29 June - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

food and water watch

• By: April
  Please read Blue Gold and When the Rivers Run Dry....I am officially against the majority of desalination due to the fact that all the water we have now is all the water we will EVER have!
• By: Rich's coworker
  In an effort to de-spin your story, the real reason there were no muffins or treats of any sort was because the bearer of treats was absent, and had been gone for the past few days. Perhaps if you "wish real hard" again, parabens can turn into magical antioxidants that are part of a complete ...
• By: Top 50 Global Food Security Blogs
  [...] Food and Water Watch: Food & Water Watch works to ensure the food, water and fish we consume is safe, accessible and sustainable. [...]
• By: Online Degree 30 Best Water Conservation Blogs
  [...] Food & Water Watch: The Food & Water Watch site advocates strong conservation measures, promoting policies that'll result in quality drinking water for everyone. [...]
• By: Food and Water | Roland's Ramblings
  [...] would also like to suggest you go over to read the blog of Food & Water Watch. You should find that to be very [...]

treehugger

• Spend Even More Time At Work With The Elliptic ...
  Images credit Hammacher Schlemmer Now you don't even have the excuse of getting some exercise or going to the gym as a reason to leave work; expensive tchotchke store Hammacher Schlemmer lets you bring the gym to the office with the Elliptical Machine Office Desk. We are big fans of st ...
• Sales of Home Wind Turbines Strong, Despite Re ...
  The idea of tacking small residential wind turbines to urban dwellings seems to have died down somewhat, not least because there were serious cultural and structural hurdles to home wind power to overcome. But, in rural areas, smaller wind turbines can be an effective and relatively economic ...
• Another Urinal That Feeds Plants With Pee
  Image credit: Aya-Kaya Sustainable Design When I wrote about a public urinal that feeds plants with pee, designer Aya Tager emailed to tell me about her own concept for a similar system that would offer pleasant, odor-free and waterless public urinals that, again, would use urine to water a ...
• Low Carbon Living Experiment Ends. Did The Lin ...
  All images via One Tonne Life on flickr You may remember six months ago we travelled to Sweden to meet the lucky Lindell family who had just moved in a beautiful new home in the suburbs of Stockholm. This wasn't any old designer house though, this was the first protoype of the Brigh...Read ...
• Komodo Dragons in Rare, Extreme Close-up Photo ...
  Photo credit: Will Burrard-Lucas Spread across a few small islands of the Indonesia archipelago is a strange, prehistoric, species of giant lizard. These large dominant predators are captivating because of their size and their aggressiveness. In spite of this infamous reputation, the Komodo ...

Biosingularity

• Mother’s diet during pregnancy alters ba ...
  A mother’s diet during pregnancy can alter the DNA of her child and increase the risk of obesity, according to researchers. The study, to be published in the journal Diabetes, showed that eating low levels of carbohydrate changed bits of DNA. It then showed children with these changes were fatt ...
• Control the cursor with power of thought
  The act of mind reading is something usually reserved for science-fiction movies but researchers in America have used a technique, usually associated with identifying epilepsy, for the first time to show that a computer can listen to our thoughts. In a new study, scientists from Washington Unive ...
• Study shows how inflammation can lead to cancer
  A new study shows how inflammation can help cause cancer. Chronic inflammation due to infection or to conditions such as chronic inflammatory bowel disease is associated with up to 25 percent of all cancers. This study by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Art ...
• Calcium Supplements May Increase Heart Risk
  The calcium supplements that many older women take to boost their bone health may increase their risk for heart disease, a study shows. “Calcium supplements, with or without vitamin D, mostly increase the risk of cardiovascular events, especially [heart attack],” concludes study researcher Ian R ...
• FDA approves Rituxan to treat two rare disorders
  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Rituxan (rituximab), in combination with glucocorticoids (steroids), to treat patients with Wegener’s granulomatosis (WG) and microscopic polyangiitis (MPA), two rare disorders that cause blood vessel inflammation (vasculitis). Vasculitis in p ...

CFACT

• Facts lost in deep dark jungle of rainforest issue
  In an emotionally-charged topic like the rainforest, getting to the truth can prove almost as hard as finding the glittering city of the ancient Golden King
• Are organic foods really better?
  Facts challenge organic's benefits over modern agriculture
• Report on WTO Summit in Cancun - Day 1
• Report on WTO summit in Cancun, Day 2
• Report on WTO summit in Cancun, Day 3

Ria Novosti Online News

• Russian Press - Behind the Headlines, June 29
  Human Rights Council implicates officials in Magnitsky’s death / Information war between Moscow and Minsk heats up / Lack of foreign investment blamed on Russian business /
• Russia, France plan joint holiday resorts in t ...
  Russia and France are set to undertake an ambitious joint project to build resorts in the volatile North Caucasus region, which includes both Chechnya and Dagestan.
• EBRD buys 3 pct Global Ports stake in London IPO
  The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has acquired a 2.98 percent stake in Russia's leading container terminal operator Global Ports for $70 million in an initial public offering held by the company on the London Stock Exchange, the EBRD said on Wednesday.
• Greek parliament adopts unpopular austerity budget
  Greek lawmakers voted in favor of an austerity package on Wednesday as protests against the unpopular policy gain momentum in the country.
• Afghan religious scholars urge Taliban to reno ...
  Religious scholars from across Afghanistan urged the Taliban to stop violence and join the peace process during a session in Kabul, the Pajhwok news agency reported on Wednesday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Radioactive strontium detected on seabed near ...
  Radioactive strontium has been found on the seabed near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, Kyodo reported on Tuesday.
• Progress M-11M space freighter to dock with IS ...
  Russia's Progress M-11M cargo spacecraft will dock with International Space Station (ISS) late on Thursday, a spokesman for the Russian Mission Control said.
• Progress M-11M space freighter to dock with IS ...
  Russia's Progress M-11M cargo spacecraft will dock with International Space Station (ISS) late on Thursday, a spokesman for the Russian Mission Control said.
• Russia may soon start talks on CERN membership
  Talks on Russia's associate membership in the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) could begin in the next few months, Deputy Education and Science Minister Sergei Ivanets said on Wednesday.
• Progress M-11M space freighter launched into orbit
  A Russian cargo spacecraft undocked from a Soyuz-U carrier rocket and was launched into orbit on Tuesday, a spokesman for the Russian Mission Control said.

Pruning Shears

• Weekend wrapup
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Jonathan Schell on the Orwellian evasions of our latest war:Nonetheless, the Obama administration insists it is not a war. Why? Because, ac ...
• Anti-Fracking group meeting in Cleveland Heigh ...
  Sunday, June 263:00 AM - 4:30 PMWhere: 2340 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights 44118Main Branch of Cleveland/University Hts. Library Meeting Room B, first floorThe new Cuyahoga County group, the Burning River Anti-Fracking Network, is meeting this Sunday to work on getting a ban on fracking in Clevelan ...
• Ohio's new budget: Giving to the rich, taking ...
  Ohio’s new budget: Giving to the rich, taking from everyone elseThe GOP leadership in Columbus is about to give residents of the Buckeye state their first look at funding choices under doctrinaire conservative rule. It won’t be a pretty picture.Ohio is currently in the midst of working out its ...
• Weekend wrapup
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. Instead we’re ramping it up.Combat operations have concluded for:Marine Sgt. Mark A. Bradley, 25, of Cuba, NY.Army Pvt. Ryan J. Larson, 1 ...
• 'No On SB 5': Drive-in petition signing in War ...
  9:00 AM - 5:00 PMLebanon: Drive-Thru Petition Signing eventWhere:1975 N State Route 42. Lebanon, OH 45036Warren County Democratic Party Headquarters¼ mi. south of the intersection of Utica Rd. and Rt. 42.6 miles north of the intersection of Rt. 42 and Rt. 48.From local activist athenap:We’re ha ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Agribusiness and Climate Change: How Six Food ...
  Agriculture's critical dependence on fossil fuels and the clearing of forests, grasslands and prairies for farming are the top two factors responsible for today's massive global increases in CO2.Click here to read this article
• Storm Warnings: Extreme Weather Is a Product o ...
  In North Dakota the waters kept rising. Swollen by more than a month of record rains in Saskatchewan, the Souris River topped its all time record high, set back in 1881. Click here to read this article
• Survey Shows Americans Want to See Natural, Or ...
  KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — It seems that some Americans look for such claims as "natural," "organic" and "grown in the USA" on food labels.Click here to read this article
• In Wake of OCA Boycott Silk Soymilk Trying to ...
  The Silk brand, which produces soy, coconut and almond "milks", is adding a new angle to its green marketing that it hopes will help it recuperate from the bad press it received in 2009. Click here to read this article
• Is Your Shampoo Making You Fat?
  For years, the explanation for weight gain was straightforward: it was all about energy balance, or calories-in versus calories-out. This Gluttony and Sloth theory held that obesity simply came from overeating and underexercising, and the only debate was about dieting -- whether it was better to ...

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 [. ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• News release from Ian Wishart: Book will be pu ...
  NEWS RELEASE FROM IAN WISHART Major bookstore chains have today been forced to cancel orders for the explosive new book on the Kahui twins murders, BREAKING SILENCE In response, Author and publisher Ian Wishart has confirmed the book will go...
• News release on Ian Wishart's Kahui case book, ...
  NEWS RELEASE FROM IAN WISHART The Facebook page on Macsyna King is dishonest. They have known all along that Macsyna has neither sought nor been offered any money or compensation for the book Breaking Silence by Ian Wishart. Still, the...
• Sea-level study released - yawn
  Mann, Ramstorf and other 'usual suspects' have released their 'it's worse than we thought' sea level "study". Newspaper paraphrases: Looking back in history, the researchers found that sea level was relatively stable from 100 BC to AD 950. Then, during...
• Where's my global warming dude?
  Temperature trend from HadCRUT for the past decade says it all, really: Hat tip: Steve Goddard
• Prepare for global cooling - it's official
  To coincide with the release of Air Con Climategate Edition on Kindle, there's been a stunning announcement today that we appear to be seeing major changes in the Sun, of a type that heralded the Little Ice Age. The full...

My Care2 Picks

• Kohn Op-Ed in New York Times tells the story b ...
  The article tells the story of Captain John Grannis, and nine other sailors of the Continental Navy. Commodore Esek Hopkins : sailors reported that Hopkins had engaged in misconduct including, the torture of British prisoners of war.Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! ...
• I Had A Dream I Stood Beneath An Orange Sky
  One of the key indicators that I do indeed too often dwell in what William Burroughs identified as �an annex of Hell� is the local radio newsperson. There is nothing too mental to come out of this man�s mouth. Nothing.Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Com ...
• Massaging the Monolith: Confusing Signals from ...
  Oh my gosh! Apparently Iran is not a monolithic monster whose entire energies are united in destroy all that�s good and holy and can be sold at Wal-Mart.Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• SOMETHING BIG IS COMING AND THE ELITE KNOW IT. ...
  Strange things are taking place on a global scale which is leaving us all to ask why. Animal Pandemics, unusual Climate changes (Not the kind the Elite tell us), an increase and intensity of every kind of natural disaster, continental shifts and increasinSubmitted by EarthSpirit A. to World �|� ...
• Why is there only one human species?
  Not so very long ago, we shared this planet with several other species of human, all of them clever, resourceful and excellent hunters, so why did only Homo sapiens survive?Submitted by Katie Miller to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

• Freeport: Workers warn management of strike ac ...
  Freeport: Workers warn management of strike action next week « West Papua Media Alerts: "JUBI, 25 June 2011The local branch of the union of energy and mining workers atFreeport-Indonesia announced on... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Bangkok Post : Suu Kyi says Arab revolts give hope
  Bangkok Post : Suu Kyi says Arab revolts give hope: "The recent uprisings in the Middle East have given fresh hope to people in military-dominated Burma, democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said in a... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Bangkok Post : Suu Kyi says Arab revolts give hope
  Bangkok Post : Suu Kyi says Arab revolts give hope: "The recent uprisings in the Middle East have given fresh hope to people in military-dominated Burma, democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said in a... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Alice Walker Doesn’t Mince Words in Challengin ...
  Alice Walker Doesn’t Mince Words in Challenging Israeli Blockade of Gaza - COLORLINES: "Celebrated poet and novelist Alice Walker is sailing on the Freedom Flotilla II to Gaza, as part of a... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• UN Ratifies Venezuela for Sixth Consecutive Ye ...
  UN Ratifies Venezuela for Sixth Consecutive Year as a Territory Free of Illicit Drug Cultivation | venezuelanalysis.com: "Caracas, 26 Jun. AVN .- The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• The Great Gulf Coast Holocaust Pt 1
  It’s been labeled the worst environmental disaster in world history, and rightfully so, because the British Petroleum (BP) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is like the nightmarish gift that keeps on giving.
• Frankenpot – Marijuana gone GMO!
  Marijuana Growers: Hang onto your pot, here come the genetically modified genes!
• Chinese Toxic Food and Whole Foods Lawsuit – W ...
  So, who do we blame? The USDA's National Organics Program (NOP) for allowing the certification? No. The USDA NOP seems to be getting away scot-free.
• Indoor Gardening with Gladys and Bernie
  Listen to Gladys and Bernie talk about their new project, an indoor garden for year-round fresh veggies.
• African Alliances Challenge Introduction of GM ...
  One liability clause states that ‘a person who imports, arranges transit, makes use of, releases or places on the market a GMO or product of a GMO shall be strictly liable for any harm caused by such a GMO or product of a GMO’ and that ‘the harm shall be compensated’.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - ...
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• Sex, death, and the noble American toad - Scot ...
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• How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and ex ...
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• ‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• NY Times reporter may have to testify against ...
  ShareThisNY Times reporter may have to testify against ex-CIA agent from O'Fallon, MO 29 Jun 2011 In a legal opinion unsealed Tuesday, a federal judge indicated that she might require a New York Times reporter who wrote a book about the CIA to testify at the trial of a former CIA officer from OF ...
• Towns Near N.M. Fire, Nuclear Lab Fear Radioac ...
  ShareThisTowns Near N.M. Fire, Nuclear Lab Fear Radioactive Smoke Plume 29 Jun 2011 Residents downwind of a wildfire that is threatening the nation's premier nuclear-weapons laboratory are worried about the potential of a radioactive smoke plume if the flames reach thousands of barrels of waste ...
• Justices Strike Down Arizona Campaign Finance Law
  ShareThisJustices Strike Down Arizona Campaign Finance Law 28 Jun 2011 In its first campaign-finance decision since its 5-to-4 ruling in the Citizens United case last year, the Supreme Court on Monday struck down an Arizona law that provided escalating matching funds to candidates who accept pub ...
• Los Alamos scurries to protect nuclear lab fro ...
  ShareThisLos Alamos scurries to protect nuclear lab from fire --Nuclear weapons lab closes due to fire danger -- Fire has potential to double or triple in size 28 Jun 2011 New Mexico fire managers scrambled on Tuesday to reinforce crews battling a third day against an out-of-control blaze at the ...
• Summer holiday could tempt terrorists, federal ...
  ShareThisSummer holiday could tempt terrorists, federal officials warn 28 Jun 2011 There is "no specific or credible information" terror groups are planning to attack the United States during the summer holiday season but law enforcement agencies should remain vigilant, the FBI and Department of ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

• Cheering for Mass Murder
  (a quick, unedited message from Kabul) Hotel Under Fire 29 June 2011 Kabul, Afghanistan There is heavy security around Kabul.� A �ring of steel�, as they call it, which is under Afghan authority.� I�ve been driving around Kabul for several weeks and have never seen a foreign guard, and seldom ...
• Message From Secretary Gates
  29 June 2011 The message below is going out this morning to all US military personnel, active and reserve, around the world: TO THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES: TOMORROW, 30 JUNE 2011, I WILL RETIRE AS SECRETARY OF DEFENSE.� IT HAS BEEN THE GREATEST HONOR OF MY LIFE TO SERV ...
• Eight suicide bombers killed by Afghan Nationa ...
  29 June 2011 �زارت ام�رداخ�� جم��ر� اس�ام� ا�غا�ستا� دا�غا�ستا� داس�ام� جم��ر�ت دک�ر��� �ار� �زارت Ministry of Interior of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan ر�است عم�م� د�تر د رس��� ا� عام� ا��ک� ر�است ر�است مطب�عات � ر�ابط عام� � Directorate of media and public relation Statement Date: 29/Jun ...
• AFP Interview with Secretary of Defense Robert ...
  Portion on Afghanistan Date:� Thursday, June 23, 2011 ------------------------- Q:� OK, so, if you don't mind, we'd like to start on Afghanistan.� And we'd like you, if you can, to describe your role in the decision and if you find yourself in the position to argue against a bigger drawdown, ...
• Afghanistan is making undeniable progress, but ...
  19 June 2011 KABUL, AFGHANISTAN It's time to make big decisions. These decisions will have a huge impact on the future of Afghanistan. The biggest question at hand: How many troops will we keep here and for how long? The answer to that question must not be dreamed up in political strategy sess ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

• Spend Even More Time At Work With The Elliptic ...
  Images credit Hammacher Schlemmer Now you don't even have the excuse of getting some exercise or going to the gym as a reason to leave work; expensive tchotchke store Hammacher Schlemmer lets you bring the gym to the office with the Elliptical Machine Office Desk. We are big fans of st ...
• Sales of Home Wind Turbines Strong, Despite Re ...
  The idea of tacking small residential wind turbines to urban dwellings seems to have died down somewhat, not least because there were serious cultural and structural hurdles to home wind power to overcome. But, in rural areas, smaller wind turbines can be an effective and relatively economic ...
• Another Urinal That Feeds Plants With Pee
  Image credit: Aya-Kaya Sustainable Design When I wrote about a public urinal that feeds plants with pee, designer Aya Tager emailed to tell me about her own concept for a similar system that would offer pleasant, odor-free and waterless public urinals that, again, would use urine to water a ...
• Low Carbon Living Experiment Ends. Did The Lin ...
  All images via One Tonne Life on flickr You may remember six months ago we travelled to Sweden to meet the lucky Lindell family who had just moved in a beautiful new home in the suburbs of Stockholm. This wasn't any old designer house though, this was the first protoype of the Brigh...Read ...
• Komodo Dragons in Rare, Extreme Close-up Photo ...
  Photo credit: Will Burrard-Lucas Spread across a few small islands of the Indonesia archipelago is a strange, prehistoric, species of giant lizard. These large dominant predators are captivating because of their size and their aggressiveness. In spite of this infamous reputation, the Komodo ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Work resumes on China-backed pipelines
  China pushes ahead with construction of oil and gas project despite ongoing fighting and displacement in northern Burma
• Suu Kyi warned against political activity
  State media tells National League for Democracy leaders that they are breaking the law by continuing their political organising
• Two arrested for Mandalay bombing
  Two Kachin men reportedly being questioned after police discover a mobile phone close to the site of the Mandalay bomb attack
• US told to cast Burma sanctions net wider
  Campaigners urge Washington to target with punitive financial measures all businessmen in Burma who prop up the government
• Trains carry weaponry into Kachin capital
  Freight train brings crates of heavy ammunition and small arms into Myitkyina days before second train arrives loaded with troops

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Warming oceans cause largest movement of marin ...
  Swarms of venomous jelly fish and poisonous algae are migrating into British waters due to changes in the ocean temperatures, a major new study has revealed.
• Duck-billed platypus at risk from climate change
  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.
• Outrage as Lord Monckton calls Australian clim ...
  Lord Monckton, the outspoken British politician, has prompted outrage in Australia after labelling the government's chief climate change adviser a fascist, likening him to Hitler
• Outrage as Lord Monckton calls Australian clim ...
  Lord Monckton, the outspoken British politician, has prompted outrage in Australia after labelling the government's chief climate change adviser a fascist, likening him to Hitler
• Ban Ki-moon elected for second term as UN leader
  The 192-nation UN General Assembly on Tuesday elected Ban Ki-moon for a second term as the global body's secretary general.

