3June - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

The Parallel Parliament

• The Rough Beast
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• Grassroots Elitism
  We decided to have a final get-together for all those who assisted during the last campaign, just as a way of saying thank you and for me to express my commitment to our local riding association. I was surprised by how many showed up. My wife Jane and I mingled among them, encouraging them to [...]
• Grassroots Elitism
  We decided to have a final get-together for all those who assisted during the last campaign, just as a way of saying thank you and for me to express my commitment to our local riding association. I was surprised by how many showed up. My wife Jane and I mingled among them, encouraging them to [...]
• How Not To Judge Our Leaders
  There’s a strong tendency among all of us as Liberals right now to criticize so much of the party’s ruling elite, some of it unfair, other portions bang-on. Something of a “revolt of the grassroots” is evolving, not without merit, but often with a collective bias unworthy of our great traditions ...
• Binary Code
  So much of what we do digitally these days is based on the binary number system, the use of the digits 0 and 1 to produce what we see on our screens. Simple in concept, it is remarkably complex in what it all produces. Two digits can create an entire digital reality. Politics in Canada [...]

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

• Ten weeks to save the world: Nature does the S ...
  You’ve heard the rumors and read the hype – but what really goes on at the Singularity University, based at the NASA Ames campus in Silicon Valley?  Nature’s Nicola Jones recently went along to take a look, and her report has just been posted – it’s well worth reading. The Singularity Universit ...
• Prepare and Inspire: The President’s Council o ...
  The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology – PCAST – has just released a new report on US K-12 education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (the STEM subjects).  The report provides, in the words of the Presidentâs Science Advisor John Holdren, “a strategy fo ...
• Lost in the Maize
  This week I exchanged the maze of academia for an entirely different maze – I spent most of the week at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, China. World Economic Forum meetings are usually rather grand, complex, intimidating, stimulating and serendipitous aff ...
• Lost in the Maize
  This week my life has been dominated by writing a new review of nanotoxicology.  Not that the world needs another review – far from it, as there are a number of excellent ones out there (I’ve even contributed to some).  But in a moment of abject weakness, I agreed to help a good colleague out ...
• Realizing dreams of carbon nanotubes
  A guest blog by John Dorr, Vice President of Business Development Nanocomp Technologies Inc. Despite all the fuss over nanotechnology, it’s surprisingly difficult to get a clear sense of how the technology is contributing to new products.  So when the company Nanocomp Technologies Inc. approache ...

Reader Supported News

• Seymour Hersh: No Evidence of Iranian Weapons ...
  John Glaser writes: "Seymour Hersh reports in the latest issue of The New Yorker that 'despite years of covert operations inside Iran, extensive satellite imagery, and the recruitment of Iranian intelligence assets, the United States and its allies, including Israel, have been unable to find irr ...
• Seymour Hersh: No Evidence of Iranian Weapons ...
  John Glaser writes: "Seymour Hersh reports in the latest issue of The New Yorker that 'despite years of covert operations inside Iran, extensive satellite imagery, and the recruitment of Iranian intelligence assets, the United States and its allies, including Israel, have been unable to find irr ...
• Egypt Opens Rafah Border With Gaza
  Intro: "Egypt has reopened its Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip, allowing the coastal territory's Palestinian residents to cross freely for the first time in four years." Palestinian Mohammed Ahmed holds his father's passport at the Egyptian passport control, 05/28/11. (photo: Amr Na ...
• Egypt Opens Rafah Border With Gaza
  Intro: "Egypt has reopened its Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip, allowing the coastal territory's Palestinian residents to cross freely for the first time in four years." Palestinian Mohammed Ahmed holds his father's passport at the Egyptian passport control, 05/28/11. (photo: Amr Na ...
• New Spike in Unemployment Claims
  Intro: "More Americans than forecast filed applications for unemployment benefits last week, a sign the labor market is struggling to gain momentum. Jobless claims increased by 10,000 to 424,000 in the week ended May 21, Labor Department figures showed today in Washington." Job seekers wait f ...

War Resisters League

• Not Justice, Not Victory: Just Another Murder ...
  “I keep thinking of how awful it was to hear that there were people actually celebrating on 9-11. Now I look at the TV and see the same thing.” -Family member of a man killed in the World Trade Center of September 11, 2001. The reported killing of Osama bin Laden by a CIA operation [...]
• The Broken Rifle in Kabul
  The above photograph, of Scott Schaeffer-Duffy from the Catholic Worker in Worcester, Massachusetts standing beside street art made by local Afghan youth, was taken in Kabul by WRL National Committee and Organizing Task Force member Jim Haber when he was on a recent delegation with Voices for Cr ...
• WRL Organizers Hit the West Coast
  From February 25th to March 7th,WRL organizing coordinator Kimber Heinz and field organizer Ali Issa began a three-stop trip on the West Coast where they met with WRL locals and affiliates, as well as allied organizations working on GI resistance, civilian support for anti-war veteran organizing ...
• Iraq/Wisconson Labor Solidarity: Two Statements
  In the wake of the threat posed to what remain of labor rights in Wisconsin, and the public’s powerful response, two Iraqi labor leaders, Hassan Jum’a and Faleh Abood, penned solidarity statements in late February on behalf the 26,000 member strong Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions, and the 15,000 ...
• Stepping up the Resistance to U.S. Islamophobia
  As Peter King, the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, steps up the U.S. government attack against Muslims living in the U.S., saying that he will “rely on Muslims to make his case that American Muslim leaders have failed to cooperate with law enforcement officials in the effo ...

Center for a Livable Future

• Nationwide Poll: 80% of America’s Moms are Con ...
  When moms talk you can bet lawmakers listen, not to mention food retailers. That is exactly what the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming is counting on following the release of a nationwide poll of 804 American moms, which found that 80 percent are concerned that food animals pro ...
• India develops sound policy on antibiotic use ...
  India is the most recent country to address the public health concerns associated with the use of non-therapeutic antimicrobials in food animal production, and in doing so, may just leap-frog the United States. India’s Directorate General of Health Services recently released a policy docume ...
• Study on Drug-Resistant Staph and Store-Bought ...
  According to a recently published nationwide study of grocery store meats, the next time you handle a piece of meat or poultry bought at your local supermarket there is nearly a 50 percent chance that it will be carrying drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (Staph). The Translational Genomics Re ...
• U.S. Dept. of the Interior among 2,000 Sodexo ...
  The Meatless Monday campaign just gained America’s protector of natural resources and heritage as one of its latest supporters. The U.S. Department of the Interior is one of Sodexo’s more than 2,000 corporate and government clients, which the food service giant encouraged to adopt its Meatless M ...
• Corn Panic
  By Dr. Dennis Keeney, Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future The USDA 2011 Prospective Plantings Report was one of the most anticipated planting reports in several years. It came on the heels of a shocking Grain Stocks Report issued last month, which showed that corn stocks ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

• Raging at Rawalpindi
  American leaders are furious with Pakistan’s military in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing. But twisting arms will only backfire.
• The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest War
  An FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
• Crazy Like a Fox
  In a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
• Addicted to Contractors
  The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.
• How to Whip the Afghan Army Into Shape
  Much of President Barack Obama's strategy rests on the creation of a new, more competent Afghan military. Here's what he'll need to know to get the job done.

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• CEP Environmental Career Workshop
  Connecting Environmental Professionals (CEP) 17 Jun 2011 - 08:00 - 16:30 Connecting Environmental Professionals (CEP) is proud to present our Environmental Career Workshop on ...
• Job Opportunity: Project Manager, Clean Air St ...
  Position:� Project Manager Organization:� Clean Air Strategic Alliance ...
• Commuter Challenge
  Commuter Challenge Sustainable Alberta Association 5 Jun 2011 - 00:00 - 11 Jun 2011 - 00:00 Commuter Challenge… Is a week-long event ...
• Environment Week 2011
  5 Jun 2011 - 00:00 - 11 Jun 2011 - 00:00 Environment Week 2011 takes place from June 5th to 11th. Check out Alberta Environment's website for Environment Week events near you. The City of Edmonton is helping to organize events around tow ...
• Edmonton Bike Month
  1 Jun 2011 - 00:00 - 30 Jun 2011 - 00:00 June is Bike Month in Edmonton. Celebrate cycling with events throughout the month. Check out the Bikeology on the web, on Facebook, or follow them on Twitter for the latest Bike Month news, updat ...

Stop NATO

• Libyan war update/Stop NATO news: June 3, 2011
  ==== NATO Maintains Deadly Nightly Onslaughts Against Libyan Capital U.S. Recruits More Georgian Troops For NATO’s Afghan War Four NATO Soldiers Injured In Afghan Bomb Attack Clinton Applauds Czech Republic’s Willingness To Join NATO Missile System U.S. Horn Of Africa Command Marks Death Of Sold ...
• Wilfred Owen: Arms and the Boy and Disabled
  Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Wilfred Owen Arms and the Boy (1917) Let the boy try along this bayonet-blade How cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood; Blue with all malice, like a madman’s flash; And thinly drawn with famishing for flesh. Lend him to stroke t ...
• Libyan war news/Stop NATO news: June 2, 2011
  ==== Russia Warns U.S., NATO Against Libya-Style Action In Syria Canada Joins NATO’s Extension Of Libyan War U.S. Surpasses Russia In Number Of Strategic Intercontinental Missiles U.S. Official Stresses “Long-Term Relationship” With Central Asia Poland, Georgia Cooperate On Afghan War, Georgia’s ...
• Sinclair Lewis: It Can(‘t) Happen Here
  Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Sinclair Lewis From It Can’t Happen Here (1935) The grim Secretary of War, Haik, scolded at President Sarason for his influence on the nation, particularly on the troops. Lee laughed at him, but once he was sufficiently flattered by Hai ...
• Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 1, 2011
  ==== Libya: NATO Has Killed 718 Civilians, Wounded 4,067 NATO Spurns, Sabotages African Union Peace Plan By Bombarding Tripoli NATO’s Devastastion Of Libya’s Infrastructure Unacceptable: Iranian Official Rasmussen: NATO To Replicate Eastern European Model In Arab World Iraq: NATO Builds Another ...

Before It's News

• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: American ...
• ‘I’ve been forward to Shen Yun for years!’ Say ...
• Arkansas Storms: Tornadoes Wreak Havoc Across ...
• Eats on Feets
• Introducing "Canadas Alex Jones", Dr. Judy Janzen

Intel Hub

• DOW Dropping As America Officially Reaches 9.1 ...
  The Intel Hub Shepard Ambellas June 3, 2011 Echos of the same are circling the mainstream alike, one headline reads;  ‘Payrolls in U.S. Rise 54,000; Jobless Rate Climbs to 9.1%’ as newscasters puppet the information on the television. The official admitted unemployment number is now 9.1%, we ca ...
• E. Coli Outbreak a Massive Cover-Up?
  The Intel Hub Shepard Ambellas June 3, 2011 Looks as if most of the mainstream media is downplaying the “e coli” outbreak as a possible threat of the outbreak could spread throughout the United States. At least three passengers arriving in the states have been infected (this has been reported on ...
• Chicago’s Willis Tower: On ‘The Le ...
  Media Monarchy June 2nd, 2011 There’s growing chatter in the alternative media about the question: “Will There Be A New False Flag Attack On Chicago’s Sears Tower?” In the past, we have covered the Tower’s connections to Silverstein, Emanuel & the Private Intelligence Complex. But now there may ...
• Is The Willis Tower Being Set Up For A False F ...
  YouTube June 2nd, 2011 Bob Tuskin and James Evan Pilato discuss the similarities between the Willis Tower and the World Trade Center. The Intel Hub http://theintelhub.com Media Monarchy http://mediamonarchy.com Bob Tuskin – Live weekdays 8 to 10pm est on Oracle Broadcasting http://bobtuskin.com ...
• Susan Lindauer – Warning: This Message C ...
  Support Dees Illustrations The Intel Hub By Susan Lindauer June 2nd, 2011 No great civilization is ever destroyed from without, or conquered by external forces, until it first destroys itself from within. America’s leaders should have thought long and hard about that before voting to extend the ...

FRS

• NepalNews.com: “Bhattarai is next PM, cl ...
  [Baburam Bhattarai, a leading figure of Nepal's UCPN(M), is known as the most unabashed advocate of the abandonment of the People's War five years ago, and of a whole series of conciliatory moves toward imperialist powers and international capital.  In a visit to the United States, he even offer ...
• Elmer G. “Geronimo” Pratt dies at ...
  Geronimo ji jaga (Pratt), a former Black Panther whose 1972 murder conviction was overturned after he spent 27 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit, has died at 63 By Robert J. Lopez, Los Angeles Times June 3, 2011 Elmer G. “Geronimo” Pratt, a former Los Angeles Black Panther Party le ...
• Committee to Protect Journalists: “China ...
  [China has had repeated conflicts with ethnic minorities and people in non-Han areas, which have grown more intense since the restoration of capitalism led by Deng Xiao-ping after the death of  revolutionary leader Mao Zedong. -- Frontlines ed.] Paramilitary police block the street during a prot ...
• Arundhati Roy on a “Broken Republic”
  Arundhati Roy interviewed by the BBC on the subject of her new book Jun 2, 2011 New book, “Broken Republic: Three Essays”: http://www.penguinbooksindia.com/category/Non_Fiction/Broken_Republic_9780670…
• Security forces open fire on protesters in sou ...
  Yemeni anti-government protesters shout slogans during a demonstration demanding the departure. Jun 2, 2011 Sana’a/Cairo – Yemeni security forces opened fire on protesters in the southern city of Taiz calling for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to resign, as fighting continued in the capital Sana’a ...

Ken O'Keefe

• One for the Women
  It is said that behind every great man you will find a great woman. I do not look at myself as a great man per se, but I do see the greatness of the women in my life, and if I do indeed succeed in my ultimate goals, you can thank these women every bit as much as me. They have played the essent ...
• Samouni Inter-Trade Palestine, Trade Not Aid
  Our Mission Samouni Inter-Trade Palestine (SIP) is a social enterprise international trade mission. We endeavour to catalyse the end of Gaza’s charitable dependency through import and export trade. We do not seek simply to alleviate the suffering of the people in Gaza. Our ultimate objective i ...
• Slander vs. Sanity
  Lesson number one, the actual agents who direct slander campaigns, those working for MI6, CIA, Mossad and other so-called “intelligence” agencies, they and their tactics are rendered useless without the presence of the most important element for successful subversion, and that would be… the idio ...
• NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE
  On Thursday April 21st we shall make a human chain with the children of Gaza to spell out NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE so as to tell the world that Israel’s bombings of Gaza must stop. We intend to remind the world how the children of Palestine are terrorized and murdered by Israeli air power [...]
• Samouni Family Responds to Goldstone Backtrack ...
  During Operation Cast Lead Israel committed massive war crimes for all the world to see. Among these crimes the use of White Phosphorus in densely populated areas, use of Depleted Uranium, bombing civilian targets of all sorts without military necessity, destroying civilian infrastructure with ...

StillSmallVoice

• Friday is goof-off day
  I'm on WNPR briefly (more on that here) and then? I'm goofing off. I hope you are, too.
• Friday is goof-off day
  I'm on WNPR briefly (more on that here) and then? I'm goofing off. I hope you are, too.
• Reader, we are live
  I apologize for the iffy-nation of Still Small Voice today. The author was willing, the technology was weak. I'd explain what was wrong, but I'd have to use big words and you wouldn't understand. O.K. That's a lie. I have no idea what was wrong and evidently, I wasn't alone in that, but Renee T ...
• If you've nothing better to do...
  I will be a guest on John Dankosky's WNPR show, "Where We Live," talking about Joplin at 9:40 a.m. Friday, at 90.5 on your radio dial. Or you can listen here. (I post this photo because I've been telling my sister-in-law we are grinning�like we're on a cruise boat, not�standing in the middle o ...
• Go, Giants!

