- A Gut Wrenching Appellate Loss- Please Share Y ...
This blog has been a great forum to discuss the occasional triumphs of justice and the victory of the rule of law over the fraud, the deceit and the abject criminality of the banks and their law firms. It has also been an open forum for me to discuss the frustrations over a legal system [...]
- THE ULTIMATE SELL OUT- THE BANKS AVOID ALL LIA ...
We have become a disgusting, lawless and overtly corrupt nation where no rules or laws apply to the banks and institutions. Dispense with all your naive notions of justice, fairness and law, because in this new era these concepts do not apply if your crimes and conspiracies are big enough. WASH ...
- The Banks Can’t Count…
Every single day we receive more and more evidence of the banks and their wrongdoing. I long ago gave up on any government official to do anything about it and I never had any faith that any of the banks or the industry could self police I had faith that our courts would do something, [...]
- The LPS Sanctions Decision- Bankruptcy Court S ...
The Federal judges are really stepping in and calling all this mess what it really is… Read the In Re Wilson, Order HERE Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
- Two Days/Two Summary Judgement Vacated/Two Sal ...
It’s only Tuesday, but it has been a very good week already…I got two Summary Judgments vacated and two sales canceled! Now mind you, there was no way these two judgments should have been entered in first place, but that’s a whole other story. The bottom line is we worked very hard, briefed th ...
- Stop Predicting – Start Achieving
Politics is turning wacky again. Stephen Harper gloats in his decimation of the Liberal Party, which Jack Layton vows to keep in its place while his NDP seeks to consolidate its power as the chief opposition. Conservative minister James Moore mocks the NDP for pretending it will get rid of its “ ...
- Men Without Chests
The phrase above originated in The Abolition of Man, a thoughtful work by C. S. Lewis on the loss of virtue. He maintained that some of the greatest realities in life actually come from something external to the experience of humans. Such truths are objective and provide the guideposts for human ...
- “But Still We Have It”
My wife spoke on the phone yesterday with an incumbent MP from another region that lost his seat in the last election. He and his family have been friends for years and so the conversation was an open and frank one. When asked if he would run again his response was interesting. “It’s like a [...]
- Advancing Civilization
It suddenly dawned on me yesterday that I might be getting anachronistic. Once a year I smoke dad’s old pipe as a way of remembering him. Sitting on the porch swing, I recalled the smell of that pipe when I was a boy, listening to him as he expounded on some of his war experiences [...]
- No Labels
I was fascinated to read Susan Delacourt’s recent blog posting “Chretien: The Modern Conservative?” in which she points to some of the ironies in the Manning Centre’s recent conclusion that Canada is surely becoming more Conservative. Pollster Allan Gregg, one of the participants, made an observ ...
- In Memoriam: Infant Deaths & Vaccination
by Barbara Loe Fisher Memorial Day is for remembering those, who have fought and died to defend America and preserve our civil liberties, including freedom of thought, speech, religious belief and conscience. So every Memorial Day I remember the children, who have died after receiving state ma ...
- Whooping Cough Outbreaks & Vaccine Failures
UPDATE: CLICK HERE TO VIEW NVIC'S PERTUSSIS VACCINE & DISEASE PAGE by Barbara Loe Fisher Reports of whooping cough outbreaks in California1,2 and in other states this summer are nothing new. Every four to five years – no matter how high the vaccination rate is - there are reports of w ...
- Using Fear & Prejudice to Attack Vaccine Exemp ...
by Barbara Loe Fisher This summer, inaccurate and misleading information about B. pertussis whooping cough and the pertussis vaccine is being put out there by medical doctors, who should know better. Media campaigns designed to create fear about infectious disease are nothing new. This ...
- Amy Wallace & Yellow Journalism
by Barbara Loe Fisher On October 17, 2009 I was at the Atlanta airport on my way back to Washington, D.C. when I stopped at a newsstand. Like most weary travelers waiting for a plane, I was looking for something to read that would give me a break from my work, which included, two weeks earl ...
- Forcing Flu Shots on Health Care Workers: Who ...
By Barbara Loe Fisher Doctors at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia are ordering all employees to get a flu shot every year or be sent home for two weeks without pay to “think about it.” Anyone, who still refuses to get a flu shot after that, is fired.1 60 percent of all U.S. health care p ...
- Synthetic biology, ethics and the hacker culture
While the DIY Biotechnology community has grown considerably since this post, the piece still captures something of what is still a young movement, and one that challenges assumptions about top-down technology innovation. Originally posted June 13 2008 Read Thomas L. Friedman’s “The World is Fla ...
- Nano-sunscreens leave their mark
Most manufacturers of nanomaterial-based sunscreens try to make sure that the material they use doesn’t generate harmful chemicals in the presence of sunlight. But the paper this piece was based on suggested that some photoactive materials might be slipping through the net. Originally posted J ...
- Value-added nanotechnology
The more the debate over what precisely nanotechnology is goes on, the more inclined I am to think that it’s something of an illusion. Sure, nanoscale science is real. And there are clearly technologies that exploit this. But are they nanotechnologies, or are they simply clever uses of sci ...
- Is nanotechnology suffering from “silent rave” ...
I couldn’t resist finishing the August in the Archives series with this piece on “silent rave” syndrome, which I am sad to say still seems to inflict the emerging technologies community! Originally posted October 5 2008 The silent rave might seem a rather bizarre social phenomenon; a group of st ...
- Rethinking nanotechnology – responding to a re ...
Back in July, the US National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) posted a Request For Information in the Federal Register for input to the next NNI strategic plan – to be published later this year. The closing date for comments was a couple of weeks ago now. I got mine in in the nick of time. ...
- Paul Ryan's Budget Payday
Intro: "The congressman stands to make money from his stakes in four businesses that lease land to energy companies which would benefit from $45 billion in tax breaks and subsidies in his proposed budget." Ryan's effort to extend tax breaks creates the potential appearance of a conflict of in ...
- Paul Ryan's Budget Payday
Intro: "The congressman stands to make money from his stakes in four businesses that lease land to energy companies which would benefit from $45 billion in tax breaks and subsidies in his proposed budget." Ryan's effort to extend tax breaks creates the potential appearance of a conflict of in ...
- AARP Undermines Social Security Fight
Intro: "An article in Friday's Wall Street Journal has Social Security advocates angry and scratching their heads. It suggests that AARP - one of the most powerful interest groups in Washington - has done an about face on the question of cutting retirement benefits for seniors as part of a grand ...
- AARP Undermines Social Security Fight
Intro: "An article in Friday's Wall Street Journal has Social Security advocates angry and scratching their heads. It suggests that AARP - one of the most powerful interest groups in Washington - has done an about face on the question of cutting retirement benefits for seniors as part of a grand ...
- Will New York Help Kill the Electoral College?
Dan Amira reports: "Many people became acutely attuned to the drawbacks of the Electoral College when Al Gore received over a half-million more votes in 2000 than George W. Bush yet lost the Electoral College, and hence, the election. This system seemed unfair, illogical, archaic. Now a movement ...
- Not Justice, Not Victory: Just Another Murder ...
“I keep thinking of how awful it was to hear that there were people actually celebrating on 9-11. Now I look at the TV and see the same thing.” -Family member of a man killed in the World Trade Center of September 11, 2001. The reported killing of Osama bin Laden by a CIA operation [...]
- The Broken Rifle in Kabul
The above photograph, of Scott Schaeffer-Duffy from the Catholic Worker in Worcester, Massachusetts standing beside street art made by local Afghan youth, was taken in Kabul by WRL National Committee and Organizing Task Force member Jim Haber when he was on a recent delegation with Voices for Cr ...
- WRL Organizers Hit the West Coast
From February 25th to March 7th,WRL organizing coordinator Kimber Heinz and field organizer Ali Issa began a three-stop trip on the West Coast where they met with WRL locals and affiliates, as well as allied organizations working on GI resistance, civilian support for anti-war veteran organizing ...
- Iraq/Wisconson Labor Solidarity: Two Statements
In the wake of the threat posed to what remain of labor rights in Wisconsin, and the public’s powerful response, two Iraqi labor leaders, Hassan Jum’a and Faleh Abood, penned solidarity statements in late February on behalf the 26,000 member strong Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions, and the 15,000 ...
- Stepping up the Resistance to U.S. Islamophobia
As Peter King, the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, steps up the U.S. government attack against Muslims living in the U.S., saying that he will “rely on Muslims to make his case that American Muslim leaders have failed to cooperate with law enforcement officials in the effo ...
- Now in the Senate, PAMTA Pushes Forward
Last week, Senators Diane Feinstein (D-CA) and Susan Collins (R-ME) took an important stand in support of America’s health by reintroducing the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (S. 1211). The bill aims to prevent the misuse of antibiotics in agriculture to ensure their conti ...
- New USDA Report Stresses Regulations on Antibi ...
A new technical review by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, “A Focus on Antimicrobial Resistance,” calls the issue a growing public health concern worldwide, stating the misuse of antimicrobial drugs in food animal production and human medicine is the main factor accelerating antimicrobial res ...
- CLF opposes Rehberg amendment, antibiotic-resi ...
The FY 2012 Agriculture appropriations bill, voted out of the House Appropriations Committee last week, includes an amendment that would severely limit the authority of FDA to regulate the use of antimicrobials, including antibiotics, in food animal production-a key concern of public health rese ...
- Food and Farm Policy: this is not the image an ...
Recently, my boyfriend offered to give me a dollar for every blog I started with, “Stop what you’re doing, ’cause I’m about to ruin the image and the style that you’re used to.” I responded to his idea with a barrage of reasons why it was ridiculous and certainly not appropriate in my line of [. ...
- Pfizer will voluntary suspend sale of roxarson ...
The FDA announced today that Pfizer Inc., will voluntarily suspend the sale of 3-Nitro (better known as the arsenical drug roxarsone) following the results of an FDA study which found elevated levels of inorganic arsenic in the livers of chicken fed roxarsone compared to a control group. The ann ...
- Julien Benda: Military mysticism
Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts From The Betrayal of the Intellectuals (La Trahison des clercs) (1927) by Julien Benda Translated by Richard Aldington The susceptibility developed by national sentiment as it has become popular makes the possibility of wars far greater ...
- Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 19, 2011
==== NATO Strike In Libyan Capital Kills Entire Family Angolan Parliament Speaker: West’s Intervention In Africa Targets Energy Resources The Libyan Crisis: The Point Of No Return Four NATO Soldiers Killed In Southern Afghanistan Georgia: Second U.S. Guided Missile Cruiser Visit In Less Than Two ...
- Vladimir Odoevsky: City without a name, system ...
Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Vladimir Odoevsky From Russian Nights (1844) The Fifth Night: A City Without Name Translated by Olga Koshansky-Olienikov “…Not far away from us there settled another colony, likewise on an uninhabited island. It consisted of common peop ...
- Albert Schweitzer: On nuclear weapons in NATO& ...
Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts From Statement by Albert Schweitzer with Reference to the Present Nuclear Crisis in the World (1958) When America had its atomic monopoly, it was not necessary to equip its armies with nuclear weapons. Owing to the end of the monopoly, ...
- Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 18, 2011
==== Libyan War: 11,526 NATO Air Missions, 4,357 Combat Sorties U.S. Seeks To Try Syria’s Assad In International Criminal Court France, Germany Push UN Resolution Against Syria U.S. Guided Missile Warship Headed To Georgian Port “Georgia Will Surely Join NATO”: Italian NATO Parliamentary Assembl ...
- Unbelievable! Court Rules US Taxpayers, Not BP ...
The Intel Hub By Alexander Higgins - Contributing Writer June 19th, 2011 A US District court has dismissed over 100,000 lawsuits brought against BP And Transocean to pay for oil spill clean up costs and environmental damages to the Gulf of Mexico caused by the BP Gulf Oil Spill. The court ruled ...
- Shepard Ambellas: The Ever-Shifting Moon & Tide
The Intel Hub Shepard Ambellas June 19, 2011 In the past few weeks The Intel Hub has been on the forefront of covering the new northerly sunrise, the shifting moon, and earth changes thanks in large part to the great team we have including Scott BUG and others. The globalists have been hiding wh ...
- HAARP: Weather Warefare On RECORD
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- More Troop Movements In CONUS
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- Human Rights Hypocrisy: Israel Vows To Attack ...
By M. Ruppert Editor of End the Lie June 19th, 2011 I recently wrote about the brave men and women putting their lives on the line to bring desperately needed medical supplies and other essentials to Gaza. Israel has illegally blockaded the region and already slaughtered 9 activists and injured ...
- Oscar Grant’s Killer released — th ...
Mistah F.A.B. vs. Revolutionaries – Mehserle Release Protest 6/12/11 video and text by “mezkillercop” on Jun 18, 2011 Slave owners have always used the tactic of using the loyal “house slave” to shut the “field slaves” up. The white owner will always point to the polite house slave and say, “If ...
- Oscar Grant’s Killer released — th ...
Mistah F.A.B. vs. Revolutionaries – Mehserle Release Protest 6/12/11 video and text by mezkillercop on Jun 18, 2011 Slave owners have always used the tactic of using the loyal “house slave” to shut the “field slaves” up. The white owner will always point to the polite house slave and say, “If yo ...
- Grassroots politics flourish in Greek turmoil
As politicians become embroiled in massively unpopular “austerity measures”, protesters find creative avenues of change. Hara Kouki and Antonis Vradis in Al Jazeera  17 Jun 2011 Police fought with protesters attempting to gather in the grounds of Greece’s parliament building as the country’s la ...
- The Freedom Charter of the South African Apart ...
[Wikipedia: "The Freedom Charter was the statement of core principles of the South African Congress Alliance, which consisted of the African National Congress and its allies the South African Indian Congress, the South African Congress of Democrats and the Coloured People's Congress. It is chara ...
- South Africa: “Where is the Freedom Cha ...
Frontlines ed.:Â This heartfelt question from the streets of South Africa, on the disappearance of the Freedom Charter–a central organizing and motivating set of concepts of the historic anti-apartheid struggle–brings to mind this poem by Langston Hughes, written six decades ago in 1951:Â Harl ...
- Announcing the Gaza to Ireland Youth Exchange
am beyond excited to announce that we are formalising a partnership that will ensure one of my fondest goals shall be achieved, that of a youth exchange between the children of Gaza and those of Europe. I am even more excited because we are focusing on the youth of Gaza as well as Belfast and F ...
- One for the Women
It is said that behind every great man you will find a great woman. I do not look at myself as a great man per se, but I do see the greatness of the women in my life, and if I do indeed succeed in my ultimate goals, you can thank these women every bit as much as me. They have played the essent ...
- Samouni Inter-Trade Palestine, Trade Not Aid
Our Mission Samouni Inter-Trade Palestine (SIP) is a social enterprise international trade mission. We endeavour to catalyse the end of Gaza’s charitable dependency through import and export trade. We do not seek simply to alleviate the suffering of the people in Gaza. Our ultimate objective i ...
- Slander vs. Sanity
Lesson number one, the actual agents who direct slander campaigns, those working for MI6, CIA, Mossad and other so-called “intelligence” agencies, they and their tactics are rendered useless without the presence of the most important element for successful subversion, and that would be… the idio ...
- NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE
On Thursday April 21st we shall make a human chain with the children of Gaza to spell out NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE so as to tell the world that Israel’s bombings of Gaza must stop. We intend to remind the world how the children of Palestine are terrorized and murdered by Israeli air power [...]
- Alright, all you Bible scholars: A quiz!
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has a wicked-hard Bible quiz, and good luck to you. And thanks, Sharon, for the link. Flickr photo
- Why all the boys?
