21 June - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

OpEd News

• How to regain trust in a marriage after an affair
  Trying to restore trust in a marital relationship following infidelity is very difficult. This article offers some helpful tips.
• Anthony Weiner RESIGNED! Wait, what about VITTER?
  Anthony Weiner RESIGNED! Which goes to show you that you can't get away with that type of stuff in America!
• Twenty Questions, Stupid
  There seems to be no end to questions leading in "stupid"...
• Bloombergvilles of the Future
  We're years behind Tunisia and Egypt in public understanding of how government of, by, and for the people works, but some in the United States have been inspired and begun forming a path that has real potential. In New York City, students, academics, activists, and workers have joined together t ...
• Weiner-Gate; A Symptom of Flaccid Democrat Syn ...
  It's hard not to get sucked into the swirling Weiner language. So I'll go with the flow. Here's are the two primary definitions of FLACCID from dictionary.com : 1. soft and limp; not firm; flabby: flaccid biceps. 2.lacking force; weak: flaccid prose. I think that both definitions a ...

Switchboard

• What are the health impacts from living near o ...
  Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. No one really knows what the health impacts are from living near oil and gas exploration and production sites. Families from California to Pennsylvania,�Texas to Wyoming, and in between,�report�ver ...
• Latin American Climate, Energy and Environment ...
  Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile The plummeting approval ratings of President Piñera’s Administration due to HidroAysén’s approval received notice in international press, which was covered, in turn, by national media.  ...
• MI Principal becomes tour guide, helps save wo ...
  Nathanael Greene, Director of Renewable Energy Policy, New York City When Tom DeKeyser became principal of Whitmore Lake High School in Whitmore Lake, Michigan, he knew he’d have to wear a lot of hats--principals do that. The one hat he wasn’t exp ...
• Historic hazardous waste loophole bill passes ...
  Kate Sinding, Senior Attorney, New York City Yesterday afternoon, the NYS Assembly passed first-of-its-kind in the nation legislation to close a gaping loophole in state law favoring the oil and gas industry.� The bill - sponsored by Assembly Envi ...
• A Groundbreaking Agreement Preserves A Vast Re ...
  Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City On Thursday, the Manitoba provincial government and the Poplar River First Nation put the final touches on a tremendous conservation victory: legislation to preserve an area the size of Yellowstone N ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• “Propagandistic writing of this kind can ...
  I will say this for Hitch; when he gets something in his wheelhouse, he can still nail it. The most salient thing about profiles of Mamet’s “courageous” conversion to wingnuttery is that combined they have yet to identify a single interesting thing this (very great) playwright has ever said abou ...
• You’re Entitled to Your Own Opinion, But ...
  Becker does seem to forget this from time to time.
• Clarence Clemons 1942 – 2011
  Though we could sort of see it coming, Damn.
• Judicial Ethics
  If Clarence Thomas were a Democrat, it’s not too difficult to imagine that this would result in a Congressional inquiry.  Combined with the involvement of Virginia Thomas in Liberty Central, there’s just enough smoke here to suspect some sort of ethically-challenged inferno. Certainly more smok ...
• Even this doggerel that pours from my pen
  Has just been written by another twenty telepathic men. A question that interests me is, how many of the 21 GOP representatives who signed this letter actually have doubts about the constitutionality of bills signed by a presidential auto pen? As a legal matter, the claim that such a practice is ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• Electric Powerboard Ready To Launch
  A new product called the Scarpar lets riders hit speeds over 25 miles per hour on what resembles an all-terrain electric snowboard.
• Large Solar Project Planned By McGraw-Hill
  McGraw-Hill, along with NJRCEV, plans to install fully in New Jersey by 2012 a 14.1 MW capacity solar project on the book publisher's campus.
• Clean Energy Feed-In Tariffs Occur In UK
  The UK's new feed-in tariffs reportedly will make it more affordable to implement large scale solar schemes and anaerobic digestion installations.
• LEED Gold Goes To NY Community College
  Westchester Community College's Gateway Center -- including classrooms and language labs for ESL learners -- has taken LEED Gold certification for green practices.
• British Electric Cars Begin Testing Phase
  Four different electric vehicles are being tested under a twelve month program in the UK that is being funded by the government.

National Law Journal | U.S.

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

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

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

environment 360

• Forum: Just How Safe Is ‘Fracking’ of Natural ...
  New technologies for freeing natural gas from underground shale formations have led to a hydraulic fracturing boom across the U.S. that is now spreading to other countries. In a Yale Environment 360 forum, eight experts discuss whether “fracking” can be done without serious harm to water and ai ...
• Fly Larvae Used to Remove Organic Waste on Lar ...
  Spanish researchers have developed a process that uses fly larvae to rapidly break down animal waste on a large scale while simultaneously producing biomass that can Click to enlarge Asociación RUVIDFly larvae feed on organic waste be re-used for numerous purposes, from animal feed to the pr ...
• Snowpack Decline in Rockies Has Rapidly Accele ...
  A new study says snowpack decline in the northern Rocky Mountains over the last 30 years has been more severe than at any other time in nearly 1,000 years. In an analysis of 66 tree-ring records, researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) found that the average spring snowpack in the nor ...
• Mattel Vows to Stop Using Paper from Accused A ...
  Toymaker Mattel Inc. says it will stop using packaging from a Singapore-based company accused of clear-cutting swaths of Indonesian rainforest. Mattel’s action follows a campaign by Greenpeace that targeted, among other products, the packaging used in Mattel’s popular GreenpeaceVIDEO: Barbi ...
• Instant Identification of Trees Is Possible Us ...
  Click to enlarge LeafsnapThe Leafsnap smartphone app Botanists from the Smithsonian Institution have helped develop a smartphone app that can identify tree species within seconds using visual recognition software and then share the location with a database of tree populations. After a user ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

• Syrian president calls for national dialogue " ...
  President Bashar al-Assad has addressed the nation amid mass riots in Syria. He calles for a national dialogue and promises large-scale reforms, saying only unity will allow the violence to be stopped and people’s...
• No Japan without nuclear energy – Japanese off ...
  Despite concerns over Japan's government hushing up the dangers, the second highest-ranking nuclear official in the country thinks the issue is simply too complicated for the general public to come to terms with.
• Babies at risk from mothers’ fears of medical ...
  Growing numbers of people in Russia are choosing to turn their backs on official medical services, due to a distrust of the public healthcare system. Fearing that treatment by licensed doctors may be dangerous, they...
• Tripoli bombings hit Britons’ in the wallet
  As civilian deaths in Libya grow, anger mounts among the Western taxpayers footing the bill for the military intervention. The conflict is expected to cost one of its key players, the UK, hundreds of millions of pounds.
• Fukushima city: officially safe thanks to new ...
  Some residents of Fukushima city believe the government is neglecting radiation risks and are trying to alleviate the damage on their own. Meanwhile the UN watchdog is to report on the crisis in Vienna on Monday.

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

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

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

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

Worldpress - Africa

• Political Expediency May Forfeit Reform in Somalia
  The Kampala Accord aims to end Somalia's transitional government, removing its prime minister in the process. Is this the best thing for the people?
• Living in Chains: Sierra Leone's Mentally Ill
• Piracy and Pigeonholed Security in Somalia
  Somali pirates are a menace to local waters as well as international security. Outside assistance should be provided to bolster the country's coast guard.
• Piracy and Pigeonholed Security in Somalia
  Somali pirates are a menace to local waters as well as international security. Outside assistance should be provided to bolster the country's coast guard.
• Repression of the Press in Zimbabwe
  Although Zimbabwe has a more open press than in the past, journalists and news organizations that threaten the government still regularly feel the hand of the crackdown.

Telegraph UK - oil

• Oil refinery blast: Chevron site has excellent ...
  The safety record at the Chevron oil refinery in Pembroke has been praised following the fire and explosion which killed four contractors.
• Petrol retailers told to help motorists as oil ...
  Petrol retailers are under pressure to cut the cost of motoring after oil prices plummeted on the world market.
• Chris Huhne needs a lesson in economics
  Plundering the profits from North Sea oil will only hold back Britain's recovery, argues Jeremy Warner.
• The Gulf of Mexico is not as clean as they say
  Assessing the true toll of the Deepwater Horizon blow-out is only starting, says Geoffrey Lean.
• BP oil spill: 30 pictures of the Deepwater Hor ...
  30 pictures of the oil spill on the first anniversary of the disaster.

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

• Top 6 Mistakes to Avoid in Mobile Usability | ...
  Mobile applications are important for providing users with an alternate means of accessing your web page, as well as keeping connected anywhere and at any time. The programs are an integral part of staying competitive within your market, so they should be created wisely.
• 1.4 million fans can’t be wrong: NPR’s Faceboo ...
  But Carvin also emphasized the importance of audience expectations. “They still see our site as mainly dedicated to consuming news,” he said. Facebook, on the other hand, is a web venue in which people are used to chatting with their family and friends. ..NPR’s Facebook page is a complement to, ...
• The Newsonomics of 2011 news metrics to watch ...
• Gallery: 15 iPad news apps
  Thinking about creating an iPad app for your newsroom? Want to see what other news media have come up with? Below are screengrabs of several news apps from newspapers, magazines radio, television, and online-only news websites.
• Five Months on Tumblr as Seen Through Pummelvi ...

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

• Detroit: A Century On The Smart-Growth Grid
  The following excerpts are from a report that was intended to solve many of the planning issues facing one of America's largest cities: Detroit. Its conclusions are in many ways counter to the ‘Smart Growth’ principles being promoted by influential decision makers. It was compiled by the ci ...
• Sweden: A Role Model for Capitalist Reform?
  Sweden is often held up as a role model for those wishing to expand the size of government in the U.S. and other nations. The nation is seen as combining a large public sector with many attractive features, such as low crime rates, high life expectancy and a high degree of social cohesion. Bu ...
• Hey, Dad: Family Still Matters!
  America is getting older. Those over the age of 65, which currently account for 12% of the population, are expected to make up 20% of the population by 2030. People are marrying later, and a growing group, though still a distinct minority, is choosing not to have children. So if there are propor ...
• The Evolving Urban Form: Shanghai
  According to the results of the 2010 census, Shanghai's population was nearly 1,000,000 people more than had been projected by local authorities. The provincial level of jurisdiction grew from a population of 16.4 million in 2000 to 23.0 million in 2010. Shanghai is one of the world's fastes ...
• Will the Last Family Leaving Seattle Please Tu ...
  New Census data for the Seattle area's population changes, 2000-2010, permit a preliminary look at age and at types of households in the region. Let's look at patterns of geographic variation in selected age groups and household types for places in greater Seattle. It provides more evidence for ...

