- A Gut Wrenching Appellate Loss- Please Share Y ...
This blog has been a great forum to discuss the occasional triumphs of justice and the victory of the rule of law over the fraud, the deceit and the abject criminality of the banks and their law firms. It has also been an open forum for me to discuss the frustrations over a legal system [...]
- THE ULTIMATE SELL OUT- THE BANKS AVOID ALL LIA ...
We have become a disgusting, lawless and overtly corrupt nation where no rules or laws apply to the banks and institutions. Dispense with all your naive notions of justice, fairness and law, because in this new era these concepts do not apply if your crimes and conspiracies are big enough. WASH ...
- The Banks Can’t Count…
Every single day we receive more and more evidence of the banks and their wrongdoing. I long ago gave up on any government official to do anything about it and I never had any faith that any of the banks or the industry could self police I had faith that our courts would do something, [...]
- The LPS Sanctions Decision- Bankruptcy Court S ...
The Federal judges are really stepping in and calling all this mess what it really is… Read the In Re Wilson, Order HERE Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
- Two Days/Two Summary Judgement Vacated/Two Sal ...
It’s only Tuesday, but it has been a very good week already…I got two Summary Judgments vacated and two sales canceled! Now mind you, there was no way these two judgments should have been entered in first place, but that’s a whole other story. The bottom line is we worked very hard, briefed th ...
- Men Without Chests
The phrase above originated in The Abolition of Man, a thoughtful work by C. S. Lewis on the loss of virtue. He maintained that some of the greatest realities in life actually come from something external to the experience of humans. Such truths are objective and provide the guideposts for human ...
- “But Still We Have It”
My wife spoke on the phone yesterday with an incumbent MP from another region that lost his seat in the last election. He and his family have been friends for years and so the conversation was an open and frank one. When asked if he would run again his response was interesting. “It’s like a [...]
- Advancing Civilization
It suddenly dawned on me yesterday that I might be getting anachronistic. Once a year I smoke dad’s old pipe as a way of remembering him. Sitting on the porch swing, I recalled the smell of that pipe when I was a boy, listening to him as he expounded on some of his war experiences [...]
- No Labels
I was fascinated to read Susan Delacourt’s recent blog posting “Chretien: The Modern Conservative?” in which she points to some of the ironies in the Manning Centre’s recent conclusion that Canada is surely becoming more Conservative. Pollster Allan Gregg, one of the participants, made an observ ...
- Critical Mass
Thomas Friedman of the New York Times didn’t win the Pulitzer Prize three times for being cute. His insights on issues such as world trade, the environment, Middle East developments, and foreign affairs have made him a force with which to be reckoned. Yesterday, in an article titled “The World i ...
- In Memoriam: Infant Deaths & Vaccination
by Barbara Loe Fisher Memorial Day is for remembering those, who have fought and died to defend America and preserve our civil liberties, including freedom of thought, speech, religious belief and conscience. So every Memorial Day I remember the children, who have died after receiving state ma ...
- Whooping Cough Outbreaks & Vaccine Failures
UPDATE: CLICK HERE TO VIEW NVIC'S PERTUSSIS VACCINE & DISEASE PAGE by Barbara Loe Fisher Reports of whooping cough outbreaks in California1,2 and in other states this summer are nothing new. Every four to five years – no matter how high the vaccination rate is - there are reports of w ...
- Using Fear & Prejudice to Attack Vaccine Exemp ...
by Barbara Loe Fisher This summer, inaccurate and misleading information about B. pertussis whooping cough and the pertussis vaccine is being put out there by medical doctors, who should know better. Media campaigns designed to create fear about infectious disease are nothing new. This ...
- Amy Wallace & Yellow Journalism
by Barbara Loe Fisher On October 17, 2009 I was at the Atlanta airport on my way back to Washington, D.C. when I stopped at a newsstand. Like most weary travelers waiting for a plane, I was looking for something to read that would give me a break from my work, which included, two weeks earl ...
- Forcing Flu Shots on Health Care Workers: Who ...
By Barbara Loe Fisher Doctors at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia are ordering all employees to get a flu shot every year or be sent home for two weeks without pay to “think about it.” Anyone, who still refuses to get a flu shot after that, is fired.1 60 percent of all U.S. health care p ...
- Synthetic biology, ethics and the hacker culture
While the DIY Biotechnology community has grown considerably since this post, the piece still captures something of what is still a young movement, and one that challenges assumptions about top-down technology innovation. Originally posted June 13 2008 Read Thomas L. Friedman’s “The World is Fla ...
- Nano-sunscreens leave their mark
Most manufacturers of nanomaterial-based sunscreens try to make sure that the material they use doesn’t generate harmful chemicals in the presence of sunlight. But the paper this piece was based on suggested that some photoactive materials might be slipping through the net. Originally posted J ...
- Value-added nanotechnology
The more the debate over what precisely nanotechnology is goes on, the more inclined I am to think that it’s something of an illusion. Sure, nanoscale science is real. And there are clearly technologies that exploit this. But are they nanotechnologies, or are they simply clever uses of sci ...
- Is nanotechnology suffering from “silent rave” ...
I couldn’t resist finishing the August in the Archives series with this piece on “silent rave” syndrome, which I am sad to say still seems to inflict the emerging technologies community! Originally posted October 5 2008 The silent rave might seem a rather bizarre social phenomenon; a group of st ...
- Rethinking nanotechnology – responding to a re ...
Back in July, the US National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) posted a Request For Information in the Federal Register for input to the next NNI strategic plan – to be published later this year. The closing date for comments was a couple of weeks ago now. I got mine in in the nick of time. ...
- Paul Ryan's Budget Payday
Intro: "The congressman stands to make money from his stakes in four businesses that lease land to energy companies which would benefit from $45 billion in tax breaks and subsidies in his proposed budget." Ryan's effort to extend tax breaks creates the potential appearance of a conflict of in ...
- AARP Undermines Social Security Fight
Intro: "An article in Friday's Wall Street Journal has Social Security advocates angry and scratching their heads. It suggests that AARP - one of the most powerful interest groups in Washington - has done an about face on the question of cutting retirement benefits for seniors as part of a grand ...
- Will New York Help Kill the Electoral College?
Dan Amira reports: "Many people became acutely attuned to the drawbacks of the Electoral College when Al Gore received over a half-million more votes in 2000 than George W. Bush yet lost the Electoral College, and hence, the election. This system seemed unfair, illogical, archaic. Now a movement ...
- Will New York Help Kill the Electoral College?
Dan Amira reports: "Many people became acutely attuned to the drawbacks of the Electoral College when Al Gore received over a half-million more votes in 2000 than George W. Bush yet lost the Electoral College, and hence, the election. This system seemed unfair, illogical, archaic. Now a movement ...
- Gingrich's Charity Paid Money to Gingrich's Bu ...
Elspeth Reeve reports: "A charity founded by Newt Gingrich paid Gingrich's for-profit company $220,000 over two years, ABC News reports. The non-profit, Renewing American Leadership, was meant to spur conversation about restoring Christian principles in Washington, and mostly did that through le ...
- Not Justice, Not Victory: Just Another Murder ...
“I keep thinking of how awful it was to hear that there were people actually celebrating on 9-11. Now I look at the TV and see the same thing.” -Family member of a man killed in the World Trade Center of September 11, 2001. The reported killing of Osama bin Laden by a CIA operation [...]
- The Broken Rifle in Kabul
The above photograph, of Scott Schaeffer-Duffy from the Catholic Worker in Worcester, Massachusetts standing beside street art made by local Afghan youth, was taken in Kabul by WRL National Committee and Organizing Task Force member Jim Haber when he was on a recent delegation with Voices for Cr ...
- WRL Organizers Hit the West Coast
From February 25th to March 7th,WRL organizing coordinator Kimber Heinz and field organizer Ali Issa began a three-stop trip on the West Coast where they met with WRL locals and affiliates, as well as allied organizations working on GI resistance, civilian support for anti-war veteran organizing ...
- Iraq/Wisconson Labor Solidarity: Two Statements
In the wake of the threat posed to what remain of labor rights in Wisconsin, and the public’s powerful response, two Iraqi labor leaders, Hassan Jum’a and Faleh Abood, penned solidarity statements in late February on behalf the 26,000 member strong Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions, and the 15,000 ...
- Stepping up the Resistance to U.S. Islamophobia
As Peter King, the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, steps up the U.S. government attack against Muslims living in the U.S., saying that he will “rely on Muslims to make his case that American Muslim leaders have failed to cooperate with law enforcement officials in the effo ...
- New USDA Report Stresses Regulations on Antibi ...
A new technical review by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, “A Focus on Antimicrobial Resistance,” calls the issue a growing public health concern worldwide, stating the misuse of antimicrobial drugs in food animal production and human medicine is the main factor accelerating antimicrobial res ...
- CLF opposes Rehberg amendment, antibiotic-resi ...
The FY 2012 Agriculture appropriations bill, voted out of the House Appropriations Committee last week, includes an amendment that would severely limit the authority of FDA to regulate the use of antimicrobials, including antibiotics, in food animal production-a key concern of public health rese ...
- Food and Farm Policy: this is not the image an ...
Recently, my boyfriend offered to give me a dollar for every blog I started with, “Stop what you’re doing, ’cause I’m about to ruin the image and the style that you’re used to.” I responded to his idea with a barrage of reasons why it was ridiculous and certainly not appropriate in my line of [. ...
- Pfizer will voluntary suspend sale of roxarson ...
The FDA announced today that Pfizer Inc., will voluntarily suspend the sale of 3-Nitro (better known as the arsenical drug roxarsone) following the results of an FDA study which found elevated levels of inorganic arsenic in the livers of chicken fed roxarsone compared to a control group. The ann ...
- 100 years of artificial nitrogen - but how man ...
I recently was asked in an interview to name the one thing I would change in the world if I had the power to do so. Surprising even myself, I replied quickly “the Haber-Bosch (H-B) process for industrial nitrogen fixation. Imagine - a world without synthetic N! One can imagine the blank look I g ...
- Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 19, 2011
==== NATO Strike In Libyan Capital Kills Entire Family Angolan Parliament Speaker: West’s Intervention In Africa Targets Energy Resources The Libyan Crisis: The Point Of No Return Four NATO Soldiers Killed In Southern Afghanistan Georgia: Second U.S. Guided Missile Cruiser Visit In Less Than Two ...
- Vladimir Odoevsky: City without a name, system ...
Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Vladimir Odoevsky From Russian Nights (1844) The Fifth Night: A City Without Name Translated by Olga Koshansky-Olienikov “…Not far away from us there settled another colony, likewise on an uninhabited island. It consisted of common peop ...
- Albert Schweitzer: On nuclear weapons in NATO& ...
Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts From Statement by Albert Schweitzer with Reference to the Present Nuclear Crisis in the World (1958) When America had its atomic monopoly, it was not necessary to equip its armies with nuclear weapons. Owing to the end of the monopoly, ...
- Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 18, 2011
==== Libyan War: 11,526 NATO Air Missions, 4,357 Combat Sorties U.S. Seeks To Try Syria’s Assad In International Criminal Court France, Germany Push UN Resolution Against Syria U.S. Guided Missile Warship Headed To Georgian Port “Georgia Will Surely Join NATO”: Italian NATO Parliamentary Assembl ...
- NATO Incorporates Libyan Experience For Global ...
Stop NATO June 18, 2011 NATO Incorporates Libyan Experience For Global War Template Rick Rozoff 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 ...
- The Fight is Not Over! Don’t Let Lock Bo ...
NoLockBox.org June 18th, 2011 The citizens of Cedar Falls were ignored once more. Stand up for your rights. Don’t let lock boxes into YOUR town. Join the cause at NoLockBox.org var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":};
- Clinton on Syria: Astounding Lies, Zero Legitimacy
The Intel Hub Tony Catalucci – Contributing Writer June 18, 2011 Bangkok, Thailand June 18, 2011 â Out of either desperation or immeasurable hubris, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has just attempted to rewrite the last 3 months of history, contradicting her own departmentâs statements made d ...
- The Fight is Not Over! Don’t Let Lock Bo ...
NoLockBox.org June 18th, 2011 The citizens of Cedar Falls were ignored once more. Stand up for your rights. Don’t let lock boxes into YOUR town. Join the cause at NoLockBox.org var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":};
- Clinton on Syria: Astounding Lies, Zero Legitimacy
The Intel Hub Tony Catalucci – Contributing Writer June 18, 2011 Bangkok, Thailand June 18, 2011 â Out of either desperation or immeasurable hubris, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has just attempted to rewrite the last 3 months of history, contradicting her own departmentâs statements made d ...
- Military Convoys, Tanks, And The Need For Info ...
The Intel Hub June 18th, 2011 Related: Huge Military Convoy Hauling Explosives headed to Joplin Update: Just read an article referencing your site regarding white vans with military personal, country of origin unknown… I am retired active duty and the picture was a cargo van, NO windows on side… ...
- SF Bay Area activists say: Drop the Charges on ...
Stop the Government Attacks on International Solidarity Activists! Stop the FBI raids! The People’s Opposition to Imperialism will not be Suppressed!
- Greece: A revolutionary writes on the current ...
Dear international friends and comrades, For years, the workers and the people of Greece have expressed in every available occasion their wrath against the anti-people policies of the governments (both right-wing and social-democrat). Since May 25th there is a new situation. The people of Greece ...
- Carlos Montes, a voice for change – the ...
[Carlos Montes, a prominent leader of Chicano people in Los Angeles for nearly 5 decades, is the latest target of FBI raids aimed at international solidarity activists. June 16, the same day as the court hearing in his case in Los Angeles, the Committee to Stop FBI repression is leading demonst ...
- “Is Your Community Under Government Atta ...
“Know Your Rights When the FBI Knocks” Â In this presentation, Zahra Billoo of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (San Francisco Bay Area) discusses the government targeting of Arab and Muslim communities in the US. This targeting continues a long history of many state-targetted communit ...
- Statement exposing and opposing the World Econ ...
[On the event of the meeting of the World Economic Forum in Austria, a number of European anti-imperialist and revolutionary organizations have released this joint statement, analyzing the present world economic crisis, the role of the WEF, and the growing revolutionary struggles against the imp ...
- Announcing the Gaza to Ireland Youth Exchange
am beyond excited to announce that we are formalising a partnership that will ensure one of my fondest goals shall be achieved, that of a youth exchange between the children of Gaza and those of Europe. I am even more excited because we are focusing on the youth of Gaza as well as Belfast and F ...
- One for the Women
It is said that behind every great man you will find a great woman. I do not look at myself as a great man per se, but I do see the greatness of the women in my life, and if I do indeed succeed in my ultimate goals, you can thank these women every bit as much as me. They have played the essent ...
- Samouni Inter-Trade Palestine, Trade Not Aid
Our Mission Samouni Inter-Trade Palestine (SIP) is a social enterprise international trade mission. We endeavour to catalyse the end of Gaza’s charitable dependency through import and export trade. We do not seek simply to alleviate the suffering of the people in Gaza. Our ultimate objective i ...
- Slander vs. Sanity
Lesson number one, the actual agents who direct slander campaigns, those working for MI6, CIA, Mossad and other so-called “intelligence” agencies, they and their tactics are rendered useless without the presence of the most important element for successful subversion, and that would be… the idio ...
- NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE
On Thursday April 21st we shall make a human chain with the children of Gaza to spell out NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE so as to tell the world that Israel’s bombings of Gaza must stop. We intend to remind the world how the children of Palestine are terrorized and murdered by Israeli air power [...]
