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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 III

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Top Secret Report: Jews in Palestine
    Please click to view or download pdf.
  • Ranger to be awarded the Medal of Honor
    The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release May 31, 2011 ADVISORY: President Obama to Award Medal of Honor On July 12th, President Barack Obama will award Sergeant First Class Leroy Arthur Petry, U.S. Army, the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry.� Sergeant First ...
  • Memorial Day - 2011
    Ben and Elaina 29 May 2011 Ben Morton answered America�s call from Kansas.� He joined the Army and served in Korea, then reenlisted and served as an infantry Sergeant in Mosul, Iraq.� On the night of 22 May 2005, intelligence was received that high value targets were in a certain large house.� ...
  • Embed Approval
    23 May 2011 The US military in Afghanistan has approved my return with US forces.� Embed should start roughly 02 June with no particular end date in mind.� The plan is to start down South, head to Kabul, then elsewhere.� There will be much fighting this summer.� The Taliban appear to be taking ...
  • Loaded Gun
    16 May 2011 Iraq 2005 Combat was relentless in the surrounding city.� Explosions rumbled in from the neighborhoods and washed over base, which was itself under frequent attack by rockets and mortars.� Four days before Christmas, soldiers were having lunch on the heavily guarded Forward Operati ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

  • Japan Businessmen Encouraged to Wear Sandals & ...
    Image: Rob DiCaterino via flickr Japan is no stranger to finding creative ways to keep cool, but the government's "Super Cool Biz" campaign might be the most surprising. Businessmen are being asked to wear Hawaiian shirts, t-shirts and sandals to work to help save electricity during what is e ...
  • Israel Launches Gigantic 5MW Solar Field (Video)
    Image credit: AravaPower From a 100MW solar farm in the French Alps through Google's investments in utility-scale solar in Nevada, industrial-sized solar power plants are springing up across the Globe. Now the Israelis are getting in on the act, launching the nation's first 5MW solar field ...
  • Is It OK to Ask for Solar Panels as a Wedding ...
    With the royal wedding gift list including donations to green charities, you'd be forgiven for thinking that alternative giving was acceptable these days. But one reader over at The Guardian is concerned that her daughter may be being too unconventional in asking for solar panels as a weddin ...
  • Take a Safari Through Queens, NYC With Guided ...
    Photo: Joiseyshowaa under a Creative Commons license. Queens, New York City, is the country's most ethnically diverse county. And it's not just among the human populations that you find a lot of diversity: the borough also counts a wide variety of ecosystems. Riding the 7 subway line runs a ...
  • The Week in Animal News: Sharks Like AC/DC, Cl ...
    Photo: hermanusbackpackers/Creative Commons You'd think a bloody chunk of meat would do the trick, but no, sharks are more likely drawn to hard rock music. We also have oceans acidification making clownfish deaf, birds flying crazy long record-breaking flights, troubling news on the koa ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Federal appeals court rules New York City can ...
    [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Thursday that the New York City Department of Education [official website] can enforce a rule prohibiting outside groups from using school facilities for after-school worship services. The challenge w ...
  • California governor to request more time to re ...
    [JURIST] California Governor Jerry Brown [official website] on Thursday indicated that he would ask a federal judge for more time to construct his plan to reduce the state's prison population. The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] ruled [opinion, PDF] last week in Brown v. ...
  • Tanzania judge instructs police to arrest oppo ...
    [JURIST] A Tanzanian judge on Thursday urged police to arrest Freeman Mbowe, the chairman of the country's opposition party, Chadema [party website, in Swahili]. Judge Charles Magesa issued arrest warrants for Mbowe and six others last week when they failed to appear in court for a hearing on th ...
  • ACLU files lawsuit challenging Georgia immigra ...
    [JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) [official websites] and a coalition of other civil rights groups filed a class action lawsuit [complaint, PDF] Thursday challenging a Georgia immigration law [HB 87 text] similar to Arizona law already ...
  • International commission recommends legalizing ...
    [JURIST] The Global Commission on Drug Policy [official website] released a report [text, PDF] Thursday recommending international legalization of cannabis, marijuana and other drugs. The panel also recommended expanding the variety of treatments available to drug users, as well as making them m ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Is Warren Buffett's Grandson Running for Congress?
    Interesting tidbit from David Wasserman, House Editor for The Cook Political Report, who gives his take on Nebraska's new congressional boundaries [pdf] and provides some fascinating gossip about who Democrats are floating to run for Nebraska's 2nd District seat, currently held by Republican Rep ...
  • Why Anthony Weiner Is Right to Avoid Legal Action
    Going to court hurts public figures suffering sex scandals by dragging out the story Over the past few days, Anthony Weiner has gone from being a mildly interesting Brooklyn congressman to the center of a very 21st century scandal involving a West Coast college student, dick pics, allega ...
  • Mitt Romney's Agenda in Numbers, Then and Now
    Matt Viser, ace reporter for the Boston Globe, just tweeted an interesting metric from Romney's announcement speech today:Clues to what Romney wants to talk about from mentions in speech: America (37 times), economy (10), Obama (8), health care (2), abortion (0) For purposes of comparison, I d ...
  • Former Presidents: End the Drug War, Legalize ...
    The practical case against prohibition is overwhelming, and the moral case for it is myopic and deeply misguided A major report released Thursday by the Global Commission on Drug Policy affirms what we've long known: the war on drugs is an abject failure, it empowers criminal organizations th ...
  • Weiner Scandal Complicates the Democrats' Agenda
    After a week of hammering Republicans on Medicare, their traction is momentarily lost as a Twitter photo has taken over the news coming out of Washington Democrats know with certitude that last week's good week--defined by the upset victory in New York's 26th District--has been ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Dagan for P.M.
    Who’d a thunk it?  A man I reviled in the aftermath of the al-Mabouh assassination is actually talking sense and looking smarter by the day.  In fact, every time he opens his mouth he only reminds Israelis (at least those not in the Likud) about the lameness of their current prime minister. Al ...
  • Constellations Aligned Against Occupation
    Those who protect Israel’s borders have grown quite jumpy in light of the Nakba Day penetrations of five Israeli borders.  The control tower of the Haifa military air force base reported the possibility of enemy aircraft in the skies above the base.  Several Israeli jets were scrambled and spe ...
  • Hypocrisy of Ofergate
    It seems there’s a tempest brewing in Israel over what the media has dubbed Ofergate, the scandal over ongoing trade links between Israel’s largest conglomerate and Iran in violation of international sanctions.  This led to the Obama administration blacklisting the company.  All the major Isra ...
  • Protest Closing of Rape Case Against Yoav Even
    Join hundreds (I hope) of Israelis opposed to sexual violence against women, who will be protesting the prosecutor’s closing of the rape case against Yoav Even.  The demonstration will be on Thursday, June 9th at 6PM in Tel Aviv outside the prosecutor’s office, 1 Henrietta Szold Street.  The p ...
  • Pentagon Readies Cyber Weapons as Part of U.S. ...
    I don’t know about you, but the following two articles scare the bejesus out of me.  The Washington Post reports the Pentagon has integrated U.S. cyber warfare assets into its  conventional military inventory.  So just as we might send jets to bomb Iraq or any other enemy target, we now can e ...

Ode Magazine

  • Oran Hesterman's vision of fair food
    By: EmilyAviles For the founder of the Fair Food Network, fixing our broken food system means going beyond eating local and organic foods. In Fair Food, Oran B. Hesterman firmly argues this vision: "It’s not unimportant to focus on what you’re doing in your kit ...
  • "We're not just another ape"
    By: Ode ‘Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.’ (‘I am human: nothinghuman is alien to me’) Terentius Lucanus, (ca.195BC–159BC) Today we are continually reminded about the damage done to our planet and its many living species by ‘selfish’, ‘greedy’ and ...
  • Bearing the message of peace
    By: PeaceCorso Sadako Sasaki (January 7, 1943 - October 25, 1955) was a Japanese girl who was two years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945, near her home by Misasa Bridge in Hiroshima, Japan. Sadako is remembered through the story of attempt ...
  • People, planet, purchasing power
    How buying Ben & Jerry's ice cream made me a more conscious consumer. I hate to date myself, but I’m old enough to remember having three pairs of shoes. The Buster Browns were for all the time; these sturdy brown lace-ups were for school, play and most activities. Next in usefulness ...
  • Prelude to courage
    How anger can improve health, enhance intimacy, spur creativity and even inspire social change. It’s the 1980s, and I am sitting in the Beverly Hills living room of a major 1950s television star, alongside my romantic and sometimes writing partner. I have obtained a magazine assign ...

OpEd News

  • The Anthony Weiner "Affair"
    Is Anthony Weiner the "topic", or is he but another example of being reprimanded for attempting to make a top official accountable?
  • Who is Behind the Abduction and Killing of Sal ...
    In Pakistan, where the disappearance and torture of people is not uncommon, Saleem Shahzad, a prominent journalist who wrote about the army's alleged links with al-Qaeda, was tortured and killed after being abducted from Islamabad Sunday, May 29 by unidentified men.
  • My Neighbors and the Real Rapture
    I'm in the middle. My neighbors are Pentacostal. To the right of me and to the left of me. They are the best neighbors I have ever had.
  • Mladic and international justice: Age of deception
    Mladic's upcoming trial in The Hague reminds us that international justice is a complicated business, however simple its motives
  • ARAB SPRING # 2
    There is tremendous opportunity for a positive evolution in Arab-American relations, as well as Arab-Israeli relations, with the ongoing Arab Spring. If it is taken.

Switchboard

  • Governor Brown Makes Surprise Appearance to Su ...
    Amanda Eaken, Deputy Director, Sustainable Communities, San Francisco Yesterday, Governor Brown surprised everyone –including the Councilmembers—when he made an unscheduled but most welcomed appearance at the meeting of the Strategic Growth Counci ...
  • House Republicans Move to Weaken FDA's Oversig ...
    Jonathan Kaplan, Senior Policy Specialist, San Francisco The Washington Post today reported that on Tuesday night 28 Republicans and one Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee approved an amendment to an appropriations bill that would hams ...
  • How much is too much? HidroAysén's price tag g ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Last week, the CFO of Endesa, one of the parent companies of HidroAysén, made an important announcement that has generally gone unnoticed by the media:  HidroAysén’s latest cost estimate is $1 ...
  • Smog Forecast: More, Thanks to Warming Tempera ...
    Pete Altman, Climate Campaign Director, Washington, D.C. The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has published a new report examining how rising temperatures due to global warming increase ground-level ozone, or smog pollution. As we’ve mentioned ...
  • Congress should not try to stop the Europeans ...
    Jake Schmidt, International Climate Policy Director, Washington, DC 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? ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Drogo
    Charli and her partner discuss Khal Drogo’s war speech from last week’s Game of Thrones. Spoilers, etc.
  • The Effect of (some) Economic Indicators on Pr ...
    Silver offers a rigorous exploration of the central point made in the NYT article I linked for the post I wrote yesterday.  He approaches the question on the relationship between the unemployment rate and the vote for the incumbent President (or party) from several different angles, including th ...
  • German Civil War Reenactors
    Yoni Applebaum has an interesting piece on the popularity of reenacting the U.S. Civil War in Germany. While one might poo-poo any real analysis of this as being just Gone with the Wind romanticism without any political meaning, I’d be skeptical to agree. As one German Union reenactor says, I th ...
  • It’s the Economy Stupid. Oh Shit.
    This could be problematic.  I’ve been fairly sanguine about Obama’s re-election chances, but no incumbent has been re-elected with an unemployment rate over 7.2% since FDR (and the 7.2% belonged to Reagan).  It’s currently around 9%, and could possibly increase with tomorrow’s data.  It will ...
  • It’s the Economy Stupid. Oh Shit.
    This could be problematic.  I’ve been fairly sanguine about Obama’s re-election chances, but no incumbent has been re-elected with an unemployment rate over 7.2% since FDR (and the 7.2% belonged to Reagan).  It’s currently around 9%, and could possibly increase with tomorrow’s data.  It will ...

Desert Research Institute

  • What effect do clouds have on climate?
    What is the climate effect of tiny particles such as aerosols, soot, and dust, in the atmosphere? Dr. Eric Wilcox, a world-class sailor and researcher, is exploring the answers to these questions linking the ever-changing composition of Earth’s atmosphere and climate change.
  • Best Management Practices for Preserving the L ...
    Alan Heyvaert not only works at Lake Tahoe but that’s where he plays too. “My wife and I are often kayaking around the lake when we have some free time,” said Alan Heyvaert, Ph.D., DRI assistant research professor.
  • DRI researchers work to boost consumer energy ...
    The patented software and hardware gives energy customers the power to realize energy savings. -- DRI scientists Hampden Kuhns, Ph.D. and Morien Roberts, Ph.D are empowering business owners and eventually residents to manage their energy consumption and adopt efficiency measures that will have ...
  • DRI Scientist Featured in Changing Planet Series
    NBC Learn's latest "Changing Planet" video features DRI's Dr. Joe McConnell and black carbon. Black carbon –small soot-like particles that are produced whenever fossil fuels or other organic substances are incompletely burned– is one of the leading contributors to global warming.
  • Rina Schumer Named 2011 Rising Researcher
    The Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents named Dr. Rina Schumer as one of the 2011 Rising Researchers, in recognition of her early-career accomplishments and potential for future advancement. A faculty member in DHS, her current research at DR is focused on the science of s ...

Earth Techling

  • Saab Builds EV Concept Fleet
    Swedish automaker Saab has started production on a series of prototype electric vehicles, called the 9-3 ePower, for a test fleet later this year.
  • DIY Solar Oven Follows the Sun
    A do-it-yourself solar oven project makes use of small solar panels, a battery, a switching device, and a motor to keep food facing the sun and cooking.
  • London Loading Up On Electric Car Chargers
    The city of London is looking to install 1,300 electric vehicle charging stations available for public use under a membership program.
  • Gap Old Navy Store Goes LEED In Texas
    In Fort Worth, an Old Navy store has taken LEED Silver certification, making it the first store associated with Gap Inc. to garner green building recognition.
  • A Solar Powered, iPod Music Sharing Seat
    This concept uses a solar-collecting shade structure to provide juice and amplification for your portable music player, creating a place to share tunes.