National Geographic | Environment

• Pictures: Six New Natural Landmarks Named
  NoneDinosaur footprints and a "hanging lake" are now preserved as part of six new U.S. National Natural Landmarks.
• Hold the Champagne: Highway to Split Serengeti ...
  Were the hopeful headlines—"Serengeti Highway Canned: Victory for Animals!"—premature? Wildlife is still at risk, some experts say.
• Pictures: "Pancake" Sea Slug Among New Philipp ...
  NoneAn "inflatable" shark and colorful sea slugs join hundreds of new species hauled up during a recent expedition to the Philippines.
• Hybrid Cuban-American Crocodiles on the Rise
  There's a new Cuban crisis—the island country's rare crocodile is being bred out of existence by its American cousin, a new study says.
• How Gulf Spill Estimates Got It So Wrong
  How much oil spilled into the Gulf last year? An engineer explains how he caused estimates to rise sharply practically overnight. Video.

Jurist - Legal Research

• ICC prosecutor urges Gaddafi aides to implemen ...
  [JURIST] International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo [official profile] on Tuesday urged [press release] personal aides of Libyan leader Mummar Gaddafi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] to implement the arrest warrants issued Monday [JURIST report]. ...
• North Carolina governor vetoes abortion waitin ...
  [JURIST] North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue [official website] vetoed [press release] legislation [HB 854 materials] Monday that would have required a 24-hour waiting period before an abortion [JURIST news archive]. The "Woman's Right to Know Act" would also have required women seeking an ab ...
• Texas legislature passes TSA anti-groping law
  [JURIST] The Texas legislature on Monday passed a pair of bills that criminalize enhanced airport security pat-downs if they involve touching a passenger's "private" areas. The Texas House of Representatives [official website] passed HB 41 [materials] while the Senate [official website] simultan ...
• Supreme Court to hear another Confrontation Cl ...
  [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] granted certiorari in two additional cases Tuesday including a case similar to one decided last week involving whether the Confrontation Clause [Cornell LII backgrounder] case blocks the admissibility of lab test data when the ...
• Convicted ex-Blackwater contractor sentenced t ...
  [JURIST] A former contractor for Blackwater [JURIST news archive], now known as Xe Services [corporate website], was sentenced [press release] Monday to two-and-a-half years in prison for the 2009 shooting of an unarmed Afghan civilian in Kabul. Justin Cannon was convicted in the US District Cou ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• How Long Before Obama Supports Gay Marriage?
  He supports states' rights for now, but the president seems to be inching his way toward supporting marriage equality outright "I'm not going to make news on that today," President Obama said when asked if he personally supports gay marriage at Wednesday's press conference. But the presid ...
• Rep. Todd Akin (Sort of) Apologizes for Saying ...
  Todd Akin (R), the six-term Missouri congressman who is running for Senate in 2012, has apologized for accusing liberals of hating God. After NBC redacted "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance, as recited by children, during its U.S. Open golf coverage on June 19, Family Researc ...
• How the Vietnam Draft Helped Elect President Obama
  A new study finds that men who faced the prospect of fighting in the war were more likely to vote for Democrats even decades later During the Vietnam era, "men of eligible age were randomly assigned draft numbers based on their birthday," Professors Robert Erikson and Laura Stoker recount in ...
• Tim Pawlenty's Foreign-Policy Speech Refutes I ...
  Its core flaw: a belief that America has been wrong in the past, is wrong in the present, and alone knows what's best for the future In Tim Pawlenty's speech before the Council on Foreign Relations, the former Minnesota governor criticized America's decades old policy of cozying up to dictato ...
• Senate Panel Backs Mission in Libya Despite It ...
  The vote came after the State Department's top lawyer testified that the president is following the law Days after the House rejected a measure to approve the war in Libya, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee decided Tuesday that the American effort there warrants its conditional cooperati ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] WikiLeaks on Canada in Iraq War - coat
• [COAT] CANSEC Arms Bazaar Protest, June 1, Ott ...
• [COAT] Put a SNAG in CANSEC: Spring Nuremberg ...
• [COAT] WikiWeapons Cda Exposes 18,888 Export C ...
• [COAT] Latest on Cda's Arms Exports & CANSEC r ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

• US and Vietnam sign nuclear energy agreement | ...
• SKorea on alert after ship hit by mysterious b ...
• Obama administration may send U.S.-Russia arms ...
• Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the nation's en ...
• More tritium found at Vt. Yankee, NRC plans cl ...

Tikun Olam

• Brits, Bibi’s Poodles, Arrest Sheikh Salah Pre ...
  The Tory British government, ever Bibi’s loyal poodle, has arrested Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the Islamic Movement (Northern Branch) the day before he was to address the UK parliament at the invitation of an MK.  Doing Bibi’s bidding seems to be a trademark of the current government, which als ...
• Further Adventures of Omer Gershon and the Flo ...
  I usually don’t go slumming through the darker passages of the demimonde, as I’ve passed what Shakespeare called my “salad days.”  But Omer Gershon, you forced me to.  I swear this guy is amazing.  He’s been called an actor and a marketer, which gives him far too much credit.  What he really ...
• Israeli Government Hand in Hoax Anti-Flotilla ...
  It’s beginning to appear that virtually every statement, every tweet, every Facebook Wall posting from the Israeli government about the Flotilla is either steeped in fraud or simply wrong.  Earlier today, I posted about what Dena Shunra has aptly called an IDF blood libel against the Flotilla a ...
• Israel’s Anti-Flotilla Jihad: Haaretz Spews ID ...
  Barak Ravid, ever the trusty stenographer for the IDF and other government sources, continues his tradition of poodle journalism by reporting today’s lies the IDF is spewing about the Gaza flotilla.  Here’s the latest: Senior officials in Jerusalem said Monday that Israel has received informati ...
• Far-Right Israeli NGO Brags It Induced Greece ...
  Israel’s Galey Tzahal reports that the lawfare-oriented far-right NGO, Shurat Ha-Din, has taken credit for the “citizen’s complaint” to the Greek authorities claiming the Audacity of Hope is not seaworthy.  The complaint, totally bogus in nature, has frozen the plans of the U.S. boat to join th ...

Ode Magazine

• How language connects and resolves conflict
  By: JohnKinyon Dear Ode readers, I want to share with you a language of connection for resolving conflicts. I have found it leads to clarity, ease and effectiveness, in work and personal life. It is not a foreign language, but a human language. It helps u ...
• Radiant health and peace in São Paulo, Brazil
  By: PeaceCorso Ernest Holmes, the founder of Religious Science, wrote in his seminal book, The Science of Mind, "If we wish to come to the Spirit for the healing of our wounds, let us come in peace and with spontaneous joy, for the Spirit is joy." It is wi ...
• How loss relates to success and happiness
  By: Charlie_Badenhop I was sitting around having dinner with a few friends, about a month after the big earthquake and tsunami up north of Tokyo. "Now is the time for the Japanese people to show their true spirit," Suzuki-san said. "You never really know t ...
• Creating work that feeds the planet
  By: greentarra "Our calling is where our deepest gladness and the world’s hunger meet." Frederick Buechner, theologian Do you feel a calling to create meaningful work that feeds your soul and the planet? There is no greater legacy than sharing your unique ...
• Choosing happiness over unhappiness
  By: ruchiraa The other day I came across the quotation, "Happiness is a state of mind." Though I agree, I think it is a state of mind that needs to be fed and nurtured regularly. After all, we are human beings and thus have feelings that tend to fluctuate. Some ...

OpEd News

• If Brazil Has to Guard Its Rainforest, Why Doe ...
  Exploiting the tar sands is a crime, pure and simple -- and, given the stakes, it is one of the most staggering the world has ever seen.
• U.S. Must End Wars Fought For Corporate Interests
  It's no accident that U.S. interventions overseas open up business opportunities for U.S. multinationals.
• Health & Food Cutbacks For the Poor to Continu ...
  The $17 billion appropriations bill for the Department of Agriculture includes major cuts in nutrition programs like food stamps and WIC, a program that provides food commodities for pregnant and nursing women and their children--cuts that wd cause 1 million recipients of emergency food to go hu ...
• This Boomer Turns Sixty. Advice?
  Back when I was a kid, reading DC and Marvel comics every day, I was sure that by now I'd have made a trip to the moon and maybe mars and surely would have had sex in zero gravity. Geez, there's still no account of a single sexual act in zero gravity. But I digress
• Fukushima Spews, Los Alamos Burns, Vermont Rag ...
  Humankind is now threatened by the simultaneous implosion, explosion, incineration, courtroom contempt and drowning of its most lethal industry. We know only two things for certain: worse is yet to come, and those in charge are lying about it---at least to the extent of what they actually ...

Switchboard

• New EPA E15 label won't keep higher ethanol bl ...
  Sasha Lyutse, Policy Analyst, New York Today, the Environmental Protection Agency issued labeling requirements for fuel pumps dispensing E15—a blend of gasoline that contains up to 15% ethanol. This announcement follows up on EPA’s expansion earli ...
• "Extreme Weather Is a Product of Climate Change"
  Theo Spencer, Senior Advocate, Climate Center, New York Sound preposterous? At least an over-statement? Well that's the headline of the first part of a series published today in Scientific American. The full title: "Storm Warnings: Extreme Weathe ...
• Legislative Watch June 29, 2011
  Legislative Watch, The Bulletin on Environmental Legislation from NRDC June was a busy month for environmental issues in Congress, with July looking to be even busier as more spending bills are taken up by the House. The House continued to pres ...
• California is One Big Step Closer to Protectin ...
  Leila Monroe, Staff Attorney, Oceans Program, San Francisco This afternoon, California came one important step closer to banning the sale, trade and distribution of shark fins.   Assembly Bill 376 passed out of the Senate Natural Resources & Water ...
• Greening of the Prairie; Not Your Father's Kan ...
  Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC In the breadbasket of Kansas, where rusty, rotating oil wells pump silently in fields of wheat, corn and alfalfa, a clean energy revolution has taken root. Deep in the Bible Belt, it’s an unl ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• A Point That Cannot Be Made Often Enough
  Ezra: Let’s agree that what matters isn’t how many jobs you “get caught trying” to create, but how many jobs you actually create. There’s virtually no evidence that if Obama makes more speeches on jobs, his poll numbers will go up or the labor market will improve. There’s lots of evidence that i ...
• Prompt Global Strike and Executive Power
  My column this week is on the technological implications of the Obama administration’s excuse for avoiding the WPR: In the future, however, presidents may resort to airpower in order to avoid congressional limitations on their executive power. A longer-range concern is that as the United States ...
• Wingnutia and History
  First, she confused her John Waynes, and now her John Adamses.   Shorter Michele Bachmann: I don’t care if John Quincy Adams was only nine, he was a founding father dammit, and my minions will edit his wikipedia page to prove it. I hope she never goes away.
• Random Soccer Notes: 2011 World Cup, US Open C ...
  USA 2-0 North Korea. I watched the first half on line, then the ESPN page crapped out on me.  The US did not look great in the first half, but according to what I’ve read, they settled down in the second and took control of the match.  The Koreans have a ready excuse of course; [...]
• Barcelona
  Off to Barcelona for a week. Blogging could be reasonably light, though I have some prepared posts to drop on you (including several Most Prominent Politicians posts). If anyone has recommendations on excellent things to do in Barcelona, particularly places to eat, hear music, drink, markets to ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• Port of Portland HQ A Very Green Building
  In keeping with the ultra-green regional focus, the Port of Portland's new headquarters treats all wastewater on-site and uses it for heating and cooling.
• New Net Zero Home Pops Up In Maryland
  A collaboration between public and private entities in Fredericksburg has resulted in a new net zero home at Northpointe, a geothermal/solar development.
• Solar Lantern Idea Could Bring Green Jobs
  A new solar lantern concept design from Kasra Sadeghian makes use of thin film solar and an aluminum chassis to provide a LED light after dark.
• Solar Powered Netbook Coming From Samsung
  Samsung has announced a solar-powered netbook that is reported to offer an ultra-bright, antiglare display and extended operating times for around $400.
• A Fuel-Electric Hybrid Air Car Shall Fly
  Those behind the design of the SoloTrek XFV, a single person VTOL aircraft, are now ramping up to build a fuel-electric hybrid air car.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Big deals are par for the course for this golf ...
  Randy Addison, a partner at Addison Law in Dallas, talks to NLJ about the sale in of the Desert Mountain Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz., and how it exemplified a trend toward members buying their clubs.
• Reformer dean to step down after long tenure a ...
  Longtime New York Law School Dean and President Richard Matasar will step down during the coming academic year, he informed the faculty on June 28.
• A patent defense win for Vistaprint in plainti ...
  Despite failing to get its patent infringement case moved from the plaintiff-friendly Eastern District of Texas and a court order applying a rare infringement theory, Vistaprint's defense team scored a defense victory in the district.
• Are some firms too big to blog?
  The number of Am Law 100 firms that are blogging has more than doubled in less than a year. But why are some of the biggest firms opting out?
• Dean stepping down after eight years at Vermon ...
  Vermont Law School President and Dean Jeff Shields has announced that he will retire at the end of the coming academic year. Shields has been dean since 2004.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• Deiss Urges States to Strengthen UN Role in Gl ...
  On global economic governance, he said the international community needed to go beyond crisis management and instead formulate and implement longer-term strategies for balanced and durable global economic growth.
• Hindus Celebrate Ratha Jatra Festival
  Zed urged all Hindus to focus on the 'welfare of others' and 'act selflessly' as pointed out by Lord Krishna in Bhagavad-Gita.
• EPA Issues E15 Pump Labeling Requirements
  Over the past year, EPA issued two partial waivers under the Clean Air Act that in sum allow E15 to be sold for use in model year 2001 and newer cars and light trucks.
• US Strengthens Egyptian Private Sector on Seve ...
  Mr. Fernandez said Egypt has the challenge to undertake reforms to shed the legacies of the past that have stunted private sector growth - including making it easier to start a business, to invest, to settle disputes, and even to just be an employee
• 'Atlantis' Poised For Final Space Shuttle Mission
  The launch date was announced Tuesday at the conclusion of a flight readiness review at Kennedy. During the meeting, senior NASA and contractor managers assessed the risks associated with the mission and determined the shuttle and station's equipme

environment 360

• Major Fuel Economy Boost Envisioned by Obama A ...
  The Obama administration is considering a new fuel economy standard that would require cars and light trucks to achieve an average of 56.2 miles per gallon by 2025, an ambitious target that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions but drive up the cost of automobiles. While still a starting point i ...
• Tasmanian Devil Epidemic Linked to Human Distu ...
  A mysterious cancer epidemic that is wiping out populations of the Tasmanian devil is largely the result of low genetic diversity caused by human interference, according to a new study. Using genetic sequencing, View photos DPIW/TasmaniaTasmanian devils’ facial tumor epidemic researchers determ ...
• Serengeti Highway Plan Scrapped Over Potential ...
  The Tanzanian government has scrapped plans to build a two-lane highway across the northern edge of Serengeti National Park, after scientists warned the plan ShutterstockZebra and wildebeest in Serengeti could disrupt the migration routes for some of the park’s critical species, including zebr ...
• Underwater Microphone Innovation Inspired By t ...
  Stanford University researchers say they have developed an underwater microphone, using technology inspired in part by the ears of an orca whale, that is capable of capturing sound frequencies across a span of 17 octaves even at high-pressure depths. While existing underwater microphones typical ...
• Marine Life Census Reveals Serengeti-Like Corr ...
  A decade-long census of marine life in the North Pacific Ocean has documented how abundant seasonal food supplies attract an array of predators annually to two major oceanic corridors, which researchers liken to Click to enlarge Craig Hayslip/OSU Marine Mammal InstituteA blue whale encountered ...

Red Ice Creations

• Mirage "City" Mysteriously Appears in China - ...
  ITN, a broadcast network in Britain, posted video last week of a stunning mirage in East China that features a city skyline, replete with what appear to be buildings and trees.Video-curation site Devour.com writes the mirage appeared over the Xin'an River in East China. ITN is the only news netw ...
• Psychopaths Run The World
  Although Sigmund Freud introduced the world to the word psychopath in his book Psychopathology of Everyday Life, published in 1901, it wouldn't be until forty years later that a true definition of psychopathology was developed to include the personality type of psychopath: a scientific understan ...
• Humans May Have ’Magnetic’ Sixth Sense
  Humans may have a sixth sense after all, suggests a new study finding that a protein in the human retina, when placed into fruit flies, has the ability to detect magnetic fields. The researchers caution that the results suggest this human protein has the capability to work as a magnetosensor; ho ...
• Second HongKong child dies of mutated scarlet ...
  A mutated strain of scarlet fever more resistant to antibiotics has killed a second child in Hong Kong, the first deaths from the illness in the southern Chinese city in at least a decade. Certain characteristics of the new strain likely make it more contagious, and it may be responsible for an ...
• Magnitude-6.7 quake hits Japan (June 23, 2011)
  A magnitude-6.7 earthquake rattled northeast Japan on Thursday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. It was the same area of the Pacific where a massive magnitude 9 quake hit on March 11, triggering a deadly tsunami. At least 23,000 people were killed or left missing in those disasters, ...

Russia Today

• Greek crisis is Greece’s responsibility – lawyer
  A Berlin-based lawyer and professor, Markus Kerber, explains that the European Union should not have provided Greece with any credits or bailouts in the first place, saying that such steps have no legal grounds.
• “IMF under Lagarde will not tackle global econ ...
  Christine Lagarde’s appointment as the head of the IMF comes amid growing problems in the European economy. Journalist Daniel Ben-Ami says after her appointment the IMF will not start tackling the fundamental problems...
• France admits arming Libyan rebels
  France has become the first country to openly admit it has supplied the Libyan rebels with weapons – a measure officially banned by the UN Security Council resolutions 1970 and 1973.
• Senate gives blessing to Obama for military in ...
  In Washington, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has finally authorized American involvement in the military mission – something President Obama was strongly pushing for.
• Hitting high note in zero gravity
  The crew that returned from the International Space Station last month have been holding their traditional meeting at Russia's Star City outside Moscow.

Tippers News

• Three men helped starve kids, court tol
  Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
  The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
  DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
  Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (:Submitted by Evelyn J. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
  Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �N ...

The Freeman

• Cheering on My Rival
  In the free market, where peaceful social interactions have replaced government interventions, even our rival is our ally.
• Hands Off Video Games, Supreme Court Says
  “Video games deserve the same constitutional protections as books and movies, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in striking down as unconstitutional Californiaâs attempt to ban the sale of violent games to minors.” (Washington Post) A matter for families. FEE Timely Classic “Self-Government and the ...
• Consumer Spending Weakens as Incomes Stagnate
  “Americans in May spent at the weakest pace in 20 months, a sign that gas prices are taking a toll on the economy, according to a government report released on Mondayâ¦. Incomes rose 0.3 percent for the second consecutive month. But adjusted for inflation, after-tax incomes increased only 0.1 pe ...
• The Virtue of Market Inefficiency
  A living economy needs to create inefficiencies, and lots of them, to set the stage for greater efficiency and ongoing innovation.
• Gasoline Prices Drop
  “Gasoline prices are falling fast. In the past 7 weeks, the average U.S. retail prices has dropped 38 cents to $3.60 per gallon. Another 25-cent drop is expected by mid-July.” (Christian Science Monitor) Behind the headlines: Oil companies become less greedy. FEE Timely Classic “How Not to Respo ...

Teaching Online Journalism

• Journalists, take another look at Tumblr
  For a long time I had trouble appreciating Tumblr, but I think I finally understand its strengths — and I must not be the only one. Tumblr is now one of the top 25 websites in the U.S., according to data from Quancast, as reported in a new article at TechCrunch. It gets close to 5,000 pagevie ...
• Branding: Should journalists build a personal ...
  If you’re teaching journalism today, you must be aware of the discussion that surrounds branding. If you’re a young journalist, or someone planning to enter the field of journalism, you need to understand what personal branding means. On June 23, Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten wrote ...
• Journalists: How to get started with Twitter
  If you haven’t yet found any value in using Twitter, here’s what you should consider. On the topic of WHY to get started, John Robinson (the editor of the News & Record, in Greensboro, North Carolina) wrote a very good piece for ASNE this week. If youâre not on Twitter, youâre making your job ...
• Tune up your skills this summer
  Looking over my Google Analytics data today, I found that these are some of the most-visited pages on this blog: How to shoot video interviews Why does anyone major in journalism? A few words about digital audio recorders Recording phone calls: For reporters Now printable! Reporterâs Guid ...
• Using WordPress in reporting classes
  Journalism educators who teach reporting or writing classes often come to the conclusion that it would be nice to put their students’ work online so that everyone in the class can see one another’s work — and possibly even comment on the stories written by others. This is a great idea, and I th ...

