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Sunday, June 5, 2011

5 June - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Renewable energy set to surge
The Age
AUSTRALIA is expected to generate six times more renewable energy and up to three times more gas-fired power in 2050 under a carbon price than it does today, according to Treasury modelling for the multi-party climate policy committee. ...
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A 'Big Thumbs Up' for Renewable Energy
New York Times
China invested almost twice as much in renewable energy last year as the United States. (Color China Photo, Via Associated Press) Wind turbines near the Donghai Bridge in Shanghai. Wind energy could supply up to 8.4 percent of global energy in 2050 ...
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Keokuk hydro plant at heart of renewable energy dispute
STLtoday.com
Today, the historic dam and plant spanning the Mississippi River between Keokuk, Iowa, and Hamilton, Ill., is at the heart of a dispute over how the utility meets Missouri's renewable energy mandate. Ameren, which sells electricity to 1.2 million ...
Del. gov: NRG has best shot at wind farm
BusinessWeek
Markell's comments Thursday came a week after the company said its planned offshore wind farm is endangered by cuts in federal support for renewable energy and it was delaying construction of a meteorological tower off Delaware's coast. ...
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Recycling up at apartments, thanks to Ecology Action's initiative
Santa Cruz Sentinel
Though apartment complexes are not required by law to provide recycling services, local nonprofit Ecology Action worked with this and other complexes to bring recycling to several apartment buildings with state grants. SANTA CRUZ -- When Mikael Hayes ...
JZ Knight proves to be a warrior vs. development
TheNewsTribune.com
She also argues (with backing from the state Department of Ecology) that Yelm has overpromised water for years, exceeding its capacity. Knight's lawyers say the city hasn't proved it can supply water to the subdivisions on its own without taking it ...
More Longview Fibre wood waste burning OK'd
The Seattle Times
The state Ecology Department has approved an expansion of the wood waste burning power plant at the Longview Fibre mill in Longview. The Associated Press Hopefully, the technology will move along so that sooner rather than later, the. ...
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Monterey Bay climate change summit fights global warming
Santa Cruz Sentinel
Held at the headquarters of Ecology Action in Santa Cruz, the Monterey Bay Climate Action Summit included academics, leaders of local nonprofits and policymakers. The effort is based on the belief that the region is well-positioned to confront the ...
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Queenie The Water-Skiing Elephant Dies At 59
Gothamist
As if we weren't sad enough yesterday over the death of Ida, one of the Central Park Zoo's polar bears, there's been another death in the extended animal family: Queenie, the water-skiing elephant who gained international acclaim in the 50s and 60s for ...
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Fight lands Childress in hot water; Busch gets a pass
SportingNews.com
KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- Richard Childress will pay a price for punching Kyle Busch after Saturday's Camping World Truck Series Race at Kansas Speedway. NASCAR stopped short of ejecting Childress, 65, from the racetrack but restricted his movements during ...
Cambridge hit by large-scale water main break
Boston Globe
By Sean Teehan and Jeff Fish CAMBRIDGE — A major water main break closed down large sections of Broadway and Cambridge Street last night, affecting water pressure throughout the city, officials said. “The break, which occurred on a major water main, ...
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Contaminated Fort Peck area cut off from water
San Antonio Express
(AP) — A pipeline failure has cut off the water supply to about two dozen homes in a contaminated area of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, leaving residents without drinking and bath water for more than three weeks. The pipeline from Poplar's water ...
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CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Despite Intelligence Rejecting Iran as Nuclear ...
    Summary: Seymour Hersh"There is a large body of evidence, however, including some of America’s most highly classified intelligence assessments, suggesting that the United States could be in danger of repeating a mistake similar to the one made with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq eight years ago" so ...
  • Iran refutes IAEA military claims
    Summary: SoltaniehIran dismisses as “unfounded” military allegations leveled by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), saying there is no evidence that the country's nuclear activities pursue military aims. source: PressTVread more
  • US Spying Detects No Iranian Nukes
    Summary: El-BaradeiThe 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.” source: Information Clearing Houseread more
  • Ahmadinejad wants an anti-Zionist Egypt and ho ...
    Summary: The Egyptian delegation visiting Iran is made up of academics, clerics and media representatives. "Our enemies do not want us to rebuild our ties because they know a great political and economic power will emerge from our cooperation," Ahmadinejad said, according to Reuters. "If w ...
  • Netanyahu’s speech to the US Congress: Racism, ...
    Summary: Composed of roughly equal parts racism, war-mongering, fawning and fabrication, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s speech before a joint session of the U.S. Congress on May 24 was received with adulation by the assembled Democrats and Republicans alike. Netanyahu dev ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • "Will Life Beyond Earth Have DNA Roots?" World ...
    "To the best of our knowledge, the twenty-one original chemicals chosen by known life do not constitute a unique set; other choices could have been made, and maybe were made if life started elsewhere many times." Paul Davies -leading authority...
  • The Weekend Image: Mars Spirit Rover's Last Memory
    This was the last panorama Spirit transmitted to Earth, on its 2,175th sol on Mars. (A sol is a Martian day, and it is 3 percent longer than an Earth day.) The rover's final transmission came just 35 sols later,...
  • Is a New Species Living Without Oxygen a Previ ...
    A newly identified species, a loriciferan identified as a species of the genus Spinoloricus discovered by Roberto Danovaro at the Polytechnic University of Marche in Ancona, Italy last year may provide a preview of future discoveries of alien lifeforms. “The...
  • 'The Daily Galaxy' June Contest -Win a Free $5 ...
    Use it towards a purchase of an iPhone, iPad, Apple TV or Hundreds of Other Apple Products and Accessories. Users of Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Reddit, and StumbleUpon are invited to discover, review and share Daily Galaxy posts you love on...
  • An Asteroid Missed Earth this Week -What are t ...
    An asteroid the size of a truck zoomed near Earth this week (June 1), coming closer to us than the moon ever does. The 23-foot-long (7-meter) space rock, named 2009 BD, came within 215,000 miles (346,000 kilometers) of Earth at...

Natural News

  • Studies linking XMRV virus to chronic fatigue ...
    (NaturalNews) A 2009 study alleging that a mouse virus known as XMRV is responsible for causing chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) in humans has been debunked. Originally published in the journal Science, the study identified XMRV in the blood of some patients with CFS, and falsely concluded that th ...
  • D.C. teachers help their students cheat on sta ...
    (NaturalNews) If you thought you'd heard it all regarding the sad state of public education in the U.S. today, think again. In the nation's capital, the teachers there help their students cheat on standardized exams.A report last month said the D.C. Public Schools district is under investigation ...
  • US says dropping bombs is not war, but guessin ...
    (NaturalNews) The US government sure has an interesting way of defining war these days. Just a few months after the Obama administration played word games with the public by insisting that air strikes in Libya were just "kinetic military action," not acts of war, the Pentagon has now come on the ...
  • Do cell phones cause cancer?
    (NaturalNews) This week the World Health Organizations officially classified cellphones as possibly carcinogenic to humans.This statement was made from a team of 31 scientists from 14 countries who made this decision after reviewing the data from previous peer-reviewed studies. The team looked f ...
  • WHO panel warns that cell phone use may cause ...
    (NaturalNews) Scientists from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a group affiliated with the World Health Organization (WHO), say that mobile phones are a "possible" carcinogen that may be a cause of cancer. The findings, which support previous research on the subject, add t ...

Threat Level

  • U.N. Report Declares Internet Access a Human Right
    A United Nations report said Friday that disconnecting people from the internet is a human rights violation and against international law. The report railed against France and the United Kingdom, which have passed laws to remove accused copyright scofflaws from the internet. It also protested bl ...
  • Feds: WikiLeaks Associates Have ‘No Right’ To ...
    Three associates of WikiLeaks challenging a government demand for records of their Twitter use have no right to information about similar demands that may have been issued to other internet companies, the Justice Department told a federal judge Thursday. “[T]he subscribersâ demand for more itemi ...
  • Feds: WikiLeaks Associates Have ‘No Right’ To ...
    Three associates of WikiLeaks challenging a government demand for records of their Twitter use have no right to information about similar demands that may have been issued to other internet companies, the Justice Department told a federal judge Thursday. “[T]he subscribersâ demand for more itemi ...
  • Sony Hit Yet Again; Consumer Passwords Exposed
    The hacker group that took over the website of PBS NewsHour last weekend has returned to its first love — hacking Sony. LulzSec announced Thursday it hacked servers at Sony Pictures and Sony BMG. The group posted what appear to be the stolen e-mail addresses and passwords of about 50,000 consum ...
  • Sony Hit Yet Again; Consumer Passwords Exposed
    The hacker group that took over the website of PBS NewsHour last weekend has returned to its first love — hacking Sony. LulzSec announced Thursday it hacked servers at Sony Pictures and Sony BMG. The group posted what appear to be the stolen e-mail addresses and passwords of about 50,000 consum ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Boehner Fails Econ 101
    No doubt, Friday's disappointing jobs report was bad news for President Obama. But the Republican response augurs much worse for the American people. After all, while Obama was visiting a Chrysler plant in Ohio to tout his auto industry rescue which ultimately saved hundreds of thousands of jo ...
  • The Interchangeable Sarah Palin and Michele Ba ...
    As Sarah Palin launched her bus tour last week, her "friend" and likely White House hopeful Michele Bachmann protested that the two Tea Party darlings are not "interchangeable." Sadly, their statements over just the past few days suggest otherwise. Telling the same lies about the national debt ...
  • Romney Launches Mitt 3.0
    On Thursday, Mitt Romney used a New Hampshire backdrop to announce his second run for the White House. If nothing else, Romney's candidacy is a boon for fans of metaphors. With more personalities than Sybil, Romney is a political Zelig, a man desperately trying to transform himself into whatev ...
  • 10 Inconvenient Truths About the Debt Ceiling
    Bolstered by new polls and fresh off their vote to bar an increase in the nation's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling, House Republicans swaggered into the White House for the latest negotiation to end their economic hostage taking. One, Rep. Jeff Landry of Louisiana, refused to attend and be "lecture ...
  • Republicans Play Debt Ceiling Joke on Themselves
    On Tuesday, grandstanding House Republicans will hold a vote on a so-called "clean bill" to raise the nation's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling. Despite his party having voted seven times to double the debt limit while President Bush sat in the Oval Office, Majority Leader Eric Cantor has promised t ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Culture jamming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Culture jamming, coined in 1984,[1][2][3] denotes a tactic used by ... Culture jamming is usually employed in opposition to a perceived appropriation of public ...
  • Culture Jam
    Culture Jam is the innovative social media technology company behind PromoJam, the ground breaking social marketing platform, and upcoming technologies ...
  • Nome, Dagny: Culture Jamming
    For some, culture jamming is more or less anything that mixes art, ... Finally, I will discuss whether culture jamming as a countercultural movement can aspire ...
  • Culture jamming - Definition | WordIQ.com
    Culture jamming, or sniggling, is the act of using existing mass media to comment on those very media themselves, using the original medium's communication method. ...
  • Video of Adam Kokesh dance flash mob at Jeffer ...
    Dandelion Salad RussiaToday on Jun 4, 2011 In Washington DC, hundreds of people have been dancing at the Jefferson Memorial claiming they are exercising their first amendment rights. It comes after last week RT America host Adam Kokesh and four others were arrested by the police for dancing at t ...

Consortium News

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

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Money and Politics Going Hand in Hand
    In a recent NPR show, former Labor Secretary and political commentator Robert Reich addressed the potential executive order by President Obama to require government contractors to disclose their political spending. Reich wants to take the executive order a step farther by eliminating all politic ...
  • Free trees for Texas!
    Odwalla is donating $100,000 to plant trees in the United States this year. You have a vote in where those trees will be planted! Visit Odawalla and  plant your tree in Texas. Each tree planted online equals $1 your state will receive to plant real trees in Texas State Parks. Last year more than ...
  • Drought worsens in Texas
    More than half the state of Texas is now gripped by the most extreme level of drought measured by climatologists and as I look out my window at the lush green strip of lawn in front of the office building across the street, I wonder how long they will be able to keep watering to [...]
  • Why Can’t We Get It Right? New German Energy P ...
    In  an energy  article published today,  The New York Times reports German Prime Minister Angela Merkel abandoned plans for extending the life of Germany’s nuclear power plants and ordered them to be closed by 2022. This is a stunning reversal of energy policy for the German Chancellor consid ...
  • PEC lawyer found guilty
    A Kendall County jury found former Pedernales Electric Cooperative legal counsel Walter Demond guilty of all three felony charges outlined in his June 2009 indictment. Demond was found guilty of theft, misapplication of fiduciary property and money laundering. The jury recommended that Demond re ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Man discovers "structure" on Mars
    Armchair astronomer David Martines discovered what he believes to be a building on the surface of Mars. Nicknamed "Bio-Station Alpha", footage of the ...
  • Take a peak at what lies in Area 51
    For years its been the most famous "secret" base in the world, but just how secret is it nowadays ? While the military have never been quick to even a...
  • West Texas paintings to get laser study
    A prehistoric painting in West Texas is getting the laser treatment for study and preservation purposes. The scanning process - which will take approx...
  • Would you give up modern technology ?
    A new book aims to help us become less addicted to our technology and lead more balanced lives. In this super-techno age, it's easy to feel the need t...
  • Man eating river monsters of Japan
    An exhibition in Japan explores the country's history with dangerous unidentified animals. Stories of creatures powerful enough to kill humans - even ...

Grassroots

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

Climate

  • Firm Develops 'Sun-Chasing' Solar Panels
    Source:� The Australian A new Japanese solar power device can generate twice the electricity of current models thanks to moving mirrors that follow the sun throughout the day, its developers say.
  • Pa. Says Flow of Drilling Wastewater to Ill-Eq ...
    Source:� AP Pennsylvania's environmental regulators believe that companies drilling in the huge Marcellus Shale natural gas formation have largely stopped taking salty, chemically tainted wastewater to riverside treatment plan ...
  • OPEC to Consider Oil Output Increase
    Source:� Wall Street Journal Key OPEC officials said the group is likely to raise its oil-output ceiling, but open criticism from Iran sets the stage for a public fight at the producer group's first gathering since this year's ...
  • Greenpeace Activists Arrested on Arctic Oil Rig
    Source:� AFP Eighteen Greenpeace activists who scaled an oil rig off Greenland to protest oil prospecting in the Arctic were on Saturday arrested by police, the environmental group said. �
  • Acid Rain Pouring Down on Half of China's Cities
    Source:� English.EastDay More than half of China's cities are affected by acid rain and one-sixth of major rivers are so polluted the water is unfit even for farmland, a senior official said yesterday.