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Epidemiology was the key to defense win in asb ...
    Ford Motor Co. won a defense verdict on May 20 — the latest in a rising tide of cases alleging that exposure to asbestos caused a deadly form of cancer. Alexander Calfo, who represented Ford during the trial, spoke to NLJ about the case.
  • UC Irvine joins with Chinese university in bus ...
    The University of California, Irvine School of Law will collaborate with a Chinese university to launch the first bilateral U.S.-China center focusing on business and law. Irvine business professor John Graham will lead the institute.
  • 1st Circuit: Anti-kickback violations can unde ...
    The 1st Circuit has determined that anti-kickback statute violations can form the basis of a False Claims Act case. The June 1 ruling in U.S. ex rel. Hutcheson v. Blackstone Medical Inc. reversed a March 2010 dismissal of the complaint for failing to identify a materially false or fraudulent cla ...
  • Orrick moves to withdraw from Bratz doll case ...
    Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, which helped win an $88.5 million jury verdict for MGA Entertainment in a dispute over the rights to the highly profitable Bratz doll line, has asked for permission to fire its client in a related dispute on the ground that the company owes more than $1.2 million ...
  • The hard part of law school transparency: Gett ...
    Transparency and accuracy in law school employment statistics is a hot topic right now, but some career services administrators believe an element is missing from the debate: how to ensure that recent graduates update schools on their employment status.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • 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

environment 360

  • Climate Link to Cholera Affirmed in New Study ...
    A study of cholera outbreaks in Zanzibar from 1999 to 2008 has found that moderate increases in ocean temperatures and rainfall can increase the likelihood of cholera epidemics. The study, published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, found that a sea surface temperature in ...
  • Cellphones May Increase Cancer Risk, Advisory ...
    A World Health Organization (WHO) advisory panel has concluded that extensive cell phone use may increase the risk of a rare type of brain tumor, but the panel says that the evidence is not definitive and urged that more research be conducted into the issue. The WHO’s International Agency for Re ...
  • Staple Food Prices Could More than Double by 2 ...
    The prices of staple foods, which have already reached record levels in 2011, could more than double over the next two decades, a new Oxfam report says. According to the report, "Growing a Better Future", a combination of factors — including climate change, diminished natural resources worldwide ...
  • Google Earth Animation Highlights Region Targe ...
    A new animation produced by the group WWF-Indonesia offers a tree-level tour of a biodiversity rich region of Sumatran rainforest targeted for destruction by logging companies. The animation, created using Google Earth, highlights proposed logging efforts in a WWF-IndonesiaVIDEO: Sumatran fo ...
  • Rural Bangladesh Taps Into Solar Power With Wo ...
    The number of homes and shops equipped with solar power systems in rural Bangladesh doubled in the last year to more than 870,000 with the help of funding from the World Bank and other organizations, according to a World Bank report. In 2009, the World Bank provided $130 million to support gover ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Swedish king fights stripper scandal
    Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf has given a rare interview in an attempt to quash a swelling scandal, flatly rejecting media reports he had visited strip clubs and even had indirect contact with organised crime. In a long interview with the TT news agency published late on Monday, Sweden's head of ...
  • Government Opposes Commission to Investigate S ...
    The Swedish government Wednesday rejected a proposal to appoint a commission to look into allegations that friends of the king have been in contact with criminals, while a leading daily called for the king to abdicate. King Carl Gustaf's approval ratings have tumbled in the wake of the publicati ...
  • Poll Shows Swedes Want King to Abdicate
    A majority of the people of Sweden want King Carl XVI Gustav to abdicate and hand over power to Crown Princess Victoria in the next decade, according to a recent poll. The Internet poll, published in the Swedish daily Expressen, was conducted shortly after new reports were printed about the king ...
  • Twenty-Five Rules of Disinformation
    Preface: This handy set of rules covers most of the games which disinformation artists play on the Internet (and offline). When you know the tricks, you’ll be able to spot the games. Even if you’ve read this list before, you might be surprised at how useful it is to brush up on these tricks. 1. ...
  • Cell Phones Caused Mysterious Worldwide Bee De ...
    Cellphone transmissions may be responsible for a mysterious, worldwide die off in bees that has mystified scientists. According to a story in The Daily Mail, the bees were able to tell when the handsets were making and receiving calls. They responded by making the high pitched squeaks that usual ...

Russia Today

  • New E. coli strand now in US
    The deadly new strain of E. coli, which has claimed the lives of 17 people, has already been detected in 12 countries, as new cases continue to be identified, according to a World Health Organization report.
  • Libyan war a boon to banks that wasted Gaddafi ...
    The civil war in Libya and the West’s declaration of Muammar Gaddafi an illegitimate leader is good news for financial institutions that borrowed money from the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) and invested it with...
  • Mutant rabbit born near Fukushima plant
    The birth of a white rabbit with no ears not far from the damaged Fukushima power plant in Japan has sparked fear in locals.
  • Mars 500 turns one year old (Earth time)
    Today marks one year since six plucky volunteers set off on an unprecedented 17-month simulated mission to Mars.
  • Global drug body says “Legalize it, man” – no ...
    Winning the war on drugs is no longer a realistic goal, as it can never be won - that conclusion was drawn by former world leaders and politicians, who instead propose lifting the ban on certain drugs in order to...

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

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

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
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  • Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
    Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �N ...
  • Confused cat found wandering streets of of Lin ...
    This hungry kitty thought she was the cat that had got the cream when she found a half-full tin of pet food as she prowled for snacks in bins behind a supermarket.Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Slave Labor and Intellectual Property
    If one favors property rights in tangible things, why would one not favor them in intangibles?
  • Chrysler to Repay Most of Bailout Cash
    “Chrysler Group, newly profitable and confident in its revamped products, will soon sever its ties with the U.S. government after most â but not all â of the bailout loans it got two years ago are repaid.” (USA Today) The unseen: how that money would have been used had Chrysler not been saved. B ...
  • Unemployment Goes to 9.1 Percent
    “After several months of strong job growth, hiring slowed sharply in May, raising concerns once again about the underlying strength of the economic recovery. The Labor Department reported on Friday that the United States added 54,000 nonfarm payroll jobs last month, following an increase of 232, ...
  • The Truth about Chrysler
    Before anyone celebrates the alleged happy ending to the Chrysler bailout, he or she might want to read this. Spoiler alert: So, to recap, the Obama Energy Department is loaning a foreign car company $3.5 billion so that it can pay the Treasury Department $7.6 billion even though American taxpay ...
  • Richman on School Choice
    The new book Freedom and School Choice in American Educationincludes a chapter by Freeman editor Sheldon Richman titled “‘Unbounded Liberty, and Even Caprice’: Why ‘School Choice’ Is Dangerous to Education.” The book, edited by Greg Forster and C. Bradley Thompson, is a compilation of papers pre ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Is it stupid to major in journalism?
    A funny thing about writing a blog for a long time is that sometimes you want to write a post … and you discover that you have already written it. My original post (from two years ago) seems to be just as valid today: Why does anyone major in journalism? So I read it and thought about whether ...
  • Ideas for using Encyclo in journalism classes
    Have you looked at Encyclo, the new project from Nieman Journalism Lab? This is a really neat site for the present moment in journalism — when all kinds of new sites and apps are sprouting up like flowers in springtime. Entries include groundbreaking news sites such as the Texas Tribune, techno ...
  • Social media guidelines for journalists
    For the generation that came of age on Facebook, you might think there’s nothing they don’t already know about social media. Think again. Traditional ethics rules still apply online. Assume everything you write online will become public. Use social media to engage with readers, but profess ...
  • Meta research on online journalism
    Usually I do not write about research here, but a new publication prompts me to note that now — almost 20 years after the first “online newspapers” made their debut — some research is beginning to appear about the research that has been done to date. This is great news, because it lays a founda ...
  • Skills for journalists: The basics
    Jennifer Peebles — a self-described “old geezer who used to work at a newspaper” — wrote a post at the SPJ Net Worked blog titled Digital media skills every young journalist needs. Like a lot of old geezers (I say that with affection!), she started with the fundamentals: Be honest, accurate, fai ...

Facing South

  • Corporate lobby targets African-Americans for ...
    North Carolina has some of the most stringent consumer protection rules in the country against predatory lending. In 2010, lending groups ramped up campaign contributions [pdf] to elect lawmakers more hospitable to their interests, and are now pushing a bill that would allow lenders to raise the ...
  • VOICES: Race, immigrants and the 2012 presiden ...
    By Joe Atkins, Labor South Would-be president Newt Gingrich calls Barack Obama our "most successful food stamp president," Santana gets booed at the "Civil Rights" baseball game in Atlanta for criticizing Georgia's new immigration law, and politicians in Alabama forbid undocumented children ...
  • Fatal bus crash came days after regulators put ...
    By Marian Wang, ProPublica After a fatal bus crash�Tuesday�in Virginia -- at least the fourth such commercial bus accident in three months -- federal regulators immediately issued an order to shut down the company that was responsible. Four people died in the accident and more than 50 were s ...
  • Nuclear watchdog calls for probe into whistleb ...
    A nuclear watchdog group in North Carolina received two letters this year from an anonymous whistleblower warning of problems with the design and regulatory approval process for the Westinghouse AP1000, a new type of reactor that utilities are planning to build across the Southeast. A ...
  • Top 10 Facing South stories: May 2011
    Didn't catch all of Facing South's coverage this month? Here are some of the hottest stories on Facing South in May: 1 - The dirty energy money behind the Senate move to dismantle the EPA Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) and 15 GOP co-sponsors want to merge the Environmental Protection Agency and ...

Worldpress - Africa

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Ian Welsh

  • Use the D word
    It was never a recession, it was always a depression, and it still is.  Use the word.
  • Pain
    When I was a young man I spent a lot of time really sick, and in a pile of pain.  It’s not an exaggeration to say I’ve spent days screaming.  It’s one of the reasons I have so little tolerance for anyone who excuses torture, or for anyone who stands in the way of effective [...]
  • Virtually Speaking with Stirling Newberry and ...
    Last night, starting hour 2.  More Stirling than me, though as I was sick last night, I was even more straightforward than usual.  A lot of talk about political and cultural dysfunction.
  • Illness and the price of prosperity
    One of the pathologies of American, and to a lesser extent, Western society, which really stands out yet is rarely remarked on, is the absolute epidemic of chronic diseases we suffer from.  From historically apocalyptic rates of cancer to asthma, to heart and stroke disease, we’re one sick bunc ...
  • Looting Greece while the Greeks Riot
    So, apparently EU finance ministers are encouraging Greece to speed up privatization.  Which is to say, let themselves be looted faster, and transfer public goods into private hands at firesale prices.  Meanwhile, the Greeks themselves continue to riot in all the wrong places.  Folks, if you’ ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Europe's E. coli outbreak: time for the antibi ...
    Posted on behalf of Marian Turner As enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli continues to cause an unprecedented number of life-threatening infections in Europe, American medics are questioning Germany's approach to the outbreak, according to the New York Times. It reports that “the accepte ...
  • Hotspots vulnerable to climate change and food ...
    People living in Africa and South Asia will be among the most vulnerable to food insecurity as the climate changes, new research shows. Growing seasons for staple crops such as maize will become shorter, hotter and drier in less than 40 years, severely limiting food production and imperillin ...
  • Sanofi splits up Genzyme
    Two months after it was bought out by French pharma giant Sanofi, changes are afoot at Genzyme. The Boston Globe broke the news yesterday that several divisions of the Cambridge, Massachusetts biotech – specifically its oncology, renal, and biosurgery operations – will now report directly to San ...
  • Giant dam in the Amazon is approved
    Brazil has given the go ahead for the construction of the world's third-largest hydroelectric dam in the Amazon (BBC News, New York Times). The nation’s environment agency, Ibama, has issued the penultimate licence that the Norte Energia consortium building the dam needs, BBC News reports. Bu ...
  • New strategy unveiled to curb Haiti’s cholera ...
    Cross posted from Nature Medicine's Spoonful of Medicine blog on behalf of Michelle Pflumm. Last month, the United Nations released a long-awaited report indicating that human waste from Nepalese peacekeepers along with dirty drinking water likely triggered the spread of the cholera epidemic ...

new geography

  • Orlando: Uncle Sam Meets Mickey Mouse
    Hawks and doves disagree on whether World War II ended the Great Depression.  Depending on which species of bird squawks louder, military spending may be the only way out of our current financial malaise.  In many ways it is already happening, although it is a surreptitious and quiet influe ...
  • The Katrina Effect: Renaissance On The Mississippi
    In this most insipid of recoveries, perhaps the most hopeful story comes from New Orleans. Today, its comeback story could serve as a model of regional recovery for other parts of the country � and even the world. You could call it the Katrina effect. A lovely city, rich in history, all�too com ...
  • The Evolving Urban Form: Jakarta (Jabotabek)
    There is probably no large urban area in the world that better illustrates the continuing dispersion of urban population and declining urban population density than Jakarta. Recently released 2010 census data indicates over the past decade that 84 percent of the metropolitan area (Jabotabek) ...
  • Recover, Rebuild: Christchurch New Zealand Aft ...
    Lincoln University in New Zealand did a great job of assembling some leaders in the principles and practice of disaster recovery for its Resilient Futures workshop recently in support of recovery in Christchurch after the February earthquake.  And in keeping with one of the themes � the import ...
  • Goodbye, New York State Residents are Rushing ...
    For more than 15 years, New York State has led the country in domestic outmigration: for every American who comes to New York, roughly two depart for other states. This outmigration slowed briefly following the onset of the Great Recession. But a new Marist poll released last week suggests th ...

GM Watch

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Cryptogon

  • Local Food Makes Strange Dining Companions
    Via: The Freeman: The litany of abuses by centralized power against the individual is long and predictable. But centralization in agriculture, that hazy realm from which our food spontaneously appears, poses its own set of dangers to individual aspirations. Now that fewer than 2 percent of the p ...
  • CONGRESS MULLS CUTS TO FOOD STAMPS PROGRAM AMI ...
    Millions of broke, hungry, armed people? What could possibly go wrong? Besides, there are robotic, long range nuclear bombers to be built. Via: ABC News: Congress is under pressure to cut the rapidly rising costs of the federal government’s food stamps program at a time when a record number of A ...
  • Mobius Says Fresh Financial Crisis Around Corner
    Via: Bloomberg: Mark Mobius, executive chairman of Templeton Asset Management’s emerging markets group, said another financial crisis is inevitable because the causes of the previous one haven’t been resolved. “There is definitely going to be another financial crisis around the corner because we ...
  • Libya Lost $1.3 Billion on Options Trades Done ...
    But first, remember this one? The Long and Short of It at Goldman Sachs: The point to bear in mind, as Mr. Sloan brilliantly makes clear, is that as Goldman was peddling C.M.O.’s, it was also shorting the junk on a titanic scale through index sales â showing, at least to me, how horrible a [...]
  • Ex-Egypt Bank Head Arrested on Sex Charges
    Via: Bloomberg: The former chairman of Egypt’s Bank of Alexandria was charged with sexually abusing a maid at the Pierre Hotel in New York, police said. Mahmoud Abdel Salam Omar, 74, chairman of El-Mex Salines Co., was arrested yesterday after a 44 year-old female maid alleged he attacked her Ma ...

