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Thomas Paine

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

Thursday, June 23, 2011

23 June - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

To Do

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Riverside Partners' Portfolio Company, Alteris Renewables, to Merge with Real ...
MarketWatch (press release)
- Jun 23, 2011
- 3 hours ago
Combining a widely recognized and reputable consumer brand with a premier commercial customer base, a strong array of financing solutions and in-house engineering expertise, this merger will create a leading renewable energy integrator. ...
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Va. Beach conference debates: Is wind energy in doldrums?
The Virginian-Pilot
- Jun 23, 2011
- 5 hours ago
Some say the investment is too steep in Virginia, which has no mandatory renewable energy standard. The cost for generating offshore wind is almost double that from natural gas and coal. Also, Virginia's average energy bills are 16 percent below the ...
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Republicans' renewables bills may increase litigation: Obama officials
Platts
- Jun 23, 2011
- 1 hour ago
A suite of legislation to streamline environmental reviews for renewable energy projects being pushed by US House of Representatives Republicans could lead to increased litigation and additional project delays, members of the Obama administration ...
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RMT Joins First Wind to Commemorate Commercial Operations of Milford Wind ...
PR Newswire (press release)
- Jun 23, 2011
- 5 hours ago
RMT remains an excellent partner for First Wind as, together, we're building projects that deliver clean, renewable energy to homes and businesses, while putting people to work and creating real economic opportunity." RMT also led the construction of ...
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Human Habitat

ecology water energy
Art for ecology's sake at BCC
phillyBurbs.com
- Jun 23, 2011
- 9 hours ago
PEMBERTON TOWNSHIP — Call it a combination of art and ecology. The ceremony will be held next to another BCC sustainability concept, the NASA II-funded greenhouse, which produces its own electricity. The free event is open to the public. ...
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A bit of sun makes Puget Sound plankton bloom
The Seattle Times
- Jun 22, 2011
- Jun 22, 2011
The Ecology Department says tests confirm the reddish-orange color to the water in parts of central Puget Sound is harmless plankton called Noctiluca (nock-ti-lu-kah). The Associated Press No comments have been posted to this article. ...
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Binghamton resident researches ecology, insects at Cornell
Ithaca Journal
- Jun 23, 2011
- 8 hours ago
Binghamton resident Eleanor Durfee, a sophomore biology major at Haverford College, will spend the summer studying ecology and insects at Cornell University. Durfee will work with Professor Anurag Agrawal, focusing on the interactions between ...
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Ecology book teaches do-it-yourself 'worm poo tea,' more
MiamiHerald.com
- Jun 20, 2011
- Jun 20, 2011
By FARZAD MASHHOOD Evan Marks, executive director of The Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano, Calif., keeps a fresh bucket brewing behind the environmental education center's headquarters at the historical Congdon House. It's a concoction that might ...
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Water Power

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Soggy Midwest faces new summer threat: more rain
Fox News
- Jun 23, 2011
- 1 hour ago
Throughout the Missouri River Valley and other parts of the upper Midwest, there's simply no place left for any more water. That brings a new threat to the nation's water-logged midsection: more rain. In a region already struggling with historically ...
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EPA Warns House Bill Would 'Overturn' Clean Water Law
New York Times
- Jun 23, 2011
- 2 hours ago
By PAUL QUINLAN of Greenwire US EPA warned of the potential dire consequences of legislation being fast-tracked through the House that would give states final say on rules concerning water, wetlands and mountaintop-removal mining. ...
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Operation Dry Water: Maryland drunken boating crackdown part of national program
Washington Post
- Jun 23, 2011
- 1 hour ago
Police say they will be participating in Operation Dry Water, a national program to raise awareness about the dangers of drinking while boating. In addition to NRP officers, the Coast Guard and local law enforcement agencies will be looking for alcohol ...
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Panhandle leaders ink water deal with Pickens
LubbockOnline.com
- Jun 23, 2011
- 1 hour ago
By Elliott Blackburn PLAINVIEW -- Texas Panhandle leaders inked contracts purchasing an estimated 4 trillion gallons of water from business tycoon T. Boone Pickens on Thursday, securing, they believed, water supplies for their residents into the next ...
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The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

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

The Daily Galaxy

  • Galaxy Energy
    Yale University astronomers have probed into the distant universe and discovered that galaxies display one of two distinct behaviors: "they are either awake or asleep, actively forming stars or are not forming any new stars at all." A new survey...
  • Tuesday News Flash -Sci, Space Tech
    Pluto's Mysterious Moons, Nix & Hydra In June 2005, two small moons were discovered orbiting Pluto, much farther out than its larger moon, Charon.For a year, the discovery team, led by planetary astronomer Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute...
  • Moons of Alien Planets Beyond Solar System May ...
    "The satellites of extrasolar planets (exomoons) have been recently proposed as astrobiological targets. Since giant planets in the habitable zone are thought to have migrated there," says Simon Porter of Lowell Observatory and William Grundy of Arizona State University in...
  • News Flash: International Space Station (ISS) ...
    Missions to the International Space Station are in chaos because the different nations who use it have failed to agree on how to transport supplies and astronauts to and from it, the head of the European Space Agency has claimed....
  • Image of the Day: The Weirdness of Dwarf Galaxies
    The dwarf galaxy NGC 4214 is afire with young stars and gas clouds. Located around 10 million light-years away in the constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs), the galaxy's close proximity, combined with the wide variety of evolutionary stages...

Natural News

  • Biotech quick fix for superweeds could lead to ...
    (NaturalNews) Albert Einstein once defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. And that is exactly how the biotechnology industry and government agencies are trying to handle the escalating "superweed" epidemic.According to a recent report out of ...
  • Planes, trains, and automobiles: TSA to grope ...
    (NaturalNews) The enemy of freedom, the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA), as well as its mother ship, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is on a mission to grope every single traveler in the US. Whether you travel by airplane, train, ship, bus, freight truck, or potenti ...
  • ONE The Event launches on 9/11 to help transfo ...
    (NaturalNews) In an effort to transform fear into love through the power of human intention, Seattle firefighter Erik Lawyer has launched a transformational event called ONE The Event (www.OneTheEvent.org). Erik is the founder of Firefighters for 9/11 truth and is fully informed about the rather ...
  • How to eat to boost brain function and cut Alz ...
    (NaturalNews) Can dietary practices impact memory and affect Alzheimer's risk? A recent study published in Archives of Neurology found that a healthy diet may lower levels of brain chemicals linked to Alzheimer's disease, while an unhealthy diet may raise them: Mail Online reports. Furthermore, ...
  • If the Titanic sank today, here's how the Pres ...
    (NaturalNews) What would all the world's experts and authorities say today if the Titanic were sinking but nobody was willing to admit it? The U.S. economy, after all, is sinking and taking on an unprecedented volume of water (i.e. debt), yet virtually no one is willing to admit the obvious fact ...

Threat Level

  • British Police Swoop In on Possible LulzSec Su ...
    London’s Metropolitan Police arrested a 19-year-old Essex man Tuesday in an investigation that may be linked to the tweet-happy hax0ring gang LulzSec. “The arrest follows an investigation into network intrusions and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against a number of international ...
  • Dropbox Left User Accounts Unlocked for 4 Hour ...
    At a time when hackers are on a tear looting information willy-nilly from insecure sites on the Web, Dropbox did the unthinkable Sunday — it allowed anyone in the world to access any one of its 25 million customers’ online storage lockers — simply by typing in any password. Dropbox, one of the m ...
  • Righthaven Loss: Judge Rules Reposting Entire ...
    A federal judge ruled Monday that publishing an entire article without the rights holder’s authorization was a fair use of the work, in yet another blow to newspaper copyright troll Righthaven. It’s not often that republishing an entire work without permission is deemed fair use. Fair use is an ...
  • Appeals Court Deals Blow to ‘Hot News’ Doctrine
    A federal appeals court cleared the way Monday for a financial-news website to publish stock market analysts’ private buy and sell recommendations in near-real time, striking a blow to a century-old legal doctrine that gave media companies control over the time-sensitive news they report. The ...
  • Bitcoin Prices Plummet on Hacked Exchange
    The Bitcoin community faced another crisis on Sunday afternoon as the price of the currency on the most popular exchange, Mt.Gox, fell from $17 to pennies in a matter of minutes. Trading was quickly suspended and visitors to the home page were redirected to a statement blaming the crash on a com ...

PERRspectives : Blog

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

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

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

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • San Antonio’s clean energy push just in the ni ...
    CPS Energy, San Antonioâs municipal utility, has announced plans to shut its two-unit, 871-megawatt JT Deely coal station down by 2018. The utility estimates this move could save as much as $3 billion in environmental upgrades needed for these aging coal-fired units to comply with pending federa ...
  • Houston Pleas for Smarter Water Usage in the W ...
    Summer has barely set in and the City of Houston has issued stage one conservation measures in the wake of the current drought in Texas: City of Houston Implements Stage One Water Conservation Measures Lack of rain and record high temperatures that have plagued 98 percent of the state have made ...
  • New Laws Offer Hope For Transparency
    The Texas Legislature has taken steps to offer more transparency in government this legislative year. As a Texas Tribune article  written by Becca Aaronson points out, lawmakers hope this will provide a lot of information to be available online. However, some people are worried that private info ...
  • Three-quarters of US nuclear power plants have ...
    According to an Associated Press investigative report, three-quarters of the nation’s commercial nuclear power sites have had tritium leaks (a radioactive form of hydrogen), often into groundwater from corroded, buried piping and the number and severity of the leaks has been escalating as the re ...
  • New NRC rule would minimize “legacy sites” but ...
    Facilities that process large quantities of radioactive material have the potential for significant environmental contamination due to the scale of their operations. Over time, leaks from these facilities can lead to significant radioactive contamination of the subsurface soil and groundwater.  ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • "Deer with wings" causes power outage
    A "flying deer" has been identified by an energy company as the cause of a power outage in Montana. Workers were baffled when a resident discovered a ...
  • Entire reservoir drained after man pees in it
    Over 8 million gallons of drinking water were drained after a man decided to use the lake as a toilet. The operation to drain the lake is costing over...
  • Ancient shaman whaling dangers revealed
    Petroglyphs on Alaskan islands reveal a spiritual side to Alutiiq whaling dominated by shamans. On-going research being conducted by Kodiak Alaska nat...
  • 3,000mph hypersonic plane unveiled
    Plans have been unveiled for a hypersonic plane capable of flying from London to Tokyo in 2 hours. The plane would feature three sets of engine able t...
  • Funding cuts - what's next for SETI ?
    With funding cuts and the Allen Telescope Array effectively shut down, what happens now for SETI ? The search for intelligent alien life in the univer...

Grassroots

Climate

  • Senior Republicans Bash White House Oil Releas ...
    Source:� The Hill House Republicans bashed the White House decision to release 30 million barrels of oil from the nation's stockpiles, calling it a political move that ignores undue barriers to domestic drilling.
  • Enviros, Celebs Plan Keystone XL Protest to Ta ...
    Source:� Politico A group of environmentalists and celebrities are organizing civil disobedience protests at the White House against the proposed Keystone oil sands pipeline from mid-August to Labor Day.
  • DeChristopher Sentencing Is Rescheduled for La ...
    Source:� Salt Lake Tribune U.S. District Judge Dee Benson has rescheduled climate activist Tim DeChristopher's sentencing on bogus oil and gas lease bids to July 26, the Justice Department announced this week.
  • Solar Industry Ripe for Consolidation: Executives
    Source:� Reuters The solar power industry may be heading for a shake-out as sliding solar cell prices and looming overcapacity spark a round of consolidation and force small and weaker players out.
  • BP Seeks to Build 300 Gas Wells in Oman
    Source:� Wall Street Journal UK energy giant BP aims to develop 300 natural gas wells in Oman in what would be one of the company's largest global projects, its CEO said.

GreenBiz

  • How to Save a Million Eggs a Day, and Other Re ...
    When working with the world’s largest retailer, you come to expect the unexpected. But what’s truly exciting is to help drive the unexpected.
  • The VERGE Opportunity in China
    In the first of three events of our multi-nation VERGE conference, experts in Shanghai explored the potential scale and opportunity for VERGE innovation in China, which is mind-boggling, but, like most nations in the world, they've barely scratched the surface.
  • Companies Falling Far Short of Managing Water ...
    A new report on corporate responses to water scarcity finds that that most demonstrate limited or no evidence of taking action to mitigate water risks.
  • Post-Quake Japan Shows Highs & Lows of a Hasty ...
    In the wake of the horrific tsunami and nuclear meltdown in northern Japan earlier this year, the country has has to very quickly step up its energy efficiency projects, with some notable successes and struggles.
  • Post-Quake Japan Shows Highs & Lows of a Hasty ...
    In the wake of the horrific tsunami and nuclear meltdown in northern Japan earlier this year, the country has has to very quickly step up its energy efficiency projects, with some notable successes and struggles.

Reuters Global

  • Will the Arab Spring bring U.S.-style “c ...
    One signpost of the shift from the old collective way of approaching politics toward the new and more individualistic one is a change in slogans. “Dignity is the new slogan,”
  • Taliban talks: the new mirage in Afghanistan
    Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said publicly the United States is holding talks with the Taliban. But is it already too late to reach a peaceful settlement to the war?
  • “Fearsome risks” driving policy ov ...
    In China, where a rash of protests, sometimes violent, have recently flared up and been slapped down, echoes from this year's 'Arab Spring' of rebellion against iron-fisted rulers in the Middle East and North Africa are resonating loudly.
  • Ten years on, still trying to frame the Afghan War
    U.S. President Barack Obama is in the midst of a wrenching decision on whether to quickly bring home the 100,000 troops deployed in Afghanistan or stay the course in the hope that the situation will stabilise in the country
  • No room at the Inn … but maybe a job in ...
    Lucille Lievaux, a 25-year-old French geologist, commutes to work on a plane, a 1,300-km journey from Australia's Indian Ocean city of Perth to the mining town of Karratha, a smudge of suburbia on the continent's barren northwest coast. She is part of growing army of foreigners being recruited f ...

Booman Tribune

  • Our New National Security Team
    I was pleased to see that Leon Panetta won the support of all 100 senators to be our new Secretary of Defense. He will be the first Democrat to serve in the position in 14 years. I am very happy to bring that streak to an end. It's important that he starts off with unanimous support because h ...
  • JP Morgan Pays SEC Chump Change for Fraud
    Ho Hum, the SEC settles a securities fraud case against JP Morgan for $153.6 million. The civil case against JP Morgan was based on the sale of collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) composed of securitized mortgages, the same debt instruments that created the housing crisis that led to the col ...
  • Nuttiness in South Carolina
    South Carolina has a history of being a big deal in presidential primaries. You might remember Barack Obama's stunningly dominant performance there in 2008 that prompted Bill Clinton to compare him to Jesse Jackson and inspire a big backlash. Or you might remember that John McCain solidified h ...
  • Gluetrapped in Afghanistan
    Afghanistan appears to be a gluetrap. You can get in, but you can't get out. I'll wait to see what the president announces tonight, but, at best, he's going to remove the 30,000 troops he inserted in Afghanistan in 2009. And, in doing so, he's going to get a bunch of headlines and headaches a ...
  • Italy Gets Cold Feet
    You gotta love the resolve: Italy called for a suspension of hostilities in Libya on Wednesday in the latest sign of dissent within NATO as the civilian death toll mounts and Moamer Kadhafi shows no signs of quitting power. "We have seen the effects of the crisis and therefore also of NATO a ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Group Therapy for Adults Abused as Children
    By Roni Weisberg-Ross, LMFT, Abuse / Survivors of Abuse Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Roni and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Group therapy can be the most nurturing and also the most challenging form of therapy. It is highly effective. While it doesn’t replace individual th ...
  • The Pleasure Principle: What It Is and How It ...
    By Ondina Nandine Hatvany, MFT, Eating & Food Issues Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Ondina and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile The Pleasure Principle is simply this: Our bodies are wired to move towards pleasure and avoid pain. We naturally gravitate towards things that taste, ...
  • Writing Your Personal Manifesto
    By Nicole S. Urdang, M.S., NCC, DHM, Holistic Psychotherapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Nicole and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile. Manifesto: a public declaration of intentions, opinions, objectives, or motives. As a long-time yogi, I have been setting an intention before ...
  • Panic May be Delayed after Stressful Event
    New research suggests that stressful events may cause delayed increase in panic symptoms. Because the effect of stress on panic symptoms has not been studied extensively, researchers wanted to determine if people with panic problems experienced immediate increase or a gradual increase in symptom ...
  • Negative Emotions May Improve Memory
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Undergraduate students at the Washington University in St. Louis were given memory tests to determine the effects of negative emotions have on recall and retention. Bridgid Finn, Ph.D., postdoctoral researcher in psychology in Arts & Sciences, said, “Memory is lab ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Babies With Birth Defects: Mountain Top Remova ...
    USA Today Babies With Birth Defects: Mountain Top Removal Mining Linked to Deformities PR Newswire (press release) BEREA, Ky., June 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new study conducted by Dr. Melissa Ahern at Washington State University, Dr. Michael Hendryx and others at WV University find ...
  • Louisville Native's Film Featured in National ...
    Louisville Native's Film Featured in National Magazine WFPL Bingham produced the film �The Last Mountain,� which chronicled mountaintop removal in West Virginia's Coal River Valley, and followed locals and Kennedy as they talked about their work to bring renewable energy to the area. ... and m ...
  • The Whole Coal Story - Huffington Post (blog)
    The Whole Coal Story Huffington Post (blog) Mountaintop removal -- chopping the tops off mountains and subsequently destroying the surrounding ecosystems -- is one of the main techniques used to expose layers of the black rock. When burned, coal spews more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere tha ...
  • UUs join March on Blair Mountain - uuworld.org
    uuworld.org UUs join March on Blair Mountain uuworld.org At site of historic coal miner uprising, activists raise awareness about consequences of mountaintop removal mining. By Donald E. Skinner More than 500 people marched 50 miles to Blair Mountain, W. Va., to raise awareness about mountainto ...
  • Think Big: Energy spring is here and you can j ...
    Think Big: Energy spring is here and you can join the uprising Daily Kos Immediately eliminate the use of mountaintop removal mining. Mountaintop removal produces less than 5% of coal in the United States, an amount easily made up from other sources. Yet this small sliver of coal production acc ...