GM Watch

• Non-GM 'super wheat' resists devastating rust
• Comment by Doug Gurian-Sherman on "Scientists' ...
• EFSA's defence of its independence reveals ano ...
• EFSA' s defence of its independence reveals an ...
• Scientists' shaky technofix for herbicide resi ...

spiked

• Don’t tinker with the NHS. Completely re ...
  Why do both the right and left champion Britain’s health system when it remains inefficient, bureaucratic and sometimes inhumane?
• The narcissism of the Primark haters
  Panorama’s faked footage of Indian child labour shows how ethical consumerism is always about us, not them.
• The ghost of ‘Ghost Town’
  Thirty years after The Specials’ iconic single was released, an old friend explains its significance.
• Stop the press: new boss for irrelevant organi ...
  Al-Qaeda’s attempt to hype up the appointment of al-Zawahiri as its leader shows how childishly desperate it is for attention.
• Is the Archbishop still having sleepless nights?
  Moralists who were outraged by America’s killing of bin Laden have said diddly-squat about subsequent assassinations.

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

• 48 Percent Of Americans Believe Another Great ...
  Do you believe that the U.S. economy is steamrolling toward a depression?  If so, you are not alone.  According to a recent CNN poll, 48 percent of Americans believe that "another Great Depression" is likely within the next 12 months.  Americans have been waiting for almost thre ...
• A Glimmer Of Hope
  If you want to feel better about America, just spend some time in some of the really great small towns and rural communities that are scattered across this country.  Over the past several days, that is exactly what I had the privilege to do.  I have often written about how the " ...
• Stock Prices Have Fallen For Six Weeks In A Row
  Well, it's official.  U.S. stock prices have fallen for six weeks in a row.  So will next week make it seven?  The last time stocks declined for seven weeks in a row was back in May 2001 when the "dot-com" bubble was bursting.  At this point, the Dow has declined by approximatel ...
• 12 More Signs That Society Is Collapsing
  What we are now witnessing is the slow motion unraveling of America.  Our economy is dying, the American people have lost faith in the government and in almost all of our other major institutions, and our society is collapsing.  Most Americans don't understand why all of this is ...
• 18 Signs The Collapse Of Society Is Accelerating
  As the U.S. economy collapses, the thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted is going to begin to disappear.  In fact, there are already an increasing number of signs that the collapse of society is accelerating.  In cities such as Chicago, roving packs of young p ...

Desertification

• China : Achievements of local government leade ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90776/90785/7412653.html China’s top forestry official stresses local governmental efforts in desertification control China’s State Forestry Administration on Thursday said the performance assessment of local govern ...
• Pakistan and desertification (Google / Pakista ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=98042 Pak to observe world day to combat desertification KarachiâPakistan will observe World Day to Combat Desertification on Friday amidst growing risks to its food security closely linked to constant reduction in ...
• African Agriculture And Food Supply At Risk (G ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://allafrica.com/stories/201106180003.html Climate Change – African Agriculture And Food Supply At Risk Julio Godoy 18 June 2011 Bonn â Climate change and global warming are likely to have dramatically negative effects on African agriculture … Continu ...
• A tree planting event in conjunction with UNHC ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://gozonews.com/18144/tree-planting-event-held-to-mark-world-refugee-day-2011/ Tree planting event held to mark World Refugee Day 2011 As part of a programme of events to mark World Refugee Day 2011, Friends of the Earth Malta organised a tree plantin ...
• How to revert the threat of desertification an ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.ghanabusinessnews.com/2011/06/17/environmentalists-seek-ways-of-preventing-desertification/ Environmentalists seek ways of preventing desertification Stakeholders in the environmental sector on Thursday deliberated at a forum on issues which ar ...

The Paper Trail

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

backofthebook.ca

• The Vancouver riot: thugs are not anarchists
  By Frank Moher Memo to Vancouver Police Chief Jim Chu: idiots and anarchists are two different things. I know being a political scientist isn't a prerequiste for becoming a cop, not even the top cop, but playing the "anarchist" card last week, as you did in defending your force's handling of ...
• Where is Brock Anton?
  By Frank Moher Having owned the Brock Anton story sufficiently on Thursday to crash our server for awhile -- we've now moved to a nice big new one -- it seems necessary to provide a follow-up, although much of the web has moved on to other riot tales, like the kissing ...
• The face of Vancouver’s Stanley Cup riot
  By Frank Moher Overnight, a certain Brock Anton became the face of the Vancouver Stanley Cup riot on the internet. Downtown for the abortive festivities yesterday, Mr. Anton apparently took time out from his busy schedule to post this on his Facebook page: It reads: Maced in the face, ...
• Debating Libya
  By Alison@Creekside "He simply will not last very long," Harper said of Muammar Gaddafi back in March, as Canada prepared to drop $27-million of smart money smart bombs on Libya in order to oust him. As of now Gaddafi controls most of the country, including the capital. Today Parliament ...
• Revisited: Sun TV’s Ezra problem
  With the Sun News Network lately embarked on a jihad against government funding of the arts, it might be worth remarking: at least when artists are given money, they do what they're supposed to do with it. On the other hand, we have the example of SNN costume rack Ezra ...

libcom

• Strikeforce - Monson outpunched by Cormier
  monson_1.JPG Anarchist MMA fighter Jeff 'The Snowman' Monson faced off against wrestler Daniel Comier in last night's Strikeforce event Jeff Monson made his return to 'top-tier ...
• J30: It's on
  pcs.jpg Steve Ryan on the upcoming day of co-ordinated strike action by public sector trade unions, due to take place on the 30th of June. Included below are two articles by St ...
• Egypt: “democracy, social justice and human di ...
  policeegypt.jpg Tali Janner-Klausner reports from Cairo on the unfolding Egyptian revolution, including the recent international solidarity conference. From The Commune. Hosni Mu ...
• Everyone plays a part in fighting wage theft
  ssbn09-web.jpg Seattle recently joined San Francisco, Austin, Kansas City and Denver in making wage theft — bosses cheating workers out of their earned pay — a criminal offense, and rightfully so. ...
• Locked out workers' anger grows at Canada Post
  Canada.jpg Following weeks of rolling strike action, Canada Post locked out its 50,000 workers on the night of 14 June. Here follows an exciting personal account of workers fighting back and locking ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Mellissa Fung, Kidnapped in Afghanistan (May 1 ...
  CBC Journalist and author of Under an Afghan Sky tells Peter about her kidnapping in Afghanistan.
• Bob McDonald Part 2 (Apr 9, 2011)
  Part two of our annual show where CBC's Science Correspondent answers your questions about the mysteries of the world that have always puzzled you.
• Milos Raonic, ATP Tennis Player (Apr 2, 2011)
  The Canadian tennis star and his power serve are making waves around the world. Peter talks with Raonic about childhood ambition, focus and the sport he loves.
• Bob McDonald - Part 1 (Mar 26, 2011)
  Time for our annual show where you ask CBC's Science Correspondent about the mysteries that have always puzzled you!
• Dan Bjarnason (March 19, 2011)
  Former CBC Correspondent and author of Triumph at Kapyong talks about the critical battle won by Canadians in the Korean War.

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

• Western Imperialism Strikes Again
  The invasion of Libya is about imperialism not protection of civilians.
• What Obama Should Have Said
  As I was reading President Obama's speech last week, I dozed off into a glorious daydream.
• “Where’s the Beef”?
  After Osama bin Laden was killed, why wasn't his body displayed for verification.
• Bernanke is Still Clueless
  Ben Bernanke has been consistently wrong in the past. Why does anybody listen to him anymore?
• Dangers are Inherent in the War with Qaddafi
  Libya could become the next quagmire for American forces.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• "Blasted and Blasted and Blasted": The Militar ...
  Even mild traumatic brain injuries among the military can have devastating consequences.
• Review: The Postman
  In Mun Dok-su's epic poem, a postman travels through the history of war to deliver an important message to humanity.
• Normal
  We have become inured to war.
• Even Their Beloved Nukes Don't Escape Republic ...
  This time it's Republicans dragging their feet on a nuclear-weapons project.
• Other Mothers
  A mother confronts her son going off to the army in this powerful poem.

Law.com

• Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'
  Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
• Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Po ...
  In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
• MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight W ...
  A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
• Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Di ...
  Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ...
• IRS Throws In Towel on Closely Watched Interna ...

Iranian.com

• Iran parliament bans UN rights envoy visit to ...
  Tehran - The Iranian parliament will not allow the newly appointed United Nations human rights special rapporteur for Iran to come to Tehran on a fact-finding visit, it was reported Sunday. The official news agency IRNA reported that the parliament's Human Rights Committee decided Sunday that Ah ...
• Gates blames Shiite extremists for recent US d ...
  WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert Gates says Shiite extremists, not al-Qaida terrorists, are to blame for most of the recent U.S. military deaths in Iraq, and they’re “clearly getting some fairly sophisticated and powerful weapons” from Iran. read more
• Iranian authorities try to make humanities mor ...
  Iran’s deputy science minister says transforming the humanities into Islamic human sciences is harder than sending a human into space. According to ISNA, Mohammad Mehdinejad Nouri said that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has called for universities to become more Islamic and for the ...
• ZBC (Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation) refuse ...
  THE Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) is reportedly refusing to repay a US$5 million Iranian loan which was used to refurbish the broadcaster’s studios claiming some of the equipment supplied under the deal was defective. read more
• BBC Persian's Tamasha takes a look at the Emb ...
  BBC Persian's Tamasha takes a look at the Emblematic Monument of Shah's Era and interviews it's architect Hossein Amanat. Watch Here

Most Revolutionary Act

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

Doug's Darkworld

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

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• Media Misinformation Promotes Dysfunctional En ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post Over the years I have had some enlightening interactions with the news media. I have gradually developed the view that many in the media believe their role is more to entertain than to inform. My naive younger self believed that the media generally present ...
• Q&A With Virent CTO Randy Cortright
  Join the forum discussion on this post In the previous essay, I discussed the National Advanced Biofuels Consortium (NABC) and the recently announced success of Virent Energy Systems (Virent), a member of the consortium. In this essay I try to dig into the process details a bit more with a seri ...
• Virent Pulling Ahead of the Pack?
  Join the forum discussion on this post The National Advanced Biofuels Consortium In January 2010, Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the investment of nearly $80 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for advanced biofuels research and fueling infrastructure. About $35 mi ...
• Roundtable on China’s Energy Future
  Join the forum discussion on this post Just a note that this weekend I leave for an extended business trip, with visits to Seattle, Washington D.C., Germany, Massachusetts, Vermont, and California. I will be on the road for about four weeks, but will try to keep to my schedule of posting new co ...
• Taking Care of the Topsoil
  Following my inclusion in the Top 10 list of ethanol enemies, I sought to Set the Ethanol Record Straight on my actual views on ethanol. I set out three broad tenets that shape my views. They are: Tenet One: We must transition from fossil fuels with a sense of urgency. Tenet Two: We need to ...