The preference of some parents for male children is leading nowhere good, says this Wall Street Journal article. Science magazine writer Mara Hvistendahl has written a new book, "Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men." You can find out more he ...
- Today is World Refugee Day
The United Nations counts 43.7 million people displaced around the world. You can read more at the recent report, 60 Years and Counting.pdf, or you can read more here. Reuters photo
- Supreme Court says no to Betty Dukes
The Supreme Court said no to a massive job discrimination lawsuit. Getty Images
- Check out Rep. Paul Ryan's potential windfall!
Should his budget -- which the Wisconsin Republican has been defending of late -- pass, Ryan and his wife stand to make a pretty penny, given their stake in land leased to energy companies that would benefit from Ryan's proposed tax subsidies. Oops. And thanks, Cliff, for the link. Getty Imag ...
- How Lying, Not 'Sexting,' Doomed Anthony Weiner
Rep. Anthony Weiner has ended his defiance and resigned his seat in Congress after the fallout from his sex scandal. His infidelity was reprehensible, but America is willing to forgive that. His lying they won't.Contributor: Phillip Warlove Published: Jun 17, 2011
- Robin Williams Just One Celebrity Parent with ...
In addition to naming his daughter Zelda after the popular Nintendo video game franchise, Robin Williams has recently appeared in a new Nintendo commercial for the franchise.Contributor: Tom Harrington Published: Jun 17, 2011
- Rebecca Black Removes 'Friday' from YouTube in ...
After being the biggest hit on YouTube for weeks, Rebecca Black's "Friday" video is gone from the site. But Black removed it because the company that helped make the video wanted to charge $2.99 for the surprisingly beloved clip.Contributor: Robert Dougherty Published: Jun 17, 2011
- Factbox: Guillain-Barre Syndrome
As Guillain-Barre Syndrome is a rare disease, many people may just be finding out about it with the recent news of Danny Wuerffel's hospitalization. Here are the facts about this nervous system disorder.Contributor: K.C. Dermody Published: Jun 17, 2011
- 'Green Lantern' Fails to Cast a Bright Summer ...
Critic Robert Denerstein says "Green Lantern" features a bit of humor and the expected noisy set pieces, but ultimately fails to impress.Contributor: Robert Denerstein Published: Jun 16, 2011
- Lost Long-Eared Bat Found Hiding on British Island
Good news for bats in Europe, if not the US: A species of bat thought to have disappeared from a British island chain 40 years ago has actually been hanging out all along, doing just fine despite habitat loss. Biologists found a pregnant female roosting in a pine tree, and say they might be abl ...
- Human Vaccine Cures Prostate Cancer in Mice
It’s a story of mice and men with huge implications: Mayo Clinic researchers and collaborators from the UK have apparently cured mice with well-established prostate tumors with no visible side effects via a new kind of tumor vaccine. And if it works for men like it worked for mice, it could mak ...
- This Week in the Future, June 13-17, 2011
Why are sharks fleeing the U.S.? Is it the digital bomb? The chickensaurus? Most likely it's the magnets. You can win this image on a T-shirt as well. The rules: Follow us on Twitter (we're
- Ultra-Bright Burst of Light Marks the Death Th ...
Cosmic explosion was not a typical gamma-ray burst Astronomers have solved the mystery of a gargantuan cosmic explosion first spotted in March: A black hole did it, by killing and eating a star the size of our sun. A couple months ago, we told you about an unusually bright and long-lasting bl ...
- DARPA Wants Bio-Factories Producing Synthetic ...
Despite our best efforts, humans are still not as skilled at making life as life forms are themselves. So naturally, DARPA would like to take advantage of that skill. A new program called “Living Foundries” seeks to use biology as a manufacturing platform, enabling the creation of new materials ...
- A sleeping sun could have a big impact on the ...
News from scientists in America claiming that the sun is about to enter a prolonged quiet period in its history has caught the headlines this week. Whether this particular prediction comes true remains to be seen, as some scientists, including those at NASA, have consistently been proved wron ...
- Deluge follows drought order
Sunday saw the heaviest rainfall of the year across parts of Lincolnshire, only 48 hours on from the drought order issued by the Environment Agency for parts of Eastern England. 14.4mm of rain was recorded at Coningsby yesterday. This brings the total since Friday to 28mm of rain, more than hal ...
- Flaming June could end up a washout
June's weather looks set to deteriorate further as low pressure intensifies its grip across the UK. The timing couldn't be more awkward for the Environment Agency who this morning issued a drought order for parts of Eastern England. Only hours later, the Met Office issued yellow warnings in ...
- Global temperature update for May
The global temperature according to the UAH satellite measure was +0.13C above the 30 year running mean in May, showing virtually no change from April's anomaly. Global temperatures are slowly recovering as La Nina fades in the Pacific, but remain much cooler compared with May last year, ...
- A truly memorable Spring
Provisional figures released by the Met Office show that Spring 2011 (March 1st to May 31st inclusive) with a mean temperature 10.2C was the equal warmest in the Central England Temperature series which dates back to 1659. Only Spring 1893 was as warm as Spring 2011. Spring 2007 with a mean te ...
- Of Arctic Oil Grabs and Greenland's Independence
Some rich men came and raped the land; nobody caught 'emPut up a bunch of ugly boxes and Jesus people bought 'emAnd they called it paradise--the place to beThey watched the hazy sun, sinking in the sea [NOTE: I almost missed this one, but it's better late than never. Might as well cue up "The La ...
- Zen and the Art of Soccer Moneyball Maintenance
What constitutes knowledge? Questions of epistemology underpin many of the debates in the social sciences--especially the supposed divide between the "objective" and the "subjective": Should we focus on the generalities of several cases or the particularities of each? Are there universal laws go ...
- Belarus is Forever IMF's (Unfaithfully)
[NOTE: It's been a long time since I've had a semi-trademark sing-along post, so without further ado, here's one.] With apologies to Journey: Currency run, amid plunging sums Debts go round and round IMF's on my mind... One of the most insightful books I've read concerning the remarkable durab ...
- Turkish EU Accession or Why I Miss Strauss-Kahn
Well sort of. I've just come from an event hosted by our research centre (LSE IDEAS) on "Turkey In the World" discussing that country's foreign policy. Straddling Orient and Occident, religiosity and secularism as well as several other divides, let's just say Turkey needs to contend with forces ...
- Trichet@LSE: EU as Viable a Currency Area as US
Flashing sirens, extra security guards, financial journalists baying for blood, and the incessant chatter of students and faculty debating the virtues of "EU bonds" and "haircuts": Where else could it have been but at the LSE in eager anticipation of the ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet deliver ...
- 48 Percent Of Americans Believe Another Great ...
Do you believe that the U.S. economy is steamrolling toward a depression? If so, you are not alone. According to a recent CNN poll, 48 percent of Americans believe that "another Great Depression" is likely within the next 12 months. Americans have been waiting for almost thre ...
- A Glimmer Of Hope
If you want to feel better about America, just spend some time in some of the really great small towns and rural communities that are scattered across this country. Over the past several days, that is exactly what I had the privilege to do. I have often written about how the " ...
- Stock Prices Have Fallen For Six Weeks In A Row
Well, it's official. U.S. stock prices have fallen for six weeks in a row. So will next week make it seven? The last time stocks declined for seven weeks in a row was back in May 2001 when the "dot-com" bubble was bursting. At this point, the Dow has declined by approximatel ...
- 12 More Signs That Society Is Collapsing
What we are now witnessing is the slow motion unraveling of America. Our economy is dying, the American people have lost faith in the government and in almost all of our other major institutions, and our society is collapsing. Most Americans don't understand why all of this is ...
- 18 Signs The Collapse Of Society Is Accelerating
As the U.S. economy collapses, the thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted is going to begin to disappear. In fact, there are already an increasing number of signs that the collapse of society is accelerating. In cities such as Chicago, roving packs of young p ...
- 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) ...
- Lies, Damn Lies, and Catholic Church Funded St ...
I used to think the John Jay College of Criminal Justice was a well meaning independent organisation exploited by the Catholic Church into giving credence to Catholic lies, distractions and excuses on the issue of endemic child rape within its ranks. But with the release of the latest dangerous ...
- Vatican Guidelines Just Another PR Stunt
This weeks’ latest Vatican guidelines on child sexual abuse continue efforts over recent years to appear as if things have changed, while actually doing everything possible to avoid being forced to take effective action. The Vatican love to pretend they are doing the right thing in dealing wi ...
- Top 10 Reasons Why John Paul II Is No Saint &# ...
Here is the first part of my Top 10 Reasons Why John Paul II Is No Saint. This list refers only to the child rape epidemic. There are many more issues on which the Patron Saint of Paedophiles has left the world a far, far worse place than he found it, and many instances where [...]
- Catholic Sainthood – More Expediency Tha ...
The former Cardinal Ratzinger, now known as Pope Benedict XVI, may be criminally culpable, disgracefully neglectful, deliberately deceitful, and horribly, horribly wrong in his approach to the child rape epidemic within the ranks of the Catholic Church, but there is some truth to the claims made ...
- John Paul II Ain’t No Saint
Does your idea of a saint involve sacrificing innocent, vulnerable children to be preyed upon by hordes of ruthless sexual predators? Does it involve covering up for child rape on a massive scale? Does it involve creating the very conditions most likely to encourage child rape to flourish? Does ...
- 2011-06-20 Democracy vs Mythology: The Battle ...
TweetWhat is going on in Athens at the moment is resistance against an invasion � and this invasion is being justified with the extensive use of mythology. By Alex Andreou, originally published on SturdyBlog I have never been more desperate to explain and more hopeful for your understanding of a ...
- 2011-06-20 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...
TweetThis is a "WikiLeaks News Update," constantly updated throughout each day. The blog tracks stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks but also follows stories related to freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, freedom of expression, and sometimes the national security esta ...
- 2011-06-19 LulzSec Declares War
TweetPut down your popcorn and grab your battleaxe. You can assist as well: http://t.co/2WuLmMQ Don't be a potato, be a lizard. Everyone's favourite internet suicide bombers have declared war on the internetz. Or at least the "civilization" of it. From their pastebin: Salutations Lulz Lizard ...
- 2011-06-20 Three former members of Polish gove ...
TweetIn a recent issue of leftist daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, three former members of the government discuss a CIA prison on Polish soil that operated in 2002 and 2003. For obvious reasons, they chose to remain anonymous. This article is also available in English. The three (often hilariou ...
- 2011-06-19 #Spain responds to the call, masse ...
TweetAs the protests around Spain come to an end, the signs of weakness shown by the 15M movement over the past weeks: the frustration against the slow assemblies, the possibility of violence inside of the pacifist ideals (violence in Barcelona http://www.europeanrevolution.net/?p=539)or the lif ...
- State Officials Privates Left Sore by TSA for ...
"And finally I said you're punishing me for opting out, aren't you?". And to her credit she said 'Yes we are'.
- The Age of Transitions – Eugenics and Transhum ...
In 1921, the American Eugenics Society was formed and began propaganda campaigns which included the promotion of eugenics in churches, schools, and state fair exhibitions. Funding for American eugenics came from the Carnegie, Harriman, and Rockefeller families among others. Eugenics was being ac ...
- CNN News Crew Threatened By Police in Joplin M ...
We can tell you about some strange things going on here. The morgue, where these bodies are right now, is a secret morgue. And it literally is secret. You call up officials that can tell us where the morgue is an they say it's a secret we can't tell you. Families don't know where the morgue is. ...
- JFK Assassination and Executive Order 11110 – ...
Executive order 11110, signed into law early 1963. Where with the stroke of his pen he took away the power of the Federal Reserve to print the money. He out 4 billion dollars into circulation in 2 dollar and 5 dollar denominations, but all 4 billion was backed by silver. Six months later, like i ...
- NASA Issues Agency Wide Preparedness Alert
NASA recently participated in a FEMA exercise called Eagle Horizon that was a part of a continuity of operations and government exercise that we do annually. And, I became aware of some things that concern me about our family preparedness and I wanted to talk to you very briefly. you know we at ...
- Trekking for Rewilding – Exploring Strands of ...
Text and photos by John Davis Wildlands Network/TrekEast Dave Foreman summarized brilliantly in his latest Around the Campfire why we need an Eastern Wildway and what basic steps need to be taken to achieve it. As a Rewilding Fellow, and co-founder of the Wildlands Project with Dave and other s ...
- Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Rewildin ...
Part One For nigh onto fifteen years, I’ve been talking and writing about a North American Wildlands Network anchored by four Continental Wildways (at first named MegaLinkages). The North American Wildlands Network is rooted in the conservation pathway of Rewilding, an offshoot of the scientifi ...
- Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Rewildin ...
Part One For nigh onto fifteen years, I’ve been talking and writing about a North American Wildlands Network anchored by four Continental Wildways (at first named MegaLinkages). The North American Wildlands Network is rooted in the conservation pathway of Rewilding, an offshoot of the scientifi ...
- Record Big Game Die-offs in Northern Rockies
Winter die-offs are always characteristic of ungulate populations that have exceeded natural carrying capacity, usually because of management efforts to increase numbers for the benefit of hunters. In areas where wolves and other large predators are well established, ungulates seldom perish from ...
- Record Big Game Die-offs in Northern Rockies
Winter die-offs are always characteristic of ungulate populations that have exceeded natural carrying capacity, usually because of management efforts to increase numbers for the benefit of hunters. In areas where wolves and other large predators are well established, ungulates seldom perish from ...
- Burzynski Cures Cancer – The Magic of Antineop ...
THIS VIDEO WILL BE TAKEN DOWN BY THE OWNER ON JUNE 20 2011 Curing cancer is frowned upon big government and BIG PHARMA, especially when the patent for the cure is owned by a single doctor, and they can’t have a taste of the pie. So what do they do? They sick their hound dog, [...] Related p ...
- French Whistleblowers reaveal the set up of Do ...
I saw this over at SGTReport.com and it is worth repeating here. French insiders reveal the reason why DSK had to be taken out. It was all about the missing gold baby. Watch this one explode before summer is out. Gold, The Real Reason for the Fall of Dominique Strauss-Kahn Commodities / Gold and ...
- Greece Yesterday – Largest Uprising Todate
This was the center of Athens yesterday, June 12, 2011. Any questions? More Postcards From A Pre-Revolutionary Greece; Presenting “Goldman’s Employee Of The Decade” Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/13/2011 11:05 -0400 Ben Bernanke Goldman Sachs Greece Testimony Last night’s major anti-IMF rally a ...
- Flag Worship and Voting Ensures Slavery
Many times I have tried to explain to Charles Leblanc, a local Fredericton Blogger, that voting ensures a continuation of our slavery. To further drive this home here is a video from Stefan Molyneux of Feedomain Radio that eloquently explains how we are nothing more than cattle to our leaders. W ...
- Bix Weir: ALERT: The Takedown Begins: Cash In ...
I received an email from Bix Weir tonight as follows. If he is right Financial Armageddon has arrived. ALERT: The Takedown Begins: Cash In Your Paper Metal If You Still Can. Late word out yesterday that the crackdown of the gold and silver manipulators has begun. Kitco, one of the partners in Go ...
- Half-Baked: FDA's New Sunscreen Regulations Fa ...
By: Thomas Cluderay, EWG staff attorney and David Andrews, Ph.D., EWG senior scientist Imagine grabbing a cookbook to find the perfect recipe for key lime pie to present at your summer barbeque. Thumbing through the pages, you locate an... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website ...
- U.S. (finally) Labels Formaldehyde "Known Huma ...
