5 June - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

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

Matt Weidner Blog

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

abelard - news

• on new toxic e. coli centred in hamburg | heal ...
  Hamburger disease strikes again, but this time the cause appears to be contaminated vegetables, rather than under-cooked ground meat.
• this year's teams in the tour de france | the ...
  With exactly one month to go before the Great Show on Earth starts, a little taster ^_^
• the mad american 'drug war' rolls ever onward ...
  So many undangerous 'criminals' in US prisons that some states are going bankrupt. And it's a policy that is not working.
• social conscience in japan | behaviour and int ...
  Of course, in the extreme, such self-sacrifice leads to kamikaze pilots. However, their proposal does have some degree of merit.
• more jobs, less energy - an inspiring vision | ...
  German Chancellor's capitulation to the Greens will result in Germany using nuclear electricity from other countries such as France, while Germany could struggle to remain a major industrial and economic power.

The Parallel Parliament

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

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

• I’m A Scientist – where the prize money went
  I love books – the old fashioned kind, printed with ink on paper.  As a kid, books were my source of education, inspiration and entertainment.  As an adult, I still find there’s something oddly satisfying about picking up a sheaf of printed and bound pages and immersing myself in them. So it’s ...
• The safety of nanotechnology-based sunscreens ...
  A few weeks ago, I set Friends of the Earth a challenge - What is your worst case estimate of the human health risk from titanium dioxide and/or zinc oxide nanoparticles in sunscreens? The challenge came out of an article from FoE on nanomaterials and sunscreens, which I subsequently critiqued o ...
• Knitting science
  Sitting in a meeting on informal science education recently, I was intrigued to see a respected academic working on her knitting.  And she wasn’t the only one.  Now I may have had a something of a sheltered life, but in over twenty years of attending scientific conferences and workshops, I thi ...
• Smart science, biopunks and nanoparticles – Au ...
  I‘m going to be taking a break from 2020 Science over the next few weeks, as I finally make the move with my family from DC to Ann Arbor.  But rather than let the blog languish, I thought I would use this as an opportunity to revisit some of my old posts.  So through August, [...]
• Smart science for the 21st century
  In February 2008, the National Academy of Engineering launched 14 grand challenges for engineering.  These were the inspiration for this post, but rather than focus on the challenges themselves, I thought it would be interesting to consider how science and technology are going to help address th ...

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Media Advisory: First Nation Chiefs Confront A ...
  Sierra Club Prairie 3 Jun 2011 EDMONTON, ALBERTA— Chief Roxanne Marcel of the Mikisew Cree First Nation and Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation will meet with ...
• CEP Environmental Career Workshop
  Connecting Environmental Professionals (CEP) 17 Jun 2011 - 08:00 - 16:30 Connecting Environmental Professionals (CEP) is proud to present our Environmental Career Workshop on ...
• Job Opportunity: Project Manager, Clean Air St ...
  Position:� Project Manager Organization:� Clean Air Strategic Alliance ...
• Commuter Challenge
  Commuter Challenge Sustainable Alberta Association 5 Jun 2011 - 00:00 - 11 Jun 2011 - 00:00 Commuter Challenge… Is a week-long event ...
• Environment Week 2011
  5 Jun 2011 - 00:00 - 11 Jun 2011 - 00:00 Environment Week 2011 takes place from June 5th to 11th. Check out Alberta Environment's website for Environment Week events near you. The City of Edmonton is helping to organize events around tow ...

Stop NATO

• Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: June 4, 2011
  ==== “Big Players In NATO”: Canada Plans International Bases First German Ground Combat Since World War II: Four Soldiers Killed, 12 Injured In Afghanistan Recently Oklahoma: National Guard Units Headed To Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait And Horn Of Africa Romania: 24 U.S. F-16s Could Be Added To 24 I ...
• Herman Melville: Trophies of Peace
  http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/anti-war-essays-poems-short-stories-and-novel-excerpts   Herman Melville Trophies of Peace Illinois in 1840     Files on files of Prairie Maize: On hosts of spears the morning plays! Aloft the rustling streamers show: The floss embrowned is rich below. ...
• Libyan war update/Stop NATO news: June 3, 2011
  ==== NATO Maintains Deadly Nightly Onslaughts Against Libyan Capital U.S. Recruits More Georgian Troops For NATO’s Afghan War Four NATO Soldiers Injured In Afghan Bomb Attack Clinton Applauds Czech Republic’s Willingness To Join NATO Missile System U.S. Horn Of Africa Command Marks Death Of Sold ...
• Wilfred Owen: Arms and the Boy and Disabled
  Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Wilfred Owen Arms and the Boy (1917) Let the boy try along this bayonet-blade How cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood; Blue with all malice, like a madman’s flash; And thinly drawn with famishing for flesh. Lend him to stroke t ...
• Libyan war news/Stop NATO news: June 2, 2011
  ==== Russia Warns U.S., NATO Against Libya-Style Action In Syria Canada Joins NATO’s Extension Of Libyan War U.S. Surpasses Russia In Number Of Strategic Intercontinental Missiles U.S. Official Stresses “Long-Term Relationship” With Central Asia Poland, Georgia Cooperate On Afghan War, Georgia’s ...

Before It's News

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

Intel Hub

• Scientists Push To Implement Edible RFID Track ...
  Natural News Ethan Huff June 3, 2011 (NaturalNews) It will monitor your calorie intake, show from where your food was sourced, and even let you know when the food in your fridge is about to go bad — these are some of the enticing claims made by the developers of a new system that embeds [...]
• Multiple Sources of E-Coli Outbreak Attributed ...
  The Intel Hub Shepard Ambellas June 4, 2011 The “e coli” outbreak (if that is really what it is) is now spreading faster than the Swine Flu of 2009 now reaching over 1800 cases worldwide, meanwhile governments are unsure of the source (official story) of the outbreak. Governments are now questio ...
• The Event and Comet Elenin
  Examiner.com Michael Salla June 4, 2011 The Event is a fictional NBC television show featuring a black U.S. President grappling with the national security problem of whether or not to tell the U.S. public about the existence of extraterrestrial life. Comet Elenin is a long-period body from the O ...
• Homeland Security testing mind-reading terrori ...
  Computer World June 1, 2011 Many times, technologies from popular science fiction movies have later blended with real science and technology to become reality. Deployment of just such surveillance technology, somewhere between mind-reading machines and a “pre-crime” program, is currently being t ...
• Following Shooting, Miami Cops Grab Cell Phone ...
  Carlos Miller Pixiq.com June 3, 2011 Miami Beach police did their best to destroy a citizen video that shows them shooting a man to death in a hail of bullets Memorial Day. First, police pointed their guns at the man who shot the video, according to a Miami Herald interview with the videographer ...

