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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.

Saturday, June 25, 2011

25 June - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

To Do

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Deadlines may shelve renewable energy projects
Las Vegas Sun
By Karoun Demirjian (contact) The Energy Department has been teaming up with Nevada lawmakers on an almost monthly basis to announce loan guarantees for renewable energy projects across the Silver State, each of which is expected to create a few ...
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Oregon House advances tax credits overhaul
BusinessWeek
By JONATHAN J. COOPER The Oregon House voted Wednesday to significantly scale back a tax credit that has been used to expand renewable energy in the state. Lawmakers voted to eliminate the Business Energy Tax Credit program and replace it with new ...
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Consumers Energy to Buy Renewable Energy From Fremont Community Digester ...
MarketWatch (press release)
FREMONT, Mich., June 24, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Consumers Energy has contracted to purchase the total renewable energy output produced by the Fremont Community Digester (FCD), which held a ground breaking ceremony today in Fremont. ...
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EPA proposes 2012 renewable fuel targets
BrighterEnergy.org
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed the 2012 percentage standards for four fuel categories that are part of the agency's Renewable Fuel Standard program (RFS2). EPA continues to support greater use of renewable fuels within the ...
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Human Habitat

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Ecology plan outlines bacterial pollution cleanup in Sinclair-Dyes basin
Access Washington
BELLEVUE – Kitsap County's Sinclair Inlet, Dyes Inlet and their tributary streams can benefit from maintaining and strengthening existing programs to control bacterial pollution, according to a Department of Ecology (Ecology) study and plan released ...
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Ecology invites feedback on 2010 assessment of marine waters
Access Washington
OLYMPIA – The Department of Ecology (Ecology) is seeking public comments on its draft 2010 assessment of Washington's marine waters. The assessment also covers marine sediment quality. The assessment, required by the Clean Water Act, is the state's ...
Lessons in ecology - and life - on the Bay
Baltimore Sun (blog)
Ten students at Salisbury University are completing today one of the most intense classes they've probably ever taken in college - but maybe one of the most enlightening, too. For the past five weeks, the environmental studies majors and two ...
Study could lead to federal investment in the economy and ecology of York River
Seacoastonline.com
By Susan Morse YORK, Maine — US Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, introduced a bill Thursday to fund up to $500000 for a multi-year study of the York River to determine if the waterway is eligible for designation as a Wild and Scenic Partnership River by ...
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Water Power

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Ransom Sheriff Says Beware Of Water
KFGO
READ MORE The mayor of Minot says water from the Souris river is expected to start pouring over dikes protecting the city within the hour. READ MORE The river is forecast to reach 1563 feet above sea level on Thursday, June 30, rather than on this ...
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Pickens, Texas water supplier sign $103M deal
BusinessWeek
By BETSY BLANEY About a half million West Texans in one of the state's historically driest areas now will have water into the next century following a deal signed Thursday between billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens and a regional water supplier. ...
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Operation Dry Water Targets Boating Under The Influence
Patch.com
By Tony Bacewicz | Email the author | 12:00pm Conncecticut DEP Marine Enforcement Officer Mitch Persico will be among those participaating in Operation Dry Water this weekend. He was photographed while the members of the press took a tour on a DEP ...
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Feds file Clean Water complaint against Unalaska
BusinessWeek
By BECKY BOHRER The federal government filed a complaint against the city of Unalaska on Thursday, alleging that it violated pollution limits in its Clean Water Act discharge permit at least 4870 times within a six-year period. ...
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The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Impact of U.S. Sanctions Against Iran on You
    Summary: The Asian Law Caucus has released a Know-Your-Rights publication on the Iranian Transactions Regulations (Iran Sanctions), which are the most relevant sanctions program in restricting commercial and financial dealings with Iran. The publication provides a general guide to the scope ...
  • AIPAC Pushes Hard for War With Iran
    Summary: The overarching problem is the Israel lobby’s subversion of American governance through election fraud, the evasion of tax regulations and laws regulating foreign lobbies, and the systematized, ongoing infiltration of operatives into key government posts to advance the interests of ...
  • America's next war: Iran
    Summary: Sunday Times, 7 January 2007There is no question that the Obama administration, like its predecessor, is seeking regime change in Iran. It has been using a variety of methods to contain, divide and subvert Iran through economic sanctions, covert operations and surrounding the countr ...
  • BASIC's Paul Ingram reports from Tehran
    Summary: I’m in Tehran for BASIC in the middle of the second annual two day international conference on Disarmament and Non-proliferation laid on by IPIS, the Foreign Ministry’s think tank. I am here to present a paper today on why Iran should engage in the conference that is supposed to h ...
  • Iran Renews Strong Opposition to Discriminatio ...
    Summary: Tehran is resolved to confront discriminatory attitudes to the adoption of international treaties, a prominent member of the Iranian parliament stressed on Sunday. source: Bernamaread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Nebular Clouds --It Appears that the Phosphoru ...
    We seem to be inside a "local bubble" in a network of cavities in the interstellar medium, probably carved by massive star explosions millions of years ago. The interstellar medium (or ISM) is the matter that exists in the space...
  • Massive Nebula Discovered Enveloping the Red S ...
    The small red circle in the middle is Betelgeuse, a red supergiant in the constellation of Orion, one of the brightest stars in the night sky. with a diameter about four and half times that of the Earth’s orbit. The...
  • Image of the Day: The Most Spectacular Peaks i ...
    Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 17 crewmember on the International Space Station. This view was taken looking east as the station was flying approximately 100 kilometers off the Peruvian coast...
  • The Electric Cosmos --A Current Equal to a Tri ...
    A black-hole jet two billion light years away is carrying the highest electric current ever seen: 1018 amps, equivalent to a trillion bolts of lightning. Philipp Kronberg of the University of Toronto in Canada and colleagues measured the alignment of...
  • Image of the Day -The Brightest Object in the ...
    At the center of this barred spiral galaxy lurks quasar QSO 1229+204 -- an object brighter than anything in the known universe. The distant quasar appears so bright that astronomers had to use the high resolving power of the Hubble...

Natural News

  • Study: Homeopathic remedy helps treat migraine ...
    (NaturalNews) A new study published in the journal Headache has found that a homeopathic preparation of ginger and the medicinal herb feverfew is effective at treating migraine headaches. Based on their findings, researchers found that 63 percent of those who took the remedy at the first signs o ...
  • Chinese man dies after being exposed to indust ...
    (NaturalNews) The Chinese government has sentenced Gao Yanjun, a butcher from the northern city of Jinzhou, to life in prison -- and four others to up to 15 years in prison -- for illegally adding poisonous, industrial-grade nitrates to meat products they sold, in order to enhance their color an ...
  • Corporations are psychopaths - with zero degre ...
    (NaturalNews) Corporations play a big role in our day-to-day activities and they are constantly making decisions that have a profound effect on our daily lives. For example: a corporation makes the decision to empty its chemical vats into a nearby river - the water supply is poisoned and residen ...
  • Peru implements ten-year ban on GMOs
    (NaturalNews) A rarity in the world today, the South American nation of Peru has yet to be contaminated by the import, cultivation, or breeding of any genetically-modified (GM) crops -- at least not openly -- unlike some of its nearby neighbors like Brazil that have openly and willingly accepted ...
  • TEPCO: Stopping melt-through fuel from contami ...
    (NaturalNews) The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), which owns the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility struck by the massive earthquake and tsunami on March 11, has made it abundantly clear that protecting people and the environment from the radioactive fallout of its three mas ...

Threat Level

  • Righthaven Says It Owns News Articles It’s Sui ...
    Copyright troll Righthaven told a federal judge Thursday that it has revised its contract with the Las Vegas Review-Journal to give it full copyright ownership over some of the newspapers’ content. It’s a bid to squelch a legal controversy over whether it has the right to sue bloggers who’ve qu ...
  • LulzSec Releases Arizona Police Documents
    The hacker group LulzSec published 700 confidential documents Thursday apparently stolen from the Arizona Department of Public Safety. LulzSec announced its latest conquest on Twitter and released the document cache through BitTorrent. The files are a mix of intelligence bulletins and presentat ...
  • LulzSec Hacker Says He’s Never Felt Safer
    He’s part of a group that claims to be behind the recent hack attacks against the CIA, U.S. Senate, Sony, Fox, and PBS. If caught, he could face years in prison. But when we chatted with a member of the notorious hacking collective Lulz Security last night, he said he’s not worried about a thin ...
  • $74 Million Scareware Ring Raided
    Authorities in several countries have reportedly busted up parts of a $74 million scareware ring after conducting a series of mulinational raids. The raids, in Latvia, Britain, the United States and several other countries, focused on seizing servers and bank accounts that members of two gangs a ...
  • Hangover Tattoo Infringement Lawsuit Settles
    A Missouri tattooist who claimed Warner Bros. infringed his copyrighted tattoo in The Hangover: Part II settled his lawsuit with the studio Tuesday.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • 10 Things the GOP Doesn't Want You to Know Abo ...
    Just two weeks after he seconded Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's dire warnings about the August 2 deadline to raise the U.S debt ceiling, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor walked out of the budget talks aimed at reaching a bipartisan compromise over deficit reduction. Like Arizona GOP Senator ...
  • Red State Education Rules? Guess Again.
    Seizing on recent rankings of American high schools by Newsweek and the Washington Post, Walter Russell Mead crowed that "blue state education [is] the shame of the nation." Eager for any data point to bash the supposedly high-tax, big government, union-dominated states which generally vote for ...
  • Romney Was for Planned Parenthood Before He Wa ...
    Of all of Mitt Romney's comical flip-flops on the issues, his gymnastic reversal on the abortion rights is the most pathetic. During his 1994 Massachusetts Senate run, Mitt and his wife Ann contributed $150 at a Planned Parenthood event. Eight years later during his race for governor, Romney a ...
  • God Sends a New Messenger from Texas
    As his aides head off to Iowa to assess his prospects for a run at the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, Texas Governor Rick Perry has been hinting that he may be more than just the savior of the Republican Party. After issuing his invitation to the other 49 governors for an August 6 "day of pr ...
  • You Know Mitt Romney Is Out of Touch When...
    I'm also unemployed." Of course, one feeble attempt at humor doesn't make Mitt out of touch; that takes a lifetime of experience. Here are just some of the ways you know Mitt Romney is out of touch: You know Mitt Romney is out of touch when the $250,000,000 son of an auto magnate jokes about ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Socialism: What it is by Caleb T. Maupin
    Dandelion Salad By Caleb T. Maupin www.workers.org June 23, 2011 There has been much media talk about “socialism” since the 2008 financial near-meltdown. From the left, Lawrence O’Donnell, the liberal MSNBC commentator who has replaced Keith Olbermann, calls himself a “socialist.” Film-maker Mic ...
  • Rational Fascism by Michael Parenti (1997)
    by Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.michaelparenti.org June 22, 2011 Excerpted from Chapter 1 of Blackshirts and Reds While walking through New York’s Little Italy, I passed a novelty shop that displayed posters and T-shirts of Benito Mussolini giving the fascist salute. When ...
  • Brainwashing the Corporate Way by John Pilger
    Dandelion Salad by John Pilger Global Research JohnPilger.com June 24, 2011 One of the most original and provocative books of the past decade is Disciplined Minds by Jeff Schmidt (Rowman & Littlefield). “A critical look at salaried professionals,” says the cover, “and the soul-battering system t ...
  • Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould expose the ...
    Dandelion Salad Grailwerk on Jun 2, 2011 Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould expose the official 1980s “narrative” on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan as propaganda created by the MSM to build support for Charlie Wilson’s War. See http://invisiblehistory.com/ for more information. Fitzgerald ...
  • Kucinich: Congress Votes Overwhelmingly Agains ...
    Dandelion Salad by Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich Washington, June 24, 2011 Attention Now Turns to Kucinich-Amash Amendment for Total Cutoff of Funds Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement after the House of Representatives rejected a measure offered by Representat ...

Consortium News

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

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

  • Humanitarian Crisis in the Gaza Strip (IMEU)
    Israel's attacks on a humanitarian aid flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip which left at least 14 civilians dead and dozens more wounded have sparked massive international protests, har ...
  • Bil'in takes down gate of the Apartheid Wall ...
    On Wednesday Israeli troops began dismantling part of the separation barrier around Bil'in, four years after Israel's Supreme Court ruled that it significantly impinged on the property rights of Palestinian landowners. The Israeli military ignored the 2007 ruling and continued to protect the ori ...
  • Alice Walker: Why I'm joining the Freedom Flot ...
    Our boat, The Audacity of Hope, will be carrying letters to the people of Gaza. Letters expressing solidarity and love. That is all its cargo will consist of. If the Israeli military ...
  • Israel to toughen Palestinian prisoner conditi ...
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that Israel would harden conditions for Palestinians in Israeli jails to pressure Hamas to release captured Israeli soldier Gil ...
  • A moment before boarding the next flotilla (G ...
    You might wonder what would motivate a Jewish American college student to participate in what may be the most celebrated - and controversial - sea voyage of the 21st century, one that ...

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

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

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

Climate

  • Shell Gets $873 Million for Canadian CO2 Project
    Source:� Reuters Royal Dutch Shell said the governments of Alberta and Canada have agreed to contribute $873 million toward the cost of a carbon capture and storage project at its Scotford oil sands upgrader.
  • Staff Criticize Nuclear Regulator for Halting ...
    Source:� New York Times Nuclear Regulatory Commission workers told a House subcommittee that they were frustrated by a decision to halt their evaluation of a nuclear waste site.
  • EPA Sets Timeline for Controversial Air Pollut ...
    Source:� The Hill The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday that it plans to complete revised air toxics standards for industrial boilers by the end of April 2012.
  • House Lawmakers Float Bill to Delay, Alter EPA ...
    Source:� The Hill A group of Republicans and Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee introduced legislation aimed at delaying and altering EPA rules to curb air pollution from boilers.
  • Electric Car Maker Think Files for Bankruptcy
    Source:� Earth2Tech Think's lithium-ion battery partner Ener1 revealed in a filing that after failing to raise the funding it needed, Think plans to file bankruptcy proceedings in the Norwegian courts.

