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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Friday, June 3, 2011

3 June - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

To Do

renewable recycling conservation
The Politics of Alternative Energy 1: The Myth of Viable Industrial-scale ...
Energy Tribune
- Jun 03, 2011
- 1 hour ago
Winston Churchill's dictum could have been coined for the green advocates of the renewable energy revolution; a revolution that demonstrates a thorough-going disconnect between the political rhetoric and a grasp of the physics and economics vital to ...
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Huaneng Renewables Said to Raise $800 Million in H.K. Offer
Bloomberg
- Jun 03, 2011
- 11 hours ago
By Fox Hu - Fri Jun 03 15:00:12 GMT 2011 Huaneng Renewables Corp., the wind- power unit of China's biggest electricity producer, raised HK$6.23 billion ($800 million) in a Hong Kong initial public offering, two people with knowledge of the matter said. ...
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Local e-commerce company illuminates renewable energy solutions
Medill Reports: Chicago
- Jun 02, 2011
- 19 hours ago
“The large federal and state incentives for renewable energy projects helped guarantee the business opportunity in solar PV,” Kuthy acknowledged. Although solar energy has been more robust in states like California, and Illinois has been more heavily ...
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Renewable energy to lower costs, boost economy — German official
GMANews.TV
- Jun 03, 2011
- 10 hours ago
Investments in the production of renewable energy may not only drive down skyrocketing electricity costs but may boost the economy as well, according to a visiting German parliament member. During the first Philippine Solar Photovoltaic Summit held ...
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Human Habitat

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More Longview Fibre wood waste burning OK'd
The Seattle Times
- Jun 03, 2011
- 2 hours ago
The state Ecology Department has approved an expansion of the wood waste burning power plant at the Longview Fibre mill in Longview. The Associated Press Hopefully, the technology will move along so that sooner rather than later, the. ...
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An irreversible shift in shopping centre ecology
Business Spectator
- Jun 02, 2011
- 14 hours ago
Earlier this year Stockland's Matthew Quinn told a property conference that online retailing represented a threat to the traditional shopping centre model. In the long term he is probably right, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. ...
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Ecology invites public to comment on proposed interim cleanup of Cornwall ...
Access Washington
- Jun 02, 2011
- 22 hours ago
The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) will accept public comments from June 6 to July 6, 2011. Ecology staff will meet on June 8, 2011, with Bellingham-area residents to talk about an amendment to the agreed order involving Ecology, ...
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Port of Olympia will continue testing for dioxin near marine terminal
TheNewsTribune.com
- Jun 02, 2011
- Jun 02, 2011
OLYMPIA – The state Department of Ecology has ordered the Port of Olympia to sample stormwater discharged from the marine terminal to determine whether it contains elevated levels of dioxin. OLYMPIA – The state Department of Ecology has ordered the ...
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Water Power

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Tokyo Electric Power Company: More Radioactive Water Could Spill Into Sea
ThirdAge
- Jun 03, 2011
- 6 minutes ago
Tokyo Electric Power Company said that more radioactive water could begin spilling into the sea later this month if ther... Read Moree is an error in establishing a new decontamination system. Tokyo Electric Power Company said that more radioactive ...
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Pall to Participate at Citi Climate Change & Water Investment Conference
Business Wire (press release)
- Jun 03, 2011
- 46 minutes ago
Mr. Seibert will serve on a panel exploring water reuse as an untapped supply. Advances in membrane technologies are expected to enable water reuse to become a significant new source of water. Mr. Seibert is Pall's global leader for large-scale water ...
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Shortages of Fresh Water Seen as Emerging Threat
ABC News
- Jun 03, 2011
- 5 hours ago
By JERRY HARKAVY For AP "The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-first Century" (Scribner), by Alex Prud'homme: Even as motorists fret about the cost of gasoline, a rising chorus of jeremiads warns that shortages of freshwater, ...
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California water pact attacked by GOP congressmen
San Francisco Chronicle
- Jun 03, 2011
- 11 hours ago
(06-03) 04:00 PDT Washington -- House Republicans representing the San Joaquin Valley pressed their attack on California's plan to restore water to fisheries and wildlife, holding a hearing Thursday on a bill that would gut a key bipartisan pact passed ...
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The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Ahmadinejad wants an anti-Zionist Egypt and ho ...
    Summary: The Egyptian delegation visiting Iran is made up of academics, clerics and media representatives. "Our enemies do not want us to rebuild our ties because they know a great political and economic power will emerge from our cooperation," Ahmadinejad said, according to Reuters. "If w ...
  • Netanyahu’s speech to the US Congress: Racism, ...
    Summary: Composed of roughly equal parts racism, war-mongering, fawning and fabrication, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s speech before a joint session of the U.S. Congress on May 24 was received with adulation by the assembled Democrats and Republicans alike. Netanyahu dev ...
  • Debunking the Top Seven Myths on Iran's Middle ...
    Summary: This evening, I listened to the radio program Tehran Rising produced by America Abroad—a program distributed by Public Radio International—and I must say that I was deeply disturbed by the way the program was framed. The program centers on "spreading Iranian influence" in the Middle ...
  • Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant to join na ...
    Summary: Bushehr ReactorTEHRAN, May 31 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi said Tuesday that his country is getting ready to connect Bushehr nuclear power plant to the national grid in one month, the official IRNA news agency reported. source: China Viewread more
  • Iran to host nuclear disarmament confaerence
    Summary: Iran has announced it will host another two-day conference in the capital, Tehran, to unite efforts for the nuclear disarmament across the globe. source: PressTVread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • "Will Life Beyond Earth Have DNA Roots?" World ...
    "To the best of our knowledge, the twenty-one original chemicals chosen by known life do not constitute a unique set; other choices could have been made, and maybe were made if life started elsewhere many times." Paul Davies -leading authority...
  • Is a New Species Living Without Oxygen a Previ ...
    A newly identified species, a loriciferan identified as a species of the genus Spinoloricus discovered by Roberto Danovaro at the Polytechnic University of Marche in Ancona, Italy last year may provide a preview of future discoveries of alien lifeforms. “The...
  • 'The Daily Galaxy' June Contest -Win a Free $5 ...
    Use it towards a purchase of an iPhone, iPad, Apple TV or Hundreds of Other Apple Products and Accessories. Users of Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Reddit, and StumbleUpon are invited to discover, review and share Daily Galaxy posts you love on...
  • An Asteroid Missed Earth this Week -What are t ...
    An asteroid the size of a truck zoomed near Earth this week (June 1), coming closer to us than the moon ever does. The 23-foot-long (7-meter) space rock, named 2009 BD, came within 215,000 miles (346,000 kilometers) of Earth at...
  • Hot Rocks: Magnetic "Poles" Once at The Equator
    It has been 780,000 years since the last reversal, so we may be long overdue one. But will lethal radiation from space bombard the Earth, as it drops its protective magnetic shield during the reversal? Italian scientists studying one of...

Natural News

  • 18 U.S. veterans commit suicide daily; largely ...
    (NaturalNews) "If mentally incapacitated troops are being drugged with dangerous, mind-altering drugs and deployed to battle against their will, how can we say that we have a volunteer army?" asked Alliance for Human Research Protection, the national network dedicated to advancing responsible an ...
  • How doctors are bought off by medical device m ...
    (NaturalNews) When it comes to advertising, are doctors really immune? Every year, millions of dollars are spent by pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers in attempts to win over physicians. All-expense-paid trips to Hawaii, season tickets to sporting events, lavish dinners, e ...
  • Scientists push to implement edible RFID track ...
    (NaturalNews) It will monitor your calorie intake, show from where your food was sourced, and even let you know when the food in your fridge is about to go bad -- these are some of the enticing claims made by the developers of a new system that embeds edible radio frequency identification (RFID) ...
  • At-cost special on certified organic Chia seed ...
    (NaturalNews) As a way of saying thank you to NaturalNews readers, we have arranged for a one-time ridiculous discount on certified organic chia seeds that allows you to get them AT OUR COST. Yes, we don't profit a dime on this, and the savings for you are incredible. Why are we doing this when ...
  • E.coli superbug outbreak in Germany due to abu ...
    (NaturalNews) The e.coli outbreak in Germany is raising alarm worldwide as scientists are now describing this particular strain of e.coli as "extremely aggressive and toxic." Even worse, the strain is resistant to antibiotics, making it one of the world's first widespread superbug food infection ...

Threat Level

  • Feds: WikiLeaks Associates Have ‘No Right’ To ...
    Three associates of WikiLeaks challenging a government demand for records of their Twitter use have no right to information about similar demands that may have been issued to other internet companies, the Justice Department told a federal judge Thursday. “[T]he subscribersâ demand for more itemi ...
  • Feds: WikiLeaks Associates Have ‘No Right’ To ...
    Three associates of WikiLeaks challenging a government demand for records of their Twitter use have no right to information about similar demands that may have been issued to other internet companies, the Justice Department told a federal judge Thursday. “[T]he subscribersâ demand for more itemi ...
  • Sony Hit Yet Again; Consumer Passwords Exposed
    The hacker group that took over the website of PBS NewsHour last weekend has returned to its first love — hacking Sony. LulzSec announced Thursday it hacked servers at Sony Pictures and Sony BMG. The group posted what appear to be the stolen e-mail addresses and passwords of about 50,000 consum ...
  • Sony Hit Yet Again; Consumer Passwords Exposed
    The hacker group that took over the website of PBS NewsHour last weekend has returned to its first love — hacking Sony. LulzSec announced Thursday it hacked servers at Sony Pictures and Sony BMG. The group posted what appear to be the stolen e-mail addresses and passwords of about 50,000 consum ...
  • Photo Gallery: Weird Government ‘Unabomber’ Au ...
    A two-week online auction of Theodore Kaczynski's writings and other material seized from his Montana cabin in 1996 is winding down. Some call it macabre, others say it's settling a debt to society.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Romney Launches Mitt 3.0
    On Thursday, Mitt Romney used a New Hampshire backdrop to announce his second run for the White House. If nothing else, Romney's candidacy is a boon for fans of metaphors. With more personalities than Sybil, Romney is a political Zelig, a man desperately trying to transform himself into whatev ...
  • 10 Inconvenient Truths About the Debt Ceiling
    Bolstered by new polls and fresh off their vote to bar an increase in the nation's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling, House Republicans swaggered into the White House for the latest negotiation to end their economic hostage taking. One, Rep. Jeff Landry of Louisiana, refused to attend and be "lecture ...
  • Republicans Play Debt Ceiling Joke on Themselves
    On Tuesday, grandstanding House Republicans will hold a vote on a so-called "clean bill" to raise the nation's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling. Despite his party having voted seven times to double the debt limit while President Bush sat in the Oval Office, Majority Leader Eric Cantor has promised t ...
  • This Memorial Day, Let's Pay for Our Wars
    On Memorial Day, Americans in big cities, small towns and rural communities commemorate those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. As President Obama spoke at a solemn ceremony of remembrance at Arlington National Cemetery, blogs left and right fittingly asked their readers to send ...
  • GOP Medicare Killers Now Pretend to Be Saviors
    After their debacle in the New York special election last week, Republicans promised to improve the marketing of Paul Ryan's plan to privatize and ration Medicare. We now know what that new and improved message will be. As one Republican aide regurgitated the new GOP sound bite, "We want to sa ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Category:Culture jamming - Wikipedia, the free ...
    Culture jamming is a tactic in which an activist attempts to disrupt or subvert mainstream cultural institutions or corporate advertising. ...
  • Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters | Journal ...
    Designed to be an activist tool, this site allows culture jammers to learn about, and take steps to stop, the marketing pollutants in the mental environment.
  • Judge Dredd Megazine Leaks The SVK Cover
    Sort of. This is the June 2011 issue, out now, and, as you can see, it features a lengthy interview with my old mate and SVK artist, D’Israeli, aka the sainted Matt Brooker and one of my most trusted collaborators.
  • WikiLeaks Cables Reveal "Secret History" of U. ...
    The Nation magazine, in partnership with the Haitian weekly newspaper, Haïti Liberté, has launched a series of reports based on more than 19,000 classified U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks. Called "The PetroCaribe Files," the series begins with an exposé of how the United States—with ...
  • Seymour Hersh on the Arab Spring, "Disaster" U ...
    Veteran investigative reporter Seymour Hersh assesses the popular uprisings sweeping the Middle East and North Africa amidst ongoing U.S. wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. Despite touted gains and an upcoming U.S. military withdrawal deadline in Iraq, Hersh says: "Whatever you're hearing, ...

Consortium News

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

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Free trees for Texas!
    Odwalla is donating $100,000 to plant trees in the United States this year. You have a vote in where those trees will be planted! Visit www.odwalla.com/plantatree and plant your tree in Texas. Each tree planted online equals $1 your state will receive to plant real trees in Texas State Parks. La ...
  • Drought worsens in Texas
    More than half the state of Texas is now gripped by the most extreme level of drought measured by climatologists and as I look out my window at the lush green strip of lawn in front of the office building across the street, I wonder how long they will be able to keep watering to [...]
  • Why Can’t We Get It Right? New German Energy P ...
    In  an energy  article published today,  The New York Times reports German Prime Minister Angela Merkel abandoned plans for extending the life of Germany’s nuclear power plants and ordered them to be closed by 2022. This is a stunning reversal of energy policy for the German Chancellor consid ...
  • PEC lawyer found guilty
    A Kendall County jury found former Pedernales Electric Cooperative legal counsel Walter Demond guilty of all three felony charges outlined in his June 2009 indictment. Demond was found guilty of theft, misapplication of fiduciary property and money laundering. The jury recommended that Demond re ...
  • Texas Legislature Fails to Protect Public Heal ...
    Today, several Texas environmental organizations spoke up on the recent Texas legislative session and their failure to protect public health or achieve clean energy jobs potential for the state.  Sierra Club, Environmental Defense Fund, Public Citizen, and SEED Coalition hold Texas State Legisla ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • AIPAC: Dangerous for Jews and Other Living Things
    Over the last couple of days official Washington has been abuzz with what President Obama said, and didn't say, about the 1967 borders between Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. The president didn't say anything that hasn't been official U.S. policy under both Republican and Democr ...
  • Indigenous Farmers Hostage in Guatemala -- Eco ...
    � In this third blog of the Field Notes series, Grassroots� Program Coordinator for Latin America Saulo Araújo analyzes the situation in which Guatemala�s indigenous Mayans are facing fear and despair in their own land. Saulo is currently visiting partners and ally organizations in Central Ameri ...
  • Gaza Diaries: Leaving a Legacy of Seeds
    gaza_seed_bank.jpg RAFAH, Gaza—I’m sitting around a table at the Rural Women’s Development Society (RWDS) near the Gaza Strip’s southernmost border with a group of women discussing grassroots agricultural initiatives and drinking sugary sa ...
  • Peasant women learn to fight for their land ri ...
    el_estribo_womens_group.jpg This is second blog in the Field Notes series. Read the first one here. Grassroots’ Program Coordinator for Latin America Saulo Araújo is reporting as he visits partners and allies in Central America.read more
  • Al-Nakba demonstrations experience violence
    Below is an article from Grassroots International�s ally, the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, outlining actions planned for the commemoration of the 63rd�anniversary of the Nakba on May 15, 2011. Al-Nakba, which means �the catastrophe� in Arabic, commemorates the day in 1948 on which ...

Climate

  • Study Warns Major Economies' Energy Security a ...
    Source:� BusinessGreen Six of the G7 countries, including the UK and the US, are at a high risk of short-term disruptions to energy supply as a result of global political instability and shrinking conventional energy sources, ...
  • U.S. Coal Film Aims to Put Wind in Green Energ ...
    Source:� AFP A new film protesting against US coal mining and starring Robert F. Kennedy Jr. aims to boost green alternatives such as wind power and highlight "criminal" destruction by the industry. �
  • Costs Impede Switch to Clean Boiler Fuel
    Source:� NYT Green A report recommends giving rent-regulated buildings in New York City priority in any financial aid that materializes to help convert their boilers so that they can burn cleaner oil.
  • Australia: Utility Looks to Sub Gas for Coal
    Source:� ABC News The head of Australia power generator TRUenergy said the company would be prepared to switch from brown coal to gas-fired energy if the Federal Government coughs up the right financial assistance under the pr ...
  • EU Says No Decision on Bilateral Carbon Credit ...
    Source:� Reuters The European Commission has not made any formal decision about allowing U.N.-backed carbon credits into its emissions trading scheme under bilateral deals, an EU official said on Thursday.

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

Booman Tribune

  • For Once, Boehner is Right
    As you probably know, I wrote more than a dozen pieces advising the president not to involve U.S. troops in Libya's civil war. What you probably don't know is that I am in favor of a strict interpretation of the War Powers Resolution that requires the president to notify Congress within 48 hour ...
  • Breitbart Redux
    Isn't this Angry, Angy Bird's time about up? Weinergate? Really? I hope Shirley Sherrod's or Rep. Weiner's and others' lawyers takes him to the cleaners. It's clear that no one in our so-called liberal media will do the "hard (not all that hard) work" bloggers have done time after time ...
  • Lazy Holiday Post
    Finn says many thanks to everyone for the mosquito-avoiding advice - the bites are healing, and he doesn't have any new ones!What are you-all up to? I have another batch of German potato salad in the works - yesterday's got devoured already. Discuss
  • Who Saved Michigan, Who Wanted it to Fail?
    Today, in a speech officially announcing his candidacy for president that the cable networks couldn't be bothered to cover in full, Mitt Romney declared that our country is inches away from no longer being a free-market economy and accused President Obama of having "failed America." Funny t ...
  • The Lord of the Underworld Worm
    Okay, they named a newly discovered worm 'Halicephalobus mephisto'? That is too cool. And why shouldn't the Lord of the Underworld come in worm-form? Are worms not the symbol of death? What am I talking about, you ask? They've discovered multicellular roundworms living up to two miles b ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Is Childhood ADHD a Precursor to Substance Abuse?
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline New research suggests that childhood ADHD poses an increased risk of substance abuse in both girls and boys. Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital reviewed two previous studies to determine what factors, if any, in addition to ADHD, caused increased like ...
  • Can Brain Activity Predict Future Depressive S ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline In a study conducted at the University of Toronto, researchers found that when a person who has suffered depressive symptoms in the past, is exposed to a sad experience, their brain’s response to the sadness can foretell if they will fall into a depressive episode ...
  • Sense of Control Over Life Decreases Depressio ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline New research suggests that African American men can decrease depressive symptoms by increasing their “perceived mastery.” The concept of “perceived mastery” is defined as having a sense of control of one’s own life circumstances. Achieving perceived mastery is qua ...
  • Child ADHD and Summer Activities
    By Jeffrey S. Gallup, MA, LPC, Child & Adolescent Issues Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jeffrey and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile During summer while away from school many children lose of some of their academic skills that help them to succeed at their classes. Loss of thes ...
  • Full Recovery from Eating Disorders: Is it Pos ...
    By Josie Tuttle, MA Eating & Food Issues Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Josie and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile After 6 years in the depths of anorexia, my eating disorder was a way of life. Starving had become my world. It was the way I dealt with anger, fear, hurt, frustra ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Powerful New Film Portrays Life with Mountaint ...
    Powerful New Film Portrays Life with Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) On Friday theaters across the country will start showing The Last Mountain, a powerful documentary about the ravages of mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia. The film focuse ...
  • Powerful New Film Portrays Life with Mountaint ...
    Powerful New Film Portrays Life with Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) On Friday theaters across the country will start showing The Last Mountain, a powerful documentary about the ravages of mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia. The film focuse ...
  • Is it Time to Ditch Big Coal Stocks? - Minyanv ...
    Is it Time to Ditch Big Coal Stocks? Minyanville.com A new documentary is set to raise awareness about the devastating effects of mountaintop removal, just as support for wind power farms begins to gain real traction. It has all the makings of an energy fairytale: ... and more��
  • Is it Time to Ditch Big Coal Stocks? - Minyanv ...
    Is it Time to Ditch Big Coal Stocks? Minyanville.com A new documentary is set to raise awareness about the devastating effects of mountaintop removal, just as support for wind power farms begins to gain real traction. It has all the makings of an energy fairytale: ... and more��
  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Colbert Report: Big C ...
    Treehugger Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Colbert Report: Big Coal Destroyed Area the Size of ... Treehugger 2.11 Ah, mountaintop removal mining. It's perhaps the most needlessly destructive practice we've currently got going -- there's nothing quite like blowing entire mountains to bits to make gett ...

