would spread through financial markets unless European leaders sho ...
  • Angered hockey fans create chaos in Vancouver
    Angry, drunken revelers ran wild Wednesday night after the Vancouver Canucks’ 4-0 loss to Boston in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals, setting cars and garbage cans ablaze, smashing windows, showering giant TV screens with beer bottles and dancing atop overturned vehicles. Angered hockey fans att ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Nato raid in Tripoli kills five under the miss ...
    At least five people have died in a Nato air strike that hit a house in the Libyan capital Tripoli, Libyan government officials say. A three-storey house was badly damaged at the scene of the alleged air raid in the city's Souk al Juma residential district. Correspondents were later shown five ...
  • The Wandering Whisperer: To Cairo and back wit ...
    As you probably know from Twitter and the like, this blogger has seen a very busy last seven days. Just yesterday, I was lounging poolside at the Kempinski Hotel in Cairo , and after a short ten hour re-packing stint in London, I arrived in Milan for the menswear shows at the ripe hour of ten o ...
  • McIlroy filling Tiger's void and more
    BETHESDA, Md. -- The press conference question caused Rory McIlroy to bury his face in the crook of his left arm. Heavens, it even caused him to blush. He had been asked about the veteran pro Padraig Harrington's declaration that he, McIlroy, would be the one who broke Jack Nicklaus's record of ...
  • ‘Nato raid’ kills Libya civilians
    BBC NEWS At least five civilians have died in a Nato air strike that hit a house in the Libyan capital Tripoli, government officials say. Family killed? Libya has accused Nato of killing at least five people in an air strike that hit a house in the capital Tripoli. A three-storey house was badl ...
  • Facebook App For iPad in The Works
    Were not sure why its taken them so long, but Facebook is putting the final touches on an app that will be available for iPad users. Many Facebook users have resorted to using third party apps to access the popular social networking site on their tablet devices, including My Pad, iFace and Frie ...