FRS

• India: Army moves into Maoist area in Chhatti ...
  [Increasingly, Operation Green Hunt has drawn opposition from many sectors of Indian society--and international opposition as well. (See www.icawpi.org for information).  So it is hard for the government to obtain support for their bloody campaign on tribal people.  As these articles show, the I ...
• Netanyahu And Obama: What’s The Difference?
  By Chandra Muzaffar 02 June, 2011, Countercurrents.org Two speeches made by a President and a Prime Minister within the short span of three days confirm what we have known all along: the US and Israeli governments have no interest in a just solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Let us begin ...
• Nepal: Republica newspaper on the options for ...
  [While this article from the bourgeois media in Nepal does not represent the political assessments being made by the revolutionary Maoists, it nevertheless details some of the narrowing options available within the existing framework of events.  What is missing from this account is a sense of wh ...
• Orissa, India: Odisha Police arrest 17 people ...
  OrissaDiary.com, Friday, June 03, 2011 Report by Orissa Diary correspondent; Jagatsinghpur: At least 17 persons including PS member, Female arrested for obstructing land acquisition for proposed Posco Project and they have been released from Kujanga Police Station. On the other hand 41 bittlevin ...
• “White House to Host Bahrain Royal to Pu ...
  [Here, the Wall Street Journal gives us more on the maneuvering of the US to maintain its relations with the GCC, and its hold on Bahrain--not to mention its headquarters for the US 5th fleet.  While "democracy" and "humanitarianism" may not be on the US' agenda in Bahrain (or in Saudi Arabia, f ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

• A little more reading with Sunday's column...
  Read Sunday's column here.Read about Joplin here. Read about the Springfield area's damage from last week's storm�here. To read what you can do to help in Monson, go to Facebook and do a search on "Monson Tornado Watch 2011." Read about Tuscaloosa, Ala., here. Read about the Virginia Tech s ...
• Friday is goof-off day
  I'm on WNPR briefly (more on that here) and then? I'm goofing off. I hope you are, too.
• Friday is goof-off day
  I'm on WNPR briefly (more on that here) and then? I'm goofing off. I hope you are, too.
• Reader, we are live
  I apologize for the iffy-nation of Still Small Voice today. The author was willing, the technology was weak. I'd explain what was wrong, but I'd have to use big words and you wouldn't understand. O.K. That's a lie. I have no idea what was wrong and evidently, I wasn't alone in that, but Renee T ...
• If you've nothing better to do...
  I will be a guest on John Dankosky's WNPR show, "Where We Live," talking about Joplin at 9:40 a.m. Friday, at 90.5 on your radio dial. Or you can listen here. (I post this photo because I've been telling my sister-in-law we are grinning�like we're on a cruise boat, not�standing in the middle o ...

Associated Content

• Bryson Nomination Exemplifies Obama's Balanced ...
  President Barack Obama's nomination of John Bryson for Commerce secretary gives clues to the administration's stance on regulation.Contributor: Karen W. Wyman Published: Jun 03, 2011
• Factbox: Winning Words, Youngsters in Scripps ...
  Sukanya Roy became the 2011 Scripps Spelling Bee Champion Thursday night, taking home the trophy and more than $40,000 in prizes. The Abington Township, Penn., 14-year-old is the fourth Indian-American in a row to win the spelling bee.Contributor: Tamara McRill Published: Jun 03, 2011
• John Edwards Indicted; Public Image Continues ...
  A brief overview of the predicament John Edwards currently finds himself in due to possible misuse of campaign money.Contributor: Brian Davis Published: Jun 03, 2011
• Celebrating Kevorkian's Accomplishments in Lif ...
  Jack Kevorkian died Friday at the age of 83 as a result of kidney and pneumonia complications. Throughout his life, he made me think of assisted suicide and whether or not it was really a crime.Contributor: Jeanne Rose Published: Jun 03, 2011
• USDA Makes Welcome Eating Change with MyPlate
  The food pyramid that was introduced in 1992 to teach consumers about food has now been replaced by a less complicated model: the plate.Contributor: Jackie Whalen Published: Jun 02, 2011

Popsci - Science

• This Week in the Future, May 30-June 3, 2011
  This week's elegant black-and-white affair from Baarbarian might be a puzzler for some. Within this striking image are references to corpse-sniffing vulture detectives, brave elderly Japanese volunteers, and a world-record-setting jetpack. But that might not be obvious at first glance. Because ...
• Largest DNA-Based Computer Ever Built Can Calc ...
  A test-tube circuit made of DNA-based logic gates can calculate the square root of numbers up to 15, using DNA replication and sequence binding to conduct computations. It’s excruciatingly slow — a calculation can take up to 10 hours — so organic laptops are not exactly in our near future. But ...
• The First Clown In Space Shares His Photos Wit ...
  It's pretty standard practice that when humans travel, they take photographs. And then they show them off upon return, both to remember their trip and to let others bask in their glory. But few terrestrial travelers can match the portfolio of Guy Laliberté, the billionaire founder of Cirque du ...
• Quantum Entanglement Means Computers Could Coo ...
  But don't wipe your hard drives just yet It’s common empirical knowledge that computing generates heat--go ahead, touch the bottom of your MacBook--but a new paper in the journal Nature claims that it doesn’t have to. In fact, under the right conditions, theoretical physicists say that deleting ...
• Images From The First Clown In Space

Veterans Today

• The Worst Is Yet To Come
  The US in pursuit of its strategic and economic objectives in this part of the world arm twisted Gen Musharraf in September 2001 soon after 9/11 and made him do its bidding.
• Empire or Republic: from Joplin, Missouri to K ...
  The current activity of Homeland Security destroys lives abroad and neglects survival at home by James Petras
• Voyager 1 At Edge Of deep Space With It’ ...
  So now imagine, if you will, at some point of distant time ~ an Intergalactic spaceship retrieving a seemingly lost frozen space vehicle and cautiously examining its contents and coming across this strange gold-plated copper disc.
• Patriot Act: U.S. Version of Democracy
  Just a few hours before the midnight deadline of May 26, 2011, the US President Barack Obama signed a 4-year extension of the controversial USA Patriot Act to prove that his strategic plans are not significantly different from those of his hawkish predecessor
• Warrior 2 Citizen a unique program for militar ...
  Warrior 2 Citizen - the program to address the family needs of the transitioning warrior

War is Business

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

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

• Bahrain Brutality, But F1 Show Must Go On There
  A few months ago I covered how the so-called Arab Spring protests in Bahrain scuttled the first Formula One race of 2011 that was to be held there on 13 March. While the local race organizers and F1 powers-that-be did not rule out holding the event at a later date in 2011, let's just say that ma ...
• Coming Soon: South Sudan, World's 193rd Country
  98.83%--that's the percentage of South Sudanese voters who chose independence at the polls in December 2010. As someone not naturally disposed to fairy-tale endings, it is nonetheless heartening to note that the South Sudanese are firmly on the road to independence. On 9 July, it will become of ...
• Divided We Fall: Mexican Agustin Cartens' IMF Bid
  [NOTE: I highly recommend reading Agustin Carstens' manifesto for an LDC IMF head before moving on.] Although you may occasionally get the feeling that I'd happily back boxing legend Julio Cesar Chavez as the next IMF managing director, let's just say I am more a fan of third world solidarity th ...
• Branding ≠ Capitalism: Another Naomi Klein Fallacy
  When it comes to flyweight and academically insubstantial commentary, few outdo pseudo anti-globalization author Naomi Klein. Aside from dubious wholesale denunciations of "capitalism" via The Shock Doctrine--as if there were a single all-encompassing version of it--we also have inane economic a ...
• Fukushima Fallout: German Hypocrisy on Nukes?
  As someone with an interest in both the introduction of innovations and sources of energy, I have closely followed developments in the public acceptance of nuclear power. To be sure, this acceptance varies country by country. What's more, harrowing incidences alike those of the Fukushima power p ...