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

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

Booman Tribune

  • Celebrity Death in My Backyard
    The big news around here this week was the death of local celebrity and star of the Jackass movie franchise, Ryan Dunn. I have not seen any of the Jackass movies and generally disliked the television show because it made me worry that my stepsons would get hurt emulating their reckless behavior ...
  • Newt Gingrich and Jim Crow Lite
    Newt Gingrich thinks it was a mistake for Sarah Palin and Rudy Guiliani to mock Barack Obama's experience as a community organizer because it made Obama's radicalism seem trivial and "Obama is not a trivial person." "Obama is the most serious radical threat to traditional America ever to oc ...
  • Stupid Republicans
    With a new Gallup poll showing the public is already tired of our "support role" in Libya, the House Republicans are poised to issue a rebuke to the president and pass a bill that will cut off funds for drone strikes. The bill will not be passed in the Senate and, thus, will not become law, so ...
  • Kansas Takes Lead in War on Women
    In the war on women Indiana may be outpaced by Kansas. In fact, it is not unlikely that Kansas will soon be the only state in the country where literally no one will perform a legal, safe abortion. And that's just fine with Gov. Sam Brownback and the Kansas legislature. The way they are a ...
  • Right toLife? How about a State's Right to St ...
    I was born in North Carolina. I'm 2 years younger than Elaine Riddick, who after she was raped and bore the rapist's child, was deemed "promiscuous" by the state of North Carolina and was ordered to be sterilized: My guess is that many of the same people who opposed abortion in 1968 also ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
    A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up Happy first official weekend of Summer! We hope this week’s news provides you some good beginning summer reading :-) Biology Behind Urban Anxiety Panic May be Delayed after Stressful Event Youth Cybercrime Linked to Friends’ Influence Do Kids ...
  • How to Tell Young Children about a Parent’s Cancer
    By Norma Lee M.A., M.D., Cancer Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Norma and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile “Ellen” is six years old. Her mother has stage four breast cancer, which she has been living with for a couple of years. However, her health is starting to decline. She is ...
  • Neurofeedback as a Treatment for Traumatized M ...
    By Traci Stein, PhD, MPH Complementary & Alternative Medicine Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Traci and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile As we prepare to celebrate our country’s upcoming Independence Day, it seems appropriate to speak about a complementary and alternative medici ...
  • Depression after Stroke Can Lead to Loss of In ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Strokes are more common among the elderly than the young, and many people who suffer a stroke may also have other pre-existing health conditions. But when those same people develop depression after experiencing a stroke, their risk of becoming dependent on others ...
  • Working Memory May Influence Cognitive Therapy
    Experts have long thought that a person’s working memory is limited to remembering only four things. But a new study by researchers at MIT suggests that the brain can actually process different amounts of things with both the right and left hemisphere. They hope their findings may affect “heads ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Outrage: As Mountaintop Removal Linked to Birt ...
    USA Today Outrage: As Mountaintop Removal Linked to Birth Defects, Politicians Gut Clean ... Huffington Post (blog) I just can't stop thinking about a new scientific study published this week that found there are "significantly higher" rates of birth defects near mountaintop removal coal mining ...
  • Local men join march against mountaintop coal ...
    Chicagoist Local men join march against mountaintop coal removal Times Record BRUNSWICK � Everett �Brownie� Carson invokes powerful imagery when describing mountaintop removal operations, in which coal companies use explosives to crown mountains and access the resources inside. ... The lessons ...
  • Save Blair Mountain - The Ledger
    Save Blair Mountain The Ledger Thanks for the insightful June 21 editorial regarding the fight to save Blair Mountain, W. Va., from mountaintop-removal strip mining ["Energy Conservation: Miners' Steps Retraced"]. It has turned 300 peaks, and much of that once-beautiful state into a ...
  • Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining: The National ...
    Eureka! Science News Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining: The National Research Council Should Investigate Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) In 2009, Dr. Margaret Palmer of the University of Maryland's Center for Environmental Science brought together a distinguished group of the nation's le ...
  • What mountaintop removal may tell us about the ...
    What mountaintop removal may tell us about the value of labor radicalism The League of Ordinary Gentlemen If you're not sure where I'm going with this, I've got two words for you: mountaintop removal. For reasons of both self-preservation (MTR requires far less workers than traditional undergro ...

Memeorandum

  • New York governor signs same-sex marriage bill ...
    CNN: New York governor signs same-sex marriage bill into law  —  Albany, New York (CNN) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the state's marriage equality bill hours after it passed the Republican-controlled Senate on Friday night, making it the sixth state in the nation to legalize same-sex ma ...
  • Despite vote, majority of Congressmen want to ...
    Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy: Despite vote, majority of Congressmen want to defund the Libya war  —  Obama administration officials are claiming a partial victory today because the House rejected a measure to defund the Libya war, even after rejecting a separate measure that would have authoriz ...
  • Bachmann Takes Swipe At Romney On Abortion (Jo ...
    Jordan Howard / The Huffington Post: Bachmann Takes Swipe At Romney On Abortion … WASHINGTON — Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said Friday that the 2012 elections was not the time for Republicans to nominate someone with a wavering record on abortion, alluding to one of her competitors in the r ...
  • New York legislators approve same-sex marriage ...
    Mary Snow / CNN: New York legislators approve same-sex marriage  —  Albany, New York (CNN) — New York's Republican-controlled legislature cleared the way Friday to legalize same-sex marriage with a 33-to-29 vote, sending the bill to the governor's desk for his approval.  —  The vote came after ...
  • Gay marriage legal in New York State after Sen ...
    NY Daily News: Gay marriage legal in New York State after Senate passes historic bill 33-29  —  ALBANY - New York made history last night as the State Senate voted “aye” on gay marriage.  —  Senators passed the bill 33 to 29 as the normally somnolent chambers erupted in a raucous chant of “USA ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

China Dialogue

  • Kyoto coma
    As we start the six-month countdown to climate-change talks in Durban, Yang Fuqiang and Ang Li ask if there is any hope left for the existing treaty to tackle global emissions.On June 18, the second round of 2011’s UN climate-change negotiations ended in Germany. As the talks drew to a close, th ...
  • Japan’s toxic trials
    As one contamination story draws to a close in the Pacific, another begins. Christine L Marran considers the journey from methylmercury poisoning in the last century to the radiation crisis of today.In March, an exhausting court battle finally ended for over 2,000 victims of mercury poisoning in ...
  • Material concerns in Sichuan (2)
    Concluding his account of Sichuan’s timber struggle, Feng Yongfeng talks to a local official fighting to balance political and environmental commitments in Dege county. Zhang Kelin, head of the Dege Forestry Bureau, is fed up of felling. When I met him he was preparing to go out and plant trees ...
  • Material concerns in Sichuan (1)
    A push to build housing for Tibetan herders is driving logging in Sichuan, where angry locals have taken matters into their own hands. Campaigner Feng Yongfeng gives a view from the ground.Editor's note: in May, chinadialogue reported on a grassroots movement to protect forests in western Sichua ...
  • Playing for keeps
    Solutions to planetary problems could come from a surprising source – the booming world of online games, writes John Elkington.We live in what scientists now call the Anthropocene era, the age when human impacts begin to overwhelm those of all other species. The implication, as long-term environ ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Anti-Union Life at Target
    The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) suffered a rough blow this past Friday when they lost a unionization vote at a Target store on New Yorkâs Long Island. Had the union won, the store would have been the first of more than 1,700 Targets across the country to be organized. As it is, Tar ...
  • White supremacist praises black football playe ...
    Former NY Giants football player David Tyree can count on one person to support his negative stance on gay marriage – a man by the name of James Edwards. For those who don’t know, Edwards is a white supremacist. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center: Edwards, 27, is the host of “The Polit ...
  • “Pfizer’s Neurontin Killed Our Hus ...
    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. What began as “something deeply personal and private” in their lives has become their call for social justice, awareness and “protecting the health ...
  • David Tyree’s statements about gay marri ...
    During a recent anti-marriage equality news conference in New York, Superbowl hero and new NOM spokesman David Tyree said the following: Asked if heâd give up the Super Bowl to stop gay marriage, Tyree said: âHonestly, I probably would.â âNothing means more to me than that my God would be hon ...
  • 5 Myths Atheists Believe about Religion
    Crossposted on Tikkun Daily by Be ScofieldDespite their emphasis on reason, evidence and a desire to see through false truth claims, many atheists hold surprisingly ill-informed beliefs about religion. Many of these myths go unquestioned simply because they serve the purpose of discrediting reli ...

Threat Level

  • Righthaven Says It Owns News Articles It’s Sui ...
    Copyright troll Righthaven told a federal judge Thursday that it has revised its contract with the Las Vegas Review-Journal to give it full copyright ownership over some of the newspapers’ content. It’s a bid to squelch a legal controversy over whether it has the right to sue bloggers who’ve qu ...
  • LulzSec Releases Arizona Police Documents
    The hacker group LulzSec published 700 confidential documents Thursday apparently stolen from the Arizona Department of Public Safety. LulzSec announced its latest conquest on Twitter and released the document cache through BitTorrent. The files are a mix of intelligence bulletins and presentat ...
  • LulzSec Hacker Says He’s Never Felt Safer
    He’s part of a group that claims to be behind the recent hack attacks against the CIA, U.S. Senate, Sony, Fox, and PBS. If caught, he could face years in prison. But when we chatted with a member of the notorious hacking collective Lulz Security last night, he said he’s not worried about a thin ...
  • $74 Million Scareware Ring Raided
    Authorities in several countries have reportedly busted up parts of a $74 million scareware ring after conducting a series of mulinational raids. The raids, in Latvia, Britain, the United States and several other countries, focused on seizing servers and bank accounts that members of two gangs a ...
  • Hangover Tattoo Infringement Lawsuit Settles
    A Missouri tattooist who claimed Warner Bros. infringed his copyrighted tattoo in The Hangover: Part II settled his lawsuit with the studio Tuesday.

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • Opelika Alabama Aquatics Center Splash Park Li ...
    The Alabama Department of Public Health continues its investigation of the E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in Lee County. Six children who played in the Splash Park and Aquatic Center in Opelika between June 12 and June 18 have been identified with severe gastrointestinal illness as of Friday, June 24. ...
  • Evergreen Produce Alfalfa Sprouts Sicken 19 wi ...
    Idaho state public health officials are investigating a number of salmonella cases believed to be connected to the consumption of alfalfa sprouts. The investigation is ongoing and includes 19 ill persons from northern Idaho, eastern Washington and western Montana. Of the persons reported wit ...
  • French Finger British Sprouts as Cause of Yet ...
    With the numbers of deaths (at last count at last 44) still rising in Europe stemming from the German E. coli O104:H4 bean sprout outbreak, and with outbreak illness also tied to Michigan, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, North Carolina, and the probable death of a 65 year old man in Arizona, it is har ...
  • New World-wide E. coli O104:H4 Numbers - As ma ...
    As of a few moments ago, the European Union reports a total of 862 HUS cases, including 30 deaths, and 2,930 non-HUS cases, including 13 deaths (see table for distribution per country) linked to E. coli O104:H4 contaminated organic bean sprouts. Germany reports eight additional HUS cases and tw ...
  • Michigan Herd Share, Raw Milk and Q Fever don' ...
    This morning the Michigan Department of Community Health announced that three people in Livingston County Michigan have been diagnosed with of Q fever after drinking raw milk from a dairy herd share program. All three, women in their 30s or 40s, acknowledged obtaining raw milk from the “as yet ...

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Welcome to Bloombergville: New York Activists ...
    In New York City, members of the group New Yorkers Against Budget Cuts are camping out near City Hall to protest budget cuts and layoffs. Activists have dubbed the encampment "Bloombergville," named after the city’s mayor Michael Bloomberg and "Hooverville," the popular name for the shanty town ...
  • Japan’s Meltdowns Demand New No-Nukes Thinking
    New details are emerging that indicate the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan is far worse than previously known, with three of the four affected reactors experiencing full meltdowns. Meanwhile, in the U.S., massive flooding along the Missouri River has put Nebraska’s two nuclear plants, both ...
  • After Mubarak, Fighting For Press Freedom in E ...
    Under Mubarak, state-owned media was a propaganda arm of the government, parroting party dogma while dismissing public criticism and political opposition. During the eighteen-day uprising that toppled him, state TV tried to downplay the size of the demonstrations, depicting protesters as funded ...
  • TONIGHT Amy Goodman on CNN's John King USA
    Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman appears on CNN’s John King USA tonight, Friday, June 17th, at 7pm EST.
  • War on Drugs: Fast, Furious and Fueled by the U.S.
    The violent deaths of Brian Terry and Juan Francisco Sicilia, separated by the span of just a few months and by the increasingly bloody U.S.-Mexico border, have sparked separate but overdue examinations of the so-called War on Drugs, and how the U.S. government is ultimately exacerbating the pr ...

Digg Green

  • First TV Image of Mars
    A 'real-time data translator' machine converted a Mariner 4 digital image data into numbers printed on strips of paper. Too anxious to wait for the official processed image, employees from the Voyager Telecommunications Section at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, attached these strips side ...
  • Massive Nebula Discovered Enveloping the ...
    Betelgeuse is also one of the biggest known stars, almost the size of the orbit of Jupiter. The VLT image shows the surrounding nebula, which is much bigger than the supergiant itself, stretching 60 billion km away from the star's surface — about 400 times the distance of the Earth from the ...
  • Here Comes the Sun - The Big Picture
    June 21 marked both the summer and winter solstice, the longest or shortest day of the year for sunlight depending on which hemisphere you reside.Here are some glimpses of the power, beauty, and transforming presence of the sun, taken since the beginning of June.
  • Why Red Wine Is So Good For You
    We've all grown up hearing that red wine is sooo good for us. Was it a lie parents told us so they could drink more? Nope, they were right. So what's red wine's little secret? The answer lies in a polyphenol compound known as resveratrol.
  • Science Confirms It: Whining Is The Most ...
    Finally, empirical evidence has arrived that whining is one of the most annoying noises ever. (As if you needed proof.) In fact, childish whining is more distracting than the screech of a high-pitched table saw, according to a new study. To test people's tolerance for various sounds, scient ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • They’re not Crazy, they’re Stark R ...
    By Les Visible I noted that there’s a certain amount of buzz going around concerning an Israeli (is there any other kind) false flag against Germany at the Women’s Soccer Championship, or whatever it’s called. I’ve noted a lot of negative events concerning Germany lately. The idea that someone c ...
  • TSA claims it will soon stop molesting little ...
    by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger NaturalNews) In a policy change announcement, the TSA now claims it will soon stop molesting little children by reaching into their pants and feeling their genitals. That we live in such a police state today where the opening line to a news story even mentions go ...
  • EUobserver / Alarm as EU budget chief question ...
    ANDREW WILLIS EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso is apparently unconcerned that the chief architect of the EU’s forthcoming multi-annual budget has major doubts over the existence of global warming. Environmental groups are sounding alarm bells however, war ...
  • The Intercept: Climate Change Peer-Review Hypo ...
    The mantra of the global warming alarmist is ‘peer-review’. The problem is, it is obvious that the peer-review process has been corrupted. In 2009, Lindzen and Choi published a paper entitled On the Determination of Climate Feedbacks from ERBE Data in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. Th ...
  • Israel vows to stop new Gaza aid flotilla
    Israel’s Navy says it will not allow a new international flotilla of ships to break the blockade on the impoverished Gaza Strip and reached the coastal sliver. Speaking at a ceremony marking the completion of Israeli navy’s submarine training course on Sunday, Navy head Vice Admiral Eliezer Maro ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Inhabitat is Looking for Interns in Los Angeles!
    The June gloom is lifting here in Southern California, and Inhabitat is looking for a few great interns ASAP before the summer sun starts blazing in July. Thatâs right – Inhabitat is looking for interns for the first time on the West Coast, and we hope youâre just as excited as we are to continu ...
  • NewspaperWood: Incredible Furnishings and Prod ...
    Designer Mieke Meijer gives old newspapers a new life as furniture, decorative items, and even jewelry! Her NewspaperWood material is made from stacks and stacks of discarded newspapers, and it can be cut, milled and sanded just like regular wood – it even has the look of wood grain from the new ...
  • Lucerne’s Clever Street Decals Make Taking Out ...
    New York City could definitely take a cue from Lucerne when it comes to getting its citizens to properly dispose of their trash. To discourage residents tossing their empty cups and wrappers on the streets and sidewalks, the city launched its “Lucerne Shines” program, which rolled out mazes, hop ...
  • San Francisco Bay Trail is Landscaped Using Hi ...
    A continuation of the Bay Trail along the property of the Bay Ship and Yacht Company, this lovely landscape design by Estudio Oca was reflects the history of the site. Relics from the shipping industry function as seating and delineate the borders of the plaza while framing views of the San Fran ...
  • molo’s Nebuta Museum in Japan Wraps Itself in ...
    Read the rest of molo’s Nebuta Museum in Japan Wraps Itself in a Shimmering Ribbon Facade Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Aomori Cityâs Nebuta Festival, Aomori Museum, eco building, green building facade, Japan museum, Japanese building facade, light bending facade, molo design, ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • What You Learned About Static Electricity Is Wrong
    By John Timmer, Ars Technica For many of us, static electricity is one of the earliest encounters we have with electromagnetism, and it’s a staple of high school physics. Typically, it’s explained as a product of electrons transferred in one direction between unlike substances, like glass a ...
  • What You Learned About Static Electricity Is Wrong
    By John Timmer, Ars Technica For many of us, static electricity is one of the earliest encounters we have with electromagnetism, and it’s a staple of high school physics. Typically, it’s explained as a product of electrons transferred in one direction between unlike substances, like glass a ...
  • New Uncontacted Group Confirmed in Brazil
    The Brazilian government has confirmed the existence of a previously unknown group of so-called uncontacted people who have remained isolated from industrial society.
  • Geeky Game Lets You Golf on Saturn’s Moons
    We may someday learn that Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus is a comfortable home for microbial life swimming in subsurface oceans. But it already makes a great par 5. A small company called Diamond Sky Productions, led by Cassini imaging team leader Carolyn Porco, used the Saturn-orbiting spacecraft ...
  • Dinosaurs Had Mammal-Hot Blood
    By Scott Johnson, Ars Technica Unless youâve been fossilized in a cave for the last few decades, you’ve probably heard about the debate over whether dinosaurs were coldblooded or warmblooded. Researchers have attacked this question using computer modeling to determine things like body mass and ...