Memeorandum

  • Media chase Palin, and her sway grows (Edward ...
    Edward Morrissey / CNN: Media chase Palin, and her sway grows  —  Editor's note: Edward Morrissey, a conservative, is a senior editor and correspondent for HotAir.com.  —  (CNN) — Will Sarah Palin run for the Republican presidential nomination?  This question has absorbed the political media, ...
  • Sarah Palin's History Lesson: Paul Revere Warn ...
    Tanya Somanader / ThinkProgress: Sarah Palin's History Lesson: Paul Revere Warned The British  —  In what is somehow “not a publicity seeking tour,” Tea Party maven Sarah Palin is traipsing around the nation's historic landmarks in her “One Nation” bus to “take Americans back to their roots.”
  • Federal Judge Prohibits Prayer at Texas Gradua ...
    Todd Starnes / Fox News: Federal Judge Prohibits Prayer at Texas Graduation Ceremony  —  A federal judge has ordered a Texas school district to prohibit public prayer at a high school graduation ceremony.  —  Chief U.S. District Judge Fred Biery's order against the Medina Valley Independent Sch ...
  • Groupon Economics - Via Jacob Goldstein, accor ...
    Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress: Groupon Economics  —  Via Jacob Goldstein, according to its IPO filing Groupon seems to have achieved its impressive growth through a campaign of aggressive deficit spending:  —  Maybe this will work out, or maybe it will be a disaster.  But it's worth noting ...
  • Documents show FCC coordinated 'Net Neutrality ...
    Conn Carroll / Washington Examiner: Documents show FCC coordinated ‘Net Neutrality’ effort with outside group  —  Senior Editorial Writer Follow Him @Conncarroll  —  Documents made public yesterday by Judicial Watch describe extensive collusion by Federal Communications Commission officials wit ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Confronting China's industrial ghosts
    Former factory sites could help ease tensions between arable land and urban development – but first they need to be cleaned up. Robert Best reports on a nascent remediation industry.The Olympic Games in Beijing and World Expo in Shanghai drew attention to one of China’s biggest environmental pro ...
  • Wanted: a databank of disasters
    If world governments could turn to a central information source on natural catastrophes, many lives could be saved through better preparedness, climate-hazards expert Bill McGuire tells Robin McKie.Devastating natural disasters have killed close to a million people and caused billions of dollars ...
  • Wanted: a databank of disasters
    If world governments could turn to a central information source on natural catastrophes, many lives could be saved through better preparedness, climate-hazards expert Bill McGuire tells Robin McKie.Devastating natural disasters have killed close to a million people and caused billions of dollars ...
  • Bhutan’s modern face
    Thimphu, the fast-developing capital of the Kingdom of Bhutan, is one of the cities most vulnerable to climate change in the world. But it is unprepared for the crisis, reports Dawa T Wangchuk.Over the past few decades, Thimphu – the capital of Bhutan – has transformed from a beautiful little to ...
  • The dead rivers of Kathmandu
    Urban sprawl is driving a deepening water crisis in Nepal’s capital. Ramesh Prasad Bhushal reports from the Kathmandu valley as part of a chinadialogue series on urbanisation in the Himalayas.Editor’s note: today, continuing a special series on urbanisation in the Himalayas, chinadialogue presen ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Stanley Crouch Channels David Horowitz and Att ...
    Is the enemy of my enemy my friend? Neatly tied together here, Stanley Crouch has chimed in on Cornel West’s critique of Barack Obama. Interestingly, Grimace look alike Stanley Crouch defends Obama and the “blackademics” against West’s charges that the President’s policies are contrary to the go ...
  • Right-wing Focus on the Family’s Chillin ...
    Written by Vyckie Garrison of No Longer Quivering for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice. So ~ the “refocus” of FOTF is shifting away from opposing same-sex marriage and instead focusing on making it more difficult to obtain a divorce. Does an ...
  • NOM’s methods of ‘defending marria ...
    Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage claims that his organization wants a respectful discussion as to the merits of being against marriage equality. However based on the actions of NOM – and the organizations it is partnering with in New York and Minnesota – one can’t help bu ...
  • 1,500 Broken Promises from Afghanistan War Backers
    With Memorial Day coming up, we should take a moment to consider something that’s gone largely unremarked in the mainstream media: more than 1,500 troops have now died in a war the American people oppose. That’s a national tragedy, and it’s one Congress can mitigate by demanding a date certain f ...
  • Defending the Rights of the Women Who Defend Us
    Written by Sarah Lipton-Lubet, ACLU Washington Legislative Office, for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice. This week, Reps. Susan Davis (D-Calif.), Robert D. Andrews (D-N.J.), Diana DeGette (D-Colo.), Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), Loretta Sanc ...

Threat Level

  • Feds: WikiLeaks Associates Have ‘No Right’ To ...
    Three associates of WikiLeaks challenging a government demand for records of their Twitter use have no right to information about similar demands that may have been issued to other internet companies, the Justice Department told a federal judge Thursday. “[T]he subscribersâ demand for more itemi ...
  • Feds: WikiLeaks Associates Have ‘No Right’ To ...
    Three associates of WikiLeaks challenging a government demand for records of their Twitter use have no right to information about similar demands that may have been issued to other internet companies, the Justice Department told a federal judge Thursday. “[T]he subscribersâ demand for more itemi ...
  • Sony Hit Yet Again; Consumer Passwords Exposed
    The hacker group that took over the website of PBS NewsHour last weekend has returned to its first love — hacking Sony. LulzSec announced Thursday it hacked servers at Sony Pictures and Sony BMG. The group posted what appear to be the stolen e-mail addresses and passwords of about 50,000 consum ...
  • Sony Hit Yet Again; Consumer Passwords Exposed
    The hacker group that took over the website of PBS NewsHour last weekend has returned to its first love — hacking Sony. LulzSec announced Thursday it hacked servers at Sony Pictures and Sony BMG. The group posted what appear to be the stolen e-mail addresses and passwords of about 50,000 consum ...
  • Photo Gallery: Weird Government ‘Unabomber’ Au ...
    A two-week online auction of Theodore Kaczynski's writings and other material seized from his Montana cabin in 1996 is winding down. Some call it macabre, others say it's settling a debt to society.

Equality Trust

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    Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon.   They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future in ...
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  • The Wrong Cure - alternatives to the cuts
    The False Economy website is an excellent and still-developing resource exploring the alternatives to cuts. False Economy includes: a discussion of why the cuts are not progressive details of campaign actions a comprehensive further reading list ... and this short film [youtube:ynUCYo ...

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • U.S. Press starts to cover Europe's E. coli Ou ...
    The U.S. Press machine has finally taken notice of an expanding tragedy happening in Europe (with two reported HUS cases now in U.S.). Europe's Deadly E. Coli Outbreak a 'Wake-Up Call' Over Global Food Distribution Smoking gun elusive in deadly E. coli outbreak Illnesses can occur days after ...
  • European E. coli O104:H4 Outbreak Death Toll R ...
    New numbers from overnight:� 18 Dead by E. coli O104:H4 1,534 Ill with E. coli O104:H4 470 with Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome Source: Still Elusive
  • Amarillo Linked to E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak
    The Amarillo Department of Health confirmed late Wednesday afternoon they are investigating seven confirmed cases of E. coli 0157:H7. A spokesperson for the department said that all current reported cases are with children and that no specific food has been linked to the outbreak. Four of the ...
  • Amarillo Daycare Linked to E. coli O157:H7 Out ...
    The Amarillo Department of Health confirmed late Wednesday afternoon they are investigating seven confirmed cases of E. coli 0157:H7. A spokesperson for the department said that all current reported cases are with children and that no specific food has been linked to the outbreak. Four of the ...
  • SEPARATING THE WHEAT FROM THE CHAFF - The real ...
    I have been litigating foodborne illness cases for nearly two decades. The key to my success has been to find a quick, reliable method of distinguishing between legitimate food poisoning claims and suspect ones. In my experience, the food industry, from farmer to retailer to restaurant, tends to ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Majority of Americans want 62 mpg CAFE standar ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal If you want to find examples of ways Americans disagree on politics, all you need to do is turn on any cable news channel right now. But here's a curious case of the majority agreeing on one important point: 62 percent of Americans support an increase in the aver ...
  • Majority of Americans want 62 mpg CAFE standar ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal If you want to find examples of ways Americans disagree on politics, all you need to do is turn on any cable news channel right now. But here's a curious case of the majority agreeing on one important point: 62 percent of Americans support an increase in the aver ...
  • New York 2011: Honda Civic Hybrid scores 44 mp ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hybrid, Sedan, Honda 2012 Honda Civic Hybrid - Click above for high-res image gallery It's not 50 miles per gallon (rest, easy Prius), but the mpg numbers for the 2012 Honda Civic Hybrid impress us nonetheless: 44/44/44. That's city/highway/combined, and it's ...
  • New York 2011: Mitsubishi sets price of all-el ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hatchback, Mitsubishi, Electric Mitsubishi i - Click above for high-res image gallery Some bits of good news come with a head scratcher. At the New York Auto Show today, Mitsubishi announced that the all-electric i will start at just $27,990 in the U.S. Once ...
  • New York 2011: Suzuki Kizashi EcoCharge Concep ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hybrid, Suzuki Suzuki Kizashi EcoCharge Concept - Click above for high-res image gallery For a car that doesn't exist - yet - the Suzuki Kizashi hybrid certainly rears its head an awful lot. The rumor had been that Suzuki wanted to release the car in 2011, b ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • Geronimo Jijaga Pratt dies in Africa
    Former Black Panther Geronimo Jijaga Pratt died in Africa today. He was imprisoned for 27 years, until his case was overturned in 1997. Hear Democracy Now!’s Oct. 5, 2000 Inteview: http://ow.ly/594MV
  • Coming Up on Friday: Seymour Hersh on "Iran an ...
    Tune in Friday for an extensive interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh about his new article "Iran and the Bomb." Hersh writes: "There is a large body of evidence including some of America’s most highly classified intelligence assessments, suggesting that the United Stat ...
  • Egyptians Fill Tahrir Square For a 'Second Day ...
    Last Friday, more than three months after former Egyptian president Hosni Mobarak was ousted from power, tens of thousands of protesters poured into downtown Cairo’s Tahrir Square for what they called a "second day of rage." In the largest demonstration since Mubarak stepped down, protesters c ...
  • Hope and Resistance in Honduras
    While most in the United States were recognizing Memorial Day with a three-day weekend, the people of Honduras were engaged in a historic event: the return of President Manuel Zelaya, 23 months after he was forced into exile at gunpoint in the first coup in Central America in a quarter-century. ...
  • "Furkan Had a Huge Heart": Ahmet Dogan On His ...
    On the first anniversary of Israel’s deadly attack on the Gaza-bound aid ship, the Mavi Marmara, we feature an interview with Ahmet Dogan, the father of Turkish-American, Furkan Dogan, the youngest of nine activists killed in the raid. Furkan Dogan was born in Troy, New York, and moved to Turk ...

Digg Green

Invisible Opportunity

  • The Nameless Villains in the Shadows
    By Les Visible Yes, out of the blue comes a strange and virulent, never seen before, e-coli bacteria, showing up in diverse locations far afield from one another. The larger assault is taking place in Germany. Now, which nation would want to attack Germany? Which nation would want to sabotage th ...
  • 18 Signs That Life In U.S. Public Schools Is N ...
    In the United States today, our public schools are not very good at educating our students, but they sure are great training grounds for learning how to live in a Big Brother police state control grid. Sadly, life in many U.S. public schools is now essentially equivalent to life in U.S. prisons. ...
  • 78 percent of Pakistani children with polio we ...
    by: Daniel Erickson (NaturalNews) In the last year, as Pakistan has lost favor with the US and UNICEF, polio virus has paralyzed increasing numbers of Pakistani youth, casting doubt on the good intentions of those who fight polio. To make matters worse, most of the new cases have occurred in chi ...
  • Higher Love and the Mastery of the World
    By Les Visible Love motivates me. I study myself constantly and the same goes for studying other people. I rely heavily on vibrations when determining people’s motivations and whether they can fit into my little world. In the eleven years I have been in Europe I’ve had less than a dozen visits f ...
  • Higher Love and the Mastery of the World
    By Les Visible Love motivates me. I study myself constantly and the same goes for studying other people. I rely heavily on vibrations when determining people’s motivations and whether they can fit into my little world. In the eleven years I have been in Europe I’ve had less than a dozen visits f ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Sprout Living Lamp Doubles as a Lush Terrarium
    Created for homeowners who struggle with incorporating plants into their home decor, Emily Paul’s Sprout Living Lamp offers a striking yet space-efficient lighting fixture that combines the best of both worlds. The lamp base and shade are made with found materials, and its insides are brimming w ...
  • Broken Blender Rewired Into a Bright Retro Lamp
    The improper disposal of e-waste can be a serious detriment to the environment and the health of humans. So instead of trashing this broken blender, Minda Merinsky transformed it into a brand new lamp with a stellar retro vibe. Re-wired so that the original on/off switch became the light switch, ...
  • The Wheeler School Student Center Is a Green-R ...
    Read the rest of The Wheeler School Student Center Is a Green-Roofed Glass Gem Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", ann beha architects, Daylighting, eco design, eco school, energy efficient design, green architecture, Green Building, green roof, green sch ...
  • Gilles Eichenbaum Creates Extraordinary Lamps ...
    Coffee pots, colanders, toasters and kettles all sound like pretty ordinary items that you would find in your kitchen. Yet, Gilles Eichenbaum effortlessly transforms these objects from ordinary to extraordinary by crafting beautiful artistic lamps out of old and disused kitchenware in his small ...
  • Blowfish-Inspired Lamp Creates Hypnotic Circle ...
    Using simple materials like a fish bowl and plastic tubes, Andrea Carvajal’s “Fugu” is a stunning light fixture inspired by the Japanese for puffer fish (from which it also takes its name). This blowfish-like lamp creates an interesting array of mesmerizing circles when illuminated. A finalist ...

Pogue's Posts

  • Flipping to Grilled Cheese
    The creator of the late, great Flip videocamera is ready for his next venture--grilled cheese sandwiches. Meanwhile, he mused on the Flip's demise.
  • Flipping to Grilled Cheese
    The creator of the late, great Flip videocamera is ready for his next venture--grilled cheese sandwiches. Meanwhile, he mused on the Flip's demise.
  • Movie Watching Is a Scavenger Hunt
    It's surprising how many movies cannot be streamed or downloaded. And not just obscure art films, but popular movies, too.
  • Movie Watching Is a Scavenger Hunt
    It's surprising how many movies cannot be streamed or downloaded. And not just obscure art films, but popular movies, too.
  • Technology, or Lack Thereof, at the Podium
    Anyone giving talks with PowerPoint or Keynote quickly learns to be clever and resourceful because some sites lack the proper basic technology.

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Time-Lapse Video Catches Milky Way Season in Swing
    Far from starscape-dulling city lights, farmer and photographer Randy Halverson spent three weeks creating a new video of the spinning night sky.
  • Synthetic Biologists Use DNA to Calculate Squa ...
    By John Timmer, Ars Technica Biological systems have caught the attention of computer scientists, who have been turning everything from RNA molecules to entire bacterial colonies into logic gates. So far, however, these systems have been relatively small-scale, with only a handful of gates li ...
  • Hot Bodies Sink Faster
    New high-speed videos show that a hot sphere falls more than twice as fast through liquid than a cold sphere, a finding that may someday help ease high-speed submarines through the sea.
  • Reader Photos: Super Speedy Solar Prominence
    A fleetly fleeing solar flare surprised astrophotographer John Stetson when it erupted off the sun May 25. “Many prominences this large are quiescent,” Stetson told Wired.com in an email. “This active prom was so dynamic that the changes could be noticed in live time at the eyepiece.” In the 20 ...
  • Emperor Penguins Rotate Through Giant Huddle f ...
    Massive huddles of male Emperor penguins are crucial to keep them warm during Antarctica's brutal winter while they incubate their eggs. The trick with these groups is to get the packing just right. If too loose, they won’t stay warm.

PakAlert

  • War Zones: As The Economy Dies, Murders, Shoot ...
    As the U.S. economy falls apart and millions of Americans descend into despair we are seeing some really shocking things start to happen all over America. The mainstream media keeps telling us that crime is under control, but they are also the ones that keep telling us that we are in the midst ...
  • Video: Is The Willis Tower Being Set Up For A ...
    Will There Be A New False Flag Attack On Chicago's Sears Tower?" In the past, we have covered the Tower's connections to Silverstein, Emanuel & the Private Intelligence Complex. But now there may be a new piece to add to the puzzle. While looking through the print edition of yesterday's New York ...
  • Double-Dip Recession: It Can’t Happen…But It’s ...
    It was just as recently as a year ago that the authorities in politics, business and academe were stating boldly and confidently that the nation's economy was on the mend, and that there was no chance of a backslide into recession again. Take Lakshman Achuthan and Anirvan Banerji who are, respec ...
  • Foreign Hand Behind PNS Mehran Base Attack in ...
    Information pieced together by anti-terror experts has confirmed that the May 22 attack at PNS Mehran Base in Karachi was the work of professionals and fully trained terrorists backed and supported by foreign authority and intelligence network. Officials engaged in recollection of information fr ...
  • 32 Signs That The Entire World Is Being Transf ...
    Do you want your children and grandchildren to live in a futuristic "big brother" control grid where everything they do is watched, recorded, tracked and tightly controlled? Well, that is exactly where things are headed. We witnessed some really bad totalitarian regimes during the 20th century ...

Andy Worthington

  • Open City: New London Film Festival Screening ...
    ââOutside the Lawâ is a powerful film that has helped ensure that Guantánamo and the men unlawfully held there have not been forgotten.â Kate Allen, Director, Amnesty International UK â[T]his is a strong movie examining the imprisonment and subsequent torture of those falsely accused of anti-Am ...
  • Open City: New London Film Festival Screening ...
    ââOutside the Lawâ is a powerful film that has helped ensure that Guantánamo and the men unlawfully held there have not been forgotten.â Kate Allen, Director, Amnesty International UK â[T]his is a strong movie examining the imprisonment and subsequent torture of those falsely accused of anti-Am ...
  • Guantánamo: The Definitive Prisoner List &#821 ...
    Please support my work! Since I began my quest to discover the stories of the Guantánamo prisoners, and to bring those stories to the world, which I first embarked upon over five years ago, I have endeavoured to make that information as accessible as possible. A major step in achieving th ...
  • WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo ...
    One of the great publicity coups in WikiLeaks’ recent release of classified military documents relating to the majority of the 779 prisoners held at Guantánamo, as I explained in the first part of this five-part series, was to shine a light on the stories of the first 201 prisoners to be freed f ...
  • Bradley Manning and WikiLeaks: New Film by the ...
    To mark the first anniversary of the arrest of Pfc. Bradley Manning, the alleged whistleblower responsible for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified US military documents and diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks, the Guardian has produced a 19-minute film, “The madness of Bradley Manning?” telli ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Council of Conservative Citizens Networking wi ...
    Seems the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC) has some new allies these days. The group’s Tennessee chapter is co-hosting a June 18 barbeque with two notorious skinhead groups, Volksfront and Blood and Honour, according to postings on the chapter’s website and other racist forums. The event, ...
  • Former Cops Sentenced in Cover-Up of Immigrant ...
    Two former Pennsylvania police officers convicted of working to cover up the beating death of a Mexican immigrant more than two years ago – a hate crime that turned the nation’s attention to swelling violence against Latinos – have been sentenced to prison. Former Shenandoah Police Chief Matthew ...
  • ‘Defending’ the West, One Word At ...
    Pamela Geller, one of the most visible and influential agitators in the anti-Muslim fear-mongering movement, has an even taller soapbox now that the far-right website WorldNetDaily (WND) announced this week that she would produce a weekly column called “Defending the West” â a column dedicated t ...
  • Neo-Nazi Allegedly Wanted to Supply Bombs to N ...
    A neo-Nazi accused of making illegal explosive devices apparently was interested in supplying those munitions to anti-immigration groups patrolling the U.S.-Mexican border in Arizona, court documents reveal. Jeffery Harbin, a member of the white supremacist National Socialist Movement (NSM), was ...
  • It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World: Klan Takes on West ...
    It’s a new and twisted world when the Ku Klux Klan takes on the Westboro Baptist Church, the famously rabid anti-gay group founded by Fred Phelps in Topeka, Kan. Needless to say, most Klan groups despise gays and lesbians only slightly less than black and Jewish people. But over Memorial Day wee ...

change: org.