GreenBiz

  • News Roundup: World Environment Day Preview, F ...
    An early look at the news this morning includes announcements about the 39th annual World Environment Day, food scares in the U.S. and Europe, and weak jobs numbers in the U.S.
  • Shareholders Step Up Pressure on Fracking at C ...
    Resolutions addressing the issue at Chevron and ExxonMobil, co-filed by As You Sow and other sustainable investors, win substantial shareowner support, and Ultra Petroleum declines to release results of vote at its annual meeting.
  • Boeing Reports Double-Digit Progress in Managi ...
    Boeing's major U.S. operations diverted 73 percent of their nonhazardous solid waste from landfill in 2010, according to the company's latest environmental report, which details improvements in five areas in the past four years.
  • Have LEDs Finally Hit the Mainstream?
    Though LED fixtures are more expensive than many other types, the cost is falling by about 10 percent a year, while performance is improving by 10 percent.
  • Have LEDs Finally Hit the Mainstream?
    Though LED fixtures are more expensive than many other types, the cost is falling by about 10 percent a year, while performance is improving by 10 percent.

Reuters Global

Booman Tribune

  • Conservatives Hate Children's Programming
    Not to open myself up for criticism, but since I've had a son around, I've begun watching some children's programming on television. I stick pretty much exclusively with the PBS Sprout network because it has programming designed for very young children. We try to stick to limited and assigned ...
  • Casual Observation
    James Carville and Stan Greenberg's Democracy Corp polled different messages and came to a depressing conclusion. They discovered that any Democrat who talks about the Republicans' responsibility for creating our current economic mess is not going to be well-received. Apparently, people do not ...
  • Update on Palin's Revere Idiocy
    Apparently, the right-wingers, in a desperate effort to vindicate Sarah Palin's retelling of history, have found a passage written by Paul Revere himself wherein he describes his capture by British forces, having a gun held to his head, and telling the British that he had forewarned the patriots ...
  • In Haiti, America Isn't Helping
    The United States would be a lot more popular around the world if we didn't do things like demand that Haiti not raise its minimum wage from 24 to 61 cents an hour. Our Deputy Chief of Mission down there, David Lindwall, has a funny sense of humor. However, the Columbia Journalism Review ha ...
  • Using the 35 New Words
    Hey, all you newbs should open your lappys and head on over to the Oxford English Dictionary to check out the ZOMG! thirty-five new words accepted this year. It's totally not NSFW. If you're sitting around nekkid in your man cave complaining about your man flu while studying your social graph ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Do Clients with Mental Health Challenges Recei ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline New research from the University of Leicester in the UK, examines the high level of mortality after a coronary event in people with mental health issues. The University, in collaboration with the Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute in Australia, collected ...
  • Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
    A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up Happy weekend! We wish you a joyful weekend with your loved ones, and happy reading of this week’s news! Let us know your take :-) Letters from Home May Help Prevent Post-Traumatic Stress in Happily Married Soldiers Sense of Control Over LIfe ...
  • Is Childhood ADHD a Precursor to Substance Abuse?
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline New research suggests that childhood ADHD poses an increased risk of substance abuse in both girls and boys. Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital reviewed two previous studies to determine what factors, if any, in addition to ADHD, caused increased like ...
  • Can Brain Activity Predict Future Depressive S ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline In a study conducted at the University of Toronto, researchers found that when a person who has suffered depressive symptoms in the past, is exposed to a sad experience, their brain’s response to the sadness can foretell if they will fall into a depressive episode ...
  • Sense of Control Over Life Decreases Depressio ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline New research suggests that African American men can decrease depressive symptoms by increasing their “perceived mastery.” The concept of “perceived mastery” is defined as having a sense of control of one’s own life circumstances. Achieving perceived mastery is qua ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Meet our letter writers: Stanley Sturgill - Le ...
    Lexington Herald Leader Meet our letter writers: Stanley Sturgill Lexington Herald Leader Active member of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth and recently spent two weeks in Washington, DC lobbying against mountaintop removal. Active in trying to preserve our beautiful mountains, water and the co ...
  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fights to save "The Last ...
    Salon Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fights to save "The Last Mountain" Salon "The Last Mountain" is mostly about the carnage and destruction inflicted on rural Appalachia -- West Virginia, but also neighboring states like Ohio and Kentucky -- by the relatively recent coal-mining method known as "mounta ...
  • Hundreds expected for Blair Mountain march - C ...
    Hundreds expected for Blair Mountain march Charleston Gazette More than 600 people are expected to begin a 50-mile march from Marmet to Blair Mountain on Monday to protest mountaintop removal mining. The five-day event comes close to the 90th anniversary of the historic Battle of Blair Mountain ...
  • KFTC to celebrate 30 years - Richmond Register
    KFTC to celebrate 30 years Richmond Register The organization talks to legislatures about how they would like to see things change and in February were involved in a mountain-top removal sit-in at the state Capitol that drew widespread media coverage. The public is invited to attend any ... ...
  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defends 'The Last Mounta ...
    Treehugger Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defends 'The Last Mountain' Wall Street Journal (blog) Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. lends his voice to the movement against mountaintop removal in �The Last Mountain,� a film about Appalachia's last mountain range untouched by mountaintop removal, Coal River. While th ...

Memeorandum

  • NATO helicopters raise pressure on Gaddafi (Pe ...
    Peter Graff / Reuters: NATO helicopters raise pressure on Gaddafi  —  (Reuters) - British and French attack helicopters struck inside Libya for the first time overnight on Saturday, hitting targets in the oil port of Brega as NATO forces stepped up their air war against Muammar Gaddafi.
  • A Peaceful Neo-Nazi? - I am writing to inform ...
    Ann Barnhardt / American Thinker: A Peaceful Neo-Nazi?  —  I am writing to inform you of truly great news.  I know how sad and worried you all were when I was convicted of armed robbery and sentenced to two years in prison.  As it turns out, this was the best thing that has ever happened to me.
  • Echoes of Weiner's womanizing past ring in his ...
    Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller: Echoes of Weiner's womanizing past ring in his present day package predicament  —  Even before the current #Weinergate scandal broke, Rep. Anthony Weiner had quite a history of lewd behavior towards women.  —  A 2001 Vanity Fair article about a young woman usin ...
  • The questionable legal case against John Edwar ...
    Washington Post: The questionable legal case against John Edwards  —  Criminal violations of federal campaign financing laws require proof that the conduct was committed “knowingly and willfully.”  ' In the context of a regulatory scheme such as is involved here, these words of specific crimina ...
  • Anthony Weiner's bulging controversy a classic ...
    Thomas M. Defrank / NY Daily News: Anthony Weiner's bulging controversy a classic example of abysmal damage control  —  WASHINGTON - Weinergate ain't Watergate, not even close.  —  But they're both classic examples of abysmal damage control.  —  For such a savvy practitioner of the political g ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.4, New Ireland region, Papua New Guinea
    Sunday, June 5, 2011 07:02:08 UTCSunday, June 5, 2011 05:02:08 PM at epicenterDepth: 9.30 km (5.78 mi)
  • M 5.2, Guam region
    Sunday, June 5, 2011 00:16:46 UTCSunday, June 5, 2011 10:16:46 AM at epicenterDepth: 50.20 km (31.19 mi)
  • M 5.2, northern Peru
    Saturday, June 4, 2011 13:37:43 UTCSaturday, June 4, 2011 08:37:43 AM at epicenterDepth: 139.70 km (86.81 mi)
  • M 5.2, Vanuatu
    Saturday, June 4, 2011 00:53:05 UTCSaturday, June 4, 2011 11:53:05 AM at epicenterDepth: 90.10 km (55.99 mi)
  • M 5.0, western Honshu, Japan
    Friday, June 3, 2011 16:57:37 UTCSaturday, June 4, 2011 01:57:37 AM at epicenterDepth: 39.40 km (24.48 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Pipeline pressures in north China
    A project to pump seawater across northern China is seen by some as a must to meet rising energy demand, by others as hubristic and impractical. In an edited excerpt for a series by Circle of Blue and the Woodrow Wilson Center, Keith Schneider reports.Editor’s note: Choke Point China is a series ...
  • Confronting China's industrial ghosts
    Former factory sites could help ease tensions between arable land and urban development – but first they need to be cleaned up. Robert Best reports on a nascent remediation industry.The Olympic Games in Beijing and World Expo in Shanghai drew attention to one of China’s biggest environmental pro ...
  • Wanted: a databank of disasters
    If world governments could turn to a central information source on natural catastrophes, many lives could be saved through better preparedness, climate-hazards expert Bill McGuire tells Robin McKie.Devastating natural disasters have killed close to a million people and caused billions of dollars ...
  • Wanted: a databank of disasters
    If world governments could turn to a central information source on natural catastrophes, many lives could be saved through better preparedness, climate-hazards expert Bill McGuire tells Robin McKie.Devastating natural disasters have killed close to a million people and caused billions of dollars ...
  • Bhutan’s modern face
    Thimphu, the fast-developing capital of the Kingdom of Bhutan, is one of the cities most vulnerable to climate change in the world. But it is unprepared for the crisis, reports Dawa T Wangchuk.Over the past few decades, Thimphu – the capital of Bhutan – has transformed from a beautiful little to ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • How Do You Support Your Troops—Regular, ...
    How do you support your troops? Regular, Special or Super? As we celebrate Memorial Day, it can be hard to remember that this is not principally intended as  a day off from work for most of us, but as an occasion to honor dead soldiers who were once actual living persons, with many [...] ...
  • The Real Reason Anti-Choice Activists Are Push ...
    Written by Robin Marty for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice. The anti-abortion activists and politicians in the states have made passing 20-week abortion bans based on the idea of “fetal pain” a cause-du-jour for this year’s legislative sess ...
  • Remembering Gil Scott-Heron: Outspoken Activis ...
    The legend passed away in New York on May 27, 2011.
  • A Bad Week for David Brooks
    Full disclosure: I find New York Times columnist David Brooks exceedingly annoying, and I have no intention of reading his most recent book, The Social Animal. Having said that, I’m having a good week, and Brooks a very bad one. Either that, or he’s remaining willfully ignorant of the acutely ba ...
  • Military Women Deserve First-Class Treatment, ...
    Written by Dr. Katherine Scheirman for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice. Dr. Katherine Scheirman served as an officer in the United States Air Force as a physician for 20 years. As Chief, Medical Operations Division for the Headquarters, U ...

Threat Level

  • U.N. Report Declares Internet Access a Human Right
    A United Nations report said Friday that disconnecting people from the internet is a human rights violation and against international law. The report railed against France and the United Kingdom, which have passed laws to remove accused copyright scofflaws from the internet. It also protested bl ...
  • Feds: WikiLeaks Associates Have ‘No Right’ To ...
    Three associates of WikiLeaks challenging a government demand for records of their Twitter use have no right to information about similar demands that may have been issued to other internet companies, the Justice Department told a federal judge Thursday. “[T]he subscribersâ demand for more itemi ...
  • Feds: WikiLeaks Associates Have ‘No Right’ To ...
    Three associates of WikiLeaks challenging a government demand for records of their Twitter use have no right to information about similar demands that may have been issued to other internet companies, the Justice Department told a federal judge Thursday. “[T]he subscribersâ demand for more itemi ...
  • Sony Hit Yet Again; Consumer Passwords Exposed
    The hacker group that took over the website of PBS NewsHour last weekend has returned to its first love — hacking Sony. LulzSec announced Thursday it hacked servers at Sony Pictures and Sony BMG. The group posted what appear to be the stolen e-mail addresses and passwords of about 50,000 consum ...
  • Sony Hit Yet Again; Consumer Passwords Exposed
    The hacker group that took over the website of PBS NewsHour last weekend has returned to its first love — hacking Sony. LulzSec announced Thursday it hacked servers at Sony Pictures and Sony BMG. The group posted what appear to be the stolen e-mail addresses and passwords of about 50,000 consum ...

Equality Trust

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  • Action for Happiness
    Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon.   They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future in ...
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     Les preuves en Français Preuves à l’appui: une introduction Preuves à l’appui: la santé physique Preuves à l’appui: la santé mentale Preuves à l’appui: la toxicomanie Preuves à l’appui: l’éducation Preuves à l’appui: la population carcérale      
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      Find our full response to criticism of The Spirit Level here.  
  • The Wrong Cure - alternatives to the cuts
    The False Economy website is an excellent and still-developing resource exploring the alternatives to cuts. False Economy includes: a discussion of why the cuts are not progressive details of campaign actions a comprehensive further reading list ... and this short film [youtube:ynUCYo ...