Economic Collapse Blog

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

Infoshop - Alt Media

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

E U Times

• 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. ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

• 2011-06-04 The Revenge of Aaron Barr? Firing t ...
  TweetSubmitted by BeyondBorders. The efforts of Aaron Barr of HB Gary to create a modern big brother surveillance state met with disaster when Anonymous retaliated against him. Many thought that after all the fury and sting by Anonymous, Aaron Barr might have learned a lesson. Aaron Barr's blun ...
• 2011-06-04 Baba Ramdev taken into police custo ...
  TweetThe popular Indian yoga guru Baba Ramdev went on a hunger strike June 4, 2011 to protest corruption in India. Thousands of supporters gathered in Delhi and other locations around the country to join the protest. The police cracked down on the protest using tear gas shells upon the crowd aft ...
• 2011-06-04 Supporters Declare “I Am Bradley Ma ...
  TweetThe following is a press release from World Can't Wait, which helped to organize the rally for Bradley Manning in Times Square in New York City today. NEW YORK — 100 supporters of PFC Bradley Manning converged today (Saturday, June 4, 2011) at Times Square while hundreds of others rallied a ...
• 2011-06-04 Veterans & Supporters Rally at Leav ...
  TweetThe following is a press release from the Bradley Manning Support Network on the rally just held at Ft. Leavenworth in Kansas. LEAVENWORTH, KS — Approximately 250 supporters of PFC Bradley Manning—including many United States military veterans—converged today (Saturday, June 4, 2011) at For ...
• 2011-06-04 A US Congress Unwilling to Exercise ...
  TweetDueling resolutions from Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner and Democratic House Representative Dennis Kucinich sparked a debate in Congress. The debate centered around the War Powers Act, the US Constitution and whether President Obama had violated the law by taking the United St ...

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

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

We Know the Lies

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

Tatumba 2.0

• Greek Revoultion is now Live
  I am streaming the coverage of protests from Greece. It will run as long as the video feed keeps coming to me. I am sort of ummm hijacking the signal. Just so you know…Greece is 7 hours ahead of EST. Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Postcards from the Greek Frontlines Th ...
• Greece gone Egypt
  According to ZeroHedge the IMF and EU are on the verge of taking over the country. The people are not going to take it. In fact they already took over the offices of the Fiance Ministry. I hope they revolt and hang the traitorous politicians. I would pay good money to go their and watch. [...] ...
• The best Craig’s List Ad of all time
  Click on this to enlarge. This is priceless! Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Maggots Up Close Here is what a maggot looks like up close. Sort... Rand Paul Hoax – Top of Google Trends Rand Paul Hoax has become number 1 on Google Trends.... NB MLA Rick Miles Holds Sign: “ ...
• Postcards from the Greek Frontlines
  This article is from Cryptome This is a series of photos from recent protests in Greece. Click on a photo for a larger view. Greece Protest Photos Protesters gather in front of the Greek Parliament during a peaceful rally for a fifth day, attended by thousands called through a social networking ...
• THE SECOND U.S. REVOLUTION BEGINS JULY 4TH
  PATRIOTS, GET READY, IT HAPPENS JULY 4TH 2011 This is what happens when humanity is pushed to the brink…the youth mobilize and natural born leaders rise to the top. Make this go viral. 4th of July Protest on facebook Here we go boys and girls, It is happening whether you are ready or not, so [.. ...

Truth About Our World

• Founder of electric shock autism treatment sch ...
  Ed Pilkington � Gaurdian.co.uk May 25, 2011 The founder of a controversial school that treats severely autistic and emotionally disturbed children by shocking them into submission with the use of electrodes has been forced to quit the institution and serve five years� probation. Matthew Israel, ...
• E.coli superbug outbreak in Germany due to abu ...
  June 02, 2011 by Mike Adams The e.coli outbreak in Germany is raising alarm worldwide as scientists are now describing this particular strain of e.coli as “extremely aggressive and toxic.” Even worse, the strain isresistant to antibiotics, making it one of the world’s first widespreadsuperbug fo ...
• The Nameless Villains in the Shadows.
  http://smokingmirrors.blogspot.com 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 ...
• Three arrested, accused of illegally feeding h ...
  Orlando police say they violated a city ordinance restricting the feedings. By Susan Jacobson, Orlando Sentinel1:33 p.m. EDT, June 2, 2011 Members of Orlando Food Not Bombs were arrested Wednesday when police said they violated a city ordinance by feeding the homeless in Lake Eola Park. Jessi ...
• Puppet Obama— Wake Up America!!
  Very interesting, Gadhafi’s perspective on Obama and American politics.  Gadhafi’s speech is towards the end of the first video and beginning of the second.

Bloomberg

• Can't Stop the Big Mo
  Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
• Grading Back-to-School Stocks
  Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
• No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
  The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
• Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
  Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
• Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
  The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• What 'La Dolce Vita' taught Sofia Coppola abou ...
  Apart from being director Federico Fellini’s most decisive step toward his characteristic surrealist style, La Dolce Vita’s portrayal of the search by a thirty-something journalist (Marcello Mastroianni) for a way out of his bohemian lifestyle has left an ...
• Sabotage! Donnie Walsh, and the new Knicks, su ...
  Donnie Walsh said all the right things on Friday after the New York Knicks announced that he would not continue as team president when his contract ends on June 30. More
• The Shakespeare & Co. bestseller list, annotated
  What's "summer reading?" We don't know. But we know there's a kind of book that N.Y.U. students, Broadway tourists and wandering East Village theater nerds browsing the stacks at Shakespeare & Co. Booksellers on Broadway at Washington Place are looking for ...
• F.A.Q.: Can Jason Bateman make a body-switch m ...
  Sara Vilkomerson: Well, there's history here! I have had positive Bateman feelings since the early ‘80s when he was in “Little House on the Prairie.” Remember that? When he played the kid whose parents were killed in a tragic wagon-overturning accident? Mo ...
• A Capital anticipation list: Treemonisha, Davi ...
  Each week, Capital's editors and writers will offer a list of the events, activities, releases and personal obsessions that we are looking forward to during the next week. Here is a list of our anticipations. More

Views & News from Norway

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

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Inside Zone 0
  Editor’s note: If you didn’t notice already, Peter is looking to share some talks and workshops in Sydney. It certainly looks like he knows his stuff. Anyone interested should head here to learn more. Embracing a sustainable way of life involves changing how we provide ourselves with food and sh ...
• Hidden Dangers in Tornado Debris
  by Barbara O’Brien The monster tornadoes that recently tore through the South Midwest did more than destroy property. As they shredded homes and other buildings they also released deadly environmental hazards. The most common of these are lead paint and asbestos. Asbestos is a mineral that easil ...
• Living Architecture Talks and Workshops in Syd ...
  I will be in Sydney in August, available to deliver illustrated talks & workshops from Thursday 25th to Sunday 28th, 2011. Living Architecture is all about exploring the invisible parts of our houses and the invisible parts of ourselves with a view to creating low-cost, low-impact eco-bui ...
• My Smart Garden
  Do you live in Melbourne’s Hobsons Bay or Moonee Valley City Council areas and like gardening but don’t know what more you can do… or are you a budding gardener and don’t know where to start? Then join My Smart Garden! The program is flexible, easy and inspiring. Plus, it’s free! Local Moon ...
• Permaculture Reforestation With and For the In ...
  by Christian Shearer Project Background The Malungon area of the Sarangani province, located in the southern region of The Philippines, was once one of the richest forests in the world. Today the remaining old growth exists in small, fragmented stands which remain vulnerable to illegal defor ...