  • Space Needle: Where’s the Pride flag?
    Last year, the Space Needle made history by flying the Pride flag for the first time ever during Seattle's Pride weekend. Thousands of people celebrated� under the Space Needle and a giant rainbow flag showing the company's commitment to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communi ...
  • Case of Staff Pimping Kids at Wyndham Hotel Sp ...
    From 2006 to 2011, for at least 16 teen and preteen girls, hell was a Travelodge hotel in San Diego. That's because the staff of that hotel were actively helping members of the gang The Crips to force them into prostitution. For six years, Travelodge staff acted as lookouts, pocketed bribe money ...
  • Psychology Today, An Apology Is Not Enough!
    On May 15, 2011, Psychology Today magazine published an article by London-based evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa entitled “Why are Black women less physically attractive than other women?” The piece asserted “objectively” that in “fact,” Black women are uglier than all other races of w ...
  • Indiana Citizens Tackle Factory Farm Expansion
    Residents of Harrison County, Indiana are having some issues with their neighbor. This neighbor is making the air smell bad, decreasing land values, and causing citizens to suffer from sore throats, burning eyes, and runny noses. You see, Harrison County residents' neighbor is a 4,000-hog factor ...
  • Become a Human Rights Hero
    We need a few reliable people for special new team of activists to help win some of the human rights campaigns here at Change. Here’s the deal: sometimes a petition asking for a simple change is sometimes not enough to win a campaign, but with a little bit more encouragement the petition target ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Kucinich on Libya: Boehner Plan is No Substitu ...
    Hoping to drum up support for his proposal to pull U.S. forces from Libya, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) argued Thursday that an alternative plan from Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is too tame to be effective. “It is not a substitute for my resolution and does not have anywhere near the same im ...
  • Back Toward Double Dip
    The May jobs report is a disaster — the weakest reading since September. Non-farm payrolls grew only 54,000 last month, according to the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. Private employment rose only 83,000 — the smallest growth since last June. Government payrolls dropped 29,000. T ...
  • New WikiLeaked Cables Reveal: How Washington a ...
    René Préval, who passed Haiti’s presidential sash to Joseph Michel Martelly on May 14, was described by U.S. Ambassador to Haiti Janet Sanderson as “Haiti’s indispensable man” in a Jun. 1, 2009 Embassy cable released by WikiLeaks last December. ...
  • School Radiation Cleanup Slammed in Fukushima
    Despite the education ministry's recent move to set a new nonbinding target to reduce the radiation children in Fukushima Prefecture are exposed to at schools, experts, local educators and parents don't feel reassured. On May 27, the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry sa ...
  • Fresh Protests Hit Yemeni Capital
    Yemeni security forces loyal to Ali Abdullah Saleh, the Yemeni president, have�fired at protesters in Sanaa demanding an end to his rule. Friday's violence in the Yemeni capital coincided with separate pitched street battles between�security�personnel�- including government special forces origin ...

Lifehacker

  • Force Your Phone to Stay Vertical in Your Pant ...
    It's a common problem for guys, and it's only gotten worse with the heavier, sleeker smartphones we've been carrying in recent years; our phones won't stop falling over lengthwise in our pant pockets. Now, we can either get angry about the ...
  • How to Handle Houseguests [In Brief]
    Summer is often a time when out-of-town friends come to stay in your house. This can be a lot of fun, but it can also be stressful and difficult—you've got people in your space, and you have to find ways of entertaining them. Fortunately, we have tips to make any visit fun and h ...
  • A Spacious and Elegant Basement Workspace [Fea ...
    Many basements are poorly lit, cramped dungeons that would be depressing to try to work in. Today's workspace is the antithesis of that; it's a spacious office with harmonized wood surfaces and clean lines. More��
  • Best Image Hosting and Photo Sharing Web Site? ...
    Uploading images to the web for the world to see is easier than ever. Most of have an account with some service that promises to keep our photos organized, managed, and shared with our friends. This week we want to know which service you ...
  • Remains of the Day: CloudApp Updates Drop View ...
    CloudApp has updated their website interface, Google teams up with Bing and Yahoo! to create Schema.org, and Tennessee is looking to make it illegal for you to share your Netflix password. More��

Water Privatization

  • Shortages of fresh water seen as emerging threat
    "The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-first Century" (Scribner), by Alex Prud'homme: Even as motorists fret about the cost of gasoline, a rising chorus of jeremiads warns that shortages of freshwater, not oil, will trigger the most pressing challenges of the 21st century.
  • Saudi- Rabigh's water needs met
    Saudi- Rabigh's water needs met
  • Water Utility Industry Valuations Are Based On ...
    67 WALL STREET, New York - June 1, 2011 - The Wall Street Transcript has just published its Water, Waste & Environmental Services Report offering a timely review for serious investors and industry executives. This special feature contains expert industry commentary through in-depth interviews wi ...
  • Water Utility Industry Valuations Are Based On ...
    67 WALL STREET, New York - June 1, 2011 - The Wall Street Transcript has just published its Water, Waste & Environmental Services Report offering a timely review for serious investors and industry executives. This special feature contains expert industry commentary through in-depth interviews wi ...
  • Credit And Commodity Risk Identified As Positi ...
    67 WALL STREET, New York - June 1, 2011 - The Wall Street Transcript has just published its Water, Waste & Environmental Services Report offering a timely review for serious investors and industry executives. This special feature contains expert industry commentary through in-depth interviews wi ...

Guardian

  • Bahrain government official says Formula One g ...
    �� Fawaz Al Khalifa says 'Mabrook, Bahrain, will host f1' �� Official adds: 'FIA finalising date now'A Bahrain government official has used Twitter to say that the Formula One Bahrain grand prix will go ahead this season.Fawaz Al Khalifa, the president of Bahrain's information affairs authority, ...
  • Fury over advert claiming Egypt revolution as ...
    Video scorned because phone company obeyed Mubarak's order to shut down network during protestsVodafone is facing a backlash in Egypt over an advert suggesting it helped inspire this year's revolution in the country.The three-minute commercial featured excerpts from a Vodafone ad campaign entitl ...
  • Mladic rebukes war crimes court for 'obnoxious ...
    Bosnian Serb commander says genocide claims are 'monstrous' while exchanging gestures and looks with victims' familiesRatko Mladic has made a defiant first appearance at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague, describing the charges of genocide against him as "obnoxious" and "monstr ...
  • Andy Murray v Rafael Nadal - live! | Barry Gle ...
    �� Hit auto-refresh (or whack F5) for all the latest action �� Ping your emails to barry.glendenning@guardian.co.uk �� Check out the French Open website �� Follow Barry Glendenning on TwitterFirst set: *Murray 1-2 Nadal: Nadal goes 15-30 up, but Murray plays himself out of trouble with a boomin ...
  • Police not guilty of violent assault on terror ...
    But acquittals raise new questions about Babar Ahmad case because Met has already paid him £60,000 damagesFour specialist police officers have been found not guilty of violently assaulting a British Muslim man during an early morning raid on his home.Babar Ahmad, 34, a terrorism suspect who rema ...

McClatchey

  • Released trial transcripts tell of Dugard's or ...
    It was the last week of fifth grade, back in 1991, when Jaycee Lee Dugard left her home for the school bus stop, walking toward the oncoming traffic as her stepfather had taught her.
  • Unabomber's belonging earn over $230,000 in au ...
    The life and times of Ted Kaczynski as told in the Unabomber's voluminous handwritten journals was the biggest draw at the online auction of his personal belongings.
  • California lawmakers won't get paid without bu ...
    California's controller told lawmakers Thursday that he won't pay them if a budget deal isn't reached by midmonth, while Gov. Jerry Brown said talks are at a critical point.
  • Alaska's housing prices continue to buck natio ...
    A national news headline this week said, "Home prices sink to new lows." Prices in a dozen big metro markets have fallen to their lowest levels since the housing market first crashed in late 2006.
  • Goldman gets subpoena over risky mortgage deals
    WASHINGTON — In the absence of federal prosecutions over Wall Street's role in the nation's financial crisis, the Manhattan district attorney has subpoenaed Goldman Sachs regarding allegations that the giant investment bank bet heavily against its clients in risky mortgage deals, two people fami ...

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

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

The Wonk Room

  • MANY OF BOEHNER’S ECONOMISTS ARE REPUBLI ...
    An analysis by the Huffington Post finds a cadre of economists — termed “robo-signers for GOP economic policy” — who are repeatedly trotted out by House Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) to sign letters of approval for Republican supply-side policies. The latest pro-GOP economist letter, which vo ...
  • Indiana Will Enforce Illegal Law To Defund Pla ...
    In the race to be the first, the Indiana GOP plowed through common sense and internal opposition to pass a law stripping Planned Parenthood of public funding. When signing the bill, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) said non-abortion services would “remain readily available” from other providers. I ...
  • Oxfam Predicts Climate Change will Help Double ...
    One of the great tragedies of failing to act boldly to restrict greenhouse gases is that it will turn the great abundance humanity has known into scarcity.  As part of our series on climate change and food insecurity, our Climate Progress Intern, Tyce Herrman, takes a look at some predictions on ...
  • Dimensions Of Inequality
    I’m reading Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton, and since he’s a Hamilton fan, he naturally makes a big deal out of the irony of southern slaveholding white supremacists like James Madison and Thomas Jefferson positioning themselves as the friends of equality and the little guy against Hamilton. A ...
  • Refusing To Be Bullied By Online Retailers, Ca ...
    As ThinkProgress has been reporting, online retailers across the country currently benefit from an “Amazon Tax Loophole,” which allows big online sellers like Amazon.com to avoid paying the same sales taxes as traditional retailers. This tax loophole is costly to state budgets. For example, in â ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • The Liberals and the Centre
    I think it was in the Martin or the Dion years, when, on Canadian Cynic, I told Ti-Guy that I wanted the Liberal Party of Canada to die, because they deceived progressive-minded Canadians and made them believe that they could have their cake and eat it too. Ti-Guy replied something to the effec ...
  • Drifting Towards Oblivion
    I really don't know what's going to happen. Humanity (coerced or duped by our elites) is determined to continue along the path to ecological Armageddon. One of the worst offenders was Canada's stephen harper government. And now he's got a majority government. Extra-parliamentary protest is a sa ...
  • Gotta Love That Ayn Rand!
    The rest of the article is important too, but ya gotta love this! The Right’s priorities hit home at a town hall meeting held by Rep. Rob Woodall, R-Georgia, when he chastised one of his constituents who worried that Ryan’s plan would leave Americans like her, whose employer doesn’t extend he ...
  • Um, Vic Toews? You might want to "re-think" th ...
    I put re-think in quotation marks because Vic Toews has got shit for fucking brains and I highly doubt that he "thinks" about much of anything. But here and here, Toews and his fellow harpercon scum are seen justifying removing Canadian Forces from helping with the clean-up after a Quebec flood ...
  • Toronto Should Support Toronto Pride
    It's great publicity for the city. Kids don't walk down the hallway in highschool and get hissed at: "HETERO!!!" and then have to run for their lives. A celebration of human rights shouldn't have to rely on corporate funding like the frikken' Santa Claus parade.

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Canada Post strike to begin in Winnipeg
    The Canada Post strike is posed to begin midnight in Winnipeg lasting for 24 hours and then moving to another city, to be announced later.
  • First bracelet to be given out in 2011 WSOP
    The first gold bracelet of the 2011 World Series of Poker is set to be given out this afternoon in Las Vegas when a Casino Employee Champion is crowned.
  • Website selling illegal drugs flies under radar
    Silk Road, a website for people to buy and sell drugs, has been online for four months, and it has yet to be shut down. How is this happening?
  • Will City Council impose anti-panhandling laws ...
    With summer-like weather in Toronto, it's a perfect time to a take stroll throughout the city. That is until you get repeatedly asked for change. Deputy Mayor Doug Holyday suggested that city council can do something to control the growing problem.
  • Average Canadian debt over $25,000
    Debt is growing in Canada with the average Canadian owing 4.5 per cent in the first quarter of this year. Excluding mortgages the average debt per consumer is at $25,597 compared to last year's $24,497.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Comments by Steven Staples to CANSEC arms show ...
    June 1, 2011. Thank you Diane and Jason for inviting me to join you today. And thank you all for making Canadians aware that arms shows like CANSEC happen right here in Ottawa. Military spending is out of control in this country. While our social programs are inadequate, we still have joblessnes ...
  • Victory in Afghanistan!
    Prime Minister Stephen Harper has in effect declared victory in Afghanistan, at least as far as the original reason for sending troops to that country goes. His comments were made during a “secret” visit to Afghanistan on Monday (Campbell Clark, “Afghanistan no longer terrorism threat to world, ...
  • Canada and global peace
    Canada has moved up to eighth position on the annual Global Peace Index (“Canada jumps six spots and cracks top 10 in 2011 Global Peace Index,” Canadian Press, 25 May 2011): Canada has cracked the top 10 in a global security assessment that ranks countries based on how peaceful they are. The Glo ...
  • Budget crunch, Pentagon-style
    Only in our neighbour to the south could you find the following two sentences side by side in a news article (Julian E. Barnes, “Gates Says Cuts Would Curb Military Capacity,” Wall Street Journal, 19 May 2011): “The defense budget, including the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, currentl ...
  • Fantino to fix military procurement?
    Jane Taber reports on the role of new Associate Minister of National Defence Julian Fantino, who is expected to focus on military procurement issues (Jane Taber, “Peter MacKay gets a wingman on military procurement,” Globe and Mail, 19 May 2011): Dimitri Soudas, the Prime Ministerâs director of ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Bipolar Drug’s Long-Term Use Questioned
    May 11th, 2011 The Huffington Post The growing use of a popular drug in the long-term treatment of bipolar disorder is based largely on a single, flawed clinical trial that may be steering doctors and patients away from drugs with a more established track record, a new review published this week ...
  • Recall Roundup: Migraine Medicine, Hair Mousse ...
    May 11th, 2011 WalletPop.com By: Linda Doell Keeping track of the latest product and food recalls can be a challenge, so Consumer Ally has collected them in one place for you to check each week. Here is this week’s roundup: Ortho-McNeil Neurologics recalled about 57,000 bottles of the migraine a ...
  • Monsanto Cash Helped Fund Bill to Stifle Whist ...
    May 11th, 2011 Grist.org By: Tom Laskawy Speaking of Monsanto, it turns out they are playing a role in Iowa’s proposed anti-whistleblower bill — a bill focused primarily on agriculture. Should the bill pass, it will become illegal to produce undercover videos at various types of agricultural fac ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 5-11-11
    Today, Kevin explains why you should not be donating your hard-earned money to large charities and for disaster relief. Plus, Kevin reveals where to find the best quality products in your area! Self Help: Protect Yourself From Meat Glue Shine A Little Light On Me  Health: 9 Salads Calorically Wo ...
  • J&J Recalls HIV Drug After Finding Smelly Chemical
    May 12th, 2011 FoxBusiness.com By: Peter Loftus Johnson & Johnson’s (JNJ: 66.04, -0.53, -0.80%) manufacturing-quality lapses continued with the company’s recall of at least 11,700 bottles of HIV/AIDS drug Prezista in several countries, after discovering trace amounts of a chemical emitting offen ...

Pambazuka News

  • Haiti: Haitian inspiration: On the bicentenary ...
    Two hundred years ago last month (January 2004), the French colony of saint-Domingue on the island of Hispaniola became the independent nation of Haiti. Few transformations in world history have been more momentous, few required more sacrifice or prom...
  • Haiti: Petition for safe return of Lovinsky Pi ...
    Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine has been missing since the night of the 12th August 2007. It is believed that his kidnapping was politically motivated and someone in the Haitian government and or the UN forces in Haiti led by Brazil must know what happened...
  • Venezuela: The Afrovenezuelan Network and the ...
    From its foundation in 2000, the Afrovenezuelan Network had systematically denounced first the threat from Plan Colombia, and second the so called Plan Patriotic as a threat to the stability of the Andean region, this plan is based on military aims w...
  • Haiti: Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine petition
    As women and men in the Caribbean Region, in the wider diaspora, and in many parts of the world, we are writing to urge you to make resources available without delay for the search for Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine, and to do everything in your power to se...
  • Caribbean: Civil society demands Haiti debt ca ...
    Organizations representing Caribbean civil society organizations and social movements have written to G8 finance ministers, the World Bank, and the IMF, to demand an immediate and unconditional cancellation of Haiti's external debt....