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • It was a legitimate call by the Hamburg Health ...
    I have received a few emails complaining that Spanish cucumbers have been wrongfully maligned by Germany.� There has even been a call by the cucumber eating Spanish agricultural minister for compensation to Spain while E. coli victims still struggle in hospitals in a dozen countries, and where a ...
  • E. coli Outbreaks have hit Wisconsin too often
    When news came through TMJ4 that Wisconsin was now part of the German E. coli O104:H4 outbreak – the deadliest E. coli outbreak in memory - many were probably shocked.  However, E. coli, Wisconsin and me, have been far too familiar companions in the last two decades.  From the horrible illnesse ...
  • If the German E. coli Outbreak is Salad or Let ...
    E. coli outbreaks associated with lettuce or spinach, specifically the “pre-washed” and “ready-to-eat” varieties, are by no means a new phenomenon. In fact, the frequency with which this country’s fresh produce consuming public has been hit by outbreaks of pathogenic bacteria is astonishing. B ...
  • German E. coli Outbreak Touches U.S. - Three w ...
    Mike Stobbe, AP medical writer, wrote following a news conference by USDA, FDA and CDC officials, that four people in the U.S. might be linked to the food poisoning outbreak in Europe. All four were in northern Germany in May and officials are confident that they were infected with E. coli in t ...
  • What is Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS), and W ...
    The recent European E. coli O104:H4 Outbreak is now reporting over 2,000 ill (nearly 70% women) and 19 dead in what has now become the world’s most deadly E. coli Outbreak and its third largest.  However, what is most staggering are the numbers of people who have developed Hemolytic Uremic S ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Chevy Volt earns five-star NHTSA crash rating ...
    2011 Chevrolet Volt - Click above for high-res image gallery The 2011 Chevrolet Volt has earned "good" marks in crash tests before, and new tests by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's New Car Assessment Program prove that the earlier results were not a fluke. The Volt scor ...
  • Majority of Americans want 62 mpg CAFE standar ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal If you want to find examples of ways Americans disagree on politics, all you need to do is turn on any cable news channel right now. But here's a curious case of the majority agreeing on one important point: 62 percent of Americans support an increase in the aver ...
  • Majority of Americans want 62 mpg CAFE standar ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal If you want to find examples of ways Americans disagree on politics, all you need to do is turn on any cable news channel right now. But here's a curious case of the majority agreeing on one important point: 62 percent of Americans support an increase in the aver ...
  • New York 2011: Honda Civic Hybrid scores 44 mp ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hybrid, Sedan, Honda 2012 Honda Civic Hybrid - Click above for high-res image gallery It's not 50 miles per gallon (rest, easy Prius), but the mpg numbers for the 2012 Honda Civic Hybrid impress us nonetheless: 44/44/44. That's city/highway/combined, and it's ...
  • New York 2011: Mitsubishi sets price of all-el ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hatchback, Mitsubishi, Electric Mitsubishi i - Click above for high-res image gallery Some bits of good news come with a head scratcher. At the New York Auto Show today, Mitsubishi announced that the all-electric i will start at just $27,990 in the U.S. Once ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

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

Digg Green

  • Will Life Beyond Earth Have DNA Roots?
    World's Leading Authorities Say Maybe Not: To the best of our knowledge, the twenty-one original chemicals chosen by known life do not constitute a unique set; other choices could have been made, and maybe were made if life started elsewhere many times. Paul Davies
  • The Evolutionary Errors of X-Men: Scienti ...
    Please, Magneto, stop blaming evolution for your anger issues
  • Researchers Map, Measure Brain's Neural C ...
    Computer scientists have created software to examine neural circuitry in the human brain. The 2-D neural maps combine visual clarity with a Web-based digital map interface, and users can view 2-D maps together with 3-D images. The program aims to better understand myelinated axons, which ha ...
  • Needless, deadly peril at US hospitals
    Hospital infections kill more Americans each year than AIDS, car accidents and breast cancer combined -- if you're visiting a friend or relative in the hospital, don't bring flowers or candy -- take gloves and a canister of bleach wipes. .. Hospitals do an inadequate job of cleaning rooms ...
  • Ten Fear Responses That Make No Sense, An ...
    Nature, we are told, equipped us with all sorts of instincts to help us survive. However, most of them just get us into trouble. Especially the fear response ones.

Invisible Opportunity

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

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Steampunk R2-D2 Robot Made From Recycled Materials
    There are so many wonderful things to be said about this incredible robot sculpture made from recycled materials, that we feel it deserves its own short documentary. Created by UK-based artist AmoebaBoy, the R2-D2 look-alike is the spitting image of the beloved Star Wars character but with a ste ...
  • Arganzuela Footbridge: Spiraling Conical Bridg ...
    Read the rest of Arganzuela Footbridge: Spiraling Conical Bridge Spans Madrid’s Manzanares River Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: arganzuela footbridge, arganzuela park, bridge, dominique perrault, eco design, footbridge, green architecture, Green Building, green design, Landscap ...
  • Pill That Battles Obesity for Babies Still in ...
    Diet pills aren’t just for Hollywood starlets anymore. Apparently babies are jumping on the bandwagon by getting a head start on their slim figures in the WOMB. In an effort to prevent obesity through the stages of development, the pill metformin is being prescribed to pregnant mamas worried abo ...
  • Genderless Baby ‘Storm Stocker’ Ignites a Medi ...
    Storm Stocker has a secret and it’s being kept by his or her parents. A Toronto couple recently ignited a firestorm by opting to conceal the sex of their baby, Storm, expressing that they wanted to allow their child to develop free from any preconceived gender constraints. As it stands the pare ...
  • The “Ella” Plastic Bottle Chandelier Is an Umb ...
    This dynamically structured chandelier designed by Sarah Turner is made from the bottoms of 310 plastic bottles collected from coffee shops and homes. Nicknamed “Ella” for its early resemblance to an umbrella, the lamp measures over a meter wide. Its dramatic dome and multifaceted surface adds ...

Pogue's Posts

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

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Rare Midnight Solar Eclipse Caught in Arctic
    Fortunate northerners saw a rare eclipse of the midnight sun on June 1. During the Arctic summer, the sun dips low on the horizon but never sets. That means a solar eclipse is theoretically possible at any time. But this week’s eclipse was the first visible from Scandinavia since 2000, and the ...
  • Cryptic Mutations Could Be Evolution’s Hidden Fuel
    The transformation of raw genetic material on a laboratory bench has provided a rare empirical demonstration of processes that may be universally crucial to evolution, but are only beginning to be understood. The processes, called cryptic variation and preadaptation, involve mutations that don’ ...
  • Time-Lapse Video Catches Milky Way Season in Swing
    Far from starscape-dulling city lights, farmer and photographer Randy Halverson spent three weeks creating a new video of the spinning night sky.
  • Synthetic Biologists Use DNA to Calculate Squa ...
    By John Timmer, Ars Technica Biological systems have caught the attention of computer scientists, who have been turning everything from RNA molecules to entire bacterial colonies into logic gates. So far, however, these systems have been relatively small-scale, with only a handful of gates li ...
  • Hot Bodies Sink Faster
    New high-speed videos show that a hot sphere falls more than twice as fast through liquid than a cold sphere, a finding that may someday help ease high-speed submarines through the sea.

PakAlert

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

Andy Worthington

  • The 9/11 Trial Timewarp: It’s February 2 ...
    On Tuesday, the Pentagon issued a press release announcing that prosecutors in the Office of Military Commissions at Guantánamo had sworn charges against five prisoners: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ramzi Bin al-Shibh, Walid Bin Attash, Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali and Mustafa al-Hawsawi. Accusing the five m ...
  • Open City: New London Film Festival Screening ...
    ââOutside the Lawâ is a powerful film that has helped ensure that Guantánamo and the men unlawfully held there have not been forgotten.â Kate Allen, Director, Amnesty International UK â[T]his is a strong movie examining the imprisonment and subsequent torture of those falsely accused of anti-Am ...
  • Open City: New London Film Festival Screening ...
    ââOutside the Lawâ is a powerful film that has helped ensure that Guantánamo and the men unlawfully held there have not been forgotten.â Kate Allen, Director, Amnesty International UK â[T]his is a strong movie examining the imprisonment and subsequent torture of those falsely accused of anti-Am ...
  • Guantánamo: The Definitive Prisoner List &#821 ...
    Please support my work! Since I began my quest to discover the stories of the Guantánamo prisoners, and to bring those stories to the world, which I first embarked upon over five years ago, I have endeavoured to make that information as accessible as possible. A major step in achieving th ...
  • WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo ...
    One of the great publicity coups in WikiLeaks’ recent release of classified military documents relating to the majority of the 779 prisoners held at Guantánamo, as I explained in the first part of this five-part series, was to shine a light on the stories of the first 201 prisoners to be freed f ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • ‘The Sociopath Next Door’: ‘ ...
    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 â that is, someone who, though living in this ...
  • Imprisoned Cult Leader and Child Rapist Faces ...
    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 ...
    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. Sa ...
  • Council of Conservative Citizens Networking wi ...
    Seems the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC) has some new allies these days. The group’s Tennessee chapter is co-hosting a June 18 barbeque with two notorious skinhead groups, Volksfront and Blood and Honour, according to postings on the chapter’s website and other racist forums. The event, ...
  • Former Cops Sentenced in Cover-Up of Immigrant ...
    Two former Pennsylvania police officers convicted of working to cover up the beating death of a Mexican immigrant more than two years ago – a hate crime that turned the nation’s attention to swelling violence against Latinos – have been sentenced to prison. Former Shenandoah Police Chief Matthew ...

change: org.

  • Red Sox Announce “It Gets Better” ...
    The Boston Red Sox announced today that they will produce an “It Gets Better” video, becoming the third team in professional sports in a week to join the campaign in taking a stand against anti-gay bullying and homophobia. More than 9,000 people -- mostly Red Sox fans in New England -- signed 12 ...
  • Victory! Chicago Cubs Leading Wave of “I ...
    The Chicago Cubs will become only the second team in professional sports to produce an “It Gets Better” video, taking a stand against anti-gay bullying and homophobia, supported and led by Cubs owner Laura Ricketts -- who, along with Mr. Cub, Ernie Banks, appeared on the Cubs’ float in the Chica ...
  • Space Needle Says No to Flying the Pride Flag
    On Thursday, Josh Castle started a petition on Change.org after I confirmed a rumor that the Space Needle was not going to fly the Pride flag again during Seattle Pride. In less than 24 hours more than 1,500 people signed Josh's petition thanking the Space Needle for flying the flag for the firs ...
  • Wolves Face Open Season After Protections Stri ...
    Immediately following the publication of the budget bill in the Federal Register, Idaho and Montana announced plans to open the wolf hunt season. This is in addition to other lethal wolf management techniques that are being explored – gassing pups in dens, aerial hunting and trapping, to name a ...
  • Corrupt Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy Ta ...
    Steve Levy just won't quit. Mr. Levy's term is about to end, but the exiting Suffolk County Executive is launching one more anti-immigrant crusade. By introducing two new bills at the next meeting of the county legislature, Levy will cement an anti-immigrant reputation that once featured an angr ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Bradley Manning Supporters Rally At Kansas Prison
    WASHINGTON -- Hundreds of supporters of Bradley Manning converged at Leavenworth, Kan., Saturday to rally for the Army private accused of leaking classified documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks.read more
  • Egyptian Military Closes Rafah Crossing Into Gaza
    GAZA - Egypt shut its border crossing with Gaza on Saturday for the first time since opening it on a routine basis last month, and angry Palestinians stormed the gates in protest, Hamas officials and witnesses said. Palestinian border officials said three buses filled with 180 passengers had wai ...
  • Deputies and Movers Show Up at Bank of America ...
    FORT MYERS -- It was a foreclosure defendant’s revenge fantasy. Two burly Collier County sheriff’s deputies and a homeowner’s attorney strode into the Bank of America branch on Davis Boulevard in Naples with a court order and an ultimatum for Manager Erich Fahrner. Fahrner’s choice: Write out a ...
  • Yoga Guru, in Mass Fast to Death, Leads Thousa ...
    NEW DELHI -- Swami Ramdev, India's most famous yoga guru, began a mass fast to the death on Saturday to demand reforms including the death penalty for corrupt officials in an anti-graft campaign that has undermined an embattled and scandal-tainted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The saffron-robed ...
  • Palestine is Part of the Arab Spring: Intervie ...
    This Sunday, June 5, Palestinians in the occupied territories and neighboring countries will take part in peaceful protests to mark the 44th anniversary of the 1967 War, when Israel conquered the West Bank, Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem, and the Syrian Golan Heights. The demonstrators will be march ...

Lifehacker

  • This Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup]
    GrooVe IP Makes Free Calls from Google Voice Over Wi-Fi or 3G/4G, Uses No Minutes (Android) GrooVe IP is a a simple app that lets you use your Android phone's Wi-Fi or 3G/4G connection with Google Voice to make unlimited calls in the US or Canada (or cheap international calls) ...
  • LightDims Stickers Block Super-Bright LEDs on ...
    Almost everyone knows the feeling of turning off the lights or sitting down to watch a movie only to be annoyed by bright, glowing blue and red LEDs on the front of your electronics. LightDims are stickers that will either block those LED ...
  • Have Miso Soup and Eggs for Breakfast to Beat ...
    Home-remedies for a hangover abound, but some are better than others, especially when there's at least some science behind them. According to Good Magazine, a Japanese-inspired breakfast of miso soup and eggs can help soothe a bad hangove ...
  • Mini Sky Bar Desktop [Featured Desktop]
    The minimalism exhibited in this featured desktop makes it seem like there's really nothing going on, but its practical functionality and good looks actually require a reasonable amount of customization. Reader Sean Innis Harper used seve ...
  • From the Tips Box: Windows Installations, Corn ...
    Readers offer their best tips for organizing your Windows programs, cutting corn off the cob, and scanning receipts into your computer. More��

Water Privatization

  • Africa: Indigenous Peoples Strengthen Claim of ...
    Water is the lifeblood of health, livelihood, and culture, particularly in indigenous communities where water provides not only sustenance, but often serves as a vital link to people's ethnic heritage. In many countries however, the indigenous perspective on water is being disregarded, putting c ...
  • Shortages of fresh water seen as emerging threat
    "The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-first Century" (Scribner), by Alex Prud'homme: Even as motorists fret about the cost of gasoline, a rising chorus of jeremiads warns that shortages of freshwater, not oil, will trigger the most pressing challenges of the 21st century.
  • West Milford agency promises transparency
    The West Milford Municipal Utility Authority Commissioners (MUA), at their May 31 meeting in the Hillcrest building, acknowledged that repairs and upgrades of their aging water plant facilities are desperately needed.
  • Saudi- Rabigh's water needs met
    Saudi- Rabigh's water needs met
  • Water Utility Industry Valuations Are Based On ...
    67 WALL STREET, New York - June 1, 2011 - The Wall Street Transcript has just published its Water, Waste & Environmental Services Report offering a timely review for serious investors and industry executives. This special feature contains expert industry commentary through in-depth interviews wi ...

Guardian

  • Portugal president calls for big turnout as ba ...
    Polls show centre-right opposition leader Pedro Passos Coelho ahead, but winner still tied to tough ��78bn bailout measuresPortuguese voters have headed to polling stations to elect a new government whose hands are already tied by the obligations controlled by a ��78bn (£69bn) bailout of its ai ...
  • Royal Marine shot dead in Afghanistan
    Soldier from 42 Commando Royal Marines died on patrol in Helmand, bringing toll among UK soldiers in Afghanistan to 370A Royal Marine has been shot dead in Afghanistan as colleagues paid tribute to another serviceman who was killed "putting up a fight" against the enemy.The Royal Marine, from 42 ...
  • French Open 2011 men's final: Rafael Nadal v R ...
    �� Turn on the autorefresh button or hammer F5 for the latest �� Email any musings to katy.murrells@guardian.co.uk �� For more on the French Open click hereNadal 7-5 4-2 Federer* Nadal is cruising at 40-0, throwing in his first ace of the day to get there, but a couple of beautiful backhands fro ...
  • New university gathers top academics to teach ...
    New College of the Humanities promises more direct teaching by likes of AC Grayling and Richard DawkinsA new private university in London staffed by some of the world's most famous academics is to offer degrees in the humanities, economics and law from 2012 at a cost of £18,000 a year, double th ...
  • Labour plans £2bn bankers' bonus tax to target ...
    Ed Balls urges rebel Tory and Lib Dem MPs to back plan to fund back-to-work and house-building schemesLabour will attempt to lead a cross-party rebellion to enforce a new £2bn tax on bankers to fund a back-to-work scheme for jobless young people, the shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, said on Sunday.B ...