PakAlert

  • 10 Real Flying Saucer Designs That Were Made H ...
    Flying saucers are generally associated with UFOs, with that "U" in there standing for "unidentified." But the saucer shape isn't just limited to aliens from outer space: there are a fair number of entirely identified terrestrial aircraft that utilize a more or less circular and saucery design. ...
  • 5 Places Not To Be When Dollar Collapses
    The dollar collapse will be the single largest event in human history. This will be the first event that will touch every single living person in the world. All human activity is controlled by money. Our wealth,our work,our food,our government,even our relationships are affected by money. No mon ...
  • UK False Flag Forecast Summer 2011
    The often unspoken and officially unspeakable fear overhanging Europe this summer is that Israel will carry out a new 9/11 attack against it. The announcement last month that Interpol had created a nuclear terror unit inspired more fear than faith. London intelligence insiders, speaking on co ...
  • Why Are Food Prices Rising So Fast?
    If you do much grocery shopping, you have probably noticed that the cost of food has been rising at a very brisk pace over the past year. So why are food prices rising so fast? According to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, inflation is still very low and the economy is improving. So wha ...
  • The Ugly Truth: Videos Of Libyan Rebel Beheadi ...
    These videos look awfully like Al Qaeda to me. But don’t take my word for it. Look at the evidence and decide for yourself. A warning: these videos are extremely graphic and horrific.

Andy Worthington

  • The Revolution Reaches Europe: Tens of Thousan ...
    The revolutionary movement that began in Tunisia at the end of last year has now sparked mass movements in Europe; principally, to date, in Greece and Spain. On the surface, these movements have little in common. In Tunisia and Egypt, the people came out in vast numbers to overthrow the hated di ...
  • June 30: A National Day of Action Against the ...
    Next Thursday, June 30, is the first big day of action involving widespread strikes since the coalition government began its miserable assault on the state after the General Election last May. 750,000 public sector workers from the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), the National Union o ...
  • Write to the Forgotten Prisoners in Guantánamo ...
    A year ago, two Facebook friends, Shahrina J. Ahmed and Mahfuja Bint Ammu, drew on my research about Guantánamo for a letter-writing campaign, in which they asked their friends and others on Facebook to volunteer to write to each of the remaining prisoners in Guantánamo. Shahrina announced the l ...
  • Happy Summer Solstice to the Revellers at Ston ...
    This is a bleak summer solstice as far as the weather goes, but no doubt for many of the thousands of revellers at Stonehenge last night (an estimated 18,000 people in total), it was, nevertheless, a memorable occasion, as it remains essentially unprecedented for tens of thousands of people to g ...
  • Rights Groups Tell Obama: Reward Those Who Opp ...
    In a significant gesture in the run-up to the UN International Day in Support of the Victims of Torture, which takes place on June 26, and was inaugurated in 1998, on the 11th anniversary of the ratification of the UN Convention Against Torture, ten human rights groups in the US, including the A ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Fundraising Drive Under Way to Help Jailed Whi ...
    August B. Kreis III, who calls himself the director of the Aryan Nations, will remain in jail in South Carolina unless he can come up with a $50,000 secured bond. A wealthy, elusive racist, who once bought a house for the late Aryan Nations leader Richard Butler, already is heading up an Interne ...
  • News Roundup for June 24, 2011
    Two men have been arrested in a plot to attack a U.S. military recruiting post in Seattle. The men, ex-convicts and Muslim coverts, allegedly planned to take over the post and shoot  military personnel there to gain media attention. Six New York teens charged with murder are now under indictment ...
  • Fox News Uses Hate Group’s Graphic to Illustra ...
    Rumors that migrants attempting to cross the border illegally are the source of Arizona’s wildfires are spreading like, well, wildfire. Never shy about fanning the flames of extremism, Fox News yesterday ran a surveillance photo, created on June 12 by Glenn Spencer, racist head of the anti-immig ...
  • Anti-Muslim Activist Geller Attacks Latest SPL ...
    It didn’t take long, following Tuesday’s release of the Summer 2011 edition of our Intelligence Report magazine, for one of the principal figures profiled in it – professional Muslim hater Pamela Geller – to “warn” the SPLC that she and her allies will continue their efforts to panic Americans i ...
  • Nativists Focus Attacks on Religious Denominations
    In the wake of two recent religious gatherings, anti-immigrant hard-liners are focusing their fire on two major religious faith groups: the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Southern Baptist Convention. The duo’s shared offense? In the past week, both have publicly opposed leg ...

change: org.

  • Victory! New York Passes Marriage Equality Bil ...
    Today is a historic day! New York's Senate passed a bill that will grant the freedom to merry for gays and lesbians! The bill will be signed by Governor Cuomo who lobbied extensively for the passage of the legislation. The law will go into effect 30 days after the bill is signed. New York's prog ...
  • The Cost of Fear: Michigan's $15 Million Breed ...
    This week, Gov. Rick Snyder signed Michigan's 2011-2012 budget into law. The process wasn't pretty — a $1.5 billion shortfall had to be resolved, and in the end, public schools, universities, local governments and key services took a hit. Yet Rep. Tim Bledsoe (D-Grosse Pointe) seems to think it' ...
  • Connect the Dots Coalition Will Rally Tuesday ...
    Former New York police officers Ken Moreno and Franklin Mata were found not guilty on charges related to rape. The verdict's perceived injustice -- felt even by members of the jury themselves -- has given rise to protests over the way the NYPD deals with sexual assault. But the then-officers wer ...
  • Smithfield's Broken Gestation Crate Promise
    Back in 2007, Smithfield, the world's largest pork producer,  said it would phase out the use of gestation crates by 2017. Now the company has gone back on that promise even though it recently boasted record profits. Looks like the behemoth pork producer has no excuse for breaking its promise. S ...
  • Tell Turn Right USA to Pull Ad Attacking L.A. ...
    It’s been called the “most offensive political ad of all time.”  That’s because it takes aim at Los Angeles Councilwoman Janice Hahn’s support of gang intervention programs by portraying her as a booty-shaking stripper performing for black thugs who demand (or rap, rather) that she “give us your ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Bipartisan House Coalition Votes to Rebuke Oba ...
    WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives sent President Barack Obama a strong bipartisan message Friday that it's frustrated and impatient with the U.S. military mission in Libya. The House voted 295 to 123 to deny congressional consent for extending the three-month-old effort for another year, ...
  • Rove-Associated Groups Vow $120 Million In Att ...
    WASHINGTON -- The leaders of two behemoth Karl Rove-associated unlimited donation campaign fundraising groups on Friday promised to spend $120 million against Democrats in the 2012 election cycle, much of it in the form of attack ads. At the same time, the leaders of American Crossroads and Cros ...
  • Nuclear Terrorism Can Cause Another Fukushima: ...
    Global action to protect the nuclear industry against possible terrorist attacks is urgently needed, a leading expert said, as are safety steps to prevent any repeat of Japan's Fukushima accident. "Both al Qaeda and Chechen terrorist groups have repeatedly considered sabotaging nuclear reactors ...
  • New Patriot Act Controversy: Is Washington Col ...
    The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee is weighing fresh concerns about the sweeping nature of domestic spying using one controversial section of the Patriot Act. This particular part of that law is notable because it has been divisive for years — and because during those years President Obama h ...
  • US State Dept. Threatens Activists with 'Fines ...
    The United States on Friday warned activists against plans to send a new aid flotilla to challenge Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip, saying it would be irresponsible and dangerous. "Groups that seek to break Israel's maritime blockade of Gaza are taking irresponsible and provocative actions t ...

Lifehacker

  • Basics of Photography: Editing Images in Post ...
    For our final photography lesson this week, we're going to talk about the final step: editing your images. We'll take a look at different kinds of techniques for color correction, touch ups, and a few other fun effects. More�� ...
  • Dark Wood Desktop [Featured Desktop]
    Today's featured desktop comes from reader Kimberly Zyville, who turned a simple wooden panel into an attractive, informative customization. More��
  • Zetro Brings Windows 8's Metro-Style Interface ...
    Windows: Microsoft's Metro UI, which graces both Windows 8 and Windows Phone, is pretty snazzy, and if you're sick of the Aero look, you can bring the Metro UI to Windows 7 with the Zetro theme. More��
  • MagicPrefs Gives Your MacBook Trackpad (and ot ...
    Mac OS X-only: MagicPrefs lets you create custom gestures (and override existing ones) to provide new multitouch functionality to your Apple input devices. It's like the great Multiclutch, which serves a similar purpose, but with added po ...
  • Daily App Deals: Stay on Top of Important Task ...
    New to Lifehacker, Daily App Deals is a not-quite-quotidian compendium of noteworthy app price drops and discounts. More��

Water Privatization

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

Guardian

  • Syrians pour into Lebanon after Friday protest ...
    Shot people taken to hospital across border after crackdown on demonstrations in Damascus, Homs and AleppoHundreds of Syrians have fled to Lebanon after 20 people were killed in the biggest day of protests against President Bashar al-Assad.Up to 1,000 Syrians escaped through the al-Qusair crossi ...
  • Wimbledon 2011 - day six live! | Paolo Bandini
    �� Hit F5 for the latest or select the auto-refresh button below �� Follow all the latest scores on the official live scoreboard �� The full order of play for Saturday's action at SW19 �� In pictures: our pick of the best images from day six �� Email your thoughts to paolo.bandini@guardian.co.u ...
  • Ed Miliband sets out reform agenda and says: L ...
    Labour leader vows to reform party in order to connect with public � and tells unions next week's strikes are a mistakeEd Miliband today lays out far-reaching reforms designed to modernise Labour's relations with the trade unions, open the party up to the public, and reinvigorate what he describ ...
  • Barack Obama rebuked for Libya action by US Ho ...
    In a primarily symbolic vote, Republican-led House rejects resolution authorising Libya mission � but fails in bid to cut fundsThe Republican-controlled House of Representatives delivered a rare rebuke to Barack Obama over his involvement in the Libyan war on Friday by rejecting a resolution to ...
  • Milly Dowler family: we paid too high a price
    Director of public prosecutions says Bellfield trial raised 'fundamental questions' about all aspects of victim supportThe family of Milly Dowler has attacked the justice system for their "truly horrifying" experience during the trial of the 13-year-old's murderer, Levi Bellfield, saying that th ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