The Economic Collapse

  • The Sky Is Falling, It Is Time To Panic And Th ...
    So many economists and financial pundits seem absolutely shocked that the U.S. economy is slowing down again.  It is as if this latest wave of bad economic data has caught them completely by surprise.  Now, in the mainstream media we are seeing all kinds of headlines declaring t ...
  • Suddenly Everyone Is Warning About The Next Fi ...
    Are we about to see a repeat of 2008 (or something even worse)? Suddenly all kinds of people are coming out of the woodwork and warning that we could be on the verge of the next major financial collapse. Of course many economists and financial pundits just enjoy hearing themse ...
  • Extreme Couponing: Desperate Economic Times Ca ...
    Even in the midst of a horrific economic decline, there are tools that all of us can use to make the most of our limited resources.  This includes doing some things that many of us never imagined that we would do.  A couple of months ago I never would have imagined that I would ...
  • Inflation 2011: Honey – They Shrunk Our ...
    Do you ever have the feeling that there are holes in your pockets?  These days our money seems to slip through our hands faster than ever.  The Federal Reserve keeps telling us that the rate of inflation in 2011 is "close to zero", and this is causing confusion for many American ...
  • If You Are Unemployed, Should You Move Somewhe ...
    It has been said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.  Unfortunately, millions of Americans find themselves slowly going insane as they apply for hundreds upon hundreds of jobs and yet never get hired.  It is incr ...

Desertification

  • 17 June : World Day to Combat Desertification ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.bmz.de/en/press/events/2011/june/jahrestag20110617_wuestenbildung.html World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought In 1994, the United Nations designated 17 June as the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, in order to raise awar ...
  • Nigeria : Charcoal producers and deforestation ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/community-news/22807-awareness-campaign-against-deforestation-begins-in-oke-ogun Awareness campaign against deforestation begins in Oke-Ogun Written by gbade osin DEFORESTATION which has become the order of the day in some ...
  • Will hunger strike or has mankind the ability ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/oxfam-hunger-will-strike-2291369.html Oxfam: Hunger will strike The charity warns that we will be unable to feed the world by 2050. Is it politics, global warming or greed that has got us here? And, asks … ...
  • Iraq loses 100,000 acres of agricultural land ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20110531063841 100,000 acres of agricultural land lost to desert sands every year By Sirwa Horami Erbil – Iraq loses 100,000 acres of agricultural land every year due to desertification, the minister of agriculture … ...
  • Islam Encourages the Restoration of Land (Goog ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.onislam.net/english/reading-islam/research-studies/islamic-thought/452455-islamic-balance-between-this-life-a-the-hereafter.html Islamic Balance Between This Life & The Hereafter By Ragheb El-Sergany One of the most significant aspects of Islam ...

The Paper Trail

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

backofthebook.ca

  • Conservative caucus meets, bleats
    By Montreal Simon Well I see it was Glorious Majority Day at the Con caucus today. From The Star: "A buoyant Prime Minister Stephen Harper, fresh off a majority election win, returned to Parliament Hill Wednesday declaring that the 'Conservative party is Canada’s party.'" And there was ...
  • Me and Macho Man
    By David Bitonti Macho Man is dead. Who’s next? Hulk Hogan? The Ultimate Warrior? Jake The Snake Roberts? In fact, how the hell did Jake with all his drugging and boozing outlive Randy Savage anyway? As more of these forgotten heroes enter their 50s and even 60s (yikes!), I guess they’ ...
  • SIU tries, tries again to identify G20 cop thug
    By Alison@Creekside Oversight - noun 1) the action of overseeing something 2) an omission, the failure to do something Dorian Barton was taking a picture of police horses in the park at the G20 summit in downtown Toronto last summer when he was suddenly knocked to the ground from beh ...
  • Kevin Annett’s unfinished testament &#82 ...
    Continued from page 1 On August 9th, 2010, Annett took a phone call on his long-running radio show, “Hidden from History.” The caller wanted to discuss rumours of police complicity in the murders committed by Robert Pickton. “I have specific evidence of what you’re talking about,” Annett repl ...
  • Kevin Annett’s unfinished testament
    By Frank Moher Kevin Annett lives in a small white house facing onto a plain street in downtown Nanaimo, BC. The local RCMP detachment, with its lot full of solid, square cop cars, is just around the corner. Inside, on a watery day in mid-January, the living room is lit only ...

libcom

  • Clashes in Italian ports over job cuts
    italy.jpg Italian portworkers have clashed with police in a number of protests following the announcement of sweeping job cuts. The job cuts constitute part of the Berlusconi g ...
  • Clashes in Italian ports over job cuts
    italy.jpg Italian portworkers have clashed with police in a number of protests following the announcement of sweeping job cuts. The job cuts constitute part of the Berlusconi g ...
  • Hyundai strike hit with police repression in S ...
    hyundai.jpg Riot police have broken up a strike and occupation of Yoosung Enterprise factory in Asan, south of Seoul. Around 3000 riot police have attacked 500 strikers staging ...
  • Hyundai strike hit with police repression in S ...
    hyundai.jpg Riot police have broken up a strike and occupation of Yoosung Enterprise factory in Asan, south of Seoul. Around 3000 riot police have attacked 500 strikers staging ...
  • Spain: It's our moment: May the occupations an ...
    graphic.jpg A statement by the anarchosyndicalist CNT of Spain on the May protests and occupations which have swept the country. The countless demonstrations and occupations th ...

Free Range International

  • There’s Fire
    Fighting season is now on. This year the villains strategy appears to involve deliberate attacks on aid projects and let me tell you something we (the outside the wire aid community) are getting hammered.  In the last week a majority of us have had to deal with murders, intimidation, shootings, ...
  • Where There Is Smoke
    In the Helmand Province, this year’s fighting season has started off with a whimper.  On May Day (as predicted) the only action was in Paktika Province where a child suicide bomber violated the latest Taliban public announcement by blowing himself up in a police station.  The Taliban had just ...
  • Leadership 101
    Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory is never pleasant to observe, especially when it is an American President doing the snatching.  President Obama was running strong:  1. He just announced The Dream Team taking over the Afghan campaign,  2. He launched a unilateral direct action mission d ...
  • May Day
    The ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) has taken an unusual step by issuing a warning to all internationals, alerting of coordinated “spectacular attacks”,  kidnapping of internationals, suicide bombings, and all manner of general mayhem to kick off  Sunday, 1 May.  To the bes ...
  • Victory Day
    Well, here we are, a week away from Victory Day, the third annual national holiday celebrating the martial history of Afghanistan.  There is Independence Day in August, which celebrates running the Brits out of the country in the 1800’s. Then, there is Liberation Day, in February, which mark ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • Jeru-Salem Underground!!!!
    Talk about being “undermined”.   The Rats Run The Sewer – Especially in Jeru-Salem. Check it out: Beneath Jerusalem, an underground city takes shape AP â In this May 17, 2011 photo, a view of Zedekiah’s Cave is seen in Jerusalem’s Old City. Underneath the ⦠Slideshow:Underground Jerusalem B ...
  • McKinney Bombshell
    Cynthia McKinney Drops Bombshell: Candidates to sign pledges of support for “Israel” by Richard Edmondson, source In an interview which aired on Press TV on Saturday–one day before the AIPAC conference got under way in Washington–former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney revealed what amount ...
  • Sometimes It’s Nice to be Proven RIGHT!!
    During the years 2005-2008, I spent hundreds of hours on radio and TV talk shows, and gave dozens of PowerPoint presentations on what I labeled the “BIRD FLU SCAM”.  This, of course, evolved into the “SWINE FLU SCAM” – a non-existent “pandemic” which I at that time declared was designed primari ...
  • Sometimes It’s Nice to be Proven RIGHT!!
    During the years 2005-2008, I spent hundreds of hours on radio and TV talk shows, and gave dozens of PowerPoint presentations on what I labeled the “BIRD FLU SCAM”.  This, of course, evolved into the “SWINE FLU SCAM” – a non-existent “pandemic” which I at that time declared was designed primari ...
  • More Zombiology 101 — Why Rational Think ...
    During the PANDEMIC FLU HYPE of 2006-2008, I poured over dozens of research texts.  Most were authored by individuals associated with the W.H.O. (The World Health Organization – a division of the Zionist Club of Rome), the U.S. Army Biological Weapons Lab, Ft. Detrich, Maryland, and/or the CENT ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Bob McDonald Part 2 (Apr 9, 2011)
    Part two of our annual show where CBC's Science Correspondent answers your questions about the mysteries of the world that have always puzzled you.
  • Milos Raonic, ATP Tennis Player (Apr 2, 2011)
    The Canadian tennis star and his power serve are making waves around the world. Peter talks with Raonic about childhood ambition, focus and the sport he loves.
  • Almas Jiwani, Women's Rights Advocate
    President of National Committee of UN Women in Canada on the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day and the state of women around the world.
  • Don Tapscott
    Best-selling author Don Tapscott on the "wiki-revolutions" in the Middle East and how mass collaboration is changing our world.
  • Roberta Jamieson
    Roberta Jamieson, head of the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation talks about her commitment to the education and success of aboriginal youth.

Scotts Contracting

  • Memorial Day Thank You
    Happy Memorial Day to all my fellow Veterans -- Scotty- My Best to you and yours and thank you .
  • Scotts Contracting Storm Damage Repair and Wat ...
    Storm Damage Repair- Roofing, Skylights, Waterproofing, and misc General Repairs. See Hail Storm Photos taken by Amateur Climatologist Sharon Wendel http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2126076955683.2123535.1358693673 and **Hail Storm Photos 5/25/2011 http://www.kmov.com/younews/122619894.h ...
  • Cut the St Louis Coal Electric Plant Emissions by
    Energy Efficient Homes use Less Coal Fired Electricity and Reduce Carbon Emissions-"if every home in America reduces their energy use by the average in this program, projected energy usage would drop by more than 26,000 GWh per year-equal to the emissions from three 500-MW coal-fired power plant ...
  • Rapture
    If for some reason I’m not wisked away in the upcoming Rapture on May 21st 2011. I’ll be available for your Green Building Needs in St Louis. email: scottscontracting about your project. With Cooling season is approaching- Proper Insulation Levels in your Attic coupled with Ventilation will save ...
  • Share Your Ideas With MO Sen Claire McCaskill
    “Kitchen Table Talk” in St. Louis at the St. Louis Public Library – Buder Branch (4401 Hampton Avenue) from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The purpose of this meeting is to reach out to you, to listen to your thoughts and ideas about federal policies and legislation and to take them back to the Senato ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The Economic Cost of “Me-Too” Drugs
    http://scienceblogs.com The drug companies and pharmaceutical industry analysts that pimp them claim that me-too drugs (see May 30 blog) are beneficial for the US health care system in two ways. First they allegedly lower prescription costs by increasing competition. Secondly they provide doctor ...
  • Osama bin Laden: Dead or Alive
    Book Review 2009 Olive Branch Press by David Ray Griffin (author of The New Pearl Harbor) Osama bin Laden: Dead or Alive attempts to explain how America’s favorite terrorist came to release 19 video and audiotapes following his death and funeral – duly reported by ...
  • The “Me-Too” Drug Rip-Off
    www.oldthinkernews.com In addition to the billions of health care dollars drug companies waste on disease mongering – convincing the public that everyday human problems are  illnesses requiring treatment – billions more are wasted on developing and marketing hundreds of “me-too” drugs. By defini ...
  • Childhood Bipolar Disorder – the Role o ...
    Dr Peter Parry (see 5/21 blog) puts the blame for the dangerous fad of prescribing unapproved antipsychotic drugs for children squarely where it belongs: on drug and insurance companies. While internal memos (see http://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/docs/Paediatricbipolardisorderacontroversyfromt ...
  • The Book of Mormon: the Musical
    This past week NPR (Terry Gross Fresh Air) played a selection of tunes from the new Broadway smash hit The Book of Mormon, by the creators of the irreverent TV series South Park -  (Trey Parker and Matt Stone  – with musical assistance from Robert Lopez). The digital cast recording is already ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • The Carrington Event
    Early in the morning of September 2nd 1859 the sky brightened and gold miners in Colorado got up and started cooking their breakfast. Gold miners get up with the Sun of course, at least the gold miners of that era. It wasn’t long before they noticed that while the sky was amazingly bright and co ...
  • Netanyahu Makes Israel’s Position Clear: ...
    Netanyahu gave  a speech to Congress where he clarified Israel’s position on a negotiated settlement with the Palestinians, and his opinion of Obama’s recent policy speech on the Middle East. The title of the post pretty much sums it up. And how did our elected leaders respond to this man? He g ...
  • Through Thick and Thin
    Well, no rapture. No surprise. It really is dismaying how people can believe prima facie nonsense in this day and age. It’s especially galling because so many Americans, especially the ones who fall for this kind of crap, have an especially high opinion of America and Americans. A country where ...
  • God sent an angel to me, he said that unless e ...
    Heck, if even one person in a thousand comes though, I’ll still clear over $300K. Beats working for a living, that’s for sure. Yes, unless the gentle reader has been in a  coma, the rapture is scheduled for this Saturday. I’ve had people actually tell me that I would make a great cult leader. I ...
  • Obama is a genius, liberals are stupid
    I’m firing blind here, since I really haven’t kept up with any more than the gist of current  events the last day or two. However, Obama’s speech about the Middle East and Israel deserves a response. I in fact read it, I can see why people are getting excited. It contains some truly stirring pr ...