- A little more reading with Sunday's column...
To read the column, go here. To read more about Christ Church Cathedral, go here. To read more about Church Street Eats, go here. To compare Hartford's unemployment rate with other metropolitan U.S. areas, go here. To look specifically at Hartford, go here. To read more about hunger among Har ...
- Enjoy your weekend
I'm taking it off, and you should, too. Meanwhile, do enjoy the music.
- Upon Weiner's leavetaking:
The former New York representative who sent his career into a tweetfall gets some pretty sweet retirement benefits. And thanks, Steve, for the link. Reuters photo
- Fathers, explained
Pew Research Center has a new study out about� fathers that says, in part: In 2010, 27 percent of children live apart from their fathers.Sixty-three percent of fathers say the job's harder now than it was a generation ago.Of fathers who live with their children, 88 percent said they are doing a ...
- Happy Battle of Bunker Hill Day
On this day in 1775, things came to a head between British troops and American colonists near Charlestown, Mass. As an aside, the battle actually occurred at nearby Breed's Hill. And the British won. But happy day, anyway. And thanks, Duncan, for the reminder.
- How Lying, Not 'Sexting,' Doomed Anthony Weiner
Rep. Anthony Weiner has ended his defiance and resigned his seat in Congress after the fallout from his sex scandal. His infidelity was reprehensible, but America is willing to forgive that. His lying they won't.Contributor: Phillip Warlove Published: Jun 17, 2011
- Robin Williams Just One Celebrity Parent with ...
In addition to naming his daughter Zelda after the popular Nintendo video game franchise, Robin Williams has recently appeared in a new Nintendo commercial for the franchise.Contributor: Tom Harrington Published: Jun 17, 2011
- Rebecca Black Removes 'Friday' from YouTube in ...
After being the biggest hit on YouTube for weeks, Rebecca Black's "Friday" video is gone from the site. But Black removed it because the company that helped make the video wanted to charge $2.99 for the surprisingly beloved clip.Contributor: Robert Dougherty Published: Jun 17, 2011
- Factbox: Guillain-Barre Syndrome
As Guillain-Barre Syndrome is a rare disease, many people may just be finding out about it with the recent news of Danny Wuerffel's hospitalization. Here are the facts about this nervous system disorder.Contributor: K.C. Dermody Published: Jun 17, 2011
- 'Green Lantern' Fails to Cast a Bright Summer ...
Critic Robert Denerstein says "Green Lantern" features a bit of humor and the expected noisy set pieces, but ultimately fails to impress.Contributor: Robert Denerstein Published: Jun 16, 2011
- This Week in the Future, June 13-17, 2011
Why are sharks fleeing the U.S.? Is it the digital bomb? The chickensaurus? Most likely it's the magnets. You can win this image on a T-shirt as well. The rules: Follow us on Twitter (we're
- Ultra-Bright Burst of Light Marks the Death Th ...
Cosmic explosion was not a typical gamma-ray burst Astronomers have solved the mystery of a gargantuan cosmic explosion first spotted in March: A black hole did it, by killing and eating a star the size of our sun. A couple months ago, we told you about an unusually bright and long-lasting bl ...
- DARPA Wants Bio-Factories Producing Synthetic ...
Despite our best efforts, humans are still not as skilled at making life as life forms are themselves. So naturally, DARPA would like to take advantage of that skill. A new program called “Living Foundries” seeks to use biology as a manufacturing platform, enabling the creation of new materials ...
- Newly Found Filaments Inside Cells Might Be th ...
Biologists have studied cell division for decades, yet the mechanics of how cells physically separate from one another have remained largely a mystery. To better understand the mechanism, molecular cell biologist Daniel Gerlich of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, along with colleagues ...
- The First Self-Powering Nano-Device That Can A ...
Scientists working with DARPA and Department of Energy backing have cracked the code on a kind of technological milestone, for the first time developing a nano-device capable of powering itself by harvesting energy from vibrations while at the same time transmitting data wirelessly over long di ...
- A Walk on the Dark Side of Israeli-Dominated A ...
With his texting bad conduct behind him, Weiner is now free to join the Glenn Beck team. Rod Blogovich let his greed overrule his good judgment. As a result AIPAC has another kept senator at its beck and call.
- Speaking Truth to Power: An Introduction
These past two years, I have been quiet but far from idle – I’ve been busily casting about for a new venue to move our struggle into a more pro-active mode. Smeared widely as a “Holocaust Denier”, I decided to make lemonade from lemons and craft the slurs heaved at myself and my compatriots into ...
- Gulf War (90-91) Facebook Projects Update
Veterans are finding new skills and new methods to information share. Gulf war veterans and Gulf War era veterans are developing projects to collect and share information via Facebook. The project http://polldaddy.com/s/770F1DBB56742059 is one example. Veterans are asking for assistnace to g ...
- U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...
Alliant Techsystems, Inc., Plymouth, Minn., was awarded on June 15 a $45,735,354 firm-fixed-price contract.
- Reality: Defined by a Wounded Warrior
Allow me to introduce myself -- my name is SPC Orlando Gonzalez and I am 23 years old. I am an active duty Army Soldier, injured in Afghanistan by a suicide bomber. After this type of injury, rehabilitation is difficult and the word "reality" takes on a new meaning. Here is my story...
- A sleeping sun could have a big impact on the ...
News from scientists in America claiming that the sun is about to enter a prolonged quiet period in its history has caught the headlines this week. Whether this particular prediction comes true remains to be seen, as some scientists, including those at NASA, have consistently been proved wron ...
- Deluge follows drought order
Sunday saw the heaviest rainfall of the year across parts of Lincolnshire, only 48 hours on from the drought order issued by the Environment Agency for parts of Eastern England. 14.4mm of rain was recorded at Coningsby yesterday. This brings the total since Friday to 28mm of rain, more than hal ...
- Flaming June could end up a washout
June's weather looks set to deteriorate further as low pressure intensifies its grip across the UK. The timing couldn't be more awkward for the Environment Agency who this morning issued a drought order for parts of Eastern England. Only hours later, the Met Office issued yellow warnings in ...
- Global temperature update for May
The global temperature according to the UAH satellite measure was +0.13C above the 30 year running mean in May, showing virtually no change from April's anomaly. Global temperatures are slowly recovering as La Nina fades in the Pacific, but remain much cooler compared with May last year, ...
- A truly memorable Spring
Provisional figures released by the Met Office show that Spring 2011 (March 1st to May 31st inclusive) with a mean temperature 10.2C was the equal warmest in the Central England Temperature series which dates back to 1659. Only Spring 1893 was as warm as Spring 2011. Spring 2007 with a mean te ...
- Belarus is Forever IMF's (Unfaithfully)
[NOTE: It's been a long time since I've had a semi-trademark sing-along post, so without further ado, here's one.] With apologies to Journey: Currency run, amid plunging sums Debts go round and round IMF's on my mind... One of the most insightful books I've read concerning the remarkable durab ...
- Turkish EU Accession or Why I Miss Strauss-Kahn
Well sort of. I've just come from an event hosted by our research centre (LSE IDEAS) on "Turkey In the World" discussing that country's foreign policy. Straddling Orient and Occident, religiosity and secularism as well as several other divides, let's just say Turkey needs to contend with forces ...
- Trichet@LSE: EU as Viable a Currency Area as US
Flashing sirens, extra security guards, financial journalists baying for blood, and the incessant chatter of students and faculty debating the virtues of "EU bonds" and "haircuts": Where else could it have been but at the LSE in eager anticipation of the ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet deliver ...
- Space, the Final Frontier for Governance
Remember when we did the moonshot and Pony Trekker led the way? We'd move to the Canaveral moonstop and everynaut would dance and sway We got music in our solar system; we're space truckin' round the stars Come on...let's go...Space Truckin'! How do we keep on space truckin' in the 21st centur ...
- India Needs Jets: Sweden's Saab, US Overstretch
[NOTE: This still is the IPE Zone, not Jane's Defence Weekly. Still, you may want to pull the bomber jacket out of the closet and groove to Steve Stevens for old time's sake.] Here's an interesting IPE angle on the machinations of defence procurement that I came upon totally at random alike much ...
- 48 Percent Of Americans Believe Another Great ...
Do you believe that the U.S. economy is steamrolling toward a depression? If so, you are not alone. According to a recent CNN poll, 48 percent of Americans believe that "another Great Depression" is likely within the next 12 months. Americans have been waiting for almost thre ...
- A Glimmer Of Hope
If you want to feel better about America, just spend some time in some of the really great small towns and rural communities that are scattered across this country. Over the past several days, that is exactly what I had the privilege to do. I have often written about how the " ...
- Stock Prices Have Fallen For Six Weeks In A Row
Well, it's official. U.S. stock prices have fallen for six weeks in a row. So will next week make it seven? The last time stocks declined for seven weeks in a row was back in May 2001 when the "dot-com" bubble was bursting. At this point, the Dow has declined by approximatel ...
- 12 More Signs That Society Is Collapsing
What we are now witnessing is the slow motion unraveling of America. Our economy is dying, the American people have lost faith in the government and in almost all of our other major institutions, and our society is collapsing. Most Americans don't understand why all of this is ...
- 18 Signs The Collapse Of Society Is Accelerating
As the U.S. economy collapses, the thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted is going to begin to disappear. In fact, there are already an increasing number of signs that the collapse of society is accelerating. In cities such as Chicago, roving packs of young p ...
- 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 ...
- Lies, Damn Lies, and Catholic Church Funded St ...
I used to think the John Jay College of Criminal Justice was a well meaning independent organisation exploited by the Catholic Church into giving credence to Catholic lies, distractions and excuses on the issue of endemic child rape within its ranks. But with the release of the latest dangerous ...
- Vatican Guidelines Just Another PR Stunt
This weeks’ latest Vatican guidelines on child sexual abuse continue efforts over recent years to appear as if things have changed, while actually doing everything possible to avoid being forced to take effective action. The Vatican love to pretend they are doing the right thing in dealing wi ...
- Top 10 Reasons Why John Paul II Is No Saint &# ...
Here is the first part of my Top 10 Reasons Why John Paul II Is No Saint. This list refers only to the child rape epidemic. There are many more issues on which the Patron Saint of Paedophiles has left the world a far, far worse place than he found it, and many instances where [...]
- Catholic Sainthood – More Expediency Tha ...
The former Cardinal Ratzinger, now known as Pope Benedict XVI, may be criminally culpable, disgracefully neglectful, deliberately deceitful, and horribly, horribly wrong in his approach to the child rape epidemic within the ranks of the Catholic Church, but there is some truth to the claims made ...
- John Paul II Ain’t No Saint
Does your idea of a saint involve sacrificing innocent, vulnerable children to be preyed upon by hordes of ruthless sexual predators? Does it involve covering up for child rape on a massive scale? Does it involve creating the very conditions most likely to encourage child rape to flourish? Does ...
- 2011-06-17 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...
TweetThis is a "WikiLeaks News Update," constantly updated throughout each day. The blog tracks stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks but also follows stories related to freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, freedom of expression, and sometimes the national security esta ...
- 2011-06-16 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...
TweetThis is a "WikiLeaks News Update," constantly updated throughout each day. The blog tracks stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks but also follows stories related to freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, freedom of expression, and sometimes the national security esta ...
- Wikileaks Bulgaria: Top Bulgarian General Expo ...
Tweetby Novinite.com Bulgaria's former Chief of General Staff, Nikola Kolev, currently Chief of Staff of President, Georgi Parvanov, has provided valuable information to the US Embassy in the beginning of 2003. The revelation comes from an US diplomatic cable, stamped as Secret, dated January, ...
- 2011-06-15 #Spanishrevolution blockades Parli ...
Tweet At least 36 people have been injured after Spanish policed dispersed thousands of protesters blockading the first day of the Catalan Parliament in Barcelona. The regional government is set to pass many measures that will cut spending to social services by up to 10 percent. The protests are ...
- 2011-06-15 Protesters block the Parliament in ...
Tweet Beside the general aggression and violence which marked this Wednesday in Greece, the call for a national strike and the symbolic blocking of Parliament was relatively successful. According to a local correspondent, at least 100,000 people gathered in today Syntagma, the major square of ...
- The Age of Transitions – Eugenics and Transhum ...
In 1921, the American Eugenics Society was formed and began propaganda campaigns which included the promotion of eugenics in churches, schools, and state fair exhibitions. Funding for American eugenics came from the Carnegie, Harriman, and Rockefeller families among others. Eugenics was being ac ...
- CNN News Crew Threatened By Police in Joplin M ...
We can tell you about some strange things going on here. The morgue, where these bodies are right now, is a secret morgue. And it literally is secret. You call up officials that can tell us where the morgue is an they say it's a secret we can't tell you. Families don't know where the morgue is. ...
- JFK Assassination and Executive Order 11110 – ...
Executive order 11110, signed into law early 1963. Where with the stroke of his pen he took away the power of the Federal Reserve to print the money. He out 4 billion dollars into circulation in 2 dollar and 5 dollar denominations, but all 4 billion was backed by silver. Six months later, like i ...
- NASA Issues Agency Wide Preparedness Alert
NASA recently participated in a FEMA exercise called Eagle Horizon that was a part of a continuity of operations and government exercise that we do annually. And, I became aware of some things that concern me about our family preparedness and I wanted to talk to you very briefly. you know we at ...
- Department of Education Sends Swat Raid Over S ...
Department of Education Sends Swat Raid Over Student Loan
- Trekking for Rewilding – Exploring Strands of ...
Text and photos by John Davis Wildlands Network/TrekEast Dave Foreman summarized brilliantly in his latest Around the Campfire why we need an Eastern Wildway and what basic steps need to be taken to achieve it. As a Rewilding Fellow, and co-founder of the Wildlands Project with Dave and other s ...
- Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Rewildin ...
Part One For nigh onto fifteen years, I’ve been talking and writing about a North American Wildlands Network anchored by four Continental Wildways (at first named MegaLinkages). The North American Wildlands Network is rooted in the conservation pathway of Rewilding, an offshoot of the scientifi ...
- Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Rewildin ...
Part One For nigh onto fifteen years, I’ve been talking and writing about a North American Wildlands Network anchored by four Continental Wildways (at first named MegaLinkages). The North American Wildlands Network is rooted in the conservation pathway of Rewilding, an offshoot of the scientifi ...
- Record Big Game Die-offs in Northern Rockies
Winter die-offs are always characteristic of ungulate populations that have exceeded natural carrying capacity, usually because of management efforts to increase numbers for the benefit of hunters. In areas where wolves and other large predators are well established, ungulates seldom perish from ...
- Record Big Game Die-offs in Northern Rockies
Winter die-offs are always characteristic of ungulate populations that have exceeded natural carrying capacity, usually because of management efforts to increase numbers for the benefit of hunters. In areas where wolves and other large predators are well established, ungulates seldom perish from ...
- Burzynski Cures Cancer – The Magic of Antineop ...
THIS VIDEO WILL BE TAKEN DOWN BY THE OWNER ON JUNE 20 2011 Curing cancer is frowned upon big government and BIG PHARMA, especially when the patent for the cure is owned by a single doctor, and they can’t have a taste of the pie. So what do they do? They sick their hound dog, [...] Related p ...
- French Whistleblowers reaveal the set up of Do ...
I saw this over at SGTReport.com and it is worth repeating here. French insiders reveal the reason why DSK had to be taken out. It was all about the missing gold baby. Watch this one explode before summer is out. Gold, The Real Reason for the Fall of Dominique Strauss-Kahn Commodities / Gold and ...
