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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 III

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.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • NY Gov. Cuomo Signs Gay Marriage Law
    ShareThisNY Gov. Cuomo Signs Gay Marriage Law 25 Jun 2011 Same-sex marriage is now legal in New York after Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill that was narrowly passed by state lawmakers Friday, handing activists a breakthrough victory in the state where the gay rights movement was born. New York be ...
  • US steps ups pressure on Gaza flotilla activists
    ShareThisUS steps ups pressure on Gaza flotilla activists --Warnings came after 36 Americans said will sail U.S.-flagged vessel in flotilla 24 Jun 2011 The Obama regime on Friday stepped up pressure on American activists planning to challenge Israel's sea blockade of the Gaza Strip, formally war ...
  • Hezbollah says finds three spies within group
    ShareThisHezbollah says finds three spies within group 24 Jun 2011 Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday the group had captured three spies among its members, two of whom were recruited by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. The spies, one of whom was recruited five months ag ...
  • Pentagon names new Guantanamo prosecutor
    ShareThisPentagon names new Guantanamo prosecutor 23 Jun 2011 One of the Army's most prominent lawyers has been appointed chief prosecutor in the Office of Military Commissions, a clear signal that the Obama administration is determined to move forward briskly with tribunals at Guantanamo Bay, C ...
  • Nuclear agency head to visit flooded Nebraska ...
    ShareThisNuclear agency head to visit flooded Nebraska reactors 24 Jun 2011 The chair of the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission will arrive in Nebraska Sunday to monitor preparations against Missouri River flooding at two Nebraska nuclear power plants, officials said Friday. NRC Chair Gregory ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • AFP Interview with Secretary of Defense Robert ...
    Portion on Afghanistan Date:� Thursday, June 23, 2011 ------------------------- Q:� OK, so, if you don't mind, we'd like to start on Afghanistan.� And we'd like you, if you can, to describe your role in the decision and if you find yourself in the position to argue against a bigger drawdown, ...
  • Afghanistan is making undeniable progress, but ...
    19 June 2011 KABUL, AFGHANISTAN It's time to make big decisions. These decisions will have a huge impact on the future of Afghanistan. The biggest question at hand: How many troops will we keep here and for how long? The answer to that question must not be dreamed up in political strategy sess ...
  • Supporting the Mission with Operational Energy
    Please click to view the pdf.
  • Trust and Incompatibility
    Please click to view the entire report.�
  • Book Update
    17 June 2011 I am told that six copies of my book now exist. I have yet to see it but am told that it looks incredible. Am also told that the Chief of Staff for the First Lady got a copy. (How can Mrs. Obama get a copy even before I got a copy?)� Well, that's the way the ball bounces. Product ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

  • Old Jeans Recycled With Antique Style Furnitur ...
    Photos: LegendBlue website Everyone has their favorite pair of jeans, which may be hung onto like a cherished memory, long past the time when those jeans actually fit. But some, like furniture designer Liz Richardson of LegendBlues, may be hanging onto them to create something completely diff ...
  • Stay a Night in a Bridge Made from Reclaimed W ...
    All Images Courtesy of Observatorium Looking at the bridge, you wonder what it's doing there. It sits on dry, flat land. It doesn't connect anything to anything else. And its zig-zagging shape doesn't exactly scream practicality. That's because this is no ordinary bridge: it's also a hostel ...
  • Sweet Skins Organic Apparel on Sale This Month ...
    Summer dresses by Sweet Skins. Photo: Sweet Skins To celebrate summer style Oregon-based organic fashion label Sweet Skins is offering up a deal for sale-hungry shoppers. If you've been eying their Rasberry Scoop Tank Dress or their Slate Blue Spring Day Dress, now's your chance to get it o ...
  • Senate Introduces Bill to Limit Use of Antibio ...
    Photo: aaron13251 Antibiotic resistance has finally made its way onto the Senate radar again and with good reason considering that we've seen antibiotic resistance across British farms and this year in US hospitals and nursing homes to name just a few. It's a problem that's only getting wor ...
  • Check Out This Sweet VW Camper Van Tent!
    Image via Firebox I'm loathe to admit an affinity for any branded product, but I can't help it, I'm a sucker for VW buses and vans. Ergo, I love this tent! It's an officially licensed 1:1 scale of the iconic 1965 T1 camper van that comes in red, blue or yellow. ...Read the full story on ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Conrad Black to return to prison for one year
    [JURIST] Media magnate Conrad Black [CBC profile; JURIST news archive] was ordered to return to prison by the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois [official website] on Friday, to serve 13 more months of his 42 month sentence. Judge Amy St. Eve [official profile], his original ...
  • UN applauds arrest of Guatemala genocide suspect
    [JURIST] The UN on Friday announced its approval [press release] of the arrest of a former top Guatemalan military figure accused of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. General Hector Mario Lopez Fuentes, former chief of staff of Guatemalan armed forces from 1982-1983, is accused o ...
  • Apple sues Samsung for patent infringement in ...
    [JURIST] Apple filed suit Friday in the Seoul Central District Court claiming that the Samsung [corporate websites] "Galaxy" line of products copies its iPhone and iPad technology. This follows similar suits by Apple in the US and suits by Samsung [JURIST reports] filed in South Korea, Japan and ...
  • House votes down authorization for Libya missi ...
    [JURIST] The US House of Representatives [official website] in two votes Friday sent contradictory messages over authorization of US military operations in Libya. First, the House overwhelmingly voted down 123-295 [roll call vote] a resolution [HJ RES 68] that would have authorized further opera ...
  • UN investigators to asses Yemen human rights s ...
    [JURIST] The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] on Friday announced [text] that it plans to send a panel to investigate the human rights situation in Yemen [OHCHR backgrounder]. Three OHCHR experts will travel to Yemen next week [press release] for a 1 ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • The Vote in New York
    It is thrilling to follow Andrew Sullivan's chronicle of the tension, release, drama, and aftermath this evening. Also, Nicholas Jackson's tech and political insights (source of the "Rainbow Empire State Building" photo at right).  Ten years from now, it will seem as hard to believe that coupl ...
  • Obama's 'Own Goal' on the Libya Vote
    Things are hard enough for the Obama Administration when it has logic, the national interest, and Democratic party principles on its side. As, in my view, has been the case with its health-care reform effort, the campaign to limit the Bush tax cuts to the bottom 95% or so of the income distribut ...
  • New York Legislature Legalizes Gay Marriage in ...
    Four Republicans joined all but one of the state's Democrats to pass the bill in Albany 33 to 29 in a late vote on FridayThe crowd outside of the normally somber state senate chambers in Albany erupted in cheers of "USA! USA!" after New York legislators passed a bill in a late session on Friday ...
  • House Votes Against Cutting Funds for War in Libya
    The House of Representatives has rejected a Republican-led effort to cut off funds for the conflict in Libya in what The Los Angeles Times's Kathleen Hennessey calls a "surprising victory for the White House in its power struggle with Congress." That followed another House vote involving congres ...
  • Is There Really Gold in Ft. Knox?
    Ron Paul has doubts about whether the U.S. reserve exists, and he's aiming to find out the truth. I'm quite fond of Ron Paul. I enjoyed spending time with him for this Atlantic profile. I liked learning about Austrian economics. I like the fact that he thinks differently than other Republicans ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Beinin Successfully Defends Libel Charge
    Stanford Professor Joel Beinin just won a court victory against Los Angeles pro-Israel activist Rachel Neuwirth, who’d charged him with libel in a case related to this blog.  Several years ago, Beinin wrote to me that Neuwirth had made a death threat against him, about which he was deposed in a ...
  • Gaza Flotilla Ships Depart Tuesday, U.S. Threa ...
    The Turkish daily, Hurriyet reports that ten Gaza flotilla ships will embark from European ports in Greece and Italy on Tuesday.  Previous reports said they might sail Saturday.  The story notes that at least one ship will leave from Athens port, which would likely be the Audacity of Hope, who ...
  • The Shame of It: State Department Warns U.S. F ...
    Not for a years have I felt quite this ashamed of my own government.  As you know, 50 U.S. citizens have chartered a boat called The Audacity of Hope, to be part of the Gaza flotilla.  The name of the boat was an attempt to tie the effort to the most optimistic, progressive aspects of [...] ...
  • Voice of Israel Anti-Flotilla Hasbara
    It’s simply amazing the power of the Israeli media to lull its audience into a false sense of confidence that all Israel’s alleged enemies are incompetent, their evil machinations will be foiled, and that their government, like Allstate, has them in the best of hands.  This little bit of sopori ...
  • IDF: Wages of Terror Are Sodomy
    The wages of sin may be death in the New Testament.  But in the IDF the wages of terror appear to be sodomy. I don’t know why it is that the IDF finds it especially appropriate to mete our the punishments of sodomy for suspected terrorists in its hands.  We know, for example, that IDF [...] ...

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • 2012: Who's Going to Vote?
    On June 16 th , political pundits observed that liberals are unhappy with President Barack Obama and conservatives are displeased with GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney. If the 2012 presidential contest matches Obama and Romney, and their bases are turned off, how will this affect the outcome?
  • Generation Z Activism: Alec Loorz
    Alec Loorz is a 16 year old from Ventura California who is suing the US government and three states for "allowing money to be more powerful than the survival of my generation and making decisions that threaten our right to a safe and healthy planet."
  • Truth Must Abscond with Power: More on Gore's ...
    Having completed my reading of Al Gore's essay "Climate of Denial," I offer a brief summary of the rest.
  • Obama Quickens Afghan Withdrawal in Face of Pr ...
    Obama will be trying to sell himself to peace voters while watching out for the military, as well as unpredictable pressures from Republicans, and facing military families who wonder just what this was all about.
  • If Obama is Playing Politics with the Afghan T ...
    Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney wasted no time in intimating that it was politics more than necessity that prompted President Obama's cautious phased drawdown of US forces in Afghanistan.

Switchboard

  • Six Reasons Why the Auto Industry Cost Claims ...
    Roland Hwang, Transportation Program Director, San Francisco Last week the auto industry released their latest claims on the cost of stronger pollution and fuel economy standards by the Center for Automotive Research (CAR).  According to this late ...
  • Six Reasons Why the Auto Industry Cost Claims ...
    Roland Hwang, Transportation Program Director, San Francisco Last week the auto industry released their latest claims on the cost of stronger pollution and fuel economy standards by the Center for Automotive Research (CAR).  According to this late ...
  • NRDC in the News 6/24: E-waste, fracking, Clea ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide Kate Sinding was quoted in a Los Angeles Times piece about proposed legislation which would prohibit exportation of toxic e-waste to developing nations… Amy Mall spoke to the Financial Times about ...
  • NRDC in the News 6/24: E-waste, fracking, Clea ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide Kate Sinding was quoted in a Los Angeles Times piece about proposed legislation which would prohibit exportation of toxic e-waste to developing nations… Amy Mall spoke to the Financial Times about ...
  • More L.A. Officials Saying Yes to CEQA, No to ...
    Damon Nagami, Staff Attorney, Santa Monica Yesterday, the top policy advisor to the Los Angeles City Council, Chief Legislative Analyst Gerry F. Miller, recommended that the City Council oppose any attempts to relax state environmental rules for A ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Albany Gets on Right Side of History
    Looks like the vote will finally pass. Outstanding! At lease one member has unexpectedly switched to a “yes”; once the logjam has been broken you’d think some GOP members would prefer not to emulate Strom Thurmond. Whew, it’s good that I was able to get married before the institution of heterose ...
  • Cocaine is a hell of a drug
    No one will believe me, of course, but just this morning I was thinking, “I wonder what’s new in the world of cocaine.” Okay then: Cocaine cut with the veterinary drug levamisole could be the culprit in a flurry of flesh-eating disease in New York and Los Angeles. The drug, used to deworm cattle ...
  • House refuses to authorize use of force in Libya
    Good for them, and especially for the 70 Democrats who refused to issue an ex post facto rubber stamp for the executive branch’s latest exercise in foreign policy adventurism. Update: After a classified briefing, almost all Democrats and some Republicans agree to continue funding. My guess is th ...
  • Diaz, The Worst Person in New York
    Sadly, it’s not like anybody else’s arguments against SSM are much better.
  • Women’s 2011 World Cup
    kicks off Sunday, hosted by Germany.  My knowledge of the women’s game is vastly less developed than the men’s, and with the passing into retirement of the USA’s golden generation, I don’t even have a solid handle on our own side beyond a couple key players.  That said, I’m going to, in typic ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • 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

environment 360

  • Species May Adapt Quickly To Environmental Cha ...
    A new experiment using baker’s yeast suggest that organisms can adapt relatively rapidly to environmental changes. McGill University researchers exposed samples of baker’s yeast, whose genetic makeup has been well studied, to various levels of salt — an environmental stressor for yeast. What the ...
  • Brown to Green: A New Use For Blighted Industr ...
    Few places in the U.S. are as well suited to developing renewable energy as the contaminated sites known as “brownfields.” But as communities from Philadelphia to California are discovering, government support is critical to enable solar and wind entrepreneurs to make use of these abandoned land ...
  • Forum: Just How Safe Is ‘Fracking’ of Natural ...
    New technologies for freeing natural gas from underground shale formations have led to a hydraulic fracturing boom across the U.S. that is now spreading to other countries. In a Yale Environment 360 forum, eight experts discuss whether “fracking” can be done without serious harm to water and ai ...
  • Fly Larvae Used to Remove Organic Waste on Lar ...
    Spanish researchers have developed a process that uses fly larvae to rapidly break down animal waste on a large scale while simultaneously producing biomass that can Click to enlarge Asociación RUVIDFly larvae feed on organic waste be re-used for numerous purposes, from animal feed to the pr ...
  • Snowpack Decline in Rockies Has Rapidly Accele ...
    A new study says snowpack decline in the northern Rocky Mountains over the last 30 years has been more severe than at any other time in nearly 1,000 years. In an analysis of 66 tree-ring records, researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) found that the average spring snowpack in the nor ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

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

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

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a C ...