By Paul Pestano, Research Analyst After decades of debate, the Obama administration last week classified formaldehyde as a known human carcinogen, a label that is likely to advance regulatory steps to restrict this widely used hazardous chemical. The... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
- Arsenic Found in... Chicken
By: Press Intern Margot Pagan and Senior Scientist Rebecca Sutton, PhD Did you think you were eating a carcinogen along with your favorite chicken sandwich last week? Probably not, but a new Food and Drug Administration study has found arsenic... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
- Here Comes the Sun, What Now?
By Lisa Frack, EWG Social Media Manager Every year about this time my friends want to me to tell them exactly which sunscreen to buy. They want the one that works the best to protect skin with the least toxic... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other conte ...
- Hey Baby, Your Stuff is Toxic!
By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Scientist Last year I cut small squares of foam from my sons' car seats, our glider rocker and my breastfeeding pillow, wrapped them in foil to prevent contamination and mailed them off to Duke University... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ...
- No arrests in random shooting
Police in Oslo were in the midst of a major manhunt on Monday, after a 35-year-old man was shot in the head at close range and killed on a street near Bislett Stadium after leaving a bar late Saturday night. Police still think he was a random victim. Shocked witnesses said the man, who hadn’t be ...
- More commuter chaos in Oslo
This time it was the metro system known as T-bane that caused disruption and delays for tens of thousands of commuters in Oslo Monday morning, after weekend maintenance projects in the tunnel running under downtown weren’t carried out as expected. Concerns were high that chaos will continue thro ...
- Russia admits nuclear weaknesses
Russia’s atomic energy agency Rosatom has admitted that Russia’s nuclear power plants are seriously underprepared to deal with a natural disaster on the scale of the recent earthquake in Japan – confirming Norwegian fears over northern Russian power stations considered a threat to Norway. Newsp ...
- Flood danger over for now
State officials at Norway’s water and energy directorate NVE have reported that the danger of new, serious flood damage is over for now, following last week’s heavy flooding in much of eastern and southern Norway. NVE officials told news bureau NTB that water levels were declining in rivers and ...
- Official silence on Libya talks and bombings
Norway’s foreign and defense ministries continued to decline comment on reports that Oslo is among the cities where discussions are being held between representatives of the Gadhafi regime in Libya and Libyan opposition leaders. Nor would they discuss weekend bombings reported to have killed civ ...
- From the Bottom Up – A DIY Guide to Wicking Beds
by Rob Avis Wicking beds are a unique and increasingly popular way to grow vegetables. They are self-contained raised beds with built-in reservoirs that supply water from the bottom up – changing how, and how much, you water your beds. In this article, we’ll talk about how wicking beds work and ...
- Tucker for Travellers
by Gordon Williams The Arts Factory backpackers resort in Byron Bay, New South Wales, has just been blitzed by an efficient team of Permaculturalists taking part in a five day course focusing on bringing permaculture designs from the page into the landscape. The Arts Factory backpackers resor ...
- A New Permatecture Toolbox! (From Nikos A. Sal ...
by �yvind Holmstad The goal of permaculture is to reunite man with nature and man with man through design systems, and here patterns play an important role. Still, patterns can only reunite humans with natural systems and with each other, not with the geometry of the universe. Surely in what I l ...
- A Solar Powered Life, Part XIII – Wire and Myt ...
So far in the series, A Solar Powered Life, we’ve covered most of the components of a solar power system. To have a complete system though, you have to connect all of the separate components using wire and fuses. You wouldn’t think it, but the wire used is one of the most important (and potenti ...
- The Timeless Way of Building
by Øyvind Holmstad This timeless book from Christopher Alexander was released back in the seventies, and it’s just as much a book on philosophy as on architecture. Still, the main purpose of the book is as an introduction to A Pattern Language. Alexander’s architectural writings at the same ti ...
- Low-Carbohydrate, High-Protein Diets May Reduc ...
Eating a low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet may reduce the risk of cancer and slow the growth of tumors already present, according to a study published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
- Ministers back binding European forest agreement
Ministers have agreed to back plans to introduce a legally binding agreement to protect Europe's forests.Delegates also agreed to adopt resolutions that would help shape forest policy over the next decade. Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- 40 Most Awesome iPad Apps for Science Students
The iPad has found its way into hospitals, retail stores and homes across the nation, but it�s also making a big splash in the classroom. With a great selection of apps focused on everything from word processing to keeping in touch with classmates,.......Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech ...
- Scientists Discover Mother Monkeys Who Kill Th ...
For any species hoping to survive in the wild, the lifetime to-do list is agreeably brief: eat, mate, defend your turf and above all, protect your young. It's that last one that seems the most primally encoded, and for good reason: it's hardly possible...Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� � ...
- Scientists predict rare 'hibernation' of sunspots
US scientists say the familiar sunspot cycle seems to be entering a hibernation period unseen since the 17th century, a pattern that could have a slight cooling effect on global temperatures. Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- 6/17/11 - Incarcerated Felon Population in the ...
felonvoting.procon.org - NEW: Incarcerated Felon Population in the US by Type of Crime Committed, 1974-2008 - As of 2008, US state and federal prisons housed a total of 1,544,634 inmates. In state prisons, the majority of the prisoners (52.4%) are in for violent crimes, while in federal prisons ...
- 6/17/11 - ProCon.org Wins Top 25 Website Award ...
www.procon.org - ProCon.org Wins Top 25 Website Award from American Library Association division along with TED, Wikileaks, and Google Translate - Thank you to the reference librarians who voted for ProCon.org and who have supported our work over the years.
- 6/14/11 - Prescription drugs advertised direct ...
prescriptiondrugs.procon.org - Prescription drugs advertised directly to consumers sell nine times better than drugs without such ads. On May 26, 2011 the Congressional Budget Office released a study on direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising of new prescription drugs. According to the study, the a ...
- 6/8/11 - John Edwards' 2007 statement on wheth ...
2008election.procon.org - John Edwards' 2007 statement on whether infidelity should disqualify a candidate for public office. We found this quote for our 2008 presidential election website and, although the site has been archived, we wanted our readers to be able to read what John Edwards told K ...
- 6/7/11 - 20 highest and lowest radiation cell ...
cellphones.procon.org - UPDATED: 20 highest and lowest radiation cell phones in the US - All cell phones emit radiofrequency radiation, but not all phones emit the same amount. The FCC has set the limit (standard absorption rate: SAR) for cell phone radiation at a maximum of 1.6 watts. Our upd ...
- Does Addictive Internet Use Restructure the Brain?
Brain scans hint excessive time online is tied to stark physical changes in the brain By Dave Mosher Image: dionhinchcliffe/Flickr Kids spend an increasing fraction of their formative years online, and it is a habit they dutifully carry into adulthood. Under the right circumstances, however, a ...
- Do Babies Resemble Their Fathers More Than The ...
Recent studies do not support the claim of an enhanced resemblance between fathers and their young offspring By John Matson FATHER’S FEATURES? Most studies find that babies resemble both parents in approximately equal measures. Image: © USGirl/iStockphoto Does junior really have his father’s n ...
- A Better Way to Remember
Scientists and educators alike have long known that cramming is not an effective way to remember things. With their latest findings, researchers at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan, studying eye movement response in trained mice, have elucidated the neurological mechanism explaining wh ...
- Leica’s Iconic Shooter Keeps Clicking
Leica MP · $5,000 base, $8,690 as tested Reviewed by Jon Snyder What can you say about a camera whose design has barely changed in half a century? First introduced in 1954, the M series is the German manufacturerâs flagship collection of range finders. Leica M system cameras have long been held ...
- History of water availability in the Rockies s ...
Scott Johnson Dillion Reservoir outside of Dillon, Colorado Communities in the Rocky Mountain region of North America rely on snowmelt to provide water for drinking, sanitation, irrigation, and industry. Snow, which falls in the mountains during the winter, acts like a massive frozen water tower ...
- Frontiers of Science UK-Germany: is sound fast ...
FROM RUTH COOPER, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Last week 35 early career British scientists met with their German counterparts in the UK, for the third UK-German Frontiers of Science meeting. The meeting was co-organised with the Junge Akademie with logistical support from the Alexander von Humbold ...
- Frontiers of Science UK-Germany: is sound fast ...
FROM RUTH COOPER, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Last week 35 early career British scientists met with their German counterparts in the UK, for the third UK-German Frontiers of Science meeting. The meeting was co-organised with the Junge Akademie with logistical support from the Alexander von Humbold ...
- Opening up scientific information: a shared hi ...
There are two parts to the story of the birth of the internet. Networked computers exchanging packets of information have existed since the 1960s, facilitated largely by a government project in the USA. Â Â The interface that allows anyone to share anything with anyone, anywhere – the combinatio ...
- Opening up scientific information: a shared hi ...
There are two parts to the story of the birth of the internet. Networked computers exchanging packets of information have existed since the 1960s, facilitated largely by a government project in the USA. Â Â The interface that allows anyone to share anything with anyone, anywhere – the combinatio ...
- Six academies synthetic biology symposium: eng ...
Synthetic biology can be described in quite simple terms; it is the design and production of novel biological systems and organisms. It is not so simply constituted. Biological research is a vast and heterogeneous enterprise. And so the engineering of biological entities, despite its simple des ...
- Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
- Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
- Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
- Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of child ...
- How sex hormones influence right heart function
WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...
- Alex Jones: Obama is Launching World War III
In this critically important update, Alex warns how the international banking cartel is using Obama and the US military to start World War III. The controllers of the New World Order believe they can achieve their one world government by destabilizing every country in the middle east and norther ...
- 911: The side they’ll never print
The events of September 11, 2011 were a catastrophe that shook the global population by its roots. An inhumane act largely unprecedented in the modern world was unleashed onto society causing a wave of fear and ‘terror’ that would significantly effect the years to come. Islamaphobia increased, r ...
- A British radiographer speaks out against air ...
Anthony Hall is a Senior Reporting Radiographer, holding a Bsc (hons) in Diagnostic Radiography. He is responsible both for the imaging of patients and producing medical reports. He is also one of the radiation protection supervisors at the hospital where he works - ensuring the equipment is ...
- Free Mind Report – Guest Hereward Fenton
This week our guest�was Hereward Fenton http://www.truthnews.com.au Hereward Fenton is a 9/11 researcher and host of Truth News Australia. As a leader in the Australian Truth movement his passion for Truth has led him down some deep rabbit holes. Listen live Wednesday January 5, 2011 from 8P ...
- Hereward Fenton on Live and Let Live (Rule of ...
Live and Let Live, with Gary Johnson (Sundays 8-10 pm CST). Robert Guest, (http://www.robertguest.com/, http://www.dallascriminaldefenselawyerblog.com/) president of the Kaufman County, Texas, Bar Association, promotes Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, LEAP, (http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.ph ...
- Close Encounters With Humpback Whales and Orcas
An orca breaching in Monterey Bay. © Oceana This is part of a series of posts about our Pacific Hotspots expedition. Today's highlights: humpback whales and orcas! Day 3 Yesterday was a spectacular day as we saw some of the most colorful and rich habitats we�ve seen yet! The objective wa ...
- Plastic Bag Makers Sue ChicoBag
© Flickr user doviende. ChicoBag is one of the most popular brands of reusable bags. Their totes are colorful and stylish, and they help us avoid the need to create more of the plastic waste that is clogging our rivers and streams and creating massive garbage patches in our oceans. But in ...
- A Trove of Marine Life in Monterey Bay
This is part of a series of posts about our Pacific Hotspots expedition. Day 2 This morning after we passed the barking sea lions on the breakwater at the end of the harbor, we traversed through fog so thick there were no signs of land anywhere to be seen. We pushed trough swells upwards ...
- Unpacking the Shark Myth: ‘Demon Fish’
Washington Post environment and politics reporter Juliet Eilperin has a new book out today that explores the science and mythology behind the ocean�s top predators. In �Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks,� Eilperin travels the globe -- she swims with whale sharks in Beli ...
- Ted on The Diane Rehm Show
Ted Danson. � Kate Danson Last Thursday Oceana board member Ted Danson was the featured guest on WAMU�s The Diane Rehm Show. He covers a lot of ground in the hour, including overfishing, seafood fraud, aquaculture and bottom trawling. He explains to Diane, ���It's one of those amazing pot ...
- Roman Politics Prior To The Roman Civil War
In 69 BC, Caesar married Sulla’s daughter, consolidating the power of two dynastic families. During his early years when he ran afoul of powerful people he survived because also was a famous and powerful but didn’t have the wealth needed to grow into a political power. [...]
- Hunting With My Father.
Sketch Of My Dad, Marvin Edward Russ In England With 8th Air Force. A gun has a kind of heft and authority and power that cannot be conveyed with words. When you pick up a Colt Python .357, you feel its weight. You are holding a machine that can take a man’s life. The magnitude of [...]
- Who Won Here?
SEAL Team 6 There are those who keep repeating that Osama Bin Laden’s death is essentially meaningless. They are right in the respect that terror organizations like AQ are organized in decentralized cells. So leadership becomes local on the tactical level. One the other hand you have to remember ...
- Shell Casing Chess Set Built By Marines In Afg ...
Chess [...]
- Battle Of Chesapeake Bay
Lord Charles Cornwallis August of 1781. It’s hot and wet in Yorktown. Cornwallis’s troops are inside an ever-widening noose of cannonades and entrenchments, and withering artillery bombardment. General Clinton, in New York, is playing the violin. Meanwhile 3000 colonial militia, 8,000 regulars, ...
- Kennebunkport Republicans Choose Huntsman
Tomorrow from Jon Huntsman Jr. on Vimeo. Mark Halperin is the Republican establishment’s most accurate weathervane: This is the first, but by no means the last, of eye-catching endorsements Huntsman will get from the GOP Establishment, including many with ties to Ronald Reagan and Bushes 41 and ...
- Supreme Court Unanimously Decides Wal-Mart Cas ...
Big verdict today. From CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin: “The Supreme Court has basically said this is too big a case,” Toobin said. “The facts are so different regarding each of the plaintiffs that itâs not fair to Wal-Mart to lump them into one case.” – Toobin: High Court addressed only class size, not d ...
- Grudge Match Anti-Obama Hillary Voter Stories ...
This is as ridiculous as it is predictable. Sure, there are those who hold a grudge over 2008, but the numbers couldn’t elect the mayor in your local town. However, there are plenty of disgruntled Barack Obama voters who think his Republican policies, especially on economics and foreign policy, ...
- Stewart to Wallace: Fox Viewers ‘Most Consiste ...
- The Art and Politics of Fiercely Re/ De/ Evolving
Joyce Arnold is a liberal Independent activist whose weekly column “Queer Talk” appears on Saturday. By now well covered, including here at TM, but because it is so revealing (if unsurprising), Iâm providing this summary of the Incredible Art and Politics of Obamaâs Fiercely Re / De/ Evolving Po ...
- The Moroccan Exception, Act II
CASABLANCA — Ever since the king's speech on March 9, Moroccans debated what constitutional changes were coming. This past Friday, June 17, we got our answer—a modern, constitutional monarchy in the mold of Western Europe. The king proposed a new
- Is Jordan's King Losing Control over the Bedouin?
The Bedouin minority in Jordan has been critical of the king for some time, with some people calling for a constitutional monarchy and others calling for toppling the Hashemite regime. The Bedouin control the Jordanian army and the security agencies;
- Turkey Gives Syria Final Warning for Reform
In a four-hour meeting in Anakra, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu warned Syrian president's special envoy that time was running out for the Syrian government to introduce democratic reforms. "You have no other options but to make reforms. This
- Hamas: Just The Beginning
The Palestinian Authority and Egypt's new military regime are begging Hamas to agree to the appointment of Salam Fayyad as prime minister of a Palestinian unity government. The main reason the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority wants to keep Fayyed in
- Al-Qaeda Leader Killed in Somalia
On June 11, the Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) forces reported killing al-Qaeda member Fazul Abdullah Muhammad, the mastermind of the 1998 terrorist attack against the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that left at least 250 people dead
- Will the Paper Hold?
