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Thomas Paine

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

Sunday, June 19, 2011

19 June - RSS SnapShot ! Pt III

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Even this doggerel that pours from my pen
    Has just been written by another twenty telepathic men. A question that interests me is, how many of the 21 GOP representatives who signed this letter actually have doubts about the constitutionality of bills signed by a presidential auto pen? As a legal matter, the claim that such a practice is ...
  • Most Prominent Politicians (VI): Massachusetts
    How strong is Massachusetts’ list of politicians? These guys might be 11-15: Robert Kennedy Tip O’Neill Calvin Coolidge (almost certainly the only president not to make the top 10 from his respective state) John Kerry Samuel Adams Massachusetts has had an unusually important role in American pol ...
  • Wrongness You Can Count On
    It’s nice to have constants you can count on in this ever-changing world, and Matt Bai’s political analysis being wrong is hence reassuring.   Seriously, Huntsman?   Care to make it interesting?
  • Libya and the WPA
    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 ...
  • Random Jetlagged Blogging: The Falklands, Nort ...
    In response to Leicester City Council’s egregious lack of a Zombie Attack Preparedness Plan, over 200 intrepid citizens will stage a mock zombie attack on Leicester in a public-spirited demonstration of the risks involved.  Hopefully Leicester get off their collective asses and put a plan in p ...

Desert Research Institute

  • DRI Researcher Earns Grant to Study the Season ...
    A DRI researcher will lead a team that is heading to Antarctica to study the molecular biology, and evolution of microscopic organisms.
  • Abnormal Spring
    If you're new to Northern Nevada, you've probably already asked yourself this question: is this a normal spring? The calendar says we're three weeks from the start of summer, but winter still holds us in its grip. It leads us to wonder if something bigger is a foot, Dr. Kelly Redmond explains.
  • What effect do clouds have on climate?
    What is the climate effect of tiny particles such as aerosols, soot, and dust, in the atmosphere? Dr. Eric Wilcox, a world-class sailor and researcher, is exploring the answers to these questions linking the ever-changing composition of Earth’s atmosphere and climate change.
  • Best Management Practices for Preserving the L ...
    Alan Heyvaert not only works at Lake Tahoe but that’s where he plays too. “My wife and I are often kayaking around the lake when we have some free time,” said Alan Heyvaert, Ph.D., DRI assistant research professor.
  • DRI researchers work to boost consumer energy ...
    The patented software and hardware gives energy customers the power to realize energy savings. -- DRI scientists Hampden Kuhns, Ph.D. and Morien Roberts, Ph.D are empowering business owners and eventually residents to manage their energy consumption and adopt efficiency measures that will have ...

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • IN-HOUSE COUNSEL: Farm girl
    Profile of Debra Kuper, vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of AGCO Corp.
  • OPINION: Class actions are not dead yet
    The high court's ruling in 'AT&T' was wrong, but fortunately for plaintiffs, it has lots of limitations.
  • Calif. law won't apply to all Toyota economic- ...
    Gist of the ruling is that an MDL court should not use its vast authority over procedural issues to affect substantive law.
  • Courtside: Dissenting Scalia in rare form
    Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia took sharp aim at his colleagues and Congress in decisions released Thursday. One result is that the phrase "tutti-frutti" — Scalia used it to disparage a majority opinion — has entered the high court lexicon for the first time.
  • AG seeking pro bono help
    Faced with an ever-growing caseload and the city's belt-tightening budget, D.C. Attorney General Irvin Nathan is making a plea to local law firms for pro bono aid.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

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

environment 360

  • Fly Larvae Used to Remove Organic Waste on Lar ...
    Spanish researchers have developed a process that uses fly larvae to rapidly break down animal waste on a large scale while simultaneously producing biomass that can Click to enlarge Asociación RUVIDFly larvae feed on organic waste be re-used for numerous purposes, from animal feed to the pr ...
  • Shorter Wildflower Season Poses Ecosystem Thre ...
    Warming temperatures have led to a shorter wildflower season in the high-peak ecosystems of the Rocky Mountains, a shift that could have detrimental effects on pollinator species, including bees and hummingbirds, Photo by David InouyeA hummingbird collects nectar according to a new study. Wh ...
  • Snowpack Decline in Rockies Has Rapidly Accele ...
    A new study says snowpack decline in the northern Rocky Mountains over the last 30 years has been more severe than at any other time in nearly 1,000 years. In an analysis of 66 tree-ring records, researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) found that the average spring snowpack in the nor ...
  • Mattel Vows to Stop Using Paper from Accused A ...
    Toymaker Mattel Inc. says it will stop using packaging from a Singapore-based company accused of clear-cutting swaths of Indonesian rainforest. Mattel’s action follows a campaign by Greenpeace that targeted, among other products, the packaging used in Mattel’s popular GreenpeaceVIDEO: Barbi ...
  • Instant Identification of Trees Is Possible Us ...
    Click to enlarge LeafsnapThe Leafsnap smartphone app Botanists from the Smithsonian Institution have helped develop a smartphone app that can identify tree species within seconds using visual recognition software and then share the location with a database of tree populations. After a user ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

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

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

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

  • Obama’s Economics Lesson
    President Obama apparently thinks that until the latest recession, no business realized it might reduce its workforce by substituting machines and other high-tech devices.
  • FEE.TV Launches Today
    FEE.tv, the newest project of the Foundation for Economic Education, launches today. The new site will be the place for exciting videos, mini-lectures, and other features that teach and illustrate the principles of the free society. The inaugural video marks the 40th anniversary of the War on Dr ...
  • House Effort to Cut Farm Subsidies Fails
    “The Republican-led House has turned back bipartisan efforts to reduce farm subsidies as lawmakers passed a food and farm spending bills with deep cuts in food aid at home and abroad.” (BusinessWeek) Imagine if they werenât serious about the deficit! FEE Timely Classic “Just Say No to Farm Subsi ...
  • In Reversal, Senate Votes against Ethanol
    “Signaling that austerity is now the prevailing attitude on Capitol Hill, the Senate delivered a stunning blow to a once-sacrosanct program Thursday when it voted to end billions of dollars that go each year to producers of blended ethanol.” (Washington Post) Some good news for a change. FEE Tim ...
  • Trade Agreements, Worker Assistance Near Approval
    “The Obama administration and congressional leaders are nearing consensus on three pending trade agreements and the renewal of support for workers who have been displaced by global trade, ending a standoff that some feared would put U.S. exports at risk, said business, administration and congres ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • VOICES: Right-wing attempts to shorten early v ...
    By Cristina Francisco-McGuire, Progressive States Network The 2008 early vote proved beneficial to progressives, with self-identified Democrats making up a disproportionate share of the early vote. Barack Obama's success in engaging the Democratic base and, in particular, targeting early vot ...
  • In labor board dispute with Boeing, growing co ...
    By Marian Wang, ProPublica Just months after fights to limits labor rights in Wisconsin and other states grabbed national attention, another messy labor dispute is getting headlines. �� One of the nation's largest manufacturers, Boeing, has been sued by the government for allegedly punishing u ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The formaldehyde follies
    Date on which the Department of Health and Human Services released a report classifying formaldehyde -- a chemical used in the manufacture of consumer goods including carpeting, plywood, personal care products and pharmaceuticals -- as "a known carcinogen": 6/10/2011 Year in which the Environ ...
  • GOP donor put on board of NC foundation his gr ...
    When North Carolina Democrats appointed board members of the Golden LEAF Foundation -- a state-charted philanthropy giving out money from the state's tobacco settlement -- conservatives lashed out at the foundation for being a "web of political cronyism" with a board "packed with generous campai ...
  • Anti-union Southern companies tolerate -- and ...
    By Joe Atkins, Labor South The latest Labor South Roundup shows that Southern companies remain at the forefront of anti-labor activity in the United States even when at least one is willing -- if forced -- to tolerate unions abroad. First and foremost, of course, is Arkansas-based ...

Worldpress - Africa

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Researchers rebut critiques of stem cells deri ...
    Five years after stunning the world with his announcement that adult cells could be reprogrammed to an embryonic stem cell-like state, Kyoto University’s Shinya Yamanaka took the stage today to defend the utility of his technique. The cells he created, called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) c ...
  • NIH intervenes in Alzheimer's mouse lawsuit
    The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has leapt to the rescue of a laboratory that was sued for distributing mouse models to researchers. Today, NIH director Francis Collins sent a letter to the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, granting NIH's "authorization and consent" for the ...
  • University rankings ranked
    Everybody loves a good list, and that's especially true when it comes to ranking the world's universities. Whether it's the Times Higher Education's rankings in the UK, US News & World Report's annual list in America, or the ARWU in China, academics everywhere are always tempted to glance at whe ...
  • UK immigration cancels DNA screening programme
    The UK Border Agency (UKBA) has ended a controversial DNA screening programme to determine the origins of asylum-seekers. The Times reports that the pilot project has been cancelled after spending approximately £190,000 (US$307,000) on screening. No genetic information will be released. The H ...
  • Reversing course, US Senate votes to kill corn ...
    What a difference a day can make in the US Senate. Yesterday senators grumbled about obscure procedural issues as they shot down a bid to end a government subsidy and import tariff for corn ethanol. The vote was 40-59. Today, with the obscure procedural issues behind them, the senators did a ...

new geography

  • Sweden: A Role Model for Capitalist Reform?
    Sweden is often held up as a role model for those wishing to expand the size of government in the U.S. and other nations. The nation is seen as combining a large public sector with many attractive features, such as low crime rates, high life expectancy and a high degree of social cohesion. Bu ...
  • Hey, Dad: Family Still Matters!
    America is getting older. Those over the age of 65, which currently account for 12% of the population, are expected to make up 20% of the population by 2030. People are marrying later, and a growing group, though still a distinct minority, is choosing not to have children. So if there are propor ...
  • The Evolving Urban Form: Shanghai
    According to the results of the 2010 census, Shanghai's population was nearly 1,000,000 people more than had been projected by local authorities. The provincial level of jurisdiction grew from a population of 16.4 million in 2000 to 23.0 million in 2010. Shanghai is one of the world's fastes ...
  • Will the Last Family Leaving Seattle Please Tu ...
    New Census data for the Seattle area's population changes, 2000-2010, permit a preliminary look at age and at types of households in the region. Let's look at patterns of geographic variation in selected age groups and household types for places in greater Seattle. It provides more evidence for ...
  • The Explosion of Oil and Gas Extraction Jobs
    From Appalachia to Alaska, the growth is eye-popping. Thousands of new jobs have sprouted up, most well-paying and all boons to their regions. There�s no denying oil and gas extraction jobs are on the rise, and not just in Texas and Oklahoma. North Dakota is drilling oil at a blistering pac ...