McClatchey

  • Arrest of Tijuana ex-mayor sparks political fi ...
    MEXICO CITY — Soldiers in Tijuana arrested one of Mexico's most colorful and wealthiest politicians Saturday, claiming they had found 88 weapons on his property near the border city's racetrack.
  • Gates urges Afghans to take more security resp ...
    KABUL, Afghanistan — Secretary of Defense Robert Gates made an unannounced visit here Saturday and said that Afghan security forces must take more responsibilities for a successful transition from U.S.-led NATO forces starting this July.
  • Top al Qaida figure Ilyas Kashmiri killed in d ...
    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A leading al Qaida military commander thought to have played a role in planning the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai has been killed by an American missile strike in Pakistans tribal area, his extremist group confirmed Saturday, while vowing revenge on the United States.
  • After meteoric rise, Edwards takes a fall like ...
    WASHINGTON — The rise of Johnny Reid Edwards from mill worker's son to vice presidential candidate can be measured only against the stunning plummet that culminated Friday with a criminal indictment, which accuses Edwards of using trickery, deception and a pair of wealthy benefactors to hide his ...
  • How the late Fred Baron, a Dallas attorney, sp ...
    WASHINGTON — As a Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards got a lot of help in hiding his secret affair and love child through funds provided by Fred Baron, a Texas lawyer who secretly funneled $200,000 to squire Edwards lover on chartered flights, stay in tony hotels like the Four Seaso ...

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

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

The Wonk Room

  • Nominal GDP Impact Of A Debt Freeze
    Part of the background of the debt ceiling hostage fight is that raising the debt ceiling polls quite poorly. But as my colleagues Michael Ettlinger and Michael Linden note, the consequences of a random debt freeze would be quite dire even leaving the risk of a total financial system meltdown ou ...
  • Ron Paul blasts Mitt Romney in fundraising email
    “Mitt Romney was able to tap his bailed-out banker buddies on Wall Street to the tune of $10 million.”
  • Indiana’s Planned Parenthood Law Could C ...
    Indiana’s law banning Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid funds may cost the state $4 billion in federal Medicaid funds, but the state would also be responsible for paying the legal expenses for anyone who challenges the constitutionality of the measure. Sarah Seward of the Courier Press ...
  • Frank Gaffney For President?
    At a panel on the threats facing Israel at the Faith and Freedom Conference in Washington Saturday, an attendee took the microphone to urge former Reagan defense official Frank Gaffney to run for president. Gaffney — who has made a career out of cooking up John Birch-like theories about Muslim i ...
  • Connecticut First State In The Nation To Manda ...
    Connecticut became the first state in the U.S. to mandate paid sick leave for workers today, with the state House approving a bill requiring service workers to earn one hour of paid sick leave for every forty hours worked. Gov. Dan Malloy (D-CT) intends to sign the bill, saying, “without paid si ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • The Beginning of the Resistance
    Bridgette Marcelle (aka Brigette DePape), a Senate page, was evicted from the Senate Chamber for holding up a sign saying "Stop Harper" during the Throne Speech of the witless, stupid, evil turds government. Hurrah for Bridgette! Let's make this the first sign of the successful resistance to th ...
  • The Loyal Extra-Parliamentary Opposition
    Yes, Liberal bloggers; we get it. In a majority government, the opposition is basically just a powerless debating society. (A state of affairs that a sizable unthinking, undemocratic minority evidently prefers!) So, yes, in this harpercon majority nightmare that we all find ourselves in, the NDP ...
  • The Liberals and the Centre
    I think it was in the Martin or the Dion years, when, on Canadian Cynic, I told Ti-Guy that I wanted the Liberal Party of Canada to die, because they deceived progressive-minded Canadians and made them believe that they could have their cake and eat it too. Ti-Guy replied something to the effec ...
  • Drifting Towards Oblivion
    I really don't know what's going to happen. Humanity (coerced or duped by our elites) is determined to continue along the path to ecological Armageddon. One of the worst offenders was Canada's stephen harper government. And now he's got a majority government. Extra-parliamentary protest is a sa ...
  • Gotta Love That Ayn Rand!
    The rest of the article is important too, but ya gotta love this! The Right’s priorities hit home at a town hall meeting held by Rep. Rob Woodall, R-Georgia, when he chastised one of his constituents who worried that Ryan’s plan would leave Americans like her, whose employer doesn’t extend he ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • More concerns over F-35
    There are increasing concerns about spiralling costs and prolonged delays for the F-35 (David Pugliese, Delivery of F-35s could be delayed beyond 2016, Ottawa Citizen, 28 May 2011). Pentagon officials have recently testified before Congress to address the questions surrounding the aircraft. Asht ...
  • Comments by Steven Staples to CANSEC arms show ...
    June 1, 2011. Thank you Diane and Jason for inviting me to join you today. And thank you all for making Canadians aware that arms shows like CANSEC happen right here in Ottawa. Military spending is out of control in this country. While our social programs are inadequate, we still have joblessnes ...
  • Victory in Afghanistan!
    Prime Minister Stephen Harper has in effect declared victory in Afghanistan, at least as far as the original reason for sending troops to that country goes. His comments were made during a “secret” visit to Afghanistan on Monday (Campbell Clark, “Afghanistan no longer terrorism threat to world, ...
  • Canada and global peace
    Canada has moved up to eighth position on the annual Global Peace Index (“Canada jumps six spots and cracks top 10 in 2011 Global Peace Index,” Canadian Press, 25 May 2011): Canada has cracked the top 10 in a global security assessment that ranks countries based on how peaceful they are. The Glo ...
  • Budget crunch, Pentagon-style
    Only in our neighbour to the south could you find the following two sentences side by side in a news article (Julian E. Barnes, “Gates Says Cuts Would Curb Military Capacity,” Wall Street Journal, 19 May 2011): “The defense budget, including the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, currentl ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Wisconsin Governor Gives Donor’s Kid wit ...
    April 5th, 2011 Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel By: Daniel Bice Just in his mid-20s, Brian Deschane has no college degree, very little management experience and two drunken-driving convictions. Yet he has landed an $81,500-per-year job in Gov. Scott Walker’s administration overseeing enviro ...
  • Cocaine Smugglers Laundered Billions Through W ...
    April 5th, 2011 Yahoo! News By: Brett Michael Dykes Somehow, the major banks in the United States have gone from serving as the main bulwarks of credit and entrepreneurial pluck to the moral equivalent of a James Bond villain. There were, for instance, the jaw-dropping mortgage frauds detailed b ...
  • Butter Is GOOD For You!
    April 5th, 2011 GoBeyondOrganic.com One of my great concerns is the incredible power of mass media educating people into extreme stupidity. Imagine that butter is bad and margarine is good! And yet, probably 50% to 70% of the Americans actually believe such a false datum. I was on a road trip no ...
  • Magnetic Boy Attracts Electronic and Metal Objects
    April 5th, 2011 AOL Health By: Justine van der Leun There’s something magnetic about a Serbian 7-year-old — literally. A young boy in Belgrade is apparently a human magnet, able to attract electronic and metal objects — ranging from forks to tape recorders — to his body, according to a video tha ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 4-5-11
    Today, Kevin explains the importance of eliminating hydrogenated oil, trans fats, and homogenized dairy from your diet. Self Help: Steps Toward Perfect Health Get Vitamin D FREE For Life! Promote Heart Health Turn Back The Hands Of Time Shower The Toxins Away Protect Your Body Cleanse For Vitali ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • Can equality exist in the Jewish state?
    Kieron Monks writes: In 2005, following the arrest of several high profile Arab politicians and lobbyists living in Israel, the Shin Bet security agency made a statement justifying their actions: “The security service will thwart the activity of any group or individual seeking to harm the Jewis ...
  • Syria forces kill 70 in anti-Assad protests
    Reuters reports: Syrian forces killed at least 70 protesters on Friday, activists said, in one of the bloodiest days since the start of an 11-week revolt against the authoritarian rule of President Bashar al-Assad. Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets on Friday in defiance of se ...
  • Iran and the bomb
    In “Iran and the Bomb,” Seymour Hersh writes: Is Iran actively trying to develop nu-clear weapons? Members of the Obama Administration often talk as if this were a foregone conclusion, as did their predecessors under George W. Bush. There is a large body of evidence, however, including some of ...
  • Those who govern us are now governed by the banks
    In Der Spiegel, Dirk Kurbjuweit writes: We are doing well. In fact, we’re doing splendidly. The economy is booming, with 1.5 percent growth in the first quarter. We are as prosperous as we were before the crisis, which has finally been overcome. Congratulations are in order for everyone. The b ...
  • It’s not just Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The IMF ...
    Johann Hari writes: 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. So the fact that Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monet ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Modeling the Oddities
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Today I came across an IPCC figure (FAR Working Group 1 Chapter 2, PDF, p. 208) that I hadn’t noticed before. I’m interested in the forcings and responses of the climate models. This one showed … Continue reading →
  • Snowbound USHCN weather station at Crater Lake
    Last weekend, I took my familiy on a trip to see the Lava Beds National Monument (the kids had a great time exploring the lava tube caves) and also a stop at Crater Lake. Crater Lake happens to have a … Continue reading →
  • The Gasland movie: a fracking shame – di ...
    From “Not Evil, Just Wrong”: Gasland director hides full facts Written by Phelim McAleer Josh Fox has made a documentary that makes some pretty alarming claims about gas drilling across the US. But as is often the case when these … Continue reading →
  • Ebay succumbs to climate propaganda pitch
    Yech. Look what automatically assaulted me during my purchase today of a flash drive. Click to see full size – note red arrow. And here’s the web page for this intrusive organization ACE aka the Alliance for Climate Education. The … Continue reading →
  • CO2 deafens “Nemo” – or, how ...
    We’ve already had a “climate craziness of the week” so I’ll just file this bit of blather under another category. First, this article in The Independent, which aims to scare the children. Now here’s the press release from the University … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Israelis Rush for Second Passports by Franklin ...
    by Franklin Lamb Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Beirut, Lebanon June 4, 2011 photo by Rusty Stewart Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works Some rights reserved Perhaps historians or cultural anthropologists surveying the course of human events can identify for us a land, in addition to P ...
  • Video of Adam Kokesh dance flash mob at Jeffer ...
    Dandelion Salad RussiaToday on Jun 4, 2011 In Washington DC, hundreds of people have been dancing at the Jefferson Memorial claiming they are exercising their first amendment rights. It comes after last week RT America host Adam Kokesh and four others were arrested by the police for dancing at t ...
  • Open Letter to President Obama from E.coli 010 ...
    Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page June 2, 2011 Dear President Obama: My name is E.coli 0104:H4. I am being detained in a German Laboratory in Baveria, charged with being “a highly virulent strain of bacteria.” Together with many others like me, the police have accused us of causing a ...
  • I Am a Dissident By Timothy V. Gatto
    By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com June 4, 2011 I am a dissident. This term allows my government to ignore my opinions and also enables the rest of America to discount any or all of my opinions. I am also a “conspiracy theorist”, because I believe that mo ...
  • God Bless America. And its Bombs. by William Blum
    by William Blum Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.killinghope.org 3 June, 2011 God Bless America. And its Bombs. When they bombed Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, El Salvador and Nicaragua I said nothing because I wasn’t a communist. When they bombed China, Guatemala, Indonesia, Cuba, and the ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Rare Midnight Solar Eclipse Caught in Arctic
    Fortunate northerners saw a rare eclipse of the midnight sun on June 1. During the Arctic summer, the sun dips low on the horizon but never sets. That means a solar eclipse is theoretically possible at any time. But this week’s eclipse was the first visible from Scandinavia since 2000, and the ...
  • Cryptic Mutations Could Be Evolution’s Hidden Fuel
    The transformation of raw genetic material on a laboratory bench has provided a rare empirical demonstration of processes that may be universally crucial to evolution, but are only beginning to be understood. The processes, called cryptic variation and preadaptation, involve mutations that don’ ...
  • Time-Lapse Video Catches Milky Way Season in Swing
    Far from starscape-dulling city lights, farmer and photographer Randy Halverson spent three weeks creating a new video of the spinning night sky.
  • Synthetic Biologists Use DNA to Calculate Squa ...
    By John Timmer, Ars Technica Biological systems have caught the attention of computer scientists, who have been turning everything from RNA molecules to entire bacterial colonies into logic gates. So far, however, these systems have been relatively small-scale, with only a handful of gates li ...
  • Hot Bodies Sink Faster
    New high-speed videos show that a hot sphere falls more than twice as fast through liquid than a cold sphere, a finding that may someday help ease high-speed submarines through the sea.

Israeli Occupation Archive

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

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Ovarian Cancer Screening Does Not Appear to Re ...
    In a clinical trial that included nearly 80,000 women, those who received ovarian cancer screening did not have a reduced risk of death from ovarian cancer compared to women who received usual care, but did have an increase in invasive medical procedures and associated harms as a result of being ...
  • Anorexic Girls Have Increased Bone Density Aft ...
    Estrogen therapy improves low bone density due to anorexia nervosa in teenage girls with the disease when given as a patch or as a low oral dose that is physiological (close to the form or amount of estrogen the body makes naturally). These results of a new study are being presented Monday at Th ...
  • Bariatric Surgery Linked to Increased Fracture ...
    People who have had gastric bypass surgery or other bariatric weight-loss surgery have an even higher increased risk of breaking bones than previously found. These study findings will be presented Tuesday at The Endocrine Society's 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston.
  • Following Colorectal Cancer Surgery, Longer De ...
    An analysis of data from previously published studies indicates that longer time to beginning adjuvant chemotherapy after surgery for colorectal cancer is associated with worse survival, according to a study in the June 8 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on cancer.
  • Study Identifies Genetic Mutations Associated ...
    Among various genetic mutations for individuals with Lynch syndrome, a hereditary cancer syndrome that carries a high risk of colon cancer and an above-normal risk of other cancers, researchers have identified mutations associated with a lower cancer risk and mutations associated with an increas ...