There’s been some speculation that the Greece crisis will be papered over and life on earth will continue happily forward. And, as long as people in Greece can do without electricity, food, water, jobs, or money, I suppose that’s possible. … Continue reading →
- Coping: On the Road Again
If it’s true that “There’s no rest for the wicked…” then I must be a seriously sick puppy because damned if I’ve had three seconds to relax all weekend, getting read for our trip out as soon as the column … Continue reading →
- Greece: Paper-Over Weekend?
Earlier this week we were talking about the couple that was on I-5, heading north who – after staying overnight just off the 5 and getting back on it – suddenly found themselves on a different freeway and having to … Continue reading →
- Coping: With Fridays at the WuJo
Earlier this week we were talking about the couple that was on I-5, heading north who – after staying overnight just off the 5 and getting back on it – suddenly found themselves on a different freeway and having to … Continue reading →
- The New “Daily Demon”
Reports are all over the place, or 462 news articles which is close enough, bringing the public mind to focus on the elevation of Ayman al-Zawahri to head up al Qaeda. Â In the upside-down and backwards world of four-gen … Continue reading →
- MIND CONTROL 66: The Test
Still on the issue of what type of people we are…… lets look at a different scenario with Jesus. Luke 19:11-28 11 While they were listening to this, he went on to tell them a parable, because he was near Jerusalem and the people thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear at [...]
- DO GOVERNMENTS SECRETLY KILL WITH THE WEATHER ...
It started off like one of those hypothetical questions you ask yourself when you are feeling in a particularly imaginative mood. You know what i mean. Lying down and wondering what it would be like to have super powers, or waiting for a bus and wishing you could hold back a storm that you can [...]
- MIND CONTROL 65: He Who Has Ears, Let Him Hear
In an effort to open our eyes……. It is important for us to take a look at more of the parables that Jesus spoke. Christians believe that the reason why Jesus spoke in parables was because he did not want anyone to understand. This is completely untrue. Jesus spoke in parables “precisely because ...
- ARE WE THE AUTHORS OF OUR OWN THOUGHTS AND ACT ...
In his recent book, “Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values”, Neuroscientist, Sam Harris discusses how science can provide the basis for morality. This piece is not a review of Harris’ diatribe on organized religion and his lengthy thesis on the science of morality. My focus her ...
- MIND CONTROL 64: Pastoral Hypocrisy
Take a look at this scenario: Matt 20:30-34 30 Two blind men were sitting by the roadside, and when they heard that Jesus was going by, they shouted, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!” 31 The crowd rebuked them and told them to be quiet, but they shouted all the louder, “Lord, Son [...]
- No comments on Globe NIH story? Find them here
The Globe's reprint of Michael Crow's story on restructuring NIH was bound to draw a lot of comments. You can find some here with the original Nature publicaton.Crow argues that NIH needs a revamp with a focus on cures and outcomes. So, we were expecting comments like this one: Michael Hol ...
- Back to the lab for Miss Massachusetts
Alida D'Angona, Miss Massacuhsetts and a researcher at Genzyme, did not winthe Miss USA pageant last night. She did, however, help destroy two stereotypes: the nerdy lab rat and the dumb blonde.
- MIT's David Kaiser: How the Hippies Saved Physics
The complete name of the book is How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival. The New York Times reviews it today: Kaiser says his title was inspired by Thomas Cahill's "How the Irish Saved Civilization," and he has a similar aim: to show, with a healthy dos ...
- Ha! The science of laughter
Emerson College is known for producing journalists and actors. And some of them are pretty funny, Grads include Jay Leno, Denis Leary, Andrea Martin, and Seth Grahame-Smith, author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. So, it's only appropriate that the school host a conference on laughter. The e ...
- Pub meet-up tonight and more events for scient ...
Tonight Mike Farzan and his colleagues will chat about communication between viruses and your cells at a Science by the Pint, event. Tuesday June 14, 6:30pm - 7:30pm Tavern in the Square - Porter - 1815 Massachusetts Ave. - Cambridge (There are a couple of Tavern on the Square restauran ...
- Supreme Court Climate Decision Puts Spotlight ...
David Doniger, Policy Director, NRDC Climate Center, Washington, D.C. The Supreme Court today reaffirmed that it is the Environmental Protection Agency’s job to curb dangerous carbon pollution under the Clean Air Act, deciding in Connecticut v. Am ...
- Great green uses for wasted infrastructure
Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities & Smart Growth, Washington, DC The American Society of Landscape Architects has terrific, informative videos on its site. Their latest shows how to make much better use of ‘dead spots’ in transport ...
- What are the health impacts from living near o ...
Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. No one really knows what the health impacts are from living near oil and gas exploration and production sites. Families from California to Pennsylvania,�Texas to Wyoming, and in between,�report�ver ...
- Latin American Climate, Energy and Environment ...
Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile The plummeting approval ratings of President Piñera’s Administration due to HidroAysén’s approval received notice in international press, which was covered, in turn, by national media. ...
- MI Principal becomes tour guide, helps save wo ...
Nathanael Greene, Director of Renewable Energy Policy, New York City When Tom DeKeyser became principal of Whitmore Lake High School in Whitmore Lake, Michigan, he knew he’d have to wear a lot of hats--principals do that. The one hat he wasn’t exp ...
- Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 06-18 ...
Here are the 8 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this slow news weekend of June 18-19, 2011: Granite City IL police are being sued on an excessive force claim in an incident that was caught on camera. However, while both sides insist that the vi ...
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 17 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, June 17, 2011: Overland MO cop sentenced to 3yrs in plea to manslaughter for fatally pushing man down stairs then leaving [0] http://bit.ly/lFQ8ur Plano TX cop sued by woman w/cerebr ...
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 17 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, June 16, 2011: A Kane County IL deputy is being investigated after allegedly pulling gun on a man who was in a car accident while off duty & threatening to shoot him in the head. [...]
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 20 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, June 15, 2011: Mt Vernon NY appeals $315k brutality judgment to cop against cop facing 2nd brutality suit involving 12yr-old [3] http://bit.ly/mrBNnM Williamsburg County SC deputy ...
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 20 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, June 15, 2011: Mt Vernon NY appeals $315k brutality judgment to cop against cop facing 2nd brutality suit involving 12yr-old [3] http://bit.ly/mrBNnM Williamsburg County SC deputy ...
- U.S. Preparations for Korean War Disclosed
Pyongyang, June 19 (KCNA) — One more fact was recently disclosed that the U.S. has been making preparations for an invasion of the DPRK with Japan as a base. The Japanese Asahi Shimbun dated June 15 quoted a U.S. diplomatic document as saying that the U.S. busied itself collecting detailed infor ...
- Russia to veto Syria resolution – Medvedev
PRESIDENT Dmitry Medvedev said Russia was ready to use its veto to block a Western-sponsored resolution on Syria at the United Nations as it could be used as cover for military action. Speaking in an interview with the Financial Times whose full transcript was released by the Kremlin on Monday, ...
- Huge US Marine Corps exercise on entire East Coast
CNN – It’s mid-June, a perfect time to visit the beach to watch porpoises play in the surf or seagulls strut the sand — or you could watch a formation of Marine Corps warplanes darting over the shore at hundreds of miles per hour. But don’t worry — the United States hasn’t declared war on [...] ...
- US Bio-Attack On Germany Warned May Start Glob ...
A chilling report prepared for President Medvedev by Russia’s Chief Sanitary Inspector and head of Rospotrebnadzor Gennady Onishchenko confirms that the E.coli strain that has killed over nearly 40 people in Germany has been “genetically weaponized” and now poses the threat of causing a global p ...
- Turkey to host NATO ground forces
Press TV – Amid ongoing deadly unrest in Syria, NATO plans to turn its airbase in Turkey into a stronghold for the US-led military alliance’s ground forces. The alliance would transfer its ground forces from a military base in the city of Heidelberg in southwestern Germany and another outpost in ...
- TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tech news in 5 ...
Facebook is reportedly planning to invite a number music services into a new ‘Music Dashboard’ feature; LulzSec and Anonymous appear to have teamed up to take on government and corporate targets; Google has been stopped from collecting Street View images in India after police intervention, and T ...
- TomTom replaces Google with launch of local se ...
Dutch navigation device manufacturer TomTom has announced it will drop Google as its main provider of local search to launch its own search engine called TomTom Places, to provide information on hotels and local businesses from its navigation units. The move will see it phase out local Google s ...
- Employment portal Bayt now gives better insigh ...
Employment portal Bayt has just released a few new services for job seekers, improving its search feature, adding a wide variety of tools to improve your CV, and giving you better insight into the Middle Eastern job market. When looking for a job, Bayt users now have several new search methods ...
- Vodafone India backs down, withdrawing legal a ...
Vodafone India, which had sued to one of its customers, Dhaval Valia over his âdefamatoryâ posts on Facebook earlier this month, has now retracted its legal notice, according to Economic Times. For those of you who aren’t familiar with this case, here is a quick refresher. Vodafone India sued ...
- Middle Eastern bloggers unite to fight against ...
Activists across the Arab world are taking to their keyboards in their fight against sexual harassment. Using the hashtag #EndSH on Twitter, bloggers from Egypt, Sudan, Syria and Lebanon are encouraging people to take part in speaking out against harassment and gender violence. The #EndSH initi ...
- Clearing the Air on Climate Change
The annual �Science meets Parliament� (SMP) is underway this week. With debates raging over the carbon tax, representatives from The Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies (FASTS) are highlighting and addressing the poor scientific literacy exercised in political a ...
- Electric vehicles: will Australia miss its ride?
The future is looking bright for electric vehicles (EV) � and their investors. Last week, California-based EV infrastructure company Better Place Australia (BPA) signed a landmark deal with multi-utility company ActewAGL to the amount of $60 million dollars over ten years. The agreement will ho ...
- Renewable Energy Technologies Far Cheaper Than ...
Last week, cost reduction forecasts compiled in a new paper, the Renewable Energy Technology Cost Review (RETCR), raised questions about the technology costings relied on by governments and electricity planners. � Analysis of the report findings by Beyond Zero Emissions found that the cost ...
- Yet Another Reminder: Climate Action Needed Now
The Federal Government’s Climate Commission released its inaugural report, The Critical Decade (PDF), this week. The report serves as yet another reminder of the need to for immediate strong action to start reducing Australia’s emissions. The Climate Commission revisits the often misunderstood ...
- Solar Thermal Shines On in the United States
Another large-scale concentrating solar thermal project is underway in the United States thanks to strong financial support from the Federal Government. The news is the latest example of the United States moving forward with investment in renewable energy. Solar Reserve’s ‘Tonopah’ project ...
- OP-ED: Ban's Second Term: The Case for a Woman ...
Last Friday's recommendation to give the incumbent U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon another five-year term drew the international community's attention to another opaque, non- democratic process that is the hallmark of the 15-member Security Council's decision-making.
- AFRICA: Poor Excluded From Benefits of High Ec ...
The high economic growth enjoyed by many African states during the 2000s have not led to poverty elimination. This is because the growth did not happen in the sectors where poor people work, as in agriculture, or in the rural areas where poor people live, or simply did not involve labour ...
- SIERRA LEONE-HEALTH: Free Health Care Not Real ...
There is a brief bustle and then a woman wails as the small body is wrapped in cloth and set on a cot by the door of the paediatric ward. Nurses in pristine white uniforms continue to pad quietly around the large room at Ola During Children's Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone's capital ...
- Pollution Rising Fast in China's Seas
Rapid economic growth in China's coastal regions has resulted in serious levels of ocean pollution, damaging marine life and posing a threat to humans. As much as half of China's offshore areas are considered polluted.
- Postponing Emissions Cuts Carries Steep Price-tag
If we're lucky, by the time a tough but fair international treaty to meet the climate change challenge is finalised, it will be largely unnecessary. The snail's pace of negotiations certainly gives countries plenty of time to understand the financial, social and environmental advantage ...
- Palestinians Energised by Arab Spring
Palestinian activists are looking to the Arab Spring to bring new energy and methods to their own struggle against Zionism. Generations of Palestinian refugees living in squalid camps in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan have been paying close attention as their fellow Arabs have risen up against co ...
- Why US housing Will keep falling
The Man Who Called the Last Two Bubbles doesn’t blur his opinions. He believes the United States is stuck in a period of plodding growth that will end only with either a massive stimulus program or a 20-per-cent to 30-per-cent decline in the value of the greenback. “I don’t see either happeni ...
- Maori Politicians Placate Homophobia for Votes
The recent attendance of a group of Maori male politicians at the Destiny Church annual conference and their advocacy for the supposed benefits of that church to Maori people highlights the political purgatory that Maori find ourselves in leading up to the November election.
- Harvard Housing Report: Subsidence Problem
A HEALTH check of America’s housing market is bound to be sobering. The 2011 edition of the “State of the Nation’s Housing”, an annual report from Harvard University’s Joint Centre for Housing Studies (JCHS), serves up some suitably chilling statistics. The number of completions of new single ...
- QLD Reconstruction Reports
Could we have the same level of transparency in NZ ? Under the Queensland Reconstruction Authority Act 2011, the Authority is required to provide monthly reports to the Honourable Anna Bligh, Premier and Minister for Reconstruction and make the Reports publicly available online. Monthly Rep ...
- Prepare to Have Your Email Read by the NSA
With a new major hacking incident seemingly daily, the Department of Defense is scrambling to find the right shield against future for attacks. But why hide behind a shield when you can charge onto the battlefield underneath the invisible but ironclad cloak of the National Security Agency?
- Senators Unconcerned About Massive Consequenc ...
This is really no surprise, but the same Senate Judiciary Committee that unanimously approved the PROTECT IP Act, despite worries frominternet experts and major media about how it would break the internet, has now also unanimously approved the anti-internet streaming bill that makes it a felony ...
- Karzai: Afghanistan, US in peace negotiations ...
The United States is in contact with the Taliban about a possible settlement to the near decade-long war in Afghanistan, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Saturday, the first official confirmation of U.S. involvement in negotiations.
- Knights Templar heirs demand apology from Vat ...
The last Grand Master of the warrior monks who fought in the Crusades, Jacques de Molay, was executed in Paris in 1314 on charges of heresy, black magic and idolatry.
- Jewish court sentences dog to death by stoning
A Jerusalem rabbinical court condemned to death by stoning a dog it suspects is the reincarnation of a secular lawyer who insulted the court's judges 20 years ago, Ynet website reported Friday.
- Living on the edge
It’s not unusual for scientists to become excited when talking about their research. But Ken Storey is an explosion of exuberance, repeatedly interrupting his own discourse to head in new directions. Such frenetic energy is paradoxical for a man whose research deals with organisms that can delib ...
- Giving thanks
“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good,” Michael Douglas’s character famously declared in the movie Wall Street. “Greed is right. Greed works.” It was after filming last year’s sequel, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, that Douglas noticed a strain in his larynx and soreness in his jaw. His d ...
- The people’s museum
While the recent major renovations to the University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology (MOA) involved plenty of additions and upgrades to its infrastructure, it’s the way people can now use the space that’s really transformed it. When MOA moved from the basement of the UBC Library int ...