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Book Review: Power Trip
    Join the forum discussion on this post Introduction I tend to accumulate a lot of books – sent to me by publishers and publicists – and they pile up on my desk until I have to make a trip somewhere. Because it takes a long time to get from Hawaii to anywhere else, [...]
  • Scientists Create Ethanol From Hydrogen They C ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Alas, today I had intended to put up my book review of Amanda Littleâs book Power Trip, but I left the book on my desk in the office and I need to review some notes first. So that should be posted for my Thursday column. If you haven’t [...]
  • Scientists Create Ethanol From Hydrogen They C ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Alas, today I had intended to put up my book review of Amanda Littleâs book Power Trip, but I left the book on my desk in the office and I need to review some notes first. So that should be posted for my Thursday column. If you haven’t [...]
  • Air Force Says Biomass-Based Jet Fuel is 10 Ti ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Just over a year ago, I wrote an article called Is Camelina the Next Jatropha? If you recall, a few years ago jatropha was all the rage. It could grow in marginal soil, didn’t need much water, and could provide fuel that didn’t compete with food. Farmers i ...
  • Air Force Says Biomass-Based Jet Fuel is 10 Ti ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Just over a year ago, I wrote an article called Is Camelina the Next Jatropha? If you recall, a few years ago jatropha was all the rage. It could grow in marginal soil, didn’t need much water, and could provide fuel that didn’t compete with food. Farmers i ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Modern Farmer's Market Innovations Make Health ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—There's often a throwback feel to farmer's markets. It's a place where you can seek out the same heirloom vegetable varieties your great-grandmother adored. Old-school, heritage breed chicken eggs? Yep, a true farmer's market probably offers them. And while the farmer's ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: DIY Wedding Favor Ideas
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—At the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the guests all left with luxurious wool scarves, sporting the Union Jack in various colorful prints, that cost about $75 each. Chances are you haven't budgeted that amount of money into your next soiree. And do y ...
  • Have the Best Memorial Day Ever!
    It's almost here...the three-day weekend that marks the beginning of the sunny season of summer. But are you ready? read more
  • U.S. Gov't Abandons Pyramid Scheme
    RODALE NEWS, WASHINGTON, DC—Too much information. That's the reason government's food icon, My Pyramid—an old warhorse meant to encourage healthy eating that has undergone some changes over the last two decades—has been put out to pasture, shoved aside by the new USDA food guide, a startlingly ...
  • Escape from Stress by Walking a Labyrinth (or ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Who made the first-ever labyrinth, or why, is lost in ancient history. But these crafted, convoluted pathways have been with us for a long time. Many of them overflow with symbolism, from the mythical Cretan labyrinth where the Minotaur lurked, devouring sacrificial virg ...

big think

  • Dairy Industry Milks New "MyPlate"
    This week, the USDA unveiled a new icon for healthy eating, MyPlate, a successor to the Food Pyramid and MyPyramid. There's a lot to like about the new visual. The share-of-plate metaphor is easier to grok at a glance than the multi-layered pyramid. You can tell by looking that about half your ...
  • The al-Ahmar Family: Who's who
    The news is coming fast and furious out of Sanaa.� Not much is known for certain and it will likely be a while before we have all the details, but here is the broad outline: Today, following Friday Prayers, forces loyal to President Salih opened shelling directed in the general direction of Ha ...
  • Just say no to 'just say no'
    The Global Commission on Drug Policy has concluded that, when it comes to drugs, 'just say no' policies for youth are a complete failure. Perhaps we'll now do the same for schools' 'just say no' policies regarding Wikipedia, mobile phones, YouTube, and other digital technologies? I know. Wishf ...
  • Want Growth? Innovate
    What's the Latest Development? PricewaterhouseCoopers' survey of 1200 CEOs from around the world found that innovation joined increasing existing business as the leading means of potential expansion. They came ahead of other means such as moving into new markets, mergers and acquisitions, and ...
  • The Buck-a-year Salary Smokescreen
    What's the Latest Development? The buck-a-year salary is a grand gesture by corporate chiefs usually intended to broadcast the CEO's confidence in the future of the business. But a new study suggests it may also be a smokescreen—more a public relations stunt by the CEO than a sign they are a t ...

Information Liberation

  • 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 ...
  • An Open Letter to the Troops: You're Not Defen ...
    Dear Troops: Yesterday * Memorial Day * some people asserted, once again, that you are *defending our freedoms* overseas. Nothing could be further from the truth. Those people are just repeating tired old mantras. The reality...
  • The Heavy Cost of the Bush-Obama Murder Rampage
    In every election cycle, the politicians love to pretend there is a difference among them on the foreign policy questions. Yet on these issues of unsurpassed importance, we see the Democrats and Republicans are all part of the same bloodthirsty...
  • Exporting Thuggery
    A report in the Guardian reveals that the British Ministry of Defense has trained, and continues to train, the Saudi Arabian force that helped suppress demonstrations in Bahrain earlier this year ("UK training Saudi forces used to crush Arab spring,"...
  • If This Is the Free Market, Why Do I Feel So U ...
    It*s remarkable, considering how frequently our politicians and cable news commentariat remind us of the *free market* we live in, just how existentially unfree things seem down here where the rubber meets the road.* We constantly see the Washington ...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Free Speech, Gag Orders And Accountability
    I’m going to tackle this in more depth a little later. But the other day I was shown (Hat-tip Izen) the existence of something called super-injunctions, of which prior till now I’d been blissfully ignorant. It’s important enough to call … Continue reading →
  • Playing the Race Card
    I couldn’t let the current events at the DT pass by without a comment or two, and a chance for us to have a somewhat more sane discussion if at all possible. For those who haven’t seen it, James Delingpole … Continue reading →
  • Animal Welfare: A Good Cause Gone Bad
    Very few things burn me more than cruelty to animals. Every time I see a story in the news regarding the mistreatment of horses, dogs or other domestic or wild animals, it produces a visceral reaction in me not unlike … Continue reading →
  • The Sixty-Four Foot Cube
    As I write this, the United States of America today reached its statutory debt ceiling of 14.294 trillion dollars. Treasury has announced that, unless Congress grants the Obama administration an increase in the debt ceiling in the next few weeks, … Continue reading →
  • That Pigs Might Fly
    Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation and I care not who makes its laws. Mayer Amschel Rothschild 1744-1812 Thanks everyone for holding the fort during my absence; as a matter of fact, I’ve been on … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Why the E. coli outbreak has people scared
    Why the E. coli outbreak has people scared – The E. coli EHEC 0101:H4 outbreak that originated in Germany is spreading and Christine Gorman, writing in Scientific American, says she's scared. At the time of writing, 10 countries had reported more than 1600 severe cases to World Health Organizati ...
  • Why the E. coli outbreak has people scared
    Why the E. coli outbreak has people scared – The E. coli EHEC 0101:H4 outbreak that originated in Germany is spreading and Christine Gorman, writing in Scientific American, says she's scared. At the time of writing, 10 countries had reported more than 1600 severe cases to World Health Organizati ...
  • Latest spectroscopy and crystallography
    Electric microbes – X-ray diffraction has been used to reveal the structure of proteins attached to the surface of the microbe Shewanella oneidensis, a species found in deep-sea anaerobic habitats. These proteins can transfer electrons making this micro-organism potentially rather interesting as ...
  • Latest spectroscopy and crystallography
    Electric microbes – X-ray diffraction has been used to reveal the structure of proteins attached to the surface of the microbe Shewanella oneidensis, a species found in deep-sea anaerobic habitats. These proteins can transfer electrons making this micro-organism potentially rather interesting as ...
  • This week’s happenings on The Alchemist
    This weel’s happenings on The Alchemist – This week, The Alchemist is looking to the sun for record-breaking power and sniffing the air to catch a whiff of blackcurrant. Testing times ahead for heavy metal in the pharmaceutical industry we learn, and logical molecules come to the for in potentia ...

RFF Library

  • Climate Change and Your Health: Rising Tempera ...
    Union of Concerned Scientists / by Elizabeth Martin Perera and Todd Sanford http://bit.ly/kknWVP [From Press Release] Unchecked global warming could threaten public health and increase health costs by exacerbating ground-level ozone, according to a peer-reviewed report released today by the Unio ...
  • Mapping Hotspots of Climate Change and Food In ...
    Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research’s (CGIAR) , Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) http://www.ccafs.cgiar.org/news/press-release/study-reveals-future-hotspots-climate-risk [From Press Release] A new study has matched future climate cha ...
  • Draft National Action Plan: Priorities for Man ...
    White House Council on Environmental Quality and Office of Science and Technology Policy| Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force | NOAA http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ceq/napdraft6_2_11_final.pdf Take Force site site: http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/e ...
  • Strategic Action Plan for National Water Policy
    White House http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/oceans/sap This draft plan would cover stewardship of the U.S. oceans, coastal areas and the Great Lakes: Read the Strategic Action Plan Content Outlines for the following nine priority objectives: 1. Ecosystem-Based Management:  Adopt eco ...
  • Clean Energy from America’s Oceans: Permitting ...
    Center for American Progress / by Michael Conathan and Richard Caperton http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0006166 [Abstract]   For 87 days in the spring and summer of 2010, an undersea gusher of oil continuously reminded Americans of the toll energy development c ...

Scientific American - News

  • Newly Discovered Microscopic Worm Thrives in G ...
    Deep in South Africa's gold mines water can be found in rock fractures, hosting bacteria that off the stone itself and form biofilms on the hard surfaces. Now new samples pulled from these sunless pools show that nematodes--roundworms of varying size that are essentially tubes with a digestive t ...
  • Virus No Longer Thought to Be Cause of Chronic ...
    People who suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome were dealt another blow this week when it became clear that researchers still fail to understand the genesis of this disease. Perhaps most importantly, these patients are being advised to stop taking antiretroviral medications.Two new papers publ ...
  • String Theory: Violinist Taps Artificial Intel ...
    Halfway into a recent performance at New York City's Bohemian National Hall violinist Mari Kimura had already performed "Preludio" from Bach's Partita No. 3 in E Major followed by several pieces in which she deftly demonstrated her innovative "subharmonics" techniques for extending the ...
  • Climate Change Linked to Social Collapses in G ...
    The Norse came to a new land around the end of the first millennium, borne on the backs of their Viking long ships and lured away from Iceland by the promise of Erik the Red's Greenland. The land was indeed green when they landed--and stayed that way for several centuries until natural variation ...
  • Astronomical Deficit Forces Downsizing of U.S. ...
    BOSTON--Astronomy is facing a lean decade. That was the message handed down by senior representatives of the federal agencies that fund much of the field's research in the U.S. during "town halls" with scientists here at the semiannual meeting of the American Astronomical Society. [More] ...

First Truths

  • "Pre-Existing Revolutionary Practices"
    Jeff Shantz's Constructive Anarchy: Building Infrastructures of Resistance:
  • "The Leviathan is stronger than ever..."
    From Daniel Singer's 1970 book, Prelude to Revolution: France in May 1968: “Anarchy” is one of the most fashionable words of our time. It was flogged in France during the May crisis, though clearly not to death, since it lives on in every newspaper and flourishes in conservative conversation. Th ...
  • Lowenthal: Hodgskin not a socialist
    In her 1911 dissertation, The Ricardian Socialists, Esther Lowenthal wrote the following of Thomas Hodgskin, arguing that he was “not wholly a socialist,” and that socialism per se stresses “social control.” Benjamin Tucker would have disagreed: It may be said that the economic element in social ...
  • Woodcock on Proudhon and "industrial gigantism"
    In the introduction to his celebrated biography of Proudhon, George Woodcock remarks upon some of the pitfalls of largeness and capital accumulation that have become so pronounced in the world today. That so many today should be so sure that hierarchy and rigidity develop naturally from a free m ...
  • Hoppe on Austrian and Marxist class analyses
    In the following passage, Hans-Hermann Hoppe notes a similitude as it exists between Marxist and Austrian class analyses, an intersection that has long gripped me and directed my own reading. Before the passage I’ve set forth, Hoppe argues that exploitation inheres in the “nonrecognition of the ...

Media Co-Op

  • Canadian Union of Postal Workers To Strike Ton ...
    Strike Begins Tonight in Winnipeg The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) is set to use its right to strike after 7 months of negotiations have fallen apart. The Union has been put in this position because of the demands for major roll ...
  • Don't frack with us!
    These photos are from a London, Ontario protest against fracking. Part of the rally call-out said - Fracking is a toxic, dangerous, and wasteful form of natural gas extraction that we may see around London, Ontario. The water po ...
  • Public Support for Postal Workers / CUPW (plus ...
    People are showing their support for the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) stand against Canada Post's demands for cuts in jobs, wages, working conditions and the services provided by the public postal service. Here are four photos from the Maritimes (click on them to see the full image) W ...
  • 24 hours to go! Be part of a media revolution!
    "The best old school journalism understood that its purpose was to challenge power with unassailable facts; the best activist journalism knows that constructive resistance is fueled by media we can actually use. The Dominion represents the vital fusion of these two traditions: it deserves massi ...
  • Trust Women Symposium Works Towards a Cultural ...
    “We trust women and believe in their agency. We trust women and respect their bodily autonomy. We trust women know best about their own lives and must make their own choices for themselves,” states the homepage of the Trust Women website. ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Better watch out for the cucumber that ate Ham ...
    The number of people hit by a massive European outbreak of foodborne bacterial infections is a third bigger than previously known and a stunningly high number of patients suffer from a potentially deadly complication than can shut down their kidneys, officials said Wednesday. Associated Press Y ...
  • The Bradley Manning Video
    David Seaton's News Links This video raises many, many issues... but the most significant thing is how somebody like this was ever kept in the army in the first place and then was sent to Iraq and then given the access to the classified information he was given access to. This is very, very s ...
  • The Middle East made simple(r)
    David Seaton's News LinksWhen very complex situations become very simple is when they become most dangerous. The situation that America finds itself in today's Middle East is such a situation: simple and potentially deadly for American prestige and power, two things which feed off each other, an ...
  • The Arab Spring, Israel, the dollar and gasoli ...
    Arm wrestling?In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning � along with China, Russia, Japan and France � to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new ...
  • UPDATED: Protests in Spain: waiting till the f ...
    UPDATE: The results of the election were exactly what the polls projected: the 15-M Movement appears to have had no affect on the voting... Whether this movement consolidates into something meaningful remains to be seen. The Socialists got trounced because they applied neoliberal recipes an ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • This Vitamin Can Radically Reduce Damage from ...
    As understanding of Vitamin D increases, it is becoming apparent that its most active form, Vitamin D3 (calcitriol), may offer protection against a variety of radiation-induced damages. Vitamin D’s protective action is carried by a wide variety of mechanisms, including cell cycle regulation and ...
  • Is It Time to Re-Think EVERYTHING You've Ever ...
    Children in the U.S. are taught that a college education is the ticket to a good job. But the cost of a college education is rising, and the supposed benefits are more elusive than conventional wisdom would suppose. The National Inflation Association reveals the scam behind the myth of the colle ...
  • The Watermelon You Should Never, Ever Eat
    Watermelon fields in eastern China are covered in exploded fruit. Farmers used growth chemicals to make their crops bigger, but ended up destroying them instead. The farmers used the growth accelerator forchlorfenuron. Even the melons that survived tended to have fibrous, misshapen fruit with m ...
  • Can Coffee Lower the Risk from this Deadly Cancer?
    While many scientists have wondered about a possible link between coffee and a lower the risk of prostate cancer, most studies to date have been relatively small and shown mixed results. But a new study followed almost 50,000 male health professionals for more than two decades. According to the ...
  • Save Hundreds if Not Thousands of Dollars on F ...
    A full 30 percent of all food produced in the world each year is wasted or lost -- about 1.3 billion tons of it. Europeans and North Americans waste between 95 and 115 kilograms of food apiece each year. Those living in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia waste much, much less -- ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • coffee scandal brewing: did portland's stumpto ...
    from gothamist: Coffee crisis! Maybe! Flatiron's favorite cuppa, Stumptown, is at the center of a highly caffeinated brouhaha over whether or not it's been sold. Here's what's going on: Esquire's "Eat Like A Man" blog published an article today written by high-end roaster La Colombe Torrefa ...
  • food pyramid being replaced with plate-shaped logo
    from ibtimes: The US federal government will stop using the food pyramid it first introduced in 1992. The 20 year old food pyramid was a basis for nutritional guideline throughout the United States. However, there were many shortcomings to the old Food Pyramid. For instance, it never advised how ...
  • 5/26 binge & purge: declarations, doomsday & m ...
    a modern declaration of independence: a real revolution starting in our own backyards* keepers of the seeds: how seed-saving native farmers preserve agricultural heritage* fitnessgoop.com's top 12 food films* factory farms produce 100x more waste than all people in US combined - a ...
  • global food inflation hits hemp seed, coconut ...
    from natural news: Food inflation is hitting the superfood industry right where it hurts - in the wallet. Thanks to several factors you'll read about here, prices on hemp seeds, hemp oils, coconut oil and other superfoods are set to skyrocket beginning in just a few days. One of the largest supe ...
  • should ronald mcdonald go the way of joe camel?
    from boston globe: RE "Pressure could make Ronald grimace" (Business, May 18): Finally, people are beginning to see Ronald McDonald for who he is, and he is certainly not a pro-health do-gooder, as described by McDonald’s. Ronald is a sophisticated marketing tool, used by McDonald’s to hook kid ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

  • The Big Awakening Conference 2011
    Click here for more information …
  • Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...
    “Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators travel ...
  • Truthjuice Gathering 2011
                                                         SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...
  • COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...
    COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6JLgar45sU
  • Announcing “This Is Disclosure” co ...
    After the success of the 2nd Annual Leeds Exopolitics Expo in August 2010 the organisers of the UKs only UFO Disclosure & Exopolitics conference announced in September 2010 that the next conference was going to be bigger and better! 2011 sees us bring the global attention on UFO Disclosure and ...