Associated Content

• Shaquille O'Neal Retires from NBA
  Shaquille O'Neal released a video clip via Twitter announcing his retirement after 19 seasons.Contributor: Ryan Christopher DeVault Published: Jun 01, 2011
• Shaquille O'Neal Retires from NBA
  Shaquille O'Neal released a video clip via Twitter announcing his retirement after 19 seasons.Contributor: Ryan Christopher DeVault Published: Jun 01, 2011
• Religion, Health Care, Abortion Could All Hurt ...
  Mitt Romney is a potential Republican candidate for president in 2012 but he has some problems to overcome. Here are three disadvantages that will haunt Romney come election time.Contributor: Jeanne Rose Published: Jun 01, 2011
• Religion, Health Care, Abortion Could All Hurt ...
  Mitt Romney is a potential Republican candidate for president in 2012 but he has some problems to overcome. Here are three disadvantages that will haunt Romney come election time.Contributor: Jeanne Rose Published: Jun 01, 2011
• World Health Organization Unlikely to Get Peop ...
  An international team of 31 scientist from 14 countries released a report implying that cell phones are "possibly carcinogenic" and might pose "some risk" for developing brain cancer.Contributor: Giovanni Badalamenti Published: Jun 01, 2011

Popsci - Science

• Worms Discovered in Two-Mile-Deep Gold Mine Ar ...
  If there is complex life on another planet like Mars, it may look less like the big-eyed bipeds of sci-fi lore and more like a tiny, 500-micrometer long nematoda worm. A Princeton University team has discovered a new species of worm, termed Halicephalobus mephisto (after Faust's demon Mephistop ...
• Scientists Create Tiny Artificial Brain That E ...
  It’s not artificial intelligence in the Turing test sense, but the technicolor ring you see above is actually an artificial microbrain, derived from rat brain cells--just 40 to 60 neurons in total--that is capable of about 12 seconds of short-term memory. Developed by a team at the University o ...
• Researchers Entangle and Observe Eight Photons ...
  Like a long-distance romance, quantum entanglement is a fragile interaction; one moment, two particles can be sharing that special bond in which they are essentially one and the same, even when separated by vast distances. Then, just like that, the link can be broken. So the fact that Chinese r ...
• Finally, a Garbage-to-Energy Scheme That Might ...
  Do big investments from an oil refiner and a trash hauler mean Enerkem is close to cracking the code? Burning garbage to make fuel--on its face, anyhow--seems like a win-win proposition, but the chemical arithmetic has never really added up to a winning proposition. Nonetheless, a major energy ...
• Panasonic Plans to Build a 'Sustainable Smart ...
  Unprecedented private-sector development Japan may still be recovering from earthquake-related woes, but that’s not stopping Panasonic and eight partner companies from pushing ahead with their own rebuilding effort that could reshape the way future cities and towns are built. Part demonstration ...

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.

War is Business

• China-Pakistan Port Deal Another Sign Of Wanin ...
  Buy Baluchistan Buy Baluchistan • Read more at WSJ.com: World News
• Temptations Of The Flesh: GOP Freshmen Can&#82 ...
  Sell promises Sell promises • Read more at National Security on iWatch News
• CJ Chivers Examines Libyan Rebels’ Seabo ...
  Buy scarcity Buy scarcity • Read more at NYT > Home Page
• Afghan Soldier Says ‘The Quality Of Ever ...
  Buy bad apples Buy bad apples • Read more at The Killid Group website - News on Afghanistan reports analysis pictures cartoon
• Louis Berger Group Fudges The Numbers In $343 ...
  Buy superfood Buy superfood • Read more at Accountability on iWatch News

Hudson's Weather & Climate

• Is summer 2011 set to be a scorcher?
  There's been almost a frenzy of tabloid stories in the last few weeks about this summer. Many will recall how summer was supposed to begin last weekend with a heatwave that would lead to temperatures averaging 29C for a fortnight! So the tabloids and some private weather companies (I will ...
• Possible disruption: Severe Gales & Volcanic ash
  SEVERE GALES An unusually deep area of low pressure for the time of year is battering parts of Northern Britain at the moment. The highest gust recorded so far is 90mph at Belmullet in Northern Ireland. The Met office have yellow and Amber warnings in force until midnight tonight, shown below ...
• Leading climate scientist: IPCC forecasts coul ...
  UPADTE 9pm, Sat 21st May As always I read all comments on this blog with interest. Climate change science is a serious subject with the potential for far reaching consequences, and so I am more than happy to point out that on this occasion I think some of the criticisms of my article are valid, ...
• Political cracks appear on carbon reduction
  It's been one of the most remarkable things in British politics for many years: The political consensus, across all the main parties, on the need and the speed at which the UK is to cut its carbon emissions to avoid so called 'dangerous climate change'. And yet, lurking just beneath the surfac ...
• Global temperature update
  UPDATE at 6pm Tue 10th May The UAH anomaly for April rose to +0.12C above the 30 year running mean, from -0.1C below the mean in March. Early indications suggest that Global temperatures have bottomed out above the levels reached following the previous La Nina of 2007. ENDS I am still waiting ...

Internat'l Political Economy

• Divided We Fall: Mexican Agustin Cartens' IMF Bid
  [NOTE: I highly recommend reading Agustin Carstens' manifesto for an LDC IMF head before moving on.] Although you may occasionally get the feeling that I'd happily back boxing legend Julio Cesar Chavez as the next IMF managing director, let's just say I am more a fan of third world solidarity th ...
• Branding ≠ Capitalism: Another Naomi Klein Fallacy
  When it comes to flyweight and academically insubstantial commentary, few outdo pseudo anti-globalization author Naomi Klein. Aside from dubious wholesale denunciations of "capitalism" via The Shock Doctrine--as if there were a single all-encompassing version of it--we also have inane economic a ...
• Labour Costs Pricing China Out of the Market?
  I almost forgot about this one. It is with no small trepidation that I mention this bit given that the transition of China out of being the world's low-labour cost producer has been bandied about before. Time and again, in fact. Take this BusinessWeek piece from 2005: Wait a minute. Doesn't Chin ...
• US Free Trade Lies, PRC / Pentagon Bids Edition
  Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel - Samuel Johnson Is it just me or is the United States fast becoming a nation of scoundrels? I've long pointed out the hypocrisy of bankrupt America continually posing as the world's free trade champion when, in reality, it has been distinctly protec ...
• Fukushima Fallout: German Hypocrisy on Nukes?
  As someone with an interest in both the introduction of innovations and sources of energy, I have closely followed developments in the public acceptance of nuclear power. To be sure, this acceptance varies country by country. What's more, harrowing incidences alike those of the Fukushima power p ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

• Iron Rail Infoshop Re-Opens It's Doors in New ...
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• Announcing the Re-release of Flaming Arrows by ...
  After falling out of print some time ago, the re-release of Flaming Arrows by Rod Coronado is back from the printer. This edition has 17 additio...
• Free Radio Berkeley Summer Radio Camps
  Free Radio Berkeley is pleased to announce the 2011 schedule of the Summer Radio Camp program. In the fifth year of being offered, these Su...
• North Eastern Anarchist #15, 2011
  The Northeastern Anarchist is the English-language magazine of the Northeastern Federation of Anarchist-Communists (NEFAC), covering class strug...
• Radio Interview with Tre Arrow
  Interview with environmental activist and former international political prisoner Tre Arrow. Tre talks about his current activities in Portl...

E U Times

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

Voiceless Victim

• Lies, Damn Lies, and Catholic Church Funded St ...
  I used to think the John Jay College  of Criminal Justice was a well meaning independent organisation exploited by the Catholic Church into giving credence to Catholic lies, distractions and excuses on the issue of endemic child rape within its ranks. But with the release of the latest dangerous ...
• Vatican Guidelines Just Another PR Stunt
  This weeks’ latest Vatican guidelines on child sexual abuse continue efforts over recent years to appear as if things have changed, while actually doing everything possible to avoid being forced to take effective action. The Vatican love to pretend they are doing the right thing in dealing wi ...
• Top 10 Reasons Why John Paul II Is No Saint &# ...
  Here is the first part of my Top 10 Reasons Why John Paul II Is No Saint. This list refers only to the child rape epidemic. There are many more issues on which the Patron Saint of Paedophiles has left the world a far, far worse place than he found it, and many instances where [...]
• Catholic Sainthood – More Expediency Tha ...
  The former Cardinal Ratzinger, now known as Pope Benedict XVI, may be criminally culpable, disgracefully neglectful, deliberately deceitful, and horribly, horribly wrong in his approach to the child rape epidemic within the ranks of the Catholic Church, but there is some truth to the claims made ...
• John Paul II Ain’t No Saint
  Does your idea of a saint involve sacrificing innocent, vulnerable children to be preyed upon by hordes of ruthless sexual predators? Does it involve covering up for child rape on a massive scale? Does it involve creating the very conditions most likely to encourage child rape to flourish? Does ...

WL Central

• 2011-06-03 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...
  TweetMentor and friend Greg Mitchell at TheNation.com is on vacation. While he is away, I will be pinch-hitting and blogging WikiLeaks updates here. All the times are EST. You can contact me at kgosztola@hotmail.com with any news tips. Twitter username is @kgosztola. Also, if you are looking for ...
• 2011-06-02 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...
  TweetMentor and friend Greg Mitchell at TheNation.com is on vacation. I'm no Greg Mitchell so I cannot promise to bring the flourish to blogging WikiLeaks News & Views that he brought for 185 days. However, I am Kevin Gosztola, someone very enthusiastic and passionate about staying up to date on ...
• 2011-06-01: Wikileaks: The Ireland Cables | Da ...
  TweetThis post is a roundup of reports on the Irish Cables by the Irish Independent. For Day One, see here. In a commendable move, Day Two of the Ireland Cables has for the most part been made available on the Irish Independent's website. This marks a turnaround on yesterday's coverage, which wa ...
• 2011-06-01 WikiLeaks Through the Looking Glass ...
  TweetA student at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Chicago was gracious enough to invite me to speak on a panel on Bradley Manning, the alleged whistleblower to WikiLeaks, which he had to put together for his “Media, Ethics and the Law” class. I participated in the p ...
• 2011-06-01 CIA prisons in Poland: former prose ...
  TweetAccording to Gazeta Wyborcza, Jerzy Mierzewski, the prosecutor investigating alleged CIA prisons on Polish territory, was removed from the case because he had planned to file charges of breach of the constitution, false imprisonment and assistance in crimes against humanity. This move came ...

U N News

• Ban re-appoints Edmond Mulet to senior UN peac ...
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has re-appointed Edmond Mulet as Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, a position the Guatemalan national held from 2007 to 2010 before he was deployed to Haiti in the wake of last year's devastating earthquake.
• Haiti better prepared for hurricane season, UN ...
  Haiti is better prepared than it was last year to respond to the annual hurricane season, with emergency equipment and stocks pre-positioned in case of a disaster, a senior United Nations official says.
• UN official urges probe into murder of Venezue ...
  The head of the United Nations agency with a mandate to defend press freedom has condemned the murder of Venezuelan newspaper columnist Wilfred Iván Ojeda, and urged authorities to investigate the crime.
• Ban welcomes decision to reinstate Honduras in ...
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the reinstatement of Honduras into the Organization of American States (OAS), which had expelled the Central American nation two years ago after a military coup d'état ousted former president Manuel Zelaya.
• UN official urges probe into murder of Venezue ...
  The head of the United Nations agency with a mandate to defend press freedom has condemned the murder of Venezuelan newspaper columnist Wilfred Iván Ojeda, and urged authorities to investigate the crime.

Conspiracy Reality TV

• Police Brutality at Jefferson Memorial – Body ...
  Police Brutality at Jefferson Memorial - Body slammed, Choked, Arrested for Dancing - American Police State
• Farrakhan Gives a History Lesson on The Federa ...
  Hitler killed little Jews, while Rothschild and Warburg stayed in the finest hotels in Europe. But damn it, if you can't call Rothschild anti-Semitic and Warburg an anti-Semite, they don't you open your mouth against me!
• The Secret Right – A Look at the Conspiracy Be ...
  We can now clearly see that these important icons play a very prominent role to the many Knights of Malta and Vatican tied members such as those shown earlier that are members of the Knights of Malta.
• Secret Society Symbolism and Predictive Progra ...
  Secret Society Symbolism and Predictive Programming in Movies, TV Shows, Music, Video Games Exposed
• College Conspiracy – The Student Loan Scam and ...
  During an economic downturn when Americans are losing their jobs, their primary instinct is to seek higher education in order to make themselves more attractive to potential employers and better position themselves to receive a job. However, how are Americans supposed to spend $27,293 per year f ...

Rewilding Institute

• Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Rewildin ...
  Part One For nigh onto fifteen years, I’ve been talking and writing about a North American Wildlands Network anchored by four Continental Wildways (at first named MegaLinkages).  The North American Wildlands Network is rooted in the conservation pathway of Rewilding, an offshoot of the scientifi ...
• Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Rewildin ...
  Part One For nigh onto fifteen years, I’ve been talking and writing about a North American Wildlands Network anchored by four Continental Wildways (at first named MegaLinkages).  The North American Wildlands Network is rooted in the conservation pathway of Rewilding, an offshoot of the scientifi ...
• Record Big Game Die-offs in Northern Rockies
  Winter die-offs are always characteristic of ungulate populations that have exceeded natural carrying capacity, usually because of management efforts to increase numbers for the benefit of hunters. In areas where wolves and other large predators are well established, ungulates seldom perish from ...
• Record Big Game Die-offs in Northern Rockies
  Winter die-offs are always characteristic of ungulate populations that have exceeded natural carrying capacity, usually because of management efforts to increase numbers for the benefit of hunters. In areas where wolves and other large predators are well established, ungulates seldom perish from ...
• Dave Foreman’s Around the Campfire – Urban Sol ...
  Itâs the Gobi Desert.  Thereâs not much other use for it. –Wang Yu All over the world is a widely held belief that we have an energy shortage.  Garret Hardin long ago warned that what we think is a shortage is often a longage.  Instead of a shortage of stock, it is a longage of [...]

Asia Sentinel

• North Korea Foxes the South Yet Again
  Attempt at secret negotiations embarrasses Lee Myung-bak government
• Pakistan and the Danger to Journalists
  The ISI is suspected of killing Asia Times Online bureau chief
• Terror a New Element in India's Nuke Plans
  Pakistani jihadi was nosing around an unnamed Indian plant prior to the Mumbai attacks
• The Rape of Borneo
  The Farce and Corruption Threatening Indonesia's Rainforest
• China Starts to Encounter Economic Migrants
  Economic increase starts to attract workers from across the world

We Know the Lies

• Congress To Vote On Declaration of World War l ...
• Congress To Vote On Declaration of World War l ...
• HAARP... Government MANDATED! Floods Being C ...
• HAARP... Government MANDATED! Floods Being C ...
• POTENTAL Fukushima Fallout Forecast ... May 7- ...

Tatumba 2.0

• The best Craig’s List Ad of all time
  Click on this to enlarge. This is priceless! Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Maggots Up Close Here is what a maggot looks like up close. Sort... Rand Paul Hoax – Top of Google Trends Rand Paul Hoax has become number 1 on Google Trends.... NB MLA Rick Miles Holds Sign: “ ...
• Postcards from the Greek Frontlines
  This article is from Cryptome This is a series of photos from recent protests in Greece. Click on a photo for a larger view. Greece Protest Photos Protesters gather in front of the Greek Parliament during a peaceful rally for a fifth day, attended by thousands called through a social networking ...
• THE SECOND U.S. REVOLUTION BEGINS JULY 4TH
  PATRIOTS, GET READY, IT HAPPENS JULY 4TH 2011 This is what happens when humanity is pushed to the brink…the youth mobilize and natural born leaders rise to the top. Make this go viral. 4th of July Protest on facebook Here we go boys and girls, It is happening whether you are ready or not, so [.. ...
• One Man Band covers Dandy Warhols ‘Bohemian Li ...
  This is pretty awesome for a one-man band, singing 2000 hit Bohemian Like You by the Dandy Warhols. This is of the few pop-songs that I like. Enjoy! Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Playing For Change Band: A Change Is Gonna Come (live) playingforchange.com – This perfor ...
• Here we go folks. Hang on to your sanity.
  The Euro is about to take a shit kicking and Greece, in order to prevent all out civil war, must default on debt to the world’s Banksters, wipe the slate clean, and suck it up. If any Greek politician accepts the deal that the Eurozone is proposing, then the Greek citizens need to arrest and [.. ...

Truth About Our World

• New mind-altering drug capable of literally mo ...
  Watch them add it to our drinking water soon…  Just keep the masses happy and forgetful… June 02, 2011 by: Jonathan Benson Changing bad memories into good ones could be just a pill away, according to a new study published in theJournal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. Researchers from th ...
• Fighting Radiation Damage the Natural Way with ...
  Dr. Mark Sircus, Contributing Writer Activist Post Dr. Ben Whalley, middle, with Dr. Gary Stephens and Dr. Claire Williams at their secret cannabis farm near London. These researchers have discovered that three compounds found in cannabis leaves can help to reduce and control seizures in epileps ...
• Embedding YouTube Videos May Soon Be a Felony
    I hope people understand the implications of this: they’re doing everything they can to stop alternative media because it’s a threat to them. They want us only to be told what they allow (mostly all lies) and not seek the truth …  I recommend everybody read Goerge Orwell’s book  ”1984″ becau ...
• Fluoride In The Water – a Sinister Way t ...
• An Open Letter to the Troops: You’re Not Defen ...
  by Jacob G. Hornberger 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 is that you are not defending our freedoms with ...