- Opening up
“It has truly been a partnership with reciprocal benefits,” says Kathy Hegadoren when asked about her work with immigrant women. And when the professor of nursing at the University of Alberta tells her story, it’s easy to see why. Holder of a Canada Research Chair in Stress-related Disorders in ...
- Firing up a new social network
The summer of 2003 was as hot and dry in Kelowna, B.C., as anyone could remember. On Aug. 16, lightning struck, sparking a forest fire in Okanagan Mountain Provincial Park that quickly blazed out of control. The Kelowna Fire Department, more familiar with fighting house fires, suddenly faced an ...
- Flood-Hit China Braces for More Storms
Flood-hit areas of central and southern China are bracing for more heavy rains with several major rivers already swollen after downpours that have affected millions and left scores dead or missing. Water Resources Minister Chen Lei warned that at least 10 major rivers in the affected areas were ...
- US: Minnesota Shutdown Threatens Weddings, Muc ...
Fort Snelling State Park - After enduring a 15-month deployment together in Iraq and more than a year living in separate states, Crystal Morales and Derek Cloutier can't wait to get married next month in their dream location, a historical military chapel on the bluffs above the Mississippi River ...
- Chilean volcano's ash clouds ground South Afri ...
Johannesburg - South Africa's president has been grounded by an ash cloud from a Chilean volcano that has been erupting for two weeks. The governing African National Congress said President Jacob Zuma canceled a visit to western South Africa Sunday because the cloud has grounded domestic flight ...
- Monsoon mayhem: heavy rains in Bengal, 7 dead
Kolkata: Seven people have died in 24 hours in rain-related incidents as West Bengal continued to be in the grip of monsoon's fury. Train services in Asansol have been disrupted following a landslide near Kala Pahadi. Meanwhile, the coast guards have been searching for three trawlers and 45 fis ...
- Downpour continues to lash southern China
Hangzhouh, June 19 -- Heavy rains and ensuing floods continue to plague southern parts of China, affecting millions of people and hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland. Latest data from the flood control headquarters of east Zhejiang Province showed that by 7:00 a.m. Sunday, 2.66 million p ...
- Statuary statement . . .
IO9 has a delightful report by Cyriaque Lamar, "Bulgarian street artists turn Soviet war memorial into Superman, Wolverine, and other superheroes". Go check out the pictures. Now, there's all those Queen Vickie statues around our landscape, and maybe somebody can do a Lady Gaga, or Groucho Marx, ...
- The silence is deafening . . .
WHAT ABOUT SYRIA? Bashar and his psychopathic Baathists are chewing up a lot of their citizens, and all you hear from the left or the right in this country is . . . silence. WAKE UP! Right now, we have a reprise of the 1953 East German Workers' Revolt — on steroids. Once upon a time, abuses lik ...
- E Pluribus . . .
WHAT IF THEY CLONED THE SUMBITCH? Be afraid. Be very afraid.
- Maximum Bob's perspective . . .
IT SEEMS THAT MOST who wander into this blog aren't "car guys", which is just fine. However, the automotive business is an important part of our economy: jobs. As we all know, GM and Chrysler went bankrupt and had to be bailed out by the US government.These business failures were a long time com ...
- Strength through Joy Dep't.
DER SPIEGEL has a fascinating look at the best-sellers of German publishing during the Nazi era. Of course, Mein Kampf was a biggie, but according to Christian Adam, who surveyed a total of 350 bestsellers from the 12 years of the Third Reich's existence,Perhaps the oddest of them all was Hans S ...
- Fox Hosts Official From Extremist-Linked Pro-G ...
Fox & Friends hosted John Velleco, director of federal affairs for Gun Owners of America (GOA), to argue in favor of concealed weapons laws by dubiously claiming that "crime goes down" when "a state tries to relax concealed carry laws." But according to PolitiFact, crime data shows no "straight ...
- Fox News Maligns Scientists With Baseless Accu ...
Following the lead of the Heartland Institute, Fox News trumpeted the utterly baseless claim that scientists at the University of Colorado are "doctoring" sea level data to "exaggerate the effects of global warming." In reality, the scientists used a standard and transparent procedure performed ...
- Beck Conspiracy Theory: U.N.'s Agenda 21 Will ...
Glenn Beck promoted the conspiracy theory that the United Nations' Agenda 21, a plan for sustainable development, is a means of instituting "centralized control over all of human life on planet Earth" -- a theory also promoted by conspiracist Alex Jones' website. In reality, the director of the ...
- Varney Revives False Claim That Cutting Taxes ...
On�Fox & Friends, Fox Business host Stuart Varney revived the false claim that "history shows that you get more money to the Treasury by lowering tax rates than by raising tax rates." In fact, virtually no economist believes the evidence supports the claim that tax cuts result in increased fede ...
- Fox's "Doctor" Ablow Dismisses Threat From Coa ...
Fox News contributor and psychiatrist Keith Ablow misinformed viewers by dismissing EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson's statement that limits on air pollution from coal-fired power plants benefit those who suffer from asthma. Indeed, it is widely accepted among public health professionals that pol ...
- Planetsave Reader Survey!!
We've got thousands of subscribers on RSS, thousands of followers on Facebook (yes, that's our Facebook page), nearly a thousand of followers on Twitter, thousands of email subscribers, and tons more daily readers who just come straight to our site or even have our site set as their homepage. Bu ...
- Nabro Volcano Before Eruption {Photo of the Day}
After midnight local time on June 13, 2011, the Nabro Volcano in the Southern Red Sea Region of Eritrea erupted after a series of earthquakes hit the Eritrea-Ethiopia border region, ranging up to magnitude 5.7. The image below shows what the stratovolcano looked like before it erupted.
- Antarctic Creatures Not Adapting to Warming Waters
On the return of the Polarstern vessel of the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) for Polar and Marine Research in the German-based Helmholtz Association, scientists reported that organisms found in the Atlantic region of the Southern Ocean were not adapting quickly to changes in the environment.
- Ecards for Father’s Day (Top Ecard Options)
Ecards are clearly the green way to go, for Father's Day, Mother's Day, birthdays, Christmas, Valentine's Day, or whatever day. Like I did on Valentine's Day, I thought I'd do a post on some top ecard companies for you all. I love ecards from the following sites (probably in this order)....
- Sea Shepherd’s 5th Annual “See No Evil Art Show”
Next Saturday, June 25, is the 5th Annual Sea No Evil Art show to benefit the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. The event will be in Riverside, California.
- How the West Was Lost - Environment/Nature
The American West in Flames Arizona is burning. Texas, too. New Mexico is next. If you need a grim reminder that an already arid West is burning up and blowing away, here it is. As I write this, more than 700 square miles of Arizona and more than 4,300 square...
- Dahlia Wasfi Epic Speech - Global Empire
Editorial comment: This video may be almost a year old, but it does not keep it from being mandatory viewing to all those who care about the illegal and horrendous wars the Corporate-owned United States of America is criminally guilty of fighting in perfectly innocent countries. Innocent that is ...
- Ex-Blackwater guard sentenced to 37 months for ...
Editorial Comment on the news article published below Blackwater employees, Christopher Drotleff and Justin Cannon murdered two unarmed Afghan people and wounded a third in 2009. They were tried for the killings in 2010 and half of the stacked jury (see the Wayne Madson video below) acquitted ...
- NATO of Terror - Featured
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was created in 1945 by the U.S., not only as a tool to advance U.S. imperialist interests, but also to dominate West Europe economically and militarily. NATO’s purpose was to defend its members and to counter any threat from the former Soviet Uni ...
- NATO operation in Libya is collective punishme ...
A Libyan soldier stand on top of a destroyed building at the Bab Al-Aziziya district in Tripoli. (AFP Photo/Imed Lamloum) As NATO attacks continue in Libya, ex US Congresswoman and former presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney went to the country on a non-governmental fact-finding missi ...
- McCain Blames Illegal Immigrants For Arizona Fire
John McCain... who really ought to be content to serve out the rest of his days as the poster boy for Alzheimer's... has taken another step off the deep end and this time he's running his mouth on what used to be my turf and it's the kind of crap that gives honest cynicism a bad name. But it get ...
- Put Wall Street Back On Its Leash: Restore Gla ...
Marcy Kaptur is a catholic-variety anti-choice freakazoid, but on economic issues she's an FDR Democrat to the bone. Kaptur Urges Return to Prudent Banking Standards To Restore Integrity to the Housing Market Speaking at a House Budget Committee hearing (June 2), Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur today ...
- Dispatches from the front: A new fighting spir ...
On Friday, June 17, I got up early to catch a train to get to St. Louis in time to catch the rally to save Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security outside Senator McCaskill's St. Louis office, and then go on to the Missouri Democratic Party's annual Jefferson-Jackson Dinner at the Renaissance Gra ...
- Former Senator John Danforth at Missouri Boys ...
Previously: Former Senator John Danforth at Missouri Boys State: Q and A, part 1 (June 16, 2011) Former U.S. Senator and U.N. Ambassador John Danforth speaking on the stage of Hendricks Hall on the campus of the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg on Tuesday night, June 14th. Former M ...
- Ignorance Always Works for the Coathanger Coal ...
As I've written before, I am not pro-choice. I am pro-abortion. I demand abortion on demand. Anywhere, anytime, for any reason or no reason and for free. Safe, legal, frequent, and none of your fucking business. By the time we get there, however - even if that is in my lifetime - there may not b ...
- ACTION ALERT: Stop the Overuse of Antibiotics ...
The Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act is an ongoing effort to preserve the effectiveness of medically important antibiotics used in the treatment of human and animal diseases. It has been recognized for many years that the overuse of Submitted by Simone D. to Environment �|� ...
- ACTION ALERT: Urge Minnesota Officials to Se ...
Apple Valley resident Michael Fessler is facing cruelty-to-animals charges as a result of an April 15th incident during which Fessler allegedly hurled his wife's dog across the room after becoming frustrated with the animal for defecating inside the Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-i ...
- PA shall require Marcellus gas operators to pu ...
Historically, mining companies have avoided the economic consequences of their operations, often by dissolving the corporations responsible for damages. The result is that the continued costs and environmental consequences have been born by theSubmitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! ...
- Massive destruction of Europes Amazon plann ...
111 kilometres of "Europe�s Amazon�, comprising parts of the natural meandering river stretches of the Danube, Drava and Mura rivers in Croatia could be channelled in a way that would destroy Europe�s largest river protected area without bringing anySubmitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Not ...
- ACTION ALERT: Primates Suffer in Cargo Transp ...
Airlines transport primates packed into small wooden crates to research facilities worldwide, including to the U.S. Some die in transport because of the deplorable conditions of being shipped as cargo. Others endure and survive only to reach a cruel fate Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �N ...
- Contenders for 2012: the Cult of Personality ...
Friday, John Phillips of the LA Times ruminated on the method by which New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will be “courted” and drafted to run for President in 2012. Christie has stated repeatedly that he is not ready for the office, will not be induced to enter the race and is committed to fulf ...
- Blog Roadwork Update!
The new comments software is being installed, so expect some hiccups along the way until the installation is complete. Additionally: I am writing a short how-to (FAQ) so that you can take advantage of the myriad of options and goodies that come with this software. I’ll tell you how to add video, ...
- Barack Obama’s Jewish Problem
Spent the last four days hanging with one of my dearest friends, who also happens to be Jewish. He’s an accomplished man. We had the chance to sit and chat with some other prominent, successful Jewish businessmen and leaders. Several of these guys admitted voting for Obama in 2008. I learned one ...
- Florida Money (& Larry Johnson on Radio Tonight)
Editor’s Note: Larry Johnson joins the weekly Sunday experts panel on John Batchelor’s Show tonight @ 9:30 or 10:30 p.m. ET. (FYI: Batchelor’s show airs nightly, 9 p.m.-1:00 a.m. ET.) Listen via iTunes (see instructions), or go to the show’s NYC anchor station, WABC. Scroll down and click “Liste ...
- Comment Hell
Ladies and Gents, Please be patient. We should have the new comment software up and running by Monday. I’ve been out of pocket for the last four days and have been unable to rescue folks trapped in Comment Hell. You are free now. Best LJ
- Could Magnets Help Prevent Heart Attacks?
A team of researchers at Temple University has developed a safe technology in which magnets are used to prevent heart attacks. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- The Ice King Who Brought Us Cool Drinks
Have you ever wondered who first thought of putting ice into drinks to cool them? Well, his name was Frederic Tudor... Click through to read his story... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- 10 Bizarre Medieval Deaths: Tudor England's 'D ...
A read through the coroners' reports detailing some strange and unexpected deaths from the 16th century! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Tiny Jungles Grow in the Cracks of Madrid's Si ...
Drawing attention to the lack of green spaces in the environment, a group has been creating mini ecosystems throughout Madrid, complete with tiny animals! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- 12 Deadliest Creatures in the Ocean
Twelve of the deadliest hunters found in the world's oceans. How do they kill and what do they kill? Let's find out... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will ...
- President European Commission Advocated World ...
Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International ...
- Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in t ...
- Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare p ...
- Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government ...
- Lollin about at Netroots Nation 2011 #NN11 Can ...
I am working this week at Netroots Nation - conveniently located at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Howard Dean made fun of me a bit for running flat-out back to fetch a Firewire drive with the key new video cut for DFA as the Keynote had already started. Yes Really :-D Good times! Good times ...
- Can Has Wargame, "Southland" Pre-scripting the ...
"Is this real world or exercise??" --A memorable quote from air traffic controller on 9-11 Logistically speaking, how the hell did the West start bombing Libya so quickly? A French/NATO military exercise (aka wargame) called Southern Mistral was scheduled for almost the exact same time. Are war ...
- NASA Fears Nibiru? Why Not? Emergency Preparat ...
Here's an interesting one! nasa is the only federal agency responsible for its people's safety and well-being here on earth and in space - Google Search YouTube - NASA Emails ALL Employees to PREPARE! June 10, 2011 - with lolsome "secret star approacheth" type commentary from jcattera. Hat tip K ...
- CIA Whistleblower on the latest American War - ...
Susan Lindauer sent us over another article, this one turning to the chaotic Western intervention in Libya. It's nice to get a little praise for the post earlier this week: Dashing Wartime Philosopher Bernard Henri Lévy ties Libyan rebels & Netanyahu, lolz at teh Bilderberg conspiracy - and your ...
- CIA Whistleblower Lindauer: Warning: This Mess ...
CIA whistleblower Susan Lindauer sent in a followup piece to HongPong.com and I'm happy to share it! Earlier: Susan Lindauer on the Patriot Act: "When Truth Becomes Treason" - Thuggish National Security Coverup & Grand Jury Mechanisms for Iraq & 9-11 ******** By Susan Lindauer, former Asset Cove ...
- Really, How Much Longer?
I despair for this country. The rich keep getting richer and things like Arizona refusing to pass on Federal money to the unemployed through extended benefits keep happening to the poor. The republicans keep going after the old people because even if some old guy swings a rake or something, he ...
- (EXCLUSIVE) What is Really Happening on the Gr ...
Click this link below to listen to the show: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news/2011/06/16/what-is-really-happening-on-the-ground-in-libya Please join us as we exposed the truth about what is going on in Libya…This was an exclusive interview with Dr. Randy Short who just came back ...
- More on secret black money and the ruling elit ...
Vishv Bandhu Gupta traces the less than honorable origin and growth of black money swilling within the ruling elite underground in an interview with Tehelka (India’s independent magazine // 15 June 2011 Wednesday, http://www.tehelka.com/story_main49.asp?filename=Ws130611SwissBanks.asp) In what ...