The Freeman

  • Google Is in FTC’s Antitrust Sights
    “The Federal Trade Commission is preparing to issue subpoenas to Google as part of a wide-ranging civil antitrust investigation into practices in Googleâs search engine business, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.” (New York Times) Government the harasser. FEE Timely Classic “ ...
  • Search for Budget Compromise in Trouble
    “Congressional Republicans on Thursday abandoned budget talks aimed at clearing the way for a federal debt limit increase, leaving the outcome in doubt as they vowed not to give in to a Democratic push for new tax revenues as part of any compromise.” (New York Times) The last thing government sh ...
  • Obama to Tap Petroleum Reserve
    “The United States and its allies will release 60 million barrels of emergency oil reserves to replace lost Libyan oil production and assure adequate supplies for the summer, officials announced on Thursday.” (New York Times) Government is quick to rescue us from the consequences of its own poli ...
  • Of Malice and Straw Men
    We libertarians must be onto something. Why else would critics work so hard to construct straw men to demolish rather than contending with our actual arguments?
  • Coming Soon: The Federal Department of Standar ...
    The story of federal intervention in education is one of abject failure. Coming in large supply only since President Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society,” Washington’s educational undertakings first resulted in billions of misspent dollars, then billions of misspent dollars coupled with increasingly ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Journalists: How to get started with Twitter
    If you haven’t yet found any value in using Twitter, here’s what you should consider. On the topic of WHY to get started, John Robinson (the editor of the News & Record, in Greensboro, North Carolina) wrote a very good piece for ASNE this week. If youâre not on Twitter, youâre making your job ...
  • Tune up your skills this summer
    Looking over my Google Analytics data today, I found that these are some of the most-visited pages on this blog: How to shoot video interviews Why does anyone major in journalism? A few words about digital audio recorders Recording phone calls: For reporters Now printable! Reporterâs Guid ...
  • Using WordPress in reporting classes
    Journalism educators who teach reporting or writing classes often come to the conclusion that it would be nice to put their students’ work online so that everyone in the class can see one another’s work — and possibly even comment on the stories written by others. This is a great idea, and I th ...
  • Updating Reporter’s Guide to Multimedia Profic ...
    It’s been two years since I wrote this free guide. Do you think it’s worth my while to update it? I’ve been thinking it might be good to put it on Wikia and allow others to edit and add to it. Then it could be updated any time, and translations could be contributed too. Please comment.   It’ ...
  • New WordPress theme for this blog
    Don’t be alarmed — I’ve changed to a new blog theme for Teaching Online Journalism. This is the free Fiver theme from WordPress.org. It uses HTML5 and CSS3, and the style sheet is nice and clean. I will be making some adjustments to it (especially the colors). All the content is still here, an ...

Facing South

  • Did New Orleans media contribute to police vio ...
    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 ...
  • Alabama immigration law: Policy or politics?
    By Kathy Mulady, Equal Voice Despite soaring deficits, cuts in social services, worker layoffs and tornado-devastated communities, Alabama's first Republican-controlled government in 136 years has turned its focus on undocumented immigrants, raising questions about policymakers' priorities. ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Justice for the South's force ...
    Year in which Sir Francis Galton founded the now-discredited science of eugenics to improve the human population through selective reproduction: 1883 Number of U.S. states that adopted eugenics laws in the early 1900s targeting for compulsory sterilization people deemed unfit to bear children ...
  • Drawing the lines: Redistricting battles shape ...
    Across the South, state legislatures have rolled out their plans for redrawing political lines -- plans that could be key to shaping upcoming elections in 2011 and 2012. The new Southern plans are being closely followed because this is the first time in history that redistricting has happe ...
  • VOICES: The Southern front in the corporate wa ...
    By Joe Atkins, Labor South A Southern front has opened up in the corporate-GOP war on workers. Just look at some recent headlines: "Supreme Court Conservatives Thwart Wal-Mart Sex Bias Case" (Associated Press, June 20) "Memphis sanitation workers are volatile city budget targe ...

Worldpress - Africa

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Experiment catches shifty neutrinos
    A particle physics experiment based at Fermilab announced results Friday afternoon that provide yet more evidence of rare neutrino oscillations -- evidence that can help explain why matter in the Universe dominates over anti-matter. The result is consistent with evidence presented just 10 da ...
  • Latest briefs in US stem cell lawsuit filed
    Proponents and opponents of US government funding for human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research have filed what may be their final arguments to the judge who shut down the research for 17 days last August and September. Briefs were filed today by both sides in Sherley et al. v. Sebelius, ...
  • US patent reform moves step closer
    Advocates for legislation that promises to make it simpler for researchers to patent their inventions are celebrating after the passage of the America Invents Act through the US House of Representatives yesterday. The bill passed the Senate in March but minor differences between the versions ...
  • Serious games: playing for a better world
    The late US political scientist Clark Abt helped launch a movement with his 1970 book "Serious Games," which explored ways in which games could be used to promote education and solve problems. More than four decades later, it would appear that serious games are at last coming into their own as a ...
  • Underground lab getting a new parent with the ...
    DUSEL, the underground lab proposed for the Homestake mine in South Dakota, was orphaned by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in December, when its advisory board balked at the huge costs of building and operating the lab. On Tuesday, physicists advising the Department of Energy (DOE) lea ...

new geography

  • What To Look For In The Next President
    As the 2012 election approaches America is in a state of malaise. Massive debt, unfettered spending, economic decline and partisan divide have served to undermine the great American narrative that is predicated on optimism and a “can do” attitude. As I assess the candidates for President, I ...
  • The Rise Of The Third Coast: The Gulf Region’s ...
    For most of the nation�s history, the Atlantic region � primarily New York City � has dominated the nation�s trade. In the last few decades of the 20th Century, the Pacific, led by Los Angeles and Long Beach, gained prominence. Now we may be about to see the ascendancy of a third coast: the Gulf ...
  • Outlawing New Houses in California
    UCLA's most recent Anderson Forecast indicates that there has been a significant shift in demand in California toward condominiums and apartments. The Anderson Forecast concludes that this will cause problems, such as slower growth in construction employment because building multi-unit dwelli ...
  • Enterprising States: Hard choices now, hard wo ...
    This is an excerpt from "Enterprising States: Creating Jobs, Economic Development, and Prosperity in Challenging Times" authored by Praxis Strategy Group and Joel Kotkin. The entire report is available at the National Chamber Foundation website, including highlights of top performing stat ...
  • Enterprising States: Recovery and Renewal for ...
    This is an excerpt from "Enterprising States: Creating Jobs, Economic Development, and Prosperity in Challenging Times" authored by Praxis Strategy Group and Joel Kotkin. The entire report is available at the National Chamber Foundation website, including highlights of top performing stat ...

GM Watch

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Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • The State Of The Economy
    The U.S. economy is like a rubber band that is being pulled in several different directions at the same time.  Everyone knows that at some point it is going to snap, but nobody is quite sure exactly when it is going to happen.  Right now, the state of the economy is not good, an ...
  • 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 i ...
  • Is The Economy Improving?
    Is the U.S. economy improving?  That is what Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke would have us believe.  Bernanke declared today that the "recovery appears to be proceeding at a moderate pace" and that everything is going pretty much as planned.  Sadly, the mainstream media an ...
  • Barack Obama’s White House Rural Council ...
    Barack Obama has issued a brand new executive order that establishes a White House Rural Council.  This Rural Council has been given the task of developing "public-private partnerships" that will seek to bring the "economic prosperity" of our big cities to rural America.  In oth ...
  • 48 Percent Of Americans Believe Another Great ...
    Do you believe that the U.S. economy is steamrolling toward a depression?  If so, you are not alone.  According to a recent CNN poll, 48 percent of Americans believe that "another Great Depression" is likely within the next 12 months.  Americans have been waiting for almost thre ...

Desertification

  • Prickly pear (Opuntia ficus-indica) for living ...
    When visiting the Facebook account of the Rehabilitation of Arid Environments (RAE) Trust, I noticed a nice photo in which the prickly pear cactus was used as a living fence. Today I read the following comment : “Opuntia make quite … Continue reading →
  • Scientific Facts on Desertification (GreenFacts)
    Read at : http://www.greenfacts.org/en/desertification/index.htm Scientific Facts on Desertification Context – Desertification is the persistent degradation of dryland ecosystems. It threatens the livelihoods of some of the poorest and most vulnerable populations on the planet. Desertification i ...
  • Growing Gobi desert (Blinckx / NBC News)
    VIDEO seen at : http://www.blinkx.com/watch-video/growing-gobi-desert/LS3xubSj_C0BoYvuUPVCIg Growing Gobi desert
  • Planting desert willows to combat desertificat ...
    VIDEO seen at : http://www.blinkx.com/watch-video/residents-of-inner-mongolia-fight-desertification/BIpYoZ388fhmOLB945gJbQ Residents of Inner Mongolia fight desertification Chinese try to push back encroaching desert by planting trees
  • Desertification is on the rise in Pakistan (Th ...
    Read at : http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=52919&Cat=4&dt=6%2F17%2F2011#.Tfr48jA8wxM;facebook Experts warn of desertification M. Waqar Bhatti Friday, June 17, 2011 Desertification is on the rise in Pakistan due to growing a population that is putting immense pressure on cultiv ...

The Paper Trail

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

backofthebook.ca

  • The lost art of imagining retribution
    By Jan Drabek Probably the most bizarre attempt to deal with the Stanley Cup riots to date was the announcement of a group getting together to sing O Canada at the corner of Georgia and Hamilton. But other unusual takes abound, among them that of the bicycle-loving mayor of Vancouver who ...
  • The attack on young Canadians
    By Montreal Simon If you want to survive Canada's Summer of Anger, there are two subjects you absolutely must NOT discuss with your fellow hosers. One . . . who is to blame for the Vancouver riot? Because chances are you'll have to listen to some deranged rant about how young people ...
  • The Vancouver riot: thugs are not anarchists
    By Frank Moher Memo to Vancouver Police Chief Jim Chu: idiots and anarchists are two different things. I know being a political scientist isn't a prerequiste for becoming a cop, not even the top cop, but playing the "anarchist" card last week, as you did in defending your force's handling of ...
  • Where is Brock Anton?
    By Frank Moher Having owned the Brock Anton story sufficiently on Thursday to crash our server for awhile -- we've now moved to a nice big new one -- it seems necessary to provide a follow-up, although much of the web has moved on to other riot tales, like the kissing ...
  • The face of Vancouver’s Stanley Cup riot
    By Frank Moher Overnight, a certain Brock Anton became the face of the Vancouver Stanley Cup riot on the internet. Downtown for the abortive festivities yesterday, Mr. Anton apparently took time out from his busy schedule to post this on his Facebook page: It reads: Maced in the face, ...

