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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.

Monday, June 27, 2011

27 June - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

To Do

renewable recycling conservation
Gevo and Toray Announce Commercial Progress for Renewable PET
MarketWatch (press release)
- Jun 27, 2011
- 13 hours ago
In April, 2010, the two companies signed a non-binding letter of interest for the future supply of renewable para-xylene derived from Gevo's isobutanol sometime in 2012 or thereafter. Working directly with this important potential customer, ...
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Aspire Announces Acquisition in Renewable Energy Sector
MarketWatch (press release)
- Jun 27, 2011
- 12 hours ago
Future Solar is engaged in building solar energy power plants that qualify for participation in Ontario's Feed-in Tariff (FIT) Program, which offers a guaranteed pricing structure for renewable electricity production. FIT, which is being implemented by ...
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Gevo Announces Strategic Hires for Its Executive Team
MarketWatch (press release)
- Jun 27, 2011
- 13 hours ago
Before that, he was the biomass technology leader at NatureWorks LLC, and technology manager for the biofuels program at the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). As head of strategy Mr. DeMuth will report to Patrick ...
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CMS Energy Goes Green in Michigan
Zacks.com
- Jun 27, 2011
- 4 hours ago
Consumers Energy, the major subsidiary of CMS Energy (CMS - Analyst Report) has got into an agreement to purchase the total renewable energy output produced by the Fremont Community Digester (“FCD”). The contract is in line with the utility's ...
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Human Habitat

ecology water energy
Battle over biomass heats up in Longview, Wash.
Seattle Post Intelligencer
- Jun 27, 2011
- 8 hours ago
The state Department of Ecology approved the company's permit application on June. The company began pouring concrete for the foundation earlier this month, company spokeswoman Sarah Taydas said. Longview Fibre barely beat a July 1 deadline to start ...
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Rocky Mountain flowers dwindle, as climate warms
MiamiHerald.com
- Jun 27, 2011
- 12 hours ago
By NICHOLAS RICCARDI New research released in the Journal of Ecology finds that the brilliant flowers that bloom in Rocky Mountain meadows during midsummer are dwindling, and likely to fade even more as climate change warms the high country. ...
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Greatest Threat to Caribou Herd in Canada Isn't From Wolves
New York Times
- Jun 27, 2011
- 4 hours ago
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR Humans are a much bigger problem than wolves for a caribou herd in the oil sands area of Alberta, Canada, scientists reported last week in Frontiers in Ecology. BEHAVIORAL CLUES Hormone levels in caribou scat point to another ...
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The Ecology, Economy, Equity community garden on the Hill enables UCLA ...
Daily Bruin
- Jun 27, 2011
- 9 hours ago
By KAVITHA SUBRAMANIAN The Ecology, Economy, Equity community garden at Sunset Canyon Recreation Center is open to UCLA students, faculty and staff who want to grow their own organic herbs and vegetables. The community garden at Sunset Canyon ...
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Water Power

water floods pollution
Slow Start on Great Lakes Pact
Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)
- Jun 27, 2011
- 50 minutes ago
Ten years ago this month, the governors of the eight Great Lakes states and the premiers of Ontario and Quebec agreed to work together to more effectively protect the water resources of the Great Lakes. Their agreement eventually took the form of the ...
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Cerabino: With West Palm water be sure to shake well before oozing
Palm Beach Post
- Jun 27, 2011
- 51 minutes ago
By Frank Cerabino The city, unlike many other local suppliers, gets its drinking water from Lake Okeechobee instead of underground aquifers. And the drought has brought the lake levels low enough to affect the quality of the water received by the ...
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Authorities Open Flood Recovery Centers in North Dakota
Christian Post
- Jun 27, 2011
- 2 hours ago
A gas station remains protected with a levee in a business district in a flooded area of Minot, North Dakota, as flood water from the Souris River spills over levees and dikes June 24, 2011. Assistance programs are underway and local residents affected ...
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Nixon: Missouri faces weeks of potential floods
Kansas City Star
- Jun 27, 2011
- 18 minutes ago
Missouri faces several more weeks of potential flooding along the Missouri River and its tributaries as high water pushes its way south and east across the state, and recent heavy rain has only compounded the problem, Gov. Jay Nixon said Monday. ...
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The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • EGYPT’S DRIVE FOR AN INDEPENDENT FOREIGN POLIC ...
    Summary: We have been on the road this week, in China. We will have a lot of observations from our trip to share in coming days and weeks. In the meantime, we were struck by the announcement earlier this week that 14 additional political parties have been taken into Egypt’s new Democratic ...
  • After the “west”
    Summary: Adib-MoghaddamThe notion of the “west”, like any such construct, has various associations depending on who is using it, where and in what circumstances. Many people (especially in other parts of the world) tend to associate the “west” with military campaigns and foreign intervention ...
  • Russia questions new U.S. sanctions on Iran
    Summary: The unilateral sanctions imposed by the United States against two Iranian companies have raised serious questions, said the Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday. The ministry said in a statement that the sanctions, imposed on Iran's national airline Iran Air and the country's major po ...
  • Iran protests to UN over new US sanctions
    Summary: Iran has protested the United Nations over the latest sanctions imposed on it by the US government, calling the measures "extremely dangerous" and aiming to harm civilians. Iran's UN Ambassador Mohammad Khazaei said in a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon that "Continuation ...
  • Insanity on Iran
    Summary: BoltonBolton is no stranger to not letting reality getting in the way of whatever bellicose campaign he is waging, including ones involving presumed unconventional weapons programs in states he doesn't like. When he was an undersecretary of state in the Bush administration, he agita ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Monday's News Flash -Sci, Space, Tech
    Genesis Probe Crashes Down to Earth (VIDEO) In 2004, the NASA probe's parachute malfunctioned and it crash-landed in Utah. The probe was sent about 900,000 miles from Earth to collect bits of solar wind and return them for study -...
  • GENESIS Mission Sample of Original Nebula Sugg ...
    Researchers analyzing samples returned by NASA's 2004 Genesis mission have discovered that our sun and its inner planets may have formed differently than previously thought. About 4.6 billion years ago, the solar nebula transformed into the present solar system. In...
  • The Discovery of Alien DNA in the Human Genome ...
    “Earlier this year, molecular biologists announced that 20 per cent of nonhuman genome databases are contaminated with human DNA, probably from the researchers who sequenced the samples,” Technology Review‘s The Physics ArXiv blog. “Now, the human genome itself has become...
  • Epic Discovery: Research on Radiation Inside S ...
    By studying how chemical elements emit and absorb radiation inside stars and around black holes, Ohio State University astronomers have discovered that heavy metals such as iron emit low-energy electrons when exposed to X-rays at specific energies. Their discovery raises...
  • Primordial Galaxies a Trillion Times Brighter ...
    Galaxies a trillion times brighter than our Sun have been discovered inside enormous blobs that were first found about six years ago by visible-light telescopes, located billions of light-years away in ancient galactic structures or filaments, where thousands of young...

Natural News

  • Huge public outcry over TSA forcing 95-year-ol ...
    (NaturalNews) The TSA has once again shown itself to be an agency utterly lacking in respect for human dignity by forcing a 95-year-old cancer patient to remove her adult diaper during the screening procedure. Jean Weber, a leukemia patient, underwent the humiliating procedure at the Destin-Fort ...
  • Busted! Big Pharma epilepsy study rigged to pu ...
    (NaturalNews) If you think being concerned over natural health issues means you automatically dismiss everything that mainstream medicine has to say - think again. Not only are many mainstream researchers coming up with evidence that nutrition and other natural therapies really are effective but ...
  • FDA sued to halt antibiotics in animal feed
    (NaturalNews) Since the 1950's livestock have had antibiotics added into their feed to speed up their growth and to prevent and treat illness. However, recently several environmental and public health groups have filed suit against the Food and Drug Administration to try and force the government ...
  • Natural amino acids preferable to antibiotics ...
    (NaturalNews) As most NaturalNews readers probably already know, there is a rapidly-growing resistance to antibiotics that has given way to antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" like Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP), and even the ...
  • Monsanto trying to take over world seed supply ...
    (NaturalNews) He who controls the seed controls the food supply; and he who controls the food supply controls the world. There is no question that Monsanto is on a mission to monopolize the conventional seed market. In fact, they are steadfastly working towards the goal of creating a world where ...

Threat Level

  • Supreme Court Term in Review: It’s a Mixed Bag
    The U.S. Supreme Court ended its 2010-2011 term Monday, deciding a slew of technology and civil rights issues, some of which have far-reaching implications for the Freedom of Information Act, intellectual property, warrantless searches of private residences, the "state secrets" privilege and fre ...
  • States May Not Ban Sale, Rental of Violent Vid ...
    The Supreme Court ruled Monday the states may not ban the sale or rental of violent videogames to minors. The case the justices decided concerned a 2005 California ban adopted by state lawmakers. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals of San Francisco in 2008 overturned the law, saying there’s n ...
  • Supreme Court to Decide Constitutionality of W ...
    At the Obama administration’s urging, the Supreme Court agreed Monday to review whether the government, without a court warrant, may affix GPS devices on suspects’ vehicles to track their every move. The Justice Department told the justices that “a person has no reasonable expectation of privacy ...
  • Righthaven Says It Owns News Articles It’s Sui ...
    Copyright troll Righthaven told a federal judge Thursday that it has revised its contract with the Las Vegas Review-Journal to give it full copyright ownership over some of the newspapers’ content. It’s a bid to squelch a legal controversy over whether it has the right to sue bloggers who’ve qu ...
  • LulzSec Releases Arizona Police Documents
    The hacker group LulzSec published 700 confidential documents Thursday apparently stolen from the Arizona Department of Public Safety. LulzSec announced its latest conquest on Twitter and released the document cache through BitTorrent. The files are a mix of intelligence bulletins and presentat ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • McConnell and Kyl Peddle GOP Whopper on Taxes ...
    It is often said that historical events occur twice, first as tragedy, then as farce. But as the top two Senate Republicans showed once again on Sunday, when it comes to comes to the GOP and taxes, some episodes produce both. After successfully blackmailing President Obama in December into ext ...
  • The Serially Insincere Mitt Romney
    Last December, the conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat fretted that Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney is "serially insincere." His concern is well-founded. After all, Romney gymnastic flip-flops don't merely make it "awfully hard to figure out where he would actua ...
  • "Muddle Through" McCain Rewrites History on Af ...
    Say what you will about the President's Afghan strategy, but if nothing else, Barack Obama has been consistent. Having criticized the Bush administration for diverting badly needed resources to fight the wrong war in Iraq, candidate Obama promised to dramatically increase U.S. troop strength an ...
  • 10 Things the GOP Doesn't Want You to Know Abo ...
    Just two weeks after he seconded Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's dire warnings about the August 2 deadline to raise the U.S debt ceiling, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor walked out of the budget talks aimed at reaching a bipartisan compromise over deficit reduction. Like Arizona GOP Senator ...
  • Red State Education Rules? Guess Again.
    Seizing on recent rankings of American high schools by Newsweek and the Washington Post, Walter Russell Mead crowed that "blue state education [is] the shame of the nation." Eager for any data point to bash the supposedly high-tax, big government, union-dominated states which generally vote for ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Culture Jamming - Media Hoaxing - Kommunikatio ...
    Website zur Dokumentation Culture Jamming - Medienaktionismus im 21. Jahrhundert
  • Culture Jammer's Encyclopedia
    Virtual reference book of all things subversive, fraudulent, anti-commercial, or just plain fun and devious. Includes tons of cool links.
  • Michael C. Ruppert: Arrival of the Post-Petrol ...
    Dandelion Salad peakmoment on Jun 24, 2011 Peak Moment 196: “Petroleum Man is dead. Infinite Growth Man is dead. Post Petroleum Human is alive,” announced Michael C. Ruppert on May 22, 2011. Members of this emerging “species” know they must live in balance with the Earth, while remembering the ...
  • From Afghans to Gazans: Why can’t we touch you ...
    Hakim Guest Writer Dandelion Salad http://ourjourneytosmile.com June 26, 2011 Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers flew kites for the people of Gaza photo by Hakim Dear friends, The approximately 1000 ordinary people sailing with the Gaza Freedom Flotilla II ought to stop us in our ordinary tracks at l ...
  • Rev. James Lawson: Non-Violence as a Science o ...
    Dandelion Salad What makes a Christian different from everyone else? What makes Christianity distinct from any other religion? It is grace – treating others, not as they deserve, but as God wishes them to be treated – with loving-kindness and mercy. Only the cross of Jesus Christ can free us fro ...

Consortium News

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

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • What The Fukushima Is Going On In Omaha?
    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is monitoring events at the Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant after a protective berm holding back floodwaters from the Missouri River collapsed early today. The plant, located about 19 miles north of Omaha, Nebraska, is operated by Omaha Public Power ...
  • News Roundup for June 27, 2011
    The Texas Progressive Alliance is ready to say “Sine Die” for the second time as it brings you this week’s roundup. The Congressional map got its final legislative approval, and Off the Kuff analyzes the new districts. This week WCNews at Eye On Williamson posts on the (in)action at The Lege. Qu ...
  • San Antonio’s clean energy push just in the ni ...
    CPS Energy, San Antonioâs municipal utility, has announced plans to shut its two-unit, 871-megawatt JT Deely coal station down by 2018. The utility estimates this move could save as much as $3 billion in environmental upgrades needed for these aging coal-fired units to comply with pending federa ...
  • Houston Pleas for Smarter Water Usage in the W ...
    Summer has barely set in and the City of Houston has issued stage one conservation measures in the wake of the current drought in Texas: City of Houston Implements Stage One Water Conservation Measures Lack of rain and record high temperatures that have plagued 98 percent of the state have made ...
  • New Laws Offer Hope For Transparency
    The Texas Legislature has taken steps to offer more transparency in government this legislative year. As a Texas Tribune article  written by Becca Aaronson points out, lawmakers hope this will provide a lot of information to be available online. However, some people are worried that private info ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Nobel laureate touts E-Cat cold fusion
    Nobel prize winner Dr. Brian Josephson is trying to increase awareness of E-cat cold fusion. Despite the potentially revolutionary nature of the E-Cat...
  • UFO disrupts Cheyenne Air Force base
    Robert Hastings has claimed that an Air Force base suffered disruption during a UFO encounter. The The F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming temporari...
  • Search is on for new psychic octopus
    Paul the Octopus' predictions were so popular last year that the search is now on for his replacement. The multi-limbed celebrity became famous during...
  • Advanced robotics - meet the real life C-3PO
    Developed at the University of Zurich, the humanoid creation has its own artificial muscles and tendons. Nicknamed Ecci ( short for Eccerobot ), the r...
  • Stolen Apollo 11 moon dust recovered
    NASA have managed to recover stolen moon dust from the Apollo 11 mission that was about to auctioned. In the US there are laws prohibiting the sale or...