- In Praise of Learning by Bertolt Brecht
When this was written in 1931 the Weimar republic had died and Hitler was on the road to power. Brecht, of course, was the great playwrite and poet of the early part of the 1900′s. His poem, “In Praise of Learning” is more important now than ever! Here it is in its entirety!  Study [...]
- Freedom Flotilla Two: Another Massacre Looms?
� On June 21, 2011 some 40 to 50 American peace activists will gather in Athens Greece to join up with the 2nd International Freedom Flotilla headed to Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid and essential building materials. The Americans, have named their ship �The Audacity of Hope� after President O ...
- US Mayors Say: Bring War Money Home!
The U.S. Conference of Mayors has just done something it hasn't done since Vietnam, passing a resolution that supports efforts to speed up the ending of our current wars and calls on the President and Congress to "bring these war dollars home to meet vital human needs." Ask Congress and the Pres ...
- Mayors Tell Congress: Bring War Dollars Home
By Lisa Savage BALTIMORE, June 20 – Mayors from around the world met in Baltimore this week to set public policy for the billions of people living in big cities, depending on municipal services to stay safe. While Congress considered allocating another $118 billion to conduct wars next year – an ...
- Brian Haw Has Died
Peace campaigner Brian Haw – a protest in pictures. Brian Haw, 62, who became a fixture in Parliament Square over the past decade, died on Saturday after a 'long hard fight' against lung cancer. We went to Downing Street with Brian 5 years ago.
- LiveBlogging US Conference of Mayors Debate on ...
Here's the resolution's key language: "NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the U.S. Conference of Mayors supports efforts to speed up the ending of these wars; and "BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the U.S. Conference of Mayors calls on the U.S. Congress to bring these war dollars home to meet vit ...
- Congressmen warn Obama of ‘revolution’ in Dem ...
One of the highlights of the Netroots convention that ended yesterday was a panel on getting out of Afghanistan that included the threat by two House Democrats to work with antiwar Republicans to undermine the Obama war program in coming weeks. Below I'm going to provide some of the back-and-for ...
- Could eating poo-burgers save the Earth?
by Jess Zimmerman. Eat sh*t, cattle farming industry! No, literally, eat sh*t. Japanese scientist Mitsuyuki Ikeda has developed a way to make meat substitute out of "sewage mud," which is exactly what it sounds like. He extracts (bacterial) protein from what is essentially a soup of hu ...
- Military spends more to air condition tents th ...
by Jess Zimmerman. Steve Anderson, a retired brigadier general who was Petraeus' chief logistician in Iraq, says that the Pentagon spends $20 billion a year just to air condition tents and temporary buildings in Iraq and Afghanistan. That's more than NASA's entire annual budget. There's ...
- The Senate likes ethanol slightly less than it ...
by Sarah Laskow. For years, Washington has been really gung-ho about putting corn (America’s crop!) into cars (America’s bikes!), and has supported corn ethanol production with a suite of subsidies. But now senators are ready to say: “With food prices rising, we're not so comfortable with ...
- Climate denier says solving global warming cou ...
by Jess Zimmerman. James Taylor (the Heartland Institute guy, not the folk singer, alas) has discovered humoral medicine. See, the Black Plague was caused by too much cold, after the Medieval Warm Period petered out. (God, why didn't those medieval physicians think to treat it with hot po ...
- 1 million Bangladeshis use solar as sole sourc ...
by Christopher Mims. It's the fastest expansion of solar power ever, says the government of Bangladesh: From 7,000 households in 2002 to 1 million in 2011. Ninety million of Bangladesh's 150 million people have no access to electricity at all, so access to small-scale solar is transfor ...
- Hiatus
‘Farming Pathogens’ will be taking a break while we finish up a book on many of the topics discussed here, including influenza and agribusiness. Thank you for your support and feedback. We’ll be back soon, promise, and in all likelihood will drop a post now and again. Agriculture, disease and ev ...
- Tiger By the Tale
–Landlady… –My name is Rosenberg. –I didn’t know there were Jews in Dublin! She grimaces, palpably, and says, –Yes, there are Jews in Dublin. –Well, then, Mrs. O’Rosenberg, what can you tell me about the Celtic Tiger? Has it bitten anybody lately? –Bitten? –Yes. Where is this tiger now, and does ...
- Marable’s Malcolm
It’s Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution (and he’ll cry if he wants to). But do he and other lambrusco liberals bandying about the term know what revolution really means, or even care? In the first of several posts on food and revolution over the next couple months, I retweet passing thoughts I poste ...
- A Bayesian Market
Found this job posting: Your research will cover any area of evolutionary biology, including adaptation, phylogenetics, population genetics and environmental genomics. You should be using advanced data acquisition and/or analytical approaches (e.g., high-throughput sequencing or other “omics”, B ...
- Fork in the Road
This is the final installment of the ‘big picture’ on global food crises I co-authored with Richard Kock and Robyn Alders. The first two can be found here and here. We learned food insecurity and disease outbreaks can serve as a cover for a particular capital-securitized science tied into spread ...
- Why Bilderberg Is Important
A lot of wack rumors have sprung up around what is happening at the Bilderberg Summit every year. I don’t put a lot of stock in a lot of those rumors; I don’t think, for instance, that they meet to divide up the slaves, and I don’t think that they meet to form instruction sheets [...]
- Why Bilderberg Is Important
A lot of wack rumors have sprung up around what is happening at the Bilderberg Summit every year. I don’t put a lot of stock in a lot of those rumors; I don’t think, for instance, that they meet to divide up the slaves, and I don’t think that they meet to form instruction sheets [...]
- Why did Weiner resign, while Gingrich is runni ...
by geezerpower June 18, 2011 This video is compliments of Ask Anthony Weiner on his Youtube channel. Unlike many Youtube sites, Anthony asks for your questions and allows open comments. I just commented there and, so far the comments are not moderated. Needless to mention there are some derogato ...
- U.S. Dismisses Terror Indictment Against Osama ...
Bloomberg June 17, 2011, 4:45 PM EDT By Patricia Hurtado and Chris Dolmetsch �U.S. prosecutors in New York, the first to identify and charge Osama bin Laden three years before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, were granted their request to dismiss the case against him, more than a month aft ...
- Paul Ryan And His Family To Benefit From The $ ...
. Paul Ryan And His Family To Benefit From The $45 billion In Subsidies For Big Oil In His Budget Think Progress By Joe Romm on Jun 17, 2011 at 12:41 pm Paul Ryan’s budget, which means austerity for most Americans, turns out to mean prosperity for Ryan and his family. That budget, which the [...]
- Times Scare
ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
- Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more��
- Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri Lank ...
- Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more��
- Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more��
- Attritionist Letter #1 – the tides turn, ...
Summary:   With US military forces engaged around the world in the long war, with three conflicts burning at once (on very different scales), the doctrines we choose may have a large effect on American history. This, the first of the Attritionist Letters, describes the issues and the sta ...
- Attritionist Letter #1 – the tides turn, ...
Summary:   With US military forces engaged around the world in the long war, with three conflicts burning at once (on very different scales), the doctrines we choose may have a large effect on American history. This, the first of the Attritionist Letters, describes the issues and the sta ...
- The Attritionist Letters, volleys in the long ...
Summary: Key points of military history are marked by debates among soldiers, usually invisible to the public but affecting the course of nations. Such a debate is underway now about the doctrines by which we wage the long war against jihadists and their allies. With the permission of the th ...
- The Attritionist Letters, volleys in the long ...
Summary: Key points of military history are marked by debates among soldiers, usually invisible to the public but affecting the course of nations. Such a debate is underway now about the doctrines by which we wage the long war against jihadists and their allies. With the permission of the th ...
- Could a new Constitutional Convention help ref ...
Summary: Many people seek changes to the Constitution as a palliative to our problems. Disappointment awaits them, especially if they succeed. Proper treatment requires accurate diagnosis, and even a cursory look at America shows that our problems have a simple cause. Us. Tinkering with the ...
- Vatican kicks out Roma on Easter
Press TV – About 150 Roma gypsies were barred from participating in the Easter vigil of the basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, after temporarily taking shelter there on Good Friday, The Telegraph reported. Local and foreign pilgrims, who had gathered to attend the vigil, calle ...
- Euro strikes 16-month high against dollar
Breitbart – The euro struck a 16-month high against the dollar and the Swiss franc notched a record high versus the US unit Tuesday amid heightened investor nerves over this week’s busy economic calendar. The European single currency hit $1.4653 in morning trade, the highest point since mid-Dece ...
- British pound devalues by 94% in 50yrs
PressTV – A new survey shows that the value of money in the UK has dropped by 94 percent over the past 50 years, which means an 18-time increase in retail prices. The survey carried out by BM Savings has found that almost £1,800 is needed to match the buying power of £100 in 1960, [...]
- Peru suffers an ‘environmental tragedy’
IOL – The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years, a study published on Tuesday said. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of 7,000 ...
- Next step humans? Every new pet dog in Britain ...
Daily Mail – Every new pet dog will be microchipped under sweeping Government regulations to combat dangerous animals. Each puppy born and dog sold will have an electronic chip implanted under the skin. Details will then be placed on a national database accessible by police and the RSPCA. A conf ...
- Cracking the Syrian Regime
This morning Syrian President Bashar al-Assad delivered his first speech to the nation in two months, prompting The Atlantic's Max Fisher to speculate that Assad may be cracking. Over the weekend, Joshua Landis and Syrian dissident activist Ausama Monajed took up the same question at Blogginghea ...
- Obama Disregarding OLC On Libya Is a Big Deal
I’ve seen some folks on the left responding to the news that President Barack Obama ignored advice that he needed congressional authorization from Congress to continue operations in Libya from Attorney General Eric Holder, Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson, from the Office of Legal Counsel of ...
- Real Talk From Karl Eikenberry
Former general and outgoing US Ambassador to Kabul with some real talk for Hamid Karzai: âWhen Americans, who are serving in your country at great cost â in terms of life and treasure â hear themselves compared with occupiers, told that they are only here to advance their own interest, and liken ...
- Libya and the War Powers Act
I’ve essentially become resigned to executive branch domination of foreign policy — the only thing that can stop it is for Congress to actually assert its prerogatives, and there’s no reason to believe it will do so.   Still, the DOJ lawyers were right: the idea that the attacks on Libya don ...
- Could a Turkish Buffer Enable a New Syria?
Almost 10,000 Syrian refugees have entered Turkey over the last several days, as the Syrian government escalates its crackdown on protesters. While this is a large number, the Turkish daily Posta suggests Ankara fears much worse—that a civil war in Syria could flood Turkey with 200,000 more ref ...
- Cities Benefit from Job-Creating Clean Energy ...
For all the complaints about more efficient light bulbs, government leaders on a municipal level see them as a key way to decrease cities' energy use and carbon emissions. Also top on their list: low-energy building technology and solar systems. That's according to a new report from The Confer ...
- Microsoft Doing Its Patriotic Duty
For some time, the U.S. military has been drowning in PowerPoint presentations that make their work more difficult, not less, and lately they've been struggling to find a way out. Over at Wired, TAP contributor Spencer Ackerman tells us that Microsoft is working with the military (free of charge ...
- How Big is "Big Wind"?
There's a debate brewing on Capitol Hill about which bits of the energy industry the federal government should be supporting with tax breaks and tax incentives. The Senate's proposal from a couple months back to eliminate tax breaks for the biggest oil and gas companies did not pass; another pro ...
- Could Republicans Self-Destruct in 2012?
Sahil Kapur has a good piece up at TNR about the Tea Party's plans to go after Mitt Romney because he's not the "rock-solid fiscal conservative" they want. According to Kapur, FreedomWorks, the Dick Armey-led Tea Party organization, is threatening to "uneash part of its $25 million treasure tro ...
- Welcome Intervention
Yesterday night, the lawsuit over Indiana's law to defund Planned Parenthood got more complicated. As states go after abortion access and Planned Parenthood clinics in particular, the federal government has shied away from these state-level fights. But recently, states have begun to defund Plann ...
- When Did the US Begin Sacrificing Freedom and ...
JACQUELINE MARCUS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT In our wildest madness we dream of an equilibrium we have lost.-Albert Camus The other day at the doctor's office, I picked up a typical fashion magazine left opened on the coffee table for something to do. The cover highlighted a young actress ...
- The Wealthy Want to Stop Upward Mobility In Am ...
The other day, BuzzFlash at Truthout wrote a commentary entitled, "The Republicans Want a More Ignorant Population, So They Are Cutting Educational Funds for College and Pre-College." Among the comments on Facebook was an insightful one from a reader named Mario: This is really an assault on t ...
- Republicans are Not "Changing" Medicare to Sav ...
ROBERT CREAMER AT BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT People like me who came of political age in the 1960's will never forget the absurd statement from an American General, that we had to destroy a Vietnamese village in order to save it. That Orwellian proposition came to symbolize the essence of the progres ...
- Protesting Like It's the Vietnam War
PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUTJoin us in Washington, DC on October 6, 2011.We'll be protesting the continued loss of American lives on the 10th anniversary of our reckless invasion of Afghanistan. And we'll be protesting the 10th anniversary of the Bush tax cuts, the symbol of war on th ...
- How Can Some "Christians" Be Filled With so Mu ...
BARBARA SANTEE, Ph.D. FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Over the last few years, the media has been filled with speculation about the assassination of Dr. Tiller and the Tucson shootings. There is a lot of discussion about the divisive discourse in this country that could have led to such violence. Th ...
- Negative science
Negative science – Often the "eureka moment" occurs not in the sense of "I've found it", but more as a "WTF?" Indeed, it's been estimated that more than two-thirds of scientific experiments fail to produce the results anticipated and in one way might be considered failed experiments, or negative ...
- Chemistry news round-up for this week
Chemistry news round-up for this week – This week, The Alchemist is intrigued by a molecular optical illusion and learns of a new catalyst for making aromatic compounds from their unsaturated hydrocarbon counterparts. A new gel has been developed by chemists in China for delivering anticancer dr ...
- Science across the spectrum
Penrose, Escher, back – M.C. Escher‘s famously paradoxical illustration of 1960 depicting a stairway atop an “impossible” building, and made famous recently in a dreamscape of the Hollywood movie “Inception“, that seems to ascend or descend interminably is a good example of how projecting our 3D ...
- Sharing on the global scale
There are obvious differences in quality of life in terms of food availability, access to fresh water, disease prevalence and medicine across many parts of the world. Until recently, the notion of the Third World had a far greater poignancy than the politically correct term “developing world”. W ...
- The return of the arsenic-munching microbes
The return of the arsenic-munching microbes – ChemBark sums up what he sees as the state of S(s)cience with respect to the infamous arsenic-exploiting bacteria reported by Wolfe-Simon et al: "…a study as flawed as Wolfe-Simon’s should never had been published in Science in the first place. The m ...
- Leading Seniors Groups Call on AARP to Oppose ...
Leaders from some of the nation’s most powerful groups representing seniors, including the Strengthen Social Security Campaign, the Alliance for Retired Americans (ARA), the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare (NCPSSM) and the Older Women’s League (OWL), today strongly cr ...
- House Votes to Create Separate Internet, Video ...
Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, said House passage of a far-reaching anti-choice amendment to the agriculture-spending bill could bar discussion of abortion over the Internet and through videoconferencing, even if a woman’s health is at risk and this kind of communication wi ...
- Kucinich Amendment Tests Congress’ Will to Exe ...
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who has led House opposition to the unauthorized war in Libya and filed a complaint in federal court to challenge the war, will again offer an amendment to the upcoming Defense Appropriations bill to cut off funds for the continuation of the war.read more
- AARP: Lobbying Group for Seniors or Insurance ...
