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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 III

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Operation Anti-Security
    ShareThisOperation Anti-Security By A Guest 19 Jun 2011 Welcome to Operation Anti-Security (#AntiSec) - we encourage any vessel, large or small, to open fire on any government or agency that crosses their path. We fully endorse the flaunting of the word "AntiSec" on any government website deface ...
  • Operation Anti-Security
    ShareThisOperation Anti-Security By A Guest 19 Jun 2011 Welcome to Operation Anti-Security (#AntiSec) - we encourage any vessel, large or small, to open fire on any government or agency that crosses their path. We fully endorse the flaunting of the word "AntiSec" on any government website deface ...
  • 'Hacker' Cleary could be extradited to US to f ...
    ShareThis'Hacker' Ryan Cleary could be extradited to US to face court over CIA computer attacks 22 Jun 2011 Ryan Cleary, the Essex teenager arrested on suspicion of launching cyber attacks on the CIA and the US Senate, could be extradited to face 'justice' in the US, where computer hacking can c ...
  • 'Hacker' Cleary could be extradited to US to f ...
    ShareThis'Hacker' Ryan Cleary could be extradited to US to face court over CIA computer attacks 22 Jun 2011 Ryan Cleary, the Essex teenager arrested on suspicion of launching cyber attacks on the CIA and the US Senate, could be extradited to face 'justice' in the US, where computer hacking can c ...
  • US-led soldier killed in Afghanistan
    ShareThisUS-led soldier killed in Afghanistan 23 Jun 2011 Another US-led soldier has been killed in eastern Afghanistan, a day after US President Barack Obama announced plans of a partial drawback of American troops from the war-ravaged country. NATO's international Security Assistance Force (IS ...

Daily Loaf

  • 5 books that are sure to heat up your kitchen life
    I like to read — a lot. I could make lists counting the hundreds of books that make great reads. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time and you may not have the attention span for that. To keep it short and sweet, here’s a list of five books that I feel add depth and meaning [...]
  • Beer Review: Victory Hop Devil/Victory Hop Wallop
    Victory Brewing Company opened up fifteen years ago in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, but only recently entered the Florida market.  With such beers as their highly touted Prima Pils and Storm King Stout, Victory has earned a rightful place among the respected craft brewers in the United States.  ...
  • D’s nuts: Rays’ crazy defense feeds hitting, p ...
    Tampa Bay took the series victory against the Chicago with the win, getting back to .500 and improving to 2 games back in the American League East division. Rays look for sweep tomorrow.
  • Interview with Michael Foley about the Florida ...
    The Florida Dance Festival provides a springboard for raw talent and fresh ideas.
  • Just plain cheesy: Celebrate National Grilled ...
    April is National Grilled Cheese Month: an entire four weeks devoted to the American classic. The following sandwich recipe is from cheese expert and author Laura Werlin’s book, Great Grilled Cheese.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
    Part 2: Dissecting the Universal Flu Vaccine (continued from Part 1: Dissecting the Seasonal influenza Vaccine) To fully unravel the Biondvax Universal Flu Vaccine scandal, a top down approach is necessary. Professor Ruth Arnon, Ph.D, is the official “inventor of BiondVaxâs innovative synthetic ...
  • VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
    Part 2: Dissecting the Universal Flu Vaccine (continued from Part 1: Dissecting the Seasonal influenza Vaccine) To fully unravel the Biondvax Universal Flu Vaccine scandal, a top down approach is necessary. Professor Ruth Arnon, Ph.D, is the official “inventor of BiondVaxâs innovative synthetic ...
  • VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
    “The first century or two of the new millennium will almost certainly be a golden age for eugenics. Through application of new genetic knowledge and reproductive technologies the major change will be to mankind itself. Techniques such as genetic manipulations are not yet efficient enough t ...
  • VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
    “The first century or two of the new millennium will almost certainly be a golden age for eugenics. Through application of new genetic knowledge and reproductive technologies the major change will be to mankind itself. Techniques such as genetic manipulations are not yet efficient enough t ...
  • VRM: L-Histidine, Squaline, & Human Chorionic ...
    “Vaccination is a monstrosity, a misbegotten offspring of error and ignorance; it should have no place in either hygiene or medicine. Believe not in vaccination, it is a world wide delusion, an unscientific practice, a fatal superstition with consequences measured today by tears and sorrow ...

B.C. Preppers Network

  • You Know You're Getting Old When...
    A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.� A cute little luxury fe ...
  • Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
    Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for.�If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditioner ...
  • Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
    After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
  • Strawberry Picking
    Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
  • Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
    I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal f ...

Michael Yon

  • Afghanistan is making undeniable progress, but ...
    19 June 2011 KABUL, AFGHANISTAN It's time to make big decisions. These decisions will have a huge impact on the future of Afghanistan. The biggest question at hand: How many troops will we keep here and for how long? The answer to that question must not be dreamed up in political strategy sess ...
  • Supporting the Mission with Operational Energy
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  • Trust and Incompatibility
    Please click to view the entire report.�
  • Book Update
    17 June 2011 I am told that six copies of my book now exist. I have yet to see it but am told that it looks incredible. Am also told that the Chief of Staff for the First Lady got a copy. (How can Mrs. Obama get a copy even before I got a copy?)� Well, that's the way the ball bounces. Product ...
  • Rest in Peace our Brothers
    09 June 2011 Today, a couple of messages came in from Air Force Combat Search and Rescue personnel.� The first message, reprinted below, caused me to stop and read it a couple of times.� It is important to note that these Air Force personnel are part of the teams that get our warriors off the b ...

The Killing Train

  • Tories would rather shut down the CBC than ans ...
    This is a video that should be watched widely. These are Harper voters.
  • Watch out for election day fraud
    Francis Fox Piven (who has had her own experiences recently with Harper's US mentors) and Richard Cloward wrote a very interesting book called "Why Americans Don't Vote", which showed how a key electoral strategy in the US has always been demobilizing opposing voters, a strategy just as importan ...
  • Today's election thoughts
    Today's election thoughts, and a couple of photos. Jon Elmer sent me this amusing Vintage Voter site. Vincent Pang sent me this photo album of protests against Harper's second proroguing back in 2010. read more
  • 36% is apparently a majority, but not for a wh ...
    The daily polling is suspicious. Every day the media publishes what the electoral outcome is going to be. And every day it changes. They keep saying there's going to be a Harper majority. Saying it won't make it so, but it might contribute to it. Earlier today I saw an article on CityTV.ca throu ...
  • Canadians are annoyed - deliberation vs. engin ...
    Pollsters now get people to press buttons about how they are feeling as they watch debates, and have discovered that Canadians are annoyed. This then feeds back to politicians, who try to, presumably, be less annoying, or, perhaps, try to blame other politicians for the annoyance. read more

treehugger

  • NASA's James Hansen on Climate Change and Inte ...
    One of the most venerated scientists of our time, James Hansen is the head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, a position he's held for three decades. Long before climate change was a household term, Hansen was one of the first to talk about its dangers. In recent years, Hansen has ...
  • Not Icky At All; the Happy Pig Farm
    Image Credit: Ecosalgot If shrimp can be happy on a farm, why not pigs? For all the weekday vegetarians and omnivores out there, here is a way to obtain sausages, chorizos and bacon in a friendly way. First of all, plen...Read the full story on TreeHugger
  • Teenager to Pay $100 for Slapping an Endangere ...
    Photo: Jared Wong / CC Hawaiian monk seals have plenty to worry about these days, what with a sea full of hungry sharks and a long history of being hunted by humans -- but now antics of rowdy teenagers has been added to that list. Last March, 19-year-old Cameron Cayaban saw one of the endang ...
  • Join Alexis Madrigal for a Discussion of Power ...
    Watch live streaming video from treehuggerlive at livestream.com
  • Whatever Happened To Canada's Reputation? Try ...
    Seriously, we used to show our national police on our postcards with pristine mountains and clear water. Now we have Bill McKibben calling for a march on Washington to stop the Keystone XL pipeline from delivering Canadian oil to the States, and we have the Canadian delegation in Rotterdam b ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Supreme Court rules on employer liability claims
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Thursday ruled [opinion, PDF] 5-4 in CSX Transportation v. McBride [Cornell LII backgrounder; JURIST report] that a Federal Employers' Liability Act (FELA) [text] railroad negligence claim does not require proof of proximat ...
  • Rights groups welcome verdict but criticize tr ...
    [JURIST] Three human rights groups released a joint statement [text, in French] Wednesday in support of the sentencing of former Tunisian president Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] but also criticizing his trial as unfair. The International Federation of Human Rights [a ...
  • Supreme Court narrows bankruptcy judge jurisdi ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] on Thursday voted 5-4 to affirm [opinion, PDF] the lower court in Stern v. Marshall [Cornell LII backgrounder; JURIST report], agreeing that the bankruptcy court did not have jurisdiction in this instance. The opinion, delivered by Chief Justice J ...
  • New Hampshire legislature overrides governor's ...
    [JURIST] The New Hampshire legislature voted Wednesday to override the governor's veto and approve legislation [HB 0329 text] requiring healthcare providers to notify parents or a judge 48 hours before performing an abortion [JURIST news archive] on a minor. Governor John Lynch [official website ...
  • Controversial Afghan court overturns parliamen ...
    [JURIST] A special court in Afghanistan on Thursday overturned the election results of nearly 25 percent of the assembly seats due to poll fraud in last September's parliamentary elections [IEC backgrounder]. Head of the special court Sediqullah Haqiq announced the ruling [Reuters report] that 6 ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Gingrich Loses Top Fundraisers
    This week saw more trouble for former House speaker Newt Gingrich's presidential hopes, after the en-masse resignation of his campaign aides earlier this month. Via The Hill's Jordan Fabian, Gingrich has now lost his two of his top fundraisers: Gingrich fundraising director Jody Thomas and fu ...
  • Picture of the Day: Baby Stops Crying When Hel ...
    President Obama has the magic touch with crying babies. In this video, which appears to have been taken at the recent White House picnic for members of Congress (based on the first lady's dress), Michelle Obama holds a crying baby. "You okay, baby?" the president asks. Michelle ha ...
  • Cue the Music: Huntsman Has Arrived
    Beginning with his presidential campaign announcement speech at Liberty State Park, the former governor's team will try to sell GOP primary voters on an unconventional image JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- Let's "play a little game," says former Texas Republican congressman Tom Loeffler. We're ...
  • Huntsman's Paltry Crowds
    A few weeks ago, I was up in New Hampshire for Jon Huntsman's maiden swing through the state as a possible -- it's now official -- presidential candidate. The rest of the national press corps seemed to be there, too. At many of the events, we reporters outnumbered actual voters, sometimes vastly ...
  • Selling John Huntsman, the Un-Republican
    The former governor's presidential announcement was preceded by an elaborate marketing campaign The transformation of Jon Huntsman from improbable presidential hopeful to a formidable contender for the Republican nomination in under eight weeks is something of a marketing miracle. ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Gorenberg Refuses to Correct ‘Anti-Zionist’ Smear
    Gershom Gorenberg refused my request that he correct the record in his American Prospect post about J Street, in which he linked to a critical blog post I wrote about the group’s second national conference.  He called my criticism of J Street typical of “the grim anti-Zionist left.” Yesterday h ...
  • Ukraine Exchanged Abusisi in Return for Israel ...
    A former high ranking Israeli minister has confirmed a line of thought I’ve developed regarding collusion between the Israeli and Ukrainian governments over the extraordinary rendition of Dirar Abusisi.  I’ve been reporting consistently the sneaking suspicion that the kidnapping involved variou ...
  • Gershom Gorenberg is a Liar
    I was shocked today when I saw in my site stats, a visit to this blog from The American Prospect and, following the link, read that Gershom Gorenberg has written an essay in which he’s blatantly lied about my political views, saying they represent “the grim anti-Zionist left.”  His essay is a b ...
  • Israel Rewards Ukraine for Collaborating on Ab ...
    In prior coverage here, I noted that at almost precisely the same time the Mossad, Ukrainian and Jordanian intelligence services were collaborating to kidnap Palestinian civil engineer Dirar Abusisi and bring him to Israel, Israel and Ukraine were negotiating major new trade deals that were espe ...
  • Revenge of the Nerds: Bibi Demands Dagan Retur ...
    Maariv and Channel 2 News in Israel are reporting that Bibi and Barak are wreaking their revenge on Meir Dagan in ways large and small, for breaking with them and almost single-handedly preventing an Israeli attack on Iran.  It is customary for retiring senior government figures with diplomatic ...