Memeorandum

  • Budget Talks Near Collapse as G.O.P. Leader Qu ...
    Carl Hulse / New York Times: Budget Talks Near Collapse as G.O.P. Leader Quits  —  WASHINGTON — Budget talks aimed at clearing the way for a federal debt limit increase teetered near collapse Thursday as Representative Eric Cantor, the House majority leader, abandoned the negotiations and top R ...
  • Poll: Ryan 3rd-most-disliked GOPer (Reid J. Ep ...
    Reid J. Epstein / Reuters: Poll: Ryan 3rd-most-disliked GOPer  —  Democrats are winning the messaging war on Rep. Paul Ryan's bid to overhaul Medicare, with a new Bloomberg poll finding 57 percent of Americans believe they would be worse off under his plan.  —  Only 34 percent said they would ...
  • Debt talks collapse, Republicans walk out over ...
    Reuters: Debt talks collapse, Republicans walk out over taxes  —  (Reuters) - U.S. budget talks collapsed on Thursday after Republican negotiators walked out, throwing doubt on Washington's ability to reach a deal that would allow the government to keep borrowing and avoid a debt default.
  • Mystery Candidate Leads to Walk Out at Ames St ...
    The Note: Mystery Candidate Leads to Walk Out at Ames Straw Poll Land Auction  —  ABC News' Russell Goldman (@GoldmanRussell) reports:  —  A little bit of intrigue at the Ames straw poll land auction...  Representatives of Republican candidates are meeting today in Ames, Iowa for what is essent ...
  • Michelle Obama 'Loves the Job,' Wants Four Mor ...
    Devin Dwyer / ABCNEWS: Michelle Obama ‘Loves the Job,’ Wants Four More Years  —  First lady Michelle Obama today said her global advocacy on behalf of women and young people gives her a personal stake in her husband's re-election, and that she eagerly awaits the coming campaign.  —  “I think t ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.2, Kyushu, Japan
    Thursday, June 23, 2011 11:38:36 UTCThursday, June 23, 2011 08:38:36 PM at epicenterDepth: 52.60 km (32.68 mi)
  • M 5.3, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
    Thursday, June 23, 2011 10:35:02 UTCThursday, June 23, 2011 07:35:02 PM at epicenterDepth: 53.10 km (32.99 mi)
  • M 5.2, eastern Turkey
    Thursday, June 23, 2011 07:34:46 UTCThursday, June 23, 2011 10:34:46 AM at epicenterDepth: 10.10 km (6.28 mi)
  • M 5.0, Tonga
    Thursday, June 23, 2011 04:33:53 UTCThursday, June 23, 2011 05:33:53 PM at epicenterDepth: 65.80 km (40.89 mi)
  • M 5.2, Fiji region
    Wednesday, June 22, 2011 22:16:56 UTCThursday, June 23, 2011 10:16:56 AM at epicenterDepth: 554.30 km (344.43 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Playing for keeps
    Solutions to planetary problems could come from a surprising source – the booming world of online games, writes John Elkington.We live in what scientists now call the Anthropocene era, the age when human impacts begin to overwhelm those of all other species. The implication, as long-term environ ...
  • Africa “land grab” by US colleges
    Think tank’s report says leading universities, including Harvard and Vanderbilt, use UK hedge funds and European financial speculators in property deals that may force farmers out. John Vidal and Claire Provost report.Harvard and other major American universities are working through British hedg ...
  • Bashang’s tourist trail
    A holidaymaking boom on Beijing’s nearest grassland has lined the pockets of some – but worsened life for others. Zhou Wei went to the vacation town of Datan to see the impacts.Beijing residents may remember seeing adverts for the Bashang Grassland: visit the nearest grassland to the city, get a ...
  • Climate conspiracy: a flimsy fantasy
    Global warming is no plot, writes Chen Jiliang. Why would thousands of scientists risk their careers to fabricate a consensus?After the Copenhagen climate talks of 2009, public concern about climate change reached higher levels than ever, but scepticism and suspicion also soared. In the west, so ...
  • Power politics in Germany
    Angela Merkel’s decision to abandon nuclear has been hailed as revolutionary by some – and dismissed as a political stunt by others. Here, Jürgen Maier gives an insider’s view.The Fukushima nuclear meltdown had its greatest political impact not so much in Japan itself but in faraway Germany, whe ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • On Nicholas Kristof’s Boneheaded “ ...
    No matter how disastrously myopic they might be, it seems that economists can do no wrong in the eyes of many. If there was one outcome of mainstream economists failing to recognize the multi-trillion dollar housing bubble of the past decade and being roundly blindsided by the most significant e ...
  • Is Your Meat and Seafood Contaminated With The ...
    Over five years ago the Chicago Tribune reported that tuna was unequivocally contaminated with mercury. “The tuna industry has failed to adequately warn consumers about the risks of eating canned tuna, while federal regulators have been reluctant to include the fish in their mercury advisories — ...
  • Is Your Meat and Seafood Contaminated With The ...
    Over five years ago the Chicago Tribune reported that tuna was unequivocally contaminated with mercury. “The tuna industry has failed to adequately warn consumers about the risks of eating canned tuna, while federal regulators have been reluctant to include the fish in their mercury advisories — ...
  • US Government Experiments on Americans— ...
    Readers have shown considerable interest in the trailer we ran recently for the video about unknown radiation experiments on African American children. Continuing our exploration of secret government experiments on American citizens, we now re-publish an article I wrote in 1999 about the CIA and ...
  • US Government Experiments on Americans— ...
    Readers have shown considerable interest in the trailer we ran recently for the video about unknown radiation experiments on African American children. Continuing our exploration of secret government experiments on American citizens, we now re-publish an article I wrote in 1999 about the CIA and ...

Threat Level

  • British Police Swoop In on Possible LulzSec Su ...
    London’s Metropolitan Police arrested a 19-year-old Essex man Tuesday in an investigation that may be linked to the tweet-happy hax0ring gang LulzSec. “The arrest follows an investigation into network intrusions and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against a number of international ...
  • Dropbox Left User Accounts Unlocked for 4 Hour ...
    At a time when hackers are on a tear looting information willy-nilly from insecure sites on the Web, Dropbox did the unthinkable Sunday — it allowed anyone in the world to access any one of its 25 million customers’ online storage lockers — simply by typing in any password. Dropbox, one of the m ...
  • Righthaven Loss: Judge Rules Reposting Entire ...
    A federal judge ruled Monday that publishing an entire article without the rights holder’s authorization was a fair use of the work, in yet another blow to newspaper copyright troll Righthaven. It’s not often that republishing an entire work without permission is deemed fair use. Fair use is an ...
  • Appeals Court Deals Blow to ‘Hot News’ Doctrine
    A federal appeals court cleared the way Monday for a financial-news website to publish stock market analysts’ private buy and sell recommendations in near-real time, striking a blow to a century-old legal doctrine that gave media companies control over the time-sensitive news they report. The ...
  • Bitcoin Prices Plummet on Hacked Exchange
    The Bitcoin community faced another crisis on Sunday afternoon as the price of the currency on the most popular exchange, Mt.Gox, fell from $17 to pennies in a matter of minutes. Trading was quickly suspended and visitors to the home page were redirected to a statement blaming the crash on a com ...

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    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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    Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon.   They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future in ...
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PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • The Summer of Reading (and Eating) Dangerously
    A few weeks ago a book, two years in the making, “Poisoned; The True Story of the Deadly E. coli Outbreak That Changed the Way Americans Eat,” by Jeff Benedict came out and is climbing the New York Times Best Seller’s List. A few days later one of the largest and, now most deadly, E. coli outbr ...
  • Buget Cuts, bad for consumers, bad for busines ...
    A few months ago, Food Safety News, reported that budget reductions have forced local health departments to cut programs and staff, resulting in the loss of 6,000 public health jobs 2010 alone, according to survey and preliminary report released by the National Association of County and City Hea ...
  • E. coli O104:H4 Outbreak - 40 Deaths, 3593 Ill ...
    Massachusetts, Michigan, and Wisconsin count five (3 with HUS) in the E. coli O104:H4 Outbreak that has been linked to bean sprouts or sprout seeds that has now killed 40 and sickened 3593 (849 with HUS) in Europe.
  • Raw Milk on Trial at NEHA
    I am at the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) 75th Annual Convention and proud to talk about the risks of raw milk.� Here are my PowerPoint and Handout you can download for "Raw Milk on Trial." Happy Father's Day.� For more information on the risks of raw milk, see Real Raw Milk ...
  • Ohio Family of Woman Killed by Salmonella to F ...
    The family of a woman killed in an Athens Ohio Salmonella outbreak will file a lawsuit Monday in the Athens County Court of Common Please against the Athens-based restaurant Casa Lopez. The suit is the second filed by Seattle-based food poisoning law firm Marler Clark on behalf of victims made ...

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • After Mubarak, Fighting For Press Freedom in E ...
    Under Mubarak, state-owned media was a propaganda arm of the government, parroting party dogma while dismissing public criticism and political opposition. During the eighteen-day uprising that toppled him, state TV tried to downplay the size of the demonstrations, depicting protesters as funded ...
  • TONIGHT Amy Goodman on CNN's John King USA
    Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman appears on CNN’s John King USA tonight, Friday, June 17th, at 7pm EST.
  • War on Drugs: Fast, Furious and Fueled by the U.S.
    The violent deaths of Brian Terry and Juan Francisco Sicilia, separated by the span of just a few months and by the increasingly bloody U.S.-Mexico border, have sparked separate but overdue examinations of the so-called War on Drugs, and how the U.S. government is ultimately exacerbating the pr ...
  • "Former Mitt Romney" Was "Reasonable, Very Mod ...
    Tonight’s debate between Republican presidential candidates marks the first national debate appearance of Mitt Romney, former Massachusetts governor. Meanwhile fellow Mormon and former Utah governor, Jon Huntsman, has yet to announce, and will skip the debate. While in Utah last January reporti ...
  • "Don't Believe the Hype About U.S. Debt": Sall ...
    Vice President Joe Biden met with congressional negotiators last Thursday to discuss ways to curb the federal deficit and permit new borrowing after August 2, the day the U.S. government is expected to reach its $14.3 trillion borrowing limit. Democrats want to curb the federal deficit by pushi ...

Digg Green

  • Report: Driving Can Contribute to Deadlie ...
    When the weather's right, it feels great to turn off the A/C, roll down the window and just go for a ride. But while the wind feels great, the sun may be killing you. USA Today reports that U.S. drivers are more prone to the potentially deadly melanoma and merkel cell carcinoma skin cancers ...
  • Last Roll Out of a NASA Space Shuttle: AP ...
    In the final move of its kind, NASA's space shuttle Atlantis was photographed earlier this month slowly advancing toward Launch Pad 39A, where it is currently scheduled for a July launch to the International Space Station. The mission, designated STS-135, is the 135th and last mission for a ...
  • What is a tree's maximum possible height?
    The world's tallest tree is found in northern California - it's a redwood that stands 379 feet tall. This tree and its relatives are the largest single organisms in the world, but just how big can these trees really get?
  • Miss USA contestants answer the question, ...
    Painful to watch.
  • Farming To Blame For Shrinking Human Body ...
    At Britain's Royal Society, Dr. Marta Lahr from Cambridge University's Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies presented her findings that the height and brain size of modern-day humans is shrinking.

Invisible Opportunity

  • Project Flood: Fort Calhoun nuclear power plan ...
    By Deborah Dupre Flooding atop nuclear industry negligence  After the Army released near record water from six major reservoirs, levees have failed to hold the Missouri River so flooding now poses a “serious threat” to Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant according to today’s International Business ...
  • Everything’s bigger — and now also brighter — ...
    Texas Gov. Rick Perry today signed a law that will free Texans from the federal government’s impending incandescent light bulb ban: The measure, sent to Gov. Rick Perry for consideration [he subsequently signed it], lets any incandescent light bulb manufactured in Texas – and sold in that state ...
  • ‘Each day 18 US war vets commit suicide& ...
    California-based online columnist, Allen L. Roland, says at least 18 American war veterans commit suicide every day due to psychological symptoms related to wars. Official reports show that “close to 40 percent” of all vets have some of the symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Rola ...
  • Multiple Foreign Military’s, Including Russia, ...
    By Alex Thomas June 21st, 2011 A massive two week naval drill is taking place in Virgina that includes Russia, France, The United Kingdom, and The United States. This is an interesting development considering the massive amount of troop movements that have been documented in the United States du ...
  • Is The H1N1 Vaccine Safe? Shocking Stories Fro ...
    U.S. health authorities have made pregnant women one of the highest priority groups for getting the H1N1 swine flu vaccine, but is it actually safe for pregnant women and their babies? Well, the truth is that miscarriage reports from pregnant women who have taken the H1N1 swine flu vaccine are s ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • OMA’s Pixelated Stadskantoor Skyscraper Scores ...
    Read the rest of OMA’s Pixelated Stadskantoor Skyscraper Scores BREEAM Excellent Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: BREEAM excellent, Dutch BREEAM, eco tower, greenest building in the Netherlands, insulating glass, modular skyscraper, office for metropolitan architecture, OMA Rotte ...
  • 8 Ton Volkswagon Beetle Sculpture Joins 400 Ot ...
    Read the rest of 8 Ton Volkswagon Beetle Sculpture Joins 400 Other Objects in an Artificial Reef in Mexico Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: coral reef, eco design, environmental art, environmental destruction, green design, jason decaires taylor, lifesize cement VW Beetle, marine ...
  • Space-Age Paperless Dutch Office Resembles a F ...
    Resembling a fallen meteorite amidst a desolate landscape, this space-age headquarters for a Dutch technology company features an angular facade that is faceted like a gemstone. Designed by Inbo Architects, the building is set in a space science park in Noordwijk that could be mistaken for Mars ...
  • Holy Environmentalism Batman! The Dark Knight’ ...
    Holy environmentalism Batman! Considering the Dark Knight has a personal fortune of $7 billion, you would think that Bruce Wayne would have made a greener version of the Batmobile a long time ago. However, this task has fallen to designer Gordon Murray, who took it upon himself to create a much ...
  • AS+GG’s Aerodynamic Wuhan Greenland Center to ...
    Read the rest of AS+GG’s Aerodynamic Wuhan Greenland Center to be World’s 4th Tallest Building Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "Adrian Smith", "AS+GG", "Gordon Gill", "sustainable architecture", Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill, eco design, eco skyscraper, eco tower, energy efficien ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Video: NASA Robot Hovers Autonomously in Infrared
    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience1016917985001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); By Alice Vincent, Wired UK This robotic lander made staff in a NASA control room very happy when it launched, flew and landed itself autonomously. While that’s an ...
  • Proton Somersault Study Could Explain Why Matt ...
    For the first time, physicists have watched a single proton flip over on its axis. Aside from being a technical triumph, the measurement may eventually help determine why the universe contains more matter than antimatter. Cosmologists think the Big Bang should have produced the same amount of o ...
  • Humans Guided Evolution of Dog Barks
    It’s a question that tends to arise when a neighborhood mutt sees a cat at 3 a.m., or if you live in an apartment above someone who leaves their small, yapping dog alone all day: Why do dogs bark so much? Perhaps because humans designed them that way. “The direct or indirect human artificial ...
  • Saturn’s Icy Moon Might Have an Ocean
    By John Timmer, Ars Technica We may be able to add another item to the growing list of bodies in our solar system that contain significant amounts of liquid. Jupiter’s moon Europa has long been suspected of harboring a subsurface water ocean, but recent studies have suggested that a large pa ...
  • The Essence of Time: Monumentally Important Clocks
    From humanity's earliest days, we've kept a close eye on time. The way we recorded its passage revealed what was important to us: To stay on schedule for planting and harvesting, the ancients tracked the seasons; for rituals and divination, they kept watch on the movements of the stars and plane ...

PakAlert

  • Video: The Revolution Has Begun In Europe (Mus ...
    On February 3, 2011 Pakalert Press posted that it is not solely the Middle East that is destined to experience episodes of violent upheaval. What is transpiring in the Arab world will spread throughout many European states. While the call to arms will be spoken in different tongues, the underlyi ...
  • Israel’s leaders hole up in nuclear bunker
    Israeli leaders holed up in a new underground nuclear bunker on Wednesday as part of annual nationwide maneuvers to prepare for a possible missile war with Iran, Syria and their Lebanese and Palestinian guerrilla allies. Officials said it was the first time that the security cabinet, headed b ...
  • Obama Approves Pentagon Cyber Assaults for Esp ...
    President Barack Obama has signed executive orders that lay out how far military commanders around the globe can go in using cyberattacks and other computer-based operations against enemies and as part of routine espionage in other countries. The orders detail when the military must seek pres ...
  • Alex Jones: Obama Launching World War III – Video
    The people of the U.S should voice themselves and get what they can to see the truth being this gov. We the people of the united states shouldn't be toyed with like chess pieces for stupid officials in our gov. To decide our fate. Now I truly believe in ww3 starting with Obama the savior to the ...
  • British Intelligence Infiltrating Pakistan Army?
    Brig. Khan is a loyal and upright officer, but contacting a foreign, non-Pakistani group linked to British intelligence is a breach and a question of counterintelligence. US media is twisting the story to feed its campaign to incite mutiny within Pakistani Armed Forces. Militant links inside our ...