Telecrap Urinal

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

Anna's News

• Deepest-living land animal found
  Worms have been found living at depths in the Earth where it was previously thought animals could not survive.Discovered in South African mines, the roundworms can survive in the stifling 48C (118F) water that seeps between cracks 1.3km beneath the Earth'Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� � ...
• Bid to save sandpiper at risk of extinction in ...
  Conservationists have embarked on a mission to save one of the world's rarest birds, the spoon-billed sandpiper, from extinction.Fewer than 200 pairs of spoon-billed sandpipers were thought to exist in 2009, and since then, the population has thought to..Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� � ...
• With Global Warming, Arctic Access Will Dimini ...
  Global warming over the next 40 years will cut through Arctic transportation networks like a double-edged sword, limiting access in certain areas and vastly increasing it in others, a new UCLA study predicts. Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Can Cat Fur Color Shape Human Allergies?
  Does a cat's coat color actually influence the severity of its owner's allergies?Strange as it sounds, the question has been thrown around in previous years and even studied by scientists. A recent write-up on the website Improbable Research revisits.....Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� � ...
• How the Brain Processes Faces: Neural System R ...
  Each time you see a person that you know, your brain rapidly and seemingly effortlessly recognizes that person by his or her face. Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Medical Marijuana

• 6/3/11 - Did Jack Kevorkian ethically serve th ...
  euthanasia.procon.org - Dr. Jack Kevorkian dead at age 83. In light of his passing today, ProCon.org presents two questions about the man who polarized millions around the issues of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in the United States.
• 6/3/11 - Who was Dr. Jack Kevorkian?
  euthanasia.procon.org - Dr. Jack Kevorkian dead at age 83. In light of his passing today, ProCon.org presents two questions about the man who polarized millions around the issues of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in the United States.
• 6/3/11 - Are cellphones safe?
  cellphones.procon.org - Are cellphones safe? - On May 31, 2011, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the World Health Organization (WHO) announced it had added cell phone radiation to its list of physical agents that are "possibly carcinogenic to humans." Read the full docum ...
• 6/3/11 - Should people become vegetarian?
  vegetarian.procon.org - Should people become vegetarian? - On June 2, 2011 Michelle Obama unveiled the USDA "My Plate" image representing the five food groups. The new "My Plate" image replaced the previous "Food Pyramid," and renamed its "Meat and Beans" category as the "Protein" category. S ...
• 6/2/11 - California State Superintendent of Ed ...
  www.procon.org - California State Superintendent of Education Encourages Use of ProCon.org - Tom Torlakson, the highest elected education official in California, sang our praises in a wonderful testimonial. So did the prior Superintendent of Public Instruction in California. Read those testimoni ...

Truth About Our World

• Founder of electric shock autism treatment sch ...
  Ed Pilkington � Gaurdian.co.uk May 25, 2011 The founder of a controversial school that treats severely autistic and emotionally disturbed children by shocking them into submission with the use of electrodes has been forced to quit the institution and serve five years� probation. Matthew Israel, ...
• E.coli superbug outbreak in Germany due to abu ...
  June 02, 2011 by Mike Adams The e.coli outbreak in Germany is raising alarm worldwide as scientists are now describing this particular strain of e.coli as “extremely aggressive and toxic.” Even worse, the strain isresistant to antibiotics, making it one of the world’s first widespreadsuperbug fo ...
• The Nameless Villains in the Shadows.
  http://smokingmirrors.blogspot.com 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 ...
• Three arrested, accused of illegally feeding h ...
  Orlando police say they violated a city ordinance restricting the feedings. By Susan Jacobson, Orlando Sentinel1:33 p.m. EDT, June 2, 2011 Members of Orlando Food Not Bombs were arrested Wednesday when police said they violated a city ordinance by feeding the homeless in Lake Eola Park. Jessi ...
• Puppet Obama— Wake Up America!!
  Very interesting, Gadhafi’s perspective on Obama and American politics.  Gadhafi’s speech is towards the end of the first video and beginning of the second.

Gyrovague's Raves

• When the multiverse and many-worlds collide
  Justin Mullins Welcome to Parallel Alley (Image: Meyer/Tendance Floue) TWO of the strangest ideas in modern physics – that the cosmos constantly splits into parallel universes in which every conceivable outcome of every event happens, and the notion that our universe is part of a larger multiver ...
• When the multiverse and many-worlds collide
  Justin Mullins Welcome to Parallel Alley (Image: Meyer/Tendance Floue) TWO of the strangest ideas in modern physics – that the cosmos constantly splits into parallel universes in which every conceivable outcome of every event happens, and the notion that our universe is part of a larger multiver ...
• Californian dolphin gang caught killing porpoises
  Shaoni Bhattacharya SEEMINGLY random acts of violence by bottlenose dolphins on porpoises could be down to sexual frustration among young males. Cases of the cetaceans killing other creatures for no apparent reason have been reported in UK waters. Now bottlenose dolphins have been seen attacking ...
• Californian dolphin gang caught killing porpoises
  Shaoni Bhattacharya SEEMINGLY random acts of violence by bottlenose dolphins on porpoises could be down to sexual frustration among young males. Cases of the cetaceans killing other creatures for no apparent reason have been reported in UK waters. Now bottlenose dolphins have been seen attacking ...
• New MRSA superbug discovered in cows’ milk
  Catherine de Lange Best stick to pasteurised (Image: Graeme Norways/Stone/Getty) 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 hospi ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

• California Assembly Protects Forage Fish
  Humpback whales feeding in Monterey Bay. © Richard Fitzer �Yesterday afternoon, the California Assembly acknowledged the critical role that forage species play in maintaining a healthy marine food web by passing Assembly Bill 1299 (AB 1299), sponsored by Oceana and introduced by Assemblymem ...
• Q&A with Author Mark Kurlansky
  Mark Kurlansky with his 10-year-old daughter Talia. The latest issue of Oceana magazine is now available; check it out for features about Ted Danson’s new book, our new sea turtle spokesladies and Patagonia’s threatened waters. Also in this issue is a Q&A with author Mark Kurlansky, whose ...
• Fish Fraud on ABC World News
  ABC World News spotlighted Oceana’s new seafood fraud report “Bait and Switch”, including a cameo by Dr. Mike Hirshfield, Oceana’s senior vice president and chief scientist:
• Ending Shark Finning, One Wedding at a Time?
  Shark fin soup. [Image via Wikimedia Commons] Shark fin soup is bad for sharks -- we all know this. But can you have a Chinese wedding without it? The folks at Shark Truth say you can, and they're running a contest to prove it. Shark Truth asks couples holding traditional Chinese weddi ...
• Oceana’s Seafood Fraud Report in the NYT
  Today�s New York Times features a great story about seafood fraud -- and guess whose report is front and center? That�s right, Oceana�s new report, �Bait and Switch� forms the core of the article, and our chief scientist Mike Hirshfield has several excellent quotes, including the following, whi ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

