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EXCLUSIVE: WI State Election Board Failed to Review Minutes from Waukesha County 'Recount' Before Certifying Supreme Court Election Results
Last Monday, May 23rd, Wisconsin's Government Accountability Board (G.A.B.), the state's top election agency, officially certified [PDF] the controversial results of the extraordinarily close April 5th statewide Supreme Court election and its subsequent "recount." However, as The BRAD BLOG has learned, the agency certified those results without reviewing hundreds of official exhibits documenting
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Electromagnetic effects on Honeybees confirmed in scientific studies
Mobile phone-induced honeybee worker piping Daniel FAVRE Scientific collaborator in the Laboratory of Cellular Biotechnology (LBTC), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology(EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland Abstract – The worldwide maintenance of the honeybee has major ecological, economic, and political implications. In the present study, electromagnetic waves originating from mobile phones were teste
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 Nobel prize-winning economist, assisted by Sandile Hlatshwayo, a researcher at New York University. The tw
Hang on to Your Balls, Folks! Cyber-Wars, here We Come!
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 journalists–claims which, according to the BBC, China rejects. Here’s Op Ed News director, Rob Kall’s take o
Clarence Thomas’s Conflict Of Interest On Affordable Care Act
. Clarence and Ginni Thomas, promoting a Tea Party event on Fox News. Clarence Thomas’s conflict of interest on Affordable Care Act by Joan McCarter for Daily Kos Tue May 31, 2011 at 06:01 PM PDT Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has somewhat of a conflict just being a justice, concerning the very right-wing and very prominent political activities of his wife, Ginni. But that conflict is parti
Green & White ★ 5
Signs of a growing market? Blend.pk a job search engine
The job portal market has been growing rapidly for last few years, we have rozee.pk, mutakbil and brightspyre to name a few. Blend.pk goes a step ahead and instead of creating another job board, they create an aggregator for existing job sites. A very neat Idea, for some one looking for jobs it does not really matter which job portal and site he has membership of. Also it eliminates the need to cr
CEO Talks : It’s not about low costs any more.
Image linked from http://www.computerworlduk.com/ I had an interesting discussion with a CEO of a software development firm on running costs. Will try to encapsulate the conversation and shed some light on it. Few years back, starting a Software Business was easy, gather a few clients (or find references through your teachers and seniors), setup an office space (preferably a residential house at l
Pakistan gets its first Google Adwords Certified Partner
It gives me great pleasure to announce that we have First Person who is Certified as Google AdWord Partner. Mudassar Saeed Khan is an SEO and Online Marketing professional from Islamabad who has achieved this feat. It is strange that we have so many Firms claiming to do digital marketing and still did not have a certified AdWord partner, But nothing to take away from this young gentleman who has
Textualy: SMS-Based Customer Engagement Solution
With so many ‘texting’ deals and devices floating all around for cell phone users, textualy has found a unique niche. Going to be launched soon, textualy offers SMS-based customer engagement solution for businesses. Textualy is more than SMS marketing. It enables businesses to engage their customers via two-way texting. They can send discount coupons or product updates, run reward programs, and cr
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Want an Equitable Economy? Start Building One Based on Abundance
By Chris Rabb Guest Contributor Colorlines.com Something’s gone horribly wrong economically in this country, so highly regarded across the globe for its spirit of enterprise and golden opportunity. And while it’s true that from the greatest challenges arise the greatest opportunities, it is also true that things are getting objectively worse for already struggling communities, who for generat
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Cephalodrone.
by Amy Lauren Recommend this post at Progressive Bloggers
Obama’s Citizenship & Race: Separated at Birth?