GM Watch

spiked

Cryptogon

  • An Idea for the Billionaires Who Claim to Love ...
    The economy in Northland is in a state of collapse: The recession in Northland has had most impact on young people, with 29 per cent of the region’s 18- to 24-year-olds now on welfare, and on Maori, with an extraordinary 48 per cent of Maori aged 18 to 64 on benefits. Now, in New Zealand, [...]
  • Puerto Rico: Banker Shot Dead, Professional Hit
    Via: Business Insider: A banker was gunned down in Puerto Rico on Wednesday and at least one Puetro Rican news agency suspects that it might have had something to do with an audit he had recently launched. The banker, 56-year old Maurice J. Spagnoletti, was Doral Financial corporation’s executiv ...
  • Lawsuit Alleges Whole Foods Sold Frozen Vegeta ...
    Ahh, imagine my shock. Rant mode: On. We buy some organic foods in bulk from wholesale distributors here in New Zealand. Increasingly, if we want to buy these ‘certified organic’ bulk foods, the country of origin is China. We refuse to buy any food from China, regardless of which organic certifi ...
  • NSA Allies with Internet Carriers to Thwart Cy ...
    Oh sure. Via: Washington Post: The National Security Agency is working with Internet providers to deploy a new generation of tools to scan e-mail and other digital traffic with the goal of thwarting cyberattacks against defense firms by foreign adversaries, senior defense and industry officials ...
  • ‘Fukushima is the biggest industrial cat ...
    Via: Al Jazeera: Scientific experts believe Japan’s nuclear disaster to be far worse than governments are revealing to the public. “Fukushima is the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind,” Arnold Gundersen, a former nuclear industry senior vice president, told Al Jazeera. Japa ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 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 ...

Desertification

  • A tree planting event in conjunction with UNHC ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://gozonews.com/18144/tree-planting-event-held-to-mark-world-refugee-day-2011/ Tree planting event held to mark World Refugee Day 2011 As part of a programme of events to mark World Refugee Day 2011, Friends of the Earth Malta organised a tree plantin ...
  • How to revert the threat of desertification an ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.ghanabusinessnews.com/2011/06/17/environmentalists-seek-ways-of-preventing-desertification/ Environmentalists seek ways of preventing desertification Stakeholders in the environmental sector on Thursday deliberated at a forum on issues which ar ...
  • Save Anantapur from desertification (Google / ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.hindu.com/2011/06/15/stories/2011061552550300.htm Plea to save Anantapur from desertification âFilling of all irrigation tanks built from the time of Sri Krishnadevaraya is the only way’ 33 tmcft of water promised under PABR and Hundri-Neeva, n ...
  • Halting net desertification (Google / Reuters)
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFLDE75D1FH20110614 Reuters Summit-World urged to stop net desertification by 2030 By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent BONN, June 14 (Reuters) – The world should set a goal of halting net desertificati ...
  • The causes of desertification (Google / Helium)
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.helium.com/items/2171844-the-causes-of-desertification The causes of desertification by Lenna Gonya There is a fine line between arable, productive land, and desert. Ecosystems here can be much more fragile than we know, and if conditions are … ...

The Paper Trail

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

backofthebook.ca

  • Where is Brock Anton?
    By Frank Moher Having owned the Brock Anton story sufficiently on Thursday to crash our server for awhile -- we've now moved to a nice big new one -- it seems necessary to provide a follow-up, although much of the web has moved on to other riot tales, like the kissing ...
  • The face of Vancouver’s Stanley Cup riot
    By Frank Moher Overnight, a certain Brock Anton became the face of the Vancouver Stanley Cup riot on the internet. Downtown for the abortive festivities yesterday, Mr. Anton apparently took time out from his busy schedule to post this on his Facebook page: It reads: Maced in the face, ...
  • Debating Libya
    By Alison@Creekside "He simply will not last very long," Harper said of Muammar Gaddafi back in March, as Canada prepared to drop $27-million of smart money smart bombs on Libya in order to oust him. As of now Gaddafi controls most of the country, including the capital. Today Parliament ...
  • Revisited: Sun TV’s Ezra problem
    With the Sun News Network lately embarked on a jihad against government funding of the arts, it might be worth remarking: at least when artists are given money, they do what they're supposed to do with it. On the other hand, we have the example of SNN costume rack Ezra ...
  • On SunTV and Margie Gillis
    On June 1, 2011, SunTV broadcast an interview with veteran Canadian dancer and choreographer Margie Gillis (see link below), which quickly turned abusive towards the guest. In a message on his facebook page, Canadian dancer Louis Laberge-Côté, currently a teacher at Nationaltheatre Manheim in Ge ...

libcom

  • J30: It's on
    pcs.jpg Steve Ryan on the upcoming day of co-ordinated strike action by public sector trade unions, due to take place on the 30th of June. Included below are two articles by St ...
  • Egypt: “democracy, social justice and human di ...
    policeegypt.jpg Tali Janner-Klausner reports from Cairo on the unfolding Egyptian revolution, including the recent international solidarity conference. From The Commune. Hosni Mu ...
  • Everyone plays a part in fighting wage theft
    ssbn09-web.jpg Seattle recently joined San Francisco, Austin, Kansas City and Denver in making wage theft — bosses cheating workers out of their earned pay — a criminal offense, and rightfully so. ...
  • Locked out workers' anger grows at Canada Post
    Canada.jpg Following weeks of rolling strike action, Canada Post locked out its 50,000 workers on the night of 14 June. Here follows an exciting personal account of workers fighting back and locking ...
  • Insurgent Notes - NYC Demonstration leaflet
    Insurgent Notes flier for the NYC demonstration against the budget cuts, June 14-15, 2011. “These are hard times for our city,” says the billionaire mayor of New York in a voice that could double as a paint scraper in any hardware st ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

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

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The Real Cultural Wars
    The term “cultural wars,” as used by the mainstream media, seems to have two distinct meanings. It’s most commonly used to refer to the so-called “class of civilizations” between western democracy and societies where Islam is the primary religion. As Lila Rajiva points out in the Language of Em ...
  • The Law of Adverse Possession
    This hands-off policy (see Jun 14 blog) by police and banks as regards the homeless occupying abandoned homes has opened up a lucrative market for ambitious entrepreneurs who fix up abandoned properties and rent them out to tenants. In December 2010 Mark Gurette, the owner of Saving Florida Home ...
  • Has the Revolution Started Already?
    The revolution may be taking place under our noses as thousands of homeless Americans take possession of abandoned foreclosed homes – for the most part without interference by police or the banks that own them. America’s homeless problem predates the October 2008 economic collapse. In addition t ...
  • Squatting 101
    With the growing recession and epidemic of foreclosures and homelessness, squatting is becoming increasingly common worldwide. By definition squatting is “illegally” occupying a building that doesn’t belong to you without the owner’s permission. Obviously the simplest form of squatting is remain ...
  • The Language of Empire: Abu Ghraib and the Ame ...
    2005 Monthly Review Press Book Review The Language of Empire is an examination of the Abu Ghraib scandal, from the perspective that the US military’s use of torture was primarily an instrument of terror (i.e. a military tactic intended to cause intimidation). In addition to outlining what actua ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • “I’m Not a Racist, But … “
    I travelled around Australia and New Zealand with my wife at the time a few decades back, and one of our observations was that people we spent time with sooner or later said “I’m not a racist, but … ” And then they followed with some really racist observation about Aborigines or Maoris. It was [...]
  • Crop Circles Revisited
    I recently promised that I would revisit the topic of crop circles, in response to comments left on a previous post on the topic. Many comments. Long comments. Too long to read even. Sigh. I did more research. I gave the topic more thought.  At least as much as I have time for. And while [...]
  • D-Day, Dishonouring Their Memory
    Today, well yesterday, was the 67th anniversary of the D-Day Invasion. This was a salient event in American history, glorified in such movies as “The Longest Day” or “Saving Private Ryan.” And, unlike certain recent minor military operations involving a few dozen commandos and a few helicopters, ...
  • Socialism for the Rich Illustrated
    This is the former site of Black Oak Books, a once thriving book store in North Berkeley. To say it was an anchor store in the neighbourhood would be an understatement, it as an important part of the community and a serious business draw for its local little business district. It thrived till th ...
  • The Carrington Event
    Early in the morning of September 2nd 1859 the sky brightened and gold miners in Colorado got up and started cooking their breakfast. Gold miners get up with the Sun of course, at least the gold miners of that era. It wasn’t long before they noticed that while the sky was amazingly bright and co ...

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

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

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

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

big think

  • The Ethical Life of a Corporate Lawyer
    The man The Wall Street Journal has called “arguably the country’s leading banking lawyer” Henry Rodgin ("Rodge") Cohen has also been called "the trauma surgeon of Wall Street.” The mantle is well-deserved, as Cohen has been a key player in the resolution of many major bank failures in rece ...
  • Mitt Romney's Economic Nonsense
    The smart money is on former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney to win the Republican nomination to challenge President Obama in 2012. Romney leads the early polls, and performed well in the recent debate, coming across, as Chris Cilizza said, as “serious and well informed.” He certainly looks . ...
  • Better Aging Through Technology
    What's the Latest Development? Technology companies like General Electric and Intel are beginning to market a new industry in patient care called "aging in place". The industry relies on new monitoring technology that may�effectively�replace retirement homes and assisted living centers.�Doroth ...
  • Neanderthals Benefited Human Health
    What's the Latest Development? D.N.A. analyses show that the first populations of homo sapiens to leave Africa for present day Europe and Asia interbred with Neanderthals, a species already living in the colder northern climates some 30,000 years ago. Peter Parham, professor of microbiology an ...
  • Men and Women Equally Unfaithful
    What's the Latest Development? Gender difference has long been associated with infidelity: Men are scum, the phrase goes. But new research is�challenging�this notion. "A group of researchers in the Netherlands surveyed a cross-section of 1,561 professionals, comparing the sexual infidelities o ...