The Economic Collapse

  • The Sky Is Falling, It Is Time To Panic And Th ...
    So many economists and financial pundits seem absolutely shocked that the U.S. economy is slowing down again.  It is as if this latest wave of bad economic data has caught them completely by surprise.  Now, in the mainstream media we are seeing all kinds of headlines declaring t ...
  • Suddenly Everyone Is Warning About The Next Fi ...
    Are we about to see a repeat of 2008 (or something even worse)? Suddenly all kinds of people are coming out of the woodwork and warning that we could be on the verge of the next major financial collapse. Of course many economists and financial pundits just enjoy hearing themse ...
  • Extreme Couponing: Desperate Economic Times Ca ...
    Even in the midst of a horrific economic decline, there are tools that all of us can use to make the most of our limited resources.  This includes doing some things that many of us never imagined that we would do.  A couple of months ago I never would have imagined that I would ...
  • Inflation 2011: Honey – They Shrunk Our ...
    Do you ever have the feeling that there are holes in your pockets?  These days our money seems to slip through our hands faster than ever.  The Federal Reserve keeps telling us that the rate of inflation in 2011 is "close to zero", and this is causing confusion for many American ...
  • If You Are Unemployed, Should You Move Somewhe ...
    It has been said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.  Unfortunately, millions of Americans find themselves slowly going insane as they apply for hundreds upon hundreds of jobs and yet never get hired.  It is incr ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • "Congratulations Greece, your entire 5,000 yea ...
    ...also known as "...what Gordon Brown was trying to do to us." See also: Daily Mail - 'We give you cash, you give us Corfu!' German MPs suggest Greece sell its islands (and the Acropolis) to pay off its debt
  • Birmingham Council outsourcing jobs to... India!
    Well, I've read it all now. The Guardian reports that Birmingham City Council is starting a process of outsourcing some of it's I.T. workers to India. The unions are not happy. And who can blame them? The globalisation agenda - exploiting cheaper wage slaves in the Third World - has gon ...
  • Freedom for England: What every parent should ...
    While the mainstream media continues it's drive to dumb down the entire population with news about minor celebrities and TV shows that are pure brain mush, our democracy and centuries old freedoms continue to be usurped and destroyed by one of the most corrupt combinations of politicians and ban ...
  • Quote of the Day: The 'Birther' Edition
    "I have irrefutably proven that the Certificate of Live Birth that President Obama presented to the world on April 27, 2011, is a fraudulently created document put together using the Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator programs, and the creation of this forgery of a public document constitutes a clas ...
  • 'Caroline Lucas ate my alien!'
    A sensational, out-of-this-world story has been beamed across our radar here at The Talking Clock. It centres on Green Party MP Caroline Lucas, to whom we apologise for the completely untrue nature of our fun headline - a homage to one of The Sun's most famous headlines ever. Before we go ...

Facing South

  • Corporate lobby targets African-Americans for ...
    North Carolina has some of the most stringent consumer protection rules in the country against predatory lending. In 2010, lending groups ramped up campaign contributions [pdf] to elect lawmakers more hospitable to their interests, and are now pushing a bill that would allow lenders to raise the ...
  • VOICES: Race, immigrants and the 2012 presiden ...
    By Joe Atkins, Labor South Would-be president Newt Gingrich calls Barack Obama our "most successful food stamp president," Santana gets booed at the "Civil Rights" baseball game in Atlanta for criticizing Georgia's new immigration law, and politicians in Alabama forbid undocumented children ...
  • Fatal bus crash came days after regulators put ...
    By Marian Wang, ProPublica After a fatal bus crash�Tuesday�in Virginia -- at least the fourth such commercial bus accident in three months -- federal regulators immediately issued an order to shut down the company that was responsible. Four people died in the accident and more than 50 were s ...
  • Nuclear watchdog calls for probe into whistleb ...
    A nuclear watchdog group in North Carolina received two letters this year from an anonymous whistleblower warning of problems with the design and regulatory approval process for the Westinghouse AP1000, a new type of reactor that utilities are planning to build across the Southeast. A ...
  • Top 10 Facing South stories: May 2011
    Didn't catch all of Facing South's coverage this month? Here are some of the hottest stories on Facing South in May: 1 - The dirty energy money behind the Senate move to dismantle the EPA Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) and 15 GOP co-sponsors want to merge the Environmental Protection Agency and ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Al Shabab Says Mogadishu Suicide Bomber Was American The Somali militant group al Shabab has announced online that a suicide bomber who attacked an African Union base in Mogadishu on Monday, killing three soldiers, was an American from Minnesota, according … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Judge in Portland Bomb Plot Case Orders Govt. to Hand Over Evidence to Defense The judge overseeing the case against a Somali-born teenager accused of plotting to bomb a Portland tree-lighting ceremony last November ruled on Wednesday that prosecutors must … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Four Others to Face Military Tribunal Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other accused 9/11 conspirators have been recharged with terrorism and murder charges in connection with the 9/11 attacks in preparation for a military tribunal at Guantanamo. … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Pentagon Upholds 8-Year Sentence for Omar Khadr The Pentagon has upheld the eight-year sentence given to Omar Khadr, a Guantanamo detainee who last year pleaded guilty to five war crimes. Vice-Admiral Bruce MacDonald, a Pentagon official overseeing war crimes tribunals, … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Pentagon Upholds 8-Year Sentence for Omar Khadr The Pentagon has upheld the eight-year sentence given to Omar Khadr, a Guantanamo detainee who last year pleaded guilty to five war crimes. Vice-Admiral Bruce MacDonald, a Pentagon official overseeing war crimes tribunals, … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • 12 Paid Games for Linux Totally Worth the Price
    The response we got for our feature on rarely known commercial applications for Linux�was simply overwhelming and some of those who enjoyed the article wanted us to do a similar feature on commercial games available for Linux. So here is it, a very neat collection of paid games for Linux worth e ...
  • New Address Bar Search Firefox Add-on from Twitter
    Twitter has launched a new add-on for Firefox that lets you search inside Twitter for people and topics using @ and # directly from the address bar. Twitter Address Bar Search Add-on Twitter Address Bar Search is a�restart less�add-on that lets you use Twitter to search for #hashtag and @ ...
  • Everything You Need to Know About Ubuntu 11.04 ...
    A month has been passed since the eventful release of Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal. Many loyal Ubuntu users turned hostile with this release and Canonical's new Unity interface is at the receiving end for what it does and what it doesn't. I actually liked the new Unity approach to desktop and I be ...
  • Chaufr Chrome Extension Lets You Navigate the ...
    Chrome Web Store is becoming more and more interesting everyday. The super addictive games from Chrome Web Store that we featured almost a week ago is a telling example. Chaufr Chrome Extension is another great find. This extension lets you navigate and search the web using voice commands. And i ...
  • 5 Stunning Plymouth Screen Themes for Ubuntu 11.04
    Plymouth is simply an application that provides a graphical boot animation while the boot process happens in the background. Ubuntu has a�simple yet�beautiful�Plymouth screen by default. But that doesn't mean that you should not experiment with some really cool alternative Plymouth screens in yo ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • GREEK DEFAULT NEARS AS BILD REPORTS STIRRINGS ...
    The likelihood of a default by Greece – a trigger for the insolvency of the ECB – has grown after IMF inspectors are reported to be preparing to say this week that  Greece has failed to meet all its fiscal targets and to withhold the IMF’s share of a fifth tranche of a â¬110bn EU and IMF ...
  • ECB INCREASINGLY ISOLATED IN RESISTING GREEK D ...
    European Central Bank (ECB) board member Lorenzo Bini Smaghi told the Financial Times that the idea a Greek debt restructuring could be carried out in an orderly way is a “fairytale” as the confrontation between the ECB and the eurozone escalates. Last week, it emerged that the ECB has abandoned ...
  • Der Spiegel reports on Titanic battle between ...
    The Haircut War Tensions Worsen Between Berlin and European Central Bank By Christian Reiermann and Michael Sauga, Der Spiegel What’s best for Greece and Europe – a soft debt restructuring or billions of euros in loans for years to come? Berlin and the ECB are deeply divided over the best way ...
  • Irish Minister admits Ireland will need more m ...
    Irish Transport Minister Leo Varadkar said in an interview with The Sunday Times that Ireland will need another emergency loan from the European Union and IMF. Varadkar is absolutely right as Tom Molloy points out in The Irish Independent. The penal EU and IMF bailout to pay interest on private ...
  • Euro is running out of time
    Roger Bootle, The Telegraph They can try to ‘delay and pray’ but the euro is running out of time As a doomsayer from the start, who has written several times on the subject, I have recently been reluctant to burden my readers with more jeremiads about the euro. But fasten your seatbelts. Here I ...

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 ...

Veterans Today

  • Forty-Four Years of Occupation
    Citing many other lawless examples, Qadura Fares asked for UN help to end “the occupation and (let Palestinians) live in freedom in an independent sovereign State with Al-Quds Al-Sharif (Jerusalem) as its capital.” by Stephen Lendman
  • Chicago’s Aon Center Alert 6/3/11 &#8211 ...
    6/5/11 will be the 44th anniversary of Israel's Six-Day War in 1967, and 6/8/11 will be 44th anniversary of Israel's notorious attack on the USS Liberty. Anniversary attacks are common, sources said, citing the 9/11/01 attacks, which befell New York on the fourth anniversary of its 9/11/97 dedic ...
  • PA must move quickly to mobilize civil society ...
    Jeff Halper looks ahead to the Palestinians’ “September moment”, when they intend to go for independence and apply for admission to the UN, and how the PA must move quickly to mobilize civil society support worldwide. International civil society is Palestinians’ “most important ally” by Stuar ...
  • Gates Cautions Against Ending U.S. Support in ...
    If the United States unilaterally ended support to the NATO mission in Libya, it would have enormous and dangerous long-term consequences, Pentagon officials said here today.
  • Helping Veterans Get Back to Work
    On this Memorial Day, I’d like to honor the military personnel who have risked their lives for our freedom by dedicating this article to the employment of veterans.

electric politics

  • Constitutional Chains
    The U.S. Constitution has not led to a more perfect union. In some ways — see the Civil War — it was a suicide pact. So must it, indeed, be the only legitimate political expression of who we are as Americans? To think about some of the flaws at the creation I turned to Dr. Mark A. Graber, autho ...
  • It Became Necessary to Destroy Libya In Order ...
    At some point the blood-thirsty hawks who got us into a war against Libya must realize that, with Col. Gaddafi or without him, the various Libyan tribes and factions do not mean to settle their differences amicably. What then? Do we admit a strategic defeat and end the war? Or pick sides and fo ...
  • It Became Necessary to Destroy Libya In Order ...
    At some point the blood-thirsty hawks who got us into a war against Libya must realize that, with Col. Gaddafi or without him, the various Libyan tribes and factions do not mean to settle their differences amicably. What then? Do we admit a strategic defeat and end the war? Or pick sides and fo ...
  • The Science of Interrogation
    Memory is such an elusive thing. Not the sort of thing you can pound out of a person's skull. If you want access to a person's memories, to accurate memories, they must be given freely. If you want a false confession for propaganda purposes then use coercion, but for useful memories, don't. To ...
  • The Science of Interrogation
    Memory is such an elusive thing. Not the sort of thing you can pound out of a person's skull. If you want access to a person's memories, to accurate memories, they must be given freely. If you want a false confession for propaganda purposes then use coercion, but for useful memories, don't. To ...

PR News

The Story Behind the Story

  • Jeru-Salem Underground!!!!
    Talk about being “undermined”.   The Rats Run The Sewer – Especially in Jeru-Salem. Check it out: Beneath Jerusalem, an underground city takes shape AP â In this May 17, 2011 photo, a view of Zedekiah’s Cave is seen in Jerusalem’s Old City. Underneath the ⦠Slideshow:Underground Jerusalem B ...
  • McKinney Bombshell
    Cynthia McKinney Drops Bombshell: Candidates to sign pledges of support for “Israel” by Richard Edmondson, source In an interview which aired on Press TV on Saturday–one day before the AIPAC conference got under way in Washington–former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney revealed what amount ...
  • Sometimes It’s Nice to be Proven RIGHT!!
    During the years 2005-2008, I spent hundreds of hours on radio and TV talk shows, and gave dozens of PowerPoint presentations on what I labeled the “BIRD FLU SCAM”.  This, of course, evolved into the “SWINE FLU SCAM” – a non-existent “pandemic” which I at that time declared was designed primari ...
  • Sometimes It’s Nice to be Proven RIGHT!!
    During the years 2005-2008, I spent hundreds of hours on radio and TV talk shows, and gave dozens of PowerPoint presentations on what I labeled the “BIRD FLU SCAM”.  This, of course, evolved into the “SWINE FLU SCAM” – a non-existent “pandemic” which I at that time declared was designed primari ...
  • More Zombiology 101 — Why Rational Think ...
    During the PANDEMIC FLU HYPE of 2006-2008, I poured over dozens of research texts.  Most were authored by individuals associated with the W.H.O. (The World Health Organization – a division of the Zionist Club of Rome), the U.S. Army Biological Weapons Lab, Ft. Detrich, Maryland, and/or the CENT ...

k2p blog

  • The Age of Fossil Fuel may be just beginning
    In the meantime, it appears that the prophets of an age of renewable energy following Peak Oil got things backwards. We may be living in the era of Peak Renewables, which will be followed by a very long Age of Fossil Fuels that has only just begun.
  • The Age of Fossil Fuel may be just beginning
    In the meantime, it appears that the prophets of an age of renewable energy following Peak Oil got things backwards. We may be living in the era of Peak Renewables, which will be followed by a very long Age of Fossil Fuels that has only just begun.
  • Nothing new under the sun: Global warming in t ...
    Back in the 1970's before global warming became a religious movement there was still science in climate science.
  • Nothing new under the sun: Global warming in t ...
    Back in the 1970's before global warming became a religious movement there was still science in climate science.
  • Power generation from shale gas is here to stay
    With shale gas set to become even cheaper than natural gas and with gas fired plants having capacity factors well above 90% compared to the 25% of wind power or the 30% of solar plants, it is a no-brainer to conclude that wherever shale gas is available it is going to be used for power generation.