Groklaw

  • Please update your anti-virus.. at least once ...
    The MyDoom worm....It became widespread in no time, which was particularly concerning for software firm SCO - whose website it targeted with a distributed denial-of-service attack from infected computers as part of a civil war between different factions of the Linux community. [PJ: Perhaps Sopho ...
  • Digging into Technology's Past
    Think about a movie like Back to the Future. Marty McFly may have been overwhelmed by what he saw in 2015, but had his son from the future been suddenly transported back to 1985, he would have been just as befuddled when placed in front of a Commodore. "The only thing that comes close to replic ...
  • What I Learned In Joplin
    What I learned: It's easy to scoff at the suggestion that satisfactory cell service is a matter of national security and necessity. But I won't scoff anymore....I started trying to upload pictures to Instagram. It sometimes took what seemed like ten minutes of refreshing to upload just one pictu ...
  • Software Patents: Do as You Would be Done By
    For Microsoft to complain is pretty rich, of course. Here it is, using patents to attack companies employing Android in an attempt to slow down the uptake of that rival to its own Windows Phone smartphone system. That's a clear abuse of the patent system to dissuade companies from signing up wit ...
  • Of Open Source and Open Innovation
    That concept rose to prominence with Henry Chesbrough's book, "Open Innovation - The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology", published in 2003. It's a decent enough exploration of the idea from a business viewpoint, but what shocked me when I read it was that Linux is mention ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Embed Twitter posts easily in WordPress
    Use the Twitter Blackbird Pie plugin. It’s easy! WP Candy has the details and a video.
  • Legalizing marijuana won’t kill the drug cartels
    Sylvia Longmire in the New York Times. Marijuana makes up 60 percent of the cartels’ profits, that still leaves another 40 percent, which includes the sale of methamphetamine, cocaine, and brown-powder and black-tar heroin. If marijuana were legalized, the cartels would still make huge profits f ...
  • Legalizing marijuana won’t kill the drug cartels
    Sylvia Longmire in the New York Times. Marijuana makes up 60 percent of the cartels’ profits, that still leaves another 40 percent, which includes the sale of methamphetamine, cocaine, and brown-powder and black-tar heroin. If marijuana were legalized, the cartels would still make huge profits f ...
  • Bill Gates says solar and wind is “cute” but n ...
    Bill Gates says] it doesn’t matter how efficient wind and solar technology become. Neither tech possesses the necessary oomph to “deal with our climate problem ⦠because the climate problem requires more than 90% reduction of CO2 emitted, and no amount of efficiency improvement is enough.” For ...
  • Bill Gates says solar and wind is “cute” but n ...
    Bill Gates says] it doesn’t matter how efficient wind and solar technology become. Neither tech possesses the necessary oomph to “deal with our climate problem ⦠because the climate problem requires more than 90% reduction of CO2 emitted, and no amount of efficiency improvement is enough.” For ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • In Gaza
    From Monday through Thursday, Bill the spouse and I were in Gaza. The time there was really great: We got to talk to some really interesting people. It is so important to be able to hear from them firsthand and see the conditions in which they're living-- not least because of the terrible isolat ...
  • Post-Tahrir Cairo, Day 1
    Bill the spouse and I had an informative, short conversation today with the longtime MB spokesman Dr. Esam El-Erian, who is also the deputy head of the newly emerging, MB-backed Freedom and Justice Party. (You can find descriptions of interviews I conducted with Dr. El-Erian in early 2007 and e ...
  • Publishing: From 140 characters to 150,000 words
    I haven't blogged much recently, I know. I've been incredibly busy. Primarily with the book-publishing but a bit with family things and also, increasingly, with planning for the trip I'm currently on. (This blog post comes to you from London. On Saturday, I'm going to Cairo... ) Also, I've been ...
  • Syria: The strong risk of fitna, and how to pr ...
    Josh Landis has a truly excellent piece on his blog today. It is a lengthy account that he's publishing there, that was written by someone identified only as "An American in Syria." Whoever the writer is, the writing shows the closeness of her/his own connectedness to Syrians in Damascus of a va ...
  • Notes on Turkey and Syria, #2
    Turkish FM Davutoglu today told a couple of media outlets (including the NYT) that Syrian President Bashar al-Asad should launch a "shock therapy" version of political reform. Did he use those words in English? If so, it is a truly lousy turn of phrase. "Shock therapy," as administered to the Ru ...

frogblog

  • Many questions, but no answers on Telecommunic ...
    Green MP Gareth Hughes had some questions for Communications Minister Steven Joyce in Parliament yesterday: Here was Steven Joyce’s reply: Nothing to say here. Nothing to say here. Nothing to say here. Nothing to say here. So Gareth tried again: Steven Joyce still wouldn’t take a call to respond ...
  • Greater Wellington failing regional economy
    The roll-out of real time displays — screens that tell passengers when their bus or train will arrive — has been delayed yet again, Greater Wellington Regional Council reported yesterday. This is yet another setback in a long line of setbacks and broken promises stretching right back to the year ...
  • Double double-standards on internet termination?
    Labour’s Foreign Affairs spokesperson Maryan Street is criticising National for their double standard of supporting strong statements at the UN against internet termination whilst bringing in the ‘Skynet’ Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Act that allows it locally, an issue I blogged on earli ...
  • Pedestrianise Queen Street? Hell yeah!
    The Auckland Council is consulting right now on a discussion document called the City Centre Master Plan (PDF). It almost slipped under my radar but I’ve managed to draft up a quick submission to go in before the closing date – this Friday, the 17th of June. I encourage you to make an online sub ...
  • School support staff – celebrate skills ...
    Yesterday was national School Support Staff Celebration Day. I went out to a breakfast for school support staff in Mana. There was a festive air amongst these hard working, low-paid people who make great things happen in our schools. It amazes me that the Government can talk about pouring more m ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • New Camera Blogging
    So I went out and bought a new camera today. Because — um, because I heard that the economy needed stimulating, and as a patriotic American I figured I should do my part. Besides, ever since cameras became electronic gadgets, their useful lives are officially measured in months, not years. A ...
  • New Camera Blogging
    So I went out and bought a new camera today. Because — um, because I heard that the economy needed stimulating, and as a patriotic American I figured I should do my part. Besides, ever since cameras became electronic gadgets, their useful lives are officially measured in months, not years. A ...
  • Obama, Libya, and the OLC
    Charlie Savage reports in the New York Times that the White House decided earlier this year to overrule official Department of Justice advice on whether the War Powers Act applies to Libya: President Obama rejected the views of top lawyers at the Pentagon and the Justice Department when he de ...
  • Nonfiction Favorites
    Inspired by the Guardian's list of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time, the New York Times asked a bunch of its staff writers to pick their five favorites. There was a four-way tie for first place, and the reason for the tie is more interesting than the names of the books themselves: Of ...
  • Quote of the Day: Obama's Plan to Ruin Medicare
    From Michele Bachmann, explaining President Obama's plan to kill off Medicare: I think very likely what the president intends is that Medicare will go broke and ultimately that answer will be Obamacare for senior citizens. Well, that would certainly explain why Obama pushed so hard for a hea ...

