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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.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

21 June - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

To Do

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Middle East's Push Toward Renewable Energy Spurred by Rising Oil Prices
New York Times
- Jun 21, 2011
- 22 minutes ago
Eight Arab nations and the Palestinian territories have a renewable energy target, and at least five more are taking serious steps to promote the domestic use of clean energy. Some of the most surprising movement is happening in oil-rich countries like ...
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Wind and Solar Agents of Change for Cleaner FBI
Reuters
- Jun 21, 2011
- 1 hour ago
By EarthTechling at EarthTechling It appears that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has plans to use renewable energy to help power its field operations. According to a recent statement issued by Arista Power, the FBI has placed an order for a ...
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Dynamotive to Increase its Shareholding in Renewable Oil Corporation Australia
MarketWatch
- Jun 21, 2011
- 1 hour ago
(DYMTF - OTC Pink Sheets),and Renewable Oil Corporation Pty. Ltd. (ROC) announced today that as part of the joint development agreement proposed in Australia, Dynamotive will increase its shareholding in ROC. Dynamotive will receive 18000000 newly ...
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Earth Provides Renewable Geothermal Power – But Is The World Catching On?
Renewable Energy Focus USA
- Jun 21, 2011
- 1 hour ago
Is it renewable and reliable? Is it aff ordable, and is it worth it? These are some of the questions on the minds of the young making preliminary career choices, cities joining the race to meet state renewable standards, and energy companies looking to ...
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Human Habitat

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Ecology book teaches do-it-yourself 'worm poo tea,' more
MiamiHerald.com
- Jun 20, 2011
- Jun 20, 2011
By FARZAD MASHHOOD Evan Marks, executive director of The Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano, Calif., keeps a fresh bucket brewing behind the environmental education center's headquarters at the historical Congdon House. It's a concoction that might ...
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SLIDESHOW: Cargo train derails on Harbor Island, Spills 600 gallons of fuel
Westseattleherald.com
- Jun 21, 2011
- 2 hours ago
Dieter Bohrmann, Department of Ecology media relations, released this statement to the West Seattle Herald. "The Washington Department of Ecology, Union Pacific Railroad, the US Coast Guard, Seattle Public Utilities and a cleanup contractor are ...
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Plankton blooms color Puget Sound
Kitsap Sun
- Jun 20, 2011
- 13 hours ago
The plankton, which are considered harmless, cluster together and float on the surface when their numbers are large, said Carol Maloy, a biologist with the Washington Department of Ecology. "People may mistake it for spilled paint or oil because of the ...
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Azerbaijan familiarized itself with Korean experience of development, ecology ...
Azerbaijan Business Center
- Jun 21, 2011
- 2 hours ago
The delegation also familiarized itself with new technologies and experience used at different facilities in Korean cities, in particular culture, ecology and science parks, centers of sewerage control system, transport and safety control centers ...
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Water Power

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Yuck! Most Kids Don't Shower Before Using Public Pools
Fox News
- Jun 21, 2011
- 29 minutes ago
Most people shower after a day at the pool, but do you know anyone who's adamant about showering before going in the water? Many parents don't understand the risk of water infections from public pools and water parks, and few realize a pre-swim shower ...
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Man pleads not guilty to battery for allegedly throwing hot water at Starbucks ...
Los Angeles Times
- Jun 21, 2011
- 9 minutes ago
A man who police say threw hot water on a San Diego Starbucks barista after she told him not to take condiments from the coffee shop pleaded not guilty Monday to misdemeanor battery. Dennis Christopher Lee, 58, allegedly walked into the Starbucks on ...
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Missouri Water Patrol to crackdown on drunken boating
Kansas City Star
- Jun 21, 2011
- 1 hour ago
The Missouri Highway Patrol's Water Patrol Division announced that it will participate in a nationwide crackdown on drunken boating this weekend. The special enforcement effort, called Operation Dry Water, is designed to draw attention to the dangers ...
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Corps may dump more water - rains create flooding hazards on Missouri River
Fulton Sun
- Jun 21, 2011
- 1 hour ago
They were in city council chambers, visited the Jefferson City airport and the Noren Conservation Access to get a first hand look at the rising water levels. Photo by Julie Smith. By Bob Watson Continuing rains in Montana and the Dakotas — on top of ...
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The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • AIPAC Pushes Hard for War With Iran
    Summary: The overarching problem is the Israel lobby’s subversion of American governance through election fraud, the evasion of tax regulations and laws regulating foreign lobbies, and the systematized, ongoing infiltration of operatives into key government posts to advance the interests of ...
  • America's next war: Iran
    Summary: Sunday Times, 7 January 2007There is no question that the Obama administration, like its predecessor, is seeking regime change in Iran. It has been using a variety of methods to contain, divide and subvert Iran through economic sanctions, covert operations and surrounding the countr ...
  • BASIC's Paul Ingram reports from Tehran
    Summary: I’m in Tehran for BASIC in the middle of the second annual two day international conference on Disarmament and Non-proliferation laid on by IPIS, the Foreign Ministry’s think tank. I am here to present a paper today on why Iran should engage in the conference that is supposed to h ...
  • Iran Renews Strong Opposition to Discriminatio ...
    Summary: Tehran is resolved to confront discriminatory attitudes to the adoption of international treaties, a prominent member of the Iranian parliament stressed on Sunday. source: Bernamaread more
  • Seymour Hersh and Iranian Nukes: A Primer
    Summary: Seymour Hersh’s new piece in the New Yorker has generated a fair amount of buzz, so much so that Iran hawks have quickly leaped into action to try to discredit it. source: LobeLogread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Image of the Day: One of the Most Spectacular ...
    This spectacular image of the large spiral galaxy NGC 1232 was made on September 21, 1998, based on three exposures in ultra-violet, blue and red light, respectively. The colours of the different regions are well visible : the central areas...
  • The Massive Tidal Forces of Galaxy NGC 4013
    This gorgeous, oddly shaped galaxy is nearly 50 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major, Seen edge-on, this spiral galaxy is known for its flattened disk and central bulge of stars, cut by silhouetted dust lanes. A recent deep...
  • Creating Robots With a "Sixth Sense"
    "Technology has overtaken nature in some domains but lags far behind in the cognitive processing of received sense impressions. My dream is to endow robots with multiple sensory modalities. Instead of always building in more cameras, we should also along...
  • Centaurus A Event: Cataclysm of Violent Starbirth
    Hubble's panchromatic vision, stretching from ultraviolet through near-infrared wavelengths, reveals the vibrant glow of young, blue star clusters and a glimpse into regions normally obscured by the dark lanes of dust that crisscross the giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A. The...
  • Mercury's Messenger Reveals Surprises
    On March 18, 2011, the MESSENGER spacecraft entered orbit around Mercury to become that planet's first orbiter. Mercury, the last frontier of planetary exploration that NASA will reach for quite some time, "is the last of the classical planets, the...

Natural News

  • How to eat to boost brain function and cut Alz ...
    (NaturalNews) Can dietary practices impact memory and affect Alzheimer's risk? A recent study published in Archives of Neurology found that a healthy diet may lower levels of brain chemicals linked to Alzheimer's disease, while an unhealthy diet may raise them: Mail Online reports. Furthermore, ...
  • If the Titanic sank today, here's how the Pres ...
    (NaturalNews) What would all the world's experts and authorities say today if the Titanic were sinking but nobody was willing to admit it? The U.S. economy, after all, is sinking and taking on an unprecedented volume of water (i.e. debt), yet virtually no one is willing to admit the obvious fact ...
  • Dog registry mandate hits Atlanta: Owners of R ...
    (NaturalNews) Millions of Americans have, for years, been aware of a growing police state mentality in the U.S. If you're a dog owner in an Atlanta suburb you are especially aware of this because many of you just got singled out for, shall we say, special consideration.According to local reports ...
  • FAA declares 'no-fly' zone directly over cripp ...
    (NaturalNews) Last week, NaturalNews reported that rising Missouri River flood waters prompted officials to declare a "Notification of Unusual Event" as the Fort Calhoun Nuclear plant just outside of Omaha, Neb. (http://www.naturalnews.com/032672_nuclear_power_plant_Nebraska.html). Since that ti ...
  • Fukushima: Strontium levels up to 240 times ov ...
    (NaturalNews) Representing the first time the substance has been detected at the crippled plant, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) reported on Sunday that seawater and groundwater samples taken near the ravaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility in Japan have tested positive for rad ...

Threat Level

  • Bitcoin Prices Plummet on Hacked Exchange
    The Bitcoin community faced another crisis on Sunday afternoon as the price of the currency on the most popular exchange, Mt.Gox, fell from $17 to pennies in a matter of minutes. Trading was quickly suspended and visitors to the home page were redirected to a statement blaming the crash on a com ...
  • Can Microsoft Use the DMCA to Kill Competing X ...
    Can Microsoft remotely disable third-party accessories from working with the Xbox 360 and get away with it? The Redmond, Washington software- and console-maker did just that, and claims copyright law gave it the right. At issue is Microsoft’s 2009 remote disabling of Datel memory cards, which ...
  • New Malware Steals Your Bitcoin
    In a sure sign that the virtual currency Bitcoin has hit the mainstream, a new Trojan horse program discovered in the wild Thursday seeks out and steals victims’ Bitcoin wallets, the same way other malware goes for their banking passwords or credit card numbers. The malware, Infostealer.Coinbit ...
  • Citi Credit Card Hack Bigger Than Originally D ...
    Citigroup has been forced to reveal that a recent hack of its network exposed the financial data of more than 360,000 customers, a much higher number than the bank originally disclosed.
  • Bloggers Mull Legal Action Against Righthaven
    Bloggers who paid thousands of dollars each to settle copyright-infringement allegations with Righthaven were mulling their legal options Wednesday, a day after a federal judge said the copyright troll had no legal standing to bring that kind of lawsuits. “We’re thinking seriously about what to ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Romney Was for Planned Parenthood Before He Wa ...
    Of all of Mitt Romney's comical flip-flops on the issues, his gymnastic reversal on the abortion rights is the most pathetic. During his 1994 Massachusetts Senate run, Mitt and his wife Ann contributed $150 at a Planned Parenthood event. Eight years later during his race for governor, Romney a ...
  • God Sends a New Messenger from Texas
    As his aides head off to Iowa to assess his prospects for a run at the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, Texas Governor Rick Perry has been hinting that he may be more than just the savior of the Republican Party. After issuing his invitation to the other 49 governors for an August 6 "day of pr ...
  • You Know Mitt Romney Is Out of Touch When...
    I'm also unemployed." Of course, one feeble attempt at humor doesn't make Mitt out of touch; that takes a lifetime of experience. Here are just some of the ways you know Mitt Romney is out of touch: You know Mitt Romney is out of touch when the $250,000,000 son of an auto magnate jokes about ...
  • It's Time for Reverse Federalism on Medicaid
    If ever there was bad idea whose time never came, it is Paul Ryan's plan to slash Medicaid spending and convert what remains into a system of block grants administered by the states. The $300 billion federal-state program providing health care for millions of poor, elderly and disabled American ...
  • GOP Frets as Romney's Tough Talk on Terror Dis ...
    To be sure, Mitt Romney is the man Republican hard-liners love to hate. While anti-abortion groups and free-market fundamentalists ramp up their all-out "stop Romney" efforts, the Manchester Union Leader blasted Mitt as "high-falutin' and haughty" for acting as if had the GOP presidential nomin ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

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

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

  • Israel has no right to stop Gaza aid flotillas ...
    Israel cannot be hurt by any imaginary danger the ships pose. Here from Sweden, at a time when the sun does not set at night, comes a final appeal to those who would block the flotill ...
  • Daily Life in Hebron (aic)
    Daily life for the Palestinian residents of Hebron, in the southern West Bank, is characterized by a severe lack of freedom of movement and Israeli army and settler violence. The AIC ...
  • Israel approves expansion of 2,000 settler hom ...
    Israel's Jerusalem municipality approved the expansion of 2,000 homes in the settlement district of Ramat Shlomo in occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday, allowing each Israeli home to ad ...
  • Medical Crisis Worsening in Gaza (Eva Bartlet ...
    "During the first years of the siege, we could still manage, but nowadays we have no alternatives," says Dr. Hassan Khalaf, Deputy Health Minister in Gaza. "It is a major crisis: many ...
  • Israeli undercover agents boast of killing Pal ...
    Undercover Israeli intelligence officers appeared on national television Saturday to talk about assassinating Palestinians in a program broadcast on Israel's Channel 10. Oren Beaton p ...