Facing South

• List of state immigration laws blocked in fede ...
  By Marian Wang, ProPublica Last week, we noted that several states' tough, new immigration laws have been challenged in court. Arizona and Utah both recently had key parts of their laws blocked by federal judges. Now, add Georgia and Indiana to the list.� On Monday, a federal judge in Georgia ...
• Another legal action targets scofflaw Kentucky ...
  A coalition of environmental watchdog groups has put two Kentucky coal companies on notice -- for the second time in less than a year -- that they could face lawsuits over their failure to comply with clean water laws. Appalachian Voices, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, Kentucky Riv ...
• VOICES: E-verify, another name for profiling
  By Shelly Ruzicka and Jacob Lesniewski, Labor Notes The need for comprehensive immigration reform has become even more pressing as immigrants face a hodgepodge of state and local legislative efforts and federal enforcement programs that vary from county to county. Yet instead of lead ...
• Court orders Louisiana to take action on radia ...
  In a major victory for environmental advocates, the Louisiana State Court of Appeals has ordered state regulators to begin monitoring pollution in wastewater discharged from oil and gas production activities into the Gulf of Mexico. Since 2002, oil and gas rigs operating in Louisiana ...
• Did New Orleans media contribute to police vio ...
  By Jordan Flaherty, Truthout Jury selection began June 22 in what observers have called the most important trial New Orleans has seen in a generation. It concerns a shocking case of police brutality that has already redefined this city's relationship to its police department, and ...

Worldpress - Africa

• Nigeria: Ten Unavoidable Issues
  Over the next four years, Nigeria's leaders have an opportunity to address a host of issues that have plagued the country both domestically and in terms of foreign policy.
• Political Expediency May Forfeit Reform in Somalia
  The Kampala Accord aims to end Somalia's transitional government, removing its prime minister in the process. Is this the best thing for the people?
• Living in Chains: Sierra Leone's Mentally Ill
• Piracy and Pigeonholed Security in Somalia
  Somali pirates are a menace to local waters as well as international security. Outside assistance should be provided to bolster the country's coast guard.
• Piracy and Pigeonholed Security in Somalia
  Somali pirates are a menace to local waters as well as international security. Outside assistance should be provided to bolster the country's coast guard.

Telegraph UK - oil

• Hope for motorists as oil price tumbles
  Drivers can finally expect some relief at the petrol pump, after the price of oil dropped sharply.
• Oil refinery blast: Chevron site has excellent ...
  The safety record at the Chevron oil refinery in Pembroke has been praised following the fire and explosion which killed four contractors.
• Petrol retailers told to help motorists as oil ...
  Petrol retailers are under pressure to cut the cost of motoring after oil prices plummeted on the world market.
• Chris Huhne needs a lesson in economics
  Plundering the profits from North Sea oil will only hold back Britain's recovery, argues Jeremy Warner.
• The Gulf of Mexico is not as clean as they say
  Assessing the true toll of the Deepwater Horizon blow-out is only starting, says Geoffrey Lean.

Ian Welsh

• One more note on the New York Gay Marriage, Cu ...
  1) The left sells each other out for either small tactical gains, or nothing at all (hello national NARAL) all the time, so why shouldn’t the gays promise to help Cuomo in his next election for giving them gay marriage, even if it screws unions and helps an austerity governor? 2) The reason gays ...
• Basics: anyone who will sell you out is not on ...
  Look, if a special interest that is nominally on the left is willing to sell out other parts of the left in order to get its little item, they are not on your side.  Period.  End of sentence.  An alliance, coalition or ideological movement’s first and most important rule is solidarity: NEVER ...
• Less Cuomo Fellation please
  Como’s still busy destroying unions and crushing standards of living in New York. I’m so pro-gay marriage I once didn’t talk to my father for 6 months because of an argument over it, but it is not the only issue, and it does not make Cuomo a good governor any more than any other single [...]
• The Psychiatric Drug Industry
  The New York Review of Books looks into the question of why there is an epidemic of mental illness, and if the drugs used to treat problems like depression actually work. Short answer, no, the evidence for the drugs working is exceptionally weak. Longer answer, the drugs mess with the patient’s ...
• The Psychiatric Drug Industry
  The New York Review of Books looks into the question of why there is an epidemic of mental illness, and if the drugs used to treat problems like depression actually work. Short answer, no, the evidence for the drugs working is exceptionally weak. Longer answer, the drugs mess with the patient’s ...

Media Consortium

• Top 6 Mistakes to Avoid in Mobile Usability | ...
  Mobile applications are important for providing users with an alternate means of accessing your web page, as well as keeping connected anywhere and at any time. The programs are an integral part of staying competitive within your market, so they should be created wisely.
• 1.4 million fans can’t be wrong: NPR’s Faceboo ...
  But Carvin also emphasized the importance of audience expectations. “They still see our site as mainly dedicated to consuming news,” he said. Facebook, on the other hand, is a web venue in which people are used to chatting with their family and friends. ..NPR’s Facebook page is a complement to, ...
• The Newsonomics of 2011 news metrics to watch ...
• Gallery: 15 iPad news apps
  Thinking about creating an iPad app for your newsroom? Want to see what other news media have come up with? Below are screengrabs of several news apps from newspapers, magazines radio, television, and online-only news websites.
• Five Months on Tumblr as Seen Through Pummelvi ...

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• It’s impact factor time!
  Once a year, information company Thomson Reuters publishes updates to a measure of popularity that every science journal displays in lights: its ‘impact factor’. This event, which happened again yesterday, always produces a slightly embarrassed buzz among science journal editors. They appreciat ...
• Authors of pulled meditation study issue "clar ...
  On 27 June, the journal Archives of Internal Medicine pulled a paper on transcendental meditation and heart attack twelve minutes before it had been scheduled to be published. Today, the first author of the paper, Robert Schneider of the Maharishi University of Management, issued the followi ...
• Spine Journal takes on Medtronic over controve ...
  Whether it’s the New Yorker’s summer fiction issue or Nature's African science special (to be published later today), everyone loves a themed issue of their favourite periodical. Unless, that is, you work or consult for the Minneapolis, Minnesota-based medical device company Medtronic and your f ...
• Pioneering chemist’s lab kit unearthed
  Excavations at one of Edinburgh’s historic buildings have unearthed the laboratory equipment of a leading light of 18th century chemistry. The vintage chemistry set – some items of which still contain chemicals – were found at a dig on the quadrangle of the University of Edinburgh’s Old Colle ...
• FDA hearing on Avastin draws protestors
  Scores of protestors, many of them women with breast cancer, demonstrated outside a pivotal meeting at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) earlier today. They were demanding that the US drug regulator reverse a December decision to withdraw its approval for the use of Genentech's Ava ...

new geography

• Will J.R. Recognize the New Dallas?
  In the sixties and seventies, Dallas’s prime tourist attraction was an assassination site. The town seriously needed a new image. It got one in a soap opera that revealed a city besieged by blonds, big  hair and big homes. “Dallas,” which premiered in 1978, did for Big D what “Sex in the Cit ...
• Can Florida Escape the Horse Latitudes?
  When it comes to the winds of change, Florida remains in the horse latitudes.  This zone of the Atlantic around 30 degrees latitude was so named by ship captains because their ships, becalmed in the water, seemed to move faster when they lightened their load by throwing off a few horses.  F ...
• The New State of Coastal California?
  In 2009, former California legislator Bill Maze proposed dividing his state, hiving off thirteen counties as Coastal (or Western) California (see map). Maze, a conservative from the agricultural Central Valley, objects to the domination of state politics by the left-leaning Los Angeles a ...
• Growing a Productive Urban Economy
  Suggestions that we can grow the Aukland, NZ economy by encouraging business into the central business district (CBD) in the interests of innovation do not reflect the weight of experience.  Sure, higher order professions have tended to concentrate there, and become relatively more importan ...
• What To Look For In The Next President
  As the 2012 election approaches America is in a state of malaise. Massive debt, unfettered spending, economic decline and partisan divide have served to undermine the great American narrative that is predicated on optimism and a “can do” attitude. As I assess the candidates for President, I ...

GM Watch

• ISAAA and ICRISAT train Asia's media
• No-one is buying GM canola in Western Australia
• Scientists reject human trials of GM wheat
• Roundup: Birth defects caused by world's top-s ...
• Roundup: Birth defects caused by world's top-s ...

spiked

• The death of the Tory Party is announced at Glasto
  Forget the conspiracy theories – the story should be the obituary for Conservatism Cameron’s ally wrote before he died in the Glastonbury toilets.
• How to prolong a conflict ICC-style
  The ICC warrant for Gaddafi may make Western powers feel good, but it will make things a whole lot worse in Libya.
• Free speech vs privacy? There’s only one ...
  Recent coverage of celebrities’ sexual antics has been puerile, but it should not be judges who decide what we read.
• Mission accomplished? What mission, exactly?
  It’s fitting that the aimless, pointless Afghan War is being wound down according to a timetable drawn up in a White House backroom.
• An eight-year-old cannot commit rape
  The Daily Mail report on the rise of ‘child criminals’ actually reveals that British adults have lost the plot.

Cryptogon

• Flood Berm Collapses at Nebraska Nuclear Plant
  Via: AP: A berm holding the flooded Missouri River back from a Nebraska nuclear power station collapsed early Sunday, but federal regulators said they were monitoring the situation and there was no danger. The Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station shut down in early April for refueling, and there is no w ...
• Greece: ‘A Sovereign Debt Crisis of Soph ...
  Via: Telegraph: The essence of ancient Greek tragedy is that the audience knows it will end in disaster, but feels compelled to watch the horror unfold. And so it is with the modern version, a sovereign debt crisis of Sophoclean dimensions. Themes of the great dramatist’s finer works are all the ...
• Threat of $100 Billion Hit if U.S. Top Rating Lost
  I definitely wouldn’t assume that the impact of a credit rating cut would be limited to $100 billion. I doubt there is any way to know what the impact will be because so many derivatives have been struck off the underlying debt. In other words, this $100 billion number may be just the tip of [...]
• Fukushima Residents’ Urine Now Radioactive
  Via: Japan Times: More than 3 millisieverts of radiation has been measured in the urine of 15 Fukushima residents of the village of Iitate and the town of Kawamata, confirming internal radiation exposure, it was learned Sunday. Both are about 30 to 40 km from the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, whi ...
• Friend of British Prime Minister Found Dead in ...
  Via: Belfast Telegraph: Detectives are hoping toxicology results will shed light on the death riddle of a senior Tory in a Glastonbury Festival VIP toilet. Christopher Shale, 56, a close friend of David Cameron, was discovered slumped in a cubicle in the backstage area on Sunday morning. The Pri ...

The Economic Collapse

• 50 U.S. Health Care Statistics That Will Absol ...
  The U.S. health care system has become one gigantic money making scam, and you are about to see the statistics that prove it.  Today, the United States spends more on health care per person than any other country in the world by far.  The health insurance companies and the big p ...
• Economic Recovery?
  If this is supposed to be an "economic recovery" it sure is pathetic.  In fact, as you will read below, the numbers tell us that this is the worst economic recovery that the American economy has ever seen.  If what we had experienced was a "normal" recession and a "normal" recov ...
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Prepper Dad? Even Robert K ...
  Are you familiar with Robert Kiyosaki? He is best known for the "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" series of books.  Over 26 million books authored by Kiyosaki have been sold and he is recognized as a financial expert by millions of people across the globe.  Well, guess what?  Even Robert Ki ...
• The State Of The Economy
  The U.S. economy is like a rubber band that is being pulled in several different directions at the same time.  Everyone knows that at some point it is going to snap, but nobody is quite sure exactly when it is going to happen.  Right now, the state of the economy is not good, an ...
• Why Are Food Prices Rising So Fast?
  If you do much grocery shopping, you have probably noticed that the cost of food has been rising at a very brisk pace over the past year.  So why are food prices rising so fast?  According to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, inflation is still very low and the economy is i ...

Desertification

• China’s success and failure in stopping desert ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6555524,00.html Approximately 2.6 million square meters of land in China consist of only sand or rock desert. That is an area about seven times the size of Germany. Efforts to stop the sand … Continue reading →
• Energy, Water and Food Nexus (Google / Zawya)
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20110628041255 Qatar: Conference discusses ways to improve global food security By RAYNALD C RIVERA DOHA: Diversifying the economy, substantial investment in education and technology, and integrated policies are some ...
• Nigeria : how fertilizer could come to the res ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.businessdayonline.com/NG/index.php/analysis/commentary/23746-africa-fertilizer-summit-five-years-after Africa fertilizer summit: Five years after Martins Diala More than 80 percent of Nigeria’s 150 million population  face the challenge of fee ...
• A serious desertification problem in Egypt (Go ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://213.158.162.45/~egyptian/index.php?action=news&id=19511&title=Editorial:%20Alarming%20land%20losses Alarming land losses The Egyptian Gazette The UN report on desertification shows that Egypt ranks first among  countries facing a serious desertifi ...
• Horn of Africa : drought, malnutrition and hun ...
  MILLIONS FACING SEVERE FOOD CRISIS AMID WORSENING DROUGHT IN HORN OF AFRICA â UN New York, Jun 28 2011  4:05PM An estimated 10 million people across the Horn of Africa are facing a severe food crisis following a prolonged drought … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

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

backofthebook.ca

• The Conservatives’ Homegrown censorship
  By Frank Moher We can now begin to see how the Conservative government intends to use its majority to chop arts funding in Canada, particularly to any artistic expression it doesn't like or agree with. In the short term at least, it will be a death by a thousand cuts. This ...
• Bill Blair’s G20 alibi
  By Alison@Creekside An interview with Andre Marin, Ontario Ombudsman and author of the G20 report "Caught in the Act," sheds a little light on the blackout surrounding who was responsible for ordering kettling at the G20 a year ago. Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair, as we have previously he ...
• Potter too much
  By Rachel Krueger As though the tenterhooks weren’t tight enough for Harry Potter 7.2: The One Where It Actually Ends, the Rowling megalith taunted its fans last week with the mysterious offer of . . . Pottermore. Pottermore, the powers promised, was a Thing That Was Not A Book But Was Sti ...
• The lost art of imagining retribution
  By Jan Drabek Probably the most bizarre attempt to deal with the Stanley Cup riots to date was the announcement of a group getting together to sing O Canada at the corner of Georgia and Hamilton. But other unusual takes abound, among them that of the bicycle-loving mayor of Vancouver who ...
• The attack on young Canadians
  By Montreal Simon If you want to survive Canada's Summer of Anger, there are two subjects you absolutely must NOT discuss with your fellow hosers. One . . . who is to blame for the Vancouver riot? Because chances are you'll have to listen to some deranged rant about how young people ...

libcom

• Updates from the Greek Squares and People's As ...
  Tenth-day-Greek-protests-Athens_714579.jpg There is a virtual blackout in international media about what is an escalation of popular resistance in Greece since May 25th. In Athens and numerous other ...
• London Underground strike threat wins reinstat ...
  tube-strike.jpg Six days of strikes on the London Underground by the RMT union have been called off after management agreed to reinstate a sacked train driver. Strikes were ori ...
• Silent revolution in Belarus
  24295.jpg The situation in Belarus is now getting closer to the one that was during the elections in December 2010 but now it seems to be more massive and popular. After the ...
• Italy: more arrests in Florence and Milan
  More arrests in Florence among student groups linked to the revolts of last autumn, and two anarchist activists arrested in Milan Florence: just about a month after the events of May 4th (5 arrests and 22 banning orders among student ...
• Strikeforce - Monson outpunched by Cormier
  monson_1.JPG Anarchist MMA fighter Jeff 'The Snowman' Monson faced off against wrestler Daniel Comier in last night's Strikeforce event Jeff Monson made his return to 'top-tier ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

• Jews Against Zionism and Zionists. (JAZZ)
      http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/antisemitism/holocaust/gedalyaliebermann.cfm   THE ROLE OF ZIONISM IN THE HOLOCAUST Article by Rabbi Gedalya Liebermann – Australia “Spiritually and Physically Responsible ” From its’ inception, many rabbis warned of the potential dangers of Zionism and open ...
• Zombie Watch Update
  Here we go.  The evidence continues to mount. Published on Deccan Chronicle (http://www.deccanchronicle.com) � Mutant rabies, flu viruses could lead to havoc June 25: The rabies season has just receded. And it�s time now for the human influenza or common cold to make our lives miserable. Rabies ...
• Khazarian Satanic Porn — Plumbing New Depths
  In this public You-tube clip, which is a digital recording of a VERY PUBLIC PRESENTATION at the 2011 Conspiracy Conference, “Investigative Reporter” and consort of Leonard Horowitz, Sherri Kane maliciously attacked ex-VietNam war veteran Timothy White by accusing him of being a felon, rapists, a ...
• Is A. True Ott a “Jew-Hating Man”, ...
  In an e-mail to me in August 2010, Khazarian Blue-Blood Jew Leonard G. Horowitz wrote: “How STUPID of you ——- to EXPOSE YOURSELF AS A JEW-HATING MAN!!!”   What exactly “exposed” me?  Merely using the term “Khazar” and “Goy” in an earlier post to his sweetie Sherri Kane in describing her and m ...
• Who Is David Main? We may never know for sure!
  Until this baseless and malicious attack by Kane and Horowitz began, I had blissfully never heard of “David Main”.     You see, Kane swore under oath, in a complaint that A. True Ott was David Main.   It seemed at the time a simple enough task — to simply provide solid evidence to the cour ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Bob McDonald Part 2 (Apr 9, 2011)
  Part two of our annual show where CBC's Science Correspondent answers your questions about the mysteries of the world that have always puzzled you.
• Milos Raonic, ATP Tennis Player (Apr 2, 2011)
  The Canadian tennis star and his power serve are making waves around the world. Peter talks with Raonic about childhood ambition, focus and the sport he loves.
• Almas Jiwani, Women's Rights Advocate
  President of National Committee of UN Women in Canada on the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day and the state of women around the world.
• Prime Minister Stephen Harper (Jan 22, 2011)
  Highlights of the conversation with Peter originally broadcast Jan 17 and 18, 2011.
• Olivia Chow, NDP MP (Jan 15, 2011)
  Jack Layton and Olivia Chow: Ottawa’s political power couple -- he’s a party leader, she’s one of his backbenchers. But only one of them makes the cut for this week’s program, and its not him! Olivia Chow is our guest and there’s lots to talk about.

Scotts Contracting

• Petition to Stop Ameren UE-Coal Ash Utility Wa ...
  Petition: We, the undersigned, are opposed to placing a coal ash utility waste landfill in the Labadie Bottoms floodplain of the Missouri river as proposed by AmerenUE. The proposed landfill will store harmful quantities of toxic heavy metals and other contaminants. Despite Ameren’s assurances o ...
• six neighborhood factors that affect the envir ...
  The Greenest Building Is The One That’s Already Built ⦠Sometimes Posted June 20, 2011 by Kaid Benfield copied from: http://sustainablecitiescollective.com/kaidbenfield/26182/greenest-historic-building-one-thats-right-context?utm_source=scc_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter Iâ ...
• Estimating Tips for Spray Foam Window/Door Sealant
  While Working on an Material Estimate for Installing 10 Replacement Windows. I wanted to share this Information on from Dow Great Stuff. Sizes and Estimated Yields for GREAT STUFF PRO™ Window & Door Insulating Foam Sealant Can Size, oz (g) Delivery No. of Windows(1) 20 (567) Reusable Straw 6-9 2 ...
• Energy Efficiency Key to Reducing the Need to ...
  report says EERS policies are driving energy efficiency investments and energy cost savings to unprecedented levels national energy policy remains beyond the reach of Congress ((13 of the 19 states are achieving 100% or more of their goals)) U.S. states lead on energy efficiency, lower utility b ...
• Energy Plan Live-Chat-Senator Adviser N Brown ...
  First for Facebook, First for Energy Jun 22, 2011 Office of Senator Dick Lugar On Wednesday, June 22, 2010, we are extremely excited about a first for the Senate and a first for Facebook – the start of a rollout of legislation exclusively via Facebook. Beginning at 6:30 p.m. (Eastern) tomorrow w ...