Natural Health News

  • Poverty Linked to Starting Periods Younger
    Girls from poorer backgrounds are more likely to start their periods at a younger age. This increases their breast cancer risk, since they produce the hormone estrogen longer. A study found that girls in lower socio-economic groups with typically poorer diets began their periods at the age of 1 ...
  • Popular New Birth Control May Be Risky
    The U.S. FFDA is reviewing results from two studies that show a higher risk of blood clots in women taking birth control pills containing the compound drospirenone. The FDA is evaluating conflicting results from these and earlier studies. Newer birth control drugs including Yaz and Yasmin cont ...
  • New Food Pyramid Changes to Less Grains More V ...
    The U.S. “food pyramid” is being replaced with a plate icon that urges Americans to eat a more plant-based diet. Nutritionists had long considered the pyramid deeply flawed because it did not distinguish clearly between healthy foods and less healthy choices. According to “MyPlate”, half of you ...
  • The Shocking Truth About Bone Scans & Breast S ...
    Sayer Ji, founder of GreenMedInfo.com, spoke at the Integrity Biofeedback Academy on the profound misconceptions associated with women's breast cancer and osteoporosis prevention. His presentation focuses on the dangers associated with x-ray mammography and the misleading nature of bone density ...
  • Ten Ways to Get Kids to Eat Their Veggies
    Statistics show that children aren't getting nearly enough vegetables � 22 percent of children ages 2 to 5 meet government recommendations for vegetable consumption in the U.S.� CNN offers some tips on how to get children to eat more of them.� Here are a few: Get them while they're hungry -- If ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Administration Internal Divisions Over Drone S ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson The Wall Street Journal’s ace national security reporting team - Adam Entous, Siobhan Gorman, Julian Barnes, several others - reported in a very interesting story today that divisions have emerged at the senior levels of the Obama administration over th ...
  • House Libya Measure: Pretty Tame Stuff
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Here’s the text of the resolution passed in the House this afternoon on Libya, as introduced by Speaker Boehner.  It’s not insignificant, as an institutional pronouncement, even though it’s non-binding. It amounts to a kind of soft law.  The resolution provides ...
  • A Sentence-Based Theory of Complementarity
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I have just posted a new essay — my first since finishing the NMT book! — on SSRN.  Here is the abstract: Scholars have long debated to what extent the Rome Statuteâs principle of complementarity permits states to prosecute war crimes, crimes against ...
  • A Sentence-Based Theory of Complementarity
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I have just posted a new essay — my first since finishing the NMT book! — on SSRN.  Here is the abstract: Scholars have long debated to what extent the Rome Statuteâs principle of complementarity permits states to prosecute war crimes, crimes against ...
  • International Lawyer Publishes 2010 Year in Review
    by Roger Alford The ABA's International Lawyer Year-in-Review has just been published and as always it is a monumental achievement. The issue is not available on the web, but the International Lawyer's home page is here. The issue includes 450 pages of international law discussion and over ...

Public News Service

  • AZ Hotel Workers Speak Out Against Guest Misco ...
    AZ Hotel Workers Speak Out Against Guest Misconduct Phoenix, AZ – Hotel housekeepers in Arizona and several other states are launching a campaign to "end the silence" about sexual misconduct by hotel guests. They’re proposing what they call "common sense" preventive security measures. Comments f ...
  • Concerns Over GOP Medicaid Block Grant Plan
    Concerns Over GOP Medicaid Block Grant Plan Phoenix, AZ – Consumer advocates and several state governors say Republican Medicaid plans could be a serious problem for some hospitals and nursing homes. Comments from Kathleen Stoll (stole), director of health policy for consumer group Families USA.
  • New Tax Report: AZ State Budget Easy to Balance
    New Tax Report: AZ State Budget Easy to Balance Phoenix, AZ – A new study says Arizona could immediately raise $14 billion by inverting its tax structure; that is, taxing highest incomes at the current rates of the lowest earners – and vice versa. The report, “Flip It to Fix It: An Immediate, Fa ...
  • Doctor's Orders: Make Your Holiday Cookout Hea ...
    Doctor's Orders: Make Your Holiday Cookout Healthier Phoenix, AZ – Cooking on the grill is a popular tradition for the Memorial Day weekend, and there are plenty of ways to make your cookout both healthy and fun for your family. Doctor Hardeep (Har-DEEP) Ahuja (a-HOO-ja), a certified clinical li ...
  • Major Preserve Proposed for Lands West of Phoenix
    Major Preserve Proposed for Lands West of Phoenix Phoenix, AZ – Large parts of western Maricopa County would become part of a major new conservation area under a plan unveiled Wednesday. The proposal is supported by a wide-ranging coalition including communities, organizations, developers and mi ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

  • Fish Party
    When is a fish party not a party? A fish party may sound like a lot of fun, but not in this case… This video is part of Greenpeace UK's newest campaign, fighting back against the canned tuna or tinned tuna industry's cruel method of fishing. The latest method uses something called a Fish Aggreg ...
  • Environmental News 08/03/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Environmental News 02/03/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • A heart in the sand
    Are you still searching for the perfect love that will be green minded like you? Join Australia’s leading green single network (directory/company/planetearthsingles%20com%20au.php)! When was the last time you expressed your loved ones how important they are to you? The Green Times directo ...
  • Environmental News 24/02/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Mexico’s drug war impacting communities well b ...
    Many Americans believe criminal incidents related to Mexico’s narco-wars are generally limited to Mexico itself, or at least only to border cities and towns in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. But because Mexico-based transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) are operating in more th ...
  • Could solar energy from the moon power the earth?
    A Japanese firm thinks so. Huge belts of solar panels on the near side moon would create electricity which would be beamed to earth via microwave and laser then converted back, providing clean renewable energy 24/7.
  • Adopt an animal. Shelters are overflowing
    This gorgeous super-friendly Siberian Husky was at the Lancaster CA pound yesterday with at least two hundred other dogs. Animals not adopted within a week are put down. The kill rate is at least 90%. There were baby kittens in the cat house that cowered when you stuck a finger in the cage. Clea ...
  • Clean energy and green jobs in California
    The California Energy Commission has a useful website called Clean Energy Workforce Training with information and links for those who want to get jobs in clean energy or further their existing careers. Its homepage lists training and certification providers, as well as cleantech associations. Al ...
  • Towing icebergs to be used for water in Middle ...
    Just fasten a geotextile belt around the iceberg (video), deploy a geotextile skirt to prevent melting, then tow that puppy thousands of miles using “bumps and holes”in the ocean to help out because a tug can’t possible handle the load. Golly, what could possibly go wrong with this? Well. some g ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Let’s Dance!
  • Worldwide Freedom is Being Hacked
    Dees Illustration Will the “cyber threat” be the next bin Laden? John Galt Activist Post Osama bin Laden and the shadowy network of terrorists he supposedly spawned has been the perfect template for controlling physical reality.  The fear created by 9/11, and the even worse fear of having it ha ...
  • Uh Oh – China Has Divested 97 Percent of ...
    President Barack Obama and President Hu Jintao of China toast during the State Dinner in State Dining Room of the White House, Jan. 19, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson) (CNSNews.com) – China has dropped 97 percent of its holdings in U.S. Treasury bills, decreasing its owner ...
  • Tucson Murders and the Modern American Politic ...
    by William L. Anderson Lew Rockwell When a mentally unstable man murdered six people and severely wounded Congresswoman Gabby Giffords in Tucson, Arizona, last January, Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik was quick to blame Sarah Palin and Sharron Angle for the shootings, and others like Paul Kr ...
  • Dems Push Biometric ID’s – Ron Pau ...

The Air Vent

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

Focal Point

  • "Use-By" Date Fundamentalism Wastes Tons of Fo ...
    Americans waste 14% of all the food we buy, and rote adherence to "use-by" dates is part of the problem, explains an Iowa food scientist: But, it turns out, in going strictly by use-by dates — the great drivers of waste — we throw out a lot of perfectly good food. Use-by dates aren't enti ...
  • Dairy Industry Milks New "MyPlate"
    This week, the USDA unveiled a new icon for healthy eating, MyPlate, a successor to the Food Pyramid and MyPyramid. There's a lot to like about the new visual. The share-of-plate metaphor is easier to grok at a glance than the multi-layered pyramid. You can tell by looking that about half your ...
  • "Psychology Today" Cans Satoshi Kanazawa
    75,000 ColorofChange Members, 1; Santoshi Kanazawa, 0. [Photo credit: proligde, Creative Commons.]Read More
  • Manhattan Housekeepers Get Panic Buttons
    Housekeepers at the Pierre Hotel will get panic buttons in the wake of two highly publicized attacks on Manhattan hotel cleaners. The buttons are part of a deal hashed out between the management and the union. The Sofitel Hotel, where form IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn allegedly attacked a . ...
  • New York City Cops Acquitted of Rape
    Two New York City police officers have been acquitted of raping a woman in her apartment while they were on duty in 2008. In the words of New York lawyer and blogger Jill Filipovic, "This is fucked up." The upshot of this verdict is that drunk women are unrapeable in New York City. We have ...

Inside Facebook

  • New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this weekâs highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Digital Chocolate, EA, Atari, Peak Games, Ubisoft, D ...
  • Facebook Roundup: Palihapitiya Starts Fund, Sa ...
    Long-Time Facebook Exec Palihapitiya Leaving to Start Fund — He wasn’t just heading out the door for some frozen yogurt, he’s also starting a new fund called The Social+Capital Partnership. It will raise up to $400 million, and focus not just on investing in tech startups, but also health care, ...
  • Facebook’s New Ads Power Editor Replaces the B ...
    This week, Facebook launched its new Ads Power Editor desktop software for buyers who work directly with a Facebook ads representatives. The new multi-pane graphical user interface presents a streamlined way to create and manage multiple Facebook ads simultaneously. It also integrates with Excel ...
  • Profile Analyzers, Friends, Videos, Quizzes an ...
    Most of the applications on our weekly list of the top emerging Facebook apps by monthly active users this week either analyzed a user’s profile or offered users access to videos. A couple other apps, one for quiz creation and another for Page tab creation, made the list, too. The apps on our li ...
  • Facebook Recommends HTTPS Secure Browsing Via ...
    Some users are seeing a prompt at the top of their Facebook home page that reads “Help Protect Your Account with Secure Browsing (https)”. Users can click a button in the prompt to switch to HTTPS and foil attempts by hackers to steal their data. Following the recent exposure of several security ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • International law and the problem of enforcement
    Lawrence Davidson traces the flaws built into the International Criminal Court that allow some states to get away with crimes to the exceptionalism and superiority complexes afflicting countries such as Russia, China and the US, which is "tied so closely to the criminal behaviour of the Israelis ...
  • Palestinians must mobilize world civil society ...
    Stuart Littlewood shares the concern of pro-Palestinian activists worldwide at the failure so far of the Palestinian Authority, including its lacklustre and PR-inept London "embassy", to start mobilizing world public opinion for the planned bid this September for UN membership and recognition of ...
  • Why is UN secretary-general trying to scupper ...
    Stuart Littlewood challenges UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to explain why he is trying to scupper plans for a humanitarian flotilla to the besieged Gaza Strip instead of taking effective action to protect the flotilla and compel Israel to end its illegal blockade of the Strip.
  • Barack Obama is the wrong target
    Alan Hart argues that rather than attack President Obama for his failure in the Middle East, supporters of justice for the Palestinians should "target ... America's pork-barrel system of politics which puts what passes for democracy up for sale to the highest bidders..." thereby surrendering US ...
  • US Congress mesmerized by Netanyahu’s "lies an ...
    Lawrence Davidson views the "sustained standing ovations" given to Israel's Binyamin Netanyahu at the US Congress on 24 May. He argues that Congress's "accepted version of reality is maintained by Zionist misinformation fortified by donor dollars to the campaigns of both parties" and that in US ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Podcast Show #45
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Paul Craig Roberts Paul Craig Roberts joins us to discuss the September 11 terrorist attacks as the defining event of our time, which has launched our nation on interminable wars of aggression, a domestic police state where the American President is a Caesar and comp ...
  • Paul Craig Roberts: “American Presidents Are D ...
    Coming Up Tomorrow at Boiling Frogs Show: Paul Craig Roberts Tomorrow morning we’ll publish our interview with Paul Craig Roberts. We had a sobering interview session on the rise of the police state, the US media’s role in ever-declining liberties, the never-investigated September 11 terrorist a ...
  • Government Contractor Galore A La UK: Serco
    The Private-Government-Private Mega Corporations Phenomena This site depends exclusively on readers’ support. Please help us continue by contributing directly and or purchasing Boiling Frogs showcased products.
  • Jamiol Presents
  • The Poisoned Well & The Mainstream Poisoned-Wa ...
    And Now it Boils Down to Drink or Not To Drink Once upon a time an evil witch visits a kingdom and poisons the central well with a potion that drives people mad. The next morning all who drink from that well go crazy. The king, however, knew about this in advance, and didn’t drink from [...]

Afro Spear

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

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

  • LONE GUNMEN PILOT EPISODE COMPLETE IN IT&#8217 ...
    This is the spin-off from the X-files, first shown on March 4, 2001, six months before 911. Apparently someone was trying to get the word out, they are probably no longer around, this video is out there on torrent downloads, yet as with all the other videos that help shed light on dispecable act ...
  • THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT, THE LONE GUNMEN WARNINGS
    These two presentations each gave warnings of dire events to come, specifically 911. The Long Kiss Goodnight was produce in 1996 and described the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and the circumstances that led up to it. The Pilot Episode of The Lone Gunmen gave the exact scenario of what ...
  • Browser HINT
    The new browsers let you increase or decrease the size of the page your looking at by hitting the Control button on your keyboard and then either the plus (+) or minus (-) sign on your numeric section of your keyboard (extreme right-hand side of keyboard). So, if your having problems seeing a pa ...
  • TWILIGHT AMERICA INFO
    Because I� have been busy researching so many areas, we lost our original Domain name of DAVIDJGREGORY.COM, some outfit bought it with the idea that I would pay more money for it, making a profit for them, well, NOT SO! The site�s new title, Dave presents twilightamerica.info and the new Domain ...
  • OFF FACEBOOK
    Off FACEBOOK, takes up too much time, arguing with family, whatever, diverting my attention from the real problems of the world and country. Trying to keep the truth going on so many things that the government has lied about over the last 50, or so years! Use the search box on the top right corn ...