Andy Worthington

  • Happy Summer Solstice to the Revellers at Ston ...
    This is a bleak summer solstice as far as the weather goes, but no doubt for many of the thousands of revellers at Stonehenge last night (an estimated 18,000 people in total), it was, nevertheless, a memorable occasion, as it remains essentially unprecedented for tens of thousands of people to g ...
  • Rights Groups Tell Obama: Reward Those Who Opp ...
    In a significant gesture in the run-up to the UN International Day in Support of the Victims of Torture, which takes place on June 26, and was inaugurated in 1998, on the 11th anniversary of the ratification of the UN Convention Against Torture, ten human rights groups in the US, including the A ...
  • A Tribute to Anti-War Campaigner Brian Haw, Dr ...
    When I was a child, I read the Guinness Book of Records, and marvelled at the stories of the people who, in ancient times, removed themselves from everyday reality, like Saint Simeon Stylites, a Christian ascetic who lived on a tiny platform on top of a pillar in Aleppo, Syria for 37 years in th ...
  • Come to a Public Rally on the International Da ...
    âThis is a day on which we pay our respects to those who have endured the unimaginable. This is an occasion for the world to speak up against the unspeakable.â Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General On Sunday June 26, 2011, the International Day in Support of the Victims of Torture, I’ll be spe ...
  • Video: Andy Worthington Discusses the Omar Kha ...
    Two weeks ago, as I explained in a previous article here, I took part in a studio discussion at Press TV’s London studios, commenting on the excellent new documentary film, “You Don’t Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantánamo.” Directed by Luc Cote and Patricio Hernandez, this award-winning film ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • News Roundup for June 21, 2011
    The anti-Muslim hate group Stop the Islamization of America has announced its first “Trans-Atlantic Conference” to be held in Strasbourg, France, on July 2. Participants include representatives of various far-right groups, including Stop the Islamisation of Europe, the English Defence League and ...
  • Pittsburgh Jury Won’t Hear Alleged Cop-Killer’ ...
    A Pennsylvania man was yelling racial epithets as he fatally shot three Pittsburgh police officers, but a jury hearing the case won’t be allowed to listen to those slurs, a judge ruled today, the second day of trial. Richard Poplawski, who faces the death penalty if convicted, is accused of murd ...
  • News Roundup for June 20, 2011
    Today’s collection of news items from the world of hate and extremism … William Bolton, a member of Battalion 14, Connecticut’s largest white supremacist group, attempted to sell a sawed-off rifle to someone he believed to be a Ku Klux Klan member. Marten Joseph Brandel, described by police as a ...
  • Major Campus Group, Holding First National Con ...
    Editor’s Note: This lengthy story is slated for publication in a future issue of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report, but is published early here because the group it focuses on, Youth for Western Civilization, is holding its first national conference this Friday through Sunday ...
  • A Parade of Anti-Gay Figures Joins Texas Gover ...
    For more than a week now, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has been under fire for his plans to lead a prayer rally in Houston later this summer that is sponsored by the American Family Association (AFA), a particularly virulent gay-bashing group. A petition is circulating demanding that Perry abandon the ...

change: org.

  • Russian Opposition Gathers for Summer Party in ...
    The last year has been mostly hardship for Russia's Khimki Forest defenders—replete with beatings, bloody noses, bulldozers and bullying foreign corporations. Change.org members are well aware of their plight, with more than 23,000 of you supporting their campaign to end the construction corpora ...
  • With One Week Left, Farm Workers and Allies Fa ...
    If CA Gov. Jerry Brown doesn't sign the Fair Treatment for Farm Workers Act by a week from today, the bill will die. But it won't go gentle into that good night -- from the moment the bill landed on the governor's desk last Thursday, farm workers and their allies have been making quite a stir on ...
  • Demand Fair Farm Rules—Not More Factory ...
    This is a guest post from Wenonah Hauter, the Executive Director of Food & Water Watch. If you would like to join the non-profit's campaign for fair farm rules, sign the petition here. President Obama made a promise back when he campaigned in farm states. He needs to keep it. The President told ...
  • Despite ICE's Canned Denial, Naz Mustakim Figh ...
    ICE has dealt a hard blow to Naz Mustakim and his wife Hope. Naz, a beloved member of his Waco, Texas community, currently sits in an ICE detention center. Naz can't go home to his welcoming neighbors. He can't go home to a career spent helping those in desperate need. And he can't go home to hi ...
  • Victory! Sec. Clinton Publicly Supports Saudi ...
    Top U.S. diplomat responds to Saudi women’s campaigns on Change.org asking her to publicly declare support for Saudi women’s right to drive. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton publicly declared her support for Saudi women’s right to drive campaigns on Tuesday. "What these women are doing is ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Unwilling to Consider Tax Increases, Cantor an ...
    Following on a decision by House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor, (R-Va.),to pull out of the White House-led debt and deficit talks on Thursday, the other Republican negotiator, Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, has also dropped out. The new GOP position appears to be that they will not negotiate any fu ...
  • Carbon Markets Are Not Cooling the Planet
    BONN, Germany - Carbon markets have been widely promoted as the only way to generate enough money to enable industries and countries to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions, which are largely responsible for global warming. The only problem is that nearly 20 years after their conception, they h ...
  • US Nurses Join International Push for Financia ...
    Hundreds of nurses and their allies rallied on Wall Street Wednesday to remind the bankers they owe the nation, and the union movement is determined to collect. “This shared sacrifice stuff is a bunch of hooey. They haven’t given a thing,” said Deb Burger, co-president of National Nurses United ...
  • Reviving Resistance in Palestine
    At the Cinema Cafe in Nablus, hiply dressed youth sip coffee drinks, surrounded by a flashy mall and blaring pop music. It’s an odd place to have an existential discussion about revolution, but, well, this is the West Bank. Beesan Ramadan, a young activist I met during a volunteer teaching stint ...
  • US Mayors Call US 'War on Drugs' a Failure, Ca ...
    The U.S. Conference of Mayors is putting its weight behind sweeping criminal justice reform legislation proposed by Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va. Webb's National Criminal Justice Commission Act would create a bipartisan commission to conduct an 18-month review of each facet of the nation's criminal justi ...

Lifehacker

  • Make an LED Ereader Light Overlay to See Your ...
    eInk screens are easy on the eyes because they're a lot like reading on paper, but like paper you can't see them too easily in the dark. The solution? This clever, battery-operated DIY light wedge that you can use as an overlay on your e ...
  • The Problem with Your Google Search Result Fee ...
    Eli Pariser, former director of MoveOn.org, noticed that he and his friends ended up with very different search results when searching for the exact same things. Google (and other sites) are filtering out the stuff you might not like, pu ...
  • Ask and Answer Questions About Pet Care in Tod ...
    Every day we're on the lookout for ways to make your work easier and your life better, but Lifehacker readers are smart, insightful folks with all kinds of expertise to share, and we want to give everyone regular access to that exceptional ...
  • Use an Encrypted Zip File to Secure Files in D ...
    You can use TrueCrypt or special apps to encrypt your sensitive data stored on Dropbox, but for greater accessibility and reduced bandwidth consumption, another alternative is to use a password-protected, encrypted zip file in Dropbox. ...
  • The Best Photo Management App for Windows [App ...
    Windows has its fair share of photo management programs, but we've chosen Picasa as the best for its impressive feature set and relative ease of use. More��

Water Privatization

  • Water privatization market sees opportunities ...
    With crumbling budgets, increasing water scarcity, and ever widening infrastructure spending gaps, the private water supply market is poised to grow. But public opposition remains strong, as opponents rail against the perceived corporate takeover of what is considered a public good, citing past ...
  • Book Review: The Future of Water
    The Future of Water: A Startling Look Ahead, by Steve Maxwell, with Scott Yates, Published in 2011 by the American Water Works Association , Denver Colo., ISBN 978-1-58321-809-9 Full disclosure: I answered an open e-mail solicitation for reviewers of this new book and received a review copy for ...
  • Delhi JD-U pulls up Jal Board over water price ...
    New Delhi, June 19 : Janata Dal-United (JD-U) Delhi unit General Secretary and spokesperson Prabhat Ranjan has criticized the Delhi Jal Board for increasing the price of water at Rs.3 per unit in the DDA flats in Dwarka.
  • Privatizing water
    RIALTO - Imagine learning that your household water and wastewater bill would increase 86 percent in two years. Wouldn't be very happy, would you?
  • 'The Ripple Effect': Shortages of fresh water ...
    'The Ripple Effect': Shortages of fresh water seen as emerging threat

Guardian

  • Milly Dowler murder trial jury to retire
    Jurors to consider verdict on accused killer Levi Bellfield after hearing four weeks of evidence at Old BaileyThe Old Bailey jury trying Levi Bellfield for the abduction and murder of schoolgirl Milly Dowler is expected to retire on Wednesday.The panel of 11, which has heard four weeks of evide ...
  • Mexican police arrest alleged head of La Famil ...
    Swoop on José de Jesús Méndez Vargas is big blow to organised crime, says President Felipe CalderónMexican authorities say they have dealt a debilitating blow to major organised crime in the west of the country after apprehending the leader of the cult-like, pseudo-Christian La Familia cartel.Jo ...
  • World's oldest person dies aged 114
    Brazilian Maria Gomes Valentim put her longevity down to coffee, bread rolls, milk � and minding her own businessA Brazilian woman officially recognised as the world's oldest person has died just weeks from her 115th birthday. The title now reverts to a woman in the United States.Maria Gomes Val ...
  • Sectarian clashes hit Belfast for second night
    Press photographer shot in the leg in renewed violence less than 24 hours after two men were left with gunshot woundsA second night of sectarian violence has erupted in east Belfast, leaving a press photographer with a gunshot wound to the leg and two men with apparent burns after hundreds of pe ...
  • Papandreou survives confidence vote on handlin ...
    Greek PM wins parliamentary vote by 155-143 and must now attempt to force through hugely unpopular austerity measuresGreece's embattled prime minister has survived the first of a trio of tests that could sink the Greek economy and lay waste to Europe's single currency by winning a parliamentary ...

McClatchey

  • Shark cage-diving stirs controversy in South A ...
    GANSBAAI, South Africa — Submerged chest-deep in a cage, seven tourists clad in wet suits helplessly bobbed in the Atlantic Ocean's relentless swells. Many had traveled halfway around the world to South Africa, where they hoped to catch a glimpse of the ocean's most fierce and feared crea ...
  • Mexican police capture top La Familia drug suspect
    MEXICO CITY — Federal police on Tuesday captured one of Mexico's most-wanted suspected drug lords, an alleged leader of the Michoacan crime family, which has tentacles deep into the United States.
  • Bahrain military tribunal conducts ex-lawmaker ...
    BAGHDAD — Bahrain's controversial military tribunal tried a jailed former member of the national parliament in absentia Tuesday, the latest lapse of due process in the multitude of court cases the government has brought against its critics.
  • Utah's Jon Huntsman joins crowded GOP presiden ...
    JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman announced his candidacy for the presidency Tuesday, casting himself as an atypical politician and pledging to take the high road in his campaign for the 2012 Republican nomination.
  • Is Texas Gov. Rick Perry the one GOP's waiting ...
    WASHINGTON — He's brash. He's successful. He's a red-meat Republican. And he has good hair.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

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

The Wonk Room

  • After Taking Millions From Natural Gas, Pennsy ...
    When it came time to fix his state’s $4 billion budget deficit, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R) steadfastly refused to raise new revenues, even through a tax on natural gas extraction, despite the fact that Pennsylvania is the only state with hydrofracking that does not tax its use. Instead of ...
  • Olbermann debut on Current TV tops CNN in key demo
    Politico reports: “‘Countdown’ drew 179,000 viewers in the 25-54 demographic â not enough to beat MSNBCâs 237,000 viewers, but enough to beat CNNâs 89,000.” Prior to last night, Current TV averaged about 30,000 total viewers a night in primetime. Politico concludes that “Currentâs big bet on Olb ...
  • Georgia Immigration Law Could Force Taxi Drive ...
    Yesterday, a federal judge heard arguments in the legal challenge brought against Georgia’s new immigration law by advocacy and civil rights groups. The plaintiffs in the case argue that the law — modeled after Arizona’s immigration legislation — is federally preempted, would promote racial prof ...
  • Don’t Look To The Courts As An Engine Of ...
    Something that I think most people don’t realize is that for the vast majority of American history, the judicial branch has been a very conservative elite-dominated institution. Most people’s view of the matter is distorted by the historical aberration that occurred roughly between the Brown and ...
  • Romney Likens Bank Regulators To ‘Gargoy ...
    Last month, 2012 Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney indicated that he is open to repealing at least large swathes of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law, even as the country is still recovering from the effects of the 2008 financial crisis. “The level of over-regulation and burden which ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Posting Duties
    Enjoy ... .. I sure as shit do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • Belated Thoughts on the Vancouver Hockey Riot
    I remember way back in 1986 or 1987, when the Hamilton Tiger-Cats won the coveted Grey Cup (and the whole world cheered). I was living in London, Ontario at the time and I could only chuckle at watching the news that in response to the win a bunch of goofs went downtown and trashed the place. My ...
  • NDP Declares War on Qaddafi?
    Libya's Qaddafi, however much he was unfairly demonized by the ever-hypocritical, sanctimonious United States of America, appears to be a genuinely unpopular Arab dictator. I say "Arab" dictator because he looked ready to be another much needed victim of the Arab Spring. Still, when the mainstr ...
  • All that is necessary for the triumph of evil ..
    ... is that good men do nothing. That's a neat quote. But anybody can say that. For instance, some people imagined that the non-existent threat of Saddam Hussein's imaginary "weapons of mass destruction" put the whole world at risk. Furthermore, given Saddam's non-existent alliance with Al Qaed ...
  • stephen harper's "Muscular" Foreign Policy
    Speech from stephen harper on the foreign policy of his new majority government: My fellow Conservatives (for you are the only people that matter to me when I make my policies), welcome to the new reality of 21st Century Canada: A Conservative majority! Now that I have my majority government, y ...

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End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Green Party’s Elizabeth May only dissenter to ...
    Elizabeth May stood alone in Parliament last week in opposing extension of the military mission in Libya, resulting in a vote of 294 in favour and 1 opposed (Jane Taber, Why Elizabeth May refuses to be a rubber stamp in the commons, Globe and Mail, 15 June 2011).  Defence Minister Peter MacKay a ...
  • Ceasefire.ca Members’ survey results on Libya ...
    I support Canada’s military mission in Libya and think it should be extended. (1806 responses)
  • Challenging Canada’s involvement in Libya: New ...
    As the House of Commons debated extending Canada’s military presence in Libya this week, the Rideau Institute garnered media attention by calling for clarity in the purpose and methods of the mission, and by providing an alternative estimate of the cost of the war that suggests the Conservative ...
  • Sign the petition! – Stop Bombing Lybia
    Embed this petition on your website or blog:
  • Principled PM to sell more LAVs to dictators?
    Prime Minister Stephen Harper treated Canadians to a self-righteous description of his government’s “principled” foreign policy stance at the recent Conservative Party convention (Steven Chase, “Canadian foreign policy needs to be more independent: Harper,” Globe and Mail, 10 June 2011; see also ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 5-6-11
    Today, Kevin gives you the REAL reason why the media is blacklisting and attacking Donald Trump. Plus, find out why Kevin is predicting another terrorist attack!  Self Help: Stop Being Deficient In Vitamin D! Health: Salmonella Fears Spark Grape Tomato Recall MS Caused By Vitamin D Deficiency P ...
  • The Leading Cause Of Health Problems
    Because I’m the Natural Cures guy, a lot of people look to me for advice on various ailments that are destroying their quality of life. Did you know that one of the number one reasons that people have these particular health issues is because of Candida yeast overgrowth? Luckily for you, my good ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 5-7-11
    Today, Kevin gives alternative remedies to prevent you from becoming a slave to Big Pharma. Plus, find out how YOU can get paid to listen to Kevin and how to stay younger longer! Self Help: Protect Your Body Fountain of Youth Anti-Aging Regime Cure Gluten Allergy Naturally Use This Natural Sweet ...
  • Trump’s ‘University’ Accused ...
    May 9th, 2011 The Huffington Post By: Marcus Baram Along with touting his wealth and business acumen, real estate mogul Donald Trump has long portrayed himself as an educator, who is ready and willing to impart the knowledge that can turn any motivated person into a multimillionaire. On top of t ...
  • David Axelrod On Sanctioning Secretly Funded G ...
    May 9th, 2011 The Huffington Post By: Sam Stein David Axelrod, the president’s senior communications adviser, spent much of the 2010 election cycle warning against the rise of anonymously funded, conservative non-government groups, going so far as to frame them as a threat to democracy itself. O ...

Pambazuka News

  • Stop senate renege on black farmer compensation
    ColorOfChange.org - http://www.colorofchange.org/farmers/?id=1842-429864 is campaigning to ensure that a US senate bill to compensate black farmers in the South for discrimination gives them the money they deserve, rather than capping the total amount available at $100 million, which would only ...
  • Extradition threat for Black Liberation activist
    As the US opens up political channels with Cuba, Black Liberation Army - http://www.thetalkingdrum.com/freedomfighters.html activist Assata Shakur faces extradition from the country where she has lived under political asylum since 1984, writes Paul Scott. While the mainstream media portrays Shak ...
  • Katrina victims face eviction
    Following reports of federal government plans to repossess temporary housing from Katrina victims, the US Human Rights Network - http://www.ushrnetwork.org has called for the Obama administration to reverse this decision and provide those affected with substantive directive support.
  • Guadeloupe: Demand for support for the indepen ...
    Felix Alain Flémin, secretary general of the Guadeloupe Communist Party (GCP) has called for international solidarity in support of the struggle for independence and self-determination of the people of those Caribbean islands under French colonial do...
  • Honduras: Implications of coup for Afro-descen ...
    Currently, the country of Honduras in Central America is experiencing its worst political crisis in decades. In the aftermath of the military coup that forcibly removed President Manuel Zelaya Rosales, there have been various developments that have r...