Information Liberation

  • NYT's Love Affair With Fascism Continues
    Generals could run companies so much better than CEOs, says Nicholas Kristof -- and they're so much cheaper! Moreover, they care about their subordinates, unlike those entrepreneurs. Especially children! Why, they take wonderful care of the kiddie...
  • This is $750K of government supplies going in ...
    From a poster on reddit: "This is $750K of government supplies going in the trash due to expiration. We buy it, hold it until it expires, and throw it away. This is a monthly routine." "Don't want to get too specific, but they are supplies t...
  • 20 Orlando Police Steal food from Children, Ar ...
    6/15/11 6 more activist arrested in Orlando for Sharing food with the hungry. 2 young children are being served as close to 20 police officers swarm in and arrest the food servers. This brings to total number of arrest for this horrendous crime up ...
  • Will Grigg on Antiwar Radio with Scott Horton
    MP3 here. (19:56) Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the book Philip Dru: Administrator: A Story of Tomorrow by Col. Edward Mandell House (for which Will wrote the forward), the political operator behind Woodrow Wilson...
  • "You Can No Longer Think of Yourselves as Peac ...
    It was Friday the 13th, and Skylar Walters thought he was going to die. The 16-year-old inmate of Orangeville Jr.-Sr. High in Illinois was in gym class when a deranged-looking man barged into the school and began firing what appeared to be a hand...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • So: Impending Ice Age Or Not?
    I thought I’d follow up the current JD thread as it seems to have worried the warmists enough to send a few new trolls over; some of the new crop even appear to be scientifically literate. The thing was sparked … Continue reading →
  • Not A Good Time To Visit Tasmania
    But before Tourism Tasmania sends a hit man out after me, let me tell you why. It’s Chile’s fault. Well, the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcano, anyway. It started up again the other day and ash has been blown eastwards two-thirds of … Continue reading →
  • Gone Skiing
    Well, I wish I was anyway. Today marks the start of the Australian ski season, and reports from all resorts indicate it’ll be a ripper. I was reminded of this story from 2008 in which our peak taxpayer-funded science body, … Continue reading →
  • My Favourite Pom
    Sorry folks: that’s it for penises and Jews for me for a while. I thought I’d pay brief homage to one of the century’s greatest philosophers, connoisseurs, insanely fast drivers and all-round bon vivants. Every Monday evening, the house stops for … Continue reading →
  • The Last Respectable Prejudice
    I can’t believe I’ve just read this in 2011. The Melbourne Herald-Sun’s Andrew Bolt picked up on this article in the Los Angeles Times, regarding a citizen-initiated referendum in the state of California seeking to outlaw male circumcision. Now, I’m not … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • 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 ...

RFF Library

  • Options for Low-Carbon Development in Countrie ...
    Brookings Institution / by Charles Ebinger, Nathan Hultman, Kevin Massy, Govinda Avasarala and Dylan Rebois http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2011/06_low_carbon_ebinger/ESI_GCC_low_carbon_final.pdf The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states are experiencing some of the world’s fast ...
  • Proposed Liability Framework for Geological Se ...
    Harvard Univ., Kennedy School, Belfer School / by Wendy B. Jacobs http://bit.ly/lUDJhp This paper proposes a framework for a liability regime for geological sites for sequestration of carbon dioxide. It incorporates issues that were discussed at the the June 21, 2010 Expert Workshop Addressing C ...
  • Summary Report of Expert Workshop Addressing C ...
    Expert Workshop Addressing CCS Liability, Oversight, and Trust Fund Issues Convened on June 21, 2010 in Washington, D.C. by Harvard Law School’s Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic, with support from the Energy Technology Innovation Policy Project at the Harvard Kennedy School, and the Harv ...
  • FEMA: Action Needed to Improve Administration ...
    US Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-11-297 [From Summary]  The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) has been on GAO’s high-risk list since March 2006 because of concerns about its long-term financial solvency and related operational issues. Significant managem ...
  • The U.S. Automotive Market and Industry in 2025
    Center for Automotive Research http://www.cargroup.org/pdfs/ami.pdf [From a Greenwire story by Jason Plautz, sub. req'd]  Higher fuel economy standards would add as much as $9,000 to the cost of a vehicle and may offer no fuel savings over a five-year period, a nonprofit automotive research grou ...

Scientific American - News

  • High Wired: Does Addictive Internet Use Restru ...
    Kids spend an increasing fraction of their formative years online, and it is a habit they dutifully carry into adulthood. Under the right circumstances, however, a love affair with the Internet may spiral out of control and even become an addiction.Whereas descriptions of online addiction are co ...
  • The Hole Picture: Growth of Black Holes and Ga ...
    It's the source of a long-standing cosmological quandary. Galaxies or black holes: Which came first? Today, they exist as neatly matched pairs, a black hole nested in the heart of a swirling galaxy, but it seems possible that the growth of one drove the growth of the other. By peering deep int ...
  • Lemonade without the Lemons: New Search Engine ...
    Good news, if you haven't noticed, has always been rare commodity. We all have our ways of coping, but the media's pessimistic proclivity presented a serious problem for Jurriaan Kamp, editor of the San Francisco-based Ode magazine --a must-read for "intelligent optimists "--who was in dire ...
  • Stricter Regulation of Formaldehyde Remains Un ...
    Late last week, the Department of Health and Human Services classified formaldehyde as "a known carcinogen," adding its verdict to two similar reports released by key agencies since 2009.But despite the growing scientific consensus about how formaldehyde can affect human health, it remains ...
  • Beyond Condoms: The Long Quest for a Better Ma ...
    A joke among researchers in the field of male contraception is that a clinically approved alternative to condoms or vasectomy has been five to 10 years away for the past 40 years. The so-close-yet-so-far state of male contraceptive development has persisted in large part because of three serious ...

First Truths

  • Is the labor theory a sine qua non of socialism?
    The following is excerpted from Henry William Spiegel's The Growth of Economic Thought: As the economic doctrines of Marx began to spread on the Continent, Menger's followers became aware of the potentialities of the new subjective theory of value as an instrument for demolishing Marx's economic ...
  • Charles W. Johnson on occupancy-and-use
    I received the following very thoughtful comment from John A. Kindley on my piece The State's Borders, Our Cage: This post raises again my perennial question about the use-and-occupancy theory of property rights: Suppose a private individual is using and occupying a "plentiful oil well." So long ...
  • Operation Empire State Rebellion
  • Anarchists against "idlers"
    Excerpted from The Individualist Anarchists: An Anthology of Liberty (1881-1908)�edited by Frank H. Brooks: But, more logical and more honest than [Herbert] Spencer, [anarchists] wish to carry this diminution to the utmost, and destroy all the support which the State gives to one part of its cit ...
  • "New Monetary Economics"
    Excerpted from M. June Flanders International Monetary Economics 1870-1960: Between the Classical and the New Classical: Cowen and Kroszner place the roots of the current New Monetary Economics rather in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, primarily in the United States rath ...

Media Co-Op

  • Ranting on the riot
    June 16, 2011 I had been thinking to myself how to express what I have to say about the “(anti)hockey riot” last night in Vancouver. It's not like I'm opposed to riots. If people rise up against oppression, systematic racism, the destruction of social housing brought about by Vanoc and the IOC, ...
  • De-listing Caravan Seeks Justice for Abdelrazi ...
    Montreal activists travel to New York to abolish the UN 1267 blacklist A seven-person delegation of labour activists, religious community activists, indymedia journalists, and migrant justice organizers from Montreal joined Project Fly Hom ...
  • Rude Mechanical Orchestra playing for Abdelraz ...
    Radical marching bands joins the speak out against the 1267 list at the UN gates Audio of the Rude Mechanical Orchestra radical marching band playing at the speak-out for Abousfian Abdelrazik against the racist UN 1267 list at the gates of ...
  • The Foster Home System Damaged Me
    âIn Our Own Voices,â Week II I was born in 1957 and in my early years I lived in a cabin with my mother and six siblings in Quesnel B.C. When I was eight years old, our mother took off and left us alone for three days. My younger siblings ...
  • Abousfian Abdelrazik's Statement to the UN 126 ...
    Abousfian Abdelrazik delivers a message to the UN 1267 list committee about the hardships he endures daily. Canadian Foreign Policy

David Seaton's News Links

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

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Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • The Exercise Mistake Which Makes You Age Faster
    By Ori Hofmekler What I am going to share with you in this article most likely will fly in the face of nearly everything you have been taught about exercise and nutrition. It is a radically new concept that is first being introduced to you on Dr. Mercola's site. It's a slap in the face of eve ...
  • 'Good Gut Bacteria' May Help Fight Obesity
    Daily intake of a specific form of lactic acid bacteria could help prevent obesity and reduce low-level inflammation. Rats who were given the bacterium from before birth until adulthood put on significantly less weight than other rats, even though both groups of rats ate a similar diet. UPI re ...
  • A Third of Americans Don't Sleep 7 Hours
    Insufficient sleep not only can affect your memory and daily performance, but studies have now shown that lack of sleep can impair your ability to drive an automobile. The U.S. Department of Transportation reports that drowsiness, including nodding off while driving, is responsible for 1,550 d ...
  • The Real Reason the Cancer Industry Never Talk ...
    In the video above Robyn O'Brien shares her personal story and how it inspired her to become a Real Food evangelist. Her journey started when one of her children had a dangerous allergic reaction to a "typical" breakfast, and unfolded into discovering one reason why the United States may have th ...
  • The Food that Strengthens Your Muscles...
    Ori Hofmekler is the author of The Warrior Diet, The Anti-Estrogenic Diet, Maximum Muscle Minimum Fat, and the upcoming book Unlock Your Muscle Gene. In this interview, he discusses how to build muscle and improve your health through nutrition.

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Peru suspends devastating dam
    The Asháninka tribe are protesting against another dam, Pakitzapango, planned under Peru and Brazil's energy pact. © David Dudenhoefer A mega-dam in south-east Peru has been suspended following a month of strikes that involved almost 2,000 local people. The Inambari dam was to be the lar ...
  • Beef barons exposed by space pics face jail
    Uncontacted Ayoreo house in the middle of a new road. The Indians abandoned it just hours before, hearing the bulldozer approach. © Survival Brazilian beef barons whose illegal clearance of land inhabited by uncontacted Indians in Paraguay was spotted by satellites have now been charged wit ...
  • Palawan tribal leaders in capital to protest m ...
    Palawan child © Dario Novellino Nine traditional leaders of the Palawan tribe are in the Philippine capital, Manila, to protest against the MacroAsia company mining on their land. Members of the Palawan tribe who live in the remote Brookes Point region, have consistently opposed mining on ...
  • Penan hunter-gatherers to be dumped in vast oi ...
    The Penan depend on their forest for survival. © Robin Hanbury-Tenison/Survival More than 1,000 Penan hunter-gatherers will be taken from their rainforest home and dumped in a vast oil palm plantation – to make way for the controversial Murum dam. The Penan have said they do not want to mo ...
  • Success: Peru vows to protect uncontacted trib ...
    Illegal logging in Peru's Murunahua reserve is pushing the Indians into Brazil – the very area where this tribe lives. © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/Survival Peru’s Culture Ministry has promised to protect an uncontacted tribe’s reserve in the Amazon amid fears that it would be shut down. In a ...