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • New NRC rule would minimize “legacy sites” but ...
    Facilities that process large quantities of radioactive material have the potential for significant environmental contamination due to the scale of their operations. Over time, leaks from these facilities can lead to significant radioactive contamination of the subsurface soil and groundwater.  ...
  • Bob Perry Donates to Multiple Presidential Hop ...
    With the 2012 presidential race heating up, candidates have begun to boast about their high-profile donors. In particular, Texas millionaire Bob Perry has been a significant contributor to both Tim Pawlenty and Mitt Romney’s campaigns.  It is not uncommon for big donors to give to multiple camp ...
  • NRC testimony inspires fear, not confidence, i ...
    In an earlier blog we mentioned the hearings on Capitol Hill being held by the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on the implications of Japan’s nuclear accident for the United States.  Besides the concern that the nation’s nuclear safety rules had failed to consider the possibilit ...
  • Austin City Council Run-off Election Debate
    Solar Austin held a debate between Austin City Council Place 3 candidates Randi Shade and Kathy Tovo. The focus was on energy issues. Here is a brief excerpt from the debates where each candidate addresses a question about how an increase of electricity rates should be handled. The election is t ...
  • Disclosure Forms Show Texas Lawmakers Invest i ...
    Public disclosure forms released Wednesday show that Texas lawmakers have widely varying financial situations.  In an OpenSecrets blog post, Tarini Parti breaks down how many members of Congress invest in media organizations.  Parti explains that this could be a conflict of interest because ma ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • 3,000mph hypersonic plane unveiled
    Plans have been unveiled for a hypersonic plane capable of flying from London to Tokyo in 2 hours. The plane would feature three sets of engine able t...
  • Funding cuts - what's next for SETI ?
    With funding cuts and the Allen Telescope Array effectively shut down, what happens now for SETI ? The search for intelligent alien life in the univer...
  • Pigs could grow human organs
    In a new stem cell breakthrough, pigs could be used to grow human organs for use in transplants. The idea behind "chimeric animals" is not limited to ...
  • Atlantis prepares for final shuttle mission
    After 30 years of space shuttle launches next month will see the end of an era for manned space flight. The launch of Atlantis will mark the end of th...
  • World's oldest bulb shines for 110 years
    An old light bulb first used in 1901 is still working today after being in use for over 110 years. The bulb has been a staple of fire stations in Live...

Grassroots

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

Climate

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

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

Booman Tribune

  • Does Fox Make People Stupid?
    It's a chicken and egg kind of question. While it's true that multiple studies have shown that Fox News viewers are incredibly misinformed about current events and basic facts, it's hard to say how much of that is a result of watching Fox News and how much of it is explained by the type of peop ...
  • Thoughts on GOP Primaries
    The unified consensus of the Netroots Nation panel on the 2012 election was that Mitt Romney is going to be the Republicans' nominee. It's a topic that was also credibly covered by Joe Klein in this week's Time magazine. I think I do a pretty good job at political prognostication. I'm proud o ...
  • About that Rick Perry Dude
    Just in case Rick Perry does get in the race, you wanna read this. Here's a funny excerpt: And in Texas, what works is to swagger around like a tough guy, propagating a barely literate reading of the United States Constitution, and pretend to hate the federal government. And you rail about t ...
  • I'm Happy
    I received Breaking Bad Season 3 and Mad Men Season 4 for Father's day. I have a great family - the got me what I asked for. Best wishes to all the Dads out there and I hope your Father's day is going just as well as mine. I sure hope your not as cranky as John McCain today: We are conc ...
  • Bachmann and Intelligent Design
    I don't know if it's truly conservative to throw federal education dollars to the states without setting any expectations for how the money will be used. But that's basically what Michele Bachmann is proposing. Of course, she also thinks it would be a swell idea if local education boards inclu ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
    A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up Happy Father’s Day weekend from all of us at GT :-) This week’s articles feature a number of articles about fathers and men’s issues, as well as new research on family and relationships. Let us know what you think and we wish you a wonderful w ...
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy May Reduce Suicid ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline According to new research, people who suffer with insomnia may experience a reduction in suicidal ideation when they undergo cognitive-behavioral therapy. The research involved 303 people with insomnia and revealed that over one-fifth of them had experienced suici ...
  • 7 Tips to Resolve Conflicts about the Cash
    By Lori Hollander LCSW-C, BCD Relationships & Marriage Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Lori and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Unresolved conflict about money is the #1 cause of divorce in the US. Learning to communicate effectively about money is the #1 solution. The ability ...
  • Could MRI’s on Preschoolers Lead to Early ADHD ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline New research reveals brain differences in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Experts at the Kennedy Krieger Institute used magnetic resonance imaging to study the brains of preschool children who exhibited symptoms of ADHD. Although man ...
  • Clients Judge Quality of Therapist by Office A ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline According to a new study, people judge the quality of their therapists by the appearance of their office. Jack Nasar, professor of city and regional planning at Ohio State University, and co-author of the study, said, “People seem to agree on what the office of a ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • The Whole Coal Story - Huffington Post (blog)
    The Whole Coal Story Huffington Post (blog) Mountaintop removal -- chopping the tops off mountains and subsequently destroying the surrounding ecosystems -- is one of the main techniques used to expose layers of the black rock. When burned, coal spews more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere tha ...
  • UUs join March on Blair Mountain - uuworld.org
    uuworld.org UUs join March on Blair Mountain uuworld.org At site of historic coal miner uprising, activists raise awareness about consequences of mountaintop removal mining. By Donald E. Skinner More than 500 people marched 50 miles to Blair Mountain, W. Va., to raise awareness about mountainto ...
  • Think Big: Energy spring is here and you can j ...
    Think Big: Energy spring is here and you can join the uprising Daily Kos Immediately eliminate the use of mountaintop removal mining. Mountaintop removal produces less than 5% of coal in the United States, an amount easily made up from other sources. Yet this small sliver of coal production acc ...
  • Boston Happy Hour for the Mountains – and Excl ...
    Boston Happy Hour for the Mountains – and Exclusive Tickets to the Boston ... Fly Rod & Reel Magazine (blog) Join with members from the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition – an inspiring group working to end mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia - to learn what you can do to support ...
  • Historic Blair Mountain should be preserved, n ...
    Historic Blair Mountain should be preserved, not razed Asheville Citizen-Times Despite its historical significance, today Blair Mountain is being threatened by mountaintop removal coal mining, which not only destroys mountains but also devastates the communities in which it takes place. In orde ...

Memeorandum

  • Netroots Straw Poll Shows Obama Still Strong ( ...
    Christina Bellantoni / Roll Call: Netroots Straw Poll Shows Obama Still Strong  —  MINNEAPOLIS — Despite their grousing about the administration during the Netroots Nation conference, liberal activists and bloggers are relatively happy with President Barack Obama's performance.  —  A straw pol ...
  • The Onion Is Seeking a Pulitzer, Any Pulitzer ...
    Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times: The Onion Is Seeking a Pulitzer, Any Pulitzer  —  Despite a professed designation as “America's Finest News Source,” The Onion has never actually won the highest honor in American journalism: the Pulitzer Prize.  —  Not that it hasn't tried.  Editors at the s ...
  • The Accountable Care Fiasco (Wall Street Journal)
    Wall Street Journal: The Accountable Care Fiasco  —  Even the models for health reform hate the new HHS rule.  —  The Obama Administration is handing out waivers far and wide for its health-care bill, but behind the scenes the bureaucracy is grinding ahead writing new regulations.
  • John McCain's Illegal Immigrants Started Arizo ...
    Olivia Katrandjian / ABCNEWS: John McCain's Illegal Immigrants Started Arizona Wildfires Disputed by Forest Service  —  A U.S. Forest Service official said today there is no evidence that illegal immigrants started some of the wildfires in Arizona, as Sen. John McCain had claimed.  —  Tom Berg ...
  • John McCain: Illegal Immigrants Caused Arizona ...
    The Huffington Post: John McCain: Illegal Immigrants Caused Arizona Wildfires … John McCain (R-AZ) says illegal immigrants are to blame for the massive wildfires that have ravaged Arizona.  —  “There is substantial evidence that some of these fires are caused by people who have crossed our bord ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Africa “land grab” by US colleges
    Think tank’s report says leading universities, including Harvard and Vanderbilt, use UK hedge funds and European financial speculators in property deals that may force farmers out. John Vidal and Claire Provost report.Harvard and other major American universities are working through British hedg ...
  • Bashang’s tourist trail
    A holidaymaking boom on Beijing’s nearest grassland has lined the pockets of some – but worsened life for others. Zhou Wei went to the vacation town of Datan to see the impacts.Beijing residents may remember seeing adverts for the Bashang Grassland: visit the nearest grassland to the city, get a ...
  • Climate conspiracy: a flimsy fantasy
    Global warming is no plot, writes Chen Jiliang. Why would thousands of scientists risk their careers to fabricate a consensus?After the Copenhagen climate talks of 2009, public concern about climate change reached higher levels than ever, but scepticism and suspicion also soared. In the west, so ...
  • Power politics in Germany
    Angela Merkel’s decision to abandon nuclear has been hailed as revolutionary by some – and dismissed as a political stunt by others. Here, Jürgen Maier gives an insider’s view.The Fukushima nuclear meltdown had its greatest political impact not so much in Japan itself but in faraway Germany, whe ...
  • Trading blows in America
    The United States’ first regional cap-and-trade programme is in peril, the latest victim of the country’s divided climate politics. Joan Bien reports.The future of an environmental programme that aims to cut the carbon emissions of a swathe of the north-eastern United States by 10% over the next ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • The Workings of a Pathologically Narcissistic ...
    It is okay to talk to God. However, when a person hears God’s voice responding to them they are certifiably crazy. Question: if a person writes letters in which they pretend to be God are they similarly demented? Sarah Palin’s emails were crowd-sourced by The New York Times, CNN, and other memb ...
  • Texas Is a Shining Example of Right-Wing Gover ...
    Conservatives claim the "Texas Miracle" is a model for the nation, but it's actually a blueprint for winning the race to the bottom.
  • Deepak Chopra on How 'Everybody Can Be a Great ...
    The spiritual advisor channels his wisdom from his new book, "The soul of leadership."
  • The Secret $8 Billion Wireless Scam: How AT&am ...
    Telecom giants Verizon and AT&T have gamed the system, using regulations designed to foster competition to snatch up ever more of the wireless spectrum.
  • Arizona’s Ethnic Studies Audit Scandal Grows
    Arizona could have a new Ethnic Studies scandal on its hands, though not with the students or teachers. Nearly one year ago, extremist Tea Party state senator John Huppenthal ran for Arizona’s superintendent of education post with an inflammatory campaign to “stop la raza” and terminate Tucson’s ...

Threat Level

  • Bitcoin Prices Plummet on Hacked Exchange
    The Bitcoin community faced another crisis on Sunday afternoon as the price of the currency on the most popular exchange, Mt.Gox, fell from $17 to pennies in a matter of minutes. Trading was quickly suspended and visitors to the home page were redirected to a statement blaming the crash on a com ...
  • Can Microsoft Use the DMCA to Kill Competing X ...
    Can Microsoft remotely disable third-party accessories from working with the Xbox 360 and get away with it? The Redmond, Washington software- and console-maker did just that, and claims copyright law gave it the right. At issue is Microsoft’s 2009 remote disabling of Datel memory cards, which ...
  • New Malware Steals Your Bitcoin
    In a sure sign that the virtual currency Bitcoin has hit the mainstream, a new Trojan horse program discovered in the wild Thursday seeks out and steals victims’ Bitcoin wallets, the same way other malware goes for their banking passwords or credit card numbers. The malware, Infostealer.Coinbit ...
  • Citi Credit Card Hack Bigger Than Originally D ...
    Citigroup has been forced to reveal that a recent hack of its network exposed the financial data of more than 360,000 customers, a much higher number than the bank originally disclosed.
  • Bloggers Mull Legal Action Against Righthaven
    Bloggers who paid thousands of dollars each to settle copyright-infringement allegations with Righthaven were mulling their legal options Wednesday, a day after a federal judge said the copyright troll had no legal standing to bring that kind of lawsuits. “We’re thinking seriously about what to ...