libcom

  • London Underground strike threat wins reinstat ...
    tube-strike.jpg Six days of strikes on the London Underground by the RMT union have been called off after management agreed to reinstate a sacked train driver. Strikes were ori ...
  • Silent revolution in Belarus
    24295.jpg The situation in Belarus is now getting closer to the one that was during the elections in December 2010 but now it seems to be more massive and popular. After the ...
  • Italy: more arrests in Florence and Milan
    More arrests in Florence among student groups linked to the revolts of last autumn, and two anarchist activists arrested in Milan Florence: just about a month after the events of May 4th (5 arrests and 22 banning orders among student ...
  • Strikeforce - Monson outpunched by Cormier
    monson_1.JPG Anarchist MMA fighter Jeff 'The Snowman' Monson faced off against wrestler Daniel Comier in last night's Strikeforce event Jeff Monson made his return to 'top-tier ...
  • J30: It's on
    pcs.jpg Steve Ryan on the upcoming day of co-ordinated strike action by public sector trade unions, due to take place on the 30th of June. Included below are two articles by St ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Khazarian Satanic Porn — Plumbing New Depths
    In this public You-tube clip, which is a digital recording of a VERY PUBLIC PRESENTATION at the 2011 Conspiracy Conference, “Investigative Reporter” and consort of Leonard Horowitz, Sherri Kane maliciously attacked ex-VietNam war veteran Timothy White by accusing him of being a felon, rapists, a ...
  • Is A. True Ott a “Jew-Hating Man”, ...
    In an e-mail to me in August 2010, Khazarian Blue-Blood Jew Leonard G. Horowitz wrote: “How STUPID of you ——- to EXPOSE YOURSELF AS A JEW-HATING MAN!!!”   What exactly “exposed” me?  Merely using the term “Khazar” and “Goy” in an earlier post to his sweetie Sherri Kane in describing her and m ...
  • Who Is David Main? We may never know for sure!
    Until this baseless and malicious attack by Kane and Horowitz began, I had blissfully never heard of “David Main”.     You see, Kane swore under oath, in a complaint that A. True Ott was David Main.   It seemed at the time a simple enough task — to simply provide solid evidence to the cour ...
  • Horowitz and Kane – A Most Dangerous Sta ...
    According to Stephen A. Diamond, PhD - in his expose written Apr 4, 2008 and published in Psychology Today, Narcissist Personality Disorder (NPD) is a mental condition directly tied to thousands of horrific homicides in North America over the past decade.   Indeed, NPD is a most “Dangerous State ...
  • SIR (Chevalier) Leonard G. Horowitz — ...
    This expose is in response to declarations found on Horowitz’ own website postings (one of 300 URL’s he controls) found at: http://web.mac.com/len15/Newsletter_%26_Blog/Knighting.html When the heat is on, look for this website of the Grand Narcissist Poo-Bah to disappear, just as Sherri Kane’s f ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Mellissa Fung, Kidnapped in Afghanistan (May 1 ...
    CBC Journalist and author of Under an Afghan Sky tells Peter about her kidnapping in Afghanistan.
  • Bob McDonald - Part 1 (Mar 26, 2011)
    Time for our annual show where you ask CBC's Science Correspondent about the mysteries that have always puzzled you!
  • Dan Bjarnason (March 19, 2011)
    Former CBC Correspondent and author of Triumph at Kapyong talks about the critical battle won by Canadians in the Korean War.
  • Don Tapscott
    Best-selling author Don Tapscott on the "wiki-revolutions" in the Middle East and how mass collaboration is changing our world.
  • Roberta Jamieson
    Roberta Jamieson, head of the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation talks about her commitment to the education and success of aboriginal youth.

Scotts Contracting

  • Estimating Tips for Spray Foam Window/Door Sealant
    While Working on an Material Estimate for Installing 10 Replacement Windows. I wanted to share this Information on from Dow Great Stuff. Sizes and Estimated Yields for GREAT STUFF PRO™ Window & Door Insulating Foam Sealant Can Size, oz (g) Delivery No. of Windows(1) 20 (567) Reusable Straw 6-9 2 ...
  • Energy Efficiency Key to Reducing the Need to ...
    report says EERS policies are driving energy efficiency investments and energy cost savings to unprecedented levels national energy policy remains beyond the reach of Congress ((13 of the 19 states are achieving 100% or more of their goals)) U.S. states lead on energy efficiency, lower utility b ...
  • Energy Plan Live-Chat-Senator Adviser N Brown ...
    First for Facebook, First for Energy Jun 22, 2011 Office of Senator Dick Lugar On Wednesday, June 22, 2010, we are extremely excited about a first for the Senate and a first for Facebook – the start of a rollout of legislation exclusively via Facebook. Beginning at 6:30 p.m. (Eastern) tomorrow w ...
  • Proposed Nuke Plant and Flood Plain Issues
    Bad combination: Floodplains, nuclear materials and understated risk Share173 By Bob Criss, special to the Beacon Posted 7:00 am Fri., 6.17.11 It’s only June but one thing is certain: 2011 is another extraordinary flood year. The record high water levels just experienced on the Mississippi from ...
  • degeneration in the oceans is happening much f ...
    State Of The Ocean: ‘Shocking’ Report Warns Of Mass Extinction From Current Rate Of Marine Distress First Posted: 06/20/11 05:19 PM ET Updated: 06/21/11 09:09 AM ET If the current actions contributing to a multifaceted degradation of the world’s oceans aren’t curbed, a mass extinction unlike any ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Iraq defeats Iran in Olympic qualifiers‎
    Iran National Olympic Football Team has failed to reach next round of the Asian qualifiers for the 2012 Summer Olympics Football tournament in London after losing 2-0 to Iraq. Two goals by Amjad Radhi on Thursday in the Iranian capital Tehran vanished Iran's hopes of playing in the 2012 London ...
  • اعتصاب غذای شش تن از زندانیان سیاسی رجایی شهر ...
    کیوان صمیمی، عیسی سحر خیز، مسعود باستانی، علی عجمی، جعفر اقدامی و حشمت الله طبرزدی شش زندانی سیاسی رجایی شهر کرج هستند که اعلام کردند تا زمانی که همراهانشان در بند ۳۵۰ اوین در اعتصاب غذا هستند با آنان همراه خواهند بود و اعتصاب می کنند
  • نامه 162 پزشک به لاريجانی در مورد برخورد زندان ...
    ۱۶۲ نفر از اعضای جامعه پزشکی کشور در نامه ای خطاب به رئيس دستگاه قضا خواستار رسيدگی سريع و بدون اغماض و مجازات مقصرين و مسئولين فجايع اندوهبار در رابطه با مرگ مرحوم هدی صابر و مرحومه هالۀ سحابی شدند. آنها در بخشی از اين نامه مهم با امضاهای مشخص آورده اند:
  • Ahmadinejad: Iran Not Afraid of Making Nuclear ...
    TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's president says his country isn't afraid of making a nuclear weapon but doesn't intend to do so. read more
  • US imposes economic sanctions on Iran Air
    The US has imposed economic sanctions on Iran's national airline, saying Iran Air had supported the Iranian military.read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Is Human Nature Flawed?
    This is the first of a series of posts on the age-old Human Nature debate and the question of whether human beings are capable of achieving true participatory and economic democracy. The failure of the world’s great economic powers to solve the global debt crisis, coupled with growing politic ...
  • Generation Z Activism: Alec Loorz
    Alec Loorz Approximate age ranges for Generation X,Y,Z and Baby Boomers: Generation Z: 13-18 Generation Y: 19–29 Generation X: 30-45 Baby Boomers: 46-65 Alec Loorz is a 16 year old from Ventura California who is suing the US government and three states for “allowing money to be more powerful ...
  • How Early Feminists Recruited the Working Class
    A major headache for progressive organizers is that low income workers find ultraconservative Teaparty and United Front groups far more appealing than progressive causes focused on improving their economic circumstances. As Marxist psychiatrist writes in his 1933 The Mass Psychology of Fascism ...
  • The Real Cultural Wars
    The term “cultural wars,” as used by the mainstream media, seems to have two distinct meanings. It’s most commonly used to refer to the so-called “class of civilizations” between western democracy and societies where Islam is the primary religion. As Lila Rajiva points out in the Language of Em ...
  • The Law of Adverse Possession
    This hands-off policy (see Jun 14 blog) by police and banks as regards the homeless occupying abandoned homes has opened up a lucrative market for ambitious entrepreneurs who fix up abandoned properties and rent them out to tenants. In December 2010 Mark Gurette, the owner of Saving Florida Home ...

Doug's Darkworld

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

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • US, Other Countries Battle OPEC With Release F ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post While Robert continues his trip to Europe and across the Continental U.S., a significant piece of news has been dominating the headlines. Although we’ve been closely monitoring the release of 60 million barrels of crude on our Energy Ticker page, we also w ...
  • Highlights of BP’s 2011 Statistical Review of ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Global Energy Growth BP recently released their highly respected annual Statistical Review of World Energy for 2011. Most of the news stories on the report have focused on the exceptionally strong growth in global energy consumption. While that is without ...
  • Media Misinformation Promotes Dysfunctional En ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Over the years I have had some enlightening interactions with the news media. I have gradually developed the view that many in the media believe their role is more to entertain than to inform. My naive younger self believed that the media generally present ...
  • Q&A With Virent CTO Randy Cortright
    Join the forum discussion on this post In the previous essay, I discussed the National Advanced Biofuels Consortium (NABC) and the recently announced success of Virent Energy Systems (Virent), a member of the consortium. In this essay I try to dig into the process details a bit more with a seri ...
  • Virent Pulling Ahead of the Pack?
    Join the forum discussion on this post The National Advanced Biofuels Consortium In January 2010, Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the investment of nearly $80 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for advanced biofuels research and fueling infrastructure. About $35 mi ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • Google Apps Education Training Center
    Comments:Training resources (How-To) for Google Applications in Education suite. - Dean MantzTags: google, googleapps, education, resources, web2.0, technology, tutorialsby: Dean Mantz
  • The 7 Steps for EdLeader21 the Professional Le ...
    Tags: leadership, education, planning, collaboration, standards, professionaldevelopment, plcby: Dean Mantz
  • EdTech Toolbox: 8 Ways to Support Teachers Int ...
    Comments:Very insightful infographic regarding the support teachers need with technology integration.  - Dean MantzTags: edtech, technology, integration, teaching, toolbox, education, teachers, web2.0, support, infographicby: Dean Mantz
  • Create Tutorials in One Click on Tildee !
    Tags: tutorials, tildee, create, education, technology, learning, mashups, web_2.0by: Stephen Thergesen
  • Because It Flew – Home
    Comments: Free! Minimal preparation required For kids in school or on summer vacation Appropriate for ages 9-17 (grades 4-12) Engaging (even fun!) project for students STEM integrated with language arts Cash awards, remote mentoring session with professional graphic ar ...

Rodale News

  • Farmer's Markets Innovations Make Healthy Food ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—There's often a throwback feel to farmer's markets, where you can seek out the same heirloom vegetable varieties your great-grandmother adored. Old-school, heritage-breed chicken eggs? Yep, a true farmer's market probably offers them. And while the farmer's market is a p ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: DIY Wedding Favor Ideas
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—At the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the guests all left with luxurious wool scarves, sporting the Union Jack in various colorful prints, that cost about $75 each. Chances are, you haven't budgeted that amount of money into your next soiree. And do ...
  • Local Food, Fast: Major Fast Food Chain Beefs ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Years ago, the fast-food chain Chipotle Mexican Grill made a name for itself by ditching the factory-farmed, antibiotic-laden meat sold at other chains, committing to buying read more
  • Fracking Coloring Book Paints a Rosy Picture o ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Terry the "Fracosaurus," featured in a natural gas drilling company's fracking coloring book for children, seems nice enough, but he's hiding some shady scientific stats the read more
  • 9 Farm Tools That Belong in Your Backyard
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Bigger isn't always better. In the Midwest, thousand-acre megafarms prompt the use of tons of toxic pesticides and chemical fertilizers, and require the firing up of heavy, gas-guzzling machinery. This chemical-backed, fossil fuel–reliant system destroys soil and ...

big think

  • Diabetes Cures Found?
    What's the Latest Development? Parallel developments in research may bring sufferers of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes very near a cure. A team of physicians at Massachusetts General Hospital have found a tuberculosis vaccine,�called BCG, prevents T cells from destroying�insulin-secreting cells .. ...
  • Gay Marriage May Complicate LGBT Health
    What's the Latest Development? When the New York state Senate legalized gay marriage yesterday, New York became the largest state to grant same-sex couples the right to marry. On one hand, there will likely be psychological benefits to the decision: "A 2010�study�published in the American Jour ...
  • Fat Substitutes Make You Fatter
    What's the Latest Development? A new study published in the journal Behavioral Neuroscience�says that foods with low-calorie fat substitutes may promote weight gain rather than reduce it: "The use of food products designed to mimic the sensory properties of sweet and fat while providing fewer ...
  • The Future of Immortality
    What's the Latest Development? In an interview given in Cambridge, England, gerontologist and advocate of anti-aging science Aubrey de Grey says that immortality is within our grasp, possibly even within his lifetime: "I focus on the fact that every day that I bring the defeat of aging forward ...
  • Some Cell Phones Emit More Radiation
    What's the Latest Development? Last month, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a branch of the World Health Organization, declared cellphone radiation "possibly carcinogenic to humans."�Now, some scientists are claiming that certain types of cellphones could be more "possibly ...R ...