War in Context

  • Eyes open in Gaza, June 2011
    Helena Cobban writes: The Gaza Strip is a heavily urbanized sliver of land, some 30 miles long, that nestles against the southeast corner of the Mediterranean and that for many reasons– including the fact that more than 75% of its 1.6 million are refugees from within what is now Israel– has alw ...
  • U.S. mass surveillance and data mining against ...
    Barrett Brown writes: For at least two years, the U.S. has been conducting a secretive and immensely sophisticated campaign of mass surveillance and data mining against the Arab world, allowing the intelligence community to monitor the habits, conversations, and activity of millions of individu ...
  • Tom Engelhardt: Defining an American state of war
    Nine war words that define our world By Tom Engelhardt Now that Washington has at least six wars cooking (in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Yemen, and more generally, the global war on terror), Americans find themselves in a new world of war.  If, however, you haven’t joined the all-vol ...
  • The Arab Spring exposes the identical hypocris ...
    Hamid Dabashi writes: Hassan Nasrallah is in trouble. This time the troubles of the Secretary General of Hezbollah, which were hitherto the source of his strength, are not coming from Israel, or from the sectarian politics of Lebanon. Seyyed Hassan’s troubles, which this time around are the har ...
  • Partial troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
    CBS News reports: President Obama on Wednesday night informed the nation of his plans to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan by fall of next year, marking the beginning of the end of an increasingly unpopular war. “The tide of war is receding,” Mr. Obama said from the White House, promisin ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Quote of the week – Australian gassing e ...
    Friends, prepare yourselves for this stunning collection of logic, green thinking, and simple unvarnished, outright hatred. Should we be thinking about getting ourselves off to secure locations in light of this? /sarc Simon from Australian Climate Madness makes note of … Continue reading →
  • Al Gore branches out into population control t ...
    Not content to make a fool of himself confusing weather and climate, Al has now decided to lecture empower women on how to reduce the population for the benefit of the planet. Watch the video below, now we know why … Continue reading →
  • Peer reviewed paper – wind contributes t ...
    From Dr. Roger Pielke Senior, one more paper saying what we’ve been reporting on since 2007 – Arctic sea ice extent is a significant function of wind and currents, not just temperature. In 2007, when I was but a wee … Continue reading →
  • Newsbytes: not everybody believes the new Mann ...
    Via Dr. Benny Peiser at The Global Warming Policy Foundation: New Sea-Level Study Divides Climate Researchers For the first time, researchers have reconstructed the rise in sea level over the last 2000 years. Their conclusion: Never before have sea levels … Continue reading →
  • NASA’s Hansen asked to account for outsi ...
    Gavin Schmidt’s time spent on editing realclimate.org during working hours apparently was the trigger for a broader investigation. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, June 21, 2011 Contacts: Christopher Horner, chris.horner@atinstitute.org  Paul Chesser, paul.chesser@atinstitute.org ATI Law Center A ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Max Keiser: Global Insurrection Against Banker ...
    Dandelion Salad with Max Keiser Bonnie Faulkner Guns and Butter  June 22, 2011 Financial occupation of Greece; IMF Greek Memorandum; financial terrorism; controlled demolition of European economies; asset grab; lawsuits against bankers and government; Pirate My Film, including crowd funding and ...
  • Gary Null and Chris Hedges: The Gut Wrenching ...
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad June 23, 2011 pt1gard on Jun 21, 2011 Gary Null and Chris Hedges fascinating look inside this sad subject and more. Gary Null and Chris Hedges gut wrenching Truth on Homeless Vets see Chris Hedges: We’ve Been Frightened By the State Chris Hedges: ...
  • Barack Obama: The Way Forward in Afghanistan ( ...
    Dandelion Salad Propaganda Alert! whitehouse on Jun 22, 2011 President Obama addresses the nation on the way forward in Afghanistan. June 22, 2011. President Obama Addresses the Nation *** The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release June 22, 2011 Remarks by the President ...
  • Syria/Libya versus Bahrain: A BBC factoid? by ...
    by William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info 22 June, 2011 Facts are wonderful things, ignore them at all cost “Was the decision taken [by NATO] that killing civilians here would save others elsewhere?” – ‘Libya: Funerals fuel controversy over Nato airstrikes‘, Jeremy ...
  • The Military as a Jobs Program by Ellen Brown
    by Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com June 22, 2011 There Are More Efficient Ways to Stimulate an Economy “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold an ...

Your New Reality

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    Nice slideshow of 30 years of front covers from UK hard rock/metal magazine Kerrang! The early covers are better. December 1993 : April 1994 : The Rest Of The Kerrang! Front Covers Are Here
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    She Doesn't Exist, Except In A Hard Drive Just how convincing are CGHs (computer generated humans) becoming? This convicing : This girl has never breathed, has never seen the sun, has no parents, no presence in our reality, except as a computer generated image. Stunning. Just downright stun ...
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    "Fear And Panic, Heroism And Cowardice, Sadism And Self-Sacrifice, Hysteria And Mass Emotion" In this LA Times' Hero Complex piece, Super 8 director JJ Abrams cites the startling poster of 1974's disaster movie epic Earthquake as a childhood obsession (along with Famous Monsters, Dick Smith m ...
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    A perfect example of what the human race can do when it embraces co-operation, instead of confrontation :
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    Join The Marines, Fight Balrog They're not really showing much reality in these US military recruiting ads, are they? Unless there are special Marines now fighting dragons in alternate universes : From Salon (excerpts) :"...the New York Times this week tells us that the Pentagon is -- shock ...

Wired - Science

  • Video: NASA Robot Hovers Autonomously in Infrared
    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience1016917985001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); By Alice Vincent, Wired UK This robotic lander made staff in a NASA control room very happy when it launched, flew and landed itself autonomously. While that’s an ...
  • Proton Somersault Study Could Explain Why Matt ...
    For the first time, physicists have watched a single proton flip over on its axis. Aside from being a technical triumph, the measurement may eventually help determine why the universe contains more matter than antimatter. Cosmologists think the Big Bang should have produced the same amount of o ...
  • Humans Guided Evolution of Dog Barks
    It’s a question that tends to arise when a neighborhood mutt sees a cat at 3 a.m., or if you live in an apartment above someone who leaves their small, yapping dog alone all day: Why do dogs bark so much? Perhaps because humans designed them that way. “The direct or indirect human artificial ...
  • Saturn’s Icy Moon Might Have an Ocean
    By John Timmer, Ars Technica We may be able to add another item to the growing list of bodies in our solar system that contain significant amounts of liquid. Jupiter’s moon Europa has long been suspected of harboring a subsurface water ocean, but recent studies have suggested that a large pa ...
  • The Essence of Time: Monumentally Important Clocks
    From humanity's earliest days, we've kept a close eye on time. The way we recorded its passage revealed what was important to us: To stay on schedule for planting and harvesting, the ancients tracked the seasons; for rituals and divination, they kept watch on the movements of the stars and plane ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • US Boat to Gaza – emergency response plans
    In late June, a US flagged ship called The Audacity of Hope will join the 2nd Freedom Flotilla – Stay Human as people from 22 nations set sail to Gaza challenging the Israeli naval blockade. Though... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Coalition of Women for Peace: Launching “Right ...
    On June 27, 2011, the Knesset’s Law, Constitution, and Justice Committee will deliberate the Boycott Bill, in preparation for second and third reading in the Knesset plenum. As part of our ongoing... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Amira Hass: Palestinian economic boom unsustai ...
    Dr. Salem Ajluni: "Without annual external assistance to the tune of about $1 billion from the donor countries, this is not a sustainable situation. I'm not the only one saying this. So is the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Lamis Andoni: Palestinian statehood and bypass ...
    Israel, backed by the US, has started a campaign to preempt a Palestinian drive to win United Nations recognition of an independent Palestinian state on the territories occupied by Israeli in the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Arrested American using Internet limelight to ...
    "My understanding of the Jewish ethical tradition comes primarily from my knowledge of the Jewish historical experience... I feel they are the principal determining factors: our ethical tradition,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Massive Fires Remain Destructive After the Bur ...
    This season's massive Arizona fires making headlines around the globe have destroyed dozens of structures and burned nearly three-quarters of a million acres. They also are contributing to global warming, scientists say, by upsetting the carbon balance while they are burning and for years to ...
  • Researchers Discover Migration Patterns of Mar ...
    Researchers at Dalhousie University in Halifax and Stanford University in California concluded a two year study called "Tracking apex marine predator movements in a dynamic ocean" published in the science journal Nature released June 22.
  • Researchers Use Virtual Reality to Investiga ...
    A University of Houston researcher is using an innovative approach to studying food addictions in hopes of finding strategies to assess and treat them.
  • Modern Fish Communities Live Fast & Die Young
    Fish communities in the 21st Century live fast and die young. That's the main finding of a recent study by researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society who compared fish recently caught in coastal Kenya with the bones of fish contained in ancient Swahili refuse heaps in order to understand ...
  • First UC San Diego ChancellorLeading Archite ...
    An Assistant Secretary of Defense on June 29 will pay tribute to UC San Diego's first chancellor, Herbert F. York, as an architect of some of the most important U.S. national security institutions for research and development during the inaugural presentation in a lecture series named in York's ...

Natural Health News

  • Infant Formulas are a Joke -- What is Best Opt ...
    Marie Bishop, Sally Fallon and Dr. Mary G. Enig, of the Weston A. Price Foundation, wrote this excellent FAQ about infant formula on Thursday, September 22, 2005.� This article appeared in Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts, the quarterly magazine of the Weston A. Price Founda ...
  • Beware -- Many Multiple Vitamins Contain a Bir ...
    Some common Prenatal Vitamins contain a birth-defect associated (and petrochemically produced) form of Vitamin A known as Vitamin A Acetate. Vitamin A Acetate can cause defects of neural crest derived structures that include abnormalities of the craniofacial skeleton, heart, and thymus. One stu ...
  • 10 Diet and Exercise Myths that Pack on Pounds
    Popular misconceptions can damage your fitness plans.� Yahoo Shine has collected 10 of the most pervasive and damaging fitness-related rumors.� Here are some of them: Myth -- Strength training will bulk you up In fact, researchers have found that working out with heavy weights increased exerci ...
  • Saw Palmetto Compares Favorably With Popular P ...
    A prospective study looked at the efficacy of Serenoa repens (saw palmetto) in comparison with the drug tamsulosin as treatments for patients with benign prostate hyperplasia. The research found that treatment with saw palmetto had effects that were not statistically different from treatment wi ...
  • Why You Will Want to Seriously Evaluate HPV Va ...
    Some research is indicating that HPV vaccine may have led to a drop in the number of women being diagnosed with the early stages of cervical cancer. However, when such pronouncements are made, it usually goes unmentioned that the vaccine itself can have serious side effects -- up to and includin ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • New Rules for Cyberwar?
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis More than a decade ago, the U.S. Defense Department’s Office of General Counsel (DoD OGC) released a detailed analysis of the way international law would operate to guide U.S. military activity in cyberspace.  It was an impressive effort and is still worth r ...
  • O’Connell on Defining “Hostilities”
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford My future Notre Dame colleague Mary Ellen O’Connell joins the fray criticizing Harold Koh’s crabbed definition of hostilities. Here’s a taste: Harold Koh, legal adviser to the U.S. State Department, attempted to convince Congress on June 15 that the “limited ...
  • Let’s Not Confuse War Powers with the War Powe ...
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro The controversy over the Administration’s interpretation of the War Powers Resolution has some people conflating that issue with the broader one of when the President can use force without congressional authorization. This isn’t surprising, since the Administrati ...
  • Deadline Extended for Submissions for ASIL 201 ...
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen If you had been thinking about submitting a paper or a panel proposal for the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law but had missed the deadline, despair not!  The deadline has been extended to this Friday, June 24th.  The webpage f ...
  • The Contrast Between Libya and the Pre-AUMF “W ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Apologies for the light blogging the past couple of weeks — although the upside is that I am now officially Dr. Heller, having successfully defended my dissertation at Leiden University in the Netherlands a few days ago.  It was an amazing (and amazing ...

Public News Service

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

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Setting Sail for Gaza, Armed with Love Letters ...
    Setting Sail for Gaza, Armed with Love Letters and a Missive from Dr. King by Medea Benjamin “I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him,” said Dr. Martin Luther King as he accepted the Nobel ...
  • The National Press Club Condemns Killing of Me ...
    The National Press Club Condemns Killing of Mexican Journalist and His Family - PR Newswire - sacbee.com: By National Press Club Published: Tuesday, Jun. 21, 2011 - 9:24 am WASHINGTON, June 21, 2011 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Press Club condemned the killing of Mexican journal ...
  • Let’s Talk Graduation, Unemployment and Impris ...
    Let’s Talk Graduation, Unemployment and Imprisonment for Natives in Amerikkka « The Speed of Dreams: "by Enaemaehkiw Túpac Keshena-Yesterday the Ignite Collective in NYC posted an article for Father’s Day called Fathers Day in Amerikkka. It’s a short but good article on the low graduation and em ...
  • It's time for Clarence Thomas to resign.
    It's time for Clarence Thomas to resign.: [http://act.credoaction.com/] "A New York Times expose published Sunday details the improper ties between Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and influential rightwing funder and activist Harlan Crow.1 Crow is a major contributor to conservative c ...
  • A Tribute to Anti-War Campaigner Brian Haw, Dr ...
    A Tribute to Anti-War Campaigner Brian Haw, Driven by Revulsion at the Murder of Innocents | Andy Worthington: [Forwarded to APNS from - Viola Wilkins] When I was a child, I read the Guinness Book of Records, and marvelled at the stories of the people who, in ancient times, removed themselves fr ...

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Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Bil’in VIllagers to move the wall themselves
    After the Israeli military finally began to move the wall after a Supreme Court decision and 2 years of protest, the village of Bil’in will take matters into their own hands again tomorrow. Popular Struggle has the information on the protest here. Bil’in Demonstrators to Take Down the Wall ...
  • Gaza Freedom Flotilla 2 getting ready to sail
    Here’s a video of two of the activists aboard, courtesy of Democracy Now! The Only Democracy? will bring you posts from Gabe Schivone, a Jewish Voice for Peace member aboard the “Audacity of Hope.” Here he is being interviewed by the Arizona Republic about his globe-spanning border activism. A ...
  • Palestinian imprisoned for flashing the peace sign
    From the Occupied Palestine blog comes this report of another nonviolent activist arrested. Khaled Zawahre’s military hearing has concluded delayed ruling until Sunday they will either release him or keep him in custody for 101 days. We want to ask your support to keep sharing this informatio ...
  • Top 10 Reasons why Rafah opening doesn’t ...
    From Gisha’s Gaza Gateway, more on the inadequacy of the new Rafah Crossing rules on the Egypt-Gaza border. The top 10 reasons why the opening of Rafah Crossing just doesnât cut it In no particular order of importance, we thought weâd list some of the reasons why the opening of Rafah, while si ...
  • Guardian series of videos by Palestinians in E ...
    If, like me, you are disgusted by the minstrelry of Tom MacMaster pretending he was a queer Syrian woman here’s a good antidote. The Guardian has published a series of videos made by Palestinians and Israelis in  occupied East Jerusalem who were given cameras by the Israeli human rights group B ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Thomas Friedman unloads against both parties
    There is something crazy about what is going on in our country today. Our fiscal condition continues on an unsustainable path, the European currency is heading for a crackup, the Arab world is in the midst of a crackup, unemployment is creeping upward and basically our two parties are telling us ...
  • Disturbing trend in big solar, mindless cheerl ...
    Renewable Energy World jumps the shark, saying the more big solar the better because the US likes doing things on a big scale and it will mean big profits for big developers. Wowie zowie, I mean what could go wrong with that? As for any possible problems with, say, carpeting the Mojave desert wi ...
  • Groovefest American Music Festival starts today
    Cedar City UT calls itself “Festival City” and Groovefest is just one of the festivals. Four days of workshops and music, including eighteen bands performing for free in the park. Genres include alt country, Americana, southern R&B, blues, Cajun swamp, traditional mountain, bluegrass, and more. ...
  • The Shift: From print, to digital and beyond
    Baekdal starts his next book. The concept of the book is to invite you on the journey to the new world of publishing – or specifically the future world of publishing. A world in which publishers can’t use the internet to give away their products for free. A world in which value outranks everythi ...
  • Romney and Huntsman
    Romney is still the one to beat, for sure. Many say Huntsman can’t win because he’s too moderate. Maybe, but don’t count him out. He moves between all the levels of the different political strata effortlessly, is low-key, likeable, and seems to be aided by as yet unseen forces. What people are s ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Truth Artist, Lupe Fiasco’s Extremely Ed ...
  • Conspiracy Theory – By Paul Craig Roberts
    June 20 2011 “Information Clearing House” – While we were not watching, conspiracy theory has undergone Orwellian redefinition. A âconspiracy theoryâ no longer means an event explained by a conspiracy. Instead, it now means any explanation, or even a fact, that is out of step with the government ...
  • Toy Security Wand Lets Kids Play At Being TSA ...
    ED Note: We cannot let our kids play with Toy Guns, BUT… they can play TSA agent? Coming soon: Radiating backscatter machines for the kiddies? Consumerist.com   There’s nothing cooler than being a TSA agent for Homeland Security and now the Spy Gear Security Scanner lets kids live out their drea ...
  • The New FBI Powers: Cointelpro on Steroids
    by John W. Whitehead Recently by John W. Whitehead: SWAT Team Mania: The War Against the American Citizen LewRockwell.com “The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesnât represent the people. It controls them.” ~ John Lennon (1966) “When governments fear the people there is liberty ...
  • Self Immolation in the First World?
    There are many who understand that when someone commits suicide they were likely in great pain. Why else would one end their life? Surely people who feel happy and are filled with joy are not going to suddenly sacrifice their good feelings. When one commits suicide it is likely because they want ...