The View From Abroad

• Western Imperialism Strikes Again
  The invasion of Libya is about imperialism not protection of civilians.
• What Obama Should Have Said
  As I was reading President Obama's speech last week, I dozed off into a glorious daydream.
• “Where’s the Beef”?
  After Osama bin Laden was killed, why wasn't his body displayed for verification.
• Bernanke is Still Clueless
  Ben Bernanke has been consistently wrong in the past. Why does anybody listen to him anymore?
• Dangers are Inherent in the War with Qaddafi
  Libya could become the next quagmire for American forces.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Saudi Arabia: Rolling Back the Arab Spring
  A chilly reception for the Arab Spring in the Persian Gulf shows the strength of the U.S.-Saudi "special relationship."
• As Taliban Tactics Grow More Sophisticated, Wh ...
  In the long run, the use of suicide bombing is self-defeating for the Taliban.
• Recreating Baghdad's Lost Literary Street
  Al-Mutanabbi Street was once the center of literary life in Baghdad. A new project brings the street back to life.
• Australian PM Gillard's Call for Abolition of ...
  Prime Minister Gillard's call for the abolition of nuclear weapons had its origins in a powerhouse international 2008 commission.
• Obama's Noble Sentiments About Afghanistan Und ...
  In his speech about Afghanistan there was a serious disconnect between President Obama's rhetoric and plans.

Law.com

• Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'
  Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
• Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Po ...
  In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
• MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight W ...
  A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
• Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Di ...
  Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ...
• IRS Throws In Towel on Closely Watched Interna ...

Iranian.com

• Iran Woos U.S. Allies as Troops Withdraw
  TEHRAN—Iran is moving to cement ties with the leaders of three key American allies—Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq—highlighting Tehran's efforts to take a greater role in the region as the U.S. military pulls out troops. The Afghan and Pakistani presidents, visiting Tehran, discussed with Iranian ...
• به یاد قربانیان فاجعه بمباران شیمیایی سردشت
  بيست و چهار سال پیش در بعداز ظهر روز هفتم تیرماه سال 1366 چند فروند از بمب افکن های حکومت بعث عراق بر فراز آسمان سردشت و روستاهای اطراف ظاهر شدند ودر یک اقدام جنایتکارانه بمب های شیمیایی خود را بر سر مردم بی خبر و بیدفاع فرو ریختند و فاجعه ای بزرگ آفریدند و مردم کردستان را داغدار و غم بزرگی در د ...
• سپاه: اسرائیل از پایگاه‌های موشکی سمنان هم در ...
  آمریکا زحمت ما را کم کرده و پایگاه‌های خود را در کشورهای اطراف مستقر کرده‌است به طوری که از فاصله ۱۲۰ کیلومتری تا ۷۰۰ کیلومتری در عمق افغانستان دارای پایگاه است.
• Save the lives of political prisoners in Iran
  We appreciate and encourage further efforts of the Human Rights Council and ask all UN member governments to place pressure on the Iranian government in accepting the UN request.
• How the demise of a trusted adviser could brin ...
  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's irascible, unpredictable but devout president, may be forced to resign in the coming weeks as a political crisis far greater than the massive street violence which followed his re-election in 2009 threatens to overwhelm him and his court favourites in the government.r ...

Most Revolutionary Act

• Marx and Engels on Human Nature
  As I outlined in my last blog, the capitalist class (which has near absolute control over public education and the mainstream media) maintains that a ruling privileged elite is essential for the survival of civilization. In their view, this is due to innate flaws of human nature that allegedly m ...
• Is Human Nature Flawed?
  This is the first of a series of posts on the age-old Human Nature debate and the question of whether human beings are capable of achieving true participatory and economic democracy. The failure of the world’s great economic powers to solve the global debt crisis, coupled with growing politic ...
• Generation Z Activism: Alec Loorz
  Alec Loorz Approximate age ranges for Generation X,Y,Z and Baby Boomers: Generation Z: 13-18 Generation Y: 19–29 Generation X: 30-45 Baby Boomers: 46-65 Alec Loorz is a 16 year old from Ventura California who is suing the US government and three states for “allowing money to be more powerful ...
• How Early Feminists Recruited the Working Class
  A major headache for progressive organizers is that low income workers find ultraconservative Teaparty and United Front groups far more appealing than progressive causes focused on improving their economic circumstances. As Marxist psychiatrist writes in his 1933 The Mass Psychology of Fascism ...
• The Real Cultural Wars
  The term “cultural wars,” as used by the mainstream media, seems to have two distinct meanings. It’s most commonly used to refer to the so-called “class of civilizations” between western democracy and societies where Islam is the primary religion. As Lila Rajiva points out in the Language of Em ...

Doug's Darkworld

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

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• Tapping the SPR: The Root of Dysfunctional Ene ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post Falling Into the Trap of Influencing the Crude Oil Markets It seems that nothing quite brings out the silliness in politicians like the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). As you undoubtedly have now heard, the United States and the International Energy Ag ...
• US, Other Countries Battle OPEC With Release F ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post While Robert continues his trip to Europe and across the Continental U.S., a significant piece of news has been dominating the headlines. Although we’ve been closely monitoring the release of 60 million barrels of crude on our Energy Ticker page, we also w ...
• Highlights of BP’s 2011 Statistical Review of ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post Global Energy Growth BP recently released their highly respected annual Statistical Review of World Energy for 2011. Most of the news stories on the report have focused on the exceptionally strong growth in global energy consumption. While that is without ...
• Media Misinformation Promotes Dysfunctional En ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post Over the years I have had some enlightening interactions with the news media. I have gradually developed the view that many in the media believe their role is more to entertain than to inform. My naive younger self believed that the media generally present ...
• Q&A With Virent CTO Randy Cortright
  Join the forum discussion on this post In the previous essay, I discussed the National Advanced Biofuels Consortium (NABC) and the recently announced success of Virent Energy Systems (Virent), a member of the consortium. In this essay I try to dig into the process details a bit more with a seri ...

Discovery Educator Network

• mPortfolios - "Is the future of ePortfolios in ...
  Tags: apps, mobile, education, eportfolio, mlearningby: Jackie Gerstein
• Infographics
  Comments:Kathy Schrock's resources - Jackie GersteinTags: infographics, assessment, kathyschrock, infographic, literacyby: Jackie Gerstein
• Showbeyond - Tell Stories, Your Stories (slide ...
  Tags: DigitalStorytelling, presentation, storytelling, education, digital storytelling, slideshowby: Fred Delventhal
• BrainPOP - Animated Educational Site for Kids ...
  Tags: music, math, english, technology, science, social studies, brainpop, education, gamesby: Fred Delventhal
• Storyplanet - Helping you build interactive st ...
  Tags: build, interactive, stories, digitalstorytellingby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

• Farmer's Markets Innovations Make Healthy Food ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—There's often a throwback feel to farmer's markets, where you can seek out the same heirloom vegetable varieties your great-grandmother adored. Old-school, heritage-breed chicken eggs? Yep, a true farmer's market probably offers them. And while the farmer's market is a p ...
• The Nickel Pincher: DIY Wedding Favor Ideas
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—At the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the guests all left with luxurious wool scarves, sporting the Union Jack in various colorful prints, that cost about $75 each. Chances are, you haven't budgeted that amount of money into your next soiree. And do ...
• Sprout Recall Announced for Northwestern U.S.
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—On Monday, the Food and Drug Administration announced a recall of alfalfa and spicy sprouts sold in a few northwestern states under the "Evergreen Produce" label. read more
• How to Avoid Dirty Beaches this July 4th Weekend
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—It's that time of year when families start piling into the car Griswold-style, hitting the road on a…quest for fun! If your family's journey is to the beach, take a break from your packing and check out the Natural Resources Defense Council's (NRDC's) annual "Testing The ...
• Paper or Plastic? How About Neither
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA— In 2011 Austin, Texas will be the home of In.gredients, the first grocery store to promise a no-packaging policy. read more

big think

• How and Why We Must Colonize Mars
  What's the Latest Development? Fifteen years ago, aerospace engineer Robert Zubrin published�The Case for Mars, calling for resolve among the aerospace community to put humans on the Red Planet. Now he has updated the book to reflect recent scientific�achievements: "Today we know exactly what ...
• 1,000 New Species Found in New Guinea
  What's the Latest Development? The world's second largest island, New Guinea also�houses the third-largest tract of uninterrupted rainforest, after the Amazon and Congo. For these reasons, the island claims some of the most impressive biological diversity on the planet and discoveries of new . ...
• Biofuel Boom in Aviation
  What's the Latest Development? Last week, a Boeing 747 made history by flying across the Atlantic with all four of its engines powered by hydroprocessed oil from camelina, a biofuels crop. The European airline carriers KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and Lufthansa, Germany's national carrier,�also pl ...
• Google: Clean Energy an Economic Lift
  What's the Latest Development? A new report from Google.org predicts that, given breakthroughs in solar, wind, nuclear and geothermal technology, the clean energy industry could grow to $150 billion annually and add 1.1 million new jobs in the next two decades. The key to making technological ...
• Asteroid Cuts Closer Than Satellites
  What's the Latest Development? Asteroid 2011 MD was discovered just last week at�the LINEAR near-Earth object survey in�Socorro, N.M. That is perhaps startling news given that this�school-bus�size rock gave the planet a closer shave than some of its own satellites. "The asteroid was flying ove ...

Information Liberation

• Twisted ethics of an expert witness
  Stuart Greenberg was at the top of his profession: a renowned forensic psychologist who in court could determine which parent got custody of a child, or whether a jury believed a claim of sexual assault. Trouble is, he built his career on hypocrisy a...
• Arizona Police Told To Search Arrestee iPhones ...
  Last week's big LulzSec (pre-disbandment) dump of Arizona police info apparently included some documents telling police to search the iPhones of arrestees for specific apps, including OpenWatch, a simple app for recording people (targeted at authorit...
• District Attorney Dismisses Charges Against Wo ...
  Last week, we wrote about the absolutely ridiculous situation, in which a woman who filmed the police in the process of a traffic stop in front of her house was arrested and charged with "obstructing government administration." The whole thing was c...
• Copyright Laws Now Working to Destroy 3D Print ...
  Movie studio Paramount are adept at sending out cease and desist notices, having engaged in the activity for many years. However, while the vast majority are related to solely digital activities such as the unauthorized distribution of movies and TV ...
• Steve Jobs Tells City Sopranos No!
  Apple, the consumer electronics company, has outgrown its headquarters in Cupertino, California. It wants to build a bigger, better campus. That*s when the shakedown started. You know the kind: "What are you going to *give back* to the community...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• Give ‘Em Hell, James
  It would be remiss of me not to wish our God-Emperor all the best on his current American promotional tour of his new book, Watermelons. I just heard him being interviewed here (H/T FergalR) on Ron Smith’s WBAL Radio show. I’m … Continue reading →
• What’s Your Poison?
  In a very thinly-veiled effort to give this chronicler a few days’ breathing space, I thought I’d throw open the bar and pose the question close to everyone’s heart at 6pm. What’s everyone’s most desired drink, loved libation, needed nepenthe? … Continue reading →
• So: Impending Ice Age Or Not?
  I thought I’d follow up the current JD thread as it seems to have worried the warmists enough to send a few new trolls over; some of the new crop even appear to be scientifically literate. The thing was sparked … Continue reading →
• Not A Good Time To Visit Tasmania
  But before Tourism Tasmania sends a hit man out after me, let me tell you why. It’s Chile’s fault. Well, the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcano, anyway. It started up again the other day and ash has been blown eastwards two-thirds of … Continue reading →
• Gone Skiing
  Well, I wish I was anyway. Today marks the start of the Australian ski season, and reports from all resorts indicate it’ll be a ripper. I was reminded of this story from 2008 in which our peak taxpayer-funded science body, … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• The real reason for pruney fingers
  The real reason for pruney fingers – Sit in a bath too long and your fingers will wrinkle up. Everyone from 5 to 95 knows that. The scientific explanation was always that the skin absorbs water and the underlying layer buckles. That’s as may be, but writing in Nature News, Ed Yong explains an ex ...
• The Blind Spot: Science and the Crisis of Unce ...
  The Blind Spot: Science and the Crisis of Uncertainty – “In today’s unpredictable and chaotic world, we look to science to provide certainty and answers–and often blame it when things go wrong. The Blind Spot reveals why our faith in scientific certainty is a dangerous illusion, and how only by ...
• Science goes mobile – SciMobileApps
  Science goes mobile #SciMobileApps – ChemConnector Tony Williams nudged me towards a relatively new initiative to help science "get" mobile. Mobile apps for science are expanding in scope and capability very quickly, yet there is no easy way to source information regarding what is available, wha ...
• Negative science
  Negative science – Often the "eureka moment" occurs not in the sense of "I've found it", but more as a "WTF?" Indeed, it's been estimated that more than two-thirds of scientific experiments fail to produce the results anticipated and in one way might be considered failed experiments, or negative ...
• Chemistry news round-up for this week
  Chemistry news round-up for this week – This week, The Alchemist is intrigued by a molecular optical illusion and learns of a new catalyst for making aromatic compounds from their unsaturated hydrocarbon counterparts. A new gel has been developed by chemists in China for delivering anticancer dr ...

RFF Library

• Effectiveness of Safety and Environmental Mana ...
  Transportation Research Board http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/sr/srSEMSInterimReport.pdf [From a Greenwire article by Katie Howell]   The Interior Department should use a wide variety of tools like independent audits and whistleblower programs to beef up its regulation of offshore drilling, ...
• U.S. Law and the Stockholm POPs Convention: An ...
  Center for International Environmental Law / by Daryl Ditz, Baskut Tuncak and Glenn Wiser http://www.ciel.org/Publications/US_Law_and_Stockholm_POPs.pdf [Summary] The Safe Chemicals Act of 2011 (S. 847), a bill introduced by Senator Frank Lautenberg to modernize U.S. chemicals policy, includes i ...
• 2011 Report to Congress on the Benefits and Co ...
  Office of Management and Budget, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/inforeg/2011_cb/2011_cba_report.pdf [The Hill's E2 Wire]  A White House report on Environmental Protection Agency rules — especially air pollution policies — issued in ...
• The State of America’s National Parks
  National Parks Conservation Association http://www.npca.org/cpr/sanp/ [Deseret News]  A first of its kind assessment undertaken over the past 10 years shows the majority of the country’s national parks are in serious jeopardy, facing a multitude of problems posed by air and water quality issues ...
• The Energy Information Administration’s ...
  US DOE, EIA http://www.eia.gov/pressroom/releases/press364.cfm A June 27, 2011, New York Times article, “Behind Veneer, Doubt on Future of Natural Gas” focuses on the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) consideration of shale gas. EIA was contacted by a Times reporter in advance of the sto ...

Scientific American - News

• 'Green' Positions on Climate Change Can Help A ...
  Against all political intuition, Republican candidates could win votes by taking "green" positions on the controversy over climate change, according to new poll results released Tuesday.Voters�tend to favor political�candidates who believe that humans have contributed to global warming and that ...
• On Its Final Mission, Atlantis to Help Ready N ...
  NASA will send its final space shuttle into orbit this summer, when Atlantis lifts off from Kennedy Space Center for a 12-day mission to the International Space Station.The mission will garner much attention for what it represents -- the 135th and final flight of NASA's 30-year space shuttle p ...
• Legacy of Mental Health Problems from Iraq and ...
  As Operation Enduring Freedom, the war on terror in Afghanistan, winds down and some 33,000 U.S. servicemen and servicewomen return from overseas in the next year, a plan announced by President Obama on June 22, the psychological issues that veterans face back home are likely to increase. [Mor ...
• Is Karzai's Accusation That Coalition Forces A ...
  President Obama has called for the withdrawal of 33,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan over the next year and the remaining 68,000 by the end of 2014, but questions linger regarding what the troops are leaving behind after more than nine years of combat. In particular, Afghanistan President Hamid ...
• Fukushima Meltdown Mitigation Aims to Prevent ...
  More than three months after a powerful earthquake and 14-meter-high tsunami struck Japan, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant remains flooded with a salty mix of ocean and fresh water that is contaminated with the radioactive residue of three reactors and four spent fuel pools' worth of n ...

First Truths

• Miscellaneous Thoughts on Law School
  The meaning of the word �logical� that laypeople use when they�re debating politics with family members in the living room�the word�s colloquial use�is nothing at all like the �logical� that law school expects you to be. The logic that law school will test, the sort that�s set out in Gordian for ...
• New Left Revisionism and the Crisis Tendencies ...
  The following excerpt from International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology�(eds. Jens Beckert and Milan Zafirovski)�will be of interest for left libertarians: Rothbard's view of the relationship between big business and government in the rise of American 'statism' draws additionally from the wo ...
• Still More About the Marx/Proudhon Connection
  Interesting passage from George Woodcock's Proudhon biography (which I'm still slogging through) touching on the roots of Proudhonian Mutualism and its intersection, if there is one, with the ideas of Marx: Proudhon's association with the Mutualists not only gave him insight into social undercur ...
• More on my frustration with the "post-left" te ...
  In a book of transcribed interviews, Sasha Lilley's Capital and Its Discontents: Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult, I stumbled upon the following very insightful response that�Andrej Gruba�i� gave to a question about the place of Marxism in "reorienting [anarchism's] focus ...
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in "Post-Left" ...
  I’ve been reading and rereading a handful of “post-left” anarchists lately, reevaluating their basic criticisms of anarchism’s traditional methods, lexicons, and assumptions. As I ruminate on these ideas, I sporadically pick up responses to them, and, of course, one in particular stands out, Mur ...

Media Co-Op

• Summer Student position with The Dominion
  The Dominion is seeking a student employee to work out of our Montreal office this summer. Duration of the position and financial compensation: 7 weeks at 30 hours per week $14.70/hour Job description: As a youth journalism coordinator, and in conjunction with staff of The Dominion magazine, the ...
• The "Trade" Agreement Ottawa and Nova Scotia W ...
  Packed room hears Canada-Europe trade negotiations denounced A standing-room-only crowd packed a Halifax meeting room last night to hear about a secret. Two national speakers, Maude Barlow of the Council of Canadians and CUPE President Pau ...
• From Canada to Greece To Gaza
  An interview with Miles Howe as he prepares to sail to Gaza aboard the Tahrir Since October, 2007, Israel has maintained economic sanctions on Gaza designed to keep Palestinian society on the brink of collapse. Last year, the Freedom Floti ...
• Shelter-hopping With My Son
  âIn Our Own Voices,â Week IV When my son Ulrich was born, his father Patrick and I were renting a basement suite in Patrick’s father’s house. The birth of my son did not change Patrick. Patrick kept partying in the DTES while I was on E. I ...
• Great News, Good News, Less Good News
  Medication Loaded aboard Tahrir, Irish Boat Sets Sail, Greece-Sweden-Norway Effort Sabotaged GREECE – Events begin to progress rapidly, as the international game of cat and mouse that has become the Freedom Flotilla II now enters a phase o ...