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • Edge on Cancer - Clues to Rapid Division Among ...
    Temptations to exceed the speed limit are always plentiful, but only reckless drivers give in to such impulses. Likewise, numerous growth factors always abound in our bodies, but only cancerous cells are quickly “tempted” by these chemicals to divide again and again. Healthy cells, in contrast, ...
  • After the Balkans Genocide - Monster Mladic an ...
    The UN appeasers of butchers Mladic and Slobodan Milosevic today demonize Jews, the West, and support Muslim dictatorships. As it turns out, this has been a stand-out month in the battle against evil. First, there was the killing of Osama bin Laden. Now, finally, the capture of the fugitive Serb ...
  • Book Tours - Edwin Black Featured Speaker at L ...
    Renowned investigative journalist and author Edwin Black, as part of his intercontinental lecture tour, is scholar-in-residence in Australia where he is�updating his audiences on his latest books and research. As a featured speaker at Limmud-Oz, a festival to be held in Sydney June 11-13, over t ...
  • Latin America on Edge - Hillary Clinton's Fail ...
    Following in the wake of President Barack Obama’s trip to Brazil, Chile, and El Salvador in March, Secretary of State Hilary Rodham Clinton held a private dinner party on Wednesday, May 18, where she hosted six former Latin American presidents coming from Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Panama, ...
  • Egypt after the Revolt - Egyptian Women Tortur ...
    An Egyptian general,�who does not wish to be identified, admitted that his country�s military conducted forced �virginity tests� on female protesters in March of this year. Speaking to CNN, the officer reportedly said, �The girls who were detained were not like your daughter or mine,� adding, �W ...

High Country News

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

CounterCurrents

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  • Fear And Loathing In The Housing Market- The G ...
    By William HicksContinuing the recent run of bad economic news, an S&P/Case Shiller report on Tuesday confirmed that U.S. home prices in most major markets have resumed falling after stabilizing for a couple of years
  • Disastrous US Jobs Report Points To Deepening ...
    By Barry GreyUS payrolls grew by a paltry 54,000 in May and the official unemployment rate rose to 9.1 percent, an increase of 0.3 percent since March, according to the monthly employment report released Friday by the Labor Department
  • A State For Jews
    By William James Martin Why are we providing almost incalculable support and sustenance to a state - Israel- which is a state for Jews, and exclusively for Jews, at the expense of the indigenous native Palestinians
  • Israelis Rush For Second Passports
    By Franklin Lamb Several studies in Israel and one conducted by AIPAC and another by the Jewish National Fund in Germany show that perhaps as many as half of the Jews living in Israel will consider leaving Palestine in the next few years if current political and social trends continue. A 2008 s ...

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Six-Day-War Revisionist History
    "The Jewish people has had to fight unceasingly to keep itself alive," says Israel's Premier Levi Eshkol. "Hopeful ever of redemption, we labored to return to the land of our fathers and to set foundations for the resurgence of an exiled folk. We made our arduous way to the shores of that la ...
  • Rahm Emanuel Tries To Give Obama Israel Credib ...
    By Barry Rubin You know that President Barack Obama understands he’s got problems with Israel (and, more importantly for him, with its supporters in the United States) when he trots out Rahm Emanuel to write an op-ed in defense of the president’s alleged love for Israel. Ra ...
  • Does Romney Support ANY Conservative Positions ...
    If Mitt Romney gets the GOP nomination for President the debates will be awfully boring: Moderator: What do you think of Universal Health care? Obama: I supported it for Obamacare Romney: I supported it for Romneycare Moderator: What is your position on global Warming? Obama: The Sc ...
  • Obama Administration's Mishandling of the Pale ...
    By Barry Rubin And so he rushes off to Europe to muster support so that the United States is not alone. It’s the end of May already. Besides, the UK, France, Germany, and Italy have already made clear that they won’t support unilateral independence. In a real sense this issue has il ...
  • Newsbusted Exposes Canada's UNFAIR Economic Ad ...
    Today the government released more horrible economic news,� the unemployment rate rose from 9.0 to 9.1 percent, as reported yesterday the economy is looming as an increasingly dark cloud over America. In a special Newsbusted exclusive the bad economy may not be all Obama's fault, our neighbor ...

The Real Agenda

  • New MRSA superbug discovered in cows’ milk
    by Catherine de Lange New Scientist June 3, 2011 A new strain of MRSA has been identified in cows’ milk and in people, but don’t stop drinking milk â the bug is killed off in pasteurisation. However, the strain evades detection by standard tests used by some hospitals to screen for MRSA (methici ...
  • Obama Deregulates GMO Alfalfa and Sugar Beets
    Alfalfa reaches our tables within milk, cream, butter, and meat, as it is commonly used to feed dairy cows. By Robbie Hanna Anderman Axis of Logic June 4, 2011 Early this spring, while the world was distracted by Egypt’s uprising, President Barack Obama pushed the Secretary of Agriculture and th ...
  • Why Organic Food Is Genuinely Better For Your ...
    By Marianne B. Conway uPublish.info June 3, 2011 Organic food is certainly nothing new and has existed for thousands of years, however recently more people have been taking an interest in it and the word organic has turned into a big buzzword. Those individuals involved in the health food busine ...
  • A Nova Ordem Mundial: As Oito Famílias
    Por Dean Henderson Tradução de Luis R. Miranda 03 de junho de 2011 Parte 1 de uma série de quatro Os Quatro Cavaleiros do sistema bancário (Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup e Wells Fargo) são proprietários dos Quatro Cavaleiros do petróleo (Exxon Mobil, Royal holandesa Shell, a BP Amo ...
  • This is what some scientists know about Europe ...
    Reuters June 3, 2011 The deadly strain of E. coli that has killed at least 17 people in Europe and sickened 1,500 has never been seen in a human population and it may be the most toxic yet, health experts said on Thursday. Here are answers to some frequently asked questions about the outbreak. 1 ...

Wind Watch

  • Opponents rail against Siting Council’s ...
    Regulators approved the state’s first commercial wind farm Thursday, but the announcement drew a swift response from opponents Friday who said the Connecticut Siting Council ignored testimony from Colebrook residents concerned about health and wildlife issues and the turbines proximity to local ...
  • After vote, wind project uncertain
    WAREHAM � A recent Town Meeting decision to repeal Wareham�s five-year-old wind energy bylaw will block new proposals from being put on the table for the foreseeable future, but the town�s lawyers are still considering whether the action will have any effect on a turbine plan already before the ...
  • New wind farm opponents emerge from Fort Willi ...
    Horizon Wind Inc. may have won over Thunder Bay city council, but selling their proposed wind farm to members of the Fort William First Nation could prove to be a more difficult challenge. The First Nation held a discussion panel with company spokespeople at the Fort William First Nation Communi ...
  • Home values vs wind turbines
    Wind Turbines are having a serious effect on house values in Grey County and would do the same in Huron County. This from Grey County realtor Mike McMurray at the Community Forum on Wind Development in Goderich held on Monday. McMurray tells Bayshore Broadcasting News it’s hard to put a value on ...
  • University of Adelaide to investigate reducing ...
    Silencing wind turbines is the aim of a new project at the University of Adelaide. Engineers are studying the causes of turbine noise to make them quieter and solve the problem of `wind turbine syndrome’. They want to understand how air turbulence and the blade edge, or boundary layer, interact ...

Not My Tribe

  • Banana Republic Redux
    Like the infamous Case Law which decided over a century ago that Guatemala, Costa Rica and El Salvador to be, while still “sovereign” nations, the property of American Banana Companies      And Cocaine, which was legal at the time, and Coffee, and other “strategic resources”. Only this time ...
  • More Pictures of Dead American Victims of Terr ...
    Italian laborers hired by the 7th Cavalry to dig the mass grave for the Indians slaughtered at Wounded Knee. The Cavalry used Hotchkiss guns, a 2-inch (across the bore) breech-loading cartridge cannon, very rapid fire for the day. And swords, repeating rifles, revolvers… to break up a Religious ...
  • More Pictures of Dead American Victims of Terr ...
    Italian laborers hired by the 7th Cavalry to dig the mass grave for the Indians slaughtered at Wounded Knee. The Cavalry used Hotchkiss guns, a 2-inch (across the bore) breech-loading cartridge cannon, very rapid fire for the day. And swords, repeating rifles, revolvers… to break up a Religious ...
  • Pentagon says bombing civilians necessary, wil ...
    Of Course. Then we’ll have Nut-Jobs like Charlie from the dead soldier picture comments saying that “No Marine he ever knew ever killed a baby”, well, Charlie, Your Comrades Sure The Hell Do, Daily, and the Pentagon says it’s “necessary” because mommy and daddy didn’t surrender, didn’t bow down ...
  • Pentagon says bombing civilians necessary, wil ...
    Of Course. Then we’ll have Nut-Jobs like Charlie from the dead soldier picture comments saying that “No Marine he ever knew ever killed a baby”, well, Charlie, Your Comrades Sure The Hell Do, Daily, and the Pentagon says it’s “necessary” because mommy and daddy didn’t surrender, didn’t bow down ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Other Collapses in Perspective
    (PDF Version) Other Collapses in Perspective: An Examination of Other Steel Structures Collapsing due to Fire and their Relation to the WTC by Adam Taylor, contributor for Debunking the Debunkers blog One of the arguments that have been raised over the years by members of the 9/11 Truth Mov ...
  • The Truth is in the Details, Jon
    In Frank Moher's recent scathing review of National Post writer Jonathan Kay's new book Among the Truthers he writes, "Kay got his start on this beat when, as he reminds us, he discovered that a Liberal candidate in the 2008 federal election had six years earlier reported on some of the finding ...
  • SWIPES AT TRUTHERS -- AND OUR RESPONSE
    James Hufferd 911grassroots.org May 30, 2011 Recently, Canadian establishmentarian Jonathan Kay’s new mock-anthropological book, Among the Truthers, has caught a lot of deserved flak online on a lot of Truther web sites and in reader reviews and attendant blogs on its Amazon.com web page. Its ...
  • Pat Curley Insinuates That Anthony J. Hall and ...
    As summarized by Blakeney, "According to [Pat Curley at] Screw Loose Change the fact that an article of mine is on a website next to the wife of a Holocaust revisionist equates to me 'having lots of connections to...Holocaust Deniers'" http://screwloosechange.blogspot.com/2011/05/up-canada-way.h ...
  • Not a Deather, but a Doubter; Still a Truther
    The following is a fairly detailed and nuanced argument, so before going any further please read this short statement by Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth and this short statement by physicist David Chandler and civil engineer Jonathan Cole, regarding the death of Osama bin Laden. Also con ...

Fooducate

  • Our Fat Future [Eye Opening Infographic]
    Here’s a visually impactful infographic from a website called Healthy Meal Experts. The most telling of all these stats is the 1700% percent growth in fast food spending in the US. In 1970, Americans spent $6 billion of burgers pizza and shakes. By 2000, the spend was up to $110 billion! Let’s h ...
  • Now Available: The Fooducate Android App (Beta)
    We’re happy to announce the release of the Free Fooducate App for Android (version 0.9). You can get the app from the Android market. (Note: Only in the United States) The Fooducate app empowers shoppers make better, healthier  choices at the supermarket. It encapsulates all the tips and tricks ...
  • Hello MyPlate. RIP MyPyramid. Five Comments
    Yesterday, at a Washington DC press conference, The First Lady and USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack unveiled the government’s newest effort to get Americans eating right – My Plate (see www.choosemyplate.gov) “This is a quick, simple reminder for all of us to be more mindful of the foods that weâre ea ...
  • Aloha! Hawaii School Lunches Made from Scratch
    School lunches, served daily to millions of children across the nation, are a nutritional mess. What can you expect from a meal that must cost less than $2 per child? Subsidized by the USDA through surplus agricultural commodities and extensively processed to lower costs and extend shelf-life an ...
  • 12 Observations on Food in Italy vs Food in the US
    Click HERE for more pictures So we spent Memorial Day weekend in Milan, Italy. Weather was gorgeous, as was the city, the food was mostly great, and best of all the kids were back home with the grandparents… Walking around the city and thinking about food, I tried to compare Italy to the US with ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Autism One: Refreshing My Soul
    By Cathy Jameson It takes moving mountains for me to get away for a few days. So much work is involved in order to walk out the door that I sometimes wonder if it’s really worth it to leave. Sometimes...
  • UK Government Documents on Aluminium in Vaccines
    The shocking truth about aluminium (aluminum) in vaccines from UK government documents John Heptonstall In September 2001 the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, MHRA, which is the government agency responsible for regulating medicines and medical devices in the UK,...
  • Help Autism Families in Joplin Missouri
    From a friend of ours: Dear Friends, I recently learned that during the devistating storm in Joplin, the new Ozark Center for Autism was demolished. I spoke with Jennifer Kirby, and she informed me that they have replacement testing tools...
  • Proposed Rules Changes to Medicaid Program; Ho ...
    By Harry Hofher As parents of children with autism we constantly struggle with the simple unavoidable question of “What will happen to my child when I’m gone?” Compounding that worry and adding to our anguish is the undeniable fact that...
  • Enjoy Life Foods Donates Gluten-Free, Allergy ...
    Enjoy Life Helps Ease Some Pain in Japan On March 11, 2011, unthinkable disaster struck Japan in the form of a massive 9.0 earthquake and a crippling tsunami. Entire towns were destroyed and thousands of lives were lost, leaving surviving...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

  • You might be a tenderfoot if….
    "Son, ridin' em's one thing. It's the stayin' on that's tough."
  • Organic Spies Find Lies – Organic Trade Associ ...
    Why The Organic Trade Association and Corporate Organic Food Brands do NOT want Labeling of Genetically Engineered and Genetically Modified Foods.
  • 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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Key al Qaeda man said killed in Pakistan drone ...
    Reuters - A U.S. drone strike killed a senior al Qaeda figure in northwest Pakistan after a tipoff from local intelligence, Pakistani intelligence officials said on Saturday. But a U.S. National Security official in Washington said he could not confirm the report and warned it could be premature ...
  • Chile: Puyehue volcano chain erupts, forcing e ...
    BBC – Large columns of smoke have been rising from the Puyehue-Cordon-Caulle volcano range, about 800km (500 miles) south of the capital Santiago. Witnesses also reported a strong smell of ash and sulphur. A dozen small earthquakes were recorded before the eruption began. The officials have issu ...
  • Fresh aid from euro zone ahead, says Eurogroup ...
    Wall St Journal – Greece is in line for a second rescue worth tens of billions of euros after agreeing to a swingeing austerity and privatisation program. Jean-Claude Juncker, the chairman of the Eurogroup, said after meeting the Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou that he expected euro-zone ...
  • Climate Fact Of The Day – Global Death a ...
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L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Tucked discreetly in the foothills of Ventura ...
    Somewhere in the foothills of Ventura County, in paddocks and aquariums protected by surveillance cameras and electric wire, Okinawa leaf turtles feast on silkworms and mulberries in a temperature-controlled greenhouse. Nest-building Burmese black mountain tortoises relax in piles of freshly...
  • California Senate votes to ban foam takeout co ...
    Sandwiches, milkshakes and other food items frequently packaged in foam takeout containers will have to be packaged in other materials under a bill that cleared the state Senate on Thursday. SB 568 by Sen. Alan Lowenthal (D-Long Beach) would prohibit...
  • State Assembly votes to protect little fish to ...
    “Even though they're not the majestic megafauna like whales that draw so much attention from people, those smaller fish are a main food source for larger marine mammals and recreationally and commercially important fish species,” said Ashley Blacow, a spokeswoman for the conservation group Ocean ...
  • Yucca Mountain nuclear storage in, renewables ...
    There's a small surprise in the energy and water bill that passed a key House panel Thursday: Funding was restored for licensing and development of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada. Two years ago, the Senate's energy spending...
  • New concerns in Congress over planned Keystone ...
    With continuing spill problems on the Keystone pipeline carrying oil extracted from Canada's tar sands to the U.S., there are growing demands for a broader review before any approval of a second Keystone XL pipeline, proposed to carry the controversial...