Grassroots

Climate

  • Arctic-Crossing Algae, Whale Show Threat to At ...
    Source:� Reuters Tiny algae and a whale native to the Pacific have crossed a thawing Arctic Ocean in what may portend a marine invasion threatening Atlantic fish stocks, scientists said on Sunday.
  • Analysis: Venture Firms Seek 'Light' Green Tec ...
    Source:� Reuters Having placed bets on capital-intensive industries like solar just as the financial crisis quashed interest in risky new technologies, early-stage investors these days have a limited appetite for start-ups ...
  • Duck-Billed Platypus at Risk from Climate Change
    Source:� The Telegraph The duck-billed platypus, one of Australia's most bizarre and beloved animals, is the latest native species to come under threat from climate change, scientists have warned.
  • Australians Cool on Tackling Climate Change
    Source:� Reuters PM Julia Gillard has staked her troubled leadership on introducing a carbon price, but a new poll on Monday found the majority of voters no longer regard tackling climate change as a major goal.
  • UK's Biggest Solar Energy Farm Connects to Nat ...
    Source:� Guardian Britain's biggest array of solar panels and the first large ground system to feed into the national grid has begun generating in Oxfordshire.�

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

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

Booman Tribune

  • SCOTUS on Rampage
    I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Elena Kagan's dissent [it's a .pdf, and you'll have to scroll way down to find it] in ARIZONA FREE ENTERPRISE v. BENNETT basically treats Roberts's majority opinion the same way our air forces treated Dresden during World War Two. It's a carpetbombing that ...
  • I'm Weary
    I am so weary of The Stupid. So weary. It never ends. Discuss
  • Alarmed Observation
    The War on Women isn't just devastating to women. It's devastating to whole families. And no one has confidence anymore that the Supreme Court won't join the battle on the side of darkness. So, for now, these new "fetal pain" laws that create a near-absolute ban on abortions past twenty weeks ...
  • Boehner's Up a Creek
    When I combine the news over the weekend that Minority Leader Pelosi has insisted on a seat at the budget negotiations' table with the following from her Washington Post profile, I get a comforting picture: Instead of having to defend Democratic seats in Republican territory, her party will b ...
  • GOP Governors Will Help Obama
    My answer to Steve Benen is 'yes.' 'Yes' the incredible unpopularity of Republican governors will help President Obama's reelection prospects. These governors are not just a little bit unpopular. They're unpopular like sexually-transmitted diseases are unpopular. And they will only get more ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • What Issues Co-Dependents Bring to Therapy
    By Joyce McLeod Henley, MSW, LCSW, CEAP, SAP, Codependency Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Joyce and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile You may wonder how people get into therapy for co-dependency. Rarely do I have a client come in requesting help for co-dependency. More often cli ...
  • Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
    A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up Happy first official weekend of Summer! We hope this week’s news provides you some good beginning summer reading :-) Biology Behind Urban Anxiety Panic May be Delayed after Stressful Event Youth Cybercrime Linked to Friends’ Influence Do Kids ...
  • How to Tell Young Children about a Parent’s Cancer
    By Norma Lee M.A., M.D., Cancer Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Norma and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile “Ellen” is six years old. Her mother has stage four breast cancer, which she has been living with for a couple of years. However, her health is starting to decline. She is ...
  • Neurofeedback as a Treatment for Traumatized M ...
    By Traci Stein, PhD, MPH Complementary & Alternative Medicine Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Traci and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile As we prepare to celebrate our country’s upcoming Independence Day, it seems appropriate to speak about a complementary and alternative medici ...
  • Depression after Stroke Can Lead to Loss of In ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Strokes are more common among the elderly than the young, and many people who suffer a stroke may also have other pre-existing health conditions. But when those same people develop depression after experiencing a stroke, their risk of becoming dependent on others ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Birth Defects MUCH More Common Near Mountainto ...
    Climate Science Watch Birth Defects MUCH More Common Near Mountaintop Removal PlanetSave.com Yet another reason to love mountaintop removal coal mining and coal-fired electricity � it causes birth defects! Yippee! In all seriousness, though, this is concerning and it is no surprise. Mountaintop ...
  • Study showing higher birth defect rates adds a ...
    Climate Science Watch Study showing higher birth defect rates adds another note of urgency to ... Climate Science Watch The radically destructive practice of mountaintop removal, which has been called 'strip mining on steroids,' helps to drive global warming, plunders Appalachian ecosystems and ...
  • Study notes spike in birth defects near mounta ...
    Study notes spike in birth defects near mountaintop mining The Republic Birth defects are more likely to occur in Appalachian counties with mountaintop removal coal mining than in other counties in the region, according to a recent study. The study, published last month in the peer-reviewed jou ...
  • Outrage: As Mountaintop Removal Linked to Birt ...
    Lexington Herald Leader Outrage: As Mountaintop Removal Linked to Birth Defects, Politicians Gut Clean ... AlterNet (blog) I just can't stop thinking about a new scientific study published this week that found there are �significantly higher� rates of birth defects near mountaintop removal coal ...
  • Outrage: As Mountaintop Removal Linked to Birt ...
    USA Today Outrage: As Mountaintop Removal Linked to Birth Defects, Politicians Gut Clean ... Huffington Post (blog) I just can't stop thinking about a new scientific study published this week that found there are "significantly higher" rates of birth defects near mountaintop removal coal mining ...

Memeorandum

  • The wrong John Wayne (Stephen Dinan/Washington ...
    Stephen Dinan / Washington Times: The wrong John Wayne  —  Rep. Michele Bachmann kicked off her presidential campaign on Monday in Waterloo, Iowa, and in one interview surrounding the official event she promised to mimic the spirit of Waterloo's own John Wayne.  —  The only problem, as one eagl ...
  • New Pro-Romney Super PAC Run By Operative Behi ...
    Lee Fang / ThinkProgress: New Pro-Romney Super PAC Run By Operative Behind Racist Willie Horton, ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ Ads  —  The Washington Post reported last week that a new “Super PAC” — a political committee that can accept unlimited corporate contributions — has been set up by Mitt Romney ...
  • Gay Marriage: A Milestone (New York Times)
    New York Times: Gay Marriage: A Milestone  —  New York State has made a powerful and principled choice by giving all couples the right to wed and enjoy the legal rights of marriage.  It is a proud moment for New Yorkers, thousands of whom took to the streets on Sunday to celebrate this step for ...
  • SCOTUS issues limited campaign finance ruling ...
    Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico: SCOTUS issues limited campaign finance ruling  —  The Supreme Court on Monday issued a 5-4 decision striking down part of an Arizona law providing public funds for campaigns.  —  The case, Arizona Free Enterprise Club's Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett, was closely ...
  • To Quote Sir Robin's Minstrel: "They Bravely R ...
    Steven Hayward / Power Line: To Quote Sir Robin's Minstrel: “They Bravely Ran Away, Away”  —  Some years ago—1997 in fact—I was invited to participate in a climate change group grope in Denver hosted by former Colorado Senator Tim Wirth, who left the Senate first for a Clinton Administration St ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • How to prepare for crisis
    Margareta Wahlström is the United Nations’ risk-reduction chief. As China and America battle severe floods, she talks to Meng Si about preparing for natural disaster – and coping with the effects.In early June – against the backdrop of severe flooding in both the United States and China – delega ...
  • Kyoto coma
    As we start the six-month countdown to climate-change talks in Durban, Yang Fuqiang and Ang Li ask if there is any hope left for the existing treaty to tackle global emissions.On June 18, the second round of 2011’s UN climate-change negotiations ended in Germany. As the talks drew to a close, th ...
  • Japan’s toxic trials
    As one contamination story draws to a close in the Pacific, another begins. Christine L Marran considers the journey from methylmercury poisoning in the last century to the radiation crisis of today.In March, an exhausting court battle finally ended for over 2,000 victims of mercury poisoning in ...
  • Material concerns in Sichuan (2)
    Concluding his account of Sichuan’s timber struggle, Feng Yongfeng talks to a local official fighting to balance political and environmental commitments in Dege county. Zhang Kelin, head of the Dege Forestry Bureau, is fed up of felling. When I met him he was preparing to go out and plant trees ...
  • Material concerns in Sichuan (1)
    A push to build housing for Tibetan herders is driving logging in Sichuan, where angry locals have taken matters into their own hands. Campaigner Feng Yongfeng gives a view from the ground.Editor's note: in May, chinadialogue reported on a grassroots movement to protect forests in western Sichua ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • What's Cooking, Uncle Sam? How the Government ...
    So, after all this government-mandated meddling with our meals, do we eat better now than we did 100 years ago?
  • WhoWhatWhy Factchecks the Media: More Question ...
    Rape is tragically common in wartime—but did Qaddafi really order it? STORY SUMMARY: Media reporting of atrocities by the Libyan regime continues to heat up. The alleged crimes are horrific—Muammar Qaddafi ordering mass, Viagra-fueled rapes. But the claims are mitigated by some really poor jo ...
  • White supremacist praises black football playe ...
    Former NY Giants football player David Tyree can count on one person to support his negative stance on gay marriage – a man by the name of James Edwards. For those who don’t know, Edwards is a white supremacist. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center: Edwards, 27, is the host of “The Polit ...
  • “Pfizer’s Neurontin Killed Our Hus ...
    After being silent for more than six years, two women who say their doctor husbands died from undisclosed Neurontin risks have decided to speak out. What began as “something deeply personal and private” in their lives has become their call for social justice, awareness and “protecting the health ...
  • David Tyree’s statements about gay marri ...
    During a recent anti-marriage equality news conference in New York, Superbowl hero and new NOM spokesman David Tyree said the following: Asked if heâd give up the Super Bowl to stop gay marriage, Tyree said: âHonestly, I probably would.â âNothing means more to me than that my God would be hon ...

Threat Level

  • Supreme Court Term in Review: It’s a Mixed Bag
    The U.S. Supreme Court ended its 2010-2011 term Monday, deciding a slew of technology and civil rights issues, some of which have far-reaching implications for the Freedom of Information Act, intellectual property, warrantless searches of private residences, the "state secrets" privilege and fre ...
  • States May Not Ban Sale, Rental of Violent Vid ...
    The Supreme Court ruled Monday the states may not ban the sale or rental of violent videogames to minors. The case the justices decided concerned a 2005 California ban adopted by state lawmakers. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals of San Francisco in 2008 overturned the law, saying there’s n ...
  • Supreme Court to Decide Constitutionality of W ...
    At the Obama administration’s urging, the Supreme Court agreed Monday to review whether the government, without a court warrant, may affix GPS devices on suspects’ vehicles to track their every move. The Justice Department told the justices that “a person has no reasonable expectation of privacy ...
  • Righthaven Says It Owns News Articles It’s Sui ...
    Copyright troll Righthaven told a federal judge Thursday that it has revised its contract with the Las Vegas Review-Journal to give it full copyright ownership over some of the newspapers’ content. It’s a bid to squelch a legal controversy over whether it has the right to sue bloggers who’ve qu ...
  • LulzSec Releases Arizona Police Documents
    The hacker group LulzSec published 700 confidential documents Thursday apparently stolen from the Arizona Department of Public Safety. LulzSec announced its latest conquest on Twitter and released the document cache through BitTorrent. The files are a mix of intelligence bulletins and presentat ...

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • Warning Labels for Raw Milk and Sprouts
    Have you seen the new graphic ads that will be placed on cigarette packages? I get asked all the time what foods I do not eat and what recommend that others not eat.  My top two are raw milk and sprouts - not necessarily in that order. With the German/French sprout E. coli O104:H4 outbreak goi ...
  • Hey, Sprout Industry - World-Wide - It is time ...
    I am losing track of the outbreaks and having a hard time keeping track of the countries that the body counts are coming from.� I suggested before that it was time for a warning on sprouts, now it is a time to do it on seeds as well.� Here is what should be put on the bags and packets of seeds a ...
  • E. coli O104:H4 - As many as 48 Deaths, nearly ...
    According to EU Food Safety Authorities, 878 HUS cases, including 31 deaths, and 3,039 non-HUS cases, including 16 deaths have so far been reported in Europe. The table below shows the distribution of reported cases per country. Germany reports seven additional HUS cases and one new HUS death si ...
  • French E. coli Outbreak Appears Linked to Germ ...
    According to a press release by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), French authorities have reported 10 cases of patients suffering from bloody diarrhea in the Bordeaux region of the country, five of them diagnosed with hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). Preliminary bacteriological tests f ...
  • Bad Seeds - Again - This time E. coli O104:H4
    I worked in my garden today and spent time with our six chickens, but the E. coli O104:H4 that has killed at least 45 and left over 800 with acute kidney failure in Europe and the United States was not far from my mind. As of yesterday, the “German” E. coli outbreak appears to have spread to Fr ...

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

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

Digg Green

  • APOD: 2011 June 27 - Stars and Dust Acros ...
    Explanation: Cosmic dust clouds sprawl across a rich field of stars in this sweeping telescopic vista near the northern boundary of Corona Australis, the Southern Crown. Probably less than 500 light-years away and effectively blocking light from more distant, background stars in the Milky W ...
  • Conservationists discover more than 1,000 ...
    Treasure trove of unknown varieties of animal, bird, fish, insect and plant have been identified in the forests and wetlands of the Pacific island over a period of just 10 years...
  • When things go wrong, who’s to blame?
    New study shows that infants are surprisingly adept at figuring out whether they made a mistake or if something is wrong in the world.
  • Inside a Cold War Nuclear Fallout Shelter ...
    Designed to house about 100 people in the event of a Soviet nuclear attack during the Cold War, this shelter provided few comforts
  • New animation depicts next Mars rover in ...
    Although NASA's Mars Science Laboratory will not leave Earth until late this year nor land on Mars until August 2012, anyone can watch those dramatic events now in a new animation of the mission.