War in Context

  • IDF gearing for next wave of Palestinian protests
    Ynet reports: IDF Chief of Staff Lieutenant-General Benny Gantz has ordered the increased deployment of security forces across all Israel’s borders starting Friday and pending the conclusion of all “Naksa Day” events. The Palestinians are planning a series of events to mark “Naksa Day” â the 4 ...
  • Locked up for reading a poem
    Patrick Cockburn reports: Bahrain’s security forces are increasingly targeting women in their campaign against pro-democracy protesters despite yesterday lifting martial law in the island kingdom. Ayat al-Gormezi, 20, a poet and student arrested two months ago after reading out a poem at a pro ...
  • Europe is becoming a safe haven for Israelis
    Gideon Levy writes: The numbers are climbing rapidly and the phenomenon is intriguing: Many Israelis are longing for a second passport. If Shimon Peres (now president ) once promised “a car for every worker,” a second passport is now becoming the object of desire. If our forefathers dreamt of a ...
  • Nato’s strategy in Libya is working – talks wi ...
    Ranj Alaaldin writes: On Monday, the South African president, Jacob Zuma, once again went to Tripoli in an attempt to broker a peace deal between Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and the opposition forces. As expected, he failed. But mediation or ceasefire initiatives such as South Africa’s, and others ...
  • Thousands flee Yemeni capital as battles rage
    Al Jazeera reports: Thousands of residents are fleeing Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, as fighting between opposition tribesmen and loyalist troops of president Ali Abdullah Saleh rages on. Much of the fighting, which began late on Wednesday night, occurred in the Hasaba district of northern Sanaa, ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Klotzbach and Gray continue to expect a well a ...
    The last (and my favorite) of the major hurricane seasonal forecasts came out yesterday. Phil Klotzbach and Bill Gray from Colorado State are sticking with their April forecast. Rather anti-climatic, but perhaps it’s a measure of the confidence in the … Continue reading →
  • Mann’s Hockey Stick, Climategate, and FO ...
    On the Climate Audit thread, The Vergano FOI Request the irascible Nick Stokes provokes another commenter “mpaul”, to lay out all the history in a simple summary that even Nick might understand. I thought it was worth repeating here for readers who … Continue reading →
  • More climate model fail: soil carbon not handl ...
    From Oregon State University: Climate projections donât accurately reflect soil carbon release 6-2-11 CORVALLIS, Ore. â A new study concludes that models may be predicting releases of atmospheric carbon dioxide that are either too high or too low, depending on … Continue reading →
  • More climate model fail: soil carbon not handl ...
    From Oregon State University: Climate projections donât accurately reflect soil carbon release 6-2-11 CORVALLIS, Ore. â A new study concludes that models may be predicting releases of atmospheric carbon dioxide that are either too high or too low, depending on … Continue reading →
  • Countdown to flatline: world carbon trading ma ...
    I wonder how long before flatlining occurs, like last year with the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX):   Even the Guardian is covering this “failure” of carbon markets. They write: The international market in carbon credits has suffered an almost total … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Our Goose is Cooked By Mike Whitney
    Dandelion Salad By Mike Whitney Information Clearing House June 02, 2011 This must be what it was like in Russia before the Soviet Union collapsed. The government’s so crooked that nothing works right, the infrastructure’s in a shambles, millions of people are scraping by on government handouts, ...
  • Strauss-Kahn’s plot thickens with the identica ...
    By Roland Michel Tremblay Featured Writer Dandelion Salad The Marginal 2 June, 2011 The 74 year old Mahmoud Abdel-Salam Omar, a wealthy man and former chairman of Egypt’s Bank of Alexandria, was arrested on May 31 under sexual assault charges involving a New York hotel maid. The charges and circ ...
  • Military Escalation: “Phase Two” o ...
    Dandelion Salad by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky Global Research June 1, 2011 A new phase of the war is unfolding leading to a process of military escalation as well as the eventual landing of US-NATO commandos on Libya’s shores. An unprecedented deployment of naval power in the Mediterranean is oc ...
  • Michael Parenti: How the Empire is Maintained ...
    by Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.michaelparenti.org June 2, 2011 NoBrandProduction on Jun 1, 2011 Interview with Michael Parenti, author, lecturer & political analyst, by Cindy Piester of Pulse TV. After a short discussion of his book “God and His Demons”, Parenti talks abo ...
  • Abolish all war and nuclear plants and weapons ...
    by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox June 2, 2011 Cindy Sheehan and Fukushima people are coming Send our voice to the world from Hiroshima on August 6! Stop War and Nuclear Armaments! Abolish All Nuclear Plants, Now! 1 “STOP ALL NU ...

Your New Reality

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    Join The Marines, Fight Balrog They're not really showing much reality in these US military recruiting ads, are they? Unless there are special Marines now fighting dragons in alternate universes : From Salon (excerpts) :"...the New York Times this week tells us that the Pentagon is -- shock ...
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    The Fake Knight Rises By Darryl Mason The new Christopher Nolan Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises, is still shooting but something of a teaser clip campaign has already begun on YouTube. An account called The Fire Rises has been posting short clips, with a focus on what appears to be the bur ...
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    Murdoch Media Blames 300,000 'Global Warming Deaths' A Year On Obese People By Darryl Mason Two headines from the UK Sun, proudly linked to by Rupert Murdoch's Corporate Green Agenda HQ, to show how hard they've been working to Sell The Fear : The stories themselves make exactly the ki ...
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    Nice to hear Weezer rocking out, on an 90s classic :
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    Words More People Should Say However much it may disgust the mainstream media, 9/11 Trutherism is alive and thriving amongst America's youth, as is a deeply cynical scepticism of the authenticity and purpose of the decade long War On Terror. Musicians are no longer afraid to voice such doubts ...

Wired - Science

  • Time-Lapse Video Catches Milky Way Season in Swing
    Far from starscape-dulling city lights, farmer and photographer Randy Halverson spent three weeks creating a new video of the spinning night sky.
  • Synthetic Biologists Use DNA to Calculate Squa ...
    By John Timmer, Ars Technica Biological systems have caught the attention of computer scientists, who have been turning everything from RNA molecules to entire bacterial colonies into logic gates. So far, however, these systems have been relatively small-scale, with only a handful of gates li ...
  • Hot Bodies Sink Faster
    New high-speed videos show that a hot sphere falls more than twice as fast through liquid than a cold sphere, a finding that may someday help ease high-speed submarines through the sea.
  • Reader Photos: Super Speedy Solar Prominence
    A fleetly fleeing solar flare surprised astrophotographer John Stetson when it erupted off the sun May 25. “Many prominences this large are quiescent,” Stetson told Wired.com in an email. “This active prom was so dynamic that the changes could be noticed in live time at the eyepiece.” In the 20 ...
  • Emperor Penguins Rotate Through Giant Huddle f ...
    Massive huddles of male Emperor penguins are crucial to keep them warm during Antarctica's brutal winter while they incubate their eggs. The trick with these groups is to get the packing just right. If too loose, they won’t stay warm.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • National security adviser worked for Israeli f ...
    Yaakov Amidror, newly appointed head of National Security Council, worked with many Ofer-controlled companies; the Ofer brothers are uspected of illegal trade with Iran through subsidiaries... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  • Arabeh Mayor Omar Nasser, do you agree with Ne ...
    Is there a democratic country in the world where there are unrecognized villages? In Israel there are. Is there a country in the world where there are laws that allow for admissions committees to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Arabeh Mayor Omar Nasser, do you agree with Ne ...
    Is there a democratic country in the world where there are unrecognized villages? In Israel there are. Is there a country in the world where there are laws that allow for admissions committees to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: Historic protest in Ras al-Am ...
    For the first time in decades, Palestinian activists in Ras al-Amud, a neighborhood of Jerusalem south east of the Old City, invited Jewish Israeli activists to join them in their protest against a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: Historic protest in Ras al-Am ...
    For the first time in decades, Palestinian activists in Ras al-Amud, a neighborhood of Jerusalem south east of the Old City, invited Jewish Israeli activists to join them in their protest against a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Weight Loss in a 3D Virtual World
    Participants in two weight-loss programs -- one at a health club and the other in a 3D virtual world -- lost similar amounts of weigh, body fat, but only the online group reported significant behavioral changes that could lead to healthier and leaner lives.
  • The Institute of Food Technologists Student As ...
    Since getting kids to eat healthy foods can be challenging, the Institute of Food Technologists Student Association (IFTSA) and Disney Consumer Products (DCP) challenged college students in food science degree programs to create delicious and nutritious snacks for kids. Twenty student teams acro ...
  • Understanding Cancer Energetics
    It's long been known that cancer cells eat a lot of sugar to stay alive. In fact, where normal, noncancerous cells generate energy from using some sugar and a lot of oxygen, cancerous cells use virtually no oxygen and a lot of sugar. Many genes have been implicated in this process and now, repor ...
  • Entertainment Education Award Call for Nominations
    USC Annenberg Announces Call for Entries in the Annual Everett M. Rogers Prize for Achievement in Entertainment Education. Entries are due by July 5, 2011.
  • Tenth Study by the Digital Future Project Find ...
    The annual study of the impact of the Internet on Americans conducted by the Center for the Digital Future found that almost half of Internet users age 16 and older -- 48 percent -- are worried about companies checking their actions on the Internet.

Natural Health News

  • How to Use a Foam Roller as Part of Your Exerc ...
    A foam roller, which looks like a firm log, can be a valuable part of your warmup and cooldown routine. Rolling improves circulation and breaks down knots that limit range of motion. Runner’s World suggests these routines: CALVES: Put the roller under a calf. Rest your other foot on the floor. ...
  • 3 Workout Mistakes that Slow Metabolism
    Exercise is usually a great way to burn more calories all day long. Fitbie warns against some mistakes that can rob you of your postworkout burn: Mistake #1: You're in a rut When you do the same activity day after day, your body stops being challenged and your results plateau.� Change things u ...
  • Are Tougher Newer Cigarette Warnings Making a ...
    Cigarette warning labels are getting more serious. This June, the U.S. FDA plans to announce a new set of even tougher mandatory warnings on cigarette packs -- with accompanying images covering 50 percent of the packaging. According to several studies, the warnings may help more people stop smo ...
  • Are You Taking Multiple Meds Due to a Missed V ...
    It’s not uncommon for patients to receive multiple prescriptions from different specialists, each focusing on a specific symptom. The number of prescriptions filled each year in the U.S. increased by 39 percent between 1999 and 2009, and the average American fills 12 prescriptions each year. Mos ...
  • Is There a Hemp War Conspiracy?
    Why is hemp illegal? The reasons are in this film, and they’re very likely not what you think. Learn the facts about a plant with infinite non-intoxicating uses.

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • A Sentence-Based Theory of Complementarity
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I have just posted a new essay — my first since finishing the NMT book! — on SSRN.  Here is the abstract: Scholars have long debated to what extent the Rome Statuteâs principle of complementarity permits states to prosecute war crimes, crimes against ...
  • International Lawyer Publishes 2010 Year in Review
    by Roger Alford The ABA's International Lawyer Year-in-Review has just been published and as always it is a monumental achievement. The issue is not available on the web, but the International Lawyer's home page is here. The issue includes 450 pages of international law discussion and over ...
  • International Lawyer Publishes 2010 Year in Review
    by Roger Alford The ABA's International Lawyer Year-in-Review has just been published and as always it is a monumental achievement. The issue is not available on the web, but the International Lawyer's home page is here. The issue includes 450 pages of international law discussion and over 1 ...
  • Morison on Material Support for Terrorism and ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller In honor of the US government’s decision to charge Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other men responsible for 9/11 with the non-existent war crime of conspiracy, I want to call readers’ attention to an excellent new article by Samuel Morison about the eq ...
  • Morison on Material Support for Terrorism and ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller In honor of the US government’s decision to charge Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other men responsible for 9/11 with the non-existent war crime of conspiracy, I want to call readers’ attention to an excellent new article by Samuel Morison about the eq ...

Public News Service

  • AZ Hotel Workers Speak Out Against Guest Misco ...
    AZ Hotel Workers Speak Out Against Guest Misconduct Phoenix, AZ – Hotel housekeepers in Arizona and several other states are launching a campaign to "end the silence" about sexual misconduct by hotel guests. They’re proposing what they call "common sense" preventive security measures. Comments f ...
  • AZ Hotel Workers Speak Out Against Guest Misco ...
    AZ Hotel Workers Speak Out Against Guest Misconduct Phoenix, AZ – Hotel housekeepers in Arizona and several other states are launching a campaign to "end the silence" about sexual misconduct by hotel guests. They’re proposing what they call "common sense" preventive security measures. Comments f ...
  • Concerns Over GOP Medicaid Block Grant Plan
    Concerns Over GOP Medicaid Block Grant Plan Phoenix, AZ – Consumer advocates and several state governors say Republican Medicaid plans could be a serious problem for some hospitals and nursing homes. Comments from Kathleen Stoll (stole), director of health policy for consumer group Families USA.
  • Concerns Over GOP Medicaid Block Grant Plan
    Concerns Over GOP Medicaid Block Grant Plan Phoenix, AZ – Consumer advocates and several state governors say Republican Medicaid plans could be a serious problem for some hospitals and nursing homes. Comments from Kathleen Stoll (stole), director of health policy for consumer group Families USA.
  • New Tax Report: AZ State Budget Easy to Balance
    New Tax Report: AZ State Budget Easy to Balance Phoenix, AZ – A new study says Arizona could immediately raise $14 billion by inverting its tax structure; that is, taxing highest incomes at the current rates of the lowest earners – and vice versa. The report, “Flip It to Fix It: An Immediate, Fa ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Family Farmers Amplify Complaint Against Monsa ...
    Monsanto’s Failure to Provide Binding Legal Covenant To Protect Family Farmers Threatened by GMO Contamination Necessitates Amended Complaint New threats by Monsanto have led to the filing of an amended complaint by the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) in its suit on behalf of family farmers, s ...
  • Environmental Groups Petition Federal Governme ...
    FDA poised to take action on the first-ever application to market a genetically engineered salmon without adequate consideration of environmental risks and public input Earthjustice, on behalf of Ocean Conservancy, Friends of the Earth, Center for Food Safety, Food & Water Watch, the Center for ...
  • CA GE Fish Labeling Bill Held
    Today, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) was informed by Assemblymember Huffman’s office that they have decided to hold AB 88—the California bill which would require that all genetically engineered (GE) fish sold in California contain clear and prominent labeling—as a 2-year bill. This means it w ...
  • Court of Appeals Dismisses Monsanto’s Appeal o ...
    Upholds Lower Court’s Rulings Requiring New USDA Approval Decision And Rigorous Review of the Crop’s Impacts Litigation Over USDA’s Interim Approval of Planting Continues Today the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a summary order concluding a long-standing laws ...
  • California Assembly Health Committee Passes Bi ...
    In Wake Of Pending FDA Approval Of GE Salmon, California Bill Could Restore Americans’ Right To Choose In The Marketplace Dissatisfied with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) current review of the first-ever proposed commercialization of genetically engineered (GE) salmon, late yester ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • In defence of Dr. Cornel West and all other co ...
    Editorial: The Fine Art of Stepping Back: Why I have decided to stop writing about race. By TheAngryindian -�04.06.2008 Editor's Note: This editorial is a re-print of a older article I wrote during the electoral run-up to the historical Obama presidency on my (not defunct) decision t ...
  • TheAngryindian: Why I have decided to stop wri ...
    Editorial: The Fine Art of Stepping Back: Why I have decided to stop writing about race. | APNS Why I have decided to stop writing about race. By TheAngryindian 04.06.2008 *Editor's Note: This editorial is a re-print of a older article I wrote during the electoral run-up to the his ...
  • Hard Work or Hardly Working? How White People ...
    Hard Work or Hardly Working? How White People Got So Rich Part I: "(FinalCall.com) - [THE HISTORICAL RESEARCH DEPARTMENT OF THE NATION OF ISLAM] The foundation of American White supremacy sits tenuously on a rickety base of lies and deceptions about how Whites gained their wealth and status. A ...
  • Wide Asleep in America: The Call Bob Dylan Won ...
    Wide Asleep in America: The Call Bob Dylan Won't Heed:BDS, Bullies, and Blowing Wind: "A recent letter by the Israeli peace and justice group 'Boycott From Within' (BfW) implores legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan to heed the Palestinian call for BDS and therefore not perform in Israel. The l ...
  • AAP: Are Corporate Black Blogs Destroying Blac ...
    Are Corporate Black Blogs Destroying Black Employment In Mainstream Media? [ AfricanAmericanPundit] I knew that folks at the Washington Post and NBC were getting concerned that black bloggers groups like the afrospear/afrosphere were getting too organized. I also felt in my gut that white media ...

Pensieve

  • More on Egypt
    Reading that now, a few days after the military pressured Mubarak to step down, the Egyptian parliament has been dissolved, and the Constitution invalidated by the Egyptian military. This fills me with fear. The mainstream media are treating these acts as a good thing, and the Egyptians they int ...
  • Update: Mubarak Not Stepping Down Tonight
    Related posts:Celestial Show Tonight Update on March Update, Perverse Justice
  • US involved in an Egyptian “military coup”?
    Photo by adaptorplug A CNN news story says that Hofni Mubarak will likely relinquish power to the Egyptian military tonight. This is what their source, âa senior Egyptian officalâ is quoted by CNN as saying: He said the process — which included dialogue between the government and opposition repr ...
  • President Llorens
    I’ve reconsidered my position about posting Wikileaks articles. This article not only discusses classified material disclosed by Wikileaks, but actually quotes it. I know some of my readers work for the US government, thus the warning. I am not an enemy of the United States of America. I simply ...
  • Magnificent
    This movie brought me to tears. It is the story of a man whose lack of limbs from birth relegated him to life as a circus side-show freak. It tells of how he was recognized by the owner of a rival circus as “magnificent”. After overcoming his bitterness, the man transformed from freak to hero. [ ...

Green Times

  • Sydney Ice Bear ~ Art to inspire Climate Action
    I bet you never thought you'd see a Polar Bear in downtown Sydney! If you head down to Circular Quay this weekend and you might just catch a glimpse if you're quick!
  • Power of the Sun
    This is an amazing view of the sun setting in India!The Sun's energy is a great untapped resource. Using solar energy (glossary/categories/energy/solar-renewable-energy.html) allows us to create our own electricity, saving money and reducing the need for coal-fired and nuclear power stations.As ...
  • Environmental News 20/05/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Hugging Mad Trees
    In my prius... hugging mad trees! This is an absolute gem! How we haven't seen this before beats me! "Everyone gather 'round - I pull up behind and you never heard a sound! You won't see me ever hit E with my mpgs..." Have seen a video that we should feature? Join ...
  • Recipe for Health starts with Organic Whole Foods
    It goes without saying that we learn about a lot of things at school, some of it about food. However, after all that study we still may not necessarily know the best way to feed ourselves!

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Ras al-Amud
    May 27, 2011 We gather at 4:00 outside the settlers’ multi-story stone building opposite the old police station at Ras al-Amud, on the Mount of Olives. This was the week of Netanyahu’s speech before Congress; if,  utterly  unlikely as this  may be, there is anyone in the  world who failed to no ...
  • May 21, 2011: Music Teachers and Students from ...
    Last Saturday, May 21st, 2011, the music center in Salem village near Nablus hosted teachers and pupils of Tel Aviv Municipal Arts High School A. This visit is a result of the ties that the school principal, Ram Cohen, and Dr. Ruthie Katz, the school’s music major coordinator, began to nurture w ...
  • Bibi, Obama and Israel’s A-Historical Vi ...
    “Itâs time to recognize this basic truth: Israel is not whatâs wrong about the Middle East. Israel is whatâs right about the Middle East.” I’m guessing this Bibi gem won one of those 29 Congressional standing ovations on Tuesday. Probably a facepalm – or laugh-out-loud – moment for many Israelis ...
  • Bibi, Obama and Israel’s A-Historical Vi ...
    “Itâs time to recognize this basic truth: Israel is not whatâs wrong about the Middle East. Israel is whatâs right about the Middle East.” I’m guessing this Bibi gem won one of those 29 Congressional standing ovations on Tuesday. Probably a facepalm – or laugh-out-loud – moment for many Israelis ...
  • Palestinian Right to Education: The Case of Awarta
    Itamar, the settlement where a family of five was brutally murdered in early March, borders the village of Awarta near Nablus, and is illegally built on village land. Immediately following the murder, and continuing for weeks thereafter, the Israeli military carried out pogrom-like incursions in ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Atomic Testing Museum. Blatant propaganda
    You’d think the Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, since it is an affiliate of the Smithsonian, would present a balanced view of the atomic testing in Nevada during the 1950′s, especially since the tests were deliberately done on days when the wind would blow the radiation onto that “low-use se ...
  • Geothermal powers 20% of Reno during the day
    At night, geothermal production meets 50% of Reno’s needs. Geothermal is reliable and steady, producing power 24/7. Pumps pull 6,000 gallons of water a minute out of reservoirs 3,000 feet below the surface. The water, naturally heated by geologic forces to approximately 300 degrees Fahrenheit (1 ...
  • Utah.gov websites provide real value for citizens
    Craig Newmark of Craigslist details the amazing job Utah has done with their new state websites. The changes include a common look-and-feel across all sites, auto-sensing for mobile devices, context-sensitive searches, crowdsourcing and geotagging, and much more. Okay, the deal is that people ca ...
  • Polizeros podcast tonight
    Topics: Who are the global warming deniers? Greece financial crisis. Irish are 10 billion euros in the red due to fall in tax revenue, now want to be sharia-compliant financial center of Europe (you read that right.) Syria barbarity. Western-backed barbarity in Libya, Ivory Coast. Murder of Syed ...
  • Polizeros podcast tonight
    Topics: Who are the global warming deniers? Greece financial crisis. Irish are 10 billion euros in the red due to fall in tax revenue, now want to be sharia-compliant financial center of Europe (you read that right.) Syria barbarity. Western-backed barbarity in Libya, Ivory Coast. Murder of Syed ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Blood & Guts – Meria Heller & Jack Blood ...
    This week’s free show is “Blood & Guts” with Meria & Jack Blood of Deadline Live. If you miss Jack’s show you can catch him here every month! Check it out, and be a real patriot, subscribe to the show! http://meria.net
  • Message from Former TX Gubernatorial Candidate ...
    From my email Ed Note: Its worth pointing out that, though Debra Medina represented EVERYTHING that the alleged “Tea Party” promotes… They did not support her, or Texas in the 2010 election. In fact they did everything in their power to stop her and ultimately backed Rick (Bilderberg) Perry. As ...
  • Organic Spies Find Lies – Why Gatekeeper ...
    Why The Organic Trade Association and Corporate Organic Food Brands do NOT want Labeling of Genetically Engineered and Genetically Modified Foods This Video provides financial evidence that the President of the Board of Directors at the Organic Trade Association, Julia Sabin, individually profit ...
  • Saudi Arabia and Western Hypocrisy (Video)
  • NORAD to conduct (911 Style) exercise flights ...
    05/31/11 ·  Cape & Islands News Exercise to test NORAD’s response capability to be conducted on June 1 Between the hours of 10 a.m. and 12 a.m. Wednesday, F-15 fighter jets from the 104th Fighter Wing out of Westfield will participate in an Alert Force exercise over Eastern Massachusetts, acco ...