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

The Wonk Room

  • New York Passes Same Sex Marriage Bill: Popula ...
    Moments ago, in a vote of 33 to 29, the New York Senate passed a marriage equality bill, thereby doubling the number of Americans living in a state where gay and lesbian people can marry. The measure will take effect 30 days after Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) — who prioritized marriage equality ear ...
  • Christie Defends Berating Constituent For Aski ...
    On the Today Show this morning, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) defended his belittling of a constituent who asked the governor if he sends his kids to private or public school. Christie has slashed public education spending so severely that the state Supreme Court overruled him. However, whe ...
  • New York Assembly Passes Same Sex Marriage Ame ...
    @NYSenate just tweeted “To our followers, the Assembly just passed the #SSM amendment. Vote tally: 82-47.” The amendments, which are available here, exempt organizations affiliated with religious institutions from recognizing same-sex marriages. The Senate is expected to take up the whole bill l ...
  • Federal Judge Halts Indiana’s Planned Pa ...
    Via the Indy Star: “A federal judge has halted enforcement of a law cutting off funding to Planned Parenthood of Indiana and other entities that provide abortions. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt on Friday night means Planned Parenthood, which stopped serving its 9,300 Medic ...
  • An African-American ‘Annie’ And Bl ...
    I approach remakes with a healthy distrust, but for reasons of policy and politics, I’m actually fairly intrigued by the prospects of the proposed remake of Annie. The project on the table sounds kind of deeply strange and wonderful, if it happens. Will Smith is apparently negotiating with Emma ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Shorter TPS G20 Report ...
    "We were overwhelmed by the number of heads that threw themselves at our truncheons." Whatever. Jerks.
  • The Afghan Document Dump
    Big fucking deal. The Liberals and the harpercons (who both have blood on their hands) sat with some BQ dude who was sworn to secrecy, and filtered all the documents from Afghanistan to remove any incriminating evidence before passing what got through the filter to a bunch of judges who then rel ...
  • Song For Taleb
    Too vurshens to! "Sniff!"
  • Posting Duties
    Enjoy ... .. I sure as shit do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • Belated Thoughts on the Vancouver Hockey Riot
    I remember way back in 1986 or 1987, when the Hamilton Tiger-Cats won the coveted Grey Cup (and the whole world cheered). I was living in London, Ontario at the time and I could only chuckle at watching the news that in response to the win a bunch of goofs went downtown and trashed the place. My ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Mayor welcomes Indian superstar Shahrukh Khan ...
    Toronto Mayor Rob Ford welcomed Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan to the city Friday. The International India Film Academy (IIFA) awards celebrate its North American premiere with a variety of festivities, special events and interviews.
  • Sex Quest game launches on Facebook
    Canadians have a new game on Facebook to learn about sex in a fun new way. The trivia game presents sex in a positive way says Dr. Amanda Black of the SOGC's Contraception Awareness Program Working Group.
  • The music of pots and pans in Toronto
    Wind chimes or pealing bells? Neither. The sounds are from pots and pans. Yes, musicians Lucas and Maria are making beautiful music with the use of old aluminum pots and pans probably stashed from their kitchen.
  • International Space Station to stream HD broad ...
    UrtheCast, a Calgary-based company, is set to operate and launch the world's very first live streaming high definition broadcast of Earth. Two HD cameras will be installed aboard the International Space Station.
  • Toronto's UNITY Charity holds Kickoff Festival ...
    The UNITY Festival Kickoff concert July 10 at Yonge-Dundas Square in downtown, Toronto promises an afternoon of Canada's most talented bboys and bgirls, poppers, beat-boxers, spoken word artists and artistic expression.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Layton, Harris criticize timing of document dump
    Opposition leader Jack Layton has accused the Harper government of taking a “very cynical” approach in its release of documents on the Afghan detainee file. The release of 4000 pages worth of documents came just as MPs are gearing down for summer recess. â[The Government] chose a date that will ...
  • Green Party’s Elizabeth May only dissenter to ...
    Elizabeth May stood alone in Parliament last week in opposing extension of the military mission in Libya, resulting in a vote of 294 in favour and 1 opposed (Jane Taber, Why Elizabeth May refuses to be a rubber stamp in the commons, Globe and Mail, 15 June 2011).  Defence Minister Peter MacKay a ...
  • Ceasefire.ca Members’ survey results on Libya ...
    I support Canada’s military mission in Libya and think it should be extended. (1806 responses)
  • Challenging Canada’s involvement in Libya: New ...
    As the House of Commons debated extending Canada’s military presence in Libya this week, the Rideau Institute garnered media attention by calling for clarity in the purpose and methods of the mission, and by providing an alternative estimate of the cost of the war that suggests the Conservative ...
  • Sign the petition! – Stop Bombing Lybia
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Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Pambazuka News

  • Haiti: Letter from Jean-Bertrand Aristide
    Dear Friends, May the spirit of International Day in Solidarity with the Haitian People continue to spread! If the more than 10,000 people killed in the 18 months that followed the February 29, 2004 coup d’état could speak, what would they say? Woul...
  • Haitian: Protest brutal attack on street vend ...
    On Saturday, April 11th, a little past 3 p.m., a MINUSTAH (UN) soldier, Nigerian Cpl. Nagya Aminu, was shot and killed in downtown Port-au-Prince. While this killing was widely reported in the international media, what followed the killing was not. I...
  • Haiti: Lula visit prompts protests in Brazil, ...
    Demonstrators in many Brazilian cities and San Francisco denounced Brazil's brutal 4-year military occupation of Haiti -- on the occasion of the May 28th visit to Haiti by Brazilian President Luiz Lula da Silva, marking the 4th anniversary of the arr...
  • Haiti: Women and girls require life-saving ass ...
    More than 800,000 people are in dire need of humanitarian assistance in Haiti in the wake of hurricanes Fay and Gustav and tropical storm Hanna. Houses, medical facilities, main roads and bridges have been destroyed, and an estimated 100,000 people h...
  • USA: Uhuru movement endorses McKinney/Clemente ...
    The International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) has endorsed the McKinney/Clemente ticket in the U.S. presidential race. The endorsement was based on the support that Green Party V.P. candidate Rosa Clemente’s expressed for InPDUM’s “Re...

War in Context

  • Anti-Flotilla video fraud linked to PM Netanya ...
    Max Blumenthal writes: As the new Free Gaza flotilla prepares to sail to Gaza, a suspicious video has emerged by an unknown “gay rights activist” claiming that he was rejected by the flotilla activists because of his sexuality. The anonymous activist, who had no previous online history, produce ...
  • With the Gaza aid flotilla
    Joseph Dana writes from Athens: Amid the economic and social upheaval of Greece’s beleaguered capital city, where demonstrators have been protesting government-imposed austerity measures, forty activists from across the United States began training this week to nonviolently confront the Israeli ...
  • Message to Obama from the Gaza-bound ship Auda ...
    On June 14, the passengers on The Audacity of Hope sent this letter to Pres. Obama. Copies went to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and 12 members of the Administration and Congressional leadership. Call the White House – 202-456-1111 – and tell them you agree with the letter and expect the U.S. ...
  • Bahrain stability in jeopardy
  • U.S. ‘concerned’ at Syria border move
    Al Jazeera reports: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that her country is concerned by reports that Syria is massing troops near the border with Turkey, which could escalate the crisis in the region, and is discussing the issue with Turkish officials. Clinton said the reported mov ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Bring it, Mr. Wirth – a challenge
    Former Senator Tim Wirth invoked the nuclear option yesterday. Small mushroom clouds are now appearing across the world as people read what he said. This is my response to him. It will remain the top post for the next few … Continue reading →
  • Run Away! The “Anthropocene” is c ...
    Guest Post by David Middleton I just love it when the authors of these sorts of articles start out with a series of mistakes… The Anthropocene: Can Humans Survive A Human Age? by Adam Frank About 12,000 years ago (give … Continue reading →
  • The supremes recommend the supreme skeptic
    What better endorsement could skeptics ask for? – Anthony by Lawrence Solomon in the Financial Post The justices of the United States Supreme Court this week became the worldâs most august global warming sceptics. Not by virtue of their legal … Continue reading →
  • Friday Funny – Zombie sea level sticks
    Josh writes: For Michael Mann’s use of the Hockey Stick in the sea level paper – an obscure cinematic reference. Well yes, but then isn’t that kind of appropriate? Hint: The person in the trenchcoat is “Willis”
  • El Niño – a global warming survivor
    From the AGU Weekly highlights: El NiñoâSouthern Oscillation variability persisted in warmer world Changes in the distribution of sea surface temperature associated with the El NiñoâSouthern Oscillation (ENSO) cause significant changes in weather. In the past 40 years it has … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Socialism: What it is by Caleb T. Maupin
    Dandelion Salad By Caleb T. Maupin www.workers.org June 23, 2011 There has been much media talk about “socialism” since the 2008 financial near-meltdown. From the left, Lawrence O’Donnell, the liberal MSNBC commentator who has replaced Keith Olbermann, calls himself a “socialist.” Film-maker Mic ...
  • Socialism: What it is by Caleb T. Maupin
    Dandelion Salad By Caleb T. Maupin www.workers.org June 23, 2011 There has been much media talk about “socialism” since the 2008 financial near-meltdown. From the left, Lawrence O’Donnell, the liberal MSNBC commentator who has replaced Keith Olbermann, calls himself a “socialist.” Film-maker Mic ...
  • Rational Fascism by Michael Parenti (1997)
    by Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.michaelparenti.org June 22, 2011 Excerpted from Chapter 1 of Blackshirts and Reds While walking through New York’s Little Italy, I passed a novelty shop that displayed posters and T-shirts of Benito Mussolini giving the fascist salute. When ...
  • Rational Fascism by Michael Parenti (1997)
    by Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.michaelparenti.org June 22, 2011 Excerpted from Chapter 1 of Blackshirts and Reds While walking through New York’s Little Italy, I passed a novelty shop that displayed posters and T-shirts of Benito Mussolini giving the fascist salute. When ...
  • Brainwashing the Corporate Way by John Pilger
    Dandelion Salad by John Pilger Global Research JohnPilger.com June 24, 2011 One of the most original and provocative books of the past decade is Disciplined Minds by Jeff Schmidt (Rowman & Littlefield). “A critical look at salaried professionals,” says the cover, “and the soul-battering system t ...

Your New Reality

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    The Tsunami Is Here, But Don't Forget To Close Your Car Door When You Run What can you say while watching this video of the Japanese tsunami, shot from inside a car, except Holy Fucking Shit! Just extraordinary, in a world filled with cameras, we are seeing the reality of natural disasters like ...
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    JK Rowling Will Be First Author To Earn $1 Billion From E-Books By Darryl Mason UPDATE : Since the story below was posted, JK Rowling has held a press conference and announced the following : * She won't be writing an eighth Harry Potter novel, saying, "I do have closure with Harry. I have no ...
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    Almost 1 million views on YouTube in a handful of days for a professor explaining in two minutes some of the biggest problems with the American economy? Who said there isn't an audience for the truth?
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    Nice slideshow of 30 years of front covers from UK hard rock/metal magazine Kerrang! The early covers are better. December 1993 : April 1994 : The Rest Of The Kerrang! Front Covers Are Here
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    She Doesn't Exist, Except In A Hard Drive Just how convincing are CGHs (computer generated humans) becoming? This convicing : This girl has never breathed, has never seen the sun, has no parents, no presence in our reality, except as a computer generated image. Stunning. Just downright stun ...

Wired - Science

  • What You Learned About Static Electricity Is Wrong
    By John Timmer, Ars Technica For many of us, static electricity is one of the earliest encounters we have with electromagnetism, and it’s a staple of high school physics. Typically, it’s explained as a product of electrons transferred in one direction between unlike substances, like glass a ...
  • What You Learned About Static Electricity Is Wrong
    By John Timmer, Ars Technica For many of us, static electricity is one of the earliest encounters we have with electromagnetism, and it’s a staple of high school physics. Typically, it’s explained as a product of electrons transferred in one direction between unlike substances, like glass a ...
  • New Uncontacted Group Confirmed in Brazil
    The Brazilian government has confirmed the existence of a previously unknown group of so-called uncontacted people who have remained isolated from industrial society.
  • Geeky Game Lets You Golf on Saturn’s Moons
    We may someday learn that Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus is a comfortable home for microbial life swimming in subsurface oceans. But it already makes a great par 5. A small company called Diamond Sky Productions, led by Cassini imaging team leader Carolyn Porco, used the Saturn-orbiting spacecraft ...
  • Dinosaurs Had Mammal-Hot Blood
    By Scott Johnson, Ars Technica Unless youâve been fossilized in a cave for the last few decades, you’ve probably heard about the debate over whether dinosaurs were coldblooded or warmblooded. Researchers have attacked this question using computer modeling to determine things like body mass and ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • US Boat to Gaza: passenger video statements
    U.S. Boat to Gaza passengers recorded short personal statements on who they are and why they chose to participate in the upcoming Freedom Flotilla 2. Israel has described Gaza Flotilla participants... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Human Rights Watch: Israel, halt home demolitions
    Israel should end discriminatory policies that have forcibly displaced hundreds of West Bank Palestinian residents from their homes, Human Rights Watch said today. In demolition operations on June 14... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Noam Chomsky: The West is terrified of Arab de ...
    Both Bush and Obama are terrified of the Arab spring. And there is a very sensible reason for that. They don’t want democracies in the Arab world. If Arab public opinion had any influence on policy,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: Selling Israeli militarism li ...
    On Wednesday, 22 June 2011, Israel held the largest war exercise in its history. The Real News' Lia Tarachansky interviewed Rela Mazali, the founder of New Profile, an organization working to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
  • US Boat to Gaza: passenger video statements
    U.S. Boat to Gaza passengers recorded short personal statements on who they are and why they chose to participate in the upcoming Freedom Flotilla 2. Israel has described Gaza Flotilla participants... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • 13th "We Believe in Miracles" Reunion to Take ...
    The 13th "We Believe in Miracles" reunion will take place at NYU Langone Medical Center on Sunday, June 26th. The NYU Division of Neonatology of will celebrate, as it has since 1992, the success of children treated at NYU Langone's Tisch Hospital and Bellevue Hospital Center.
  • Mayo Clinic Developing Artificial Pancreas to ...
    The 25.8 million Americans who have diabetes may soon be free of finger pricks and daily insulin dosing.
  • South African PhD Student to Bring Hope Home
    Like Michelle Obama, who is spreading words of hope in South Africa this week, Taile Leswifi, a South African graduate student in environmental engineering at Michigan Tech, plans to bring education and a shot at a better life home to her people.
  • South Dakota Study Suggests Ag Land Values Are ...
    Agricultural land values are booming again in the Northern Great Plains, if a South Dakota study is any indication. The latest study from South Dakota State University economists suggests South Dakota land values charted a 16.5 percent increase in 2010-2011.
  • New Form of Drug Shows Promise for Postoperati ...
    An essential aspect of oral surgery is controlling the patient's pain following a procedure. The goal is to relieve pain and promote a rapid recovery, without opioid side effects. An initial study shows that Dyloject, a new intravenous form of the drug diclofenac, has promise for achieving these ...

Natural Health News

  • Radiation Risk: Are Some Cellphones More Dange ...
    In May, a branch of the World Health Agency called the International Agency for Research on Cancer declared cellphone radiation "possibly carcinogenic to humans." �Now, some scientists are saying that certain types of cellphones could be more potentially carcinogenic than others. There is accum ...
  • What are the Best and Worst Foods for Healthy ...
    A new study suggests that when it comes to your weight, the quality of your food may matter more than the calorie count. �In a comprehensive study, researchers determined exactly how much weight gain is associated with the consumption of certain foods. The worst offenders were potato chips, whi ...
  • Has this Chemical Destroyed the Meaning of Org ...
    Perchlorate is a pollutant and powerful endocrine disruptor that is a key ingredient in rocket fuel.� It can now be found in virtually all humans tested, and it continually makes its way up the food chain through ground and drinking water, into feed and edible plants, animal products, milk and b ...
  • Hidden Documents Reveal CDC Fluoride Support C ...
    Documents released under the Freedom of Information Act show that since the 1970�s, the dental health professionals in the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have completely controlled the agency�s stance supporting water fluoridation. �No CDC toxicologists, minority health professionals, experts ...
  • Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom
    An impossibly adorable assortment.

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • The CMCR Invents the “War Crime” of Material S ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Earlier today, the U.S. Court of Military Commission Review (CMCR) held in U.S. v. Hamdan that material support for terrorism is a war crime and thus within the jurisdiction of the military commissions.  The decision represents the apotheosis of the US ...
  • New Rules for Cyberwar?
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis More than a decade ago, the U.S. Defense Department’s Office of General Counsel (DoD OGC) released a detailed analysis of the way international law would operate to guide U.S. military activity in cyberspace.  It was an impressive effort and is still worth r ...
  • O’Connell on Defining “Hostilities”
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford My future Notre Dame colleague Mary Ellen O’Connell joins the fray criticizing Harold Koh’s crabbed definition of hostilities. Here’s a taste: Harold Koh, legal adviser to the U.S. State Department, attempted to convince Congress on June 15 that the “limited ...
  • Let’s Not Confuse War Powers with the War Powe ...
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro The controversy over the Administration’s interpretation of the War Powers Resolution has some people conflating that issue with the broader one of when the President can use force without congressional authorization. This isn’t surprising, since the Administrati ...
  • Deadline Extended for Submissions for ASIL 201 ...
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen If you had been thinking about submitting a paper or a panel proposal for the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law but had missed the deadline, despair not!  The deadline has been extended to this Friday, June 24th.  The webpage f ...