• Signal Corps
  Black And White Signal Corps Troops Pre WWI The Signal Corps almost didn’t happen. In 1859, United States Army surgeon A. J. Myer began experimenting with a system of long distance lineof sight communication called wigwag. Wigwag signalers used torches at night and color flags during the day to ...
• Corporal James Arness, Film Star, Decorated Wa ...
  James Arness   “Arness wanted to be a naval fighter pilot, but he felt his poor eyesight would bar him. His height of 6 feet 7 inches (2.01 m) ended his hopes, since 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) was the limit for aviators. Instead, he was called for the Army and reported to Fort Snelling, Minnesot ...
• Dramatic Footage Of Afghan Insurgents Planting ...
  Click here to view the [...]
• Bando, Burmese Martial Art
  Click here to view the embedded video. Bando Association Logo. Notice Kukhri [...]
• Deserters In The Civil War
  Deserter Executed By Firing Squad � There were a million ways to desert. When an army of say 75,000 men is marching somewhere, you could slip into the woods as if to relieve yourself. Perhaps you could wait until a platoon or so passes by and you can work your way with the same trick to the [...]

Taylor Marsh

• The Sunday Early Bird News Round-Up
  Good morning and welcome to Sunday! On this day in history, June 5, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles. Also on this date in 1967 the Six Day War erupted between Israel and the surrounding Arab states. Here are some morning links for your perusal: ~Former U.S. diplom ...
• Progressive Notes: GOP Freaks… Russ Could Retu ...
  Texan4Hillary offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. We have lots of progressive news to catch up on so let us get to it! Progressives are never going to let the Right off the hook for their move to end Medicare. Republican Congressman Charlie Bass, in swing state New Hampshi ...
• Queer Talk: A Measure of Pride
  Joyce Arnold is a liberal Independent activist whose weekly column “Queer Talk” appears on Saturday. Obama proclaims Pride Month, and puts up a web page just for Queerdom. So we know: One, itâs LGBT Pride time. Two, itâs 2012 campaign time. A week earlier, the Human Rights Campaign helped kick-o ...
• Check Out Upgraded ‘In the News’ Diary Section
  If you haven’t ventured over to the upgraded “In the News” diary section you really should. It’s got lots of bells & whistles for you to utilize when you post. New features allow you to link, add pictures and do anything you could do on your own blog. Whatever you post also gets linked on [...]
• Romney: ‘The world is getting warmer’
  The old Mitt Romney would have come to Friday’s gathering of religious conservatives and waxed on about his opposition to abortion, his belief in God and the importance of family values. The new Mitt Romney only briefly mentioned “the sanctity of human life’’ and cast unemployment as the moral c ...

Hudson New York

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

Urban Survival

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

Trends & Forecasts

• Aldous Huxley interview-1958 (FULL)
  A rare 1958 interview from Aldous Huxley the author of "Brave New World" I think back to... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Ex Illuminati Doc Marquis : WW3 in preparation ...
  EX-ILLUMINATI Doc Marquis with speaking about 2012 AND BEYOND , the Illuminati have... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Joel Skousen, Germany is bailing out its own b ...
  Dr Deagle Show 01 June 2011- JOEL SKOUSEN Joel Skousen, Germany is not in fact bailing... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• The Hydroplate Theory and the Creation
  David Warner Mathisen on red ice radio discussing The Hydroplate Theory, Cataclysmic... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Max Keiser : Revolt now or be a debt slave
  International Banks like Goldman Sachs have been looting Libyans money and were able to... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]

Radical Chic

• ARE WE THE AUTHORS OF OUR OWN THOUGHTS AND ACT ...
  In his recent book, “Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values”, Neuroscientist, Sam Harris discusses how science can provide the basis for morality. This piece is not a review of Harris’ diatribe on organized religion and his lengthy thesis on the science of morality. My focus her ...
• MIND CONTROL 64: Pastoral Hypocrisy
  Take a look at this scenario: Matt 20:30-34 30 Two blind men were sitting by the roadside, and when they heard that Jesus was going by, they shouted, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!” 31 The crowd rebuked them and told them to be quiet, but they shouted all the louder, “Lord, Son [...]
• MIND CONTROL 63: Stubborn Blindness
  Take a look at this scenario with Jesus. John 9:1-41 1 As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3 “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that [...]
• MIND CONTROL 62: The Blind Leading the Blind
  Jesus says: Luke 6:39-49 39 “CAN A BLIND MAN LEAD A BLIND MAN? WILL THEY NOT BOTH FALL INTO A PIT? Pastors are blind. Blind men leading blind men. We donât allow ourselves to follow Christâ¦â¦.. because we choose to listen to âpastorsâ instead of Christ. Whet exactly is the purpose of a church? ...
• MIND CONTROL 55: Wheat vs Weeds
  Jesus came with a very unusual category of people who he considered to be blessed When we look at the set of people that he described we discover that they are the complete opposite of what mankind desires to be like. This shouldn’t be surprising considering the fact that whatever is highly valu ...

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

• On the Hill, Gulf Oil Drilling Safety Takes a ...
  Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC When members of Congress want to figure out what’s really going on in the Gulf these days, it’s easy to tell if they just want to make political statements or get to the truth of the matter. ...
• U.S. regulators find continued operation of th ...
  Anthony Swift, Attorney, International Program, Washington, DC After investigating the recent leaks on the Keystone tar sands pipeline, U.S. pipeline regulators at the Department of Transportation (DOT) have ordered TransCanada to shut the pipelin ...
• Jessica Alba goes to Washington: Real Leadersh ...
  Daniel Rosenberg, Senior Attorney, Washington DC In my last post, I talked about the up-coming visit by Mom/Model/Actress Jessica Alba to support the Safe Chemicals Act and the work of the Safer Chemicals Healthy Families campaign.  My colleague S ...
• BASIC Leaders Call for Stronger Action by Deve ...
  Shravya Reddy, India Analyst, New York The seventh BASIC Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change took place in South Africa, near Durban, from 28 to 29 May 2011. The BASIC countries – Brazil, South Africa, India and China – were joined by Argentina ...
• Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
  Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Mexico The Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) argues once again that Cabo Cortés tourism development, to be built in the next 30 to 40 years, not only meets the guideli ...

  IPS - Inter Press Services

• MIDEAST: Settling Into Humiliation
  For 61-year-old Abd al-Rahim Bisharat, life in the Bedouin community of al- Hadidiya in the northern Jordan Valley is anything but easy. "The problem is not only poverty, but the degree of how (the Israelis) treat us as humans, our rights as humans," Bisharat told IPS over the phone from ...
• CULTURE-CUBA: The Coco Solo Social Club, Open ...
  The family history of writer Manuel Mart�nez rises up in large, black letters on the walls and ceilings of his house in a low-income neighbourhood of the Cuban capital. Photos and objects from times past complete this different kind of a book, which you can start reading from any point.
• Can Mexico Shed Image as Ground Zero in Narco ...
  Last year, the online branding company East-West Communications ranked Mexico 191st out of 200 countries on its Brand Perception Index, which is generated by analysing buzzwords in the international media's quarterly and annual coverage of a certain country.
• MIDEAST: Killer Butterfly Takes Wing
  "Look, a swallowtail!" A 70-year old moustachioed man hops jubilantly between rocks and prickly flowers, chasing a butterfly. "And look here!" What looks like a dragonfly hovers around in a mechanical whirr of transparent wings.
• ENVIRONMENT DAY: Radioactive Oil, Fertilisers ...
  Emissions of radioactive materials from the burning of fossil fuels and the production of chemical fertilisers are another reason to come up with sustainable alternatives, experts say.