Ode Magazine

  • Radiant health and peace in São Paulo, Brazil
    By: PeaceCorso Ernest Holmes, the founder of Religious Science, wrote in his seminal book, The Science of Mind, "If we wish to come to the Spirit for the healing of our wounds, let us come in peace and with spontaneous joy, for the Spirit is joy." It is wi ...
  • How loss relates to success and happiness
    By: Charlie_Badenhop I was sitting around having dinner with a few friends, about a month after the big earthquake and tsunami up north of Tokyo. "Now is the time for the Japanese people to show their true spirit," Suzuki-san said. "You never really know t ...
  • Creating work that feeds the planet
    By: greentarra "Our calling is where our deepest gladness and the world’s hunger meet." Frederick Buechner, theologian Do you feel a calling to create meaningful work that feeds your soul and the planet? There is no greater legacy than sharing your unique ...
  • Choosing happiness over unhappiness
    By: ruchiraa The other day I came across the quotation, "Happiness is a state of mind." Though I agree, I think it is a state of mind that needs to be fed and nurtured regularly. After all, we are human beings and thus have feelings that tend to fluctuate. Some ...
  • Robert Aitken Roshi's original peace
    By: PeaceCorso Robert Baker Dairyu Chotan Aitken Roshi (June 19, 1917 - August 5, 2010) was a Zen teacher in the Harada-Yasutani lineage. He co-founded the Honolulu Diamond Sangha in 1959 together with his wife. Aitken received Dharma transmission from Koun Yam ...

OpEd News

  • Obama Talks Afghan Drawdown, But No Words Abou ...
    If Obama was serious about making withdrawals in Afghanistan, he'd reduce the number of the Pentagon's 865 bases it is using to dominate the world and where there are no threats and no fighting.
  • Tim DeChristopher at Netroots Nation: Obama Ad ...
    DeChristopher recounts how he disrupted a Bureau of Land Management oil and gas auction at the end of 2008 that the Bush Administration was holding as a "parting gift to the oil and gas industry." He explains how he poses a threat to to government because he operates on a higher level of justice ...
  • Barbara Boxer Tells Pres. Obama to Withdraw 30 ...
    According to sources, President Obama is still deciding how many troops to withdraw and on what timetable. So it's critical that we all make our voices heard, right now, before the President announces his final decision Wednesday night -- and I hope you'll stand with me.
  • "Pfizer's Neurontin Killed Our Husbands, We Be ...
    After being silent for more than six years, two women who say their doctor husbands died from undisclosed Neurontin risks have decided to speak out.
  • America's Barbaric Death Penalty
    barbarism

Switchboard

  • Facing Facts: Only Transportation Choices Can ...
    Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C. As you've probably read or heard by now, the President and his staff have arranged through the International Energy Agency to release 60 million barrels of oil supply into the ...
  • Weather, climate, and the press
    Jordan Kessler, Director, Member Outreach and Leadership Support I've been hearing a lot about climate change playing a major role in the recent weather events we've all heard about on the news. What's even more interesting to me is the lack of me ...
  • Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining: The National ...
    Allen Hershkowitz, Senior Scientist, NYC and throughout the world In 2009, Dr. Margaret Palmer of the University of Maryland’s Center for Environmental Science brought together a distinguished group of the nation’s leading researchers from diverse ...
  • Don't Water Down the Clean Water Act
    John H. Adams, Founding Director, New York City Here's an idea. Let's let the governor of West Virginia decide how much coal waste gets dumped into rivers flowing into North Carolina.  How about the folks in Kentucky do the same for their neighbor ...
  • California tells ships to stop bypassing clean ...
    Diane Bailey, Senior Scientist, San Francisco California’s Air Resources Board meets tomorrow to close a major loophole undermining clean shipping fuel requirements adopted two years ago.  NRDC has been to court to defend these important rules sev ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Labor Notes
    No, not the superb labor newspaper, just a few links with commentary. 1. Dave Johnson has an interesting post up (with many links) on the NLRB decision to speed up labor elections, noting the power of recess appointments. The deciding votes in this election were Obama’s 2 recess appointments. Cr ...
  • More on Obama and the WPA
    As Ackerman says, the ongoing attacks against Libya cannot seriously be squared with the requirements of the War Powers Act, and the procedure used to justify violating the law is a dangerous one.
  • It’s Only Illegal to be Stupid; Gender D ...
    Lithwick’s article about Wal-Mart v. Dukes should be read in its entirety, but the most important passage identifies the key part of Scalia’s majority opinion: The law allows such “pattern and practice” evidence to be used to prove sex discrimination, even when a company has a formal policy forb ...
  • NLRB to Speed Up Union Elections
    Good news here: The labor board is proposing to tighten up the process by ensuring that employers, employees and unions receive needed information sooner and by delaying litigation over many voter-eligibility issues until after workers vote on whether to unionize. This will help undermine anti-u ...
  • Mr. Potter!
    Interesting… Meanwhile, opinions about Henry Potterâs character have changed over the years. In light of the housing-market crisis, the fiscally responsible banker may not have been such a bad guy after all. The loans that he tried to prevent George Bailey from handing out were essentially subpr ...

Desert Research Institute

  • In Memoriam: DRI President Dr. James V. Taranik
    President of DRI in 1987, Dr. James V. Taranik was internationally known for his research in aerospace remote sensing, and his professional career had already included senior positions with NASA, the U.S. Department of the Interior, the Iowa Geological Survey, and the University of Iowa.
  • DRI Researcher Earns Grant to Study the Season ...
    A DRI researcher will lead a team that is heading to Antarctica to study the molecular biology, and evolution of microscopic organisms.
  • Abnormal Spring
    If you're new to Northern Nevada, you've probably already asked yourself this question: is this a normal spring? The calendar says we're three weeks from the start of summer, but winter still holds us in its grip. It leads us to wonder if something bigger is a foot, Dr. Kelly Redmond explains.
  • What effect do clouds have on climate?
    What is the climate effect of tiny particles such as aerosols, soot, and dust, in the atmosphere? Dr. Eric Wilcox, a world-class sailor and researcher, is exploring the answers to these questions linking the ever-changing composition of Earth’s atmosphere and climate change.
  • Best Management Practices for Preserving the L ...
    Alan Heyvaert not only works at Lake Tahoe but that’s where he plays too. “My wife and I are often kayaking around the lake when we have some free time,” said Alan Heyvaert, Ph.D., DRI assistant research professor.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: A SPECIAL REPORT
    From the courts to the halls of Congress, our latest special report delves deep into the latest developments in intellectual property law — including an examination of the controversial joint infringement rulings that have divided the Federal Circuit, a look at a case that could restore copyrigh ...
  • Court rejects right to counsel in civil contem ...
    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday delivered a major setback to those who want the right to counsel extended to indigent defendants in civil contempt cases.
  • Study puts price tag on wrongful convictions: ...
    Wrongful convictions don't just harm those who spend time in jail for crimes they didn't commit and their families. They also come at a hefty cost to the public, according to a new study.
  • High court rejects climate change suit
    A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an ambitious effort by a number of states and private land trusts to combat climate change through public nuisance lawsuits against major utilities.
  • Supreme Court erects major barriers to class a ...
    The Supreme Court on Monday handed a sweeping victory to Wal-Mart, the nation's largest employer, in the company's decade-long effort to thwart a discrimination class action filed on behalf of more than 1 million female current and former workers. The ruling is likely to hobble other large emplo ...

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • 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

environment 360

  • Marine Life Census Reveals Serengeti-Like Corr ...
    A decade-long census of marine life in the North Pacific Ocean has documented how abundant seasonal food supplies attract an array of predators annually to two major oceanic corridors, which researchers liken to Click to enlarge Craig Hayslip/OSU Marine Mammal InstituteA blue whale encountered ...
  • Species May Adapt Quickly To Environmental Cha ...
    A new experiment using baker’s yeast suggest that organisms can adapt relatively rapidly to environmental changes. McGill University researchers exposed samples of baker’s yeast, whose genetic makeup has been well studied, to various levels of salt — an environmental stressor for yeast. What the ...
  • Brown to Green: A New Use For Blighted Industr ...
    Few places in the U.S. are as well suited to developing renewable energy as the contaminated sites known as “brownfields.” But as communities from Philadelphia to California are discovering, government support is critical to enable solar and wind entrepreneurs to make use of these abandoned land ...
  • Rockies Wilderness Area Sought as Buffer to Cl ...
    The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is recommending that 888,000 acres of public lands in Montana’s Crown of the Continent ecosystem receive federal wilderness protection to prevent habitat loss for species most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, WCSGrizzlies in the Crown of the C ...
  • Chemical Exposure May Impair Breast Developmen ...
    Chemical exposure in early life may affect mammary gland development and increase the chances of developing breast cancer and lactation problems in later years, scientists conclude in a series of new reports. One study showed that when rodents are exposed in the womb or as newborns to some hormo ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

  • Smoke from toxic-waste dump fire covers St. Pe ...
    A major blaze that started Thursday at a large toxic-waste dump near St. Petersburg has been completely extinguished, although the hazardous smoke is reportedly covering the city.
  • Dog guards forgotten baby overnight
    A dog has guarded a three-month-old baby forgotten in the park for a whole night in the Russian city of Saratov. The baby had been left by a reckless mother, and was later found with the loyal dog sitting by the pram.
  • Fake zebra seized in Ukraine
    Police in Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula have seized a white horse that had been painted with zebra stripes. The equine was a tourist attraction, but its owners have been charged with animal cruelty.
  • Engines not to blame for TU-134 crash – aviati ...
    Russian aviation experts have ruled out technical failure as a cause of the fatal passenger jet crash in the country's north-west. The Russian president wants Tupolev TU-134s to be withdrawn from the country’s passenger...
  • Dutch politician acquitted of hate speech charges
    Right-wing lawmaker Geert Wilders, who has been standing trial for inciting hatred and discrimination against Muslims, has been acquitted of all charges by a Dutch court.

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

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

Tippers News

  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Free Human Trafficking Victim Sara Kruzan From ...
    Sixteen-year-old human trafficking victim Sara Kruzan was sentenced to life in prison without parole when, in a desperate act to escape captivity, she shot her pimp. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Trip to India inspires Everson woman to help v ...
    EVERSON - Touched by her own memories of being adopted as an orphan, Sue Ann Heutink took her first overseas venture to help victims of human trafficking. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Two survivors of human trafficking share their ...
    She fiddles with her cell phone. In mid conversation, she holds it out, showing off who�s on the screen. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Why Did Aggie Boys Buy Sex at the Chicken Ranch?
    The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the Texas A&M football team celebrates a win with a visit to their local brothel, the Chicken Ranch. The Aggie Boys are fSubmitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Coming Soon: The Federal Department of Standar ...
    The story of federal intervention in education is one of abject failure. Coming in large supply only since President Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society,” Washington’s educational undertakings first resulted in billions of misspent dollars, then billions of misspent dollars coupled with increasingly ...
  • The Modern Union versus Workers’ Rights
    The raging controversy in Wisconsin over eliminating collective bargaining “rights” for government employees cast a bright and harsh light on public-sector unions. Some commentators have distinguished public-sector unions from private-sector unions, but the vested interests of the two are much t ...
  • The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car i ...
    In my M.B.A. economics class I emphasize the Austrian view of entrepreneurship, noting that successful entrepreneurs are rewarded for moving resources from lower-valued to higher-valued uses in a free market. Alas I also spend time explaining “political entrepreneurship”: exploiting connections ...
  • The Preamble They Should’ve Written
    Did the Founding Fathers get it right? Is the Constitution they drafted a secure basis for limited government? Many conservatives suppose so and believe the drift to big government has simply been a case of not reading the directions on the package. Last January these conservatives ordered that ...
  • The Right Amount of Manufacturing
    Mark Perry, an economics professor at the University of Michigan, recently pointed out that in 2009 the U.S. economy had the world’s largest manufacturing sector. (The most recent data show that China’s sector edged out the United States because of our slow economic recovery.) Every year since 2 ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Justice for the South's force ...
    Year in which Sir Francis Galton founded the now-discredited science of eugenics to improve the human population through selective reproduction: 1883 Number of U.S. states that adopted eugenics laws in the early 1900s targeting for compulsory sterilization people deemed unfit to bear children ...
  • Drawing the lines: Redistricting battles shape ...
    Across the South, state legislatures have rolled out their plans for redrawing political lines -- plans that could be key to shaping upcoming elections in 2011 and 2012. The new Southern plans are being closely followed because this is the first time in history that redistricting has happe ...
  • VOICES: The Southern front in the corporate wa ...
    By Joe Atkins, Labor South A Southern front has opened up in the corporate-GOP war on workers. Just look at some recent headlines: "Supreme Court Conservatives Thwart Wal-Mart Sex Bias Case" (Associated Press, June 20) "Memphis sanitation workers are volatile city budget targe ...
  • As safety worries grow for existing U.S. nucle ...
    A yearlong Associated Press investigation has found that federal regulators have kept aging U.S. nuclear reactors operating within safety standards by repeatedly weakening those standards or failing to enforce them. Coming as Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant is thought to be experienci ...
  • Smoking out the tobacco barons
    By Eduardo Soriano-Castillo, Labor Notes Four years of pressure forced cigarette manufacturer Reynolds American to agree in May to meet with the Farm Labor Organizing Committee to discuss working conditions in its supply chain. FLOC President Baldemar Velasquez called Reynolds "one of the mos ...