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • E. coli O104:H4 Outbreak - 40 Deaths, 3593 Ill ...
    Massachusetts, Michigan, and Wisconsin count five (3 with HUS) in the E. coli O104:H4 Outbreak that has been linked to bean sprouts or sprout seeds that has now killed 40 and sickened 3593 (849 with HUS) in Europe.
  • Raw Milk on Trial at NEHA
    I am at the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) 75th Annual Convention and proud to talk about the risks of raw milk.� Here are my PowerPoint and Handout you can download for "Raw Milk on Trial." Happy Father's Day.� For more information on the risks of raw milk, see Real Raw Milk ...
  • Ohio Family of Woman Killed by Salmonella to F ...
    The family of a woman killed in an Athens Ohio Salmonella outbreak will file a lawsuit Monday in the Athens County Court of Common Please against the Athens-based restaurant Casa Lopez. The suit is the second filed by Seattle-based food poisoning law firm Marler Clark on behalf of victims made ...
  • Tennessee Virginia E. coli O157:H7, E. coli O1 ...
    According to Mac McLean, an E. coli outbreak involving E. coli O157:H7, E. coli O103 and E. coli O169 and outbreak that’s plagued Northeast Tennessee since mid-May has sickened two more people – bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the eight-county Northeast Tennessee region so far th ...
  • E. coli Outbreak Linked to Killeen, Texas Jaso ...
    Kudo’s to KXXV for confirming that at least 11 people became sick after eating at Jason’s Deli in Killeen, Texas. Doctors confirmed five of them had a strain of the bacteria escherichia coli (O157:H7) that has been known to result in hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS), a potentially fatal complica ...

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

  • No title
  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

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

Digg Green

  • Eight million gallons of water drained fr ...
    Eight million gallons of water had to be drained from a reservoir in Oregon after a man urinated in it. [Total insanity as wildlife urinates and defecates in reservoir daily.]
  • Sea Monkeys from the Future Make Deadly L ...
    Having sex with a time traveler might be bad for your health, according to a new sea monkey study. (Just read on. It will make sense soon.)
  • Structures in Space (Pic)
    Astronaut Jerry L. Ross, anchored to the foot restraint on the Remote Manipulator System (RMS), approaches the tower-like Assembly Concept for Construction of Erectable Space Structures (ACCESS) device. The structure was just deployed by Ross and astronaut Sherwood Spring as the Atlantis fl ...
  • In the Future, Could Airplanes Run on Pon ...
    The logic of this is impeccable: The price of oil -- and airplane fuel -- has gone through the proverbial roof (although at the rate it's going, in a couple of years, flying will become so expensive, nothing will get off the ground anymore). So why not replace it with something cheap and pl ...
  • NASA's Chandra Finds Massive Black Holes ...
    Astronomers found the first direct evidence that massive black holes were common in the early universe. Using the deepest X-ray image ever taken, astronomers found the first direct evidence that massive black holes were common in the early universe. This discovery from NASA's Chandra X-ray ...

Invisible Opportunity

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

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Price of Solar Energy Predicted to Fall to $1 ...
    According to a report released today from the independent consulting firm Ernst & Young, the price of solar energy per watt is expected to fall to $1 by 2013, down from $2 in 2009. The association says in a recent report that the price per watt of solar energy is already down to $1.50 in [...]
  • Germany May Build First Wind Power-Storing Coa ...
    It’s a classic story line in sustainability: dirty tech goes green. We’ve seen coal mines transformed into geothermal energy stores and dirty plants become gorgeous green buildings. Now, for the first time ever, we may see out-of-use coal mines used as pump storage for wind power in Germany. Th ...
  • Ephemeral All Soul’s Day Pillow Pavilion Puffs ...
    Read the rest of Ephemeral All Soul’s Day Pillow Pavilion Puffs Up Using BBQ Smoke Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: all-soul's-day, Art, eco design, environmental art, floating roof, green design, Overtreders W, pavilion, Recycled Materials, reuse, sustainable design, temporary d ...
  • EADS Seaweed-Powered Zero Emission ZEHST Plane ...
    Before the official opening of the Paris Air Show, Airbus parent company EADS revealed what it has in the works to be the successor to the Concorde jet: the Zero Emission Hypersonic Transportation plane, which could reach 3,125 miles per hour or 4 times the speed of sound (Mach 4) while producin ...
  • Willie Tay’s Zeleritas Electric Concept Vehicl ...
    What do you get when you combine a monocoque carbon fiber body with a single seat, a retractable glass roof, and electric racing tech? The Zeleritas electric racing concept from designer Willie Tay. This little electric cutie is designed for just one person to have all the fun. Read the rest of ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

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

PakAlert

  • Video: Nuclear Holocaust Sweeping Across the N ...
    Here in the following video we are looking at nuclear hell on earth, a night film of the radioactive steam that continues to rise from Fukushima 24 hours a day. Arnie Gundersen, a former nuclear power industry executive, is one of the experts who has been saying from day one that the nuclear cri ...
  • 20 Tips For Surviving The Coming Economic Meltdown
    As difficult as it may be to fathom, the current lousy economy may not be the worst case scenario. All I have to do is look around and be observant to see that there is a strong likelihood that another, more significant economic meltdown is imminent. Why? Here are some of the reasons: ...
  • All The Proof In The World: HAARP Is Wrecking ...
    Weather modification/manipulation is, on record, 100% real. Those that continue to claim it is not are either ignorant or knowingly lying. For anyone still “on the fence” about weather modification / manipulation : All links below should satisfy MOST questions: Save the pdf’s before they’re gone ...
  • Doomsday Ice Age Fears Fuel US-China Land Grab ...
    A grim secret report prepared by the Russian Foreign Ministry for President Medvedev is warning that American fears of an “Ice Age Doomsday” caused by the Sun could ‘very well likely’ lead to open Global conflict between the US and China as both of these Superpower Nations have begun a vicious f ...
  • 10 Really Stupid Things The Mainstream Media H ...
    This weekend, dozens upon dozens of the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world will be gathering behind closed doors at a luxury hotel in Switzerland. All of the participants are sworn to secrecy and swarms of heavily armed security guards are making sure that nobody unauthorized gets ...

Andy Worthington

  • A Tribute to Anti-War Campaigner Brian Haw, Dr ...
    When I was a child, I read the Guinness Book of Records, and marvelled at the stories of the people who, in ancient times, removed themselves from everyday reality, like Saint Simeon Stylites, a Christian ascetic who lived on a tiny platform on top of a pillar in Aleppo, Syria for 37 years in th ...
  • Come to a Public Rally on the International Da ...
    âThis is a day on which we pay our respects to those who have endured the unimaginable. This is an occasion for the world to speak up against the unspeakable.â Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General On Sunday June 26, 2011, the International Day in Support of the Victims of Torture, I’ll be spe ...
  • Video: Andy Worthington Discusses the Omar Kha ...
    Two weeks ago, as I explained in a previous article here, I took part in a studio discussion at Press TV’s London studios, commenting on the excellent new documentary film, “You Don’t Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantánamo.” Directed by Luc Cote and Patricio Hernandez, this award-winning film ...
  • WikiLeaks and the Lawyers: Justice Department ...
    In the US government’s farcical world of overclassification, four reporters were banned from Guantánamo last year for reporting the name of a witness in the trial by Military Commission of the Canadian citizen and former child prisoner Omar Khadr, even though his name had been widely reported i ...
  • Andy Worthington Discusses Obama’s Perma ...
    A few days ago, I spoke for the 28th time to Scott Horton, who has had me on his Antiwar Radio show on a refreshingly regular basis over the last few years to vent my spleen at the continuing abomination that is Guantánamo, Obama’s failure to close it, and the disgraceful behaviour of other par ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

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

change: org.

  • Saudi Women to Hillary Clinton: “Where a ...
    Saudi Women for Driving, a coalition of leading Saudi women’s rights activists, bloggers and academics campaigning for the right to drive, sent the following letter to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday. A similar letter was sent to Clinton’s EU counterpart Catherine Ashton. Dear Se ...
  • Reduced Ship Speeds Would Be Win-Win for Calif ...
    As a 50-foot humpback whale headed north to Santa Barbara feeding grounds last month, its migration was cut short by the propellers of a fast-moving ship on its way to the Port of Los Angeles. The whale’s headless carcass washed up on the rocky shore of San Pedro, Calif. Unfortunately, this wasn ...
  • Victory! Bright Beginnings Pre-K is Saved
    Some stories are a straightforward trajectory. A problem is identified. People gather around that problem and strive to change it. The change is made, and the people rejoice. Others are a roller-coaster-like slog. And that's how it's been for Charlotte Mecklenburg's preschool program, Bright Beg ...
  • Does Tanya McDowell's Arrest Make Her Guilty o ...
    Commenters are having a field day. Tanya McDowell was recently arrested on charges of selling marijuana and crack cocaine to an undercover officer. Take a look at people's reactions on the internet: "Why steal someone else's education to get your kid out of a bad, drug-infested school if you're ...
  • ICE Announces Reforms to “Secure Communi ...
    Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), under DHS and President Obama, has certainly been feeling the heat on their so-called “Secure Communities" program. Amidst growing controversy, Illinois and New York ended their participation. Massachusetts decided not to join. Los Angeles and Oakland p ...

Common Dreams -News

  • UNHCR Report says Refugee Numbers at 15-Year High
    The number of forcibly displaced people around the world has reached a 15-year high, according to the UN high commission for refugees (UNHCR), with the vast majority languishing in poor countries ill-equipped to cater to their needs. read ...
  • Spanish Protesters Launch Anti-Austerity Marches
    MADRID — Spain's "indignant" activists launched Monday protest marches culminating in a major Madrid rally July 24, showing no let-up just a day after rallying an estimated 200,000 protesters. Seething over the destruction of millions of jobs, welfare cuts and corruption, the first of at least t ...
  • Protests Against American Drone Attacks in Nor ...
    The US has accelerated the rate of attacks in Pakistan's tribal belt since Barack Obama came to power, but the secret programme is deeply unpopular among Pakistanis and blamed for hundreds of civilian deaths. While more than 1900 insurgents have been killed by American drones since 2006, accordi ...
  • Bahraini Leadership Faces New Claims That Tort ...
    The government of Bahrain faces fresh allegations that it systematically tortured people it suspected of taking part in demonstrations against its autocratic rulers earlier this year, and of deliberately undermining the country's health system as 20 doctors go back on trial today for their suppo ...
  • US Nuke Regulators Weaken Safety Rules
    NEW JERSEY - Federal regulators have been working closely with the nuclear power industry to keep the nation's aging reactors operating within safety standards by repeatedly weakening those standards, or simply failing to enforce them, an investigation by The Associated Press has found. Time aft ...