It never ceases to amaze me how eager some white liberals are to divorce race from political analysis when it comes to Obama. Bob Somerby of the Daily Howler (who seems to have settled nicely into his blogospheric role as the curmudgeonly Luddite uncle who refuses to replace his black and white TV with a flat-screen plasma because, goddammit, a 10″ Zenith was good enough for Al Gore back in colle
Amygdala ★ 1
You Have The Right To Freeze And Be Utterly Silent
YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO FREEZE AND BE UTTERLY SILENTThe Fourth Amendment continues to be onion-peeled into nothingness. KENTUCKY v. KING puts another nail in the coffin as police gain the right to kick in your door simply because they hear movement within your dwelling.Obviously that's probable cause, because noise indicates a crime. Does that make sense to you? It does to 8 out of 9 members
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Drastic Texas Public Education Cuts On The Way—Texas Progressive Alliance Round-Up
At the end of this post is weekly Texas Progressive Alliance Round-up. The TPA is a confederation of the best political bloggers in Texas. TPA members are citizen-bloggers who are working hard for a better Texas. With the round-up this week is a reminder that former Republican Texas Governor Bill Clements, who died last week, signed a $5.8 billion tax bill in his second term as Governor to fund pu
Facts About Juneteenth—The Freedom Of All People Is Connected
What is Juneteenth? Juneteenth is the celebration to mark the end of slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1865, Union General Gordon Granger, landing at Galveston, Texas, made the announcement that the Civil War was over and that slaves were free. (Above–Ashton Villa. It was from the balcony of this house that the Emancipation Proclamation was read in the event now known as Juneteenth. Phot
Events Of American Revolution Do Not Offer Clear Answers For Today’s Issues—Everybody Is Welcome At Our Great Historical Sites
With the Fourth of July just over a month away, it’s time we take back our history from the right-wing Tea Party extremists who have been allowed to commandeer some portion of our past. The so-called Tea Party wants to use our shared American history in the service of the very un-American ideals of exclusion, and of benefiting the rich over the working man and woman. One such Tea Party cell in my
Circumstances Of Houston Police Officer Kevin Will’s Death Leaves Individuals With A Choice About How To Respond
The circumstances behind the on-duty death of Houston police officer Kevin Will leaves individuals with a choice. Officer Will was killed by a man who, according to reports, is in the United States illegally and who was driving drunk. People can go on with the reflexive hatred and anger such we see from this reader comment on the Houston Chronicle online in reference to the driver who allegedly ki
Staircases To Nowhere—I Have Confidence You Can Find An Alternate Route
(Below–Galveston Seawall.) (Below–Downtown Houston.) (Below–The Alki Beach area of Seattle.) (Below–Galveston Seawall.) (Below–Tony Marrow Park in Houston.) (Below— Serpentine Wall leading to the Ohio River in Cincinnati.) (All photos copyright Neil Aquino.) The good news is that most often we can find an alternate route. Don’t let other people construct your world.
Either You Run The Blog Or The Blog Runs You
I’m taking a day to catch up with some personal e-mail. Either you run the blog, or the blog runs you. As I catch-up, please enjoy this picture I took yesterday at the Houston Arboretum and Nature Center. I’m very much a city person, but nature is good as long as it is contained in a nice safe park. Thanks for reading Texas Liberal.
ALL THINGS PAKISTAN ★ 25
Pakistan’s Population Bomb
Faris Islam Amongst the tide of dismal economic data released ahead of the budget presentation are building the currents of the next crisis that could inundate Pakistan. While media attention remains fixated – rightly so – on shorter-term problems such as the ever-growing threat of militancy, the cresting polarization of society, a recurring power crisis and an inflation rate that only seems to r
Afridi ke Nakhray: Let Afridi be Afridi
Tamashbeen Shahid Afridi is being Shahid Afridi again. And I say he has every right to be Shahid Afridi. A star this big deserves a few tantrums. And his performance to glory ratio is still a great average. Nor is the “other side” in this case – the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) – a great horde of angels. So, I say, Let Shahid Afridi be Shahid Afridi. Let the man have his tantrum! As far as I am co
Budgetary Performance: Finance Minister v. Parliamentary Opposition
Tamashbeen There were two performances in the Pakistan parliament today. The presentation of the 2011-2012 budget by Finance Minister Hafeez Sheikh and the protest tamasha by the parliamentary opposition. Personally, I was disappointed in both performances. But much more in the later than the first. But maybe I am being a ‘harsh grader.’ So I do want to find out how our readers feel, so here is an
Death of a Journalist. Warning to a Nation.