Information Liberation

  • Study: Concept of property rights may come nat ...
    WASHINGTON * Young children are possessed by possessions. Preschoolers argue about what belongs to whom with annoying regularity, a habit that might suggest limited appreciation of what it means to own something. But it*s actually just the opposit...
  • Senator Leahy Praises US Gov't Censorship Of W ...
    It really would be kind of funny to watch the US government congratulate itself for censorship of websites if it wasn't just kind of sad. At a Senate Judiciary committee hearing on intellectual property issues, Senator Patrick Leahy (top 3 campaign ...
  • MPAA, RIAA, Major ISPs Preparing 'Graduated Re ...
    A partnership between the RIAA, MPAA and the major ISPs, which would see the latter taking action against infringing customers, has been confirmed. If final agreement is reached * a point believed to be as close as next month * ISPs including AT&T, C...
  • Leaked: UK copyright lobby holds closed-door m ...
    A group of UK copyright lobbyists held confidential, closed-door meetings with Ed Vaizey, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries to discuss a plan to allow industry groups to censor the Internet in the UK. The proposal has leake...
  • The Costs of Compulsory Education
    Education elites and their political cronies have implemented countless initiatives aimed at reforming education. From the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, every plan put forth has resulted in n...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • The Blind Spot: Science and the Crisis of Unce ...
    The Blind Spot: Science and the Crisis of Uncertainty – “In today’s unpredictable and chaotic world, we look to science to provide certainty and answers–and often blame it when things go wrong. The Blind Spot reveals why our faith in scientific certainty is a dangerous illusion, and how only by ...
  • Science goes mobile – SciMobileApps
    Science goes mobile #SciMobileApps – ChemConnector Tony Williams nudged me towards a relatively new initiative to help science "get" mobile. Mobile apps for science are expanding in scope and capability very quickly, yet there is no easy way to source information regarding what is available, wha ...
  • Negative science
    Negative science – Often the "eureka moment" occurs not in the sense of "I've found it", but more as a "WTF?" Indeed, it's been estimated that more than two-thirds of scientific experiments fail to produce the results anticipated and in one way might be considered failed experiments, or negative ...
  • Chemistry news round-up for this week
    Chemistry news round-up for this week – This week, The Alchemist is intrigued by a molecular optical illusion and learns of a new catalyst for making aromatic compounds from their unsaturated hydrocarbon counterparts. A new gel has been developed by chemists in China for delivering anticancer dr ...
  • Science across the spectrum
    Penrose, Escher, back – M.C. Escher‘s famously paradoxical illustration of 1960 depicting a stairway atop an “impossible” building, and made famous recently in a dreamscape of the Hollywood movie “Inception“, that seems to ascend or descend interminably is a good example of how projecting our 3D ...

RFF Library

  • EPA Identifies Case Studies for Hydraulic Frac ...
    US EPA http://www.epa.gov/hydraulicfracturing [Press Release] Agency to conduct field work in various regions of the country starting this summer WASHINGTON - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today, in keeping with the administration’s focus to ensure that the agency leverages dome ...
  • Policy Options for Reducing Energy Use and Gre ...
    Transportation Research Board http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/sr/sr307.pdf [Press release] The U.S. transportation sector accounts for more than two-thirds of the nation’s oil use and about 25 percent of its carbon dioxide emissions.  A new report from the National Research Council, examin ...
  • S.757: Carbon Dioxide Capture Technology Prize ...
    Congressional Budget Office http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/122xx/doc12251/s757.pdf S. 757 would authorize appropriations for the Department of Energy (DOE) to provide competitive financial awards to support the development of advanced technologies to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Becau ...
  • S. 646: Natural Hazards Risk Reduction Act of 2011
    Congressional Budget Office http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/122xx/doc12250/s646.pdf S. 646 would reauthorize federal programs aimed at developing methods to reduce damage caused by earthquakes and windstorms. The bill also would reauthorize several committees that advise federal agencies on implement ...
  • S. 183: Deepwater Horizon Survivors’ Fairness Act
    Congressional Budget Office http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/122xx/doc12249/s183.pdf S. 183 would amend several laws related to private liability that apply to the injury or death of workers on ocean-going vessels or on certain other facilities located in the ocean. CBO estimates that enacting the leg ...

Scientific American - News

  • Is Karzai's Accusation That Coalition Forces A ...
    President Obama has called for the withdrawal of 33,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan over the next year and the remaining 68,000 by the end of 2014, but questions linger regarding what the troops are leaving behind after more than nine years of combat. In particular, Afghanistan President Hamid ...
  • Fukushima Meltdown Mitigation Aims to Prevent ...
    More than three months after a powerful earthquake and 14-meter-high tsunami struck Japan, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant remains flooded with a salty mix of ocean and fresh water that is contaminated with the radioactive residue of three reactors and four spent fuel pools' worth of n ...
  • Turf and Surf: Salty Plumes Point to Undergrou ...
    A NASA spacecraft that in 2005 discovered watery plumes spewing from the surface of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus has now found compelling evidence that the plumes stem from an underground reservoir of saltwater. [More]
  • Scientists Warn Chemicals May Be Altering Brea ...
    Exposure to chemicals early in life may alter how breast tissue develops and raise the risks of breast cancer and lactation problems later in life, scientists concluded in a set of reports published Wednesday.The scientists are urging federal officials to add new tests for industrial chemicals a ...
  • Armadillo Moves North Across a Warmer North Am ...
    Here's one advantage to armadillos' steady northward march across the Southeast United States:They're awfully handy to have as bait if, say, you're a wildlife biologist looking to trap an alligator that has inexplicably settled into your local pond in north Georgia. [More]

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • I Am Spartacus! As Greece Prepares to Boil, Th ...
     Recap: The situation in Greece chugs along, and threatens to reach a boiling point on June 28th, when Prime Minister George Papandreous attempts to push austerity measures through parliament. The austerity measures, handed down by the IM ...
  • Daily Struggle and Resistance in the Downtown ...
    âIn Our Own Voices,â Week III I could not help wondering what life would have been like if I had stayed back East, as I walked on Hastings and Main Street on a gray, rainy, rather typical Vancouver day. My reverie was broken by an ugly sig ...
  • Racism in Nova Scotia, past, present and future
    Two interesting stories in Halifax's Chronicle Herald today. On the bright side, the Halifax Regional School Board voted unanimously last night to change the name of Cornwallis Junior High.� Named after the city's founder, Mi'Kmaq activists have long sought to have the name changed and Cornwalli ...
  • Canadian Media Fails to Deliver: Media Coverag ...
    On the morning of Tuesday, June 14, letter carriers across the country showed up to go to work as per usual but Canada Post told them to go home; no mail was to be delivered that day. Those workers are full-time letter carriers who delive ...
  • The Kingdom of Hastings and Main
    âIn Our Own Voices,â Week III In the fall of 2008, I lost my sister to brain cancer. Only one month later, I lost one of my lifetime friends to a heart attack. A few months after that, I lost another close friend to lung cancer. All these ...

David Seaton's News Links

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

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • How to Drink Your Way Out of Fatigue
    Here, Cherie Calbom, also known as "The Juice Lady," shares her insights on juicing and how it can help improve your health. She’s authored numerous books on the subject of juicing including two excellent books on the subject: Juicing for Life, and The Juice Lady’s Turbo Diet. She also has ...
  • Beware -- Some 'Green' Cleaners are Deceptive ...
    The manufacturers of the "Green" cleaning product Simple Green's claim that it is non-toxic, biodegradable, non-hazardous, non-flammable, and non-corrosive.� But the Material Data Safety Sheet for Simple Green reveals that the formula contains 2-Butoxyethanol -- a petrochemical solvent. 2-Butox ...
  • Eating Foods Laced with this Common Ingredient ...
    Aspartame, an artificial sweetener also known as NutraSweet or Equal, is used in more than 6,000 products. Research has shown that aspartame is a carcinogenic agent, and that its effects are increased when exposure starts before birth. A new study looked at the effect of giving aspartame to mic ...
  • BEST Infant Food for Infants of Moms that Can' ...
    Women all over the U.S. are starting to sell what has been called “a mother's natural liquid gold”: human breast milk. A month's supply can cost anywhere from $300 to $1,200 dollars. It can provide an extra source of money for mothers who produce an over-abundance of milk, and it provides a se ...
  • Europe Calls This One of the Top 6 Chemical Th ...
    Chemical manufacturers say they will seek approval from the European Union to continue use of di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP), a plastic-softening phthalate that the EU is banning. DEHP is among the first six compounds that the EU is phasing out under its Registration, Evaluation, Authorizatio ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • The perils of the PQ: people are starting to laugh
    Picture this as you fight your way through the traffic chaos that is the product of systemic governmental incompetence extending over decades in this province. But to hear some people, what's needed to fix what ails Quebec is some bizarro clone of the Parti Qu�b�cois.
  • Bixi is too good to lose, but it has to be fixed
    After this week's scathing report on the city's beloved Bixi bike service, Montrealers must be wondering what else can go wrong with their transportation system.
  • The Gazette's View: Bixi is too good to lose, ...
    After this week’s scathing report on the city’s beloved Bixi bike service, Montrealers must be wondering what else can go wrong with their transportation system.
  • Can you really patent a mouse click?
    In a mad rush of last-minute Father's Day shopping, I bought my dad a book from Amazon. Since the company has my purchase information, I ordered the gift in one click. If you've ever clicked once to buy, be it for Steven Tyler's new "memoir" or the sleeper hit Go the F--k to Sleep, you've taken ...
  • Montreal's infrastructure: An intolerable situ ...
    The editorial boards of The Gazette and La Presse are uniting their voices to demand that governments address infrastructure problems with much greater determination

Food World Order

  • 6/23 binge & purge: cruelty, control & the cos ...
    house rebukes looming fda frankenfish approval* pesticide spraying near streams to expand under house bill; hr872 lets farmers bury 'clean water act'* utah man accused of eating live rat, posting video online charged with animal cruelty* chicago grocers accused of $500k food stamp fr ...
  • 5.9m US kids have food allergies
    from medical news today: Approximately 8% of US children have some kind of food allergy, researchers from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine reported in the journal Pediatrics. 38.7% of those with a food allergy have a history of severe reactions, while 30.4% are allergic to sev ...
  • 'poop burger': get it while it's hot - and sti ...
    scientist allegedly takes protein from human excrement from kprc: Just in time for summer grilling: Japanese scientists say they have created synthetic meat derived from human excrement. The news that Mitsuyuki Ikeda, of Okayama Laboratory, perfected the meat streaked across the Internet. Whe ...
  • lawsuit: whole foods 'organic' china veggies f ...
    you won't hear about this in the 'whole foods parking lot'... from bloomberg: A Florida judge allowed a lawsuit to proceed that claims Whole Foods Market Inc. (WFMI) violated the state’s deceptive trade-practices law by selling frozen vegetables from China grown in a polluted region by prisone ...
  • bay area underground market draws authorities' ...
    from nytimes: For the past two years, the San Francisco Underground Market has served up bacon-laced chocolates, sea salt and chili truffles, and other haute fringe food. But on June 11, the monthly market, which now draws more than a thousand visitors, received an unwelcome serving of its own: ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • The State Of The Economy
    The U.S. economy is like a rubber band that is being pulled in several different directions at the same time.  Everyone knows that at some point it is going to snap, but nobody is quite sure exactly when it is going to happen.  Right now, the state of the economy is not good, an ...
  • 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 i ...
  • Is The Economy Improving?
    Is the U.S. economy improving?  That is what Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke would have us believe.  Bernanke declared today that the "recovery appears to be proceeding at a moderate pace" and that everything is going pretty much as planned.  Sadly, the mainstream media an ...
  • Barack Obama’s White House Rural Council ...
    Barack Obama has issued a brand new executive order that establishes a White House Rural Council.  This Rural Council has been given the task of developing "public-private partnerships" that will seek to bring the "economic prosperity" of our big cities to rural America.  In oth ...
  • 48 Percent Of Americans Believe Another Great ...
    Do you believe that the U.S. economy is steamrolling toward a depression?  If so, you are not alone.  According to a recent CNN poll, 48 percent of Americans believe that "another Great Depression" is likely within the next 12 months.  Americans have been waiting for almost thre ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Funeral for a non-friend: UKIP 'buries' the Euro
    A sad event took place today. But what was a sombre occasion for the European leaders... was the first rite of a joyous celebration for the PEOPLE of European nation states. In one of their more outrageous stunts so far, UKIP staged a funeral procession for the euro currency in Brussels: ...
  • 'Unlawful Killing': New preview of Diana docum ...
    ...she won't go quietly. Even a heavily handicapped inquest jury ruled that she was the victim of unlawful killing. And she was OUR Princess.
  • 'Unlawful Killing': New preview of Diana docum ...
    ...she won't go quietly. Even a heavily handicapped inquest jury ruled that she was the victim of unlawful killing. And she was OUR Princess.
  • Nothing! Nowt! Zero! Zilch! Zip! Errrr.... bil ...
    All of the mainstream media is announcing through the headlines news of a great Cameron 'victory' to save the British taxpayer from demands to bailout Greece (again). And how insulting to everybody's intelligence this all is. Keeping in mind that the Government recently almost doubled the ...
  • Quote of the Day: 23rd June 2011
    "The brutal truth remains that Britain has committed twice as much to the eurozone bailouts as it has saved through all the domestic spending cuts put together. It has done so illegally and – which is almost worse – uselessly." - Daniel Hannan Dan the Man keeps correctly and succinctly ide ...