Worldpress - Africa

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Researchers studying static get a shock
    Posted on behalf of Melanie Smith. Most of us will have generated static electricity by rubbing a balloon on hair or a woolly jumper, and then sticking the charged balloon to the ceiling. The standard, physics-class wisdom is that the rubbing transfers atoms from hair to balloon, causing t ...
  • Bond financier will chair California stem cell ...
    The board of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, California's state stem cell agency, has voted to appoint bond financier Jonathan Thomas as chair of the agency's board. The vote came in a meeting of the board last night in San Diego. The vote settles a months-long succession ...
  • Cancer researcher wins gender discrimination suit
    The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has been found guilty of gender discrimination for firing a female researcher in 2005. On 28 January 2004, Lynn Hlatky, an associate professor at Dana-Farber who studied radiation damage to chromosomes, learned that her job in the Division of Radiation and Ca ...
  • Agency director defends US climate service pro ...
    Jane Lubchenco, head of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), was on Capitol Hill this morning, pleading for permission to reorganize her agency. NOAA is the parent agency to the National Weather Service, and Lubchenco would like to pull the various climate research ...
  • A Picasso fetches £13.5 million for obesity re ...
    A Pablo Picasso painting donated to an Australian university has sold for £13.5 million at auction. The proceeds will benefit obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular research at the University of Sydney. From our previous blog post announcing the sale: The work depicts his lover Marie-Thérèse ...

new geography

  • Outlawing New Houses in California
    UCLA's most recent Anderson Forecast indicates that there has been a significant shift in demand in California toward condominiums and apartments. The Anderson Forecast concludes that this will cause problems, such as slower growth in construction employment because building multi-unit dwelli ...
  • Enterprising States: Hard choices now, hard wo ...
    This is an excerpt from "Enterprising States: Creating Jobs, Economic Development, and Prosperity in Challenging Times" authored by Praxis Strategy Group and Joel Kotkin. The entire report is available at the National Chamber Foundation website, including highlights of top performing stat ...
  • Enterprising States: Recovery and Renewal for ...
    This is an excerpt from "Enterprising States: Creating Jobs, Economic Development, and Prosperity in Challenging Times" authored by Praxis Strategy Group and Joel Kotkin. The entire report is available at the National Chamber Foundation website, including highlights of top performing stat ...
  • Detroit: A Century On The Smart-Growth Grid
    The following excerpts are from a report that was intended to solve many of the planning issues facing one of America's largest cities: Detroit. Its conclusions are in many ways counter to the ‘Smart Growth’ principles being promoted by influential decision makers. It was compiled by the ci ...
  • Sweden: A Role Model for Capitalist Reform?
    Sweden is often held up as a role model for those wishing to expand the size of government in the U.S. and other nations. The nation is seen as combining a large public sector with many attractive features, such as low crime rates, high life expectancy and a high degree of social cohesion. Bu ...

GM Watch

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Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

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

Desertification

The Paper Trail

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

backofthebook.ca

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

libcom

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

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • SIR (Chevalier) Leonard G. Horowitz — ...
    This expose is in response to declarations found on Horowitz’ own website postings (one of 300 URL’s he controls) found at: http://web.mac.com/len15/Newsletter_%26_Blog/Knighting.html When the heat is on, look for this website of the Grand Narcissist Poo-Bah to disappear, just as Sherri Kane’s f ...
  • The DEFAMATION SAGA CONTINUES
    This is the latest communication with Horowitz and Kane.  I gave them one last “benefit of the doubt” — and wanted to see how they would respond to the evidence demolishing their complaint to the court concerning me. On Jun 19, 2011, at 4:28  True OTT wrote: Len and Sherri: I would hope this e ...
  • The Good Dentist Says: Open Your Mouth and Say ...
    FOR THE RECORD!!! Let me publicly apologize to Jeff Rense.  It appears that I wrongfully sent him a terse and blistering e-mail yesterday concerning Leonard Horowitz.  You see, my counsel has advised me to print out and totally analyze EVERY e-mail I sent or received from Horowitz and Kane over ...
  • Hegelian Dialectics and Jesuitical Arguments & ...
    This is a long post — but I beg you to read and study it in its entirety.   I submit it is critically important information. I know, I know — I can hear the echoes of dismay from those in the “Patriot Community”:  “DON’T FIGHT WITH EACH OTHER!  CAN’T YOU GUYS GET ALONG?  KISS AND [...]
  • A HoroKane – AKA The Perfect Storm
    For the record, I am posting PUBLICLY the entire e-mail exchange between myself, A. True Ott, Sherri Kane, and Leonard Horowitz during August, 2010. Despite numerous slanderous attacks and libelous posts targeting myself and others on Ms. Kane’s website and radio talk shows since this initial e- ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • Energy Efficiency Key to Reducing the Need to ...
    report says EERS policies are driving energy efficiency investments and energy cost savings to unprecedented levels national energy policy remains beyond the reach of Congress ((13 of the 19 states are achieving 100% or more of their goals)) U.S. states lead on energy efficiency, lower utility b ...
  • Energy Plan Live-Chat-Senator Adviser N Brown ...
    First for Facebook, First for Energy Jun 22, 2011 Office of Senator Dick Lugar On Wednesday, June 22, 2010, we are extremely excited about a first for the Senate and a first for Facebook – the start of a rollout of legislation exclusively via Facebook. Beginning at 6:30 p.m. (Eastern) tomorrow w ...
  • Proposed Nuke Plant and Flood Plain Issues
    Bad combination: Floodplains, nuclear materials and understated risk Share173 By Bob Criss, special to the Beacon Posted 7:00 am Fri., 6.17.11 It’s only June but one thing is certain: 2011 is another extraordinary flood year. The record high water levels just experienced on the Mississippi from ...
  • degeneration in the oceans is happening much f ...
    State Of The Ocean: ‘Shocking’ Report Warns Of Mass Extinction From Current Rate Of Marine Distress First Posted: 06/20/11 05:19 PM ET Updated: 06/21/11 09:09 AM ET If the current actions contributing to a multifaceted degradation of the world’s oceans aren’t curbed, a mass extinction unlike any ...
  • Nanotechnology for energy efficiency
    University of Leicester developing energy efficient materials. New research at the University of Leicester is using nanotechnology to create energy efficient materials. With the increasing worldwide demand for energy there is a pressure to use the finite energy resources wisely whilst reducing o ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Generation Z Activism: Alec Loorz
    Alec Loorz Approximate age ranges for Generation X,Y,Z and Baby Boomers: Generation Z: 13-18 Generation Y: 19–29 Generation X: 30-45 Baby Boomers: 46-65 Alec Loorz is a 16 year old from Ventura California who is suing the US government and three states for “allowing money to be more powerful ...
  • How Early Feminists Recruited the Working Class
    A major headache for progressive organizers is that low income workers find ultraconservative Teaparty and United Front groups far more appealing than progressive causes focused on improving their economic circumstances. As Marxist psychiatrist writes in his 1933 The Mass Psychology of Fascism ...
  • The Real Cultural Wars
    The term “cultural wars,” as used by the mainstream media, seems to have two distinct meanings. It’s most commonly used to refer to the so-called “class of civilizations” between western democracy and societies where Islam is the primary religion. As Lila Rajiva points out in the Language of Em ...
  • The Law of Adverse Possession
    This hands-off policy (see Jun 14 blog) by police and banks as regards the homeless occupying abandoned homes has opened up a lucrative market for ambitious entrepreneurs who fix up abandoned properties and rent them out to tenants. In December 2010 Mark Gurette, the owner of Saving Florida Home ...
  • Has the Revolution Started Already?
    The revolution may be taking place under our noses as thousands of homeless Americans take possession of abandoned foreclosed homes – for the most part without interference by police or the banks that own them. America’s homeless problem predates the October 2008 economic collapse. In addition t ...

Doug's Darkworld

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

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

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

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Farmer's Markets Innovations Make Healthy Food ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—There's often a throwback feel to farmer's markets, where you can seek out the same heirloom vegetable varieties your great-grandmother adored. Old-school, heritage-breed chicken eggs? Yep, a true farmer's market probably offers them. And while the farmer's market is a p ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: DIY Wedding Favor Ideas
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—At the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the guests all left with luxurious wool scarves, sporting the Union Jack in various colorful prints, that cost about $75 each. Chances are, you haven't budgeted that amount of money into your next soiree. And do ...
  • Have the Best Memorial Day Ever!
    It's almost here...the three-day weekend that marks the beginning of the sunny season of summer. But are you ready? read more
  • New Study: Average Daily Snacks = 580 Calories
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Nowadays, nearly all Americans snack daily, a phenomenon that's created enough extra calories to create a fourth meal—and ballooning waistlines. read more
  • How To Green Your Car Without Buying a New One
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Greening your driving habit no longer means ditching your gas-powered car for a hybrid or electric model. read more

big think

  • DINER (the movie)--with some comparison with T ...
    Now that summer’s here and the time is right to turn to reruns of various kinds, I’m trying to spend the ample time I have as a tenured professor watching some of my favorite old movies (that were new when I first saw them).  One advantage of being old is that there’s plenty from which to choose ...
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  • City Living, Stress, and the Risk to Your Brain
    Jean Jacques Rousseau called cities “…the abyss of the species“. Well, they may not be that bad, but with their crowding and competition and noisy get-ahead in-your-face rat race environments, cities are certainly an experimental variable you might use to test the effects of stress. Which is wha ...
  • Will White House Strategic Oil Reserve Release ...
    Political pundits who are already naysaying the Obama Administration’s decision to release 30 million barrels of oil from our strategic reserves have no idea how Wall Street works. If the intent of the release is to beat oil futures speculators into submission, the time to do so is when the mark ...
  • Why volcanism isn't the source of increasing c ...
    There probably isn't a flashpoint in science right now as touchy as climate (well, maybe evolution). When it comes to climate change, everyone has an opinion and everyone thinks their opinion is right, but science is not run on opinion. Science does require interpretation, but that interpretatio ...

Information Liberation

  • Gov. worker claims to see shark off S.F. coast ...
    More nanny state idiocy from San Francisco. As one commenter points out, the sharks are attracted to the seals which the government bans citizens from hunting "due to federal protections." Seal's rights > Plebe citizen's rights....
  • Another Bitcoin Crash
    The Bitcoin community faced another crisis besides this 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 pag...
  • Lawsuit: Union tells cops to "lie" about beatings
    Cleveland police officers use excessive force on suspects and then "routinely lie" about their conduct with the "backing" and "at times direction" of their union president, according to a lawsuit filed today by a man who says he was beaten by officer...
  • Supremes Rule EPA Final Arbiter on Carbon Dioxide
    On Monday the Supreme Court blocked a federal lawsuit launched by conservation groups to force power plants to reduce so-called greenhouse gases. The ruling was 8-0. The lawsuit targeted four private companies and the federal Tennessee Valley Auth...
  • The War on Immigrants, Farmers, and Consumers
    The Los Angeles Times published an article last week about another travesty in the war on immigrants. Georgia farmers are having trouble finding people to pick their fruit crops. The likely reason is that Georgia*s new harsh immigration law, set to ...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Negative science
    Negative science – Often the "eureka moment" occurs not in the sense of "I've found it", but more as a "WTF?" Indeed, it's been estimated that more than two-thirds of scientific experiments fail to produce the results anticipated and in one way might be considered failed experiments, or negative ...
  • Chemistry news round-up for this week
    Chemistry news round-up for this week – This week, The Alchemist is intrigued by a molecular optical illusion and learns of a new catalyst for making aromatic compounds from their unsaturated hydrocarbon counterparts. A new gel has been developed by chemists in China for delivering anticancer dr ...
  • Science across the spectrum
    Penrose, Escher, back – M.C. Escher‘s famously paradoxical illustration of 1960 depicting a stairway atop an “impossible” building, and made famous recently in a dreamscape of the Hollywood movie “Inception“, that seems to ascend or descend interminably is a good example of how projecting our 3D ...
  • Sharing on the global scale
    There are obvious differences in quality of life in terms of food availability, access to fresh water, disease prevalence and medicine across many parts of the world. Until recently, the notion of the Third World had a far greater poignancy than the politically correct term “developing world”. W ...
  • The return of the arsenic-munching microbes
    The return of the arsenic-munching microbes – ChemBark sums up what he sees as the state of S(s)cience with respect to the infamous arsenic-exploiting bacteria reported by Wolfe-Simon et al: "…a study as flawed as Wolfe-Simon’s should never had been published in Science in the first place. The m ...