Montreal Gazette

  • End the ordeal of Abousfian Abdelrazik
    A delegation of supporters of Abousfian Abdelrazik travelled to United Nations headquarters in New York this week to plead for his removal from the world body's punitive list of suspected al-Qaida and Taliban operatives.
  • The Gazette's view, in short
    The moronic louts who rioted in the streets of Vancouver after Wednesday's loss by the hometown Canucks to the Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup final were certainly a very small minority of that normally wonderful city's population. They were even a minority of those who turned out in support of ...
  • On roads and bridges, we need fixes - and info ...
    Even for battle-scarred Montrealers, the sudden partial closure this week of the Mercier Bridge came as a stunning setback.
  • The Gazette's View: On roads and bridges, we n ...
    Even for battle-scarred Montrealers, the sudden partial closure this week of the Mercier Bridge came as a stunning setback.
  • Legault's apparent stumble could be a strategi ...
    Fran�ois Legault appeared to stumble the other day when asked whether he would never call a new sovereignty referendum if elected premier of Quebec. "Absolutely," he replied, then confused the issue by adding: "Certainly not in a first mandate."

Food World Order

  • 6/16 binge & purge: stumptown sellout, edible ...
    the selling of stumptown: industry sources say stumptown coffee has been sold* flashback: coffee scandal brewing - did portland's stumptown sell out?* ag dept. now allows schools to buy local fruits & veggies* fda sends US marshals to seize elderberry juice concentrate, deemed 'un ...
  • 6/16 binge & purge: stumptown sellout, edible ...
    the selling of stumptown: industry sources say stumptown coffee has been sold* flashback: coffee scandal brewing - did portland's stumptown sell out?* ag dept. now allows schools to buy local fruits & veggies* fda sends US marshals to seize elderberry juice concentrate, deemed 'un ...
  • 'poisoned' book delivered to obama and all of ...
    from food poison journal: Lindsey Ward of WSLS reported that author Jeff Benedict provided the President, First Lady, Secretary Vilsack and Secretary Sebeilus, along with each member of the House and Senate, a copy of the book ‘Poisoned.’ The book tells the story, from an attorney's perspective, ...
  • food safety fears grow in japan on skepticism ...
    from bloomberg: Kimie Nozaki, a mother of three children living 60 kilometers from the crippled Fukushima nuclear reactors, said she doesn’t trust the government’s testing program for radiation-contaminated food. “Information from the government lacks detail, which makes me even more nervous,” s ...
  • ewg releases 2011 'dirty dozen'; apples top li ...
    from cbsnews: That shiny little apple you're eating has a dirty little surprise. At least, that's what a food safety watchdog claims in its annual examination of government produce tests. The Environmental Working Group says apples top its "Dirty Dozen" list of fruits and vegetables with the hig ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

  • Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation
    COTO Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans for mankind? H ...
  • The Big Awakening Conference 2011
    Click here for more information …
  • Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...
    “Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators travel ...
  • Truthjuice Gathering 2011
                                                         SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...
  • COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...
    COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6JLgar45sU

The Economic Collapse

  • 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 ...

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The Talking Clock

  • Sunday Paper Review: 19th June 2011
    If you're a first time visitor to this blog and just stumbled in, then a very warm welcome. The analysis you are about to read may be dismissed by some as the ravings of a conspiracy theorist. This blog doesn't have a problem with that, well aware that the awakening amongst people as to what is ...
  • An Englishman's rights to buy a packet of cigg ...
    Some bloke with the title of 'Master of the Rolls' (not to be confused with the Lord of the Cheese Baps) isn't going to be popular with freeborn Englishmen who enjoy having a cigarette. This is the story that cigarette vending machines are to be banned from pubs, despite an appeal by Wolverha ...
  • The state of play: Britain today
    Banks were bailed out with trillions, countries have been bailed out all over the place with billions, we pay billions to be part of the European Union that we all loathe and want no part of, we donate billions in international aid to countries with space programs and their own armies, we're spe ...
  • Greek Bid to Jail Banksters for "financial ter ...
    Alex Jones chats with Max Keiser who is with a Greek Parliamentarian and specialist economic lawyer, talking about efforts to jail the globalist banksters for crimes against the Greek nation state and her people:
  • Paying 22.9% to borrow your OWN money? Why don ...
    So, I have to confess... I have a credit card. With a debt amount outstanding on it. Save the lectures - I know all about it. ...but at least I didn't stage the Olympics and build a few new stadiums acquiring my debt. Now, I am quite certain that the amount the bank claims is 'debt' is ...

Facing South

  • VOICES: Right-wing attempts to shorten early v ...
    By Cristina Francisco-McGuire, Progressive States Network The 2008 early vote proved beneficial to progressives, with self-identified Democrats making up a disproportionate share of the early vote. Barack Obama's success in engaging the Democratic base and, in particular, targeting early vot ...
  • In labor board dispute with Boeing, growing co ...
    By Marian Wang, ProPublica Just months after fights to limits labor rights in Wisconsin and other states grabbed national attention, another messy labor dispute is getting headlines. �� One of the nation's largest manufacturers, Boeing, has been sued by the government for allegedly punishing u ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The formaldehyde follies
    Date on which the Department of Health and Human Services released a report classifying formaldehyde -- a chemical used in the manufacture of consumer goods including carpeting, plywood, personal care products and pharmaceuticals -- as "a known carcinogen": 6/10/2011 Year in which the Environ ...
  • GOP donor put on board of NC foundation his gr ...
    When North Carolina Democrats appointed board members of the Golden LEAF Foundation -- a state-charted philanthropy giving out money from the state's tobacco settlement -- conservatives lashed out at the foundation for being a "web of political cronyism" with a board "packed with generous campai ...
  • Anti-union Southern companies tolerate -- and ...
    By Joe Atkins, Labor South The latest Labor South Roundup shows that Southern companies remain at the forefront of anti-labor activity in the United States even when at least one is willing -- if forced -- to tolerate unions abroad. First and foremost, of course, is Arkansas-based ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Freed Gitmo Detainee Added to Global Terror List The State Department added a freed Guantanamo detainee to the global terror list Thursday. U.S. authorities believe Othman al-Ghamdi, a Saudi who was released from U.S. … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Zawahiri Succeeds Bin Laden Ayman al-Zawahiri has succeeded Osama bin Laden as the leader of al Qaeda, according to a statement posted on a Web site affiliated with the group. The statement said that … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Pakistan Arrests CIA Informants Who Helped with bin Laden Search Pakistanâs top military spy agency has arrested some of the Pakistani informants who helped the CIA locate Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, according to … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group New CIA Drone Campaign Planned for Yemen The CIA plans to launch an armed drone campaign against militants in Yemen, according to news first reported by the Wall Street Journal. For the past 18 … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Mastermind of U.S. Embassy Bombings Killed in Somalia Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, al Qaedaâs leader in East Africa and the alleged architect of the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, was killed … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • 15 Best Android Apps for Travelers Among You
    Google is activating some 400,000 new Android devices every single day now(source) and Android is already the fastest growing and most popular smartphone OS in many parts of the world. In tune with its rising popularity, Android's applications base is also showing stupendous growth. We have alre ...
  • TermKit is Terminal Reimagined, Install TermKi ...
    TermKit by Steven Wittens is a refreshingly beautiful graphic replacement for terminal. If you are wondering, TermKit is not a flashy GUI for Terminal, instead its very much a command line based system made on top of WebKit, the rendering engine used in web browsers like Google Chrome and Chromi ...
  • 5 Useful Compiz Tweaks for Ubuntu 11.04 Natty ...
    I have been a Compiz fan ever since I started using Linux. Compiz is also a very integral part of Ubuntu, more so with the introduction of new Unity desktop for Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal. There are many Compiz effects that are not enabled by default and some of them are really good IMO. Useful ...
  • How to Hide Mounted Drives from Ubuntu 11.04 D ...
    I want my desktop to be clean and simple, I don't like it look cluttered, especially since I have Unity launcher at my disposal with easy access to favorite applications and 'places'. In Ubuntu, when you mount a drive, it will be shown in your desktop by default. I don't like it that way and thi ...
  • Howto Fix Ubuntu 11.04 Won't Boot After Restar ...
    Recently, I had to install Ubuntu 11.04 in a Core 2 Duo Lenovo laptop with Intel Mobile 4 Series Chipset. I had previously installed Ubuntu 10.10 in it and it worked flawlessly. But that was not the case when I installed the latest Ubuntu. Though installation went smooth, Ubuntu 11.04 just won't ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • German tax payers face 65-billion-euro bill fo ...
    German tax payers could face a bill of 65 billion euros by 2015 for the bankster bailout for Greece alone, according to Frank Schäffler, financial spokesman for the Free Democrats, the junior partner in Germany’s  coalition government. German tax payer’s are already the biggest private creditors ...
  • Protests in Greece go on as Papandreou reshuff ...
    Greek Prime Minister Giorgos Papandreou has reshuffled his cabinet in a bid to quell mass protests and persuade his disillusioned party to swing behind legislation for another round of fiscal austerity measures mandated by the EU, IMF and ECB. But even if Papandreou survives a vote of confidence ...
  • Extreme right-wing Diva Heinz-Christian Strach ...
    Far right wing demagogue Heinz- Christian Strache has said that he wants to be the next Chancellor of Austria at a rally for his supporters in Graz. Portraying himself as a critic of the EU and the banks, Strache, is making a blatant attempt to hijack a growing grass roots movement opposing the ...
  • The Euro’s PIG-Headed Masters, by Kenneth Rogoff
    2011-06-03 Kenneth Rogoff, Project Syndicate CAMBRIDGE – Europe is in constitutional crisis. No one seems to have the power to impose a sensible resolution of its peripheral countries’ debt crisis. Instead of restructuring the manifestly unsustainable debt burdens of Portugal, Ireland, and Greec ...
  • New Zealand citizens face show-trials under &# ...
    “After almost 4 years and over $10 million in taxpayer funds thrown at the prosecution, few Kiwis are aware of the evidence and court proceedings in the criminal prosecution of 18 New Zealand citizens initially labelled as terrorists, but whom the U.S. Embassy in Wellington was advised in 2007 b ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Cognitive Dissonance on Revolution Road
    By Les Visible What’s the big event headed our way- metaphorically speaking- that’s not being talked about? That would be the large flotilla endeavor. This is a great deal more massive than its predecessor and we remember what happened to its predecessor. People were shot dead in cold blood and ...
  • Cognitive Dissonance on Revolution Road
    By Les Visible What’s the big event headed our way- metaphorically speaking- that’s not being talked about? That would be the large flotilla endeavor. This is a great deal more massive than its predecessor and we remember what happened to its predecessor. People were shot dead in cold blood and ...
  • A World of Delusion on a Ball of Confusion
    by Les Visible The cosmos wants the motivations and conditions of our times expressed in dramas that showcase them, because the cosmos brought The Apocalypse. Both sides of human consciousness; self interest and ‘enlightened’ self interest are presented in acts that reveal what initiates and car ...
  • Video – This kinetic sculpture lives!
  • China Wants To Construct A 50 Square Mile Self ...
    By wmw_admin on June 10, 2011 The End of the American Dream – June 8, 2011 Thanks to the trillions of dollars that the Chinese have made flooding our shores with cheap products, China is now in a position of tremendous economic power. So what is China going to do with all of that money? [...]