Insanity Report

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

Simple Climate

  • Climate rhythm shift brings early calving
    Chillingham cattle, which are able to breed all year round, are having more calves in winter due to earlier springs, reducing their chances of surviving a year, find Sarah Burthe of the UK's Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and colleagues, showing that even mammals with breeding flexibility are ...
  • History warns of civilisation-crushing climate ...
    After giant sandworms cause an argument between me and my girlfriend about whether climate-related civilisation-wide disasters are possible, reviewing scientific evidence of such events through history force me to concede that they are.
  • Vikings’ Greenland demise tells climate tale
    Two civilisations – including the Vikings – disappeared from Greenland at times of rapid climate change William D'Andrea of University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and colleagues find, but understanding how those changes happens is more important than the impact they had, he asserts.
  • Greenland melt studies need greater accuracy
    Lack of detail undermines previous efforts to predict future Greenland ice melt from recent observations, says Ohio State University's Ian Howat, whose new method finds the island's three largest outlet glaciers lost enough ice to fill Lake Erie between 2000 and 2010
  • Greenland melt studies need greater accuracy
    Lack of detail undermines previous efforts to predict future Greenland ice melt from recent observations, says Ohio State University's Ian Howat, whose new method finds the island's three largest outlet glaciers lost enough ice to fill Lake Erie between 2000 and 2010

e!Science News

  • NASA's James Webb Space Telescope completes fi ...
    The first six of 18 segments that will form NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's primary mirror for space observations completed final cryogenic testing this week. The ten week test series included two tests cycles where the mirrors were chilled down to -379 degrees Fahrenheit, then back to ambie ...
  • Tapeworm drug inhibits colon cancer metastasis
    A compound that for about 60 years has been used as a drug against tapeworm infection is also apparently effective against colon cancer metastasis, as studies using mice have now shown. The compound silences a gene that triggers the formation of metastases in colon cancer. Professor Ulrike Stein ...
  • University of Louisville surgeons perform firs ...
    The first three patients to undergo an investigational surgical procedure for peripheral vascular disease that involves the patient's own stem cells continue to do well, reports the University of Louisville surgeon who is the principal investigator. read more
  • After 55 years, surgery restores sight
    After being hit in the eye by a stone, a detached retina left a man blind in his right eye. Despite surgery to remove a cataract when the man was 23, which temporarily restored light perception, the patient was completely blind in that eye. Doctors at The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary have repo ...
  • System 92E looking more like a developing east ...
    A low pressure area in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, located off the western coast of Mexico, is still getting organized, and System 92E and the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite spotted heavy rain and strong thunderstorms within. read more