Discovery Educator Network

• Wow, This Is Really Useful: A Bloom’s Taxonomy ...
  Tags: bloom, taxonomy, student, reflectionby: Stephen Thergesen
• Language Arts Lessons :: Live Angry Birds Vide ...
  Tags: angrybirds, writingprompts, TeachHubby: Dean Mantz
• Life Changine Science - Program 2: Virtual Ope ...
  Tags: science, biology, anatomy, education, Interactive, heart, virtual, surgeryby: Dean Mantz
• Connect-Collaborate-Create with Web 2 Tools
  Tags: web2.0, tools, resources, collaborate, technology, create, moodle, Webby: Dean Mantz
• DESIGN SQUAD NATION . Home | PBS KIDS GO!
  Comments:via @einram36 - Fred DelventhalTags: design, science, engineering, education, technology, projects, kids, students, stemby: Fred Delventhal

Rodale News

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

big think

• Greece Gets Bailout Ultimatum
  What's the Latest Development? Rather than immediately approve the release of $17 billion to help Greece pay its bills, the group of countries who use the euro, known as the Eurozone, has placed further conditions on continuing financial assistance. "After several hours of talks, finance minis ...
• Mud Slinging Precedes Afghanistan Pullout
  What's the Latest Development? Afghan�President�Hamid Karzai has been vocally critical of American and N.A.T.O. missions of late, particularly those that put civilians at risk. "Last month, Karzai threatened to attack foreign troops�if they did not stop airstrikes�that kill civilians, saying t ...
• Has the Cyber War Begun?
  What's the Latest Development? Sony, Google, Lockheed Martin, Citigroup, the C.I.A., I.M.F. and American Senate: These powerful companies and government organizations have lately been attacked by small groups of private hackers. "Hacktivists' assaults on state targets have prompted governments ...
• Drones: The New American Intervention
  What's the Latest Development? Because deployment of unmanned military drones does not directly cost American lives, they have become a weapon of choice in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya and Yemen. The military wants to expand production. "The Pentagon has asked Congress for nearly $5 billion fo ...
• China's Bursting Real-Estate Bubble
  What's the Latest Development? The rise of China's middle class has had property developers salivating at the prospect of home ownership on such an�unprecedented�scale. But the country's monetary policy has left new neighborhoods completely empty. "The People's Bank of China has raised interes ...

Information Liberation

• Police Demand Video Camera.. Owner says NO
  Cops "ask" for a man's camera and he gives them a strong NO and tell them to get off his property! They then threaten to arrest his friend for some made up charges out of spite. The men stand up for themselves and assert their rights and the cops...
• The Persecution of Juan Cole
  The revelation by Glenn Carle, a former CIA official, that the Bush White House sought information on Prof. Juan Cole, an academic and critic of the Iraq war, in order to discredit him is hardly shocking, at least to anyone of my generation. Aft...
• When cops are the reckless drivers and try to ...
  Watch with annotations enabled. Here is an episode of highway patrol involving a motorcycle chase in Melbourne near Albert park. Then for comparison, the actual raw, uncut footage from the patrol car's dash camera with audio. Raw footage starts...
• Video shows Julian Assange's life under never- ...
  The WikiLeaks founder's video diary of his life holed up in Vaughan Smith' house on police bail facing charges of sexual misconduct in Sweden. Read more about Julian Assange's house arrest: http://wikileaks.org/...
• End Game
  Economic data over the past weeks, punctuated by last week's dismal employment reports, confirm the diminishing impact of the stimulus efforts orchestrated by the Obama Administration and the Federal Reserve. In what must be a huge disappointment...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• 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 ...

RFF Library

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

Scientific American - News

• Armadillo Moves North Across a Warmer North Am ...
  Here's one advantage to armadillos' steady northward march across the Southeast United States:They're awfully handy to have as bait if, say, you're a wildlife biologist looking to trap an alligator that has inexplicably settled into your local pond in north Georgia. [More]
• High Wired: Does Addictive Internet Use Restru ...
  Kids spend an increasing fraction of their formative years online, and it is a habit they dutifully carry into adulthood. Under the right circumstances, however, a love affair with the Internet may spiral out of control and even become an addiction.Whereas descriptions of online addiction are co ...
• The Hole Picture: Growth of Black Holes and Ga ...
  It's the source of a long-standing cosmological quandary. Galaxies or black holes: Which came first? Today, they exist as neatly matched pairs, a black hole nested in the heart of a swirling galaxy, but it seems possible that the growth of one drove the growth of the other. By peering deep int ...
• Lemonade without the Lemons: New Search Engine ...
  Good news, if you haven't noticed, has always been rare commodity. We all have our ways of coping, but the media's pessimistic proclivity presented a serious problem for Jurriaan Kamp, editor of the San Francisco-based Ode magazine --a must-read for "intelligent optimists "--who was in dire ...
• Stricter Regulation of Formaldehyde Remains Un ...
  Late last week, the Department of Health and Human Services classified formaldehyde as "a known carcinogen," adding its verdict to two similar reports released by key agencies since 2009.But despite the growing scientific consensus about how formaldehyde can affect human health, it remains ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

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

David Seaton's News Links

• Why I miss George W. Bush more and more with e ...
  David Seaton's News LinksThe Obama administration has long been bumbling along in the footsteps of its predecessor when it comes to sacrificing Americans’ basic rights and liberties under the false flag of fighting terrorism. Now the Obama team seems ready to lurch even farther down that dismal ...
• Humanity: up a tree, with no fireman in sight
  Raghuram Rajan�The ultimate reason for all real crises always remains the poverty and restricted consumption of the masses as opposed to the drive of capitalist production to develop the productive forces as though only the absolute consuming power of society constituted their limit.� [ ...
• Movements without "leaders"
  David Seaton's News LinksThe other day, a top American political consultant, Matthew Dowd, was visiting Madrid and was interviewed by the local "newspaper of reference", El País. When he was asked his opinion about Spain's "15th of May" citizen's movement, AKA, "The Spanish Revolution" or "Los I ...
• Times Change
  David Seaton's News LinksI happened on this clip and I began to wonder about how something that was once so mainstream, so top of the line, so wholesome, so American "family" entertainment, now looks so painfully like a charter flight full of scummy, leering, pedophile, sex tourists setting of ...
• Memento Mori: In a hundred years we'll all be bald
  "It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up -- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kubler-RossDavid Seaton's News LinksA favorite subject ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• UK Scraps Pneumonia Vaccines Because They 'Don ...
  The United States requires infants to receive 26 vaccines (the most in the world) yet more than 6 U.S. infants die per every 1,000 live births. In contrast, Sweden and Japan administer 12 vaccines to infants, the least amount, and report less than 3 deaths per 1,000 live births. The study also ...
• The Caloric Mistake that DOUBLES Your Risk of ...
  Dr. Mercola discusses the facts about Splenda and why it should be avoided.
• The Exercise Mistake Which Makes You Age Faster
  By Ori Hofmekler What I am going to share with you in this article most likely will fly in the face of nearly everything you have been taught about exercise and nutrition. It is a radically new concept that is first being introduced to you on Dr. Mercola's site. It's a slap in the face of eve ...
• 'Good Gut Bacteria' May Help Fight Obesity
  Daily intake of a specific form of lactic acid bacteria could help prevent obesity and reduce low-level inflammation. Rats who were given the bacterium from before birth until adulthood put on significantly less weight than other rats, even though both groups of rats ate a similar diet. UPI re ...
• A Third of Americans Don't Sleep 7 Hours
  Insufficient sleep not only can affect your memory and daily performance, but studies have now shown that lack of sleep can impair your ability to drive an automobile. The U.S. Department of Transportation reports that drowsiness, including nodding off while driving, is responsible for 1,550 d ...

JAMA

• Ovarian Cancer [JAMA Patient Page]
• Omitted Disclosure in: Short-term Use of Unopp ...
• Error in Figure in: Patterns and Intensity of ...
• The Extraordinary Dr Biggs [Literatim]
• Operative Techniques: Pediatric Orthopaedic Su ...

Survival - tribal peoples

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

Montreal Gazette

• Immigrant sponsors must keep their part of deal
  The Supreme Court of Canada ruled with both head and heart when it issued a judgment this month that upheld the right of federal and provincial governments to recoup social-service payments collected by sponsored immigrants from those who committed to sponsor them.
• End the ordeal of Abousfian Abdelrazik
  A delegation of supporters of Abousfian Abdelrazik travelled to United Nations headquarters in New York this week to plead for his removal from the world body's punitive list of suspected al-Qaida and Taliban operatives.
• The Gazette's view, in short
  The moronic louts who rioted in the streets of Vancouver after Wednesday's loss by the hometown Canucks to the Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup final were certainly a very small minority of that normally wonderful city's population. They were even a minority of those who turned out in support of ...
• On roads and bridges, we need fixes - and info ...
  Even for battle-scarred Montrealers, the sudden partial closure this week of the Mercier Bridge came as a stunning setback.
• The Gazette's View: On roads and bridges, we n ...
  Even for battle-scarred Montrealers, the sudden partial closure this week of the Mercier Bridge came as a stunning setback.