Veterans Today

  • 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...

electric politics

  • The Athenian Zephyr
    Neoliberal bankers wants to turn the Greek public into chattel. The Greek public objects. It's a theoretically long-predicted fork in the road for the European Union: either Greece defaults (it could have been any one of certain member states) and the European debt crisis spreads — possibly/pro ...
  • Forgetting Vietnam
    America's final retreat from Vietnam could have been a whole lot worse. Ambassador Graham Martin, mistakenly thought to be on the last chopper out, didn't follow through on the fact that he left a final contingent of Marine Security Guards on the Embassy's rooftop. Higher-ups in the military ch ...
  • Constitutional Chains
    The U.S. Constitution has not led to a more perfect union. In some ways — see the Civil War — it was a suicide pact. So must it, indeed, be the only legitimate political expression of who we are as Americans? To think about some of the flaws at the creation I turned to Dr. Mark A. Graber, autho ...
  • It Became Necessary to Destroy Libya In Order ...
    At some point the blood-thirsty hawks who got us into a war against Libya must realize that, with Col. Gaddafi or without him, the various Libyan tribes and factions do not mean to settle their differences amicably. What then? Do we admit a strategic defeat and end the war? Or pick sides and fo ...
  • The Science of Interrogation
    Memory is such an elusive thing. Not the sort of thing you can pound out of a person's skull. If you want access to a person's memories, to accurate memories, they must be given freely. If you want a false confession for propaganda purposes then use coercion, but for useful memories, don't. To ...

PR News

The Story Behind the Story

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

k2p blog

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

Left Foot Forward

  • The wisdom of Labour’s dalliance with co ...
    Blue Labour has been a reawakening for the Labour Party - but it coincides with a yearning for a half-remembered dream and risks alienating the broad centre-left.
  • Of sacred cows and wise turkeys
    David Cameron and Nick Clegg certainly aren’t the first to forget the lessons of history, but in the unravelling of their plans is laughably predictable.
  • Look Left – Tory MP says disabled should work ...
    A Conservative MP sparked outrage today by saying employers should be allowed to hire disabled people on less than the minimum wage, £5.93 an hour; Shamik Das reports.
  • Davies’s remarks are a much needed wake- ...
    Philip Davies's disgusting, disgraceful, ignorant, ill-informed remarks about the disabled today have proved to be a much needed wake-up call, writes Jos Bell.
  • High and dry streets?
    A report from Colliers CRE, shows a polarising nation of shopkeepers: with growing inequality between thriving high streets and those that are failing.

Consumerist

  • How To Swerve Away From Extra Car Rental Fees
    Sure, maybe you're smart enough not to fall for the optional insurance car rental companies like to shill when you borrow one of their fine vehicles. And of course, you're wise to the astronomical final bill you might get if you opt for their pricey fuel options. But do you know what other gotc ...
  • Deaf Party Planner Is Actually An Advance Fee Scam
    Reader Steve in Florida owns a small restaurant. He recently received three odd phone calls from prospective customers--deaf people using a relay service--wanting to place a catering order for a party of about 100 people using a credit card. Oh, and even though the party is three weeks out, cou ...
  • Nook Beats Kindle In Consumer Reports Ratings
    For the first time ever, a Nook has beaten the Kindle in the Consumer Reports ratings. Smart people in lab coats in Yonkers used their brains and scientific measuring equipment to determine that the Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch e-ink Reader marginally outperforms its competitor in most eve ...
  • How To Always Get An Exit Row Seat
    Exit rows are magical areas on airplanes where you'll aways have that most rare and precious commodity known as "legroom." On some airlines you'll have to pay extra for the privilege. On others, it's yours just for asking. Airfarewatchdog breaks down the exit row policies by airline so you can ...
  • Text 4ER411 To Find Nearby ER With Shortest Wait
    A new service called "ER Texting" lets you send a text message to 4ER411 and get a report on the expected wait times at nearby emergency rooms. You get to see a doctor faster and the hospitals get to advertise their services. The increased transparency could even make hospitals compete on havi ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

  • The Growing Desperation of the Don’t-Raise-Tax ...
    The much-vaunted Republican pledge not to raise any taxes is crumbling. Today 34 Senate Republicans voted to end the special tax breaks for ethanol. According to no-tax-increase purists like Grover Norquist, this is tantamount to a tax increase. The truth is, Republicans are divided between thos ...
  • Conan O’Brien Addresses Dartmouth University C ...
    Raw, rare honesty from a master comedian, late night talk-show host Conan O’Brien. His life has had some dramatic public ups and downs during this class’ tenure at Dartmouth University. He sends them out into the world with advice that will make you laugh and move you to inspiration. Worth a cup ...
  • UK Progressive Welcomes The Political Carnival ...
    Here are just some last week’s best posts at The Political Carnival website. We are pleased to be affiliated with and welcome GottaLaff and Paddy. (-Ed.) Keith Olbermann elaborates on his return, Simon’s Cat in hidden Treasures and Larry Flynt Offers Anthony Weiner a job. ======================= ...
  • UK Progressive Needs Your Help
    Those who know me, know how difficult it is for me to ask for help. I’m the one on the front line making passionate pleas for others. Now, we need your support and help. Your kindness is always greatly appreciated. The Tweets, words of encouragement and donations move us in the right direction. ...
  • Why the Republican War on Workers’ Rights Unde ...
    The battle has resumed in Wisconsin. The state supreme court has allowed Governor Scott Walker to strip bargaining rights from state workers. Meanwhile, governors and legislators in New Hampshire and Missouri are attacking private unions, seeking to make the states so-called “open shop” where wo ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Protests coming up around Australia
    Yes, we all wish we didn’t need to protest, but it’s a small price to pay for living in one of the best nations on Earth. If we don’t stop this slide now, corruption and inefficiency grow stronger, and we will all be poorer in every sense of the word. We don’t have to have [...]
  • Front line in the climate trenches
    The trenches in the climate war tonight have coalesced at Lynas’s blog and at Judith Curry’s. (I did say yesterday it was shaping up to be a Judith-Curry-moment didn’t I?) The Greenpeace-gate moment is making waves. It’s in the news: David Derbyshire, Daily Mail, Oliver Wright, The Independent, ...
  • Greenpeace-gate breaks and the IPCC is busted. ...
    What were they thinking? Greenpeace and the IPCC are both bleeding credibility over this one. The silly thing is, if they weren’t so arrogant, they could have hidden this so easily. The obvious conclusion is they are not even trying. Steve McIntyre discovered that a lead-author on an IPCC report ...
  • Mark the moment! The first renegade science co ...
    Apart from conferences organized by the Heartland Foundation I don’t recall a skeptic dominated professional conference or science association convention. Skeptics have spoken at many conferences before, but this time the skeptical speakers vastly outnumbered the fans of the IPCC, ten to one. Th ...
  • Climate helped drive Vikings from Greenland
    For the first time temperatures over the last 5,600 years have been reassembled from the inhabited area of Greenland. (Other estimates were from ice-cores that are far inland.) William DâAndrea, the paperâs first author says: â.. we can say there is a definite cooling trend in the region right b ...

ReNew America

  • Bachmann: Obama wants Medicare bankrupted
    (NewsMax) - Rep. Michele Bachmann says President Barack Obama has a secret plan in which America's elderly would be forced to enroll in Obamacare after Medicare goes bankrupt, reports The New York Times' The Caucus blog...
  • Romney, Cain nix anti-abortion pledge
    (NewsMax) - Presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and Herman Cain have declined to sign a pledge that calls for White House hopefuls to push for anti-abortion goals if elected president, Politico reports. Five other candidates -- Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Tim Pawlenty and Rick Santo ...
  • Obama's weak war memo
    (Washington Times) - The White House sent a 38-page report to Congress on Wednesday attempting to explain why the president had the authority to continue military operations against Libya without congressional approval as mandated under the War Powers Resolution. The Obama administration's argum ...
  • Obama's SecDef nominee linked to Cold War supp ...
    (WorldNetDaily) - CIA Director Leon Panetta, President Obama's nominee to serve as secretary of defense, has come under newfound scrutiny for his ties to a pro-Marxist think tank accused of anti-CIA activity. The Institute for Policy Studies, or IPS, has long faced criticism for positions some s ...
  • Weiner set to step down
    (New York Post) - Randy Rep. Anthony Weiner has finally decided to step down from his congressional seat, sources told The Post. He has informed House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi and other key party leaders of his decision, the sources said. Weiner called Pelosi and Rep. Steve Israel, who hea ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Prophet Will Profit
    As it happened, Doris Schmitt, the NY widow who left $250K to Harold Camping got her timing all screwed up. If her intention was for the preacher to use her bequeathment to advertise his doomsday, ... Related posts:Blame it on the weather?
  • The Winged Warriors of Ek’ Balam
    I came across this image on Facebook via Korinna and others… at Wikipedia they are described as “winged warriors“.The wall is found at the ancient Mayan site Ek’ Balam. A huge version of the image is ... Related posts:Congressman Says Flee Cities / Mystery Sculpture Cerne Abbas Giant / ...
  • Amazing Solar Flare Photo
    It was only a medium-sized flare, but still the biggest we’ve seen since 2006. It wasn’t aimed directly at us, but will be near enough to perhaps create some nice auroras in the next day ... Related posts:Solar Flare Update Solar Flare ‘Could Paralyse Earth’ Sing-a-long with Bowie…
  • Nothing Skeptical About 2012
    One of the world’s leading skeptics is Michael Shermer. Not only is he the founder of the Skeptics Society, and head honcho and primary contributor for Skeptic Magazine, he has also penned an opinion piece ... Related posts:History Channel: Doomsday 2012: The End of Days Biblical scholar: ...
  • Central Lunar Eclipse in 5 Days
    Obviously the Earth is much bigger than the Moon, so a lunar eclipse doesn’t require a precise alignment. When the moon passes in front of the center of the Earth’s shadow, it is called a ... Related posts:Lunar Eclipse = Quakes? Lunar Eclipses Are Dangerous Times 6.6M Earthquake in Papua ...