Left Foot Forward

  • Is Francis Maude a secret Fabian?
    He works from a humble office, holds meetings with trade unions and plans to centralise Whitehall purchasing. Is Tory Francis Maude a secret Fabian?
  • Is Francis Maude a secret Fabian?
    He works from a humble office, holds meetings with trade unions and plans to centralise Whitehall purchasing. Is Tory Francis Maude a secret Fabian?
  • Lansley’s ‘Quality Premium’ ...
    Dr. Charles West, who has been a GP and an NHS manager, writes about the latest potential conflicts of interest over the health bill - namely the 'Quality Premium'.
  • Lansley’s ‘Quality Premium’ ...
    Dr. Charles West, who has been a GP and an NHS manager, writes about the latest potential conflicts of interest over the health bill - namely the 'Quality Premium'.
  • The Big Society belongs to the people not the ...
    Politicians should let the public decide what the Big Society means and allow communities to make things happen on their own terms.

Consumerist

  • If Best Buy Doesn't Respect Your Time, Take Yo ...
    N. thought that because he called the nearest Best Buy store (about an hour and a half away from his home) to have an iPad set aside for him, there would actually be an iPad set aside for him. Well, maybe there was for about five minutes, but after he traveled an hour and a half to get to the s ...
  • PlayStation Network Finally All The Way Back F ...
    Sony made good on its promise to restore the beleaguered PlayStation Network back to full strength, re-opening the online PlayStation Store and also allowing players to re-download past purchases. The PlayStation Blog brags about the PlayStation Store's long-in-the-making return and ticks off ...
  • AT&T Thinks You Should Just Take That Tree Off ...
    There are some things that you really, really don't want to handle doing yourself. After a tree took out electric and phone lines on his property, A. in Texas is left with the heavy trunk resting on high-tension steel cables that normally go between the poles. An AT&T told A. during a visit to ...
  • Morning Deals
    Clothing Woman Within: [Women] 50% Off All Swimwear EventAppleseed's: [Apparel] Extra 25% Off All Sale & Outlet Items w/ Coupon 1E15S6pm: [Shoes] New 6pm sales: 50% to 80% off 7 For All Mankind, moreFinish Line: [Men's Shoes] Converse Unisex Chuck Taylor Casual Shoes from $20 + $8 s&h Comput ...
  • Man Uses Consumerist Tips To Gets Xbox Repaire ...
    Reader Ben was sad. His Xbox was doing the ol' Red Ring of Death. He thought that was quits for his trusted gaming companion but then he started doing some research on Consumerist. Perusing our archives, he realized from some of our old posts that included in the price of the repair to the mach ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

  • The Truth About the American Economy (II)
    The Stalled Recovery The U.S. economy was supposed to be in bloom by late spring but it’s hardly growing at all. Expectations for second quarter growth aren’t much better than the measly 1.8 percent annualized rate of the first quarter. That’s not nearly fast enough to reduce our ferociously-hig ...
  • Reverend Irene Monroe Asks: Are We Writers or ...
    The twenty-third annual Lambda Literary Awards (LLA â also known as the ‘Lammys’) took place at New Yorkâs School of the Visual Arts Theatre on May 26. This red carpet event brought out our finest in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) literature and publishing traditions. Celebrities ...
  • No Shred of Evidence That Iran Is Building Nuk ...
    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 Rich Don’t Create Jobs – We Do
    The rich donât create jobs. The bottom 80% of Americans have 15% of the net worth, and the top 1% has 35% of the net worth in what is still the richest country on earth. So, when I say ‘rich’ I mean really, really rich. ‘The rich create jobs’ is a well-worn catch phrase from [...]
  • EU Member States Insist On No Labeling Or Bann ...
    In March, Novel Food Regulations negotiations, over banning the use of cloned animals for food in the European Union (EU), broke down when EU member states, and the European Parliament, could not come to an agreement. The European Parliament wanted to ban meat from both cloned animals and their ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Australia’s Invisible Energy Trade: better tha ...
    It’s part of the spin game  that almost every statistic is spun-into-oblivion, and here, thanks to Mike Wilson, is the analysis of why “per capita” statistics are meaningless. Ross Garnaut (and dozens of others) claim Australia has a high emissions intensity of energy use. Yet Mike Wilson shows ...
  • Latest Morgan Poll: Govt popularity falls to 3 ...
    L-NP (59%) HAS ITS BIGGEST RECORDED LEAD EVER OVER THE ALP (41%) MAJORITY OF AUSTRALIANS (53%) DO NOT WANT THE CARBON TAX The latest telephone Morgan Poll conducted over the last three nights, May 31 — June 2, 2011, shows the L-NP (59%) with its biggest winning lead over the ALP (41%) since the ...
  • Let’s say “Yes” to real science
    Let’s say “Yes” to real science, the way it’s meant to be, science that relies on  measurements from things like thermometers, ice cores, and satellites. Real science is about observations of the real deal, not “simulations” on a computer. 28 million weather balloons, 6000 boreholes, 3000 ocean ...
  • Let’s say “Yes” to real science
    Let’s say “Yes” to real science, the way it’s meant to be, science that relies on  measurements from things like thermometers, ice cores, and satellites. Real science is about observations of the real deal, not “simulations” on a computer. 28 million weather balloons, 6000 boreholes, 3000 ocean ...
  • Climate Scientists who were right 30 years ago?
    Stephen Goddard has found a gem of a news article. 1979 : Before The Hockey Team Destroyed Climate Science. Drs Leona Libby and Louise Pandolfi projected world temperatures in 1979 for the next 70 years and got results that, 30 years later, appear to have been broadly correct if out by 5 – 7 ye ...

ReNew America

  • The easiest way to access Obama's original Bir ...
    (Monte Kuligowski) - After years of fighting its release, on April 27, 2011, President Obama finally released a detailed birth certificate. Well, actually he posted another PDF image online. If the press corps were not paralyzed by fear, a request to inspect the original document would be as nat ...
  • Sen. DeMint mulls White House bid
    (The Hill) - Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) says he is considering running for president after frustrated conservative activists have pleaded with him to run. DeMint told The Hill that he has discussed a White House bid with his wife and will pray on the question out of respect for his supporters acro ...
  • Obama nominates climate crusader to head Commerce
    (CNSNews.com) - John Bryson, President Barack Obama's nominee to be secretary of commerce, said it was "incredibly important" that the United States pass cap and trade legislation and that America needed to be a global leader in combating man-made global warming...
  • Gates turns out the lights
    (Washington Times) - I have been in Washington now for nearly 40 years and in all that time, I can't recall seeing anything quite like Robert M. Gates' ongoing farewell to arms. In a series of speeches over the past few days - at Notre Dame, at the American Enterprise Institute and at the U.S. N ...
  • Gay couples line up for Illinois civil union l ...
    (Associated Press) - Hundreds of couples around Illinois lined up early for the chance to get civil union licenses, including five couples in line in southwestern Illinois' St. Clair County when the clerk's office opened at 8:30 a.m....

Truth Offering

  • HAARP: Is It to Blame?
    With all the crazy, extreme weather we've had lately -- not just near the Mississippi where we've had Biblical flooding, or in Missouri where an unearthly number of powerful tornados have destroyed thousands of lives, but also all along the Pacific rim where strong earthquakes have rocked the re ...
  • Levi's: All-American or Neo-Communist
    It seems that everywhere I go recently, I see these massive Levi's billboards along the side of the road. At first, I thought nothing of them. After all, they're just billboards, right? Plus Levi's is an all-American company, right? Visually, these ads are quite striking; mostly black and white, ...
  • US Falls In Level of Overall Economic Freedom ...
    The Heritage Foundation just released its annual Economic Freedom List. The list "measures ten components of economic freedom, assigning a grade in each using a scale from 0 to 100, where 100 represents the maximum freedom. The ten component scores are then averaged to give an overall economic f ...
  • Did J.P. Morgan Sink the Titanic!?
    1st Row: JP Morgan, Joseph Bruce Ismay, John Jacob Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim. 2nd Row: The Federal Reserve and the TitanicAs youngsters, we're all told the infamous story of the Titanic, the supposedly indestructible ship that sunk on its maiden voyage. We're all familiar with the story: the ...
  • Our Diet Is Killing Our DNA!
    Few people are aware of this simple fact: what you eat directly impacts your DNA. This likely seems like a strange new concept to most, considering we're all brought up with such an incorrect understanding of human health and wellness. Five years back, I was no different -- well, I always cared ...

2012 Blog

  • A Few Doomsday Updates…
    CDC on the Zombie Apocalypse You heard right, the US Govt Centre for Disease Control now has a page devoted to surviving a zombie outbreak. Word quickly spread and the servers crashed! …a typical CDC blog post might get between 1,000 and 3,000 hits. The most traffic on record had been a post tha ...
  • Ascension Rubbish
    For me there are four 2012 angles: 1) Scientific, with some connection to reality 2) Scientific, but seemingly just made up 3) New Age, sounds nice, but purely based on faith 4) New Age, making false claims of having a scientific basis In general, I don’t mind the faith-based New Age 2012 ideas. ...
  • Naples Supervolcano – Should It Be Drilled?
    The Daily Mail has an excellent article explaining the pros and cons of drilling into the supervolcano at the edge of Naples, and why scientists are concerned: Now an international team, including scientists from the UK, wants to drill down inside the caldera to try to better understand exactly ...
  • Lunar Eclipses Are Dangerous Times
    I’ve just been through the tedious task of checking every lunar and solar eclipse since 1973 ( as far back as the USGS records reliably go), against every earthquake measuring 6.5, 7.0, 7.5 and 8.0 in magnitude. For solar eclipses the odds of an earthquake were slightly higher than average, but ...
  • Bunker News from Russia and Beyond!
    Spetsgeoproekt (Special Geological Projects) is a Russian business cashing in on 2012 fears and recent natural disasters. They are selling 15 bunkers that range in size from 35 to 90 square meters (378 to 970 square feet), with some costing as much as $US400,000.  Locations are secret, although ...

Facing South

  • Corporate lobby targets African-Americans for ...
    North Carolina has some of the most stringent consumer protection rules in the country against predatory lending. In 2010, lending groups ramped up campaign contributions [pdf] to elect lawmakers more hospitable to their interests, and are now pushing a bill that would allow lenders to raise the ...
  • VOICES: Race, immigrants and the 2012 presiden ...
    By Joe Atkins, Labor South Would-be president Newt Gingrich calls Barack Obama our "most successful food stamp president," Santana gets booed at the "Civil Rights" baseball game in Atlanta for criticizing Georgia's new immigration law, and politicians in Alabama forbid undocumented children ...
  • Fatal bus crash came days after regulators put ...
    By Marian Wang, ProPublica After a fatal bus crash�Tuesday�in Virginia -- at least the fourth such commercial bus accident in three months -- federal regulators immediately issued an order to shut down the company that was responsible. Four people died in the accident and more than 50 were s ...
  • Nuclear watchdog calls for probe into whistleb ...
    A nuclear watchdog group in North Carolina received two letters this year from an anonymous whistleblower warning of problems with the design and regulatory approval process for the Westinghouse AP1000, a new type of reactor that utilities are planning to build across the Southeast. A ...
  • Top 10 Facing South stories: May 2011
    Didn't catch all of Facing South's coverage this month? Here are some of the hottest stories on Facing South in May: 1 - The dirty energy money behind the Senate move to dismantle the EPA Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) and 15 GOP co-sponsors want to merge the Environmental Protection Agency and ...

One News Page

  • Krispy Kremes a Sweet Investment
    Krispy Kreme (NYSE: KKD) doughnuts is one of those all-American investments that perennially come to the mind of investors, especially at 7am on the way to work, when that horribly tempting sign glows through the passenger window while awaiting a long commute to work on Tuesday morning, in the ...
  • Ratko Mladic Arrested
    BBC, CNN and many other media sources reports that man believed to be fugitive war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic has been arrested, an official from the Serbian interior ministry has said. Respected Serbian radio station B92 said: “B92 has been able to verify that a man suspected to be Mladic ...
  • Lawyer: Mladic won't live to see a trial
    BELGRADE (AP) -- The lawyer for war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic says the former general is so ill he won't live to see the start of his trial on genocide charges....
  • Four killed in Welsh refinery blast
    Four people have been killed in an explosion at a Chevron oil refinery near Pembroke, Wales, police said Friday.
  • E. Coli Outbreak Tied to Deadly New Strain
    The new bacteria is a hybrid of two existing ones that have combined to form a super-virulent strain.

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • NATO’s Routine in Afghanistan
    Speaking May 31 at a press conference in Kabul, Afghan President Hamid Karzai told NATO to stop bombing Afghan villages. He said if NATO continues airstrikes on Afghan homes, its presence in Afghanistan will be regarded as occupation, which is not what the Afghan people want; and he stressed tha ...
  • Operation Enduring Freedom Could Bring Civil W ...
    The world began forgetting about Afghanistan against the backdrop of this year’s Great Arab Revolution. The same thing happened after Soviet forces withdrew from the country in February 1989 and in April 2003 while the whole world held its breath during Operation Iraqi Freedom, wondering how lon ...
  • The Arrest of Ratko Mladic and International Law
    The arrest of former Serbian Commander Gen. R. Mladic on May 26 evokes serious questions of both moral and legal character. Clearly aware of the shakiness of the indictment Mladic is about to face, the global media tend to avoid touching upon the legal aspect of the Mladic case. It is an open se ...
  • The «Responsibility to Protect» – The Li ...
    The carnage in Libya continues. In the last two weeks NATO bombardment of Tripoli has intensified. Economic sanctions have created gas and food shortages throughout the government controlled parts of the country… The French and British have now inducted helicopters into the air power they are de ...
  • World On Course For Next Crisis?
    In his recent article in The Telegraph, Gordon Brown, the ex British PM, has urged politicians at the next G20 summit, which takes place in Cannes in November, to take control of a globalised financial system which is still “perilously” unregulated. The West is following a practiceâand a very da ...