Adil Najam Pakistanis have gotten used to feeling unsafe and afraid. Today they are feeling even more unsafe and afraid. And that is no accident. Afraid and unsafe is exactly how the butchers who tortured and then murdered Syed Saleem Shahzad want us to feel. Those who brutally murdered journalist, and author of the recent book Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, Syed Saleem Shahzad clearly wanted t
Grading Our Leaders: Analyzing Our Polls
Adil Najam Over the last two years we have asked ATP readers to grade and rate Pakistan’s power centers – the President, the Prime Minister, the Chief Justice, the Chief of Army Staff, the Leader of the Opposition, and the Media – on five occasions: first in June 2009 (~800+ respondents) and September 2009 for the Media (~760 respondents), then in April 2010 (~875 respondents), October 2010 (~100
Mystery Solved: Why Students Cheat?
Tamashbeen Have you ever wondered why students, specially Pakistani students, cheat. A news reporter from The Express Tribune has finally cracked the mystery. ‘We cheat only to pass our exams’ screams the headline. In case you did not already know, students cheat only because they need to pass their exams, otherwise they would never do such a thing! One should, of course, not be unfair to the news
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A Dying River Runs Through It
See this sobering article on the coming craziness concerning China's water problems. It only scratches the surface of what China faces as a whole - decreasing water volume and increasing water pollution. Although the precise melting rate lacks scientific consensus, glacial melting in the Tibetan Plateau threatens China’s principal source of freshwater (and that of South/Southeast Asia in general)
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A Hundred Years of the Atom
As we know it, that is.A hundred years ago today, Ernest Rutherford published a paper, “The Scattering of α and β Particles by Matter and the Structure of the Atom,” in the Philosophical Magazine. He described atoms as we visualize them today, with most of the mass concentrated in a tiny nucleus. The full story is here.That's one of those facts that give great power to science. From that discovery
Cancer Risks from Radiation
What most people want to know when they read about a reactor accident like Fukushima is how dangerous it is, particularly to themselves. The media responds poorly to the desire for that information, not without good reason.The link between radiation and cancer risk is complex and difficult to understand, particularly for low doses of radiation, which is what most people, including reactor operator
Increased Cancer Risks From Radiation for Workers and Children in Japan
I’ve finally gotten to where I’ve wanted to be in working through BEIR VII: capable of evaluating radiation doses at Fukushima in terms of health risk. I would have liked to have been able to evaluate the radiation readings at various places around Japan in terms of health risk, but that is a few steps further still. I have a busy summer coming up, and I may not be able to get to that.It’s too bad
What Are the Lockheed Martin Hackers Looking For?
This week brought an announcement of a very big hack: Lockheed Martin said that it had thwarted unauthorized entry to its computers by apparently the same hackers who got the secret of the RSA SecureID tokens, cards that generate random numbers in sync to authenticate users of computer systems. According to Lockheed, no harm was done because of their system security features.That is, of course, th
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Miriam Karlin
I mark with great sorrow the death of my friend Miriam Karlin. Even I am too young to remember when she was at her most famous, one of the biggest stars of British television in the early 1960′s. A RADA and RSC actress of great distinction, she maintained that the same discipline of performance needs to be applied to sitcom work, and that is why sitcoms seldom do work nowadays. Of course I knew
Trouble Abroad for Clegg
The IoS did a splendid job of presenting my article. But the original, before editing for space, was rather more stylish, i feel. You might also note that the passage on Libya was an addition at the resquest of the IoS. I suggest I think my headlune was rather better: Trouble Abroad for Clegg I recently received a circular email from a friend, a Liberal Democrat activist, a well known and respe
Illiberal Foreign Policy
In today’s Independent on Sunday I attack coalition foreign policy and the lack of any liberal element in it. Given continuing technical problems with comments here, I shall respond on the IoS site to any comments there requiring a response.