David Seaton's News Links

• What's up with Hugo?
  David Seaton's News Links Hugo Chávez has managed to keep his mouth shut since the 10th of June and the world's rumor mills are alive: he is dead, he has cancer, he is in coma... soon there will be sightings like Elvis. What advantage could there be for Hugo Chávez to simply sit in his hospital ...
• Is democratic capitalism in danger?
  �In the quest for growth, many countries have neglected to build a reliable system of social security that will help citizens buffer the market's volatility.(...) Democratic capitalism�s greatest problem is not that it will destroy itself economically, as Marx would have it � but that it may ...
• Why I miss George W. Bush more and more with e ...
  David Seaton's News LinksThe Obama administration has long been bumbling along in the footsteps of its predecessor when it comes to sacrificing Americans’ basic rights and liberties under the false flag of fighting terrorism. Now the Obama team seems ready to lurch even farther down that dismal ...
• Humanity: up a tree, with no fireman in sight
  Raghuram Rajan�The ultimate reason for all real crises always remains the poverty and restricted consumption of the masses as opposed to the drive of capitalist production to develop the productive forces as though only the absolute consuming power of society constituted their limit.� [ ...
• Movements without "leaders"
  David Seaton's News LinksThe other day, a top American political consultant, Matthew Dowd, was visiting Madrid and was interviewed by the local "newspaper of reference", El País. When he was asked his opinion about Spain's "15th of May" citizen's movement, AKA, "The Spanish Revolution" or "Los I ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• This Form of CoQ10 Found Far Superior to One T ...
  A number of studies have shown that the reduced form of Coenzyme Q10 (ubiquinol) may be more effective than the oxidized form (ubiquinone). One such study showed that ubiquinol had significant decelerating effects on aging problems in middle-aged mice.� The mice were given either ubiquinol for ...
• How to Save Gas This Summer
  The price of gas is high, but there are ways to get better mileage. Yahoo Autos suggests a number of gas-saving driving tactics you might not have thought of.� Here are a few: Coast to a Stop:� Brakes are wasteful -- they take the gasoline-generated kinetic energy of your car and turn it in ...
• The "Cancer-Causing Convenience" All Women Sho ...
  Human and animal studies show that a group of genes called the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) can influence odor. In general, females prefer the odor of mates with a dissimilar MHC -- but this effect is reversed in women on oral contraceptive pills. A study found that that single women ...
• Flush These "Dementia Markers" Out of Your Blo ...
  Daily supplementation using a natural pigment called astaxanthin -- the same coloring that gives flamingos their pink appearance -- can reduce the accumulation of phospholipid hydroperoxides. These compounds accumulate in the red blood cells of people who suffer from dementia, and scientists n ...
• Is Canada's Negligence Putting its Citizens - ...
  By Dr. Mercola The primary objective of this web site is to preserve the biological integrity of the human race. We have focused on four initial steps to achieve this: Vaccine Education and Choice Fluoride Free Water No GMOs Mercury Free Dentistry Today I will foc ...

JAMA

• Pregnancy, Addiction, and Incarceration [Letters]
• Metrics for Monitoring Glycemic Control--Reply ...
• Metrics for Monitoring Glycemic Control [Letters]
• Standard- vs High-Dose Clopidogrel After Percu ...
• Standard- vs High-Dose Clopidogrel After Percu ...

Survival - tribal peoples

• Bushmen boycott census
  Bushman, Molathwe Mokalake in the New Xade, Botswana. © Dominick Tyler/Survival Bushmen in Botswana have announced plans to boycott the national census in protest against the governmentâs refusal to provide them with a polling station during the last elections. More than 400 Bushman were ...
• 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

• New consumer-debt legislation offers little to ...
  The Quebec government has given the pawnbroking industry something to cheer about.
• Report offers fine blueprint for governing Con ...
  The three outside experts hired by Concordia University to help guide the university out of its governance morass have produced a report containing a reform blueprint that deserves the support of the full university community.
• Roads committee is a small step in right direction
  It came as welcome news when Quebec Transport Minister Sam Hamad announced that the provincial government will establish a committee to co-ordinate roadwork on and around trafficsnarled Montreal Island.
• Off-island suburbs must pay their fair share
  The Montreal region's principal suburban municipality, Laval, has suddenly become the region's newest and loudest proponent of high-density development.
• The perils of the PQ: people are starting to laugh
  Picture this as you fight your way through the traffic chaos that is the product of systemic governmental incompetence extending over decades in this province. But to hear some people, what's needed to fix what ails Quebec is some bizarro clone of the Parti Qu�b�cois.

Food World Order

• health alert: 32% of organic produce contains ...
  from anthony gucciardi: It is common knowledge that conventional produce contains a whole list of questionable chemicals and harmful pesticides. Linked to birth defects and lower IQ in children, conventional pesticides are known to be health disruptors. But what about organic produce? Perchlorat ...
• why are food prices rising so fast?
  from the economic collapse blog: If you do much grocery shopping, you have probably noticed that the cost of food has been rising at a very brisk pace over the past year. So why are food prices rising so fast? According to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, inflation is still very low and th ...
• new code fails to curb kid junk food ads
  from abc.net.au: Two years after Australia's major fast-food chains promised to stop advertising to children, a study has found kids are still being exposed to the same number of junk food ads. The study, published in the Australian Medical Journal, claims despite the introduction of an industry ...
• 6/23 binge & purge: cruelty, control & the cos ...
  house rebukes looming fda frankenfish approval* pesticide spraying near streams to expand under house bill; hr872 lets farmers bury 'clean water act'* utah man accused of eating live rat, posting video online charged with animal cruelty* chicago grocers accused of $500k food stamp fr ...
• 5.9m US kids have food allergies
  from medical news today: Approximately 8% of US children have some kind of food allergy, researchers from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine reported in the journal Pediatrics. 38.7% of those with a food allergy have a history of severe reactions, while 30.4% are allergic to sev ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

• 50 U.S. Health Care Statistics That Will Absol ...
  The U.S. health care system has become one gigantic money making scam, and you are about to see the statistics that prove it.  Today, the United States spends more on health care per person than any other country in the world by far.  The health insurance companies and the big p ...
• Economic Recovery?
  If this is supposed to be an "economic recovery" it sure is pathetic.  In fact, as you will read below, the numbers tell us that this is the worst economic recovery that the American economy has ever seen.  If what we had experienced was a "normal" recession and a "normal" recov ...
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Prepper Dad? Even Robert K ...
  Are you familiar with Robert Kiyosaki? He is best known for the "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" series of books.  Over 26 million books authored by Kiyosaki have been sold and he is recognized as a financial expert by millions of people across the globe.  Well, guess what?  Even Robert Ki ...
• The State Of The Economy
  The U.S. economy is like a rubber band that is being pulled in several different directions at the same time.  Everyone knows that at some point it is going to snap, but nobody is quite sure exactly when it is going to happen.  Right now, the state of the economy is not good, an ...
• Why Are Food Prices Rising So Fast?
  If you do much grocery shopping, you have probably noticed that the cost of food has been rising at a very brisk pace over the past year.  So why are food prices rising so fast?  According to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, inflation is still very low and the economy is i ...

CASSE

• Geo-engineering or Cosmic Protectionism?
  Herman Daly exposes the absurdity of geo-engineering as a solution to climate change.
• Ecosystem Services: The Traveling Salesman and ...
  Valuation of ecosystem services is an important, but insufficient, step toward achieving a sustainable economy.
• Why Stop at Massive Economic Growth when Infin ...
  Dr. Mountebank urges economists, lesser scientists and all citizens to try on infinite growth for size.
• What Should We Tax?
  Herman Daly suggests a simple rule: tax what we want less of, not what we want more of.
• The Role of Religious Congregations in Promoti ...
  Stewardship of creation requires people to accept the limits to growth and manage the economy accordingly. Religious congregations can help spread this idea.

The Talking Clock

• Don't choke on your cornflakes: The BBC, of al ...
  Cor blimey! Things you never thought you'd read on the BBC, of all places. Three MPs are joining forces with campaigners to call for the smoking ban in UK pubs and clubs to be relaxed. Conservative Greg Knight, Lib Dem John Hemming and Labour's Roger Godsiff argue that the ban has had a deva ...
• The Awakening: Why the globalists and the bank ...
  "Capitalism and socialism are ceding ground to a grotesque new corporatism. We are back on the road to serfdom." - Daniel Hannan There comes a point, I think, where an idea reaches such levels of support and inspiration that a critical mass is attained. Once that level is reached, the idea bec ...
• So, if the Met Police or Boris are reading, do ...
  Our friends over at Radio Free Britain have commendably picked up on a story from The Telegraph, written by Andrew Gilligan. In it, Gilligan writes: "The day after tomorrow, 29 June, [the East London Mosque] welcomes to its premises an organisation called Sex and Relationship Education Islami ...
• Now, the Spanish 'indignants' aren't just prot ...
  The long-suffering people of Greece have had their fair share of alternative and - eventually - mainstream media coverage over the last few weeks. While their fate remains in limbo and their EU-shackled misery continues to punish the people without mercy... ...the people of Spain are now c ...
• Quote of the Day: Cover-Up of a Royal Murder e ...
  "What the British press writes does not greatly matter, because over the next few months, people all around the world will have the chance to see the film, and to form their own judgements. Everywhere except Britain, that is, because as things stand, I am legally prevented from screening the fil ...

Facing South

• List of state immigration laws blocked in fede ...
  By Marian Wang, ProPublica Last week, we noted that several states' tough, new immigration laws have been challenged in court. Arizona and Utah both recently had key parts of their laws blocked by federal judges. Now, add Georgia and Indiana to the list.� On Monday, a federal judge in Georgia ...
• Another legal action targets scofflaw Kentucky ...
  A coalition of environmental watchdog groups has put two Kentucky coal companies on notice -- for the second time in less than a year -- that they could face lawsuits over their failure to comply with clean water laws. Appalachian Voices, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, Kentucky Riv ...
• VOICES: E-verify, another name for profiling
  By Shelly Ruzicka and Jacob Lesniewski, Labor Notes The need for comprehensive immigration reform has become even more pressing as immigrants face a hodgepodge of state and local legislative efforts and federal enforcement programs that vary from county to county. Yet instead of lead ...
• Court orders Louisiana to take action on radia ...
  In a major victory for environmental advocates, the Louisiana State Court of Appeals has ordered state regulators to begin monitoring pollution in wastewater discharged from oil and gas production activities into the Gulf of Mexico. Since 2002, oil and gas rigs operating in Louisiana ...
• Did New Orleans media contribute to police vio ...
  By Jordan Flaherty, Truthout Jury selection began June 22 in what observers have called the most important trial New Orleans has seen in a generation. It concerns a shocking case of police brutality that has already redefined this city's relationship to its police department, and ...

CenterLine

• Today’s Terrorism News
  In Association with The Soufan Group Taliban Militants Attack Kabul Hotel A small team of up to eight Taliban militants attacked a landmark Kabul hotel popular with foreigners on Tuesday, setting off an hours-long siege that only ended with NATO … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  In Association with The Soufan Group Yemen Says It Foiled al Qaeda Attack Yemenâs state news agency reported Monday that security forces have arrested six alleged al Qaeda militants who were planning attacks on âvital and economic installationsâ in the … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  In Association with The Soufan Group Military Court Upholds Hamdan War Crimes Conviction A U.S. military appeals court has upheld the war crimes conviction of Osama bin Ladenâs driver, Salim Hamdan. According to the Miami Herald, â[t]he U.S. Court of … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  In Association with The Soufan Group Cellphone from Bin Laden Compound Suggests ISI Links A cellphone belonging to Osama bin Ladenâs courier, which was seized in the raid that killed the al Qaeda leader, had contacts to a militant group … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  In Association with The Soufan Group Prison Break in Yemen Frees Dozens of Militants As many as 60 suspected Islamist militants escaped from a prison in the southern Yemeni port city of Mukalla on Wednesday. The prisoners escaped via a … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

• Today on New Scientist: 29 June 2011
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: Mining hydrothermal vents, a nuclear timekeeper, and how to get retweeted
• Can gruesome pictures get the US to quit smoking?
  Research suggests the FDA's new gruesome cigarette health warnings will deter some smokers
• Pen with silver ink draws circuits on the fly
  A new silver-dispensing pen can draw electronic circuits onto a wide variety of materials, and cheaply
• Shrimp's natural 3D glasses inspire new material
  The peacock mantis shrimp is one of only a few animals that can process circularly polarised light, used to create 3D movies
• Today on New Scientist: 28 June 2011
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: an autopiloted glider, the Vegetable Orchestra, and spiders in space

Tech Drive In

• 9 Good Terminal Emulators for Linux
  We have featured a few Terminal emulators before and introduced you to applications like CLI Companion that makes you more familiar with command line in Linux. Now, we want to take it to a whole new level. A collection of really good Terminal emulator apps for Linux. Guake for its apparent ...
• Interesting Ubuntu Unity Concept with Android- ...
  We have featured a number of really good Ubuntu Unity concepts before, here is another one which supposedly deals with the trash button in Unity more efficiently. Ubuntu Unity Desktop Concept The idea�proposes an Android-like system where the trash icon only appears when you are dragging ...
• [Fix]WiFi Driver Breaks After Update in Ubuntu ...
  If your Intel WiFi 5100 series WiFi driver broke down after latest update in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS desktop, understand that you are not the only one here with the same problem. A good friend of mine had the exact same issue. This is what you need to do to solve 'WiFi driver breaks after update' issue ...
• 7 Good Dropbox Alternatives for Linux
  Dropbox is probably the most popular online file storage and synchronization tool among Linux users. And as we have seen earlier, it is rather easy to install Dropbox in Ubuntu. But as a Linux user, what really are the alternatives to Dropbox for online file storage? Lets find out. SparkleS ...
• Firefox 5.0 Update Arrives in Official Ubuntu ...
  Firefox 5.0 was released few days ago. But this time, its going to be a different experience for Ubuntu users. You don't need to add any additional third party repositories to get the latest Firefox update, its already available in your default Ubuntu 11.04 repositories.� No Need to Add Any ...

Case About Bird Flu

• GREEK PARLIAMENT MAY REJECT EU/IMF AUSTER ...
  *Greek Prime Minister’s  majority cut to one ahead of crucial IMF and EU austerity vote in parliament on Wednesday *Rejection of austerity package will lead to a default by Greece and eurozone exit *Greece is set to spend 131 billion euros on interest payments to banks between 2009 and 2014 ...
• 71% of Germans say euro has no future; German ...
  More than three-quarters of Germans believe the euro will not survive the sovereign debt crisis in Greece, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung said on Sunday. http://www.finanzwirtschafter.de/18764-allensbach-umfrage-deutsche-zweifeln-an-euro-und-rettungsschirm/ 71% of Germans have “litt ...
• Greece is standing up to EU neocolonialism: Gr ...
  The usurious conditions of the Greek bailout reveals Brussels’ colonial mindset â but Athens is showing citizens can resist Costas Douzinas and Petros Papaconstantinou guardian.co.uk,Monday 27 June 2011 07.00 BST After months of attacks on the supposedly feckless Greeks, the western media, intel ...
• How Greece can redenominate and default
  Greece is going to be kicked out of the eurozone whatever happens By Andrew Lilico, The Telegraph, June 24th, 2011 David Cameron may have won his battle to keep Britain out of a second EU bail-out for Greece â but that doesnât alter the long-term inevitability of Greeceâs departure from the euro ...
• Greek Prime Minister wins vote of confidence; ...
  The Greek Prime Minister Giorgos Papandreou won a vote of confidence in parliament in the early hours of Wednesday, paving the way for legislation on new fiscal austerity measures to be voted on next Tuesday even as the opposition pledged to fight the package. Greece needs to receive €12bn in lo ...

Invisible Opportunity

• Huge public outcry over TSA forcing 95-year-ol ...
  by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (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 humilia ...
• Chicago $108 Billion in the Red – $63,0 ...
  Chicago, June 21, 2011– Cook County taxpayers are on the hook for a staggering amount of local debt, according to figures presented by Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas today. Cook County’s numerous local governments face mounting debts totaling more than $108 billion. And, for the first time, ...
• Hillary Clinton Gives Green Light For Israeli ...
  by Ali Abunimah / Electronic Intifada In comments yesterday, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton seemed to lay the ground – indeed almost provide a green light – for an Israeli military attack on the upcoming Gaza Freedom Flotilla, which will include the US Boat to Gaza. Among the passengers a ...
• Israel pushes Greece to halt Gaza flotilla
  They complain that Greece is throwing up “administrative obstacles” for the activists in response to pressure from Israel, the Associated Press reported on Monday. “We call on the Greek government to let us sail,” Ann Wright said. The former US State Department official plans to sail with severa ...
• Why guzzling a diet drink can make you fatter ...
  Diet soft drinks can actually make people fatter, say scientists. Reaching for the Diet cola is a bad idea for those trying to cut calories – because it may make you want to eat more, according to two studies. Artificial sweeteners could be to blame, as they were shown to increase blood sugar le ...

Veterans Today

• Britain: Fraudulent Iraq Enquiry
  Under the UN radar, South Africa, with the help of Israel, developed ten bombs and test fired one at Prince Edward Island to the South of the country. This left nine weapons that caused South Africa, US, UK and Israel great concern as they did not want them to fall into the hands of the next bla ...
• If you want to bash America why not try living ...
  America bashing seems to be in vogue these days by Americans who don't appreciate how lucky they are to live here. Don't believe it? People from other countries wait in line and some die trying to get here.
• Memoirs of Torturers
  On September 18, 2009, seven former heads of the CIA publicly told President Barack Obama not to prosecute CIA torturers.
• The hell with Israel; Open Gaza Port
  Israel, the angry, unhappy and psychological misfit nation it is, full of hate and contempt for the world and human value, is a country that never gives damn or due considerations to international law and always have contempt for world opinion will most likely send its army of war criminals to a ...
• Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – June ...
  The National Training Summit on Women Veterans is July 15-17. The three day summit will focus on the role of women in the military.

electric politics

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

PR News

• Ruder Finn launches dedicated CSR practice
  NEW YORK: Ruder Finn is consolidating its corporate social responsibility functions into a single, dedicated CSR practice headed by SVP Sarah Coles.
• Smithfield Foods promotes Lombardo to VP of IR ...
  SMITHFIELD, VA: Smithfield Foods has promoted Keira Lombardo to VP of investor relations and corporate communications.
• Spangler named to new CCO at Navistar
  WARRENVILLE, IL: Navistar International Corporation, a automotive holding company, appointed Jim Spangler to the newly created role of chief communications officer.
• Grey Goose selects R/GA as digital AOR
  CHICAGO: Grey Goose, the premium vodka brand of Bacardi USA, recently hired R/GA as its global digital AOR.
• Xerox and Medco partner for digital comms platform
  ROCHESTER, NY: Medco and Xerox recently launched a healthcare communication delivery platform that allows them to communicate with customers in a more targeted and efficient way.

The Story Behind the Story

• Jews Against Zionism and Zionists. (JAZZ)
      http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/antisemitism/holocaust/gedalyaliebermann.cfm   THE ROLE OF ZIONISM IN THE HOLOCAUST Article by Rabbi Gedalya Liebermann – Australia “Spiritually and Physically Responsible ” From its’ inception, many rabbis warned of the potential dangers of Zionism and open ...
• Zombie Watch Update
  Here we go.  The evidence continues to mount. Published on Deccan Chronicle (http://www.deccanchronicle.com) � Mutant rabies, flu viruses could lead to havoc June 25: The rabies season has just receded. And it�s time now for the human influenza or common cold to make our lives miserable. Rabies ...
• Khazarian Satanic Porn — Plumbing New Depths
  In this public You-tube clip, which is a digital recording of a VERY PUBLIC PRESENTATION at the 2011 Conspiracy Conference, “Investigative Reporter” and consort of Leonard Horowitz, Sherri Kane maliciously attacked ex-VietNam war veteran Timothy White by accusing him of being a felon, rapists, a ...
• Is A. True Ott a “Jew-Hating Man”, ...
  In an e-mail to me in August 2010, Khazarian Blue-Blood Jew Leonard G. Horowitz wrote: “How STUPID of you ——- to EXPOSE YOURSELF AS A JEW-HATING MAN!!!”   What exactly “exposed” me?  Merely using the term “Khazar” and “Goy” in an earlier post to his sweetie Sherri Kane in describing her and m ...
• Who Is David Main? We may never know for sure!
  Until this baseless and malicious attack by Kane and Horowitz began, I had blissfully never heard of “David Main”.     You see, Kane swore under oath, in a complaint that A. True Ott was David Main.   It seemed at the time a simple enough task — to simply provide solid evidence to the cour ...

k2p blog

• Earthquakes this week
  Following the Weather Action warning last week , Earthquakes so far this week (23rd – 29th June). >= 6.5 6 – 6.5 5 – 6 4 – 5 < 4 Earthquake report is here.
• Hari, Johann: Plagiarising Churnalist
  "A celebrated left wing commentator's career is in the balance after an Internet campaign forced him to admit recycling quotes in his interviews"- The Telegraph.
• Midsommar
  Light blogging during the Midsommar holidays which I am spending on the west coast of Sweden.
• Let Saab die with some dignity
  Victor Muller is pimping Saab around the world and dragging it through the mud to a slow and undignified demise -- all just to satisfy his own inflated ego.
• Conspiracy theory: 5 nuclear experts who helpe ...
  The five nuclear experts killed in a plane crash in northern Russia earlier this week had assisted in the design of an Iranian atomic facility, security sources in Russia said on Thursday.