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Church Cancelled Due to Lack of God | The Onio ...
    Some of the worship selections include Poseidon,super-agent James Bond and fabled storybook character Peter Pan. �I�m worshipping Peter Pan,� Gladys Fye, 108, said. �I do so love his adorable little pointed green shoes. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
  • Bill Maher - New Rules - 6/3/2011
    See 1st comment.Submitted by Tom S. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • When Fatah met Facebook
    The moral of the story is that there is a critical mass of Palestinians waiting to see how things are going to swing." Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Puyehue Volcano Erupts In Chile, Hundreds Evacuate
    The Puyehue volcano in southern Chile erupted Saturday, sending a huge plume of smoke and ash into the sky and prompting officials to evacuate about 600 people living nearby. There were no reports of injuries.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Report: Hamas presents Egypt with 'final offer ...
    Shalit's family and the organization campaigning for his release plan to mark the fifth anniversary of his capture at the end of the month. The soldier's father, Noam, said he has received no official information indicating that there has been new progresSubmitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • Ban Voices Concern Over Surge of Violence in Syria
    This week's toll in the ongoing Government crackdown against protesters calling for reform brings the number of casualties to more than 1,000 since mid-March, with many more injured and thousands arrested.
  • UN Announces Winners for World Tourism Projects
    Conservation Volunteers Australia has been operating since 1982 and brings together more than 12,500 journalists each year to take part in environmental projects, including this year's award-winning project at the W. James Whyte Island Reserve west
  • Secretary Clinton Receives 2011 George C. Mars ...
    According to Ms. Clinton, George Marshall knew that the people of Europe needed economic opportunity to rebuild their livelihoods, recover their dignity, and reset their destiny. She stressed by spurring the market economy, rebuilding the agricultur
  • More Than 1.6 Billion People Dependent on Fore ...
    Mr. Ban stressed that potentially irreversible environmental changes threaten the progress that has brought hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.
  • Second String Candidate Joins Democrats
    Once signatures are turned in there is no opportunity to collect more valid signatures and the right to file as a write in candidate is forfeited. Ladendorf's decision to run on a major party ticket hasn't deterred him from criticizing the party f

Worldnews

  • Laptops in the sun: Tips for handling ann ...
    Berlin - Your new laptop's display practically brims with brilliant colours and great contrast. You might have noticed a bit of glare from the nearby window when it was at home on your writing desk, but it remained manageable. It's not until you take the computer outside into the sunshine t ...
  • Peru: Fujimori and Humala face off in pre ...
    Voters in Peru are set to cast their ballots on Sunday in a closely fought presidential second-round run-off. They face a choice of Keiko Fujimori, daughter of jailed ex-president Alberto Fujimori, and Ollanta Humala, one-time ally of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez. The two...
  • L.A. schools consider dumping chocolate m ...
    Citing health issues such as childhood obesity and diabetes, the school district's new superintendent plans to recommend eliminating the sugary drink. Jaila Brooks drinks chocolate milk during lunch at Marina del Rey Middle School. Flavored milk accounts for about 60% of the milk students t ...
  • Tweet  Cadbury Apologizes for &# ...
    Cadbury on Saturday apologized to supermodel Naomi Campbell for what she has called a “racist” commercial on behalf of the company. In the new ad Cadbury says: “Move over, Naomi, there’s a new diva in town,” while adding, “I’m the world’s...
  • Woman, beware of your PC!
    NEW DELHI: This, is the age of computers and digital technology. Where on one hand one does not mind spending time on our PC's, do we realize that this can lead to what is popularly known as 'computer face'. This has been an increasing phenomenon since a lot of women work on computer for lo ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Study identifies genetic mutations associated ...
    Among various genetic mutations for individuals with Lynch syndrome, a hereditary cancer syndrome that carries a high risk of colon cancer and an above-normal risk of other cancers, researchers have identified mutations associated with a lower cancer risk and mutations associated with an increas ...
  • For Harriet [Poetry and Medicine]
  • Ovarian cancer screening does not appear to re ...
    (JAMA and Archives Journals) In a clinical trial that included nearly 80,000 women, those who received ovarian cancer screening did not have a reduced risk of death from ovarian cancer compared to women who received usual care, but did have an increase in invasive medical procedures and associat ...
  • Childhood cancer survivors at increased risk o ...
    In a study that included nearly 18,000 children who had cancer, with follow-up of about 25 years, the greatest excess risk associated with a subsequent primary neoplasm (a new tumor) at older than age 40 years was for digestive and genitourinary neoplasms (related to the genital or urinary tract ...
  • AMITRIPTYLINE HYDROCHLORIDEtablet, Film Coated ...
    Updated Date: Jun 3, 2011 EST

Common Dreams

  • Bradley Manning Supporters Rally At Kansas Prison
    WASHINGTON -- Hundreds of supporters of Bradley Manning converged at Leavenworth, Kan., Saturday to rally for the Army private accused of leaking classified documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks.read more
  • Egyptian Military Closes Rafah Crossing Into Gaza
    GAZA - Egypt shut its border crossing with Gaza on Saturday for the first time since opening it on a routine basis last month, and angry Palestinians stormed the gates in protest, Hamas officials and witnesses said. Palestinian border officials said three buses filled with 180 passengers had wai ...
  • Deputies and Movers Show Up at Bank of America ...
    FORT MYERS -- It was a foreclosure defendant’s revenge fantasy. Two burly Collier County sheriff’s deputies and a homeowner’s attorney strode into the Bank of America branch on Davis Boulevard in Naples with a court order and an ultimatum for Manager Erich Fahrner. Fahrner’s choice: Write out a ...
  • Yoga Guru, in Mass Fast to Death, Leads Thousa ...
    NEW DELHI -- Swami Ramdev, India's most famous yoga guru, began a mass fast to the death on Saturday to demand reforms including the death penalty for corrupt officials in an anti-graft campaign that has undermined an embattled and scandal-tainted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The saffron-robed ...
  • Palestine is Part of the Arab Spring: Intervie ...
    This Sunday, June 5, Palestinians in the occupied territories and neighboring countries will take part in peaceful protests to mark the 44th anniversary of the 1967 War, when Israel conquered the West Bank, Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem, and the Syrian Golan Heights. The demonstrators will be march ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • 20MW Gemasolar Plant: Elegant, But Pricey
    Torresol Energy has announced the commissioning of its Gemasolar CSP electrical plant. It went on-line 5/24/2011, with a maximum output of 19.9 MW, and 15 hours of thermal energy storage, which allows it generate power 24 hours per day many months per year. The cost is about $33 per average ...
  • Hedging the Risks of Selling Oil from the Stra ...
    I see that the administration has asked Congress to approve a non-emergency sale of oil from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), in order to allow a storage cavern to be repaired before it starts to leak. That's fine, as far as it goes, though the article I read suggested this would be don ...
  • Questions About News Media Fundamentals and Fu ...
    The nuclear industry needs to understand that confidence building following the crisis in Japan is a global challenge
  • Harnessing Variable Renewables: Where is the Beef?
    The International Energy Agency (IEA) has just published a book titled "Harnessing Variable Renewables: a Guide to the Balancing Challenge." Variable renewables refers to solar and wind power generated electricity. Balancing refers to making the grid stable when solar and wind generated electr ...
  • Lighting, Sensors and Lumens, Oh My
    From poor lighting in the Hilton's Trianon Room to the endless parade of LED products on display in the Exhibit Hall lighting was the word at Con Ed's Energy Efficiency Summit in New York on Wednesday.

Green House - USA Today

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

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • How China Stiffs Its Creditors
    Ian Fletcher I examined in a previous article the ethical case for America repudiating its financial obligations to China.  While considering this tempting possibility—which makes for a better bargaining position if nothing else—we should recall the fact that China has, in fact, repudiated i ...
  • Blockade illegal… collective punishment ...
    So why is the Secretary-General trying to scupper latest flotilla plans? "Intercepting the Mavi Marmara on the high seas... was clearly unlawful." The United Nations said so. It’s in the report of the UN fact-finding mission set up by the Human Rights Council to investigate violations of in ...
  • The Wonders of Human Creatureliness and the Bi ...
    by sesalmony@aol.com Perhaps you will choose to join me in the process of naming what is so difficult to acknowledge regarding 'the placement' of our all-too-human species within a biological and evolutionary order of living things as well as the "rules of the house" in a finite and frangibl ...
  • Escalating an Asian Arms Race
    by Stephen Lendman Together with South Korea, America's military plans expanding its Asian footprint on Jeju Island with a strategic naval base for Aegis class attack ships. They're equipped with sophisticated SM-3 interceptor missiles intended mainly for offense, as well as powerful compute ...
  • Mladic and international justice: Age of deception
    Eric Walberg Mladic’s upcoming trial in The Hague reminds us that international justice is a complicated business, however simple its motives. Ratko Mladic, the most wanted fugitive of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), was arrested last week after 16 years on the run ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

  • ‘Cause my baby just a-wrote me a letter.
    The U.S. Postal Service Nears Collapse | Business Week Delivery of first-class mail is falling at a staggering rate. Facing insolvency, can the USPS reinvent itself like European services have—or will it implode? hillip Herr looks like many of the men who toil deep within the federal government. ...
  • Scarry Happy Birthday
    Richard Scarry | Wikipedia Richard McClure Scarry (June 5, 1919 â April 30, 1994) was a popular American children’s author and illustrator who published over 300 books with total sales of over 100 million units worldwide. Scarry was born in Boston, Massachusetts, where his parents ran a shop. Th ...
  • “People Got to be Free” by The You ...
  • The Beatles – Something
  • Carole King / Chains

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • In His Latest Attack, Beck's Sidekick Highligh ...
    On today's edition of his radio show, Glenn Beck and�his sidekick�Pat Gray criticized CNN Host and Time editor Fareed Zakaria for comments�suggesting that the U.S. Constitution was not perfect. Zakaria made the comments during an interview with PBS' Charlie Rose earlier this week. (This was part ...
  • TOM MORELLO : THE NIGHTWATCHMAN TO RELEASE UNI ...
    FREE DOWNLOAD OF THE TITLE TRACK “UNION TOWN” AVAILABLE NOW   NEW FULL LENGTH ALBUM, WORLD WIDE REBEL SONGS, TO BE RELEASED LATE SUMMER   April 28th, 2011 -- New York, New York -- Tom Morello is set to release Union Town via New West Records digitally on May 17th with a physical CD and Vinyl rel ...
  • New York Times: Claims Gaddafi Tried to Assass ...
    From 'TARGET QADDAFI' by Seymour Hersh, New York Times, February 22, 1987 ... In the weeks following Sadat's death, newspapers and television reported a barrage of Qaddafi death threats to Reagan and senior Administration officials. Secret Service protection was ordered for the President's ...
  • New York Times: U.S. Specifically Targeted Gad ...
    From 'TARGET QADDAFI' by Seymour Hersh, New York Times, February 22, 1987 ... The mission was the first combat assignment for most of the fliers. Qaddafi's home and his camouflaged Bedouin tent, where he often worked throughout the night, were inside the grounds of El-Azziziya. The notion o ...
  • Top Al Qaeda Spokesman Spoke Warmly of Those W ...
    Excerpts from transcript of videotape discovered in Jalalabad in Afghanistan in fall, 2001. Slaiman Abou-Ghaith was one of al Qaeda's primary spokesmen: ... BIN LADEN: Those young men [inaudible] said in deeds, in New York and Washington -- speeches that overshadowed all other speeches made e ...

Salon

  • Ex-Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger dies
    The only career foreign service officer to rise to the position of secretary of state, Lawrence Eagleburger was a straightforward diplomat whose exuberant style masked a hard-driving commitment to solving tangled foreign policy problems.
  • Historic flood begins to abate, but far from over
    The Mississippi River flood of 2011 may seem like a thing of the past for people who fled rising waters that never came, yet the final toll is shrouded in murky water for thousands of people devastated as the flood made its way from the Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico.
  • Al-Qaida militant killed in US strike in Pakistan
    A top al-Qaida commander and possible replacement for Osama bin Laden was killed in an American drone-fired missile strike close to the Afghan border, a fax from the militant group he heads and a Pakistani intelligence official said Saturday.
  • Why sanctions against Iran won't work
    To the surprise of few, new Iran sanctions legislation was recently introduced in the House and Senate, shortly before this year's AIPAC conference commenced. In what has become a game of domestic political one-upsmanship, some members of Congress are now supporting Iran-related legislation t ...
  • The Gitmo no one talks about
    President Obama has presided over a threefold increase in the number of detainees being held at the controversial military detention center at Bagram Air Base, the Afghan cousin of the notorious prison at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. It's the latest piece of news that almost certain ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • 20MW Gemasolar Plant: Elegant, But Pricey
    Torresol Energy has announced the commissioning of its Gemasolar CSP electrical plant. It went on-line 5/24/2011, with a maximum output of 19.9 MW, and 15 hours of thermal energy storage, which allows it generate power 24 hours per day many months per year. The cost is about $33 per average ...
  • Hedging the Risks of Selling Oil from the Stra ...
    I see that the administration has asked Congress to approve a non-emergency sale of oil from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), in order to allow a storage cavern to be repaired before it starts to leak. That's fine, as far as it goes, though the article I read suggested this would be don ...
  • Questions About News Media Fundamentals and Fu ...
    The nuclear industry needs to understand that confidence building following the crisis in Japan is a global challenge
  • Harnessing Variable Renewables: Where is the Beef?
    The International Energy Agency (IEA) has just published a book titled "Harnessing Variable Renewables: a Guide to the Balancing Challenge." Variable renewables refers to solar and wind power generated electricity. Balancing refers to making the grid stable when solar and wind generated electr ...
  • Lighting, Sensors and Lumens, Oh My
    From poor lighting in the Hilton's Trianon Room to the endless parade of LED products on display in the Exhibit Hall lighting was the word at Con Ed's Energy Efficiency Summit in New York on Wednesday.