Invisible Opportunity

  • An inconvenient fallacy
    By Bob Carter There is no need for a carbon tax because dangerous global warming is not occurring. WELL, you have to admit that they’ve tried hard. Labor, that is. In April 2007 Kevin Rudd, prior to his election as prime minister, appointed distinguished social scientist Ross Garnaut to advise t ...
  • The World’s Most Unusual Therapist
    by Dr. Joe Vitale www.mrfire.com Two years ago, I heard about a therapist in Hawaii who cured a complete ward of criminally insane patients–without ever seeing any of them. The psychologist would study an inmate’s chart and then look within himself to see how he created that person’s illness. As ...
  • Vaccine Machine: A Look Inside The Immunizatio ...
    By Jaclyn Galucci Well, times have changed. Now pharmaceutical companies are highly protective of their assets, because vaccines are not just medical breakthroughs, they are also big business. In fact, Salk’s vaccine went on to raise manufacturer Eli Lilly’s profit by 90 percent in 1956, bringin ...
  • Video – What you don’t know about ...
  • 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 ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Is the Hybrid-Gas SonicStar the Concorde’s Suc ...
    Since Concorde was retired, the world has been without a supersonic passenger jet. But that could soon change with the unveiling of the SonicStar. Designed by HyperMach, the supersonic plane is so quick it could make a flight from London to New York in two hours! Read the rest of Is the Hybrid-G ...
  • Eskom Installs Solar Powered Heaters On South ...
    During the FIFA World Cup in South Africa last year, there was a lot of press given to the country’s attempts to utilize alternative energy to power the international tournament. On the tail of such investment and progress, South African power company Eskom has now installed solar heaters on roo ...
  • Pedal-Powered Bus is Almost Too Cool for School
    Attending school everyday has never more eco-friendly and fun! Dutch company De Café Racer developed a pedal-powered school bus that turns going to school into a happy, healthy and cooperative experience. This friendly and bright vehicle can accommodate up to ten kids and an adult driver, and ev ...
  • Infineon Raceway Unveils Massive 353 KW Solar ...
    Read the rest of Infineon Raceway Unveils Massive 353 KW Solar Array – Exclusive Photos! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "solar energy", green cars, green design, green motorsports, green racetrack, green racing, green transportation, Infineon Raceway, Nascar, panasonic, photovo ...
  • Illuminated Tables and Planters Made from 100% ...
    What do you do when you have a room that needs a side table, and an accent lamp? Look to Rotoluxe, a company that makes sustainably, eco-friendly illuminated tables and planters. Their glowing pieces come in a variety of colors and sizes, and are made exclusively from recycled plastics! Read the ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Snapshots of the Asteroid That Buzzed Earth
    Earth got a close shave this morning from an asteroid so small it was originally mistaken for space junk. The object, called 2011 MD, zipped 7,600 miles above Earth’s surface at about 1:15 pm EDT on June 27. It was discovered on June 22 by the LINEAR project, which hunts for objects that pass c ...
  • Orca Ears Inspire Ultimate Underwater Microphone
    By Katie Scott, Wired UK The extraordinary auditory abilities of the orca have inspired researchers at Stanford University to create an undersea microphone that has a sensitivity range of 160 decibels but can also function at any depth. Onur Kilic, a postdoctoral researcher in electrical engin ...
  • Neutrino Transformation Could Help Explain Mys ...
    Two research teams have found new evidence of transformations in elusive elementary particles called neutrinos. The findings may finally help explain why the universe didnât vanish shortly after its birth. âThese results are just the beginning of the story for neutrinos,â said physicist Robert ...
  • What You Learned About Static Electricity Is Wrong
    By John Timmer, Ars Technica For many of us, static electricity is one of the earliest encounters we have with electromagnetism, and it’s a staple of high school physics. Typically, it’s explained as a product of electrons transferred in one direction between unlike substances, like glass a ...
  • What You Learned About Static Electricity Is Wrong
    By John Timmer, Ars Technica For many of us, static electricity is one of the earliest encounters we have with electromagnetism, and it’s a staple of high school physics. Typically, it’s explained as a product of electrons transferred in one direction between unlike substances, like glass a ...

PakAlert

  • Globalists’ Pakistan War: Destabilization and ...
    In a 2007 article from the London Guardian titled, "Bush handed blueprint to seize Pakistan's nuclear arsenal," it is stated that fears of destabilization inside Pakistan might prompt the United States to occupy Islamabad and the provinces of Punjab, Sindh, and Baluchistan in an attempt to secur ...
  • Trio Of Daylight UFOs Over London – Photos and ...
    If UFOs are real and trying to get our attention perhaps they are getting a little more savvy about the way we humans work. A new video has emerged purporting to show 'a mothership and its fleet' zipping around in the clouds above a BBC building in West London.
  • Top 10 Conspiracy Theorists Shrouded in Contro ...
    Pejoratives are words or phrases that bring out contempt or distaste in the human psyche. The words elicit a specific emotional reaction in people. Some good examples include the words liberal, punk, hacker, fascist, extremist and conspiracy theorist. In the 20th century, the phrase conspiracy t ...
  • Montauk Project: New Film Takes On Allegations ...
    In a year when a respected investigative journalist suggested that the Roswell UFO scare may have been the handiwork of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele and Joseph Stalin, along comes another story involving space aliens and outrageous experimentation on a U.S. military base. Montauk, N.Y. -- ...
  • United States vs China: Moving towards World W ...
    Tensions have been growing between US and China recently. You might remember, at the beginning of the month, internet giant Google accused China for hacking into Gmail accounts belonging to high ranking US officials. This came weeks after Pentagon, for the first time, developed a cyber strate ...

Andy Worthington

  • Video: Sarah Gillespie Plays Her Song About Sh ...
    So I count myself fortunate to live in the same neighbourhood as Sarah Gillespie, a wonderful singer/songwriter whose latest album, “In the Current Climate,” features a song about Shaker Aamer, the last British resident held in the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Sarah and I met a few years ...
  • Judges Keep Guantánamo Open Forever
    Seven years ago, on June 28, 2004, the Supreme Court issued a historically important ruling in Rasul v. Bush, establishing that foreign nationals held at the Bush administration’s “War on Terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, had habeas corpus rights; in other words, the right, under the “Gre ...
  • The Revolution Reaches Europe: Tens of Thousan ...
    The revolutionary movement that began in Tunisia at the end of last year has now sparked mass movements in Europe; principally, to date, in Greece and Spain. On the surface, these movements have little in common. In Tunisia and Egypt, the people came out in vast numbers to overthrow the hated di ...
  • June 30: A National Day of Action Against the ...
    Next Thursday, June 30, is the first big day of action involving widespread strikes since the coalition government began its miserable assault on the state after the General Election last May. 750,000 public sector workers from the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), the National Union o ...
  • Write to the Forgotten Prisoners in Guantánamo ...
    A year ago, two Facebook friends, Shahrina J. Ahmed and Mahfuja Bint Ammu, drew on my research about Guantánamo for a letter-writing campaign, in which they asked their friends and others on Facebook to volunteer to write to each of the remaining prisoners in Guantánamo. Shahrina announced the l ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Authorities Find Bomb Apparently Targeting Imm ...
    A U.S. Border Patrol agent found a live pipe bomb while patrolling a known smuggling route west of Tucson on May 30, 2009, a classified memo released by a group that hacked the Pima County, Ariz., sheriff’s department reveals. The device, described in an intelligence bulletin issued by the depar ...
  • News Roundup for June 27, 2011
    White nationalist Richard Poplawski was found guilty of murdering three Pittsburgh police officers in a 2009 ambush.  The jury today began deliberating Poplawski’s fate. He faces the death penalty. A skinhead leader pleaded guilty to the revenge killing of a Missouri man. Eric Fairburn, co-found ...
  • Racist Prof Latest to Join Group That Seeks Wh ...
    Racist activist Jamie Kelso announced this past Friday that long-time professor Virginia Abernethy has joined the board of the white nationalist American Third Position (ATP) political party. Established in 2009, the ATP was originally created by racist Southern California skinheads and is now l ...
  • Fundraising Drive Under Way to Help Jailed Whi ...
    August B. Kreis III, who calls himself the director of the Aryan Nations, will remain in jail in South Carolina unless he can come up with a $50,000 secured bond. A wealthy, elusive racist, who once bought a house for the late Aryan Nations leader Richard Butler, already is heading up an Interne ...
  • News Roundup for June 24, 2011
    Two men have been arrested in a plot to attack a U.S. military recruiting post in Seattle. The men, ex-convicts and Muslim coverts, allegedly planned to take over the post and shoot  military personnel there to gain media attention. Six New York teens charged with murder are now under indictment ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • How Standardized Testing is Being Expanded
    Parents, teachers, and students: Raise your hands if you think what our schools need is more new tests and a greater emphasis on testing. If not, listen up, because this is exactly what our students and teachers face because of the reactions of Massachusetts, Maryland, Virgina, New York, North C ...
  • US Climate Protests Shift to Blocking Keystone ...
    WASHINGTON—Conservationists are still fuming about President Obama's continued lack of follow-through on his promise to affix solar panels to the White House roof. For now, however, they're willing to give him a pass on what they recognize would be mostly a symbolic gesture. ...
  • Outcry in America as Pregnant Women Who Lose B ...
    Rennie Gibbs is accused of murder, but the crime she is alleged to have committed does not sound like an ordinary killing. Yet she faces life in prison in Mississippi over the death of her unborn child. read more
  • Floodwater Seeps into Nebraska Nuke Plant Buil ...
    OMAHA -- Missouri River floodwater seeped into the turbine building at a nuclear power plant near Omaha on Monday, but plant officials said the seepage was expected and posed no safety risk because the building contains no nuclear material. An 8-foot-tall, water-filled temporary berm protecting ...
  • Protesters Demand French Nuclear Plant Closure
    FESSENHEIM, France - Thousands of demonstrators formed a human chain outside France's oldest nuclear power plant on Sunday to demand the site be closed as the government mulls whether to extend its life by a decade. The plant at Fessenheim, in Alsace, has become a flashpoint in the renewed debat ...

Lifehacker

Water Privatization

  • Privatization’s unspoken risk: Corruption
    The future of government runs for 10.5 miles through the heart of Broward County, amid rocks and dust and earth-moving equipment and trucks and workers along Interstate 595, where motorists can look out their car windows and contemplate another three years of traffic hell.
  • Water privatization market sees opportunities ...
    With crumbling budgets, increasing water scarcity, and ever widening infrastructure spending gaps, the private water supply market is poised to grow. But public opposition remains strong, as opponents rail against the perceived corporate takeover of what is considered a public good, citing past ...
  • Book Review: The Future of Water
    The Future of Water: A Startling Look Ahead, by Steve Maxwell, with Scott Yates, Published in 2011 by the American Water Works Association , Denver Colo., ISBN 978-1-58321-809-9 Full disclosure: I answered an open e-mail solicitation for reviewers of this new book and received a review copy for ...
  • Delhi JD-U pulls up Jal Board over water price ...
    New Delhi, June 19 : Janata Dal-United (JD-U) Delhi unit General Secretary and spokesperson Prabhat Ranjan has criticized the Delhi Jal Board for increasing the price of water at Rs.3 per unit in the DDA flats in Dwarka.
  • Privatizing water
    RIALTO - Imagine learning that your household water and wastewater bill would increase 86 percent in two years. Wouldn't be very happy, would you?

Guardian

  • Public sector strikes to go ahead after talks fail
    Evidence of compromise in pension dispute, but unions say government talks failed to close 'major gaps'Public sector strikes will go ahead on Thursday after ministers failed to reach a settlement with union leaders over pension reforms, despite appearing to offer a significant compromise.Two hou ...
  • Greece given hope as French banks agree debt r ...
    �� Markets rise as plan makes Athens default less likely �� Two-day strike starts on Tuesday ahead of key voteA silver lining appeared amid the clouds of Europe's worst crisis in decades on Monday as French banks agreed to roll over the country's debt, two days before a crucial vote in the Greek ...
  • Bank chief warns of wave of home repossessions ...
    UKAR chief presiding over £80bn of bailed-out mortgages says 'tough love' would be fairer on those struggling with paymentsBritain is facing a tsunami of house repossessions as soon as interest rates start to rise, one of the country's leading bankers has warned.Richard Banks, the chief executiv ...
  • Rod Blagojevich, former Illinois governor, fou ...
    Blagojevich, who was forced from office in 2009, faces 20 years in jail after being convicted of trying to sell Obama's Senate seatRod Blagojevich, the former governor of Illinois and one-time presidential aspirant, has been found guilty of trying to sell president Barack Obama's old Senate seat ...
  • Phone hacking: 34-year-old woman released on bail
    Press Association royal reporter Laura Elston was questioned by police on suspicion of intercepting messagesA 34-year old female journalist has been released on bail after she was arrested by Scotland Yard on suspicion of illegally accessing voicemail messages.Press Association royal reporter La ...

McClatchey

  • Supreme Court rejects Arizona campaign finance law
    WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday struck down an Arizona law that provides matching funds to candidates who opt to receive only public money and face well-heeled opponents.
  • Michele Bachmann announces 2012 presidential r ...
    WATERLOO, Iowa — The U.S. House of Representatives is a notoriously poor launching pad for presidential ambitions, but Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., who formally kicked off her campaign Monday in the town where she was born, enters the contest for the 2012 Republican nomination with several s ...
  • Voters give Obama lowest rating yet on economy
    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is in a fragile position as the 2012 campaign begins: Only 37 percent of registered voters approve of his handling of the economy, his lowest rating ever, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll.
  • Obama wades into debt talks, says deal 'remain ...
    WASHINGTON — The White House said Monday that it believes it can still reach a "significant deal" to raise the federal debt ceiling and cut trillions of dollars from future federal budget deficits before the U.S. defaults on its loans.
  • Wichita veteran in Westboro case looks to move on
    Ryan Newell is resting on his three-wheeler in a row of motorcycles in a Wichita garage, its door open to the steamy weather.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

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

The Wonk Room

  • Federal Grants Aiding Low-Income Families To E ...
    On Friday, 17 states benefiting from supplemental grants under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program will see those grants expire. This will be the first time that the supplemental grants have expired since they were enacted in 1996. As the Center on Budget and Policy Priori ...
  • PTSD Awareness Day: Five Ways PTSD Hurts U.S. ...
    Today is national Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Awareness Day. As the number of U.S. soldiers returning home from combat in Afghanistan and Iraq increase, so will the number of veterans struggling with this under-reported disease. To date, the military has diagnosed 78,000 cases of PTSD ...
  • Climate Denier Steve King: ‘Unprecedente ...
    On Friday, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) gave a moving speech on the unprecedented flooding unfolding along the Missouri River basin due to record levels of precipitation. He told of the terrible cost of this ongoing climate disaster to residents of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Missouri, and Io ...
  • Planned Parenthood Asks Judge To Stay Kansas A ...
    Via The Hill’s Sam Baker: “Planned Parenthood is asking a federal court to block Kansas from cutting off its federal funding, after winning a similar injunction Friday in Indiana.”
  • GOP Pushing To Withdraw Ambassador From Syria
    House Foreign Affairs Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) became the latest Republican hawk to press the Obama administration to withdraw its ambassador from Syria in light of a brutal crackdown by authorities on protesters throughout the country. Ros-Lehtinen joins other prominent GOP hawks s ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Hillary's Hypocrisy
    Here's another example of why Glenn Greenwald rocks. In his post "Plurality of Americans love Gadaffi" Greenwald quotes the abominable Hillary Clinton's yammerings about the need for support for the US-led mission of regime change in Libya: But the bottom line is, whose side are you on? Are you ...
  • Saturday Posting Duties
    Here's a tune: I've been busy over here.
  • Shorter TPS G20 Report ...
    "We were overwhelmed by the number of heads that threw themselves at our truncheons." Whatever. Jerks.
  • The Afghan Document Dump
    Big fucking deal. The Liberals and the harpercons (who both have blood on their hands) sat with some BQ dude who was sworn to secrecy, and filtered all the documents from Afghanistan to remove any incriminating evidence before passing what got through the filter to a bunch of judges who then rel ...
  • Song For Taleb
    Too vurshens to! "Sniff!"