Lifehacker

  • The Coworking Directory Wiki Helps Find a Cowo ...
    If you've been considering a coworking space for an affordable and social work environment, the Coworking Directory Wiki can help you find one in your neighborhood, whether you live in New York City, Tokyo, or Amsterdam. More�� ...
  • Ask and Answer Questions in Today's Help Yours ...
    Every day we're on the lookout for ways to make your work easier and your life better, but Lifehacker readers are smart, insightful folks with all kinds of expertise to share, and we want to give everyone regular access to that exceptional ...
  • Enable Thumbnails in Firefox's "List All ...
    If you keep a slew of tabs open in Firefox, you've probably used the "List All Tabs" menu on more than one occasion. With a few about:config tweaks, you can add thumbnails to this menu for even simpler tab jumping. More�� ...
  • Get Chrome's Features in Your IT-Mandated Inte ...
    If you're stuck on an office computer and forced to use Internet Explorer because your system is locked down, Google has your back. The new version of Chrome Frame brings the features of Google Chrome to IE and doesn't need administrative ...
  • The Best Photo Management App for Mac OS X [Ap ...
    There aren't many Mac photo management apps that aren't somewhat specialized, but among the few we think iPhoto is the best for it's simplicity, rich feature set, and good integration with popular online services. More�� ...

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • 'Shocking' state of seas threatens mass extinc ...
    Overfishing and pollution putting fish, sharks and whales in extreme danger � with extinction 'inevitable', study findsFish, sharks, whales and other marine species are in imminent danger of an "unprecedented" and catastrophic extinction event at the hands of humankind, and are disappearing at a ...
  • Death penalty costs California more than $300m ...
    New study also shows that average time between conviction and execution is over 25 years � double the US national averageThe full burden of the death penalty in California has been laid bare by new research that calculates that each of the 13 prisoners executed in the state over the past three d ...
  • UK government's emergency plan for Fukushima b ...
    As the nuclear crisis unfolded in Japan British scientists devised a worst case scenario response to protect UK citizens with iodine pills and screenings The British government made contingency plans at the height of the Fukushima nuclear crisis which anticipated a "reasonable worst case scenar ...
  • Special needs schools suffer £1m funding cut
    Move follows government decision to integrate cash for special schools into the mainstream school funding grantMore than 20 schools for children with special needs have suffered a £1m cut in government funding, which will lead to cutbacks in provision, affecting services such as translating book ...
  • Libya says new Nato missile attack killed thre ...
    Alliance admits targeting buildings 40 miles from Tripoli which it had identified as concealing a command and control centreNato has admitted launching a missile strike against a compound that Libyan officials claim killed at least 15 people, including three children.Nato said the four buildings ...

McClatchey

  • Multiracial pop group Freshlyground shows Sout ...
    CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Freshlyground knows how to cater to its audiences.
  • Music breaks down some of South Africa's racia ...
    CAPE TOWN, South Africa — On a bright morning at a casual restaurant at the famed Victoria and Alfred Waterfront, teen pop star Justin Bieber's hit "Never Say Never" played in the background. Mike Laatz, his white hair escaping from a dark gray beret, finished his breakfast and ordered coffee. L ...
  • Biodegradable plastics maybe not so green
    RALEIGH -- New plastics designed to break down naturally have been hailed as environmentally friendly alternatives to traditional plastics. Instead of taking decades or even centuries to decompose, they vanish in a few years.
  • Looking away from corn to make ethanol
    VISALIA — With corn prices up and demand rising, work is under way in the Valley to develop two biorefineries to make ethanol without using the golden grain.
  • In Kentucky's governor's race, religion isn't ...
    FRANKFORT — All three campaigns in this year's race for governor and lieutenant governor say none should try to make an issue of any opponent's religious affiliation.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

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

The Wonk Room

  • New York Marriage Vote Still Up In The Air
    Via AP: “Two Republican state senators in New York say no decision was made on the fate of gay marriage after a three-hour meeting behind closed doors Monday. The senators, speaking on condition of anonymity, say gay marriage is tied up in negotiations with other issues including rent control in ...
  • Miss USA Gets Nerd Representation, Sensible Po ...
    Beauty pageants like Miss America and Miss USA are anachronistic and a little silly, but they’re also a useful measure of the moment when ideas become not just mainstream, but blandly uncontroversial. The fairly generalized disapproval when Carrie Prejean said she didn’t support equal marriage r ...
  • Wisconson Gov. Scott Walker To Cut Medicaid Wi ...
    Republicans argue that states are the “laboratories of democracy” that should be charged with developing new, innovative ways for delivering quality health care more efficiently. But that point is far harder to make in the face of Gov. Scott Walker’s (R-WI) effort to shut the public out of a deb ...
  • Former GOP Aide: Senate Republicans Would Even ...
    The Senate Republicans’ campaign against President Obama’s nominations has been nothing short of historic. On top of dozens of economic and regulatory positions, President Obama’s judicial nominees have faced greater obstructionism than those of any other president in history. According to forme ...
  • Neocon Group Calls On House GOP To Press For W ...
    The Foreign Policy Initiative issued an open letter to House Republicans calling on them to maintain funding for U.S. military action in Libya and press the Obama administration on expanding the war. The group, effectively Bill Kristol’s successor to the Project For a New American Century, got 3 ...

thwap's schoolyard

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

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Americans living abroad have to deal with the IRS
    It doesn't matter where you live, Uncle Sam wants his cut. Starting in 2013 foreign financial institutions have to hand over information to the IRS about any Americans they have accounts for.
  • Workplace training needed to rid the stigma of ...
    When it comes to employment mental illness has a stigma that makes it difficult for sufferers to talk to their managers about the disease according to a a Conference Board study released today at the 2011 Workplace Mental Health Conference in Toronto.
  • Honoring Jose Rizal, the Philippine national h ...
    Filipinos in Toronto honored their motherland's foremost hero in wreath-laying activities that commemorated his 150th birth anniversary at Earl Bales Park in North York where his bust statue stands.
  • The danger of double-bunking in Canadian prisons
    Across Canada, prisons are “double-bunking” and this could make the facilities much more dangerous, according to the ombudsman for federal prisoners.
  • Taking a 'Taste of Little Italy' in Toronto
    Although it's not like witnessing Italy first hand, with its divine art and cultural experiences, the "Taste of Little Italy" returned to the streets of Toronto. Italian cuisine was on full display along College Street.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

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

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • Cracking the Syrian regime
    Al Jazeera reports: Syrian forces have swept through a northwestern border region to stem an exodus of refugees to Turkey that is raising international pressure on President Bashar al-Assad, witnesses and a rights activist said. Reports of the military campaign on Sunday came as state media an ...
  • Athens protests: Syntagma Square on frontline ...
    The Guardian reports: Athenians used to stop off at Syntagma Square for the shopping, the shiny rows of upmarket boutiques. Now they arrive in their tens of thousands to protest. Swarming out of the metro station, they emerge into a village of tents, pamphleteers and a booming public address sy ...
  • Yemen’s unfinished revolution
    Tawakkol Karman, a leader of Yemen’s democratic youth movement, writes: After more than five months of continuous protests, I stand today in Change Square with thousands of young people united by a lofty dream. I have spent days and nights camped out in tents with fellow protesters; I have led ...
  • In Libya, delusion makes a last stand
    John Burns writes: [T]he Qaddafi dictatorship is unusual for its lack of rigor and efficiency. In Libya, at least in the two-thirds of the country not yet lost to the rebels, a dictatorship that has all the standard instruments of suppression and fear seems in some measure to have lost the powe ...
  • U.S.-Saudi rivalry intensifies
    The Los Angeles Times reports: Senior U.S. diplomats have been dropping by the royal palace in Amman almost every week this spring to convince Jordanian King Abdullah II that democratic reform is the best way to quell the protests against his rule. But another powerful ally also has been lobby ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Climate tipping point early warning system
    While the press release says University of Exeter, this slide show by Tim Lenton from the University that brought up ClimateGate, UEA, sees tipping worry in every event. Source: http://www.slideshare.net/Stepscentre/tim-lenton-early-warning-of-climate-tipping-points From Eurekalert: Climate chan ...
  • Mike Mann’s new sea level hockey stick
    Tomorrow at 15:00 EST an embargo will be lifted for a new paper to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. I have a copy, given to me by a media colleague and I intend to … Continue reading →
  • Tisdale on 2011 ocean heat content and the GIS ...
    Bob has done some very interesting work here, I call attention to figure 6 and figure 7  below where he asks: If the observations continue to diverge from the model projection, how many years are required until the model can … Continue reading →
  • Climate and Energy News Roundup June 19th
    Restoring the Scientific Method is the theme of the Sixth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-6), Sponsored by the Heartland Institute. It will take place in Washington, DC from breakfast Thursday, June 30, to noon Friday, July 1, at the … Continue reading →
  • IPCC’s Pachauri – no retroactive c ...
    Gobsmacking arrogance from Pachauri as reported by Steve McIntyre at his Climate Audit blog. Steve writes: Yesterday, IPCC chairman Pachauri told Oliver Morton of The Economist at an IPCC event in Brussels that conflict of interest policies would not not … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Secret FBI Storage Drive to Shield Evidence fr ...
    by James Corbett Guest Writer Dandelion Salad corbettreport on Jun 20, 2011 TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES: http://ur1.ca/4hbzf A recent court case in Utah has uncovered yet more evidence that the FBI is hiding key documents from the public by placing them in a separate, hitherto unknown electronic s ...
  • This Hero Didn’t Stand a Chance by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig June 20, 2011 Tim DeChristopher is scheduled to be sentenced in a Salt Lake City courtroom by U.S. District Judge Dee Benson on July 26. He faces up to 10 years in prison and a $750,000 fine for fraudulently bidding in December 2008 on par ...
  • A Tribute to Anti-War Campaigner Brian Haw, Dr ...
    by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 19 June, 2011 When I was a child, I read the Guinness Book of Records, and marvelled at the stories of the people who, in ancient times, removed themselves from everyday reality, like Saint Simeon Stylites, a Christian ...
  • Get Up and Stand Up To A Review by Guadamour
    by Guadamour Featured Writer Dandelion Salad June 19, 2011 In Get Up, Stand UpâUniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, And Battling The Corporate Elite, (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2011) Bruce E. Levine, a PhD clinical psychologist, doesn’t come anywhere near to living up to the over-blown, ...
  • European Spring: The Gradual demise of Capital ...
    by Gaither Stewart Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 19 June, 2011 Rome It’s an accumulative kind of thing, the demise of capitalism worldwide: at first the waning and the dwindling, now the rapid corkscrew-like downwards spiraling, of greedy, vicious, cannibalistic capitalism busily devouring its ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    She Doesn't Exist, Except In A Hard Drive Just how convincing are CGHs (computer generated humans) becoming? This convicing : This girl has never breathed, has never seen the sun, has no parents, no presence in our reality, except as a computer generated image. Stunning. Just downright stun ...
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    "Fear And Panic, Heroism And Cowardice, Sadism And Self-Sacrifice, Hysteria And Mass Emotion" In this LA Times' Hero Complex piece, Super 8 director JJ Abrams cites the startling poster of 1974's disaster movie epic Earthquake as a childhood obsession (along with Famous Monsters, Dick Smith m ...
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    A perfect example of what the human race can do when it embraces co-operation, instead of confrontation :
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    Join The Marines, Fight Balrog They're not really showing much reality in these US military recruiting ads, are they? Unless there are special Marines now fighting dragons in alternate universes : From Salon (excerpts) :"...the New York Times this week tells us that the Pentagon is -- shock ...
  • No title
    The Fake Knight Rises By Darryl Mason The new Christopher Nolan Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises, is still shooting but something of a teaser clip campaign has already begun on YouTube. An account called The Fire Rises has been posting short clips, with a focus on what appears to be the bur ...

Wired - Science

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

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Amira Hass: Palestinian economic boom unsustai ...
    Dr. Salem Ajluni: "Without annual external assistance to the tune of about $1 billion from the donor countries, this is not a sustainable situation. I'm not the only one saying this. So is the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Lamis Andoni: Palestinian statehood and bypass ...
    Israel, backed by the US, has started a campaign to preempt a Palestinian drive to win United Nations recognition of an independent Palestinian state on the territories occupied by Israeli in the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Arrested American using Internet limelight to ...
    "My understanding of the Jewish ethical tradition comes primarily from my knowledge of the Jewish historical experience... I feel they are the principal determining factors: our ethical tradition,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Video shows IDF preparing for next Gaza flotilla
    The Israeli Defense Forces held a large drill Wednesday in preparation of the flotilla that intends to set sail to the Gaza Strip later this month. The drill focused on different scenarios that... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Settling a score
    According to the [Israeli] court decision, the custodian of abandoned property in the West Bank area allocated the land on which the farm stands to the World Zionist Organization, which granted a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...