Facing South

  • VOICES: Right-wing attempts to shorten early v ...
    By Cristina Francisco-McGuire, Progressive States Network The 2008 early vote proved beneficial to progressives, with self-identified Democrats making up a disproportionate share of the early vote. Barack Obama's success in engaging the Democratic base and, in particular, targeting early vot ...
  • In labor board dispute with Boeing, growing co ...
    By Marian Wang, ProPublica Just months after fights to limits labor rights in Wisconsin and other states grabbed national attention, another messy labor dispute is getting headlines. �� One of the nation's largest manufacturers, Boeing, has been sued by the government for allegedly punishing u ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The formaldehyde follies
    Date on which the Department of Health and Human Services released a report classifying formaldehyde -- a chemical used in the manufacture of consumer goods including carpeting, plywood, personal care products and pharmaceuticals -- as "a known carcinogen": 6/10/2011 Year in which the Environ ...
  • GOP donor put on board of NC foundation his gr ...
    When North Carolina Democrats appointed board members of the Golden LEAF Foundation -- a state-charted philanthropy giving out money from the state's tobacco settlement -- conservatives lashed out at the foundation for being a "web of political cronyism" with a board "packed with generous campai ...
  • Anti-union Southern companies tolerate -- and ...
    By Joe Atkins, Labor South The latest Labor South Roundup shows that Southern companies remain at the forefront of anti-labor activity in the United States even when at least one is willing -- if forced -- to tolerate unions abroad. First and foremost, of course, is Arkansas-based ...

One News Page

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Wall Street’s Role in Narco-Trafficking
    Imagine what your reaction would be if the Mexican government agreed to pay Barack Obama $1.4 billion to deploy US troops and armored vehicles to New York, Los Angeles and Chicago to conduct military operations, set up check points, and engage in fire-fights that end up killing 35,000 US civilia ...
  • Will Pay-for-Peace Work in Afghanistan?
    The pay-for-peace format for peace in Afghanistan has perhaps reached its crescendo with the drawdown of NATO forces most likely next month. The moot question is: whether after the departure of the foreign troops will Afghanistan usher in era of peace and development as often harped by its curre ...
  • The United States Wants Iraq to Pay for Being ...
    Democracy American-style is such a precious commodity that they don’t give it away. Of course, the Americans may be generous at first and let you have it on credit. But eventually the debt has to be be repaid. US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher visited Iraq and met with local Prime Minister Nouri a ...
  • No Limits When Spooks Have a Brawl
    A war of words has erupted between CIA and ISI. The CIA fired the first shot by giving an exclusive story to NYT that ISI has picked up the US agency’s Pakistani informers who tipped off the location of Osama bin Laden’s villa in Abbottabad. Then in the typical style spy agencies plant stories, ...
  • Iran is too important for Moscow…
    Recently Iranian Revolutionary Guards posted a text on their website in favor of the country’s conducting a nuclear weapon test, the quintessential idea being that it would give the nation a renewed sense of might and dignity. While Tehran continues to deny that its nuclear program has a militar ...

BlogHer

  • Women at Wimbledon: 2011 Preview
    The French Open provided a lot of excitement this year, but Wimbledon is already setting up some heart-racing story lines as well. It's been a bumpy road for the women's tour lately so it will be interesting to see how things shake out. Wimbledon remains the only major still contested on grass ...
  • Rock this guac: Easy, everyday guacamole
    Guacamole with chips by Lucy Mercer/A Cook and Her Books I love the way supermarkets are designed for impulse buyers. From the glistening red ripe strawberries just inside the door, to the cartoon character cereal at kid eye-level, to the intoxicating scent of roasting chicken wafting from ...
  • Lessons Learned from Technology Roadkill
    Pinchefsky at Input Output, an HP blog, talks about 6 products that failed and what the reasons for the crash and burn were. She also has some ideas about the lessons these technology failures can teach us. Many products and services have tried and failed to become the Platonic ideals their dev ...
  • A Bacon/Green Chili Quiche Perfect for Father' ...
    [Editor's Note: This Bacon & Green Chili Quiche is perfect for a Father's Day brunch. It's a great combination of flavors, and bold enough to dispel the whole "real men don't eat quiche" myth. -Genie] Bacon and Green Chili Quiche We loved the perfect soft cheesy texture studded with the fine ...
  • Juneteenth: The Oldest U.S. Celebration of the ...
    ����The Emancipation Proclamation was presented to Congress by President Abraham Lincoln in September 1862, to take effect on January 1, 1863. However, the slaves in Texas didn't know about their freedom until two and one-half years later--on or about June 19, 1865--after the end of the Civil W ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • CNN Disinfo: Refuses to Use OWN Poll – R ...
    CNN presented Monday night’s GOP debate held in Manchester, New Hampshire. Republican candidates included Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Hermain Cain, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul. Candidates discussed government’s role in society, ...
  • Bipolar Kids: Victims of the ‘Madness In ...
    When did the sweep in children’s diagnoses and medication of bipolar disorder begin? Jon Ronson, author of The Men Who Stare at Goats, shares more in his latest book The Psychopath Test. He attributes the part ...
  • Life Expectancy of Women Dropping In US Regions
    “Nationwide, women fare more poorly than men. The researchers found that women in 1,373 counties â about 40% of US counties â fell more than five years behind the nations with the best life expectancies. ...
  • EPA Whistleblower Criticizes Global Warming in ...
    Dr. Alan Carlin drew rebuke when presented information contrary to widely accepted beliefs about Global Warming while yet working for the EPA.International Journal of Environmental Research published Carlin’s study on Economics of Climate Change holding ...
  • FDA Skirts Legal Challenge – Eliminates ...
    FDA purports public health when it cracks down on the likes of Amish Farmer Dan Allgyer for transferring raw milk over state lines for a buying club. But since it’s legal to drink raw milk ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, June 17, 2011
    A woman steps out from a mobile refuge facility, which was designed to provided emergency shelter for miners working underground, on display during a coal equipment and mining technology exhibition in Beijing Wednesday, June 1, 2011. China’s coal mines are the world’s deadliest, with thousands o ...
  • WVDEP: ‘Golden algae’ back?
    This just in from the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection and the Pennsylvania DEP: The Pennsylvania and West Virginia Departments of Environmental Protection have begun sampling and monitoring ponds and streams in the Dunkard Creek area after sampling found golden algae in a pr ...
  • AEP, EPA and the costs of coal pollution
    Gazette photo by Lawrence Pierce, Kanawha River Plant Last week’s announcement of potential plant closures by American Electric Power continued to get attention this week here locally and in Washington, D.C. — where EPA Administrator took on AEP directly, telling a congressional committee: … Whi ...
  • MSHA gives industry communications gear loophole
    There’s that photo again …  Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin, a coal miner’s son from Iowa, with a piece of wireless communications and tracking gear at a Senate hearing after the Sago Mine Disaster. And yet here we go again, with another Associated Press account of how the deadline has finally been ...
  • Still no criminal charges in Crandall Canyon D ...
    Our friend Howard Berkes over at NPR has a story out today reminding us that there have been no criminal charges filed to date in the August 2007 Crandall Canyon Mine disaster: Four years after nine coal miners and mine rescuers died underground in the Crandall Canyon mine in Utah, federal prose ...

Daniel Miessler

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

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

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

reference frame

  • Black hole devoured a star
    Reuters and many others are informing us about a cute observation with a cute interpretation. On March 28th, 2011, NASA's Swift aircraft has seen an interesting event similar to the gamma ray bursts. The source, named Sw 1644+57, was analyzed by your humble correspondent's f ...
  • Obama's flip-flops on missile defense
    I think that many of you remember that Obama's voters used to be fanatical opponents of the missile defense system proposed during the administration of George Bush Jr. We were constantly told that the system was immoral and it didn't work, anyway. Obama would only make statements that were ...
  • Greenpeace, hydrodam bosses control IPCC WG3
    Some of the media have surprisingly publicized the findings by Mark Lynas, a well-known environmentalist and a crusader against global warming, who has looked at the latest and final version of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report Working Group III report that was released a few days ago. (Wel ...
  • Festschrift for Václav Klaus
    I wish happy birthday to Gene! Yesterday, Leonard Susskind and his exp(exp(exp(exp(120)))) clones in the hypermultiverse celebrated their 71st birthday, congratulations, too. Your humble correspondent has just returned from another celebration - of the Czech President's 70th birth ...
  • Lindzen and Choi 2011: lots of improvements
    I was preparing a short climate talk and I decided it was sensible to at least mildly study the newest paper by Richard Lindzen and Yong-Sang Choi that will appear in Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences: On the observational determination of climate sensitivity and its implicatio ...

No Frakking Consensus

  • Two Population Predictions
    40 years ago scientists said radical change was necessary if humanity was to survive. Along the way they endorsed a population prediction that now appears ridiculous.
  • Oodles of Cash
    Who knew that green groups - and those with business interests in renewable energy - have access to such obscene amounts of money?
  • IPCC: These People Haven’t Learned a Thing
    A recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report once again relies on research conducted by Greenpeace. Once again, Greenpeace personnel are serving as IPCC lead authors.
  • Science is Not a Tyrant
    Activists, politicians, and journalists love to play the 'science says' game when talking about global warming. But scientific facts are one thing. How best to respond to those facts is a completely different discussion - in which we all deserve a voice.
  • How Much Harm to Humans is OK?
    An IPCC official thinks that quadrupling gasoline prices could help save the planet. What effect such a policy would have on human beings appears to be irrelevant.

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Hypothetical Israeli Attack on Iran
    Guest Post: by ‘Be Informed’ The following is a possible scenario in which Israel finally fed up with the dangers of Iran having a nuclear program does something about it. I read yesterday that Israelâs defense force is having a drill called âTurning Point 5â³ to begin tomorrow, source israelnat ...
  • Don’t be a Victim – Be Confident
    Want to minimize the odds of becoming a victim of robbery or assault, while out in public? Just remember these two words, ‘be confident’. A would-be attacker, robber, or assailant will most always look for easy prey. Just as the weakest of the herd in the animal kingdom typically fall first to a ...
  • Iceland’s Katla Volcano Activity since E ...
    Given the very recent earthquake activity at Iceland’s Katla Volcano during June 17,2011, activity which looks like it has to do with magma movement, you may be interested in the following list of articles that I’ve written since April 2010 when it’s immediate neighbor, Eyjafjallajokull, erupted ...
  • NSA Allies with Internet Carriers
    During the past few months, I have been increasingly troubled by a feeling of suspicion regarding the fact that there has suddenly been an excess of mainstream news reporting of cyber attacks and hacks into corporate, bank, and government sector computer networks. Something about the rash of rep ...
  • Lessons from Russian History for the Prepper C ...
    Guest Post: by Brad Scenario #3: The Kosovo War (1998 – 1999) As many readers will recall (because you are not among the Sheeple who pay no attention to important events), in the mid-1990′s there was escalating violence and tension between the ethnicities and religions in Yugoslavia (for you you ...