- Greece Yesterday – Largest Uprising Todate
This was the center of Athens yesterday, June 12, 2011. Any questions? More Postcards From A Pre-Revolutionary Greece; Presenting “Goldman’s Employee Of The Decade” Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/13/2011 11:05 -0400 Ben Bernanke Goldman Sachs Greece Testimony Last night’s major anti-IMF rally a ...
- Flag Worship and Voting Ensures Slavery
Many times I have tried to explain to Charles Leblanc, a local Fredericton Blogger, that voting ensures a continuation of our slavery. To further drive this home here is a video from Stefan Molyneux of Feedomain Radio that eloquently explains how we are nothing more than cattle to our leaders. W ...
- Bix Weir: ALERT: The Takedown Begins: Cash In ...
I received an email from Bix Weir tonight as follows. If he is right Financial Armageddon has arrived. ALERT: The Takedown Begins: Cash In Your Paper Metal If You Still Can. Late word out yesterday that the crackdown of the gold and silver manipulators has begun. Kitco, one of the partners in Go ...
- Half-Baked: FDA's New Sunscreen Regulations Fa ...
By: Thomas Cluderay, EWG staff attorney and David Andrews, Ph.D., EWG senior scientist Imagine grabbing a cookbook to find the perfect recipe for key lime pie to present at your summer barbeque. Thumbing through the pages, you locate an... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website ...
- U.S. (finally) Labels Formaldehyde "Known Huma ...
By Paul Pestano, Research Analyst After decades of debate, the Obama administration last week classified formaldehyde as a known human carcinogen, a label that is likely to advance regulatory steps to restrict this widely used hazardous chemical. The... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
- Arsenic Found in... Chicken
By: Press Intern Margot Pagan and Senior Scientist Rebecca Sutton, PhD Did you think you were eating a carcinogen along with your favorite chicken sandwich last week? Probably not, but a new Food and Drug Administration study has found arsenic... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
- Here Comes the Sun, What Now?
By Lisa Frack, EWG Social Media Manager Every year about this time my friends want to me to tell them exactly which sunscreen to buy. They want the one that works the best to protect skin with the least toxic... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other conte ...
- Hey Baby, Your Stuff is Toxic!
By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Scientist Last year I cut small squares of foam from my sons' car seats, our glider rocker and my breastfeeding pillow, wrapped them in foil to prevent contamination and mailed them off to Duke University... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ...
- There will be other 'Fat Greek Weddings,' but ...
This week New York’s Museum of Modern Art kicks off “In Focus: IFC Films,” a two-week-long retrospective of films distributed by IFC Films. One of the featured titles stands out both as a major work unto itself and one whose release looked to herald big ch ...
- Why 'Bringing Up Baby,' a secretly dirty movie ...
It’s hard to believe now that Howard Hawks’ Bringing Up Baby was not a hit at the time of its original release in 1938. In fact, it was such a flop that one of its stars, Katharine Hepburn, was famously labeled “box office poison” by movie exhibitors acros ...
- F.A.Q.: What does it mean for the Democrats to ...
Steve Kornacki: One thing that gets said a lot but that really is true is that Capitol Hill can be an incredibly insular place. So even though it's fairly obvious from the outside that this won't have any repercussions for '12, it probably didn't feel that ...
- The kingdom and the power of David Carr
This is one version of David Carr, which he endorses: A veteran of the alternative newsweekly scene, and the media-focused Web 1.0 craze; a former crack addict and single father on welfare who has written a memoir all about it without sparing himself, who ...
- Can we be serious about Anthony Weiner? Probab ...
Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
- SV critical of own government over fighter jets
Norway’s Socialist Left party (SV), one of the three parties forming the country’s coalition government, has little faith in its own government’s numbers regarding estimated costs of new fighter jets. SV is calling for a probe to be carried out by state auditor Riksrevisjonen. Newspaper Aftenpos ...
- New courses to fight anti-Semitism
Norway’s minister for education, Kristin Halvorsen, has reacted to recent figures about increasing anti-Semitism in schools by introducing courses for teachers that will instruct them in how to fight hatred of Jews among staff and pupils. Halvorsen’s proposal will cost NOK 6 million (just over ...
- Ambassador’s food blog boils over
Norway’s ambassador to Afghanistan stirred up a storm of controversy this week when he wrote about his passion for good food and wine, and how he had to train his cook in Kabul, on the Foreign Ministry’s blog site for diplomats. Hattrem’s blog was viewed by many as being not only undiplomatic, b ...
- Photographers boycott Janet Jackson concert
Pop star Janet Jackson was in Oslo for a concert this weekend, but there wasn’t expected to be any coverage from it. Jackson demanded such control over any press photographs taken at the concert that all three of Norway’s major news organizations decided to drop it. The website for Norway’s nati ...
- NRK launches marathon TV voyage
After months of planning and technical preparation, state broadcaster NRK went live Thursday night with its marathon coverage of a Hurtigruten voyage from Bergen north to the line’s turnaround point in Kirkenes. Viewers will be able to follow every minute of the trip on NRK’s channel 2, until it ...
- A New Permatecture Toolbox! (From Nikos A. Sal ...
by �yvind Holmstad The goal of permaculture is to reunite man with nature and man with man through design systems, and here patterns play an important role. Still, patterns can only reunite humans with natural systems and with each other, not with the geometry of the universe. Surely in what I l ...
- A Solar Powered Life, Part XIII – Wire and Myt ...
So far in the series, A Solar Powered Life, we’ve covered most of the components of a solar power system. To have a complete system though, you have to connect all of the separate components using wire and fuses. You wouldn’t think it, but the wire used is one of the most important (and potenti ...
- The Timeless Way of Building
by Øyvind Holmstad This timeless book from Christopher Alexander was released back in the seventies, and it’s just as much a book on philosophy as on architecture. Still, the main purpose of the book is as an introduction to A Pattern Language. Alexander’s architectural writings at the same ti ...
- From Grass to Habitat Garden – Our Front Yard ...
A detailed account of the transition from a sparse and chemical dependent landscape to an ecologically diverse and resource efficient garden. by Stephanie Ladwig-Cooper Our rural 1/3 acre of land in Northern California has been our home and office as well as a continual experiment in ecological ...
- Sepp Holzer’s Permaculture – a Review
by Harry Byrne Wykman Sepp Holzer’s Permaculture is the work of a man of unique sensitivity and imagination. Holzer has combined a lifetime of practical experience with clarity of expression and intellect to produce a book which will satisfy a practically-minded farmer or gardener as well as the ...
- Low-Carbohydrate, High-Protein Diets May Reduc ...
Eating a low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet may reduce the risk of cancer and slow the growth of tumors already present, according to a study published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
- Ministers back binding European forest agreement
Ministers have agreed to back plans to introduce a legally binding agreement to protect Europe's forests.Delegates also agreed to adopt resolutions that would help shape forest policy over the next decade. Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- 40 Most Awesome iPad Apps for Science Students
The iPad has found its way into hospitals, retail stores and homes across the nation, but it�s also making a big splash in the classroom. With a great selection of apps focused on everything from word processing to keeping in touch with classmates,.......Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech ...
- Scientists Discover Mother Monkeys Who Kill Th ...
For any species hoping to survive in the wild, the lifetime to-do list is agreeably brief: eat, mate, defend your turf and above all, protect your young. It's that last one that seems the most primally encoded, and for good reason: it's hardly possible...Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� � ...
- Scientists predict rare 'hibernation' of sunspots
US scientists say the familiar sunspot cycle seems to be entering a hibernation period unseen since the 17th century, a pattern that could have a slight cooling effect on global temperatures. Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- 6/17/11 - Incarcerated Felon Population in the ...
felonvoting.procon.org - NEW: Incarcerated Felon Population in the US by Type of Crime Committed, 1974-2008 - As of 2008, US state and federal prisons housed a total of 1,544,634 inmates. In state prisons, the majority of the prisoners (52.4%) are in for violent crimes, while in federal prisons ...
- 6/17/11 - ProCon.org Wins Top 25 Website Award ...
www.procon.org - ProCon.org Wins Top 25 Website Award from American Library Association division along with TED, Wikileaks, and Google Translate - Thank you to the reference librarians who voted for ProCon.org and who have supported our work over the years.
- 6/14/11 - Prescription drugs advertised direct ...
prescriptiondrugs.procon.org - Prescription drugs advertised directly to consumers sell nine times better than drugs without such ads. On May 26, 2011 the Congressional Budget Office released a study on direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising of new prescription drugs. According to the study, the a ...
- 6/8/11 - John Edwards' 2007 statement on wheth ...
2008election.procon.org - John Edwards' 2007 statement on whether infidelity should disqualify a candidate for public office. We found this quote for our 2008 presidential election website and, although the site has been archived, we wanted our readers to be able to read what John Edwards told K ...
- 6/7/11 - 20 highest and lowest radiation cell ...
cellphones.procon.org - UPDATED: 20 highest and lowest radiation cell phones in the US - All cell phones emit radiofrequency radiation, but not all phones emit the same amount. The FCC has set the limit (standard absorption rate: SAR) for cell phone radiation at a maximum of 1.6 watts. Our upd ...
- Third Reich Body Worship
Science fiction, jokes and forbidden love: The book market in Nazi Germany was surprisingly varied. But perhaps the most bizarre bestseller to make it past the censors was an unabashed collection of nudist photography. It was a celebration of the Aryan body. Aus: "Mensch und Sonne" von Hans Surà ...
- Third Reich Body Worship
Science fiction, jokes and forbidden love: The book market in Nazi Germany was surprisingly varied. But perhaps the most bizarre bestseller to make it past the censors was an unabashed collection of nudist photography. It was a celebration of the Aryan body. Aus: "Mensch und Sonne" von Hans Surà ...
- Giant Viruses
The recent discovery of really, really big viruses is changing views about the nature of viruses and the history of life James L. Van Etten The common view of viruses, mostly true, is of tiny burglars that sneak into cells, grab the biosynthetic controls and compel the cell to make huge numbers ...
- Giant Viruses
The recent discovery of really, really big viruses is changing views about the nature of viruses and the history of life James L. Van Etten The common view of viruses, mostly true, is of tiny burglars that sneak into cells, grab the biosynthetic controls and compel the cell to make huge numbers ...
- Most tumors not within cell phone radiation range
By Alison McCook NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Brain tumors among cell phone users are not clustered within range of most of the radiation emitted from the devices, a new report finds – suggesting that mobile phones do not cause cancer. Moreover, people who had used mobile phones for the longest a ...
- Frontiers of Science UK-Germany: is sound fast ...
FROM RUTH COOPER, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Last week 35 early career British scientists met with their German counterparts in the UK, for the third UK-German Frontiers of Science meeting. The meeting was co-organised with the Junge Akademie with logistical support from the Alexander von Humbold ...
- Frontiers of Science UK-Germany: is sound fast ...
FROM RUTH COOPER, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Last week 35 early career British scientists met with their German counterparts in the UK, for the third UK-German Frontiers of Science meeting. The meeting was co-organised with the Junge Akademie with logistical support from the Alexander von Humbold ...
- Opening up scientific information: a shared hi ...
There are two parts to the story of the birth of the internet. Networked computers exchanging packets of information have existed since the 1960s, facilitated largely by a government project in the USA. Â Â The interface that allows anyone to share anything with anyone, anywhere – the combinatio ...
- Opening up scientific information: a shared hi ...
There are two parts to the story of the birth of the internet. Networked computers exchanging packets of information have existed since the 1960s, facilitated largely by a government project in the USA. Â Â The interface that allows anyone to share anything with anyone, anywhere – the combinatio ...
- Six academies synthetic biology symposium: eng ...
Synthetic biology can be described in quite simple terms; it is the design and production of novel biological systems and organisms. It is not so simply constituted. Biological research is a vast and heterogeneous enterprise. And so the engineering of biological entities, despite its simple des ...
- Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
- Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
- Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
- Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of child ...
- How sex hormones influence right heart function
WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...
- Alex Jones: Obama is Launching World War III
In this critically important update, Alex warns how the international banking cartel is using Obama and the US military to start World War III. The controllers of the New World Order believe they can achieve their one world government by destabilizing every country in the middle east and norther ...
- 911: The side they’ll never print
The events of September 11, 2011 were a catastrophe that shook the global population by its roots. An inhumane act largely unprecedented in the modern world was unleashed onto society causing a wave of fear and ‘terror’ that would significantly effect the years to come. Islamaphobia increased, r ...
- A British radiographer speaks out against air ...
Anthony Hall is a Senior Reporting Radiographer, holding a Bsc (hons) in Diagnostic Radiography. He is responsible both for the imaging of patients and producing medical reports. He is also one of the radiation protection supervisors at the hospital where he works - ensuring the equipment is ...
- Free Mind Report – Guest Hereward Fenton
This week our guest�was Hereward Fenton http://www.truthnews.com.au Hereward Fenton is a 9/11 researcher and host of Truth News Australia. As a leader in the Australian Truth movement his passion for Truth has led him down some deep rabbit holes. Listen live Wednesday January 5, 2011 from 8P ...
- Hereward Fenton on Live and Let Live (Rule of ...
Live and Let Live, with Gary Johnson (Sundays 8-10 pm CST). Robert Guest, (http://www.robertguest.com/, http://www.dallascriminaldefenselawyerblog.com/) president of the Kaufman County, Texas, Bar Association, promotes Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, LEAP, (http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.ph ...
- Close Encounters With Humpback Whales and Orcas
An orca breaching in Monterey Bay. © Oceana This is part of a series of posts about our Pacific Hotspots expedition. Today's highlights: humpback whales and orcas! Day 3 Yesterday was a spectacular day as we saw some of the most colorful and rich habitats we�ve seen yet! The objective wa ...
- Plastic Bag Makers Sue ChicoBag
© Flickr user doviende. ChicoBag is one of the most popular brands of reusable bags. Their totes are colorful and stylish, and they help us avoid the need to create more of the plastic waste that is clogging our rivers and streams and creating massive garbage patches in our oceans. But in ...
- A Trove of Marine Life in Monterey Bay
This is part of a series of posts about our Pacific Hotspots expedition. Day 2 This morning after we passed the barking sea lions on the breakwater at the end of the harbor, we traversed through fog so thick there were no signs of land anywhere to be seen. We pushed trough swells upwards ...
- Unpacking the Shark Myth: ‘Demon Fish’
Washington Post environment and politics reporter Juliet Eilperin has a new book out today that explores the science and mythology behind the ocean�s top predators. In �Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks,� Eilperin travels the globe -- she swims with whale sharks in Beli ...
- Ted on The Diane Rehm Show
Ted Danson. � Kate Danson Last Thursday Oceana board member Ted Danson was the featured guest on WAMU�s The Diane Rehm Show. He covers a lot of ground in the hour, including overfishing, seafood fraud, aquaculture and bottom trawling. He explains to Diane, ���It's one of those amazing pot ...
- Hunting With My Father.
Sketch Of My Dad, Marvin Edward Russ In England With 8th Air Force. A gun has a kind of heft and authority and power that cannot be conveyed with words. When you pick up a Colt Python .357, you feel its weight. You are holding a machine that can take a man’s life. The magnitude of [...]
- Who Won Here?
SEAL Team 6 There are those who keep repeating that Osama Bin Laden’s death is essentially meaningless. They are right in the respect that terror organizations like AQ are organized in decentralized cells. So leadership becomes local on the tactical level. One the other hand you have to remember ...
- Shell Casing Chess Set Built By Marines In Afg ...
Chess [...]