The Wall Street Journal reports today: “AARP, the powerful lobbying group for older Americans, is dropping its longstanding opposition to cutting Social Security benefits, a move that could rock Washington’s debate over how to revamp the nation’s entitlement programs.”read more
- Historic Decision at the United Nations
In a groundbreaking achievement for upholding the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the United Nations Human Rights Council has passed a resolution on human rights violations based on sexual orientation and gender identity (L.9/Rev.1).read more
- It Just Couldn’t Be Uglier: Annals of the War ...
Tom Engelhardt Every time we get a peek inside Washington’s war on terror, it just couldn’t be uglier. Last week, three little home-grown nightmares from that “war” caught my attention. One you could hardly miss. On the front page of th ...
- Turkey: The Mideast's Real Revolution
Eric Margolis The revolutions and uprising that have been sweeping across the Mideast are widely believed to have begun in Tunisia. In fact, the first seeds of revolution were planted in 2002 in Turkey, as its Justice and Development Party ...
- The Nuclear Endgame Begins in Germany
R. Andreas Kraemer Germany may well be regarded as the nation where the endgame of nuclear power began. The conservative and pro-business German government proposed a law to switch off all nuclear power plants by the end of 2022. Polls ind ...
- Jim Webb: A Politician Who Distinguishes Fact ...
John Feffer I'd like to propose a new electoral law that would require all Senate candidates to be novelists. If we had 100 novelists in the Senate, the body might finally be able, like Sen. Jim Webb, to distinguish fact from fiction.read more
- Let's Teach About War
Shawna Bethell At what age are young people emotionally mature enough to discuss war as more than an abstract historical event? Eight? Fifteen? Twenty-one? I teach at a small community college, where the number of student veterans is seemi ...
- Interview: Alice Walker on the Gaza Freedom Fl ...
Ali AbunimahThe Electronic Intifada Celebrated American author and poet Alice Walker will be aboard the Audacity of Hope, part of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, set sail this month. Ali Abunimah interviews for The Electronic�Intifada.
- The rebellions of our peoples make us stronger
Ameer MakhoulThe Electronic IntifadaGilboa Prison The Arab rebellions are being created by the social movement — by the people — in all its currents and forces that seek change; in other words, by the great majority of the peoples in revolt. Ameer Makhoul writes from Gilboa Prison.
- Silwan children abducted from their bedrooms
Mel FrykbergThe Electronic IntifadaSilwan Defence for Children International - Palestine Section reports that Israeli police opened 1,267 criminal cases against Palestinian children between November 2009 and October 2010 for stone throwing in East Jerusalem. The Israeli human rights group B’Tsel ...
- Interview: Mazin Qumsiyeh on popular resistanc ...
David CroninThe Electronic Intifada David Cronin interviews Palestinian activist Mazin Qumsiyeh, author of the new book Popular Resistance in Palestine: A History of Hope and Empowerment, on the popular struggle in the occupied West Bank and his experience being arrested and detained by Israeli� ...
- Israel plans to forcibly transfer 40,000 Bedou ...
Jillian Kestler-D'AmoursThe Electronic Intifada A new Israeli proposal that would forcibly transfer more than 40,000 Bedouin citizens into government-planned townships in the Negev (Naqab) desert has raised the ire of Bedouin communities and their supporters, who say that the plan is both discri ...
- Personal Information: episode 24
Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness! Share and Enjoy:Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
- Arguments against life extension
Via Michael Anissimov, here’s a spectacularly empty diatribe against “deathhackers” by TechCrunch‘s Paul Carr. Carr objects to the idea of radical life extension as advocated by transhumanists, which is fair enough, but as written here most of his objections seem to boil down to personal distate ...
- Daddy, where does innovation come from?
Plenty of folk have been linking to this excerpt from Matt Ridley’s new book The Rational Optimist, and with good reason – it’s a provocative piece that plays to advocates (and opponents) of free trade, open exchange, copyright reform and much more. The basic thesis? The one persistent factor th ...
- Replacement arms: mechanical or biological?
Prosthetic limbs are still in their infancy, but there’s a lot of progress being made: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is working with Darpa (who else?), and has a research grant for trying out their mind-controlled modular prosthetic arm on five test subjects over the next couple of ye ...
- How to be a futurist
The irrepressible Scott “Basic Instructions” Meyer has the lowdown if you’re thinking of a career in futurism: Click through for the whole thing. But take it from me, being a futurist is a lot of work for no money. Or maybe that’s just the way I do it… and I’ve never been featured in a [...]Foll ...
- EPA tells POLITICO it will investigate DeLeon
POLITICO reporter Robin Bravender released a story on Friday saying that EPA spokesperson Brendan Gilfillan promised that EPA would "look into" the allegations of the open letter the National Whistleblowers Center released last week. Gilfillan told Bravender that Jackson is “deeply committed to ...
- NWC calls on EPA to oust Civil Rights Director
Today I am writing to Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and asking her to remove Mr. Rafael DeLeon, the Director of the EPA's Office of Civil Rights (OCR). Last month, Deloitte Consulting issued a report on OCR finding that it is essentially dysfunctio ...
- Senate confirms Carolyn Lerner
Last Thursday, April 14, 2011, the Senate confirmed Carolyn Lerner as Special Counsel. This post, which investigates and takes positions on federal employee whistleblower allegations, has been vacant for over two years. I reported here last month about her confirmation hearing. Ms. Lerner has a ...
- Dodd-Frank CLE Seminar on April 28th in Austin ...
On April 28th, Stephen Kohn, Executive Director at the National Whistleblowers Center will host a seminar entitled "The NEW Corporate Whistleblower Protections and Reward Provisions" from 2:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. (CST) in Austin, Texas.�The seminar is at the Radisson Hotel in Austin and is CLE-app ...
- NWC Executive Director will hold an open forum ...
On Sunday April 10, 2011, Stephen Kohn, Executive Director at the National Whistleblowers Center, will be available at 5:00 pm (EST) for an online chat forum at Firedoglake’s Book Salon. The topic of this book salon will be The Whistleblower’s Handbook. For two hours Mr. Kohn will be holding an ...
- Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
- Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratosph ...
The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the ...
- After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
- Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
- New approach precisely tracks evolution's foot ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for exampl ...
- The Many Killers Of The Music Industry: The An ...
The music industry has been around for as long as anyone cares to remember, and not for a lack of trying. Industry killer after industry killer has taken a shot at bringing down this mighty foe, but it still continues to limp along, bitterly writing most of the internet community out of its will ...
- NY Court Says Even Promoting Alleged Defamator ...
Often when we discuss the broad safe harbors of Section 230 of the CDA, which make sure that service providers are not held liable for content created by users, we have commenters who insist that if the service provider does anything touching the content, that Section 230 doesn't apply. That's ...
- Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week ...
Well, well. In the early days of the "funniest/most insightful" posts, it wasn't that uncommon to have a single comment place pretty high (or even win) both categories. However, more recently there's been a clear separation, and I can't even remember a single comment getting into the top 10 (o ...
- DannyB's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
This week's "favorites" post comes from DannyB. Having never done the favorite posts before, I wasn't sure if I should. Since I didn't have to pee, I hope I made the right decision. The best laugh all week was Man Tries To Patent Godly Powers; Justifies It By Pointing To Software & ...
- John Lennon On Copying Others' Music: It's Not ...
Aaron DeOliveira points us to this wonderful bit of historical trivia, involving John Lennon's 1971 response to an article in the NY Times that accused the Beatles of "ripping off" certain black musicians who the band covered. However, John Lennon saw it quite differently: In case you ...
- 83 Reasons to Question Autism Speaks for Hirin ...
The big secret finally is out. Autism Speaks made a radical announcement placing a Big Pharma scientist into to the newly-created position of vice president of translational research. The announcement came as 83 cases of vaccine-induced autism were paid compensation secretly by the U.S. governme ...
- Formaldehyde in Vaccines
It’s official, or as official as it can be: The New York Times reports that formaldehyde is listed as a carcinogen by government scientists, and that “…it is found in worrisome quantities in plywood, particle board, mortuaries and hair salons.” However, both the U.S. government and The New Yo ...
- Vaccination Without Informed Consent Is Medica ...
What would you say if I told you that a European Union country’s Supreme Court says that vaccinations to attend school are NOT mandatory in that country, and anyone who vaccinates another person who suffers health damages is liable and can be sued for compensatory damages?Vactruth.com
- Part 3 of 3: An Interview About Vaccines with ...
Part 3 of 3: Catherine J. Frompovich interviews Helen V. Ratajczak, PhD, who worked in the field of immunology and toxicology. She answers questions addressing the role of Vitamin C, peroxidation of the brain, immunostimulation and Autism.Vactruth.com
- MRSA Vaccine Trial Is Halted, Ends In Disaster
Yesterday Reuters reported US Merck and Co have taken the very unusual step of discontinuing vaccine trials for Intercell's MRSA vaccine. The decision was taken after experts advised the V710 vaccine was 'unlikely to show a significant clinical benefit and expressed concerns about overall mortal ...
- Things I Might Have Missed
I am sitting in the Portland airport waiting for my flight to San Jose and have not been paying any attention to the news. In fact, I didn’t even have internet for a couple days. About the only things I have learned in the last week are: 1. I can actually survive without internet. 2. [...]
- Growing Up Jewish – Bat Mitzvah Edition
It has been ages since I wrote a Growing Up Jewish post. And since last month was the 25th anniversary of my Bat Mitzvah (Fuck I’m old!), I thought it was time to continue the series. According to Jewish law, at thirteen you are an adult. And that means a party.* Of course, being Jews, [...]
- Things You Might Have Missed
Hello everyone. We’re leaving tomorrow for vacation in Portlandia and Alta California. I have some almost finished posts that I should be able to get up, but I might be a little slow responding to comments and whatnot between now and the 18th. Please check out this amazing new project from my fr ...
- Things You Might Have Missed
Hello everyone. We’re leaving tomorrow for vacation in Portlandia and Alta California. I have some almost finished posts that I should be able to get up, but I might be a little slow responding to comments and whatnot between now and the 18th. Please check out this amazing new project from my fr ...
- The Bad Actor Objection
Have you ever seen the movie The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance? My friend @JamesTulsaALL recommended it. He thought the movie addressed some important issues. He was right. For those of you who have not seen it. Jimmy Stewart is an attorney who heads out to the wild west to carve out his future. ...
- آليات ما بعد ثورة اليمن ينبغي أن تبدأ محلياً ...
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- Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should ...
Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should begin locally by Jane Novak After three months of bloody protests, millions of Yemenis remain steadfast—and on the streets—throughout the nation. They want Saleh and his entire regime gone. In Sanaa, skirmishes have broken out between opposing tribes ...
- Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should ...
Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should begin locally by Jane Novak After three months of bloody protests, millions of Yemenis remain steadfast—and on the streets—throughout the nation. They want Saleh and his entire regime gone. In Sanaa, skirmishes have broken out between opposing tribes ...
- Injuries and fatalities in Yemen after anti-go ...
In what may be the bloodiest day yet since anti-government protests broke out in Yemen two weeks ago, residents around Aden are reporting numerous fatalities as security forces opened fire on protesters in many districts throughout the day and evening Friday. Human Rights Watch issued a statemen ...
- Game changer in Yemen as protests swell
In Egypt and Tunisia, the stance of the military was pivotal in the success of popular uprisings; in Yemen, it may be the tribes that are the determining factor. Anti-government protests across Yemen show no signs of abating. In Taiz, Yemen’s largest governorate, many who arrived last Friday are ...
- Establishment Exploits OKC Bombing Victims To ...
- Knee-Jerk No Fly Ban Discredits Global Warming ...
Fearmongering by Met Office voodoo scientists about planes dropping out of the sky contradicted by numerous successful test flights Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 19, 2010 With European governments coming under increasing pressure from airline groups to re-open airspace fo ...
- Air France, Lufthansa Press for Airspace Re-Op ...
Gregory Viscusi and Brian Parkin Bloomberg April 19, 2010 Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air France- KLM Group and industry groups pressed European governments to loosen the unprecedented closing of the region’s airspace from last week’s Icelandic volcanic eruption as losses from the grounding of aircra ...
- NPR and CNN worry that Global Warming may have ...
John Lott’s Website April 19, 2010 This is just too bizarre: Diana Rehm (NPR): We do wonder whether there’s human involvement in all of these eruptions, earthquakes, storms - Elise Labott (senior State Department producer for CNN): – and how much global warming has a role in it. You know we’ve ...
- Poll: Americans’ distrust of federal governmen ...
Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers April 19, 2010 Already wary of the federal government, Americans have grown even more critical, less trusting and even fearful of Uncle Sam since President Barack Obama took office, according to an exhaustive new study being released Monday. The in-depth poll f ...
- Global Climate Talks "Dead in the Water": Form ...
In case you had any hopes of the deep political divisions being bridged by the time COP17 rolls around in six months time and a global deal to aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions being reached this time around, new analysis over at Reuters says you should abandon those hopes. Th ...
- Be Kind to Your Fellow Commuters
Photo: tfl Public transport is great. When it's good it is fast, easy, stress-free, you can get a seat and withdraw into your own world. And when it's bad: rude, nasty, pushy, smelly, etc. etc. But artist Michael Landy is out to improve the civility on subways. Starting now, he is enco ...
- Cicada Ice Cream Proves We Need More Informati ...
Image: gardener41/CC Cicada ice cream made a big buzz on the web this week. While misinformation flooded the net blaming the health department for shutting down Sparky's newest flavor, TreeHugger's Bonnie gave you the straight dope: the Columbia, Missouri based homemade ice cream shop chose ...
- Paris Celebrates a Decade of Bringing the Beac ...
Photo: Julien Houbrechts under a Creative Commons license. Common knowledge has it that in the summer months, especially August, the only people you can find in Paris are tourists, as the locals flee the hot, crowded capital for the Cote d'Azur, Brittany or Normandy, or go farther afield. B ...
- Artist For Humanity Youth Develop Plastic Bag ...
ReVision bar stool made with 200 plastic bags. Photo: courtesy Artists of Humanity From Artists of Humanity comes an innovative design that turns more than 200 plastic shopping, dry-cleaning or newspaper bags into a colorful plastic bar stool, called "ReVision." Made by inner-city youth ...
- FDA approves Rituxan to treat two rare disorders
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Rituxan (rituximab), in combination with glucocorticoids (steroids), to treat patients with Wegener’s granulomatosis (WG) and microscopic polyangiitis (MPA), two rare disorders that cause blood vessel inflammation (vasculitis). Vasculitis in p ...
- The Link Between Chickenpox and Shingles
Just before Christmas a few years ago, Richard DiCarlo, MD, woke up in the night with burning pain on his left side. Turning on a light, he saw a row of red bumps and knew immediately that he had shingles, also known as zoster, caused by the reactivation of the chickenpox virus, dormant since a ...
- New biosensor microchip could speed up drug de ...
Stanford researchers have developed a new biosensor microchip that could significantly speed up the process of drug development. The microchips, packed with highly sensitive “nanosensors,” analyze how proteins bind to one another, a critical step for evaluating the effectiveness and possible sid ...
- Exploiting the stress response to detonate mit ...
Researchers at The Wistar Institute have found a new way to force cancer cells to self-destruct. Low doses of one anti-cancer drug currently in development, called Gamitrinib, sensitize tumor cells to a second drug, called TRAIL, also currently in clinical development as part of an anticancer re ...
- Future Biology
- Weekend wrapup
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. Instead we’re ramping it up.Combat operations have concluded for:Marine Sgt. Mark A. Bradley, 25, of Cuba, NY.Army Pvt. Ryan J. Larson, 1 ...