Left Foot Forward

• IMF stitch-up locks out developing countries
  Ben Fox reports on the appointment of Christine Lagarde as head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) - at the expense of candidates from other countries.
• Tory MPs vote to discourage work and use taxes ...
  With hopes to enable married couples to transfer thier personal tax allowance to the higher earner, Tories have abonded key principles for the sake of moralising
• Business rates reform: Clegg promises poorer a ...
  Nick Clegg, speaking at the Local Government Association conference, promised poorer areas will not lose out from the government's business rates reform.
• Huhne and Greening are not serving the environ ...
  With the Carbon Price Support, energy secretary Chris Huhne and treasury minister Justine Greening are not serving the environment, but undermining it.
• Rising inequality is making social and politic ...
  Unless policymakers take steps to reduce gaps in income, they will be faced with the policy dilemmas of a divided society, writes One Society's Duncan Exley.

Consumerist

• The First Ad Campaign That Targets Monkeys
  Scientists are devising a series of billboards directed at monkeys to see if advertising works on them too, reports the New Scientist. The scientists plan to introduce a new food into the environment of a troop of Capuchin monkeys in the form of two different colors of identically-tasting jell ...
• Spend Only 1 Hour/Wk On Your Money By Automati ...
  Here's a 12-minute video that shows you how you can put all your money on autopilot and end up spending only an hour a week managing your accounts. Ramit from I Will Teach You To Be Rich shows beginners and people are too stressed to focus how to set up an easy to control system that takes th ...
• Canceling Verizon Without ETF Over Fee Increas ...
  Some readers have tried out the info from yesterday about using an increased regulatory fee Verizon is charging to get out of contract without paying an early termination fee (ETF). The most successful so far was commenter doogz, who got his ETF cut in half. Here is his story: Doogz writes:We ...
• Here's What The .7% Rise In Home Prices Rise A ...
  As we noted this morning, there is a small respite from the recent glut of melancholic economic news: home prices inched upwards. Yep, on Tuesday, the widely-watched Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller index posted a rise of .7% for April. Let's put that in context with this chart. No, that's not j ...
• Website Offers Peace Of Mind About Security Of ...
  Back in my day, I had to walk five miles in the snow to make sure my password was safe, but now, what with all the hacking going on, there are easier ways to check if yours has already been compromised. Like a handy dandy website, for one. "Should I change my password?" is the question asked b ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

• Camp Ashraf Tragedy: US and EU Must Engage to ...
  Iranian opposition refugee Camp Ashraf has had a fragile and chequered existence for nearly three decades. Stuck in the middle of the Iraqi desert, it has housed up to 3,400 Iranian dissidents, sometimes armed fighters of the MEK and NCRI. Both of these organisations remain classified as terrori ...
• GMO Frankenfood II? Despite US Judge Ruling, U ...
  Deregulation by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) means Roundup-Ready crops can now be grown commercially, endangering non-GMO alfalfa and sugar beet crops by transgenic contamination through the increased use of herbicides. Under the Bush administration, the USDA approved Roundup-Ready su ...
• SEC Loosens Rule, Lets Natural Gas Firms Recal ...
  by Marian Wang, ProPublica Previously, companies were allowed to count gas only from areas close to their active wells as part of their “proved” reserves, the amount of gas that a company estimates to investors it will tap. This was meant to prevent companies from claiming reserves of gas based ...
• America’s Colourful Ex-Governor Blagojevich Fo ...
  UPDATED The long national nightmare is over. Former Illinois Goveror Rod Blagojevich was found guilty of illegaly trying to sell the vacant seat of former Senator Barack Obama. He joins a string of former governors from that state on their way to, in or just released from prison. Blagojevich is ...
• Troops Obama is Withdrawing Have Been Replaced ...
  President Obama alleges âthe tide of war is recedingâ in Afghanistan, thus allowing him to reduce U.S. forces there by 10,000 this year, but the fact is overall Allied strength has been rising, not falling. That’s because the 10,000 U.S. fighters the president plans to bring home by the end of t ...

NewsAlert

• 'Public servants' profiting from the billion-d ...
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• On Behalf of Eyebrow Threaders, The Institute ...
  Carp Diem
• Virginia is Victorious — Again — In CNBC's Top ...
  CNBC
• Obama and the MSM Define Bipartisan the Chicag ...
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• Jewish Democrats who support Obama increasingl ...
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JoNova

• Government wants help to think of a reason to ...
  Shouldn’t the government know what the benefits and costs of the carbon tax are before they make it into law? This is looking awfully like a case of “policy first, justifications later”. First they promised they won’t do it. Then they do it, and they ask for even more of our money so they can [...]
• Skeptoid – like a skeptic but not quite
  … Here’s a new sign of the times. Almost no one has gone from skeptic to believer on global warming. The conversion flow is nearly all one-way traffic. But on the Skeptoid site, author Craig Good is a “convert” of a sort, and I have to give him credit for writing the most sensible advice [...]
• Keynes versus Hayek: Big government versus ind ...
  Check these out. There’s been an ongoing war of ideas, Hayek vs Keynes, for eight decades and counting — and these videos sum it up consummately. This ongoing academic fight has shaped lives and countries for decades: booms, busts, unemployment, and possibly even wars. Indeed it’s an ominous sig ...
• Clean energy “investments” just a tiny $243 Bi ...
  Have you ever thought about how lucky we are that only kind-hearted helpful souls are involved in the erstwhile cottage industry known as “renewable energy”? Imagine if a less-than-scrupulous agent got into these green-fields of money, and frolicked in the vast acreage of subsidies, schemes, and ...
• Monckton stirs the pot with a cheap shot, and ...
  By now every person in the climate debate knows that Monckton used a swastika on a slide in LA. UPDATE: By the time I wrote this, Monckton had already been roundly condemned for his unnecessary hyperbole, and unreservedly apologized. I couldn’t see much point in joining in the chorus. Yes, I agr ...

ReNew America

• Book review: Confronting national debt now
  (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - The timing for release of this book could not be better. The debt ceiling's claimed deadline approaches as Congress wrangles over how or whether to confront the consequences in a meaningful -- if politically risky -- way or take the easy course of running up the nation ...
• Bachmann officially announces, telling voters ...
  (Newsmax) - U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann was treated like a hometown hero today as she announced in her birthplace of Waterloo, Iowa, that she's the "bold choice" for the Republican nomination for president...
• Six states proceed with abortion ban
  (Newsmax) - Six states have banned abortion after 20 weeks on the theory that the fetus can feel pain at that point. The handful of states have pressed ahead even though the theory has been rejected by mainstream medical organizations in the United States and Britain, The New York Times reported...
• 'Gay marriage,' libertarians, and civil rights
  (George Weigel) - According to a New York Times story of June 25, an essential part of the coalition that brought "gay marriage" to the Empire State consisted of Republican financial high-rollers who gave Republican legislators cover for voting in favor of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's "marriage equality" ...
• Car manufacturers may face fuel economy rules ...
  (Newsmax) - Automakers that sell vehicles in the United States may have to boost car and light truck fuel economy to an average 56.2 miles per gallon by 2025 under a White House proposal presented this week...

Truth Offering

• Quote of the Week
  "When one does not see what one does not see, one does not see that one is blind" - Paul Veyne� �
• CIA Report: United States Account Balance = -$ ...
  Let me ask you something: if you're in a massive amount of debt, should you spend even more money? Sorry, stupid question, right? Of course, the answer is "no," you shouldn't. Believers in Keynesian monetary theory -- like Ben Bernanke and his predecessors, as well as past and present Presidents ...
• The Food Pyramid Becomes...MyPlate!
  Forget the Food Pyramid. The new government food propaganda comes to us in the form of "MyPlate."If you're anything like me, you grew up knowing -- because government said so -- that the way we should eat is as prescribed by the Food Pyramid. The Food Pyramid was "it," man! Everyone was using it ...
• "Cancer Is NOT a Disease...It's a Survival Mec ...
  ***UPDATE*** Since posting the first article below (the one from LeifGrunseth.com), I've discovered that it is actually a hoax. Someone decided to fraudulently attach Johns Hopkins to some very truthful, empowering knowledge -- likely in hopes people would listen to that information -- however, ...
• The Bilderberg Conference, 2011 - St. Moritz, ...
  If you frequent this site, you've likely heard of the Bilderberg group; a cadre of the world's most wealthy and powerful men and women who decend upon some, often remote, location each year. The reason they're called the "Bilderberg Group" is because their first-ever meeting in 1954, took place ...

2012 Blog

• Piers Corbyn: Red Alert until July 2nd
  Piers Corbyn of WeatherAction.com has forecast the following for the period of June 27-July 2, with the greatest likelihood July 1-2: Major Earthquake Volcanism Tornadoes and Tornado Swarms Other Extreme Weather His methodology is not clear, but it might not ... Related posts:Sol ...
• Nuclear Disaster (?) in Nebraska, USA
  The mainstream media has mostly ignored what seems to be a perilous nuclear situation within the USA, where a power plant has been half-drowned by the Missouri river. The lack of official concern could be ... Related posts:Vivos: Budget Bunker Space in Nebraska Lesson from Japan: Nukes are ...
• New Comet, New Asteroid
  The comet was discovered by Hawaii’s Pan-STARRS 1 telescope which scans areas of the sky for dangerous asteroids. It is early days, but they estimate that: The comet will likely come within about 30 million miles ... Related posts:Major Asteroid Impact circa 3114BC Nyiragongo / Comet Elen ...
• New Precautions for Power Grids
  According to NASA this week: In Sept. 1859, on the eve of a below-average solar cycle, the sun unleashed one of the most powerful storms in centuries. The underlying flare was so unusual, researchers still aren’t ... Related posts:Sun v. Trains: Sun Wins Solar Storm Could Cause $2 Trillio ...
• Russian TV on Comet Elenin
  The video is from Russia, in Russian. From the backdrop I presume the show deals with UFO-type stories although I don’t get why they have an image of the Colosseum. Without understanding a word of it, ... Related posts:Nyiragongo / Comet Elenin FIXED: 2012 Debunked – Excellent Video Prav ...

Facing South

• List of state immigration laws blocked in fede ...
  By Marian Wang, ProPublica Last week, we noted that several states' tough, new immigration laws have been challenged in court. Arizona and Utah both recently had key parts of their laws blocked by federal judges. Now, add Georgia and Indiana to the list.� On Monday, a federal judge in Georgia ...
• Another legal action targets scofflaw Kentucky ...
  A coalition of environmental watchdog groups has put two Kentucky coal companies on notice -- for the second time in less than a year -- that they could face lawsuits over their failure to comply with clean water laws. Appalachian Voices, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, Kentucky Riv ...
• VOICES: E-verify, another name for profiling
  By Shelly Ruzicka and Jacob Lesniewski, Labor Notes The need for comprehensive immigration reform has become even more pressing as immigrants face a hodgepodge of state and local legislative efforts and federal enforcement programs that vary from county to county. Yet instead of lead ...
• Court orders Louisiana to take action on radia ...
  In a major victory for environmental advocates, the Louisiana State Court of Appeals has ordered state regulators to begin monitoring pollution in wastewater discharged from oil and gas production activities into the Gulf of Mexico. Since 2002, oil and gas rigs operating in Louisiana ...
• Did New Orleans media contribute to police vio ...
  By Jordan Flaherty, Truthout Jury selection began June 22 in what observers have called the most important trial New Orleans has seen in a generation. It concerns a shocking case of police brutality that has already redefined this city's relationship to its police department, and ...

One News Page

• Kate's gold bracelet is actually a gift from l ...
• Flash floods in southern Philippines kill 25
• Tropical Storm Arlene forms in the Gulf of Mex ...
• Greek Parliament passes medium-term fiscal program
• Johnny Depp sought for 'Carter Beats the Devil ...

Global Research TV

• There's Something In The Water: Dangers of Sod ...
• Libyan University in Tripoli Bombed by NATO
• Pakistan: Toxic Chemicals in US Drone Strikes
• Solar Roadways: The Prototype
• War on Libya: Eyewitness Report

Daily Tech

• Porsche ACC InnoDrive Leaves Only Steering for ...
  System takes control of the pedals leaving the driver to steer
• U.S. Soldiers find Major Fault in New Network ...
  New radio consistently overheats in desert conditions
• Sony Executives Play Musical Chairs in Positio ...
  Kazuo Hirai, president and group CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI), will relieve himself of his current position and become chairman of the video games unit on September 1
• Google Introduces Possible Facebook Rival: "Go ...
  Google+ is available on the Android Market and the mobile web starting today, and will be available on the App Store soon
• EDITORIAL: France Bravely Pushes Nuclear, Amer ...
  European giant shows it's committed to being a tech superpower, in the face of public fear and ignorance

Oriental Review

• Swiss Banking Insider Reveals Secrets of Bilde ...
    ORIENTAL REVIEW republishes a thrilling interview with an anonymous Swiss banker taken in MosÑow on May 30, 2011, few days before the annual meeting of the Bilderberg club in Switzerland…   Q: Can you tell us something about your involvement in the Swiss banking business? A: I have worked for ...
• Credit Rating Agencies’ Potential To Erase Sov ...
  The history of credible data collection for the needs of private businesses in the US was relatively short. The 1907 stock market crash was the watershed moment after which the dependence of credit rating agencies (CRAs) on powerful corporations and their complicity with the rated companies, esp ...
• The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation`s Impact ...
  In my last article I had stated that the main interest of the countries of the region in the deliberations of the SCO summit would be the manner in which they handled the question of the granting of membership to the four countries-Pakistan, India, Iran and Mongolia – which now have observer sta ...
• Default by Greece and the US
  In mid June Alan Greenspan, former Federal Reserve chairman, said a default by Greece is “almost certain” and could help drive the US economy into recession. Greenspan’s loud statement on Greece may be a “sound curtain” to prepare the global community to a default by the US… First – a few key da ...
• Obama’s Drawdown Speech: SCO Faces the Afghan ...
  The United States President Barack Obama’s drawdown speech will not stand out in the volume of his selected works as an outstanding piece of oratory. The rhetorical flourish of “On the Way Forward in Afghanistan” was definitely below par. On the other hand, Obama knew the occasion is not one of ...

BlogHer

• How the Assault on Planned Parenthood is Hurti ...
  I suppose that conservatives aren’t going to be happy until they kill off Planned Parenthood. Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin just signed a two-year, $66 billion budget stripping the organization’s health clinics of their state and federal funding. His budget, I might add, was passed without a ...
• Fill in the Blank for a Thriving Retirement
  Once you retire you can go from jam packed days to a clean slate. For many that transition can be incredibly difficult. One reason why this is so is the lack of clarity around how to fill your time in a way that is satisfying enough. There is a little "something" which if you fill in the bla ...
• Ohio House Passes Restrictive Abortion "Heartb ...
  The Ohio House today passed HB 125, a bill that the Associated Press says would create "the strictest abortion limit in the nation" and possibly the the focus of a challenge to Roe vs. Wade in court. The bill still needs to pass the state Senate. The "Heartbeat Bill," according to Robin Marty a ...
• How to Prepare for a Potential Job Loss
  You just never know when a layoff might occur. Even if it doesn't seem like one is imminent or the powers that be tell you that there won't be any reduction in headcount, it is up to you to be prepared. Take it from someone who was laid off when there was no reduction in headcount! It's "spe ...
• (VIDEO) Richard Blais on How TV Has Changed Th ...
  Top Chef All-Star Richard Blais spent 2.5 Minutes With genConnect at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen. He talked about how "Top Chef" changed his life, and how TV has put more pressure on chefs: video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Richard Blais worked at Daniel Boulud� ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Ron Paul Explains Intro of Marijuana Bill
  On Thursday, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and others introduced the first ever bill in Congress to end federal marijuana prohibition. It is not a bill to legalize per se, but to end ...
• Frail Elderly Woman Required By TSA to Remove ...
  The headline reads more like a death knell for America, but unfortunately it is true. “It’s something I couldn’t imagine happening on American soil,” said the daughter of the elderly woman whose 95 year old ...
• New Study: Fluoride Damages Brain, Keep From C ...
  A breaking new study outright displays the unquestionable danger of fluoride use. Safety officials often dismissed fluoride concerns with the fact that water supplies contain on one part per million fluoride but the study published ...
• 5 Reasons NOT To Eat GM Foods
  Depending on how long you’ve been an HFA reader or studying GMO developments, you no doubt could list many reasons not to consume genetically modified foods. Our readers asked, “How do we fight GMOs and ...
• Junk Food Damages Brain’s Weight & Appet ...
  Yet another reason why eating junk sets up the response to eat more. The standard American diet destroys brains cells that control weight and appetite creating a hard-to-beat obesity cycle. It triggers the the similar ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Another coal miner dies in Kentucky
  This just in: PATHFORK, Ky. (AP) â State officials say a miner has died in an underground mine in Harlan County. The miner was working at the Manalapan Mining Co.’s P-1 mine in Pathfork around 11:50 a.m. EDT Wednesday. A statement from the state’s Energy and Environment Cabinet says preliminary ...
• Running Right? Alpha wants time for ‘own ...
  U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration officials have now added the slide show presentation from today’s Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster briefing to the agency’s Website (see here for a Power Point version and here for a pdf). And while I was driving back from Beckley on the West Virginia Tur ...
• DOJ looking into inaction by Massey execs, board
  Here’s another interesting tidbit from today’s MSHA briefing on the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster: Top MSHA officials say that they understand that the U.S. Department of Justice is looking into allegations — raised in civil litigation against Massey and its board members — that the former Mass ...
• MSHA: UBB disaster could have been prevented
  BEAVER, W.Va. — U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration officials have finished their presentation at today’s briefing on the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster, and they’re starting a question-and-answer session for the public gathered at an auditorium here at the mine academy outside Beckley. T ...
• MSHA to families: UBB mine kept 2 sets of books
  U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration officials have wrapped up their meeting with the families of the miners who died in the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster, and the briefing seems to have revealed a few new pieces of information. First of all, the meeting apparently kicked off with a recor ...

Daniel Miessler

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

Fitwatch

• Filming in a public place, Greek Embassy, 16 June
  This is a great video of a very camera shy cop with an incredibly dodgy understanding of the law.
• New PND increases police ‘data power’
  The new Police National Database PND is now up and running. All of the 43 police forces can now easily and quickly share any information they hold, on a single platform. This will not only include criminal records, but all that ‘intelligence’ that is so lovingly gathered by FIT teams at politica ...
• FIT teams in plain clothes come out for UKuncu ...
  The 41 ukuncut demonstrations taking place around the UK yesterday resulted in only nine arrests, in Manchester. It is interesting that the arrests were for breach of the peace. Given that Ukuncut protesters elsewhere were also threatened with BOP arrests, it seems there was a bit of a tendency ...
• FIT teams in plain clothes come out for UKuncu ...
  The 41 ukuncut demonstrations taking place around the UK yesterday resulted in only nine arrests, in Manchester. It is interesting that the arrests were for breach of the peace. Given that Ukuncut protesters elsewhere were also threatened with BOP arrests, it seems there was a bit of a tendency ...
• FIT cops cover up attack on Ian Tomlinson.
  Two years ago, FIT cops Steve Discombe, Alan Palfrey and Ryan Cowlin stood only feet away from Ian Tomlinson when he was hit by PC Harwood, a blow which led to Tomlinson’s death.  But, according to an IPCC report out today, they claim to have seen very little of the attack and didn’t even bother ...