- Battle Of Chesapeake Bay
Lord Charles Cornwallis August of 1781. It’s hot and wet in Yorktown. Cornwallis’s troops are inside an ever-widening noose of cannonades and entrenchments, and withering artillery bombardment. General Clinton, in New York, is playing the violin. Meanwhile 3000 colonial militia, 8,000 regulars, ...
- Stalin’s Feckless Response To Barbarossa
Germans On Captued Russian Armored Train Stalin purged his officer corps in the mid thirties. Too many people with access to the hard power of war machines were chafing under the thumb of the dictator, and he didn’t wait around until they took action. Three out of five Field Marshals, 90% percen ...
- The Art and Politics of Fiercely Re/ De/ Evolving
Joyce Arnold is a liberal Independent activist whose weekly column “Queer Talk” appears on Saturday. By now well covered, including here at TM, but because it is so revealing (if unsurprising), Iâm providing this summary of the Incredible Art and Politics of Obamaâs Fiercely Re / De/ Evolving Po ...
- The Only Father I’ve Ever Known
…is my big brother, Larry. I lost my father early due to sickness, which included alcoholism and lymphoma, among a myriad of other illnesses that run the gamut. He technically died of a heart attack, but it remains my belief that his final cancer operation is what led to him deciding to call it ...
- THANK YOU, CLARENCE.
Damn, brother, what a life you allowed us to share. Your spirit lives on through the wailing cry of your saxophone.
- The Sunday Early Bird News Round-Up: Father’s Day
Good morning and welcome to Sunday. Happy Father’s Day to all you fathers out there! On this day in history, June 19, 1862, slavery was outlawed in U.S. territories. Here are some news stories from around the internets that you may or may not have seen: ~Barack Obama has pulled a GW Bush and is ...
- Progressive Notes: CPC to Tour America for Peo ...
Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. Russ Feingold is reportedly pondering a run for either governor or senate in Wisconsin. And boy he let it rip this week at a labor rally. He struck at corporate power and our weak willed pols who won’t stand up to it. Its a moving sp ...
- Hamas: Just The Beginning
The Palestinian Authority and Egypt's new military regime are begging Hamas to agree to the appointment of Salam Fayyad as prime minister of a Palestinian unity government. The main reason the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority wants to keep Fayyed in
- Al-Qaeda Leader Killed in Somalia
On June 11, the Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) forces reported killing al-Qaeda member Fazul Abdullah Muhammad, the mastermind of the 1998 terrorist attack against the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that left at least 250 people dead
- Syria Calls on Refugees in Turkey to Return
Syria's government is calling for the return of thousands of refugees who fled to Turkey to escape violence in a northern town. Syrian Information Minister Adnan Mahmoud says security, electricity, water and communications have now been restored in Jisr
- Britain Creating Parallel Islamic Financial System
A British firm has launched a Sharia-compliant pension fund that will enable Muslims to save for retirement in compliance with Islamic principles. The British government will begin offering Muslim workers Sharia-compliant pensions as of 2012. The
- Refugees Suffer as Turkey Presses Syria
Turkey ramps up its response to the crisis in Syria as the influx of refugees on the border grows, and they are reportedly lacking adequate food, water and shelter. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who recently strengthened his criticisms of
- MIND CONTROL 66: The Test
Still on the issue of what type of people we are…… lets look at a different scenario with Jesus. Luke 19:11-28 11 While they were listening to this, he went on to tell them a parable, because he was near Jerusalem and the people thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear at [...]
- DO GOVERNMENTS SECRETLY KILL WITH THE WEATHER ...
It started off like one of those hypothetical questions you ask yourself when you are feeling in a particularly imaginative mood. You know what i mean. Lying down and wondering what it would be like to have super powers, or waiting for a bus and wishing you could hold back a storm that you can [...]
- MIND CONTROL 65: He Who Has Ears, Let Him Hear
In an effort to open our eyes……. It is important for us to take a look at more of the parables that Jesus spoke. Christians believe that the reason why Jesus spoke in parables was because he did not want anyone to understand. This is completely untrue. Jesus spoke in parables “precisely because ...
- ARE WE THE AUTHORS OF OUR OWN THOUGHTS AND ACT ...
In his recent book, “Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values”, Neuroscientist, Sam Harris discusses how science can provide the basis for morality. This piece is not a review of Harris’ diatribe on organized religion and his lengthy thesis on the science of morality. My focus her ...
- MIND CONTROL 64: Pastoral Hypocrisy
Take a look at this scenario: Matt 20:30-34 30 Two blind men were sitting by the roadside, and when they heard that Jesus was going by, they shouted, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!” 31 The crowd rebuked them and told them to be quiet, but they shouted all the louder, “Lord, Son [...]
- Ha! The science of laughter
Emerson College is known for producing journalists and actors. And some of them are pretty funny, Grads include Jay Leno, Denis Leary, Andrea Martin, and Seth Grahame-Smith, author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. So, it's only appropriate that the school host a conference on laughter. The e ...
- Pub meet-up tonight and more events for scient ...
Tonight Mike Farzan and his colleagues will chat about communication between viruses and your cells at a Science by the Pint, event. Tuesday June 14, 6:30pm - 7:30pm Tavern in the Square - Porter - 1815 Massachusetts Ave. - Cambridge (There are a couple of Tavern on the Square restauran ...
- Can hackers mess with your medical device?
Scary, but true. MIT reports on how its working with partners at UMass to pretect device users. Millions of Americans have implantable medical devices, from pacemakers and defibrillators to brain stimulators and drug pumps; worldwide, 300,000 more people receive them every year. Most such d ...
- Beyond subway ads: Wired enrollment for clinic ...
The Forbes Medicine Show blog highlights the clinical trails search site today from "Patients Like Me." Patients enter their illness, age, and zip code and get a list of clinical trials into that they can enter. Hopefully this will help more patients find studies that might offer them some h ...
- Not really "chemical-free" in Cambridge, the N ...
On the Speakeasy Science blog, Debra Blum put down her paper today to rant against the term "chemical-free." I do understand that the phrase is just an advertising gimmick, implying a product's freedom from mysterious but toxic industrial chemicals. I also understand that it's basically ridicu ...
- What are the health impacts from living near o ...
Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. No one really knows what the health impacts are from living near oil and gas exploration and production sites. Families from California to Pennsylvania,�Texas to Wyoming, and in between,�report�ver ...
- Latin American Climate, Energy and Environment ...
Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile The plummeting approval ratings of President Piñera’s Administration due to HidroAysén’s approval received notice in international press, which was covered, in turn, by national media. ...
- MI Principal becomes tour guide, helps save wo ...
Nathanael Greene, Director of Renewable Energy Policy, New York City When Tom DeKeyser became principal of Whitmore Lake High School in Whitmore Lake, Michigan, he knew he’d have to wear a lot of hats--principals do that. The one hat he wasn’t exp ...
- Historic hazardous waste loophole bill passes ...
Kate Sinding, Senior Attorney, New York City Yesterday afternoon, the NYS Assembly passed first-of-its-kind in the nation legislation to close a gaping loophole in state law favoring the oil and gas industry.� The bill - sponsored by Assembly Envi ...
- A Groundbreaking Agreement Preserves A Vast Re ...
Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City On Thursday, the Manitoba provincial government and the Poplar River First Nation put the final touches on a tremendous conservation victory: legislation to preserve an area the size of Yellowstone N ...
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 17 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, June 17, 2011: Overland MO cop sentenced to 3yrs in plea to manslaughter for fatally pushing man down stairs then leaving [0] http://bit.ly/lFQ8ur Plano TX cop sued by woman w/cerebr ...
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 17 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, June 16, 2011: A Kane County IL deputy is being investigated after allegedly pulling gun on a man who was in a car accident while off duty & threatening to shoot him in the head. [...]
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 20 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, June 15, 2011: Mt Vernon NY appeals $315k brutality judgment to cop against cop facing 2nd brutality suit involving 12yr-old [3] http://bit.ly/mrBNnM Williamsburg County SC deputy ...
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 20 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, June 15, 2011: Mt Vernon NY appeals $315k brutality judgment to cop against cop facing 2nd brutality suit involving 12yr-old [3] http://bit.ly/mrBNnM Williamsburg County SC deputy ...
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 22 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, June 13, 2011: Bountiful City UT settles suit for undisclosed sum to man tasered 6-10 times on video in stop for crooked plates [3] http://bit.ly/iB5rnn 2 Los Angeles Co CA deputie ...
- Military Showdown against Syria – a Trigger fo ...
June 12, 2011 Israeli Three Top Politicians are Abroad: 1. Netanyahu and 2. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman are in Italy, while 3. Defense Minister Ehud Barak met with the Chinese militaryâs chief of staff in China. [link to www.israelnationalnews.com] and [link to www.israelnationalnews.com] ...
- China-Vietnam maritime row intensifies
Press TV – Tensions between China and Vietnam have escalated following their recent naval confrontations in the disputed waters off the South China Sea. While China has warned Vietnam against exploring for oil in the disputed waters, Vietnam has hit back by conducting live ammunition naval drill ...
- Europe Braces for Serious Crop Losses and Blac ...
Scientific American – One of the driest spring seasons on record in northern Europe has sucked soils dry and sharply reduced river levels to the point that governments are starting to fear crop losses and France, in particular, is bracing for blackouts as its river-cooled nuclear power plants m ...
- US naval movements around Syria. Hizballah mov ...
DEBKAfile -Â DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources report that Monday, June 13, the US deployed the USS Bataan amphibian air carrier strike vessel opposite Syria’s Mediterranean coast with 2,000 marines, 6 war planes, 15 attack helicopters, including new V-22 Ospreys, Â and 27 choppers f ...
- US Congress votes against Libya funding
AFP – The US House of Representatives voted to prohibit the use of funds for American military operations in Libya. Lawmakers adopted the amendment to a military appropriations bill by a vote of 248 to 163. A number of members of Congress have recently expressed their dissatisfaction at Presiden ...
- Could You Quit The Internet?
Before you read this, take a couple of minutes to assess the things that you do or the products that you use that require you to use the Internet to either function or even exist. If you, like me, suddenly realise how much you rely on the Internet, would you be able to be as productive or get t ...
- Google code could have been hiding Google Circ ...
Earlier this year reports of a new social service from Google called Circles emerged. Circles would supposedly allow users to share photos, videos and messages to user-defined social groups (or ‘circles’) rather than having to post everything to everyone. Google is yet to actually confirm Circl ...
- What does the convergence of iOS and OS X mean ...
With the announcement of a computer-free iOS experience, application sandboxing, saved application states and a refined launchpad that looks incredibly similar to the home screen of the iPad or iPhone, Apple has made a statement about where OS X is heading. It’s clearly the beginning of a serie ...
- The Next Web at Nokia HQ, Helsinki
Nokia has been synonymous with bad news of late. This past week alone, the Finnish communications giant lost a 3G patent case to IPCom, and news emerged that Nokia is closing many of its online stores across Europe. Throw into the mix other news that may have missed your radar such as losing ke ...
- Does the Middle East need a curated web?
Some might argue that Middle Eastern culture, with its more conservative approach simply does not lend itself to the vast openness that is the World Wide Web. Examples exist of social networks, websites and online communities that aim to provide not only an Arabic interface where Middle Easter ...
- ICELAND: New Energy Stinks, And Worse
Public health authorities in Reykjavik have criticised plans for the expansion of the Hellisheidi geothermal power plant. They say that levels of the gas hydrogen sulphide could increase by 40 percent if a new geothermal field, Grauhnukur, is developed and nothing is done to ensure that ...
- MIDEAST: Medical Crisis Worsening in Gaza
"During the first years of the siege, we could still manage, but nowadays we have no alternatives," says Dr. Hassan Khalaf, Deputy Health Minister in Gaza. "It is a major crisis: many health services have stopped, and I'm afraid this will spiral out of control, because Gaza doesn't have ...
- OP-ED: Experts Fear Israeli Design to Balkanis ...
Developments in Libya have raised fears among Egyptian analysts and political figures of the possible break-up of the North African nation into two warring halves. To support the assertion, they point to longstanding Israeli designs - supported by the western powers - to balkanise the Ar ...
- NEPAL: Govt Clears Last Minefield but Threats ...
Nine years ago, Bhagwati Devi Gautam was a field labourer in Rukum, one of Nepal's worst insurgency-hit districts. Hurrying to attend a programme on the occasion of International Women's Day, she was forced to halt at a police checkpoint for the mandatory examination of her handbag.
- CLIMATE CHANGE: African Agriculture and Food S ...
Climate change and global warming are likely to have dramatically negative effects on African agriculture and food supply by reducing river runoffs and water recharge, especially in semi-arid zones such as Southern Africa, two new reports say.
- Eire: The disappearing Merrill research note
US investment bank Merrill Lynch had a critical role in the banking collapse in Ireland and censored an analyst's report that predicted the crash back in 2008, it was claimed today. The US bank retracted a report by one of its research analysts in March 2008 that was negative about the banks ...
- 'Berlusconi Has Nothing Left to Offer'
For the second time in just a few weeks, Italian voters have handed Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi a stinging loss at the ballot box, leaving his center-right coalition in disarray.
- China: Riots enter third day
Rioters burned police and fire vehicles in a third day of unrest in southern China's manufacturing heartlands, witnesses have reported. Hong Kong broadcasters reported that armed police fired teargas as they sought to disperse the crowd and detained at least a dozen demonstrators. The clas ...
- China: Riots enter third day
Rioters burned police and fire vehicles in a third day of unrest in southern China's manufacturing heartlands, witnesses have reported. Hong Kong broadcasters reported that armed police fired teargas as they sought to disperse the crowd and detained at least a dozen demonstrators. The clas ...
- 'Chatter' Fad movie about chatter rings wins D ...
Southern film-makers shoot to success in 48-hour production: Forty-eight hours of frantic writing, travelling and filming has turned into silverscreen gold for a group of Southland film-makers. The production crew known as Rabies Babies has claimed top spot in the regional section of the V 48 Ho ...
- Living on the edge
It’s not unusual for scientists to become excited when talking about their research. But Ken Storey is an explosion of exuberance, repeatedly interrupting his own discourse to head in new directions. Such frenetic energy is paradoxical for a man whose research deals with organisms that can delib ...
- Giving thanks
“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good,” Michael Douglas’s character famously declared in the movie Wall Street. “Greed is right. Greed works.” It was after filming last year’s sequel, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, that Douglas noticed a strain in his larynx and soreness in his jaw. His d ...
- The people’s museum
While the recent major renovations to the University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology (MOA) involved plenty of additions and upgrades to its infrastructure, it’s the way people can now use the space that’s really transformed it. When MOA moved from the basement of the UBC Library int ...
- Opening up
“It has truly been a partnership with reciprocal benefits,” says Kathy Hegadoren when asked about her work with immigrant women. And when the professor of nursing at the University of Alberta tells her story, it’s easy to see why. Holder of a Canada Research Chair in Stress-related Disorders in ...
- Firing up a new social network
The summer of 2003 was as hot and dry in Kelowna, B.C., as anyone could remember. On Aug. 16, lightning struck, sparking a forest fire in Okanagan Mountain Provincial Park that quickly blazed out of control. The Kelowna Fire Department, more familiar with fighting house fires, suddenly faced an ...
- Dangerous new plant disease linked to genetica ...
US scientists claim to have discovered a dangerous new plant disease linked to genetically modified crops and the pesticides used on them. The research, which is yet to be completed, suggests the pathogen could be the cause of recent widespread crop failure and miscarriages in livestock. Emeri ...