English FA Faces Carpet Bombing
Some news just wants to make you dig a hole and gibber quietly at the bottom of it. Henry Kissinger is being brought in by Sepp Blatter to advise on cleaning up corruption in FIFA! I expect Lord Triesman and Chuck Blazer to be disappeared by death squads, and carpet bombing in the Lancaster Gate area. Comments: ————————————— mary 2011/06/02 at 1:00 pm Putting the fox in charge of the chicken run
Age
I was a guest at David Grace’s 60th birthday party in Cambridge at the weekend. I gave him a copy of Kropotkin’s “Mutual Aid” as a present. In writing it to him, I was hit with what I think was a happy inspiration: “You are always as young as you are radical.” I intend to hold on to that thought for the rest of my life. I am sorry that comments are off at the moment while the Intense Debate peop
The Strange Death of Corporatist Britain
[Moderator's note - sorry, comments are not working at present] After the most intense bombardment of Tripoli yet, we are now deploying ground attack helicopters to intensify the fighting in Libya. Whether all this is really going to achieve the illegal objective of regime change is open to question. What is in no doubt is that it is killing people, and it is very expensive. In April 2011, UK n
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Cameron admits Hizb ut-Tahrir can’t be banned
Today’s Observer has this nugget: The Conservative manifesto named Hizb ut-Tahrir as a group it wanted to proscribe; in 2009 the then shadow home secretary, Chris Grayling, promised to “immediately ban” the group if the Tories were elected. But they won’t. The new Prevent review – on how the government deals with counter-terrorism – will avoid anything on Hizb ut-Tahrir. Its hardly surprising thou
Campaigning against societal norms and customs
Nesrine Malik has a good piece on the Women2Drive campaign in Saudi Arabia and the difficulties faced by campaigners who are protesting against customs rather than just laws: Manal al-Sharif, the woman who attracted global attention to the Saudi Women2Drive campaign when she posted videos of herself driving on YouTube, was released earlier this week from Dammam prison. As a condition of her releas
EDL’s “Sikh” spokesman Guramit “Singh” has suddenly resigned
Regular readers will be aware of my recent article (Part 1, Part 2) highlighting the full scale of the English Defence League spokesman’s continuous lying in his extremely dishonest, rambling “open letter” directly addressing the numerous British Sikhs who have condemned the EDL. The next day, Guramit posted the following message on Facebook, suddenly announcing his resignation: Readers can make
Why the murder of journalist Saleem Shahzad matters
Pakistani TV is reporting that the body found today of a dead man was indeed that of journalist Saleem Shahzad. I hadn’t heard of this case earlier but I’ve been horrified by it. A few days ago Shahzad wrote an investigative article for Asia Times pointing out that Al-Qaeda elements and the Pakistani navy had been negotiating over some prisoners. When the talks broken down, Karachi naval base got
Moscow gay pride protest marchers attacked
Peter Tatchell, who went to Moscow to protest against the government’s decision to ban the gay pride march, reports on the violence directed against him and others by both neo-Nazis and the police. A number of observers pointed out the collusion between the neo-Nazis and the police: I went to City Hall to protest but was separated from our Moscow Gay Pride group. Neo-Nazis identified me for attack
Geneticist warns of dangers of cousin marriage
Professor Steve Jones, a highly respected geneticist, has warned about the dangers of inbreeding. Using Bradford as an example, he pointed out that 75% of Pakistanis in Bradford marry their cousins: ‘There may be some evidence that cousins marrying one another can be harmful,’ he told an audience at the Hay Festival. ‘We should be concerned about that as there can be a lot of hidden genetic damag
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Zionist Food Coop of Sacramento
Faced with the competitive peril of the direct delivery of organic produce by local farmers, it is hard to imagine how the embrace of Zionism by the Sacramento Natural Foods Coop is going to help.