Public News Service

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

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • En foro de la ONU una mapuche pone en su lugar ...
    En foro de la ONU una mapuche pone en su lugar a Bachelet | Patria Grande: "Was completely dislodging the former president of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, when exhibited at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, on discrimination against women at work, when the Community Lonko John Paillalef ...
  • Rhett A. Butler: Brazil's shame
    Brazil's shame: Brazil's shame Commentary by Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com June 03, 2011 "As an American I know a lot about shame — the U.S. government and American companies have wrought appalling amounts of damage the world over. But as an admirer of Brazil's recent progress toward an econ ...
  • Letter to Steve Jobs � Arab Rhizome
    Letter to Steve Jobs � Arab Rhizome: Very late last night we got the news that the Apple had caved to pressure from the israeli government to remove from the App Store an App called ThirdIntifada. I’m not going to go into the details of the pressure here you can read all about it in this article ...
  • Eaglemanz Communiques: Cobell Settlement: A kn ...
    Eaglemanz Communiques: Cobell Settlement: A knife in our backs: "“Real justice for these Indians may still lie in the distant future; it may never come at all. This reality makes a statement about our society and our form of government that we should be unwilling to let stand.” Judge Royce Lambe ...
  • Robert Lovelace is an Algonquin presence with ...
    Robert Lovelace is an Algonquin presence with the Freedom Flotilla | rabble.ca An open letter: There is an unwritten rule that Aboriginal people in Canada should not take our grievances with Canada outside of national borders. Most of us have grown up to respect the principle of "keeping it in ...

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Green Times

  • You and yourself
      Just like your body, your soul needs to be fed. You can train your mind and cultivate an calm state internal just by practicing some activities like yoga, martial arts or just by doing a retreat in an amazingly wild environment. Moreover, meditation (lifestyle/meditation.html ) develops hu ...
  • Give Earth a Hand
    Watch. Be Aware. And Lend a Hand. Such a beautiful illustration of what many hands can do – and NO WORK involved! :) Watch. Be Aware. And Lend a Hand. In order to ensure environmental preservation, check out the Non Profit Organisations in the Green Times Business Directory.
  • Environmental News 24/06/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Fish your life
      Eating fish is healthy and tasty. Enriched with omega-3 and phosphorus it allows you to develop your brain abilities, keep your heart healthy, have a lower cholesterol rate, and improve your mood. But to keep eating healthy fish, don't forget to preserve our environment (climate-change/envir ...
  • Project Eden – and the return of the Chuditch
    Many Australians have never heard of a chuditch (Dasyurus geoffroii) – also known as the western quoll – let alone had the opportunity to see …

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Schivone: A Moment Before Boarding the Next Fl ...
    Crossposted from Ha’aretz A moment before boarding the next flotilla Iâd rather use my influence and power, in concert with other members of American civil society, to actively and nonviolently resist policies I consider abominable. By Gabriel Matthew Schivone You might wonder what would ...
  • Bil’in VIllagers to move the wall themselves
    After the Israeli military finally began to move the wall after a Supreme Court decision and 2 years of protest, the village of Bil’in will take matters into their own hands again tomorrow. Popular Struggle has the information on the protest here. Bil’in Demonstrators to Take Down the Wall ...
  • Gaza Freedom Flotilla 2 getting ready to sail
    Here’s a video of two of the activists aboard, courtesy of Democracy Now! The Only Democracy? will bring you posts from Gabe Schivone, a Jewish Voice for Peace member aboard the “Audacity of Hope.” Here he is being interviewed by the Arizona Republic about his globe-spanning border activism. A ...
  • Palestinian imprisoned for flashing the peace sign
    From the Occupied Palestine blog comes this report of another nonviolent activist arrested. Khaled Zawahre’s military hearing has concluded delayed ruling until Sunday they will either release him or keep him in custody for 101 days. We want to ask your support to keep sharing this informatio ...
  • Top 10 Reasons why Rafah opening doesn’t ...
    From Gisha’s Gaza Gateway, more on the inadequacy of the new Rafah Crossing rules on the Egypt-Gaza border. The top 10 reasons why the opening of Rafah Crossing just doesnât cut it In no particular order of importance, we thought weâd list some of the reasons why the opening of Rafah, while si ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Deep Ecology versus Ecosocialism
    Ian Angus at Climate and Capitalism says deep ecology is not compatible with ecosocialism and is “anti-human” at core as well as being politically and morally bankrupt. He cites an article by deep ecology advocate Saral Sarkar who says Bolivia must allow large tracts to land to become wilderness ...
  • Deep Ecology versus Ecosocialism
    Ian Angus at Climate and Capitalism says deep ecology is not compatible with ecosocialism and is “anti-human” at core as well as being politically and morally bankrupt. He cites an article by deep ecology advocate Saral Sarkar who says Bolivia must allow large tracts to land to become wilderness ...
  • Girls Guns and Glory at Groovefest
    Girls Guns and Glory just performed at the 11th annual Groovefest in Cedar City UT, which features two days of bands in the park for free. GGG is hard-edged Americana with some Hank and near rockbilly tossed into the mix too, which makes for some really good music.
  • Attention solar power aficionados, 1 GW is not ...
    Treehugger profiles CleanPath, an investment firm with a new $800 million fund that plans to finance 1 gigawatt of solar in the US in the next 5-8 years. While this is certainly laudable, it is absolutely not – much as Treehuggger would like it to be – “large-scale solar power.” 1 GW is 1,000 me ...
  • Polizeros podcast. Afghanistan pseudo-withdraw ...
    On last night’s podcast, I announced that CAIVN will be running a series on in-depth articles on the California prison mess. The series kicks off on Monday with an introductory article (I’ll repost it here) discussing the multitude of issues.  These includes the Supreme Court ruling that Califo ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Texas: Anti TSA groping Bill Derailed AGAIN!
    Straus Calls TSA Bill “Publicity Stunt” Texas Tribune Enlargephoto by: Bob Daemmrich House Speaker Joe Straus talks to members prior to a debate on HB15 the sonogram bill on March 2, 2011 Updated 3:40 p.m.: Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst issued a statement this afternoon saying the Senate will try to p ...
  • Texas: Anti TSA groping Bill Derailed AGAIN!
    Straus Calls TSA Bill “Publicity Stunt” Texas Tribune Enlargephoto by: Bob Daemmrich House Speaker Joe Straus talks to members prior to a debate on HB15 the sonogram bill on March 2, 2011 Updated 3:40 p.m.: Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst issued a statement this afternoon saying the Senate will try to p ...
  • Violence erupts at U2 Concert as Socialists tu ...
      Ed Note: First  bad investments. Then a major Broadway catastrophe with “Spiderman”, now this… Maybe karma does exist after all. Madonna, Your next! Tom Morgan SMH June 25, 2011 – 11:22AM Adam Clayton, Bono Larry Mullen Jr and The Edge of U2 perform at the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm, ...
  • Violence erupts at U2 Concert as Socialists tu ...
      Ed Note: First  bad investments. Then a major Broadway catastrophe with “Spiderman”, now this… Maybe karma does exist after all. Madonna, Your next! Tom Morgan SMH June 25, 2011 – 11:22AM Adam Clayton, Bono Larry Mullen Jr and The Edge of U2 perform at the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm, ...
  • Hezbollah Says Members Confess to Spying for CIA
    Antiwar.com Jason Ditz In an unusual move, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah today claimed that his organization had been infiltrated successfully by the CIA, and that they had uncovered two members who confessed to CIA ties. He also claimed a third was linked to some as yet unidentified spy age ...

The Air Vent

  • The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
    Lubos Motl has an interesting and well written post on the recent supreme court CO2 decision.  He looks at it from the angle of how a government should function and the constant pressures faced to hold the outside influence of groups with an agenda  from corrupting it to a narrow minded advantage.
  • Nothing to Gain! Hansengate takes off.
    We are constantly told that climate scientists gain nothing for their work.  There are no incentives, yet often we find that is not the case. A quote from Chris Colose, budding cliatoknowledgist left at Bart Verheggens blog alleging again that I am some kind of conpiracy theorist for even sugges ...
  • Blah, pingbacks
    Some pingbacks from a blog and its repeaters were dropped here.  If you want to brainwash yourself that renewable energy is ready today (or that there even is such a thing as ‘renewable’ energy), the inappropriately named skeptical science has the right article for you. If you want to listen to ...
  • Amending the Past
    Guest post by Pat Frank ———————– âCongress shall make no law ⦠abridging the freedom of speech or of the pressâ¦â On May 24, this year, Jeff hosted my guest-posted Future Perfect analysis here on tAV, which was picked up by WUWT on June 2. The analysis showed that a cosine+linear fit to the glo ...
  • Holding back the craziness
    I’m not sure this if this is good news or not but it sounds good. My concern is that there may be detail in the ruling which increases/affirms power to the EPA over CO2. Supreme Court Rejects Environmentalists’ Suit Demanding Power Plant Emissions Cuts “If EPA does not set emissions limits for a ...

Focal Point

  • Jack Shafer, Jose Antonio Vargas, and Terrible ...
    In his recent essay, "My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant," star reporter Jose Antonio Vargas recalls being sent to the U.S. at the age of 12 to live with his grandparents, naturalized American citizens. He says he thought he was a legal immigrant until the DMV rejected his application for a ...
  • The Twisted Logic of the John Edwards Prosecution
    If the prosecution of John Edwards for campaign finance violations were to succeed, it would set a bizarre precedent. [Photo credit: IowaPolitics.com, Creative Commons.]Read More
  • Koi Assisted Birth
    Waterbirths are so passe. Today's elite stunt-birther wants the obstetrical equivalent of a fish pedicure, a koi assisted birth. From the FAQ: Why koi? Koi, or 錦鯉, are ornamental varieties of domesticated Cyprinus carpio). Koi are excellent birthing partners. Female koi give birth to ...
  • The Real Face of Vancouver: Hockey Fans Clean ...
    Volunteers are still taking to the streets of Vancouver to clean up after Wednesday night's hockey riots. In the immediate aftermath, citizens worked alongside city crews, sweeping and bagging through the night. An estimated 90% of the mess was cleaned up by noon on Thursday morning. Cleanup ...
  • Understanding the Vancouver Hockey Riots
    As a native Vancouverite and a Canucks fan, I was heartbroken by the riots that followed Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final. Dave Zirin of The Nation has a great analysis of the Vancouver hockey riot. Don't blame phantom anarchists, blame drunk gay-bashing thugs, exurban troublemakers, and the .. ...

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Roundup: 750M Users, Congress, Ads, S ...
    Facebook Reaches 750M Users – TechCrunch reported this week that Facebook has reached 750 million monthly active users according to a âsource close to the company.” The data we recorded in Inside Facebook Gold as of June 1st showed 687 million worldwide. Facebook’s last official update was 500 ...
  • Facebook for Android v1.6 Adds Video Uploading ...
    The latest version of the popular native Android mobile app, Facebook for Android v1.6, lets users browse Page walls, upload videos to Facebook, and see more types of stories in the news feed. The app now matches Facebook for iPhone’s video capability, though it still has a much more limited in ...
  • Empires & Allies on Growth Offensive for Zynga ...
    Empires & Allies is setting a strong pace in its fourth week after launch. While its monthly active user and daily active user growth numbers are so far coming in below where Zynga’s last big launch on Facebook was – CityVille, back in December — it is the clear leader in the strategy genre of ...
  • Headliner.FM’s News Feed Post Exchange Lets Mu ...
    Headliner.FM is a freemium web service that connects musicians, allowing them to publish promotional updates from each other’s Facebook Pages to gain news fans. When admins publish these cross-promotional posts, they earn a virtual currency that they can then spend to buy exposure to the fans of ...
  • Facebook’s Kevin Colleran Joins Buddy Media’s ...
    One of Facebookâs earliest employees, advertising sales executive Kevin Colleran is leaving next month after six and a half years. But he’s staying active in the industry, joining social marketing company Buddy Mediaâs board of advisors. Colleranâs contributions over the years ranged from Facebo ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • The great bank giveaway bribe: Britain’s deput ...
    Christopher King condemns UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg’s proposal to give away nationalized bank shares for free and argues that the two banks in question, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds, "should form the core of a new mutually-owned banking system designed to support British domes ...
  • Israel's contempt for Law of the Seas - and EU ...
    Stuart Littlewood highlights the European Union's willful failure to protect the citizens of its member states in the face of Israel's explicit threat to murder humanitarian workers planning to take part in the upcoming aid flotilla to Gaza.
  • 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 ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Exposing the Official 1980s “Narrative” on the ...
    Paul Fitzgerald & Elizabeth Gould expose the official 1980s “narrative” on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan as propaganda created by the MSM to build support for Charlie Wilson’s War Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould, a husband and wife team, began their experience in Afghanistan when they w ...
  • Once Upon A Time US Government Whistleblowers…
    Steve Kohn of National Whistleblowers Center offers an alternative to ignoring and intimidating whistle-blowers Last week the New York Times published a very well-written editorial piece written by Steve Kohn on the need to protectgovernment whistleblowers: Today, the Obama administration is agg ...
  • The EyeOpener: Secret FBI Storage Drive to Shi ...
    J. Edgar Hoover’s Ghost Still Lingers over the FBI Welcome. This is our EyeOpener Video Report by James Corbett for BoilingFrogsPost.com. A recent court case in Utah has uncovered yet more evidence that the FBI is hiding key documents from the public by placing them in a separate, hitherto unkno ...
  • Podcast Show #47
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Lew Rockwell Lew Rockwell, founder and Chairman of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, joins us to discuss the constitutional rule and the roll back of our liberties and constitutional rights during the past decade, the rise of the police state, the PATRIOT ACT and our tyr ...
  • Rise Up To The Occasion… It Could Very Well Ha ...
    Every Single Person, Every Voice & Every Signature Counts Have you ever pulled over your car on a highway shoulder to be a Good Samaritan and help a driver of a broken car desperately in need of assistance? Have you done it despite the heavy traffic, and a remaining long commute to get home afte ...

Afro Spear

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

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • TileMill Opens Up a World of Mapping Possibili ...
    One of our favorite collaborative open data projects is OpenStreetMap. We've talked before about the project's goals, how its free and open nature is advantageous for non-profit and commercial applications alike, and how its open and near-real-time editing process is a major advantage in rapidly ...
  • Knight Announces 2011 News Challenge Winners
    Not so long ago, journalists were playing catch-up in the digital media space. But at this year's MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference, it's become evident that journalism 2.0 is growing up. Alberto Ibargüen, CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, today announced the winners of the K ...
  • Find the 'Big Carrot' in Your Mobile App
    In the past, I've talked about some of the nuances in creating a location-based mobile app. Now I'd like to share some techniques for how we decided what to include in version 1 of the CityCircles mobile app, and how we accomplished what we did, to help you narrow your focus for any future apps ...
  • Dotspotting Launches to Help People Gather Dat ...
    Dotspotting.org is officially live, at long last! The project, which aims to make tools to help people gather data about cities and make that data more legible, has been in a partially completed stage for a few months now, and I've blogged about it before. We've got a few new things to announ ...
  • Tanzania Media Copes with Wild Success of Feed ...
    For the largest civil society media platform in Tanzania, back talk is good. 