RFF Library

  • Policy Options for Reducing Energy Use and Gre ...
    Transportation Research Board http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/sr/sr307.pdf [Press release] The U.S. transportation sector accounts for more than two-thirds of the nation’s oil use and about 25 percent of its carbon dioxide emissions.  A new report from the National Research Council, examin ...
  • S.757: Carbon Dioxide Capture Technology Prize ...
    Congressional Budget Office http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/122xx/doc12251/s757.pdf S. 757 would authorize appropriations for the Department of Energy (DOE) to provide competitive financial awards to support the development of advanced technologies to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Becau ...
  • S. 646: Natural Hazards Risk Reduction Act of 2011
    Congressional Budget Office http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/122xx/doc12250/s646.pdf S. 646 would reauthorize federal programs aimed at developing methods to reduce damage caused by earthquakes and windstorms. The bill also would reauthorize several committees that advise federal agencies on implement ...
  • S. 183: Deepwater Horizon Survivors’ Fairness Act
    Congressional Budget Office http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/122xx/doc12249/s183.pdf S. 183 would amend several laws related to private liability that apply to the injury or death of workers on ocean-going vessels or on certain other facilities located in the ocean. CBO estimates that enacting the leg ...
  • Agricultural Biotechnology: Benefits, Opportun ...
    Harvard Univ., Kennedy School, Belfer Center / Testimony of Calestous Juma to the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Rural Development, Research, Biotechnology, and Foreign Agriculture http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/21146/agricultural_biotec ...

Scientific American - News

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

First Truths

  • The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in "Post-Left" ...
    I’ve been reading and rereading a handful of “post-left” anarchists lately, reevaluating their basic criticisms of anarchism’s traditional methods, lexicons, and assumptions. As I ruminate on these ideas, I sporadically pick up responses to them, and, of course, one in particular stands out, Mur ...
  • C.A. Gregory's Left-Conflationism
    I gleaned the following passage from C.A. Gregory's Savage Money: The Anthropology and Politics of Commodity Exchange, a book that is, from beginning to end, a characteristic example of what Roderick Long calls left-conflationism. How different Gregory's "free market" is from the one I advocate ...
  • Is the labor theory a sine qua non of socialism?
    The following is excerpted from Henry William Spiegel's The Growth of Economic Thought: As the economic doctrines of Marx began to spread on the Continent, Menger's followers became aware of the potentialities of the new subjective theory of value as an instrument for demolishing Marx's economic ...
  • Charles W. Johnson on occupancy-and-use
    I received the following very thoughtful comment from John A. Kindley on my piece The State's Borders, Our Cage: This post raises again my perennial question about the use-and-occupancy theory of property rights: Suppose a private individual is using and occupying a "plentiful oil well." So long ...
  • Operation Empire State Rebellion

Media Co-Op

  • Canadian Media Fails to Deliver: Media Coverag ...
    On the morning of Tuesday, June 14, letter carriers across the country showed up to go to work as per usual but Canada Post told them to go home; no mail was to be delivered that day. Those workers are full-time letter carriers who delive ...
  • The Kingdom of Hastings and Main
    âIn Our Own Voices,â Week III In the fall of 2008, I lost my sister to brain cancer. Only one month later, I lost one of my lifetime friends to a heart attack. A few months after that, I lost another close friend to lung cancer. All these ...
  • Thousands Protest in Athens, Flotilla Must Wai ...
    Greek parliament survives confidence vote, but there's no confidence on the streets Tens of thousands of Greek protestors again gathered in Syndagma Square last night to voice their non-confidence in embattled Prime Minister George Papandr ...
  • Canadian delegation talks pipeline impacts in ...
      June 20, 2011 Canadian first nations and environmental representatives were in Washington recently to discuss the proposed Keystone XL pipeline expansion and future impacts on communities and the environment. The controversial project would funnel over a million barrels of oilsands bitumen a d ...
  • Statement in response to Magazines Canada’s su ...
    As representatives of independent Canadian publications, we were alarmed to see yesterday’s statement from Magazines Canada CEO Mark Jamison applauding Minister of Labour Lisa Raitt’s decision to introduce back-to-work legislation to force locked-out Canada Post employees back to work.     This ...

David Seaton's News Links

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

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • New Study Shows Using Statins Actually Worsens ...
    A study found that statin drugs are associated with decreased myocardial (heart muscle) function. Statin use is known to be associated with myopathy, muscle weakness and rhabdomyolysis, a breakdown of muscle fibers resulting in the release of muscle fiber contents into the bloodstream. For the ...
  • The Amazing Oil That Trims Women's Waistlines
    A study has shown that dietary supplementation with coconut oil may result in a reduction in waist circumference and other benefits. A randomized, double-blind clinical trial of 40 women divided them into two groups -- one that received daily dietary supplements of soybean oil (group S) and ano ...
  • Genetically Engineered Rice is a Trojan Horse: ...
    The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has approved $20 million in new monies toward the development of "golden rice" -- an untested, highly controversial GE (genetically engineered) crop that threatens biodiversity and risks bringing economic and ecological disaster to Asia's farms. The leader ...
  • This Popular Moisturizer Applied to Mice for 1 ...
    A study has found that topical applications of moisturizers such as Dermabase, Dermovan, Eucerin Original Moisturizing Cream, or Vanicream could increase skin cancer risk. Irradiated mice who were treated with the moisturizers exhibited a significant increase in their rate of tumor formation an ...
  • UK Scraps Pneumonia Vaccines Because They 'Don ...
    The United States requires infants to receive 26 vaccines (the most in the world) yet more than 6 U.S. infants die per every 1,000 live births. In contrast, Sweden and Japan administer 12 vaccines to infants, the least amount, and report less than 3 deaths per 1,000 live births. The study also ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • 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. ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Bixi is too good to lose, but it has to be fixed
    After this week's scathing report on the city's beloved Bixi bike service, Montrealers must be wondering what else can go wrong with their transportation system.
  • The Gazette's View: Bixi is too good to lose, ...
    After this week’s scathing report on the city’s beloved Bixi bike service, Montrealers must be wondering what else can go wrong with their transportation system.
  • Can you really patent a mouse click?
    In a mad rush of last-minute Father's Day shopping, I bought my dad a book from Amazon. Since the company has my purchase information, I ordered the gift in one click. If you've ever clicked once to buy, be it for Steven Tyler's new "memoir" or the sleeper hit Go the F--k to Sleep, you've taken ...
  • Montreal's infrastructure: An intolerable situ ...
    The editorial boards of The Gazette and La Presse are uniting their voices to demand that governments address infrastructure problems with much greater determination
  • For all the other Marios
    On June 7, Patrick Limoges and Mario Hamel, the latter one of "our guys" at Accueil Bonneau, unfortunately lost their lives. We are deeply saddened and offer our most sincere condolences to their families and friends.

Food World Order

  • 5.9m US kids have food allergies
    from medical news today: Approximately 8% of US children have some kind of food allergy, researchers from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine reported in the journal Pediatrics. 38.7% of those with a food allergy have a history of severe reactions, while 30.4% are allergic to sev ...
  • 'poop burger': get it while it's hot - and sti ...
    scientist allegedly takes protein from human excrement from kprc: Just in time for summer grilling: Japanese scientists say they have created synthetic meat derived from human excrement. The news that Mitsuyuki Ikeda, of Okayama Laboratory, perfected the meat streaked across the Internet. Whe ...
  • lawsuit: whole foods 'organic' china veggies f ...
    you won't hear about this in the 'whole foods parking lot'... from bloomberg: A Florida judge allowed a lawsuit to proceed that claims Whole Foods Market Inc. (WFMI) violated the state’s deceptive trade-practices law by selling frozen vegetables from China grown in a polluted region by prisone ...
  • bay area underground market draws authorities' ...
    from nytimes: For the past two years, the San Francisco Underground Market has served up bacon-laced chocolates, sea salt and chili truffles, and other haute fringe food. But on June 11, the monthly market, which now draws more than a thousand visitors, received an unwelcome serving of its own: ...
  • 6/16 binge & purge: stumptown sellout, edible ...
    the selling of stumptown: industry sources say stumptown coffee has been sold* flashback: coffee scandal brewing - did portland's stumptown sell out?* ag dept. now allows schools to buy local fruits & veggies* fda sends US marshals to seize elderberry juice concentrate, deemed 'un ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

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

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The Talking Clock

  • Quote of the Day: 23rd June 2011
    "The brutal truth remains that Britain has committed twice as much to the eurozone bailouts as it has saved through all the domestic spending cuts put together. It has done so illegally and – which is almost worse – uselessly." - Daniel Hannan Dan the Man keeps correctly and succinctly ide ...
  • Quote of the Day: 23rd June 2011
    "The brutal truth remains that Britain has committed twice as much to the eurozone bailouts as it has saved through all the domestic spending cuts put together. It has done so illegally and – which is almost worse – uselessly." - Daniel Hannan Dan the Man keeps correctly and succinctly ide ...
  • Quote of the Day: 'Greece, who loses really?' ...
    "In reality, the losers would be the bulk of the continental European elite, which has hitched its wagon to a "falling star" -- a "black hole" would express it better -- since the early 1990s. This elite would be shown up for the arrogant blunderers they have always looked like, and have proved ...
  • Quote of the Day: 20th June 2011
    "...will the Minister not recognise that there is now a mood change in Europe? Der Spiegel, the German magazine has had a cover story contemplating the end of the euro as we now know it, and Mr Charles Grant, the well known europhile, has done the same in The Times today. Instead of sheltering b ...
  • Boris Johnson says what Bilderberg-attending C ...
    Really good piece of analysis in the Daily Telegraph from Mayor of London, Boris Johnson. We like Boris. Okay, he's semi-bought into that Marxism-through-Greeny nonsense, but get part of his analysis on the Greek tragedy: "The idea is that Germany, France and others should “socialise” the ...