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Man accused of attacking teen from Toronto you ...
    A Toronto man going by the name of 'Abby' is accused of targeting girls that live in youth shelters who are looking for a job. At least one girl has been allegedly sexually assaulted.
  • Telecom companies turning huge profits on text ...
    Recent research into the cost for consumers to send text messages and for cellphone companies to carry those messages suggests that carriers could be marking up SMS services by as much as 5,000 per cent.
  • British retail specialist acquires HMV Canada ...
    Hilco UK, a British restructuring retail specialist, has acquired HMV Canada for £2.05 million ($3.23 million). The group will also provide HMV Canada $25 million to fund the management team's future business model.
  • Yodeling and Singing Festival in Vancouver
    For the 27th time, the Swiss community in Canada and the USA celebrates its singining and yodeling festival. After 13 years of travelling to different places in North America, the festival comes to back to Vancouver.
  • G20 Redux: Hundreds mark one-year rally of Tor ...
    Hundreds came out to mark the one-year anniversary of the infamous G20 Summit protests and riots that engulfed the city of Toronto during that weekend. The event was followed by a march to tea kettle epicentre and police headquarters.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

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

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

Pambazuka News

  • Haiti: Letter from Jean-Bertrand Aristide
    Dear Friends, May the spirit of International Day in Solidarity with the Haitian People continue to spread! If the more than 10,000 people killed in the 18 months that followed the February 29, 2004 coup d’état could speak, what would they say? Woul...
  • Haitian: Protest brutal attack on street vend ...
    On Saturday, April 11th, a little past 3 p.m., a MINUSTAH (UN) soldier, Nigerian Cpl. Nagya Aminu, was shot and killed in downtown Port-au-Prince. While this killing was widely reported in the international media, what followed the killing was not. I...
  • Honduras: Implications of coup for Afro-descen ...
    Currently, the country of Honduras in Central America is experiencing its worst political crisis in decades. In the aftermath of the military coup that forcibly removed President Manuel Zelaya Rosales, there have been various developments that have r...
  • Brazil: Bloggers on why there is still racism ...
    Two weeks ago, Global Voices Online reported the story of Januário Alves de Santana, a black man who had been beaten and punched by security guards of one of the largest international retailers in Brazil. He was waiting for his family in the car park...
  • USA: Black coalition to protest expanding U.S. ...
    A newly-formed Black coalition has announced a rally and march on the White House to take place November 7, 2009 beginning in Washington, D.C.’s historic Malcolm X Park. The rally and march are to protest the expanding U.S. wars and other policy ini...

War in Context

  • Why the flotilla matters to people in Gaza
    Ashley Bates reports from Gaza: To most Gazans the flotilla mission is not really about bringing in a small amount of humanitarian aid. Rather, it is about drawing world attention to Israel’s continued entrapment of 1.6 million people who are just as human as people everywhere else in the world ...
  • Flotilla ready to set sail for Gaza
    Joseph Dana reports: According to recent tweets from the US boat “The Audacity of Hope,” which is part of the flotilla waiting to depart from Greece towards Gaza any day now, “the boat successfully completed its sea trials – there is no reason for any further delays on this matter, we are ready ...
  • Time for a war against “terrorism”
    If there’s one resounding message from the last decade, it is the effectiveness with which Americans can be bludgeoned and coerced into what amounts to self-applied lebotomization. All it takes is to utter the word “terrorism” and the average person’s brain ceases to function. Democracy Now! ...
  • Michael Klare: the energy landscape of 2041
    Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com Let’s see: today, it’s a story about rising sea levels.  Now, close your eyes, take a few seconds, and try to imagine what word or words could possibly go with such a story. Time’s up, and if “faster,” “far faster,” “fastest,” or “unprecedented” ...
  • Passengers on the US boat to Gaza speak out
    As the Israeli government does everything it can to prevent the second flotilla to Gaza from setting sail and while the US State Department has effectively given Israel a green light to use any means — peaceful or violent — to prevent the flotilla from reaching its destination, passengers on boa ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Weekly climate and energy news roundup
    Restoring the Scientific Method is the theme of the Sixth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-6), Sponsored by the Heartland Institute. It will take place in Washington, DC from breakfast Thursday, June 30, to noon Friday, July 1, at the … Continue reading →
  • Europe’s Green Agenda Folds As Economic ...
    Newsbytes from The Global Warming Policy Foundation EU carbon prices have slumped 15% in one week, as a slew of bearish news took its toll on the markets. âItâs just been carnage these last few days,â said a trader at … Continue reading →
  • Snow job: Al Gore doesn’t know how to us ...
    From Tom Nelson – too good not to share. More proof that Fraudster Al Gore doesn’t know how to use the Internet Al’s Journal: June26th, 2011 Ice and Snow Disappearing from Mt. Rainier The effects of the climate crisis are … Continue reading →
  • July ARCUS forecast poll – What will the ...
    Once again, Iâm going to give WUWT readers an opportunity to make a forecast for submission, based on voting. See the poll at the end. This will be a top post for all day Monday, so as to get maximum … Continue reading →
  • Global hurricane activity at historical record ...
    During the past 6-years since Hurricane Katrina, global tropical cyclone frequency and energy have decreased dramatically, and are currently at near-historical record lows.  According to a new peer-reviewed research paper accepted to be published, only 69 tropical storms were observed … Continu ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Michael C. Ruppert: Arrival of the Post-Petrol ...
    Dandelion Salad peakmoment on Jun 24, 2011 Peak Moment 196: “Petroleum Man is dead. Infinite Growth Man is dead. Post Petroleum Human is alive,” announced Michael C. Ruppert on May 22, 2011. Members of this emerging “species” know they must live in balance with the Earth, while remembering the ...
  • From Afghans to Gazans: Why can’t we touch you ...
    Hakim Guest Writer Dandelion Salad http://ourjourneytosmile.com June 26, 2011 Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers flew kites for the people of Gaza photo by Hakim Dear friends, The approximately 1000 ordinary people sailing with the Gaza Freedom Flotilla II ought to stop us in our ordinary tracks at l ...
  • Rev. James Lawson: Non-Violence as a Science o ...
    Dandelion Salad What makes a Christian different from everyone else? What makes Christianity distinct from any other religion? It is grace – treating others, not as they deserve, but as God wishes them to be treated – with loving-kindness and mercy. Only the cross of  Jesus Christ can free us f ...
  • “The 15% Solution,” Serialization, 17th Instal ...
    Note: The Preface and Chapters One through Fifteen can be found here: The 15% Solution. by Jonathan Westminster, Ph.D. aka Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted on TPJmagazine.us June 26, 2011 This is the seventeenth installment of the serialization of a book entitled ...
  • The Day the Earth Stood Nil by Rand Clifford
    by Rand Clifford Featured Writer Dandelion Salad June 26, 2011 Could human intelligence be a lethal mutation? Catastrophes spawned by Earth’s most intelligent species suggest not only self-extinction, but annihilation of countless other species. Is the apparent disconnect between cleverness and ...

Your New Reality

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    Warner Bros. Loses Millions On Harry Potter 5, Ninth Biggest Grossing Movie Of All Time...Somehow To the outside world, this is known as 'Hollywood Accounting', but when I was in LA in 2001 it was called FuckYou Accounting by independent producers. I'm guessing it still is : According to the (W ...
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    The Tsunami Is Here, But Don't Forget To Close Your Car Door When You Run What can you say while watching this video of the Japanese tsunami, shot from inside a car, except Holy Fucking Shit! Just extraordinary, in a world filled with cameras, we are seeing the reality of natural disasters like ...
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    JK Rowling Will Be First Author To Earn $1 Billion From E-Books By Darryl Mason UPDATE : Since the story below was posted, JK Rowling has held a press conference and announced the following : * She won't be writing an eighth Harry Potter novel, saying, "I do have closure with Harry. I have no ...
  • No title
    Almost 1 million views on YouTube in a handful of days for a professor explaining in two minutes some of the biggest problems with the American economy? Who said there isn't an audience for the truth?
  • No title
    Nice slideshow of 30 years of front covers from UK hard rock/metal magazine Kerrang! The early covers are better. December 1993 : April 1994 : The Rest Of The Kerrang! Front Covers Are Here

Wired - Science

  • Snapshots of the Asteroid That Buzzed Earth
    Earth got a close shave this morning from an asteroid so small it was originally mistaken for space junk. The object, called 2011 MD, zipped 7,600 miles above Earth’s surface at about 1:15 pm EDT on June 27. It was discovered on June 22 by the LINEAR project, which hunts for objects that pass c ...
  • Orca Ears Inspire Ultimate Underwater Microphone
    By Katie Scott, Wired UK The extraordinary auditory abilities of the orca have inspired researchers at Stanford University to create an undersea microphone that has a sensitivity range of 160 decibels but can also function at any depth. Onur Kilic, a postdoctoral researcher in electrical engin ...
  • Neutrino Transformation Could Help Explain Mys ...
    Two research teams have found new evidence of transformations in elusive elementary particles called neutrinos. The findings may finally help explain why the universe didnât vanish shortly after its birth. âThese results are just the beginning of the story for neutrinos,â said physicist Robert ...
  • What You Learned About Static Electricity Is Wrong
    By John Timmer, Ars Technica For many of us, static electricity is one of the earliest encounters we have with electromagnetism, and it’s a staple of high school physics. Typically, it’s explained as a product of electrons transferred in one direction between unlike substances, like glass a ...
  • What You Learned About Static Electricity Is Wrong
    By John Timmer, Ars Technica For many of us, static electricity is one of the earliest encounters we have with electromagnetism, and it’s a staple of high school physics. Typically, it’s explained as a product of electrons transferred in one direction between unlike substances, like glass a ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Israel fears Gaza flotilla activists may try t ...
    IOA Editor: The propaganda war intensifies. The latest from the people who killed 9 innocent passengers last year... "Senior Israeli officials receive information that activists are bringing... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • US Boat to Gaza responds to reports Israeli “l ...
    Passengers on the US Boat to Gaza, The Audacity of Hope, said news reports that an Israeli “lawfare” group, Shurat HaDin, is behind the complaint delaying the departure of the US boat from Greece... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: Israel to stop Flotilla “with ...
    The Real News' Lia Tarachansky spoke with Israeli army spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Avital Liebovitz about the Israeli navy's intended response to the convoy. On Sunday, a convoy of activist... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Amira Hass: In preparation for Gaza flotilla, ...
    I take a look at the other people in the room and ask myself, "Why do they need this?" The oldest person planning to sail on the Canadian vessel is a 77-year-old American woman... There's also... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Israel warns foreign journalists: Joining Gaza ...
    Letter from head of Israel's Government Press Office warns that taking part in convoy of boats sailing to Gaza could result in being barred from Israel for 10 years. ... The flotilla "is a dangerous... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Wildlife Surviving Conflict in Afghanistan
    A new survey conducted by WCS scientists, supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), reveals that large mammals, including Asiatic black bears, gray wolves, markhor goats, and leopard cats are surviving in parts of Afghanistan after years of conflict.
  • U.S.- Pakistan Must Restore Trust and Confidence
    U.S.-Pakistan relations are at a boiling point and must be restored to pre-tension levels says American University Expert, Akbar Ahmed. Ahmed was Pakistan's former High Commissioner to Britain. He has advised incoming CIA Director General Petraeus and high-ranking officials in the Obama administ ...
  • Institute of Medicine and Mount Sinai Collabor ...
    With the decline in volunteers for clinical trials, how do we achieve the medical breakthroughs of tomorrow? Leading researchers and policy experts from across the country will come together June 27 and June 28 at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York to examine the issue of declining enrol ...
  • Tips To Keep Kids Safe When They Play In And A ...
    Doctors at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center want to make sure children are safe this summer when they are playing in or around water.
  • Nearly Half of Women with Advanced Breast Canc ...
    UT MD Anderson research finds use of postmastectomy radiation therapy static despite evidence-based guidelines of its benefits.

Natural Health News

  • Shocking Photos of What the World Eats
    The images below come from the book 'Hungry Planet: What the World Eats' by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluision. Their portraits feature pictures of families around the world, each with a week's worth of food purchases. It becomes rapidly apparent that diet is determined by largely uncontrollable ...
  • 50+ EMF Safety Tips & Insights
    The website Electromagnetic Health has put together an overview of cell phone and wireless technology hazards.� They offer more than 50 tips, warnings, insights, and pieces of information you might simply not have known.� Here�s a sampling of what they had to say: You Are Electromagnetic. Recog ...
  • Your Mom Was Right -- Sit Up Straight to Avoid ...
    As many as 80 percent of Americans will experience back pain at some point in their lives. The problem is difficult to treat, and many treatments are expensive. However, the majority of back pain is the result of muscle and ligament strain or weakness -- which can usually be prevented by develo ...
  • Two Supplements that Help Heart Failure
    According to recent findings, 12 weeks of daily supplementation with 350 milligrams of CoQ10 and 105 milligrams of pine bark extract were associated with a improvements in blood pressure and heart rate. Furthermore, the combination increased the amount of blood pumped by the heart by 22 percen ...
  • Why Do Fake 'Diet' Fats Actually Make You Fatter?
    Many "diet" snacks contain some sort of fake fat or sugar. �Many believe that eating fake fats will help dieters lose weight. However, a recent study demonstrated that this may not be the case.� Researchers found that rats on a high-fat diet who were fed "light" potato chips containing the fat ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

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

Public News Service

  • AZ Latino Voting Gets Huge Boost from Outreach ...
    AZ Latino Voting Gets Huge Boost from Outreach Campaign Phoenix, AZ – An Arizona voter drive targeting infrequent Latino voters generated 90-thousand additional votes during the 2010 mid-term election. Organizers of the non-partisan effort say Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration law was a major cataly ...
  • AZ Weighs Cancelling Clean Cars Program
    AZ Weighs Cancelling Clean Cars Program Phoenix, AZ – Repeal of Arizona’s Clean Cars Program will be the subject of a public hearing next week in Phoenix. Arizona currently follows the most stringent air quality standards in the nation. Comments from Diane Brown, director, Arizona PIRG (Public I ...
  • Los habitantes de Arizona mayores enfrentan un ...
    Los habitantes de Arizona mayores enfrentan un futuro de movilidad limitada Phoenix, AZ – Más de la mitad de las personas en edad avanzada que viven en ciudades de Arizona pronto tendrán poco o ningún acceso al transporte público, según un estudio reciente. Y como los "Baby Boomers" están alcan ...
  • Older Arizonans Face Future of Limited Mobility
    Older Arizonans Face Future of Limited Mobility Phoenix, AZ – More than half the seniors in Arizona cities will soon have little or no access to public transportation, according to a new study. And with baby boomers reaching retirement age and eventually giving up driving, the problem is expecte ...
  • Arizona Seniors Can Do More To Safeguard Their ...
    Arizona Seniors Can Do More To Safeguard Their Money Phoenix, AZ - The AARP is advising older Americans how to make the most of their money, and suggesting ways to protect against fraud. A new study finds some key behaviors can make a difference between staying safe and becoming a victim. Comme ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Is Greece Being Blackmailed to Put the Brakes ...
    Is Greece Being Blackmailed to Put the Brakes on Gaza Flotilla? | Common Dreams by Medea Benjamin The 50 passengers and crew on the U.S. boat to Gaza have converged in Athens, Greece, ready to head out to sea to join an international fleet of ships that will challenge the Israeli-imposed naval ...
  • John John: The View From Occupied Canada: #442
    Invasive surveillance bills will cost Canadians in cash and civil liberties, says new coalition | rabble.ca Proposed "Lawful Access" bills would require telecom providers in Canada to hand over personal information to authorities without a warrant or judicial oversight, says OpenMedia.ca. The bi ...
  • Four Decades of Cruelty and Inhumanity to U.S. ...
    Four Decades of Cruelty and Inhumanity to U.S. Political Prisoners | Black Agenda Report For almost 40 years, Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace have been in solitary confinement at Louisiana’s infamous Angola State Prison, in what is thought to be the longest period of enforced solitude in A ...
  • WHO’S SAILING TO GAZA AND WHAT DO THEY HAVE TO ...
    WHO’S SAILING TO GAZA AND WHAT DO THEY HAVE TO SAY? � Desertpeace: The passengers who will be on the U.S. boat, from 14 states and the District of Columbia, represent virtually every geographic region of the United States. Fifty eight percent women and 42% men, they are of all ages, and a variet ...
  • En foro de la ONU una mapuche pone en su lugar ...
    En foro de la ONU una mapuche pone en su lugar a Bachelet | Patria Grande: "Was completely dislodging the former president of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, when exhibited at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, on discrimination against women at work, when the Community Lonko John Paillalef ...