The Air Vent

  • More Venus Discussion
    On the previous thread, I made the point that the reason for Venus surface temeprature being so high was the pressure and that any gas would create a huge warming effect.   Chris Colose had made the contention that CO2 is a strong gas and it is responsible for Venus having a surface temperature ...
  • CO2 on the Brain
    I was sitting here this morning and from memory just realized that I forgot the best part of Chris Colose’s post ‘Even Princeton Makes Mistakes”.   I was going to add this at the end and just tired myself right out – or bored myself to death.  Here’s the best quote I’ve read in a  long [...]
  • Bart’s Bud
    Bart Verheggen left a link to atmospheric sciences student Chris Colose’s reply to Dr. Happer’s article featured at WUWT and here.  The article is titled ‘Even Princeton Makes Mistakes’ which is certainly true.  This is all Bart had to say on the matter: Iâm sure most here wonât appreciate the ...
  • Bart’s Bud
    Bart Verheggen left a link to atmospheric sciences student Chris Colose’s reply to Dr. Happer’s article featured at WUWT and here.  The article is titled ‘Even Princeton Makes Mistakes’ which is certainly true.  This is all Bart had to say on the matter: Iâm sure most here wonât appreciate the ...
  • Future Perfect
    Pat Frank has kindly offered another guest post this week.  Since I’m completely out of time, there can be little input of my own so I am grateful for those who want to discuss interesting matters.  – Jeff Future Perfect By Pat Frank 22 May 2010 In my recent “New Science of Climate Changeâ po ...

Focal Point

  • "Psychology Today" Cans Satoshi Kanazawa
    75,000 ColorofChange Members, 1; Santoshi Kanazawa, 0. [Photo credit: proligde, Creative Commons.]Read More
  • Manhattan Housekeepers Get Panic Buttons
    Housekeepers at the Pierre Hotel will get panic buttons in the wake of two highly publicized attacks on Manhattan hotel cleaners. The buttons are part of a deal hashed out between the management and the union. The Sofitel Hotel, where form IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn allegedly attacked a . ...
  • New York City Cops Acquitted of Rape
    Two New York City police officers have been acquitted of raping a woman in her apartment while they were on duty in 2008. In the words of New York lawyer and blogger Jill Filipovic, "This is fucked up." The upshot of this verdict is that drunk women are unrapeable in New York City. We have ...
  • Ed Schultz Apologizes for Calling Laura Ingrah ...
    Liberal MSNBC host Ed Schultz apologized for calling conservative pundit Laura Ingraham a "slut" on his radio show. In his on air apology Shultz seems genuinely sorry he said what he did, but he doesn't really get why it was wrong. To call a woman a "slut" in anger is not wrong because it's a ...
  • Kanazawa's Report of Black Female "Unattractiv ...
    Dr. Scott Barry Kaufmann analyzed the same data that LSE "evolutionary psychologist" Satoshi Kanazawa used in his attempt to prove that black women are "objectively" less attractive than women of other races. Kaufmann's analysis shows that Kanazawa was even further off-base than he initially see ...

Inside Facebook

  • Profile Analyzers, Friends, Videos, Quizzes an ...
    Most of the applications on our weekly list of the top emerging Facebook apps by monthly active users this week either analyzed a user’s profile or offered users access to videos. A couple other apps, one for quiz creation and another for Page tab creation, made the list, too. The apps on our li ...
  • Facebook Recommends HTTPS Secure Browsing Via ...
    Some users are seeing a prompt at the top of their Facebook home page that reads “Help Protect Your Account with Secure Browsing (https)”. Users can click a button in the prompt to switch to HTTPS and foil attempts by hackers to steal their data. Following the recent exposure of several security ...
  • Facebook for Blackberry v2.0 Beta 3 Adds Wi-Fi ...
    Blackberry just released the third beta update of version 2.0 of its Facebook for Blackberry Smartphones mobile app. It allows users to connect to Facebook over Wi-Fi, which will be especially handy for those without a data plan. Users can now also delete wall posts and comments, and have more o ...
  • Facebook Details Ceglia Fraud, Pushes for Expe ...
    Facebook has issued its most plainly-worded and specific attack yet against claims by Paul Ceglia that he owns part of the company. “The contract is a cut-and-paste job, the emails are complete fabrications,and this entire lawsuit is a fraud,” it declares as part of a court motion that would r ...
  • Facebook Hires and Departures: Antonio Garcia- ...
    The top hire at Facebook this week, culled from Facebook’s LinkedIn feed and other sources, was Antonio Garcia-Martinez, who is leaving his job as CEO of AdGrok to be a Product Manager at Facebook. Among the other hires were lots of interns. As far as departures apparent from LinkedIn and posts ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Why is UN secretary-general trying to scupper ...
    Stuart Littlewood challenges UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to explain why he is trying to scupper plans for a humanitarian flotilla to the besieged Gaza Strip instead of taking effective action to protect the flotilla and compel Israel to end its illegal blockade of the Strip.
  • Barack Obama is the wrong target
    Alan Hart argues that rather than attack President Obama for his failure in the Middle East, supporters of justice for the Palestinians should "target ... America's pork-barrel system of politics which puts what passes for democracy up for sale to the highest bidders..." thereby surrendering US ...
  • US Congress mesmerized by Netanyahu’s "lies an ...
    Lawrence Davidson views the "sustained standing ovations" given to Israel's Binyamin Netanyahu at the US Congress on 24 May. He argues that Congress's "accepted version of reality is maintained by Zionist misinformation fortified by donor dollars to the campaigns of both parties" and that in US ...
  • The modi operandi of Barack Obama and Binyamin ...
    Paul J. Balles argues that, faced with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's absolutism, US President Barack Obama's natural tendency to compromise is untenable and renders him weak and ineffectual.
  • International Criminal Court - help or hindrance?
    Stuart Littlewood views the built-in anomalies that allow the International Criminal Court to dispense justice but only selectively by giving impunity to non-signatories such as Israel and the US while prosecuting suspected war criminals from other non-signatories such as Sudan.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Paul Craig Roberts: “American Presidents Are D ...
    Coming Up Tomorrow at Boiling Frogs Show: Paul Craig Roberts Tomorrow morning we’ll publish our interview with Paul Craig Roberts. We had a sobering interview session on the rise of the police state, the US media’s role in ever-declining liberties, the never-investigated September 11 terrorist a ...
  • Government Contractor Galore A La UK: Serco
    The Private-Government-Private Mega Corporations Phenomena This site depends exclusively on readers’ support. Please help us continue by contributing directly and or purchasing Boiling Frogs showcased products.
  • Jamiol Presents
  • The Poisoned Well & The Mainstream Poisoned-Wa ...
    And Now it Boils Down to Drink or Not To Drink Once upon a time an evil witch visits a kingdom and poisons the central well with a potion that drives people mad. The next morning all who drink from that well go crazy. The king, however, knew about this in advance, and didn’t drink from [...]
  • Ron Paul: We Live in a Dictatorship
    This site depends exclusively on readers’ support. Please help us continue by contributing directly and or purchasing Boiling Frogs showcased products.

Afro Spear

  • Kola Boof: “Cultural Blackness without P ...
    I read a lot of commentators and there are currently 3 people I would love to meet. These are people I respect for their opinions, not that I agree with all that they believe, but I applaud them for not being slaves to the groupthink of their respective communities. I would considerate it a priv ...
  • Byts and Bytes
    Truthdig:    1. The Obama Deception: Why Cornel West Went Ballistic    2. Why Liberal Sellout Attack Prophets Like Cornel West AfroDaddy:    1. The Plight of Blue People    2. The Plight of Blue People – Part II The Great Blue Uprising    3. The Plight of Blue People – Part III The Fin ...
  • No Welcome Home for Canadian Jamaicans
    Janet Silvera, Senior Gleaner Writer Jamaican Gleaner WESTERN BUREAU: As children born in Jamaica, they played dandy shandy, bat and ball, hopscotch and jacks. As adults, they have invested in real estate and played a pivotal role in sustaining remittances to the country. However, once they land ...
  • I guess this is what they really mean by &#822 ...
    First Obama had to release his birth certificate to prove that he is an American. Now he has released his ancestoral tree to prove that he is actually Irish: The President and the First Lady are on a visit today to his Irish ancestoral home of Moneygall. This will of-course greatly improve his r ...
  • “Better or Bitter Life for all?” b ...
    When I deeply muse on how an arrogant and brutal cabal of hoity toity (Coverted Con Men (CCM)) is tirelessly hoodwinking and dividing the hoi polloi of ill-fated Africa, like a bomb, I feel like exploding. I’m not a medical doctor. But thanks to my knowledge in psychology, education, journalism, ...

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

  • Browser HINT
    The new browsers let you increase or decrease the size of the page your looking at by hitting the Control button on your keyboard and then either the plus (+) or minus (-) sign on your numeric section of your keyboard (extreme right-hand side of keyboard). So, if your having problems seeing a pa ...
  • TWILIGHT AMERICA INFO
    Because I� have been busy researching so many areas, we lost our original Domain name of DAVIDJGREGORY.COM, some outfit bought it with the idea that I would pay more money for it, making a profit for them, well, NOT SO! The site�s new title, Dave presents twilightamerica.info and the new Domain ...
  • OFF FACEBOOK
    Off FACEBOOK, takes up too much time, arguing with family, whatever, diverting my attention from the real problems of the world and country. Trying to keep the truth going on so many things that the government has lied about over the last 50, or so years! Use the search box on the top right corn ...
  • MEMORIAL DAY 2011
    Whatever the threat, be it real or a false flag operation, these brave men and women, answer the call to protect their homes, their families, their country. We will always be eternally grateful. It is the VETERAN, not the preacher, who has given us freedom of religion. It is the VETERAN, not the ...
  • Murdering Liberty Killing Hope!
    The following pages separate the wheat from the chaff, the strong from the weak, the wise from the uninformed. This is a story predicated upon real life. We, the civilian population of the world are not trained or educated in the finer distinctions of global finance. Our perception of millio ...

Unsuitable Blog

  • Everyone Must Follow The Rules (Apart From Tho ...
    Enjoy the moment – the personification of Evil is dead. Take to the streets and express your sheer joy at the end of a symbol. Paint your banners and hold them high; unfurl your flags and wave them in the night sky; don your army surplus trousers and bare your chests: we have a winner [...]
  • Scholastic U-Turn On Coal: Shame About Their O ...
    Well, that didn’t last long. From the first outrage to a “Move along, nothing to see here!” clean up of the website, Scholastic seem to have recovered relatively easily from what they claim was just a mistake. When Scholastic published a set of four worksheets and a printable map (see here for a ...
  • Los Alamitos School Board Member Makes U-Turn ...
    I’ve just had a very interesting and productive email discussion with Dr Jeffrey Barke. Some of you may be familiar with his position on the teaching of climate science. Here’s some background information, from MSNBC: LOS ALAMITOS — A new high school advanced placement class that addresses globa ...
  • A Billion Acts of Greenwash
    Tomorrow is Earth Day – whoopee doo! It’s that time of year that all the environmental NGOs and countless businesses work towards in order to bring about a sudden upsurge in pointless symbolic actions and purchases of “green” things like (I’ll just have a look in my Deleted Items folder) LED can ...
  • Irony Alert! Red Tape Challenge a Breach of Na ...
    I’ve just come off the phone after speaking to a nice person at the UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. She sounded a little concerned, or maybe that was just bemusement, after I pointed out that the UK Government’s latest brain-busting measure – known, all chummily, as the Red Ta ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Stroome Reels Filmmakers Into Online Collabora ...
    While speaking in Tribeca a couple of months ago in front of a packed theater of New York independent fiction and documentary filmmakers, I introduced Stroome, a collaborative online video editing community, and was astonished to receive a standing ovation. One filmmaker explained to me that she ...
  • Stroome Reels Filmmakers Into Online Collabora ...
    While speaking in Tribeca a couple of months ago in front of a packed theater of New York independent fiction and documentary filmmakers, I introduced Stroome, a collaborative online video editing community, and was astonished to receive a standing ovation. One filmmaker explained to me that she ...
  • Why Isn't the Public Radio Player App on Andro ...
    We know, we know. Android users want the Public Radio Player, too. We've received plenty of comments from our feedback page: "Patiently waiting for bliss..." -- Stephenmm "hurry up please. i love your app and i want it on my phone!" -- ryan "Enjoyed this on my wifes Iphone but was disa ...
  • Why Isn't the Public Radio Player App on Andro ...
    We know, we know. Android users want the Public Radio Player, too. We've received plenty of comments from our feedback page: "Patiently waiting for bliss..." -- Stephenmm "hurry up please. i love your app and i want it on my phone!" -- ryan "Enjoyed this on my wifes Iphone but was disa ...
  • MIT Sessions Address Prison Blogging, Networke ...
    MIT's Center for Future Civic Media redoubled its public events efforts this past year, thanks to a push by its fellow Ethan Zuckerman. Zuckerman brings a unique perspective -- a civic one -- to media developments so often dominated by politics and business-model debates. This approach couldn ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Edge of Space - Astronomers Find 'Dead' Galaxi ...
    University of Michigan astronomers examined old galaxies and were surprised to discover that they are still making new stars. The results provide insights into how galaxies evolve with time. U-Michigan research fellow Alyson Ford and astronomy professor Joel Bregman presented their findings at a ...
  • Inside the Brain - Brain Training Increases I. ...
    Forget about working crossword puzzles and listening to Mozart. If you want to improve your ability to reason and solve new problems, just take a few minutes every day to do a maddening little exercise called n-back training.In an award address�at the annual meeting of the Association for Psycho ...
  • Edge on NanoTechnology - Scientists use Lasers ...
    University of Michigan physicists used the electric fields generated by intersecting laser beams to trap and manipulate thousands of microscopic plastic spheres, thereby creating 3-D arrays of optically induced crystals.The technique could someday be used to analyze the structure of materials of ...
  • Israel and Palestine - The Borders Everyone Ag ...
    Be scared. Be very scared.In a shocking article in the Jerusalem Post, editor-in-chief David Horovitz reveals that Israel is totally unprepared for the possibility that the UN might grant the Palestinians a state in September and then try to impose this state on Israel against its will.Previousl ...
  • The Battle for Syria - Obama’s Push-Pull Strat ...
    Last week, U.S. President Barack Obama gave Syrian President Bashar al-Assad an ultimatum: Lead a transition to democracy, or, in Obama’s words, “get out of the way.” The speech recognized an inconvenient truth for Washington: Although the Assad regime has not yet reached a tipping point like th ...

High Country News

  • Local food, local loans
    One way to support the local economy is to do so literally -- offering loans as well as customer patronage to your local small businesses.
  • Local food, local loans
    One way to support the local economy is to do so literally -- offering loans as well as customer patronage to your local small businesses.
  • Saving the salmon, saving ourselves
    Salmon, Idaho's, Riverfest 2011 is designed to promote both the local economy and the
  • Extreme Green
    Uncompromising environmental groups like the Center for Biological Diversity do more harm than good with their lawsuits, according to some critics.
  • A Gem City Atlas: Novel maps of Laramie, Wyoming
    The city explores its past and present with an innovative project called Laramie: A Gem City Atlas.

CounterCurrents

  • Counterrevolution 101
    By Dave Fryett The wretched of the Earth have seen what is possible. Power has been shown to be powerless in the face of determined mass opposition. And in every corner of our world the immiserated rejoice, because they know the day of liberation draws near
  • No One Curious What CIA Is Working On At The ...
    By Jay Janson What does the CIA have in store for Egypt? What chores will it assign its agents both American and Egyptian? American socialists and progressives are overly cooperative with mainstream media and Congress in hardly ever asking after our secret CIA shadow government
  • Lessons Learned In The Streets Of Cairo
    By William A. CookIf the streets of Cairo have taught us anything, they have demonstrated that vigilance against those who would control out of arrogance, oppress with indifference, deceive with impunity, and humiliate without feeling, have abandoned all natural sympathies and become , in fact ...
  • What Is True Sustainability?
    By Matthew SteinIf we are to develop an effective plan and roadmap for creating a sustainable world, we must first have a clear idea of what it truly means to be sustainable
  • Egypts Army Dissolves Parliament
    By Al Jazeera Military rulers say they will remain in charge for six months until elections are held as some protesters vow to remain

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Practicing Peace in the New Year
    A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young people. ...
  • Sharing the writing of another Stieber
    My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. � Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber � Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The main thing o ...
  • Article in FOR
    The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out: http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement   Rhetoric and Re ...
  • Slate Interview: My Country Right or Wrong: Co ...
    Interview I did with a fascinating writer for SLATE whose special interest is on transformation and how people come to admit they’re wrong:   Address to article: http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/thewrongstuff/archive/2010/12/16/my-country-right-or-wrong-conscientious-objector-josh-stieber-on-bei ...

Yid With Lid

  • Radical Anti-First Amendment Group Consulted W ...
    Judicial Watch has obtained documents that show that Free Press, a progressive group funded by George Soros and other leftist benefactors was colluding with the FCC to push through its plan for the government control of the internet known also known as net neutrality. In December 2010, the ...
  • White House Finally Says No to Anti-Semitic UN ...
    By Anne Bayefsky With President Obama’s anti-Israel hostility becoming an increasing liability for Democrats, the administration finally decided Wednesday to pull out of the U.N.’s upcoming Israel-bashing extravaganza known as “Durban III.” Believe it or not, the notorious U.N. world summi ...
  • Are We Heading For A Double Dip or a Great Dep ...
    There is the old saying, a recession is when your neighbor is out of work, a depression is when you are out of work. According to CNBC there are a lot of "yous" who are going to be unemployed in the very near future. Peter Yastrow is the �world�s largest LIBOR trader,� according to CNBC. Hi ...
  • A Lesson For Obama: Why Borders Matter
    By Barry Rubin A reader asks whether there are any defensible borders in the modern world because it is possible to fire missiles or rockets across a border. Well, yes, but even in ancient times it has always been possible for an army to cross--or try to cross--a border. That isn't ...
  • Martin Bashir-World Record-Breaking Idiot!
    For those of you who thought that Joy Behar was the biggest idiot on TV her record for feebleness on a live broadcast is about to be surpassed by MSNBC's Martin Bashir. Bashir is already a record holder in recognition of his yellow journalism piece on Michael Jackson which many people belie ...