Food World Order

• bay area underground market draws authorities' ...
  from nytimes: For the past two years, the San Francisco Underground Market has served up bacon-laced chocolates, sea salt and chili truffles, and other haute fringe food. But on June 11, the monthly market, which now draws more than a thousand visitors, received an unwelcome serving of its own: ...
• 6/16 binge & purge: stumptown sellout, edible ...
  the selling of stumptown: industry sources say stumptown coffee has been sold* flashback: coffee scandal brewing - did portland's stumptown sell out?* ag dept. now allows schools to buy local fruits & veggies* fda sends US marshals to seize elderberry juice concentrate, deemed 'un ...
• 6/16 binge & purge: stumptown sellout, edible ...
  the selling of stumptown: industry sources say stumptown coffee has been sold* flashback: coffee scandal brewing - did portland's stumptown sell out?* ag dept. now allows schools to buy local fruits & veggies* fda sends US marshals to seize elderberry juice concentrate, deemed 'un ...
• 'poisoned' book delivered to obama and all of ...
  from food poison journal: Lindsey Ward of WSLS reported that author Jeff Benedict provided the President, First Lady, Secretary Vilsack and Secretary Sebeilus, along with each member of the House and Senate, a copy of the book ‘Poisoned.’ The book tells the story, from an attorney's perspective, ...
• food safety fears grow in japan on skepticism ...
  from bloomberg: Kimie Nozaki, a mother of three children living 60 kilometers from the crippled Fukushima nuclear reactors, said she doesn’t trust the government’s testing program for radiation-contaminated food. “Information from the government lacks detail, which makes me even more nervous,” s ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

• 48 Percent Of Americans Believe Another Great ...
  Do you believe that the U.S. economy is steamrolling toward a depression?  If so, you are not alone.  According to a recent CNN poll, 48 percent of Americans believe that "another Great Depression" is likely within the next 12 months.  Americans have been waiting for almost thre ...
• A Glimmer Of Hope
  If you want to feel better about America, just spend some time in some of the really great small towns and rural communities that are scattered across this country.  Over the past several days, that is exactly what I had the privilege to do.  I have often written about how the " ...
• Stock Prices Have Fallen For Six Weeks In A Row
  Well, it's official.  U.S. stock prices have fallen for six weeks in a row.  So will next week make it seven?  The last time stocks declined for seven weeks in a row was back in May 2001 when the "dot-com" bubble was bursting.  At this point, the Dow has declined by approximatel ...
• 12 More Signs That Society Is Collapsing
  What we are now witnessing is the slow motion unraveling of America.  Our economy is dying, the American people have lost faith in the government and in almost all of our other major institutions, and our society is collapsing.  Most Americans don't understand why all of this is ...
• 18 Signs The Collapse Of Society Is Accelerating
  As the U.S. economy collapses, the thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted is going to begin to disappear.  In fact, there are already an increasing number of signs that the collapse of society is accelerating.  In cities such as Chicago, roving packs of young p ...

CASSE

• Why Stop at Massive Economic Growth when Infin ...
  Dr. Mountebank urges economists, lesser scientists and all citizens to try on infinite growth for size.
• What Should We Tax?
  Herman Daly suggests a simple rule: tax what we want less of, not what we want more of.
• The Role of Religious Congregations in Promoti ...
  Stewardship of creation requires people to accept the limits to growth and manage the economy accordingly. Religious congregations can help spread this idea.
• Mountebank Wins Nobel for Infinite Planet Theory
  Infinite planet theory gets a well-deserved nod from the establishment.
• Two Schools and the Path to the Steady State
  Concerned about the fate of civilization? Maybe there's some good news from an unlikely source.

The Talking Clock

• Boris Johnson says what Bilderberg-attending C ...
  Really good piece of analysis in the Daily Telegraph from Mayor of London, Boris Johnson. We like Boris. Okay, he's semi-bought into that Marxism-through-Greeny nonsense, but get part of his analysis on the Greek tragedy: "The idea is that Germany, France and others should “socialise” the ...
• Quote of the Day: 19th June 2011
  "Please try to understand that the House of Lords is not a benign assembly of Nobel laureates, successful generals and the odd patriotic earl. Such people may be found there, but they have been swamped in recent years by the committee-sitters and placemen, the public sector princelings and quang ...
• Sunday Paper Review: 19th June 2011
  If you're a first time visitor to this blog and just stumbled in, then a very warm welcome. The analysis you are about to read may be dismissed by some as the ravings of a conspiracy theorist. This blog doesn't have a problem with that, well aware that the awakening amongst people as to what is ...
• An Englishman's rights to buy a packet of cigg ...
  Some bloke with the title of 'Master of the Rolls' (not to be confused with the Lord of the Cheese Baps) isn't going to be popular with freeborn Englishmen who enjoy having a cigarette. This is the story that cigarette vending machines are to be banned from pubs, despite an appeal by Wolverha ...
• The state of play: Britain today
  Banks were bailed out with trillions, countries have been bailed out all over the place with billions, we pay billions to be part of the European Union that we all loathe and want no part of, we donate billions in international aid to countries with space programs and their own armies, we're spe ...

Facing South

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

CenterLine

• Today’s Terrorism News
  In Association with The Soufan Group Marine Reservist Detained After Pentagon Bomb Scare A Marine reservist is in custody after he was found in Arlington National Cemetery early Friday morning hours after it had closed and attempted to flee from … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  In Association with The Soufan Group Freed Gitmo Detainee Added to Global Terror List The State Department added a freed Guantanamo detainee to the global terror list Thursday. U.S. authorities believe Othman al-Ghamdi, a Saudi who was released from U.S. … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  In Association with The Soufan Group Zawahiri Succeeds Bin Laden Ayman al-Zawahiri has succeeded Osama bin Laden as the leader of al Qaeda, according to a statement posted on a Web site affiliated with the group. The statement said that … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  In Association with The Soufan Group Pakistan Arrests CIA Informants Who Helped with bin Laden Search Pakistanâs top military spy agency has arrested some of the Pakistani informants who helped the CIA locate Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, according to … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  In Association with The Soufan Group New CIA Drone Campaign Planned for Yemen The CIA plans to launch an armed drone campaign against militants in Yemen, according to news first reported by the Wall Street Journal. For the past 18 … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

• Smart materials prod proteins to form crystall ...
  New materials could help researchers crystallise proteins from solution, easing the hunt for drug targets
• Today on New Scientist: 20 June 2011
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: 13 exotic elements you can't live without, machine translation, and rocking for better naps
• Today on New Scientist: 17 June 2011
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: Motion capture for molecules, fraudsters steal Bitcoins, and the sun's giant magnetic rope
• ALMA casts a cold eye on the sky
  One of the grandest ground-based astronomy projects of the coming decade is about to go into action
• Mercury likely pummelled in its youth
  The innermost planet probably lost its outer layers in a youthful brawl, suggest new observations from NASA's Messenger probe

Tech Drive In

• Ad Bard, The Advertising Network Serving FOSS ...
  Ad Bard was a breath of fresh air in the already crowded advertising networks arena lead by behemoths like Google Adsense. In 2009 when Ad Bard network first came into existence, FSF proudly proclaimed, "The Free Software Community now has an ethical alternative to ad networks that promote propr ...
• 15 Best Android Apps for Travelers Among You
  Google is activating some 400,000 new Android devices every single day now(source) and Android is already the fastest growing and most popular smartphone OS in many parts of the world. In tune with its rising popularity, Android's applications base is also showing stupendous growth. We have alre ...
• TermKit is Terminal Reimagined, Install TermKi ...
  TermKit by Steven Wittens is a refreshingly beautiful graphic replacement for terminal. If you are wondering, TermKit is not a flashy GUI for Terminal, instead its very much a command line based system made on top of WebKit, the rendering engine used in web browsers like Google Chrome and Chromi ...
• 5 Useful Compiz Tweaks for Ubuntu 11.04 Natty ...
  I have been a Compiz fan ever since I started using Linux. Compiz is also a very integral part of Ubuntu, more so with the introduction of new Unity desktop for Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal. There are many Compiz effects that are not enabled by default and some of them are really good IMO. Useful ...
• How to Hide Mounted Drives from Ubuntu 11.04 D ...
  I want my desktop to be clean and simple, I don't like it look cluttered, especially since I have Unity launcher at my disposal with easy access to favorite applications and 'places'. In Ubuntu, when you mount a drive, it will be shown in your desktop by default. I don't like it that way and thi ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

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

Veterans Today

• Jon Stewart and Chris Wallace, Much Ado
  Fox has generally been little more than a propaganda outlet, a professional "disinformation" service crafted to serve a globalist agenda. Their purpose has been to run interference for financial criminals and political extremists, totalitarian oligarchs in the US and to provide cover for Israel ...
• The Handbook of Human Ownership
  The enslavement of humanity is replete throughout history. The reason is simple. The nature of societies allows corrupt sociopaths and malicious methods of domination to rule. The chronicles of any era clearly documents that liberty is rare. Inherent Autonomy is the intrinsic nature of the human ...
• Press Conference on US, NATO attack on Libya ( ...
  A powerful and important Press Conference with some extremely impressive speakers.They are all Truth Sayers in the Land of Deceit!
• Entrapping Innocent Muslims
  A recent New York University School of Law Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) report is titled, "Targeted and Entrapped: Manufacturing the 'Homegrown Threat' in the United States."
• United States False Flag Forecast, Summer 2011
  The New American Century, with its radioactive warfare, genocide and unnatural disasters, is killing as many people as the Thousand Year Reich, with which it shares many characteristics.

electric politics

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

PR News

• Chipotle hires Fabiani to handle illegal worke ...
  DENVER: Chipotle Mexican Grill has hired "Master of Disaster" Mark Fabiani, who will provide communications counsel related to an ongoing federal criminal investigation into whether the restaurant chain knowingly hired illegal immigrants.
• Shield Technologies hires KemperLesnik as AOR
  CHICAGO: Shield Technologies, manufacturer of the anti-corrosion product Envelop Protective Covers, hired KemperLesnik as AOR.
• Eight account wins for Max Borges Agency
  MIAMI: Tech PR and social media firm Max Borges Agency added eight accounts to its client roster.
• Poulson to head Burson's global tech practice
  NEW YORK: Lisa Poulson today took over the global technology practice at Burson-Marsteller after heading the agency's Hewlett-Packard enterprise account.
• Rolls-Royce North America issues first-ever RFP
  WOODCLIFF LAKE, NJ: Rolls-Royce Motor Cars of North America is issuing an RFP in mid-July for the first time in its history.

The Story Behind the Story

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

k2p blog

• UK to outsource wind farms to Ireland
  UK urges Ireland to build wind farms on west coast. Plans to link electricity grids offer the UK a chance to meet its clean energy targets – but threaten to blight Irish beauty spots
• Landscheidt Minimum could be a grand solar min ...
  Dr. Cornelis de Jager - "The new episode is a deep minimum. It will look similar to the Maunder Minimum, which lasted from 1620 to 1720...This new Grand Minimum will last until approximately 2100."
• Rio Tinto wins battle for Riversdale coal as m ...
  Tata Steel accepts Rio Tinto offer of over 1 billion Australian dollars for its 26.27% holding in Riversdale Mining.
• Now IPCC becomes just a lobby for Greenpeace!
  There seems to be an incestuous relationship between the IPCC and a number of advocacy groups with the parties lobbying for each other. In the latest episode the IPCC has become the vehicle for publishing conclusions from a Greenpeace advocacy report on renewables.
• “Only way out of the Eurocrisis is for G ...
  The only way out of the euro crisis is with Greece's exit from EMU, says Dagen Industi’s expert panel. But only after a lengthy process with more emergency loans to avoid the risk of a new financial meltdown a la Lehman Brothers in 2008.