The Air Vent

  • Amending the Past
    Guest post by Pat Frank ———————– âCongress shall make no law ⦠abridging the freedom of speech or of the pressâ¦â On May 24, this year, Jeff hosted my guest-posted Future Perfect analysis here on tAV, which was picked up by WUWT on June 2. The analysis showed that a cosine+linear fit to the glo ...
  • Holding back the craziness
    I’m not sure this if this is good news or not but it sounds good. My concern is that there may be detail in the ruling which increases/affirms power to the EPA over CO2. Supreme Court Rejects Environmentalists’ Suit Demanding Power Plant Emissions Cuts “If EPA does not set emissions limits for a ...
  • Sea Level – A little wet?
    The MSM is usually several days behind the blogs on issues regarding data quality.  In this case, I don’t recall reading about it on the main climate blogs, missing it isn’t impossible with my current schedule. Fox news covered this.  As we all know Fox does not deliver real news and only libera ...
  • Certainly
    See, this is what happens when there is no time for deep research or calculation.  You get opinions.  Certainly, they are more informed than average but average doesn’t spend a lot of time at climate blogs. Ice ages, ugly things those. ___Frozen fruit, _____and Garden hose. Starvation comes wh ...
  • Scammin the Public
    Bishop Hill has an interesting post on the nature of the Clean Energy Scam.

Focal Point

  • The Twisted Logic of the John Edwards Prosecution
    If the prosecution of John Edwards for campaign finance violations were to succeed, it would set a bizarre precedent. [Photo credit: IowaPolitics.com, Creative Commons.]Read More
  • Koi Assisted Birth
    Waterbirths are so passe. Today's elite stunt-birther wants the obstetrical equivalent of a fish pedicure, a koi assisted birth. From the FAQ: Why koi? Koi, or 錦鯉, are ornamental varieties of domesticated Cyprinus carpio). Koi are excellent birthing partners. Female koi give birth to ...
  • The Real Face of Vancouver: Hockey Fans Clean ...
    Volunteers are still taking to the streets of Vancouver to clean up after Wednesday night's hockey riots. In the immediate aftermath, citizens worked alongside city crews, sweeping and bagging through the night. An estimated 90% of the mess was cleaned up by noon on Thursday morning. Cleanup ...
  • Understanding the Vancouver Hockey Riots
    As a native Vancouverite and a Canucks fan, I was heartbroken by the riots that followed Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final. Dave Zirin of The Nation has a great analysis of the Vancouver hockey riot. Don't blame phantom anarchists, blame drunk gay-bashing thugs, exurban troublemakers, and the .. ...
  • Understanding the Vancouver Hockey Riots
    As a native Vancouverite and a Canucks fan, I was heartbroken by the riots that followed Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final. Dave Zirin of The Nation has a great analysis of the Vancouver hockey riot. Don't blame phantom anarchists, blame drunk gay-bashing thugs, exurban troublemakers, and the .. ...

Inside Facebook

  • “Boost Comment” Lets Facebook Comments Box Plu ...
    Admins of websites using Facebook’s Comments Box social plugin can now push the best comments on a post to the top thanks to a new “Boost Comment” moderation option. While Facebook already sorts comments by relevance and a user reputation score, Boost Comment gives admins the power to control wh ...
  • Wildfire Expands From Contests to Full-Fledged ...
    Promotion app developer Wildfire is broadening its service offering with the release of its new Social Marketing Suite. In addition to its Promotion Builder, Social Marketing Suite clients will have access to Page Manager for creating Pages and custom apps, Messenger for scheduling posts and mon ...
  • Facebook’s “Comments” Sponsored Story Ad Unit ...
    Facebook has released its eighth Sponsored Story ad unit. Called “Comments”, it draws from a Facebook Page’s posts to generate a display ad that poses a question beneath the ad’s content, inviting users to give their opinion or participate in a conversation. If users leave a comment, it can beco ...
  • Frank Sinatra, Justin Bieber, YouTube, The Sim ...
    There were a few Page consolidations, tech companies, TV shows, a movie, a football star and a ton of music Pages on our list of the top 20 growing Facebook Pages by Likes this week. The Pages on our list grew from between 469,800 and 2.8 million Likes, we measure the growth of Pages with our Pa ...
  • New Facebook Platform Industry Hires: Work4 La ...
    Work4 Labs made a big hire this week of Brian Louie as Vice President of Sales; he previously worked at Monster Worldwide. Other companies hired a few interns, operations personnel and account staff. If your company is hiring new people or making a notable promotion, please let us know. Email ma ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Archbishop of Canterbury reprimanded by angry ...
    Stuart Littlewood views Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams's failure to acknowledge the role played by Israel's occupation in the haemorrhaging of Christian populations from the Holy Land and recalls previous occasions where the archbishop behaved as if he were "a closet Zionist like so man ...
  • 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.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Once Upon A Time US Government Whistleblowers…
    Steve Kohn of National Whistleblowers Center offers an alternative to ignoring and intimidating whistle-blowers Last week the New York Times published a very well-written editorial piece written by Steve Kohn on the need to protectgovernment whistleblowers: Today, the Obama administration is agg ...
  • The EyeOpener: Secret FBI Storage Drive to Shi ...
    J. Edgar Hoover’s Ghost Still Lingers over the FBI Welcome. This is our EyeOpener Video Report by James Corbett for BoilingFrogsPost.com. A recent court case in Utah has uncovered yet more evidence that the FBI is hiding key documents from the public by placing them in a separate, hitherto unkno ...
  • Podcast Show #47
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Lew Rockwell Lew Rockwell, founder and Chairman of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, joins us to discuss the constitutional rule and the roll back of our liberties and constitutional rights during the past decade, the rise of the police state, the PATRIOT ACT and our tyr ...
  • Rise Up To The Occasion… It Could Very Well Ha ...
    Every Single Person, Every Voice & Every Signature Counts Have you ever pulled over your car on a highway shoulder to be a Good Samaritan and help a driver of a broken car desperately in need of assistance? Have you done it despite the heavy traffic, and a remaining long commute to get home afte ...
  • POGO Refuses to Rescind Obama’s Transparency Award
    Blowing the Whistle on Those Who Falsely Claimed to Act on our Behalf By Julia Davis In response to the petition from numerous groups and whistleblowers, Danielle Brian of the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) authored a blog on POGO’s website. While POGO’s response doesn’t contain any eart ...

Afro Spear

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

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

  • Lush’s Dirty Laundry [by Cory Morningstar]
    In an unlikely alliance, Lush Cosmetics joins the Indigenous Environmental Network against the Canadian tar sands. The Lush campaign targets the tar sands, yet the CEO of Lush fails to target his own family’s dynasty built on the continued exploration of oil, gas and mining. Today, the environme ...
  • Dispatches: Conservation’s Dirty Secrets
    JUST-WATCH-THIS… http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/4od#3201652 Dispatches reporter Oliver Steeds travels the globe to investigate the conservation movement and its major organisations. Steeds finds that the movement, far from stemming the tide of extinction that’s engulfing the plane ...
  • I’m On The Run
    Actually I’m not. It would have been quite exciting to have been writing a blog from an internet cafe somewhere, or hijacking a wireless connection outside an office building, but it seems I am safe and snug in my home completely bereft of law enforcement officers hammering at my door demanding ...
  • Everyone Must Follow The Rules (Apart From Tho ...
    Enjoy the moment – the personification of Evil is dead. Take to the streets and express your sheer joy at the end of a symbol. Paint your banners and hold them high; unfurl your flags and wave them in the night sky; don your army surplus trousers and bare your chests: we have a winner [...]
  • Scholastic U-Turn On Coal: Shame About Their O ...
    Well, that didn’t last long. From the first outrage to a “Move along, nothing to see here!” clean up of the website, Scholastic seem to have recovered relatively easily from what they claim was just a mistake. When Scholastic published a set of four worksheets and a printable map (see here for a ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Find the 'Big Carrot' in Your Mobile App
    In the past, I've talked about some of the nuances in creating a location-based mobile app. Now I'd like to share some techniques for how we decided what to include in version 1 of the CityCircles mobile app, and how we accomplished what we did, to help you narrow your focus for any future apps ...
  • Dotspotting Launches to Help People Gather Dat ...
    Dotspotting.org is officially live, at long last! The project, which aims to make tools to help people gather data about cities and make that data more legible, has been in a partially completed stage for a few months now, and I've blogged about it before. We've got a few new things to announ ...
  • Tanzania Media Copes with Wild Success of Feed ...
    For the largest civil society media platform in Tanzania, back talk is good. 

 In fact, talking back is the objective of a new service at Femina HIP called Speak Up! The service aims to increase access of marginalized youth and rural communities and promote a participatory, user-driven media ...
  • What Augmented Reality Can Do for the Media In ...
    I attended the second annual Augmented Reality Event conference in Santa Clara, Calif., in May and it was ... interesting. OK, it was a huge geekfest. The opening session was interrupted by people dressed in hazardous waste -- or maybe they were supposed to be pseudo-astronaut -- outfits, yel ...
  • DocumentCloud Merges With IRE
    DocumentCloud is beyond delighted to announce we've found a long-term home for our project. We're merging our operation with Investigative Reporters and Editors, a non-profit grassroots organization committed to fostering excellence in investigative journalism. This transition means that Doc ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Media Freedom - The Loneliness of El Diario of ...
    Blanca and Alicia The two reporters are at a crime scene on Pisces Street between Aquarius and Leo, a rather astrological crossing in a dusty and disjointed neighborhood, much like most of the neighborhoods in Ciudad Juárez. It’s the first reported victim of their burdensome nightshift. The phot ...
  • Edge of Outer Space - X-Ray Telescope Discover ...
    Using the deepest X-ray image ever taken, a University of Michigan astronomer and her colleagues have found the first direct evidence that massive black holes were common in the early universe. This discovery from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory shows that very young black holes grew more aggre ...
  • The Medical Edge - Non-Invasive Brain Implant ...
    A�brain implant developed at the University of Michigan uses the body's skin like a conductor to wirelessly transmit the brain's neural signals to control a computer, and may eventually be used to reactivate paralyzed limbs. The implant is called the BioBolt, and unlike other neural interface te ...
  • Reflecting on Yale University's Decision to Cl ...
    Recently, Yale University officials informed us of their precipitous decision to close YIISA, the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism. It became evident that YIISA and Yale University have different visions and approaches to the study of antisemitism.�YIISA, like Yale ...
  • Israel and Palestine - How to Get Through the ...
    Within days, anti-Israeli activists plan to launch another flotilla to Hamas-controlled Gaza, the main objective of which is to break the lawfully imposed Israeli naval blockade. Since Hamas has repeatedly and indiscriminately bombarded Israeli citizens with rockets and mortar rounds, there can ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Obama Meets With Jewish Donors (The President ...
    By Barry Rubin Speaking to Jewish donors (or should we say possible Jewish donors?) to his presidential campaign, President Barack Obama pledged that his administration would �devote all of its creative powers� to trying to bring about Mideast peace. This is not an art project. What ...
  • Brand New Screw-up Found In Obamacare Law: Ext ...
    Nancy Pelosi has been proven correct once again. Remember when she said we wouldn't really find out what is in the bill until it was passed. I hate to admit it, but we have found out so much since the bill was passed. Things like $500 billion dollars was double counted and thirty percent of ...
  • Economic Data Suggests the Stimulus Had NOTHIN ...
    "True the economy still stinks, and true the stimulus didn't do what we predicted it would, but that's because Bush left the economy in worse shape than we thought. If it wasn't for our quick action, America would have fallen into a great Depression."If you believe the President and is progre ...
  • Farrakhan: Your Record America Stinks In The E ...
    How did he get out again? I thought he was sitting in a padded room wearing� one of those nice trench coats with the long sleeves tie into a knot around the back. But somehow the� the slug from the Nation of Islam, one of the biggest purveyors of hateful venom in the world, Louis Farrakhan es ...
  • Ron Paul Congressional Hypocrite
    Congressman Ron Paul is bad for America on so many levels. There were the anti-black/ anti-Semitic Newsletters which were published under his name (which he claimed he never read). And yes there were those really whacko public statements like; the federal reserve was behind Watergate, that Li ...

The Real Agenda

  • The Collapse of Nations All By The Hand Of Cor ...
    by Robert Chapman International Forecaster June 18th, 2011 As far as we can discern the US Treasury thus far has spent and borrowed about $100 billion from the federal pension accounts. Unless there is a vote on the cash debt extension prior to August 2nd, government will probably have borrowed ...
  • Globalists Call for Big War
    by James P. Tucker American Free Press June 22, 2011 The secret globalist group “Bilderberg” called for a big war by expanding the turmoil in Libya into a full-scale conflict involving the entire Middle East except for Israel. This is a grim and bloody outlook, because, historically, every time ...
  • Kerry and McCain want to legitimize Libyan Inv ...
    Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com June 21, 2011 John Kerry, the Democrat Foreign Relations Committee Chairman, and John McCain, the senior Republican on the Armed Services Committee, will introduce a resolution today in an attempt to legitimize Obama’s invasion of Libya. June 19 marked 90 days since Obama ...
  • El Cartel de la Reserva Federal: Un Parásito F ...
    Por Dean Henderson Adaptación Luis R. Miranda 20 de junio 2011 Parte Final El padre del fundador de la Unión Mundial Federalista, James Warburg fue Paul Warburg, que financió a Hitler con la ayuda de Brown Brothers Harriman, socio de Prescott Bush. [1] El coronel Ely Garrison fue un amigo cercan ...
  • Objetivo: Genocídio Global. Plano da Elite Exp ...
    Por Luis R. Miranda Vídeo PrisonPlanet.tv 21 de junho de 2011 O historiador e pesquisador Webster Tarpley descreve qual é o plano da Elite para a maioria da população. De despovoamento até deindustrializacao. Da instalação de um regime planetário até o uso de vacinas para realizar esterilizações ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind farm forced to close after complaints ove ...
    A multi-million pound wind farm has been forced to close because it makes too much noise in a landmark ruling that could lead to others being shut down. Residents living near the 23 turbines have won an order making the operators turn off the generators after claiming their lives were being made ...
  • Turbine noise in Rome
    Wind turbine experts gathered in Rome recently to discuss noise. Low frequency noise and amplitude modulation provided plenty to talk about. Noise from wind turbines is still not solved, as evidenced by seemingly endless conferences called to talk about the problem. Not that there is a noise pro ...
  • Wind turbines switched off on 38 days every year
    Wind turbines will have to be switched off on 38 days every year because it is too windy, the National Grid said yesterday. In a new report, the grid said it could not cope with the surge of power from wind farms and will have to switch off turbines to avoid overloading the power transmission ne ...
  • Osage Nation opposes wind farm development in ...
    PAWHUSKSA, Oklahoma — The Osage Nation announced its opposition Monday to the development of large-scale wind farms near Pawhuska. The tribe’s chief counted up the economic costs and the environmental ones and he says wind energy just isn’t worth it. “The major thing that we’re concerned about i ...
  • Communities rally to fight wind projects on Ma ...
    “We are standing with our neighbours.” This simple but powerful statement was made to the Council of Northeastern Manitoulin and the Islands (NEMI) by Wikwemikong elder Rosemary Wakegijig as she handed over a petition with 658 names showing their opposition to industrial wind turbines on “Great ...

Not My Tribe

  • Ask, Tell, and now, Don’t Go, Don’ ...
    Denver’s GLBT parade was this weekend. Was there a Free Bradley Manning contingent? It may be asking this square state too much for a Queers Against Apartheid, as seen at the coastal festivals. We have a month before Colorado Springs’ pride. My idea at left.   Others: WE ARE ALL BRADLEY MANNING ...
  • Colorado Springs administrators think 100 year ...
    Colorado Springs city administrators have announced they will have to cut down a number of 100-year-old trees in the historic downtown area, due they explain, to diminishing water access and the resultant risk of limbs falling, jeopardizing motorists. Rescuing the majestic trees is apparently be ...
  • Uncle Sam wants you to pledge you’ll onl ...
    At Juneteenth this weekend, I saw the local Justice & Peace table being manned by young graduates of its “Peace Camp.” I resisted asking them if their religio- pacifist training was being extended to corporations and oligarchs, or was nonviolence a prohibition for just them, the social-justice-m ...
  • Okay I’ll bite, what is legitimate about ...
    Israel asserts that Palestinian efforts to seek UN recognition, without Israel’s consent, are intended to delegitimize the Tel Aviv regime. Apparently sending an aid convey to relieve the siege of Gaza is also to delegitimize Israel. What they really mean it that Israel’s inevitably violent resp ...
  • UK C4: the Killing Fields of Sri Lanka
    The UK’s Channel 4 has aired a documentary about Sri Lanka’s extermination of the Tamil Tiger rebels, including thousands of the Tamil population. Refugees were gathered into no-fire safety zones, then camps, even hospitals, a strategy it turns out, of concentrating people to more easily target ...