Ria Novosti - Military

  • China's 5G fighter 'a showoff'
    China's fifth-generation fighter program is more for effect than substance, Russia's leading aircraft maker said on Monday.
  • France transfers sensitive warship technology ...
    France has transferred to Russia all the technology it asked for under a $1.7-billion deal for two French-built Mistral class amphibious assault ships for the Russian Navy, a Russian arms exporter said on Monday.
  • One soldier killed, five injured in N. Caucasu ...
    One Russian soldier was killed and five injured in three separate bomb attacks in the volatile southern republic of Chechnya over the weekend, police said on Monday.
  • Russian warship joins NATO drills in North Atl ...
    Russian destroyer Admiral Chabanenko from the Northern Fleet will make a port call at the U.S. naval base Norfolk on Monday in preparation for joint naval drills with NATO warships.
  • British observers to conduct Open Skies Treaty ...
    A group of British observers on board of a Swedish SAAB-340 aircraft will make a series of inspection flights over the Russian territories under the Open Skies Treaty on June 20-24, a spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry said.

NewsWise

  • Rensselaer Researchers Secure $2.7 Million NIH ...
    The new $2.7 million, four-year study, funded by the NIH, seeks to accelerate the development of natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery, or NOTES. This emerging surgical technique shows promise for operating in the human abdomen with no external incisions, no external scarring, less pa ...
  • Few Parents Enforce Shower-Before-Pool Rules T ...
    Many parents do not understand risk of water infections from pools and water parks or recognize the role showering plays in preventing infections.
  • Is Coming Out Always a Good Thing?
    Coming out as lesbian, gay, or bisexual increases emotional well-being even more than earlier research has indicated. But the psychological benefits of revealing one's sexual identity -- less anger, less depression, and higher self-esteem - are limited to supportive settings, shows a study publi ...
  • News Source May Steer Perceived Solution to Ch ...
    News source may play a role in determining what you perceive as the best strategy for addressing childhood obesity.
  • U of Utah Startup Commercializes Smart Feeding ...
    Veritract, a University of Utah startup company, is developing a "Smart Feeding Tube" with a live camera and steering mechanism that enables doctors to place feeding tubes with much more accuracy than current technology allows. The company has just received $820,000 in an early round of funding.

Natural Health News

  • Warning -- Organic Produce May Contain Pesticides
    It turns out that foods grown to U.S. organic standards can still contain commercially manufactured pesticides. While organic production often uses fewer dangerous chemicals, certain pesticides are allowed. The USDA maintains an official list of substances that can and can't be used for organic ...
  • Measles Infection Protects Against Allergies i ...
    A study investigated the role of measles vaccination and measles infection in the development of allergic disease. Close to 15,000 children in 5 European countries were examined. Children who had a measles infection were less likely to suffer both "any allergic symptom" and "any diagnosis of al ...
  • Why Are They Using Antipsychotic Drugs on Fost ...
    Watch the full episode. See more Need To Know.Close to 10 percent of U.S. children are diagnosed with a mental health disorder, and often the treatment prescribed is medication. But children in foster care are prescribed drugs at a much higher rate. �Concern for the well-being of foster chi ...
  • The Insomnia Drug That Poisons You to Sleep
    Ambien (zolpidem) is notorious for its side effects. Green Med Info has collected a number of studies that demonstrate why this drug is poisoning you to sleep. Research shows that the effects of Ambien can include: Amnesia Compulsive activity Sleepwalking Infec ...
  • What are the Dangers of Prenatal Ultrasounds?
    The site Green Med Info has collected 26 peer-reviewed studies on the potential unintended adverse consequences of ultrasound use. There is barely any safety research on ultrasound, while there is a good deal of research indicating that the process heats the fetal brain significantly, as well a ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

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

Public News Service

  • AZ Weighs Cancelling Clean Cars Program
    AZ Weighs Cancelling Clean Cars Program Phoenix, AZ – Repeal of Arizona’s Clean Cars Program will be the subject of a public hearing next week in Phoenix. Arizona currently follows the most stringent air quality standards in the nation. Comments from Diane Brown, director, Arizona PIRG (Public I ...
  • Los habitantes de Arizona mayores enfrentan un ...
    Los habitantes de Arizona mayores enfrentan un futuro de movilidad limitada Phoenix, AZ – Más de la mitad de las personas en edad avanzada que viven en ciudades de Arizona pronto tendrán poco o ningún acceso al transporte público, según un estudio reciente. Y como los "Baby Boomers" están alcan ...
  • Older Arizonans Face Future of Limited Mobility
    Older Arizonans Face Future of Limited Mobility Phoenix, AZ – More than half the seniors in Arizona cities will soon have little or no access to public transportation, according to a new study. And with baby boomers reaching retirement age and eventually giving up driving, the problem is expecte ...
  • Arizona Seniors Can Do More To Safeguard Their ...
    Arizona Seniors Can Do More To Safeguard Their Money Phoenix, AZ - The AARP is advising older Americans how to make the most of their money, and suggesting ways to protect against fraud. A new study finds some key behaviors can make a difference between staying safe and becoming a victim. Comme ...
  • Rescued Research Beagles Get New "Leash" on Life
    Rescued Research Beagles Get New "Leash" on Life San Jose, CA - Nine rescued research dogs came out of their cages - for the first time ever - yesterday (Wednesday). Some research facilities that use live animals in their testing are giving them a second chance by contacting rescue groups to pic ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Permission to Narrate: Introducing: The "Pales ...
    Permission to Narrate: Introducing: The "Palestinian Gandhi Project": "There is a consistent effort to portray Palestinians as violent individuals, and this effort is tied directly to attempts to justify any Israeli action against Palestinians in the name of “security” or “defense.” In reality, ...
  • OpEdNews - Article: Obama's John Yoo Moment-- ...
    OpEdNews - Article: Obama's John Yoo Moment-- Cherry Picking Lawyers to Break a Major Law: "Bush and Cheney searched around until they found an attorney who would vet torture. Now we have the news that Obama did the same thing to start an illegal war in Libya. He rejected the legal advice of t ...
  • Are New Zealand and Australia serious about de ...
    : "Sunday, June 19, 2011 Are New Zealand and Australia serious about democracy in Fiji? RALLYING FOR VITI: Australian pro-democracy supporters. photo: Matavuvale Where is Fiji's Regional Support? By Sanjay Ramesh In February a new commanding officer of the Fiji Third Infant ...
  • Leonard Peltier Remembers Geronimo Pratt - Bla ...
    Leonard Peltier Remembers Geronimo Pratt - Black Unity Greetings to all my friends and compatriots, Everyone it seems knows something about Geronimo Pratt. To all of us, to every human being on the planet, he was a beacon of principle that we should all aspire to emulate. To those directly inv ...
  • The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي ...
    The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: Hussam sent me this: "This interview is in Portuguese (the page translate isn't bad) and revealing of his racist orientalist views. He thinks he should be praised. "Who is the man behind Amina? Can I say I'm a lesbian trapped in a man's ...

Pensieve

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • A Greek explains why their debt crisis affects ...
    Sturdyblog I have never been more desperate to explain and more hopeful for your understanding of any single fact than this: The protests in Greece concern all of you directly. What is going on in Athens at the moment is resistance against an invasion; an invasion as brutal as that against Polan ...
  • Spanking Charlene. I Hate Girls
  • Two-thirds of New York City rooftops suitable ...
    An ambitious mapping project shows that many NYC rooftops could have solar installed on them and that doing so would generate needed power during peak load times. However the grid would need to be upgraded to handle new distributed and variable power sources coming from all directions at once. I ...
  • Obama. Worse than Bush on civil liberties?
    New York Times The Obama administration has long been bumbling along in the footsteps of its predecessor when it comes to sacrificing Americansâ basic rights and liberties under the false flag of fighting terrorism. Now the Obama team seems ready to lurch even farther down that dismal road than ...
  • Specialty MDs turn away most children with pub ...
    Sixty-six percent of publicly-insured children were unable to get a doctor’s appointment for medical conditions requiring outpatient specialty care including diabetes and seizures, while children with identical symptoms and private insurance were turned away only 11 percent of the time, accordin ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • VIDEO: Minister Farrakhan: ‘That’s ...
    Minister Louis Farrakhan (Getty Images) TheRoot.com A YouTube video of Minister Louis Farrakhan taking President Obama to task over the war in Afghanistan and the bombing of Libya is making its way around the Web. In the video, Farrakhan admonishes the president for turning into someone else. Fa ...
  • No Fly Zones Appear Across U.S. At Unprecedent ...
    � The Intel Hub Shepard Ambellas June 18, 2011 And the saga continues�� As you know I have been following the earth changes since the event that many believe place around June 6, 2011. I have documented the new norther sunrise and have received hundreds of reports from around the world. Local re ...
  • The Handbook of Human Ownership
    SARTRE � June 19, 201 BATR.org � Dr. Adam [Spartacus] Weishaupt: �Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery. The hankering of the mind is irresistible.� The enslavement of humanity is replete throughout history. The reason is simple. The nature of societies a ...
  • Your Letter to DC: “Please end the Presi ...
    Quote of the Day: When asked about Obama's position that he doesn't need Congressional approval for military action in Libya because "there are no boots on the ground" there, Representative Dennis Kucinich replied: "This isn't about footwear. This is about the Constitution of the United States." ...
  • Memory Hole Video: CIA Agent Warns the World!
    Ex Agent Robert Steele lays it all out – Tells Bloggers and Hackers to keep the pressure on!

The Air Vent

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Friend Quizzes, Badoo, Zoosk, BandPage, VEVO a ...
    Quizzes of all sorts were huge on our list of top growing Facebook applications by monthly active users this week. Among them, there were friend quizzes involving photos, statistics, descriptions, questions and more. Then there were the music apps BandPage and VEVO, dating apps Zoosk and Badoo a ...
  • Facebook Users Want Professional Networking: B ...
    After six months of testing different gamification and viral mechanics, professional social networking Facebook app BranchOut seems to have found the right design. It grew its monthly active user count from 32,897 to 817,367 in a week, according to our AppData tracking service, with its daily ac ...
  • This Week’s Headlines From Across Inside Network
    Here are all the latest headlines from around Inside Network this past week. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms, and virtual goods. Monday, June 13th, 2011 Monday Mobile Roundup: Controllers, YouTube Marketing, GEE & More Emerging Paid iOS Apps: Hanging ...
  • New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this weekâs highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Daglow Entertainment, Context Optional, Atari, Wild Needle, V ...
  • Facebook’s iPad Plans, Mobile Platform Strateg ...
    Inside Network founder Justin Smith spoke with Bloomberg TV’s Emily Chang yesterday on the expected launch of Facebook’s iPad app. The 3-minute interview also covers Facebook’s plans for monetizing on mobile platforms, Project Spartan, and the company’s traffic growth prospects in maturing marke ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • The Palestinian Authority’s historic mistake - ...
    Jeff Halper calls on Palestinian Authority leaders, foremost Mahmoud Abbas, to honour their historic national responsibility, mobilize the immense resources of Palestinian and world civil society and push for UN recognition of Palestinian independence in September "as the head of a national unit ...
  • Reasonable conjecture on Israel’s changing dem ...
    Lawrence Davidson considers why a growing number of Israeli Jews are voting - or preparing to vote - with their feet by emigrating or acquiring foreign passports, and views a possible future scenario where the majority of Jews remaining in Israel are racist, ideologically-motivated religious fan ...
  • Deny! Deny! Israel as a theocratic state
    Uri Avnery views the origins and implications of the notion of Israel as a "Jewish state", arguing that, in effect, it places Israel in the same category as another theocratic state, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. "Many Israelis would be shocked by the comparison. What, us? Similar to a theo ...
  • 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 ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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