Facing South

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Justice for the South's force ...
    Year in which Sir Francis Galton founded the now-discredited science of eugenics to improve the human population through selective reproduction: 1883 Number of U.S. states that adopted eugenics laws in the early 1900s targeting for compulsory sterilization people deemed unfit to bear children ...
  • Drawing the lines: Redistricting battles shape ...
    Across the South, state legislatures have rolled out their plans for redrawing political lines -- plans that could be key to shaping upcoming elections in 2011 and 2012. The new Southern plans are being closely followed because this is the first time in history that redistricting has happe ...
  • VOICES: The Southern front in the corporate wa ...
    By Joe Atkins, Labor South A Southern front has opened up in the corporate-GOP war on workers. Just look at some recent headlines: "Supreme Court Conservatives Thwart Wal-Mart Sex Bias Case" (Associated Press, June 20) "Memphis sanitation workers are volatile city budget targe ...
  • As safety worries grow for existing U.S. nucle ...
    A yearlong Associated Press investigation has found that federal regulators have kept aging U.S. nuclear reactors operating within safety standards by repeatedly weakening those standards or failing to enforce them. Coming as Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant is thought to be experienci ...
  • Smoking out the tobacco barons
    By Eduardo Soriano-Castillo, Labor Notes Four years of pressure forced cigarette manufacturer Reynolds American to agree in May to meet with the Farm Labor Organizing Committee to discuss working conditions in its supply chain. FLOC President Baldemar Velasquez called Reynolds "one of the mos ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Prison Break in Yemen Frees Dozens of Militants As many as 60 suspected Islamist militants escaped from a prison in the southern Yemeni port city of Mukalla on Wednesday. The prisoners escaped via a … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Pakistan Detains Senior Army Officer Over Alleged Extremist Ties Pakistan has detained an Army brigadier on suspicion of ties to a banned extremist group. The BBCâs Urdu-language service was the first to report that … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Obama to Announce Afghan Withdrawal Plans Wednesday President Obama is set to announce plans Wednesday on how the troop withdrawal from Afghanistan will proceed when it begins next month. A decision on the size … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Marine Reservist Detained After Pentagon Bomb Scare A Marine reservist is in custody after he was found in Arlington National Cemetery early Friday morning hours after it had closed and attempted to flee from … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Freed Gitmo Detainee Added to Global Terror List The State Department added a freed Guantanamo detainee to the global terror list Thursday. U.S. authorities believe Othman al-Ghamdi, a Saudi who was released from U.S. … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Firefox 5.0 Update Arrives in Official Ubuntu ...
    Firefox 5.0 was released few days ago. But this time, its going to be a different experience for Ubuntu users. You don't need to add any additional third party repositories to get the latest Firefox update, its already available in your default Ubuntu 11.04 repositories.� No Need to Add Any ...
  • Nokia N9 - First Ever MeeGo Powered Nokia Devi ...
    Back in 2010 itself, it was rumored that Nokia N9 could just be the first ever MeeGo powered smartphone. Well, that just happened. But things are not half as exciting as it used be for MeeGo because of the Nokia-Microsoft�deal that happened�earlier in the year which practically killed MeeGo proj ...
  • Unity Grab Handles Are Beautiful, Learn How to ...
    Unity Grab Handles are a fun and aesthetically beautiful way to resize windows in new Ubuntu Unity. Even though they are not enabled by default in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal, you can easily turn Unity Grab Handles on by following a few easy steps. How to Enable�Unity Grab Handles in Ubuntu ...
  • Ultimate Privacy App for Android Looks Impressive
    Before getting too excited, Ultimate Privacy App is just a name and not an expression. Moving on, privacy is something we can't just take for granted anymore. Smartphone these days is accessed by family, friends and colleagues for anything and everything.�Ultimate Privacy App can be a good tool ...
  • Ad Bard, The Advertising Network Serving FOSS ...
    Ad Bard was a breath of fresh air in the already crowded advertising networks arena lead by behemoths like Google Adsense. In 2009 when Ad Bard network first came into existence, FSF proudly proclaimed, "The Free Software Community now has an ethical alternative to ad networks that promote propr ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • Greek Prime Minister wins vote of confidence; ...
    The Greek Prime Minister Giorgos Papandreou won a vote of confidence in parliament in the early hours of Wednesday, paving the way for legislation on new fiscal austerity measures to be voted on next Tuesday even as the opposition pledged to fight the package. Greece needs to receive €12bn in lo ...
  • Protests continue as Greek parliament prepares ...
    Power cuts hit Greece as protests grow   By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece June 20, 2011 (AP)   Greece was hit by rolling blackouts Monday as employees at the main power utility began 48-hour rolling strikes to protest the company’s privatization, part of austerity plans neede ...
  • Atmosphere above Japan heated rapidly before e ...
    Read more at: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26773/ http://www.pakalertpress.com/2011/06/11/new-nasa-research-points-to-possible-haarp-connection-in-japan-earthquake-tsunami/
  • Study shows Unicef vaccination programmes caus ...
    In spite of a study by John Hopkins University showing that more children survived in those parts of Africa where there was NO Unicef vaccination programme, billions are to be spent on a new vaccination programme by Bill Gates with the UK government pledging £814 million. Source: http://news.bbc ...
  • ACCOUNTS OF EUROPEAN MEDICINES AGENCY REJECTED ...
    THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT REFUSED TO APPROVE EMA’S ACCOUNTS  IN MAY 637 MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT VOTED AGAINST AN APPROVAL OF THE ACCOUNTS OF THE EUROPEAN MEDICINES AGENCY. ONLY FOUR MEMBERS WOULD APPROVE  By Kaysa Nynne Kledermann An overwhelming majority of the European Parliament deci ...

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 ...

Veterans Today

  • New Iranian Nuke “Fairytale” Uncovered
    A shadowy figure has contacted intelligence agencies in the west claiming proof of Iran's payment into a Swiss bank of 8.5 tons of gold for nukes sold to Iran. Another scripted lie!
  • Bahrain Sues to Suppress Police State Terror T ...
    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:
  • America’s Barbaric Death Penalty
    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 Death Penalty.
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – June ...
    The Department of Veterans Affairs’ mail-order pharmacy program has been recognized as a J.D. Power 2011 Customer Service Champion
  • Glenn Beck and Zionists to Rally in Jerusalem
    Religious zealot and religious/political con-man Glenn Beck will hold a rally to support Israel's illegal occupation of the entire city of Jerusalem on August 24, 2011.

electric politics

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

PR News

The Story Behind the Story

  • SIR (Chevalier) Leonard G. Horowitz — ...
    This expose is in response to declarations found on Horowitz’ own website postings (one of 300 URL’s he controls) found at: http://web.mac.com/len15/Newsletter_%26_Blog/Knighting.html When the heat is on, look for this website of the Grand Narcissist Poo-Bah to disappear, just as Sherri Kane’s f ...
  • The DEFAMATION SAGA CONTINUES
    This is the latest communication with Horowitz and Kane.  I gave them one last “benefit of the doubt” — and wanted to see how they would respond to the evidence demolishing their complaint to the court concerning me. On Jun 19, 2011, at 4:28  True OTT wrote: Len and Sherri: I would hope this e ...
  • The Good Dentist Says: Open Your Mouth and Say ...
    FOR THE RECORD!!! Let me publicly apologize to Jeff Rense.  It appears that I wrongfully sent him a terse and blistering e-mail yesterday concerning Leonard Horowitz.  You see, my counsel has advised me to print out and totally analyze EVERY e-mail I sent or received from Horowitz and Kane over ...
  • Hegelian Dialectics and Jesuitical Arguments & ...
    This is a long post — but I beg you to read and study it in its entirety.   I submit it is critically important information. I know, I know — I can hear the echoes of dismay from those in the “Patriot Community”:  “DON’T FIGHT WITH EACH OTHER!  CAN’T YOU GUYS GET ALONG?  KISS AND [...]
  • A HoroKane – AKA The Perfect Storm
    For the record, I am posting PUBLICLY the entire e-mail exchange between myself, A. True Ott, Sherri Kane, and Leonard Horowitz during August, 2010. Despite numerous slanderous attacks and libelous posts targeting myself and others on Ms. Kane’s website and radio talk shows since this initial e- ...

k2p blog

  • Rolls Royce settles with Qantas for over $100 ...
    Qantas has reached a settlement with engine maker Rolls-Royce over last year's mid-air disintegration of a the Trent 900 engine, which temporarily forced the grounding of its entire fleet of A380s.
  • Longest Day
    The Summer Solstice is today (at about 1800 local time). At this latitude (58° 43' 0" N), sunrise is at 0346 and sunset is at 2211.
  • UK to outsource wind farms to Ireland
    UK urges Ireland to build wind farms on west coast. Plans to link electricity grids offer the UK a chance to meet its clean energy targets – but threaten to blight Irish beauty spots
  • Landscheidt Minimum could be a grand solar min ...
    Dr. Cornelis de Jager - "The new episode is a deep minimum. It will look similar to the Maunder Minimum, which lasted from 1620 to 1720...This new Grand Minimum will last until approximately 2100."
  • Rio Tinto wins battle for Riversdale coal as m ...
    Tata Steel accepts Rio Tinto offer of over 1 billion Australian dollars for its 26.27% holding in Riversdale Mining.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Best Buy Looking To Sublease Space In Retail S ...
    Here's good news for those of us that use Best Buy primarily as a place to do research for stuff we eventually buy online. The electronics retailer is looking to sublease a good chunk of its floor space to outside vendors, which means you'll have an even wider variety of items to peruse before ...
  • A Tale Of Two Recoveries: Wealthy Rebounding W ...
    While there may be a load of mansions and McMansions sitting empty or half-finished as a result of the economic collapse, don't take that as a sign that the wealthy are bogged down in the same swamp as the rest of us. According to a study from our research-happy relatives at Consumer Reports, A ...
  • House Committee Votes To Gut Safe Products Dat ...
    The Consumer Product Safety Commission's public database, SaferProducts.gov, which allows people to report unsafe products and search recalls and safety reports, has only been around since March. And already the House Appropriations Committee has moved to cut funding for the project. The bipar ...
  • Dole Recalls Some Bag Salads Because Listeria ...
    The folks at Dole have announced a recall of certain batches of its Italian Blend bag salads -- including those it makes under the Kroger Fresh Selections Italian Style Blend name for the Kroger grocery store chain -- over concern of possible Listeria contamination. All the recalled salads hav ...
  • Unemployment Claims Rise By 9,000
    Doing nothing to help views that the job market is weakening, the Labor Department announced this morning that jobless claims rose by 9,000 last week. It was the largest increase in a month. The dim news just added on to the pile of sad following the Fed's no- surprise-to-anyone pronouncement y ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

  • Bank Lobby Says ‘Fight Continues’ on Debit Car ...
    by Marian Wang, ProPublica The banking industry stands to lose billions in debit card transaction fees after losing one of its biggest lobbying battles this year—but for the banks, that was just Round One. The industry had for months lobbied lawmakers to kill or delay regulations limiting the fe ...
  • President Obama Address on Afghanistan Troop D ...
    President Obama speech Wednesday night on the troop situation in Afghanistan.
  • Provincetown’s Not Safe for Black Lesbians
    At the tip of Cape Cod is the LGBTQ-friendly haven Provincetown, fondly called P-town, and known as the best LGBTQ summer resort on the East Coast. Of late, more lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people of color (POC) have not only begun vacationing in P-town, but we have als ...
  • A Call to Arms for Wealthy Progressives
    It is time to take America back for the ideals that we stand for as a nation. It is time for wealthy progressives to answer wealthy rightists and give strong support to Majority PAC, which is battling the save the Democratic Senate, and House Majority PAC, which is battling to bring back the Dem ...
  • Camelot and National Lottery Want it Both Ways
    In 27-days the jackpot rose from £13 million to £105 million pounds (it normally takes 8 weeks) in the newly revised EuroMillions game of the National Lottery. This is because the odds of winning that top prize increased from 72 million:1 to 116 million:1 when they changed the game to add two lu ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Monckton stirs the pot with a cheap shot, and ...
    By now every person in the climate debate knows that Monckton used a swastika on a slide in LA. UPDATE: By the time I wrote this, Monckton had already been roundly condemned for his unnecessary hyperbole, and unreservedly apologized. I couldn’t see much point in joining in the chorus. Yes, I agr ...
  • Oreskes’ clumsy, venomous smear campaign: busted
    The great Fred Singer takes the time to explain why Naomi Oreskes is a scientifically inept and a poor historian. Her famous claim of a scientific consensus based on 900 papers missed more than 11,000 that should have been included. Her grasp of science is so poor she isn’t familiar with the pH ...
  • Peer review denial and the abuse of science
    “Climate denial and the abuse of peer review“ Can someone get Stephan Lewandowsky his medication? His new marketing message is that “deniers” don’t do peer review papers. There’s a curious case of acute-peer-review-blindness (APRB) occurring. It doesn’t matter that there are literally thousands ...
  • Heading over the waterfall
    Here in Australia we are in a eerie twilight world: it’s obvious skepticism is thriving, and plain that those pushing the carbon tax are desperate. Yet this is a train-wreck in action. The current government popularity is as sunk as sunk can be. On a daily basis, commentators ask how long Gillar ...
  • Protests coming up around Australia
    Yes, we all wish we didn’t need to protest, but it’s a small price to pay for living in one of the best nations on Earth. If we don’t stop this slide now, corruption and inefficiency grow stronger, and we will all be poorer in every sense of the word. We don’t have to have [...]