Bloomberg

• Can't Stop the Big Mo
  Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
• Grading Back-to-School Stocks
  Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
• No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
  The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
• IGN Entertainment: Where the Boys Are
  The Web outfit has drawn a huge, male-dominated following and has an IPO in the works. But will a big Net player come calling?
• Why Qualcomm Has Its Wallet Out
  The Elata and Flarion acquisitions reflect the outfit's need to keep abreast of tech's latest trends. Expect more of the same

Enviroblog

• Here Comes the Sun, What Now?
  By Lisa Frack, EWG Social Media Manager Every year about this time my friends want to me to tell them exactly which sunscreen to buy. They want the one that works the best to protect skin with the least toxic... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other conte ...
• Hey Baby, Your Stuff is Toxic!
  By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Scientist Last year I cut small squares of foam from my sons' car seats, our glider rocker and my breastfeeding pillow, wrapped them in foil to prevent contamination and mailed them off to Duke University... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ...
• Stacking a Fracking Panel
  By Dusty Horwitt and Leeann BrownEnergy secretary Stephen Chu claims that his panel studying the safety and environmental dangers of natural gas hydraulic fracturing is "diverse" and "respected."Respected, yes. Diverse, hardly. Six of the seven panelists... [[ This is a content summary only ...
• U.S. Pediatricians to Congress: Reform Chemica ...
  By Leeann Brown and Lisa Frack U.S. pediatricians are putting their considerable muscle behind the calls for Congress to overhaul the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), a failed federal law that has exposed millions of children, beginning in the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
• Why we (still) don't trust Chesapeake Energy
  By Leeann Brown, EWG Press SecretaryApril was a busy month for the natural gas industry in Pennsylvania, especially for one company in particular - Chesapeake Energy Corporation. And that's saying a lot for one of the country's most active natural... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...

Quick Hits

• More Teachers Being Replaced By Technology
  The neoliberal wetdream coming to fruition. From Fast Company: Districts all over are experimenting with teacher-less computer labs and green-lighting entire classrooms of adult-supervised children exploring the Internet--an Android powered tablet designed specifically for students. Teachers' u ...
• Food costs at record levels, likely to go higher
  MANILA/MILAN (Reuters) - World food prices hit a record in January and recent catastrophic weather around the globe could put yet more pressure on the cost of food, an issue that has already helped spark protests across the Middle East. Up for the seventh month in a row, the closely watched Food ...
• Shell makes $2,208,480 (£1.6m) an hour, [Clue ...
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi...   The Guardian in Britain says calmly:Shell stoked up the heated debate about the high cost of fuel on the forecourt today after reporting it made profits of nearly £1.6m an hour over the last three months.A leading member of the road lobby said motorists would ...
• Gallup Helps Explain Egyptian/Tunisia Uprisings
  Wellbeing in Egypt and Tunisia decreased significantly over the past few years, even as GDP increased. In Egypt, where demonstrations have prompted President Hosni Mubarak to give up power after elections this fall, the percentage of people "thriving" fell by 18 percentage points since 2005. In ...
• Wallace Shawn: Are You Smarter Than Thomas Jef ...
  The Grand Nagus speaks! At Tom Dispatch.com.

Capital - NYC

• A Capital anticipation list: Treemonisha, Davi ...
  Each week, Capital's editors and writers will offer a list of the events, activities, releases and personal obsessions that we are looking forward to during the next week. Here is a list of our anticipations. More
• When Jill Abramson was the only grown-up in th ...
  Jill Abramson will be the new top editor of The New York Times, which will make her the first woman to run the editorial side of the world's greatest news organization. Whether or not that fact relates to the reasons that I believe she'll be the best one i ...
• At a bodega in Alphabet City, the cost of enli ...
  As she broke it down to me, I nodded my head sore; I let her know that my entire outfit cost under $20. I'd seen dress shirts like mine going for sixty bucks at department stores but got mine two for ten at Fat Albert's Warehouse near the Prospect Park sub ...
• Weinerthon: Dog days drag on as congressman's ...
  Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
• Weinerthon: Dog days drag on as congressman's ...
  Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More

Views & News from Norway

• Bergen tram in trouble
  Bergen’s brand-new tram system was facing threats of shut-down, after a highly critical safety report was issued by state rail authorities. It’s not the first time the operations of the so-called Bybanen in Bergen have come under fire. The tram system just opened last year, running from downtown ...
• Sex stunt disrupted church services
  Three demonstrators stripped and simulated sexual activity during special Kristi Himmelfartsdag (Ascension Day) services in the Oslo Cathedral on Thursday. They reportedly were protesting the recent dismissal of an Oslo pastor over his public accounts of his own sexual experiences. VG Nett repor ...
• Norway backs extended Libyan operation
  The Norwegian government supports NATO’s decision to extend its military intervention in Libya by another three months. It’s unclear, however, whether Norway can continue its fighter jet contribution, and now the country may be asked to supply ground troops instead. Both Foreign Minister Jonas G ...
• Germany jumps in popularity
  More Norwegians are traveling to Germany as the country surges as a popular visitor destination, according to new tourism statistics from Germany’s national tourist office. The number of Norwegians heading for Germany was up 17.6 percent last year, amounting to 730,000 overnight stays, reports ...
• Norway’s ‘russ’ – the ...
  NEWS COMMENTARY: As the end of another school year draws to a close, the annual party season for graduating students known as “russ” is winding down as well. Many teachers are breathing a sigh of relief, after weeks of wild partying and sometimes dangerous stunts disrupted neighborhoods and worr ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Living Architecture Talks and Workshops in Syd ...
  I will be in Sydney in August, available to deliver illustrated talks & workshops from Thursday 25th to Sunday 28th, 2011. Living Architecture is all about exploring the invisible parts of our houses and the invisible parts of ourselves with a view to creating low-cost, low-impact eco-bui ...
• My Smart Garden
  Do you live in Melbourne’s Hobsons Bay or Moonee Valley City Council areas and like gardening but don’t know what more you can do… or are you a budding gardener and don’t know where to start? Then join My Smart Garden! The program is flexible, easy and inspiring. Plus, it’s free! Local Moon ...
• Permaculture Reforestation With and For the In ...
  by Christian Shearer Project Background The Malungon area of the Sarangani province, located in the southern region of The Philippines, was once one of the richest forests in the world. Today the remaining old growth exists in small, fragmented stands which remain vulnerable to illegal defor ...
• Underground Movement
  The public reaction to new power lines could kill renewable energy: they must be buried. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom Why do those who oppose wind power insist on spoiling their case with gibberish? In his column on Fr ...
• Thought for the Day – Shooting Ourselves in th ...
  I think the irony to be found in the following quote will likely have been completely unnoticed by its author: Australia’s economy is heavily reliant on exporting its natural resources. — BBC It’s a statement nestled near the beginning of the article. The alarming thing is that we can be so fu ...

Telecrap Urinal

• US Soldier Waterboards His 4-Year Old Daughter
  Can you believe this? A US soldier, upset that his 4-year old daughter could not recite the alphabet, waterboarded her. He knew that she was afraid of water and that is why he chose this form of punishment. Related posts:Cops Bust Up Frail 84-Year Old Woman With Alzheimers Local Blogger Catche ...
• Fish Hat Pope – Wake Up Soon
  Studio version of Fish Hat Pope' song 'Wake Up Soon' (altered lyrics to sunny afternoon by The Kinks!) Fish Hat Pope performed this live at the British Constitution Group meeting in London on Oct 31st 2009. Related posts:A little sniff for the dog mate? – Everything is OK Whistle Blowers W ...
• US Government: Why we let the Underwear Bomber ...
  The US Government now admits that they allowed the Underwear Bomber to board the Christmas Flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. Related posts:BREAKING NEWS: US Government Admits It Helped Underwear Bomber Board Plane Extensive Interview with Kurt Haskell – Witness to Underwear Bomber Flight 253: ...
• United Breaks Guitars – Don’t mess ...
  Well the United Airlines baggage handlers broke the guitar in to two pieces. Then Mr. Carroll complained to United and it fell on deaf ears. Because of that he vowed to write three songs about their callous disregard and uncaring attitude. Related posts:United We Fall – Canada is a figment of ...
• Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth by Ric ...
  9/11 was an inside job. Nano thermite and thermate were used to pulverize these buildings, and in the process murdered thousands of innocent people. Related posts:Nigerian Man is a Al-CIA-Duh Terrorist – USA Caught in False-Flag Terror Plot National Security Alert from the CIT Climategate Scan ...

Anna's News

• Food pyramid out, 'My Plate' in for healthy eating
  There's a new U.S. symbol for healthful eating: The Agriculture Department unveiled "My Plate" on Thursday, abandoning the food pyramid that had guided many Americans but merely confused others. Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Google Mobile Payment - A Revolution or Hype?
  How do you feel if your mobile works like your credit card or wallet for shopping in the market? Google can make it true as it is all set to introduce Google Wallet (Google Mobile Payment) this summer. Google Wallet is an app that would be available on..Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech ...
• Pa. girl aces 'cymotrichous' to win Spelling Bee
  It went on and on and on. Five spellers who seemingly had memorized the entire dictionary simply could not be stumped with any word tossed their way. It was getting late, way past bedtime and well beyond the time slot allotted by ESPN for its telecast. Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �Not ...
• Global Warming May Increase the Capacity of Tr ...
  One helpful action anyone can take in response to global warming is to plant trees and preserve forests. Trees and plants capture carbon dioxide during photosynthesis, thereby removing the most abundant greenhouse gas from the atmosphere and storing some Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment � ...
• Cell Phones and Cancer: Assessment Classifies ...
  The WHO/International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B), based on an increased risk for glioma, a malignant type of brain cancer1, associated with ......Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Welln ...

Medical Marijuana

• 6/2/11 - California State Superintendent of Ed ...
  www.procon.org - California State Superintendent of Education Encourages Use of ProCon.org - Tom Torlakson, the highest elected education official in California, sang our praises in a wonderful testimonial. So did the prior Superintendent of Public Instruction in California. Read those testimoni ...
• 5/27/11 - Study Reveals US House Members Beat ...
  insidertrading.procon.org - Study Reveals US House Members Beat Stock Market by 6% - A May 2011 study found that members of the US House of Representatives outperformed the overall stock market by about 6% annually. It was a follow up to a 2004 study showing that members of the US Senate outperf ...
• 5/27/11 - Study Reveals US House Members Beat ...
  insidertrading.procon.org - Study Reveals US House Members Beat Stock Market by 6% - A May 2011 study found that members of the US House of Representatives outperformed the overall stock market by about 6% annually. It was a follow up to a 2004 study showing that members of the US Senate outperf ...
• 5/27/11 - Should people become vegetarian?
  vegetarian.procon.org - NEW: Should people become vegetarian? - Read pro, con, and other arguments from experts and celebrities including Ingrid Newkirk (PETA), Michael Pollan, Jane Goodall, Anthony Bourdain, Paul McCartney, Ted Nugent, the American Dietetic Association, and the North American V ...
• 5/27/11 - US Supreme Court Upholds Arizona Law ...
  immigration.procon.org - US Supreme Court Upholds Arizona Law Penalizing Businesses That Hire Illegal Immigrants

Truth About Our World

• New mind-altering drug capable of literally mo ...
  Watch them add it to our drinking water soon…  Just keep the masses happy and forgetful… June 02, 2011 by: Jonathan Benson Changing bad memories into good ones could be just a pill away, according to a new study published in theJournal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. Researchers from th ...
• Fighting Radiation Damage the Natural Way with ...
  Dr. Mark Sircus, Contributing Writer Activist Post Dr. Ben Whalley, middle, with Dr. Gary Stephens and Dr. Claire Williams at their secret cannabis farm near London. These researchers have discovered that three compounds found in cannabis leaves can help to reduce and control seizures in epileps ...
• Embedding YouTube Videos May Soon Be a Felony
    I hope people understand the implications of this: they’re doing everything they can to stop alternative media because it’s a threat to them. They want us only to be told what they allow (mostly all lies) and not seek the truth …  I recommend everybody read Goerge Orwell’s book  ”1984″ becau ...
• Fluoride In The Water – a Sinister Way t ...
• An Open Letter to the Troops: You’re Not Defen ...
  by Jacob G. Hornberger 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 is that you are not defending our freedoms with ...

Gyrovague's Raves

• America’s nuclear heads and the Big Mac
  During the Cold War, the US spent trillions of dollars on weapon systems, submarines, nuclear heads and aircraft carriers. ABDULATEEF AL-MULHIM None of these weapons were ever used in combat against any Warsaw Pact country. At the same time, the US lost a lot of men and women in conflicts that c ...
• Revenge of the Tiger Children
  China’s young, spoiled kids are rejecting traditional values. But can the state make Mao or Confucius seem relevant again — before it’s too late? BY WEN LIAO HONG KONG â Samuel Johnson, the great English author, once quipped that "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." In today’s China, ...
• Murder Most Academic
  A British Ph.D. candidate puts âhomicide studiesâ into practice. The Sun/Sipa Press Serial killer Stephen Griffiths In some modern societiesâand certainly Britain is one of themâsatire is prophecy. This makes effective satire difficult because reality so soon catches up with it. Satire is also d ...
• ARE ARTISTS LIARS?
  Humans are natural-born storytellers, so lying is in our blood. Ian Leslie considers how this comes out in our art … Shortly before his death, Marlon Brando was working on a series of instructional videos about acting, to be called âLying for a Livingâ. On the surviving footage, Brando can be se ...
• Chinese dog eaters and dog lovers spar over an ...
  William Wan BEIJING â The mutts were destined for the dinner table â all 520 of them crammed onto a truck hurtling down a Beijing highway toward awaiting restaurants in northeastern China. Then, fate intervened in the form of a passing driver, an animal lover who spotted the truck and angrily fo ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

• Frontiers of Science UK-Germany: is sound fast ...
  FROM RUTH COOPER, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Last week 35 early career British scientists met with their German counterparts in the UK, for the third UK-German Frontiers of Science meeting.  The   meeting was co-organised with the Junge Akademie  with logistical support from the Alexander von Humbold ...
• Frontiers of Science UK-Germany: is sound fast ...
  FROM RUTH COOPER, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Last week 35 early career British scientists met with their German counterparts in the UK, for the third UK-German Frontiers of Science meeting.  The   meeting was co-organised with the Junge Akademie  with logistical support from the Alexander von Humbold ...
• Opening up scientific information: a shared hi ...
  There are two parts to the story of the birth of the internet. Networked computers exchanging packets of information have existed since the 1960s, facilitated largely by a government project in the USA.   The interface that allows anyone to share anything with anyone, anywhere – the combinatio ...
• Opening up scientific information: a shared hi ...
  There are two parts to the story of the birth of the internet. Networked computers exchanging packets of information have existed since the 1960s, facilitated largely by a government project in the USA.   The interface that allows anyone to share anything with anyone, anywhere – the combinatio ...
• Six academies synthetic biology symposium: eng ...
  Synthetic biology can be described in quite simple terms; it is the design and production of novel biological systems and organisms. It is not so simply constituted.  Biological research is a vast and heterogeneous enterprise. And so the engineering of biological entities, despite its simple des ...

NAU Resistance

• Canadian Government Extends Deadline For Publi ...
  The Canadian government has decided to extend the deadline for public input into the Harper governments "common security perimeter agenda" until June 3rd 2011
• Canadian Government Extends Deadline For Publi ...
  The Canadian government has decided to extend the deadline for public input into the Harper governments "common security perimeter agenda" until June 3rd 2011
• You’re Losing National Sovereignty- How Transp ...
  "As a matter of principle, we are currently fighting to make sure that Canadians are allowed to know what's being negotiated. We further believe that this deal needs to be reviewed by Parliament and we will fight to make sure that this happens."- Jack Layton
• You’re Losing National Sovereignty- How Transp ...
  "As a matter of principle, we are currently fighting to make sure that Canadians are allowed to know what's being negotiated. We further believe that this deal needs to be reviewed by Parliament and we will fight to make sure that this happens."- Jack Layton
• Wikileaks Cable Confirms North American Union ...
  "At this time, an "incremental" approach to integration is probably better than a "big deal" approach. However, governments should focus on choosing their objectives, and not on choosing a process."

Gaea Times

• Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
  WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
• Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
  LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
• Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
  SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
• Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
  WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of child ...
• How sex hormones influence right heart function
  WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...

TruthNews Australia

• 911: The side they’ll never print
  The events of September 11, 2011 were a catastrophe that shook the global population by its roots. An inhumane act largely unprecedented in the modern world was unleashed onto society causing a wave of fear and ‘terror’ that would significantly effect the years to come. Islamaphobia increased, r ...
• A British radiographer speaks out against air ...
  Anthony Hall is a Senior Reporting Radiographer,  holding a Bsc (hons) in Diagnostic Radiography. He is responsible both for the imaging of patients and producing medical reports. He is also one of the radiation protection supervisors at the hospital where he works - ensuring the equipment is ...
• Free Mind Report – Guest Hereward Fenton
  This week our guest�was Hereward Fenton http://www.truthnews.com.au Hereward Fenton is a 9/11 researcher and host of Truth News Australia. As a leader in the Australian Truth movement his passion for Truth has led him down some deep rabbit holes. Listen live Wednesday January 5, 2011 from 8P ...
• Hereward Fenton on Live and Let Live (Rule of ...
  Live and Let Live, with Gary Johnson (Sundays 8-10 pm CST). Robert Guest, (http://www.robertguest.com/, http://www.dallascriminaldefenselawyerblog.com/) president of the Kaufman County, Texas, Bar Association, promotes Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, LEAP, (http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.ph ...
• Letter From America
  Dear Truth News Readers, At the time of writing I am in Austin, Texas - a beautiful city whose citizens have an amazing passion for liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I travelled here via OKC and Dallas. During the short time I've been here I've met great people and had the opportunity ...