Worldwide Hippies

• 4:20 Report: Mr. Miyagi, Get Your Warpaint On!
  Warpaint | Mr. Miyagi Boyhowdy! Capt. Tripps here, giving you the birds-eye lowdown on what’s hippiest, bestest, mostest in the realm of Adult Variety Herbal Incense. Tonights test sample arrives via our friends at Mr.Miyagi, specifically, the Warpaint blend, and boy, it’s a doozy. No kidding, ...
• Today’s young people lack a strong messa ...
  By John Taylor,NWtimes – As a baby boomer now, I still vividly recall how we demonstrators and hippies virtually stopped the Vietnam War with our voices and brought down President Richard Nixon. All over college campuses in America, our voice was heard, our demonstrations successful, as we chant ...
• How to Deal With Small-scale Polluters?
  by Greggory Moore | lbpost – Let me say right up front that when I went jogging across the Gerald Desmond Bridge and back, I did not expect Rocky Mountain air. However I may feel about petroleum-related industries, I accept that there’s an airborne reality in southwestern Long Beach that cannot ...
• North Korea issues threat to South amid joint ...
  BBC – North Korea has threatened to launch “a retaliatory sacred war” against South Korea, as the two held rare talks about a stalled jointly-run tourism project. Pyongyang said southern soldiers had erected signs on the border slandering the North’s “army, system and dignity”. It said unspecifi ...
• The New Manhattan Project
  WWH - The Manhattan Project, which began as a small research program in 1939, eventually employed more than 130,000 people at a cost of nearly US$2 billion ($24.4 billion in current dollars). Research and production took place at more than 30 sites, some secret, across the United States, the Uni ...

reference frame

• Greece votes to delay default until 2012
  If the new austerity measures and privatization had been voted down, the Greek default would occur almost instantly - not later than in mid July 2011. PASOK needed 150 Yes votes in the 300-strong Parliament. They got 155 Yes votes - which is the same as the number of PASOK deputies. O ...
• Why Al Gore is a failure
  There have been a couple of articles in the media that tried to answer the question why Al Gore has led the warming movement to one of the most spectacular ccollapses in the history of ideologies and fads. Mead: Why Al Gore is a failure, part one Mead: Why Al Gore is a failure, part tw ...
• Rubik's cubes inside black holes
  If you want to get a fair intuition how a black hole emits the Hawking radiation so that it stays unitary and the exterior and the interior remain separated in spite of that, you should sort Rubik's cube many times: Full screen... (click). Turn the sound off in the upper rig ...
• International Symposium on Forecasting
  I just returned from Prague which I visit once a month in average - however, this time it was just 10 days after the Festschrift. We shared a 1-hour talk with Kesten Green and Scott Armstrong on global warming. It was a special event during the 31st Annual International Symposium on Fo ...
• BIS: interest rates need to rise globally
  Most of the central banks in the world continue to keep the interest rates at absurdly low levels. The real interest rates - which are the nominal ones minus the inflation rate - are negative at most places - I say places, and not currencies, because the eurozone has a country-dependent inf ...

No Frakking Consensus

• The Thrashing of Al Gore Continues
  When skeptics argue with Al Gore about the science of climate change do they step right into a trap?
• Walter Russell Mead Trashes Al Gore
  Over the past 16 months Walter Russell Mead, a Democrat, has authored a series of bracing commentaries about what's wrong with the green movement. Near the top of his list: Al Gore.
• The Activists, the Media, and the Public
  When activists hoodwink the media - and questionable environmental scare stories are the result - why don't we care?
• My Fave Chairman Pachauri Quote
  The credibility of the IPCC has long been in tatters. There have been multiple calls for the resignation of its chairman. Rather than addressing this state of affairs, the head of the IPCC thinks corporate entities should change their ways - because we live in a world in which "reputation and p ...
• Pachauri’s Cause
  The chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says responding to climate change is part of a larger goal: transforming the world economy.

Tarpley

• Report From Libya 2
  Webster G. Tarpley on the Alex Jones Show
• Report from Libya
  Webster G. Tarpley on the Alex Jones Show
• The CIA’s Fake “Arab Spring” Becom ...
  Obama Regime Courts World Conflagration: Imperial Overstretch Threatens as US, NATO Wage Five Wars: Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, and Yemen – Are Syria, Iran, Lebanon Next? Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net June 20, 2011 Washington DC, June 20- With the previously covert US bombing of ...
• US Naval and Troop Movements Toward North Afri ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net June 15, 2011 Washington DC – US Special Forces units based at Fort Hood, Texas, have been told to prepare for deployment to Libya no later than July, according to a US military source. The Special Forces would then be followed in September or October by hea ...
• US Naval Deployments in Mediterranean and Blac ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on the Alex Jones Show

Modern Survivalism

• Blind Acceptance
  Guest Post: by ‘Be Informed’ I see this time and time again, where people that go through disasters, the vast majority of them are not prepared and totally caught off guard. Much of this is because most people see ONLY what they want to see and see ONLY what others in control want them to [...]
• Fort Calhoun Nuke Plant, Feet Away from Core D ...
  The Nuclear Regulatory Commission chairman, Gregory Jaczko, said today that they are keeping a close eye on Fort Calhoun “to make sure that the Omaha Public Power District does the right thing.” The nuclear power plant, located 19 miles north of Omaha, Nebraska, has been surrounded and partially ...
• Fire! Los Alamos Laboratories Nuke Center
  A wildfire named Las Conchas which began to rage Sunday morning in northern New Mexico has now spread to within striking distance of a very large nuclear weapons facility, the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which occupies 36 square miles of land located just 35 miles northwest of Santa Fe. From ...
• Canned Food Groups for Survival Storage
  In addition to your consideration of our sponsors who offer excellent food supplies for long term storage, if you are stocking up your food pantry to withstand a period of ‘down time’ just in case you cannot get to the grocery store for awhile, or worse, for a disruption or collapse in the food ...
• How To Make a Fish Spear
  You are in survival mode, and are located near a river or lake whose shallow waters are revealing fish lounging or swimming lazily near shore or around the weeds – within reach – if you could just catch them. If you have a fishing pole and gear, you are all set – all you need [...]

Fast Company

• The Great Email Schism: From Gmail's New Dooda ...
  Do you really need--or want--"contextual information about people you're interacting with" via email? As part of Google's new social spree that just gave field testers Google+, Google's also added a new social feature to Gmail--the People Tab. It's a panel to the right of your Gmail inbox that ...
• New Study Shows How To Rack Up Retweets: Pull ...
  Ever wonder what is really motivating you to hit "retweet," "like," or "share"?�According to�new research�that�will no doubt prompt viral-marketing departments to quick action, we share something because, for whatever reason, its ignites powerful emotions--good or bad--that arouse your nervous s ...
• The Rosetta Project Is Preserving Every Langua ...
  A project of the Long Now Foundation, the aim is to make sure we preserve the knowledge contained in dying languages: "If languages are our how-to guides for living on planet Earth, we are handing our descendants an encyclopedia with almost all of the pages ripped out."The Long Now Foundation--c ...
• Radical.FM Goes Public, James Franco's Never-E ...
  Radical net radio, Franco and Kalep's latest adventures in four-track bedroom funk, Jack Dorsey's disruptive Square, and RIM's tablet failings. More to come throughout the day, as Fast Company's editors keep you on top of the news.Radical.FM Goes Public. Just the other day we wrote about how Rad ...
• After Spurning Android, HP May Offer Windows 8 ...
  For Hewlett-Packard's TouchPad tablet, which heads to market on Friday, the company avoided using Android at all costs. Well, actually, at a very specific cost: HP spent $1.2 billion last year to acquire Palm, which helped develop the TouchPad's slick software, WebOS. HP's tablet strategy- ...

Jadaliyya

• What Is [the] Left?
  Lebanon has been without a government for months. Finally, a thirty-member cabinet was formed two weeks ago. With a revolutionary uprising in Syria and the brutal response by the Syrian regime intensifying, there is now a Lebanese government whose sole function, it seems, is to weather t ...
• الانتخابات أولاً": شعارٌ مفرغ من المضمون"
  �ت��م ت�ج�ات س�اس�ة شت� ا���م بت�ظ�� شعار "ا�ا�تخابات أ��ا�" ���ج�م ع�� م� �طا�ب�� "با�دست�ر أ��ا�"� �عادة ما �ست�د �ذا ا�شعار �ات�ام ا�معس�ر ا�أخ�ر "با�ا�ت�ا�" ع�� �تائج ا�إست�تاء� متجا���� أ� ا�مج�س ا�عس�ر� ع��� �د ا�ت� ع�� ا�است�تاء با��ع� م� خ�ا� إع�ا� دست�ر� خرج ع� حد�د ا�م�اد ا�ت� ...
• "Elections Come First": Egypt's Empty Cliche " ...
  �ت��م ت�ج�ات س�اس�ة شت� ا���م بت�ظ�� شعار "ا�ا�تخابات أ��ا�" ���ج�م ع�� م� �طا�ب�� "با�دست�ر أ��ا�"� �عادة ما �ست�د �ذا ا�شعار �ات�ام ا�معس�ر ا�أخ�ر "با�ا�ت�ا�" ع�� �تائج ا�إست�تاء� متجا���� أ� ا�مج�س ا�عس�ر� ع��� �د ا�ت� ع�� ا�است�تاء با��ع� م� خ�ا� إع�ا� دست�ر� خرج ع� حد�د ا�م�اد ا�ت� ...
• Traffic Jam
  Pardis Mahdavi, Gridlock: Labor, Migration, and Human Trafficking in Dubai. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. In the ten years since Bill Clinton signed the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) into law, human trafficking has been transformed from a public policy backwater ...
• Mind The Gap
  [This is the first installment of Amal Hanano's diary of her trip back to Syria] I begin to lose sleep weeks before I leave � waking in the middle of the night, my mind racing with anxiety. My insomnia may be the obvious sign that I have no business going to Syria while the country, as ...

mediagazer

• Highlighting content creators in search result ...
  Amanda Chang / Inside Search: Highlighting content creators in search results  —  Many of you create great content on the web, and we work hard to make that content discoverable on Google.  Today, we will start highlighting the people creating this content in Google.com search results.  —  Why?
• 5 Ways the Advertising Industry Is Preparing f ...
  Chris Schreiber / Mashable!: 5 Ways the Advertising Industry Is Preparing for a Digital Future  —  Chris Schreiber is director of marketing at social video advertising company Sharethrough.  A leading expert on social content strategy, Chris recently presented a two-hour workshop on viral vide ...
• The Gaga Effect Spreads to Tumblr (Jenna Worth ...
  Jenna Wortham / Bits: The Gaga Effect Spreads to Tumblr  —  Is there any technology platform that Lady Gaga, the eccentric and entertaining pop songstress, can't dominate?  She's already appeared in a commercial for Google Chrome, debuted her own game on Farmville, crashed Amazon's servers and ...
• The Voice steps up social media for final show ...
  Cory Bergman / Lost Remote: The Voice steps up social media for final shows  —  NBC's The Voice has been airing live episodes (East Coast) as it nears its season finale this Wednesday night, and the show is featuring a social media room to shine a spotlight on live Twitter reaction.  Hosted by ...
• AOL Music Drops CBS Radio For Slacker (Erik Sa ...
  Erik Sass / MediaPost: AOL Music Drops CBS Radio For Slacker  —  The popularity of online audio is matched only by the fleeting nature of deals in the space.  The AOL Huffington Post Media Group says AOL Music is parting ways with CBS Radio, its online streaming audio partner for the past thre ...

Chemtrail News

• New World Order China Chemtrails and Bi ...
  For the mods I am putting all this here for all to see since we have another whistleblower for the chemtrails that goes down deeper in the rabbit hole It is ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread722005/pg1
• Chemtrail Wolken über Porselen zw. ca. ...
  Chemtrail Wolken über Porselen zw. ca. 15:00 und 16:00Uhr 21.06.2011:Chemtrail Wolken recorded on USTREAM. Other Technology.www.ustream.tv/recorded/15524621
• Chemtrails Exploring a Mystery | Off Th ...
  Chemtrails, toxic elements dumped into the atmosphere in attempts to affect non-existent global warming, do nothing but poison our people and our land.www.offthegridnews.com/.../chemtrails-exploring-a-mystery/
• ChemTrails Ottawa | Facebook
  ChemTrails Ottawa - Mission: This page contains videos of chemtrails, and other interesting and suspicious activities in and around Ottawa, the capitol of ...www.facebook.com/pages/ChemTrails.../170444599686897?...
• ChemtrailsMorgellansWhat Have They Done ...
  People are reportedly becoming ill from Chemtrails I took out a nano sized organism from a chemtrail fibre after spraying in Nebraska I have tested 23 out ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread719439/pg1

World News - Top Stories

• Why do we get tired by noon?
  There is something about the post lunch hour, when a sense of boredom creeps in and time weighs so heavy that you can almost hear the clock tick. As the sun shines brightest upon the day, we feel an urge to retire to bed or if we are at work, to put our heads and catch 40 winks. The midday ...
• West Brom still awaiting decisions on mid ...
  West Brom expect to find out in the next few days whether midfielder Zoltan Gera will be rejoining them. Gera is a free agent after his contract with Fulham finished at the end of last season. Top Gera: Zoltan was a popular figure at West Brom He spent four years at the Hawthorns before mak ...
• Can the Internet help you lose weight?
  People tend to lose a little more weight with online help than with traditional weight loss programs, a Japanese study said -- but combining the Internet with in-person contact appears to be the most effective in keeping extra kilograms at bay. With obesity on the rise, there have been many ...
• Aston Villa target Manchester City goalke ...
  New Aston Villa manager Alex McLeish is stepping up his attempts to sign a proven goalkeeper with Shay Given amongst the targets on his radar, Press Association Sport understands. The Manchester City player spent last season as number two to Joe Hart, who reaped the benefits of a season und ...
• England confirm Pakistan series in UAE
  England have confirmed they will play Pakistan in an away series in the United Arab Emirates this winter. England will meet Pakistan, who are unable to host home series due to security concerns, in three Tests, four one-day internationals and three Twenty20s in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. The tour ...

no frakking consensus

• The Thrashing of Al Gore Continues
  When skeptics argue with Al Gore about the science of climate change do they step right into a trap?
• Walter Russell Mead Trashes Al Gore
  Over the past 16 months Walter Russell Mead, a Democrat, has authored a series of bracing commentaries about what's wrong with the green movement. Near the top of his list: Al Gore.
• The Activists, the Media, and the Public
  When activists hoodwink the media - and questionable environmental scare stories are the result - why don't we care?
• My Fave Chairman Pachauri Quote
  The credibility of the IPCC has long been in tatters. There have been multiple calls for the resignation of its chairman. Rather than addressing this state of affairs, the head of the IPCC thinks corporate entities should change their ways - because we live in a world in which "reputation and p ...
• Pachauri’s Cause
  The chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says responding to climate change is part of a larger goal: transforming the world economy.

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• Sex Offender Registration for Sex Workers Ends ...
  Louisiana's era of forcing certain convicted sex workers to register as sex offenders appears to be over. Governor Jindall's office announced today that he had signed into law a bill, sponsored by Louisiana State Representative Charmaine Marchand Stiaes, that effectively moves prostitution convi ...
• Amnesty International Launches Campaign to Fre ...
  From our friends at Amnesty International and International Coalition to Free the Angola 3: The US state of Louisiana must immediately remove two inmates from the solitary confinement they were placed in almost 40 years ago, Amnesty International said today. Albert Woodfox, 64, and Herman ...
• NOPD Continues to Target Sex Workers and Other ...
  The Times-Picayune reported today on two large busts of sex workers under Louisiana's archaic "Crime Against Nature" law. These arrests come just as the Louisiana legislature has passed a bill that would do away with the law, which the US Justice Department has said unfairly targets LGBT indivi ...
• Haiti Facts Seventeen Months after Earthquake
  By Bill Quigley Haiti experienced a major earthquake January 12, 2010. Tens of thousands died, estimates range from 65,000 to 230,000 people killed. About 2 million more people were displaced. Haiti was already the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere with a per capita income of abou ...
• Concerned Citizens Work Together To Create 7 S ...
  From The New Orleans Agenda newsletter and Advancement Project: Community leaders from throughout Orleans Parish came together to develop a community plan that reflects the changing demographics in the city and the shift in population. We believe that New Orleans Parish City Council Districts ...

Information Underground

• Philosophy • Re: Is the God of the Old Testame ...
  Dear Timothy Fitzpatrick, Thank you for this most enlightening tour of the evidence surrounding the tetragrammaton and its cult worship, another judaized perversion of meaning not unlike the Star of Moloch. It is good to refute the heresy of name-worship and all such magickal minded nonsens ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  GordZilla wrote: Good point indeed MSMD, nothing wrong with the hammer and sickle, those guys didn't kill anybody, they weren't full of hate - not at all. Didn't you know, the Commies were angels sent from heaven who liberated the Jews from the "Nazi Death Factory" People ju ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Shilling for Ghaddafi is much more respectable than shilling for Jews, like Mr. Duff has been doing for quite awhile. Those anti-Ghadaffi atrocity stories have been discredited as U.S. government propaganda to the best of my knowledge. The latest atrocity propaganda is that Ghaddafi has been ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  6 sides, 6 vertices and 6 inside angles, hmm '666' Where have we heard about this particular number before? Good point indeed MSMD, nothing wrong with the hammer and sickle, those guys didn't kill anybody, they weren't full of hate - not at all. Statistics: Posted by GordZilla — Wed Jun 29 ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  In 1991 a Canadian Jew named Ian J. Kagedan, who served as an official for the subversive Jewish Zionist/Masonic secret society B'nai B'rith Canada, said that the Holocaust™ (propaganda) story would be central to the Zionist Jews' plans of a "New World Order." Toronto Star - Nov 26, 1991 "A ...

TVNZ

• Expert: Attack illustrates Afghan forces' inad ...
  A New Zealand expert in international relations says yesterday's attack on a hotel in Afghanistan illustrates the fact that the Taliban still maintains a strong-hold in the country
• Greek police battle rioters as austerity bill ...
  Greek police fired teargas and battled demonstrators after the first of two austerity bills was passed.  
• Venezuela summit off due to Chavez health - so ...
  Venezuela has called off a summit due to the health of Presidnet Chavez.
• Egypt police clash with youths; over 1,000 hurt
  Police in Cairo fired tear gas at stone-throwing Egyptian youths after a night of clashes.
• NZ SAS troops injured in Kabul hotel operation
  Two New Zealand SAS troops were injured fighting Afghan insurgents this morning.

environment 360

• Major Fuel Economy Boost Envisioned by Obama A ...
  The Obama administration is considering a new fuel economy standard that would require cars and light trucks to achieve an average of 56.2 miles per gallon by 2025, an ambitious target that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions but drive up the cost of automobiles. While still a starting point i ...
• Tasmanian Devil Epidemic Linked to Human Distu ...
  A mysterious cancer epidemic that is wiping out populations of the Tasmanian devil is largely the result of low genetic diversity caused by human interference, according to a new study. Using genetic sequencing, View photos DPIW/TasmaniaTasmanian devils’ facial tumor epidemic researchers determ ...
• Serengeti Highway Plan Scrapped Over Potential ...
  The Tanzanian government has scrapped plans to build a two-lane highway across the northern edge of Serengeti National Park, after scientists warned the plan ShutterstockZebra and wildebeest in Serengeti could disrupt the migration routes for some of the park’s critical species, including zebr ...
• Underwater Microphone Innovation Inspired By t ...
  Stanford University researchers say they have developed an underwater microphone, using technology inspired in part by the ears of an orca whale, that is capable of capturing sound frequencies across a span of 17 octaves even at high-pressure depths. While existing underwater microphones typical ...
• Marine Life Census Reveals Serengeti-Like Corr ...
  A decade-long census of marine life in the North Pacific Ocean has documented how abundant seasonal food supplies attract an array of predators annually to two major oceanic corridors, which researchers liken to Click to enlarge Craig Hayslip/OSU Marine Mammal InstituteA blue whale encountered ...

oldephartte/Diigo

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backofthebook

• The Conservatives’ Homegrown censorship
  By Frank Moher We can now begin to see how the Conservative government intends to use its majority to chop arts funding in Canada, particularly to any artistic expression it doesn't like or agree with. In the short term at least, it will be a death by a thousand cuts. This ...
• Bill Blair’s G20 alibi
  By Alison@Creekside An interview with Andre Marin, Ontario Ombudsman and author of the G20 report "Caught in the Act," sheds a little light on the blackout surrounding who was responsible for ordering kettling at the G20 a year ago. Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair, as we have previously he ...
• Potter too much
  By Rachel Krueger As though the tenterhooks weren’t tight enough for Harry Potter 7.2: The One Where It Actually Ends, the Rowling megalith taunted its fans last week with the mysterious offer of . . . Pottermore. Pottermore, the powers promised, was a Thing That Was Not A Book But Was Sti ...
• The lost art of imagining retribution
  By Jan Drabek Probably the most bizarre attempt to deal with the Stanley Cup riots to date was the announcement of a group getting together to sing O Canada at the corner of Georgia and Hamilton. But other unusual takes abound, among them that of the bicycle-loving mayor of Vancouver who ...
• The attack on young Canadians
  By Montreal Simon If you want to survive Canada's Summer of Anger, there are two subjects you absolutely must NOT discuss with your fellow hosers. One . . . who is to blame for the Vancouver riot? Because chances are you'll have to listen to some deranged rant about how young people ...