- Libya 'rape' propaganda plunges to new depths ...
Hat tip to Scott Creighton - his recent article 'CNN's Misogynistic Cell Phone Porn Propaganda', brought this to my attention. The Libya war propaganda drive has plunged to new depths of cynicism, depravity, and a downright embarrassing lack of credibility. Over a week after the ICC's comple ...
- Greenspan: The 'almost certain' Greece default ...
A default by Greece could drive the US back into recession, according to the former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan. In an interview with Bloomberg Mr Greenspan said the "chances of Greece not defaulting are very small". His comments came as Greece's prime minister George Papandreou's ...
- Midwest Floods: Both Nebraska Nuke Stations Th ...
Tens of millions of acres in the US corn belt have flooded, which will spike the cost of gas and food over the next several months. Worse, several nuclear power plants sit in the flooded plains. Both nuclear plants in Nebraska are partly submerged and the FAA has issued a no-fly order over bot ...
- Israeli court sentences dog to death by stonin ...
A Jerusalem rabbinical court condemned to death by stoning a dog it suspects is the reincarnation of a secular lawyer who insulted the court's judges 20 years ago, Ynet website reported Friday. According to Ynet, the large dog made its way into the Monetary Affairs Court in the ultra-Orthodox J ...
- E Pluribus . . .
WHAT IF THEY CLONED THE SUMBITCH? Be afraid. Be very afraid.
- Maximum Bob's perspective . . .
IT SEEMS THAT MOST who wander into this blog aren't "car guys", which is just fine. However, the automotive business is an important part of our economy: jobs. As we all know, GM and Chrysler went bankrupt and had to be bailed out by the US government.These business failures were a long time com ...
- Strength through Joy Dep't.
DER SPIEGEL has a fascinating look at the best-sellers of German publishing during the Nazi era. Of course, Mein Kampf was a biggie, but according to Christian Adam, who surveyed a total of 350 bestsellers from the 12 years of the Third Reich's existence,Perhaps the oddest of them all was Hans S ...
- I used to like the state
But then the state stopped liking me. So now I don't like the state.
- the stick-puck game last night...
Just a brief couple thoughts: Given how some of the fans reacted when the Canucks lost, me thinks some of those fans didn't exactly warrant the win. I'm also a little glad Boston won because I can see the riot being worse if Vancouver had something to celebrate. Either way, a di ...
- Beck Conspiracy Theory: U.N.'s Agenda 21 Will ...
Glenn Beck promoted the conspiracy theory that the United Nations' Agenda 21, a plan for sustainable development, is a means of instituting "centralized control over all of human life on planet Earth" -- a theory also promoted by conspiracist Alex Jones' website. In reality, the director of the ...
- Varney Revives False Claim That Cutting Taxes ...
On�Fox & Friends, Fox Business host Stuart Varney revived the false claim that "history shows that you get more money to the Treasury by lowering tax rates than by raising tax rates." In fact, virtually no economist believes the evidence supports the claim that tax cuts result in increased fede ...
- Fox's "Doctor" Ablow Dismisses Threat From Coa ...
Fox News contributor and psychiatrist Keith Ablow misinformed viewers by dismissing EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson's statement that limits on air pollution from coal-fired power plants benefit those who suffer from asthma. Indeed, it is widely accepted among public health professionals that pol ...
- Continuing Attack On Tucson Ethnic Studies Cla ...
Glenn Beck said that "the top education official" in Arizona ruled that an ethnic studies program, which Beck claimed "called for the overthrow of the United States government," was in violation of state law. But Beck didn't note that a study commissioned by that same Arizona official found no ...
- Fox Wildly Misrepresents Allegation That Boein ...
Fox repeatedly spread misinformation about a case brought by the National Labor Relations Board's office of general counsel alleging that Boeing retaliated against workers in Washington state who had previously gone on strike by moving work to South Carolina. One Fox News personality went so fa ...
- Right Too Soon, Again
In the fall of 1970, a newly-minted graduate student at the University of Toronto, I was hired by the Canadian Zionist Federation to be its representative on campus. My first (actually, pretty much my only)�achievement in that position was to petition the local Hillel and other campus�organisati ...
- Killing One Bird With Two Stones
The Republicans not only don't want new taxes, they also want to lower taxes on business. The Democrats want to capitalize an infrastructure bank but cannot expect new spending for that. Putting these two goals together, why not lower taxes on repatriated offshore revenue in return for requiring ...
- AARP Tells Members They Won't Fight Social Sec ...
The front page of today's Wall Street Journal features an article [Key Seniors Association Pivots on Benefit Cut] reporting that AARP "is dropping its longstanding opposition to cutting Social Security benefits."� The piece is based on a conversation with AARP policy director John Rother.� This ...
- The Ridiculous American Exceptionalism Debate
So glad to see Roger Cohen's critique of the emerging 2012 foreign policy debate in this morning's International Herald Tribune. As Cohen points out, the Republican candidates are all peddling the same caricature: They're trying to cast Barack Obama as a president who has sold America short, ...
- Arab-Jewish dialogue: Is there a purpose?
The word dialogue inherently bears a soft, constructive meaning that few people would quibble about. Dialogue is surely better than arguing, unquestionably better than fighting, and absolutely necessary if we are to have any success whatsoever in connecting with others on common ground, be it ou ...
- NATO of Terror - Featured
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was created in 1945 by the U.S., not only as a tool to advance U.S. imperialist interests, but also to dominate West Europe economically and militarily. NATO’s purpose was to defend its members and to counter any threat from the former Soviet Uni ...
- NATO operation in Libya is collective punishme ...
A Libyan soldier stand on top of a destroyed building at the Bab Al-Aziziya district in Tripoli. (AFP Photo/Imed Lamloum) As NATO attacks continue in Libya, ex US Congresswoman and former presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney went to the country on a non-governmental fact-finding missi ...
- UN recognizes Cuba’s struggle against racism - ...
HAVANA.—United Nations bodies have acknowledged here Cuban advances in fighting racial discrimination, thanks to a state policy directed at benefiting all sectors of society. Rolando García, auxiliary representative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), stressed that the country’s ...
- Morocco: Protesters say king's reforms 'not en ...
King Mohammed VI will retain a number of key posts under the proposed reforms Pro-democracy activists in Morocco have said constitutional reforms proposed by King Mohammed VI do not go far enough. Members of the February 20 said they would still hold a planned protest on Sunday calling ...
- World economy slides deeper into slump - Economy
Two-and-a-half years after the financial crash of September 2008 and two years after the official end of the US recession, it is clear that none of the underlying problems that plunged the world economy into the deepest slump since the 1930s have been resolved. On the contrary, the anemic econom ...
- Contenders for 2012: the Cult of Personality ...
Friday, John Phillips of the LA Times ruminated on the method by which New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will be “courted” and drafted to run for President in 2012. Christie has stated repeatedly that he is not ready for the office, will not be induced to enter the race and is committed to fulf ...
- Blog Roadwork Update!
The new comments software is being installed, so expect some hiccups along the way until the installation is complete. Additionally: I am writing a short how-to (FAQ) so that you can take advantage of the myriad of options and goodies that come with this software. I’ll tell you how to add video, ...
- Barack Obama’s Jewish Problem
Spent the last four days hanging with one of my dearest friends, who also happens to be Jewish. He’s an accomplished man. We had the chance to sit and chat with some other prominent, successful Jewish businessmen and leaders. Several of these guys admitted voting for Obama in 2008. I learned one ...
- Florida Money (& Larry Johnson on Radio Tonight)
Editor’s Note: Larry Johnson joins the weekly Sunday experts panel on John Batchelor’s Show tonight @ 9:30 or 10:30 p.m. ET. (FYI: Batchelor’s show airs nightly, 9 p.m.-1:00 a.m. ET.) Listen via iTunes (see instructions), or go to the show’s NYC anchor station, WABC. Scroll down and click “Liste ...
- Comment Hell
Ladies and Gents, Please be patient. We should have the new comment software up and running by Monday. I’ve been out of pocket for the last four days and have been unable to rescue folks trapped in Comment Hell. You are free now. Best LJ
- Could Magnets Help Prevent Heart Attacks?
A team of researchers at Temple University has developed a safe technology in which magnets are used to prevent heart attacks. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- The Ice King Who Brought Us Cool Drinks
Have you ever wondered who first thought of putting ice into drinks to cool them? Well, his name was Frederic Tudor... Click through to read his story... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- 10 Bizarre Medieval Deaths: Tudor England's 'D ...
A read through the coroners' reports detailing some strange and unexpected deaths from the 16th century! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Tiny Jungles Grow in the Cracks of Madrid's Si ...
Drawing attention to the lack of green spaces in the environment, a group has been creating mini ecosystems throughout Madrid, complete with tiny animals! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- 12 Deadliest Creatures in the Ocean
Twelve of the deadliest hunters found in the world's oceans. How do they kill and what do they kill? Let's find out... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will ...
- President European Commission Advocated World ...
Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International ...
- Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in t ...
- Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare p ...
- Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government ...
- Lollin about at Netroots Nation 2011 #NN11 Can ...
I am working this week at Netroots Nation - conveniently located at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Howard Dean made fun of me a bit for running flat-out back to fetch a Firewire drive with the key new video cut for DFA as the Keynote had already started. Yes Really :-D Good times! Good times ...
- Can Has Wargame, "Southland" Pre-scripting the ...
"Is this real world or exercise??" --A memorable quote from air traffic controller on 9-11 Logistically speaking, how the hell did the West start bombing Libya so quickly? A French/NATO military exercise (aka wargame) called Southern Mistral was scheduled for almost the exact same time. Are war ...
- NASA Fears Nibiru? Why Not? Emergency Preparat ...
Here's an interesting one! nasa is the only federal agency responsible for its people's safety and well-being here on earth and in space - Google Search YouTube - NASA Emails ALL Employees to PREPARE! June 10, 2011 - with lolsome "secret star approacheth" type commentary from jcattera. Hat tip K ...
- CIA Whistleblower on the latest American War - ...
Susan Lindauer sent us over another article, this one turning to the chaotic Western intervention in Libya. It's nice to get a little praise for the post earlier this week: Dashing Wartime Philosopher Bernard Henri Lévy ties Libyan rebels & Netanyahu, lolz at teh Bilderberg conspiracy - and your ...
- CIA Whistleblower Lindauer: Warning: This Mess ...
CIA whistleblower Susan Lindauer sent in a followup piece to HongPong.com and I'm happy to share it! Earlier: Susan Lindauer on the Patriot Act: "When Truth Becomes Treason" - Thuggish National Security Coverup & Grand Jury Mechanisms for Iraq & 9-11 ******** By Susan Lindauer, former Asset Cove ...
- Really, How Much Longer?
I despair for this country. The rich keep getting richer and things like Arizona refusing to pass on Federal money to the unemployed through extended benefits keep happening to the poor. The republicans keep going after the old people because even if some old guy swings a rake or something, he ...
- (EXCLUSIVE) What is Really Happening on the Gr ...
Click this link below to listen to the show: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news/2011/06/16/what-is-really-happening-on-the-ground-in-libya Please join us as we exposed the truth about what is going on in Libya…This was an exclusive interview with Dr. Randy Short who just came back ...
- More on secret black money and the ruling elit ...
Vishv Bandhu Gupta traces the less than honorable origin and growth of black money swilling within the ruling elite underground in an interview with Tehelka (India’s independent magazine // 15 June 2011 Wednesday, http://www.tehelka.com/story_main49.asp?filename=Ws130611SwissBanks.asp) In what ...
- In Praise of Learning by Bertolt Brecht
When this was written in 1931 the Weimar republic had died and Hitler was on the road to power. Brecht, of course, was the great playwrite and poet of the early part of the 1900′s. His poem, “In Praise of Learning” is more important now than ever! Here it is in its entirety!  Study [...]
- Freedom Flotilla Two: Another Massacre Looms?
� On June 21, 2011 some 40 to 50 American peace activists will gather in Athens Greece to join up with the 2nd International Freedom Flotilla headed to Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid and essential building materials. The Americans, have named their ship �The Audacity of Hope� after President O ...
- Could eating poo-burgers save the Earth?
by Jess Zimmerman. Eat sh*t, cattle farming industry! No, literally, eat sh*t. Japanese scientist Mitsuyuki Ikeda has developed a way to make meat substitute out of "sewage mud," which is exactly what it sounds like. He extracts (bacterial) protein from what is essentially a soup of hu ...
- Military spends more to air condition tents th ...
by Jess Zimmerman. Steve Anderson, a retired brigadier general who was Petraeus' chief logistician in Iraq, says that the Pentagon spends $20 billion a year just to air condition tents and temporary buildings in Iraq and Afghanistan. That's more than NASA's entire annual budget. There's ...
- The Senate likes ethanol slightly less than it ...
by Sarah Laskow. For years, Washington has been really gung-ho about putting corn (America’s crop!) into cars (America’s bikes!), and has supported corn ethanol production with a suite of subsidies. But now senators are ready to say: “With food prices rising, we're not so comfortable with ...
- Climate denier says solving global warming cou ...
by Jess Zimmerman. James Taylor (the Heartland Institute guy, not the folk singer, alas) has discovered humoral medicine. See, the Black Plague was caused by too much cold, after the Medieval Warm Period petered out. (God, why didn't those medieval physicians think to treat it with hot po ...
- 1 million Bangladeshis use solar as sole sourc ...
by Christopher Mims. It's the fastest expansion of solar power ever, says the government of Bangladesh: From 7,000 households in 2002 to 1 million in 2011. Ninety million of Bangladesh's 150 million people have no access to electricity at all, so access to small-scale solar is transfor ...
- Hiatus
‘Farming Pathogens’ will be taking a break while we finish up a book on many of the topics discussed here, including influenza and agribusiness. Thank you for your support and feedback. We’ll be back soon, promise, and in all likelihood will drop a post now and again. Agriculture, disease and ev ...
- Tiger By the Tale
–Landlady… –My name is Rosenberg. –I didn’t know there were Jews in Dublin! She grimaces, palpably, and says, –Yes, there are Jews in Dublin. –Well, then, Mrs. O’Rosenberg, what can you tell me about the Celtic Tiger? Has it bitten anybody lately? –Bitten? –Yes. Where is this tiger now, and does ...
- Marable’s Malcolm
It’s Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution (and he’ll cry if he wants to). But do he and other lambrusco liberals bandying about the term know what revolution really means, or even care? In the first of several posts on food and revolution over the next couple months, I retweet passing thoughts I poste ...
- A Bayesian Market
Found this job posting: Your research will cover any area of evolutionary biology, including adaptation, phylogenetics, population genetics and environmental genomics. You should be using advanced data acquisition and/or analytical approaches (e.g., high-throughput sequencing or other “omics”, B ...
- Fork in the Road
This is the final installment of the ‘big picture’ on global food crises I co-authored with Richard Kock and Robyn Alders. The first two can be found here and here. We learned food insecurity and disease outbreaks can serve as a cover for a particular capital-securitized science tied into spread ...
- Why Bilderberg Is Important
A lot of wack rumors have sprung up around what is happening at the Bilderberg Summit every year. I don’t put a lot of stock in a lot of those rumors; I don’t think, for instance, that they meet to divide up the slaves, and I don’t think that they meet to form instruction sheets [...]
- Why Bilderberg Is Important
A lot of wack rumors have sprung up around what is happening at the Bilderberg Summit every year. I don’t put a lot of stock in a lot of those rumors; I don’t think, for instance, that they meet to divide up the slaves, and I don’t think that they meet to form instruction sheets [...]