 In fact, talking back is the objective of a new service at Femina HIP called Speak Up! The service aims to increase access of marginalized youth and rural communities and promote a participatory, user-driven media ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Media Freedom - The Loneliness of El Diario of ...
    Blanca and Alicia The two reporters are at a crime scene on Pisces Street between Aquarius and Leo, a rather astrological crossing in a dusty and disjointed neighborhood, much like most of the neighborhoods in Ciudad Juárez. It’s the first reported victim of their burdensome nightshift. The phot ...
  • Edge on Health - Heightened Immunity to Colds ...
    People often talk about “boosting” their immunity to prevent and fight colds. Nutritional supplements, cold remedies and fortified foods claim to ward off colds by augmenting the immune system.A new University of Michigan study shows this strategy might actually be flawed. The results may hold i ...
  • Edge on the Environment - Mississippi Flooding ...
    Extreme flooding of the Mississippi River this spring is expected to result in the largest Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" on record, according to a University of Michigan aquatic ecologist and his colleagues.The 2011 forecast, released today by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administratio ...
  • The 2012 Vote - Obama Rewards Big Bundlers wit ...
    Telecom executive Donald H. Gips raised a big bundle of cash to help finance his friend Barack Obama’s run for the presidency.Gips, a vice president of Colorado-based Level 3 Communications LLC, delivered more than $500,000 in contributions for the Obama war chest, while two fellow senior compan ...
  • The Battle for Lebanon - Learning from Lebanon ...
    Last week, Lebanon served up a reminder for the United States and the partisans of the Arab uprisings: don’t count your democracies before they’ve hatched. Having thrown off the yoke of Syrian occupation in 2005 after the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, Lebanon once again fi ...

High Country News

  • ORV riding needs on-the-ground enforcement
    Reckless, illegal off-road vehicle riding is a serious problem, but better law enforcement -- rather than road closures -- is the way to solve it.
  • Monster wildfires have become the new normal
    Wildfires cannot be entirely prevented by logging or anything else, but small-scale prescribed burns can help make them less destructive.
  • The revolution will be motorized
    The road rage over federal attempts to manage motorized access to public land is disproportionate and completely distracting.
  • Ordinary wild
    A cougar roams downtown El Paso, and a faraway writer watching on YouTube re-encounters wildness.
  • Princess for a Day
    An Oregon nonprofit allows young girls from troubled homes to become a Princess for a Day.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Van Jones Is Creating the Milli Vanilli of Tea ...
    Truther, Self-described communist, and former Obama Green Jobs Czar Van Jones has a new mission, to start a progressive version of the Tea Party movement.� Just like the real tea party, the Van Jones creation is based on economics.� There are major differences though, being a progressive movemen ...
  • GAO: US Grant-making System is Very Dysfunctional
    During the past fiscal year the United States issued over $125 billion dollars in improper grant payments. That is just one of the disturbing facts reported in a study by the Government Accounting Office (GAO) called Federal Grants, Improvements Needed in Oversight and Accountability Processes� ...
  • What Obama Didn’t–And What We Should–Learn Fro ...
    By Barry Rubin I am in favor of a U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, but I was fascinated�in a negative way�with how President Barack Obama handled the issue. He didn�t deal with any of the real issues or the consequences. It was a speech by someone who doesn�t understand what�s been going ...
  • Eric Cantor and Jon Kyl Pull Out Of Biden's B ...
    In December, the Democrats agreed to a last-minute deal which will preserve the tax rates established under the Bush administration for at another two years. Only six-months later they are insisting on raising taxes as part of the SHMOTUS' deficit reduction talks. Their insistence on raisi ...
  • DELTA Airlines: No Jews Allowed
    Ladies and Gentlemen we are no approaching Saudi Arabia, the Captain has turned on the no Jews light. Delta Airlines, in its new alliance with Saudi Arabian Airlines, is making a deal with the devil...no Jews, no Bibles on board flight to the desert kingdom. Jews are not allowed to enter the ...

The Real Agenda

  • CSIRO to Start Human GMO Trials
    ABC News June 24, 2011 The CSIRO has been given permission to conduct Australia’s first trial in which humans will eat genetically modified wheat. The wheat’s genes have been modified to lower the glycemic index and increase fibre to create a product which will improve bowel health and increase ...
  • U2 Fans want Bono to Pay his Taxes
    U2 was accused of donating only 1 percent of the monies collected through Bono’s ONE organization. AP June 24, 2011 U2 and its frontman Bono, known for their global poverty-fighting efforts, were accused of dodging taxes in Ireland by activists who crashed their performance at England’s Glastonb ...
  • U.S. Admiral Admits Attempt to Assassinate Qaddafi
    By Josh Rogin FP June 24, 2011 The top U.S. admiral involved in the Libya war admitted to a U.S. congressman that NATO forces are trying to kill Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi. The same admiral also said he anticipated the need for ground troops in Libya after Qaddafi falls, according to the l ...
  • Chavez’ Illness Spurs Talks about a Vene ...
    WSJ June 24, 2011 Venezuelan officials scrambled Thursday to reassure compatriots that President Hugo Chávez was not seriously ill after his brother said the president would remain in a Cuban hospital for up to 12 more days, making it likely that Mr. Chávez will be away from the country for near ...
  • Thousands of Syrians Cross Over to Turkey
    Reuters June 24, 2011 More than 1,500 Syrian refugees crossed to Turkey on Thursday, according to state-run Anatolian news agency, as the Syrian army swept up to the border in its campaign to stamp out anti-government protests. The provincial government in Hatay said on Friday morning that the t ...

Wind Watch

  • Blow for wind farms as senators push probe int ...
    Urgent research should be undertaken into the potentially damaging health effects of wind farms on nearby residents, says a landmark Senate report released yesterday. In a dramatic win for residents’ groups who have raised widespread concerns about the impact of wind farms on rural communities, ...
  • Pendleton asked to create wind energy ordinanc ...
    FRANKLIN, W.Va. � Once again, the Allegheny Highlands is gearing up to debate the merits of commercial wind energy � this time for a project on Shenandoah Mountain. Solaya Energy LLC has been monitoring wind resources along a five-mile stretch of the ridgeline there to determine whether it�s a g ...
  • Court blocks $175m wind farm project
    The $175m proposed Allendale East wind farm near Mount Gambier has collapsed following an adjoining landowner winning an appeal against the 46-turbine project. The landmark ruling is believed to be the first time a court has upheld an appeal against wind farms based on visual amenity. The decisi ...
  • Whitley Co. wind turbine controversy; Family s ...
    Whitley County Commissioners are still working on drafting an ordinance for wind turbines. Wind Capital Group hopes the county will house the turbines, but not everyone’s convinced it’s a good idea. A group called Whitley County Concerned Citizens invited David and Stephanie Hulthen to speak at ...
  • Legislation puts wind decisions in Albany
    If proposed state legislation is approved today, the siting of wind power projects in the north country will be decided by a committee in Albany, not local planning boards. State and local wind power proponents have supported Article X in the past, saying that it limits to one year how long the ...

Not My Tribe

  • Morons at AFL-CIO say AT&T/T-Mobile merger wil ...
    That’s the problem with unions. Collective bargaining is key to making capitalists heed the people, but the big unions have been co-opted by counter-revolutionaries peddling idiocy. The AFL-CIO Praises this merger because the unionized AT&T will absorb the non-union T-Mobile workforce? Yeah, wha ...
  • The Afghanda…. U.S. Paternalism with a t ...
    President Obama made much glowing talk about all the “help” that “we’re giving” Afghanistan, building roads for the use of “our” military transports, schools where “we” get to teach their kids to be Corporate Slaves just like the kids in Amerika. A centralized Police State government which is un ...
  • Osama bin Laden, still humiliating us
    President Obama confirmed tonight, the war in Afghanistan goes on.
  • Corporate Supreme Court backed Mall-Wart in An ...
    Again. How much did it cost the Walton Empire to have the Supremes sing for them? I should shut up about that, I guess, I could be theoretically held in Contempt of Corporation. WalMart could sue ME for definition of character. Their pet monkeys at the Supreme Court would back them up on it. Not ...
  • Kill Team shots were censored to keep you from ...
    Remember this damning photo, the American GI grinning as he posed with his haphazard victim? You saw the version with the Afghan’s identity obscured, and you thought it was bad enough. Not hardly. The USG pixelated the faces out of respect for the victims we were told — not to keep everyone from ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • It Ain't No White Paper Because It's Been Debu ...
    In a post entitled "Hell No I Ain't Reading No White Paper!," James Bennett of the Screw Loose Change blog writes: Most of this interview that Richard Gage does for Skeptical Inquirer magazine isn't that interesting, and good deal is completely unintelligible, but I found the bit in the middle ...
  • Why the experts at New Mexico Tech failed with ...
    …maybe, just maybe, it had something to do with their funding. Related Info: Slicing Through Every Single 'Debunker' Argument, One at a Time Van Romero, Vice President of New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, gained lasting notoriety for candid remarks concerning the collapses of ...
  • U.S. Diver On a Mission to Retrieve Bin Laden' ...
    U.S. Diver On a Mission to Retrieve Bin Laden's Body Related Info: Not a Deather, but a Doubter; Still a Truther Rashard Mendenhall: 'I just have a hard time believing a plane could take a skyscraper down demolition style' The Death of Osama, 9/11 and the War on Terror Nafeez Mossadeq Ahm ...
  • Right After Bilderberg, Puppet David Cameron P ...
    Today at the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation conference, David Cameron pledged a further £814 million of British taxpayer money towards third-world vaccination programs. Bill Gates, a well known vaccine advocate who jointly hosted the conference with Cameron, pledged a billion d ...
  • The Bilderberg Delusion
    No matter what you think of Alex Jones, his coverage of Bilderberg meetings is always excellent. The mainstream media on the other hand ... On thursday, Mario Borghezio, a member of the EU parliament, tried to enter the Bilderberg meeting with other EU parliament members, he presented his cre ...

Fooducate

  • Harvard Study Links Potato Chips & Soda to Wei ...
    A study just published in the New England Journal of Medicine has found a correlation between several bad habits and weight gain: Within each 4-year period, participants gained an average of 3.35 lb (5th to 95th percentile, −4.1 to 12.4). On the basis of increased daily servings of individual di ...
  • Should Junk Food Also Have Graphic Warning Labels?
    The government has announced new measures in its fight against smoking. On Tuesday, the department of health and human services, together with the FDA, unveiled graphic images that will be plastered on cigarette packages. The 10 different graphics warn about the risks and damage of smoking. Rule ...
  • Tang Drink Mix & Kraft’s International Strategy
    Skimming through big food companies’ press releases and financial reports is not necessarily the most exciting activity one can imagine, but it does provide some deeper context as to where they are heading from a business perspective. We came across 2 recent press releases from Kraft. The first ...
  • Meat Labels: No More Minced Words
    This is a guest blog post by Kirsten L. Grieshaber. Youâre a well-intentioned consumer.  You know that eating sustainably raised meat is better for you, your taste buds, the environment, public health, and the livelihoods of farmers who support responsible agricultural practices.  But then you ...
  • 6 Thoughts About Dads & Nutrition
    Happy Father’s Day dear families! Happy Father’s Day! Although this holiday is usually associated with buying dads a tie/electronic gizmo/golg club/fishing gear and enjoying a BBQ meal, we’d like to take a minute to ponder the paternal role in a family’s healthy eating habits. 1. Not just moms – ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Sonia Gandhi stands up for endangered Andaman ...
    Jarawa woman returning to her forest after gathering food on the edges of the Jarawa reserve. © Survival Sonia Gandhi, President of India’s ruling Congress party, has strongly backed the right of the isolated Jarawa tribe not to be forced into the ‘mainstream’. Mrs Gandhi, named by Forbes ...
  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle plastic shipping/ma ...
    Kayci has emailed: First off, I absolutely love your website and all the nifty and creative ideas your community finds. Now for a confession: I am a bookworm. I typically go through 100+ novels a year without breaking a sweat. In an effort to try and green up my hobbies I’ve stopped going to the ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle big plastic (animal ...
    Over on the Suggest an Item page, Emily asked: Would anybody have any ideas for reusing the bags that stock feed comes in? They are some sort of plastic and not recycleable. Funnily enough, I had this on my to-do list already as I’m starting to be overrun with the things too – and I’ve [...]
  • Advice for arguing against plastic credit-type ...
    I’m possibly a bit late with this now (sorry Su!) but I just spotted this question and wondered if anyone had any advice/info/suggestions for further research. Good friend of Recycle This and The Really Good Life Su asked: Next week I am at a conference all week. One of the motions for discussio ...
  • Reusing, recycling and upcycling links – ...
    It’s been a while since I’ve featured some of the wonderful reusing, recycling and upcycling links I’ve spotted recently. So, without further ado…: Drinks can pop top lampshade I love this lampshade made with drinks can pop tops – it’s like modern chainmail :) Drinks can bottoms necklace The oth ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle Ariel Gel Dosing De ...
    Granny Cain emailed about Ariel Gel Dosing Devices: Enough!! I now have enough dosing devices for each child in a classroom…. but what to do with them? Tried poking a hole through the side, adding twine and making a bird feeder, but it kept flipping over. Needed some technical refinement… too mu ...