Beacon

• Q&A with Author Mark Kurlansky
  Mark Kurlansky with his 10-year-old daughter Talia. The latest issue of Oceana magazine is now available; check it out for features about Ted Danson’s new book, our new sea turtle spokesladies and Patagonia’s threatened waters. Also in this issue is a Q&A with author Mark Kurlansky, whose ...
• Fish Fraud on ABC World News
  ABC World News spotlighted Oceana’s new seafood fraud report “Bait and Switch”, including a cameo by Dr. Mike Hirshfield, Oceana’s senior vice president and chief scientist:
• Ending Shark Finning, One Wedding at a Time?
  Shark fin soup. [Image via Wikimedia Commons] Shark fin soup is bad for sharks -- we all know this. But can you have a Chinese wedding without it? The folks at Shark Truth say you can, and they're running a contest to prove it. Shark Truth asks couples holding traditional Chinese weddi ...
• Oceana’s Seafood Fraud Report in the NYT
  Today�s New York Times features a great story about seafood fraud -- and guess whose report is front and center? That�s right, Oceana�s new report, �Bait and Switch� forms the core of the article, and our chief scientist Mike Hirshfield has several excellent quotes, including the following, whi ...
• Would You Pass the Seafood Pop Quiz?
  The fish pop quiz. © Oceana/Vincent Ricardel. Andy Sharpless is the CEO of Oceana. Oceana’s new Seafood Fraud campaign kicked off Wednesday with an event at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. As the Washington Post reported, it wasn’t just a press conference; it was also a seafood ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

• Dramatic Footage Of Afghan Insurgents Planting ...
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• Bando, Burmese Martial Art
  Click here to view the embedded video. Bando Association Logo. Notice Kukhri [...]
• Deserters In The Civil War
  Deserter Executed By Firing Squad � There were a million ways to desert. When an army of say 75,000 men is marching somewhere, you could slip into the woods as if to relieve yourself. Perhaps you could wait until a platoon or so passes by and you can work your way with the same trick to the [...]
• Tibetan Soldiers Fought For Russia.
  Tibetan Soldiers � In 1944, some of the prisoners that belonged to the Wehrmacht were Russians. Keep in mind that not all Russian wanted to die for Mother Russia. Stalin killed in between 25 and 35 million people in his great purges, and other operations meant to despoil political opponents� eff ...
• CMIG Tribute To Unknown Soldiers
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Taylor Marsh

• Congress Lamely Confronts Obama on War Powers Act
  Congress acting like they’re an equal branch of government to the Executive? Aw, go on. Rep. Dennis Kucinich didn’t get his day, because Republicans were afraid his resolution on Libya would pass. So Speaker Boehner called a meeting to discuss alternatives to doing something similar to Kucinich, ...
• Stewart Schools Trump on New York Pizza
  The Daily Show – Me Lover’s Pizza With Crazy BroadTags: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook
• Palin Punches Romney on Mandates
  From the presidential peanut gallery in New Hampshire… The Tea Party has declared Mitt Romney is a non-starter for them. Their reigning spokesperson Sarah Palin weighed in from New Hampshire, as Romney declared his candidacy in a speech that claimed “Barack Obama has failed America.” From MSNBC’ ...
• Jill Abramson Named First Female Executive Edi ...
  Ms. Abramson said that as a born-and-raised New Yorker, she considered being named editor of The Times to be like “ascending to Valhalla.” “In my house growing up, The Times substituted for religion,â she said. âIf The Times said it, it was the absolute truth.” – Abramson to Replace Keller as Th ...
• COPTERGATE: Star-Ledger to Christie, Pay Us Back
  Now we know why he canât imagine what itâs like to walk a mile in the shoes of regular New Jerseyans: He doesnât even walk 100 yards in his own. – Christie should pay for chopper ride to ballgame Austerity for thee, but not for me. Bootstrap Republicans like Chris Christie and New Gingrich want ...

Hudson New York

• The New Egypt Does Not Care About The Gaza Strip
  Egypt's decision to reopen the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip is aimed more at improving the image of the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces than at helping the Palestinians. Already on the first day that the terminal was reopened,
• U.S. Sanctions Against Venezuela
  In May, the U.S. State Department imposed sanctions on Venezuela's state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) for trading with Iran. The press release states that between December 2010 and March 2011 the PDVSA delivered to Iran at least two cargoes
• "Religious Unity" instead of "Ethnic Identity"
  TURKISH SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS ELECTS NEW TOP JUDGE Nazım Kaynak has been elected as the new head of Turkey's Supreme Court of Appeals, daily Hürriyet reported on its website Thursday. Kaynak's predecessor, Hasan Gerçeker, retired Wednesday because of
• President Obama has right goals on Israeli-Pal ...
  Now that Prime Minister Netanyahu is back in Israel and President Obama is back here, it is time to assess the effect their dueling speeches have had on the prospects for peace. There is one factual conclusion on which the Israelis and the Palestinians
• "596 People Put on Trial for Expressing Their ...
  PM ERDOĞAN IS THE BIGGEST "SEPARATIST," SAYS TURKISH OPPOSITION CHIEF The entire country is in a state of emergency and the prime minister is functioning as the biggest "separatist," opposition chief Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said Tuesday in his election rally

Urban Survival

• Corporate Tax Breaks vs. Jobs
  As we roll out the monthly jobs report from the Labor Department (in a sec.) the main thing to be aware of is how corpgov is doing a “pully-wooly” on the whole notion of trading unemployment compensation funding for corporate … Continue reading →
• Coping: With some kind of Holiday
  We gotta get out more often.  Getting ready to take a 2½ day weekend has been excruciating: Peoplenomics will be updated a bit later than usual Saturday morning.  Or not.  Depends on the internet connectivity issues at our hotel.  I’m … Continue reading →
• Our Deteriorating Future
  Tuesday might as well have not even happened.  The Dow which popped 128 Tuesday promptly turned around and fell a stick of gum less than 280-points on Wednesday leaving the week down 152 (or so) net.  And it’s about to … Continue reading →
• Coping: Compacting KNowledge & Action
  Had a great conversation with a consulting client yesterday, and after my notes on brevity in writing, when the client said something to the effect “…you’re going to write this up and send it along…” I decided to do a … Continue reading →
• Markets: Crazy or Manipulated?
  Time to get out the ViseGrips in the wake of the market’s rally Tuesday.  Oh sure, a 25-50 point rise after making it through a three day weekend might have been  reasonable, but 128?  Ha!  Let’s review how crappy the … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

• FREE TRADE FARCE
  By Willis A. Carto The Great Minds assure us they are always hard at work trying to... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• The Bilderberg Meeting 2011 St. Moritz Switzerland
  The Bilderberg Group is one of the most secretive and exclusive clubs that attracts... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Freeman on the Land - Freedom is not free
  How to opt out of the the system live off the grid the government grid , the freeman on... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Military Insider Reveals Martial Law and FEMA ...
  Are FEMA camps and a state of martial law coming soon to America? What exactly will... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Joel Skousen : The War with Iran is close
  Joel Skousen with Barry Chamish discussing Obama and his position on Israel borders ,the... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]

Radical Chic

• MIND CONTROL 63: Stubborn Blindness
  Take a look at this scenario with Jesus. John 9:1-41 1 As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3 “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that [...]
• MIND CONTROL 62: The Blind Leading the Blind
  Jesus says: Luke 6:39-49 39 “CAN A BLIND MAN LEAD A BLIND MAN? WILL THEY NOT BOTH FALL INTO A PIT? Pastors are blind. Blind men leading blind men. We donât allow ourselves to follow Christâ¦â¦.. because we choose to listen to âpastorsâ instead of Christ. Whet exactly is the purpose of a church? ...
• MIND CONTROL 55: Wheat vs Weeds
  Jesus came with a very unusual category of people who he considered to be blessed When we look at the set of people that he described we discover that they are the complete opposite of what mankind desires to be like. This shouldn’t be surprising considering the fact that whatever is highly valu ...
• MIND CONTROL 56
  Lets take a look at a few more parables that Jesus used to describe the kingdom of heaven. Matt 20:1-16 1 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire men to work in his vineyard. 2 He agreed to pay them a denarius for the [...]
• MIND CONTROL 57: The Kingdom of Heaven
  Jesus made a series of collective statements about the kingdom of heaven that we may need to take a look at: Matt 13:44-53 44 “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had [...]

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

• Tornado science: Massachusetts weather data
  The local office of the National Weather Service offers information for the state, including: •Preliminary Climate Data for Other Locations in Southern New England •Miscellaneous Climate Records and Averages •Southern New England Snow Storms/Previous Event Calendar •Hydrologic Observations ...
• June 2011: Boston area events for the science- ...
  Here's a list of what's up this week. Check out our new Google calendar for updates. Origins and Applications of Pluripotent Stem Cells Wed, June 1, 7pm - 8pm Pfizer Auditorium Hall at Harvard University (Mallinckrodt Building, 12 Oxford St, Cambridge) (map) Join Science in the News (SITN ...
• Summer science for the kids: Harvard Natural H ...
  Summer Science Weeks 2011 Spend a week of your summer at the museum. Through games, activities, and observation in the galleries, students will learn while having fun. Time and Location Monday through Friday, 9:30 am to noon at the Harvard Museum of Natural History Fees $160 nonme ...
• 3-D Dino show opens today at Boston science museum
  You can get your T.Rex fix three ways at the Boston Museum of Science. There's the '60 era, Godzilla-like dino, now relegated to the parking lot. While he or she guards the Duck Boat meeting spot, a new, bird-like, updated model anchors the fossil exhibit inside. Now, you can see the beast com ...
• Contamination, not causation, links virus to c ...
  Oya Cingöz of Tufts is part of research team that has found a retrovirus linked to chronic fatigue syndrome is not related to the illness but was likely introduced after "contamination of laboratories and research reagents with the virus." Science, which published the original study linking the ...

NRDC Switchboard

• Why General Attacks on Regulation are Wrong
  David Goldston, Director, Government Affairs, Washington, DC I delivered the following written and oral testimony today to the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations: Oral Testimony Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member De ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...

  IPS - Inter Press Services

• HONDURAS: Human Rights Concerns Dog Return to OAS
  Honduras was allowed back into the OAS even though it never tried those responsible for the June 2009 coup that ousted then president Manuel Zelaya. But the international criticism and pressure for justice and action on human rights has not let up.
• ENVIRONMENT: Business Lobby Resists Ban on &#8 ...
  For years, European governments and corporations have made use of a loophole in the Kyoto protocol on climate change to make exorbitant profits. According to some sources, this lucrative scheme has caused more pollution than ever before while lobbyists in Brussels have methodically under ...
• PERU: Voters to Choose Economic Model, Not Jus ...
  After the most polarised election race in decades, Peruvians will go to the polls Sunday to choose not only a new president but also to decide whether to stick with the current neoliberal economic policies or to opt for reforms to reduce inequality and marginalisation.
• OP-ED: Cutting the Fog: Multiculturalism, Reli ...
  The death of "multiculturalism" has been proclaimed repeatedly recently, the idea pronounced with a big "M" as if we were talking of something tangible around which there is consensus.
• Germany to Boost Renewables
  The decision by the German government of Chancellor Angela Merkel to phase out nuclear power by 2022 will increase efficiency in the use of energy, boost investment and accelerate technical progress in renewable energy sources, and promote international energy cooperation, according to n ...

Scoop - NZ

• A 'beneficiaries and bludgers' dog-whistle cam ...
  Auckland Poverty Action Group spokeswoman Sue Bradford said the line-up of high-powered ministers charged with the reforms showed National planned significant change. "They are clearly going to do a 'beneficiaries and bludgers' dog-whistle campaign. And we will fight them on it the whole way. ...
• WELLYWOOD backdown
  Wellington Airport has backed away from its idea of putting up the Wellywood sign and will now consult with residents. The airport's decision last month to go ahead with the sign on Miramar Cutting sparked outrage in the city. Today, the airport announced it would form a panel to consider ...
• High Frequency Traders Descend onto Forex
  According to a recent report by the Wall Street Journal, high-speed traders are quickly establishing themselves as the main force in forex markets. Just like in other financial markets, a significant portion of trading volume is dominated by computerized trading, in which huge blocks of currency ...
• America's Foreclosure Wastelands
  Enter next phase of the housing crisis. First quarter sales data released yesterday by RealtyTrac showed that foreclosure accounted for 28 percent of all sales -- the highest amount in a year. The slow return of millions of REO homes to the market will keep home prices from recovering. Rea ...
• Breakup of the Eurozone?
  By permitting Britain and the Netherlands to blackball Iceland to pay for the mistakes of Gordon Brown and his Dutch counterparts, Europe has made Icelandic membership conditional upon imposing financial austerity and poverty on the population – all to pay money that legally it does not owe... ...

Independent - London

• Japan staff exceed radiation limit
  The operator of Japan's crippled nuclear power plant said two workers have exceeded a radiation exposure limit for men.
• Ratko Mladic calls genocide charges 'monstrous ...
  Former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic faced the UN war crimes tribunal today as a defiant general who never lost a battle, denying the charges against him as "obnoxious" and "monstrous".
• Struggling Silvio Berlusconi brushes off refer ...
  Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi played down the significance of a coming referendum on nuclear power, seen as his next big test with voters after this week's crushing local election defeats.
• Mladic tells court he does not want to enter pleas
  Former Bosnian Serb military chief General Ratko Mladic told a United Nations war crimes court today he is "a gravely ill man" and refused to enter pleas to "obnoxious charges" alleging he orchestrated the worst atrocities of a war that claimed 100,000 lives.
• Video: Yemen airport on fire
  The headquarters of Yemeni Airways has been engulfed in flames amidst fierce fighting in the capital Sanaa.

Rogue Government.com

• 18 Signs Life In U.S. Public Schools Now Equi ...
  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.  
• Mayors reach climate deal with World Bank
  Leaders of the C40 Mayors Summit on climate change said Wednesday the group had reached a financing agreement with the World Bank to help the world's major cities better adapt to climate change.
• Panasonic Plans to Build a 'Sustainable Smart ...
  Japan may still be recovering from earthquake-related woes, but that's not stopping Panasonic and eight partner companies from pushing ahead with their own rebuilding effort that could reshape the way future cities and towns are built. 
• Prepare for More Money Printing: Analyst
  Investors should prepare themselves for a third round of quantitative easing, Simon Maughn, co-head of European equities at MF Global, told CNBC Wednesday. 
• Florida governor signs welfare drug-screen me ...
  Saying it is "unfair for Florida taxpayers to subsidize drug addiction," Gov. Rick Scott on Tuesday signed legislation requiring adults applying for welfare assistance to undergo drug screening. 

Innovation Canada

• Giving thanks
  “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good,” Michael Douglas’s character famously declared in the movie Wall Street. “Greed is right. Greed works.” It was after filming last year’s sequel, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, that Douglas noticed a strain in his larynx and soreness in his jaw. His d ...
• The people’s museum
  While the recent major renovations to the University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology (MOA) involved plenty of additions and upgrades to its infrastructure, it’s the way people can now use the space that’s really transformed it. When MOA moved from the basement of the UBC Library int ...
• Opening up
  “It has truly been a partnership with reciprocal benefits,” says Kathy Hegadoren when asked about her work with immigrant women. And when the professor of nursing at the University of Alberta tells her story, it’s easy to see why. Holder of a Canada Research Chair in Stress-related Disorders in ...
• Firing up a new social network
  The summer of 2003 was as hot and dry in Kelowna, B.C., as anyone could remember. On Aug. 16, lightning struck, sparking a forest fire in Okanagan Mountain Provincial Park that quickly blazed out of control. The Kelowna Fire Department, more familiar with fighting house fires, suddenly faced an ...
• Defining religious freedom
  For some, the freedom to practise their religion is vitally important while for others, the freedom not to practise any religion is equally so. How does Canada balance the rights and freedoms of its multicultural population with its state-defined limits on religious freedom? University of Ottawa ...