ReNew America

  • Obama not subject to charges of treason?
    (Sher Zieve, RA analyst) - Treason is generally defined as "betrayal of country: a violation of the allegiance owed by somebody to his or her own country, e.g. by aiding an enemy." High treason is defined as "treason perpetrated by somebody against his or her own country"...
  • The Sebelius, Morrison and Six flim flam flumm ...
    (Phill Kline) - As Roxie is facing the gallows for the murder of her lover in the musical Chicago, her defense attorney Billy Flynn played by Richard Gere, turns towards her and says: "Roxie, you got nothing to worry about...it's all a circus, kid...you've got to razzle dazzle 'em, give 'em the ...
  • The Republican Party has a winning candidate
    (Marie Jon, RA analyst) - Michele Bachmann made her announcement to run for president this past week. The third-term Republican congresswoman from Minnesota had the full attention of Americans. That includes not only those who watch Fox News, but liberal CNN...
  • Judge hears arguments on Georgia immigration law
    (Newsmax) - A federal judge has heard arguments on a request by civil liberties groups to block Georgia's law cracking down on illegal immigration from taking effect until a legal challenge has been resolved. The judge said Monday that he would not make an immediate ruling...
  • Sex, media and a sign of the times
    (Chuck Norris) - Some of us are old enough even to remember the shocking nature of Barbara Eden showing her navel on "I Dream of Jeanie" in the '60s -- or how the torso-revealing, one-piece bathing suit was considered scanty on "Charlie's Angels" in the '70s. Compare that to today. No one is sho ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Russian TV on Comet Elenin
    The video is from Russia, in Russian. From the backdrop I presume the show deals with UFO-type stories although I don’t get why they have an image of the Colosseum. Without understanding a word of it, ... Related posts:Nyiragongo / Comet Elenin FIXED: 2012 Debunked – Excellent Video Prav ...
  • Some Improvements at 2012 Blog
    Dec 2012 is just 18 months away. Consequently I’ve ramped things up a notch. This blog now has a new design that helps new visitors find important topics more easily. And, I think, it looks ... Related posts:Inflatable space habitat – ready before 2012? eBook review: The Ultimate 2012ology ...
  • Researchers Picked Ch’Ch Earthquake
    Evidence continues to accumulate – the heavens are a factor when it comes to large earthquakes. Occasionally an orthodox geologist will admit that full moons are a minor factor, and the recent research of myself ... Related posts:Deadly 6.3 Quake in ChristChurch NZ Lunar Eclipses Are Dange ...
  • Prophet Will Profit
    As it happened, Doris Schmitt, the NY widow who left $250K to Harold Camping got her timing all screwed up. If her intention was for the preacher to use her bequeathment to advertise his doomsday, ... Related posts:Blame it on the weather?
  • The Winged Warriors of Ek’ Balam
    I came across this image on Facebook via Korinna and others… at Wikipedia they are described as “winged warriors“.The wall is found at the ancient Mayan site Ek’ Balam. A huge version of the image is ... Related posts:Congressman Says Flee Cities / Mystery Sculpture Cerne Abbas Giant / ...

Facing South

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Justice for the South's force ...
    Year in which Sir Francis Galton founded the now-discredited science of eugenics to improve the human population through selective reproduction: 1883 Number of U.S. states that adopted eugenics laws in the early 1900s targeting for compulsory sterilization people deemed unfit to bear children ...
  • Drawing the lines: Redistricting battles shape ...
    Across the South, state legislatures have rolled out their plans for redrawing political lines -- plans that could be key to shaping upcoming elections in 2011 and 2012. The new Southern plans are being closely followed because this is the first time in history that redistricting has happe ...
  • VOICES: The Southern front in the corporate wa ...
    By Joe Atkins, Labor South A Southern front has opened up in the corporate-GOP war on workers. Just look at some recent headlines: "Supreme Court Conservatives Thwart Wal-Mart Sex Bias Case" (Associated Press, June 20) "Memphis sanitation workers are volatile city budget targe ...
  • As safety worries grow for existing U.S. nucle ...
    A yearlong Associated Press investigation has found that federal regulators have kept aging U.S. nuclear reactors operating within safety standards by repeatedly weakening those standards or failing to enforce them. Coming as Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant is thought to be experienci ...
  • Smoking out the tobacco barons
    By Eduardo Soriano-Castillo, Labor Notes Four years of pressure forced cigarette manufacturer Reynolds American to agree in May to meet with the Farm Labor Organizing Committee to discuss working conditions in its supply chain. FLOC President Baldemar Velasquez called Reynolds "one of the mos ...

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Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Obama’s Drawdown Speech: SCO Faces the Afghan ...
    The United States President Barack Obama’s drawdown speech will not stand out in the volume of his selected works as an outstanding piece of oratory. The rhetorical flourish of “On the Way Forward in Afghanistan” was definitely below par. On the other hand, Obama knew the occasion is not one of ...
  • Stalin Caught in Liberal Cobweb
    Progressive revision of the principal results of the WWII represents as a very dangerous sign. Never before the endeavors to depict Hitler and Stalin as equally responsible for unleashing the war have been so obstinate, purposeful and bluntly hostile towards Russian people and Russian state… No ...
  • United Europe Against “Russian Barbarity ...
    Today Russia commemorates 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Great Patriotic war. In a stark contrast, Europe had commemorated pompously the 70-th anniversaries of the outbreak of World War II and of the signing of the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact but currently seems oblivious to another key h ...
  • The Real War vs The Illusions
    In the complicated calculus of the men who would plan our destinies for us, if we would only let them, it is often hard to fathom which line of reasoning represents their dominant thinking on any strategic subject.  In Afghanistan and in Pakistan, it is getting harder to distinguish between the ...
  • China-US: What Is Inside Real Politics
    As we continue our conversation about relations between the United States and China, I should point out that the United States controls China both militarily and politically. How does that work? To begin, we need to answer the main question: does the United States today want to cut off China’s r ...

BlogHer

  • Did You Hear About the Time Lindsay Lohan Stoo ...
    Picture this: You're Matt Lauer. You're feeling pretty good about that. I mean, YOU ARE MATT FREAKING LAUER. You shave, you get dressed, and you go to work, which today involves interviewing THE once-talented-it-girl-turned-total-hot-mess and you are all pumped up to ask the hard questions, and ...
  • Defining Your Style When an Inspiration Board ...
    It seems like well-dressed friends of mine are always talking about defining personal style. And for the love of Audrey Hepburn, do I love that idea. I've gone through phases where I think I've figured it out, and I've got my classic, preppy wardrobe in place. But then, I realize I really like ...
  • Dreading the Question: "Can We Go to the Pool?"
    [Editor's Note: I really thought it was just me... that I was the only local pool hating mom in the world. Turns out I'm not. This post at Crazy for Trying had me laughing and nodding and laughing again. If you've ever cringed when your kid has asked to go to the pool, this post is for you. But ...
  • Christy Turlington Burns – Teaching Bangalades ...
    Christy Turlington Burns continues her travels around Bangaladesh, where she's working to prevent maternal death by working with entire families. That's right-- entire families. Because of the culture of this region, women are often dependent on extended families (i.e., her in-laws) to get acce ...
  • Sick of Staycations? Tips to Travel Cheaper Th ...
    I don't know about you, but I'm getting sick of staycations. We've been doing them since the economy took a header, and I'm all about figuring out how to get my travel on without going into debt. I talked to hotels.com founder Bob Diener, because I figured, you know, he does this sort of thing ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Rare Tickborne Disease Spreads – Not Lyme
    A once rare disease for humans has been quietly, swiftly on the rise. Babesiosis comes from a parasite carried through deer ticks. Symptoms for this malaria-like infection may take weeks to manifest and progression of ...
  • The Toxies Award ‘Chemical Bad Actors’
    The Toxies is a satirical awards ceremony to raise awareness of toxic additives in everyday products and the effort to remove them. Last week marked their second annual ceremony complete with creative costumes, red carpet, ...
  • When Stereotyping Blurs Medical Help
    Former druggie and prisoner Mr. S was assumed to have HIV after receiving blood tests upon entering prison. Even after his sentence, years later, doctors went with the diagnosis and Mr. S went through all ...
  • Graphic Images To Appear On Cigarette Packs
    At least nine FDA graphic warning labels will appear on all cigarette packs before September 2012. Prominent depictions of a mouth sore, a baby and mom in smoke, smoke coming out of a tracheotomy hole ...
  • Under Food Tyranny – E.Coli The New Terrorist ...
    Is the world’s e.coli scare the Osama Bin Laden of food? Europe’s e.coli outbreak was traced to multiple produce, then organic bean sprouts, then not, then settled adamantly on those organic bean sprouts. This will not ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

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

Daniel Miessler

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

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • Australian Hippies Help
    Hippies hop to help | Hastings Leader TWO local “hippies” and their lime green Bedford van are ready to head off again for this year’s Variety Bash fundraiser. Frankston’s Don Hailes and Mordialloc’s John Evans entered the bash for the first time last year, raising more than $10,000 and taking t ...
  • Maid’s beheading in Saudi Arabia halts I ...
    Indonesia will suspend sending domestic helpers to Saudi Arabia after the beheading of a maid convicted of murdering her Saudi employer | Telegraph Migrant worker Ruyati binti Sapubi, 54, was executed after she was convicted of murdering her Saudi employer, Khairiya bint Hamid Mijlid, with a mea ...
  • Far-right politician Geert Wilders found not g ...
    I didn’t know Rutger Hauer changed his name. Dutch MP acquitted in ‘hate’ trial | Al Jazeera Far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders has been acquitted by a court in Amsterdam where he was on trial for inciting hatred and discrimination against Muslims. Wilders, leader of the Freedom Party, has ...
  • Paul and Frank Come Out For Weed In A Big Way
    Members Of Congress To Introduce Historic Legislation Ending Marijuana Prohibition | The Weed Blog The Legislation, Modeled after the Repeal of Alcohol Prohibition, Comes on the 40th Anniversary of the Failed War on Drugs and on the Heels of a Global Commission Report Recommending Marijuana Lega ...
  • Woody, In The Morning: Structures
    WWH – On Zuckerberg’s Folly, Wednesday, I stumbled upon a longish, earnest example of a kind of discourse I call YKANTWE–short for, “Why can’t we all stop squabbling and get along, and solve the country’s problems, yo?” (You can see why I brev8 it?) The subject was universal health care, and why ...

reference frame

  • Unification as a source of certainty
    People have observed billions of objects and experienced trillions of events and processes. When a monkey was born somewhere on the Earth a million of years ago and inherited almost no serious knowledge from her ancestors, and instead, she was just asked to behave as a homo sapiens, sh ...
  • Gassing the skeptics: confusing CO and CO2 alo ...
    Jill Singer of the Australian "mainstream" Herald Sun newspapers has proposed a final solution to the problem of the climate skeptics: Carbon tax sideshow must stopShe writes: I'm prepared to keep an open mind and propose another stunt for climate sceptics - put your strong views to the ...
  • Greek drama doesn't transcend Hellenic borders
    Around the midnight, the Greek Parliament will vote on confidence in Papandreou's new socialist government: it contains a new finance minister, a guy who almost managed to bring Greece into bankruptcy just because of the 2004 Olympics. If the government survives the vote, and the odds ...
  • Sea level hockey stick
    Michael Mann and 5 other, less infamous would-be "scientists" have just published a paper about the hockey stick "scientific" method applied to the sea level: Climate related sea-level variations over the past two millennia (PNAS)They used salt-marsh sedimental sequences on the U.S. Eas ...
  • Particles of different spins and their roles
    Quantum mechanics implies that the angular momentum is quantized: in particular, its component J_z, with respect to any axis of z, has to be a multiple of hbar/2. Why it is so? Animation by Flip Tanedo who wrote a nice article about related topics. Well, if you rotate the object around ...

No Frakking Consensus

  • Pachauri’s Cause
    The chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says responding to climate change is part of a larger goal: transforming the world economy.
  • Two Population Predictions
    40 years ago scientists said radical change was necessary if humanity was to survive. Along the way they endorsed a population prediction that now appears ridiculous.
  • Oodles of Cash
    Who knew that green groups - and those with business interests in renewable energy - have access to such obscene amounts of money?
  • IPCC: These People Haven’t Learned a Thing
    A recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report once again relies on research conducted by Greenpeace. Once again, Greenpeace personnel are serving as IPCC lead authors.
  • Science is Not a Tyrant
    Activists, politicians, and journalists love to play the 'science says' game when talking about global warming. But scientific facts are one thing. How best to respond to those facts is a completely different discussion - in which we all deserve a voice.