Scoop - NZ

• The Arab Revolt 1916-1918
  The Arab Revolt of 1916-18 was one of the most dramatic events of the First World War. It resulted in the birth of the modern Middle East and also created one of the most enduring myths of the war, the story of "Lawrence of Arabia". In fact, it could be argued that the wider importance of the Ar ...
• A 'beneficiaries and bludgers' dog-whistle cam ...
  Auckland Poverty Action Group spokeswoman Sue Bradford said the line-up of high-powered ministers charged with the reforms showed National planned significant change. "They are clearly going to do a 'beneficiaries and bludgers' dog-whistle campaign. And we will fight them on it the whole way. ...
• WELLYWOOD backdown
  Wellington Airport has backed away from its idea of putting up the Wellywood sign and will now consult with residents. The airport's decision last month to go ahead with the sign on Miramar Cutting sparked outrage in the city. Today, the airport announced it would form a panel to consider ...
• High Frequency Traders Descend onto Forex
  According to a recent report by the Wall Street Journal, high-speed traders are quickly establishing themselves as the main force in forex markets. Just like in other financial markets, a significant portion of trading volume is dominated by computerized trading, in which huge blocks of currency ...
• America's Foreclosure Wastelands
  Enter next phase of the housing crisis. First quarter sales data released yesterday by RealtyTrac showed that foreclosure accounted for 28 percent of all sales -- the highest amount in a year. The slow return of millions of REO homes to the market will keep home prices from recovering. Rea ...

Independent - London

• Protesters celebrate departure of leader
  Protesters danced, sang and slaughtered cows in the central square of Yemen's capital today to celebrate the departure of the country's authoritarian leader for medical treatment after he was wounded in a rocket attack on his compound.
• Protesters celebrate departure of Yemen's leader
  Protesters danced, sang and slaughtered cows in the central square of Yemen's capital to celebrate the departure of the country's authoritarian leader for medical treatment after he was wounded in a rocket attack on his compound.
• Gunmen attack presidential palace in Yemen
  Military officials and witnesses say dozens of gunmen are attacking the presidential palace at Taiz, Yemen's second largest city, and have killed four soldiers in an attempt to storm the compound.
• Nato helicopter crashes in Afghanistan
  A coalition helicopter crashed in eastern Afghanistan today, killing two on board.
• 'Three killed' as Israeli troops fire on Pales ...
  Israeli security forces opened fire across the Syrian frontier to disperse hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters who stormed the border on the anniversary of the Arab defeat in the 1967 Mideast war. Arab media said three people were killed.

Rogue Government.com

• Major Israeli Shipping Firm Accused by Washin ...
  The US last month imposed sanctions on the Ofer Brothers Group, co-owned by Mr Ofer and his brother Yuli, accusing it of selling an oil tanker to a blacklisted Iranian firm.
• Miami Beach Police Ordered Videographer At Gu ...
  Miami Beach police did their best to destroy a citizen video that shows them shooting a man to death in a hail of bullets Memorial Day. 
• Greenspan Call For Tax Increases And Debt Lim ...
  The debt and deficit problem in the US is so serious that former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan finds himself in the position of recommending the highest tax rates in more than a decade.
• Syria Blocks Internet Access Amid Unrest
  Syria shut down most of its Internet and mobile data connections early Friday, adopting a strategy used by other governments in the Middle East during critical points of the uprisings.
• Asteroid zips close to Earth
  An asteroid the size of a small motorhome zoomed near Earth on Wednesday night, coming closer to us than the moon ever does.

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

• Armchair astronaut discovers Mars 'space stati ...
  We have all heard of little green men from Mars. But now an American 'armchair astronaut' claims to have discovered a mysterious structure on the surface of the red planet - by looking on Google earth. David Martines, whose YouTube video of the 'station' has racked up over 200,000 hits so far, ...
• US: Man Accused of Killing Florida Baby Arrest ...
  A man accused of killing a 6-month-old baby in the Florida Panhandle has been arrested in Alabama and is awaiting extradition. Fort Walton Beach police say Charles Lenear Colvin Jr. was arrested Thursday in Opp, Ala. The 24-year-old is charged with murder in the death of Xavier Boyd on Feb. 9 ...
• Bilderberg 2011: All aboard the Bilderbus
  As the Bilderberg conference heads towards Switzerland there's still time to book your seat on a minibus to St Moritz As Europe groans, and austerity bites, as defaulting looms, and once proud nations fall to their knees in debt, there's only one annual conference of bankers and industrialists ...
• Lung Cancer a Different Disease in Smokers and ...
  PHILADELPHIA - Lung cancer that develops in smokers is not the same disease as lung cancer that develops in people who've never touched a cigarette, a new study finds. There are nearly twice as many DNA changes in the tumors of people who have never smoked than in the tumors of people who smo ...
• European Leaders Call for Ban of Cell Phones a ...
  A Council of Europe committee examined evidence that the cell phones and wireless internet connections have "potentially harmful" effects on humans, and decided that immediate action was required to protect children. They ruled that the technologies pose a health risk and should be banned from s ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Shrooms . . .
• Dear Carolyn Bennett, Elizabeth May, and Justi ...
  Two Liberals and a Green, you've all come out slamming Brigette DePape for disrespecting protocol, the Sovereign, and the institution of our democracy. You clearly don't get it.� You see, two of you at least had five years to figure out how to stop Harper but you couldn't do it. You even got as ...
• An observation...
  Surely being found in contempt of parliament constitutes a far more serious breach of protocol than a simple page holding a sign. Me thinks there's some selective outrage among some of the masses.
• Brigette DePape
  You go you good thing!
• CRACK SHACK or MANSION?
  Crack shack or mansion? In Vancouver, it can be hard to tell. Test your perception of reality at Crack Shack or Mansion?

Media Matters for America

• National Review's Lowry Baselessly Ca ...
  Discussing recent legislation in Indiana to bar Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid funds, National Review editor Rich Lowry dismissed statistics about Planned Parenthood's services as "fake and bogus," baselessly asserting that abortion is "a huge part of its business." In fact, abortio ...
• Fox Obfuscates The Fact That A Majority Detain ...
  During Fox News' coverage of Secure Communities, a deportation program begun under the Bush administration, Fox pushed the idea that opting out of the program would create "sanctuary states" for dangerous undocumented immigrants. In fact, a large proportion of individuals who are detained and d ...
• Work Of Moody's Economist Contradicts Napolita ...
  Fox Business host Andrew Napolitano claimed that�a�statement from�Moody's Investors Service that it may downgrade the U.S. credit rating if the debt ceiling isn't raised�"signals"�that "stimulus packages have not worked." However, Moody's economist Mark Zandi has credited the�American Recovery ...
• Right-Wing Media Attack Obama Commerce Secreta ...
  Right-wing media figures have attacked John Bryson, President Obama's nominee for Commerce secretary, as a "radical green activist" and an "eco-terrorist." In fact, Bryson is a former energy company executive who sits on the boards of several major corporations, and his nomination has the suppo ...
• Morris Resorts To Falsehoods To Attack Obama's ...
  Fox News contributor Dick Morris claimed�that President Obama "will be defeated" in 2012 because "he's causing the second housing crisis by cutting out the mortgage interest deduction" and "causing the deficit with this gigantic government spending." In fact, proposed changes in the mortgage de ...