Afro Spear

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

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

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

Cutting Edge News

  • Urban Edge - Cockroach Allergens Explain Why C ...
    Children living on New York City blocks where asthma is common have higher levels of exposure to cockroach allergens and are more likely to be sensitized to it. In New York City, the prevalence of asthma among children entering school varies by neighborhood anywhere from 3 percent to 19 percent, ...
  • Mexico's Wars - Political Gamesmanship in Mexi ...
    We talk to a lot of people in our effort to track Mexico’s criminal cartels and to help our readers understand the dynamics that shape the violence in Mexico. Our contacts include a wide range of people, from Mexican and U.S. government officials, journalists and business owners to taxi drivers ...
  • Edge on Travel - Road Warriors at Risk for Inc ...
    Road warriors who travel for business two weeks or more a month have higher body mass index, higher rates of obesity and poorer self-rated health than those who travel less often, according to researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. The study, conducted by Andrew G. ...
  • Mexico's Wars - El Grito de El Paso (The Cry o ...
    On Memorial Day, Albuquerque, New Mexico, resident Michael Brown embarked on a run of more than 260-miles to the US-Mexico border.The long-distance runner began his marathon at the spot where the bodies of 11 murdered women were found on Albuquerque’s West Mesa back in February 2009. Headed sout ...
  • After the Holocaust - Tragic Murder Mystery Re ...
    In 1946, architect Felix Gulje was managing a construction company in Leiden, some 20 miles from Amsterdam. However, much to his disgust, rumors and misinformation were circulating among his fellow Dutchmen who had served in the Netherlands’ WW2 resistance that he had been a collaborator during ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Tom Friedman-Lying For Peace
    By Barry Rubin My article, �The Unbearable Lightness of Mainstream Thinking on Israel-Palestinian Issues,� came out too early to include this howler from Tom Friedman. We should remember that Friedman is highly regarded in certain circles. Yet his columns are often laughable in terms of th ...
  • US Ambassador To Afghanistan Gov't "Stop Call ...
    The Afghan Government tries to have it both ways. On one hand they are happy that the United States is there to protect their fledgling government and to stop the Taliban from taking over, on the the other their leadership continually trashes the American Heroes protecting their country.� Just t ...
  • Understanding Hamas, A Detailed Assessment
    By Barry Rubin What do you have to do to be recognized as a revolutionary Islamist group using terrorism, backed by Iran (and now probably a radicalized Egypt), seeking to wipe Israel off the map and kill the Jews? It isn�t easy. People keep trying to make you into something else: inc ...
  • Dana Milbank Speaks of Shanda (Embarrassment) ...
    Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank tends to use an unusual barometer to select his topics.� He likes to write about subjects for which he has a very strong opinion, but very little knowledge. His latest column, Joe Lieberman joining Glenn Beck: a shanda proves my point.� Unfortunately Milban ...
  • Manufacturing Execs Give WH Chief of Staff Dal ...
    �I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.� Harry S. TrumanThe thirty-third president's words never rang more true than at yesterday's meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM). White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley was the "guest of honor." It was ...

The Real Agenda

  • Russia will continue to lower its U.S. Holdings
    WSJ June 20, 2011 Russia will likely continue lowering its U.S. debt holdings as Washington struggles to contain a budget deficit and bolster a tepid economic recovery, a top aide to President Dmitry Medvedev said Saturday. “The share of our portfolio in U.S. instruments has gone down and probab ...
  • Target: Global Genocide. The Elite’s Pla ...
    by Luis R. Miranda Video from PrisonPlanet.tv June 19, 2011 Historian and investigator Webster Tarpley describes what the plans of the Elite are for most of the world’s population. From De-development to depopulation. From the installation of a planetary regime to the use of vaccines to carry ou ...
  • Tens of thousands protest against cuts in Madrid
    AFP June 19, 2011 Tens of thousands of protesters flooded the streets of Madrid Sunday blaming bankers and politicians for causing a financial crisis that forced the country to adopt painful spending cuts. Demonstrators of all ages linked to a protest movement called the “indignants” assembled e ...
  • Guerra Libia es un Entrenamiento para Guerra G ...
    Por Rick Rozoff Adaptación Luis R. Miranda 19 de junio 2011 Mientras la guerra de Occidente contra Libia entra en su cuarto mes y la Organización del Atlántico Norte ha volado más de 11.000 misiones, incluyendo 4.300 bombardeos, sobre la pequeña nación, el único bloque militar ya está integrando ...
  • Desestabilización de Siria y la Gran Guerra en ...
    Por Michel Chossudovsky Adaptación Luis R. Miranda 19 de junio 2011 Lo que se está desarrollando en Siria es una insurrección armada apoyada secretamente por potencias extranjeras, incluyendo los EE.UU., Turquía e Israel. Insurgentes armados pertenecientes a organizaciones islamistas han cruzado ...

Wind Watch

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

Not My Tribe

  • Uncle Sam wants you to pledge you’ll onl ...
    At Juneteenth this weekend, I saw the local Justice & Peace table being manned by young graduates of its “Peace Camp.” I resisted asking them if their religio- pacifist training was being extended to corporations and oligarchs, or was nonviolence a prohibition for just them, the social-justice-m ...
  • Okay I’ll bite, what is legitimate about ...
    Israel asserts that Palestinian efforts to seek UN recognition, without Israel’s consent, are intended to delegitimize the Tel Aviv regime. Apparently sending an aid convey to relieve the siege of Gaza is also to delegitimize Israel. What they really mean it that Israel’s inevitably violent resp ...
  • UK C4: the Killing Fields of Sri Lanka
    The UK’s Channel 4 has aired a documentary about Sri Lanka’s extermination of the Tamil Tiger rebels, including thousands of the Tamil population. Refugees were gathered into no-fire safety zones, then camps, even hospitals, a strategy it turns out, of concentrating people to more easily target ...
  • To cure P.T.S.D. we need to spread it
    I never thought the antiwar movement should worry about our soldiers’ PTSD. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a guilty conscience soldier, you’ve earned it. Of course, as have Troop Supporters all, so we need to spread this shit around.
  • A face to launch a thousand protests. Leak you ...
    This is a still from John Pilger’s THE WAR YOU DON’T SEE, recently blocked from its US debut in Santa Fe. Why? Because such images will stop war. In particular this shows a terrified Iraqi girl held at gunpoint as her home is searched. I wonder how many such scenes have been captured by embed [...]

Debunking the Debunkers

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

Fooducate

  • Meat Labels: No More Minced Words
    This is a guest blog post by Kirsten L. Grieshaber. Youâre a well-intentioned consumer.  You know that eating sustainably raised meat is better for you, your taste buds, the environment, public health, and the livelihoods of farmers who support responsible agricultural practices.  But then you ...
  • 6 Thoughts About Dads & Nutrition
    Happy Father’s Day dear families! Happy Father’s Day! Although this holiday is usually associated with buying dads a tie/electronic gizmo/golg club/fishing gear and enjoying a BBQ meal, we’d like to take a minute to ponder the paternal role in a family’s healthy eating habits. 1. Not just moms – ...
  • Getting Real in the Whole Foods Parking Lot
    Check out this funny rap video that went viral. Some of the situations may seem really familiar to some of us. For example “Pay my eighty bucks for six things and get out…” Enjoy! Get Fooducated: iPhone App Android App RSS Subscription or Email Subscription Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/food ...
  • LA Schools Ban Chocolate Milk. Dump 3 Million ...
    Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest in the US after New York, made a bold move this week. Beginning in a few weeks, the only milk served to children in schools will be unflavored. Almost 700,000 school children will be affected by this decision: The proposal by Superintendent ...
  • Those Dirty Little Keebler Elves
    The FDA has issued a warning letter to Kellogg’s, parent company of Keebler and Famous Amos, after finding listeria bacterium in a Georgia manufacturing plant. Here is an excerpt: …investigators from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) conducted an inspection of your food manufa ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle big plastic (animal ...
    Over on the Suggest an Item page, Emily asked: Would anybody have any ideas for reusing the bags that stock feed comes in? They are some sort of plastic and not recycleable. Funnily enough, I had this on my to-do list already as I’m starting to be overrun with the things too – and I’ve [...]
  • Advice for arguing against plastic credit-type ...
    I’m possibly a bit late with this now (sorry Su!) but I just spotted this question and wondered if anyone had any advice/info/suggestions for further research. Good friend of Recycle This and The Really Good Life Su asked: Next week I am at a conference all week. One of the motions for discussio ...
  • Reusing, recycling and upcycling links – ...
    It’s been a while since I’ve featured some of the wonderful reusing, recycling and upcycling links I’ve spotted recently. So, without further ado…: Drinks can pop top lampshade I love this lampshade made with drinks can pop tops – it’s like modern chainmail :) Drinks can bottoms necklace The oth ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle Ariel Gel Dosing De ...
    Granny Cain emailed about Ariel Gel Dosing Devices: Enough!! I now have enough dosing devices for each child in a classroom…. but what to do with them? Tried poking a hole through the side, adding twine and making a bird feeder, but it kept flipping over. Needed some technical refinement… too mu ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle lots of hair elasti ...
    We’ve had an email from Donna: My 12 year old daughter has just had her long long lovely hair cut off and when we got home from the hairdressers, she cleared out a big box of hair bobbles, loop bands, Alice bands, scrunchies, ribbons, all sorts of things like Claire’s Accessories threw up in a [...]

Age of Autism

  • Winner Zack Gonzalez Charity Bites!
    Our good friend autism SuperSibling Zack Gonzalez turned 18 last week.Zack is an author, a comedian, a radio show host and more - all for his brother Ethan, whom he calls "Deets." His newest book is called "Charity Bites" and...
  • George Shrinks Cartoon 2000: Measles Disappoin ...
    Snowman's Land Season 1 Episode 8 Aired date: Oct 28, 2000 Plot: After a huge snowfall, everyone is having fun but a disappointed Becky, who has the measles and won't be able to make her annual snowman from the first...
  • Turnabout is Good Play: The Autism Village
    By Stacy Maillet If only for a moment, I felt helpful and not helpless.. On January 31st, 2011, my 2-year-old son Nicholas was diagnosed with Autism. I left a 15-year career to stay at home with my Son Nicholas. Recently...
  • Happy Father's Day!
  • Winners, Age of Autism "Screw Autism" Corkscre ...
    Jane Williams, Trish Rogers and Evelyn are our winners! I've sent each of you an email. KS We gave 3 corkscrews to readers from our friends at The Puzzling Piece. What a great teacher gift too! Listed at $25 in...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • Spanish PM: Euro Zone Will Support Greece
    Wall St Journal – Europe will find a way to overcome the debt crisis in Greece, but needs a “common sense contribution” from the financial sector to guarantee success, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Saturday. Zapatero told a panel at a Russian investment conference that ...
  • Solar power future set for NSW, Queensland
    Wall St Journal – Two of the largest solar power stations in the world will be built in NSW and Queensland, the federal government said today. More than three quarters of a billion dollars in federal funding will go towards the building of the stations, which will be at Moree in northwest NSW an ...
  • EU preparing new sanctions on Syrian companies
    AP – The European Union is preparing new, expanded sanctions against Syria that would target companies, in response to the Syrian government’s violent crackdown against its regime, a French official said Friday. Read article
  • Cyber warfare heats up
    Reuters – Consumers, companies, and governments face increase risks as new avenues in cyberspace, including mobile applications and cloud computing, create new opportunities for hackers and criminals. Read article Editorial Note – Increasing news in mainstream media about cyber war/terror is a s ...
  • Karzai says US in talks with Taliban
    ABC - Afghan president Hamid Karzai says the United States is holding talks with the Taliban, in the first official confirmation of such contacts after nearly 10 years of war. But the US has declined to confirm or deny Mr Karzai’s claims, made in a speech in Kabul. Mr Karzai said an Afghan push ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • And now for something completely different . . .
    Still offended, one of the judges sentenced the poor animal to death by stoning, recruiting the neighborhood's children to carry out the order. Luckily, the dog managed to escape.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • A family in Gaza struggles to rebuild followin ...
    "They shoot at us almost every day," Nasr spoke up. "They were shooting today; at our plants and at the earth." In the few hours that I was at Jahr el Deek, I heard at least two drones and saw an apache helicopter. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Gaza Island on Vimeo
    Filmmaker John Greyson will be traveling on the Canadian Boat to Gaza, the Tahrir, joining the global effort of Freedom Flotilla 2 � Stay Human. On the heels of taking off tomorrow he just finished another fantastic witty, fresh, must-see BDS video.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �N ...
  • Report from a police holding cell
    Settlers who complain about incitement to violence are like a man who murders his parents and then asks for the court's mercy on the grounds that he is an orphan. An Orwellian phenomenon.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • If only Israelis cared about more than cottage ...
    The opposition should lead the fight to save the country from the disaster it is destined to face due to the prime minister's recalcitrance. Because when we hit the wall, no one will care anymore about the price of cottage cheese. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Co ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • SAG and AFTRA Convene Formal Discussions to Cr ...
    The G1 established a series of work groups to discuss six key areas that rank-and-file members identified as important during the Screen Actors Guild and AFTRA Presidents' Forum for One Union nationwide Listening Tour.
  • Angelina Jolie Meets With Boat People on Lampedusa
    More than 40,000 people, including refugees and asylum-seekers, have arrived by boat to Lampedusa since the beginning of this year, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
  • PA Presents Signing of Oslo Accords With Israe ...
    One was a cartoon in the official PA daily, depicting a man preparing a headstone for a grave, who is wondering which date to inscribe to complete the text.
  • Flores Sizzles Against Moore to Keep Record Pe ...
    Flores (6-0, 6 KOs), a southpaw from Puerto Rico now fighting out of Hartford, was dominant from the opening round. A game Moore was pounded but he didn't go down until the seventh round, resulting from a devastating combination of lethal punches F
  • US Remains Firmly Committed to Reform 'Human R ...
    Mr. Sammis stressed that the the United States has repeatedly urged our fellow members to join them in conducting a thorough, comprehensive review of the Human Rights Council that would significantly improve its ability to meet its core mission: pro