unEarthed

  • Should You Trust Energy Star?
    Things the label doesn't tell you, and what you can do about it The Energy Star logo is one of the most trusted labels for consumers looking to make environmen ...
  • Friday Finds: Burn Notice
    Formaldehyde fess up, climate change symptoms, eco bag attack The FDA recently released new restrictions for sunscreen manufacturers. Photo courtesy of earthly delights. ...
  • Pushing Pyromania
    Controversial air loophole encourages dangerous waste burning Not all burning is bad. For example, campfires rule—when they are done sensitively. I don't mean ...
  • Awash In Water and Profits, Cal Growers Denied ...
    Judge deals them a setback in latest ruling Sacramento River salmon It’s hard to view the recent actions of some big agricultural operations in California’s ...
  • 3 Out of 4 Voters Agree: Cleaning Up Smog Aids ...
    New poll shows overwhelming support for EPA clean air standards Smog over Los Angeles It comes as no surprise: Americans overwhelmingly want clean air. We’r ...

Brave New Climate

  • Greenpeace’s plan for India
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. This article follows on from his previous: What price of Indian independence? Greenpeace under the spotlight —————— In my previous ...
  • Equinox Energy 2030 communiqué
    The Equinox Energy 2030 Summit (2011) has  now concluded, and I’ve arrived back in Australia. It was an enthralling and exhausting experience, and I befriended a wonderful group of people — members of the Forum (aged ~25 to 30 years), Advisors (including me — for generalist critiques and ), Quo ...
  • Open Thread 16
    The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting rules of courtesy apply, and at the very least your chat should relate to the general content of this ...
  • Disposal of UK plutonium stocks with a climate ...
    In the 1950s, following World War II, the United Kingdom and a handful of other nations developed a nuclear weapons arsenal. This required the production of plutonium metal (or highly enriched uranium) purpose-built facilities. ‘Civil’ plutonium was also produced, since the facilities for separa ...
  • Critique of MIT future of nuclear fuel cycle study
    MIT (energy initiative) recently released a controversial and well-publicized report on the future of the nuclear fuel cycle. In it, they argue that there is sufficient uranium to allow ongoing deployment of water-cooled reactors for many decades; they recommend that no far-reaching decision be ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • Are New Zealand and Australia serious about de ...
    : "Sunday, June 19, 2011 Are New Zealand and Australia serious about democracy in Fiji? RALLYING FOR VITI: Australian pro-democracy supporters. photo: Matavuvale Where is Fiji's Regional Support? By Sanjay Ramesh In February a new commanding officer of the Fiji Third Infant ...
  • Leonard Peltier Remembers Geronimo Pratt - Bla ...
    Leonard Peltier Remembers Geronimo Pratt - Black Unity Greetings to all my friends and compatriots, Everyone it seems knows something about Geronimo Pratt. To all of us, to every human being on the planet, he was a beacon of principle that we should all aspire to emulate. To those directly inv ...
  • The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي ...
    The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: Hussam sent me this: "This interview is in Portuguese (the page translate isn't bad) and revealing of his racist orientalist views. He thinks he should be praised. "Who is the man behind Amina? Can I say I'm a lesbian trapped in a man's ...
  • EduBlog:Last Poets
    EduBlog:Last Poets - Black Unity The Last Poets is a group of poets and musicians who arose from the late 1960s African American civil rights movement's black nationalist thread. Their name is taken from a poem by the South African revolutionary poet Keorapetse Kgositsile, who believed he was in ...
  • Amigos de la infancia, de viajes y de combate, ...
    Amigos de la infancia, de viajes y de combate, en homenaje al Che | Cubadebate A moving tribute to the memory of Ernesto Che Guevara surrendered here today, the second largest in the country, where 83 years ago (June 14, 1928) was born the man who would move to Latin America and is a symbol in t ...

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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