The Counterrevolution
Day by day, the US/Israeli/Saudi directed counterrevolution intensifies the violence in North Africa and the Middle East. In Libya, NATO military operations obstensibly launched to prevent a mass slaughter of civilians is now being conducted for the express purpose overthrowing the Gaddafi regime. Predictably, an intervention originally described as one of limited duration has become open-ended,
A Memorial Day Reflection
A voice from the past: Wartime brings the ideal of the State out into very clear relief, and reveals attitudes and tendencies that were hidden..In times of peace the sense of the State flags in a republic that is not militarized.. For war is essentially the health of the State. The ideal of the State is that within its territory its power and influence should be universal. As the Church is the med
Weekend Reading
Sometimes, I read As'ad Abukhalil's blog, and wonder, what's the point of this one? Here are a couple of examples of important articles linked there over the weekend. First, this one by Christine Ahn and Kavita Ramdas: The IMF has earned its villainous reputation in the Global South because in exchange for loans, governments must accept a range of austerity measures known as structural adjustmen
BART: One of the Great Modernist Projects
Peter Hartlaub has posted a number of graphic photographs from the late 1950s and early 1960s at SFGate about the still unfulfilled ambitions of the planners of BART. Of course, there is the iconic picture of an imaginary BART train going across the Golden Gate Bridge, but are some other delightful ones as well. The introductory image is an early BART fare card from 1974.Burrito Justice has also
Obama's Speech: The Ghost of Carterism
Earlier today, President Obama delivered a speech concerning US objectives in the Middle East and North Africa. Overall, As'ad Abukhalil probably has it right: It is not that it brought nothing new: It was not even novel or original rhetorically. I don't see any reason why he delivered it.The tiresome centerpiece of this speech was this gem about Palestine: So while the core issues of the confli
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On not reading V.S. Naipaul
by Doctor Science It's not often that I disagree with either hilzoy or Ta-Nehesi Coates, and rarer still for me to disagree with both of them at once, but today I do. The source describes this as "1892 woman writing impressionist painting", but I haven't been able to figure out who it's by. It's in the style of Gauguin, but I can't find it in any of the Gauguin archives online. Backstory: V.S
Coming out of the woodwork post friday open post
I'm headed to Kurume for a weekend. While I have been told that Kurume has the highest number of love hotels per capita in Japan, I'm going there for other reasons. What's up with your weekend?
Google wipes its maps clean of Indian Reservations
by Doctor Science Stephen Bridenstine is a grad student at the University of British Columbia studying the image of Indians (aka Native Americans) in non-Native American culture. He noticed (h/t Sociological Images): Sometime between the first week of February and the last week of May, American Indian reservations disappeared from Google Maps!Back in February 2011, I wrote a blog post titled Stra
Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves
by Doctor Science Since my last post here about Ogi Ogas & Sai Gaddam's A Billion Wicked Thoughts we've had more Fun Times together. Some of the ensuing discussions have been very helpful for me in clarifying things I "just know", and in spotting the problems with some of other people's conventional wisdom: for instance, that men are "sexually more visual" than
Your Friday Sports Equipment open thread
by liberal japonicus I started playing table tennis slightly more seriously than usual about 2 years ago. A good friend of mine who did Chinese as an undergrad and played a lot both while living in Guangdong and when he came back, was looking for a partner to take lessons with him and asked me. I said sure, why not. More below the fold, but just jump into the comments if you have something else to
Are We Reaping the Whirlwind?
by Doctor Science It's going to be another very, very bad weather day in the Midwest: From the National Weather Service. Specifically: From Weather.com; more details there. If you are in the zone, please make sure you are never more than 15 minutes from a solid, preferably underground tornado shelter this afternoon. Monitor local TV/radio closely! And when the sky gets that sickly greenish c
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Muslim women: The British gender-jihad
There are many reasons to be glum if you are a Muslim living in Britain today. For starters, a 2010 YouGov poll revealed that the overwhelming majority of respondents in Britain believe that Islam is synonymous with both extremism and the repression of women. And many Muslims believe that Britain is becoming increasingly Islamophobic. But some might be surprised to learn that despite frustration a
Middle East: Palestine’s unity agreement is a golden opportunity for all
The Egyptian-brokered Palestinian “national unity” agreement between the two main Palestinian factions, Fatah and Hamas, took the world by surprise when it was announced on 27 April. Palestinians hope this internal peace deal – officially inaugurated in Cairo last Wednesday – will bring an end to years of infighting and conflict, and mend the burnt bridges between Fatah, which currently dominates
Islamic charities: Building donor confidence through transparency
Earlier this month, many charities and nonprofits filed a crucial transparency, marketing, and financial form that will boost the confidence of their donor base: their informational tax return. While annual individual tax return filings are well behind us, many organizations were required to file the Form 990 to the Internal Revenue Service by May 15. It often comes as a surprise to many charit
Presidential candidate Herman Cain: Stupidity from a smart man
Not too long ago, Atlanta-based commentator, successful businessman, and potential presidential candidate Herman Cain, was asked whether there was a place for a Muslim appointee in his administration. His response: “No.” He followed with “There is this creeping attempt to gradually ease Sharia law and the Muslim faith into our government. It does not belong in our government.” Cain is no doubt a b
Society: It’s time to take back our civil liberties
It took the United States government nearly 10 years to hunt down and kill Osama bin Laden in retribution for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Over that same period, Muslims struggled to overcome guilt by association for the criminal acts of bin Laden. Meanwhile, all Americans were forced to give up civil liberties in a purported exchange for more security. As part of its concerted war on terror, the
Libya uprising: Why intervention in Libya is justified
President Obama has become the target of a lot of criticism from the Republicans in the U.S. and from many anti-West critics in Europe and the Arab World. The criticisms present a plethora of reasons why the US should not have intervened in the Libyan civil war. These criticisms also come with attendant accusations of imperialism and war mongering. Some of the Republican critics of Obama are disin
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So that explains it...