Facing South

  • Did New Orleans media contribute to police vio ...
    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 ...
  • Alabama immigration law: Policy or politics?
    By Kathy Mulady, Equal Voice Despite soaring deficits, cuts in social services, worker layoffs and tornado-devastated communities, Alabama's first Republican-controlled government in 136 years has turned its focus on undocumented immigrants, raising questions about policymakers' priorities. ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Justice for the South's force ...
    Year in which Sir Francis Galton founded the now-discredited science of eugenics to improve the human population through selective reproduction: 1883 Number of U.S. states that adopted eugenics laws in the early 1900s targeting for compulsory sterilization people deemed unfit to bear children ...
  • Drawing the lines: Redistricting battles shape ...
    Across the South, state legislatures have rolled out their plans for redrawing political lines -- plans that could be key to shaping upcoming elections in 2011 and 2012. The new Southern plans are being closely followed because this is the first time in history that redistricting has happe ...
  • VOICES: The Southern front in the corporate wa ...
    By Joe Atkins, Labor South A Southern front has opened up in the corporate-GOP war on workers. Just look at some recent headlines: "Supreme Court Conservatives Thwart Wal-Mart Sex Bias Case" (Associated Press, June 20) "Memphis sanitation workers are volatile city budget targe ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Cellphone from Bin Laden Compound Suggests ISI Links A cellphone belonging to Osama bin Ladenâs courier, which was seized in the raid that killed the al Qaeda leader, had contacts to a militant group … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Prison Break in Yemen Frees Dozens of Militants As many as 60 suspected Islamist militants escaped from a prison in the southern Yemeni port city of Mukalla on Wednesday. The prisoners escaped via a … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Pakistan Detains Senior Army Officer Over Alleged Extremist Ties Pakistan has detained an Army brigadier on suspicion of ties to a banned extremist group. The BBCâs Urdu-language service was the first to report that … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Obama to Announce Afghan Withdrawal Plans Wednesday President Obama is set to announce plans Wednesday on how the troop withdrawal from Afghanistan will proceed when it begins next month. A decision on the size … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Marine Reservist Detained After Pentagon Bomb Scare A Marine reservist is in custody after he was found in Arlington National Cemetery early Friday morning hours after it had closed and attempted to flee from … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • [Fix]WiFi Driver Breaks After Update in Ubuntu ...
    If your Intel WiFi 5100 series WiFi driver broke down after latest update in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS desktop, understand that you are not the only one here with the same problem. A good friend of mine had the exact same issue. This is what you need to do to solve 'WiFi driver breaks after update' issue ...
  • 7 Good Dropbox Alternatives for Linux
    Dropbox is probably the most popular online file storage and synchronization tool among Linux users. And as we have seen earlier, it is rather easy to install Dropbox in Ubuntu. But as a Linux user, what really are the alternatives to Dropbox for online file storage? Lets find out. SparkleS ...
  • Firefox 5.0 Update Arrives in Official Ubuntu ...
    Firefox 5.0 was released few days ago. But this time, its going to be a different experience for Ubuntu users. You don't need to add any additional third party repositories to get the latest Firefox update, its already available in your default Ubuntu 11.04 repositories.� No Need to Add Any ...
  • Nokia N9 - First Ever MeeGo Powered Nokia Devi ...
    Back in 2010 itself, it was rumored that Nokia N9 could just be the first ever MeeGo powered smartphone. Well, that just happened. But things are not half as exciting as it used be for MeeGo because of the Nokia-Microsoft�deal that happened�earlier in the year which practically killed MeeGo proj ...
  • Unity Grab Handles Are Beautiful, Learn How to ...
    Unity Grab Handles are a fun and aesthetically beautiful way to resize windows in new Ubuntu Unity. Even though they are not enabled by default in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal, you can easily turn Unity Grab Handles on by following a few easy steps. How to Enable�Unity Grab Handles in Ubuntu ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • 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 ...

Veterans Today

  • Slave to Israel
    Americans have to make a hard decision on what kind of country they want to have. by Philip Giraldi
  • Changing cultures
    Live in fragments no longer. Only connect! --E.M. Forster We're living in fragments. By Paul J Balles
  • Slave to Israel
    Americans have to make a hard decision on what kind of country they want to have. by Philip Giraldi
  • Changing cultures
    Live in fragments no longer. Only connect! --E.M. Forster We're living in fragments. By Paul J Balles
  • A Manifesto for Revolutionary Emancipation
    The record so far of the Barack Obama presidency demonstrates that the political culture, like the political economy of the United States, is in deep trouble.

electric politics

  • Göbekli Tepe
    At what point does an original idea engender action? And to what extent does that action set a lasting course? We can examine the social history of an idea, written, as it were, in stone, at G�bekli Tepe, an archeological site approximately 11,500 years old (or perhaps even older) in southern T ...
  • The Athenian Zephyr
    Neoliberal bankers wants to turn the Greek public into chattel. The Greek public objects. It's a theoretically long-predicted fork in the road for the European Union: either Greece defaults (it could have been any one of certain member states) and the European debt crisis spreads — possibly/pro ...
  • Forgetting Vietnam
    America's final retreat from Vietnam could have been a whole lot worse. Ambassador Graham Martin, mistakenly thought to be on the last chopper out, didn't follow through on the fact that he left a final contingent of Marine Security Guards on the Embassy's rooftop. Higher-ups in the military ch ...
  • Constitutional Chains
    The U.S. Constitution has not led to a more perfect union. In some ways — see the Civil War — it was a suicide pact. So must it, indeed, be the only legitimate political expression of who we are as Americans? To think about some of the flaws at the creation I turned to Dr. Mark A. Graber, autho ...
  • It Became Necessary to Destroy Libya In Order ...
    At some point the blood-thirsty hawks who got us into a war against Libya must realize that, with Col. Gaddafi or without him, the various Libyan tribes and factions do not mean to settle their differences amicably. What then? Do we admit a strategic defeat and end the war? Or pick sides and fo ...

PR News

The Story Behind the Story

  • Khazarian Satanic Porn — Plumbing New Depths
    In this public You-tube clip, which is a digital recording of a VERY PUBLIC PRESENTATION at the 2011 Conspiracy Conference, “Investigative Reporter” and consort of Leonard Horowitz, Sherri Kane maliciously attacked ex-VietNam war veteran Timothy White by accusing him of being a felon, rapists, a ...
  • Is A. True Ott a “Jew-Hating Man”, ...
    In an e-mail to me in August 2010, Khazarian Blue-Blood Jew Leonard G. Horowitz wrote: “How STUPID of you ——- to EXPOSE YOURSELF AS A JEW-HATING MAN!!!”   What exactly “exposed” me?  Merely using the term “Khazar” and “Goy” in an earlier post to his sweetie Sherri Kane in describing her and m ...
  • Who Is David Main? We may never know for sure!
    Until this baseless and malicious attack by Kane and Horowitz began, I had blissfully never heard of “David Main”.     You see, Kane swore under oath, in a complaint that A. True Ott was David Main.   It seemed at the time a simple enough task — to simply provide solid evidence to the cour ...
  • Horowitz and Kane – A Most Dangerous Sta ...
    According to Stephen A. Diamond, PhD - in his expose written Apr 4, 2008 and published in Psychology Today, Narcissist Personality Disorder (NPD) is a mental condition directly tied to thousands of horrific homicides in North America over the past decade.   Indeed, NPD is a most “Dangerous State ...
  • SIR (Chevalier) Leonard G. Horowitz — ...
    This expose is in response to declarations found on Horowitz’ own website postings (one of 300 URL’s he controls) found at: http://web.mac.com/len15/Newsletter_%26_Blog/Knighting.html When the heat is on, look for this website of the Grand Narcissist Poo-Bah to disappear, just as Sherri Kane’s f ...

k2p blog

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • HP Notebook Can Apparently Shield Soldiers Fro ...
    We get a lot of complaints from readers about their HP computers and the company's customer service. But one person who won't be complaining is the U.S. soldier whose HP notebook took six bullets intended for him. The soldier who sent these images to HP was stationed in Afghanistan when he ca ...
  • Newsprint-Scented Candle Kindles Nostalgia Wit ...
    If you're nostalgic for the days when print ruled the world, but don't want to be bothered with actual newspapers, the late designer Tobias Wong's "Times of New York" candle, inspired by The New York Times, may be for you. According to Project No. 8, "Wong proposed producing a candle with the ...
  • Target Customer Uses Baseball Bat To Demonstra ...
    There are so many ways to express one's outrage with a retail store's policies. You can complain to the company, start a grassroots campaign, write to Consumerist, or just take your business elsewhere. But for one displeased Target shopper in Pennsylvania, the answer was clear: baseball bat. M ...
  • How To Remove Scratches From CDs and DVDs
    If you lend a movie, CD or game to a friend and get it back with scratches, it isn't necessarily cause for rage. With the right technique you can easily remove the damage and have the disc playing as though it were new. An ancient yet new-to-us post on Wise Bread tries out several ways to do i ...
  • FedEx Delivers My Packages To The Garbage Can, ...
    Consumerist reader Brooke's FedEx packages have disappeared into the void, but not in the usual it-was-never-delivered-even-though-FedEx-says-it-was way. No, FedEx delivered her boxes -- straight into her garbage can. The driver even made note of this on the door tag he placed on Brooke's back ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

  • Illinois Regulators Sue Heart Scan Company, Al ...
    by Marshall Allen, ProPublica The Illinois Attorney General’s office filed a lawsuit today accusing the owner and manager of Heart Check America, a medical imaging company, of pressuring patients into purchasing pricey body scans that many did not need. Last month, ProPublica published an inv ...
  • Journalist’s Story Highlights Patchwork of Imm ...
    In a first-person story in the New York Times Magazine this week, journalist Jose Antonio Vargas confessed his status as an undocumented immigrant, bringing renewed attention to the ever-simmering, never-solved issue of immigration reform. The account is garnering plenty of attentionâand scrut ...
  • Obama Talks Afghan Drawdown; But What About th ...
    President Obama may claim he’s got to go slow in drawing down U.S. forces fighting in Afghanistan but what’s his excuse for keeping open 268 U.S. bases in Germany? Is he expecting an attack by the Red Army? There are folks living well on those 268 bases at public expense as well as the military ...
  • The Political Carnival – John McCain Meets TV ...
    GottaLaff and Paddy of  The Political Carnival bring us John McCain, Keith Olbermann on the Late Show and Sarah Palin meets (dead) Yogi Berra (or was it Yogi Bear)? VIDEO: John McCain, that camera pointed at your face means you’re being recorded Dear John McCain, There is this newfangled contrap ...
  • Bank Lobby Says ‘Fight Continues’ on Debit Car ...
    by Marian Wang, ProPublica The banking industry stands to lose billions in debit card transaction fees after losing one of its biggest lobbying battles this year—but for the banks, that was just Round One. The industry had for months lobbied lawmakers to kill or delay regulations limiting the fe ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Keynes versus Hayek: Big government versus ind ...
    Check these out. There’s been an ongoing war of ideas, Hayek vs Keynes, for eight decades and counting — and these videos sum it up consummately. This ongoing academic fight has shaped lives and countries for decades: booms, busts, unemployment, and possibly even wars. Indeed it’s an ominous sig ...
  • Clean energy “investments” just a tiny $243 Bi ...
    Have you ever thought about how lucky we are that only kind-hearted helpful souls are involved in the erstwhile cottage industry known as “renewable energy”? Imagine if a less-than-scrupulous agent got into these green-fields of money, and frolicked in the vast acreage of subsidies, schemes, and ...
  • Monckton stirs the pot with a cheap shot, and ...
    By now every person in the climate debate knows that Monckton used a swastika on a slide in LA. UPDATE: By the time I wrote this, Monckton had already been roundly condemned for his unnecessary hyperbole, and unreservedly apologized. I couldn’t see much point in joining in the chorus. Yes, I agr ...
  • Oreskes’ clumsy, venomous smear campaign: busted
    The great Fred Singer takes the time to explain why Naomi Oreskes is a scientifically inept and a poor historian. Her famous claim of a scientific consensus based on 900 papers missed more than 11,000 that should have been included. Her grasp of science is so poor she isn’t familiar with the pH ...
  • Peer review denial and the abuse of science
    “Climate denial and the abuse of peer review“ Can someone get Stephan Lewandowsky his medication? His new marketing message is that “deniers” don’t do peer review papers. There’s a curious case of acute-peer-review-blindness (APRB) occurring. It doesn’t matter that there are literally thousands ...