BlogHer

  • Could You Come Up With $2,000 Right Now?
    [Editor's Note: Journalist Karen and her writing professor husband entered their fields at a very bad time for finding a writing job (can I get an amen?). Her personal brand of frugality is very much in line with mine: be stingy about some things so you have money for what really matters to you ...
  • BlogHer Network Member News, June 3: Yo Gabba ...
    Ruth Schultz's husband (Ruth writes The Mom) is a co-creator of Yo Gabba Gabba and was nominated for an Emmy for "Outstanding PreSchool Children's Series" as well as "Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction/Set Decoration/Scenic Design." This is Yo Gabba's first time being nominated for best ...
  • Illinois Gets Into the Same-Sex Union Business ...
    Today, Catholic Charities of Rockford, Illinois got out of the adoption and foster care business.The reason?Today, same-sex couples in Illinois have the right to enter civil unions -- marriage-like partnerships providing them with many of the rights and responsibilities available to opposite se ...
  • How to Cultivate Better Listening Skills
    We all know good listening skills are essential, but what is someone to do if you don't already possess a natural talent for listening? Good news is listening skills can be developed with practice. Learn more about the power of inquiry and how that can really make you a better listener. In ...
  • Smart Bitches Interviews Courtney Milan About ...
    [Editor's note" Courtney Milan made the decision to self publisher her next novel, the third book in her Turner trilogy. Sarah Wendell of Smart Bitches, Trashy Books talked to her about why she made the decision and and what it means for her future in publishing. - Karen] If I self-publish, ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • High Suicide-Violence Rates From Chantix Left ...
    An alarming amount of suicides and violent incidents are traced directly to Pfizer’s quit-smoking drug Chantix, but were omitted from important government safety reviews. A drug already responsible for needless deaths and anguish floods the ...
  • Aborted Fetal Tissue Used to Test New Food Add ...
    Unlike what the wording of source articles suggest – No, you are not eating aborted fetal tissue in new food products. Stem cells and aborted fetal tissue are, however, used in the process of testing ...
  • Risky New Vaccine Pushed on Babies
    Just another vaccine to add to the needle queque for young babies. This one that is completely unneccessary, unless you think there should be a vaccine to prevent lighting strikes, because you’re more likely get ...
  • USDA Wants to Negotiate $90+K Bunny Fine
    Were you among the angered who learned of the family facing a potential $4 million fine if they didn’t immediately fork over over $90,000 to a department of the USDA? All for selling more than ...
  • Food Pyramid Revamped With Plate Shape
    Will a plate shaped food guide spur Americans to eat healthy? The nutritional guidelines have had a rocky past, including the original food pyramid that only made the cut after heavy revisions, giving extra emphasis to ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • What I would have asked Alpha’s Kevin Cr ...
    We were hoping this week that Alpha Natural Resources CEO Kevin Crutchfield would give us an interview, or at least answer a few questions during the big sign unveiling held to celebrate Alpha’s acquisition of Massey Energy. Crutchfield did quite a few interviews, but just couldn’t find the time ...
  • Massey saw need to improve ‘tone and mes ...
    We’ve just posted a new story on the Gazette’s website, detailing the contents of another of the documents made public as a result of a legal action by our newspaper and National Public Radio. The story describes the contents of a report by a Massey advisory committee looking into the company’s ...
  • Massey saw need to improve ‘tone and mes ...
    We’ve just posted a new story on the Gazette’s website, detailing the contents of another of the documents made public as a result of a legal action by our newspaper and National Public Radio. The story describes the contents of a report by a Massey advisory committee looking into the company’s ...
  • New petition seeks to protect Blair Mountain
    This just in via press release: A broad coalition of community, environmental, historic preservation and labor history groups filed a petition today to protect the site of the largest civil uprising in America after the Civil War from surface coal mining. The petition was filed today by the Sier ...
  • Rep. Miller: ‘Congress has been warned&# ...
    Here’s a speech Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., delivered today on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives: Little more than a year ago, 29 coal miners lost their lives at the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia. Our nation watched with sadness as this small community felt the lash of th ...

Daniel Miessler

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

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

reference frame

  • Italian seismologists on trial as killers beca ...
    Another example of the insane witch hunts that are gradually returning our world back to Salem 1692. Vitalik sent me a link to a stunning article at the Fox News server, Italian Seismologists Charged With Manslaughter for Not Predicting 2009 Quake; Google NewsSix earthquake sci ...
  • ATLAS: Standard Model passes two tests even at ...
    A rather remarkable triplet of similar events with the dijet energy near 3.33 TeV is the most spectacular hint of a new particle Phil Gibbs was the first man who spotted two radically new ATLAS preprints on a CERN page that at least two of us constantly watch. ;-) Update of the ...
  • Density matrix and its classical counterpart
    I decided that a reason contributing to the people's misunderstanding of the meaning and validity of quantum mechanics is the prevailing focus on Schrödinger's equation as the basic dynamical law. Felix Bloch (picture) is, together with Lev Landau and perhaps also John von Neuman ...
  • Windows 8 PCs will be like iPad 2.8
    Microsoft is catching up. The video looks pretty impressive and the inspiration from iOS in particular is hard to hide. Available in late 2012.
  • Does ethics require us to believe in tornado w ...
    When I was a kid, something like a 10-year-old one, I didn't have the feeling that the contemporary human society is obsessed with irrationalities. This experience of course depended on the environment; I guess that people such as my grandfather and the teachers at school were rational ...

No Frakking Consensus

  • Peer-Reviewed Medical Research Critiqued
    An opinion piece in Scientific America alleges that, over the long term, a great deal of scientific research turns out not to be true. Independent replication of research findings is apparently far less common than we think.
  • That Wobbly Foundation: Peer-Reviewed Research
    Climate activists have long argued that scientific research that has been peer-reviewed is reliable, trustworthy & true.
  • A Story about a Farmer, a Flood & Fish
    A flooded-out farmer is fighting for his economic survival. Rather than assisting him, environmental bureaucrats are contributing to his nightmare.
  • Lord Turnbull Trashes the IPCC
    A prominent UK civil servant has issued a plea for climate sanity that is less-than-kind to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
  • No Harmony with Hogweed
    People who think we should live in harmony with nature usually forget to mention poisonous plants.

Tarpley

  • EUA, Paquistão, perto de guerra aberta; Ultima ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net 20 de maio de 2011 A China colocou oficialmente os Estados Unidos sob o aviso que o ataque planeado de Washington sobre o Paquistão será interpretado como um ato de agressão contra Pequim. Este aviso frontal representa o primeiro ultimato estratégico conheci ...
  • Italiano
    International Main Menu Arabic Ceské Deutsch Español Français Italiano Greek Nippon Polski Português Russki Svenska Türk Zhongwén            1 2  >  >| page: 1 of 2   total items: 13 Gli Stati Uniti e il Pakistan vicini a una guerra aperta, un ultimatum cinese avverte gli Stati U ...
  • Gli Stati Uniti e il Pakistan vicini a una gue ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net 24 maggio 2011 La Cina ha già avvertito gli Stati Uniti che un qualsiasi attacco contro il Pakistan da parte di Washington, sarebbe interpretato come un atto di aggressione contro la Cina. Questo avvertimento è il primo secco ultimatum strategico ricevuto da ...
  • Deutsch
    International Main Menu Arabic Ceské Deutsch Español Français Italiano Greek Nippon Polski Português Russki Svenska Türk Zhongwén            1 2  >  >| page: 1 of 2   total items: 11 USA und Pakistan fast im offenen Krieg. Chinesisches Ultimatum an die Adresse Washingtons: kein A ...
  • Français
    International Main Menu Arabic Ceské Deutsch Español Français Italiano Greek Nippon Polski Português Russki Svenska Türk Zhongwén   Ennemis de lâOTAN en Irak et en Afghanistan, alliés en Libye VoltaireNet.org – 21 mai 2011 [permalink] Les EtatsUnis et le Pakistan tout près de la ...

Modern Survivalism

  • 1 Million Visits to Modern Survival Blog!
    This past week we have crossed a huge milestone here at Modern Survival Blog, when someone out there was number 1,000,000 to have visited us! The ‘us’ is basically me with the support of my wife Lauren, who has also helped with ideas and some occasional posts. When I started this blog early in 2 ...
  • U.S. Treasury Continues to Raid Retirement Acc ...
    As reported on zerohedge.com, Today, very quietly, the Treasury released its latest refunding announcement, in which it disclosed it would issue another $66 billion in 3, 10 and 30 Year notes next week. The irony of course is that the US is and continues to be at its debt ceiling limit (or just ...
  • Heirloom Seeds Keep Giving Year after Year
    Heirloom Seeds. Why do you want them? Because after the plant has grown, you can harvest the seeds from one of the vegetables and use them for future growing seasons. Why can’t you simply use the seeds from a vegetable of non-Heirloom Seeds? Because those seeds will not grow into mature healthy ...
  • Tornadoes in Massachusetts and California??
    The tornadoes this year in the U.S. are shaping up to be one of the craziest in memory. It’s one thing to encounter tornadoes in the traditional geographic areas of the country, ‘tornado alley’, but how often do we hear about tornadoes in Massachusetts or California? Having grown up in Massachus ...
  • Home Door Stop Alarm
    I happened across this simple but effective security device while browsing Amazon today. It is an ingenious little door-stop wedge shaped device which will alert a very loud alarm (120 db) if someone opens the door. This door stop alarm is small, lightweight and portable. You could throw it in y ...

Fast Company

  • iFive: Sony Hacked Again, Gmail Scam Hit White ...
    Monday's when we finally hear all about Apple's cloud services offering iCloud. We don't know much, but thanks to enterprising photographers at the Moscone West center where Apple's event will be held, we now know what the logo looks like.1. Sony has been hit with yet another hack�attack, this t ...
  • Groupon's Andrew Mason Has Already Cashed In N ...
    Not a bad for 2.5 years' work for the CEO involved with the latest hottest IPO.On Thursday, we wrote about how Groupon CEO Andrew Mason is only making a salary of $575 this year. But don't reach for the hankies just yet. The 29-year-old has already made a killing on his two-and-a-half-year-old c ...
  • Check-Off: How Facebook Places Stacks Up Again ...
    How does Facebook Places stack up against Foursquare? It's a question many have wondered since the world's largest social network jumped into the check-in game. We know Facebook has nearly 700 million users--but certainly nowhere near all of them are actually using the company's location-based ...
  • Crazy Sexy Windows 8 Has Scorching Hot New Loo ...
    Microsoft's Steve Sinofsky showed off Windows 8 at AllThingsD's conference Wednesday night. It's all flashy and color, with Windows Phone 7-like dynamic homescreen "panels" from its Metro UI which contain updating information available at a glance from the apps they relate to. These work better ...
  • After Lady Gaga's Amazon Success, Should All A ...
    Last week, Lady Gaga's new album Born This Way sold a monstrous (by today's standards, anyway) 1.15 million copies. That platinum status came partially thanks to Amazon, which offered her album for a dirt-cheap 99 cents, and, after its servers crashed from demand, sold roughly 440,000 digital ...

Jadaliyya

  • UCLA Uncut Interview with James Gelvin on Obam ...
    This is an 11-minute edited video of an interview conducted with James L. Gelvin after President Barack Obama's "Middle East Speech" that was delivered on May 19, 2011. In it, Gelvin discusses the lukewarm reaction throughout the Middle East to Obama's speech, outlining the ways in which ...
  • Crafting Chaos: Presidential Games and Yemen's ...
    I am sitting in the dark, having enjoyed a remarkable 6 consecutive hours of electricity today in our house near the �Square of Fear�, a roundabout in an affluent neighborhood of Sana�a that sits between the houses of General Ali Mohsen and Hamid al-Ahmar. The sounds of mortars, missiles ...
  • The Stunting Role of the Supreme Council of th ...
    During our trip to Egypt we had the fortune of meeting and interviewing a number of distinguished journalists, bloggers, and activists, as well as a host of other Egyptians from all walks of life. Our coverage of Friday, May 27, protests can be found here and here. Today, we begin publis ...
  • Syria and Hizballah
    [This article is written by Khalid Saghieh�and translated by Assaf Khoury*] Translator's Introduction� Up until a few months ago, Hizballah could legitimately claim pride of place in the Arab anti-imperialist camp. Hizballah was the only Arab force that repeatedly stymied the powerfu ...
  • The Arab World's Forgotten Rebellions: Foreign ...
    The Arab world is undergoing a potentially world-historical transformation. The Tunisian street vendor Muhammad Bouazizi�s self-imolation, following mistreatment by state authorities in late 2010, sparked a deluge of populist anger and activism that has toppled the Ben Ali and Mubarak re ...

mediagazer

  • A Family Life in News: Emma Gilbey Keller on B ...
    Emma Gilbey Keller / Vanity Fair: A Family Life in News: Emma Gilbey Keller on Bill Keller's New York Times Resignation  —  They say your children grow up fast.  But I can tell you that it happens at warp speed when set against the backdrop of breaking news.  Eight years ago, when my husband, B ...
  • What Twitter's changes mean for media companie ...
    Ellie Behling / eMedia Vitals: What Twitter's changes mean for media companies  —  Twitter has managed to be in the news even more than usual over the past couple of weeks with a handful of developments big and small.  Content providers should take note of how they can use Twitter's new featur ...
  • Time Inc.'s digital veteran Quittner logs off ...
    New York Post: Time Inc.'s digital veteran Quittner logs off  —  Josh Quittner, one of the pi oneering digital journalists at Time Inc., is shoving off to do what he has been writing about for most of the past two decades — joining an Internet start-up.  —  Quittner, a 15-year veteran of the n ...
  • Cable Company Eyes 'Single Play' (Nat Worden/W ...
    Nat Worden / Wall Street Journal: Cable Company Eyes ‘Single Play’  —  Time Warner Cable Inc. Chief Executive Glenn Britt said Wednesday his company has an opportunity to win more broadband-only customers as broadband replaces TV as the cable industry's anchor product.  —  At an investor confe ...
  • NY Times columnist: 'I cannot believe it didn' ...
    Kelly McBride / Poynter: NY Times columnist: 'I cannot believe it didn't leak out'  —  Lisa Belkin, author of the Times' parenting blog, The Motherlode, wasn't in the newsroom Thursday morning for the announcement that Jill Abramson would become the new executive editor of The New York Times.

Chemtrail News

  • Chemtrail Health and Eco Impacts Prompt ...
    [9] Morgellons patients now reside in all 50 states and in several Western nations, where chemtrails are reported. In 2001, Patient Zero, Drew Leitao, ...
  • Chemtrails are real and they are damagi ...
    Chemtrails linger, often from horizon to horizon, sometimes widening to form streaky clouds. ... A site devoted to chemtrail exposure (text and videos) ...www.naturalnews.com/032572_chemtrails_health.html
  • China admits to dumping chemtrails for ...
    chemtrail believers simply are wrong every time See if you can tell why ... The issue commonly referred to aschemtrails is seen by many as nothing more than ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread710466/pg1
  • China admits to dumping chemtrails for ...
    chemtrail believers simply are wrong every time See if you can tell why ... The issue commonly referred to aschemtrails is seen by many as nothing more than ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread710466/pg1
  • NBC: Chemtrail Report 'GeoEngineeri ...
    The Intel Hub Shepard Ambellas June 2, 2011. Recently a few activists (Michael Murphy, Shepard Ambellas and Bob Tuskin) have really been making waves on the chemtrail front raising public awareness. Recently on Memorial Day Michael ... - http://theintelhub.com/

World News - Top Stories

  • 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 ...

no frakking consensus

  • Peer-Reviewed Medical Research Critiqued
    An opinion piece in Scientific America alleges that, over the long term, a great deal of scientific research turns out not to be true. Independent replication of research findings is apparently far less common than we think.
  • That Wobbly Foundation: Peer-Reviewed Research
    Climate activists have long argued that scientific research that has been peer-reviewed is reliable, trustworthy & true.
  • A Story about a Farmer, a Flood & Fish
    A flooded-out farmer is fighting for his economic survival. Rather than assisting him, environmental bureaucrats are contributing to his nightmare.
  • Lord Turnbull Trashes the IPCC
    A prominent UK civil servant has issued a plea for climate sanity that is less-than-kind to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
  • No Harmony with Hogweed
    People who think we should live in harmony with nature usually forget to mention poisonous plants.