- Why did Weiner resign, while Gingrich is runni ...
by geezerpower June 18, 2011 This video is compliments of Ask Anthony Weiner on his Youtube channel. Unlike many Youtube sites, Anthony asks for your questions and allows open comments. I just commented there and, so far the comments are not moderated. Needless to mention there are some derogato ...
- U.S. Dismisses Terror Indictment Against Osama ...
Bloomberg June 17, 2011, 4:45 PM EDT By Patricia Hurtado and Chris Dolmetsch �U.S. prosecutors in New York, the first to identify and charge Osama bin Laden three years before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, were granted their request to dismiss the case against him, more than a month aft ...
- Paul Ryan And His Family To Benefit From The $ ...
. Paul Ryan And His Family To Benefit From The $45 billion In Subsidies For Big Oil In His Budget Think Progress By Joe Romm on Jun 17, 2011 at 12:41 pm Paul Ryan’s budget, which means austerity for most Americans, turns out to mean prosperity for Ryan and his family. That budget, which the [...]
- NY Times Dealbook: Hold Goldman Accountable
By Jesse Eisinger Goldman Sachs appears to be trying to clear its name. The compelling Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations report on the financial crisis is wrong, the bank says. Goldman Sachs didn’t have a Big Short against the housing market. But the size of Goldman’s short is irrelevan ...
- TV Watching Raises Risk of Health Problems, Dy ...
By Amanda Gardner, No one ever claimed that watching TV was healthy, but doctors are only now discovering just how bad it can be. Evidence from a spate of recent studies suggests that the more TV you watch, the more likely you are to develop a host of health problems and to die at an earlier ag ...
- Quote du Jour
“You should be scared. I am scared. You can’t not be scared. You can’t look at what happened in the run-up to 2008 and see how it is not going to repeat itself, given what we have done.” ~ Neil Barofsky (former TARP Fund Inspector General) Related reading: Neil Barofsky Wikipedia
- Tennessee Law Bans Posting Images that ‘Cause ...
A new Tennessee law makes it a crime to “transmit or display an image” online that is likely to “frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress” to someone who sees it. Violations can get you almost a year in jail time or up to $2500 in fines. The Tennessee legislature has been busy updating ...
- Transcript of Catherine’s Interview of & ...
A transcript of Catherineâs June 2, 2011 interview of director of the documentary film “Scientists Under Attack,” Bertram Verhaag, is now available to Solari Report Subscribers. Subscribers can navigate to the Subscriber Control Panel, after logging in, click on Previous Solari Reports, and scro ...
- Times Scare
ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
- Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more��
- Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri Lank ...
- Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more��
- Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more��
- Attritionist Letter #1 – the tides turn, ...
Summary:   With US military forces engaged around the world in the long war, with three conflicts burning at once (on very different scales), the doctrines we choose may have a large effect on American history. This, the first of the Attritionist Letters, describes the issues and the sta ...
- Attritionist Letter #1 – the tides turn, ...
Summary:   With US military forces engaged around the world in the long war, with three conflicts burning at once (on very different scales), the doctrines we choose may have a large effect on American history. This, the first of the Attritionist Letters, describes the issues and the sta ...
- The Attritionist Letters, volleys in the long ...
Summary: Key points of military history are marked by debates among soldiers, usually invisible to the public but affecting the course of nations. Such a debate is underway now about the doctrines by which we wage the long war against jihadists and their allies. With the permission of the th ...
- The Attritionist Letters, volleys in the long ...
Summary: Key points of military history are marked by debates among soldiers, usually invisible to the public but affecting the course of nations. Such a debate is underway now about the doctrines by which we wage the long war against jihadists and their allies. With the permission of the th ...
- Could a new Constitutional Convention help ref ...
Summary: Many people seek changes to the Constitution as a palliative to our problems. Disappointment awaits them, especially if they succeed. Proper treatment requires accurate diagnosis, and even a cursory look at America shows that our problems have a simple cause. Us. Tinkering with the ...
- Vatican kicks out Roma on Easter
Press TV – About 150 Roma gypsies were barred from participating in the Easter vigil of the basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, after temporarily taking shelter there on Good Friday, The Telegraph reported. Local and foreign pilgrims, who had gathered to attend the vigil, calle ...
- Euro strikes 16-month high against dollar
Breitbart – The euro struck a 16-month high against the dollar and the Swiss franc notched a record high versus the US unit Tuesday amid heightened investor nerves over this week’s busy economic calendar. The European single currency hit $1.4653 in morning trade, the highest point since mid-Dece ...
- British pound devalues by 94% in 50yrs
PressTV – A new survey shows that the value of money in the UK has dropped by 94 percent over the past 50 years, which means an 18-time increase in retail prices. The survey carried out by BM Savings has found that almost £1,800 is needed to match the buying power of £100 in 1960, [...]
- Peru suffers an ‘environmental tragedy’
IOL – The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years, a study published on Tuesday said. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of 7,000 ...
- Next step humans? Every new pet dog in Britain ...
Daily Mail – Every new pet dog will be microchipped under sweeping Government regulations to combat dangerous animals. Each puppy born and dog sold will have an electronic chip implanted under the skin. Details will then be placed on a national database accessible by police and the RSPCA. A conf ...
- Libya and the War Powers Act
I’ve essentially become resigned to executive branch domination of foreign policy — the only thing that can stop it is for Congress to actually assert its prerogatives, and there’s no reason to believe it will do so.   Still, the DOJ lawyers were right: the idea that the attacks on Libya don ...
- Could a Turkish Buffer Enable a New Syria?
Almost 10,000 Syrian refugees have entered Turkey over the last several days, as the Syrian government escalates its crackdown on protesters. While this is a large number, the Turkish daily Posta suggests Ankara fears much worse—that a civil war in Syria could flood Turkey with 200,000 more ref ...
- The Debate on American Infallibility, Not Exce ...
Glad to see Roger Cohen's critique of the emerging 2012 foreign policy debate in this morning's International Herald Tribune. As Cohen points out, the Republican candidates are all peddling the same caricature: They're trying to cast Barack Obama as a president who has sold America short, an imp ...
- Situational Foreign Policy Realism, Ctd
Andrea Stone finds that plenty of Bush types aren't so happy with Republican candidates sounding more realist notes in their criticism of Obama's foreign policy: "We will be in a stronger political position for a political outcome for this if we sustain relatively constant force levels through t ...
- Kissinger Offers Mixed Reviews of Obama China ...
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger wonders whether something like the opening to China he and President Nixon undertook would be possible today. He believes that the U.S. government is "too complex" these days, with "too many urgent things" forcing a focus on the everyday and preventing b ...
- How Big is "Big Wind"?
There's a debate brewing on Capitol Hill about which bits of the energy industry the federal government should be supporting with tax breaks and tax incentives. The Senate's proposal from a couple months back to eliminate tax breaks for the biggest oil and gas companies did not pass; another pro ...
- Could Republicans Self-Destruct in 2012?
Sahil Kapur has a good piece up at TNR about the Tea Party's plans to go after Mitt Romney because he's not the "rock-solid fiscal conservative" they want. According to Kapur, FreedomWorks, the Dick Armey-led Tea Party organization, is threatening to "uneash part of its $25 million treasure tro ...
- Welcome Intervention
Yesterday night, the lawsuit over Indiana's law to defund Planned Parenthood got more complicated. As states go after abortion access and Planned Parenthood clinics in particular, the federal government has shied away from these state-level fights. But recently, states have begun to defund Plann ...
- Will Thorium Save Us All?
Image: Science & Technology Facilities Council In your Friday edition of "technology will save us," the Daily Mail tells us that scientists in Britain have created EMMA, the Electron Model of Many Applications, a cute-as-a-button particle accelerator (pictured above), duplicates of which could ...
- Today at The Prospect
Robert Kuttner argues that if Greece were AIG, we would have bailed them out already. Fred Feinstein explains the latest attacks on the NLRB and workers' rights. Gershom Gorenberg writes on a possible cure for the dissent in the American Jewish community.
- The Wealthy Want to Stop Upward Mobility In Am ...
The other day, BuzzFlash at Truthout wrote a commentary entitled, "The Republicans Want a More Ignorant Population, So They Are Cutting Educational Funds for College and Pre-College." Among the comments on Facebook was an insightful one from a reader named Mario: This is really an assault on t ...
- US Routinely Violates Human Rights, Constituti ...
VALERIE BURCH FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUTMohammed Uddin lived in New York City for 15 out of his 41 years. Back in Bangladesh, he wouldn't be able to get the life-sustaining heart medication he takes daily for a rare form of severe hypertension called Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome. On the tarmac ...
- Today Conservatives Have Become Little More Th ...
STEPHEN PIZZO FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUTWhen I was a mere sprout, back in the 50s, our family Buick had two bumper-stickers - one on the left side and one on the right. On the driver's side, my father's side of the car, was a "Stevenson for President" sticker. On the right side, where my mother n ...
- Republicans are Not "Changing" Medicare to Sav ...
ROBERT CREAMER AT BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT People like me who came of political age in the 1960's will never forget the absurd statement from an American General, that we had to destroy a Vietnamese village in order to save it. That Orwellian proposition came to symbolize the essence of the progres ...
- Protesting Like It's the Vietnam War
PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUTJoin us in Washington, DC on October 6, 2011.We'll be protesting the continued loss of American lives on the 10th anniversary of our reckless invasion of Afghanistan. And we'll be protesting the 10th anniversary of the Bush tax cuts, the symbol of war on th ...
- Chemistry news round-up for this week
Chemistry news round-up for this week – This week, The Alchemist is intrigued by a molecular optical illusion and learns of a new catalyst for making aromatic compounds from their unsaturated hydrocarbon counterparts. A new gel has been developed by chemists in China for delivering anticancer dr ...
- Science across the spectrum
Penrose, Escher, back – M.C. Escher‘s famously paradoxical illustration of 1960 depicting a stairway atop an “impossible” building, and made famous recently in a dreamscape of the Hollywood movie “Inception“, that seems to ascend or descend interminably is a good example of how projecting our 3D ...
- Sharing on the global scale
There are obvious differences in quality of life in terms of food availability, access to fresh water, disease prevalence and medicine across many parts of the world. Until recently, the notion of the Third World had a far greater poignancy than the politically correct term “developing world”. W ...
- The return of the arsenic-munching microbes
The return of the arsenic-munching microbes – ChemBark sums up what he sees as the state of S(s)cience with respect to the infamous arsenic-exploiting bacteria reported by Wolfe-Simon et al: "…a study as flawed as Wolfe-Simon’s should never had been published in Science in the first place. The m ...
- Earth Alerts for natural disasters
Earth Alerts for natural disasters – Earth Alerts is a Windows-based application that allows you to keep a weather eye on natural disasters as they occur across the globe. Alert notifications, reports, and imagery gleaned from National Weather Service, U.S. Geological Survey and Smithsonian Inst ...
- Leading Seniors Groups Call on AARP to Oppose ...
Leaders from some of the nation’s most powerful groups representing seniors, including the Strengthen Social Security Campaign, the Alliance for Retired Americans (ARA), the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare (NCPSSM) and the Older Women’s League (OWL), today strongly cr ...
- House Votes to Create Separate Internet, Video ...
Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, said House passage of a far-reaching anti-choice amendment to the agriculture-spending bill could bar discussion of abortion over the Internet and through videoconferencing, even if a woman’s health is at risk and this kind of communication wi ...
- Kucinich Amendment Tests Congress’ Will to Exe ...
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who has led House opposition to the unauthorized war in Libya and filed a complaint in federal court to challenge the war, will again offer an amendment to the upcoming Defense Appropriations bill to cut off funds for the continuation of the war.read more
- AARP: Lobbying Group for Seniors or Insurance ...
The Wall Street Journal reports today: “AARP, the powerful lobbying group for older Americans, is dropping its longstanding opposition to cutting Social Security benefits, a move that could rock Washington’s debate over how to revamp the nation’s entitlement programs.”read more
- Historic Decision at the United Nations
In a groundbreaking achievement for upholding the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the United Nations Human Rights Council has passed a resolution on human rights violations based on sexual orientation and gender identity (L.9/Rev.1).read more
- Interview: Alice Walker on the Gaza Freedom Fl ...
Ali AbunimahThe Electronic Intifada Celebrated American author and poet Alice Walker will be aboard the Audacity of Hope, part of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, set sail this month. Ali Abunimah interviews for The Electronic�Intifada.
- The rebellions of our peoples make us stronger
Ameer MakhoulThe Electronic IntifadaGilboa Prison The Arab rebellions are being created by the social movement — by the people — in all its currents and forces that seek change; in other words, by the great majority of the peoples in revolt. Ameer Makhoul writes from Gilboa Prison.
- Silwan children abducted from their bedrooms
Mel FrykbergThe Electronic IntifadaSilwan Defence for Children International - Palestine Section reports that Israeli police opened 1,267 criminal cases against Palestinian children between November 2009 and October 2010 for stone throwing in East Jerusalem. The Israeli human rights group B’Tsel ...
- Interview: Mazin Qumsiyeh on popular resistanc ...
David CroninThe Electronic Intifada David Cronin interviews Palestinian activist Mazin Qumsiyeh, author of the new book Popular Resistance in Palestine: A History of Hope and Empowerment, on the popular struggle in the occupied West Bank and his experience being arrested and detained by Israeli� ...
- Israel plans to forcibly transfer 40,000 Bedou ...
Jillian Kestler-D'AmoursThe Electronic Intifada A new Israeli proposal that would forcibly transfer more than 40,000 Bedouin citizens into government-planned townships in the Negev (Naqab) desert has raised the ire of Bedouin communities and their supporters, who say that the plan is both discri ...
- Personal Information: episode 24
Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness! Share and Enjoy:Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
- Arguments against life extension
Via Michael Anissimov, here’s a spectacularly empty diatribe against “deathhackers” by TechCrunch‘s Paul Carr. Carr objects to the idea of radical life extension as advocated by transhumanists, which is fair enough, but as written here most of his objections seem to boil down to personal distate ...
- Daddy, where does innovation come from?
Plenty of folk have been linking to this excerpt from Matt Ridley’s new book The Rational Optimist, and with good reason – it’s a provocative piece that plays to advocates (and opponents) of free trade, open exchange, copyright reform and much more. The basic thesis? The one persistent factor th ...
- Replacement arms: mechanical or biological?
Prosthetic limbs are still in their infancy, but there’s a lot of progress being made: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is working with Darpa (who else?), and has a research grant for trying out their mind-controlled modular prosthetic arm on five test subjects over the next couple of ye ...
- How to be a futurist
The irrepressible Scott “Basic Instructions” Meyer has the lowdown if you’re thinking of a career in futurism: Click through for the whole thing. But take it from me, being a futurist is a lot of work for no money. Or maybe that’s just the way I do it… and I’ve never been featured in a [...]Foll ...
- EPA tells POLITICO it will investigate DeLeon
POLITICO reporter Robin Bravender released a story on Friday saying that EPA spokesperson Brendan Gilfillan promised that EPA would "look into" the allegations of the open letter the National Whistleblowers Center released last week. Gilfillan told Bravender that Jackson is “deeply committed to ...
- NWC calls on EPA to oust Civil Rights Director
Today I am writing to Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and asking her to remove Mr. Rafael DeLeon, the Director of the EPA's Office of Civil Rights (OCR). Last month, Deloitte Consulting issued a report on OCR finding that it is essentially dysfunctio ...