Age of Autism

  • An Open Letter to the National Institutes of H ...
    By John Stone An Open Letter to the National Institutes of Health (Dr Marina Volkov answering on behalf of Director Francis Collins): 54% of American Children Suffer from Chronic Health Problems . Dear Dr Volkov, I acknowledge receipt of your...
  • Katie Wright: An Open Letter To NIH & Autism R ...
    By Katie Wright Over the past weeks we have heard genetic researchers hailing the discovery of the latest (I have lost count) autism “gene.” We have heard how “exciting” this discovery is, what a “breakthrough” this is. All their hard...
  • Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s Lecture at Brandeis – N ...
    By Jake Crosby Wednesday, April 13th, 2011 was a triumphant day. Dr. Andrew Wakefield came to Brandeis, and Poul Thorsen – the Danish scientist who coauthored the infamous reports used to cast doubt on the vaccine-autism connection – was indicted...
  • Lisa Ackerman Talks About Autism and Hope - To ...
    Please mark the TACA blog in your favorites. Here's a post from Lisa Ackerman. To Lisa Ackerman. What would your letter look like? KS Dear Lisa of 1999, It’s been one year since Jeff was diagnosed and you are still...
  • Paulie's NOLA Jazz & Blues Festival in Worcest ...
    Our good friends Harry and Gina Tembenis of the Elias Tembenis Sixth Planet Foundation, founded in memory of their young son Elias, invite you to come laissez les bontemps roulez at Paulie's NOLA Jazz and Blues festival in Worcester Mass,...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

  • Indoor Gardening with Gladys and Bernie
    Listen to Gladys and Bernie talk about their new project, an indoor garden for year-round fresh veggies.
  • African Alliances Challenge Introduction of GM ...
    One liability clause states that ‘a person who imports, arranges transit, makes use of, releases or places on the market a GMO or product of a GMO shall be strictly liable for any harm caused by such a GMO or product of a GMO’ and that ‘the harm shall be compensated’.
  • Monsanto, Agent Orange, and Population Reducti ...
    The company that is killing people on an unprecedented scale due to falsified studies on Agent Orange HAS A MONOPOLY ON OUR FOOD SUPPLY. Do you still think our government is not engaged in population reduction warfare against its own citizens?
  • Monsanto, Agent Orange, and Population Reducti ...
    The company that is killing people on an unprecedented scale due to falsified studies on Agent Orange HAS A MONOPOLY ON OUR FOOD SUPPLY. Do you still think our government is not engaged in population reduction warfare against its own citizens?
  • Wildlife Refuges to be Planted with GMOs
    Say goodbye to GMO-free wild game. GMOs are to be planted in wildlife refuges with no restrictions.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Poland blocks carbon targets
    Independent – An attempt by European Union environment ministers to strengthen EU action to combat climate change was blocked by Poland last night, prompting a swift rebuke from the energy minister Chris Huhne. “I’m deeply disappointed that the only country in the EU that could not accept a good ...
  • Deutsche’s firing of top trader sparks probe
    Reuters – In the fall of 2009, Deutsche Bank quietly fired one of its top derivative traders in London after a colleague in New York complained about finding “substantial trading anomalies” in a multibillion dollar portfolio of high-risk credit default swaps managed by the German-based bank, Reu ...
  • UK announces new nuke sites
    ABC – The UK government has announced plans for eight new nuclear plants it hopes to build by 2025. All eight sites are adjacent to existing sites. UK energy minister Charles Hendry says a quarter of the country’s generating capacity is due to close by the end of the decade, so it needs to be [...]
  • You’ll Be Body Scanned, but Cargo on Airplanes ...
    AFP – Asking ports of departure to perform full screening of containers before they travel to the US was probably not the best decision, US Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano said Wednesday. “We believe the so-called 100 percent requirement is probably not the best way to go,” Napolitano t ...
  • 10 Congressmen brings Obama to Federal Court
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L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • California's new pesticide plan sparks protest
    Twenty-five environmental and pubic health groups asked Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday to abandon the state's new plan for eradicating agricultural pests and explore a less toxic approach, such as crop rotation or planting neighboring crops that deter insects. The...
  • Is Arctic drilling safe? Scientists aren't sure
    Escalating oil prices and diminishing supplies around the world are focusing more attention than ever on the vast petroleum reserves under the Arctic seabed, and in the relatively pristine shoreline areas of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the National...
  • California's Clean Vehicle Rebate Project runs ...
    The California Air Resources Board ran out of money for its Clean Vehicle Rebate Project this week. The program had doled out $11.1 million over the past 27 months to buyers of zero- emissions vehicles in the state. Almost 2,000...
  • California congressman tackles toxic trade in ...
    “The States have been passing laws that are already increasing the amount of e-waste collected for recycling, instead of land-filling,” said Kate Sinding, senior attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council. “Unfortunately, these laws can’t stop recyclers from simply sending our e-waste, ...
  • California bill would reveal chemicals used in ...
    A bill forcing oil and gas companies to reveal what chemicals they use when using hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," to extract natural gas in California passed the California Senate Natural Resources Committee earlier this month and is set to go...

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Michele Bachmann's Holy War
    Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and, as you consider the career and future presidential prospects of an incredible American phenomenon named Michele Bachmann, do one more thing. Don't laugh.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Michele Bachmann's Holy War
    Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and, as you consider the career and future presidential prospects of an incredible American phenomenon named Michele Bachmann, do one more thing. Don't laugh.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Obama says gay couples deserve same rights as all
    Obama said progress will be slower than some people want, but he added that he was confident that there will be a day "when every single American, gay or straight or lesbian or bisexual or transgender, is free to live and love as they see fit.Submitted by David Buchan to World �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • Obama says gay couples deserve same rights as all
    Obama said progress will be slower than some people want, but he added that he was confident that there will be a day "when every single American, gay or straight or lesbian or bisexual or transgender, is free to live and love as they see fit.Submitted by David Buchan to World �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • Noam Chomsky: ''The West Is Terrified of Arabi ...
    "The Arab-Islamic world has a long history of democracy. It's regularly crushed by western force. . ."Submitted by Ken D. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • Tunisia Joins International Criminal Court
    Earlier this year, the country witnessed a popular uprising - the first of many across North Africa and the Middle East calling for democratic reforms - that removed the long-standing regime of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
  • Fed Agencies Release Interagency Approach to A ...
    Federal Agencies to Improve Coordination to Support Energy Development and Safeguard Air Quality.
  • US Labs Continue to Commit Research Abuses
    UC Davis Among U.S. Research Laboratories Cited & Fined for Killing and Abusing Primates and Other Animals; Watchdog Group Calls for Hefty fines
  • NATO Strikes Key Command and Control Nodes in ...
    Qadhafi regime forces have occupied buildings in an abandoned, built-up area of Brega, for use as military compounds. From these, they control their campaign to conduct attacks against the civilian population, threatening Ajdabiya and Benghazi. Thes
  • Cholera Cases Surge in Haiti and Dominican Rep ...
    In the Dominican Republic, the health ministry reported that since the first cases were reported in the country late last year, there have been 1,727 confirmed cases, including 46 deaths. The ministry is continuing its epidemiological research and r

Worldnews

  • Syrian Crisis Warms Turkey-Israel Ties
    By MARC CHAMPION in Istanbul and JAY SOLOMON in Washington Unrest in Syria is triggering early signs of a thaw in relations between Israel and Turkey, as Ankara adapts its assertive foreign policy to meet fallout from the Arab Spring, diplomats and analysts said. In the latest sign Friday, ...
  • Olive oil may protect against strokes
    Pour some more of that EVOO on your plate — a study finds that eating more olive oil could be linked with lower stroke risk in older people. Medical records of 7,625 people 65 and older who lived in three French cities were examined by...
  • Libya unrest: Football stars defect to re ...
    A group of 17 leading Libyan football figures have announced their defection to the rebels. They include the nation's goalkeeper, Juma Gtat, three other national team...
  • Roddick ousted in third round at Wimbledo ...
    Andy Roddick suffered another early exit at Wimbledon, dropping a third-round match to Spain's Feliciano Lopez in straight sets on Friday. Lopez, a two-time Wimbledon quarterfinalist currently ranked 44th in the world, took out the eighth-seeded American with a 7-6 (7-2), 7-6 (7-2), 6-4 vic ...
  • Columnist finds iPhone a valuable tool
    � BY WALKER MOORE Oklahoman �� Leave a comment Not long ago, I was driving down the road with a group of student missionaries when I mentioned that I wished we were close to a CiCi's Pizza (the cheapest place to feed a group of teenagers). One of them whipped out his iPhone, clicked on the ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • Bipartisan House Coalition Votes to Rebuke Oba ...
    WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives sent President Barack Obama a strong bipartisan message Friday that it's frustrated and impatient with the U.S. military mission in Libya. The House voted 295 to 123 to deny congressional consent for extending the three-month-old effort for another year, ...
  • Rove-Associated Groups Vow $120 Million In Att ...
    WASHINGTON -- The leaders of two behemoth Karl Rove-associated unlimited donation campaign fundraising groups on Friday promised to spend $120 million against Democrats in the 2012 election cycle, much of it in the form of attack ads. At the same time, the leaders of American Crossroads and Cros ...
  • Nuclear Terrorism Can Cause Another Fukushima: ...
    Global action to protect the nuclear industry against possible terrorist attacks is urgently needed, a leading expert said, as are safety steps to prevent any repeat of Japan's Fukushima accident. "Both al Qaeda and Chechen terrorist groups have repeatedly considered sabotaging nuclear reactors ...
  • New Patriot Act Controversy: Is Washington Col ...
    The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee is weighing fresh concerns about the sweeping nature of domestic spying using one controversial section of the Patriot Act. This particular part of that law is notable because it has been divisive for years — and because during those years President Obama h ...
  • US State Dept. Threatens Activists with 'Fines ...
    The United States on Friday warned activists against plans to send a new aid flotilla to challenge Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip, saying it would be irresponsible and dangerous. "Groups that seek to break Israel's maritime blockade of Gaza are taking irresponsible and provocative actions t ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

  • Green House takes brief hiatus
    This Green House community will take a hiatus until August, because its moderator, Wendy Koch, is on medical leave. Please check back in a few weeks for environmental news and updates on her journey in green living.
  • My green house is finally, almost, done
    "It's surreal," my husband Alex said about living in our new home a few days after moving in last month. Indeed, it is. We've nurtured the project so long on paper that actually being inside it felt odd or dream-like.
  • U.S. national parks suffer from climate change ...
    America's national parks are suffering as wildlife such as gray wolves disappears, air quality deteriorates and many waterways are polluted, an upcoming report will reveal.
  • Fastest sea-level rise in 2,100 years linked t ...
    The sea-level is now rising faster along the U.S. Atlantic coast than at any time in the past 2,100 years, and this surge is linked to increasing global temperatures, an international research team reports.
  • Supreme Court backs EPA over states on climate ...
    The Supreme Court unanimously rejected Monday a lawsuit by six states that were suing five major power companies for emitting greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change.

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Permanent US Iraq and Afghanistan Occupations ...
    by Stephen Lendman Nothing reveals Washington's imperial agenda better than its global empire of bases. Sixty-six years post-WW II, America maintains dozens in Germany, Japan, Italy, and South Korea alone. In total, known Pentagon bases way exceed 1,000, as well as perhaps hundreds of o ...
  • BDS update: Fighting apartheid on land and sea
    Eric Walberg As the second Freedom Flotilla packs its humanitarian aid and prepares to brave the wrath of the Israeli navy, boycott divestment and sanctions (BDS) activities continue on the homefront. Earlier this month, 100 activists from 9 countries gathered in Montpellier, France for the fi ...
  • Turkish - Israeli Relations
    by Stephen Lendman In May 2010, Israel's Gaza Freedom Flotilla Mavi Marmara mother ship attack, killing nine Turkish citizens, stoked tensions between the two countries. At the time, Turkey warned it might sever diplomatic relations unless Israel apologized, consented to an independent i ...
  • McCain/Kerry Support Imperial War on Libya
    by Stephen Lendman On November 6, 1971, a remorseful John Kerry told Washington, DC's WRC-TV that "I gave back, I can't remember, six, seven, eight, nine medals," protesting against America's Vietnam War involvement. On April 22, 1971, Kerry testified before the Senate Foreign Relations ...
  • US-Led Terror Bombings Target Civilians
    by Stephen Lendman US air and ground operations strategically target civilians, Pentagon (and NATO) denials notwithstanding. They lie despite clear evidence refuting them. Their latest crime claimed 19 Libyans, all civilians, including women and eight children, apologies not forthcoming and dec ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Work in an Age of Austerity
    As Canada continues on the path of economic recovery following the worldwide recession of 2008, workers find themselves under attack -- and the attack is coming from many directions. We've put together some resources to help Canadians understand what's behind the attack, who's at risk, and how t ...
  • Work in an Age of Austerity
    As Canada continues on the path of economic recovery following the worldwide recession of 2008, workers find themselves under attack -- and the attack is coming from many directions. We've put together some resources to help Canadians understand what's behind the attack, who's at risk, and how t ...
  • Implications of the Canada-EU CETA for municip ...
    In ongoing Canada-EU trade negotiations, the European Commission is seeking full coverage of sub-national (provincial and municipal) procurement.� In Canada, as in Europe, many important public services, such as waste, water and public transit, are delivered by local authorities.� The exclusion ...
  • Implications of the Canada-EU CETA for municip ...
    In ongoing Canada-EU trade negotiations, the European Commission is seeking full coverage of sub-national (provincial and municipal) procurement.� In Canada, as in Europe, many important public services, such as waste, water and public transit, are delivered by local authorities.� The exclusion ...
  • BC's poverty rate still highest in Canada
    Statistics Canada released a report today on incomes across Canada in 2009. As First Call BC points out in their news release, key points for BC include: BC's child poverty rate rose to 12 percent in 2009, the highest child poverty rate of any province for the eighth year in a row. ...

World Wide Hippies

  • New York Legalizes Gay Marriage
    New York is expensive, corrupt, kinda crazy… but every once in a while, you’re proud to live here. Today I am. NY legalizes gay marriage 42 years after Stonewall | AP Champagne corks popped, rainbow flags flapped and crowds embraced and danced in the streets of Manhattan’s Greenwich Village as N ...
  • Woody, In The Morning: The Blame Game
    WWH - Krugman’s absolutely correct when, in his NYTimes blog on Friday he wrote, anent the departure of the GOPhux from the credit ceiling ‘negotiations’: “And everyone who has preached bipartisanship, who has called for a meeting of minds on the subject, is either a fraud or a chump.” Who EVER ...
  • Trial Begins: Did New Orleans Media Contribute ...
    by: Jordan Flaherty, Truthout – Jury selection began June 22 in what observers have called the most important trial New Orleans has seen in a generation. It concerns a shocking case of police brutality that has already redefined this city’s relationship to its police department, and radically re ...
  • Growing up with a father on the run – Fi ...
    Pioneers and heroes or a lost generation? | National Post The final instalment in the five-part series My Father, His Firebombs and My Messed-up Sixties Childhood, in which Post reporter Peter Kuitenbrouwer describes growing up with a hippie father who was on the run. Leaving San Francisco airpo ...
  • Weekly Hippie Trivia
    A new Trivia Question will be posted every Friday at 8:00 pm (EST). You can post your answer in the comments section below the question and be entered into a chance to win a WWH Bumpersticker! Although of above-average intelligence, he lost interest in learning at an early age and began an infat ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

  • The biggest victory for gay marriage yet
    If the New York state Senate was going to pass same-sex marriage, it was going to do so in as aggravating and drawn-out a manner as possible. Days after the official end of the legislative session, on a Friday night, scheduled to be the last item on the agenda. But from the misery of politica ...
  • The biggest victory for gay marriage yet
    If the New York state Senate was going to pass same-sex marriage, it was going to do so in as aggravating and drawn-out a manner as possible. Days after the official end of the legislative session, on a Friday night, scheduled to be the last item on the agenda. But from the misery of politica ...
  • Birthers: You know who else wasn't eligible fo ...
    Joseph Farah, founder of WorldNetDaily, the Internet's dumbest news organization, has posted a very compelling and serious editorial today at his silly website of nonsense and post-apocalyptic seed advertisements. To sum it up: Barack Obama is ineligible to be president because Hitler.
  • Birthers: You know who else wasn't eligible fo ...
    Joseph Farah, founder of WorldNetDaily, the Internet's dumbest news organization, has posted a very compelling and serious editorial today at his silly website of nonsense and post-apocalyptic seed advertisements. To sum it up: Barack Obama is ineligible to be president because Hitler.
  • Why women in politics matter
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SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