Debunking the Debunkers

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

Fooducate

  • Should Junk Food Also Have Graphic Warning Labels?
    The government has announced new measures in its fight against smoking. On Tuesday, the department of health and human services, together with the FDA, unveiled graphic images that will be plastered on cigarette packages. The 10 different graphics warn about the risks and damage of smoking. Rule ...
  • Tang Drink Mix & Kraft’s International Strategy
    Skimming through big food companies’ press releases and financial reports is not necessarily the most exciting activity one can imagine, but it does provide some deeper context as to where they are heading from a business perspective. We came across 2 recent press releases from Kraft. The first ...
  • Meat Labels: No More Minced Words
    This is a guest blog post by Kirsten L. Grieshaber. Youâre a well-intentioned consumer.  You know that eating sustainably raised meat is better for you, your taste buds, the environment, public health, and the livelihoods of farmers who support responsible agricultural practices.  But then you ...
  • 6 Thoughts About Dads & Nutrition
    Happy Father’s Day dear families! Happy Father’s Day! Although this holiday is usually associated with buying dads a tie/electronic gizmo/golg club/fishing gear and enjoying a BBQ meal, we’d like to take a minute to ponder the paternal role in a family’s healthy eating habits. 1. Not just moms – ...
  • Getting Real in the Whole Foods Parking Lot
    Check out this funny rap video that went viral. Some of the situations may seem really familiar to some of us. For example “Pay my eighty bucks for six things and get out…” Enjoy! Get Fooducated: iPhone App Android App RSS Subscription or Email Subscription Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/food ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Epidemic strikes Amazon nomads
    Nukak woman in refugee camp near San José, Colombia. © David Hill/Survival An outbreak of respiratory disease has struck one of the Amazon’s last nomadic tribes â whose numbers have already been decimated by flu and malaria. Around 35 Nukak-Maku, including nine children, have been admitt ...
  • Brazil confirms existence of uncontacted tribe
    Uncontacted Amazon Indians, Javari Valley, Brazil © Peetsa/Arquivo CGIIRC-Funai The Brazilian authorities have confirmed the existence of a group of approximately 200 uncontacted Indians in the Amazon. An overflight carried out by the government’s Indian Affairs Department, FUNAI, has ...
  • Diaries expose missionaries’ ‘spiritual war’ o ...
    Suruwaha man and children © Survival Diary entries obtained by Survival International illustrate the historic attempt of two missionaries to contact isolated Indians in the Brazilian Amazon. The missionaries, working with the American fundamentalist missionary organization JOCUM (Jovens co ...
  • Survival launches tourist boycott of ‘human sa ...
    Two Jarawa women on the Andaman trunk road © Salomé/Survival Survival today called for tourists to boycott the main highway in India’s Andaman Islands – an illegal road which cuts through the land of the endangered Jarawa tribe. The Andaman Trunk Road is both illegal – India’s Supreme Cour ...
  • Yanomami celebrate health success following pr ...
    Yanomami woman. The Yanomami are celebrating the appointment of a health coordinator for their communities © Fiona Watson/Survival Yanomami and Yekuana Indians in the Brazilian Amazon are celebrating the appointment of a health coordinator for their communities, following weeks of protests. ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Katie Wright: An Open Letter To NIH & Autism R ...
    By Katie Wright Over the past weeks we have heard genetic researchers hailing the discovery of the latest (I have lost count) autism “gene.” We have heard how “exciting” this discovery is, what a “breakthrough” this is. All their hard...
  • Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s Lecture at Brandeis – N ...
    By Jake Crosby Wednesday, April 13th, 2011 was a triumphant day. Dr. Andrew Wakefield came to Brandeis, and Poul Thorsen – the Danish scientist who coauthored the infamous reports used to cast doubt on the vaccine-autism connection – was indicted...
  • Lisa Ackerman Talks About Autism and Hope - To ...
    Please mark the TACA blog in your favorites. Here's a post from Lisa Ackerman. To Lisa Ackerman. What would your letter look like? KS Dear Lisa of 1999, It’s been one year since Jeff was diagnosed and you are still...
  • Paulie's NOLA Jazz & Blues Festival in Worcest ...
    Our good friends Harry and Gina Tembenis of the Elias Tembenis Sixth Planet Foundation, founded in memory of their young son Elias, invite you to come laissez les bontemps roulez at Paulie's NOLA Jazz and Blues festival in Worcester Mass,...
  • AnneDachel.com - Autism and the Media
    By Anne Dachel As frustrating as it is to look at the news stories on autism each day, many of us keep on doing it. It seems the false and misleading information the public is continually fed will never stop....

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

  • African Alliances Challenge Introduction of GM ...
    One liability clause states that ‘a person who imports, arranges transit, makes use of, releases or places on the market a GMO or product of a GMO shall be strictly liable for any harm caused by such a GMO or product of a GMO’ and that ‘the harm shall be compensated’.
  • Monsanto, Agent Orange, and Population Reducti ...
    The company that is killing people on an unprecedented scale due to falsified studies on Agent Orange HAS A MONOPOLY ON OUR FOOD SUPPLY. Do you still think our government is not engaged in population reduction warfare against its own citizens?
  • Monsanto, Agent Orange, and Population Reducti ...
    The company that is killing people on an unprecedented scale due to falsified studies on Agent Orange HAS A MONOPOLY ON OUR FOOD SUPPLY. Do you still think our government is not engaged in population reduction warfare against its own citizens?
  • Wildlife Refuges to be Planted with GMOs
    Say goodbye to GMO-free wild game. GMOs are to be planted in wildlife refuges with no restrictions.
  • Selling America to China: Treason by any other ...
    Let's quit being polite and call this maneuver by corporate governments exactly what it is - treason. Nothing more, nothing less. Selling off pieces of America to a foreign government so that government can plant a sovereign city inside our country that is not subject to our laws amounts to trea ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Fed cuts growth forecast; no hint of more support
    Reuters – The Federal Reserve on Wednesday cut its forecasts for U.S. economic growth, but offered no hint of further monetary support, saying the recovery should gradually pick up heading into 2012. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said factors weighing on the economy, such as high commodity prices, s ...
  • Muted welcome for release of Chinese artist Ai ...
    BBC – Governments and activists have given a guarded welcome to the release of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei after more than two months in detention. A US state department spokesman said everyone held in China for “exercising their human rights” should be freed. British artist Anish Kapoor said he wa ...
  • Greek government survives vote as protesters c ...
    Reuters – Greece’s embattled government survived a confidence vote on Wednesday that was crucial to avoiding a sovereign default, as thousands of protesters chanted insults outside parliament. Read article
  • Helicopter lost over Libya is new US drone: of ...
    AFP - A drone helicopter that lost radar contact with NATO over Libya is a Fire Scout, an unmanned US chopper, defense officials said Tuesday, revealing the use of the new robotic aircraft in the war. “We don’t know yet” why NATO’s command center in Naples, Italy lost contact with the MQ-8B Fir ...
  • Okinawa Marine base move to be delayed
    Washington Post – The United States and Japan said Tuesday that they would stick to a plan to relocate a Marine Corps base on Okinawa but would delay the move because of financial and political hurdles. The Futenma air base has long been an irritant in the U.S.-Japan relationship. Leaders on bot ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • California bill would reveal chemicals used in ...
    A bill forcing oil and gas companies to reveal what chemicals they use when using hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," to extract natural gas in California passed the California Senate Natural Resources Committee earlier this month and is set to go...
  • We're changing our comment system
    Greenspace is switching to a new commenting system. The system requires commenters to sign in through their Facebook accounts. People without Facebook accounts will not be able to leave comments. Readers' Greenspace comments will also post to their Facebook walls...
  • Pollution alert: Welcome to summer, just don't ...
    Los Angeles County Health Officer and Public Health Director, Jonathan E. Fielding advises people living or working in the Santa Clarita and San Fernando Valleys with heart disease, asthma or other respiratory disease to minimize outdoor activities.
  • Al Gore: Stabilize population to combat global ...
    From the safety of the political sidelines, former Vice President Al Gore is venturing into a touchy topic, presenting his holistic view of how to curb the buildup of greenhouse gases warming the planet. Besides improving technology to reduce fossil...
  • A hybrid popemobile? Vatican says maybe
    How well do red shoes go with a green car? The Vatican may soon find out, according to spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi, who told the Associated Press that a hybrid, energy-saving Mercedes-Benz vehicle could replace the current popemobile. Perhaps...

water.org

  • Matt Damon’s bold yet sane plan (Fast Co ...
    Can Matt Damon Bring Clean Water To Africa? (Fast Company) – The inside story of Matt Damon’s bold yet sane plan to use his celebrity and smarts to help attack one of the globe’s great crises. Once upon a time, Matt Damon went for a long walk in rural Zambia. The devoted family man and method [...]
  • Interview with Water.org’s April Rinne (GGT)
    INTERVIEW: Water.Org’s April Rinne (Green Global Travel) – While other charities may have similar goals, Water.org’s WaterCredit program is unique in that it is works in partnership with microfinance institutions to establish markets in which there is fair access to affordable loans for everyone ...
  • You’re Invited: June 1st Conference Call
      Wednesday, June 1 The 45-minute call begins at 9 p.m. ET Call in number: 978-964-0049
 Participant code: 449749# Not everyone who needs water should have to wait for charity to find them. Learn how Water.org is putting microfinance tools and partnerships to use in helping people get safe water ...
  • Brightest students solving the water crisis
    Hult International Business School Global Case Challenge crowd sources solutions to the water crisis with help from the Clinton Global Initiative. Team from Cambridge University wins Case Challenge.
  • Student group Project RightChoice (Dartmouth)
    Student org. hosts fundraising gala (The Dartmouth) – By selling raffle tickets for a $2,500 cash reward and hosting games with prizes from over 50 local business, members of the student group Project RightChoice raised over $20,000 to support the charity organization Water.Org at a Cinco de May ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Review: The End of America (Naomi Wolf)
    With todays recriminations against Obama it is worthwhile remembering the anger we had towards the Bush II Administration just a couple years ago.Submitted by David Herron to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Washington Marijuana Legalization: Former Seat ...
    He told The Associated Press on Tuesday that laws criminalizing marijuana are wrongheaded because they create an enormous black market exploited by international cartels and crime rings.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • RCMP To Investigate Harper Government On G8 Fu ...
    The RCMP is looking into allegations that the Harper government misappropriated funds in order to lavish $50 million on a cabinet minister's riding prior to last year's G8 summit.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 'Canada's mom': Betty Fox, mother of Terry, d ...
    Friends and family of Betty Fox, the mother of Canadian icon Terry Fox, say they will remember her as a caring, spirited woman who kept alive her son's crusade to cure cancer.Submitted by Cam V. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Lapdogging For The US - Libya, Canada's Other ...
    NATO members, including Canada, are continuing their massive bombing campaign against Libya in a war that may just break the record for the casual breaking of international law, and for lying about the motives for the war.Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • Morocco Announces New Constitutional Reforms
    Morocco's constitutional reform plan follows months of unrest in many countries across North Africa and the Middle East.
  • Israel Approves Construction Projects in Gaza
    Robert Serry, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, welcomed what he called a 'significant step' taken yesterday with Israel's approval of construction projects that are to be implemented by the UN Relief and Works Agency
  • US Committed to Improve Judicial and Prison Ca ...
    He said significantly enhanced prison capacity, also to international standards, is expected in two years. He believed that building on the ongoing efforts in Somalia along these lines may be the most effective and efficient way to help meet the Lan
  • Nepal Refuses to Take Strong Commitments to Pr ...
    Human Rights Defenders have been and remain the driving force behind the democratisation and peace process of Nepal. They are working side by side with the victims of human rights violations to put an end to the climate of impunity which denies th
  • FightZone TV To Air The X Series Fighting Cham ...
    The ISKA Southeastern Regional Bantamweight Title will also be on the line when champion, Matt Coakley, defends against one of the top 135 lb. prospects in the southeast, Len Cook(9-1, Absolute Jiu Jitsu/Bristol, TN). Both of these fighters are near

Worldnews

  • Old City Makes Point as PC Takes 'Victory ...
    Srinagar, Jun 21, KONS: In a quiet but telling message, the maligned streets of old Srinagar on Tuesday offered unmolested passage to the visiting union home minister, Palaniappan Chidambaram, regarded here as the symbol of New Delhi’s often sanguinary law-and-order policy in Kashmir. Under ...
  • Lokpal Bill: We can't have parallel govt, ...
    NEW DELHI: The protracted tug-of-war over the Lokpal bill appeared to have come to the end of its first phase as the joint drafting panel held its final meeting on Tuesday, producing two separate drafts of the bill, signalling the unbridgeable gulf between the views of the government side a ...
  • UPA leaders discuss Lokpal bill draft wit ...
    NEW DELHI: At loggerheads with Anna Hazare's team, the Manmohan Singh government on Tuesday undertook an exercise to take its allies on board on the ticklish Lokpal bill. Soon after the joint drafting panel, comprising Congress ministers and civil society representatives, came out with two ...
  • Bengal flood leaves two lakh homeless
    KOLKATA: Torrential rain over the last few days due to an intense depression over the Bay of Bengal has rendered almost 2 lakh people homeless in East Midnapore in West Bengal . Sabong and Daspur regions in West Midnapore have also been critically affected. State irrigation minister Manas B ...
  • Monsoon session postponed to deal with tr ...
    NEW DELHI: The crisis-ridden Manmohan Singh government on Tuesday decided to defer the monsoon session of Parliament by two weeks to give the Centre more time to deal with troubles over the proposed Lokpal bill. The Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs, or CCPA, which took the decisio ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • Unwilling to Consider Tax Increases, Cantor an ...
    Following on a decision by House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor, (R-Va.),to pull out of the White House-led debt and deficit talks on Thursday, the other Republican negotiator, Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, has also dropped out. The new GOP position appears to be that they will not negotiate any fu ...
  • Carbon Markets Are Not Cooling the Planet
    BONN, Germany - Carbon markets have been widely promoted as the only way to generate enough money to enable industries and countries to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions, which are largely responsible for global warming. The only problem is that nearly 20 years after their conception, they h ...
  • US Nurses Join International Push for Financia ...
    Hundreds of nurses and their allies rallied on Wall Street Wednesday to remind the bankers they owe the nation, and the union movement is determined to collect. “This shared sacrifice stuff is a bunch of hooey. They haven’t given a thing,” said Deb Burger, co-president of National Nurses United ...
  • Reviving Resistance in Palestine
    At the Cinema Cafe in Nablus, hiply dressed youth sip coffee drinks, surrounded by a flashy mall and blaring pop music. It’s an odd place to have an existential discussion about revolution, but, well, this is the West Bank. Beesan Ramadan, a young activist I met during a volunteer teaching stint ...
  • US Mayors Call US 'War on Drugs' a Failure, Ca ...
    The U.S. Conference of Mayors is putting its weight behind sweeping criminal justice reform legislation proposed by Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va. Webb's National Criminal Justice Commission Act would create a bipartisan commission to conduct an 18-month review of each facet of the nation's criminal justi ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Controversial ag spending bill defunds local f ...
    By Rady Ananda Plutocrats aimed another weapon at the nation’s poor and at small and midsized farmers, this time thru the 2012 agriculture appropriations bill, H.R. 2112, which the House passed on June 16. The 82-page bill returns some federal spending to 2006 levels and others to 2008 levels. ...
  • America's Barbaric Death Penalty
    by Stephen Lendman Numerous organizations oppose capital punishment, including the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty (WCADP), an alliance of about 60 NGOs, bar associations, local bodies and unions, founded in May 2002. In 2003, it established October 10 as the World Day Against the ...
  • Bahrain Sues to Suppress Police State Terror T ...
    by Stephen Lendman On June 14, London Independent writer Robert Fisk headlined, "I saw these brave doctors trying to save lives - these charges are a pack of lies," saying: The Khalifa monarchy "started an utterly fraudulent trial of 48 surgeons, doctors, paramedics and nurses, accusing them o ...
  • SCO vs Bilderberg: Where are the real decision ...
    Eric Walberg As the Western elite gathered in picturesque St Moritz to grapple with pressing world crises, the outsiders met in the bleak steppes of Central Asia. Last week’s 10th Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in the Kazakh capital Astana highlighted how the major rivals to ...
  • Wrongfully Banishing Professor David Protess
    by Stephen Lendman On March 18, Chicago Tribune writers Matthew Walberg and Dan Hinkel headlined, "Northwestern at odds with star professor," saying: "Cook County prosecutors sparked a media firestorm nearly two years ago when they subpoenaed notes, recordings, and even grades of (his) s ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

  • Woody, In The Morning: Waddayadunfermelately?
    WWH – The other morning, on Zuckerberg’s folly–like clockwork just about every week–there appeared another of those artfully long, arduously detailed, achingly sincere, partisan encomia (“encomiums?”) which painstakingly recounted ALL the things “ThePrez” has done for us these last 30 months or ...
  • Clarence Thomas is a Corrupt Judge. Period!
    By Ian Millhiser | thinkprogress - Clarence Thomas Decided Three Cases Where AEI Filed A Brief After AEI Gave Him A $15,000 Gift. In 2001, a conservative, corporate-aligned think tank called the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) gave Justice Clarence Thomas the gift of a $15,000 bust of Abraha ...
  • GOP: Killing Jobs Since Bill Clinton Left Office
    The GOP Myth of ‘Job-Killing’ Spending | Wall Street Journal It was the British economist John Maynard Keynes who famously wrote that ideas, “both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.” Right now, I’ ...
  • Heed the Warning Signs; America is Edging Ever ...
    By michael payne | OpEdNews – Many millions of Americans are currently experiencing intense, unrelenting stress and feelings of despair and futility as they try to cope with a myriad of personal problems largely brought on by this nation’s economic crisis. They are not unlike the millions of peo ...
  • One in three kids is at risk for developing ty ...
    McDiabetes: Will McDonald’s Ever Stop Peddling Its Killer Junk to Kids? | Alternet McDonald’s should heed a call from some of the nation’s leading health professionals and stop marketing junk food to kids. It certainly has good reason to do so. One in three children is at risk for developing typ ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

  • Anthony Weiner-converted-to-Islam meme spreads
    This interview with Robert Spencer, the go-to Islam expert for the right wing, offers a taste of the worldview of the Shariah fear-mongering set:
  • Miss USA contestants: Unevolved?
    The Miss USA pageant crowned its annual winner on Sunday, but the contest is drawing new attention� for a video of all 51 contestants wrestling with the question, "Should evolution be taught in schools?" The results, as you might expect, are all over the place. To wit: While only a couple sai ...
  • What other American problems can we blame on i ...
    John McCain said last Sunday that there is "substantial evidence" that illegal immigrants started "some of" the wildfires consuming hundreds of thousands of acres of land in the American Southwest. While "officials" and "people who know what they're talking about" have not produced or even cl ...
  • No, Jon Stewart, you're not just a comedian
    This originally appeared at Attytood, Will Bunch's blog at Philly.com
  • Could states block new FDA cigarette warnings?
    Among all the recent efforts to criminalize free speech, Tennessee's Legislature gets the top award for sheer chutzpah. As Ars Technica reports, the state's governor, Bill Haslam, this month signed a bill making it a crime to "transmit or display an image" that is likely to "frighten, intimid ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

  • Ford to nurses: Who needs you?
    This goes beyond mere penny-pinching—there’s no good reason for Mayor Rob Ford’s rejection of free public health nurses.
  • Now, let’s boost trade
    India’s version of the Oscars, heavy on the singing and dancing, are in town this weekend. At Saturday night’s gala, right alongside 22,000 swaying and cheering Bollywood fans will ...
  • Harper’s muddledmoves in the Senate
    It is richly ironic that the Harper government’s muddled plan for overhauling the Senate is running into pushback from his own party’s caucus in the upper house. Fresh off his majo ...
  • No place for secrecy in teen suicide inquests
    Secrecy and delay mar two Ontario inquests into two eerily similar teen suicides.
  • A sorry tally from the G20
    When Toronto police were first criticized for using excessive force and arbitrarily arresting hundreds of protesters during the G20 summit, Chief Bill Blair held a news conference ...