Worldnews

  • Singapore remains attractive hub for Indi ...
    NEW DELHI: Immigration rules are getting tougher and overseas jobs difficult to find. While that may be the message from many Western countries, there's some good news nearer home. Singapore remains an attractive hub for Indian professionals. With the economy growing in double digit quarter ...
  • UK public 'failing to engage' with 3D TV
    A new report on the state of the 3D TV market in the UK has outlined that 3D will eventually become a mass market product but it is currently failing to engage with audiences. Informa Telecoms & Media has forecasted the state of 3D TV over the next five years and believes that the technolog ...
  • Syria's Assad must reform or step aside: ...
    LUXEMBOURG ' British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Monday that Syrian President Bashar Al Assad must implement reforms in his country or step aside, as the embattled leader prepared to make a...
  • Microsoft setting up money-saving Office ...
    Two weeks ago, Apple chief Steve Jobs announced the launch of iCloud and boldly declared amid much pomp and circumstance, “We’re going to demote the PC and the Mac to just be a device.” But underneath such grand pronouncements is a glaring technicality: Other non-Apple developers decided to ...
  • Let Greece go bust and leave euro, urges ...
    Britain should not be expected to contribute to a second bail-out of the Greek economy, Boris Johnson has said. Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, the Conservative mayor of London said Greece...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • UNHCR Report says Refugee Numbers at 15-Year High
    The number of forcibly displaced people around the world has reached a 15-year high, according to the UN high commission for refugees (UNHCR), with the vast majority languishing in poor countries ill-equipped to cater to their needs. read ...
  • Spanish Protesters Launch Anti-Austerity Marches
    MADRID — Spain's "indignant" activists launched Monday protest marches culminating in a major Madrid rally July 24, showing no let-up just a day after rallying an estimated 200,000 protesters. Seething over the destruction of millions of jobs, welfare cuts and corruption, the first of at least t ...
  • Protests Against American Drone Attacks in Nor ...
    The US has accelerated the rate of attacks in Pakistan's tribal belt since Barack Obama came to power, but the secret programme is deeply unpopular among Pakistanis and blamed for hundreds of civilian deaths. While more than 1900 insurgents have been killed by American drones since 2006, accordi ...
  • Bahraini Leadership Faces New Claims That Tort ...
    The government of Bahrain faces fresh allegations that it systematically tortured people it suspected of taking part in demonstrations against its autocratic rulers earlier this year, and of deliberately undermining the country's health system as 20 doctors go back on trial today for their suppo ...
  • US Nuke Regulators Weaken Safety Rules
    NEW JERSEY - Federal regulators have been working closely with the nuclear power industry to keep the nation's aging reactors operating within safety standards by repeatedly weakening those standards, or simply failing to enforce them, an investigation by The Associated Press has found. Time aft ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

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

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • The Fake Bull Market: A Dollar Mirage
    Robert Bonomo The SP 500 hit an apocryphal low during the financial crisis of 666 in March of 2009 from which point it has surged to more than double in price in about two years. This bull market is one of the most robust in US equities history; its only rivals are the end of the roaring 20’s ...
  • Two Capitalisms
    Joel S. Hirschhorn With a kind of religious fervor, American conservatives love to talk about their love of capitalism, as if it has a singular definition and can always be counted on to serve public and national interests. The intelligent way to think about capitalism is that it can be of ...
  • Entrapping Innocent Muslims
    by Stephen Lendman A recent New York University School of Law Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) report is titled, "Targeted and Entrapped: Manufacturing the 'Homegrown Threat' in the United States." Post-9/11, Muslims have been ruthlessly targeted. Paid informants have infeste ...
  • University of Ottawa Independence for Sale to ...
    Professor Denis Rancourt Canadian universities have institutional independence guaranteed by a Supreme Court of Canada ruling. This independence from governments and corporations was explicitly granted to universities in order to protect the academic freedoms of its professors and students. A ...
  • From South Lebanon via Queens with Hate... Whe ...
    Franklin Lamb Beirut Hanan is the Islamophobic Lebanese woman, Hanan Qahwaji who as a child lived in the South Lebanon village of Maryoun overlooking the Lebanon-Palestine border during three years of the on again off again Lebanese Civil War before she became an Israeli collaborator and fled t ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

  • My Father, His Firebombs and My Messed-up Sixt ...
    Eviction & retribution | National Post This is the second in the five-part series My Father, His Firebombs and My Messed-up Sixties Childhood, wherein Post reporter Peter Kuitenbrouwer describes growing up with a hippie father who was on the run. Purity Supermarket survives in a curved, steel-fr ...
  • Winehouse Antics Causes Cancellation of Tour
    Sideshow: Winehouse cancels part of European tour | Philly.com British singer Amy Winehouse is canceling part of her European tour after she was booed for her addled behavior during a Saturday concert in Belgrade, Serbia. No show in Istanbul on Monday or in Athens on Wednesday, says publicity co ...
  • Best of Bonnaroo Slideshow
    Best of Bonnaroo 2011 | Chicago Now Summer is in full swing and with it the music festival circuit. Despite your personal feelings about hippies, camping and drug use you have to admit that you’re at least a little bit curious. Hate if you want but we all like to hear stories about ‘The Roo’ [...]
  • GOP Split on War Front
    Old man McCain says “Mrreeerr!” GOP splitting over U.S. role in Libya and Afghanistan | LA Times The party, once relatively unified on foreign policy issues, has some key members seeking to cut off funding for the wars. Other Republicans criticize what they see as a growing ‘isolationist’ agenda ...
  • Morning, With Woody: To Clancy, Short and Curly
    WWH – Regular readers may know by now that my contempt for the assorted jurisprudential mediocrities occupying the US Supreme Court, at present, is virtually boundless. And it is NOT always limited to the Opus Deists–Kennedy, Thomas, Alito, Roberts and Scalia–either: I could mention a recent dec ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

  • Jon Stewart: Fox News is wrong about "Daily Sh ...
    The animus between Jon Stewart and Fox News is nothing new to anyone with a cable box: The former routinely lampoons the Becks, Hannitys and O'Reillys of the world for their partisan histrionics, while the latter presents "The Daily Show" as a hub for liberal activism.
  • The day the drug war really started
    On June 19, 1986, 25 years ago Sunday, University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias died of cocaine intoxication. Many believed the 6-foot 7, 220-pound small forward possessed a level of talent equal to that of Michael Jordan, and only two days earlier he'd been selected as the No. 2 overa ...
  • NATO admits airstrike went astray in Libya
    Libya's government said NATO warplanes struck a residential neighborhood in the capital Sunday and killed nine civilians, including two children. Hours later, NATO confirmed one of its airstrikes went astray.
  • More than 5 million affected by China flooding
    More than 5 million people have been displaced or otherwise affected by flooding in eastern China that is also pushing up food prices, state media reported Sunday.
  • The Week in Uppers
    News these days can be a bummer. And sometimes, all the uplifting stories get buried below the fold. That's we we compile some of the most heartwarming stories from each week. Check 'em out:

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

EU Times

  • Chinese train to kill American soldiers
    Computerized simulations feature Apache helicopters. Soldiers in China’s People’s Liberation Army are training for a possible future conflict through the assistance of a video game featuring U. S. soldiers as the enemy. A report by China’s CCTV television shows PLA officers in front of screens t ...
  • Mormon Leaders Say Undocumented Immigrants Sho ...
    Utah’s Mormon leaders, who in recent months have emerged as a force in immigration, say undocumented immigrants should be given a way to work legally in the United States. In a statement on immigration released by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the leaders assail mass deportati ...
  • US asks Russia for UNSC action on Syria
    US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has asked Russia to support a draft United Nations Security Council resolution on Syria. Clinton made the call during a phone conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday, AFP reported. “With regard to Syria, their discussion focused on ...
  • Saudi women launch Women2Drive campaign
    Women in Saudi Arabia have been openly driving cars in defiance of an official ban on female drivers in the ultra-conservative kingdom. The direct action has been organised on social network sites, where women have been posting images and videos of themselves behind the wheel. Saudi women have b ...
  • Clean-up suspended at Fukushima plant
    The operator of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant has stopped the clean-up operation as radiation levels rose faster than expected. “The level of radiation at a machine to absorb cesium has risen faster than our initial projections,” Reuters quoted a spokesman for Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Photogram for iPhone: Share Up to 4 Photos in ...
    iPhone photo sharing apps have been the hot ticket since Instagram led the way caught fire last year. One recent entrant to the field is Photogram. Photogram Like Instagram, it is a free app. However it is not a direct competitor. Instead of providing photo filters, Photogram lets you group up ...
  • Brian haw rip
    by Jon Lansman from Left Futures Brian Haw , veteran Parliament Square peace campaigner, died yesterday aged 62. His death was announced today in a joint press release by the Parliament Square Peace Campaign and his family . Brian Haw set up camp in Parliament Square Gardens in June 2001 in res ...
  • Cancer Death Rates on a Decline
    A recent report from the American Cancer Society revealed a bit of good news: cancer death rates are on a decline, falling at a rate of 1.9 percent per year from 2001 to 2007 in men, and by 1.5 percent from 2002 to 2007 in women. According to a feature on Reuters, the American Cancer Society pr ...
  • Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Prize winner, fights ...
    Barack Obama, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, ignores legal advice and chooses to continue the mission in Libya It looks like Barack Obama has over-ruled the legal advice of lawyers from the Pentagon and Justice Department who believe military action against Libya should have stopped or slowed as ...
  • Civilians killed in NATO raid, Libya says
    NOVANEWS State TV airs footage purportedly of effect of air raid in Tripoli that official calls âsign of brutality of the Westâ. Libyan officials say a number of civilians have been killed in a NATO air strike in eastern Tripoli in the early hours of Sunday morning. Reporters were taken by Liby ...