Fast Company

  • iPhone, Android Mobile User Data Blasts Off, W ...
    With bandwidth-heavy streaming apps such as Netflix, HBO Go, and Pandora out on the market, users are consuming more data than ever before on their smartphones. According to a new report by Nielsen out today, average U.S. smartphone data usage is up by 89% in the last 12 months. For carrier ...
  • Funny Money: Is Bitcoin The Future Of Currency ...
    Digital security firm Symantech has discovered a new type of viral exploit that tries to crack open a user's Bitcoin wallet and steal its contents--the virtual answer to the old-fashioned bank heist. But what's a Bitcoin, and why would anyone want one when there are gold bricks and paper dollars ...
  • This Week In Bots: Robochefs, Killer Toy Drone ...
    As Stephen Hawking once said: "Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-generated robots will take over our world." So what developments in robotics happened this week?Robot breakfastWe've seen research roboticists perform various odd tric ...
  • Wi-Not? South Korea's Seoul To Blanket The Cit ...
    South Korea is already light years ahead of the U.S. in terms of broadband infrastructure. Perhaps the lessons learned as Seoul rolls out its program will push the world closer toward truly wired cities.South Korea's capital city is already the best connected in the world, so it's not surprising ...
  • Lasers Create Interactive Solar Map For New York
    Now New Yorkers can see exactly how much solar power each roof could generate. Will that info spur solar installations like it has in other cities?It's hard to accurately predict how much power we can generate from the sun. You can't simply plop solar panels down everywhere; only some surfaces w ...

Jadaliyya

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

mediagazer

  • Movers & Shakers: Mark Edmiston makes a digita ...
    Media & Entertainment: Movers & Shakers: Mark Edmiston makes a digital comeback  —  A former president of Newsweek and a longtime media industry adviser, Mark Edmiston recently got back in the magazine game with the launch of digital publisher Nomad Editions.  The low-overhead operation publis ...
  • Movers & Shakers: Mark Edmiston makes a digita ...
    Media & Entertainment: Movers & Shakers: Mark Edmiston makes a digital comeback  —  A former president of Newsweek and a longtime media industry adviser, Mark Edmiston recently got back in the magazine game with the launch of digital publisher Nomad Editions.  The low-overhead operation publis ...
  • Sony Films Leave Netflix (Ethan Smith/Wall Str ...
    Ethan Smith / Wall Street Journal: Sony Films Leave Netflix  —  Movies distributed by Sony Corp.'s Sony Pictures Entertainment were removed from Netflix Inc.'s on-demand Internet service Friday, a Netflix executive wrote in a blog post, adding that the absence was “temporary.”  —  The removal o ...
  • Sony Films Leave Netflix (Ethan Smith/Wall Str ...
    Ethan Smith / Wall Street Journal: Sony Films Leave Netflix  —  Movies distributed by Sony Corp.'s Sony Pictures Entertainment were removed from Netflix Inc.'s on-demand Internet service Friday, a Netflix executive wrote in a blog post, adding that the absence was “temporary.”  —  The removal o ...
  • Should user comments dictate online content? ( ...
    Brad McCarty / The Next Web: Should user comments dictate online content?  —  You might not think about the comments section on a website very often.  Heck, more often than not I glance over them as if they don't exist, except for a few notable exceptions.  Between the error-filled ignorance o ...

Chemtrail News

  • [1 of 2] Alan Watt – Chemtrail informat ...
    (Chemtrails): www.youtube.com Speaker is Alan Watt: www.cuttingthroughthematrix. com. Related posts: 27 of 27 Chemtrail film: Don't Talk About the Weather ...chemtrails.theshadowland.net/.../1-of-2-alan-watt-chemtrail-inf...
  • Chemtrail Plane Crashes!!!
    Chemtrail Plane Crashes!!! Boeing 707 crashes in Point Mugu. 2 of 21 photos: A Boeing 707 plane with three people onboard crashed in Point Mugu naval air ...www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=206841
  • Symptoms of Chemtrail Spraying | Before ...
    Symptoms of Chemtrail Spraying. Wed Jun 15 0940 ... This overview is a partial list of health problems reported by private citizens to Chemtrail researchers ...beforeitsnews.com/.../Symptoms_of_Chemtrail_Spraying.html
  • eesti chemtrail: Chemtrails - Th ...
    Chemtrails the Documentary by was filmed in Victoria British Columbia Canada in 2007 to 2009. This is the original version of the film that was submitted to ...chemtrail-ee.blogspot.com/.../chemtrails-documentary-part-1-...
  • Link for Chemtrail petition - 12160
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World News - Top Stories

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

no frakking consensus

  • Two Population Predictions
    40 years ago scientists said radical change was necessary if humanity was to survive. Along the way they endorsed a population prediction that now appears ridiculous.
  • Oodles of Cash
    Who knew that green groups - and those with business interests in renewable energy - have access to such obscene amounts of money?
  • IPCC: These People Haven’t Learned a Thing
    A recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report once again relies on research conducted by Greenpeace. Once again, Greenpeace personnel are serving as IPCC lead authors.
  • Science is Not a Tyrant
    Activists, politicians, and journalists love to play the 'science says' game when talking about global warming. But scientific facts are one thing. How best to respond to those facts is a completely different discussion - in which we all deserve a voice.
  • How Much Harm to Humans is OK?
    An IPCC official thinks that quadrupling gasoline prices could help save the planet. What effect such a policy would have on human beings appears to be irrelevant.

Pointman's

  • The death of journalism and the irresistible r ...
    The IPCC has screwed up again. They published a claim last month in their renewables report saying that renewable technologies could supply 80% of world-wide energy needs by the mid-century. What they actually published was an executive summary of the report, not the report itself. That was publ ...
  • Line of Descent Chapter 26
    Chapter 26 Krupmeyer stared through the smoke at the black indistinct figure rising up through the hole in the floor in front of him. His eyes watered from the acrid smoke and his ears were filled with a high-pitched ringing from the effects of the explosion. The figure seemed to unbend slowly u ...
  • Love is simply not an option.
    Love is a word in every language. It has a lot of meanings and covers a lot of ground. Itâs a universal. We make love but what weâre actually doing is expressing our love by giving mutual physical pleasure to each other and of course, itâs the best fun. Where thereâs no emotional love there, … R ...
  • The power of dreams and the power of nightmares.
    There are patterns in politics which are hardy perennials. Theyâve been there for as long as politics has been around, which is to say forever. Politicians need you to vote for them and the way they do this is to sell you something. The thing they sell you of course is a promise but to … Read more
  • About Harry.
    I went to a christening today. Itâs been a long time since Iâve been inside a place of worship. Things have changed a lot. The toddlers were allowed to walk around and actually called up to the front so they could really see what was going on. No hushing or shushing. There were several babies … ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Ognir wrote: exactly Scottie, 20 steps a head of us, our governments work for these ppl And as you good and well know, especially in the US. I still believe the bottom line is that they (the elite Jew pigs) have all the goods on these weak and compromised politicians. Those who aren't compro ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    exactly Scottie, 20 steps a head of us, our governments work for these pplStatistics: Posted by Ognir — Sun Jun 19, 2011 11:29 am
  • False Flag Terrorism, Black Ops & Pseudo G ...
    Hi Guys Jim Fetzer has been doing interviews with an ex physics teacher Chuck Baldwin. there are about 9 hours of it, they have been discussing Dr Judy Wood's new book. Chuck thinks he can answer all of the anomolies brought up by Dr Wood just by using basic chemistry and physics. He does a go ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Hah, yeah I think we know the answer. As usual, they are 20-steps ahead of the game.Statistics: Posted by Rockclimber — Sun Jun 19, 2011 10:49 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    what about that guy in the US yesterday, turned himself into a fireball?Statistics: Posted by Ognir — Sun Jun 19, 2011 10:48 am

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Fly Larvae Used to Remove Organic Waste on Lar ...
    Spanish researchers have developed a process that uses fly larvae to rapidly break down animal waste on a large scale while simultaneously producing biomass that can Click to enlarge Asociación RUVIDFly larvae feed on organic waste be re-used for numerous purposes, from animal feed to the pr ...
  • Shorter Wildflower Season Poses Ecosystem Thre ...
    Warming temperatures have led to a shorter wildflower season in the high-peak ecosystems of the Rocky Mountains, a shift that could have detrimental effects on pollinator species, including bees and hummingbirds, Photo by David InouyeA hummingbird collects nectar according to a new study. Wh ...
  • Snowpack Decline in Rockies Has Rapidly Accele ...
    A new study says snowpack decline in the northern Rocky Mountains over the last 30 years has been more severe than at any other time in nearly 1,000 years. In an analysis of 66 tree-ring records, researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) found that the average spring snowpack in the nor ...
  • Mattel Vows to Stop Using Paper from Accused A ...
    Toymaker Mattel Inc. says it will stop using packaging from a Singapore-based company accused of clear-cutting swaths of Indonesian rainforest. Mattel’s action follows a campaign by Greenpeace that targeted, among other products, the packaging used in Mattel’s popular GreenpeaceVIDEO: Barbi ...
  • Instant Identification of Trees Is Possible Us ...
    Click to enlarge LeafsnapThe Leafsnap smartphone app Botanists from the Smithsonian Institution have helped develop a smartphone app that can identify tree species within seconds using visual recognition software and then share the location with a database of tree populations. After a user ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • Where is Brock Anton?
    By Frank Moher Having owned the Brock Anton story sufficiently on Thursday to crash our server for awhile -- we've now moved to a nice big new one -- it seems necessary to provide a follow-up, although much of the web has moved on to other riot tales, like the kissing ...
  • The face of Vancouver’s Stanley Cup riot
    By Frank Moher Overnight, a certain Brock Anton became the face of the Vancouver Stanley Cup riot on the internet. Downtown for the abortive festivities yesterday, Mr. Anton apparently took time out from his busy schedule to post this on his Facebook page: It reads: Maced in the face, ...
  • Debating Libya
    By Alison@Creekside "He simply will not last very long," Harper said of Muammar Gaddafi back in March, as Canada prepared to drop $27-million of smart money smart bombs on Libya in order to oust him. As of now Gaddafi controls most of the country, including the capital. Today Parliament ...
  • Revisited: Sun TV’s Ezra problem
    With the Sun News Network lately embarked on a jihad against government funding of the arts, it might be worth remarking: at least when artists are given money, they do what they're supposed to do with it. On the other hand, we have the example of SNN costume rack Ezra ...
  • On SunTV and Margie Gillis
    On June 1, 2011, SunTV broadcast an interview with veteran Canadian dancer and choreographer Margie Gillis (see link below), which quickly turned abusive towards the guest. In a message on his facebook page, Canadian dancer Louis Laberge-Côté, currently a teacher at Nationaltheatre Manheim in Ge ...