A similar gag has been doing the rounds, but you can trust Viz to make it official:Also in the latest issue:
Decriminalisation has to begin somewhere.
Those dreaded words: "celebrities urge". It's an open invitation for mockery, the seeking out of alleged hypocrisy (something this blog would certainly never sink to) and the age-old accusation of the esteemed elite deciding that's what good for them is good for everyone. If those words are enough on their own for the spluttering to begin, then add drugs into the equation and the phlegm* dislodg
The continuing sorry saga in Libya.
Doesn't time fly when you're bombing other people's countries? It was only a couple of weeks ago that the very last British troops left Iraq, ending our involvement there some 8 years after we first joined in with Operation Iraqi Freedom, although we probably should properly date it back to 1991, considering we were involved in policing the no fly zone right up until March 2003. Come October it'
Links dump.
Hopeless time management today. Have some links as a feeble replacement for an actual post:Left Outside - The Financial Sector is still bad for Britain, and everyone elseHeresy Corner - Polly Toynbee, the baroness and the chavsBenSix - Lay off the damn sodas!
How can someone so right also be so wrong?
Apologies in advance for this latest completely subjective moan about the ever dreadful state of modern popular music.A top record executive has launched a damning attack on music industry attitudes, claiming the insistence on over-sexualising female artists has led to "boring, crass and unoriginal" music.Well, to be slightly more accurate, it isn't just the over-sexualisation of recent years, it'
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‘The Sociopath Next Door’: ‘Sovereign’ on a Rampage
Three useful tips for dealing with an antigovernment “sovereign citizen”: 1. Don’t ask him for his driver’s license. 2. Don’t ask him, “Did you file your federal tax return yet?” 3. Don’t run out of crawfish. A man claiming to be a sovereign citizen – that is, someone who, though living in this country, claims to be exempt from [...]
Imprisoned Cult Leader and Child Rapist Faces $66 Million Judgment
An Arkansas jury yesterday awarded $33 million to each of two men who were ordered beaten as teenagers by cult leader Tony Alamo — a man who is now serving a 175-year sentence for sexually assaulting child “brides” as young as 8 years old and who has a long history of ordering brutal assaults on [...]
Hate Group Applauds Drudge Report Coverage of ‘Black Crime’
As Salon noted earlier this week, the Drudge Report has lately been rife with what the online publisher calls “scary black people” stories. Since President Obama’s election, the extremely popular conservative website has run headline after headline about crimes committed by African Americans. Salon describes the general theme as “blacks are rising up and attacking [...]
Council of Conservative Citizens Networking with Racist Skinheads
Seems the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC) has some new allies these days. The group’s Tennessee chapter is co-hosting a June 18 barbeque with two notorious skinhead groups, Volksfront and Blood and Honour, according to postings on the chapter’s website and other racist forums. The event, whose contact is easttnskin83@yahoo.com, is being held for “networking [...]
Former Cops Sentenced in Cover-Up of Immigrant’s Beating Death
Two former Pennsylvania police officers convicted of working to cover up the beating death of a Mexican immigrant more than two years ago – a hate crime that turned the nation’s attention to swelling violence against Latinos – have been sentenced to prison. Former Shenandoah Police Chief Matthew Nestor on Wednesday was handed a prison sentence [...]