ReNew America

  • The reckless folly of the 'undocumented immigrant'
    (Michelle Malkin) - With great fanfare and elite media sympathy, Jose Antonio Vargas publicly declared himself an "undocumented immigrant" this week. "Undocumented" my you-know-what. In the felony-friendly pages of The New York Crimes -- er, Times -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist turned ...
  • Certifigate and the document defector
    (Joseph Farah) - Buckle your seat belts for this news, if you haven't heard it already. The one and only document expert consulted by any U.S. media to proclaim Barack Obama's "birth certificate" as legitimate has rejected that position, claiming he was misquoted by Fox News. He has further stat ...
  • Rep. Nadler: Obama 'absolute monarch'
    (NewsMax) - Democrats have joined Republicans in criticizing President Barack Obama in recent days for failing to gain congressional approval for our involvement in the attack on Libya, a failure that may violate the War Powers Resolution, The Hill reports...
  • Security checks for federal employees a joke ( ...
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - The fact that bad people are elected to office and then appoint other people with questionable backgrounds should not shock anyone observing the trends that have crept into our society...
  • What authority justifies Obama's actions in Libya?
    (Monte Kuligowski) - At this point, no lingering questions should remain as to whether Barack Obama is faithful to uphold the Constitution and the laws of the United States...

Truth Offering

  • CIA Report: United States Account Balance = -$ ...
    Let me ask you something: if you're in a massive amount of debt, should you spend even more money? Sorry, stupid question, right? Of course, the answer is "no," you shouldn't. Believers in Keynesian monetary theory -- like Ben Bernanke and his predecessors, as well as past and present Presidents ...
  • The Food Pyramid Becomes...MyPlate!
    Forget the Food Pyramid. The new government food propaganda comes to us in the form of "MyPlate."If you're anything like me, you grew up knowing -- because government said so -- that the way we should eat is as prescribed by the Food Pyramid. The Food Pyramid was "it," man! Everyone was using it ...
  • "Cancer Is NOT a Disease...It's a Survival Mec ...
    ***UPDATE*** Since posting the first article below (the one from LeifGrunseth.com), I've discovered that it is actually a hoax. Someone decided to fraudulently attach Johns Hopkins to some very truthful, empowering knowledge -- likely in hopes people would listen to that information -- however, ...
  • The Bilderberg Conference, 2011 - St. Moritz, ...
    If you frequent this site, you've likely heard of the Bilderberg group; a cadre of the world's most wealthy and powerful men and women who decend upon some, often remote, location each year. The reason they're called the "Bilderberg Group" is because their first-ever meeting in 1954, took place ...
  • It's Official: GMO Foods Alter Our Digestive S ...
    As if we needed more proof, can we finally state -- without any asterisks or disclaimers saying we're still not sure -- that genetically modified foods of all types are harmful when eaten by humans!? In my opinion, yes, we can. Check out this article by the Alliance for Natural Health: SOURCE: A ...

2012 Blog

  • New Precautions for Power Grids
    According to NASA this week: In Sept. 1859, on the eve of a below-average solar cycle, the sun unleashed one of the most powerful storms in centuries. The underlying flare was so unusual, researchers still aren’t ... Related posts:Sun v. Trains: Sun Wins Solar Storm Could Cause $2 Trillio ...
  • Russian TV on Comet Elenin
    The video is from Russia, in Russian. From the backdrop I presume the show deals with UFO-type stories although I don’t get why they have an image of the Colosseum. Without understanding a word of it, ... Related posts:Nyiragongo / Comet Elenin FIXED: 2012 Debunked – Excellent Video Prav ...
  • Some Improvements at 2012 Blog
    Dec 2012 is just 18 months away. Consequently I’ve ramped things up a notch. This blog now has a new design that helps new visitors find important topics more easily. And, I think, it looks ... Related posts:Inflatable space habitat – ready before 2012? eBook review: The Ultimate 2012ology ...
  • Researchers Picked Ch’Ch Earthquake
    Evidence continues to accumulate – the heavens are a factor when it comes to large earthquakes. Occasionally an orthodox geologist will admit that full moons are a minor factor, and the recent research of myself ... Related posts:Deadly 6.3 Quake in ChristChurch NZ Lunar Eclipses Are Dange ...
  • Prophet Will Profit
    As it happened, Doris Schmitt, the NY widow who left $250K to Harold Camping got her timing all screwed up. If her intention was for the preacher to use her bequeathment to advertise his doomsday, ... Related posts:Blame it on the weather?

Facing South

  • Did New Orleans media contribute to police vio ...
    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 ...
  • Alabama immigration law: Policy or politics?
    By Kathy Mulady, Equal Voice Despite soaring deficits, cuts in social services, worker layoffs and tornado-devastated communities, Alabama's first Republican-controlled government in 136 years has turned its focus on undocumented immigrants, raising questions about policymakers' priorities. ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Justice for the South's force ...
    Year in which Sir Francis Galton founded the now-discredited science of eugenics to improve the human population through selective reproduction: 1883 Number of U.S. states that adopted eugenics laws in the early 1900s targeting for compulsory sterilization people deemed unfit to bear children ...
  • Drawing the lines: Redistricting battles shape ...
    Across the South, state legislatures have rolled out their plans for redrawing political lines -- plans that could be key to shaping upcoming elections in 2011 and 2012. The new Southern plans are being closely followed because this is the first time in history that redistricting has happe ...
  • VOICES: The Southern front in the corporate wa ...
    By Joe Atkins, Labor South A Southern front has opened up in the corporate-GOP war on workers. Just look at some recent headlines: "Supreme Court Conservatives Thwart Wal-Mart Sex Bias Case" (Associated Press, June 20) "Memphis sanitation workers are volatile city budget targe ...

One News Page

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Default by Greece and the US
    In mid June Alan Greenspan, former Federal Reserve chairman, said a default by Greece is “almost certain” and could help drive the US economy into recession. Greenspan’s loud statement on Greece may be a “sound curtain” to prepare the global community to a default by the US… First – a few key da ...
  • Obama’s Drawdown Speech: SCO Faces the Afghan ...
    The United States President Barack Obama’s drawdown speech will not stand out in the volume of his selected works as an outstanding piece of oratory. The rhetorical flourish of “On the Way Forward in Afghanistan” was definitely below par. On the other hand, Obama knew the occasion is not one of ...
  • Stalin Caught in Liberal Cobweb
    Progressive revision of the principal results of the WWII represents as a very dangerous sign. Never before the endeavors to depict Hitler and Stalin as equally responsible for unleashing the war have been so obstinate, purposeful and bluntly hostile towards Russian people and Russian state… No ...
  • United Europe Against “Russian Barbarity ...
    Today Russia commemorates 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Great Patriotic war. In a stark contrast, Europe had commemorated pompously the 70-th anniversaries of the outbreak of World War II and of the signing of the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact but currently seems oblivious to another key h ...
  • The Real War vs The Illusions
    In the complicated calculus of the men who would plan our destinies for us, if we would only let them, it is often hard to fathom which line of reasoning represents their dominant thinking on any strategic subject.  In Afghanistan and in Pakistan, it is getting harder to distinguish between the ...

BlogHer

  • Preparing Teens to Take the Driver's Wheel
    In August my son will be 16 and the proud new owner of a driver�s permit. Like any teenage closing in on this rite of passage, he is anticipatory of the moment that he can slide behind the wheel of a car and gain that step to adult independence. He often asks if he can drive now, in a parkin ...
  • Preparing Teens to Take the Driver's Wheel
    In August my son will be 16 and the proud new owner of a driver�s permit. Like any teenage closing in on this rite of passage, he is anticipatory of the moment that he can slide behind the wheel of a car and gain that step to adult independence. He often asks if he can drive now, in a parkin ...
  • BlogHer '11 Conference Update: June 24, 2011
    Happy weekend friends! We are now into the countdown for our upcoming annual event in San Diego, and we are sure you'll have a wonderful time! Here's what we have in store: Pathfinder Day - What is it and who should attend? Elisa said it best in her introduction post: Pathfinder Day was creat ...
  • Dry Your Clothes for Free
    Want to do your laundry the eco-friendly way? It�s a simple, two-step process:1)��� Wash most everything in cold water (The only thing I wash in hot water is towels.) 2)��� Hang your laundry out to dry. Benefits? ⢠�� Save energy, lower your electric or gas bill, and reduce your carbon ...
  • Kuwaiti Reaction to Jailing of Taiwanese Food ...
    News broke yesterday that a Taiwanese blogger named Liu was jailed and fined after she wrote a negative review of a local restaurant. The 21-year-old Kuwaiti blogger behind Froyo Nation was dismayed to see this result, especially after a blogger won a similar case in Kuwait in April. A Kuwaiti ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Junk Food Damages Brain’s Weight & Appet ...
    Yet another reason why eating junk sets up the response to eat more. The standard American diet destroys brains cells that control weight and appetite creating a hard-to-beat obesity cycle. It triggers the the similar ...
  • Fatal Common Drug Cocktails Endangering Elderly
    Scientists warn that the arsenal of drugs commonly prescribed to the elderly, even over the counter, are much more dangerous in combination than doctors know. This happens when the drugs block a crucial nervous system chemical ...
  • Broccoli Extract Targets Cancer Cells
    A main phytochemical in broccoli and other veggies like cauliflower and cabbage will target cancer cells and aid the body in prevention without harming healthy cells. Molecular Nutrition & Food Research cautions that just because a ...
  • See If You Can Pass Coke’s Nutrition Program
    Coca-Cola is teaching registered dietitians how to combat “urban myths” and how to correct nutrition misinformation believed by parents. Many parents have this harebrained idea that fluoride, artificial colors, sugar, and fast food aren’t safe ...
  • Push to ‘Reprogram’ Parents on Vac ...
    The Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS) holds that parents should not be allowed to exempt their children from vaccinations: at least not without some required medical “counseling.” Their article addresses vaccine-hesitant parents and how they ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

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

Daniel Miessler

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

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • 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 ...

reference frame

  • CO2: Supreme Court promotes Freeman Dyson
    On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court released its verdict in the case with a technical name AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC., ET AL. v. CONNECTICUT ET AL.Three authors have discussed a nice footnote #2 that recommended you to read "The Civil Heretic" (TRF), a celebration of Freeman Dyson wr ...
  • Ron Paul: is the Fort Knox gold gone?
    According to CNN�and others, Ron Paul, a thoughtful, peace-loving, and freedom-loving 2012 U.S. presidential candidate, is worried that the gold bullion from the United States Bullion Repository in Fort Knox, Kentucky is gone. Or it's been replaced by gold-coated wolfram bars. He ...
  • D0: a 3-sigma evidence for new CP violation in ...
    There are four hep-ex (high energy physics experiments) preprints on the arXiv. I have temporarily blacklisted the CDF Collaboration for its ambitious - but apparently flawed - hype about the huge top-antitop mass difference and the 150 GeV Wjj bump. Both of them were rejected by ...
  • Unification as a source of certainty
    People have observed billions of objects and experienced trillions of events and processes. When a monkey was born somewhere on the Earth a million of years ago and inherited almost no serious knowledge from her ancestors, and instead, she was just asked to behave as a homo sapiens, sh ...
  • Gassing the skeptics: confusing CO and CO2 alo ...
    Jill Singer of the Australian "mainstream" Herald Sun newspapers has proposed a final solution to the problem of the climate skeptics: Carbon tax sideshow must stopShe writes: I'm prepared to keep an open mind and propose another stunt for climate sceptics - put your strong views to the ...

No Frakking Consensus

  • The Activists, the Media, and the Public
    When activists hoodwink the media - and questionable environmental scare stories are the result - why don't we care?
  • My Fave Chairman Pachauri Quote
    The credibility of the IPCC has long been in tatters. There have been multiple calls for the resignation of its chairman. Rather than addressing this state of affairs, the head of the IPCC thinks corporate entities should change their ways - because we live in a world in which "reputation and p ...
  • Pachauri’s Cause
    The chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says responding to climate change is part of a larger goal: transforming the world economy.
  • Two Population Predictions
    40 years ago scientists said radical change was necessary if humanity was to survive. Along the way they endorsed a population prediction that now appears ridiculous.
  • Oodles of Cash
    Who knew that green groups - and those with business interests in renewable energy - have access to such obscene amounts of money?