- 'No On SB 5': Drive-in petition signing in War ...
9:00 AM - 5:00 PMLebanon: Drive-Thru Petition Signing eventWhere:1975 N State Route 42. Lebanon, OH 45036Warren County Democratic Party Headquarters¼ mi. south of the intersection of Utica Rd. and Rt. 42.6 miles north of the intersection of Rt. 42 and Rt. 48.From local activist athenap:We’re ha ...
- 'No On SB 5': Final weeks of the petition drive
The first phase of the effort to overturn John Kasich’s union busting law is almost complete. Last night I attended a meeting of local activists that has been getting together regularly throughout the process, and was filled in on some of the details. None of it was for official publication so ...
- Facebook puts even more of your life out there ...
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post“If you aren’t paying for it, you are not the customer; you’re the product being sold.” - blue_beetleOn Tuesday it was reported that Facebook had enabled facial recognition of its photos. Facebook already has a long history of be ...
- Weekend wrapup
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Sgt. Jeffrey C. S. Sherer, 29, of Four Oaks, NC.Army Spc. Richard C. Emmons III, 22, of North Gra ...
- Wildlife Refuges to be Planted with GMOs
It is becoming increasingly difficult to find animals that haven't been force-fed GMO grain. To top it all off, even Alfalfa, which is a staple cattle feed in America, will be genetically engineered thanks to Land O' Lakes, Forage Genetics and Monsanto. But that isn't enough for this administra ...
- Scotts Miracle-Gro Wants to Get in on the Mar ...
Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. has long sold weed killer. Now, it's hoping to help people grow killer weed.Click here to read this article
- Top Court Sides with Wal-Mart in Sexual Discri ...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court blocked the largest sexual-discrimination lawsuit ever from proceeding as a class action on Monday, handing a victory to Wal-Mart in a case that pitted the massive retailer against millions of its female employees.Click here to read this article
- A Quick Fix to the Food Crisis: Curbing Biofuels
When food prices rose steeply in 2007 and climaxed in the winter of 2008, politicians and the press decried the impact on the billion or so people who were already going hungry.Click here to read this article
- Should Wealth Be Held by the Few or Everyone? ...
While "Europe's slow-motion financial collapse" - as Mother Jones magazine described it in a June 6 article - continues apace, Spain, like other European states continues to implement anti-social/neo-liberal policies in the face of strong opposition from the citizenry.Click here to read this article
- Now in the Senate, PAMTA Pushes Forward
Last week, Senators Diane Feinstein (D-CA) and Susan Collins (R-ME) took an important stand in support of America’s health by reintroducing the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (S. 1211). The bill aims to prevent the misuse of antibiotics in agriculture to ensure their conti ...
- New USDA Report Stresses Regulations on Antibi ...
A new technical review by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, “A Focus on Antimicrobial Resistance,” calls the issue a growing public health concern worldwide, stating the misuse of antimicrobial drugs in food animal production and human medicine is the main factor accelerating antimicrobial res ...
- CLF opposes Rehberg amendment, antibiotic-resi ...
The FY 2012 Agriculture appropriations bill, voted out of the House Appropriations Committee last week, includes an amendment that would severely limit the authority of FDA to regulate the use of antimicrobials, including antibiotics, in food animal production-a key concern of public health rese ...
- Food and Farm Policy: this is not the image an ...
Recently, my boyfriend offered to give me a dollar for every blog I started with, “Stop what you’re doing, ’cause I’m about to ruin the image and the style that you’re used to.” I responded to his idea with a barrage of reasons why it was ridiculous and certainly not appropriate in my line of [. ...
- Pfizer will voluntary suspend sale of roxarson ...
The FDA announced today that Pfizer Inc., will voluntarily suspend the sale of 3-Nitro (better known as the arsenical drug roxarsone) following the results of an FDA study which found elevated levels of inorganic arsenic in the livers of chicken fed roxarsone compared to a control group. The ann ...
- Two million Fukushima residents to undergo rad ...
ShareThisTwo million Fukushima residents to undergo radiation health checks 20 Jun 2011 More than two million residents living in the region surrounding Japan's damaged nuclear power plant will undergo longterm health checks starting from this month. The health of residents in Fukushima prefectu ...
- NATO admits to civilian deaths in Tripoli air ...
ShareThisNATO admits to civilian deaths in Tripoli air strike 19 Jun 2011 NATO admitted it carried out an air strike that killed civilians in Tripoli on Sunday. Early on Sunday, Libyan officials took reporters to a residential area in Tripoli's Souq al-Juma district where the reporters saw sever ...
- Israel navy chief demands flotilla cancellation
ShareThisIsrael navy chief demands flotilla cancellation 20 Jun 2011 Israel's navy chief called Sunday for international powers to halt the progress of the Freedom Flotilla II, a sea convoy of at least 10 ships setting sail for the Gaza Port. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz confirmed that the navy ...
- BP Wins a Big One in Oil Spill Litigation
ShareThisBP Wins a Big One in Oil Spill Litigation 17 Jun 2011 Ruling in favor of Transocean and BP, a federal judge on Thursday dismissed third-party environmental claims in a giant pleading bundle in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill litigation, saying the fact that the oil flow has stopped make ...
- Missing Iraq cash 'as high as $18bn'
ShareThisMissing Iraq cash 'as high as $18bn' --The Bush�regime flew in a total of $20bn in cash into the country in 2004. Iraq's parliament speaker tells Al Jazeera unaccounted reconstruction money is three times the reported $6.6bn. 19 Jun 2011 Osama al-Nujaifi, the Iraqi parliament speaker, h ...
- VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
Part 2: Dissecting the Universal Flu Vaccine (continued from Part 1: Dissecting the Seasonal influenza Vaccine) To fully unravel the Biondvax Universal Flu Vaccine scandal, a top down approach is necessary. Professor Ruth Arnon, Ph.D, is the official “inventor of BiondVaxâs innovative synthetic ...
- VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
Part 2: Dissecting the Universal Flu Vaccine (continued from Part 1: Dissecting the Seasonal influenza Vaccine) To fully unravel the Biondvax Universal Flu Vaccine scandal, a top down approach is necessary. Professor Ruth Arnon, Ph.D, is the official “inventor of BiondVaxâs innovative synthetic ...
- VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
“The first century or two of the new millennium will almost certainly be a golden age for eugenics. Through application of new genetic knowledge and reproductive technologies the major change will be to mankind itself. Techniques such as genetic manipulations are not yet efficient enough t ...
- VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
“The first century or two of the new millennium will almost certainly be a golden age for eugenics. Through application of new genetic knowledge and reproductive technologies the major change will be to mankind itself. Techniques such as genetic manipulations are not yet efficient enough t ...
- VRM: L-Histidine, Squaline, & Human Chorionic ...
“Vaccination is a monstrosity, a misbegotten offspring of error and ignorance; it should have no place in either hygiene or medicine. Believe not in vaccination, it is a world wide delusion, an unscientific practice, a fatal superstition with consequences measured today by tears and sorrow ...
- You Know You're Getting Old When...
A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.� A cute little luxury fe ...
- Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for.�If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditioner ...
- Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
- Strawberry Picking
Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
- Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal f ...
- Tories would rather shut down the CBC than ans ...
This is a video that should be watched widely. These are Harper voters.
- Watch out for election day fraud
Francis Fox Piven (who has had her own experiences recently with Harper's US mentors) and Richard Cloward wrote a very interesting book called "Why Americans Don't Vote", which showed how a key electoral strategy in the US has always been demobilizing opposing voters, a strategy just as importan ...
- Today's election thoughts
Today's election thoughts, and a couple of photos. Jon Elmer sent me this amusing Vintage Voter site. Vincent Pang sent me this photo album of protests against Harper's second proroguing back in 2010. read more
- 36% is apparently a majority, but not for a wh ...
The daily polling is suspicious. Every day the media publishes what the electoral outcome is going to be. And every day it changes. They keep saying there's going to be a Harper majority. Saying it won't make it so, but it might contribute to it. Earlier today I saw an article on CityTV.ca throu ...
- Canadians are annoyed - deliberation vs. engin ...
Pollsters now get people to press buttons about how they are feeling as they watch debates, and have discovered that Canadians are annoyed. This then feeds back to politicians, who try to, presumably, be less annoying, or, perhaps, try to blame other politicians for the annoyance. read more
- Global Climate Talks "Dead in the Water": Form ...
In case you had any hopes of the deep political divisions being bridged by the time COP17 rolls around in six months time and a global deal to aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions being reached this time around, new analysis over at Reuters says you should abandon those hopes. Th ...
- Be Kind to Your Fellow Commuters
Photo: tfl Public transport is great. When it's good it is fast, easy, stress-free, you can get a seat and withdraw into your own world. And when it's bad: rude, nasty, pushy, smelly, etc. etc. But artist Michael Landy is out to improve the civility on subways. Starting now, he is enco ...
- Cicada Ice Cream Proves We Need More Informati ...
Image: gardener41/CC Cicada ice cream made a big buzz on the web this week. While misinformation flooded the net blaming the health department for shutting down Sparky's newest flavor, TreeHugger's Bonnie gave you the straight dope: the Columbia, Missouri based homemade ice cream shop chose ...
- Paris Celebrates a Decade of Bringing the Beac ...
Photo: Julien Houbrechts under a Creative Commons license. Common knowledge has it that in the summer months, especially August, the only people you can find in Paris are tourists, as the locals flee the hot, crowded capital for the Cote d'Azur, Brittany or Normandy, or go farther afield. B ...
- Artist For Humanity Youth Develop Plastic Bag ...
ReVision bar stool made with 200 plastic bags. Photo: courtesy Artists of Humanity From Artists of Humanity comes an innovative design that turns more than 200 plastic shopping, dry-cleaning or newspaper bags into a colorful plastic bar stool, called "ReVision." Made by inner-city youth ...
- Bahrain government lifts ban on opposition party
[JURIST] The Justice Ministry of Bahrain [BBC backgrounder] announced Saturday that the government will be take action to lift the ban on the leading opposition party, the National Democratic Action Society [website]. The leftist opposition party, known as Waad and aligned with the largest Shi'i ...
- Greece PM proposes constitutional referendum
[JURIST] Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou [official website] on Sunday, while delivering opening remarks to a three-day session of the Greek Parliament [official website, in Greek], proposed undertaking a constitutional referendum. Papandreou suggested a fall referendum [AP report], arguin ...
- Former Tunisia president denies allegations be ...
[JURIST] The lawyer representing former Tunisian president Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] on Sunday denied the numerous charges facing his client, which range from murder and conspiracy to drug use. Ben Ali's trial in absentia before civilian and military courts is se ...
- North Carolina passes bill requiring use of E- ...
[JURIST] The North Carolina House of Representatives [official website] on Saturday voted 67-45 to pass a bill [HB 36 text, PDF; materials] requiring all employers with 25 or more employees to check the immigration status of their hires using the E-Verify [official website] system. The bill woul ...
- Missouri governor vetoes voter ID legislation
[JURIST] Missouri Governor Jay Nixon [official website] vetoed legislation [SB 3 text, PDF; materials] on Friday that would have required individuals to present government-issued photo ID cards [JURIST news archive] at the voting booth. Proponents of the legislation argued [St. Louis Times repor ...
- Have Dems Found Their Man to Defeat Paul Ryan?
In a Wisconsin district that voted for Obama, former small businessman Rob Zerban steps up Democrats see the proposal by House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) to revamp Medicare as their ticket to taking back the House. And one of the 24 seats they believe is well within play i ...
- Obama's Bush-Like Approach to Executive Power
The president's reasons for skirting the War Powers Act sound a lot like those of his predecessor's justifications for torture Over the weekend, I got the chance to ask a panel of former executive-branch lawyers the question that's been bugging me. In 2002, the Bush administration really, rea ...
- The Hubris of Barack W. Obama
He rose to the presidency insisting that process matters. On Libya, he's shown contempt for it. Barack Obama appealed to some voters in 2008 because he seemed to understand that process matters. His predecessor, George W. Bush, felt tremendous pressure to prevent another terrorist a ...
- Bobby Jindal: Attacks on Obama Hurt the Right
The Louisiana governor is correct: Republicans are distracting themselves with ad hominem absurdities When Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal spoke to the Republican Leadership Conference over the weekend, he argued that the right should oppose President Obama without hating him. "We as Republicans ...
- Sarah Palin® Trademarks Her Name
A few months ago, an attorney for Sarah and Bristol Palin put in an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to trademark their names. (One of many things that suggests that profit, and not the presidency, is what's motivating Palin.) For Sarah Palin, the intent was a little less cl ...
- Israel Rewards Ukraine for Collaborating on Ab ...
In prior coverage here, I noted that at almost precisely the same time the Mossad, Ukrainian and Jordanian intelligence services were collaborating to kidnap Palestinian civil engineer Dirar Abusisi and bring him to Israel, Israel and Ukraine were negotiating major new trade deals that were espe ...
- Revenge of the Nerds: Bibi Demands Dagan Retur ...
Maariv and Channel 2 News in Israel are reporting that Bibi and Barak are wreaking their revenge on Meir Dagan in ways large and small, for breaking with them and almost single-handedly preventing an Israeli attack on Iran. Â It is customary for retiring senior government figures with diplomatic ...
- Robert Gates, America’s Dagan, Prevented U.S. ...
Robert Gates, preparing to step down from his job as secretary of defense, has spoken for the first time about his severe doubts about the U.S. wars in Iraq & Afghanistan. Â Gates is reputed to have also opposed U.S. support for the Libya intervention. What struck me especially in this article w ...
- Nakba: They Will Return
I’m shamelessly ripping off a deeply moving photo-poetry collage by Patrick McManus, one of my Facebook friends, which I came across in my online wanderings. Â The poem exquisitely echoes the photograph: Abu Salma: We Will Return (1951) Beloved Palestine, how do I sleep while the spectrum of tor ...
- Top Ten Fun Names for IDF Interdiction Operati ...
I offer the following in the spirit of hangman’s humor preceding what I hope will be a safe passage for all my friends on the various boats of the Gaza flotilla. The IDF, like all military organizations gives names to every operation it executes. Â Its planned piracy on the high seas against the ...
- How loss relates to success and happiness
By: Charlie_Badenhop I was sitting around having dinner with a few friends, about a month after the big earthquake and tsunami up north of Tokyo. "Now is the time for the Japanese people to show their true spirit," Suzuki-san said. "You never really know t ...
- Creating work that feeds the planet
By: greentarra "Our calling is where our deepest gladness and the world’s hunger meet." Frederick Buechner, theologian Do you feel a calling to create meaningful work that feeds your soul and the planet? There is no greater legacy than sharing your unique ...
- Choosing happiness over unhappiness
By: ruchiraa The other day I came across the quotation, "Happiness is a state of mind." Though I agree, I think it is a state of mind that needs to be fed and nurtured regularly. After all, we are human beings and thus have feelings that tend to fluctuate. Some ...
- Robert Aitken Roshi's original peace
By: PeaceCorso Robert Baker Dairyu Chotan Aitken Roshi (June 19, 1917 - August 5, 2010) was a Zen teacher in the Harada-Yasutani lineage. He co-founded the Honolulu Diamond Sangha in 1959 together with his wife. Aitken received Dharma transmission from Koun Yam ...
- Around the world on rubbish
By: Samuel Rosenzweig When Ode’s managing editor Marco Visscher announced that he would be taking a sabbatical to travel the country with his family, a few heads turned. Not just because Marco would be leaving his San Francisco post to return to the Netherlands ...
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