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Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • The California prison crisis
    The California Independent Voter Project was founded in 2006 by two former legislators, one Republican, one Democratic “as an effort to engage non-partisan voters in Californiaâs policymaking process.” One of CAIVP’s projects is the California Independent Voter Network, an online site with multi ...
  • Greece, the crumbling Eurozone, and desperate ...
    Mish Here is a succinct summation of the current state of Euro-Zone affairs. 1. Greece will default, but at this point it is irrelevant. 2. The situation in Spain, Ireland, Portugal, and Italy is now so dire that it is does not matter whether or not Greece defaults. 3. Expect chaos Business Insi ...
  • Rodney Crowell. The Obscenity Prayer
    Excerpt: Let the gangsters rule the street While teachers try to make ends meet I despise all bleeding hearts I don’t patronize the arts Give it to me, Give it to me Give to me my Aspen winter Sorry bout the world trade center I can’t help the ones in need I’ve got my own [...]
  • Texting as counter-terrorism
    Google, the Council on Foreign Relations, and others are hosting The Summit Against Violent Extremism to explore how social media can be used to stop people from joining violent extremists groups and also the block the influence of such groups.
  • Two CT unions backstab other unions to protect ...
    Unions are supposed to practice solidarity, but what just happened in Connecticut is the opposite of that. Two unions voted to reject a deal involving multiple unions and the state. Since the deal took months to negotiate and can not be redone quickly, the state will immediately fire 7,500 worke ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Look Who’s Buying Up Flood Ravaged Farm Land
    � Source FULL ARTICLE Missouri River Flooding Cattle commodities broker Ann writes: Two HUGE intel leads in my email box this morning from way-back contacts that I�ve had for years, that are actually somewhat connected concepts. 1. File this one under �Now It All Makes Sense�. A Missouri farming ...
  • KKR to Buy Top ISP Domain Reg. “Go Daddy ...
    by Jack Blood 6.27.11 www.deadlinelive.info If you haven’t heard much about KKR (Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts and Co) its probably not your fault. Like many Pac Man style private equity groups gobbling up vast proportions of businesses in every sector… They tend to be “publicity shy”, and like to o ...
  • Sponsor Highlight: Enerfood, The Award Winning ...
    Coming in July 2011- enerfood.com all organic / non GMO food storage pail. 1/3 the price of standard food survival systems. Tasty and good for ya. 40 days and nights worth…. The Intel Hub June 25th, 2011 Enerhealthbotanicals, a company that is actively fighting the global elite through their sup ...
  • Deadline Live Award – for BEST Undergrou ...
  • Ex-New Orleans mayor worried that CIA agents w ...
    NOLA.com Since Hurricane Katrina’s winds died down, Ray Nagin has cast his role as mayor of New Orleans as a me-against-the-world struggle to save his hometown against inept government officials and racist forces, sometimes even laying out vague conspiracy theories to bolster his worldview. View ...

The Air Vent

  • Roy Spencer, Missing Heat
    This is a very interesting post by Dr. Roy Spencer on the failure of the ocean to warm according to models, more misleading by the IPCC of that failure, and a simple powerful demonstration which shows where models likely go wrong. It definitely deserves more attention. The result – a greatly red ...
  • What I learned
    I doubt I will spend much time on this paper life is short and you have to pick and chose what you will spend your time on.  The thing is complete bunk in my opinion and I can’t believe it was published, but that is what some of the dark corners of climatology bring us [...]
  • Silly Money, Green Stew
    The mindless will do anything to go green.  It doesn’t matter one bit how little financial sense it makes.  It doesn’t matter that peoples lives are destroyed, its for the better, because they say it is.  The article linked is actually about destroying farmers in favor of disrupting birds, bu ...
  • The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
    Lubos Motl has an interesting and well written post on the recent supreme court CO2 decision.  He looks at it from the angle of how a government should function and the constant pressures faced to hold the outside influence of groups with an agenda  from corrupting it to a narrow minded advantage.
  • Nothing to Gain! Hansengate takes off.
    We are constantly told that climate scientists gain nothing for their work.  There are no incentives, yet often we find that is not the case. A quote from Chris Colose, budding cliatoknowledgist left at Bart Verheggens blog alleging again that I am some kind of conpiracy theorist for even sugges ...

Focal Point

  • Thankfully, Self-Immolater Thomas Ball Didn't ...
    Immolating yourself on the courthouse steps to underscore your belief that you were wrongfully separated from your wife and denied custody of your children is the ultimate self-refutation. Especially if your posthumously published terrorist manifesto incites others to torch police stations and ...
  • Photos of Historic NYC Pride March
    The 31st annual New York City Pride March was held just two days after Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill making New York the sixth and largest state to achieve equal marriage. The firs marriage licenses for same-sex couples will be available on July 24. Sex advice columnist Dan Savage and husban ...
  • New York Gay Rights Disco Rock Mash-Up
    Last night, an equal marriage bill passed the New York State Senate and was signed into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo. New York has become the sixth, and largest, state to achieve equal marriage. This is the first time in U.S. history that equal marriage has been ratified by a Republican-contro ...
  • Jack Shafer, Jose Antonio Vargas, and Terrible ...
    In his recent essay, "My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant," star reporter Jose Antonio Vargas recalls being sent to the U.S. at the age of 12 to live with his grandparents, naturalized American citizens. He says he thought he was a legal immigrant until the DMV rejected his application for a ...
  • The Twisted Logic of the John Edwards Prosecution
    If the prosecution of John Edwards for campaign finance violations were to succeed, it would set a bizarre precedent. [Photo credit: IowaPolitics.com, Creative Commons.]Read More

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Disables Numerous Apps That Have Nega ...
    On Friday, Facebook increased user feedback’s weight in its automated Platform enforcement system. This caused it to automatically disable a number of app that had received a large volume of negative feedback. Now, some developers are upset that they weren’t given fair warning to correct their a ...
  • Featured Facebook Campaigns: Coca-Cola, Qatar ...
    Brands in our weekly look at Facebook campaigns made some excellent use of Places integrations. Giving out free stuff (airline tickets) continued to be a popular Page growth method, and charity attracted thousands of Facebook Likes. We’ve excerpted two of the campaigns below. You can see the ful ...
  • Quotes, Badoo, BranchOut, Photos, VEVO, Videos ...
    Quotes topped our list of the top Facebook applications by monthly active users this week, while the rest of the list was pretty varied, and included dating apps Zoosk and Badoo, the professional networking app BranchOut, Page tab apps, and many others. The apps on our list gained the most MAU o ...
  • This Week’s Headlines From Across Inside Network
    Here are all the latest headlines from around Inside Network this past week. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms, and virtual goods. Monday, June 20th, 2011 Monday Mobile Roundup: Order & Chaos, Scrollability, Office Jerk & More Emerging Paid iOS Apps: Fa ...
  • New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this weekâs highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Context Optional, Acquinity Interactive, Wild Needle, T-Mobil ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • A "responsible end" in Afghanistan?
    As the USA begins its gradual troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, Lawrence Davidson reflects on how the failure to learn the lessons of history, and an absence of executive and legislative accountability rooted in the American public's disinterest in politics and foreign policy, have led to more ...
  • 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 ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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

Afro Spear

  • A Sunday Sermon
  • sat’day riddymz
    WOW!! It’s hard to fathom that it’s been 2 years ago today already that MJ died. I for one have come to appreciate his music more and more.
  • Voodoo and Vaccines in Benin, Africa
    One.org: Save 4 million children’s lives in 5 years
  • Father’s Day Medley
    1. Far Better Men Than I: My Vision for My Sons  2. My Contribution to Society 3. We Were Once Kings 4. Sunday Chat with Dad 5. Call to Fatherhood 6. Rebirth of a Cool Dad 7. The Trials of Single Fatherhood
  • Report from Detroit for AfroSpear: Porn Shows ...
    “Democracy is a proposal (rarely realised) about decision-making; it has little to do with election campaigns. Its promise is that political decisions be made after, and in the light of, consultation with the governed. This is dependent upon the governed being adequately informed about the issue ...

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

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

Cutting Edge News

  • The Medical Edge - Improved Vitamin A may Prev ...
    Slowing down the aggregation or “clumping” of vitamin A in the eye may help prevent vision loss caused by macular degeneration, research from Columbia University Medical Center has found.Rather than changing the way the eye processes vitamin A, a team of researchers led by Ilyas Washington, a pr ...
  • The Obama Edge - Insights on the Conflict as O ...
    U.S. President Barack Obama announced June 22 that the long process of drawing down forces in Afghanistan would begin on schedule in July. Though the initial phase of the drawdown appears limited, minimizing the tactical and operational impact on the ground in the immediate future, the United St ...
  • Media Freedom - The Loneliness of El Diario of ...
    Blanca and Alicia The two reporters are at a crime scene on Pisces Street between Aquarius and Leo, a rather astrological crossing in a dusty and disjointed neighborhood, much like most of the neighborhoods in Ciudad Juárez. It’s the first reported victim of their burdensome nightshift. The phot ...
  • Egypt after Mubarak - Egypt’s Enduring Challen ...
    The end of 2010 and beginning of 2011 marked a watershed for the Middle East. Revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya—and the attendant unrest directed toward other autocrats and their corrupt and cruel regimes—shook the region to its core, raising popular expectations and challenging status qu ...
  • Edge of Oil Addiction - Obama Administration S ...
    The Obama administration may be readying for a fight with the energy industry as it prepares to raise royalty charges for oil and gas obtained from public lands—and tighten up practices that have allowed companies to pay less than they should.Anticipated rollout in 2012 of new regulations to rai ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • The Benefits of the 'Arab Spring'
    �By BARRY RUBIN There are two types of strategic perspectives in Israel today. They aren�t contradictory, but they have different priorities. These can be called the �northern� and the �southern� views. The �northern� approach is the more traditional one, focusing on the situation ...
  • OMG! Helen Thomas Wants Back into the White Ho ...
    Sheeee's Baaaaaaaaaaaaack! Or at least she wants to be back.�� Helen Thomas made an appearance at the Busboys & Poets bookstore in Washington, D.C.� yesterday, and said she is ready for a comeback. She wants to return to the White House briefing room. �Nothing can replace being there when you� ...
  • Big Brother Obama's Plan to Secretly Check U ...
    The Obama Administration is trying to figure out whether doctors are accepting patients with private insurance while turning away those in government health programs that pay lower reimbursement rates. According to the NY Times rather than simply ask them, they are creating a squad of "mys ...
  • My Own Private 1984: Why Is Saying the Muslim ...
    By Barry Rubin In 2003, I and the publication I edit, the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal, became the world�s biggest story for two or three days. Last week I became a �story� without knowing it until later. First, the 2003 experience. An Iraqi-American au ...
  • Emperor Obama Has Declared Amnesty For Illegal ...
    A year ago, we reported that Obama was working on a way to grant amnesty for illegal immigrants by executive fiat.� The ICE union has released an internal memo proving that prediction true. The Obama administration is quietly offering a de facto amnesty for hundreds of thousands of illegal i ...

The Real Agenda

  • Airport Body Scanners NEVER Tested for Safety
    The supposed safety study performed by NIST and mentioned by TSA did not happenned. Steve Watson Infowars.com June 27, 2011 Newly released internal government documents, obtained via the Freedom Of Information Act, reveal that the TSA, and specifically the head of the Department of Homeland Secu ...
  • International ‘Court of Criminals’ ...
    Associated Press June 27, 2011 The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, his son and his intelligence chief for crimes against humanity in the early days of their struggle to cling to power. Judges announced Monday that Gadhafi is wanted for o ...
  • Austerity or “Catastrophe” are the ...
    by Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda June 27, 2011 The economic terrorists that caused the current financial meltdown have not stopped at it and continue to threaten countries with two different tactics: austerity and the threat of a catastrophe, if their proposals are not implemented. Since Greec ...
  • The Sunscreen Info to fight Sunscreen Disinfo
    NaturalNews.com June 27, 2011 Ask somebody about sunscreen and you’re likely to receive an earful of disinformation from a person who has been repeatedly misinformed by health authorities and the mainstream media. Almost nothing you hear about sunscreen from traditional media channels is accurat ...
  • U.S. Fort Calhoun Power plant said to be opera ...
    Erick Johnson Reuters June 27, 2011 A top regulator said on Sunday that a nuclear power plant threatened by flooding from the swollen Missouri River was operating safely and according to standards. “I got to see a lot of efforts they’re taking to deal with flooding and the challenges that presen ...

Wind Watch

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

Not My Tribe

  • PICS French Dignite El Karameh first of Gaza F ...
    French humanitarian activists aboard LE DIGNITÃ-EL KARAMEH left Corisca today, bound for Greece, where they will join compatriot sloop LOUISE MICHEL and the Freedom Flotilla II codenamed “Stay Human” which includes two cargo ships carrying aid to besieged Gaza. The departures of the US AUDACITY ...
  • Morons at AFL-CIO say AT&T/T-Mobile merger wil ...
    That’s the problem with unions. Collective bargaining is key to making capitalists heed the people, but the big unions have been co-opted by counter-revolutionaries peddling idiocy. The AFL-CIO Praises this merger because the unionized AT&T will absorb the non-union T-Mobile workforce? Yeah, wha ...
  • The Afghanda…. U.S. Paternalism with a t ...
    President Obama made much glowing talk about all the “help” that “we’re giving” Afghanistan, building roads for the use of “our” military transports, schools where “we” get to teach their kids to be Corporate Slaves just like the kids in Amerika. A centralized Police State government which is un ...
  • Osama bin Laden, still humiliating us
    President Obama confirmed tonight, the war in Afghanistan goes on.
  • Corporate Supreme Court backed Mall-Wart in An ...
    Again. How much did it cost the Walton Empire to have the Supremes sing for them? I should shut up about that, I guess, I could be theoretically held in Contempt of Corporation. WalMart could sue ME for definition of character. Their pet monkeys at the Supreme Court would back them up on it. Not ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • RIBA, AIA and Aaronovitch attack Gage
    It seems the heads of the Britain and America's top architectural organizations are annoyed that Gage got to talk at the Royal Institute of British Architects, accusing him of using RIBA's name to give credibility to a 'bonkers' conspiracy theory. The Randi-crowd are of course using this fact to ...
  • A Peer-Reviewed Deception
    It's been ages since I last made one of my trademark compilation videos. Work and shit has been getting in the way. For months I was working on a video that was kind of a general scientific truth video that had a section on 9/11 forensics, a section on climate change, a section on vaccines, a ...
  • It Ain't No White Paper Because It's Been Debu ...
    In a post entitled "Hell No I Ain't Reading No White Paper!," James Bennett of the Screw Loose Change blog writes: Most of this interview that Richard Gage does for Skeptical Inquirer magazine isn't that interesting, and good deal is completely unintelligible, but I found the bit in the middle ...
  • Debunking Jonathan Kay, his book Among the Tru ...
    Updated 6-16-11 Thanks to James Hufferd of 911grassroots.org for assisting me with some research for this article. James recently responded to Kay's book, to which Kay retorted, and this is my end-all be-all response to Kay. In Frank Moher's review of National Post writer Jonathan Kay's new ...
  • SWIPES AT TRUTHERS -- AND OUR RESPONSE
    Editor's note: Kay has responded to this article. Here is my end-all be-all response to Kay. James Hufferd 911grassroots.org May 30, 2011 Recently, Canadian establishmentarian Jonathan Kay’s new mock-anthropological book, Among the Truthers, has caught a lot of deserved flak online on a lot of ...