- Senate confirms Carolyn Lerner
Last Thursday, April 14, 2011, the Senate confirmed Carolyn Lerner as Special Counsel. This post, which investigates and takes positions on federal employee whistleblower allegations, has been vacant for over two years. I reported here last month about her confirmation hearing. Ms. Lerner has a ...
- Dodd-Frank CLE Seminar on April 28th in Austin ...
On April 28th, Stephen Kohn, Executive Director at the National Whistleblowers Center will host a seminar entitled "The NEW Corporate Whistleblower Protections and Reward Provisions" from 2:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. (CST) in Austin, Texas.�The seminar is at the Radisson Hotel in Austin and is CLE-app ...
- NWC Executive Director will hold an open forum ...
On Sunday April 10, 2011, Stephen Kohn, Executive Director at the National Whistleblowers Center, will be available at 5:00 pm (EST) for an online chat forum at Firedoglake’s Book Salon. The topic of this book salon will be The Whistleblower’s Handbook. For two hours Mr. Kohn will be holding an ...
- Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
- Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratosph ...
The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the ...
- After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
- Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
- New approach precisely tracks evolution's foot ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for exampl ...
- DannyB's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
This week's "favorites" post comes from DannyB. Having never done the favorite posts before, I wasn't sure if I should. Since I didn't have to pee, I hope I made the right decision. The best laugh all week was Man Tries To Patent Godly Powers; Justifies It By Pointing To Software & ...
- John Lennon On Copying Others' Music: It's Not ...
Aaron DeOliveira points us to this wonderful bit of historical trivia, involving John Lennon's 1971 response to an article in the NY Times that accused the Beatles of "ripping off" certain black musicians who the band covered. However, John Lennon saw it quite differently: In case you ...
- Jeff Bezos On Innovation: Stubborn On Vision; ...
For years, I've been fascinated by Jeff Bezos' ability to make big risky decisions for Amazon and stand up to intense investor pressure to go in a different direction. While everything may seem rosy at Amazon these days, for years, it was amazing to see just how much investor animosity there wa ...
- Tonight On Security Theater: After Hours Airpo ...
We've written quite a bit, recently, about the more controversial actions of the TSA and their airport screening practices. And now there's a somewhat amusing story that demonstrates why many people think that doing things like groping little children -- and claiming that it's not only proper, ...
- DailyDirt: Keyboards? We Don't Need Keyboards ...
The future of keyboards could be really interesting... or we might be about to witness some truly cool UI train wrecks. Despite all the proposed improvements to it, though, the traditional QWERTY keyboard will probably never actually be obsolete. Here are just a few more "advancements" in the fi ...
- 83 Reasons to Question Autism Speaks for Hirin ...
The big secret finally is out. Autism Speaks made a radical announcement placing a Big Pharma scientist into to the newly-created position of vice president of translational research. The announcement came as 83 cases of vaccine-induced autism were paid compensation secretly by the U.S. governme ...
- Formaldehyde in Vaccines
It’s official, or as official as it can be: The New York Times reports that formaldehyde is listed as a carcinogen by government scientists, and that “…it is found in worrisome quantities in plywood, particle board, mortuaries and hair salons.” However, both the U.S. government and The New Yo ...
- Vaccination Without Informed Consent Is Medica ...
What would you say if I told you that a European Union country’s Supreme Court says that vaccinations to attend school are NOT mandatory in that country, and anyone who vaccinates another person who suffers health damages is liable and can be sued for compensatory damages?Vactruth.com
- Part 3 of 3: An Interview About Vaccines with ...
Part 3 of 3: Catherine J. Frompovich interviews Helen V. Ratajczak, PhD, who worked in the field of immunology and toxicology. She answers questions addressing the role of Vitamin C, peroxidation of the brain, immunostimulation and Autism.Vactruth.com
- MRSA Vaccine Trial Is Halted, Ends In Disaster
Yesterday Reuters reported US Merck and Co have taken the very unusual step of discontinuing vaccine trials for Intercell's MRSA vaccine. The decision was taken after experts advised the V710 vaccine was 'unlikely to show a significant clinical benefit and expressed concerns about overall mortal ...
- Things I Might Have Missed
I am sitting in the Portland airport waiting for my flight to San Jose and have not been paying any attention to the news. In fact, I didn’t even have internet for a couple days. About the only things I have learned in the last week are: 1. I can actually survive without internet. 2. [...]
- Growing Up Jewish – Bat Mitzvah Edition
It has been ages since I wrote a Growing Up Jewish post. And since last month was the 25th anniversary of my Bat Mitzvah (Fuck I’m old!), I thought it was time to continue the series. According to Jewish law, at thirteen you are an adult. And that means a party.* Of course, being Jews, [...]
- Things You Might Have Missed
Hello everyone. We’re leaving tomorrow for vacation in Portlandia and Alta California. I have some almost finished posts that I should be able to get up, but I might be a little slow responding to comments and whatnot between now and the 18th. Please check out this amazing new project from my fr ...
- Things You Might Have Missed
Hello everyone. We’re leaving tomorrow for vacation in Portlandia and Alta California. I have some almost finished posts that I should be able to get up, but I might be a little slow responding to comments and whatnot between now and the 18th. Please check out this amazing new project from my fr ...
- The Bad Actor Objection
Have you ever seen the movie The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance? My friend @JamesTulsaALL recommended it. He thought the movie addressed some important issues. He was right. For those of you who have not seen it. Jimmy Stewart is an attorney who heads out to the wild west to carve out his future. ...
- آليات ما بعد ثورة اليمن ينبغي أن تبدأ محلياً ...
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- Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should ...
Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should begin locally by Jane Novak After three months of bloody protests, millions of Yemenis remain steadfast—and on the streets—throughout the nation. They want Saleh and his entire regime gone. In Sanaa, skirmishes have broken out between opposing tribes ...
- Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should ...
Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should begin locally by Jane Novak After three months of bloody protests, millions of Yemenis remain steadfast—and on the streets—throughout the nation. They want Saleh and his entire regime gone. In Sanaa, skirmishes have broken out between opposing tribes ...
- Injuries and fatalities in Yemen after anti-go ...
In what may be the bloodiest day yet since anti-government protests broke out in Yemen two weeks ago, residents around Aden are reporting numerous fatalities as security forces opened fire on protesters in many districts throughout the day and evening Friday. Human Rights Watch issued a statemen ...
- Game changer in Yemen as protests swell
In Egypt and Tunisia, the stance of the military was pivotal in the success of popular uprisings; in Yemen, it may be the tribes that are the determining factor. Anti-government protests across Yemen show no signs of abating. In Taiz, Yemen’s largest governorate, many who arrived last Friday are ...
- Establishment Exploits OKC Bombing Victims To ...
- Knee-Jerk No Fly Ban Discredits Global Warming ...
Fearmongering by Met Office voodoo scientists about planes dropping out of the sky contradicted by numerous successful test flights Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 19, 2010 With European governments coming under increasing pressure from airline groups to re-open airspace fo ...
- Air France, Lufthansa Press for Airspace Re-Op ...
Gregory Viscusi and Brian Parkin Bloomberg April 19, 2010 Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air France- KLM Group and industry groups pressed European governments to loosen the unprecedented closing of the region’s airspace from last week’s Icelandic volcanic eruption as losses from the grounding of aircra ...
- NPR and CNN worry that Global Warming may have ...
John Lott’s Website April 19, 2010 This is just too bizarre: Diana Rehm (NPR): We do wonder whether there’s human involvement in all of these eruptions, earthquakes, storms - Elise Labott (senior State Department producer for CNN): – and how much global warming has a role in it. You know we’ve ...
- Poll: Americans’ distrust of federal governmen ...
Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers April 19, 2010 Already wary of the federal government, Americans have grown even more critical, less trusting and even fearful of Uncle Sam since President Barack Obama took office, according to an exhaustive new study being released Monday. The in-depth poll f ...
- Artificial Meat Made From Poop
Photo: Dano I'm sure your gag reflexes are in full effect right now and they should be. This is a weird one. A Japanese researcher has come up with an artificial meat that's made from human feces. According to Inhabitat, Japanese scientist Mitsuyuki Ikeda has come up with a burger made from ...
- Arabian 'Unicorn' Back from the Brink in Middl ...
A pair of oryx in Dubai. Photo: neekoh.fi / Creative Commons. A bright white antelope with long thin horns, the Arabian oryx is thought to have inspired early stories of unicorns. (Its two horns appear as one when viewed from the side.) And until recently, the real animal had beco...Read th ...
- Greenpeace Executive Director Kumi Naidoo Arre ...
photo via greenpeace After scaling the Cairn oil rig Leiv Eiriksson off the coast of Greenland and enduring a water cannon, Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo was arrested Friday and taken into custody. Kumi's brave action came after repeated calls from Greenpeace for C ...
- From 72 Recycled Beer Cans Comes a Sweet Surfboard
All Images Courtesy of Rich Morrison In March, I wrote about a very cool project making surfboards from ocean trash. Now, here's another original way to ride the waves: on a surfboard made from 72 recycled beer cans. The simply named Beer Can Surfboard is the work of San Diego-based artist ...
- Rooftop Solar Power Could Meet Half of New Yor ...
Image: nycsolarmap.com Solar power has been growing in New York City, but the installed capacity pales in comparison to the city's potential. That's at least according to a new study, illustrated by the map above, that found two-thirds of the city's million-plus rooftops are suitable for so ...
- UCLA’s first hand transplant patient ada ...
- Functional MRI shows how mindfulness meditatio ...
If a friend or relative won $100 and then offered you a few dollars, would you accept this windfall? The logical answer would seem to be, sure, why not? “But human decision making does not always appear rational,” said Read Montague, professor of physics at Virginia Tech and director of the Huma ...
- Mother’s diet during pregnancy alters ba ...
A mother’s diet during pregnancy can alter the DNA of her child and increase the risk of obesity, according to researchers. The study, to be published in the journal Diabetes, showed that eating low levels of carbohydrate changed bits of DNA. It then showed children with these changes were fatt ...
- Control the cursor with power of thought
The act of mind reading is something usually reserved for science-fiction movies but researchers in America have used a technique, usually associated with identifying epilepsy, for the first time to show that a computer can listen to our thoughts. In a new study, scientists from Washington Unive ...
- Long-Term Ecstasy Use May Damage the Brain
Long-term users of the street drug ecstasy may be at increased risk of structural brain damage, new research suggests. Researchers in the Netherlands enlisted 10 men in their mid-20s and seven in their early 20s for the study. The 10 in the mid-20s were long-term users of ecstasy. The other seve ...
- Weekend wrapup
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. Instead we’re ramping it up.Combat operations have concluded for:Marine Sgt. Mark A. Bradley, 25, of Cuba, NY.Army Pvt. Ryan J. Larson, 1 ...
- 'No On SB 5': Drive-in petition signing in War ...
9:00 AM - 5:00 PMLebanon: Drive-Thru Petition Signing eventWhere:1975 N State Route 42. Lebanon, OH 45036Warren County Democratic Party Headquarters¼ mi. south of the intersection of Utica Rd. and Rt. 42.6 miles north of the intersection of Rt. 42 and Rt. 48.From local activist athenap:We’re ha ...
- 'No On SB 5': Final weeks of the petition drive
The first phase of the effort to overturn John Kasich’s union busting law is almost complete. Last night I attended a meeting of local activists that has been getting together regularly throughout the process, and was filled in on some of the details. None of it was for official publication so ...
- Facebook puts even more of your life out there ...
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post“If you aren’t paying for it, you are not the customer; you’re the product being sold.” - blue_beetleOn Tuesday it was reported that Facebook had enabled facial recognition of its photos. Facebook already has a long history of be ...
- Weekend wrapup
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Sgt. Jeffrey C. S. Sherer, 29, of Four Oaks, NC.Army Spc. Richard C. Emmons III, 22, of North Gra ...
- New USDA Report Stresses Regulations on Antibi ...
A new technical review by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, “A Focus on Antimicrobial Resistance,” calls the issue a growing public health concern worldwide, stating the misuse of antimicrobial drugs in food animal production and human medicine is the main factor accelerating antimicrobial res ...
- CLF opposes Rehberg amendment, antibiotic-resi ...
The FY 2012 Agriculture appropriations bill, voted out of the House Appropriations Committee last week, includes an amendment that would severely limit the authority of FDA to regulate the use of antimicrobials, including antibiotics, in food animal production-a key concern of public health rese ...
- Food and Farm Policy: this is not the image an ...
Recently, my boyfriend offered to give me a dollar for every blog I started with, “Stop what you’re doing, ’cause I’m about to ruin the image and the style that you’re used to.” I responded to his idea with a barrage of reasons why it was ridiculous and certainly not appropriate in my line of [. ...
- Pfizer will voluntary suspend sale of roxarson ...
The FDA announced today that Pfizer Inc., will voluntarily suspend the sale of 3-Nitro (better known as the arsenical drug roxarsone) following the results of an FDA study which found elevated levels of inorganic arsenic in the livers of chicken fed roxarsone compared to a control group. The ann ...
- 100 years of artificial nitrogen - but how man ...
I recently was asked in an interview to name the one thing I would change in the world if I had the power to do so. Surprising even myself, I replied quickly “the Haber-Bosch (H-B) process for industrial nitrogen fixation. Imagine - a world without synthetic N! One can imagine the blank look I g ...
- Prepare for global cooling - it's official
To coincide with the release of Air Con Climategate Edition on Kindle, there's been a stunning announcement today that we appear to be seeing major changes in the Sun, of a type that heralded the Little Ice Age. The full...
- The chances of life arising randomly...
Grant Jacobs from Sciblogs, and another commenter, have been debating on this thread about junk dna and the origin of life. [Update, Grant now admits his phrasing was loose and that he wasn't intending to bring in the origin of...
- Climate scientist admits - climate science is ...
Former journal editor and climate scientist Hans van Storch has blamed climate scientists around the world for turning their profession into a public laughing stock. Of course, the diplomatic Storch is not quite that blunt, but it's an accurate paraphrase...
- An Intelligent Design debate with Sciblogs...
I haven't really had a decent design bunfight for a long time....but Sciblogger Grant made this statement in one of our comments threads which I couldn't resist: This seems to fit a different discourse. I didn’t say “evolution disproved G-d”....
- Education propaganda on climate change
I've come into possession of this year's Year 9 New Zealand high school social studies curriculum book...and would you take a look at the global warming propaganda thinly disguised as "education": The document is ludicrous, has no source citations for...
- Google News now has expandable stories
Each story box is collapsed down to one headline, except for the top story. When a headline grabs your attention, click to expand and view related videos and photos as well as related articles marked according to genre, like �Opinion� or �In Depth.�Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech �| ...
- Top 10 Unhealthy Side Effects of the War on Drugs
President Nixon's declaration of war on drugs has cost the U.S. $1 trillion to date. What have we gotten for our investment? The U.S. insists on treating what is a medical and social issue as a criminal one. That trillion dollars has been misspentSubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov' ...
- Restoring the Scientific Method
The Heartland Institute will host Sixth International Conference on Climate Change in Washington, DC on June 30 � July 1, 2011 Claims of scientific certainty and predictions of climate catastrophes are based on �post-normal science� : claimed concensusSubmitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech ...
- Midwest Floods: Both Nebraska Nuclear Power St ...
Both nuclear plants in Nebraska are partly submerged and the FAA has issued a no-fly order over both of them. June 7, the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant filed an Alert June 9, Nebraska�s other plant filed a Notice of Unusual EventSubmitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Ad ...