The Real Agenda

  • El Cartel de la Reserva Federal: Las Ocho Familias
    Por Dean Henderson Traducción de Luis R. Miranda 03 de junio 2011 Parte 1 de una serie de cuatro partes Los cuatro jinetes del sistema bancario (Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup y Wells Fargo) son dueños de los cuatro jinetes del petróleo (Exxon Mobil, la holandés Royal Dutch Shell, B ...
  • New E. Coli strain: Combination of two differe ...
    Genetic sequencing suggests it is more virulent and toxin-producing By Maria Cheng AP June 2, 2011 An entirely new super-toxic bug is causing the frightening food poisoning outbreak that has sickened at least 1,600 people and killed 18, researchers and global health officials said Thursday. The ...
  • New E. Coli strain: Combination of two differe ...
    Genetic sequencing suggests it is more virulent and toxin-producing By Maria Cheng AP June 2, 2011 An entirely new super-toxic bug is causing the frightening food poisoning outbreak that has sickened at least 1,600 people and killed 18, researchers and global health officials said Thursday. The ...
  • The Federal Reserve Cartel: The Eight Families
    by Dean Henderson Global Research June 1, 2011 Part 1 of a four-part series The Four Horsemen of Banking (Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo) own the Four Horsemen of Oil (Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, BP Amoco and Chevron Texaco); in tandem with Deutsche Bank, BNP, Ba ...
  • The Federal Reserve Cartel: The Eight Families
    by Dean Henderson Global Research June 1, 2011 Part 1 of a four-part series The Four Horsemen of Banking (Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo) own the Four Horsemen of Oil (Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, BP Amoco and Chevron Texaco); in tandem with Deutsche Bank, BNP, Ba ...

Wind Watch

  • Law eases Perry’s concern about wind tur ...
    PERRY � Residents who opposed the proposed Dairy Hills Wind Farm are reacting with relief to the new town law that essentially bans such projects. The Town Board on May 11 approved an extensive set of wind energy regulations which make large-scale industrial wind farms difficult or impossible to ...
  • Guardians rally to slam wind farms
    The crowd queued out through the door and down the pavement for the inaugural meeting of the NSW Landscape Guardians in Crookwell last Sunday. The large auditorium of the Crookwell Services Club was filled to capacity with concerned men and women threatened by industrial takeover of their land w ...
  • Bill aimed at reducing conflicts between wind ...
    CORPUS CHRISTI â A bill aimed at reducing conflicts between wind turbines and military radars won’t be passed during this legislative session. Supporters said it would protect military bases where radars are being fooled by nearby wind farms, making it harder to keep track of airplanes. Opponent ...
  • Hundreds join rally against wind farms
    More than 1,500 protesters turned out in force yesterday on the steps of the Senedd to protest against plans for 50m-high wind turbines and pylons. The noisy rally in Cardiff Bay included 35 coachloads from across Wales who descended on the home of the Welsh Government armed with three petitions ...
  • Deal moves wind farm from Maryland to Pennsylvania
    NEWARK, Del. � Delmarva Power announced today that it has filed a request with the Delaware Public Service Commission to approve an amended agreement with Synergics Eastern Wind Energy LLC that moves the land-based wind farm from western Maryland to central Pennsylvania. The amended agreement al ...

Not My Tribe

  • More Pictures of Dead American Victims of Terr ...
    Italian laborers hired by the 7th Cavalry to dig the mass grave for the Indians slaughtered at Wounded Knee. The Cavalry used Hotchkiss guns, a 2-inch (across the bore) breech-loading cartridge cannon, very rapid fire for the day. And swords, repeating rifles, revolvers… to break up a Religious ...
  • More Pictures of Dead American Victims of Terr ...
    Italian laborers hired by the 7th Cavalry to dig the mass grave for the Indians slaughtered at Wounded Knee. The Cavalry used Hotchkiss guns, a 2-inch (across the bore) breech-loading cartridge cannon, very rapid fire for the day. And swords, repeating rifles, revolvers… to break up a Religious ...
  • Pentagon says bombing civilians necessary, wil ...
    Of Course. Then we’ll have Nut-Jobs like Charlie from the dead soldier picture comments saying that “No Marine he ever knew ever killed a baby”, well, Charlie, Your Comrades Sure The Hell Do, Daily, and the Pentagon says it’s “necessary” because mommy and daddy didn’t surrender, didn’t bow down ...
  • Pentagon says bombing civilians necessary, wil ...
    Of Course. Then we’ll have Nut-Jobs like Charlie from the dead soldier picture comments saying that “No Marine he ever knew ever killed a baby”, well, Charlie, Your Comrades Sure The Hell Do, Daily, and the Pentagon says it’s “necessary” because mommy and daddy didn’t surrender, didn’t bow down ...
  • U.S.A.I.D. issues preliminary report saying Ha ...
    Yep, by saying that fewer people were killed and less destruction occurred they’re setting the stage for another bill the Haitian PEOPLE will have to pay, forcing them farther into perpetual debt slavery to the Great Powers. It’s like that stupid joke the TeaParty and other racist rednecks like ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Pat Curley Insinuates That Anthony J. Hall and ...
    As summarized by Blakeney, "According to [Pat Curley at] Screw Loose Change the fact that an article of mine is on a website next to the wife of a Holocaust revisionist equates to me 'having lots of connections to...Holocaust Deniers'" http://screwloosechange.blogspot.com/2011/05/up-canada-way.h ...
  • SWIPES AT TRUTHERS -- AND OUR RESPONSE
    James Hufferd 911grassroots.org May 30, 2011 Recently, Canadian establishmentarian Jonathan Kay’s new mock-anthropological book, Among the Truthers, has caught a lot of deserved flak online on a lot of Truther web sites and in reader reviews and attendant blogs on its Amazon.com web page. Its ...
  • Not a Deather, but a Doubter; Still a Truther
    The following is a fairly detailed and nuanced argument, so before going any further please read this short statement by Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth and this short statement by physicist David Chandler and civil engineer Jonathan Cole, regarding the death of Osama bin Laden. Also con ...
  • Pat Curley Bans Free Speech
    Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog writes: Okay, the chorus of voices demanding that I ban Brian Good from posting here has gotten rather deafening. At the same time, we are proud of our reputation as one of the few places that both sides can post their arguments. You can't do that at 9- ...
  • Debunking the Debunkers
    Permanent Top Post--Scroll Down for Newer Posts Sorry, we no longer allow comments, but feel free to contact us here if you have a point of contention or some kind words you would like to share. Ad hominems will be ignored, but well-formed rebuttals may be addressed (and that is a subjective m ...

Fooducate

  • Now Available: The Fooducate Android App (Beta)
    We’re happy to announce the release of the Free Fooducate App for Android (version 0.9). You can get the app from the Android market. (Note: Only in the United States) The Fooducate app empowers shoppers make better, healthier  choices at the supermarket. It encapsulates all the tips and tricks ...
  • Hello MyPlate. RIP MyPyramid. Five Comments
    Yesterday, at a Washington DC press conference, The First Lady and USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack unveiled the government’s newest effort to get Americans eating right – My Plate (see www.choosemyplate.gov) “This is a quick, simple reminder for all of us to be more mindful of the foods that weâre ea ...
  • Aloha! Hawaii School Lunches Made from Scratch
    School lunches, served daily to millions of children across the nation, are a nutritional mess. What can you expect from a meal that must cost less than $2 per child? Subsidized by the USDA through surplus agricultural commodities and extensively processed to lower costs and extend shelf-life an ...
  • 12 Observations on Food in Italy vs Food in the US
    Click HERE for more pictures So we spent Memorial Day weekend in Milan, Italy. Weather was gorgeous, as was the city, the food was mostly great, and best of all the kids were back home with the grandparents… Walking around the city and thinking about food, I tried to compare Italy to the US with ...
  • USDA: Changing the Food Pyramid into a “Food P ...
    On Thursday, the USDA is set to unveil a new and simple graphic to help people choose what food to eat. The useless food pyramid, which has been confusing consumers for over 25 years, will be replaced by something more simple, according to the New York Times: The circular plate, which will be un ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Outrage as controversial Amazon mega dam approved
    Hundreds of Brazilian indigenous leaders, river-dwellers and dam-affected people joined together to discuss and protest against the development of the Belo Monte dam which will devastate their way of life. © Antonio Bonsorte/Amazon Watch Brazil’s environment agency, IBAMA, has given the gre ...
  • Yanomami Indians seize plane in health protest
    Yanomami Indians protest against chaotic health situation © Hutukara/ Survival Yanomami Indians in the Brazilian Amazon have captured an airplane used by health workers, in protest at corruption within the health service. The Yanomami are outraged by the nomination of a new indigenous hea ...
  • Peru in shock move to abolish uncontacted trib ...
    A Murunahua man, contacted by loggers in 1995. Half his people died after initial contact. © Chris Fagan/Upper Amazon Conservancy The survival of the uncontacted tribe whose images caused a worldwide sensation in February is in jeopardy, after Peruvian government plans to abolish a reserv ...
  • Peru in shock move to abolish uncontacted trib ...
    A Murunahua man, contacted by loggers in 1995. Half his people died after initial contact. © Chris Fagan/Upper Amazon Conservancy The survival of the uncontacted tribe whose images caused a worldwide sensation in February is in jeopardy, after Peruvian government plans to abolish a reserv ...
  • Death threat from Shell supplier on Brazilian ...
    Energy giant Shell's joint venture partner, Cosan, is buying sugarcane grown on Guarani land. © João Ripper/Survival A Brazilian rancher supplying sugarcane to a joint venture partner of energy giant Shell has reportedly issued a death threat against a political opponent.â¨â¨José Teixeir ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • Composting teabags
    Over on the Really Good Life the other day, I listed all the consumables I used in one day and their packaging. I think it’s easy to become blind to things you routinely use and listing them helped me realise where I was creating unnecessary waste/exposing myself to unnecessary synthetic chemica ...
  • How can I use up too sweet ginger wine?
    I spotted this question on the Money Saving Expert forums earlier today: I bought some ginger wine from sainsburys to try but it is far too sweet. I don’t want to waste it, but I can’t stand to drink it. Any ideas what else I can do with it? Other forum posters suggested using a [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle paper that’s ...
    We’ve already covered photocopier paper and printer paper in general – and there are some great suggestions over there but I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on what I can do with a stack of paper which has been printed on both sides. I usually make scrap paper notebooks with any waste pape ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle out of date packet ...
    Karen left a question on the Suggest an Item page: Hi! I found out of date instant soup packets. Any ideas? I presume by “out of date” Karen means its beyond the “best before” date – and if so, chances are, that soup is just fine and will be just fine for a good while [...]
  • How can I use up/reuse/recycle cakes that have ...
    We’ve had an email from Janet: I love your site – it really inspires me to go to lengths to reuse and recycle things I never thought I could, and since I’m a student, that’s wisely frugal too! I have a bit of a blind spot with cake baking, and they always come out unrisen [...]

Age of Autism

  • Proposed Rules Changes to Medicaid Program; Ho ...
    By Harry Hofher As parents of children with autism we constantly struggle with the simple unavoidable question of “What will happen to my child when I’m gone?” Compounding that worry and adding to our anguish is the undeniable fact that...
  • Enjoy Life Foods Donates Gluten-Free, Allergy ...
    Enjoy Life Helps Ease Some Pain in Japan On March 11, 2011, unthinkable disaster struck Japan in the form of a massive 9.0 earthquake and a crippling tsunami. Entire towns were destroyed and thousands of lives were lost, leaving surviving...
  • Death by Flu, The Big Lie Crumbles
    By David M. Burd For many years the public has been cajoled, coerced, and conned into taking a seasonal flu shot, with the first week in December deemed to be National Vaccination Week, while various other years the shot is...
  • Time for the 8th Annual TACA Picnic!
    8th Annual TACA Family Picnic June 12, 2011 Who? This extremely popular family event will be attended by approximately 2,000 Southern Californian. Many families affected by autism will attend this special event. This event has sold out every year! What?...
  • Time for the 8th Annual TACA Picnic!
    8th Annual TACA Family Picnic June 12, 2011 Who? This extremely popular family event will be attended by approximately 2,000 Southern Californian. Many families affected by autism will attend this special event. This event has sold out every year! What?...

Global BDS Movement

  • Map test
    View Global BDS Day of Action 2011 in a larger map
  • BDS campaigners force Ahava shop to move
      The central London flagship store of Ahava, an Israeli cosmetics company whose products come from stolen Palestinian natural resources in the occupied West Bank, and are produced in the illegal settlement of Mitzpe Shalem, has been forced to move … Continue reading →
  • Rawabi remains settler-colonial sub-contractor
    Uri Davis writes on the ongoing links between the Rawabi project and the Jewish National Fund.
  • Stop the Wall release new report on Brazil’s m ...
    Notwithstanding its recent recognition of the Palestinian State and its long tradition of supporting Palestinian rights and upholding international law, the Brazilian government has signed contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars with Israel’s arms industry.
  • Trade Unions
    The global trade union movement has consistently demonstrated its courage and commitment to human rights by adopting concrete, ground-breaking labour-led sanctions against oppressive regimes in a show of effective solidarity with oppressed peoples around the world. Adopting BDS measures has … Co ...

Farm Wars

  • In the Grip of Mad Scientists: Business as Usu ...
    Imagine, if you will, a world in which health sciences, disease control, cancer research, bio-weapons research, vaccine development, biotechnology, food and agriculture, national defense, and chemical companies all work together under the military.
  • In the Grip of Mad Scientists: Business as Usu ...
    Imagine, if you will, a world in which health sciences, disease control, cancer research, bio-weapons research, vaccine development, biotechnology, food and agriculture, national defense, and chemical companies all work together under the military.
  • Chemtrail Investigators Wanted
    Here is what I am asking you to do. If this project interests you, please go on the Internet and become familiar with a program called Plane Finder: http://planefinder.net/. Play with it a while to see how you can track aircraft anywhere in the world, provided there are receiving stations in tha ...
  • Evergreen Facility Caught on Film: Chemtrail P ...
    VIDEO connecting the Evergreen Facility with chemtrail activity.
  • Chemtrail Alert: Joe Marman Suing Shasta Count ...
    This is a letter from Attorney Joe Marmon who is suing the Shasta County Air Quality District. Although I live in LA, I have included myself as a plaintiff in this case. Please contact Joe to take action against these crimes against nature and humanity.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Fierce fighting in Mogadishu
    Reuters – Battles rage in Mogadishu as government and African Union forces advance on a strategic rebel-held market. Travis Brecher reports.
  • Killer E.coli strain described as deadliest yet
    Reuters – A highly infectious new strain of E.coli bacteria is causing a deadly outbreak of food poisoning in Germany, scientists said on Thursday, with cases in Europe and the United States raising the alarm worldwide. Experts in China, part of a global network of laboratories racing to underst ...
  • Prepare for More Money Printing
    CNBC – Investors should prepare themselves for a third round of quantitative easing, Simon Maughn, co-head of European equities at MF Global, told CNBC Wednesday. âThe bond market is going in one direction which is up-falling yields which is telling you quite clearly the direction of economic tr ...
  • Obama econ panel: We’ll lose less than $ ...
    USA Today – A report today from President Obama’s National Economic Council says the government will lose less than $14 billion — which would amount to less than about 20% of the $80 billion spent to bail out the U.S. auto industry. The taxpayer money was spent chiefly to invest in or offer loan ...
  • Brazil grants building permit for Belo Monte A ...
    BBC – Brazil’s environment agency has backed construction of a hydro-electric dam in the Amazon, opposed by indigenous groups and environmentalists. The agency, Ibama, said the Belo Monte dam on the Xingu River had been subjected to “robust analysis” of its impact on the environment. The governm ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • State Assembly votes to protect little fish to ...
    “Even though they're not the majestic megafauna like whales that draw so much attention from people, those smaller fish are a main food source for larger marine mammals and recreationally and commercially important fish species,” said Ashley Blacow, a spokeswoman for the conservation group Ocean ...
  • Yucca Mountain nuclear storage in, renewables ...
    There's a small surprise in the energy and water bill that passed a key House panel Thursday: Funding was restored for licensing and development of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada. Two years ago, the Senate's energy spending...
  • New concerns in Congress over planned Keystone ...
    With continuing spill problems on the Keystone pipeline carrying oil extracted from Canada's tar sands to the U.S., there are growing demands for a broader review before any approval of a second Keystone XL pipeline, proposed to carry the controversial...
  • Salazar backpedals: Politics stalls wilderness ...
    I am confirming today that, pursuant to the 20 II CR, the BLM will not designate any lands as 'Wild Lands.' "
  • Trash cans get "smart" at Santa Monica State Beach
    Smartphones have been married with trash cans to create new smart trash cans that made their debut at Santa Monica State Beach on Tuesday. Wrapped with artwork encouraging beachgoers to put their "toes in the sand, trash in the can,"...

water.org

  • You’re Invited: June 1st Conference Call
      Wednesday, June 1 The 45-minute call begins at 9 p.m. ET Call in number: 978-964-0049
 Participant code: 449749# Not everyone who needs water should have to wait for charity to find them. Learn how Water.org is putting microfinance tools and partnerships to use in helping people get safe water ...
  • Brightest students solving the water crisis
    Hult International Business School Global Case Challenge crowd sources solutions to the water crisis with help from the Clinton Global Initiative. Team from Cambridge University wins Case Challenge.
  • Student group Project RightChoice (Dartmouth)
    Student org. hosts fundraising gala (The Dartmouth) – By selling raffle tickets for a $2,500 cash reward and hosting games with prizes from over 50 local business, members of the student group Project RightChoice raised over $20,000 to support the charity organization Water.Org at a Cinco de May ...
  • Hult prize promotes global water strategies (VOA)
    Business School Prize Promotes Global Water Strategies (VOA) – The Hult International Business School teamed up with Water.org, a non-governmental advocacy group, to challenge the worldâs business students to find a way of bringing clean water to 100 million people in the next five years. Teams ...
  • Career spotlight – Water.org’s Eri ...
    Career Spotlight – Erin Swanson, Class of 2008 (Drury Mirror) – I am responsible for developing and managing Water.org’s online presence, community, and partnerships, as well as collaborating with the rest of the team to best connect people to Water.org in dynamic and simple ways. This includes ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • U.S. Takes Action Against 'Gendercide'
    Last January, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) predicted that by 2020, Chibese boys below the age of 19 would outnumber their female counterparts by 30-40 million - double the total young male population of Europe's three largest countries.Submitted by Naoko I. to World �|� �Note-i ...
  • OUTRAGEOUS! Brazil, After a Long Battle, App ...
    Brazil�s environmental agency gave final approval on Wednesday for a giant hydroelectric power plant in the Amazon rain forest that has been at the center of a protracted battle between the government and environmentalists over the fate of indigenous peoSubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environmen ...
  • Madagascar fears repeat of Canada's tar sands ...
    UK banks helping to finance oil giant Total's exploitation of tar sands on the world's fourth largest island despite lack of adequate environmental controls or regulationSubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Israel won't withstand war in wake of strike o ...
    In his first public appearance since leaving the post in September, Dagan said earlier this month that the possibility a future Israel Air Force attack on Iranian nuclear facilities was "the stupidest thing I have ever heard." Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Hillary Clinton denounces Syrias Assad over m ...
    Clinton expressed horror at the alleged torture and murder of a 13-year-old Syrian boy by Syrian security forces. She denounced Bashar al-Assad's pledges of reform as fraudulent & said the regime has a "total collapse" of political & moral legitimacySubmitted by Maria V. to World �|� �Note-it! ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • Fotowatio Renewable Ventures Grows Presence in ...
    Based out of Spain, solar power developer Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV) has solar generating plants in Italy and Spain. However, the company is quickly growing its solar fleet and presence in the United States. read more
  • United States: DOE Offers Funds to Cut Redtape ...
    In terms of hardware and materials the cost of solar power generation is beginning to fall.� Price of production, however, is only one of many steps involved in the implementation of a solar energy system. read more
  • GE Unveils EV Solar Carport Project in Connecticut
    GE EV Solar Carport - Image courtesy of GE Imagine combining the power of the sun to help power electric vehicles. Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy recently flipp ...
  • FPL Launches Solar Rebate Pilot Program
    Providing energy to over 4.5 million customers,� Florida Power & Light Company (NYSE:NEE-PC) is Florida's largest electric utility. Of its expansive customer base only 1,100 operate their own solar generation systems in the sun ric ...
  • Head of Research at GE Says Solar May Be Cheap ...
    Mark Little, the global research director for General Electric Company (NYSE:�GE) believes solar power could be cheaper than nuclear and fossil fuel power within the next three to five years. read more