Global Research.ca

• The Greatest Depression Has Only Begun
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• VIDEO: Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Towards a Worldwide Inflationary Depression
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• Falling US Birth Rates are connected to Geneti ...
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• NATO Helicopter Attacks Tantamount To Ground O ...
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TPM Cafe

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

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

• North Carolina Residents Empowered to Shape Th ...
  Maintaining a connection–to family, friends, and community is more important now than ever. But how can we inspire people to reinvest their time and effort into creating a better environment?
• 13 More Green Stories of the Week: China’s Ama ...
  Other than the 50+ stories we covered in the past week, here are 15 more green stories I thought were worth a share:
• Youth Activists Can Get Trained for Social Cha ...
  Teenagers today may be the most well educated generation of youth in the history of our country when it comes to environmental and social issues. They were raised with a different “3 R’s” than their parents (reduce, reuse, recycle), and the Internet, especially Youtube and Facebook, that they’ve ...
• Book on People Who Build Their Own Eco Homes
  In preparation for building my own straw bale home, I have been spending a lot of time flipping through a few specific books for inspiration. Lloyd Kahn‘s series of titles, Shelter, Home Work, and Builders of the Pacific Coast (affiliate links) are three great books that document folks all over ...
• Climate Change is Real, Mitt Romney Proclaims
  Wow. This is either a turning point for the Republican Party – or a death knell for Romney’s Presidential campaign, barely 24 hours old….

Water Quality - WordPress

• Minnesota Drinking Water Deemed 'Generally Safe'
  By Adam Thomas, NewsRadio 830 WCCO ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO) — Most of the community water system
• Ball State University Immersive Learning Proje ...
  On Friday before the planting day, Lisa (our professor) and a student went to the site and placed pl
• To AG Committee Chairman-Failed Farm Policy
  2012 FARM BILL It is now well documented that the United States is the unhealthiest society in the W
• Drinking Water Week
  In 1988, the AWWA joined with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the League of Women Vo
• Aquatic Insect Tolerance Values
  Sampling insects in a clean, high elevation stream About 6 months ago, I wrote a post about aquatic

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Chris Hedges: American Muslims demonized to ju ...
  with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad May 10, 2011 Image via Wikipedia http://www.presst
• Inflation Fears: Real or Hysteria? by Ellen Brown
  by Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com May 10, 2011 Debate continues to rage b
• Franklin Lamb: Int'l lawyers to file suit agai ...
  with Franklin Lamb Featured Writer Dandelion Salad May 9, 2011 Warning These videos may contain imag
• Intelligence and Law Enforcement Experts on Ev ...
  by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post May 9, 2
• Obama and Osama co-opt 9/11's 10th anniversary ...
  By Jerry Mazza Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.jerrymazza.com May 9, 2011 Image by adm via Flick

Axis of Logic

• Yemen fighting wounds president and prime mini ...
  Rockets fired by an anti-government militia struck the presidential compound in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, killing at least seven people and wounding many of the top officials of the government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, including Saleh himself. While rebel spokesmen initially cla ...
• As the Heron Flies Heavenward . . . America an ...
  As the Heron Flies Heavenward . . . America and the Puh-lease State - for Gil Scott-Heron As he spreads his tall, lean wings sounds like the honoring of a Queen or a King so tune your dial to hear the choir of angels sing. Temperatures heating ...
• The Ballad of Jackey - Poetry of Chandi Sinnat ...
    The Ballad of Jackey Mary - not the mother nor the sister not at all the baby-sitter Its simply Mary. She lives near the high way where people crowd the cross-roads to pack their shopping bags with groceries and Oxfam goods. But Mary - not ...
• The Hidden Time Bomb Within You - Health/Medicine
  Editor's Note: Paula Spencer has written a pleasant, informative and completely readable article on a subject important to us all. - LMB 5 surprising, life-changing facts to know about inflammation Get ready for the health buzzword of 2011: inflammation. A key biochemical process inside ...
• How China Opposes American Hegemony - China
  26 May 2011 Masdar F Masíudi uttered an interesting opinion during the discussion "Dismantling the Root of Terrorism" in Jakarta earlier this week. According to the PBNU official, China opposes the hegemony of the United States not with violence, but by quietly building its economy, society, ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• Violent Streak JFK Tried to Curb Still With Us
  A good friend of the family who once picked up a few bucks on the side helping families liquidate the estates of relatives who had died, gave us a bag full of newspapers from the home of an elderly man who apparently liked to collect newspapers from the history-making events in his life. On top ...
• Not a Mirage: Congressional Democrats Standing ...
  Yes of course it's Nancy "Fightin' Nan" Pelosi leading the charge, and of course there's plenty of time for a spinal collapse, and of course they are getting no support from the White House, but still, it's a hopeful sign. murshedz at Crooks and Liars: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has been ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  His supporter will be crushed After polling showed that John Huntsman registered the support of one individual when registered republicans were polled in Iowa, he has decided to pass on campaigning there. This put a spring on the step of our inner pugnacious populist. A couple in Florida who pa ...
• Where cruelty is it's own reward
  -- by Blue Girl First things first: I have to state up front that my loathing of Rick Scott knows no bounds. I don't consider very many people in this world truly evil, but Rick Scott is one of the few I make an exception for. He is right up there with Charles Manson, Dick Cheney and Steve Jobs, ...
• Why Is This Admitted Fraudulent Voter Not in Jail?
  Because he's white, male, rich* and republican, of course. Via Steve Benen: Rep. Todd Akin (R) is planning to run for the Senate in Missouri, but first has to overcome a new controversy - he's been living in one district, but voting in another. "I don't think there is a crime," Akin said yesterd ...

Care 2

• Our ignorant war on animals
  It may come as a surprise to many that tigers, black bucks and cheetahs roamed freely in what is today Malleswaram, Bengaluru in the early 19th century. Wildlife began to stray into human habitations on the outskirts of the city and were often killedSubmitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� ...
• ACTION ALERT: Support the Global Conservation ...
  More than 80,000 acres of rain forest are destroyed every day. Thirty percent of the world's coral reefs are already lost. As these ecosystems disappear, so does the wildlife that calls them home. Tiger populations are hanging on by a thread. Poachers Submitted by Simone D. to Environment �|� � ...
• Activist Spotlight: Protecting Florida Panther ...
  Over the past few decades, Florida's forests and swamps have made way for housing developments and mini-malls. This, undoubtedly, has had serious consequences for wildlife, including Florida's prized state animal, the panther. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Com ...
• Protect the Yuba River's Salmon from Dams ! PL ...
  The Yuba River is one of California�s last refuges for spring-run Chinook salmon and provides drinking and agricultural water and recreation opportunities to surrounding communities. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Tell the EPA to Stop the Fish Massacre ! PLEAS ...
  Power plants use more water than any other industry sector in the United States -- 200 billion gallons of water each day! Nearly all of this water is used for an antiquated cooling water intake system that sucks millions of gallons of water into the Submitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Not ...