Fooducate

  • Jack in the Box Drops Toys from Kiddie Menu
    Something good is happening in the fast food industry. (That doesn’t happen very often, as followers of the Fooducate blog know.) Jack in the Box, the 5th largest burger chain in the country, announced that it has stopped packing toys with their kiddie meals. What you need to know: If you recall ...
  • If Milk is White, Why is Cheese Yellow?
    Teri, a Fooducate community member asks “After reading your latest post on cheese, I got to thinking. What about the stuff we can see. Like why is cheese yellow? Is it dye that is bad for you? I’d love to know.” What you need to know: Milk is not pure white. It actually contains a [...]
  • Coffee Explained [Useful Infographic]
    For caffeine addicts who want to know what goes in their cuppa joe. [h/t to Tristan] Get Fooducated: iPhone App Android App RSS Subscription or Email Subscription Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/fooducate on facebook: facebook.com/fooducate
  • Harvard Study Links Potato Chips & Soda to Wei ...
    A study just published in the New England Journal of Medicine has found a correlation between several bad habits and weight gain: Within each 4-year period, participants gained an average of 3.35 lb (5th to 95th percentile, −4.1 to 12.4). On the basis of increased daily servings of individual di ...
  • Should Junk Food Also Have Graphic Warning Labels?
    The government has announced new measures in its fight against smoking. On Tuesday, the department of health and human services, together with the FDA, unveiled graphic images that will be plastered on cigarette packages. The 10 different graphics warn about the risks and damage of smoking. Rule ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Sonia Gandhi stands up for endangered Andaman ...
    Jarawa woman returning to her forest after gathering food on the edges of the Jarawa reserve. © Survival Sonia Gandhi, President of India’s ruling Congress party, has strongly backed the right of the isolated Jarawa tribe not to be forced into the ‘mainstream’. Mrs Gandhi, named by Forbes ...
  • Epidemic strikes Amazon nomads
    Nukak woman in refugee camp near San José, Colombia. © David Hill/Survival An outbreak of respiratory disease has struck one of the Amazon’s last nomadic tribes â whose numbers have already been decimated by flu and malaria. Around 35 Nukak-Maku, including nine children, have been admitt ...
  • Brazil confirms existence of uncontacted tribe
    Uncontacted Amazon Indians, Javari Valley, Brazil © Peetsa/Arquivo CGIIRC-Funai The Brazilian authorities have confirmed the existence of a group of approximately 200 uncontacted Indians in the Amazon. An overflight carried out by the government’s Indian Affairs Department, FUNAI, has ...
  • Diaries expose missionaries’ ‘spiritual war’ o ...
    Suruwaha man and children © Survival Diary entries obtained by Survival International illustrate the historic attempt of two missionaries to contact isolated Indians in the Brazilian Amazon. The missionaries, working with the American fundamentalist missionary organization JOCUM (Jovens co ...
  • Survival launches tourist boycott of ‘human sa ...
    Two Jarawa women on the Andaman trunk road © Salomé/Survival Survival today called for tourists to boycott the main highway in India’s Andaman Islands – an illegal road which cuts through the land of the endangered Jarawa tribe. The Andaman Trunk Road is both illegal – India’s Supreme Cour ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle a chicken carcass a ...
    We’ve started getting a meat box delivery from Swillington Farm – a local organic farm. All the meat is organic, the animals have been treated well during their lives and the food miles are very low — in fact for the chicken we had over the weekend, the only food miles were the ones delivering [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle plastic shipping/ma ...
    Kayci has emailed: First off, I absolutely love your website and all the nifty and creative ideas your community finds. Now for a confession: I am a bookworm. I typically go through 100+ novels a year without breaking a sweat. In an effort to try and green up my hobbies I’ve stopped going to the ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle big plastic (animal ...
    Over on the Suggest an Item page, Emily asked: Would anybody have any ideas for reusing the bags that stock feed comes in? They are some sort of plastic and not recycleable. Funnily enough, I had this on my to-do list already as I’m starting to be overrun with the things too – and I’ve [...]
  • Advice for arguing against plastic credit-type ...
    I’m possibly a bit late with this now (sorry Su!) but I just spotted this question and wondered if anyone had any advice/info/suggestions for further research. Good friend of Recycle This and The Really Good Life Su asked: Next week I am at a conference all week. One of the motions for discussio ...
  • Reusing, recycling and upcycling links – ...
    It’s been a while since I’ve featured some of the wonderful reusing, recycling and upcycling links I’ve spotted recently. So, without further ado…: Drinks can pop top lampshade I love this lampshade made with drinks can pop tops – it’s like modern chainmail :) Drinks can bottoms necklace The oth ...

Age of Autism

  • Mrs. Wessels Talks Autism
    By Lin Wessels 8th Grade English "Cause and Effect" Project: An interview with Mrs. Wessels, Sam's mom, by BT What does autism mean to you? To me, autism means my life and the path of my life has been forever...
  • "Following Vaccinations" -- 900 Voices Telling ...
    By Dan Olmsted I've just spent several hours reading what I believe is one of the most important documents ever created about children's health. Just click on followingvaccinations.com and see for yourself. The simple idea -- on September 18, 2010,...
  • Autism and Summer Lockdown
    By Cathy Jameson Summer has officially begun now that all of my children are on school vacation. If this summer came with a wish, I'd wish for lazy days and lots of them. I am not a morning person so...
  • A Look Inside The Immunization Dilemma By Jacl ...
    A Look Inside The Immunization Dilemma By Jaclyn Gallucci on June 23rd, 2011 Read the full story by Jaclyn Galluci at Long Island Press. The 1952 polio epidemic was one of the largest and most frightening public health crises in...
  • An Open Letter to the National Institutes of H ...
    By John Stone An Open Letter to the National Institutes of Health (Dr Marina Volkov answering on behalf of Director Francis Collins): 54% of American Children Suffer from Chronic Health Problems . Dear Dr Volkov, I acknowledge receipt of your...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Libya: Fierce fighting south-west of Tripoli
    BBC - Rebel forces in Libya have clashed with troops loyal to Col Muammar Gaddafi about 80km (50 miles) south-west of the capital, Tripoli. A rebel spokesman in the Nafusa mountains said there had been heavy fighting on the outskirts of the strategic town of Bir al-Ghanam. The rebels told the BB ...
  • UK: House prices fall as sellers become more r ...
    Telegraph – The housing intelligence company said the number of sales agreed by agents rose by 10.6pc in June – its highest level for three months – after the market was boosted by sellers agreeing to lower prices. Prices fell by 0.1pc in June and have now dropped in 11 of the past 12 months. [...]
  • China’s Wen signals doubt inflation goal ...
    Reuters – Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao signaled for the first time that China would struggle to meet its 4 percent inflation target this year, underlining expectations that interest rates will rise further even as economic growth slows down. Wen, who is traveling in Europe, was quoted by Hong Kong ...
  • Internet Freedom Under Attack – Denmark ...
    Huffington Post – Imagine if the police knew exactly what you do online: All the porn sites you scan secretly, the vitriolic comments you leave on blogs, the number of hours you spend playing Farmville. In Denmark, police have recommended to Parliament that it create laws that make it impossible ...
  • Chile’s Puyehue volcano spews lava
    AFP – Lava has begun spilling from Chile’s Puyehue volcano, 18 days after it first erupted, but there’s no danger to nearby residents, according to the National Service of Geology and Mining. But the ash cloud created by the eruption continues to wreak havoc on airlines around the world. Read Ar ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • TSA stands by officers after pat-down of elder ...
    The Transportation Security Administration stood by its security officers Sunday after a Florida woman complained that her cancer-stricken, 95-year-old mother was patted down and forced to remove her adult diaper while going through security.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �| ...
  • America's worst enemy: Israel
    Are those who support AIPAC aware that Israel was founded by the very same Rothschild banking cartel (Federal Reserve + IMF) that is now robbing people across the planet as Mr Mullins disclosed? Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Hu Jia Released: Prominent Chinese Activist Fr ...
    A prominent Chinese political activist imprisoned for sedition was released Sunday at the end of his more than three-year sentence, his wife said, though his freedom could be limited by continued surveillance.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Group says its responsible for flottilla complaint
    Sources in the Shurat Hadin (Israel Law Center) on Sunday took responsibility for lodging an anonymous civil complaint against the American-flagged ship, The Audacity of Hope, which is a part of the flotilla expected to sail towards Gaza later this week, Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� ...
  • Gov. Chris Christie Would Veto A New York-Styl ...
    Christie: ..In our state we're going to continue to pursue civil unions. I am not a fan of same sex marriage. It's not something that I support. I believe marriage should be between one man and one woman. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • Windies get help from psychologist
    The West Indies have enlisted the help of renowned sports psychologist Rudi Webster to help them with mental preparation for the remainder of their three-Test series against India. Beset by...
  • Gold hits 3-week low; physical demand sla ...
    MUMBAI: India gold fell on Monday afternon, hitting its lowest level in more than three weeks, following overseas trends, although a weaker rupee kept the downside in prices limited, analysts...
  • Off to Goa for 'raindrop tourism'
    The shacks are missing, there is no water sporting activity and the beaches are much less crowded. Yet a growing number of people, especially domestic tourists, are discovering a different, more lush and refreshed Goa during the off season - the monsoons. Typically, the tourist season in Go ...
  • Simple Reminders To Keep Kids Safe At Po ...
    WPBF.com Summer is all about having fun in the sun, but don’t let safety slip to the back burner, especially at the pool or the beach. According to the Florida Department of Health, drowning is the leading cause of death among children ages 1-4. The pool is the biggest threat to kids under ...
  • Philip Morris threatens to sue Australia
    Tobacco giant Philip Morris is threatening to sue the Australian government for possibly billions of dollars over its plan to be the first country to introduce plain, brand-less packaging for cigarettes. The tobacco firm is fearful that plain-packaging will damage its cigarette brands like ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • How Standardized Testing is Being Expanded
    Parents, teachers, and students: Raise your hands if you think what our schools need is more new tests and a greater emphasis on testing. If not, listen up, because this is exactly what our students and teachers face because of the reactions of Massachusetts, Maryland, Virgina, New York, North C ...
  • US Climate Protests Shift to Blocking Keystone ...
    WASHINGTON—Conservationists are still fuming about President Obama's continued lack of follow-through on his promise to affix solar panels to the White House roof. For now, however, they're willing to give him a pass on what they recognize would be mostly a symbolic gesture. ...
  • Outcry in America as Pregnant Women Who Lose B ...
    Rennie Gibbs is accused of murder, but the crime she is alleged to have committed does not sound like an ordinary killing. Yet she faces life in prison in Mississippi over the death of her unborn child. read more
  • Floodwater Seeps into Nebraska Nuke Plant Buil ...
    OMAHA -- Missouri River floodwater seeped into the turbine building at a nuclear power plant near Omaha on Monday, but plant officials said the seepage was expected and posed no safety risk because the building contains no nuclear material. An 8-foot-tall, water-filled temporary berm protecting ...
  • Protesters Demand French Nuclear Plant Closure
    FESSENHEIM, France - Thousands of demonstrators formed a human chain outside France's oldest nuclear power plant on Sunday to demand the site be closed as the government mulls whether to extend its life by a decade. The plant at Fessenheim, in Alsace, has become a flashpoint in the renewed debat ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Koch Brothers Fund Assault on Climate Legislat ...
    This guest post comes from the eloquent and thoughtful Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse.
  • ‘Energy Beet' The Next Ethanol Solution?
    Well the race is on.� Three visionary crusades are playing out in the ethanol industry right here in the United States.� With oil prices soaring and the uncertainty over ethanol and farm subsidies, plans to build the nation's first sugar beet bio-fuels processing plant in North Dakota was unveil ...
  • Hybrids, Natural Gas + Smart Grid Drive Energy ...
    The near to mid-term prospects for advanced energy storage technology are not so bleak. Mild hybrid systems in cars and light trucks, a likely increase in demand for spinning reserve storage technology to supplement renewables, and increasing investment in smart grid technology, including energ ...
  • Are Small Modular Reactors A Nuclear Economics ...
    My colleague (and member of my dissertation committee) Dr. David McNelis had an excellent Op-Ed in the Raleigh News and Observer�yesterday touting the safety and economics advantages of small modular reactors (SMRs). A snippet:
  • Tar Sands Means C02 Game Over
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Green House - USA Today