EU Times

  • Mexico’s most wanted trafficker, arrested
    Mexican authorities arrested Jose de Jesus Mendez, known as “El Chango,” or “The Monkey,” the alleged leader of the Familia Cartel and one of the nation’s most-wanted traffickers. Mendez was captured today in the central state of Aguascalientes by members of the federal police, government securi ...
  • Thousands secretly sterilized in America
    After getting married at age 18, Elaine Riddick desperately tried to start her own family. It wasn’t until she was in her 50s, however, that the North Carolina woman found out that doctors sterilized her when she was a teenager. Riddick was raped at age 13 and says that, when she awoke in a hosp ...
  • US Minorities Becoming Majority
    For the first time, ethnic minorities make up a majority of babies in the United States, official figures show. The change reflects a growing age divide between mostly white, older Americans and predominantly minority youths that could reshape government policies. Preliminary census estimates al ...
  • ‘Europe is dying’ U.S. population expert tells ...
    Given the precipitous decline in the birthrates of European countries, all anti-natal programs funded by the United States should immediately be replaced by pro-natal programs, one top population expert recently told the U.S. Senate. “It doesn’t matter whether we call them reproductive health pr ...
  • Russia blasts U.S. Navy maneuvers near Georgia
    Russia is outraged at the maneuvers of American USS Monterey cruiser carrying the AEGIS air defense system near the Georgian coast on the Black Sea, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. The U.S. warship arrived for joint exercises with Georgia as part of the Phased Adaptive Approach program des ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • U2: They May be Wankers, but they're OUR Wankers
    U2 played Glastonbury last night, to two different controversies. The first being that because U2's tax affairs are now in the Netherlands, Bono is a "debt denier", not paying his fair whack. Given that he's not a British citizen, I'm not sure that its any of our business anyway (Irish Uncut ra ...
  • NHL draft has a few mild surprises; Ryan Smyth ...
    The top few picks went as expected in the first round of the NHL draft at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn., but there were a few surprises among the top 10 selections. Center Ryan Nugent -Hopkins of the Western Hockey League’s Red Deer Rebels went to Edmonton, as expected, adding to th ...
  • 2011 College World Series: South Carolina, Flo ...
    It took a long time to get there, but the SEC will win the College World Series for the third year in a row. The team that takes home the trophy is still to be determined. The day started with Florida using a late offensive surge -- two runs in the bottom of the eight -- to eliminate Vanderbilt ...
  • Saland’s Statement
    Sen. Stephen Saland, R-Poughkeepsie, released this statement just moments ago to explain why is voting in favor of same-sex marriage. He will be the 32nd vote, giving the Senate the votes needed for final passage. That’s of course, if no one changes their stance at the last minute. The statemen ...
  • New York State Senate Passes Gay Marriage Bill
    Tonight the New York State Senate passed the gay marriage bill in a vote of 33-to-29, making New York the largest state where gay and lesbian couples can get married. Once Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signs the bill it will go into effect 30 days later. A massive celebration is taking place at Ston ...

Groklaw

  • Supercomputing Freakonomics - Finding Meaning ...
    Last, the good news here is that the there is more and more raw computing power being made available on a global basis thanks to Linux - and a lot of this innovation is making its way back into the kernel. As more countries start to use smart grid technology or seek to forecast the effects of gl ...
  • Why Google Might Beat its Antitrust Case
    This is not what Google is facing. Google will be investigated under the Federal Trade Commission Act's Section 5, which deals with deceptive and unfair acts and practices. "There has not been a successful Section 5 litigated case since 1972," said David Balto, a senior fellow at the Center for ...
  • Microsoft: 'You can get your data onto Azure f ...
    Free is always good. But it should be noted that out-bound Azure data transfers are not free. Getting your data in costs nothing. But you'll need some cash to get it off. - Cade Metz, The Register
  • The Origin of the word Daemon
    From Fernando J. Corbato: Your explanation of the origin of the word daemon is correct in that my group began using the term around that time frame. However the acronym explanation is a new one on me. Our use of the word daemon was inspired by the Maxwell's daemon of physics and thermodynamics. ...
  • EFF and Bitcoin Announcement by Cindy Cohn
    However, we've recently removed the Bitcoin donation option from the Other Ways to Help page on the EFF website, and we have decided to not accept Bitcoins. We decided on this course of action for a few reasons: 1. We don't fully understand the complex legal issues involved with creating a new c ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Deep Ecology versus Ecosocialism
    Ian Angus at Climate and Capitalism says deep ecology is not compatible with ecosocialism and is “anti-human” at core as well as being politically and morally bankrupt. He cites an article by deep ecology advocate Saral Sarkar who says Bolivia must allow large tracts to land to become wilderness ...
  • Deep Ecology versus Ecosocialism
    Ian Angus at Climate and Capitalism says deep ecology is not compatible with ecosocialism and is “anti-human” at core as well as being politically and morally bankrupt. He cites an article by deep ecology advocate Saral Sarkar who says Bolivia must allow large tracts to land to become wilderness ...
  • Girls Guns and Glory at Groovefest
    Girls Guns and Glory just performed at the 11th annual Groovefest in Cedar City UT, which features two days of bands in the park for free. GGG is hard-edged Americana with some Hank and near rockbilly tossed into the mix too, which makes for some really good music.
  • Attention solar power aficionados, 1 GW is not ...
    Treehugger profiles CleanPath, an investment firm with a new $800 million fund that plans to finance 1 gigawatt of solar in the US in the next 5-8 years. While this is certainly laudable, it is absolutely not – much as Treehuggger would like it to be – “large-scale solar power.” 1 GW is 1,000 me ...
  • Polizeros podcast. Afghanistan pseudo-withdraw ...
    On last night’s podcast, I announced that CAIVN will be running a series on in-depth articles on the California prison mess. The series kicks off on Monday with an introductory article (I’ll repost it here) discussing the multitude of issues.  These includes the Supreme Court ruling that Califo ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Eyes Open in Gaza, June 2011
    The Gaza Strip is a heavily urbanized sliver of land, some 30 miles long, that nestles against the southeast corner of the Mediterranean and that for many reasons-- including the fact that more than 75% of its 1.6 million are refugees from within what is now Israel-- has always been a crucible f ...
  • Chirpstory on Egypt
    Okay I get it. Some of you don't like my Chirpstories. But I do not have time to blog about everything I might want to, so tweeting is a good, quick substitute. And actually, I rather enjoy the speedy interactions on Twitter and other aspects of the system like hashtags. So for those f you inte ...
  • In Gaza
    From Monday through Thursday, Bill the spouse and I were in Gaza. The time there was really great: We got to talk to some really interesting people. It is so important to be able to hear from them firsthand and see the conditions in which they're living-- not least because of the terrible isolat ...
  • Post-Tahrir Cairo, Day 1
    Bill the spouse and I had an informative, short conversation today with the longtime MB spokesman Dr. Esam El-Erian, who is also the deputy head of the newly emerging, MB-backed Freedom and Justice Party. (You can find descriptions of interviews I conducted with Dr. El-Erian in early 2007 and e ...
  • Publishing: From 140 characters to 150,000 words
    I haven't blogged much recently, I know. I've been incredibly busy. Primarily with the book-publishing but a bit with family things and also, increasingly, with planning for the trip I'm currently on. (This blog post comes to you from London. On Saturday, I'm going to Cairo... ) Also, I've been ...

frogblog

  • Will Alasdair Thompson’s “damage c ...
    A Green-friendly employer and EMA member just sent me this (recipient details removed). I presume it has been sent to all EMA member employers today: If Alasdair Thompson has really had the epiphany he proclaims after a day to cogitate on the reaction to his outrageous comments, then perhaps he ...
  • A little film about a little town at the epice ...
    Love in a Little Town from James Muir on Vimeo. When everything is stripped back by disaster it reveals what is at the heart of a resilient neighbourhood… Its the love, time and energy of its people. Lyttelton is the port for Christchurch City, New Zealand, that was devastated by an earthquake i ...
  • Thompson makes case for Equal Pay amendment
    OK, this video of Alasdair Thompson being interviewed by Mihingarangi Forbes is astounding. Watch it from about 22 mins in. His behaviour is evidence enough of why we need stronger laws around equal pay. 1. Thompson stands by the claim that women should be paid less than men because they take of ...
  • Master banking contract unearthed
    New Zealand’s biggest banking contract has been a tightly-guarded secret for 21 years. The Government first signed the master banking contract with Westpac back in 1989 when David Lange was Prime Minister. There has never been a single competitive tender since. The Green Party was the first to h ...
  • Mine safety improvements needed NOW
    When someone heads off to work in the morning, they have a right to expect that their workplace is as safe as it can possibly be, and that they will return home again after work, safe and well. In the immediate aftermath of the Pike River mine disaster Cabinet ministers, most notably John Key hi ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Friday Catblogging - 24 June 2011
    By the time you see this I should be flying across the country, ready for some R&R in New York City. The cats, of course, are ready for R&R at all times, especially on warm summer days like these. As always, let them be your guide to a successully stress-free weekend. Comments | Post Co ...
  • Friday Catblogging - 24 June 2011
    By the time you see this I should be flying across the country, ready for some R&R in New York City. The cats, of course, are ready for R&R at all times, especially on warm summer days like these. As always, let them be your guide to a successully stress-free weekend. Comments | Post Co ...
  • Meet the "Christie Democrats"
    The New Jersey legislature on Thursday joined Wisconsin, Ohio, and a handful of other states by drastically scaling back pension and health-care benefits for government workers and curbing collective bargaining rights for public-sector unions. All told, 750,000 public-sector workers will end ...
  • Meet the "Christie Democrats"
    The New Jersey legislature on Thursday joined Wisconsin, Ohio, and a handful of other states by drastically scaling back pension and health-care benefits for government workers and curbing collective bargaining rights for public-sector unions. All told, 750,000 public-sector workers will end ...
  • Bombing the Moon
    Following up on my GOP mind games post, Ezra Klein makes a smart observation in this morning's Wonkbook on how the GOP transformed tax increases from a important, necessary option in the deficit debate into something evil and extremist. To prove his point, Ezra uses a clever rhetorical trick ...

Insanity Report

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

Simple Climate

  • Shrinking Arctic ice area is just the tip of t ...
    Old, thicker, ice cover has suffered extreme losses, says the University of Colorado's James Maslanik, providing more evidence of how humans are changing the planet.
  • Climate rhythm shift brings early calving
    Chillingham cattle, which are able to breed all year round, are having more calves in winter due to earlier springs, reducing their chances of surviving a year, find Sarah Burthe of the UK's Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and colleagues, showing that even mammals with breeding flexibility are ...
  • History warns of civilisation-crushing climate ...
    After giant sandworms cause an argument between me and my girlfriend about whether climate-related civilisation-wide disasters are possible, reviewing scientific evidence of such events through history force me to concede that they are.
  • Vikings’ Greenland demise tells climate tale
    Two civilisations – including the Vikings – disappeared from Greenland at times of rapid climate change William D'Andrea of University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and colleagues find, but understanding how those changes happens is more important than the impact they had, he asserts.
  • Greenland melt studies need greater accuracy
    Lack of detail undermines previous efforts to predict future Greenland ice melt from recent observations, says Ohio State University's Ian Howat, whose new method finds the island's three largest outlet glaciers lost enough ice to fill Lake Erie between 2000 and 2010

e!Science News

  • New genetic risk factors of lupus found in stu ...
    Researchers from Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center have found four new genetic variants in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) that confer a higher risk of systemic lupus erythemathosus ("lupus") in African American women. The study, which currently appears on-line in Human Ge ...
  • Young people with type 1 diabetes at risk for ...
    AURORA, Colo. (June 25, 2011) New research shows that adolescents and young adults with type 1 (juvenile) diabetes have thicker and stiffer carotid arteries, also known as atherosclerosis, a risk factor for heart attack and stroke in adults. This research is believed to be the first to examine w ...
  • Life expectancy for those with Type 1 diabetes ...
    The life expectancy of people diagnosed with type 1 diabetes dramatically increased during the course of a 30-year, long-term prospective study, according to a University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health study being presented at the 71st Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes ...
  • Unique lab seeks drought-tolerant traits in co ...
    As billion-dollar agricultural losses continue to mount in the withering Texas heat, Texas AgriLife Research scientists in Corpus Christi are taking a closer look at why some cotton varieties do better than others in drought conditions. read more
  • Syracuse University biologist discovers key re ...
    They can be found everywhere—organized communities of bacteria sticking to surfaces both inside and outside the body. These biofilms are responsible for some of the most virulent, antibiotic-resistant infections in humans; however, scientific understanding of how these communities develop is lac ...

unEarthed

  • Unwanted Green Tourism Slimes Florida
    Algae season peaks with warm sun and abundant nutrients Green slime on Caloosahatchee River As I write this, half of the 75-mile long Caloosahatchee River i ...
  • Gas - Bridge To Clean Future or U-turn To Dirt ...
    Natural gas doesn't deserve squeaky clean image Follow along as I walk us up the steep learning curve about natural gas that Earthjustice, the environmental co ...
  • Friday Finds: Dumpster Diaries
    Oceanic catastrophe, mythological creatures, oil baron payback Haul from a dumpster dive in Sweden. Photo courtesy of sigurdas.   Dumpster diver documenta ...
  • Instead of Saving Lives, Obama Chooses Delay
    On public health protections, administration wants us to play the waiting game Imagine two tiny figures perched on a politician's shoulders—one scientific, the ...
  • They’d Like to Stay Mum
    Oil refineries donât want to reveal amount of air pollution they are producing Oil refineries are by some estimates the second-largest industrial source of gre ...

Brave New Climate

  • Clearing up the climate debate
    The Conversation is a recently established website set up to provide an independent source of information, analysis and commentary from the Australian university and research sector. Over the last few weeks, a group of climate scientists and academics from other relevant disciplines, have been ...
  • Golf balls and elephants – energy densit ...
    I’m currently developing a short (2 minute, 30 second) animated video on nuclear power and climate change, with help from friend Ben Heard and the skills of Ron Furner and his team at Fury Films. Near the end of the vid, we talk about the vast amount of energy embodied in so-called ‘nuclear wast ...
  • Greenpeace’s plan for India
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. This article follows on from his previous: What price of Indian independence? Greenpeace under the spotlight —————— In my previous ...
  • Equinox Energy 2030 communiqué
    The Equinox Energy 2030 Summit (2011) has  now concluded, and I’ve arrived back in Australia. It was an enthralling and exhausting experience, and I befriended a wonderful group of people — members of the Forum (aged ~25 to 30 years), Advisors (including me — for generalist critiques and ), Quo ...
  • Open Thread 16
    The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting rules of courtesy apply, and at the very least your chat should relate to the general content of this ...
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