‘Defending’ the West, One Word At A Time – Geller Joins WorldNetDaily
Pamela Geller, one of the most visible and influential agitators in the anti-Muslim fear-mongering movement, has an even taller soapbox now that the far-right website WorldNetDaily (WND) announced this week that she would produce a weekly column called “Defending the West” – a column dedicated to her belief that Islam is an “extreme ideology” populated [...]
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No "Conspiracy Theory": Wikileaks Cable Confirms North American Unio
No "Conspiracy Theory": Wikileaks Cable Confirms North American Union Agenda Mission to merge United States, Canada and Mexico into monetary and political
Drudge Drives TSA Controversy To Viral Status
Drudge Drives TSA Controversy To Viral Status Much to the chagrin of the establishment media, Matt Drudge is still the King of Internet news Paul Joseph Watson
TSA On The Ropes; Budget Slashed, Texas Grope Ban Returns
TSA On The Ropes; Budget Slashed, Texas Grope Ban Returns Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst has "change of heart," sends HB 1937 to Rick Perry Paul Joseph Watson Prison
TSA Caving To Pat Down Pressure?
TSA Caving To Pat Down Pressure? TSA manager tells Alaska Senator that agency is considering changing its policies Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com
Nanny State Betrays Decline and Fall of America
Nanny State Betrays Decline and Fall of America Firework ban, tree ordinance latest examples of rampant authoritarian assault on all levels of society Paul
Footage of Western Troops Confirms Criminality of War on Libya
Footage of Western Troops Confirms Criminality of War on Libya NATO forces have broken the terms of their own resolution, Obama deceived nation in speech Paul
IPS Inter Press Service Earth Alert: Confronting Climate Change ★ 22
ENVIRONMENT: Business Lobby Resists Ban on ‘Perverse' Emissions - Part 2
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 undermined the European Commission's decision to put a stop to it.
ENVIRONMENT DAY: Heavy Rains Expose Venezuela's Improvidence
Unseasonable rains falling for months and months in much of Venezuela have taken lives, destroyed homes, damaged crops and affected huge numbers of people. Experts blame the high level of damages on the improvised actions of citizens and the state.
ENVIRONMENT: Business Lobby Resists Ban on ‘Perverse' Emissions - Part 1
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.
World's Energy Poor See Receding Light at End of Tunnel
As the world continues to marvel at the widespread progress in modern technology and home electronics, there are still about 2.5 billion people - out of a global population of nearly 6.9 billion - who have little or no access to electricity.
ENVIRONMENT DAY: Better to Plant a Tree Than Curse the Desert
With deforestation claiming 5.2 million hectares annually and governments seemingly incapable of agreeing on a new pact to curb climate-altering carbon emissions, it would be easy to write off the situation as hopeless.
Lend Your Car, Save, and Save the World
The world's more than 850 million cars and small trucks are parked 20 to 22 hours a day. Why not use these vehicles more efficiently by letting other people drive them when the owners aren't, asks Robin Chase, CEO of Buzzcar, a car- sharing network to be launched shortly in France.
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Nepal's first collared tiger poisoned
Kathmandu, Nepal -- A Bengal tiger fitted with a GPS tracking collar and translocated from Nepal's Chitwan National Park to Bardia National Park has been killed, according to Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation officials. Authorities believe the tiger, which was the first ever collared in Nepal, died after eating the flesh of a cow deliberately laced with poison. Three men sus
Smart, WWF call to save dugongs and sea turtles
Manila, Philippines - Leading Philippine wireless services provider Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) in partnership with World Wide Fund for Nature – Philippines (WWF-Philippines), is encouraging citizens to help save the Philippine dugong and green sea turtle – both endangered species. The wireless leader announced today the launch of its Text-to-Donate service, an SMS-based donation platform
New international report to secure natural riches of North Africa and Middle East
An international conservation project has brought together botanists and scientists from Middle East and North Africa – Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Occupied Palestinian Territories, Syria and Tunisia – in an unprecedented bid to secure the future of the region’s wildlife. A new report published today by IUCN, Plantlife and WWF – Important Plant Areas of the south and
Leaders at Brazzaville summit must make brave choices to save world’s forests
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