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

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Private Contractors Making a Killing off the D ...
    By Cyril Mychalejko As tens of thousands of corpses continue to pile up as a result of the US-led "War on Drugs" in Latin America, private contractors are benefiting from lucrative federal counternarcotics contracts amounting to billions of dollars, without worry of oversight or accountability. ...
  • Banker Occupation of Greece
    by Stephen Lendman Economist Michael Hudson calls it "Replacing Economic Democracy with Financial Oligarchy" in a June 5 article by that title, saying: After being debt entrapped, or perhaps acquiescing to entrapment, the Papandreou government needs bailout help to pay bankers that entrapped ...
  • US Working and Middle Class: Solidarity or Co ...
    James Petras “I don’t think you realize how hard it is for the oppressed to become united. Their misery unites them (…) But otherwise their misery is liable to cut them off from one another, for they are forced to snatch the wretched crumbs from each other’s mouth”. - Bertolt Brecht Collected ...
  • Violating Palestinian Rights
    by Stephen Lendman Besides its Knesset, security forces and intelligence services, Israel's High Court and Civil Administration ravage Palestinian civil society repressively. Two examples illustrate the problem. On June 22, a B'Tselem press release headlined, "Sharp increase in West Bank ...
  • Breaching Gaza's Siege
    by Stephen Lendman Suffocating besieged Gazans, Israel is committing slow-motion genocide. Global activists are determined to stop it and hold Israeli officials accountable for decades of crimes of war and against humanity - unspeakable atrocities financed by criminal co-conspirators in Wash ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Work in an Age of Austerity
    As Canada continues on the path of economic recovery following the worldwide recession of 2008, workers find themselves under attack -- and the attack is coming from many directions. We've put together some resources to help Canadians understand what's behind the attack, who's at risk, and how t ...
  • Implications of the Canada-EU CETA for municip ...
    In ongoing Canada-EU trade negotiations, the European Commission is seeking full coverage of sub-national (provincial and municipal) procurement.� In Canada, as in Europe, many important public services, such as waste, water and public transit, are delivered by local authorities.� The exclusion ...
  • BC's poverty rate still highest in Canada
    Statistics Canada released a report today on incomes across Canada in 2009. As First Call BC points out in their news release, key points for BC include: BC's child poverty rate rose to 12 percent in 2009, the highest child poverty rate of any province for the eighth year in a row. ...
  • CCPA's new blog: Behind The Numbers
    We had such a positive response to our federal election blog, we've decided to continue blogging. We've just launched Behind the Numbers, which will deliver timely, progressive commentary and analysis from CCPA staff and research associates across the country on issues that affect Canadians, in ...
  • Prairie Strong No Longer? Harper's Renewed Att ...
    � Just one day after the May 2nd federal election, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz made it clear that the Conservative government would move to eliminate the Canadian Wheat Board's single-desk marketing power with legislation as soon as this fall. As Canada's largest farm marketing board, the ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Keeping Austin Weird
    City comes together to ‘Keep Austin Weird’ | Daily Texan A crowd of hippies, hula dancers and Dr. Seuss characters braved the heat to celebrate weirdness Saturday afternoon. Thousands of Austinites, some donning elaborate costumes, filled the lawn of the Long Center for Performing Arts to suppor ...
  • Hippie TV News and Stuff June 28
    WWH – Hippie TV News: This week San Francisco un-cut ,Radiation kids, Ass$#%@ of the week and more… WWH- Worldwide Hippies brings you news and commentary, to inform you and move you to action. Worldwide Hippies News and Stuff is a weekly video, produced by WWH. Connect with us on Utube. The Worl ...
  • North Korea Evidently Not Best Korea
    N Korean children begging, army starving | ABC.net.au Footage shot inside North Korea and obtained by the ABC has revealed the extent of chronic food shortages and malnutrition inside the secretive state. The video is some of the most revealing footage ever smuggled out of the impoverished North ...
  • A Voice Of Reason in Indiana Planned Parenthoo ...
    Federal Judge Rules Indiana Can’t Block Planned Parenthood Funding | TPM A federal judge has granted Planned Parenthood a temporary injunction against an Indiana law that stripped it of all federal funding in the state. “If dogma trumps pragmatism and neither side budges, Indiana’s most vulnerab ...
  • 70 California State Parks Slated To Close
    70IN70 70 California State Parks are slated for closure. Two photographers have given themselves 70 days to document them all. Follow them on their journey as they discover what it is that we will all soon be missing out on. MONDAY, JUNE 27, 2011 Park Nine: Pio Pico Pio Pico is another park that ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

  • Wisconsin justice says court fight led to choking
    A member of the Wisconsin Supreme Court's liberal faction has accused a conservative justice of choking her during an argument in her office earlier this month -- a charge he denied.
  • Chinese dissident freed; more surveillance feared
    A prominent Chinese political activist imprisoned for sedition was released Sunday at the end of his more than three-year sentence, his wife said, though his freedom could be limited by continued surveillance.
  • Opposition to meet in Syria after bloody weekend
    Three months into Syria's bloody political showdown, some 200 critics of President Bashar Assad's regime prepared to convene in an unprecedented opposition gathering Monday in Damascus, after another deadly weekend for anti-government protesters.
  • Obama gave commanders leeway on Afghan pullout
    In promising a U.S. military pullout from Afghanistan will begin in July, President Barack Obama is permitting his commanders to decide critical details, including the number of troops to depart first and whether any of those will be combat forces, administration and military officials said S ...
  • The week in uppers: Marriage equality edition
    Each week, we comb the Web looking for the best, most inspiring stories out there. And this week, we celebrate New York's landmark passage of marriage equality legislation Friday night. Check it out:

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Koch Brothers Fund Assault on Climate Legislat ...
    This guest post comes from the eloquent and thoughtful Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse.
  • ‘Energy Beet' The Next Ethanol Solution?
    Well the race is on.� Three visionary crusades are playing out in the ethanol industry right here in the United States.� With oil prices soaring and the uncertainty over ethanol and farm subsidies, plans to build the nation's first sugar beet bio-fuels processing plant in North Dakota was unveil ...
  • Hybrids, Natural Gas + Smart Grid Drive Energy ...
    The near to mid-term prospects for advanced energy storage technology are not so bleak. Mild hybrid systems in cars and light trucks, a likely increase in demand for spinning reserve storage technology to supplement renewables, and increasing investment in smart grid technology, including energ ...
  • Are Small Modular Reactors A Nuclear Economics ...
    My colleague (and member of my dissertation committee) Dr. David McNelis had an excellent Op-Ed in the Raleigh News and Observer�yesterday touting the safety and economics advantages of small modular reactors (SMRs). A snippet:
  • Tar Sands Means C02 Game Over
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EU Times

  • UFOs filmed above BBC building in London
    If UFOs are real and trying to get our attention perhaps they are getting a little more savvy about the way we humans work. A new video has emerged purporting to show ‘a mothership and its fleet’ zipping around in the clouds above a BBC building in West London. Perhaps the group of intergalactic ...
  • China moves to save the Euro from collapse
    It is in the interest of cash-rich China to help resolve the eurozone debt crisis, but Chinese premier Wen Jiabao, who is visiting Britain and Continental Europe, will want a share of the West’s buying power in return. As Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, stepped off his plane in Birmingham on Sa ...
  • Swedish preschool bans gender
    A pre-school in Sweden has decided to stop referring to children as “him” or “her” in an effort to obtain equality between the sexes from childhood. The Egalia preschool, in the Sodermalm district of Stockholm made the decision as a part of the national curriculum for Swedish preschools to stop ...
  • New ‘Little Ice Age’ underway
    American researchers say sun spot activity will start to recede in the next two years leading the Earth towards a new ‘Little Ice Age’ in the coming years. Three separate studies conducted by scientists of the American Astronomical Society’s solar physics division say solar activity will start t ...
  • The Netherlands to Abandon Multiculturalism
    The Dutch government says it will abandon the long-standing model of multiculturalism that has encouraged Muslim immigrants to create a parallel society within the Netherlands. A new integration bill (covering letter and 15-page action plan), which Dutch Interior Minister Piet Hein Donner presen ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • General Dynamics Itronix will pay Microsoft to ...
    Microsoft will profit from another company using competitor Google's Android software. General Dynamics Itronix, a company that makes and sells devices that use Android, has will pay Microsoft royalties in a settlement between the two companies, Microsoft said Monday. The companies did not disc ...
  • Syria dissidents meet in Damascus to discuss t ...
    Some 150 Syrian dissidents are attending a conference in Damascus on Monday to discuss the country's crisis. It is the first time such an event is taking place since anti-government protests broke out in March. Some of those attending have spent time in prison in the past for their political ac ...
  • Supreme Court Strikes Down Arizona Matching Fu ...
    In a 5-4 decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court today struck down Arizona’s controversial campaign finance law which allowed publicly-funded candidates to receive “equalizing” public money designed to match the expenditures of privately-funded candidates. In essence, ...
  • Michele Bachmann's Campaign Launch in Iowa: Ca ...
    She's immensely popular among Republicans in the Hawkeye State. A strong showing there could make her a real threat in 2012. Michele Bachmann has officially arrived in Iowa. After first announcing her candidacy for president during CNN's June 13 debate, today she launched her campaign in the Ha ...
  • MacBook Air supply tightens at Best Buy, other ...
    If you're shopping for a MacBook Air , stop. Right now. Just put down your credit card and wait -- not too much longer, or so it would seem. As of Sunday evening, major Mac outlet Best Buy is reporting all MBA models as 'not available for shipping,' a strong if not overwhelming indication that ...

Groklaw

  • Twitter for Newsrooms Launches
    We want to make our tools easier to use so you can focus on your job: finding sources, verifying facts, publishing stories, promoting your work and yourself-and doing all of it faster and faster all the time....It's our goal is to help creative professionals in news, TV, sports and entertainment ...
  • Translations of key Dutch internet freedom pro ...
    As we recently mentioned on this blog, the Dutch parliament launched crucial internet freedom legislation. Since we hope that other countries are inspired and launch their own legislation, we translated the key provisions into English. Are you a lawmaker or a digital rights organisation and thin ...
  • FAQ: What You Need To Know About Mondays Mobi ...
    Q: Whoa, I am not a lawyer. What is a "stalking-horse agreement"?... A: A stalking-horse agreement is a common practice in complicated auctions such as this one. Basically, the seller (Nortel) enters into a preliminary agreement with an interested purchaser to set the "stalking-horse bid," whic ...
  • SCOTUS Strikes Down CA's Violent-Video Game L ...
    BROWN, GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA, ET AL. v. ENTERTAINMENT MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION ET AL. ...Respondents, representing the video-game and software industries, filed a preenforcement challenge to a California law that restricts the sale or rental of violent video games to minors. The Federal District C ...
  • U.S. to Provide Guidelines to Bolster Computer ...
    The Homeland Security Department plans to unveil on Monday a new system of guidance intended to help make the software behind many services - be they Web sites or power grids - less susceptible to hacking.The system includes an updated list of the top 25 programming errors that enable today's mo ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • The California prison crisis
    The California Independent Voter Project was founded in 2006 by two former legislators, one Republican, one Democratic “as an effort to engage non-partisan voters in Californiaâs policymaking process.” One of CAIVP’s projects is the California Independent Voter Network, an online site with multi ...
  • Greece, the crumbling Eurozone, and desperate ...
    Mish Here is a succinct summation of the current state of Euro-Zone affairs. 1. Greece will default, but at this point it is irrelevant. 2. The situation in Spain, Ireland, Portugal, and Italy is now so dire that it is does not matter whether or not Greece defaults. 3. Expect chaos Business Insi ...
  • Rodney Crowell. The Obscenity Prayer
    Excerpt: Let the gangsters rule the street While teachers try to make ends meet I despise all bleeding hearts I don’t patronize the arts Give it to me, Give it to me Give to me my Aspen winter Sorry bout the world trade center I can’t help the ones in need I’ve got my own [...]
  • Texting as counter-terrorism
    Google, the Council on Foreign Relations, and others are hosting The Summit Against Violent Extremism to explore how social media can be used to stop people from joining violent extremists groups and also the block the influence of such groups.
  • Two CT unions backstab other unions to protect ...
    Unions are supposed to practice solidarity, but what just happened in Connecticut is the opposite of that. Two unions voted to reject a deal involving multiple unions and the state. Since the deal took months to negotiate and can not be redone quickly, the state will immediately fire 7,500 worke ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • Insurance company fail re Christchurch bodes i ...
    Last week David Hayward blogged about his own experience dealing with his insurance company over the fate of his Christchurch home: Tower Insurance maintain that the house is not a write-off.  They maintain that they are only obliged to repair the house — not to honour our insurance policy for ...
  • General debate, June 26, 2011
  • 2010 – 2011: Earth’s most extreme ...
    That’s the title of Jeff Masters’ piece today on the Weather Underground. He’s put together an impressive list of recent extreme weather events: Every year extraordinary weather events rock the Earth. Records that have stood centuries are broken. Great floods, droughts, and storms affect million ...
  • Will Alasdair Thompson’s “damage c ...
    A Green-friendly employer and EMA member just sent me this (recipient details removed). I presume it has been sent to all EMA member employers today: If Alasdair Thompson has really had the epiphany he proclaims after a day to cogitate on the reaction to his outrageous comments, then perhaps he ...
  • A little film about a little town at the epice ...
    Love in a Little Town from James Muir on Vimeo. When everything is stripped back by disaster it reveals what is at the heart of a resilient neighbourhood… Its the love, time and energy of its people. Lyttelton is the port for Christchurch City, New Zealand, that was devastated by an earthquake i ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Breaking: Breathing In Misty, Mushed-Up Pig Br ...
    Hormel, the company that makes SPAM, has outsourced the difficult work of pig slaughtering to Quality Pork Processors (QPP), an affilliated company. Since Hormel likes to use every part of the animal, some of the people at QPP have jobs that revolve around turning pig brains into a pink slurry ...
  • Cold Water on Bachmann's Big Weekend
    Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) has had quite a run lately. She had strong showings at the June 13 CNN debate and the Republican Leadership Conference 10 days ago. Then came this weekend's shocking Des Moines Register poll putting Bachmann in second place with 22 percent, a single percentage p ...
  • Chevy Volt vs. Zurich
    Leading off the New York Times' reimagined "Sunday Review" section (no more Letterman jokes?!) was a 2,380-word, mostly fawning essay by columnist Joe Nocera on the promise of the electric hybrid Chevy Volt, General Motors' great hope for the green car era. Nocera test-drove the car, talked wi ...
  • Friday Catblogging - 24 June 2011
    By the time you see this I should be flying across the country, ready for some R&R in New York City. The cats, of course, are ready for R&R at all times, especially on warm summer days like these. As always, let them be your guide to a successully stress-free weekend. Comments | Post Co ...
  • Meet the "Christie Democrats"
    The New Jersey legislature on Thursday joined Wisconsin, Ohio, and a handful of other states by drastically scaling back pension and health-care benefits for government workers and curbing collective bargaining rights for public-sector unions. All told, 750,000 public-sector workers will end ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 255: Gay Pride
    Topics: Texas close to getting Confederate flag license plates The Throat punch Gay marriage passes in NY David Tyree and others made about gays getting married Protecting the sanctity of marriage by marrying a 16 year old Chris Brown’s back to whining Share with your friends:
  • IC 254: Father’s Day Controversy
    Topics: Why is Father’s Day so complicated? Can men get 1 day please? PETA goes overboard…again Amy Winehouse is on drugs…again…why are we shocked? Weiner resigns and progressives are pissed at the President Share with your friends:
  • IC 253: The Great Weiner Debate
    Topics: McDonald’s is racist? The Alamo Drafthouse shows why the customer isn’t always right The great circumcision debate Anthony Weiner and liberals turn an anthill into the Alps… Share with your friends:
  • Lupe and the Blissful Ignorance of Not Voting
    So yesterday evening Ryce and I did a podcast, IC 252:  Pedophile Insurance (Cheap Plug) and one of the topics we talked about was Lupe Fiasco’s comments about President Obama being the world’s biggest terrorist. I had a few comments about that issue then but felt the need to write this follow ...
  • IC 252: Pedophile Insurance
    Topics: Lupe acts like Lupe Is Obama a terrorist? How important is voting? A 2 vehicle, 1 bear accident Creflo Dollar defends Eddie Long Herman Cain…the gift that keeps giving…. Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • Twin-head cucumber system reduces start-up costs
    Greenhouse vegetable production in North America has more than doubled in the past 10 years. While heavy investments have been made in modern greenhouses, improved cultivation technologies are essential for producers to realize the high productivity potential afforded by the improved facilities. ...
  • Nearly half of women with advanced breast canc ...
    Forty-five percent of women with advanced breast cancer in the U.S. did not receive postmastectomy radiation therapy (PMRT) despite the publication of evidence-based guidelines outlining PMRT as a potentially lifesaving treatment, according to new research from The University of Texas MD Anderso ...
  • Helping preterm babies get the best start
    Babies born prematurely could be at greater risk of developing kidney diseases later in life according to a landmark study investigating the impacts of preterm birth on kidney development. read more
  • Living antibiotic effective against Salmonella
    Scientists have tested a predatory bacterium – Bdellovibrio – against Salmonella in the guts of live chickens. They found that it significantly reduced the numbers of Salmonella bacteria and, importantly, showed that Bdellovibrio are safe when ingested. read more
  • Brain rhythm associated with learning also lin ...
    Rhythms in the brain that are associated with learning become stronger as the body moves faster, UCLA neurophysicists report in a new study. read more