Left Foot Forward

• Attacks on Ashton as misleading as they are un ...
  Katharina Klebba, events manager of the Fabian Society, on the many attacks on European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs Baroness Catherine Ashton.
• Aung San Suu Kyi: The struggle for liberty and ...
  In an inspirational lecture the Burmese pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi spoke of her and her movement’s struggle for liberty and democracy in Burma.
• ‘New’ NHS reforms a lot like the o ...
  The government's response to the criticism of the NHS reforms is disappointing - previous concerns are still unresolved, writes Lib Dem MP Andrew George.
• Sinning with statistics: Frank Field on welfar ...
  There is no question of Frank Field lying: but there are other ways to sin with statistics - as Mr Field proves through his analysis of benefit payments.
• May’s police cuts: A gamble becomes a sh ...
  Labour have accused the Tory-led coalition of putting the public at risk due to their cuts - as a senior counter-terrorist officer becomes their latest victim.

Consumerist

• Sega Announces 1.3 Million Users' Info Stolen ...
  Sony PlayStation and Nintendo have more company in the hacker gaming attack club, as Sega announced on Sunday that 1.3 million customers have had their info stolen from its database. Although credit card numbers are said to have been safe, names, birth dates, e-mail addresses and passwords of ...
• Marilyn Monroe's Iconic White Dress Sells At A ...
  We knew we should've been saving our pennies up all these years, and now it's too late: Marilyn Monroe's iconic white dress from The Seven Year Itch has sold at auction for $5.6 million. Beyond that "subway" dress that flew up so perfectly for Marilyn, $2.7 million was shelled out for three o ...
• Netflix Stops Streaming Sony Movies Due To Tem ...
  In case you were trying to watch Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigalo streaming on Netflix and you were denied, it's because Netflix and Starz, the pay TV distributor for Sony, are having a "temporary contract issue." The Huffington Post says Netflix users were told of the snafu on Friday, when Sony mov ...
• Here's What You Can Do Overnight In An Airport ...
  If you've ever been stuck overnight in an airport, you know how boring it can be -- staring at the same empty Starbucks and listening to that annoying muzak for hours on end can drive a sane traveler crazy. That is, unless you happen to have $30k worth of camera equipment on hand and a taste fo ...
• Morning Deals
  ClothingBanana Republic: [Apparel] 30% Off Entire Purchase w/ Coupon BRTAKE30Original Penguin: [Apparel] Extra 30% Off Sale Merchandise w/ Coupon OPSALE30One Stop Plus: [Shoes] Carson Wide Width Mule Sneakers for $9.44 w/ Coupon WW54679 + $5.99 ShippingeBay: [Apparel Accessories] Stainless Stee ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

• Jill Sobule Closes Netroots Nation with an Ant ...
  Jill Sobule provided the fitting ending to this year’s Netroots Nation and a response to the angry white, right-wing Tea Party Republicans. It’s about time the whole of the United States of America  asked themselves and each other the questions Jill raises in her anthem (her official site is he ...
• The Monday Line: Giving Junkies Govt. Fix? 28- ...
  The National Lottery’s astounding EuroMillions jackpot since re-jiggering the game’s format on 10 May making it 62% more difficult to capture the top prize**, shows a complete disregard for the most vulnerable of gamblers across the UK and the Govt. is turning its back because of its complicity ...
• Social Security and The Koch Lies
  The first time I heard this gentleman interviewed, I was in my car listening to KPCC. His message was so compelling that I pulled over so I could jot down his name. Eric Kingson, who  is a professor of social work at Syracuse University’s School of Social Work, has a resume a mile long but [...] ...
• The Growing Desperation of the Don’t-Raise-Tax ...
  The much-vaunted Republican pledge not to raise any taxes is crumbling. Today 34 Senate Republicans voted to end the special tax breaks for ethanol. According to no-tax-increase purists like Grover Norquist, this is tantamount to a tax increase. The truth is, Republicans are divided between thos ...
• Conan O’Brien Addresses Dartmouth University C ...
  Raw, rare honesty from a master comedian, late night talk-show host Conan O’Brien. His life has had some dramatic public ups and downs during this class’ tenure at Dartmouth University. He sends them out into the world with advice that will make you laugh and move you to inspiration. Worth a cup ...

NewsAlert

• Economics:The Chicago School versus the Austri ...
  Mises Institute
• VIDEO: Minister Farrakhan: 'That's a Murderer ...
  The Root
• FBI turns hunt for Whitey Bulger to girlfriend
  The Boston Herald
• Blagojevich Fake Trial Gets Reported, William ...
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• Six Houston high schools make Newsweek’s Ameri ...
  The Houston Chronicle

JoNova

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

ReNew America

• The Republican Party has a winning candidate
  (Marie Jon, RA analyst) - Michele Bachmann made her announcement to run for president this past week. The third-term Republican congresswoman from Minnesota had the full attention of Americans. That includes not only those who watch Fox News, but liberal CNN...
• Top spy points finger at Panetta friend
  (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - A key leader of the Cold War-era Communist underground in the U.S. has verified the Communist affiliation of a man (Hugh DeLacy) who was a friend of the current CIA Director Leon Panetta...
• Bachmann: Obama wants Medicare bankrupted
  (NewsMax) - Rep. Michele Bachmann says President Barack Obama has a secret plan in which America's elderly would be forced to enroll in Obamacare after Medicare goes bankrupt, reports The New York Times' The Caucus blog...
• Romney, Cain nix anti-abortion pledge
  (NewsMax) - Presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and Herman Cain have declined to sign a pledge that calls for White House hopefuls to push for anti-abortion goals if elected president, Politico reports. Five other candidates -- Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Tim Pawlenty and Rick Santo ...
• Obama's weak war memo
  (Washington Times) - The White House sent a 38-page report to Congress on Wednesday attempting to explain why the president had the authority to continue military operations against Libya without congressional approval as mandated under the War Powers Resolution. The Obama administration's argum ...

Truth Offering

• The Bilderberg Conference, 2011 - St. Moritz, ...
  If you frequent this site, you've likely heard of the Bilderberg group; a cadre of the world's most wealthy and powerful men and women who decend upon some, often remote, location each year. The reason they're called the "Bilderberg Group" is because their first-ever meeting in 1954, took place ...
• It's Official: GMO Foods Alter Our Digestive S ...
  As if we needed more proof, can we finally state -- without any asterisks or disclaimers saying we're still not sure -- that genetically modified foods of all types are harmful when eaten by humans!? In my opinion, yes, we can. Check out this article by the Alliance for Natural Health: SOURCE: A ...
• The Federal Reserve Cartel
  The men who control the world, and their puppets.One of the main focuses at TruthOffering.com is central banking. And just in case you're new to this site, let me explain why. In short, central banking is like allowing the wolves to watch over the hen house. Men who are unaccountable to the voti ...
• Who Owns the TV Networks?: A Compilation
  The two articles on TruthOffering.com that garner the most attention, both ask the exact same question: Who owns the TV networks? And it's a great question; one you should know the answer to. The first article I posted on this topic was written by Eustace Mullins. It's a great piece that examin ...
• Poll: Is Dominique Strauss-Kahn Guilty or Was ...
  Do you remember last year when a plane carrying Poland's President and the Governor of Poland's central bank went down in western Russia? It briefly made news headlines and then fizzled out without making much of a stir. When the plane went down, my immediate reaction was "does it seem plausible ...

2012 Blog

• Researchers Picked Ch’Ch Earthquake
  Evidence continues to accumulate – the heavens are a factor when it comes to large earthquakes. Occasionally an orthodox geologist will admit that full moons are a minor factor, and the recent research of myself ... Related posts:Deadly 6.3 Quake in ChristChurch NZ Lunar Eclipses Are Dange ...
• Prophet Will Profit
  As it happened, Doris Schmitt, the NY widow who left $250K to Harold Camping got her timing all screwed up. If her intention was for the preacher to use her bequeathment to advertise his doomsday, ... Related posts:Blame it on the weather?
• The Winged Warriors of Ek’ Balam
  I came across this image on Facebook via Korinna and others… at Wikipedia they are described as “winged warriors“.The wall is found at the ancient Mayan site Ek’ Balam. A huge version of the image is ... Related posts:Congressman Says Flee Cities / Mystery Sculpture Cerne Abbas Giant / ...
• Amazing Solar Flare Photo
  It was only a medium-sized flare, but still the biggest we’ve seen since 2006. It wasn’t aimed directly at us, but will be near enough to perhaps create some nice auroras in the next day ... Related posts:Solar Flare Update Solar Flare ‘Could Paralyse Earth’ Sing-a-long with Bowie…
• Nothing Skeptical About 2012
  One of the world’s leading skeptics is Michael Shermer. Not only is he the founder of the Skeptics Society, and head honcho and primary contributor for Skeptic Magazine, he has also penned an opinion piece ... Related posts:History Channel: Doomsday 2012: The End of Days Biblical scholar: ...

Facing South

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

One News Page

• EADS unveils new hypersonic jet project at Par ...
• Luke Evans to join 'The Hobbit'
  Luke Evans signs up to play Bard the Bowman in The Hobbit.
• UPDATE: Walmart Statement Regarding Supreme Co ...
  Walmart (NYSE: WMT) Statement Regarding Supreme Court Ruling in Dukes Case: 'We are pleased with today's ruling and believe the Court made the right decision. Walmart has had strong policies against discrimination for many years.
• Oprah Winfrey, 'The Bold and the Beautiful' wi ...
  Oprah Winfrey receives a special accolade as The Bold and the Beautiful wins four major prizes at the 38th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards.
• Portable pools pose summer risk for kids
  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - With the hot summer months arriving, a new study warns that caregivers need to be thinking about the drowning hazards posed by portable pools, including inflatable and wading pools.