Energy Collective

EU Times

  • Israel returns nuclear waste to US
    Head of Israel’s Nuclear Energy Commission Shaul Horev says Tel Aviv has returned nuclear waste from its Sorek nuclear reactor to the United States. Horev, who spoke at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) ministerial conference on nuclear safety in Vienna on Monday, did not specify the ...
  • Tritium leaks from US nuclear sites
    Radioactive tritium has leaked from at least 48 of 65 sites of commercial nuclear power sites in the United States, investigations have shown. According to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission records, tritium a radioactive form of hydrogen has leaked through corroded pipes into the ground and t ...
  • Tunis court sentences Ben Ali to 35 years
    A court in Tunisia has sentenced ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his wife to 35 years in prison after finding them guilty of embezzlement and other charges. The conviction in absentia of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and Leila Trabelsi came after a day-long trial before the Tunis criminal ...
  • US heading toward nuclear disaster
    With busted seals, broken nozzles and rusted pipes plaguing America’s nuclear power plants, a report released by The Associated Press today warns that the US is in danger of copycatting the catastrophe that ravaged the Fukushima facility in Japan. After a yearlong investigation, the AP has concl ...
  • Lung cancer rates among men and women decline
    The American Cancer Society put out their annual report on the state of cancer in the U.S. with some good news, and some bad. The good news is that the American Cancer Society has reported that the rates of lung cancer being diagnosed among men and women have declined, says SmartAboutHealth. The ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Israel to Apple: Take down âAnti-Israelâ app
    The Israeli government is pressuring Apple to remove an Arabic-language app called “ThirdIntifada” from the App Store because it encourages a Palestinian uprising. In a letter to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Public Diplomacy Minister Yuli-Yoel Edelstein said the app passed on information about protest ...
  • Israel to Apple: Take down âAnti-Israelâ app
    The Israeli government is pressuring Apple to remove an Arabic-language app called “ThirdIntifada” from the App Store because it encourages a Palestinian uprising. In a letter to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Public Diplomacy Minister Yuli-Yoel Edelstein said the app passed on information about protest ...
  • New Nokia WP7 Handset Is N9 With Misplaced LED ...
    Finally, Nokia WP7 is ready for the press release and the way Nokia CEO unveiled the handset is going to be the next YouTube most watched funny videos. However, before discussing the unveiling lets us show how the new Nokia WP7 code named Sea Ray looks. While unveiling the Sea Ray, Nokia CEO wa ...
  • New Nokia WP7 Handset Is N9 With Misplaced LED ...
    Finally, Nokia WP7 is ready for the press release and the way Nokia CEO unveiled the handset is going to be the next YouTube most watched funny videos. However, before discussing the unveiling lets us show how the new Nokia WP7 code named Sea Ray looks. While unveiling the Sea Ray, Nokia CEO wa ...
  • Google Facing FTC Antitrust Probe
    According to a published report in the Wall Street Journal, Google is getting some unwanted attention from the three lettered agency that may actually be worse than the IRS: the FTC. The WSJ reports : The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is poised to serve Google Inc. with civil subpoenas, accordi ...

Groklaw

  • Executive Team - UnXis - Norris and Nielsen No ...
    [PJ: UnXis lists only five executives on their Executive Team page now. Compare it with the Google cached version of that same page, and you'll see that both Stephen Norris and Ken Nielsen are gone from the list.] - UnXis Executive Team
  • More potential prior art for Lodsys patents
    Non-Patent Literature (I currently have not found these references, but would like to see them.) "Tiny Computer," Popular Science, Feb. 1977, p. 75 "Infopac I1/2 Data Terminal," Azur Data Literature, Mar. 1976 - US Patent Attorney, IP Target
  • LEAKED: UK copyright lobby holds closed-door m ...
    A group of UK copyright lobbyists held confidential, closed-door meetings with Ed Vaizey, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries to discuss a plan to allow industry groups to censor the Internet in the UK. The proposal has leaked, and it reveals a plan to establish "expert ...
  • EFF Urges Supreme Court to Block Law That Erod ...
    The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block a federal law that erodes the public domain and hurts libraries, artists, and others who want to exercise their First Amendment right to share and receive information in an amicus brief filed today on behalf a coaliti ...
  • Lessons from Watson (Jeopardy Computer) in the ...
    Machines, big machines, big data machines, are brawn, maybe brainy-brawn, not brains. Watson uses 10,000's of watts, the computer between the ears uses 20. Sheer brawn might take mega watts, IBM's researchers were able to bring it down to 10,000's of watts, so I call it brainy brawn. But brai ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Thomas Friedman unloads against both parties
    There is something crazy about what is going on in our country today. Our fiscal condition continues on an unsustainable path, the European currency is heading for a crackup, the Arab world is in the midst of a crackup, unemployment is creeping upward and basically our two parties are telling us ...
  • Disturbing trend in big solar, mindless cheerl ...
    Renewable Energy World jumps the shark, saying the more big solar the better because the US likes doing things on a big scale and it will mean big profits for big developers. Wowie zowie, I mean what could go wrong with that? As for any possible problems with, say, carpeting the Mojave desert wi ...
  • Groovefest American Music Festival starts today
    Cedar City UT calls itself “Festival City” and Groovefest is just one of the festivals. Four days of workshops and music, including eighteen bands performing for free in the park. Genres include alt country, Americana, southern R&B, blues, Cajun swamp, traditional mountain, bluegrass, and more. ...
  • The Shift: From print, to digital and beyond
    Baekdal starts his next book. The concept of the book is to invite you on the journey to the new world of publishing – or specifically the future world of publishing. A world in which publishers can’t use the internet to give away their products for free. A world in which value outranks everythi ...
  • Romney and Huntsman
    Romney is still the one to beat, for sure. Many say Huntsman can’t win because he’s too moderate. Maybe, but don’t count him out. He moves between all the levels of the different political strata effortlessly, is low-key, likeable, and seems to be aided by as yet unseen forces. What people are s ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Chirpstory on Egypt
    Okay I get it. Some of you don't like my Chirpstories. But I do not have time to blog about everything I might want to, so tweeting is a good, quick substitute. And actually, I rather enjoy the speedy interactions on Twitter and other aspects of the system like hashtags. So for those f you inte ...
  • In Gaza
    From Monday through Thursday, Bill the spouse and I were in Gaza. The time there was really great: We got to talk to some really interesting people. It is so important to be able to hear from them firsthand and see the conditions in which they're living-- not least because of the terrible isolat ...
  • Post-Tahrir Cairo, Day 1
    Bill the spouse and I had an informative, short conversation today with the longtime MB spokesman Dr. Esam El-Erian, who is also the deputy head of the newly emerging, MB-backed Freedom and Justice Party. (You can find descriptions of interviews I conducted with Dr. El-Erian in early 2007 and e ...
  • Publishing: From 140 characters to 150,000 words
    I haven't blogged much recently, I know. I've been incredibly busy. Primarily with the book-publishing but a bit with family things and also, increasingly, with planning for the trip I'm currently on. (This blog post comes to you from London. On Saturday, I'm going to Cairo... ) Also, I've been ...
  • Syria: The strong risk of fitna, and how to pr ...
    Josh Landis has a truly excellent piece on his blog today. It is a lengthy account that he's publishing there, that was written by someone identified only as "An American in Syria." Whoever the writer is, the writing shows the closeness of her/his own connectedness to Syrians in Damascus of a va ...

frogblog

  • Privatising public energy companies in Wonderland
    Tony Ryall, Minister of State Owned Enterprises, turned up to the Finance and Expenditure Committee today to justify their plans to partially privatise the state owned energy companies. With a little bit of creative licence, the exchange went something like this: Tony: We need to partially priva ...
  • Taxi chats could be dangerous
    After a long week in Parliament I often have a pleasant chat with the taxi driver taking me to the airport. So I was disturbed to find out that the Wellington Combined cabs would be installing video cameras that also have voice-recording capability. Who knows where my private chats might end up, ...
  • From the Depths of Hell – a Vision of Heaven
    In my last blog post, I reported on my 2nd public forum for the rebuild of Christchurch.  I held it in New Brighton, one Sunday, 12 June – prehistory. Post-June 13th, Christchurch has changed. The 5.7 and 6.3 shattered not just brick and stone but flesh and soul. And then Tuesday’s 5.3, along wi ...
  • Is urban sprawl inevitable?
    Advocates (like Steven Joyce) of removing Metropolitan Urban Limits and allowing lots of low density growth around our cities like to present their case as if urban sprawl is the natural result of market forces. Their narrative is pretty much that people like to live in spread out suburbs with t ...
  • An afternoon at the $8.95 Welfare Forum
    Yesterday, I went along to the $8.95 Welfare Forum organised by the Alternative Welfare Working Group.  I was pleased to see around 100 people turn out – twice the number I’ve been told were at the $895 Welfare Conference opened by Paula Bennett yesterday. Minister Bennett was, as I expected, a ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Will Obamacare Destroy Private Insurance?
    I haven't been blogging about the great McKinsey Obamacare study flap, but in a nutshell, McKinsey conducted a survey of employers and concluded that 30% of all companies would stop providing health coverage once Obamacare kicked in in 2014. Conservatives immediately sounded the alarm, but M ...
  • Unions Finally Catch a (Small) Break
    The NLRB, protector of management rights when Republicans are in charge and protector of labor rights when Democrats are in charge, announced today that it plans to change the rules governing union recognition elections in order to "curb unnecessary litigation, streamline procedures before a ...
  • Obama's Spending Cuts
    Matt Yglesias points out that last December, when Democrats cut a deficit-busting deal with Republicans to cut taxes and increase stimulus spending, would have been a perfect time to raise the debt ceiling. But: It didn’t happen. Obama said he trusted John Boehner. Harry Reid said he didn ...
  • Slouching Out of Afghanistan
    President Obama will be at Ft. Drum on Thursday to announce his plan to reduce our military presence in Afghanistan. Apparently, though, there's not much chance of doing anything more than pulling out the 30,000 troops that were added to Afghanistan in 2010. The real discussion is only over ...
  • A Historical Perspective on Historical Perspective
    Via Andrew Sullivan, the New Yorker's Nick Paumgarten provides some perspective on the latest dismal findings about American kids' knowledge of American history: “We haven’t ever known our past,” Sam Wineburg, a professor of education and history at Stanford, said last week. “Your kids ar ...

Insanity Report

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

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • Caltech-led researchers measure body temperatu ...
    Were dinosaurs slow and lumbering, or quick and agile? It depends largely on whether they were cold or warm blooded. When dinosaurs were first discovered in the mid-19th century, paleontologists thought they were plodding beasts that had to rely on their environments to keep warm, like modern-da ...
  • Positive coaching
    In the high stakes world of elite level athletics, coaches are king – but that lofty perch can prove a sword of Damocles. More often than not they're regarded as the undisputed authority on what it takes to train an athlete to maximal performance potential, and being placed on a pedestal doesn't ...
  • Discovery by Syracuse University physicist alt ...
    A discovery by a team of researchers led by a Syracuse University physicist sheds new light on how the vision process is initiated. For almost 50 years, scientists have believed that light signals could not be initiated unless special light-receptor molecules in the retinal cells first changed t ...
  • Who goes there? Novel complex senses viral inf ...
    Double-stranded (ds) RNA viruses are a diverse group of viruses that include rotaviruses, a common cause of gastroenteritis. The ability of the immune system to detect and destroy viruses is critical for human health and survival. Now, a study published by Cell Press in the June 23rd issue of t ...
  • Community health worker interventions improve ...
    Education, referrals, support and other interventions by community health workers improve rates of screening mammography in the United States – especially in medical and urban settings and among women whose race and ethnicity is similar to that of the community health workers serving them. rea ...

unEarthed

  • Collusion in Kansas Force-Feeds Coal Power
    "This is not how government is supposed to work" Americans are worried about their government.We imagine backroom deals are cut, fates are foretold and the lit ...
  • Court: Only EPA Can Regulate Climate Change Po ...
    High court affirms EPA authority Today, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling once again affirmed the Environmental Protection Agency�as the most rightful and authorized regulator of climate change pollution in the land. While some in Con ...
  • Renewable Energy Requires Storage Tech. to Cap ...
    Intermittent nature of wind and solar power generation needs to be captured An issue that has cropped up as the country moves towards more renewable energy ge ...
  • Should You Trust Energy Star?
    Things the label doesn't tell you, and what you can do about it The Energy Star logo is one of the most trusted labels for consumers looking to make environmen ...
  • Friday Finds: Burn Notice
    Formaldehyde fess up, climate change symptoms, eco bag attack The FDA recently released new restrictions for sunscreen manufacturers. Photo courtesy of earthly delights. ...

Brave New Climate

  • Golf balls and elephants – energy densit ...
    I’m currently developing a short (2 minute, 30 second) animated video on nuclear power and climate change, with help from friend Ben Heard and the skills of Ron Furner and his team at Fury Films. Near the end of the vid, we talk about the vast amount of energy embodied in so-called ‘nuclear wast ...
  • Greenpeace’s plan for India
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. This article follows on from his previous: What price of Indian independence? Greenpeace under the spotlight —————— In my previous ...
  • Equinox Energy 2030 communiqué
    The Equinox Energy 2030 Summit (2011) has  now concluded, and I’ve arrived back in Australia. It was an enthralling and exhausting experience, and I befriended a wonderful group of people — members of the Forum (aged ~25 to 30 years), Advisors (including me — for generalist critiques and ), Quo ...
  • Open Thread 16
    The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting rules of courtesy apply, and at the very least your chat should relate to the general content of this ...
  • Disposal of UK plutonium stocks with a climate ...
    In the 1950s, following World War II, the United Kingdom and a handful of other nations developed a nuclear weapons arsenal. This required the production of plutonium metal (or highly enriched uranium) purpose-built facilities. ‘Civil’ plutonium was also produced, since the facilities for separa ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • Setting Sail for Gaza, Armed with Love Letters ...
    Setting Sail for Gaza, Armed with Love Letters and a Missive from Dr. King by Medea Benjamin “I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him,” said Dr. Martin Luther King as he accepted the Nobel ...
  • The National Press Club Condemns Killing of Me ...
    The National Press Club Condemns Killing of Mexican Journalist and His Family - PR Newswire - sacbee.com: By National Press Club Published: Tuesday, Jun. 21, 2011 - 9:24 am WASHINGTON, June 21, 2011 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Press Club condemned the killing of Mexican journal ...
  • Let’s Talk Graduation, Unemployment and Impris ...
    Let’s Talk Graduation, Unemployment and Imprisonment for Natives in Amerikkka « The Speed of Dreams: "by Enaemaehkiw Túpac Keshena-Yesterday the Ignite Collective in NYC posted an article for Father’s Day called Fathers Day in Amerikkka. It’s a short but good article on the low graduation and em ...
  • It's time for Clarence Thomas to resign.
    It's time for Clarence Thomas to resign.: [http://act.credoaction.com/] "A New York Times expose published Sunday details the improper ties between Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and influential rightwing funder and activist Harlan Crow.1 Crow is a major contributor to conservative c ...
  • A Tribute to Anti-War Campaigner Brian Haw, Dr ...
    A Tribute to Anti-War Campaigner Brian Haw, Driven by Revulsion at the Murder of Innocents | Andy Worthington: [Forwarded to APNS from - Viola Wilkins] When I was a child, I read the Guinness Book of Records, and marvelled at the stories of the people who, in ancient times, removed themselves fr ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Exxon Gets 20 Billion a Year in Corporate Welfare
    The amount of taxes we don’t collect from Exxon plus their handouts equals around 20 billion dollars a year. And this is just one company. Spending isn’t the problem. Corporate welfare, and billionaire welfare is the problem.
  • Politifact – Jon Stewart Was Right
    How hard did your dishonest organization have to twist  into a pretzel to name Stewart’s factual statement about Fox News viewers as false? Misinformed, uninformed, and lied to. Fox lemmings.
  • Jobs Boehner?
    When will Boehner and the Republicans in the House stop attacking women, and seniors long enough to pass a bill to create jobs? No Ayn Rand voodoo economics fantasy tax cuts for billionaires trickle down crap. I mean real job creating legislation.
  • Grandma Isn’t Dead Yet Mr. Ryan
    I know how hard you have worked to steal the last few dollars grandma has left to buy her pills. Once she runs out of money and she dies, problem solved right? One less parasite living on government “entitlements” right Mr. Ryan? Gotta pay for them tax breaks for billionaires now don’t we….
  • Boehner Ready to Cut a Deal on Raising the Deb ...
    If President Obama would agree to cut “entitlements” and put thousands of Americans to death from lack of food, or proper medical attention John Boehner guarantees he will put raising the debt ceiling to a vote! What a deal? I think the CBO should “score” how many Americans will die needlessly f ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