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Phelps turns hand to backstroke
    Michael Phelps has found a new event to dominate, easily winning the 200-meter backstroke Saturday night at the Santa Clara International Grand Prix after rival Ryan Lochte was a healthy scratch. The 14-time Olympic gold medalist led the entire way and touched the wall more than 3 seconds ahea ...
  • Honda exits power-saving pact
    Honda Motor Co. will withdraw from a nonbinding power-saving agreement involving the automobile industry and open some of its plants on Thursdays this summer to work on raising production, a company official said Saturday. The official said the decision is "inevitable" because parts output has ...
  • Tohoku toll roads free for victims
    Victims of the March disasters and those displaced by the nuclear power plant crisis will be allowed to use toll roads for free in disaster-stricken Tohoku, starting at midnight Sunday. Operators of highways in other regions, meanwhile, will terminate other campaigns designed to promote expres ...
  • Nishikori falls in Wimbledon tuneup
    Kei Nishikori had his confidence-boosting run before Wimbledon stopped Saturday by No. 3 seed Janko Tipsarevic in the semifinals of the AEGON International. The big-serving Serbian routed Nishikori 6-2, 6-4, converting three of his break chances and saving the only break point he faced in the ...
  • Lotte's Karakawa stymies Swallows
    Yuki Karakawa threw one-run ball over eight innings and Tadahito Iguchi hit a two-run blast as the Chiba Lotte Marines came from behind to defeat the CL-leading Tokyo Yakult Swallows 7-1 on Sunday afternoon. Shoitsu Omatsu and Toshiaki Imae hit consecutive run-scoring singles against Masanori ...

Alexander Higgins

  • The Guardian: Eisenhower’s worst fears c ...
    We face no serious threat, yet keeps waging war. While big defense exists, glory-hungry politicians will use it.
  • City Forces All Residents To Give Copy Of Hous ...
    Despite widespread objects from citizens, the city of Cedar Falls Iowa has passed passed a controversial ordinance requiring all residents to provide the Government with a copy of their house keys.
  • Bob Tuskin: City Commission Gets a Dose of Truth
    Bob Tuskin: City Commission Gets a Dose of Truth - After putting this video online, the Bob Tuskin site was DDOS'd and has been offline ever since.
  • Scientists Successfully Implant Chip That Cont ...
    Scientists working at the University of Southern California, home of the Department of Homeland Security's National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events, have created an artificial memory system that allows thoughts, memories and learned behavior to be transferred from one b ...
  • Unbelievable! Court Rules US Taxpayers, Not BP ...
    US Court dismisses over 100,000 lawsuits against BP and Transocean to pay for oil spill clean up costs ruling the Federal Government, aka the Us Taxpayer, is liable for the clean up and damages caused by deficiencies in the clean up.

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

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

ReDress

  • Why does Britain tolerate its leaders? The pow ...
    Christopher King considers the bubble of deception and lies that underpins the British political establishment and the ignorance and self-delusion that sustain public support for this establishment.
  • The forthcoming Gaza flotilla: heroism vs viol ...
    Richard Lightbown summarizes the situation ahead of the forthcoming Freedom Flotilla II - Stay Human in plain language bereft of the doublespeak that the Israeli government would like us to hear. "No Nobel Peace Laureate will be able to disguise the guilt if more Israeli hoods batter more human ...
  • Will the Gaza flotilla be safe from Israel’s m ...
    Stuart Littllewood highlights the British government's willful failure to take measures to protect UK nationals intending to take part in the upcoming humanitarian flotilla to Gaza, and laments the failure of the various flotilla organizers to engage the mainstream media or even to answer emails.
  • Media falsifiers: censorship by mainstream lib ...
    Paul J. Balles argues that the media lie of the moment reverberates through liberal TV channels pretending to report the news from all angles and from all points of view but in reality exercising censorship through omission and emphasis.
  • Iran and the issue of nuclear weapons
    Lawrence Davidson considers the roles of Israel, the Israeli lobby in the USA and the conservative Arab Gulf rulers in creating and sustaining the fantasy of an Iranian nuclear threat, and highlights the failure - through cowardice, expediency and duplicity - of politicians who know better and t ...

Physics Today

  • Are wild horses native to the US, and does it ...
    New Scientist: In a case before a US federal court, animal rights groups are arguing that wild horses of the American West should be considered a native species and thus deserving of the same protections as elk or antelope. If the claim is successful, it could change the way the US Bureau of Lan ...
  • Tennessee university discontinues physics degr ...
    Tennessean: Tennessee State University in Nashville has started pruning its lowest-producing degree programs—including undergraduate physics, writes Jennifer Brooks for the Tennessean. Because the university has graduated only 23 physics majors over the past decade, the administration decided to ...
  • Black holes have been abundant since the Big Bang
    CNN: Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have determined that at least 30 million black holes had formed before the universe was 1 billion years old, quite early in the universe's 13.7-billion-year history, writes Elizabeth Landau for CNN. Black holes are dense regions in space th ...
  • Cause of this year's deadly weather events rem ...
    New York Times: This year has seen the second-highest annual total of tornadoes recorded in the US in modern times, with 875 reported in April alone. Heavy rain and snowmelt contributed to the flooding of the Mississippi River, which surpassed the historic floods of 1927 and 1937. And drier than ...
  • Researchers in Japan find that neutrinos can f ...
    BBC: Researchers at Japan’s multinational T2K project say they have seen indications that neutrinos—electrically neutral elementary particles—can spontaneously change into any of their types, or flavors: electron neutrinos, muon neutrinos, or tau neutrinos, writes Jonathan Amos for the BBC. The ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • TSA Officer Arrested for Theft
    by liberty (Posted Sat, 18 Jun 2011 11:13:15 GMT) HOUSTON - Police have arrested a Transportation Security Administration officer on accusations of theft. The arrest was the result of an internal investigation, according to a TSA statement. The employee was employed with the agency since 2002. ...
  • Oil price and Iran war
    by Lilarry (Posted Sat, 18 Jun 2011 10:29:21 GMT) Dollar crises of the hole world for war in middle east, mostly Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya,war. Major people think direct hit oil price. such as Iran war because oil.. SPY Equipment SuperStore
  • FF News: 'The Omar Abdulla Show,'-5
    by footprints (Posted Sat, 18 Jun 2011 01:31:03 GMT) Episode 3 Duration-45 minutes The 'Omar Abdulla,' Show Filmed July16 Welcome to 'The Omar Abdulla,' show our third broadcast on Islamic Television, Zee-Tv and related websites...Today, we will be discussing ways of improving ones health a ...
  • America addicted to War
    by Rev333 (Posted Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:13:09 GMT) US economy fails due to 'military arrogance'. “The US economy is collapsing morally, the society is collapsing morally and in particularly it is collapsing economically because of the huge levels of debt the huge levels of 61.2 trillion in unfund ...
  • Fake Holocaust Memoirs
    by Rev333 (Posted Mon, 13 Jun 2011 23:55:39 GMT) A Schwindler's List

Peakwater

  • Palestinian Environmentalist Talks About Water ...
    “A passionate advocate for better water policies, he was part of the team which recently constructed a dam near Jericho to harvest rain run-off in the winter months. With a capacity of approx 700,000m³, it is hoped that the new dam constructed at Al-Ouja Wadi (around 13kms north of Jericho) wi ...
  • NOAA predicts biggest dead zone yet for areas ...
    “NOAA is predicting a dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico along the coasts of Louisiana and Texas this summer larger than any on record, based on the amount of pollution coming down the Mississippi River this spring. The dead zone has been in existence since the 1970s. It is caused when farm fertili ...
  • Oregon adopts strictest standards in United St ...
    “Oregon’s Environmental Quality Commission today adopted the strictest standards for toxic water pollution in the United States. The new rules, adopted on a 4-1 vote, are designed to protect tribal members and others who eat large amounts of contaminated fish. Oregon’s current water quality st ...
  • Dozens Killed In Burma Amid Clashes Over Chine ...
    “Dozens of people in northern Burma have reportedly been killed in the clashes between government troops and the Kachin Independence Army. Thousands more are trying to flee across the border after fierce fighting erupted this month around the construction sites of two Chinese-financed dams in t ...
  • Nebraska Water Scientists Warn of Oil Pipeline ...
    “WASHINGTONâGreat Plains states are risking an unknown level of environmental and economic hurt if the U.S. State Department persists in routing a controversial tar sands pipeline atop the Ogallala Aquifer without further study. That is the scientific warning coming from a pair of University of ...

D. Kucinich

  • Top Pentagon and Justice Attys Advised Preside ...
    Obama Overruled Pentagon Definition of War� Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who along with 9 other Members of Congress has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the President�s violation of the War Powers Resolution regarding the war in Libya, today made the following statement after�The New ...
  • No Caps: Emergency Access to Phone Service is ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) sent a letter to Federal Communications Committee (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski requesting that access to Lifeline and Link-Up be protected for all Americans regardless of income. Kucinich urged the FCC not to make �any reduction in, or impose any limitatio ...
  • 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. “This Admini ...
  • 10 Members of Congress Sue President Obama ove ...
    Congressmen Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and Walter Jones (R-NC) today led a bipartisan group of 10 Members of Congress to file a suit in federal court against President Barack Obama to challenge the commitment of the United States to war in Libya absent the required constitutional legal authority. ...
  • Kucinich Calls Upon ICC, UN to Examine NATO At ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today wrote to Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, and Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, urging the United Nations and the Court to examine NATO�s expanded use of drone bombers, which have had a civilian casua ...

Authentically Wired

  • America … do we keep our promise…?
    � �� The article referenced below raises for me, and perhaps for you, a frustrating question��?�� Is there even one single solitary incidence where America without equivocation honored its promise��? By treaty America coerced the Navajo and Hopi people onto lands at that time seen as desolate an ...
  • punch-drunk
    â¦If we truly want EPA to function for âusâ ⦠then we need to get off our butts take control and make it happen ⦠today EPA functions like a âpunch-drunk-fighterâ ⦠And all we do is watch and do nothing⦠AEP⦠EPA and the costs of coal pollutionâ¦Charleston Gazette… Ken Ward Jr.   â¦http://b ...
  • US Orders News Blackout Over Crippled Nebraska ...
    … American corporate owned new$ wouldn’t “blackout” news … would they …? Hello … get real … do you honestly believe they will tell us the truth when the “nuke” disaster is on our foot and not the Japanese or someone else’s they can blame and shame … and our “nuke” disaster was caused by [...]
  • LIFE EXPECTANCY
    ⦠Possibly but on the other hand American corporatists are advancing plans to increase forced vaccinations ⦠increased use of depleted uranium in US bullets that kill and maim ⦠increased GMO foods that have debilitating health implications ⦠Life Expectancy to Jump by 2020 http://globalwarm ...
  • … Did anyone actually expect Russell Pea ...
    �� Did anyone actually expect Russell Pearce would be pleased to discover that he is not really �Teflon� �� Wait Pearce forces will get even nastier before it�s over �� � Pearce recall petitions indicate ALLEGES massive voter registration fraud BY LINDA BENTLEY | JUNE 15, 2011 �� http://www.sono ...
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