- The magical realism of body counts
On June 3, when Ilyas Kashmiri was killed in a US drone strike, he had already been dead for over a year. Baitullah Mehsud also rose from the dead many times. Death is clearly not what it used to be.Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- UN Acknowledges Cuba’s Efforts in Struggle Aga ...
UN Acknowledges Cuba’s Efforts in Struggle Against Racism: [granma.cubaweb.cu] HAVANA.— UN organizations acknowledged the progresses made in Cuba in the struggle against racism thanks to the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
- La Jornada: Amenazan a bases zapatistas de San ...
La Jornada: Amenazan a bases zapatistas de San Sebastián; la fiscalía rehúsa atenderlas Adherents to the Other Campaign of the ejido San Sebastián Bachajón (Chilon municipality, Chiapas) reported... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
- 25 Detainees Facing Death Due To The Lack Of M ...
25 Detainees Facing Death Due To The Lack Of Medical Attention - International Middle East Media Center: The sick detainees are at the Al Ramla prison hospital, a small medical facility that lacks... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
- Netanyahu: “No Peace With The Palestinians Wit ...
Netanyahu: “No Peace With The Palestinians Without Recognizing Jewish State” - International Middle East Media Center: "Israeli paper, Haaretz, reported Friday that Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
- Ex Israeli Soldier, Eden Aberjil, will not fac ...
Ex Israeli Soldier, Eden Aberjil, will not face Charges for Controversial Pictures - International Middle East Media Center: "Israeli Deputy State Prosecuter, Shai Nitzan, has judged that the state... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
- Eight troops die in a day in Afghanistan: military
ShareThisEight troops die in a day in Afghanistan: military 19 Jun 2011 Eight foreign soldiers died in one day in Afghanistan, officials said Sunday, including four in a single incident believed to have been a vehicle accident. That incident, in a region containing many of Afghanistan's bloodies ...
- 4 US-led soldiers die in Afghanistan
ShareThis4 US-led soldiers die in Afghanistan 19 Jun 2011 International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) says four US-led soldiers have lost their lives in war-ravaged Afghanistan. "Four International Security Assistance Force service members died as a result of non-battle related injuries in so ...
- Libyan TV: NATO strike in Tripoli neighborhood ...
ShareThisLibyan TV: NATO strike in Tripoli neighborhood kills 3 civilians 19 Jun 2011 The Libyan government said a NATO strike hit a residential neighborhood in Tripoli on Sunday, killing at least three people, according to Libyan state TV. It said the attack in the residential neighborhood of A ...
- OPPD Dispels Nuclear Meltdown Rumors In Ft. Ca ...
ShareThisOPPD Dispels Nuclear Meltdown Rumors In Ft. Calhoun --Officials: Fukushima Event Will Not Happen In Ft. Calhoun 18 Jun 2011 Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman (R) toured the flooded Missouri River this week and saw the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant, seemingly inundated by water. The same image th ...
- Wallow Fire: Authorities call for evacuation o ...
ShareThisWallow Fire: Authorities call for evacuation of Luna, NM 18 Jun 2011 Authorities are evacuating the small New Mexico town of Luna as a precaution as winds continue to push a wildfire in northeastern Arizona. About 200 people live in Luna. A shelter for evacuees was being set up Saturday ...
- VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
Part 2: Dissecting the Universal Flu Vaccine (continued from Part 1: Dissecting the Seasonal influenza Vaccine) To fully unravel the Biondvax Universal Flu Vaccine scandal, a top down approach is necessary. Professor Ruth Arnon, Ph.D, is the official “inventor of BiondVaxâs innovative synthetic ...
- VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
Part 2: Dissecting the Universal Flu Vaccine (continued from Part 1: Dissecting the Seasonal influenza Vaccine) To fully unravel the Biondvax Universal Flu Vaccine scandal, a top down approach is necessary. Professor Ruth Arnon, Ph.D, is the official “inventor of BiondVaxâs innovative synthetic ...
- VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
“The first century or two of the new millennium will almost certainly be a golden age for eugenics. Through application of new genetic knowledge and reproductive technologies the major change will be to mankind itself. Techniques such as genetic manipulations are not yet efficient enough t ...
- VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
“The first century or two of the new millennium will almost certainly be a golden age for eugenics. Through application of new genetic knowledge and reproductive technologies the major change will be to mankind itself. Techniques such as genetic manipulations are not yet efficient enough t ...
- VRM: L-Histidine, Squaline, & Human Chorionic ...
“Vaccination is a monstrosity, a misbegotten offspring of error and ignorance; it should have no place in either hygiene or medicine. Believe not in vaccination, it is a world wide delusion, an unscientific practice, a fatal superstition with consequences measured today by tears and sorrow ...
- You Know You're Getting Old When...
A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.� A cute little luxury fe ...
- Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for.�If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditioner ...
- Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
- Strawberry Picking
Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
- Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal f ...
- Tories would rather shut down the CBC than ans ...
This is a video that should be watched widely. These are Harper voters.
- Watch out for election day fraud
Francis Fox Piven (who has had her own experiences recently with Harper's US mentors) and Richard Cloward wrote a very interesting book called "Why Americans Don't Vote", which showed how a key electoral strategy in the US has always been demobilizing opposing voters, a strategy just as importan ...
- Today's election thoughts
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- 36% is apparently a majority, but not for a wh ...
The daily polling is suspicious. Every day the media publishes what the electoral outcome is going to be. And every day it changes. They keep saying there's going to be a Harper majority. Saying it won't make it so, but it might contribute to it. Earlier today I saw an article on CityTV.ca throu ...
- Canadians are annoyed - deliberation vs. engin ...
Pollsters now get people to press buttons about how they are feeling as they watch debates, and have discovered that Canadians are annoyed. This then feeds back to politicians, who try to, presumably, be less annoying, or, perhaps, try to blame other politicians for the annoyance. read more
- Artificial Meat Made From Poop
Photo: Dano I'm sure your gag reflexes are in full effect right now and they should be. This is a weird one. A Japanese researcher has come up with an artificial meat that's made from human feces. According to Inhabitat, Japanese scientist Mitsuyuki Ikeda has come up with a burger made from ...
- Arabian 'Unicorn' Back from the Brink in Middl ...
A pair of oryx in Dubai. Photo: neekoh.fi / Creative Commons. A bright white antelope with long thin horns, the Arabian oryx is thought to have inspired early stories of unicorns. (Its two horns appear as one when viewed from the side.) And until recently, the real animal had beco...Read th ...
- Greenpeace Executive Director Kumi Naidoo Arre ...
photo via greenpeace After scaling the Cairn oil rig Leiv Eiriksson off the coast of Greenland and enduring a water cannon, Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo was arrested Friday and taken into custody. Kumi's brave action came after repeated calls from Greenpeace for C ...
- From 72 Recycled Beer Cans Comes a Sweet Surfboard
All Images Courtesy of Rich Morrison In March, I wrote about a very cool project making surfboards from ocean trash. Now, here's another original way to ride the waves: on a surfboard made from 72 recycled beer cans. The simply named Beer Can Surfboard is the work of San Diego-based artist ...
- Rooftop Solar Power Could Meet Half of New Yor ...
Image: nycsolarmap.com Solar power has been growing in New York City, but the installed capacity pales in comparison to the city's potential. That's at least according to a new study, illustrated by the map above, that found two-thirds of the city's million-plus rooftops are suitable for so ...
- North Carolina passes bill requiring use of E- ...
[JURIST] The North Carolina House of Representatives [official website] on Saturday voted 67-45 to pass a bill [HB 36 text, PDF; materials] requiring all employers with 25 or more employees to check the immigration status of their hires using the E-Verify [official website] system. The bill woul ...
- Missouri governor vetoes voter ID legislation
[JURIST] Missouri Governor Jay Nixon [official website] vetoed legislation [SB 3 text, PDF; materials] on Friday that would have required individuals to present government-issued photo ID cards [JURIST news archive] at the voting booth. Proponents of the legislation argued [St. Louis Times repor ...
- DOJ: Indiana ban on Medicaid funds to abortion ...
[JURIST] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] on Thursday urged the court to grant an injunction [brief, PDF] to stop the enforcement of an Indiana abortion law [HB 1210], which seeks to deny Medicaid funding to organizations that provide abortion services. The DOJ filed the bri ...
- Morocco king announces constitutional reforms
[JURIST] King Mohammed VI of Morocco on Friday announced changes to the constitution [speech text, video] which would transfer some of the political power held by the king to elected officials. The proposed changes would instill more authority in the country's prime minister, who would be given ...
- Ontario court extends stay upholding anti-pros ...
[JURIST] A five-judge panel for the Ontario Court of Appeal [official website] Friday extended stay of a lower court decision striking down laws banning prostitution-related activities, leaving the activities illegal pending ruling of the court. The panel extended the stay [Toronto Star report], ...
- The Pizza Dish on 2012
Can any food compete with pizza as the signature dish of the Republican presidential primary? We think not. Every presidential campaign cycle has its breakout foods. Bill Clinton's love of McDonald's earned him a mocking SNL skit before he was even inaugurated, and provided the fast food ...
- The RLC's "Obama" Debacle
As Ta-Nehisi and other have noted, the Republican Leadership Conference was marred today by what appears to have been an extremely inappropriate comedy act by a Barack Obama impersonator named Reggie Brown. I wasn't there, but press reports indicate that Brown didn't limit his act to just black ...
- The Obama-Boehner Golf Summit
With the debt ceiling limit vote looming, the president and the House Speaker take it to the links, then grab a beer President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner teed off on Saturday, hitti ...
- Conservative Fun with Andrew Breitbart et al. ...
Why is there a giant Koch-funded conservative gathering at the same time and in the same city as Netroots Nation, anyway? Over the last couple of decades plenty of women have thought they were going into a medical clinic to get a free pregnancy test only to enter what's know as a crisis pregn ...
- One-Man War in Libya: Is Congress Mainly To Blame?
In response to my argument that President Obama is wrong not to involve Congress in the decision about war in Libya, a scholar of Congress named Charlie Stevenson says I've misidentified the real problem. He says that Congress -- if it wanted -- could have exercised far more control than it has, ...
- Robert Gates, America’s Dagan, Prevented U.S. ...
Robert Gates, preparing to step down from his job as secretary of defense, has spoken for the first time about his severe doubts about the U.S. wars in Iraq & Afghanistan. Â Gates is reputed to have also opposed U.S. support for the Libya intervention. What struck me especially in this article w ...
- Nakba: They Will Return
I’m shamelessly ripping off a deeply moving photo-poetry collage by Patrick McManus, one of my Facebook friends, which I came across in my online wanderings. Â The poem exquisitely echoes the photograph: Abu Salma: We Will Return (1951) Beloved Palestine, how do I sleep while the spectrum of tor ...
- Top Ten Fun Names for IDF Interdiction Operati ...
I offer the following in the spirit of hangman’s humor preceding what I hope will be a safe passage for all my friends on the various boats of the Gaza flotilla. The IDF, like all military organizations gives names to every operation it executes. Â Its planned piracy on the high seas against the ...
- Doctor Who Collaborated With Mossad Commits Su ...
Tonight I’m going to tell a sad story, but an instructive one. Â It begins with the tragic news that an 88 year-old retired Israeli doctor, respected in his profession for many decades, committed suicide in his Ramat Aviv apartment. Â The man’s son said his father had been very sick, so it is no ...
- The Mysterious San Remo Treaty, Hasbarists’ De ...
Whenever Israel gets itself into serious hot water and kills a lot of people and looks really bad in the process, if it can, the MFA and the rest of the hasbara brigade goes into overdrive, dusts off all the possible avenues of defense they can find. Â Lately, with the Gaza flotilla shortly to e ...
- How loss relates to success and happiness
By: Charlie_Badenhop I was sitting around having dinner with a few friends, about a month after the big earthquake and tsunami up north of Tokyo. "Now is the time for the Japanese people to show their true spirit," Suzuki-san said. "You never really know t ...
- Creating work that feeds the planet
By: greentarra "Our calling is where our deepest gladness and the world’s hunger meet." Frederick Buechner, theologian Do you feel a calling to create meaningful work that feeds your soul and the planet? There is no greater legacy than sharing your unique ...
- Choosing happiness over unhappiness
By: ruchiraa The other day I came across the quotation, "Happiness is a state of mind." Though I agree, I think it is a state of mind that needs to be fed and nurtured regularly. After all, we are human beings and thus have feelings that tend to fluctuate. Some ...
- Robert Aitken Roshi's original peace
By: PeaceCorso Robert Baker Dairyu Chotan Aitken Roshi (June 19, 1917 - August 5, 2010) was a Zen teacher in the Harada-Yasutani lineage. He co-founded the Honolulu Diamond Sangha in 1959 together with his wife. Aitken received Dharma transmission from Koun Yam ...
- Around the world on rubbish
By: Samuel Rosenzweig When Ode’s managing editor Marco Visscher announced that he would be taking a sabbatical to travel the country with his family, a few heads turned. Not just because Marco would be leaving his San Francisco post to return to the Netherlands ...
- A Healthy Kind of Freedom (Parts 1 & 2)
This two part article is an exploration of immigration, health care and parenting; seemingly unlikely bedfellows. With thoughtful suggestions and observations, Lynette Louise (a Canadian living in the U.S.) examines these issues with a global vision, never losing sight of the human element.
- PROPOSED LEGISLATION THAT WOULD PRESERVE SOCIA ...
This is an analysis of Social Security (SS), not to be found anywhere else, for the 16 year period, 1993 through 2008. The central result is that easy structural changes can be made to the SS taxation system by an act of Congress that will easily provide for sufficient annual contributions and T ...
- The Vestibule of Hell
I watched John Pilger's film, "The War You Don't See" the other night and of course it should be banned or better still ignored, America is no longer a reality based environment. America is a video game for erectile dysfunctional stock brokers.
- Will India Lead the Way in Urban Land Tax Refo ...
Indian Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation Deputy Minister Dr. PK Mohanty is interviewed on his thoughts on housing, the Land Value Tax (aka Georgism), and revenue alternatives for developing nations. Can some of these solutions apply to America too?
- Why the Tea Party Should Stop Worrying and Lea ...
While Vermont has a reputation as a liberal state, we are way more complicated than that. A central issue that the state faces today is one that Tea Party activists should be rallying behind - federal government over-reach and the jack booted foot of big business trampling our rights.
- What are the health impacts from living near o ...
Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. No one really knows what the health impacts are from living near oil and gas exploration and production sites. Families from California to Pennsylvania,�Texas to Wyoming, and in between,�report�ver ...
- Latin American Climate, Energy and Environment ...
Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile The plummeting approval ratings of President Piñera’s Administration due to HidroAysén’s approval received notice in international press, which was covered, in turn, by national media. ...
- MI Principal becomes tour guide, helps save wo ...
Nathanael Greene, Director of Renewable Energy Policy, New York City When Tom DeKeyser became principal of Whitmore Lake High School in Whitmore Lake, Michigan, he knew he’d have to wear a lot of hats--principals do that. The one hat he wasn’t exp ...
- Historic hazardous waste loophole bill passes ...
Kate Sinding, Senior Attorney, New York City Yesterday afternoon, the NYS Assembly passed first-of-its-kind in the nation legislation to close a gaping loophole in state law favoring the oil and gas industry.� The bill - sponsored by Assembly Envi ...
- A Groundbreaking Agreement Preserves A Vast Re ...
Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City On Thursday, the Manitoba provincial government and the Poplar River First Nation put the final touches on a tremendous conservation victory: legislation to preserve an area the size of Yellowstone N ...
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