unEarthed

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

Brave New Climate

  • Sustainable energy choices for the 21st Centur ...
    Climate change and sustainability of the global human enterprise are two of the most critical issues of the 21st Century. If we are to tackle these problems effectively, we need to make prudent, evidence-based choices about energy. This is the story told by this short (2 min, 35 sec) animated vi ...
  • Clearing up the climate debate
    The Conversation is a recently established website set up to provide an independent source of information, analysis and commentary from the Australian university and research sector. Over the last few weeks, a group of climate scientists and academics from other relevant disciplines, have been ...
  • Golf balls and elephants – energy densit ...
    I’m currently developing a short (2 minute, 30 second) animated video on nuclear power and climate change, with help from friend Ben Heard and the skills of Ron Furner and his team at Fury Films. Near the end of the vid, we talk about the vast amount of energy embodied in so-called ‘nuclear wast ...
  • Greenpeace’s plan for India
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. This article follows on from his previous: What price of Indian independence? Greenpeace under the spotlight —————— In my previous ...
  • Equinox Energy 2030 communiqué
    The Equinox Energy 2030 Summit (2011) has  now concluded, and I’ve arrived back in Australia. It was an enthralling and exhausting experience, and I befriended a wonderful group of people — members of the Forum (aged ~25 to 30 years), Advisors (including me — for generalist critiques and ), Quo ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • Is Greece Being Blackmailed to Put the Brakes ...
    Is Greece Being Blackmailed to Put the Brakes on Gaza Flotilla? | Common Dreams by Medea Benjamin The 50 passengers and crew on the U.S. boat to Gaza have converged in Athens, Greece, ready to head out to sea to join an international fleet of ships that will challenge the Israeli-imposed naval ...
  • John John: The View From Occupied Canada: #442
    Invasive surveillance bills will cost Canadians in cash and civil liberties, says new coalition | rabble.ca Proposed "Lawful Access" bills would require telecom providers in Canada to hand over personal information to authorities without a warrant or judicial oversight, says OpenMedia.ca. The bi ...
  • Four Decades of Cruelty and Inhumanity to U.S. ...
    Four Decades of Cruelty and Inhumanity to U.S. Political Prisoners | Black Agenda Report For almost 40 years, Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace have been in solitary confinement at Louisiana’s infamous Angola State Prison, in what is thought to be the longest period of enforced solitude in A ...
  • WHO’S SAILING TO GAZA AND WHAT DO THEY HAVE TO ...
    WHO’S SAILING TO GAZA AND WHAT DO THEY HAVE TO SAY? � Desertpeace: The passengers who will be on the U.S. boat, from 14 states and the District of Columbia, represent virtually every geographic region of the United States. Fifty eight percent women and 42% men, they are of all ages, and a variet ...
  • En foro de la ONU una mapuche pone en su lugar ...
    En foro de la ONU una mapuche pone en su lugar a Bachelet | Patria Grande: "Was completely dislodging the former president of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, when exhibited at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, on discrimination against women at work, when the Community Lonko John Paillalef ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Jim DeMint – Fuck You
    Fuck you Jim. You want to slam the poor, the sick, and the elderly to “balance the budget” and won’t even consider cutting corporate welfare, or having the billionaires, or the companies they own stock in pay their fair share. I pray that there is justice in this world and some day you will be [...]
  • Van Jones = Reboot the American Dream
    “We’re not broke, we’ve been robbed. Someone has our money”
  • Exxon Gets 20 Billion a Year in Corporate Welfare
    The amount of taxes we don’t collect from Exxon plus their handouts equals around 20 billion dollars a year. And this is just one company. Spending isn’t the problem. Corporate welfare, and billionaire welfare is the problem.
  • Politifact – Jon Stewart Was Right
    How hard did your dishonest organization have to twist  into a pretzel to name Stewart’s factual statement about Fox News viewers as false? Misinformed, uninformed, and lied to. Fox lemmings.
  • Jobs Boehner?
    When will Boehner and the Republicans in the House stop attacking women, and seniors long enough to pass a bill to create jobs? No Ayn Rand voodoo economics fantasy tax cuts for billionaires trickle down crap. I mean real job creating legislation.

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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  • Breaking: Boycott bill approved, final vote im ...
    The Association for Civil Rights in Israel issued a press release Monday evening confirming that the (Anti)Boycott bill was approved for a final reading, making it highly likely that it will pass in the final vote in Knesset. According to ACRI’s translation of the bill, a “a boycott against the ...
  • Israel policy myth #3: trying to stem a flood ...
    To justify draconian and inhumane measures against refugees, the Israeli government claims the country is flooded by work migrants from impoverished countries. The facts do not bear this out, to put it mildly. In Israel today, there are two classes of immigrants. One is composed of those who co ...
  • Flotilla organizers: “We are ready to sa ...
    This post has been UPDATED (see bottom) ATHENS – According to recent tweets from the US boat “The Audacity of Hope,” which is part of the flotilla waiting to depart from Greece towards Gaza any day now, “the boat successfully completed its sea trials – there is no reason for any further delays o ...
  • Hamas official: I would support Fayyad as tran ...
    Journalist Ashley Bates has been revisiting Gaza last week (she used to run the Dispatches from Gaza blog, praised by NYT’s Nick Kristof as “a model for filling gaps in news coverage.”) On this visit, Bates interviewed Dr Ahmad Yousef, who recently retired as close advisor to Ismail Hanniyeh and ...
  • WATCH: The top 10 audition flops of Hallelujah ...
    1.2 million shekels.That’s what the Israeli government has decided to allocate to solving one of the biggest problems around, something that affects just about every citizen of this land. It was hard to chose what to do with all that cash. One option was to maybe pay the salaries for a few more ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • THE Next Mortgage Bombshelll….
    The private insurers that cover $700 billion of U.S. mortgages are facing an onslaught of foreclosures. The big three—MGIC, Radian, PMI—are at risk. The housing market has been a cruel goddess, destroying the finances of millions of Americans and driving the economy and financial system to near ...
  • A World Wide Credit Catastrophe….
    I remember reading a little book a while ago, a book that talked about universal human truths, principles and a set of guidelines that should be followed by people and the institutions that govern them. The book pushed hard on things like working hard, very hard and looking out for those around ...
  • Florida’s Governor Rick Scott- Throw Hom ...
    Rick Scott, Florida popular governor made a special surprise appearance at the Florida Bar Annual Meeting where he urged attorneys and Bar leadership to GET THEM FORECLOSURES MOVING….IF COURTS CAN’T SPEED THINGS THOUGH….TAKE EM OUT OF COURT AND LET’S GO NON-JUDICIAL Now we all need to be very, v ...
  • Understanding the US Debt Picture….
    It’s so important to go beyond your normal newspapers and expand far, far beyond the mainstream media and six o’clock news……one of the most valuable things about the internet is we can read news from all over the world…..and read very well researched and sophisticated publications. Read from the ...
  • Totalitarian State- Police Swarm, Harass and R ...
    If you missed the story, a polite and well mannered woman was arrested because she was standing in her front yard recording a group of police officers who were arresting a man in front of her home.  The full video can be found here.  Now if this video is not crystal clear evidence of a [...]

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Speciation
    Even for someone as brilliant as Charles Darwin, it took a while to figure it out. He had chafed at the iron rules of scientific societies, feeling that they were populated by elite patrons who would only verify certain scientific advancements and discoveries that came through established channe ...
  • Not What, But Why
    The flourishing of grassroots activity taking place around the rebuilding of the Liberal Party has produced a multitude of ideas coming from numerous regions of the country. I’ve enjoyed the perspectives and the zeal with which they are brought forth. It seems to me though that we might have the ...
  • Worth It
    The Federation of Canadian Municipalities met in Halifax a short while ago and some of the federal political party leaders addressed the gathering. Bob Rae was at his candid and disarming best. He began by observing: “For some time I have wanted to be the Liberal leader in the worst way. Be care ...
  • Stop Predicting – Start Achieving
    Politics is turning wacky again. Stephen Harper gloats in his decimation of the Liberal Party, which Jack Layton vows to keep in its place while his NDP seeks to consolidate its power as the chief opposition. Conservative minister James Moore mocks the NDP for pretending it will get rid of its “ ...
  • Men Without Chests
    The phrase above originated in The Abolition of Man, a thoughtful work by C. S. Lewis on the loss of virtue. He maintained that some of the greatest realities in life actually come from something external to the experience of humans. Such truths are objective and provide the guideposts for human ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Synthetic biology, ethics and the hacker culture
    While the DIY Biotechnology community has grown considerably since this post, the piece still captures something of what is still a young movement, and one that challenges assumptions about top-down technology innovation. Originally posted June 13 2008 Read Thomas L. Friedman’s “The World is Fla ...
  • Nano-sunscreens leave their mark
    Most manufacturers of nanomaterial-based sunscreens try to make sure that the material they use doesn’t generate harmful chemicals in the presence of sunlight.  But the paper this piece was based on suggested that some photoactive materials might be slipping through the net. Originally posted J ...
  • Value-added nanotechnology
    The more the debate over what precisely nanotechnology is goes on, the more inclined I am to think that it’s something of an illusion.  Sure, nanoscale science is real.  And there are clearly technologies that exploit this.  But are they nanotechnologies, or are they simply clever uses of sci ...
  • Is nanotechnology suffering from “silent rave” ...
    I couldn’t resist finishing the August in the Archives series with this piece on “silent rave” syndrome, which I am sad to say still seems to inflict the emerging technologies community! Originally posted October 5 2008 The silent rave might seem a rather bizarre social phenomenon; a group of st ...
  • Rethinking nanotechnology – responding to a re ...
    Back in July, the US National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) posted a Request For Information in the Federal Register for input to the next NNI strategic plan – to be published later this year.  The closing date for comments was a couple of weeks ago now.  I got mine in in the nick of time.  ...

Reader Supported News

  • Blagojevich Found Guilty on 17 Counts
    Bob Secter and Jeff Coen report: "A federal jury today convicted former Gov. Rod Blagojevich on 17 of 20 counts, finding he brazenly abused the powers of his office in a series of attempted shakedowns captured on undercover government recordings." Former Governor of Illinois Rod R. Blagojevic ...
  • FOCUS: Obama's Secret Wars
    Intro: "America may be drawing down its Afghan troops, but John Barry reports that US covert wars rage in places like Yemen, where a new blueprint for military action is being drawn." President Barack Obama with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, CIA Director Leon Panetta and Gen. David Petra ...
  • FOCUS: Obama's Secret Wars
    Intro: "America may be drawing down its Afghan troops, but John Barry reports that US covert wars rage in places like Yemen, where a new blueprint for military action is being drawn." President Barack Obama with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, CIA Director Leon Panetta and Gen. David Petra ...
  • FOCUS: Obama's Secret Wars
    Intro: "America may be drawing down its Afghan troops, but John Barry reports that US covert wars rage in places like Yemen, where a new blueprint for military action is being drawn." President Barack Obama with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, CIA Director Leon Panetta and Gen. David Petra ...
  • Italy Wants Out of Libya
    Intro: "In March, Italy reluctantly joined the NATO-led mission to implement a no-fly zone to protect Libyan civilians, offering up seven airbases and it's own Tornado fighter jets for the cause. But now that the mission has turned into a full-fledged offensive to oust Muammar Gaddafi at any cos ...

War Resisters League

  • No Surprises from the War-Makers!
    Well, Obama made it clear on Wednesday. His war in Afghanistan will go on through 2014 and probably far beyond. While some may have hoped for a shift in his approach, many of us didn’t expect much, and we certainly didn’t get much. The change in Afghanistan that he spoke about, meant to be heard ...
  • In Afghanistan Speech, Obama Offers Token Troo ...
    President Obama passed up an opportunity to recognize our democracy and respect the views of the vast majority of the American people. June 22, 2011 President Obama’s speech tonight violated one of his most important campaign promises: to “end the mind-set that leads to war.” To the contrary, hi ...
  • Money for Our Communities, Not for War!
    Take Action! It’s very encouraging that the US Conference of Mayors just passed a strong resolution initiated by CODEPINK for bringing our “war dollars home” (read press release or NY Times article on this). Unfortunately, later this week the House of Representatives is poised to pass the Defens ...
  • Not Justice, Not Victory: Just Another Murder ...
    “I keep thinking of how awful it was to hear that there were people actually celebrating on 9-11. Now I look at the TV and see the same thing.” -Family member of a man killed in the World Trade Center of September 11, 2001. The reported killing of Osama bin Laden by a CIA operation [...]
  • The Broken Rifle in Kabul
    The above photograph, of Scott Schaeffer-Duffy from the Catholic Worker in Worcester, Massachusetts standing beside street art made by local Afghan youth, was taken in Kabul by WRL National Committee and Organizing Task Force member Jim Haber when he was on a recent delegation with Voices for Cr ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Puget Sound Food Network Connects Locally Grow ...
    June 9-12, Amanda Behrens and I journeyed to Missoula, Montana for the joint annual meetings of the Agriculture Food and Human Values Society (AFHVS), Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) and the Society for Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN). The conference, entitled Food ...
  • Now in the Senate, PAMTA Pushes Forward
    Last week, Senators Diane Feinstein (D-CA) and Susan Collins (R-ME) took an important stand in support of America’s health by reintroducing the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (S. 1211). The bill aims to prevent the misuse of antibiotics in agriculture to ensure their conti ...
  • New USDA Report Stresses Regulations on Antibi ...
    A new technical review by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, “A Focus on Antimicrobial Resistance,” calls the issue a growing public health concern worldwide, stating the misuse of antimicrobial drugs in food animal production and human medicine is the main factor accelerating antimicrobial res ...
  • CLF opposes Rehberg amendment, antibiotic-resi ...
    The FY 2012 Agriculture appropriations bill, voted out of the House Appropriations Committee last week, includes an amendment that would severely limit the authority of FDA to regulate the use of antimicrobials, including antibiotics, in food animal production-a key concern of public health rese ...
  • Food and Farm Policy: this is not the image an ...
    Recently, my boyfriend offered to give me a dollar for every blog I started with, “Stop what you’re doing, ’cause I’m about to ruin the image and the style that you’re used to.” I responded to his idea with a barrage of reasons why it was ridiculous and certainly not appropriate in my line of [. ...
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