News Blaze

  • NASA, NSBRI to Fund 12 Proposals To Support Cr ...
    HRP provides knowledge and technologies to improve human health and performance during space exploration and develops possible countermeasures for problems experienced during space travel. The program's goals are to help complete missions successfu
  • Google Reports Chinese Hacking Into Email Acco ...
    According to Ms. Clinton, the Google informed the State Department of the situation yesterday in advance of its public announcement. She said the allegations are very serious.
  • New USDA Food Icon Supports Dietary Guidelines
    Today the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a replacement for its current food pyramid in support of dietary recommendations from the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2010 to make half your plate fruits and vegetables.
  • US Maintains Intensive Sanctions Against Burme ...
    According to Mr. Joe Yun, coupled with the international pressure, the United States works closely with its key allies such as the European Union (EU) and its member states, Canada, Australia, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asian nations and others to enco
  • Grave Violations of Children's Rights Take Pla ...
    According to UNICEF, Somali children are the most affected by the unrelenting violence in which they risk being killed, maimed or injured when caught in crossfire or as a result of being unlawfully recruited and used on the front lines by all partie

Worldnews

  • Arab Spring shifts focus from 'peace proc ...
    President Barack Obama's speech on the ongoing popular uprisings in the Middle East, followed by Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu's recent visit to Washington, was intended to kick off a renewed effort to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Things are not turning out as p ...
  • Kids eat 80% more vegetables when allowed ...
    A new study conducted at the University of Granada has found that children eat up to 80 percent more vegetables when they are allowed to choose. Researchers have also found that the bitterness of calcium -...
  • Gates hopes to improve US-China relations
    U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates arrives at Payar Lebar Air Base in... U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is greeted by Singapore Air Force's... U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, 4th from left, meets with Singapore's... SINGAPORE (AP) - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, w ...
  • Mladic shuns 'monstrous' charges
    Ex-Bosnian Serb army head Ratko Mladic has made his first appearance at The Hague war crimes tribunal, saying he will not enter a plea to the "monstrous" and "obnoxious" charges. He is charged with atrocities during the 1992-95 Bosnian war, including the massacre of nearly 8,000...
  • Lenovo buys German computer seller Medion
    TAIPEI/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese computer maker Lenovo Group Ltd's has agreed to buy Germany's Medion AG in a deal valuing the electronics retailer at up to $900 million, to boost its market share in Europe. The acquisition, Lenovo's biggest since its purchase of IBM's PC business six y ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Reducing Kidney Toxicity, A Severe Side Effect ...
    Cisplatin is one of the most widely used anticancer chemotherapeutics. However, it has some severe side effects in normal tissues, in particular it is toxic to the kidneys. Understanding the mechanisms underlying this toxicity could identify targets for drugs that could be given together with ci ...
  • Looking For Early Signs Of Autism In Brain Waves
    Scientists hope to diagnose autistic children while they are still infants by probing unusual electrical signals in their brains using electroencephalography. EEG is also providing hints about precisely how autism affects the brain and which therapies are likely to help children with autism spec ...
  • VIDEO: Germany 'sorry' for E. coli alert
    The German agency in charge of trying to trace the E. coli outbreak which has killed at least 17 people has said it may continue for months, and its source may never be discovered.
  • A Shower-Free And Physically Active Commute
    With gasoline prices at near-record levels, commuters are increasingly turning to transportation alternatives such as electric cars and bicycles. A hybrid of these popular options not only eases the pain at the pump but also increases physical activity, according to a study being presented at th ...
  • Algal turf scrubbers clean water with sunlight
    (American Institute of Biological Sciences) By pulsing contaminated water over screens on which algae are allowed to grow, algal turf scrubbers can use sunlight to purify agricultural runoff while yielding byproducts that can be used as fertilizer, biofuel, or higher-value commodities such as nu ...

Common Dreams

  • Kucinich on Libya: Boehner Plan is No Substitu ...
    Hoping to drum up support for his proposal to pull U.S. forces from Libya, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) argued Thursday that an alternative plan from Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is too tame to be effective. “It is not a substitute for my resolution and does not have anywhere near the same im ...
  • Back Toward Double Dip
    The May jobs report is a disaster — the weakest reading since September. Non-farm payrolls grew only 54,000 last month, according to the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. Private employment rose only 83,000 — the smallest growth since last June. Government payrolls dropped 29,000. T ...
  • New WikiLeaked Cables Reveal: How Washington a ...
    René Préval, who passed Haiti’s presidential sash to Joseph Michel Martelly on May 14, was described by U.S. Ambassador to Haiti Janet Sanderson as “Haiti’s indispensable man” in a Jun. 1, 2009 Embassy cable released by WikiLeaks last December. ...
  • School Radiation Cleanup Slammed in Fukushima
    Despite the education ministry's recent move to set a new nonbinding target to reduce the radiation children in Fukushima Prefecture are exposed to at schools, experts, local educators and parents don't feel reassured. On May 27, the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry sa ...
  • Fresh Protests Hit Yemeni Capital
    Yemeni security forces loyal to Ali Abdullah Saleh, the Yemeni president, have�fired at protesters in Sanaa demanding an end to his rule. Friday's violence in the Yemeni capital coincided with separate pitched street battles between�security�personnel�- including government special forces origin ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Hedging the Risks of Selling Oil from the Stra ...
    I see that the administration has asked Congress to approve a non-emergency sale of oil from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), in order to allow a storage cavern to be repaired before it starts to leak. That's fine, as far as it goes, though the article I read suggested this would be don ...
  • Questions About News Media Fundamentals and Fu ...
    The nuclear industry needs to understand that confidence building following the crisis in Japan is a global challenge
  • Harnessing Variable Renewables: Where is the Beef?
    The International Energy Agency (IEA) has just published a book titled "Harnessing Variable Renewables: a Guide to the Balancing Challenge." Variable renewables refers to solar and wind power generated electricity. Balancing refers to making the grid stable when solar and wind generated electr ...
  • Lighting, Sensors and Lumens, Oh My
    From poor lighting in the Hilton's Trianon Room to the endless parade of LED products on display in the Exhibit Hall lighting was the word at Con Ed's Energy Efficiency Summit in New York on Wednesday.
  • Congress: Don't Stop Europe From Controlling A ...
    Why would a reauthorization bill for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have anything to say about the steps that Europe is taking to reduce carbon pollution from aviation?� The answer should be nothing.� But unfortunately the US Senate is considering language passed by the House of Repre ...

Green House - USA Today

  • Survey: Americans crave energy-efficient techn ...
    Many consumers turn lights off and shop for energy-efficient devices but only 9% of U.S. households are now using energy management programs to reduce their utility bills, finds a survey released Thursday by the Consumer Electronics Association.
  • Study: Climate change to hike ozone-related il ...
    Left unchecked, climate change could increase breathing problems and health costs by exacerbating ground-level ozone, warns a report Thursday by the Union of Concerned Scientists.
  • Obama taps environmentalist Bryson to head Com ...
    President Obama, who's repeatedly touted the benefits of a clean energy economy, has tapped the co-founder of one of the largest U.S. environmental groups to head the Commerce Department.
  • Oxfam: Food prices to double amid climate change
    The price of staple foods such as corn, already high, could more than double in the next 20 years, and climate change is responsible for up to half of this expected increase, warns a report Tuesday by the international aid organization Oxfam.
  • Plastic from plants? UF researchers use yard waste
    Plastic from plants? University of Florida researchers have found an inexpensive way to make plastic from discarded plant material, such as yard waste, and thus avoid using food or fuel to make this popular alternative to paper.

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • The Wonders of Human Creatureliness and the Bi ...
    by sesalmony@aol.com Perhaps you will choose to join me in the process of naming what is so difficult to acknowledge regarding 'the placement' of our all-too-human species within a biological and evolutionary order of living things as well as the "rules of the house" in a finite and frangibl ...
  • Escalating an Asian Arms Race
    by Stephen Lendman Together with South Korea, America's military plans expanding its Asian footprint on Jeju Island with a strategic naval base for Aegis class attack ships. They're equipped with sophisticated SM-3 interceptor missiles intended mainly for offense, as well as powerful compute ...
  • Mladic and international justice: Age of deception
    Eric Walberg Mladic’s upcoming trial in The Hague reminds us that international justice is a complicated business, however simple its motives. Ratko Mladic, the most wanted fugitive of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), was arrested last week after 16 years on the run ...
  • States Harming People Most in Need
    by Stephen Lendman In 1996, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation ("welfare reform") Act (PRWORA) passed. Until then, needy households got welfare payments (since 1935) through Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), a program protecting states by sharing costs ...
  • The Real Power Struggle in Tehran
    Jalal Alavi Some Iran observers are of the opinion that a genuine power struggle has been triggered in Iran between Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over the reinstatement of an ousted minister. This, however, is not an accurate assessment of the situation, if on ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Vancity now a living wage employer
    Great news! Vancity has announced that it is now officially a living wage employer, committed to paying its employees a living wage, as calculated by the CCPA. In Vancouver in 2011, this is $18.81 an hour. Congratulations to the Living Wage for Families campaign! For details, see the Vancity n ...
  • Rising CEO Pay: Could it fuel social unrest?
    BNN (Business News Network) has taken on the thorny topic of soaring CEO pay in Canada. Two former CEOs joined CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan for a discussion about CEO pay and came to agreement on three important points: Executive compensation has gotten out of line; workers at the bot ...
  • What to expect in Monday's federal budget
    Despite the government’s stay-the-course rhetoric, the upcoming federal budget will lay the foundation for the most aggressive assault on public service delivery in Canadian history. David Macdonald and Armine Yalnizyan have written a report to give Canadians a sense of what to expect from t ...
  • CEO Pay Soared in 2010
    Did your pay go up by 13% last year? If you were a CEO at one of Canada's 100 biggest companies, it did. The Globe and Mail review of executive pay in 2010 reveals CEOs at Canada’s 100 largest companies saw their compensation jump 13 per cent last year, led higher by a 20-per-cent increase in a ...
  • Conservative tax policies could aggravate the ...
    "The Conservatives, who will soon deliver their post-election budget, are championing a set of plans that may accelerate Canada’s growing gap between rich and poor, a sign of inequality that has already reached troubling levels," Toronto Star reporter Les Whittington writes in this story .

World Wide Hippies

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • TOM MORELLO : THE NIGHTWATCHMAN TO RELEASE UNI ...
    FREE DOWNLOAD OF THE TITLE TRACK “UNION TOWN” AVAILABLE NOW   NEW FULL LENGTH ALBUM, WORLD WIDE REBEL SONGS, TO BE RELEASED LATE SUMMER   April 28th, 2011 -- New York, New York -- Tom Morello is set to release Union Town via New West Records digitally on May 17th with a physical CD and Vinyl rel ...
  • New York Times: Claims Gaddafi Tried to Assass ...
    From 'TARGET QADDAFI' by Seymour Hersh, New York Times, February 22, 1987 ... In the weeks following Sadat's death, newspapers and television reported a barrage of Qaddafi death threats to Reagan and senior Administration officials. Secret Service protection was ordered for the President's ...
  • New York Times: U.S. Specifically Targeted Gad ...
    From 'TARGET QADDAFI' by Seymour Hersh, New York Times, February 22, 1987 ... The mission was the first combat assignment for most of the fliers. Qaddafi's home and his camouflaged Bedouin tent, where he often worked throughout the night, were inside the grounds of El-Azziziya. The notion o ...
  • Top Al Qaeda Spokesman Spoke Warmly of Those W ...
    Excerpts from transcript of videotape discovered in Jalalabad in Afghanistan in fall, 2001. Slaiman Abou-Ghaith was one of al Qaeda's primary spokesmen: ... BIN LADEN: Those young men [inaudible] said in deeds, in New York and Washington -- speeches that overshadowed all other speeches made e ...
  • Allison Beth Krause Lives On
    My name is Jennifer Schwartz Wright and I am Allison Krause’s cousin and also among the first generation of our family who never met Allison. What can I tell you about my beloved cousin? I was less than a year old when she was shot dead on May 4, 1970. Had she not been killed, I would most cert ...

Salon

  • Do we really have to take Michele Bachmann "se ...
    There is talk, now, that we should all be taking Michele Bachmann a bit more "seriously." She is, after all, polling better than Tim Pawlenty, whom we are all definitely supposed to take seriously, no matter how difficult he makes that for us. Jon Chait lays out the case for taking Bachmann s ...
  • Embarrassing emails from Weiner tweeter leaked
    Did Andrew Breitbart leak embarrassing personal emails sent to him by the mystery Twitter user at the center of the Anthony Weiner crotch shot scandal? Possibly.
  • Should we release crack prisoners early?
    For the last few decades, activists have been warning that the severe U.S. drug sentencing policies instituted in the '80s and '90s have disastrous human consequences, particularly for minority communities. Starting with the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, the trend in federal U.S. sentencing po ...
  • Mitt Romney is betting on a bad economy
    Mitt Romney picked a good day to formally announce his presidential campaign. Sure, in some ways he's being overshadowed by Sarah Palin, whose bus tour was about an hour away from�Stratham, New Hampshire went Romney made his formal declaration early Thursday afternoon. But Romney's announceme ...
  • America has become a corporate police state
    "Corporate Police State," it's a fraught -- some might even say, overwrought -- term. But in its purest, apolitical form, it simply describes the periodic commingling of state and corporate power to protect private interests.

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

  • Don’t force drivers to pre-pay
    It should remain up to gas station operators—not the government—to decide how, and when, motorists will pay.
  • Don’t force drivers to pre-pay
    It should remain up to gas station operators—not the government—to decide how, and when, motorists will pay.
  • Let’s avoid dialing up a panic
    A lot more research needs to be done before there’s a proven link between mobile phones and brain cancer. But that’s no reason for complacency.
  • Blair needs to cut fat, not front-line cops
    Requiring Toronto police to at least investigate some serious budget cuts, including possible layoffs, makes good sense given this department’s exceptional cost.
  • Canada’s long haul
    Nothing is easy in Afghanistan. Even as Prime Minister Stephen Harper flew in to laud our troops’ “great success” in Kandahar as they get ready to swap a dangerous combat mission for a less risky Kabul-based training role, he was reminded of ju ...

Energy Collective

  • Hedging the Risks of Selling Oil from the Stra ...
    I see that the administration has asked Congress to approve a non-emergency sale of oil from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), in order to allow a storage cavern to be repaired before it starts to leak. That's fine, as far as it goes, though the article I read suggested this would be don ...
  • Questions About News Media Fundamentals and Fu ...
    The nuclear industry needs to understand that confidence building following the crisis in Japan is a global challenge
  • Harnessing Variable Renewables: Where is the Beef?
    The International Energy Agency (IEA) has just published a book titled "Harnessing Variable Renewables: a Guide to the Balancing Challenge." Variable renewables refers to solar and wind power generated electricity. Balancing refers to making the grid stable when solar and wind generated electr ...
  • Lighting, Sensors and Lumens, Oh My
    From poor lighting in the Hilton's Trianon Room to the endless parade of LED products on display in the Exhibit Hall lighting was the word at Con Ed's Energy Efficiency Summit in New York on Wednesday.
  • Congress: Don't Stop Europe From Controlling A ...
    Why would a reauthorization bill for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have anything to say about the steps that Europe is taking to reduce carbon pollution from aviation?� The answer should be nothing.� But unfortunately the US Senate is considering language passed by the House of Repre ...

EU Times

  • Former Chief of IAEA Says Iran is Not Building ...
    The former Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a new published report that he had not seen “a shred of evidence” that Iran was “building nuclear-weapons facilities and using enriched materials.” Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel Peace Prize recipient who spent 12 ...
  • Former Chief of IAEA Says Iran is Not Building ...
    The former Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a new published report that he had not seen “a shred of evidence” that Iran was “building nuclear-weapons facilities and using enriched materials.” Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel Peace Prize recipient who spent 12 ...
  • The Libyan Sovereign Funds
    The objective of the war in Libya is not just oil, whose reserves (estimated at 60 billion barrels) are the most important in Africa and whose extraction costs are among the lowest in the world. Not so little also, natural gas, whose reserves are estimated at about 1.5 trillion cubic metres. In ...
  • The Libyan Sovereign Funds
    The objective of the war in Libya is not just oil, whose reserves (estimated at 60 billion barrels) are the most important in Africa and whose extraction costs are among the lowest in the world. Not so little also, natural gas, whose reserves are estimated at about 1.5 trillion cubic metres. In ...
  • Non-ionizing radiation from cell phones may ca ...
    A branch of the World Health Organization announced Tuesday cell phones are “possible carcinogens” a statement that was met with skepticism from many American cancer experts. The statement came from the International Agency for Research on Cancer, which convened 30 international experts in Lyon, ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Mladic in Hague, Serbia towards EU, reopening ...
    From historical perspective the Mladic’n arrest and the Hague trial serves as formation of a more comprehensive picture of events in the Balkans in the 90’s after the procecutor and the defense have made their case. Issues related to the underlying policy objectives of Srebrenica, events before ...
  • NFL Lockout: Two Sides Start Talking Without B ...
    News began to leak out yesterday that a number of influential NFL owners (Bob Kraft, Jerry Jones, Jerry Richardson), along with commissioner Roger Goodell held a "secret" unannounced meeting in Chicago. It was late revealed that NFLPA head DeMaurice Smith and federal mediator Arthur Boylan was ...
  • How To Secure Your Gmail Account From Hacking
    1. Choose A Strong & Unique Password Use a strong password for your Gmail account that you do not use on any other site. 2. Enable Two Step Verification Two step verification adds an extra layer of security to your Google Account by requiring you to have access to your phone – as well as your u ...
  • Jaycee Dugard to Phillip Garrido: 'You stole m ...
    The mother of kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard read a statement in court Thursday to Dugard's captors, Phillip and Nancy Garrido, who were sentenced to prison. Dugard did not attend the hearing, but her mother, Terry Probyn, read a statement by Dugard directed at Phillip Garrido: "I chose not to ...
  • Andrew Mason's $575 Salary, Groupon's $750 Mil ...
    Let's begin with the biggest news of the day: Groupon 's CEO makes 575 times what Steve Jobs makes as chief exec at Apple. But let's not get ahead of ourselves: Andrew Mason's base salary is only $575. No, the real news of the day is that Groupon just filed an S-1 statement with the SEC, and lo ...