Tarpley

  • The CIA’s Fake “Arab Spring” Becom ...
    Obama Regime Courts World Conflagration: Imperial Overstretch Threatens as US, NATO Wage Five Wars: Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, and Yemen – Are Syria, Iran, Lebanon Next? Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net June 20, 2011 Washington DC, June 20- With the previously covert US bombing of ...
  • US Naval and Troop Movements Toward North Afri ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net June 15, 2011 Washington DC – US Special Forces units based at Fort Hood, Texas, have been told to prepare for deployment to Libya no later than July, according to a US military source. The Special Forces would then be followed in September or October by hea ...
  • US Naval Deployments in Mediterranean and Blac ...
    Webster G. Tarpley on the Alex Jones Show
  • США и ПАКИСТАН НА ПОРОГЕ ОТКРЫТОЙ ВОЙНЫ. КИТАЙ ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net 20 Ð¼Ð°Ñ 2011 ÐиÑай оÑиÑиалÑно пÑедÑпÑедил СШÐ, ÑÑо планиÑÑемое ÐаÑингÑоном нападение на ÐакиÑÑан бÑÐ´ÐµÑ Ð±ÑÐ´ÐµÑ ÑаÑÑмаÑÑиваÑÑÑÑ ÐºÐ°Ðº Ð°ÐºÑ Ð°Ð³ÑеÑÑии в оÑноÑении ÐиÑаÑ. ЭÑÐ¾Ñ Ð¶Ð ...
  • Gates’ Hysteria About NATO Running Out o ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV June 12, 2011 [

Modern Survivalism

  • 12,000 – Evacuation – Where Would ...
    (Reuters) Authorities in the North Dakota city of Minot told up to 12,000 residents on Wednesday to evacuate immediately because the rising Souris River is about to overflow flood levees. A chain reaction which began further up north in Canada, is now cascading its way south through the US while ...
  • Shelf Reliance Harvest-72 Review
    Shelf Reliance, a quality company that makes ‘Food Rotation Systems‘ offer wonderful solutions to organizing and managing quantities of canned foods. At home, once you cross a threshold of filling your normal nooks and cupboards with a bit of extra food storage, you will begin to store your exce ...
  • 55 Preparedness Items
    Guest Post: by ‘Be informed’ There are many survival preparedness items that you can store now, and “forget” about, which you may need later during varying degrees of an emergency. The following are 55 suggested items that you can store and have ready. 1. Toilet paper, and other sanitation items ...
  • 10 Global Disasters
    Guest Note: by P.T. If you factor all the probable events that would cause global effects, you may end up with a list as follows. 10. A star 3.5 light years away going supernova (gamma ray burst) 9. Massive CME from Sun 8. Methane deposits causing rapid warming 7. Middle East war (non nuke) 6.No ...
  • Why We Post Our IP Address
    Why do we list our IP Address? http://184.168.238.139 Given the high amount of website hacking that has been reported in the news, we’ve decided to upgrade Modern Survival Blog to a static IP Address. Not long ago I noticed that James Rawle’s site began highlighting their IP Address, and I felt ...

Fast Company

  • The Most Likely Climate Disasters On The Horizon
    From forest die-offs to melting Arctic ice, there are many possibilities for how climate change will affect the planet. But some have a larger chance of happening than others. Which should we be prepared for most, and working hardest to prevent? It's impossible to predict exactly when or how cl ...
  • How Apple's iCloud Could Squeeze Billions More ...
    Seventy-six percent of iPhone users surveyed said they were likely or very likely to use Apple's forthcoming free iCloud service, according to a survey by RBC Capital Markets. But even more remarkable is the number of iPhone users that said they were somewhat likely to drop $25 per year for Appl ...
  • iPhone's Market Share Gains Cut Into Android's ...
    Apple naysayers love to point out the growing presence of Android-powered smartphones. Apple fans counter with a reminder that no one Android phone outsells the iPhone. Apple, meanwhile, is quite happy just to be making more money than everyone else. It's true that there are more Android phones ...
  • Ticketmaster: Rocking The Most Hated Brand In ...
    Photographs by Benjamin Lowy On tour with former singer-songwriter Nathan Hubbard and his showstopper of a plan to rescue Ticketmaster's business -- and, for an encore, its dreadful reputation.The Ticketmaster Turnaround Tour rolls into New York ready to rock. The audience on this ...
  • Judge Undercuts Online Copyright Law, Here's W ...
    David Kravets, a writer for Wired's Threat Level blog, reports on the ruling handed down by a federal judge that, simply put, allowed for the reposting of an entire article without permission. To show how asinine that is, we've reposted Wired's entire article. You should actually go to Wired and ...

Jadaliyya

  • Introduction: Teaching the Middle East after t ...
    May 13-14, 2011, George Mason University âTeaching the Middle East after the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions…Beyond Orientalism, Islamophobia, and Liberalism,â a conference sponsored by the Middle East Studies Program and the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Ma ...
  • Panel Summaries from Day 1 of Jadaliyya's "Tea ...
    Panel 1: Focus on Egypt The conference panels were kicked off by a panel that used Egypt as a case-study, both in terms of understanding the dynamics of one particular uprising as well as thinking specifically about the pedagogical implications of that uprising on the teaching of Egypti ...
  • My Coming Out Story
    I am a Sunni. Yes, I said it. I am a Sunni from Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. I was born in a hospital that no longer exists, having been torn down to make way for a tower that houses, most probably, more Sunnis. After being born in that hospital that no longer exists, I was bundled up ...
  • A Long Season of Change Ahead for Every Arab N ...
    In the six months since Mohammed Bouazizi immolated himself and set an entire region alight, analysts and observers have swung from issuing death certificates for the established Arab order to concluding that it has managed to withstand the challenge of mass insurrection. Both judgements ...
  • Culture X
    Our tenth week of Jadaliyya's Culture section features fiction from Iraq, poetry from Lebanon, and and music from Libya: Two Stories by Luay Hamza Abbas, translated by Yasmeen Hanoosh Five Poems by Wadi Saadeh, translated by Sinan Antoon "Libya's Revolution Sparks a New Age of Music" ...

mediagazer

  • Nightcrawlers! Party Reporting and the Paper o ...
    Kat Stoeffel / The New York Observer: Nightcrawlers!  Party Reporting and the Paper of Record  —  At the Tony Awards last week, a pair of the city's rival nightlife columnists, Sarah Maslin Nir of The New York Times and Marshall Heyman of The Wall Street Journal, happened to walk into the Beac ...
  • What Big Media Can Learn From the New York Pub ...
    The Atlantic Online: What Big Media Can Learn From the New York Public Library  —  Despite looming budget cuts, the library is flourishing and putting out some of the most innovative online projects in the country  —  NEW YORK — Two massive lions flank the steps of the New York Public Library' ...
  • Current TV watching Comcast-Bloomberg fight cl ...
    Joe Flint / Company Town: Current TV watching Comcast-Bloomberg fight closely  —  Bloomberg and Comcast are not the only interested parties watching to see how the Federal Communications Commission resolves their feud over where Bloomberg's business news channel should be placed on Comcast's c ...
  • Turntable.fm Really Is Awesome. Is It Legal? ( ...
    Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: Turntable.fm Really Is Awesome.  Is It Legal?  —  Turntable.fm is a little miracle that does something simple and essential: It lets you play your favorite songs for your friends and strangers on the Web, in real time, for free.  —  I'd say it's astonishing no one has ...
  • Yahoo approaches Hulu about possible acquisiti ...
    Dawn Chmielewski / Company Town: Yahoo approaches Hulu about possible acquisition  —  Yahoo Inc. recently approached Hulu to discuss a possible acquisition of the popular online video service, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.  —  Hulu, which streams television shows on the I ...

Chemtrail News

  • Secret Cam Conversation With CHEMTRAIL ...
    Dali777's video about CHEMTRAIL PILOT poison agent orange aspartame crystal documentary on Disclose.tv.www.disclose.tv/.../Secret_cam_conversation_with_CHEMTR...
  • WARNING! WARNING! CHEMTRAILS RELEASED F ...
    While out filming the sunset I noticed what appeared to be a chemtrail coming from the ground upwards and when I took a closer look I discovered that ther.chemtruth.ning.com/video/warning-warning-chemtrails
  • Crazy (Chemtrail?) photos.... don't ...
    I was out on my balcony having a smoke when I noticed this strange (cloud? chemtrail?) in the sky. It was a large spiraling cloud. ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread717527/pg1
  • Dailymail UK Thread On Chemtrails How J ...
    Here is an interesting article for the Chemtrail believers Also notice how the website site stopped accepting posts only after 242 comments Anyone on ATS in ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread719572/pg1
  • Chemtrail Discussion on Lifting The Vei ...
    On June 3rd 2011, Steve Nineohfive(lilshook1) and I joined Cari-Lee Miller for a discussion on Chemtrails on Lifting The Veil at FreeThinkRadio.com .chemtruth.ning.com/video/chemtrail-discussion-on

World News - Top Stories

  • 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 ...

no frakking consensus

  • Pachauri’s Cause
    The chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says responding to climate change is part of a larger goal: transforming the world economy.
  • Two Population Predictions
    40 years ago scientists said radical change was necessary if humanity was to survive. Along the way they endorsed a population prediction that now appears ridiculous.
  • Oodles of Cash
    Who knew that green groups - and those with business interests in renewable energy - have access to such obscene amounts of money?
  • IPCC: These People Haven’t Learned a Thing
    A recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report once again relies on research conducted by Greenpeace. Once again, Greenpeace personnel are serving as IPCC lead authors.
  • Science is Not a Tyrant
    Activists, politicians, and journalists love to play the 'science says' game when talking about global warming. But scientific facts are one thing. How best to respond to those facts is a completely different discussion - in which we all deserve a voice.

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Haiti Facts Seventeen Months after Earthquake
    By Bill Quigley Haiti experienced a major earthquake January 12, 2010. Tens of thousands died, estimates range from 65,000 to 230,000 people killed. About 2 million more people were displaced. Haiti was already the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere with a per capita income of abou ...
  • Concerned Citizens Work Together To Create 7 S ...
    From The New Orleans Agenda newsletter and Advancement Project: Community leaders from throughout Orleans Parish came together to develop a community plan that reflects the changing demographics in the city and the shift in population. We believe that New Orleans Parish City Council Districts ...
  • Greater New Orleans Organizers Roundtable Host ...
    This Saturday, at the New Orleans Fine Arts Center, a broad coalition of New Orleans activists known as the Greater New Orleans Organizers Roundtable will host their second Annual Masquerade Ball and Fundraiser. The coalition is a unique forum for combining efforts in the city's social justice ...
  • Louisiana Organization Selected for Echoing Gr ...
    From a Press Release by Echoing Green and Cooperative Advocacy for the People: This month Ameca Reali and Adrienne Wheeler of the New Orleans-based Cooperative Advocacy for the People were named as 2011 Echoing Green Fellows. Out of 2,854 applicants from over 100 countries, only twenty-two ind ...
  • Louisiana Legislature Passes Bill to Reduce El ...
    From our friends at the ACLU of Louisiana: The American Civil Liberties Union today hailed the passage of a bill in the Louisiana legislature making it easier for elderly prisoners to get a parole hearing as an important step towards reducing the state’s shockingly high prison population. T ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Motion by Councillor Jim Bollan – Proposed Boycott of Israeli Goods "This Council deplores the loss of life in Palestine which now numbers well over 1,000. This Council also recognises the disproportionate force used by the IDF in Palestine and agrees to boycott all Israeli goods as a conseque ...
  • History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
    abduLMaria wrote: Scotty wrote:The Talmud plants Christians in Hell for all eternity under a deluge of “boiling excrement.” does that look anything like boiling Chocolate ? perhaps we could find a rabbi in San Francisco to go to the Ghirardelli Chocolate Factory to double-check their metapho ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    11. Recently revealed documents prove not only that Israel has nuclear weapos, but actually tried to sell some to Apartheid South Africa. While simultaneously working to unseat the Apartheid regime.... Hhmm.. I suspect the 'Samson Option' is a hoax. The chatter is about Al Qaeda using 'dir ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Timothy_Fitzpatrick wrote: Use a proxy server. Thanks Tips Mcgee. Yeah they have banned all of the free ones that I know of....Unless anyone here can provide me with one. I could post as an anonymous coward but it is 40% less effective than posting as an official "member". I tried to tone ...
  • Social Engineering • Re: 'You're fired': Dior ...
    I'll spare everyone the pictures but this is an important free-speech issue. --CSR ========= On anti-depressants like they were candy': John Galliano hopes to avoid jail over 'anti-Semitic tirade' by claiming he was addicted to painkillers By Peter Allen Last updated at 9:57 PM on 21st Jun ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Marine Life Census Reveals Serengeti-Like Corr ...
    A decade-long census of marine life in the North Pacific Ocean has documented how abundant seasonal food supplies attract an array of predators annually to two major oceanic corridors, which researchers liken to Click to enlarge Craig Hayslip/OSU Marine Mammal InstituteA blue whale encountered ...
  • Species May Adapt Quickly To Environmental Cha ...
    A new experiment using baker’s yeast suggest that organisms can adapt relatively rapidly to environmental changes. McGill University researchers exposed samples of baker’s yeast, whose genetic makeup has been well studied, to various levels of salt — an environmental stressor for yeast. What the ...
  • Brown to Green: A New Use For Blighted Industr ...
    Few places in the U.S. are as well suited to developing renewable energy as the contaminated sites known as “brownfields.” But as communities from Philadelphia to California are discovering, government support is critical to enable solar and wind entrepreneurs to make use of these abandoned land ...
  • Rockies Wilderness Area Sought as Buffer to Cl ...
    The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is recommending that 888,000 acres of public lands in Montana’s Crown of the Continent ecosystem receive federal wilderness protection to prevent habitat loss for species most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, WCSGrizzlies in the Crown of the C ...
  • Chemical Exposure May Impair Breast Developmen ...
    Chemical exposure in early life may affect mammary gland development and increase the chances of developing breast cancer and lactation problems in later years, scientists conclude in a series of new reports. One study showed that when rodents are exposed in the womb or as newborns to some hormo ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Crown Prince heads to Germany
    Crown Prince Naruhito left for Berlin on Tuesday for a five-day visit. During a meeting with German President Christian Wulff and Chancellor Angela Merkel, he will express gratitude for the country's support for disaster-hit Japan, the government said.
  • Minamisanriku must pay rent on temporary facility
    The town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, hit hard by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, has been stunned to learn it has to pay rent on prefabricated buildings that were used by an Israeli emergency medical team and now serve as a clinic, officials said Tuesday. The tsunami-ravaged town ...
  • Warner steps down as FIFA drops corruption probe
    Jack Warner quit as a FIFA vice president Monday and soccer's governing body dropped a bribery investigation of him, saying the "presumption of innocence is maintained." Warner and Asian soccer chief Mohamed bin Hammam were suspended by FIFA last month amid the gravest corruption crisis to roc ...
  • Vobora vindicated in supplements case
    St. Louis Rams linebacker David Vobora was awarded $5.4 million in his lawsuit against a Florida supplements maker. More important, Vobora said his reputation has been restored. "Today is a celebration," Vobora said Monday. "Today, I've been proven innocent."
  • Selig rejects TV deal
    MLB commissioner Bud Selig has rejected a proposed television deal between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Fox Sports that voids a recent divorce settlement between team owner Frank McCourt and his ex-wife, Jamie McCourt. Selig said Monday the TV contract would not be in the best interests of base ...