+972

  • US Envoy: Congress will punish UN if it recogn ...
    A little-noticed quote from Susan Rice, U.S. Ambassador to the UN, reveals the depth of the United States’ commitment to Jerusalem’s demands and more importantly, the enormous effect the Israeli lobby has on American foreign policy. H/t to The Progressive Realist for picking up this one (my bold ...
  • Some women are born refugees: Remember your Er ...
    The international community marks World Refugee Day this week, which refugees and human rights organizations in Israel will officially celebrate on Friday. But while the world commemorates the 1951 Refugee Convention, impossible suffering continues to be the fate of countless women. Professor Mi ...
  • Israel policy myth #2: Separation between Jews ...
    Racist attitudes against Arabs are widespread in Israel. Numerous official policies segregate and separate Jews from Palestinians, with a vastly discriminatory effect and intent. Justifications alluding to security needs, or alleging that separation is based on citizenship rather than ethnic ori ...
  • Legendary Shas leader returning to politics, v ...
    A game changer? Former Shas leader Aryeh Deri has announced his return to politics tonight. Speaking at the Presidential Conference in Jerusalem, Deri said: “In the State of Israel, one can make no contribution without political power, and I therefore decided to establish a movement. I’m coming ...
  • US Envoy Dennis Ross says a mouthful
    Papers are reporting that Dennis Ross, President Obama’s special advisor on the Middle East, said at the President’s Conference in Jerusalem on Thursday that Israel cannot sit idly by and wait for things to happen.   According to Haaretz: bold steps need to be taken to make sure that Israel re ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Deadline extended for West Kimberley National ...
    Environment Minister Tony Burke has extended the deadline for a decision about National Heritage listing of the west Kimberley until the end of August to allow further community consultation and further consideration of whether the proposed heritage values are sufficiently comprehensive.
  • Call for nominations for Environmentalist of ...
    Environment Minister Tony Burke has called for nominations for the 2011 Prime Minister's Environmentalist of the Year Award and the Environment Minister's Young Environmentalist of the Year Award.
  • Nominations open for Prime Minister's Water W ...
    Commercial and industrial companies that can demonstrate recent water savings are encouraged to nominate for the 2011 Prime Minister's Water Wise Award.
  • Gillard Government delivers first sustainable ...
    The Gillard Government today released the nation's first ever dedicated sustainable population strategy which sets out the framework, backed by new funding for a sustainable Australia.
  • New National Housing Supply Council Appointments
    Minister for Sustainability, Population and Communities, Tony Burke, today announced the new membership of the National Housing Supply Council to support housing affordability by providing essential information and analysis on housing supply across Australia.

Matt Weidner Blog

  • A Gut Wrenching Appellate Loss- Please Share Y ...
    This blog has been a great forum to discuss the occasional triumphs of justice and the victory of the rule of law over the fraud, the deceit and the abject criminality of the banks and their law firms.  It has also been an open forum for me to discuss the frustrations over a legal system [...]
  • THE ULTIMATE SELL OUT- THE BANKS AVOID ALL LIA ...
    We have become a disgusting, lawless and overtly corrupt nation where no rules or laws apply to the banks and institutions.  Dispense with all your naive notions of justice, fairness and law, because in this new era these concepts do not apply if your crimes and conspiracies are big enough. WASH ...
  • The Banks Can’t Count…
    Every single day we receive more and more evidence of the banks and their wrongdoing.  I long ago gave up on any government official to do anything about it and I never had any faith that any of the banks or the industry could self police  I had faith that our courts would do something, [...]
  • The LPS Sanctions Decision- Bankruptcy Court S ...
    The Federal judges are really stepping in and calling all this mess what it really is… Read the In Re Wilson, Order HERE Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
  • Two Days/Two Summary Judgement Vacated/Two Sal ...
    It’s only Tuesday, but it has been a very good week already…I got two Summary Judgments vacated and two sales canceled! Now mind you, there was no way these two judgments should have been entered in first place, but that’s a whole other story.  The bottom line is we worked very hard, briefed th ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Worth It
    The Federation of Canadian Municipalities met in Halifax a short while ago and some of the federal political party leaders addressed the gathering. Bob Rae was at his candid and disarming best. He began by observing: “For some time I have wanted to be the Liberal leader in the worst way. Be care ...
  • Stop Predicting – Start Achieving
    Politics is turning wacky again. Stephen Harper gloats in his decimation of the Liberal Party, which Jack Layton vows to keep in its place while his NDP seeks to consolidate its power as the chief opposition. Conservative minister James Moore mocks the NDP for pretending it will get rid of its “ ...
  • Men Without Chests
    The phrase above originated in The Abolition of Man, a thoughtful work by C. S. Lewis on the loss of virtue. He maintained that some of the greatest realities in life actually come from something external to the experience of humans. Such truths are objective and provide the guideposts for human ...
  • “But Still We Have It”
    My wife spoke on the phone yesterday with an incumbent MP from another region that lost his seat in the last election. He and his family have been friends for years and so the conversation was an open and frank one. When asked if he would run again his response was interesting. “It’s like a [...]
  • Advancing Civilization
    It suddenly dawned on me yesterday that I might be getting anachronistic. Once a year I smoke dad’s old pipe as a way of remembering him. Sitting on the porch swing, I recalled the smell of that pipe when I was a boy, listening to him as he expounded on some of his war experiences [...]

Vaccine Awakening

  • In Memoriam: Infant Deaths & Vaccination
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Memorial Day is for remembering those, who have fought and died to defend America and preserve our civil liberties, including freedom of thought, speech, religious belief and conscience. So every Memorial Day I remember the children, who have died after receiving state ma ...
  • Whooping Cough Outbreaks & Vaccine Failures
    UPDATE: CLICK HERE TO VIEW NVIC'S PERTUSSIS VACCINE & DISEASE PAGE by Barbara Loe Fisher Reports of whooping cough outbreaks in California1,2 and in other states this summer are nothing new. Every four to five years – no matter how high the vaccination rate is - there are reports of w ...
  • Using Fear & Prejudice to Attack Vaccine Exemp ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher This summer, inaccurate and misleading information about B. pertussis whooping cough and the pertussis vaccine is being put out there by medical doctors, who should know better. Media campaigns designed to create fear about infectious disease are nothing new. This ...
  • Amy Wallace & Yellow Journalism
    by Barbara Loe Fisher On October 17, 2009 I was at the Atlanta airport on my way back to Washington, D.C. when I stopped at a newsstand. Like most weary travelers waiting for a plane, I was looking for something to read that would give me a break from my work, which included, two weeks earl ...
  • Forcing Flu Shots on Health Care Workers: Who ...
    By Barbara Loe Fisher Doctors at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia are ordering all employees to get a flu shot every year or be sent home for two weeks without pay to “think about it.” Anyone, who still refuses to get a flu shot after that, is fired.1 60 percent of all U.S. health care p ...

2020 Science

  • The safety of nanotechnology-based sunscreens ...
    A few weeks ago, I set Friends of the Earth a challenge - What is your worst case estimate of the human health risk from titanium dioxide and/or zinc oxide nanoparticles in sunscreens? The challenge came out of an article from FoE on nanomaterials and sunscreens, which I subsequently critiqued o ...
  • Knitting science
    Sitting in a meeting on informal science education recently, I was intrigued to see a respected academic working on her knitting.  And she wasn’t the only one.  Now I may have had a something of a sheltered life, but in over twenty years of attending scientific conferences and workshops, I thi ...
  • Smart science, biopunks and nanoparticles – Au ...
    I‘m going to be taking a break from 2020 Science over the next few weeks, as I finally make the move with my family from DC to Ann Arbor.  But rather than let the blog languish, I thought I would use this as an opportunity to revisit some of my old posts.  So through August, [...]
  • Smart science for the 21st century
    In February 2008, the National Academy of Engineering launched 14 grand challenges for engineering.  These were the inspiration for this post, but rather than focus on the challenges themselves, I thought it would be interesting to consider how science and technology are going to help address th ...
  • I’m breathing in nanoparticles, so why aren’t ...
    This was based on a piece I originally wrote for Nano Today – the blog was a slightly extended version of what was published.  Although it was written two years ago, it’s still surprising how few people realize that breathing in nanoparticles is an everyday fact of life, and that to make sense ...

Reader Supported News

  • JPMorgan Fined $154 Million in Goldman-Like Case
    Matt Taibbi reports: "JPMorgan agreed to pay $153.6 million to end a Securities and Exchange Commission suit. The SEC alleged that the New York-based bank failed to tell investors in 2007 that a hedge fund helped pick, and bet against, underlying securities in the collateralized debt obligation ...
  • Limbaugh, Beck Sell Political Endorsements
    Kenneth P. Vogel and Lucy McCalmon write: "'I wish more of the grassroots knew the reality that this wasn't Rush or Sean or Beck saying these things out of the goodness of their hearts,' said the leader of one group who inquired about ads on various radio shows, but decided they were both too ex ...
  • Countdown With Keith Olbermann Returns Tonight
    Julianne Escobedo Shepherd writes: "As one journalist questioned whether 'Countdown' will be as 'partisan' as his old show and noted that he is not exactly popular among conservatives, Olbermann shot back, 'I don't particularly care if it is; I don't think they're right about things.'" Keith ...
  • Paul Ryan's Budget Payday
    Intro: "The congressman stands to make money from his stakes in four businesses that lease land to energy companies which would benefit from $45 billion in tax breaks and subsidies in his proposed budget." Ryan's effort to extend tax breaks creates the potential appearance of a conflict of in ...
  • Paul Ryan's Budget Payday
    Intro: "The congressman stands to make money from his stakes in four businesses that lease land to energy companies which would benefit from $45 billion in tax breaks and subsidies in his proposed budget." Ryan's effort to extend tax breaks creates the potential appearance of a conflict of in ...

War Resisters League

  • Not Justice, Not Victory: Just Another Murder ...
    “I keep thinking of how awful it was to hear that there were people actually celebrating on 9-11. Now I look at the TV and see the same thing.” -Family member of a man killed in the World Trade Center of September 11, 2001. The reported killing of Osama bin Laden by a CIA operation [...]
  • The Broken Rifle in Kabul
    The above photograph, of Scott Schaeffer-Duffy from the Catholic Worker in Worcester, Massachusetts standing beside street art made by local Afghan youth, was taken in Kabul by WRL National Committee and Organizing Task Force member Jim Haber when he was on a recent delegation with Voices for Cr ...
  • WRL Organizers Hit the West Coast
    From February 25th to March 7th,WRL organizing coordinator Kimber Heinz and field organizer Ali Issa began a three-stop trip on the West Coast where they met with WRL locals and affiliates, as well as allied organizations working on GI resistance, civilian support for anti-war veteran organizing ...
  • Iraq/Wisconson Labor Solidarity: Two Statements
    In the wake of the threat posed to what remain of labor rights in Wisconsin, and the public’s powerful response, two Iraqi labor leaders, Hassan Jum’a and Faleh Abood, penned solidarity statements in late February on behalf the 26,000 member strong Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions, and the 15,000 ...
  • Stepping up the Resistance to U.S. Islamophobia
    As Peter King, the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, steps up the U.S. government attack against Muslims living in the U.S., saying that he will “rely on Muslims to make his case that American Muslim leaders have failed to cooperate with law enforcement officials in the effo ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Now in the Senate, PAMTA Pushes Forward
    Last week, Senators Diane Feinstein (D-CA) and Susan Collins (R-ME) took an important stand in support of America’s health by reintroducing the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (S. 1211). The bill aims to prevent the misuse of antibiotics in agriculture to ensure their conti ...
  • New USDA Report Stresses Regulations on Antibi ...
    A new technical review by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, “A Focus on Antimicrobial Resistance,” calls the issue a growing public health concern worldwide, stating the misuse of antimicrobial drugs in food animal production and human medicine is the main factor accelerating antimicrobial res ...
  • CLF opposes Rehberg amendment, antibiotic-resi ...
    The FY 2012 Agriculture appropriations bill, voted out of the House Appropriations Committee last week, includes an amendment that would severely limit the authority of FDA to regulate the use of antimicrobials, including antibiotics, in food animal production-a key concern of public health rese ...
  • Food and Farm Policy: this is not the image an ...
    Recently, my boyfriend offered to give me a dollar for every blog I started with, “Stop what you’re doing, ’cause I’m about to ruin the image and the style that you’re used to.” I responded to his idea with a barrage of reasons why it was ridiculous and certainly not appropriate in my line of [. ...
  • Pfizer will voluntary suspend sale of roxarson ...
    The FDA announced today that Pfizer Inc., will voluntarily suspend the sale of 3-Nitro (better known as the arsenical drug roxarsone) following the results of an FDA study which found elevated levels of inorganic arsenic in the livers of chicken fed roxarsone compared to a control group. The ann ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

  • Raging at Rawalpindi
    American leaders are furious with Pakistan’s military in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing. But twisting arms will only backfire.
  • The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest War
    An FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
  • Crazy Like a Fox
    In a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
  • Addicted to Contractors
    The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.
  • How to Whip the Afghan Army Into Shape
    Much of President Barack Obama's strategy rests on the creation of a new, more competent Afghan military. Here's what he'll need to know to get the job done.

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

  • Shell Canada FuellingChange™
    Deadline:  31 Jul 2011 (All day) Organization:  Shell Canada FuellingChange (FC) is a new and exciting pro ...
  • Webinar: Nuclear Power - How is it regulated?
    Environmental Law Centre 4 Jul 2011 - 12:00 - 13:00 Are you wondering how nuclear power facilities are regulated in Canada? Are you confused about how provincial and federal enviro ...
  • Power Summer Prairie Camp
    Canadian Youth Climate Coalition 15 Jul 2011 - 00:00 - 17 Jul 2011 - 00:00 Imagine hundreds of youth from the Pacific to the Atlantic and up to the Arctic Circle trained, prepped a ...
  • Wild Lands Advocate June 2011, Vol. 19 No. 3
    Alberta Wilderness Association The June 2011 issue of Wildlands Advocate has been posted on the Alberta Wilderness Association�website. Contents Features Balance (Or In Praise of a Good�Saunter) Marking 100 Years of Peaks a ...
  • RCEN e-Bulletin: June 16, 2011 Edition
    Canadian Environmental Network (RCEN) The June 16, 2011 edition of the RCEN e-Bulletin is now�online. Contents Caucus Steering Committee Members�Announced Call for Delegates Rio+20 Consultations: Seeking Young�Repo ...

Stop NATO

  • Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 23, 2011
    ==== NATO To Use “Any Means Necessary” To Wage Libyan War: Rasmussen NATO’s Libyan War: 12,198 Air Missions, 4613 Strike Sorties Libya: Bitter Truth About The Fighting Country Emanuel Uses Influential Friends To Land NATO, G-8 Summits In Chicago Emanuel Seeks Corporate Donors For Chicago NATO Su ...
  • Sarkozy’s Libyan War
    June 23, 2011 Sarkozy’s Libyan War By Robert Harneis French President Nicolas Sarkozy started the Libyan war – what drove him to risk the effort? It is clear that without his personal intervention there is very little chance it would have happened. Only small children and nice-minded little old ...
  • Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 22, 2011
    ==== 96-Day Libyan War: Over 12,000 NATO Sorties, Over 4,500 Combat Missions NATO Air Strikes Target Towns Near Libyan Capital Spokesperson: U.S. Aid Essential To NATO’s Libyan War Senate Opens Door For U.S. Troops To Fight In Libya Iran Slams NATO’s Killing Innocent Libyans, Destroying Infrastr ...
  • La Bruyère on the lust for war
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Jean de La Bruyère From Characters (1688) Of the Sovereign and the State Translated by Henri Van Laun Even in the most remote antiquity, and in all ages, war has existed, and has always filled the world with widows and orphans, drained ...
  • Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 21, 2011
    ==== Libya: NATO Air Missions Near 12,000 With Over 4,500 Combat Sorties NATO Intensifies Deadly Bombing Of Civilian Targets In Libya Libya Accuses NATO Of Targeting Civilians, Targeted Assassinations Palestine Sends Protest Note To NATO Over Killing Of Family In Libya NATO Air Strike Kills Syri ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Military Equipment Positioning, No Fly Zones, ...
    The Intel Hub Shepard Ambellas June 20, 2011 This is an ongoing intel gathering operation so we can better assess and report back to the public what has, and is actually transpiring with all of the recent troop/equipment movements and/or No-Fly zones being initiated at a rapid rate in the CONUS. ...
  • Sky-Lift (FEMA Style) Guard Towers At Wal-Mart ...
    The Intel Hub Shepard Ambellas June 20, 2011 We all know that Wal-Mart stores nationwide have served as mass inoculation sites for the brain dead public — as if the fluoride in the water is not bad enough. It has been suggested that Wal-Mart stores and/or warehouses could be used as FEMA camps   ...
  • Truckers Report Moving Military Equipment Acro ...
    The Intel Hub Alex Thomas June 20th, 2011 This is an alert to all truckers. We need your help to confirm this information. Send any tips to tips@theintelhub.com In the last week, The Intel Hub has reported an extensive amount of military movements throughout the United States. We now have report ...
  • Soylent Green: New Meat Made From Human Feces ...
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