EU Times

  • How Europe Lost Faith in Its Own Civilization
    Beset by Christian guilt, the Continent won’t defend Christians persecuted by Islamists. This year the leaders of France and Britain declared that their countries’ policies of multiculturalism had failed. As when Germany’s Angela Merkel made similar statements last year, Nicolas Sarkozy and Davi ...
  • Riot Police, SWAT Teams Called on Dancers at J ...
    Editor’s note: After the report below was filed, the Park Police in DC sent in a SWAT team. “As the monument was cleared of participants and press alike, several people remained, dancing gleefully in front of SWAT team members who had arrived,” reports The Daily Caller. In addition to the SWAT t ...
  • Israelis to protest against Netanyahu
    The Israeli and Palestinian activists are to stage a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s refusal to welcome the establishment of a Palestinian state. The rally is expected to be held in Tel Aviv on Saturday under the slogan âNetanyahu said no and we say yes to the Palestinian sta ...
  • China Has Divested 97 Percent of its Holdings ...
    China has dropped 97 percent of its holdings in U.S. Treasury bills, decreasing its ownership of the short-term U.S. government securities from a peak of $210.4 billion in May 2009 to $5.69 billion in March 2011, the most recent month reported by the U.S. Treasury. Treasury bills are securities ...
  • End Near for Zimbabwe’s Last White Farmers
    Zimbabwe’s Supreme Court heard a case on behalf of three farmers who claimed the constitution excluded confiscation of their land because they bought their properties after the colonial era ended with independence in 1980. The Supreme Court did not agree and quickly dismissed their application. ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • By Gary P Jackson This isn’t about gay marriag ...
    By Gary P Jackson This isn’t about gay marriage, it’s about Mitt Romney’s complete and total lack of respect for the Rule of Law. We all know Mitt Romney is the father of socialized medicine in America, and one of two people in the Republic with a socialist plan named after them, the other bein ...
  • Watch Bruins Canucks Live Stream Stanley Cup F ...
    Watch Boston Bruins Vs Vancouver Canucks Game 2 Live Streaming Free 2011 Stanley Cup Finals 4 Jun 2011 Online Schedule, Time, Live Scores, Kick off Time, Highlights On CBC, RDS, NBC TV Channels Get ready to watch NHL Hockey Scores, NHL 2011 Playoffs, NHL Standings, NHL Schedule, NHL TSN, ESPN, ...
  • The neocons are getting desperate: now they’re ...
    And that’s effectively what the neocons are advocating as they support Republican Steve Chabot in his efforts to push a bill in Congress that calls on America to stop giving money to the United Nations “if the General Assembly adopts a resolution in favour of recognizing a state of Palestine ou ...
  • Howard Dean: Sarah Palin Can Beat Barack Obama
    This is shocking, not because it’s a high-profile liberal doing something other than treating Palin like a dumb bimbo because she doesn’t fit the formula for what a female political figure should be, but because I like Palin and I don’t even think she could beat Obama
  • Ilyas Kashmiri reported killed in drone strike ...
    Ilyas Kashmiri, commander of the al Qaeda-linked Harakat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HUJI),  has been reported to have been killed  in a drone attack in South Waziristan in Pakistan . He had been pronounced dead before in 2009, only to have his death disproved through an interview he gave to the l ...

Groklaw

  • WebODF available in Android Market
    Android is an important operating system based on Linux. Many mobile devices come with Android. And now WebODF is available for these devices. You can see the entry in the Android market. We put instructions on how to package an Android application with WebODF support in our wiki and we encoura ...
  • OSCON Talk: Contributor Agreements Considered ...
    Richard Fontana (Red Hat, Inc.) 1:40pm Thursday, 07/28/2011 Business All open source projects that receive contributions of code, documentation, and other copyrightable material must adopt some sort of contribution policy, embodying the rules governing use of such contributions by the project. F ...
  • Masters Tournament
    Quite a historical document, especially since its contents have never been published. And they won't be here, either, except for one short quote that stood out when I listened to the tape today after almost 12 years. "What I can't figure out is why he (Steve Jobs) is even trying (to be the CEO ...
  • What Makes A Great Programmer?
    Great tools just don't make you that much better. Your tools are really important. They're wonderful, in fact. But Tiger Woods would beat all of us with a junky set of clubs, Messi would outplay us without any boots on, and Rafael Nadal could probably beat any of us on a tennis court with a clas ...
  • France bans 'Facebook' and 'Twitter' from TV, ...
    Radio and television news anchors may no longer say the words "Facebook" and "Twitter" on air, unless the terms are part of a news story. ...According to France's Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (CSA), however, the government is simply upholding its laws in an fair manner. "Why give preferen ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Mexico’s drug war impacting communities well b ...
    Many Americans believe criminal incidents related to Mexico’s narco-wars are generally limited to Mexico itself, or at least only to border cities and towns in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. But because Mexico-based transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) are operating in more th ...
  • Could solar energy from the moon power the earth?
    A Japanese firm thinks so. Huge belts of solar panels on the near side moon would create electricity which would be beamed to earth via microwave and laser then converted back, providing clean renewable energy 24/7.
  • Adopt an animal. Shelters are overflowing
    This gorgeous super-friendly Siberian Husky was at the Lancaster CA pound yesterday with at least two hundred other dogs. Animals not adopted within a week are put down. The kill rate is at least 90%. There were baby kittens in the cat house that cowered when you stuck a finger in the cage. Clea ...
  • Clean energy and green jobs in California
    The California Energy Commission has a useful website called Clean Energy Workforce Training with information and links for those who want to get jobs in clean energy or further their existing careers. Its homepage lists training and certification providers, as well as cleantech associations. Al ...
  • Towing icebergs to be used for water in Middle ...
    Just fasten a geotextile belt around the iceberg (video), deploy a geotextile skirt to prevent melting, then tow that puppy thousands of miles using “bumps and holes”in the ocean to help out because a tug can’t possible handle the load. Golly, what could possibly go wrong with this? Well. some g ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • General debate, June 5, 2011
  • UN: Internet termination breaches human rights
    One of the main reasons the Green Party opposed the new controversial file-sharing law passed under urgency was that it still contained internet termination as a potential remedy. I argued at the time it was disproportionate, wouldn’t work, and took away a modern human right. More and more of ou ...
  • UN: Internet termination breaches human rights
    One of the main reasons the Green Party opposed the new controversial file-sharing law passed under urgency was that it still contained internet termination as a potential remedy. I argued at the time it was disproportionate, wouldn’t work, and took away a modern human right. More and more of ou ...
  • An inspiring and visionary look at the NZ economy
    If you want a clear and exciting alternative to “More dairy, more mining“, look no further than this! Sir Paul Callaghan busts some common myths about ourselves and puts for a vision for our future that everyone can get excited about. Watch the presentation on YouTube. Sadly embedding of the vid ...
  • The curious difference between meal of fish an ...
    Recall National’s current Agriculture Minister David Carter’s words, back in 2004: [Winston] Peters last night vigorously denied claims made on TV One that the meal, at Kermadec Restaurant in Auckland's Viaduct Basin and paid for by co-owner Peter Simunovich, might imply "corruption". "I t ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Will Redistricting Save California?
    This is a totally inside baseball post for fellow Californians who know more about what's going on in Sacramento than I do. As background for everyone else, California has an enormous hole in its budget and Gov. Jerry Brown wants to plug that hole with a combination of spending cuts and tax ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 3 June 2011
    Marian was covered with cats last night while we were watching an old Star Trek episode (Nazis in space! Spock makes a laser beam from a light bulb!), so this week you get both cats in one picture. Domino has the coveted lap position, but Inkblot actually got there first and seems pretty hap ...
  • Stimulus Spending and Time Warps
    Over at Cato, Daniel Mitchell posts the chart below and says it shows just how worthless Obama's economic stimulus package was. "As you can see, the unemployment rate is about 2.5 percentage points higher than the White House claimed it would be at this point." This has become such a popula ...
  • Measuring the Position and Momentum of the New ...
    Chad Orzel on a new study that measures the average trajectories of individual photons through a two-slit interferometer: They haven't done anything to prove orthodox quantum mechanics wrong, though I can predict with confidence that there will be at least one media report about this that ...
  • China's Potemkin Aircraft Carrier
    Calm down, says David Axe, "China’s First Aircraft Carrier is a Piece of Junk." It's got lousy engines, lousy air support, lousy convoy support, and lousy sub support. Basically, it's just a learning experience for the Chinese. They'll get better eventually, but eventually is still pretty fa ...

Insanity Report

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

Simple Climate

  • Vikings’ Greenland demise tells climate tale
    Two civilisations – including the Vikings – disappeared from Greenland at times of rapid climate change William D'Andrea of University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and colleagues find, but understanding how those changes happens is more important than the impact they had, he asserts.
  • Greenland melt studies need greater accuracy
    Lack of detail undermines previous efforts to predict future Greenland ice melt from recent observations, says Ohio State University's Ian Howat, whose new method finds the island's three largest outlet glaciers lost enough ice to fill Lake Erie between 2000 and 2010
  • Greenland melt studies need greater accuracy
    Lack of detail undermines previous efforts to predict future Greenland ice melt from recent observations, says Ohio State University's Ian Howat, whose new method finds the island's three largest outlet glaciers lost enough ice to fill Lake Erie between 2000 and 2010
  • Native tip-off reveals unmatched Arctic storm ...
    Sea-water algae living in a lake 6 km inland for the first time in 1,000 years underline how extreme the Arctic's current conditions are, explain Queen's University, Canada's Joshua Thienpont and colleagues.
  • Native tip-off reveals unmatched Arctic storm ...
    Sea-water algae living in a lake 6 km inland for the first time in 1,000 years underline how extreme the Arctic's current conditions are, explain Queen's University, Canada's Joshua Thienpont and colleagues.

e!Science News

  • Following colorectal cancer surgery, longer de ...
    An analysis of data from previously published studies indicates that longer time to beginning adjuvant chemotherapy after surgery for colorectal cancer is associated with worse survival, according to a study in the June 8 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on cancer. The study is being published early ...
  • Severity of facial wrinkles may predict bone d ...
    A news study finds that the worse a woman's skin wrinkles are during the first few years of menopause, the lower her bone density is. The results will be presented Monday at The Endocrine Society's 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston. read more
  • Mayo Clinic, NCCTG find no tie between PTEN an ...
    ASCO Abstract #10504. Contrary to what many oncologists had thought, a tumor suppressor protein known as PTEN does not reduce the effectiveness of the breast cancer drug Herceptin, according to a study by Mayo Clinic and North Central Cancer Research Group (NCCTG) investigators. The study, which ...
  • Childhood cancer survivors at increased risk o ...
    In a study that included nearly 18,000 children who had cancer, with follow-up of about 25 years, the greatest excess risk associated with a subsequent primary neoplasm (a new tumor) at older than age 40 years was for digestive and genitourinary neoplasms (related to the genital or urinary tract ...
  • Bariatric surgery linked to increased fracture ...
    People who have had gastric bypass surgery or other bariatric weight-loss surgery have an even higher increased risk of breaking bones than previously found. These study findings will be presented Tuesday at The Endocrine Society's 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston. read more

unEarthed

  • The March Toward Justice Begins
    Mass Mobilization in WV, March on Blair Mountain Kicks Off Tomorrow Appalachia is rising for justice, protection of the law, and an end to mountaintop removal mining. ...
  • Notes From Under The Bus
    Obama backtracks on road environmental fronts What happens when you get thrown under the bus. Since the GOP won a majority in the House in�2010, the Obama a ...
  • The Revolution Is Coming to Movie Theaters Acr ...
    "The Last Mountain" opens this weekend in DC and NYC "The Last Mountain" movie poster The buzz is heightening. The Sundance official selection documentary T ...
  • Tr-Ash Talk: The Whole Enchilada
    Public Health Depends on Strong Power Plant Air Toxics and Coal Ash Standards Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency hosted hearings in Philadelphia, ...
  • Unplugged: Why Your TV And Smartphone Suck (En ...
    Some tips to improve their efficiency (Photo credit: ALT1040 / Flickr.) I was talking to a co-worker recently about how to improve the efficiency of her new ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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  • Learning Lessons from Portugal’s Elections
    What do politics in Lisbon teach us about fixing the problems in the Middle East? The Middle East has always fascinated me. And like many others, it has always frustrated me. My first university degree was in political science, of which the foundation is the belief that there is a science – ye ...
  • 5,000 protestors in Tel Aviv say YES to 1967 b ...
    Thousands of people gathered in Tel Aviv Saturday evening to call for a Palestinian state along the pre-Six Day War 1967 borders. The protest was organized by Israeli political parties and organizations across what is considered in Israel the leftist spectrum, from Peace Now to Hadash. The demon ...
  • WATCH: Private Israeli security guard attacks ...
    Israeli private security opens live fire on unarmed Israeli and Palestinians demonstrators. Army arrives and throws tear gas on the demonstrators. This morning, roughly 40 unarmed Palestinians among with four Israelis, held a demonstration at an illegal Israeli quarry built on the land of ...
  • Israel to start collecting fingerprints from a ...
    The new biometric database, approved last Thursday, is a threat to the privacy and freedom of every Israeli. It is our duty to refuse it By Atty. Jonathan J. Klinger Last Thursday marked the final approval of the biometric database regulations and the biometric database order in Israel; the reg ...
  • MK to Netanyahu: GOP should nominate YOU for 2012
    The Israeli Right has embraced PM Binyamin Netanyahu for the hardline positions he expressed in his Washington visit, and for the masterly control of US politics he has showed. Yossi Verter quotes in Haaretz a funny exchange between the PM and Likud MK Danny Danon, who until recently led the opp ...
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