Signs of the times

• Is there such a thing as bad cholesterol?
  The Good, The Bad and The Ugly The so-called "bad cholesterol" -- low-density lipoprotein commonly called LDL -- may not be so bad after all. Steve Riechman, researcher in the Department of Health and Kinesiology, says a study reveals that LDL is not the evil Darth Vader of health it has been ...
• FLASHBACK: Israel Lobby, Laying Out The Facts: ...
  Congressional Record, 101st Congress (1989-1990) House of Representatives The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Savage] is recognized for 60 minutes. Mr. SAVAGE. Madam Speaker, I rise tonight to deal with the problem that occurred in ...
• Cynthia McKinney: On President Obama and Libya ...
  In 2005 in the basement of the United States Capitol at a meeting convened by Congressman John Conyers on the subject of the "Downing Street Memo," Ray McGovern uttered the following truth: he testified that "the United States went to war in Iraq for oil, Israel, and military bases craved by ad ...
• US: New York City Woman Dies After Fainting Du ...
  An aspiring doctor was killed in a horrific subway accident yesterday when she passed out on a sweltering Upper East Side platform and fell onto the tracks -- realizing what happened too late to escape an uptown train bearing down on her. Fatoumata Binta Amina Diallo, 21, "was cut in half," sa ...
• Cynthia McKinney interviewed about the 'Realit ...
  "People are really defiant" in the face of savage NATO bombing raids on Tripoli, the Libyan capital, says former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. "Every night the people gather" at Bab al-Azizia, Moammar Gaddifi's residential compound, for dancing and singing -- "like a block party." McKi ...

The Galloping Beaver

• From the Muffin Utility Kitchen . . .
  ACCORDING TO GIZMODO, MI6 hacked into an Al Qaeda website, and replaced bomb-making recipes for cupcake recipes. What about the nut allergies? Have we engaged in biological warfare? According to Kat Hannaford,Famed British intelligence agency MI6 hacked the first English-language Jihadist online ...
• Alright Pete...
  ...you international penis. "As we look out into the future what we obviously try to do is anticipate where and when we will be needed, but it's difficult with any certainty to make those plans, without talking to other countries, without doing internal examinations," Mackay said.Let's clari ...
• Mmmm . . . toasted . . .
  24 TONS OF MELTED CHEESE. Really. According to the Washington Post, a truck carrying 24 tons of cheese got all toasted on a rural road in Somerset, southwest England. The Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service has a complete account.
• Pocket power
  Reading Buckdog this morning (as everyone should) I contracted yet another case of the WTFs. There's an item in Le Devoir that suggests the Harper government is seeking to create a global network of military logistics bases in sunny places like Jamaica, Senegal, Kenya, Singapore and Kuwait. Th ...
• Alberta ATV culture and kids
  I have my own gripe with Alberta and quadding culture, but that mostly has to do with not being able to paddle down a crystalline mountain river without meeting an ATV zipping in and out of the water every ten minutes. Or using said river to wash off the mud and oil from all that zipping. I crin ...

Media Matters for America

• Work Of Moody's Economist Contradicts Napolita ...
  Fox Business host Andrew Napolitano claimed that�a�statement from�Moody's Investors Service that it may downgrade the U.S. credit rating if the debt ceiling isn't raised�"signals"�that "stimulus packages have not worked." However, Moody's economist Mark Zandi has credited the�American Recovery ...
• Right-Wing Media Attack Obama Commerce Secreta ...
  Right-wing media figures have attacked John Bryson, President Obama's nominee for Commerce secretary, as a "radical green activist" and an "eco-terrorist." In fact, Bryson is a former energy company executive who sits on the boards of several major corporations, and his nomination has the suppo ...
• Morris Resorts To Falsehoods To Attack Obama's ...
  Fox News contributor Dick Morris claimed�that President Obama "will be defeated" in 2012 because "he's causing the second housing crisis by cutting out the mortgage interest deduction" and "causing the deficit with this gigantic government spending." In fact, proposed changes in the mortgage de ...
• Policy Experts Rebut Stossel's Claim That Incr ...
  Fox Business host John Stossel�absurdly claimed that a�recent uptick in�food stamps usage "suggests that we are teaching people to be dependent."�However,�economic and budget�experts have�attributed�increased�food stamps usage to�high�unemployment and declining incomes and have said that usage ...
• On Fox, Lars Larson Seizes Opportunity To Reha ...
  On Fox News, radio host Lars Larson repeated the myths that immigrants commit a disproportionate amount of crime and that the Obama administration "has not been great on deportations." In fact, data don't support the claim that undocumented immigrants have high crime rates; moreover, under Obam ...

Global Research.ca

• Victors' Justice and the "Responsibility to Pr ...
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• The New Shape of the Struggle in Egypt
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• BREAKING NEWS: Alarm on Gene GM Crops: A Prev ...
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• What Does the ICC Stand For? The Imperialist C ...
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• Libyan rebels will recognise Israel
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• The Volt: More Good News
  The New York Times leads today with a piece about Detroit's recovery, but somehow manages to overlook the continuing and crucial good-news story of the Chevy Volt, which will eventually do for General Motors what the iPhone did for Apple. This would only be a business story if electric cars were ...
• Gates's Swan Song: Rhetoric Versus Reality
  Today Secretary of Defense Robert Gates gave what was billed in some circles as his "last major policy speech." He chose to do so at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a think tank whose analysts have been highly critical of the Obama administration's proposal to reduce national security ...
• Gates's Swan Song: Rhetoric Versus Reality
  Today Secretary of Defense Robert Gates gave what was billed in some circles as his "last major policy speech." He chose to do so at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a think tank whose analysts have been highly critical of the Obama administration's proposal to reduce national security ...
• Palin Factor
  Sarah Palin has reinserted herself into the Republican Presidential race and it is causing a great deal of handwringing among the party elite. Politico's Mike Allen notes an email he got from "a top Bush strategist". "You heard it here first ... as much as it pains me, Sarah Palin may win the ...
• Netanyahu's House: Knowing Your Audience
  Anyone with a shred of knowledge about the Middle East conflict knows that yesterday's performance alienated its most critical audience. I am not speaking about Netanyahu's performance. He played the Israeli center, American Jews, and American media like Isaac Stern playing the Brahms. I mean th ...

TruthOut

• Congress Must Debate the Libya War
  The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds that the ...
• News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...
  Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
• In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...
  In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
• Richard D. Wolff: "Personal Debts" (Video)
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• Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...
  About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...

Planetsave

• Russia Helps to Protect Critically Endangered ...
  Well, Russia is one key actor threating grey whales with extinction, but it has also taken a step forward in protecting the critically endangered species. "Companies seeking oil extraction rights to a newly available concession off Russia’s Sakhalin Island will not be permitted to conduct activi ...
• Ferrets (10 Friday Photos + extra)
  Ferrets? AWESOME! They're getting more and more popular as pets, and that's nothing surprising! They're not so easy to live with -- you have to be very patient. However, they're great friends with whom you can have a lot of fun! Today, you can see ferrets in the bathroom, in the snow, white ferr ...
• Baby Elephant Sneezes, Scares Himself, Hides B ...
  This is too cute :D. This little baby elephant apparently sneezes, scares him/herself (or gets scared by the people laughing.. or both), and then runs and hides behind his/her mother. Adorable. A good follow-up to our post yesterday on the charging baby elephant.
• California Milk, Fruit, Vegetables Now Contain ...
  As the crippled reactors in Japan continue to emit radiation into the environment, the risk grows that it will appear in our food. Radiation has already been detected in trace amounts in milk across the U.S., and in strawberries, kale and other vegetables in California.
• Seriously Screwed Up FBI Priority: Spending Mi ...
  It all centered around Rick Wilson, a nice guy who ran an after-hours club where bohemians would gather and talk about art and politics, drink, sometimes play a little cards. Somehow the Seattle Police decided that it was a hotbed of eco-terrorism, and spent hundreds of thousands of man-hours i ...

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• THE First Week of May- Health & Resource Week
  Every important event in America has a week. “The First Week of May” should be recognized. This is t

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• A brief review of some of Noam Chomsky’s erron ...
  Image by Mayu ;P via Flickr by Fazal Rahman, Ph.D. Guest Writer Dandelion Salad May 9, 2011 Along wi
• After Bin Laden Hit, U.S. Aides Raise Dubious ...
  by Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at IPS 8 May, 2011 Image via Wikipedia
• After Bin Laden Hit, U.S. Aides Raise Dubious ...
  by Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at IPS 8 May, 2011 Image via Wikipedia
• Gareth Porter: Why Kill Bin Laden Now?
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• Gareth Porter: Why Kill Bin Laden Now?
  Image via Wikipedia with Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 8 May, 2011 TheRealNews on Ma

Axis of Logic

• In US politics, it's okay to be a prick. But y ...
  Lewd pic sent to girl puts US leader in soup NEW YORK: A US congressman sharing the same name as a common slang word for penis was in a growing pickle Thursday over a photo of his crotch sent to a young female fan. Anthony Weiner, a fasttalking New York...
• It's not just Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The IMF ...
  Imagine a prominent figure was charged, not with raping a hotel maid, but with starving her, and her family, to death Sometimes, the most revealing aspect of the shrieking babble of the 24/7 news agenda is the silence. Often the most important facts are hiding beneath the noise, unmentio ...
• Goldman Sachs hits Gaddafi in hip pocket - Wor ...
  Editor's Note: In our view, this story is simply a fancy way of saying that Goldman Sachs and a few other money monger companies extorted billions of dollars from the Libyan nation after the U.S. government cornered Libya in a dark alley and made their government an offer they couldn't refuse. - ...
• Egypt restores restrictions on Rafah border cr ...
  Following Saturday's easing of the blockade on Gaza through opening the Rafah border crossing, Palestinian officials claim that some of the old restrictions on travellers have been reimposed Egyptian authorities have reneged on some of the facilitations it had agreed upon and starte ...
• New Wikileaked Cables Reveal How Washington an ...
  Editor's Comment: For this revealing report on U.S. attitudes and actions against Haiti, Venezuela and Cuba we are especially grateful to author Kim Ives and grateful once again to Julian Assange and everyone at Wikileaks (including the whistleblowers). Kim Ive's informative report shows the pet ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• The Nightowl Newswrap
  The dude really, really wanted some crawfish "A 'sovereign citizen' in Pensacola, Florida allegedly opened fire at a seafood market after learning that they had run out of crawfish. ... 42 year-old Larry Wayne Kelly allegedly fired upon the L&T Seafood Market with an AK-47 from the window of his ...
• Mansfield Frazier: Inclusion is the only answe ...
  Left wing politics has often paid lip service to a growing marginalized group, but the failure to engage the formerly incarcerated is not just a political failure - it is a moral one. Cross posted from Pruning Shears. By Mansfield Frazier"White people got more in common with colored people the ...
• Media still blind to GOP extremism
  Steve Benen asks again why is it that the Washington Establishment press keeps bending over backward to give modern Republicans the benefit of the doubt that they still belong to a responsible political party? Specifically, Benen takes aim at Ruth Marcus who, on "Meet the Press," decried Democr ...
• Some thoughts on Joplin
  On Sunday, Michael Bersin and I got up at the crack of dawn and gathered up all of our paraphernalia and hit the road for Joplin. We had requested media credentials from the White House and we made the cut. You can find a lot of pictures and the transcripts of the speeches by Governor Nixon and ...
• Some thoughts on Joplin
  On Sunday, Michael Bersin and I got up at the crack of dawn and gathered up all of our paraphernalia and hit the road for Joplin. We had requested media credentials from the White House and we made the cut, so we got to cover the event right alongside the old media that hates our guts.. You can ...

Care 2

• Deepest-living land animal found
  Worms have been found living at depths in the Earth where it was previously thought animals could not survive.Discovered in South African mines, the roundworms can survive in the stifling 48C (118F) water that seeps between cracks 1.3km beneath the Earth'Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� � ...
• Judge rules against Utah's bid to control road ...
  Last week a federal judge ruled against San Juan County and the state of Utah in their long-running attempt to open an off-road vehicle route in Canyonlands National Park. The route, a stream bottom called Salt Creek, was closed more than a decade ago by Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environmen ...
• Bid to save sandpiper at risk of extinction in ...
  Conservationists have embarked on a mission to save one of the world's rarest birds, the spoon-billed sandpiper, from extinction.Fewer than 200 pairs of spoon-billed sandpipers were thought to exist in 2009, and since then, the population has thought to..Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� � ...
• ACTION ALERT: We Cant Let Australia Fail The ...
  In what should have been a historic day for marine conservation, critical feeding and breeding areas for unique marine life have been left out of proposed new sanctuaries in South West Australia released by the Federal Government today. Submitted by Simone D. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �A ...
• Kitten recovering after being set on fire; cit ...
  He's a cute little kitten. Grey and white with a little grey patch on his nose. But he has no whiskers or eyebrows and his ears are charred. Jonah, as folks at the shelter have named him has survived a lot in just 12 weeks or so of life.Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! ...

Smirking Chimp

• Raisin' funds, raisin' funds, day two: we're o ...
• The toy that defeated Grandpa (and the war tha ...
• Discount Coupons: When a Republican Hands You ...
• The Triumph of the Shrill: Sarah Palin's Ultim ...
• If You Can Write Hate-Filled, Obscenity-Laced ...

Paul Krugman

• Financial Repression
  Not so bad.
• Financial Repression
  Not so bad.
• The Enduring Legacy of Good Bureaucrats
  A different kind of Austrian theory.
• The Enduring Legacy of Good Bureaucrats
  A different kind of Austrian theory.
• Billion Price Update
  Not so different from the CPI.

No Quarter

• Contenders for 2012: the Cult of Personality ...
  Friday, John Phillips of the LA Times ruminated on the method by which New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will be “courted” and drafted to run for President in 2012. Christie has stated repeatedly that he is not ready for the office, will not be induced to enter the race and is committed to fulf ...
• Blog Roadwork Update!
  The new comments software is being installed, so expect some hiccups along the way until the installation is complete. Additionally: I am writing a short how-to (FAQ) so that you can take advantage of the myriad of options and goodies that come with this software. I’ll tell you how to add video, ...
• Barack Obama’s Jewish Problem
  Spent the last four days hanging with one of my dearest friends, who also happens to be Jewish. He’s an accomplished man. We had the chance to sit and chat with some other prominent, successful Jewish businessmen and leaders. Several of these guys admitted voting for Obama in 2008. I learned one ...
• Florida Money (& Larry Johnson on Radio Tonight)
  Editor’s Note: Larry Johnson joins the weekly Sunday experts panel on John Batchelor’s Show tonight @ 9:30 or 10:30 p.m. ET. (FYI: Batchelor’s show airs nightly, 9 p.m.-1:00 a.m. ET.) Listen via iTunes (see instructions), or go to the show’s NYC anchor station, WABC. Scroll down and click “Liste ...
• Comment Hell
  Ladies and Gents, Please be patient. We should have the new comment software up and running by Monday. I’ve been out of pocket for the last four days and have been unable to rescue folks trapped in Comment Hell. You are free now. Best LJ

Environmental Graffiti

• 20 Amazing Facts About Rhinos
  The magnificent and endangered African rhinoceros in images, and with twenty facts about these amazing creatures! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Never Has Exercising Been So Easy - London Wal ...
  Never has exercising been made so easy! Join the Walkabout Foundation on a 15km walk along London's Royal Parks and help promote awareness for mobility disabilities. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...
• The Merry Cemetery of Transylvania
  Found in former Transylvania, a cemetery full of hand-carved, painted crosses and sometimes joyous epitaphs to commemorate the deceased... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Eyes and Lips Transformed into Fantastic Canvases
  Body artist Katie Alves creates extraordinary, magical scenes on eyelids and lips with just a bit of ordinary make-up. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Tengzug Shrine: Ghana's Site of Bizarre Naked ...
  The Tengzug Shrine in the Tongo Hills is very sacred for the Talensis people. To worship there, one must be nude and very comfortable with animal blood and waste. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Taking Drones to Their Logical Conclusion: Nuc ...
  The proposed successor to the Stealth bomber boasts frightening new features.
• Israel's Demand to be Recognized the Nation-St ...
  Israel is learning the difficulties of trying to confine a state to one people.
• Ending Rape in War
  Sexual violence is not a byproduct of war or an uncontrolled act by rogue soldiers, but a war crime committed primarily against women.
• Israel's Madrassas
  Extremist religious views, when central to a school's curriculum, invariably dilute the quality of education.
• Review: America, Hitler, and the UN
  Dan Plesch examines the origins of the United Nations and how this alliance led to victory over the Axis powers and to a stable post-war international system.

Global Elite

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
  Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will ...
• President European Commission Advocated World ...
  Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International ...
• Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
  Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in t ...
• Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
  Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare p ...
• Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
  Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government ...

Al Jazeera

• Bahrain police 'suppress protest'
  Eyewitnesses say police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters marching in capital, Manama.
• 'Dozens killed' in fresh Syria protests
  Activists say 34 people killed in the city of Hama during one of the largest anti-government protests in the uprising.
• Yemen president 'alive and well after attack'
  Ali Abdullah Saleh wounded in shelling of a mosque in his palace in Sanaa, with an imam and three guards killed.
• Deaths as blast rocks central Iraq city
  A bomb kills 17 people and injures at least 50 at a mosque in Tikrit, Iraq.
• Peru's Fujimori 'promises' new policies
  In tight presidential race, daughter of jailed former president pledges not to pardon him of "crimes against humanity".