Global Research TV

• Solar Roadways: The Prototype
• War on Libya: Eyewitness Report
• Big Bad Bank: Investigating the U.S. Federal R ...
• Obama Rolls Back Miranda Rights
• Mladic Arrest Will Not Open EU Doors to Serbia

Daily Tech

• GPS Units Lead Washington Drivers into Dangero ...
  Lack of driver attention contributes to some crashes as well
• "Call of Duty" Developers Go to Trial with Act ...
  "Call of Duty" developers Jason West and Vincent Zampella were upset when Activision fired them shortly before $125 million in royalty payments were due
• Nielsen: Smartphone Data Usage Continues to Sk ...
  Up 89 percent from last year
• Cheap Labor in China Coming to an End
  A growing Chinese economy and a need to tend to manufacturing workers' needs has upped the cost of labor
• AR State Officals Suggest Natural Gas Injectio ...
  A record number of earthquakes of increasing strength struck the region after wells were brought online

Oriental Review

• ‘We Are Seeking Historical Truth in the ...
  Last week a representative conference of contemporary history researchers was gathered in Sevastopol, Crimea. ORIENTAL REVIEW republishes the Final Statement of the forum. � � FINAL  STATEMENT Adopted by the International History Conference Commemorating 70th Anniversary of the Outbreak of 1941- ...
• Wall Street’s Role in Narco-Trafficking
  Imagine what your reaction would be if the Mexican government agreed to pay Barack Obama $1.4 billion to deploy US troops and armored vehicles to New York, Los Angeles and Chicago to conduct military operations, set up check points, and engage in fire-fights that end up killing 35,000 US civilia ...
• Will Pay-for-Peace Work in Afghanistan?
  The pay-for-peace format for peace in Afghanistan has perhaps reached its crescendo with the drawdown of NATO forces most likely next month. The moot question is: whether after the departure of the foreign troops will Afghanistan usher in era of peace and development as often harped by its curre ...
• The United States Wants Iraq to Pay for Being ...
  Democracy American-style is such a precious commodity that they don’t give it away. Of course, the Americans may be generous at first and let you have it on credit. But eventually the debt has to be be repaid. US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher visited Iraq and met with local Prime Minister Nouri a ...
• No Limits When Spooks Have a Brawl
  A war of words has erupted between CIA and ISI. The CIA fired the first shot by giving an exclusive story to NYT that ISI has picked up the US agency’s Pakistani informers who tipped off the location of Osama bin Laden’s villa in Abbottabad. Then in the typical style spy agencies plant stories, ...

BlogHer

• Things to Know (and Love) About LibraryThing
  Inspired by Wallace�s post How to Get the Most Out of GoodReads� (and a follow-up Twitter discussion with her), I thought I�d tackle my preferred online book site, LibraryThing, in a similar vein. I hope it will be at least half as useful as her GR guide is! I have a GoodReads account. I ha ...
• Stone Soup Mondays: Best Blog Posts from June ...
  Back again for another installment of Stone Soup Mondays, an open thread that collects the best things you read on the Web and compiles them in one space to extend the lifespan of a great blog post by two weeks. If you missed this series in the past, please click here to read more about the im ...
• A Jewish Mother's View of the SF Circumcision ...
  Have you heard about San Francisco's move to ban circumcision? What about when your religion requires it? Galit Breen, aka Minnesota Mamaleh, of TC Jewfolk has a insightful take that's stirring up a lot of conversation. As a Jewish Mama, my response should fall somewhere along the lines of out ...
• The British Battle Sexualization of Girls--Sort Of
  [The British released a long-awaited study decrying the sexualization of children and teens. But other than a lot of handwringing over raunchy music videos, they didn't have much to recommend. British blogger Hannah Mudge at We Mixed Our Drinks picks apart the study. -Mona] She writes: One ...
• Inspiration: Affirmation Stairs
  I came across this photo on Pinterest and knew I had to share it with you. It's from a site called Cherry Blossom Girl. One of the first things I thought of when I saw this was how I wished I had stairs like these to decorate.Wouldn't it be wonderful and inspiring to climb these everyday? Talk ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Under Food Tyranny – E.Coli The New Terrorist ...
  Is the world’s e.coli scare the Osama Bin Laden of food? Europe’s e.coli outbreak was traced to multiple produce, then organic bean sprouts, then not, then settled adamantly on those organic bean sprouts. This will not ...
• Herbs and Natural Remedies for Insomnia
  Sleep is increasingly noted as the one of nature’s best medicines and preventatives yet. But with the influx of chemicals, job stress, and more stimuli the arms of Morpheus slip out of reach for many ...
• Obese Child Stroke Victim – Age Six
  America isn’t the only country straddled with the obesity problem. Two extreme cases involve the deaths of a six and eight year old who died of obesity-related strokes. The article looks at percentages of babies leaving ...
• CNN Disinfo: Refuses to Use OWN Poll – R ...
  CNN presented Monday night’s GOP debate held in Manchester, New Hampshire. Republican candidates included Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Hermain Cain, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul. Candidates discussed government’s role in society, ...
• Bipolar Kids: Victims of the ‘Madness In ...
  When did the sweep in children’s diagnoses and medication of bipolar disorder begin? Jon Ronson, author of The Men Who Stare at Goats, shares more in his latest book The Psychopath Test. He attributes the part ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Happy West Virginia Day!
  Here’s a great video featuring the incredible Hazel Dickens:   Have a great day everybody!
• Friday roundup, June 17, 2011
  A woman steps out from a mobile refuge facility, which was designed to provided emergency shelter for miners working underground, on display during a coal equipment and mining technology exhibition in Beijing Wednesday, June 1, 2011. China’s coal mines are the world’s deadliest, with thousands o ...
• WVDEP: ‘Golden algae’ back?
  This just in from the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection and the Pennsylvania DEP: The Pennsylvania and West Virginia Departments of Environmental Protection have begun sampling and monitoring ponds and streams in the Dunkard Creek area after sampling found golden algae in a pr ...
• AEP, EPA and the costs of coal pollution
  Gazette photo by Lawrence Pierce, Kanawha River Plant Last week’s announcement of potential plant closures by American Electric Power continued to get attention this week here locally and in Washington, D.C. — where EPA Administrator took on AEP directly, telling a congressional committee: … Whi ...
• MSHA gives industry communications gear loophole
  There’s that photo again …  Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin, a coal miner’s son from Iowa, with a piece of wireless communications and tracking gear at a Senate hearing after the Sago Mine Disaster. And yet here we go again, with another Associated Press account of how the deadline has finally been ...

Daniel Miessler

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

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

• Morning, With Woody: To Clancy, Short and Curly
  WWH – Regular readers may know by now that my contempt for the assorted jurisprudential mediocrities occupying the US Supreme Court, at present, is virtually boundless. And it is NOT always limited to the Opus Deists–Kennedy, Thomas, Alito, Roberts and Scalia–either: I could mention a recent dec ...
• Greenpeace head arrested after nonviolent prot ...
  Jeremy Hance | mongabay.com – Kumi Naidoo, the head of Greenpeace, has been arrested after scaling a deepwater oil rig in the Arctic run by Cairn Energy. Naidoo was attempting to deliver a petition to the captain signed by 50,000 people demanding that Cairn Energy release details on how it would ...
• British veteran peace campaigner Brian Haw dies
  By SYLVIA HUI, Associated Press – LONDON (AP) â To some, he was a crackpot, an eyesore camped out on prime London real estate. To others he was an inspiration, tirelessly fighting for civil rights. Brian Haw, a veteran British peace activist best known for staging around-the-clock protests outsi ...
• Paul Kuitenbrouwer On The Run
  My Father, His Firebombs and Me: Growing up with a father on the run | National Post In this five-part series, veteran National Post reporter Peter Kuitenbrouwer digs into his remarkable childhood and the life of his father, whose Bob Dylan hairstyle and On the Road lifestyle embodied the drug-f ...
• Arizona Still Burning
  As Arizona fires rage, 7 states face extreme fire risk Sunday | CNN Firefighters across the southwestern United States on Sunday could face some of the worst weather conditions of the season for battling blazes currently raging across the region. The National Weather Service has issued a red fla ...

reference frame

• Greenpeace in our time
  Christopher Booker invented an excellent title for his article - Greenpeace in Our Time. It is a variation of Peace in Our Time, a speech given by Neville Chamberlain in which he boasted that he had betrayed his Czechoslovak allies and Herr Hitler was his new best friend. Together, these tw ...
• Black hole devoured a star
  Reuters and many others are informing us about a cute observation with a cute interpretation. On March 28th, 2011, NASA's Swift aircraft has seen an interesting event similar to the gamma ray bursts. The source, named Sw 1644+57, was analyzed by your humble correspondent's f ...
• Obama's flip-flops on missile defense
  I think that many of you remember that Obama's voters used to be fanatical opponents of the missile defense system proposed during the administration of George Bush Jr. We were constantly told that the system was immoral and it didn't work, anyway. Obama would only make statements that were ...
• Festschrift for Václav Klaus
  I wish happy birthday to Gene! Yesterday, Leonard Susskind and his exp(exp(exp(exp(120)))) clones in the hypermultiverse celebrated their 71st birthday, congratulations, too. Your humble correspondent has just returned from another celebration - of the Czech President's 70th birth ...
• Lindzen and Choi 2011: lots of improvements
  I was preparing a short climate talk and I decided it was sensible to at least mildly study the newest paper by Richard Lindzen and Yong-Sang Choi that will appear in Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences: On the observational determination of climate sensitivity and its implicatio ...

No Frakking Consensus

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

Tarpley

• US Naval and Troop Movements Toward North Afri ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net June 15, 2011 Washington DC – US Special Forces units based at Fort Hood, Texas, have been told to prepare for deployment to Libya no later than July, according to a US military source. The Special Forces would then be followed in September or October by hea ...
• US Naval Deployments in Mediterranean and Blac ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on the Alex Jones Show
• США и ПАКИСТАН НА ПОРОГЕ ОТКРЫТОЙ ВОЙНЫ. КИТАЙ ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net 20 Ð¼Ð°Ñ 2011 ÐиÑай оÑиÑиалÑно пÑедÑпÑедил СШÐ, ÑÑо планиÑÑемое ÐаÑингÑоном нападение на ÐакиÑÑан бÑÐ´ÐµÑ Ð±ÑÐ´ÐµÑ ÑаÑÑмаÑÑиваÑÑÑÑ ÐºÐ°Ðº Ð°ÐºÑ Ð°Ð³ÑеÑÑии в оÑноÑении ÐиÑаÑ. ЭÑÐ¾Ñ Ð¶Ð ...
• Gates’ Hysteria About NATO Running Out o ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV June 12, 2011 [
• US Wages Irregular War on Pakistan Beneath Nuc ...
  Moslem Brotherhood in Worldwide Alliance with CIA Against Nation-States Webster G. Tarpley on the Kevin Barrett Show The Kevin Barrett Show June 6, 2011 [download audio]

Modern Survivalism

• Why We Post Our IP Address
  Why do we list our IP Address? http://184.168.238.139 Given the high amount of website hacking that has been reported in the news, we’ve decided to upgrade Modern Survival Blog to a static IP Address. Not long ago I noticed that James Rawle’s site began highlighting their IP Address, and I felt ...
• Hypothetical Israeli Attack on Iran
  Guest Post: by ‘Be Informed’ The following is a possible scenario in which Israel finally fed up with the dangers of Iran having a nuclear program does something about it. I read yesterday that Israelâs defense force is having a drill called âTurning Point 5â³ to begin tomorrow, source israelnat ...
• Don’t be a Victim – Be Confident
  Want to minimize the odds of becoming a victim of robbery or assault, while out in public? Just remember these two words, ‘be confident’. A would-be attacker, robber, or assailant will most always look for easy prey. Just as the weakest of the herd in the animal kingdom typically fall first to a ...
• Iceland’s Katla Volcano Activity since E ...
  Given the very recent earthquake activity at Iceland’s Katla Volcano during June 17,2011, activity which looks like it has to do with magma movement, you may be interested in the following list of articles that I’ve written since April 2010 when it’s immediate neighbor, Eyjafjallajokull, erupted ...
• NSA Allies with Internet Carriers
  During the past few months, I have been increasingly troubled by a feeling of suspicion regarding the fact that there has suddenly been an excess of mainstream news reporting of cyber attacks and hacks into corporate, bank, and government sector computer networks. Something about the rash of rep ...