Groklaw

  • Google releases video chat source code
    Google has released the source code for a technology that it hopes developers will use to embed real-time video and voice chat functionality in their web applications. Google acquired the technology, called WebRTC (Web Real Time Communication), when it purchased VoIP software developer Global I ...
  • Get a Safer Phone
    Listing is based on all phones (current and legacy). You can also see all available phones or all Smartphones ranked by maximum radiation. - Environmental Working Group
  • Whats In Facebooks Pile Of Evidence Against ...
    What follows are some of the more interesting excerpts from Facebook's motion [PDF] and accompanying evidence dump. It's important to note that these are all allegations coming from attorneys, experts and investigators who are paid by Facebook. However, this is all sworn testimony under penalty ...
  • Google, Publishers Seek More Time to Reach Boo ...
    In court today, Chin set a hearing for July 19. "We have been working closely with the authors and publishers to explore a number of options in response to the court's decision," Megan Lamb, a Google spokeswoman, said in an e-mailed statement. "Regardless of the outcome, we'll continue to make ...
  • Ensuring your information is safe online
    Here are some ways to improve your security when using Google products: Enable 2-step verification. This Gmail feature uses a phone and second password on sign-in, and it protected some accounts from this attack. So check out this video on setting up 2-step verification.... ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Atomic Testing Museum. Blatant propaganda
    You’d think the Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, since it is an affiliate of the Smithsonian, would present a balanced view of the atomic testing in Nevada during the 1950′s, especially since the tests were deliberately done on days when the wind would blow the radiation onto that “low-use se ...
  • Geothermal powers 20% of Reno during the day
    At night, geothermal production meets 50% of Reno’s needs. Geothermal is reliable and steady, producing power 24/7. Pumps pull 6,000 gallons of water a minute out of reservoirs 3,000 feet below the surface. The water, naturally heated by geologic forces to approximately 300 degrees Fahrenheit (1 ...
  • Utah.gov websites provide real value for citizens
    Craig Newmark of Craigslist details the amazing job Utah has done with their new state websites. The changes include a common look-and-feel across all sites, auto-sensing for mobile devices, context-sensitive searches, crowdsourcing and geotagging, and much more. Okay, the deal is that people ca ...
  • Polizeros podcast tonight
    Topics: Who are the global warming deniers? Greece financial crisis. Irish are 10 billion euros in the red due to fall in tax revenue, now want to be sharia-compliant financial center of Europe (you read that right.) Syria barbarity. Western-backed barbarity in Libya, Ivory Coast. Murder of Syed ...
  • Polizeros podcast tonight
    Topics: Who are the global warming deniers? Greece financial crisis. Irish are 10 billion euros in the red due to fall in tax revenue, now want to be sharia-compliant financial center of Europe (you read that right.) Syria barbarity. Western-backed barbarity in Libya, Ivory Coast. Murder of Syed ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Syria: The strong risk of fitna, and how to pr ...
    Josh Landis has a truly excellent piece on his blog today. It is a lengthy account that he's publishing there, that was written by someone identified only as "An American in Syria." Whoever the writer is, the writing shows the closeness of her/his own connectedness to Syrians in Damascus of a va ...
  • Notes on Turkey and Syria, #2
    Turkish FM Davutoglu today told a couple of media outlets (including the NYT) that Syrian President Bashar al-Asad should launch a "shock therapy" version of political reform. Did he use those words in English? If so, it is a truly lousy turn of phrase. "Shock therapy," as administered to the Ru ...
  • Notes on Turkey and the Syrian transition
    I'm sorry we haven't been able to fix the comments here yet. Meantime, you can go over to this post on my backup blog to read what I just wrote about Turkey and Syria... and what's more, I think you can post comments there.
  • Tweeting the new Palestinian convergence?
    I was just, um, tweeting (@helenacobban, not @justworldnews... ) about the fact that Twitter, especially, gives a lot of new flexibility and capabilities to Palestinian activists who by the nature of their situation are chopped, diced, and spread out between a number of different national jurisd ...
  • 'Arab Spring' heads for Palestine
    It looks as if the civilian mass organizing that has been a feature of the 'Arab Spring' in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, and elsewhere is now heading seriously for Palestine. In the AS's early weeks, several Western commentators made a point of writing both that the AS itself hadn't re ...

frogblog

  • An inspiring and visionary look at the NZ economy
    If you want a clear and exciting alternative to “More dairy, more mining“, look no further than this! Sir Paul Callaghan busts some common myths about ourselves and puts for a vision for our future that everyone can get excited about. Watch the presentation on YouTube. Sadly embedding of the vid ...
  • The curious difference between meal of fish an ...
    Recall National’s current Agriculture Minister David Carter’s words, back in 2004: [Winston] Peters last night vigorously denied claims made on TV One that the meal, at Kermadec Restaurant in Auckland's Viaduct Basin and paid for by co-owner Peter Simunovich, might imply "corruption". "I t ...
  • General debate, June 2, 2011
  • g.blog’s resurrection, and that of Bob C ...
    Many current frogblog readers probably won’t have heard of g.blog. g.blog was set up before the 2008 election, but has been in hibernation for a while.  But it is a blog where any Green Party member can post. If you are a Green member,  all you need to do to get posting rights at g.blog [...]
  • Climate change adaptation in Cuba
    I didn’t hear any climate change denial in Cuba. In fact, the environment ministry people outlined to me a detailed climate change adaption programme. They calculate that if there is an 85 cm sea level rise by 2100 twenty one communities by the sea will disappear, and many others will be badly a ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • (Land of the Fee and the Home of the Knave) Mo ...
    President Obama has said that he will not allow people-programs to be cut so that the wealthy can receive tax cuts because our nation is "better than that." But what America is cannot be distinguished from its economy which exists merely to accumulate money. It's why the maxim is let the buy ...
  • The Supreme Court, the Constitution and the Fi ...
    The Supreme Court's First Amendment opinions result not from interpreting the First Amendment but from deliberately and insidiously changing its diction in ways that make the Amendment unrecognizable. The Court's arguments in these opinions are pure cant and do nothing but turn the Justice ...
  • Liberty's Easy Slide into Tyranny
    Huge conspiracies aren't what destroys people's freedom, the accumulation of errors, failed policies, and little and big unfairnesses do. It happens because The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men/ Gang aft agley,/ An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain. The FED, CIA, Executive Privilege, The ...
  • What should be done with illegal immigrants?
    That this question is even being asked reveals something about ourselves. How would you answer it if you were an illegal immigrant? Perhaps you've never heard of the Golden Rule. The rule may not be the best guide to moral behavior but asking yourself how you'd answer the question if you wer ...
  • A Revolting World
    Many in many lands are demonstrating against their governments. Some claim that people everywhere are revolting and that a worldwide revolution is imminent. Even both the orthodox and heterodox presses are all atwitter. But it is far easier to bring about a successful revolution than it is t ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • China's Potemkin Aircraft Carrier
    Calm down, says David Axe, "China’s First Aircraft Carrier is a Piece of Junk." It's got lousy engines, lousy air support, lousy convoy support, and lousy sub support. Basically, it's just a learning experience for the Chinese. They'll get better eventually, but eventually is still pretty fa ...
  • Employment Picture Even Grimmer Than You Think
    Every month Steve Benen publishes a handy chart showing job gains and losses since January 2008. Looking at the latest dismal numbers for May, he concludes, "Any sane person should look at these numbers and conclude that the economy desperately needs a boost." But it's worse than that. As I ...
  • Scaring Ourselves Out of Growth?
    Stephen Carter has a column up at Bloomberg about the guy sitting next to him on an airplane flight the other day. He's a small business owner and he refuses to hire more workers even though demand for his products is up. Why is that? asks Carter: “Because I don’t know how much it will co ...
  • Doctor's Dispatch From Iraqi Kurdistan
    Editor's note: This is the third part of a three-part series of dispatches from Jonathan Dworkin, an infectious diseases fellow at Brown who spent several months in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2006 and returned for a followup visit in May. Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here. In Sulaimania's directorat ...
  • Winning the (Very Near) Future
    So how do Democrats get back on top in the soundbite wars over the economy? Beats me. But Democracy Corps says they tested a bunch of messages and blaming Republicans for getting us into this mess is a loser. The three big winners are below. Take 'em for what they're worth.1 1But it's worth ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 251: It’s Too Damn Hot
    Topics: It’s too hot in the DMV The Eddie Long saga Rep. Anthony Weiner has his “twitter hacked” Sarah Palin leads the media on a goose chase Herman Cain for President Share with your friends:
  • IC 250: The Mini-4LOKO Podcast Party
    Topics: The last 4Loko podcast party was so successful we decided to do it again. This time in studio. Fuckery ensues… Share with your friends:
  • What to Pack for the Rapture Tomorrow
    So you might have heard that the Rapture is happening tomorrow.  Yup.  Some random white guy who looks like he’s old, wears depends and smells is telling everyone that May 21, 2011 is when Jesus is coming back.  Yeah I know.  It’s 2011 and people are still falling for the “Yeah I spoke to Je ...
  • IC 249: Happy Rapture Day
    Topics: Apparently Jesus comes back on Kriss’ birthday this Saturday Woman wins the right to masturbate at her job Some work place survival tips The Governator has a secret love child Dr. West & Tavis Smiley get in their feelings about the President Share with your friends:
  • Some Random Thoughts on Dr. West, President Ob ...
    So if you’re one of those people that pays attention to politics and the rumblings back and forth between different sides, then you’ve undoubtedly heard about the beef Dr. Cornel West has with President Obama. You probably also know that he’s not alone as he has people like Tavis Smiley, some of ...

Simple Climate

  • Greenland melt studies need greater accuracy
    Lack of detail undermines previous efforts to predict future Greenland ice melt from recent observations, says Ohio State University's Ian Howat, whose new method finds the island's three largest outlet glaciers lost enough ice to fill Lake Erie between 2000 and 2010
  • Greenland melt studies need greater accuracy
    Lack of detail undermines previous efforts to predict future Greenland ice melt from recent observations, says Ohio State University's Ian Howat, whose new method finds the island's three largest outlet glaciers lost enough ice to fill Lake Erie between 2000 and 2010
  • Native tip-off reveals unmatched Arctic storm ...
    Sea-water algae living in a lake 6 km inland for the first time in 1,000 years underline how extreme the Arctic's current conditions are, explain Queen's University, Canada's Joshua Thienpont and colleagues.
  • Native tip-off reveals unmatched Arctic storm ...
    Sea-water algae living in a lake 6 km inland for the first time in 1,000 years underline how extreme the Arctic's current conditions are, explain Queen's University, Canada's Joshua Thienpont and colleagues.
  • Driest monsoons in 1,000 years warn of catastrophe
    Monsoons in the Andes get drier as the world warms, find Union College, New York's Don Rodbell and colleagues, which combined with shrinking glaciers could reduce the run-off relied on by the west of the continent to a trickle.

e!Science News

  • C-reactive protein levels predict breast cance ...
    Levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) are increased in response to acute inflammation, infection and tissue damage. There are also reports that CRP levels are elevated because of cancer. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Breast Cancer Research shows that elevated CRP le ...
  • Building a better dam map
    Humans have been building reservoirs and dams for thousands of years. Over the past few decades, their construction has spiked as our need to harness water – critical in flood control, irrigation, recreation, navigation and the creation of hydroelectric power – has grown. And while dams and rese ...
  • Examining the brain as a neural information su ...
    An article demonstrating how tools for modeling traffic on the Internet and telephone systems can be used to study information flow in brain networks will be published in the open-access journal PLoS Computational Biology on 2nd June 2011. read more
  • U of T scientist leads international team in q ...
    Quantum mechanics is famous for saying that a tree falling in a forest when there's no one there doesn't make a sound. Quantum mechanics also says that if anyone is listening, it interferes with and changes the tree. And so the famous paradox: how can we know reality if we cannot measure it wit ...
  • Caltech researchers build largest biochemical ...
    In many ways, life is like a computer. An organism's genome is the software that tells the cellular and molecular machinery—the hardware—what to do. But instead of electronic circuitry, life relies on biochemical circuitry—complex networks of reactions and pathways that enable organisms to funct ...

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

  • Critique of MIT future of nuclear fuel cycle study
    MIT (energy initiative) recently released a controversial and well-publicized report on the future of the nuclear fuel cycle. In it, they argue that there is sufficient uranium to allow ongoing deployment of water-cooled reactors for many decades; they recommend that no far-reaching decision be ...
  • Nuclear power and climate change – what now?
    I’m currently on a 3-week trip to North America, and will be returning to Australia in mid-June. At the end of my travels I’ll be attending an energy futures conference in Waterloo, Canada (and will write more about that in an upcoming blog). But at present, I’m in Davis, California, and have be ...
  • What price of Indian independence? Greenpeace ...
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. To see a list of other BNC posts by Geoff, click here. —————— India declared itself a republic in 1950 after more than a century of ...
  • What price of Indian independence? Greenpeace ...
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. To see a list of other BNC posts by Geoff, click here. —————— India declared itself a republic in 1950 after more than a century of ...
  • CO2 avoidance cost with wind energy in Austral ...
    The following post is intended as a working paper for discussion. (It builds on work started by Peter Lang back in 2009, Does wind power reduce carbon emissions?) This current work is based on the methods and conclusions from the recently published work by Herbert Inhaber in the peer-reviewed jo ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • In defence of Dr. Cornel West and all other co ...
    Editorial: The Fine Art of Stepping Back: Why I have decided to stop writing about race. By TheAngryindian -�04.06.2008 Editor's Note: This editorial is a re-print of a older article I wrote during the electoral run-up to the historical Obama presidency on my (not defunct) decision t ...
  • TheAngryindian: Why I have decided to stop wri ...
    Editorial: The Fine Art of Stepping Back: Why I have decided to stop writing about race. | APNS Why I have decided to stop writing about race. By TheAngryindian 04.06.2008 *Editor's Note: This editorial is a re-print of a older article I wrote during the electoral run-up to the his ...
  • Hard Work or Hardly Working? How White People ...
    Hard Work or Hardly Working? How White People Got So Rich Part I: "(FinalCall.com) - [THE HISTORICAL RESEARCH DEPARTMENT OF THE NATION OF ISLAM] The foundation of American White supremacy sits tenuously on a rickety base of lies and deceptions about how Whites gained their wealth and status. A ...
  • Wide Asleep in America: The Call Bob Dylan Won ...
    Wide Asleep in America: The Call Bob Dylan Won't Heed:BDS, Bullies, and Blowing Wind: "A recent letter by the Israeli peace and justice group 'Boycott From Within' (BfW) implores legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan to heed the Palestinian call for BDS and therefore not perform in Israel. The l ...
  • AAP: Are Corporate Black Blogs Destroying Blac ...
    Are Corporate Black Blogs Destroying Black Employment In Mainstream Media? [ AfricanAmericanPundit] I knew that folks at the Washington Post and NBC were getting concerned that black bloggers groups like the afrospear/afrosphere were getting too organized. I also felt in my gut that white media ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Grandma Isn’t Dead Yet Mr. Ryan
    I know how hard you have worked to steal the last few dollars grandma has left to buy her pills. Once she runs out of money and she dies, problem solved right? One less parasite living on government “entitlements” right Mr. Ryan? Gotta pay for them tax breaks for billionaires now don’t we….
  • Boehner Ready to Cut a Deal on Raising the Deb ...
    If President Obama would agree to cut “entitlements” and put thousands of Americans to death from lack of food, or proper medical attention John Boehner guarantees he will put raising the debt ceiling to a vote! What a deal? I think the CBO should “score” how many Americans will die needlessly f ...
  • Let Me Get This Straight Mitch
    So the Republicans are threatening to “not” raise the debt ceiling. They want to “work together” with Dems slashing spending on “entitlements” (helping poor and old people survive) and not raise taxes on anyone anywhere regardless how much money they are making. Sound like a bargain? Hey Mitch. ...
  • Congratulations Senator McCain – Telling ...
    I would personally like to commend Mr. McCain for telling the world the truth about torture. Most of the time when a Republican does anything it could be considered an act of sabotage, but in this case one Republican actually did something good for our nation. Congratulations. Now let’s talk abo ...
  • The Republicans are Demanding Osama Show His D ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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  • Is there a political opposition in Israel? Tzi ...
    While there is plenty to be criticized about Dagan, the former head of the Mossad, his recent statements place a long-lost check and balance on a government that seems to bow to no voice of reason. For over two years, Israel has had no serious political opposition. Kadima head Tzipi Livni, who i ...
  • Israelis opt to stay blind so as to remain rig ...
    Just as our speeches are old news, we too refuse to change with the times. While the region becomes more democratic, Israelis still cannot accept their share of the responsibility, choosing instead to repeat familiar clichés By Eyal Clyne a) Netanyahu’s speech before Congress: Just a speech, wh ...
  • A Palestinian call to engage with the ‘J ...
    By Marzouq El-Halabi | Translation by Dimi Reider The Palestinian discourse must  leave denial behind and engage seriously with the Jewish and Zionist questions. No more talk of the victorious and the defeated, victims and victimisers, but a new narrative shared by both sides of the conflict. ...
  • A Palestinian call to engage with the ‘J ...
    By Marzouq El-Halabi | Translation by Dimi Reider The Palestinian discourse must  leave denial behind and engage seriously with the Jewish and Zionist questions. No more talk of the victorious and the defeated, victims and victimisers, but a new narrative shared by both sides of the conflict. ...
  • Can Israel make room for the Nakba? Response t ...
    by Roi Ben Yehuda Over at Tablet, Joseph Dana writes an important piece on Israel’s problematic relationship with the Nakba narrative (the expulsion/dislocation of over 750,000 Palestinians from their homes in what is now Israel) and the imperative of integrating this narrative into Israel’s ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • New pipeline benefits Townsville community
    The last piece of a 27 kilometre pipeline to capture and redirect wastewater from the northern areas of Townsville was laid today at the Mt St John Wastewater Treatment Plant.
  • Statement on Standing Committee on Regional A ...
    The Minister for Regional Australia, Simon Crean, the Minister for Water, Tony Burke and the Minister for Agriculture, Joe Ludwig, today welcomed the report by the Standing Committee on Regional Australia into the impact of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.
  • More than $3.8 million for Cairns Regional Co ...
    Communities in the Cairns region are benefitting from Australian Government funding that will help them secure their water supplies.
  • Greening Sydney Harbour landmarks
    Two iconic Sydney Harbour landmarks, Cockatoo Island and North Head Sanctuary, are now showing the benefits of water harvesting, energy generation and energy efficient technology funded through the Australian Government's Green Precinct Fund.
  • Sydney Harbour Federation Trust board appoint ...
    Senator Don Farrell, Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water, today announced the appointment of six members to the Board of the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust.

Matt Weidner Blog

  • A Gut Wrenching Appellate Loss- Please Share Y ...
    This blog has been a great forum to discuss the occasional triumphs of justice and the victory of the rule of law over the fraud, the deceit and the abject criminality of the banks and their law firms.  It has also been an open forum for me to discuss the frustrations over a legal system [...]
  • THE ULTIMATE SELL OUT- THE BANKS AVOID ALL LIA ...
    We have become a disgusting, lawless and overtly corrupt nation where no rules or laws apply to the banks and institutions.  Dispense with all your naive notions of justice, fairness and law, because in this new era these concepts do not apply if your crimes and conspiracies are big enough. WASH ...
  • The Banks Can’t Count…
    Every single day we receive more and more evidence of the banks and their wrongdoing.  I long ago gave up on any government official to do anything about it and I never had any faith that any of the banks or the industry could self police  I had faith that our courts would do something, [...]
  • The LPS Sanctions Decision- Bankruptcy Court S ...
    The Federal judges are really stepping in and calling all this mess what it really is… Read the In Re Wilson, Order HERE Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
  • Two Days/Two Summary Judgement Vacated/Two Sal ...
    It’s only Tuesday, but it has been a very good week already…I got two Summary Judgments vacated and two sales canceled! Now mind you, there was no way these two judgments should have been entered in first place, but that’s a whole other story.  The bottom line is we worked very hard, briefed th ...

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