Tarpley

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

Modern Survivalism

  • Chain Reaction Dam Burst to Split Heartland USA?
    Is the Missouri River, the longest in the United States at 2,321 miles long, about to suffer a chain reaction failure beginning at the monolithic Fort Peck Dam in Montana, which itself is 21,026 feet long, 250 feet tall, and the largest earth-filled dam in the world? The massive reservoir behind ...
  • Asteroid Close Encounter on Monday
    An asteroid, just discovered, will speed precariously close to Earth at 15-thousand miles per hour during Monday, June 27, at a distance of only 7,500 miles. The asteroid, named ’2011 MD’ may be ‘only’ 20 meters in diameter (about 65 feet), certainly not a major threat to the planet. However it ...
  • Earthquake Fatality Trends – Increasing?
    Are earthquakes around the world increasing, compared to the historical recorded ‘normal’? Some suggest yes, while others argue no due to technological advancements in earthquake detection and reporting – which is partly true – but mostly for lower magnitude quakes. Given that ‘large’ earthquake ...
  • 12,000 – Evacuation – Where Would ...
    (Reuters) Authorities in the North Dakota city of Minot told up to 12,000 residents on Wednesday to evacuate immediately because the rising Souris River is about to overflow flood levees. A chain reaction which began further up north in Canada, is now cascading its way south through the US while ...
  • Shelf Reliance Harvest-72 Review
    Shelf Reliance, a quality company that makes ‘Food Rotation Systems‘ offer wonderful solutions to organizing and managing quantities of canned foods. At home, once you cross a threshold of filling your normal nooks and cupboards with a bit of extra food storage, you will begin to store your exce ...

Fast Company

  • Cheeky Little Underage Hackers Are Getting The ...
    Hacker conference DEF CON is, in information-security circles, a big deal--which is why it's pretty astonishing that in August it will launch its first event targeted at the younger hacker. You know, the kind who's still in school and may not yet be old enough to drive, but is quite adept at man ...
  • Apple Goes To China
    This week Apple's COO and acting CEO Tim Cook was apparently spotted sauntering into the Beijing offices of China Mobile, the world's largest cellphone network, with 611 million subscribers (that's almost twice the number of people living in the U.S.). As a result, analyst Brian White at Ticonde ...
  • This Week In Bots: Robot Moon Landers, Fake Po ...
    Robots are quietly invading daily lives all around the world. You never know when next you'll meet a bot--just check out this week's robotics developments for proof.NASA's robotic moon landerNASA's quietly been working on a project to design an automated moon lander, destined for our Moon, Mars' ...
  • Facebook VP: "We Get Too Much Credit For The A ...
    Facebook VP David Fischer explicitly downplayed the social network's role in Middle Eastern revolutions to an Israeli conference which included a tech industry who's-who.One of Facebook's highest-ranking international executives told a dignitary-packed Israeli conference that the website played ...
  • What The S.F. Underground Market's Shutdown Me ...
    The market was created to avoid the red tape that keeps many small-time food operations from getting off the ground. The founder of the market explains how it will move on after the red tape got slapped back on. For the past two years, the S.F. Underground Market, a members-only event in San Fr ...

Jadaliyya

  • Rational Choice Theory Takes on the Arab Revol ...
    In a recent op-ed in the New York Times, "How Tyrants Endure," political science professors Bruce Bueno De Mesquita and Alastair Smith offer a rational choice perspective on the Arab revolutions. It's a fairly short article, but given its large claims and the fact that Bueno De Mesquita ...
  • آصف بيات في كتابه "الحياة كسياسة: كيف يغير أن ...
    آص� ب�ات باحث متم�ز �� ا�حر�ات ا�اجتماع�ة ��شاط ا�طب�ة ا�عام�ة �ا���راء �س�اسات ا�م�ا� �� ا�شر� ا�ا�سط���د صدر �� حد�ثا� �تاب بع��ا� "ا�ح�اة �س�اسة: ��� �غ�ر أ�اس عاد��� ا�شر� ا�أ�سط" . ب�ات متخصص �� ع�م ا�اجتماع ��ا�ت أعما�� �ت�جة بح�ث م�دا��ة �ما أ��ا� �� ذات ا���ت� متط�رة م� ا��اح�ة ا ...
  • عن الكتابة والثورة : حوار مع محمد صلاح العزب
    � ا�ت�٠�ر�س ست�� مع ا��اتب محمد ص�اح ا�عزب �� ا��ا�رة ��م ٣٠ ما��� ٢٠١١. �م �ترجم ا�م�اب�ة إ�� ا�عرب�ة ا��صح� ب� حا���ا أ� �حت�ظ ب�غة ا�ح�ار ا�طب�ع�ة �در ا�إم�ا�. ذ�ر �ر�س �محمد أ� ا���رة �ا�ت �شر م�اب�ة مع� �أخر� مع �اتب مخضرم مث� ص�ع ا��� ابرا��م . سأ�� محمد إذا �ا� �د ذ�ر اسم� ��أستاذ ...
  • عن الكتابة و الثورة : حوار مع محمد صلاح العزب
    � ا�ت�٠�ر�س ست�� مع ا��اتب محمد ص�اح ا�عزب �� ا��ا�رة ��م ٣٠ ما��� ٢٠١١. �م �ترجم ا�م�اب�ة إ�� ا�عرب�ة ا��صح� ب� حا���ا أ� �حت�ظ ب�غة ا�ح�ار ا�طب�ع�ة �در ا�إم�ا�. ذ�ر �ر�س �محمد أ� ا���رة �ا�ت �شر م�اب�ة مع� �أخر� مع �اتب مخضرم مث� ص�ع ا��� ابرا��م . سأ�� محمد إذا �د ذ�ر اسم� ��أستاذ ص�ع ...
  • "Teaching the Middle East" Conference: Conclus ...
    The best way to conclude this summary and discussion of �Teaching the Middle East� � indeed, given the structure of the conference and the nature of the conversations, the only way to conclude � is that the discussions that began at this conference have not yet concluded. Indeed, these d ...

mediagazer

  • Tea Partiers Create Their Own TV Show and Prod ...
    Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter: Tea Partiers Create Their Own TV Show and Production Company (Exclusive) … Those who belong to the conservative movement known as the Tea Party are acutely aware of the power of popular culture, so they have been cautiously delving into the creation of entertain ...
  • "Adding context to content": Swift River gets ...
    Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab: “Adding context to content”: Swift River gets Knight funding to tackle the problem of real-time verification  —  One of the biggest challenges news organizations face is the real-time aspect of newsgathering: the massive problem that is making sense of the ...
  • Why did The Post deport Jose Antonio Vargas's ...
    Patrick B. Pexton / Washington Post: Why did The Post deport Jose Antonio Vargas's story?  —  Journalists are not public officeholders, nor do they manage public funds.  But they do hold, precariously, a public trust.  And at the foundation of that trust is the pledge to tell the truth, or at l ...
  • Comcast has to sit on its hands while Hulu dra ...
    Joe Flint / Company Town: Comcast has to sit on its hands while Hulu drama plays out  —  Imagine owning a big chunk of a company and having no say in its operations or future.  —  That's the position Comcast Corp. finds itself in with regard to Hulu, the online video site that consists primaril ...
  • Fair use isn't much good if you can't afford i ...
    Mathew Ingram / GigaOM: Fair use isn't much good if you can't afford it  —  All around us, the web is enabling an explosion of “remix culture,” in which bits and pieces of text, images and video are cut and spliced to create new forms of art.  Whatever you think of the specific outcomes of thi ...

Chemtrail News

  • My video of contrail or chemtrail, page 1
    I shot some video with my phone, as I've been playing around with it from time to time of a plane leaving "contrail" or "chemtrail" depends on who you are. ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread720335/pg1
  • Secret Cam Conversation With CHEMTRAIL ...
    Dali777's video about CHEMTRAIL PILOT poison agent orange aspartame crystal documentary on Disclose.tv.www.disclose.tv/.../Secret_cam_conversation_with_CHEMTR...
  • WARNING! WARNING! CHEMTRAILS RELEASED F ...
    While out filming the sunset I noticed what appeared to be a chemtrail coming from the ground upwards and when I took a closer look I discovered that ther.chemtruth.ning.com/video/warning-warning-chemtrails
  • Crazy (Chemtrail?) photos.... don't ...
    I was out on my balcony having a smoke when I noticed this strange (cloud? chemtrail?) in the sky. It was a large spiraling cloud. ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread717527/pg1
  • Dailymail UK Thread On Chemtrails How J ...
    Here is an interesting article for the Chemtrail believers Also notice how the website site stopped accepting posts only after 242 comments Anyone on ATS in ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread719572/pg1

World News - Top Stories

  • 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 ...

no frakking consensus

  • The Activists, the Media, and the Public
    When activists hoodwink the media - and questionable environmental scare stories are the result - why don't we care?
  • My Fave Chairman Pachauri Quote
    The credibility of the IPCC has long been in tatters. There have been multiple calls for the resignation of its chairman. Rather than addressing this state of affairs, the head of the IPCC thinks corporate entities should change their ways - because we live in a world in which "reputation and p ...
  • Pachauri’s Cause
    The chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says responding to climate change is part of a larger goal: transforming the world economy.
  • Two Population Predictions
    40 years ago scientists said radical change was necessary if humanity was to survive. Along the way they endorsed a population prediction that now appears ridiculous.
  • Oodles of Cash
    Who knew that green groups - and those with business interests in renewable energy - have access to such obscene amounts of money?

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    lol, injecting DMT, elites on DMT< ahaha, that was the funniest clip i ever seen thanks. DMT is great. Ps, its mechanical elves tho. If Jones took DMT it would blow his last remained brain cell into oblivion. MuwaawawawaStatistics: Posted by memory hole — Sat Jun 25, 2011 4:27 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Timothy_Fitzpatrick wrote: I remember, MikeWB, when you said that in no way does Zionism equal Judaism. Do you still believe this Boasian tripe? He's even taken it a step further than that. He now says Jews had nothing to do with 9/11, 7/7 and the like -- it was all the Muzzies, apparently. T ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Timothy_Fitzpatrick wrote: MikeWB, MSMD an Islamist? Do you read any of his posts? Pretty clear that he is a raving white supremacist...at least seemingly. Statistics: Posted by MonkeySeeMonkeyDo — Sat Jun 25, 2011 3:46 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_AZMXfUaZA&amp[/youtube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_AZMXfUaZA&amp This is the only video (or photos) I could find of the actual event. Easy to say "One Million" but the video contains no crowd noise and does not pan. I don't see anything like 1 mi ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    I agree wit MSMD's points. Anyone who still believes Muslims did 9/11 is as bat shit crazy as Jarhead Jones. MikeWB, MSMD an Islamist? Do you read any of his posts? Pretty clear that he is a raving white supremacist...at least seemingly. I remember, MikeWB, when you said that in no way does Z ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Species May Adapt Quickly To Environmental Cha ...
    A new experiment using baker’s yeast suggest that organisms can adapt relatively rapidly to environmental changes. McGill University researchers exposed samples of baker’s yeast, whose genetic makeup has been well studied, to various levels of salt — an environmental stressor for yeast. What the ...
  • Brown to Green: A New Use For Blighted Industr ...
    Few places in the U.S. are as well suited to developing renewable energy as the contaminated sites known as “brownfields.” But as communities from Philadelphia to California are discovering, government support is critical to enable solar and wind entrepreneurs to make use of these abandoned land ...
  • Forum: Just How Safe Is ‘Fracking’ of Natural ...
    New technologies for freeing natural gas from underground shale formations have led to a hydraulic fracturing boom across the U.S. that is now spreading to other countries. In a Yale Environment 360 forum, eight experts discuss whether “fracking” can be done without serious harm to water and ai ...
  • Fly Larvae Used to Remove Organic Waste on Lar ...
    Spanish researchers have developed a process that uses fly larvae to rapidly break down animal waste on a large scale while simultaneously producing biomass that can Click to enlarge Asociación RUVIDFly larvae feed on organic waste be re-used for numerous purposes, from animal feed to the pr ...
  • Snowpack Decline in Rockies Has Rapidly Accele ...
    A new study says snowpack decline in the northern Rocky Mountains over the last 30 years has been more severe than at any other time in nearly 1,000 years. In an analysis of 66 tree-ring records, researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) found that the average spring snowpack in the nor ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • The lost art of imagining retribution
    By Jan Drabek Probably the most bizarre attempt to deal with the Stanley Cup riots to date was the announcement of a group getting together to sing O Canada at the corner of Georgia and Hamilton. But other unusual takes abound, among them that of the bicycle-loving mayor of Vancouver who ...
  • The attack on young Canadians
    By Montreal Simon If you want to survive Canada's Summer of Anger, there are two subjects you absolutely must NOT discuss with your fellow hosers. One . . . who is to blame for the Vancouver riot? Because chances are you'll have to listen to some deranged rant about how young people ...
  • The Vancouver riot: thugs are not anarchists
    By Frank Moher Memo to Vancouver Police Chief Jim Chu: idiots and anarchists are two different things. I know being a political scientist isn't a prerequiste for becoming a cop, not even the top cop, but playing the "anarchist" card last week, as you did in defending your force's handling of ...
  • Where is Brock Anton?
    By Frank Moher Having owned the Brock Anton story sufficiently on Thursday to crash our server for awhile -- we've now moved to a nice big new one -- it seems necessary to provide a follow-up, although much of the web has moved on to other riot tales, like the kissing ...
  • The face of Vancouver’s Stanley Cup riot
    By Frank Moher Overnight, a certain Brock Anton became the face of the Vancouver Stanley Cup riot on the internet. Downtown for the abortive festivities yesterday, Mr. Anton apparently took time out from his busy schedule to post this on his Facebook page: It reads: Maced in the face, ...