Fast Company

• Pulp, Non-Fiction: On The British Library's Bo ...
  The British Library is making 250,000 texts available through Google's Books system, which is an admirable way to make historic books useful to the world again. Could this actually help shape the future of publishing?Last week the British Library was lauded for its impressive (and graphically ex ...
• The Concorde Of The Future: Paris To Japan In ...
  Flying Paris to Tokyo in less time than it takes to watch two movies, with barely a wisp of exhaust? That's the plan for the Zhest rocketplane being developed in Europe. Biofuel-powered passenger aircraft are becoming more and more common. But what if you mashed that up with a rocket engine? Tha ...
• The WaterWheel Makes Clean Water Cheaper, Easi ...
  The Hippo Roller has made life easier for thousands of water-starved people--but it's very expensive. The WaterWheel--designed to solve the water crisis in India--is the next generation of wheeled water carriers. Not everyone can just turn on the tap to access clean water; in the developing wor ...
• Decide Helps You Time Electronics Buys, Online ...
  The Fast Company reader's essential rundown of who's breaking into and shaking up your tech space--updated all day. Decide Predicts If You Should Wait To Purchase ElectronicsIf you're stalking Apple news to see if you should buy that new MacBook, or wait for one of the billion Apple rumors to c ...
• Google, IBM, YouTube, And Kabul? Pentagon Host ...
  “The goal,” says Paul Brinkley, a former technology executive and now Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, “is to create an indigenous economy in Afghanistan that gives the Afghans hope, creates employment opportunities for young people, and discourages association with the radicals.”When you thin ...

Jadaliyya

• Culture X
  Our tenth week of Jadaliyya's Culture section features fiction from Iraq, poetry from Lebanon, and and music from Libya: Two Stories by Luay Hamza Abbas, translated by Yasmeen Hanoosh Five Poems by Wadi Saadeh, translated by Sinan Antoon "Libya's Revolution Sparks a New Age of Music" ...
• Five Poems by Wadi Saadeh
  � [These poems, translated from Arabic by Sinan Antoon, are from Wadi Saadeh's forthcoming collection "Man Akhadha al-Nazra Allati Taraktuha Waraa al-Bab" (Who Took the Gaze I Lefty Behind the Door). � Lower Your Voice � Lower your voice please! I want to hear what silence is sayin ...
• Two Stories by Luay Hamza Abbas
  Closing His Eyes (Ighmadh al-�Aynayn) is a collection of seventeen short stories written between 2003-2007. It is the fourth and latest collection of short stories by Iraqi novelist, literary critic and short story writer Luay Hamza Abbas (published by Azmina, Amman, 2008).�Through this ...
• Libya's Revolution Sparks a New Age of Music
  After four decades of dictatorship where Qaddafi’s handpicked singer dominated the airwaves and stifled a once vibrant musical scene, Libya is now rocking and swaying to a flood of joyous and defiant sounds. At a recent Libyan pro-revolution rally in the midday heat of Doha, the protest ...
• Still Seeking Justice for Those Who Died at Gu ...
  This month marks five years since three men who were never charged with any crime died in US custody at Guant�namo under circumstances that remain unexplained and that were never independently investigated. The men�s names were Yasser Al-Zahrani, Salah Al-Salami, and Mani Al-Utaybi, and ...

mediagazer

• Hulu Plays Along With Apple's New Rules. Who's ...
  Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: Hulu Plays Along With Apple's New Rules.  Who's Next?  —  Apple's new subscription rules could have posed a problem for services like Hulu.  But when Steve Jobs changed his mind earlier this month, life got a lot easier.  —  Here's the old version of the Hulu Plus sub ...
• How 'The Voice' Uses Twitter to Raise Ratings ...
  Shirley Halperin / Hollywood Reporter: How ‘The Voice’ Uses Twitter to Raise Ratings … If The Voice twisted the TV talent show formula, it damn near revolutionized the use of social media in the live viewing experience.  —  For every participant in the process — contestant to coach to couch po ...
• Have newsrooms relaxed standards, sanctions fo ...
  Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter: Have newsrooms relaxed standards, sanctions for fabrication and plagiarism?  —  When the Chicago Sun-Times fired Paige Wiser for fabricating earlier this month, readers shared mixed reactions about whether the punishment was too harsh.  —  Wiser, who had been at t ...
• The Onion Is Seeking a Pulitzer, Any Pulitzer ...
  Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times: The Onion Is Seeking a Pulitzer, Any Pulitzer  —  Despite a professed designation as “America's Finest News Source,” The Onion has never actually won the highest honor in American journalism: the Pulitzer Prize.  —  Not that it hasn't tried.  Editors at the s ...
• Reinventing the article with Storify (Ellie Be ...
  Ellie Behling / eMedia Vitals: Reinventing the article with Storify  —  Storify is one of the most exciting journalism tools of the year.  The mission of the platform is to make social media the story not just the distribution tool, explained Xavier Damman, co-founder of the site.  —  “Storyte ...

Chemtrail News

• Chemtrails Versus Contrails
  Chemtrails, on the other hand, are "chemical trails" purportedly resulting from intentional high altitude release of chemical or biological agents. While you might think chemtrails would include crop dusting, cloud seeding and chemical ...About.com Chemistry
• YouTube ChemTrail Pilot Admits toDomest ...
  Secret hiddencam conversation with a CHEMTRAIL PILOT POISONS IN OUR AIR http://vodpod.com/watch/3551796-secret-hiddencam-conversation-with-a-chemtrai.www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IjXKZlv2z0
• YouTube - Chemtrail Slideshow 14th June ...
  Lines in the sky! Filmed this morning on my mobile phone. Ashton-Under-Lyne, nr Manchester UK. 4:41am - 11:49am. http://chemtrailsmap.com/www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJsmslf5Skw
• Chemtrails Versus Contrails
  Do you know the difference between a chemtrail and a contrail A contrail is an abbreviation forcondensation trail which is a visible white vapor trail ...chemistry.about.com/b/2011/.../chemtrails-versus-contrails.ht...
• [1 of 2] Alan Watt – Chemtrail informat ...
  (Chemtrails): www.youtube.com Speaker is Alan Watt: www.cuttingthroughthematrix. com. Related posts: 27 of 27 Chemtrail film: Don't Talk About the Weather ...chemtrails.theshadowland.net/.../1-of-2-alan-watt-chemtrail-inf...

World News - Top Stories

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

no frakking consensus

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

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Information Underground

• The Information Underground Radio Show • Re: J ...
  Have you been listening to Yahweh's truth because Wickstrom read that out on his show. He read the whole thing out and it sounded contrived.Statistics: Posted by bluejelly — Mon Jun 20, 2011 12:46 pm
• Crimes of Israel, IDF, Zionists, Mossad or &qu ...
  Propose a new law whereby anyone who denies Talmudic Jewry's involvement in the Holodomor genocide is liable for prosecution. 38.5% of senior commissars in Stalin's regime were crypto-Jews, Communism itself was based on the most extreme tenants of Talmudic Judaism. Victims of the Soviet Cheka ...
• Zionist Influence/Power • Re: THE EARLY RECORD ...
  i was just reading about a similar historical phase, though in Prussia in 1811. "Marwitz, an ultra-conservative general, objected to the liberal reforms proposed at the time. In 1811 he warned that these reforms would turn Prussia into a “Judenstaat,” a Jewstate. He did not mean that Jews were ...
• Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
  is that the same Spencer-Marks that deal in silver antiques ? http://www.spencermarks.com/Statistics: Posted by abduLMaria — Mon Jun 20, 2011 10:36 am
• Crimes of Israel, IDF, Zionists, Mossad or &qu ...
  CrackSmokeRepublican wrote: More evidence of Israeli-Jewish/NeoCon control of the Israelized US Media system. Jews Daniel Ellsberg and Seymour Hersh know exactly that Israeli intelligence agencies with the NeoCons carried out the 9/11 attacks and the Anthrax attacks -- except now, 10 years late ...

TVNZ

• Syrian president Bashar al-Assad addresses the ...
  Syria's president has given a speech three months into unrest against his 11-year rule.
• Police officer in London court over G20 death
  A London police officer has appeared in court accused of killing a newspaper seller in 2009.
• Iraq bomb hits French convoy, seven hurt
  A French embassy convoy in Iraq was hit by a roadside bomb in Baghdad.
• Political instability in Vanuatu reaches new h ...
  A Supreme Court ruling found Sato Kilman had been illegally selected as Vanuatu Prime Minister.
• Hundreds of police, soldiers sweep Brazilian slum
  Hundreds of Brazilian police and soldiers have swept a crime-ridden slum in Rio.

environment 360

• Forum: Just How Safe Is ‘Fracking’ of Natural ...
  New technologies for freeing natural gas from underground shale formations have led to a hydraulic fracturing boom across the U.S. that is now spreading to other countries. In a Yale Environment 360 forum, eight experts discuss whether “fracking” can be done without serious harm to water and ai ...
• Fly Larvae Used to Remove Organic Waste on Lar ...
  Spanish researchers have developed a process that uses fly larvae to rapidly break down animal waste on a large scale while simultaneously producing biomass that can Click to enlarge Asociación RUVIDFly larvae feed on organic waste be re-used for numerous purposes, from animal feed to the pr ...
• Snowpack Decline in Rockies Has Rapidly Accele ...
  A new study says snowpack decline in the northern Rocky Mountains over the last 30 years has been more severe than at any other time in nearly 1,000 years. In an analysis of 66 tree-ring records, researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) found that the average spring snowpack in the nor ...
• Mattel Vows to Stop Using Paper from Accused A ...
  Toymaker Mattel Inc. says it will stop using packaging from a Singapore-based company accused of clear-cutting swaths of Indonesian rainforest. Mattel’s action follows a campaign by Greenpeace that targeted, among other products, the packaging used in Mattel’s popular GreenpeaceVIDEO: Barbi ...
• Instant Identification of Trees Is Possible Us ...
  Click to enlarge LeafsnapThe Leafsnap smartphone app Botanists from the Smithsonian Institution have helped develop a smartphone app that can identify tree species within seconds using visual recognition software and then share the location with a database of tree populations. After a user ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• PECAN Group
  Tags: pecan group news
• Real News Worldwide
  Tags: 'alternative news'
• Canadian Partnership for Children's Health & E ...
  Tags: children health environment
• World Affairs Brief
  Joel Skousen Tags: geopolitics
• Home - DJ6ual - An Irish Girl
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backofthebook