Green Inc. - NYT

• Sketching a New Home for the Buffalo
  Seeking a new logo, the Department of Interior turns to crowd-sourcing and gets the public creatively involved.
• A Nimbler, More Energy-Efficient Marine Corps
  To reduce the risks and burdens posed by transporting fossil fuels in convoys, the Marines adopt technology like solar power and LED lighting.
• House Panel Faults Administration Spill Response
  A Republican committee chairman says the administration appeared more concerned about protecting its own media profile and avoiding responsibility for recovery efforts than protecting gulf jobs and livelihoods.
• Stalwarts in China's Water Struggle
  n Hubei Province, self-styled guardians of the river have fought many battles to keep the Han River healthy, persuading local officials in recent years to shut down or move some factories that have been polluting the waters.
• Cities Reach Climate Pact With World Bank
  An accord will provide a common way to measure and report on cities' greenhouse gas emissions of cities, easing access to carbon financing, officials say.

Dot Earth News

• A Geographer Pushes Climate Panel and Academia ...
  A geographer focused on climate and development urges universities and colleagues to make outreach a priority -- for their own sake and that of the public.
• Closeup: April's Tornado Outbreaks
  A satellite view of the hemispheric swirls that spawned April's tornado outbreaks.
• Closeup: April's Tornado Outbreaks
  A satellite view of the hemispheric swirls that spawned April's tornado outbreaks.
• The Changing (Communication) Climate
  A fresh call for scientists and their institutions to dive into the world of communication experimentation, or cede the field to others.
• Tracking Economy, CO2 Emissions Hit New High
  As the global economy recovers so, too, do greenhouse gas emissions.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• Comedy Central has weird faux-subliminal meme ...
  Several videos and a GLP post cover the New Subliminal Messages on Comedy Channel. Looks like an internet meme campaign to me. Not too shabby though. The colored words (not all legible) form strange thoughts.... In the end the joke assures us they're in on it all. Thanks Viacom. This one satiriz ...
• Special Guest Column! CIA Whistleblower Susan ...
  Sweet: CIA Whistleblower & 9/11 covert ops witness sends an important essay for HongPong.com! National Security Whistleblowers are a tough bunch. Susan Lindauer worked as a CIA asset for many years before 9-11, including issues related to Libya & the Lockerbie bombing, as well as a major backcha ...
• HG Wells: The City of London is taking over th ...
  “But where was the Central Observation Bureau? Where was the professorial and student body which should have been recording these irregularities and producing plans for adjustment?” What I like about HG Wells The Shape of Things to Come, is it all comes down to the World State, the C ...
• Chaos & curfew as tornado strikes North Minnea ...
  North Minneapolis and parts of nearby suburbs were hit by tornado damage on Sunday, leaving at least one man dead and many wounded. The tornado was part of a huge weather system that also killed many people in Joplin, Missouri. The city is enforcing a curfew into Monday morning, for possibly a ...
• TCIMC Exclusive: Contracts for IntelliDrive Mn ...
  Minnesota taxpayers give intelligence contractor SAIC a cost-plus contract to evaluate MnDOT's GPS tracking program! By Dan Feidt for Twin Cities Indymedia – Key info about Minnesota's elusive "GPS Mileage Tax" test program has finally turned up. It's actually part of a federal program called ...

Daily Censored

• Dancing with Medea
  This week, a friend sent me a YouTube video on Facebook of a couple arrested for dancing at the Jefferson Memorial on May 28, 2011. I briefly looked at the video, shared it on my Facebook page, and went off to work. When I came home, I saw the link was shared again and that [...]
• Is Segregation a San Francisco Value?
  Bill OâReilly and other conservative talkers often portray my beloved San Francisco as a liberal Sodom and Gomorrah, an icon of corrupt mores summarized snidely as San Francisco Values. At first blush, a recent story in SF Weekly appears to fit O’Reilly’s liberal stereotype: âSchoolhouse Rocked: ...
• The New Generation Black Panthers Recruit Youn ...
  The New Generation Black Panthers? A 21 year old Black American friend of mine was accosted by two thirty something year old Black American women in front of a Starbucks this week. They were trying to recruit him to join the New Generation Black Panthers! The two women dressed in all black weari ...
• U.S. stuck in the past as Cuba changes
  By Saul Landau and Nelson Valdes President Obama and his advisers share with most of the mass media the same visual weakness when it comes to Cuba: they don’t see the obvious, the crucial facts and context that stare them in the face. As Cuba begins to undergo basic changes to its economy and go ...
• CENSORED IN 1994: DEADLY “MAD COW DISEAS ...
  CENSORED IN 1994: DEADLY âMAD COW DISEASEâ SPREADS TO NORTH AMERICA     A new and ghastly disease which turns the brain sponge-like and has been attacking dairy cows in England for years, has now appeared in North America. Nicknamed “Mad Cow Disease,” bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) has ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• Obama hits road to hail auto bailout
• McCain warns Myanmar risks Arab-style revolt
• US lawmakers cut Homeland Security funding
• May US job numbers expected to show struggles
• US concerned on N.Korea aid but hopes on rights

Institute for Policy Studies

• The Road Not Built: Redefining Progress At Hom ...
  Local opposition to a proposed road in Trinidad brings new understanding of "progress," and what it means to be rooted.
• The Road Not Built: Redefining Progress At Hom ...
  Local opposition to a proposed road in Trinidad brings new understanding of "progress," and what it means to be rooted.
• Nothing More than Hot Air
  The World Bank's perverse incentives to pollute continue preempting a better, more principled way forward.
• Nothing More than Hot Air
  The World Bank's perverse incentives to pollute continue preempting a better, more principled way forward.
• iHate Corporate Tax Dodgers: How Apple Avoids ...
  Apple looks downright patriotic next to master tax dodgers like General Electric and Boeing, but it still pays far less than it should.

IntelNews

• News you may have missed #515
  US spies tracked suspected terrorists in Sweden. Aussie spy agency reported on WikiLeaks. Former Taiwanese general accused of spying. Continue reading →
• News you may have missed #514
  Israel sells spy camera to Turkey despite concerns. Listening bug found in NZ MP's home. The story of Nathaniel James Nicholson. Continue reading →
• US SEALs ‘pocket guide’ left behind in bin Lad ...
  A document provided to members of the US Navy SEALs who assassinated Osama bin Laden, was left behind in bin Ladenâs compound by mistake, and has reportedly been accessed by The London Times. Continue reading →
• News you may have missed #513 (Pakistan edition)
  Pakistan spy chief tells US to end drone strikes. CIA-ISI back in business. Leaked cables reveal joint US-Pakistan missions. Continue reading →
• Spy defectors claim Iran had foreknowledge of 9/11
  A new filing in a nine-year court case in Manhattan contains testimony by two defectors from Iranâs intelligence service, who claim that Tehran had âforeknowledge of the 9/11 attacksâ. Continue reading →

War is a Crime.org

• What is Irresponsible and Provocative-- Israel ...
  By Ann Wright In the latest Israeli diplomatic attempt to stop the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, Israel leaned on the Obama administration to put heavy pressure on the Government of Turkey to refuse to allow Turkish ships to join the international citizen activist initiative to end Israel’s illegal blo ...
• House Voting Now on Ending Libya War
  The U.S. House of Representatives today will vote on two resolutions. H.C.R. 51 sponsored by Dennis Kucinich would -- if also passed by the Senate -- have the force of law and end the Libya War. If this does not pass, Rep. Jerrold Nadler said on the floor this morning, there are no circumstance ...
• Live Tweeting Vote on Ending Libya War
  Read more at http://twitter.com/#!/davidcnswanson davidcnswanson David Swanson � Rep Jeff Denham 1) backs telling the president he has no authorization but leaving him free to continue 2) hasn't learned English yet 2 minutes ago Favorite Reply Delete » davidcnswanson David Swans ...
• Forty-Four Years of Occupation
  Forty-Four Years of Occupation - by Stephen Lendman On March 7, Palestinian Prisoners Society head Qadura Fares presented a paper to the UN International Meeting on the Question of Palestine, addressing the plight of political prisoners in Israeli prisons and detention facilities, saying: Palest ...
• Boehner Repairs Constitution Using Spray-on Suntan
  Speaker of the House John Boehner is expected to bring to a vote on Friday a remarkable resolution called H. Res. 292. This document restores a damaged U.S. Constitution to its full glory in much the way that a spray-on sunless tanning product could restore a collaterally damaged victim who had ...

Grist - News

• Critical List: EPA gives chemical industry a p ...
  by Sarah Laskow. The EPA could ask chemical companies to report on Americans' exposure to their products, but it's not. "Where's there's coal, there's opportunity": The energy industry funds brainwashing -- sorry, "education" -- for students. The Grand Calumet river ferries abou ...
• Starry-eyed U.N. chief says we need to limit c ...
  by Christopher Mims. This week in the annals of wishful thinking, the executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change declared that the world's nations -- you know, the ones with the record carbon emissions last year -- should commit themselves to warming of no more ...
• Bill Clinton: Forget CO2, go for the low-hangi ...
  by Christopher Mims. Bill Clinton urged mayors at the Large Cities Climate Summit to go after a pollutant 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide: methane. By capturing it from landfills, from which it leaches in prodigious amounts, cities could use it to generate power. Wrestling CO2 ...
• Oops: Germany’s nuclear shutdown will ca ...
  by Christopher Mims. Riding a wave of anti-nuclear sentiment in the wake of Japan's Fukushima disaster, the German government has decided to phase out all nuclear power plants by 2022. That’ll certainly prevent nuclear meltdowns. On the flip side, though, analyses by experts suggest that ...
• MyConservationPark is a Facebook game that&#82 ...
  by Jess Zimmerman. MyConservationPark is a Farmville-style Facebook game that lets you administer a nature preserve, juggling animals, plants, structures, and people to protect the habitat of endangered wildlife. But this isn't just a whole new way to annoy your Facebook friends with e ...

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Farming Pathogens

• Hiatus
  ‘Farming Pathogens’ will be taking a break while we finish up a book on many of the topics discussed here, including influenza and agribusiness. Thank you for your support and feedback. We’ll be back soon, promise, and in all likelihood will drop a post now and again. Agriculture, disease and ev ...
• Tiger By the Tale
  –Landlady… –My name is Rosenberg. –I didn’t know there were Jews in Dublin! She grimaces, palpably, and says, –Yes, there are Jews in Dublin. –Well, then, Mrs. O’Rosenberg, what can you tell me about the Celtic Tiger? Has it bitten anybody lately? –Bitten? –Yes. Where is this tiger now, and does ...
• Marable’s Malcolm
  It’s Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution (and he’ll cry if he wants to). But do he and other lambrusco liberals bandying about the term know what revolution really means, or even care? In the first of several posts on food and revolution over the next couple months, I retweet passing thoughts I poste ...
• A Bayesian Market
  Found this job posting: Your research will cover any area of evolutionary biology, including adaptation, phylogenetics, population genetics and environmental genomics. You should be using advanced data acquisition and/or analytical approaches (e.g., high-throughput sequencing or other “omics”, B ...
• Fork in the Road
  This is the final installment of the ‘big picture’ on global food crises I co-authored with Richard Kock and Robyn Alders. The first two can be found here and here. We learned food insecurity and disease outbreaks can serve as a cover for a particular capital-securitized science tied into spread ...

Suzie-Q

• Electromagnetic effects on Honeybees confirmed ...
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• Offshoring has Destroyed the US Economy
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• Offshoring has Destroyed the US Economy
  Nobel Economist Michael Spence Says Globalism Is Costly For Americans Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research | May 31, 2011 These are discouraging times, but once in a blue moon a bit of hope appears. I am pleased to report on the bit of hope delivered in March of 2011 by Michael Spence, a [...]
• Hang on to Your Balls, Folks! Cyber-Wars, here ...
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• Hang on to Your Balls, Folks! Cyber-Wars, here ...
  Only two days after the WSJ published Siobhan Gorman’s exclusive story of the Pentagon classifying cyber attacks by foreign nations as acts of war, Google blames China for involvement in a cyber-spying campaign targeting the Google e-mail accounts of top US officials, military personnel and jour ...

Solari

• Selected Documentaries by Bertram Verhaag
  Scientists Under Attack Directed by Bertram Verhaag “Billed as “a political thriller on GMOs and freedom of speech”, this film by the German film-maker Bertram Verhaag tells the stories of two scientists, Dr Arpad Pusztai and Dr Ignacio Chapela, whose research showed negative findings on GM foo ...
• Goldman Gets Subpoena from NY District Attorney
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• Quote du Jour
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• Money & Markets Charts ~ 6.02.11
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Insurgency Watch - Newswire

• Times Scare
  ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
• Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
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• Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
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• Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
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• Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
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AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• Come Dance with Me -- Jefferson Would Want You to
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Sideways News

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• UK venue offers rainforest weddings
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• Battery recycling 'too difficult'
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• 10 green resolutions to save you money
  By taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become o ...

Fabius Maximus

• Attritionist Letter #1 – the tides turn, ...
  Summary:   With US military forces engaged around the world in the long war, with three conflicts burning at once (on very different scales), the doctrines we choose may have a large effect on American history.  This, the first of the Attritionist Letters, describes the issues and the sta ...
• Attritionist Letter #1 – the tides turn, ...
  Summary:   With US military forces engaged around the world in the long war, with three conflicts burning at once (on very different scales), the doctrines we choose may have a large effect on American history.  This, the first of the Attritionist Letters, describes the issues and the sta ...
• The Attritionist Letters, volleys in the long ...
  Summary:   Key points of military history are marked by debates among soldiers, usually invisible to the public but affecting the course of nations.  Such a debate is underway now about the doctrines by which we wage the long war against jihadists and their allies.  With the permission of the th ...
• The Attritionist Letters, volleys in the long ...
  Summary:   Key points of military history are marked by debates among soldiers, usually invisible to the public but affecting the course of nations.  Such a debate is underway now about the doctrines by which we wage the long war against jihadists and their allies.  With the permission of the th ...
• Could a new Constitutional Convention help ref ...
  Summary:  Many people seek changes to the Constitution as a palliative to our problems.  Disappointment awaits them, especially if they succeed.  Proper treatment requires accurate diagnosis, and even a cursory look at America shows that our problems have a simple cause.  Us.  Tinkering with the ...

Open Your Eyes News

• Vatican kicks out Roma on Easter
  Press TV – About 150 Roma gypsies were barred from participating in the Easter vigil of the basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, after temporarily taking shelter there on Good Friday, The Telegraph reported.  Local and foreign pilgrims, who had gathered to attend the vigil, calle ...
• Euro strikes 16-month high against dollar
  Breitbart – The euro struck a 16-month high against the dollar and the Swiss franc notched a record high versus the US unit Tuesday amid heightened investor nerves over this week’s busy economic calendar. The European single currency hit $1.4653 in morning trade, the highest point since mid-Dece ...
• British pound devalues by 94% in 50yrs
  PressTV – A new survey shows that the value of money in the UK has dropped by 94 percent over the past 50 years, which means an 18-time increase in retail prices. The survey carried out by BM Savings has found that almost £1,800 is needed to match the buying power of £100 in 1960, [...]
• Peru suffers an ‘environmental tragedy’
  IOL – The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years, a study published on Tuesday said. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of 7,000 ...
• Next step humans? Every new pet dog in Britain ...
  Daily Mail – Every new pet dog will be microchipped under sweeping Government regulations to combat dangerous animals. Each puppy born and dog sold will have an electronic chip implanted under the skin. Details will then be placed on a national database accessible by police and the RSPCA. A conf ...