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Making It Count - CCPA

  • Fossil fuel expansion as a crime against humanity
    After at 2010 that was one of the warmest years on record, 2011 has shown us astonishing patterns of extreme weather worldwide. It would take a long time to make the full list, but you know what I mean: tornadoes, floods, drought, record cold in some parts, record heat in others, hailstorms (Al ...
  • The Attack on Workers: Back(sliding) (in)to th ...
    The public response to recent labour disputes has been a disturbing sideshow to the return of Parliament. What’s remarkable is the level of nastiness that gets tossed around, littered with references to “union stooges” and the ubiquitous “socialist dinosaurs.” Perhaps the most obvious line of at ...
  • Summertime and the Reading is Easy
    Staff at the CCPA would like nothing better than to curl up with a good book (or 10) this summer. Since today is the first day of summer, we thought weâd share some of our favourite summer reading suggestions for progressives. What’s on your reading list this summer? Armine Yalnizyan, Senior Eco ...
  • Incomes in Canada – Booming and Busted
    Today’s release of the annual Income in Canada report is Statistics Canada’s first word on the impact of the Great Recession on Canadians’ incomes. The report in The Daily is a snore. Market incomes fell, but governments did their job. After-tax family incomes haven’t changed since 2007, poverty ...
  • Incomes and the Recession
    Today’s Statscan release “Incomes of Canadians” provides data for 2009 and a partial reading on the impacts of the recession. (I say partial because the 2008 annual average data were impacted by the onset of the recession in the last quarter of the year, and since these impacts continued well in ...

ReDress

  • 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.

Physics Today

  • EPA calls for haze-reduction at Western coal p ...
    Washington Post: The Western Regional Air Partnership and other environmental groups have succeeded in getting the Environmental Protection Agency to enforce provisions of the Clean Air Act in the Western US. Provided a deal struck between the EPA and the groups passes a judicial review, coal-fi ...
  • Nanoparticles hit tumors with one-two punch
    Nature: Sangeeta Bhatia of MIT and colleagues have designed two different types of cancer-fighting nanoparticles to work in tandem and piggyback on the body's rapid response to clotting, writes Nature's Corie Lok. Bhatia's team created a scout particle to fit through the abnormally large pores i ...
  • Ground station of US antimissile defense to op ...
    Guardian: After costing more than $10 billion and taking nearly two decades to build, the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) ground station outside Harrogate, UK, is ready to go on line, writes Jamie Doward of the Guardian. The ground station, located at a Royal Air Force base, consists of 33 s ...
  • Senate committee terminates US Navy's superlas ...
    Wired: Last Friday the Senate Armed Forces Committee approved its version of the fiscal 2012 defense authorization bill. With a $664.5 billion price tag, the bill cuts 1% from President Obama's original request and terminates two weapons programs that are under development for the US Navy: the f ...
  • Are wild horses native to the US, and does it ...
    New Scientist: In a case before a US federal court, animal rights groups are arguing that wild horses of the American West should be considered a native species and thus deserving of the same protections as elk or antelope. If the claim is successful, it could change the way the US Bureau of Lan ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • TSA Officer Arrested for Theft
    by liberty (Posted Sat, 18 Jun 2011 11:13:15 GMT) HOUSTON - Police have arrested a Transportation Security Administration officer on accusations of theft. The arrest was the result of an internal investigation, according to a TSA statement. The employee was employed with the agency since 2002. ...
  • Oil price and Iran war
    by Lilarry (Posted Sat, 18 Jun 2011 10:29:21 GMT) Dollar crises of the hole world for war in middle east, mostly Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya,war. Major people think direct hit oil price. such as Iran war because oil.. SPY Equipment SuperStore
  • America addicted to War
    by Rev333 (Posted Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:13:09 GMT) US economy fails due to 'military arrogance'. “The US economy is collapsing morally, the society is collapsing morally and in particularly it is collapsing economically because of the huge levels of debt the huge levels of 61.2 trillion in unfund ...
  • Fake Holocaust Memoirs
    by Rev333 (Posted Mon, 13 Jun 2011 23:55:39 GMT) A Schwindler's List
  • News media won't report
    by katsung47 (Posted Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:34:28 GMT) Quote, "FBI expands agents’ investigative power The New York Times First published Jun 12 2011 07:40PM Updated Jun 12, 2011 11:28PM Washington • The Federal Bureau of Investigation is giving significant new powers to its roughly 14,000 ag ...

Peakwater

  • Water World Weekly: LA considers plan to recla ...
    “The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has wrapped up its $2 million dollar Groundwater Replenishment Treatment Pilot Study, which takes a hard look at a plan to transform wastewater into drinking water. Officials say the $700 million dollar plan will reduce the city’s reliance on import ...
  • Kaoline Plant to Blame for River Pollution
    “GUANGZHOU – A kaoline plant is to blame for water pollution that caused death of huge amount of fish in South China’s Guangdong province, local environment authorities confirmed Monday. Huazhou-based Deying Kaoline Plant has been illegally discharging untreated acid waste water to the Longwo Ri ...
  • Water lilies cause massive Philippines flooding
    “More than half a million people in the southern Philippines have been affected by flooding after water lilies clogged the country’s second longest river, officials said Monday. “The lilies smothered a section of the 320 kilometre (200 mile) Rio Grande, preventing the water from emptying into th ...
  • Loan granted to improve water supply in Guyana
    “The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a $12 million loan to  improve efficiency, quality and sustainability of the drinking water service in  Linden, Guyana’s second largest city. ‘The funds will help the city cut energy use; improve pressure, quality and  continuity of the ...
  • Palestinian Environmentalist Talks About Water ...
    “A passionate advocate for better water policies, he was part of the team which recently constructed a dam near Jericho to harvest rain run-off in the winter months. With a capacity of approx 700,000m³, it is hoped that the new dam constructed at Al-Ouja Wadi (around 13kms north of Jericho) wi ...

D. Kucinich

  • 10 Reasons to Oppose the War in Libya
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who has led House opposition to the illegal, unconstitutional and unwarranted war in Libya, today distributed the following leaflet to his colleagues ahead of the consideration of the Fiscal Year 2012 Department of Defense Appropriations bill: 10 Reasons to O ...
  • Kucinich Calls for NATO Accountability
    �A Political Settlement May Be the Only Way to Truly Protect Libyan Civilians� Washington D.C. (June 20, 2011) � Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today wrote to Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, and Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, urgin ...
  • Top Pentagon and Justice Attys Advised Preside ...
    Obama Overruled Pentagon Definition of War� Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who along with 9 other Members of Congress has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the President�s violation of the War Powers Resolution regarding the war in Libya, today made the following statement after�The New ...
  • No Caps: Emergency Access to Phone Service is ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) sent a letter to Federal Communications Committee (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski requesting that access to Lifeline and Link-Up be protected for all Americans regardless of income. Kucinich urged the FCC not to make �any reduction in, or impose any limitatio ...
  • Kucinich Amendment Tests Congress’ Will to Exe ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who has led House opposition to the unauthorized war in Libya and filed a complaint in federal court to challenge the war, will again offer an amendment to the upcoming Defense Appropriations bill to cut off funds for the continuation of the war. “This Admini ...

Authentically Wired

  • … Let’s hope California has the &# ...
    � �� Let�s hope California has the �cojones� to enact this law �� � ��Bill to reveal what chemicals used in "fracking" process�� � �June 22, 2011 | �8:09�pm ��http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2011/06/fracking-hyraulic-fracturing-california-oil-natural-gas-shale-wieckowski.html A bill f ...
  • … Some things to ponder while drinking l ...
    ⦠Some things to ponder while drinking lemonade ⦠NATURAL NEWS ⦠ By any honest measure, the so-called War on Drugs has been an utter failure. And it’s time to end the wasted billions, the injustice, the human suffering and the total political lunacy that began this Nixon-era scheme in the fi ...
  • Timely commentary
    ⦠Timely commentary ⦠putting into perspective the result of choices we made of those we elected ⦠âto serve & to protectâ ⦠Tyranny in Arizona â¦Usurping the Constitutional Power Of ‘We The People’ Posted by AzBlueMeanie â¦http://www.blogforarizona.com/blog/2011/06/tea-publican-tyranny-in-a ...
  • superweeds
    â¦Gee ⦠you think Mon$anto & Friend$ might be aware of thi$ â¦? You know how GMOs lead to the creation of so-called superweeds? Now there’s a concern that the repeated use of GMOs and related pesticides are leading to the development of "super" superweeds that virtually no herbicide can kill: h ...
  • take a chance
    â¦Perhaps still too far out for some ⦠but ⦠take a chance ⦠you could find you just might believe it ⦠ Love may ultimately be the answer, but right now the TSA is still groping our junk, and they’ve recently promised to do it on planes, trains and virtually every other form of [...]

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Dung beetles: a sewage SWAT team
    Biology Professor Doug Emlen speaks with Laurel Neme on her 'The WildLife' radio show and podcast about the biology and armaments of dung beetles. An expert on the evolution and development of bizarre shapes in insects, Emlen notes that dung beetles are one of the 'kings' of odd morphology.
  • How do we save Africa's forests?
    Africa's forests are fast diminishing to the detriment of climate, biodiversity, and millions of people of dependent on forest resources for their well-being. But is the full conservation of Africa's forests necessary to mitigate global climate change and ensure environmental stability in Africa ...
  • Arctic on the line: oil industry versus Greenp ...
    At the top of the world sits a lone region of shifting sea ice, bare islands, and strange creatures. For most of human history the Arctic remained inaccessible to all but the hardiest of peoples, keeping it relatively pristine and untouched. But today, the Arctic is arguably changing faster than ...
  • Could palm oil help save the Amazon?
    For years now, environmentalists have become accustomed to associating palm oil with large-scale destruction of rainforests across Malaysia and Indonesia. Campaigners have linked palm oil-containing products like Girl Scout cookies and soap products to smoldering peatlands and dead orangutans. ...
  • Conservation issues in Tanzania
    What's happening in Tanzania? This is a question making the rounds in East African conservation circles. Why is a nation that has so much invested in wild lands and wild animals pursuing projects that researchers say will not only gravely harm some of the nation's world-famous wildlife and ecosy ...
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