Groklaw

  • Free OpenShot Video Editor is Tremendous
    OpenShot is a free, simple-to-use, feature-rich video editor for Linux. The brainchild of programmer Jonathan Thomas, OpenShot has garnered a large and enthusiastic following for many reasons, one being Thomas's responsiveness to user feedback. To quickly see the best uses of OpenShot, check out ...
  • In a first, a Nook beats the Kindle in our e-b ...
    The Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch Reader is more than merely a worthy competitor to the Kindle, as I wrote when I saw the e-book reader demonstrated late last month. Now that we've tested the device in our labs, it actually scores a few points above the Kindle in our tests. - Consumer Reports
  • FTC "Patent Hold-Up" Workshop
    Quite a few otherwise interested people may not have heard that the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) is holding a panel and workshop next week concerning how patent trolls are abusing standards body processes. This is our field, and we didn't find out about it until end of last week. Regardless, ...
  • Please update your anti-virus.. at least once ...
    The MyDoom worm....It became widespread in no time, which was particularly concerning for software firm SCO - whose website it targeted with a distributed denial-of-service attack from infected computers as part of a civil war between different factions of the Linux community. [PJ: Perhaps Sopho ...
  • Digging into Technology's Past
    Think about a movie like Back to the Future. Marty McFly may have been overwhelmed by what he saw in 2015, but had his son from the future been suddenly transported back to 1985, he would have been just as befuddled when placed in front of a Commodore. "The only thing that comes close to replic ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • A Greek explains why their debt crisis affects ...
    Sturdyblog I have never been more desperate to explain and more hopeful for your understanding of any single fact than this: The protests in Greece concern all of you directly. What is going on in Athens at the moment is resistance against an invasion; an invasion as brutal as that against Polan ...
  • Spanking Charlene. I Hate Girls
  • Two-thirds of New York City rooftops suitable ...
    An ambitious mapping project shows that many NYC rooftops could have solar installed on them and that doing so would generate needed power during peak load times. However the grid would need to be upgraded to handle new distributed and variable power sources coming from all directions at once. I ...
  • Obama. Worse than Bush on civil liberties?
    New York Times The Obama administration has long been bumbling along in the footsteps of its predecessor when it comes to sacrificing Americansâ basic rights and liberties under the false flag of fighting terrorism. Now the Obama team seems ready to lurch even farther down that dismal road than ...
  • Specialty MDs turn away most children with pub ...
    Sixty-six percent of publicly-insured children were unable to get a doctor’s appointment for medical conditions requiring outpatient specialty care including diabetes and seizures, while children with identical symptoms and private insurance were turned away only 11 percent of the time, accordin ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi out ...
    Yesterday I spoke at an Auckland celebration of the 66th birthday of Burmese democracy leader (and Nobel Peace Prize winner) Aung San Suu Kyi. She is now out of house detention, but the regime closely monitors her movements. On Wednesday she begins a tour around the country, to further test the ...
  • Podcast: The Green Plan for our SOEs
    Green Co-leader, Dr Russel Norman, last week outlined his plan for a sustainable and prosperous economy at the Party’s AGM. One of his most talked-about initiatives was how our state-owned enterprises could be leveraged to lift our country’s economic performance in partnership with the private s ...
  • General debate, June 20, 2011
    The browser crashes several commenters have been referring to on other threads appear to happen only with certain versions of Firefox (as far as I have been told). Upgrading to Firefox 4 should solve the problem.
  • Many questions, but no answers on Telecommunic ...
    Green MP Gareth Hughes had some questions for Communications Minister Steven Joyce in Parliament yesterday: Here was Steven Joyce’s reply: Nothing to say here. Nothing to say here. Nothing to say here. Nothing to say here. So Gareth tried again: Steven Joyce still wouldn’t take a call to respond ...
  • Greater Wellington failing regional economy
    The roll-out of real time displays — screens that tell passengers when their bus or train will arrive — has been delayed yet again, Greater Wellington Regional Council reported yesterday. This is yet another setback in a long line of setbacks and broken promises stretching right back to the year ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • The Great Speedup
    Americans — those who still have jobs, anyway — are working harder than ever these days. More hours, more weekend email check-ins, and less vacation than just about anyone else in the world. Clara Jeffery and Monika Bauerlein write about all of this, including the vacation part, in "All Work ...
  • The Great Tax Holiday Scam
    The New York Times reports that corporate lobbyists are renewing a push for a "one time" deal that allows them to bring foreign profits back into the U.S. at a low tax rate: Under the proposal, known as a repatriation holiday, the federal income tax owed on such profits returned to the Un ...
  • Kevin's Camera Gallery
    In the camera thread last night I mentioned that one of these days I'd take pictures of the entire Drum family camera collection, from 1935 onward. Well, why not now? However, since most of you aren't interested in this kind of thing, I've put it below the fold. Continue Reading �Comments | P ...
  • Quote of the Day: Manufacturing Misinformation
    From Jon Stewart, responding to Chris Wallace's (undoubtedly accurate) observation that Fox News viewers are pretty happy with Fox News: Comments | Post Comment����
  • New Camera Blogging
    So I went out and bought a new camera today. Because — um, because I heard that the economy needed stimulating, and as a patriotic American I figured I should do my part. Besides, ever since cameras became electronic gadgets, their useful lives are officially measured in months, not years. A ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 254: Father’s Day Controversy
    Topics: Why is Father’s Day so complicated? Can men get 1 day please? PETA goes overboard…again Amy Winehouse is on drugs…again…why are we shocked? Weiner resigns and progressives are pissed at the President Share with your friends:
  • IC 253: The Great Weiner Debate
    Topics: McDonald’s is racist? The Alamo Drafthouse shows why the customer isn’t always right The great circumcision debate Anthony Weiner and liberals turn an anthill into the Alps… Share with your friends:
  • Lupe and the Blissful Ignorance of Not Voting
    So yesterday evening Ryce and I did a podcast, IC 252:  Pedophile Insurance (Cheap Plug) and one of the topics we talked about was Lupe Fiasco’s comments about President Obama being the world’s biggest terrorist. I had a few comments about that issue then but felt the need to write this follow ...
  • IC 252: Pedophile Insurance
    Topics: Lupe acts like Lupe Is Obama a terrorist? How important is voting? A 2 vehicle, 1 bear accident Creflo Dollar defends Eddie Long Herman Cain…the gift that keeps giving…. Share with your friends:
  • Anthony’s Weiner and How Democrats Always Fuck Up
    You’ve probably noticed that writing on the Insanity Report has dropped off a bit.  It’s not that I’ve gotten done blogging.  I’m actually spending more time at my other site MovieTrailerReviews.Net (cheap plug).  But every now and then I’ll still pop in and drop an article here cause some th ...

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • Mayo Clinic researchers use human vaccine to c ...
    Mayo Clinic investigators and collaborators from the United Kingdom cured well-established prostate tumors in mice using a human vaccine with no apparent side effects. This novel cancer treatment approach encourages the immune system to rid itself of prostate tumors without assistance from toxic ...
  • 50-year search for calcium channel ends
    Mitochondria, those battery-pack organelles that fuel the energy of almost every living cell, have an insatiable appetite for calcium. Whether in a dish or a living organism, the mitochondria of most organisms eagerly absorb this chemical compound. Because calcium levels link to many essential b ...
  • New insights on an old material will enable de ...
    Designing new materials depends upon understanding the properties of today's materials. One such material, Nafion ©, is a polymer that efficiently conducts ions (a polymer electrolyte) and water through its nanostructure, making it important for many energy-related industrial applications, inclu ...
  • Arctic snow harbors deadly assassin
    Heavy and prolonged snowfall can bring about unexpected conditions that encourage fungal growth, leading to the death of plants in the Arctic, according to experts. read more
  • Climate change disasters could be predicted
    Climate change disasters, such as the melting of the Greenland ice sheet, dieback of the Amazon rainforest or collapse of the Atlantic overturning circulation, could be predicted according to University of Exeter research. read more

unEarthed

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

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

  • Permission to Narrate: Introducing: The "Pales ...
    Permission to Narrate: Introducing: The "Palestinian Gandhi Project": "There is a consistent effort to portray Palestinians as violent individuals, and this effort is tied directly to attempts to justify any Israeli action against Palestinians in the name of “security” or “defense.” In reality, ...
  • OpEdNews - Article: Obama's John Yoo Moment-- ...
    OpEdNews - Article: Obama's John Yoo Moment-- Cherry Picking Lawyers to Break a Major Law: "Bush and Cheney searched around until they found an attorney who would vet torture. Now we have the news that Obama did the same thing to start an illegal war in Libya. He rejected the legal advice of t ...
  • Are New Zealand and Australia serious about de ...
    : "Sunday, June 19, 2011 Are New Zealand and Australia serious about democracy in Fiji? RALLYING FOR VITI: Australian pro-democracy supporters. photo: Matavuvale Where is Fiji's Regional Support? By Sanjay Ramesh In February a new commanding officer of the Fiji Third Infant ...
  • Leonard Peltier Remembers Geronimo Pratt - Bla ...
    Leonard Peltier Remembers Geronimo Pratt - Black Unity Greetings to all my friends and compatriots, Everyone it seems knows something about Geronimo Pratt. To all of us, to every human being on the planet, he was a beacon of principle that we should all aspire to emulate. To those directly inv ...
  • The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي ...
    The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: Hussam sent me this: "This interview is in Portuguese (the page translate isn't bad) and revealing of his racist orientalist views. He thinks he should be praised. "Who is the man behind Amina? Can I say I'm a lesbian trapped in a man's ...

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

+972

  • Saudi women ask “Where’s Hillary?& ...
    Following Dahlia Scheindlin’s post from a few days ago on the campaign by Saudi women for the right to drive, I thought it worth posting this press release calling for support by prominent international Western female figures, notably US Secretary of State and EU High Commissioner Catherine Asht ...
  • A Jewish adventure in a Palestinian refugee camp
    Six months ago, nineteen Jews broke the usual partisan norms when it comes to visiting the “Holy Land” by choosing to hear not only the Israeli Zionist narrativeâwith which most of them are already familiarâbut also pushing themselves to learn and experience the Palestinian narrative on their sy ...
  • Racist “IDF recruit” video exposed ...
    A video of a gun-wielding IDF soldier swearing he would disobey orders not to shoot Palestinians and Sudanese created a stir in the Israeli blogosphere. The video turns out to be a hoax – but it still teaches us something of how such attitudes are perceived by local audiences. Over the weekend ...
  • Update: Corrections to “Jewish Agency&#8 ...
    After publishing an article yesterday entitled “Jewish Agency to approve convert’s eligibility to immigrate to Israel,” I received the following email from Haviv Rettig Gur, director of communications for the Jewish Agency, which was also posted as a comment on my blog by “Yoav.” Leaving aside ...
  • Court fines petitioners for demanding equal pr ...
    So much for freedom of religious practice: Israel allows Christians from Gaza to travel to their holy sites, but rejects similar requests from Muslims When demanding to maintain its control over both East and West Jerusalemâand especially, over the city’s holy sitesâone of Israel’s main argumen ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Water reuse scheme benefits Hawkesbury River
    Construction of a treated wastewater re-use scheme at South Windsor as part of an Australian Government funded project to improve the health of the Hawkesbury River has progressed significantly.
  • World Environment Day delivers $86 million fo ...
    Federal Water and Environment Minister Tony Burke and South Australia’s Water and Environment Minister Paul Caica today outlined $86.7 million for a new project to improve the river’s health and resilience of its wetlands and floodplains from the Victorian border to Wellington.
  • New pipeline benefits Townsville community
    The last piece of a 27 kilometre pipeline to capture and redirect wastewater from the northern areas of Townsville was laid today at the Mt St John Wastewater Treatment Plant.
  • Statement on Standing Committee on Regional A ...
    The Minister for Regional Australia, Simon Crean, the Minister for Water, Tony Burke and the Minister for Agriculture, Joe Ludwig, today welcomed the report by the Standing Committee on Regional Australia into the impact of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.
  • More than $3.8 million for Cairns Regional Co ...
    Communities in the Cairns region are benefitting from Australian Government funding that will help them secure their water supplies.
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