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Mitsubishi Estate to spend big this year
    Mitsubishi Estate Co. this year will start using a quarter of the �600 billion it plans to invest by 2014 to redevelop Tokyo's most expensive business district. The company, the nation's second-largest developer, will invest �150 billion in the Marunouchi district and aims to reveal the detail ...
  • Tepco pensions may be tapped for redress
    Tokyo Electric Power Co. may need to cut pensions to acquire ready cash to compensate people affected by the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant crisis if a government panel examining the utility's assets deems this necessary, Tepco Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata said Friday. "(The corporate pension) ...
  • Merkel briefs Crown Prince on nukes
    Crown Prince Naruhito met Chancellor Angela Merkel in her office in Berlin on Thursday and received a briefing on her energy policy as Germany seeks to abandon nuclear power in light of the Fukushima disaster. "In Japan, too, interest in renewable energy is growing," the Crown Prince said in r ...
  • Defense rests in woman's Malaysia drug trial
    The trial of a Japanese woman facing the death penalty for drug-trafficking in Malaysia edged closer to conclusion Thursday. Mariko Takeuchi, 36, is accused of trying to smuggle 3.5 kg of methamphetamines into Malaysia through Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Oct. 31, 2009, a crime that c ...
  • Tyler goes in 2nd roundbefore trade to Warriors
    Former Tokyo Apache forward/center Jeremy Tyler has a new home in northern California. The San Diego native was selected 39th overall by the Charlotte Bobcats in Thursday's NBA Draft. The Golden State Warriors then acquired the pick, paying $2 million for him.

Alexander Higgins

  • Hacker Data Release Reveals Feds Domestic Spy ...
    Government data leaked by hackers reveal US government domestic spy program has grown far beyond our wildest nightmare, with Government operatives spying on our every move, in every imaginable aspect of our lives, both online and offline.
  • Is Fukushima Radiation Too Hot For Robots? T-H ...
    High tech equipment malfunctions in robots working at the Fukushima nuclear reactor could be due to extremely high levels of radiation interfering with equipment electronics.
  • Military Tensions Between China And US Heat Up ...
    Tensions heat up between the US and China over disputed islands the South China Sea as China warns the US to stay out of the dispute. The US is responding by launching a joint military exercise aimed at pushing back against growing control China has in the area.
  • Please Spread The Word! Man Investigating Fore ...
    A man investigating a Judge who allowed his home to be fraudulently stolen from him ends up dead after receiving death threats demanding he stop investigating the judge Autopsy shows the man’s death was the result of blunt force trauma, which the police initially tried to cover up . Now the poli ...
  • CNN Contributor Says It Is Time To Dump The Co ...
    CNN contributor says the Constitution is outdated and it should be “debated and fixed” suggesting “a set of amendments to modernize the Constitution for the 21st Century.”

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

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

ReDress

  • 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 ...

Physics Today

  • Lunar study casts doubt on why the Moon glows
    Science: Many planets with an atmosphere have a faint illumination or glow that can be seen on the horizon. Apollo 8 astronaut James Lovell saw something similar when his spacecraft went around the Moon in 1968, but the Moon has no atmosphere to catch the Sun's rays and create such a spectacle. ...
  • Glitches delay NIF's ignition tests
    New York Times: The $3.5 billion National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has delayed the next set of experiments for six months to install new safety equipment. At NIF, 192 powerful lasers are trained on a pea-sized pellet of hydrogen isotopes, which is heated to mor ...
  • Graphite-coated sand could clean up dirty drin ...
    BBC: Researchers have been working on a new technology to decontaminate water in developing countries. It involves coating grains of sand with an oxide of graphite, a widely available material commonly used as pencil lead. Sand has been used to purify water since ancient times. Although fine san ...
  • Pigeons do not flock to save energy
    Nature: Many studies have shown how some birds, such as pelicans, can conserve energy by flying in formation. However, for pigeons, flocking comes at a high energy cost. James Usherwood and colleagues at the University of London discovered this through fitting GPS sensors to the birds. They pro ...
  • Pigeons do not flock to save energy
    Nature: Many studies have shown how some birds, such as pelicans, can conserve energy by flying in formation. However, for pigeons, flocking comes at a high energy cost. James Usherwood and colleagues at the University of London discovered this through fitting GPS sensors to the birds. They pro ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • Oil price and Iran war
    by katsung47 (Posted Fri, 24 Jun 2011 23:54:44 GMT) 11. How can US dollar stands strong when oil price going down? (12/3/08) The oil price now drops below $50/barrel. To my theory, the dollar should drop too. Because the buyers now have excessive petro-dollars. But dollar stands strong. What ha ...
  • News media won't report
    by katsung47 (Posted Fri, 24 Jun 2011 23:43:34 GMT) Quote, "SWAT team raids house over … unpaid student loans 06/08/2011 | Ed Morrissey Posted on Wednesday, June 08, 2011 …… CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE VIDEO Kenneth Wright does not have a criminal record and he had no reason to believe a S.W.A ...
  • The Fake Osama Bin Laden Image
    by katsung47 (Posted Fri, 24 Jun 2011 23:41:15 GMT) Quote, " How Many US SEALs Died? (Apparently, Plenty) China's Ominous Warning To The US Not To Attack Pakistan Paul Craig Roberts 5-25-11 In a sensational and explosive TV report, the Pakistani News Agency has provided a live interview wit ...
  • CIA Spy Captured Giving Nuclear Bomb To Terrorists
    by katsung47 (Posted Fri, 24 Jun 2011 23:37:35 GMT) 673. Another attempt of Nuclear attack (6/20/2011) Read the following news censored by mainstream media. Watch the date. Two Nebraska Nuclear Plants Partially Submerged by Missouri Floodwaters June 17, 2011By LBG1 FAA issues 'No Fly Zones' ...
  • EUROPE IN CRISIS
    by EUROCRISIS (Posted Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:09:13 GMT) Oh Boy, he[/EclippTV]re it is again. The truth about Goldman Sachs!!!! They knew the Greeks were worthless because they took the existing debt of Greece and restructur­ed it, (charging Greek citizens tens of millions in fees) so that Greece ...

Peakwater

  • Why a Corporate Power Grab at the UN Threatens ...
    “There is no admission of problems with the Water Mandate, or the United Nations Global Compact itself” — the strategic policy initiative committed to human rights, labor and the environment – Blue Gold and Blue Covenant author and activist Maude Barlow, who also chairs the National Council ...
  • Ohio House OKs Lake Erie water withdrawal
    “With a single Columbus Democrat joining Republicans in support, the House voted 60-37 to approve a bill allowing heavy manufacturers, mining operations, power plants, and other businesses to draw up to 5 million gallons of water a day directly from Lake Erie before facing regulation. “We can do ...
  • The Hydropower Industry Needs Standards, not S ...
    “The International Hydropower Association (IHA) just launched the âHydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocolâ (HSAP) at its bi-yearly Congress in the town of Foz do Iguaçú, Brazil, last week. The Protocol is in reality only a scorecard that rewards hydropower companies and financiers with ...
  • Floods Threaten Private Water Wells
    “The flooded Missouri River is not the cleanest source of water, and it’s filtering into the ground water. One of the last things you want to do right now is drink some of the flood water from the Missouri River, but if you have your own private well, you could be doing just that. To [...]
  • Estuaries on the northwestern coast of Madagas ...
    “This photograph highlights two estuaries located along the northwestern coastline of the island of Madagascar. The Mozambique Channel (top) separates Madagascar from the southeastern coast of Africa. Bombetoka Bay (upper left) is fed by the Betsiboka River and is a frequent subject of astronaut ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich: Congress Votes Overwhelmingly Agains ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement after the House of Representatives rejected a measure offered by Representative Rooney that would have limited the U.S. involvement in the war in Libya. The Rooney bill was defeated after a bill authorizing the war in Libya wa ...
  • Kucinich: Defeat the Authorization for the War
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who has led bipartisan opposition to the war in Libya, today addressed the House, urging his colleagues to take a two-step approach to ending the U.S. involvement in the war in Libya. Congressman Kucinich will also be sending messages encouraging his colle ...
  • Kucinich on Proposed Rule Change for National ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a long time advocate for the rights of workers, today issued the following statement in support of a set of proposed rule changes by the National Labor Relations Board that would make the process of secret ballot elections more transparent and equitable. ...
  • Kucinich: End the Libya War in Two Steps
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who has led House opposition to the war in Libya, is today urging Members of Congress to support a two-step process to end the war in Libya and to promote a political solution. He sent the following letter to colleagues: June 23, 2011 End the War in Two Step ...
  • Nine Cosponsors for Kucinich-Amash Libya Defun ...
    Washington D.C. (June 22, 2011) � Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who has led House opposition to the war in Libya, and Michigan Republican Justin Amash who has also been a vocal opponent to the war, are officially introducing an amendment to the FY 2012 Defense Appropriations bill to cut of ...

Authentically Wired

  • And how and by whom was the question posed…?
    ⦠Not surprising as the results are determined solely by the manner in which the question is phrased ⦠! Poll: Most Americans want gov’t to secure border quickly By Dennis Welch The Arizona Guardian More Americans than ever say it’s "extremely important" the government moves quickly to stop th ...
  • who will …?
    … May I inquire why anyone would choose to believe with the virtually unrestricted power the John Roberts … US Supreme Court gifted to corporations they would not act in the own best interest which concerning … WATER … is to privatize every drop … And as they own EPA … Congress … Courts … [...]
  • Yea … I know … not in my back yard ...
    … While I personally support this position … if not Nevada/Yucca then where … as there is NO doubt a SAFER longer term depository for the copious amounts of nuclear waste America generates is required … Yea … I know … not in my back yard … U.S. official says Yucca nuclear dump not an [...]
  • Bears looking into
    ⦠Bears looking into ⦠sorry I remain skeptical when I see American Chemical Society as promoters ⦠their memberâs legacy respecting WATER is devastating ⦠‘Super sand’ for better purification of drinking water Scientists have developed a way to transform ordinary sand â a mainstay filter ma ...
  • Sewer Sampling Reveals Patterns Of Drug Use
    � �� Why would any rational individual find these results the least bit surprising �� especially in the USA �� where smoking �dope� is a crime �� where health care is so expensive that use of copious amounts of any form of drug to relive the symptoms of pain, disease must be utilized as �we� [...]

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • FSC mulls controversial motion to certify plan ...
    Members of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), meeting in Malaysia this week for its General Assembly, will consider various changes to the organization, including a vote on a controversial motion that would open the door—slightly at first—to sustainable-certification of companies that have be ...
  • Is Indonesia losing its most valuable assets?
    Deep in the rainforests of Malaysian Borneo in the late 1980s, researchers made an incredible discovery: the bark of a species of peat swamp tree yielded an extract with potent anti-HIV activity. An anti-HIV drug made from the compound is now nearing clinical trials. It could be worth hundreds o ...
  • Belief and butchery: how lies and organized cr ...
    Few animals face as violent, as well organized, and as determined an enemy as the world's rhinos. Across the globe rhinos are being slaughtered in record numbers; on average more than one rhino is killed by poachers everyday. After being shot or drugged, criminals take what they came for: they s ...
  • What does Nature give us? A special Earth Day ...
    There is no question that Earth has been a giving planet. Everything humans have needed to survive, and thrive, was provided by the natural world around us: food, water, medicine, materials for shelter, and even natural cycles such as climate and nutrients. Scientists have come to term such gift ...
  • Elephants: the gardeners of Asia's and Africa' ...
    It seems difficult to imagine elephants delicately tending a garden, but these pachyderms may well be the world's weightiest horticulturalist. Elephants both in Asia and Africa eat abundant amounts of fruit when available; seeds pass through their guts, and after expelled—sometimes tens of miles ...
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