Pointman's

  • Love is simply not an option.
    Love is a word in every language. It has a lot of meanings and covers a lot of ground. Itâs a universal. We make love but what weâre actually doing is expressing our love by giving mutual physical pleasure to each other and of course, itâs the best fun. Where thereâs no emotional love there, … R ...
  • The power of dreams and the power of nightmares.
    There are patterns in politics which are hardy perennials. Theyâve been there for as long as politics has been around, which is to say forever. Politicians need you to vote for them and the way they do this is to sell you something. The thing they sell you of course is a promise but to … Read more
  • About Harry.
    I went to a christening today. Itâs been a long time since Iâve been inside a place of worship. Things have changed a lot. The toddlers were allowed to walk around and actually called up to the front so they could really see what was going on. No hushing or shushing. There were several babies … ...
  • The big green killing machine: What is VAD?
    This is the first in a series of occasional articles dealing with the human cost of the various policies being pushed by what I call the big green killing machine. Iâve never viewed fighting the perversion that environmentalism has become as some sort of intellectual wrestling match waged in the ...
  • Line of Descent Chapter 25
    Chapter 25 The wounded man’s lifeless eyes stared up at the wooden joists of the ceiling. He had died quietly, slipping away from life unnoticed among the group of people huddled there together in the centre of the room. The maid had been the first to realise he was dead and had backed away from ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • More Investigations Needed into New Orleans Po ...
    The US Department of Justice has shown a real determination to challenge New Orleans police violence and corruption. Their report on the NOPD, released in March, confirmed what community members had been saying about the department for decades. In addition, their investigations led to conviction ...
  • Over Two Thousand Six Hundred Activists Arrest ...
    By Bill Quigley Since President Obama was inaugurated, there have been over two thousand six hundred arrests of activists protesting in the US. Research shows over 670 people have been arrested in protests inside the US already in 2011, over 1290 were arrested in 2010, and 665 arrested in 2009 ...
  • Louisiana Legislature Takes Steps Towards Endi ...
    From our friends at Women With a Vision: Tomorrow, Tuesday May 24th, at 9:30am, the Louisiana House of Representatives Criminal Justice Committee will take up the bill to remove Solicitation of a Crime Against Nature (SCAN) from the sex offender registry and make the penalties the same as prost ...
  • Organizing Iberville: Applying Lessons Learned ...
    From our friends at Survivors Village: As Survivors Village and May Day New Orleans begins its campaign to oppose the destruction of the last traditional public housing development in the city of New Orleans, a deep sense of dread and fear courses into my mind. It's been only a few years s ...
  • Thousands of Oil and Gas Wells and Pits to be ...
    From Our Friends at Louisiana Bucket Brigade: No clear plans from industry, state or federal government about preparation or cleanup A map released yesterday details that the opening of the Morganza Spillway is likely to cause the release of oil, diesel, drilling muds and chemical ...

Information Underground

  • Law, Security, and Other Lies to Endslave Us • ...
    www.free-edgar-steele.com As hard as they may try, they are not going to silence Edgar J. Steele (Preface by Cyndi Steele. June 1, 2011) Yes, our hopes for justice might have been crushed, temporarily, with the tragedy of my husband’s, Edgar J. Steele, unjust conviction. For ...
  • Law, Security, and Other Lies to Endslave Us • ...
    www.free-edgar-steele.com As hard as they may try, they are not going to silence Edgar J. Steele (Preface by Cyndi Steele. June 1, 2011) Yes, our hopes for justice might have been crushed, temporarily, with the tragedy of my husband’s, Edgar J. Steele, unjust conviction. For ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Tom your version had been pulled as well, copyright of course Interesting they cut the comments Statistics: Posted by Ognir — Fri Jun 03, 2011 4:29 am
  • Philosophy • Re: Possible troll thread: Atheis ...
    EVIL LOOSHIN' 1.) Science seeks objective knowledge and relies upon replicable experimental results for proof. 2.) "Evolution" is a theory by some scientists attempting to explain certain conditions, but it is not replicable in an experiment and therefore it will never be proven and become ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Yea i like coldplay and i love this song. Look at the jewtube pathetic votings. Oh yea,when they fear something than such a movement of truth could break through worldwide. Time to kick them in their talmudic ass. But it must(!) be done peacefully. Words of truth and exposing their talmudic h ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Climate Link to Cholera Affirmed in New Study ...
    A study of cholera outbreaks in Zanzibar from 1999 to 2008 has found that moderate increases in ocean temperatures and rainfall can increase the likelihood of cholera epidemics. The study, published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, found that a sea surface temperature in ...
  • Cellphones May Increase Cancer Risk, Advisory ...
    A World Health Organization (WHO) advisory panel has concluded that extensive cell phone use may increase the risk of a rare type of brain tumor, but the panel says that the evidence is not definitive and urged that more research be conducted into the issue. The WHO’s International Agency for Re ...
  • Staple Food Prices Could More than Double by 2 ...
    The prices of staple foods, which have already reached record levels in 2011, could more than double over the next two decades, a new Oxfam report says. According to the report, "Growing a Better Future", a combination of factors — including climate change, diminished natural resources worldwide ...
  • Google Earth Animation Highlights Region Targe ...
    A new animation produced by the group WWF-Indonesia offers a tree-level tour of a biodiversity rich region of Sumatran rainforest targeted for destruction by logging companies. The animation, created using Google Earth, highlights proposed logging efforts in a WWF-IndonesiaVIDEO: Sumatran fo ...
  • Rural Bangladesh Taps Into Solar Power With Wo ...
    The number of homes and shops equipped with solar power systems in rural Bangladesh doubled in the last year to more than 870,000 with the help of funding from the World Bank and other organizations, according to a World Bank report. In 2009, the World Bank provided $130 million to support gover ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • Conservative caucus meets, bleats
    By Montreal Simon Well I see it was Glorious Majority Day at the Con caucus today. From The Star: "A buoyant Prime Minister Stephen Harper, fresh off a majority election win, returned to Parliament Hill Wednesday declaring that the 'Conservative party is Canada’s party.'" And there was ...
  • Me and Macho Man
    By David Bitonti Macho Man is dead. Who’s next? Hulk Hogan? The Ultimate Warrior? Jake The Snake Roberts? In fact, how the hell did Jake with all his drugging and boozing outlive Randy Savage anyway? As more of these forgotten heroes enter their 50s and even 60s (yikes!), I guess they’ ...
  • SIU tries, tries again to identify G20 cop thug
    By Alison@Creekside Oversight - noun 1) the action of overseeing something 2) an omission, the failure to do something Dorian Barton was taking a picture of police horses in the park at the G20 summit in downtown Toronto last summer when he was suddenly knocked to the ground from beh ...
  • Kevin Annett’s unfinished testament &#82 ...
    Continued from page 1 On August 9th, 2010, Annett took a phone call on his long-running radio show, “Hidden from History.” The caller wanted to discuss rumours of police complicity in the murders committed by Robert Pickton. “I have specific evidence of what you’re talking about,” Annett repl ...
  • Kevin Annett’s unfinished testament
    By Frank Moher Kevin Annett lives in a small white house facing onto a plain street in downtown Nanaimo, BC. The local RCMP detachment, with its lot full of solid, square cop cars, is just around the corner. Inside, on a watery day in mid-January, the living room is lit only ...

Daily Beast

  • The New York Times As Substitute for Religion
    Jill Abramson's comment about her family worshipping the paper was mysteriously excised by the Times. Michael Medved on why the new editor's analogy is both arrogant and deeply troubling. Plus, Howard Kurtz talks to Abramson about the paper's liberal...
  • Survey: Anythony Weiner Could Still Be New Yor ...
    An exclusive survey by The Daily Beast finds that Weinergate has not derailed the congressmen's chances of becoming New York's next mayor-and the Twitter scandal has had little impact on whether New Yorkers would vote for him. Is Anthony Weiner's...
  • Arthur Elgort's Casual Magic: Renowned Fashion ...
    The CFDA gives its Board of Directors Award to the renowned fashion photographer whose easygoing and patient style disarmed models, yielded remarkable photos for clients like Vogue-and made an entire industry better, writes Robin Givhan. The...
  • The Mirage Man by David Willman: Anthrax Attac ...
    In an exclusive excerpt from The Mirage Man, journalist David Willman reveals the troubled psychiatric history of Bruce Ivins, the man responsible for the 2001 anthrax attacks-and how his obsession with a sorority led the FBI to him. On the morning...
  • Christopher Plummer's Depths
    At 82, Christopher Plummer works more than ever. He talks to Lorenza Munoz about playing gay for the first time in Beginners and why The Sound of Music was "prison." Usually, when Christopher Plummer appears in a movie, the audience knows to expect a...

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Decade of fine tuning yields gold for capsule
    "I see capsule as a J-pop group, but then again, I don't think J-pop should be made into a particular genre with its own rules," says Yasutaka Nakata of electro unit capsule and producer of idol sensations Perfume. "There are professional producers who try to create 'J-pop music,' but really an ...
  • 'Bedge Pardon' rethinks famed Soseki sojourn
    "Bedge pardon?" Was a phrase that literary giant Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) scribbled into his diary while studying in London. He was describing how it sounded when a servant woman said "I beg your pardon" to him. But far from mocking the woman he nicknamed "Miss Bedge Pardon," Soseki's descript ...
  • Yodobashi has big plans for Sendai
    Yodobashi Camera Co. plans to make its outlet in Sendai one of its largest electronics stores, with a combined floor space of more than 20,000 sq. meters, possibly in 2014, company officials said Thursday. The company initially planned to build a temporary store in November 2012 next to the ex ...
  • Japan Steel Works sees shift away from nuclear
    Japan Steel Works Ltd., a maker of nuclear reactor parts for customers from Areva SA to Toshiba Corp., will shift sales to nonatomic energy equipment and may cut idled capacity as the Fukushima disaster curbs orders. Japan will freeze construction of nuclear reactors and China is likely to del ...
  • Kan wins Pyrrhic victory: analysts
    Prime Minister Naoto Kan's weakened political clout has further deepened widespread concern over the country's apparent inability to contain its swelling national debt and deliver urgently needed funding to the disaster-hit areas, economists said Thursday. Earlier in the day, a no-confidence m ...

Alexander Higgins

  • Obama to name Panetta defense secretary
    President Barack Obama plans to pick CIA Director Leon Panetta to succeed Robert Gates as defense secretary, a U.S. official said Wednesday.
  • Wednesday’s live events
    Donald Trump holds a news briefing today. Will he discuss a possible run for the presidency? Will he address his "birther" claim that President Obama may not have been born in the United States? Watch CNN.com Live for coverage. 9 am ET - Aviation Summit –  The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Nat ...
  • California Plutonium 43 Times, Hawaii 11 Times ...
    A blog post out Japan says EPA data has been found showing Plutonium levels in California are 43 times an in Hawaii are 11 times higher than the maximum levels detected over the last 20 Years. Plutonium and Uranium has also been detected in Guam and Japan although the Japanese Government is deny ...
  • Bald eagle with Web following struck, killed b ...
    Biologists believe a bald eagle that was a star of a popular Virginia eagle-watching webcam was killed Tuesday morning, struck by an airplane that was landing at Norfolk International Airport. A U.S. Airways jet’s landing gear struck and killed a bald eagle as the plane was trying to land, airpo ...
  • Pregnant Teacher Harassed By TSA On Easter Sun ...
    The Intel Hub April 26th, 2011 The Transportation Security Agency has a long history of harassing innocent, peaceful Americas. From 6 year girls to the elderly, the TSA, an agency that has never arrested a terrorist, has taken the American police state to a whole new level. When i received an em ...

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Does Capitalism Save Lives?
    I was watching CNBC and happened to see this panel about how the number of Americans killed by natural disasters has declined over time. It was also noted that, in early 2010, fewer people died in Chile’s earthquake than in Haiti’s earthquake. The discussion quite reasonably outlined how improv ...
  • When Politics is Personal
    Lately I wonder if there hasn’t been a modification to the feminist adage “the personal is political”. In the aftermath of the recent federal election — a decision that left so many of us cringing in anticipation of the onslaught we know will follow — it became clear that for some, politics is p ...
  • UK Conservatives Put Canada’s to Shame o ...
    Across the pond, the UK Conservative coalition government has taken a very different approach to tackling climate change than the Harper Conservatives. The Canadian government’s “commitment” to addressing climate change makes us a global pariah. Our government says it is committed to reducing Ca ...
  • Will Harper Support Hudak’s Chain Gangs?
    Ontario Conservative leader Tim Hudak has promised to introduce what the Toronto Star calls “modern day chain gangs.” “The Progressive Conservative leader said Thursday that if a Tory government is elected Oct. 6, about 2,700 inmates serving sentences in provincial jails will be forced to work u ...
  • BC to Raise Corporate Taxes
    Amazingly, BC’s government has joined its official opposition in proposing to restore the provincial corporate income tax rate from 10% to 12%. The same government that cut from 12% to 10% would now reverse itself as part of a last-ditch effort to save the HST. Revenue from a higher corporate ta ...

ReDress

  • 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.

Physics Today

  • The state of science in Africa
    SciDev.Net: The 'Africa Innovation Outlook 2010', prepared by the African Science and Technology Indicators Initiative (ASTII) covers 19 countries from across the continent and aims to plug an information gap on the state of science in Africa. The report says that Africa's share of global scien ...
  • Japan quake may affect ITER fusion project
    Nature News: The world's largest fusion experiment is finally beginning to take shape. Workers at a vast site in southern France have dug the 17-meter-deep pit that will house the ITER reactor, and will soon install 500 pillars of steel-reinforced concrete that should protect the machine during ...
  • Why are tornadoes so deadly this year?
    Associated Press: Storm science has greatly improved tornado warnings in recent years. But on 25-28 April, tornadoes killed more than 300 people in the South and Midwest. Less than a month later, a devastating tornado took more than 120 lives around Joplin, Missouri, and yesterday in Massachuset ...
  • High tech island
    The Independent: A small island off the coast of England with a population of 83 000 residents is slowly becoming a leader in attracting high-tech companies in the space industry. Best known for its offshore banks and treacherous motorcycle race, the Isle of Man was recently ranked the fifth mo ...
  • EU science chief tours China
    Science: In a Q&A with Richard Stone of Science, the European Union's commissioner for research, innovation, and science, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, recounts last week's official visit to China, her first. Some of the issues covered in the interview—such as intellectual property, nuclear power, and ...
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