The Progressive Realist

• Clerics and IRGC Find Common Ground in Attacki ...
  “Religion is in Danger” are the words of Ayatollah Mohammad-Taghi Mesbah-Yazdi, a hardline cleric who was once a staunch supporter of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Once considered President Ahmadinejad’s mentor, Mesbah-Yazdi is warning the faithful that Islam is “in danger” by none other than P ...
• China Undercuts Sanctions on Iran
  Since the failure of a brief effort at engaging Iran, the Obama administration has pivoted to economic pressure, piling sanction after sanction on the Islamic Republic to try to persuade it to curb a program that could give it the capacity to make nuclear weapons. Last week, the U.S. penalized s ...
• Hayden Compares Torture "Interrogation Deniers ...
  Shortly after President Obama announced that U.S. military forces killed Osama bin Laden, former CIA Director Michael Hayden tried to downplay Obama’s achievement, saying that “any American president” would’ve made the same choice. However, the evidence doesn’t necessarily support this theory an ...
• The Afghan Troop Number Game
  July 2011 has crept up on us, and it’s decision time on Afghanistan. At the end of last year, a number of reports called for a steady slope of reduction in U.S. forces in Afghanistan going into the 2014 timeline for transition to full Afghan lead. There’s has been no reason why those recommendat ...
• Royal Society Special Issue on Global Warming ...
  “In such a 4°C world, the limits for human adaptation are likely to be exceeded in many parts of the world, while the limits for adaptation for natural systems would largely be exceeded throughout the world.” “Projections of global warming relative to pre-industrial for the A1FI emissions sce ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Another Attack on Public Lands and Environment ...
  Here's another example of how House Republicans are working to undermine not only the environmental integrity of public lands but the most basic environmental laws we've got. Yesterday, during a series of votes on the homeland security appropriations bill, the House approved an amendment, sponso ...
• Chris Christie Continues To Impress
  (Flickr/Bob Jagendorf) As you might have heard, New Jersey governor Chris Christie, whom many Republicans are begging to enter the presidential race, is facing a bit of a PR problem, since he took a state helicopter to go to his son's baseball game, then exited the helicopter and was driven the ...
• The Economy Takes a Break from Job Creation
  "Terrible" is a good word to describe the jobs numbers for May. At 9.1 percent, the unemployment rate remains nearly unchanged from April. The number of long-term unemployed people increased by 361,000, to 6.2 million, and their share of the total unemployed increased to 45.1 percent from 43.4 ...
• Give Mitt the Business
  (Flickr/Gage Skidmore) As Mitt Romney tromps through Iowa and New Hampshire attempting to win the hearts of Republican voters, he'll be telling them that his career as a successful management consultant makes him the best prepared person to improve the American economy. Seeing as this will be t ...
• Little Picture: Spelling Bee Finals
  The Scripps National Spelling Bee's championship round will air tonight at 8:30 p.m. on ESPN. Thirteen spellers will compete, narrowed down from a field of 275 competitors. The winner will receive more than $40,000 in cash and prizes. (Flickr/ScrippsBee)

Buzzflash

• If Americans Don't Want Services Cut, Then Rai ...
  MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Here's the conundrum: polls show Americans favor reducing the deficit, but also show that they don't want cuts in services or most safety net programs, including, of course, Medicare - and even Medicaid. This paradox is, in large part, due to the s ...
• Political Creationism: Republicans Want to Lea ...
  MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The Main Streets of America represented in the fantasy world of Disneyland have long since become nearly dormant as US consumer commerce moved to malls and big-box stores. The Republicans and Democrats love to talk about how small businesses are t ...
• Are All the Republican Candidates for Presiden ...
  TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT But are any of them any good? Their ideas Are the same --- just the names are switched. It's like trying to decide which Darren was The better one who appeared on "Bewitched."read more
• How the Republicans Repackage Repeated Failure ...
  Body It sure seems as if we have surrendered to the very worst compulsions a society can devise and tried to make them acceptable forms of social organization. We have allowed ignorant, self-serving political aspirants to overwhelm whatever decent motivations used to animate th ...
• Unless We Stop Endlessly Repeating Cliches Abo ...
  MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT On Memorial Day we remember those who gave their lives in battle for the survival of this nation. In doing so, we implicitly honor their sacrifice for upholding the "values" of this nation. That certainly must have been a heartfelt feeling coming ou ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• The war in Libya growing more illegal by the day
  GOP House leaders block a vote on a bipartisan bill to end the President's unilaterally commenced war
• The WH/Politico attack on Seymour Hersh
  Two administration officials bash the Pulitzer Prize winner over Iran while hiding their identity
• Criminalizing free speech
  The War on Terror now justifies punishing or even killing citizens because of the ideas they advocate
• Afghanistan "sovereignty"
  The Afghan President's decision to bar NATO air attacks on homes is deemed "merely symbolic"
• Establishment thought and the War on Terror
  The bin Laden killing is used to justify an acceleration, rather than winding down, of the War on Terror

The BiPartisan Report

• Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
• Nihilism 1 American People Nil
• Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate ...
• Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
• Those holier than thou Conservatives

Sciencebase

• Seven steps to cure healthcare privacy problems
  If we have learned anything from the recent hackings – Sony, Google Mail, PBS – in which vast amounts of data for millions of users have been compromised, it is that precious data is rarely entirely secure and certainly barely private. It is time to tighten up. Nowhere is this more important tha ...
• Seven steps to cure healthcare privacy problems
  If we have learned anything from the recent hackings – Sony, Google Mail, PBS – in which vast amounts of data for millions of users have been compromised, it is that precious data is rarely entirely secure and certainly barely private. It is time to tighten up. Nowhere is this more important tha ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• Analysis: Filers in Top 5 Percent Will Get Tax ...
  As Congress and the President debate whether and on what conditions to raise the debt ceiling, America will mark the tenth anniversary of the policy change that accounts for much of the federal budget gap: the Bush tax cuts. On June 7, 2001, President George W. Bush signed into law the first of ...
• U.N. Expert on Violence Against Women Says U.S ...
  A report delivered by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women today finds that U.S. policies concerning domestic violence, sexual assault in the military and treatment of women in detention fall far short of adequately protecting victims. The American Civil Liberties Unio ...
• Open Up the Budget Debate to the People; Media ...
  Thanks to the corporate media, you probably know all about Republican Rep. Paul Ryan's budget plan.read more
• Weak Job Numbers Show Need for Foreclosure Rel ...
  Today’s weak jobs numbers -- 54,000 new jobs created, a sharp drop from recent months and below economists' projections -- underscore the need for much more aggressive foreclosure relief efforts centered around reducing the principal of underwater mortgages, policy experts at The Greenlining Ins ...
• SEIU Challenges Georgia’s New Racial Profiling Law
  SEIU is a plaintiff in a lawsuit against Georgia’s new “show me your papers” law. Georgia’s “Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act” or HB 87, is an Arizona SB1070 copycat legislation that would authorize local police officers to investigate and arrest people if they sense immigration vi ...

Common Dreams-Views

• These 'Virginity Tests' Will Spark Egypt's Nex ...
  Mona Eltahawy There's a thin line between sex and politics, and it is nonsense to keep repeating the mantra that Egypt's revolution "wasn't about gender". What revolution worth its salt can be fuelled by demands of freedom and dignity and ...
• Florida Cracks Down on Everybody (except Decen ...
  Howard Troxler And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? --Matthew 7:3 Public employees, as we all know, are parasites who should be punished. This is why we have ...
• The Strange, and Very Political, Death of Hope
  Rick Salutin Hope is indispensable in public and private life. I don’t mean brainless optimism in the face of facts. I mean hope that finds a way to persist in honest awareness of how bad things are.read more
• No Controversy Allowed! On Getting Kicked Out ...
  Zoe Weil For twenty-five years I’ve been a humane educator, someone who teaches about the interconnected issues of human rights, environmental preservation, and animal protection and encourages positive choicemaking and changemaking for a ...
• It's Not Just Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The IMF ...
  Johann Hari Sometimes, the most revealing aspect of the shrieking babble of the 24/7 news agenda is the silence. Often the most important facts are hiding beneath the noise, unmentioned and undiscussed.read more

Newshoggers - AfPak

• Stagnation, costs and waiting
  HASH(0x9ddba90)
• Memorial Day: Remembering Those Who Didn't Hav ...
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• Memorial Day: Remembering Those Who Didn't Hav ...
  HASH(0x9bcae98)
• The Carnage Continues in Afghanistan
  By Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe A quiet city in the north of Afghanistan ignited today after yet another NATO night raid reportedly tore another family apart. Thousands of people took to the streets, again chanting, "Death to America!" as they pelted Karzai's billboards with mud and s ...
• The Carnage Continues in Afghanistan
  By Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe A quiet city in the north of Afghanistan ignited today after yet another NATO night raid reportedly tore another family apart. Thousands of people took to the streets, again chanting, "Death to America!" as they pelted Karzai's billboards with mud and s ...

Water Wars

• Water wars
  River guide Sam Cook of Mild to Wild River Rafting & Jeep Tours allows himself a quick chuckle Thursday afternoon before helping employees of The Palace Restaurant back into the raft after it “dump trucked” and deposited them at Corner Pocket Rapid during the Battle of the Animas.
• Water wars
  River guide Sam Cook of Mild to Wild River Rafting & Jeep Tours allows himself a quick chuckle Thursday afternoon before helping employees of The Palace Restaurant back into the raft after it “dump trucked” and deposited them at Corner Pocket Rapid during the Battle of the Animas.
• PENGERANG:
  Kuala Lumpur: MSM Malaysia Holdings Bhd's (MSM) initial public offering (IPO) is poised to raise around RM800 million for the sugar producer and its holding company.
• Fitch Releases Report on Tri-State Water Wars ...
  Fitch Ratings has published a report on Tri-State Water Wars .
• Report Could Give FL. Leverage In Water Wars
  A resurgence of the endangered fat threeridge mussel in the Apalachicola River could give Florida more legal leverage in a water dispute with neighboring Georgia. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service scientists plan to issue a new report Aug. 1 that investigates the effects of water flow on the...

WordPress | Economics

• Acts of Resistance and Flag Day - June 14th, 2011
  Wow – this is pretty cool and maybe a little dramatic. It could be a giant hoax or actually th
• Elections in Peru!
  Posted on Thu, Jun. 02,  2011 Fujimori, Humala contest Sunday polls in Peru BY JIM WYSS jwyss@MiamiH
• Egypt's Revolution: What Happened?
  by Tarek Heggy, Hudson New York, June 1, 2011 – A Description of What Happened: There is a poi
• The IMF—Keynes' Non-Candidate
  by Arvind Subramanian, Peterson Institute for International Economics Op-ed in Business Standard, Ne
• Economic and social survey of Asia and the Pac ...
  According to this report, produced annually by ESCAP, Asia-Pacific developing countries will continu

Electronic Intifada

• Rafah crossing open, but restrictions remain
  The Electronic IntifadaRafah The opening of Rafah on 28 May, the only official border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, has created a lifeline for Palestinians living in Gaza. But some, mostly refugees, will still be restricted to their localities because they lack identification�papers ...
• Second flotilla set to sail one year after mas ...
  Eva BartlettThe Electronic IntifadaGaza City A gleaming new memorial towers over the center of Gaza City’s battered port, bearing the names of the Turkish solidarity activists who died one year ago when Israeli commandos firing machine guns air-dropped onto the Freedom Flotilla.
• British prime minister steps down as JNF patron
  Asa WinstanleyThe Electronic IntifadaLondon The British prime minister has stepped down from his position as honorary patron of the Jewish National Fund (JNF). The move comes as pressure on the JNF steps up in Britain, and is being hailed by activists as a big victory in the boycott, divestment ...
• Returning to Safed in shackles
  Budour Youssef HassanThe Electronic Intifada Much attention has been paid to the marches of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and Syria to the borders with occupied Palestine, as well as the courageous protests at the Qalandiya checkpoint in the occupied West Bank and in Gaza. But Palestinians ins ...
• Israeli settlers emboldened by Netanyahu’s US ...
  Mel FrykbergThe Electronic IntifadaRamallah The leader of Israel�s most right-wing government since the establishment of the state 63 years ago, has returned to Israel with his popularity surging since talks with US President Barack Obama in�Washington.

Afghanistan Sun

• Killed Afghan defence ministry suicide attacke ...
  A suicide bomber who entered the Afghan defence ministry in an attempt to assassinate Abdul Rahim Wardak and killed three soldiers, had spent six years living in London, Afghan intelligence officials have claimed.
• US commander voices concern on Afghan draw down
  Lieutenant General David Rodriguez, commander of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force and deputy commander of U. S. Forces in Afghanistan, has voiced concern about the impending draw down of U.S. forces there, saying if the Afghan forces cannot take over the security responsibili ...
• Pakistan attacks militants near Afghan border
  PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani helicopters and artillery on Friday forced back militants who crossed over from Afghanistan this week and triggered battles that have killed at least 63 people, ...
• US, UK push for lifting UN sanctions against T ...
  The United States and the United Kingdom are pressing for United Nations sanctions against 18 former senior Taliban figures to be lifted.
• American soldiers who killed Afghan civilians ...
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Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• EPA tells POLITICO it will investigate DeLeon
  POLITICO reporter Robin Bravender released a story on Friday saying that EPA spokesperson Brendan Gilfillan promised that EPA would "look into" the allegations of the open letter the National Whistleblowers Center released last week. Gilfillan told Bravender that Jackson is “deeply committed to ...
• NWC calls on EPA to oust Civil Rights Director
  Today I am writing to Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and asking her to remove Mr. Rafael DeLeon, the Director of the EPA's Office of Civil Rights (OCR). Last month, Deloitte Consulting issued a report on OCR finding that it is essentially dysfunctio ...
• Senate confirms Carolyn Lerner
  Last Thursday, April 14, 2011, the Senate confirmed Carolyn Lerner as Special Counsel. This post, which investigates and takes positions on federal employee whistleblower allegations, has been vacant for over two years. I reported here last month about her confirmation hearing. Ms. Lerner has a ...
• Dodd-Frank CLE Seminar on April 28th in Austin ...
  On April 28th, Stephen Kohn, Executive Director at the National Whistleblowers Center will host a seminar entitled "The NEW Corporate Whistleblower Protections and Reward Provisions" from 2:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. (CST) in Austin, Texas.�The seminar is at the Radisson Hotel in Austin and is CLE-app ...
• NWC Executive Director will hold an open forum ...
  On Sunday April 10, 2011, Stephen Kohn, Executive Director at the National Whistleblowers Center, will be available at 5:00 pm (EST) for an online chat forum at Firedoglake’s Book Salon. The topic of this book salon will be The Whistleblower’s Handbook. For two hours Mr. Kohn will be holding an ...

Science Express

• Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
  If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
• Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratosph ...
  The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the ...
• After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
  Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
• Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
  A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
• New approach precisely tracks evolution's foot ...
  (PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for exampl ...

TechDirt

• iPad 2 Price Drops From 'Arm And A Leg' To Mor ...
  From Shanghai Daily comes this somewhat tragic tale of tech desire gone horribly wrong:A 17-year-old student in Anhui Province sold one of his kidneys for 20,000 yuan only to buy an iPad 2. Now, with his health getting worse, the boy is feeling regret but it is too late, the Global Times repor ...
• RIAA Says There's No Value In The Public Domain
  While I've already written about the hearings for the Copyright Office concerning copyright on pre-1972 sound recordings, but I wanted to call out one particularly egregious and ridiculous statement from the RIAA. The RIAA's Jennifer Pariser claimed that there's no value to a work in the public ...
• The One Situation Where Record Labels Fear Fed ...
  Last year, we were among those who noted a significant problem for sound recordings from about a century ago. While under federal copyright law, works published before 1923 are in the public domain, when it comes to sound recordings, it's a different story. That's because, for quite some time, ...
• People Concerned About Paul Allen's Ridiculous ...
  Last year, we covered Paul Allen's ridiculous patent lawsuit against a ton of tech companies. He claimed that all of these companies violated four incredibly broad patents he held: 6,263,507: "Browser for use in navigating a body of information, with particular application to browsing inform ...
• Entrepreneur Magazine's History Of Suing Entre ...
  Last fall, we wrote about Entrepreneur Magazine's ridiculous attempt to get an entrepreneur/writer/speaker who was pitching to use the name "entrepreneurology.com" to give up the domain. Trademarking the word "entrepreneur" seems particularly ridiculous, and BusinessWeek recently ran an excelle ...