• The Vancouver riot: thugs are not anarchists
  By Frank Moher Memo to Vancouver Police Chief Jim Chu: idiots and anarchists are two different things. I know being a political scientist isn't a prerequiste for becoming a cop, not even the top cop, but playing the "anarchist" card last week, as you did in defending your force's handling of ...
• Where is Brock Anton?
  By Frank Moher Having owned the Brock Anton story sufficiently on Thursday to crash our server for awhile -- we've now moved to a nice big new one -- it seems necessary to provide a follow-up, although much of the web has moved on to other riot tales, like the kissing ...
• The face of Vancouver’s Stanley Cup riot
  By Frank Moher Overnight, a certain Brock Anton became the face of the Vancouver Stanley Cup riot on the internet. Downtown for the abortive festivities yesterday, Mr. Anton apparently took time out from his busy schedule to post this on his Facebook page: It reads: Maced in the face, ...
• Debating Libya
  By Alison@Creekside "He simply will not last very long," Harper said of Muammar Gaddafi back in March, as Canada prepared to drop $27-million of smart money smart bombs on Libya in order to oust him. As of now Gaddafi controls most of the country, including the capital. Today Parliament ...
• Revisited: Sun TV’s Ezra problem
  With the Sun News Network lately embarked on a jihad against government funding of the arts, it might be worth remarking: at least when artists are given money, they do what they're supposed to do with it. On the other hand, we have the example of SNN costume rack Ezra ...

Daily Beast

• Goodbye to My Hero
  William Dalrymple remembers legendary travel writer and British war hero Patrick Leigh Fermor.
• What Obama's Golf Fashion Reveals
  With Obama in flat-front pants and John Boehner in pleated shorts, the presidential golf outing featured clothes a man could mow his lawn in, writes Robin Givhan.
• How a Triple Agent Duped the CIA
  When the CIA thought it had a line on Ayman al-Zawahiri—al Qaeda’s new chief—almost any risk seemed worth it. But in the world of terrorism, no one’s loyalty is ever certain. In this week’s Newsweek, Joby Warrick reports on the man who left seven CIA operatives dead.
• Best of Art Basel
  A bash for Christian Marclay, Pilvi Takala’s thoughtful videos, and Erik van Lieshout laughs at consumption.
• A CEO’s Defense of Government
  Andrew Liveris’ new book provides a government blueprint for reviving manufacturing and restoring growth.

Loonwatch

• TPM: Hijab-Wearing ‘Flash Mob’ Invades RightOnline
  Hijab wearers show up at a right-wing conference.
• Salon.com: Arabic for right-wingers
  In ominous tones, Islamophobes toss around terms like "taqiyya" and "Shariah." Do they even know what they mean?
• Florida pastor Terry Jones returning to Michig ...
  Someone should tell pastor Terry Jones that all Arabs are not Muslims and all Muslims are not Arabs.
• Politico.com: Today, Muslims; Tomorrow, You
  Republicans refusal to condemn anti-Muslim bigotry will long be remembered.
• Hasner: We are witnessing a ‘civilizational ji ...
  Adam Hasner, loon politician from Florida says we are at war with "Sharia Islam."

Energy News

• Water level rose almost 3 feet during weekend ...
  River inches toward nuke plant shutdown level, Journal Star, June 19, ...Read More
• Japanese professor: Melted fuel has gone throu ...
  Preventing radiation contamination more important than TEPCO’s stock prices, Mainichi, June ...Read More
• Levee near Nebraska’s Cooper nuke plant ...
  Levee About to Break Near Brownville, Action 3 News, June 19, ...Read More
• Report: Fukushima reactor water may be 144 tim ...
  Contaminated Water Processing at #Fukushima: The Water Was Simply Too “Hot”, ...Read More
• Alex, Frenchman living in Tokyo: “All my ...
  Playbacklapompe channel, YouTube, June 20, 2011 at 12:00 am EDT ...Read More

Japan Times

• Mr. Gates' farewell
  It is an open question whether United States Secretary of Defense Robert Gates would have been as blunt in his criticism of NATO's European members in a speech on June 10 if he was not stepping down. He warned that U.S. patience and its bankroll are running thin. Mr. Gates' words need to be hear ...
• Closed-door IAEA talks on Fukushima hit
  The United Nations nuclear agency's decision to hold talks about the Fukushima disaster behind closed doors this week ignores the blatant need for greater transparency, said a former official in the U.K. atomic industry. "People deserve openness from the industry and its regulators," Malcolm G ...
• Panasonic forecasts 59% profit plunge for full ...
  Panasonic Corp. forecast full-year profit will tumble 59 percent this fiscal year after the March 11 earthquake disrupted factories and suppliers. Net income will probably drop to �30 billion in the year to March 2012, the Osaka-based company said in a statement Monday. That compares with the ...
• Nintendo may fail with new Wii U
  Takaki Kawatsu, a 33-year-old real estate agent, says he'll be among Nintendo Co. customers who will pass on the company's next Wii game console. "I bought the original Wii because it was popular, new and seemed like a great item to have at a party," said Kawatsu, who owned the game console fo ...
• Anai triumphs at Grand Slam meet
  World champion Takamasa Anai defeated Russia's Sergey Samoylovich in the men's 100-kg final Sunday at the Grand Slam meet in Rio de Janeiro. But Athens Olympic men's over-100 kg gold medalist Keiji Suzuki, currently ranked sixth in the world, suffered a first-round loss to 101st-ranked Joao Ga ...

Alexander Higgins

• Scientists Warn Newly Discovered Fault Could B ...
  Scientists Fear A Newly Discovered Fault line In California Is At Risk Of Triggering A Massive 6.9 Earthquake, Which Would Burst A Dam Only 200 Yards Away Triggering Massive Flooding That Could Drown Thousands Including The Nearby City Of Reno Nevada.
• The Guardian: Eisenhower’s worst fears c ...
  We face no serious threat, yet keeps waging war. While big defense exists, glory-hungry politicians will use it.
• City Forces All Residents To Give Copy Of Hous ...
  Despite widespread objects from citizens, the city of Cedar Falls Iowa has passed passed a controversial ordinance requiring all residents to provide the Government with a copy of their house keys.
• Bob Tuskin: City Commission Gets a Dose of Truth
  Bob Tuskin: City Commission Gets a Dose of Truth - After putting this video online, the Bob Tuskin site was DDOS'd and has been offline ever since.
• Scientists Successfully Implant Chip That Cont ...
  Scientists working at the University of Southern California, home of the Department of Homeland Security's National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events, have created an artificial memory system that allows thoughts, memories and learned behavior to be transferred from one b ...

Macleans - Central

• This is the week that was
  The House debated Libya and the meaning of regime change. The opposition demanded to hear
• The cost of a peace deal in Afghanistan
  My second article from Afghanistan is about Afghans opposed to President Hamid Karzai’s Western-backed efforts
• Where are the documents?
  On April 14, midway through the election campaign, the two judges involved in the review
• Canada Post is all but obsolete
  I have regard and sympathy for postal workers. Their mission was once critical to the
• Betty Fox
  Terry Fox’s mother passed away this morning. Shortly before the 1993 Terry Fox Run I

Making It Count - CCPA

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

ReDress

• The Palestinian Authority’s historic mistake - ...
  Jeff Halper calls on Palestinian Authority leaders, foremost Mahmoud Abbas, to honour their historic national responsibility, mobilize the immense resources of Palestinian and world civil society and push for UN recognition of Palestinian independence in September "as the head of a national unit ...
• Reasonable conjecture on Israel’s changing dem ...
  Lawrence Davidson considers why a growing number of Israeli Jews are voting - or preparing to vote - with their feet by emigrating or acquiring foreign passports, and views a possible future scenario where the majority of Jews remaining in Israel are racist, ideologically-motivated religious fan ...
• Deny! Deny! Israel as a theocratic state
  Uri Avnery views the origins and implications of the notion of Israel as a "Jewish state", arguing that, in effect, it places Israel in the same category as another theocratic state, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. "Many Israelis would be shocked by the comparison. What, us? Similar to a theo ...
• Why does Britain tolerate its leaders? The pow ...
  Christopher King considers the bubble of deception and lies that underpins the British political establishment and the ignorance and self-delusion that sustain public support for this establishment.
• The forthcoming Gaza flotilla: heroism vs viol ...
  Richard Lightbown summarizes the situation ahead of the forthcoming Freedom Flotilla II - Stay Human in plain language bereft of the doublespeak that the Israeli government would like us to hear. "No Nobel Peace Laureate will be able to disguise the guilt if more Israeli hoods batter more human ...

Physics Today

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

Revolutionary Politics

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

Peakwater

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

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

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

Popular Technology

• Correcting misinformation about the journal En ...
  A frequent source of contention in the global warming debate is the existence of skeptical peer-reviewed papers. These have been overwhelmingly proven to exist. Once confronted with this inconvenient truth, alarmists have desperately tried to discredit the journals that dare publish these papers ...
• Origin of the Popular Technology.net Peer-Revi ...
  There are various myths floating around online about where the Popular Technology.net peer-reviewed paper list originated, falsely giving credit to people who copied earlier versions of my list and published it as their own. The following is a brief history,Back in February 2007 I began compilin ...
• 900+ Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skepticis ...
  WARNING: Do not accept any criticisms of this list without reading the notes or emailing, populartechnology (at) gmail (dot) comRead: The following papers support skepticism of AGW or AGW Alarm defined as, "concern relating to a negative environmental or socio-economic effect of AGW, usually exa ...
• Who is Deep Climate?
  A new climate alarmist blog appeared on October 18, 2008 from an "unknown" Canadian setting out to both "follow the money" and "follow the science" of the "climate science 'skeptic' movement in Canada". Who in the great Northwest of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada would undertake such a daunt ...
• Are Skeptical Scientists funded by ExxonMobil?
  In an article titled, "Analysing the ‘900 papers supporting climate scepticism’: 9 out of top 10 authors linked to ExxonMobil" from the environmental activist website The Carbon Brief, former Greenpeace "researcher" Christian Hunt failed to do basic research. He made no attempt to contact the sc ...