Daily Beast

• Huntsman's Real Achilles'
  It's not the former diplomat's civility. Michael Medved on the reason he's toast come primary season.
• Exclusive: Inside the Afghan Hotel Attack
  Taliban commanders detail their tactics to Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau and explain why they’re delighted.
• Obama Woos Liberal Elite
  White House effort to argue the president’s case to moderates in Aspen has been meeting angry resistance.
• The Other Royal Wedding
  Charlene Wittstock, the Olympian marrying Monaco’s Prince Albert, was groomed for years to be a princess.
• The Worst Boss in Congress?
  A California congresswoman faces an ethics investigation over the alleged abuse of her staff.

Loonwatch

• Allen West and ACT! for America: Radical anti- ...
  Allen West wants to fight the fictional take over of America by the non-existing Caliphate.
• Simchon Shwartz Charged with Felony Hate Crime ...
  A Jewish man was charged with a hate crime for assaulting his neighbor. What if he were Muslim?
• Surprise: EDL Member Christopher Payne Pleads ...
  EDL member vandalized mosque, is it really a big surprise?
• Promoting Religious Tolerance: Interfaith Serv ...
  Urged by their Faith, seekers after peace.
• Kosovo: University Students Across Religious L ...
  A Muslim predominant country preserves a Jewish cemetery that dates back to the late 19th century.

Energy News

• Residents worried about radioactive smoke plum ...
  Towns near NM fire, nuclear lab wary of smoke, AP, June ...Read More
• High potential for “major calamity&#8221 ...
  Los Alamos Fire: EPA Testing for Radiation, ABC news. June 28, ...Read More
• Chief: “We have fire all around the lab ...
  UPDATE 3-Los Alamos scurries to protect nuclear lab from fire, Reuters, ...Read More
• Gundersen: Intake Structure that cools reactor ...
  Arnie Gundersen on Five O’clock Shadow with Robert Knight, WBAI, June ...Read More
• Local TV: Water has leaked into building conta ...
  NRC Chairman says nuke plants safe, for now, Action 3 News, ...Read More

Japan Times

• NBA talks scheduled ahead of deadline
  Representatives for NBA players and owners will meet Thursday, hours before the collective bargaining agreement expires, and commissioner David Stern says that's still enough time for a deal. Owners did not vote to authorize a lockout during their meeting Tuesday, but have given the labor rela ...
• Why put down counseling?
  I was frankly shocked when I read the following paragraph by Giovanni Fazio in his June 24 review of the movie "Hesher": "Hesher" stands in opposition to the modern American obsession with pop-psych, and the rather misguided idea that endlessly talking about one's feelings will help one deal wit ...
• Hope and reconstruction
  After two and a half months of deliberation, the Reconstruction Design Council on June 25 submitted to Prime Minister Naoto Kan a set of proposals for the reconstruction of the Tohoku-Pacific coastal region, which was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and Fukushima Prefecture, w ...
• A suicide trigger everywhere
  One paragraph of The June 23 article "Suicides upping casualties from Tohoku catastrophe" states that "The link between depression and suicide is well documented, particularly in Japan, where depression has been shown to be a major suicide trigger." What is meant by "particularly in Japan?" De ...
• No UNESCO listing for Tokyo museum
  The National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, designed by French architect Le Corbusier, has been denied status as a World Heritage cultural site, Japanese officials said. Japan, France and four other countries had jointly submitted a recommendation to register 19 buildings designed by the arch ...

Alexander Higgins

• Bankers Laugh As Athens Burns. Wall Street Lic ...
  Greedy Bankers Are Literally Laughing As Athens Greece Burns. Wall Street Investors Are Licking Their Chops As Stock Markets Soar On Bets Austerity Measures Will Be Passed As Protestors Being Raped By The Bankers Are Beaten.
• Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant Underwater- Referen ...
  The head of the NRC toured the Fort Calhoun Nuclear plant which is now underwater. A 10 mile evacuation around the plant has been ordered, but all references of the evacuation have been scrubbed from online news sites.
• Athens Burns In Riots Just Hours Ahead Of Cruc ...
  A 48-hour strike ahead of a crucial vote on new Austerity measures for a banker bailout sees airports and ports grind to a halt as Athens burns in riots and police fire tear gas, percussion grenades and beat protestors.
• US Could Be Forced To Sell Sovereign Assets To ...
  The US may soon be forced into a situation similar to the one in Greece and be forced to perform a fire sale of national sovereign assets to China pay down the out of control debt that some say is really over $100 trillion.
• Potential Nuclear Catastrophes Spread Across T ...
  The US faces nuclear disasters across the nation as Fukushima residents are found to have radioactive urine and radioactive water measuring over 1 sievert per hour is found leaking from the plant.

Macleans - Central

• Original sin
  JJ McCullough blames the founding fathers for the Senate. Canada is a living example of
• The fear cycle
  Alex Himelfarb considers the state of crime policy in this country. In her 1997 study
• Are you one of us?
  Michael Ignatieff reemerges with some thoughts on expatriation. May 2 must have been the only
• ‘This proved otherwise, if only temporar ...
  Nick Taylor-Vaisey considers last week’s filibuster as a counterpoint to my previous lamenting for the
• Canada’s warning shot to France via the IMF
  Why Ottawa's decision to flout convention says a lot about its ties to the Old World

Making It Count - CCPA

• BC’s Regressive Tax Shift
  With much of the talk on taxes in BC about the HST, we issued a new report today that looks at the bigger context for BC’s tax system (Vancouver Sun oped here, CTV News story here). Iglika Ivanova, Seth Klein and I compare and contrast BC’s tax system after a decade where tax cuts were [...]
• Not allowed to talk about poverty
  BC Stats put out a release yesterday with the headline “Low Income Cut-Offs (LICOs) are a Poor Measure of Poverty” and author Dan Schrier gets in a dirty hit right in first paragraph: Despite protestations from Statistics Canada that LICOs are not meant to be used as a measure of poverty, there ...
• Fossil fuel expansion as a crime against humanity
  After at 2010 that was one of the warmest years on record, 2011 has shown us astonishing patterns of extreme weather worldwide. It would take a long time to make the full list, but you know what I mean: tornadoes, floods, drought, record cold in some parts, record heat in others, hailstorms (Al ...
• The Attack on Workers: Back(sliding) (in)to th ...
  The public response to recent labour disputes has been a disturbing sideshow to the return of Parliament. What’s remarkable is the level of nastiness that gets tossed around, littered with references to “union stooges” and the ubiquitous “socialist dinosaurs.” Perhaps the most obvious line of at ...
• Summertime and the Reading is Easy
  Staff at the CCPA would like nothing better than to curl up with a good book (or 10) this summer. Since today is the first day of summer, we thought weâd share some of our favourite summer reading suggestions for progressives. What’s on your reading list this summer? Armine Yalnizyan, Senior Eco ...

ReDress

• 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 ...

Physics Today

• Elders offer help at Japan's crippled reactor
  New York Times: The Skilled Veteran Corps has been both lionized as a group of self-sacrificing patriots and derided as a would-be suicide corps, writes Ken Belson for the New York Times. The man who founded it, however, has neither extreme in mind; he simply thinks that it would be a good idea ...
• Computer climate models fall short
  BBC: Precise prediction of catastrophic climate events remains impossible for even the best computer models, according to Paul Valdes of Bristol University in the UK. Models have not been able to "predict" at least four major transformations in the past: the rapidly rising temperatures of the Pa ...
• New reality show promotes innovative stove for ...
  New York Times: A new reality-based cooking show, Stoveman, which airs today on Vimeo, documents the efforts of two men who travel to developing countries to provide the residents with rocket stoves. The show is part of the Paradigm Project, a "low profit" business that depends on revenue earne ...
• SOFIA successfully observes Pluto occultation
  Astronomy: On 23 June NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) observed Pluto's passage in front of a distant star. Planetery occultations—when a star is hidden by a planet that passes between it and the observer—that involve Pluto allow astronomers to study the dwarf pla ...
• Flap-running in birds is key to flight evolution
  BBC: Adult birds will often flap their wings and run up steep inclines rather than fly over them. Brandon Jackson of the University of Montana wanted to know why birds capable of flight use the flap-run motion, writes Victoria Gill for the BBC. To measure birds' muscle activity, Jackson and his ...

Revolutionary Politics

• Bin Laden and Julian Assange, False flag and l ...
  by lalaw (Posted Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:38:12 GMT) It has emerged recently that Assange is in the UK since October which means that all those three successive and massive US documents "leaks" have been orchestrated by him from his secret residence in the UK. So why is this done from the UK. The ans ...
• Houston Police Caught on Tape Beating People C ...
  by Maximilian (Posted Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:44:19 GMT) Thanks for a great show. Good to hear how well things are going for you texas health resources dallas More or less nothing seems worth bothering with. psychic palm reader able, international center for public health, Well done..
• Houston Police Caught on Tape Beating People C ...
  by Helen (Posted Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:09:10 GMT) Perfect site! Much love Hi there to the most loving couple and Jackie, Happy Anniversary and may you both be spared to see many many more !!!!!!! You have proved that people can come through personal tragedy and get on with their lives, your story ...
• Fake Holocaust Memoirs
  by Rev333 (Posted Sat, 25 Jun 2011 11:59:50 GMT) A Schwindler's List
• Oil price and Iran war
  by katsung47 (Posted Fri, 24 Jun 2011 23:54:44 GMT) 11. How can US dollar stands strong when oil price going down? (12/3/08) The oil price now drops below $50/barrel. To my theory, the dollar should drop too. Because the buyers now have excessive petro-dollars. But dollar stands strong. What ha ...

Peakwater

• 800 Somali Kids Arrive In Kenyan Camps Daily
  “An international aid group says over 800 Somali children arrive at Kenyan refugee camps each day to escape their country’s devastating drought. Save the Children says that the children are part of the nearly 1,300 people who come each day to the overcrowded Dadaab refugee camps in northeastern ...
• Agra plan to clean filthy Yamuna
  “Uttar Pradesh officials have devised a novel method to clean up the highly-polluted Yamuna river: excavate 10 ponds to store waste water that was hitherto flowing into the river from 19 drains, treat this and then use it to create clusters of greenery along the river. “This project envisages a ...
• How El Paso Is Beating The Worst Drought In A ...
  “This year’s historic drought has for the first time cajoled cities into water rationing. San Antonio banned all fountains and lawn sprinklers. Galveston asked citizens to avoid filling their swimming pools. Odessa, which could drain its main source of ground water by the end of 2012, is thinkin ...
• Cotter Corp. Refuses To Clean Up Contaminated ...
  “Cotter Corp. is still refusing to clean up contamination at a defunct uranium mine west of Denver, where a now-contaminated creek flows into a metro-area drinking-water reservoir. State mining regulators ordered Cotter to drain highly toxic water from the mine. They contend the Schwartzwalder m ...
• “Super Sand” Cleans Dirty Drinking ...
  “Billions of people lack access to clean drinking water and researchers are constantly searching for cost-effective ways to purify water for rural villages and developing areas. A team of researchers has come up with just such a possible solution using “super sand,” or sand coated in an oxide of ...

D. Kucinich

• Response to an Article by Syrian Arab News Age ...
  Today, the Syrian Arab News Agency published an article that contained a number of mistranslations and mischaracterized statements that I made during a news conference in Damascus. While on fact-finding mission in Syria, I was asked to share my initial reactions with some journalists, which I ...
• Kucinich on Fact-Finding Mission to Syria and ...
  At the request of many of his constituents, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is currently on a fact-finding mission to Syria and Lebanon. He is accompanied by a small delegation which includes his wife, Elizabeth. Congressman Kucinich, who represents a district that includes many Arab-America ...
• Kucinich: Congress Votes Overwhelmingly Agains ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement after the House of Representatives rejected a measure offered by Representative Rooney that would have limited the U.S. involvement in the war in Libya. The Rooney bill was defeated after a bill authorizing the war in Libya wa ...
• Kucinich: Defeat the Authorization for the War
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who has led bipartisan opposition to the war in Libya, today addressed the House, urging his colleagues to take a two-step approach to ending the U.S. involvement in the war in Libya. Congressman Kucinich will also be sending messages encouraging his colle ...
• Kucinich on Proposed Rule Change for National ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a long time advocate for the rights of workers, today issued the following statement in support of a set of proposed rule changes by the National Labor Relations Board that would make the process of secret ballot elections more transparent and equitable. ...

Authentically Wired

• Dr. Vandana Shiva
  �� if you� have never heard her or heard of her this is a great opportunity to get acquainted with her �� she is truly brilliant �� �Dr. Vandana Shiva expresses her strong views about the problems of hunger in the developing world; the struggle of farmers in India; biotechnology, and her prescri ...
• … HFCS … Mon$anto … your hea ...
  ⦠HFCS ⦠Mon$anto ⦠your health ⦠If you live in the United States long enough, most of the carbon atoms in your body will be derived from corn, as demonstrated in the first scene of this clip.   As University of Virginia professor, Steve Macko explains, this carbon doesn’t come from eating ...
• do not want you to know…
  ��NRC and the �nuke� power industry do not want you to know�� 75% of all nuclear reactors in the US are leaking one or more toxic substances. That bit of news quietly squeaked its way across news screens recently and disappeared quickly. In case you missed it, here are the details. Video:� ��htt ...
• … Simply amazing …
  �� Simply amazing �� The Captain of this German U-boat brags that it can maneuver "like a dolphin." �It uses a quiet Diesel engine during routine runs but when it wants to be very quiet, it uses a silent, cold fusion engine. � � Video:� ��http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/page/1695.html � � P. ...
• actual source of this magic purified elixir
  � �� Yet in many cases the actual source of this magic purified elixir is tap water ⦠� You gotta love their ability to misdirect �� to create a mirage �� and so skillfully �we� believe �� Purified Bottled Water Is Not Tap Water, Industry Argues � �The�International Bottled Water Association�on W ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

• Dung beetles: a sewage SWAT team
  Biology Professor Doug Emlen speaks with Laurel Neme on her 'The WildLife' radio show and podcast about the biology and armaments of dung beetles. An expert on the evolution and development of bizarre shapes in insects, Emlen notes that dung beetles are one of the 'kings' of odd morphology.
• How do we save Africa's forests?
  Africa's forests are fast diminishing to the detriment of climate, biodiversity, and millions of people of dependent on forest resources for their well-being. But is the full conservation of Africa's forests necessary to mitigate global climate change and ensure environmental stability in Africa ...
• Could palm oil help save the Amazon?
  For years now, environmentalists have become accustomed to associating palm oil with large-scale destruction of rainforests across Malaysia and Indonesia. Campaigners have linked palm oil-containing products like Girl Scout cookies and soap products to smoldering peatlands and dead orangutans. ...
• Conservation issues in Tanzania
  What's happening in Tanzania? This is a question making the rounds in East African conservation circles. Why is a nation that has so much invested in wild lands and wild animals pursuing projects that researchers say will not only gravely harm some of the nation's world-famous wildlife and ecosy ...
• What does Nature give us? A special Earth Day ...
  There is no question that Earth has been a giving planet. Everything humans have needed to survive, and thrive, was provided by the natural world around us: food, water, medicine, materials for shelter, and even natural cycles such as climate and nutrients. Scientists have come to term such gift ...

Science - NZ Herald

• 4.1 quake strikes West Coast
  Westland was shaken by a 4.1 magnitude earthquake tonight.The 7.43pm tremor was centred 30km south of Whataroa, 114km south-west of Hokitika, at a depth of 5km, GNS Science reported.- NZPA
• The Swedish preschool where gender is ignored
  At the Egalia preschool, staff avoid using words like "him" or "her" and address the 33 youngsters as "friends" rather than girls and boys.From the colour and placement of toys to the choice of books, every detail has been carefully...
• Insurance industry facing a climate of fear
  This month, as the US reeled from some very nasty weather - floods in Mississippi, drought in Texas, tornadoes in the Midwest - the New York Times got right down to brass tacks: given damage to property, crops and lost business,...
• Emperor penguin on the mend, still critical
  Happy Feet seems to be on the mend, despite still being in a critical condition.The Emperor Penguin was taken to Wellington Zoo on Friday after eating sand at Peka Peka Beach on the Kapiti Coast.Its stomach was flushed out...
• Moon Man just wants chance to help people
  The nation knows him as Moon Man, the predictor of weather - and earthquakes. Controversial weather forecaster Ken Ring this week sat down with a reporter for the first time since he was forced to flee his Auckland home this year.It...

Truth Survival + RSS

• BIG SOCIETY, COMMON PURPOSE & AGENDA 21
  Report written by Roma AKA A2B *Special Note from Aaron- For those who have wondered what A2B means. It stands for Allergic to Bullshit. Thanks Roma for telling it like it is.           Thereâs an ever … Continue reading →
• THE SCHUMANN RESONANCE: THE HEART BEAT OF EART ...
  Earlier today Meredith and I were looking over the recent news which is normal for us. We almost everyday find something unusual that gets little recognition by even the Truth Movement community. Today we found two stories that have sparked … Continue reading →
• BASIC FOOD DEHYDRATION WITH MEREDITH
  This is the first in a series of videos we will be making covering Food Dehydration. In this first video Meredith discusses the basics of dehydration and also provides some helpful tips. Future videos will cover dehydrating vegetables, making MREs … Continue reading →
• AGENDA 21: THE GLOBAL POLICE STATE AGENDA OF T ...
    By now most who read Truth Survival or any other website that reports on the truth should be aware of a global plan to take control of land, food, water, cities and more under the United Nation’s comprehension plan … Continue reading →
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    Whether it is a robbery, illegal home invasion or any other situation where your life, liberty and safety of loved ones are in danger you ALWAYS have the right to defend yourself by any means necessary to fight off … Continue reading →

Hit & Run | Reason

• 6th Circuit Upholds ObamaCare
  A 3-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit issued its decision today in the case of Thomas More Law Center v. Obama, ruling that “the minimum coverage provision [of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act] is a valid legislative power by Congress under the ...
• Maryland Police Tase Panicked Car Crash Victim ...
  There have got to be better ways to get a car crash victim who may have been high on PCP out of his car:  A man died while in the custody of Montgomery County police Tuesday after he was subdued with a Taser, according to the department. The 40-year-old man became combative as ...
• Small Florida Town Reaches Major Milestone: Fi ...
  This morning, my hometown of St. Cloud, Florida, (population 24,000, give or take a snowbird) had its "first officer-involved fatal shooting" since the city was incorporated in 1915 as a retirement colony for Civil War veterans. According to the Orlando Sentinel, St. Cloud PD we ...
• CPSC Cribs
  Yesterday, more than 100,000 perfectly good, legally manufactured cribs were transformed into junk by Congress and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) of 2008, which has done serious damage to small toy manufacturers ...
• Holland's Top Court Approves Excluding Foreign ...
  Today the Dutch Council of State, the highest court in the Netherlands, ruled that the mayor of Maastricht acted illegally wen he shut down a cannabis café in 2006 for violating a local ban on selling marijuana to foreigners. But in a statement (PDF) explaining the decision, the cou ...