VacTruth

• Top 5 Vaccine Stories for May
  We have scoured the web to bring you the top news headlines from around the world. Stay current in the latest affairs surrounding vaccines, Pharma, and the authorities who support them.Vactruth.com
• Vaccines Alternative to Thimerosal
  There’s an adage that goes something like this: “Jumping from the frying pan into the fire.” Perhaps that can apply to what’s been happening in vaccine manufacture since the trend is to replace Thimerosal (49.6% mercury) with this ‘safer’ and ‘less toxic’ substitute...Vactruth.com
• Rise In Childhood Food Allergies Being Linked ...
  UK newspapers played down the subject of food allergies, blaming anything from faddy eating to mental illness and stating that the incidence of true allergies were actually very low. I found many professionals are saying food allergies in children are on the increase. They are attributing this t ...
• Aluminum in Vaccines: Where Are the Safety Stu ...
  Since the 1930s vaccine makers have been using aluminum as an adjuvant in vaccines. As a matter of fact, when Congressman Dan Burton held his vaccine-autism link hearings from 1999-2004, the question that FDA was asked repeatedly was, Where are your [safety] studies? Vactruth.com
• UK Paediatrician and MSBP Expert Knew Babies S ...
  A UK paediatrician recorded 5 cases of sudden infant death syndrome, documenting the children's full vaccine status. Two of these children died very shortly after routine childhood vaccinations. If you want to see how the adverse reactions were ignored, read on.Vactruth.com

BroadSnark

• The Bad Actor Objection
  Have you ever seen the movie The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance?  My friend @JamesTulsaALL recommended it. He thought the movie addressed some important issues. He was right. For those of you who have not seen it. Jimmy Stewart is an attorney who heads out to the wild west to carve out his future. ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  Apparently, a bunch of activists have been killed in Brazil. Any of you know the details behind this? I’ve always been really annoyed that my mother didn’t teach me the other two languages she knows. Lots of my friends were in the same situation. In the sixties and early seventies, they were tel ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  Apparently, a bunch of activists have been killed in Brazil. Any of you know the details behind this? I’ve always been really annoyed that my mother didn’t teach me the other two languages she knows. Lots of my friends were in the same situation. In the sixties and early seventies, they were tel ...
• But Who Would Do ___ ?
  One thing that really seems to throw people for a loop, when I talk about a world without rulers, is how we would decide who does what. The really interesting thing about that question is what it says about life today. By asking that question, you are pretty much admitting that 1. People spend m ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  So Latin Americans seem to be digging up the past – literally, in the case of Chile. They exhumed Salvador Allende’s body and are hoping to determine once and for all if he committed suicide or was murdered during the U.S. sponsored coup. Meanwhile, in Guatemala, they are adding Arbenz (also, ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• The LaRouche Show, May 28, 2011
  What Obama and the Media Won’t Tell You: Disasters Threaten Your Food Supply
• Machinists Back Glass- Steagall: IAM Calls on ...
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, May 27, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 21
• Glass-Steagall Push Intersects Growing Mass-St ...
  by Nancy Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, May 27, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 21
• Ex-U.K. Intelligence Head: Blair Blatantly Lied!
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, May 27, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 21
• Battle Royal Shattering the British Empire
  by Jeffrey Steinberg Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, May 27, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 21

Armies of Liberation

• Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should ...
  Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should begin locally by Jane Novak After three months of bloody protests, millions of Yemenis remain steadfast—and on the streets—throughout the nation. They want Saleh and his entire regime gone. In Sanaa, skirmishes have broken out between opposing tribes ...
• Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should ...
  Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should begin locally by Jane Novak After three months of bloody protests, millions of Yemenis remain steadfast—and on the streets—throughout the nation. They want Saleh and his entire regime gone. In Sanaa, skirmishes have broken out between opposing tribes ...
• Injuries and fatalities in Yemen after anti-go ...
  In what may be the bloodiest day yet since anti-government protests broke out in Yemen two weeks ago, residents around Aden are reporting numerous fatalities as security forces opened fire on protesters in many districts throughout the day and evening Friday. Human Rights Watch issued a statemen ...
• Game changer in Yemen as protests swell
  In Egypt and Tunisia, the stance of the military was pivotal in the success of popular uprisings; in Yemen, it may be the tribes that are the determining factor. Anti-government protests across Yemen show no signs of abating. In Taiz, Yemen’s largest governorate, many who arrived last Friday are ...
• In Yemen, Many Protests, One Villain
  It was only sheer chance or serendipity perhaps that southern Yemen’s “Day of Rage” was scheduled for Friday, earning the #Feb11 hashtag on Twitter. The Southern Uprising Facebook page drew nearly two thousand members since its founding two weeks ago in a nation with 2 percent Internet penetrati ...

Dark Politricks

• Establishment Exploits OKC Bombing Victims To ...
• Knee-Jerk No Fly Ban Discredits Global Warming ...
  Fearmongering by Met Office voodoo scientists about planes dropping out of the sky contradicted by numerous successful test flights Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 19, 2010 With European governments coming under increasing pressure from airline groups to re-open airspace fo ...
• Air France, Lufthansa Press for Airspace Re-Op ...
  Gregory Viscusi and Brian Parkin Bloomberg April 19, 2010 Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air France- KLM Group and industry groups pressed European governments to loosen the unprecedented closing of the region’s airspace from last week’s Icelandic volcanic eruption as losses from the grounding of aircra ...
• NPR and CNN worry that Global Warming may have ...
  John Lott’s Website April 19, 2010 This is just too bizarre: Diana Rehm (NPR): We do wonder whether there’s human involvement in all of these eruptions, earthquakes, storms - Elise Labott (senior State Department producer for CNN): – and how much global warming has a role in it. You know we’ve ...
• Poll: Americans’ distrust of federal governmen ...
  Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers April 19, 2010 Already wary of the federal government, Americans have grown even more critical, less trusting and even fearful of Uncle Sam since President Barack Obama took office, according to an exhaustive new study being released Monday. The in-depth poll f ...

food and water watch

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

treehugger

• 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 ...

Biosingularity

• Mother’s diet during pregnancy alters ba ...
  A mother’s diet during pregnancy can alter the DNA of her child and increase the risk of obesity, according to researchers. The study, to be published in the journal Diabetes, showed that eating low levels of carbohydrate changed bits of DNA. It then showed children with these changes were fatt ...
• Study shows common lab dye is a wonder life ex ...
  Basic Yellow 1, a dye used in neuroscience laboratories around the world to detect damaged protein in Alzheimer’s disease, is a wonder drug for nematode worms. In a study appearing in the March 30, online edition of Nature, the dye, also known as Thioflavin T, (ThT) extended lifespan in healthy ...
• DNA Origami on Vimeo
• Long-Term Ecstasy Use May Damage the Brain
  Long-term users of the street drug ecstasy may be at increased risk of structural brain damage, new research suggests. Researchers in the Netherlands enlisted 10 men in their mid-20s and seven in their early 20s for the study. The 10 in the mid-20s were long-term users of ecstasy. The other seve ...
• Researchers make the leap to whole-cell simula ...
  Researchers have built a computer model of the crowded interior of a bacterial cell that â in a test of its response to sugar in its environment â accurately simulates the behavior of living cells. The new “in silico cells” are the result of a collaboration between experimental scientists at the ...

CFACT

• Purring to solve problem of feral cats
• Interview: Ben Zycher on Global Warming lawsuits
• Opening up the water spigot with private markets
• Hybrids not just for small cars anymore
• Improving air quality helps Americans breathe easy
  Air quality has improved so much that Clean Air Act actually saved lives over its first 20 years

Ria Novosti Online News

• Roland Garros – Sharapova’s missing Grand Slam
  Russia tennis star Maria Sharapova exited the 2011 French Open on June 2. Her best moments at Roland Garros this year are featured in an image gallery prepared by the R-Sport agency.
• Seven days in photographs. May 28 - June 3, 2011
  On June 2, Russia suspended imports of EU-produced vegetables on in a bid to prevent an E. coli outbreak from spreading into the country. At least 18 people have died as the result of the outbreak, centered on Germany.
• Medvedev says heads may roll over arms depot b ...
  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov to launch an investigation into two explosions at military arms depots and warned that dismissals may be necessary.
• At London meet, Russia works to overcome inves ...
  Several dozen international investors with money to spend in emerging markets gathered in London for a rare opportunity to meet the management of Russia's top companies face-to-face.
• Moscow police arrest neo-Nazi woman for race-h ...
  Moscow police said on Friday they have arrested a female skinhead accused of committing a race-hate murder four years ago.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• European ATV-2 space freighter readjusts ISS orbit
  Russia's Mission Control raised the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) by 3.74 km (2.3 miles), to 346,4 km (215.2 miles).
• EU urges Russia to end ban on vegetable imports
  The European Commission urged Russia on Thursday to lift its ban on the import of raw vegetables from EU nations over a deadly E.coli outbreak.
• Space shuttle Endeavour returns to Earth after ...
  The space shuttle Endeavour has landed at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, bringing its 25th and final spaceflight to a close.
• German scientists take pause in efforts to mak ...
  German scientists said they will suspend their efforts to synthesize element 120 on Wednesday morning, the project's chief scientist Sigurd Hofmann told RIA Novosti.
• Shuttle in ISS re-approach sensor test
  The space shuttle Endeavour, which finally undocked from the International Space Station at 3:55 GMT, is flying a re-approach to the station for a Detailed Test Objective known as STORRM (Sensor Test for Orion Relative Navigation Risk Mitigation), NASA said on Monday.

Pruning Shears

• Mansfield Frazier: Inclusion is the only answe ...
  Guest post by Mansfield Frazier“White people got more in common with colored people then they do with rich people” - Fictional character Sen. Jay Billington BulworthDuring the 50’s, 60’s and much of the 70’s Blacks literally owned the Civil Rights Movement in America. We went from the back of th ...
• Mansfield Frazier: Inclusion is the only answe ...
  Guest post by Mansfield Frazier“White people got more in common with colored people then they do with rich people” - Fictional character Sen. Jay Billington BulworthDuring the 50’s, 60’s and much of the 70’s Blacks literally owned the Civil Rights Movement in America. We went from the back of th ...
• Fracking Mobilization - Saturday, June 4 in Solon
  Saturday, June 43:00 PMPlanning Meeting of Cuyahoga County citizens concerned about slick water hydrofracing in our county.Where: Panera at 6130 Kruse Drive, Solon, OH 44139This meeting is being planned by a coalition of enviornmental and civic groups, among them NE Ohio Sierra Club, Enviornment ...
• Weekend wrapup
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. As in:Hundreds of civilians have been killed in the US-led airstrikes and ground operations in various parts of Afghanistan over the past ...
• Weekend wrapup
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Spc. Brandon M. Kirton, 25, of Centennial, CO.Army Pvt. Cheizray Pressley, 21, of North Charlesto ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Charges of Corruption Taint Organic Trade Asso ...
  Click here to read this article
• Good News in Nevada on Health Freedom
  Thank you to Nevada Assemblyman John C. Ellison for advocating for a last minute successful health freedom amendment that makes it clear that the Nevada Dietitian licensing bill AB289 will not apply to a person "who furnishes nutrition information, provides recommendations or advice concerning ...
• Humans May Have Loaded the Bases, but Nature B ...
  Humanity is facing a challenge unlike any we've ever had to confront. We are in an unprecedented period of change. Exponential growth is causing an already huge human population to double in shorter and shorter time periods. Click here to read this article
• Natural and Organic Products Industry Sales Hi ...
  BOULDER, Colo.-- Natural Foods Merchandiser magazine's 2010 Market Overview reports healthy growth for the natural and organic products industry. With more than $81 billion in total revenue last year, the industry grew 7 percent over 2009, showing that consumers are spending again and that the n ...
• European Leaders Don't Want Cell Phones and Wi ...
  A Council of Europe committee examined evidence that the cell phones and wireless internet connections have "potentially harmful" effects on humans, and decided that immediate action was required to protect children. They ruled that the technologies pose a health risk and should be banned from s ...

Center for a Livable Future

• Nationwide Poll: 80% of America’s Moms are Con ...
  When moms talk you can bet lawmakers listen, not to mention food retailers. That is exactly what the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming is counting on following the release of a nationwide poll of 804 American moms, which found that 80 percent are concerned that food animals pro ...
• India develops sound policy on antibiotic use ...
  India is the most recent country to address the public health concerns associated with the use of non-therapeutic antimicrobials in food animal production, and in doing so, may just leap-frog the United States. India’s Directorate General of Health Services recently released a policy docume ...
• Study on Drug-Resistant Staph and Store-Bought ...
  According to a recently published nationwide study of grocery store meats, the next time you handle a piece of meat or poultry bought at your local supermarket there is nearly a 50 percent chance that it will be carrying drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (Staph). The Translational Genomics Re ...
• U.S. Dept. of the Interior among 2,000 Sodexo ...
  The Meatless Monday campaign just gained America’s protector of natural resources and heritage as one of its latest supporters. The U.S. Department of the Interior is one of Sodexo’s more than 2,000 corporate and government clients, which the food service giant encouraged to adopt its Meatless M ...
• Corn Panic
  By Dr. Dennis Keeney, Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future The USDA 2011 Prospective Plantings Report was one of the most anticipated planting reports in several years. It came on the heels of a shocking Grain Stocks Report issued last month, which showed that corn stocks ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• The chances of life arising randomly...
  Grant Jacobs from Sciblogs, and another commenter, have been debating on this thread about junk dna and the origin of life. [Update, Grant now admits his phrasing was loose and that he wasn't intending to bring in the origin of...
• Climate scientist admits - climate science is ...
  Former journal editor and climate scientist Hans van Storch has blamed climate scientists around the world for turning their profession into a public laughing stock. Of course, the diplomatic Storch is not quite that blunt, but it's an accurate paraphrase...
• An Intelligent Design debate with Sciblogs...
  I haven't really had a decent design bunfight for a long time....but Sciblogger Grant made this statement in one of our comments threads which I couldn't resist: This seems to fit a different discourse. I didn’t say “evolution disproved G-d”....
• Education propaganda on climate change
  I've come into possession of this year's Year 9 New Zealand high school social studies curriculum book...and would you take a look at the global warming propaganda thinly disguised as "education": The document is ludicrous, has no source citations for...
• Master of the leading question?
  All of us in the polling game can ask some pretty hairy questions occasionally, but the one David Farrar's Curia company carried out for the Republican Movement had me rolling on the floor with laughter. Lewis Holden of the Republicans...

My Care2 Picks

• Climate change: evidence from the geological r ...
  The Council of the Society is issuing this statement as part of the Society�s work �to promote all forms of education, awareness and understanding of the Earth and their practical applications for the benefit of the public globally�.Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Ad ...
• No Excuse - Our global food system is broken
  There is no good reason why anyone should go hungry. The world can feed every single one of us. The problem is the way we grow and share food. Submitted by Michael O. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Senate panel approves ban on oil spill dispersants
  A Senate committee has approved a Slidell lawmaker�s proposal to ban the use of dispersants in responding to an oil spill in Louisiana waters, which extend three miles into the Gulf.Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Abdullah Hashem versus The New World Order
  joint collaborator on the sensational and controversial hit-Internet series, The Arrivals, that created a furor in cyberspace almost three years ago. Online films probe the hidden agendas of greedy corporations, governments and media HT Mack DavidSubmitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture � ...
• Propaganda for Breakfast, Propaganda for Lunch ...
  Questions to ask: Who makes money, and benefits when a nation wages war? Is it the soldiers? Is it the �people� of the nation which wages war? It is certainly easy to see who pays the biggest price for war when you think about… Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Not ...

Angry Indian News

• French lawyers to sue Sarkozy over crimes in Libya
  French lawyers to sue Sarkozy over crimes in Libya: "Two French lawyers said they planned to initiate legal proceedings against French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday for crimes against humanity... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• French lawyers to sue Sarkozy over crimes in Libya
  French lawyers to sue Sarkozy over crimes in Libya: "Two French lawyers said they planned to initiate legal proceedings against French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday for crimes against humanity... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Syed Saleem Shahzad, RIP — Registan.net
  Syed Saleem Shahzad, RIP — Registan.net: "Syed Saleem Shahzad, the Pakistan Bureau Chief of the Asia Times Online, has been found dead near his car in Sarai Alamgir, about 200 kilometres from... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Peru: 10,000 Aymaras Protesting Transnational ...
  Peru: 10,000 Aymaras Protesting Transnational Mining Company « Earth First! Newswire: cross-posted from Intercontinentalcry.org - For the past three weeks, more than 10,000 Indigenous People, mostly... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Hunger strike spreads to remote jails | Democr ...
  Hunger strike spreads to remote jails | Democratic Voice of Burma: "Influential monk Ashin Gambira is among a group of political prisoners in the remote Kale jail in northern Burma who began a hunger... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

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

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - ...
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• How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and ex ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• NATO report threatens to 'persecute' Anonymous
  ShareThisNATO report threatens to 'persecute' Anonymous --Hacktivist grouped named as threat by military alliance 01 Jun 2011 NATO leaders have been warned that WikiLeaks-loving 'hacktivist' collective Anonymous could pose a threat to member states' security, following recent attacks on the US C ...
• Fukushima fallout spurs bans on green tea
  ShareThisFukushima fallout spurs bans on green tea 03 Jun 2011 Japan has slapped new restrictions on green tea and plums from areas around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant because of lingering radioactive contamination from the ongoing disaster there. The latest government bans were pro ...
• Four killed in oil refinery blast
  ShareThisFour killed in oil refinery blast 03 Jun 2011 An oil refinery blast in which four people were killed appears to have been a "tragic industrial accident", police said today. The blast at Chevron Refinery, Pembroke Dock, south Wales shook the surrounding area around 6.20pm last night. The ...
• Palin Bus Tour Collides With Romney Presidenti ...
  ShareThisPalin Bus Tour Collides With Romney Presidential Announcement 03 Jun 2011 Sarah Palin crashed her red, white and blue bus into Mitt Romney's party yesterday, sweeping into New Hampshire for the final leg of her multiday East Coast tour as he was in the state declaring his candidacy for ...
• New Habitat Protections Proposed for Endangere ...
  ShareThisNew Habitat Protections Proposed for Endangered Hawaiian Monk Seals 01 Jun 2011 The federal government has proposed to designate more than 11,000 square miles of critical habitat for endangered Hawaiian monk seals. The proposed rule protects beaches and coastal waters on all the main Ha ...

Daily Loaf

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