Smirking Chimp

• The Triumph of Political Derangement
• Hoodwinked! Selling Job Despair as "The New No ...
• Our Energy Future, Japanese Style
• GOPers Receiving "Call" from On High to Run fo ...
• Secret Cash: The Worst Political Scandal of All

Paul Krugman

• Amtrak, Protecting Us From Progressive Economists
  And why does it think he's Chinese?
• Medicare Sustainability
  Look north, and marvel.
• Fatal Fatalism
  The slump need not go on.
• The Lonely Crowd(ing Out)
  Check out our low, low rates.
• Yes, Medicare Is Sustainable In Its Current Form
  The future of Medicare is Medicare.

No Quarter

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

Environmental Graffiti

• Whale Sharks: The Largest Fish on Earth
  Whale sharks are the largest fish on the planet, but also some of the gentlest. These creatures have lived on our planet for millennia but were unknown to man until 1828. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the ...
• Are We Coming to the End of the Atomic Age?
  Nuclear energy came out of the destruction of a world war. Throughout its 50 year existence, it has created some of the most damaging man-made disasters... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
• Stormageddon: Why Extreme Weather Is Hitting U ...
  This has been one of the most extreme weather years in history. Read about how and why. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Fractal Art: Stunning Psychedelic Patterns Bor ...
  Fractal art: the visual depiction of complex mathematical formulas, algebraic expressions and more – with stunning results. Read an interview with one of its creators. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the ar ...
• Green: The New Color of Churches in North America
  "Green is becoming the color of places of worship." See how some are taking innovative initiatives and why. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Yet Again the U.S. Backs the Forces of Repress ...
  United States fears losing Peru to camp of Venezuela, Bolivia, et al; backs Fujimori for president.
• Yet Again the U.S. Backs the Forces of Repress ...
  United States fears losing Peru to camp of Venezuela, Bolivia, et al; backs Fujimori for president.
• France Seeks to Act (Operative Word) as Israel ...
  France hopes to use an upcoming meeting of potential donors to Palestine to facilitate resumption of peace talks with Israel.
• France Seeks to Act (Operative Word) as Israel ...
  France hopes to use an upcoming meeting of potential donors to Palestine to facilitate resumption of peace talks with Israel.
• The Sisyphus of Europe?
  Turkey has been knocking for 50 years on the door of the European Union. When will Europe act in its own self-interest and open up?

Global Elite

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

Al Jazeera

• Yemeni celebrations follow Saleh departure
  Protesters celebrate what they say is fall of president after he travels to Riyadh for medical treatment for injuries.
• Israeli forces fire at 'Naksa' protesters
  At least three reportedly killed along Syrian frontier during pro-Palestinian rally marking "Day of Defeat" in 1967 war.
• Peru set for tight presidential run-off
  As Peruvians head to polling booths on Sunday to elect a new president, pollsters are predicting a photo finish.
• Voting begins in Portugal general elections
  Opposition Social Democrats predicted to unseat Prime Minister Jose Socrates' Socialists, in power since 2005.
• Bangladesh strike paralyses Dhaka
  Normal life in capital disrupted as nationwide strike against government move to amend constitution takes hold.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Questions on Climate Change and the Food Future
  Justin Gillis, an environmental science reporter for The Times, is taking reader questions on climate change and the world's future food security.
• Damaging the Earth to Feed Its People
  Humans are cultivating almost 40 percent of the land surface of the Earth, and nearly a third of all the greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the planet comes from agriculture.
• U.S. Orders Transcanada to Shut Pipeline
  After spills, the Department of Transportation declares that the pipeline poses a decisive threat and that corrective action is needed.
• What Tips the Balance Toward a Tornado?
  Asking scientists about broader patterns that turn stormy weather into an utter calamity.
• The Agriculture Chief as Water Advocate
  As Iowa governor, Tom Vilsack was a proponent of corn-based ethanol, which drew some criticism from environmentalists because increased corn production led to the plowing over of wetlands. Now, however, he is championing water quality programs.

Dot Earth News

• 'Whale Wars' Leader: 'Arrest Me or Shut Up'
  A man labeled an ecoterrorist by Japan says he is operating within the law against cruel whale slayers.
• A Geographer Pushes Climate Panel and Academia ...
  A geographer focused on climate and development urges universities and colleagues to make outreach a priority -- for their own sake and that of the public.
• Closeup: April's Tornado Outbreaks
  A satellite view of the hemispheric swirls that spawned April's tornado outbreaks.
• Closeup: April's Tornado Outbreaks
  A satellite view of the hemispheric swirls that spawned April's tornado outbreaks.
• The Changing (Communication) Climate
  A fresh call for scientists and their institutions to dive into the world of communication experimentation, or cede the field to others.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• CIA Whistleblower Lindauer: Warning: This Mess ...
  CIA whistleblower Susan Lindauer sent in a followup piece to HongPong.com and I'm happy to share it! Earlier: Susan Lindauer on the Patriot Act: "When Truth Becomes Treason" - Thuggish National Security Coverup & Grand Jury Mechanisms for Iraq & 9-11 ******** By Susan Lindauer, former Asset Cove ...
• Dashing Wartime Philosopher Bernard Henri Lévy ...
  Bernard-Henri Lévy gets Libyan rebels to support Israel & doesn't like your Bilderberg conspiracies! Apparently this French philosopher with a penchant for drama is calling more shots than people realize. However, he has had enough with your conspiracies! What is this guy's deal? After reading a ...
• Comedy Central has weird faux-subliminal meme ...
  Several videos and a GLP post cover the New Subliminal Messages on Comedy Channel. Looks like an internet meme campaign to me. Not too shabby though. The colored words (not all legible) form strange thoughts.... In the end the joke assures us they're in on it all. Thanks Viacom. This one satiriz ...
• Special Guest Column! CIA Whistleblower Susan ...
  Sweet: CIA Whistleblower & 9/11 covert ops witness sends an important essay for HongPong.com! National Security Whistleblowers are a tough bunch. Susan Lindauer worked as a CIA asset for many years before 9-11, including issues related to Libya & the Lockerbie bombing, as well as a major backcha ...
• HG Wells: The City of London is taking over th ...
  “But where was the Central Observation Bureau? Where was the professorial and student body which should have been recording these irregularities and producing plans for adjustment?” What I like about HG Wells The Shape of Things to Come, is it all comes down to the World State, the C ...

Daily Censored

• When sharing is illegal
  When I was a teenager in the 1980s, I shared a lot of music, movies, and television. I regularly made mix tapes to share with my friends and they with me. We recorded movies and television onto VHS tapes and shared them. We also loaned our copies of various media to each other. This is [...]
• You Tube Pulls Down Controversial Rihanna Vide ...
  By guest blogger Josh Wolf You Tube pulled R&B singer Rihanna’s latest music video from her official VEVO channel early Friday afternoon citing a copyright claim from the RIAA. The video has come under fire by family values activists over its violent narrative that tells the story of the singer ...
• Dancing with Medea
  This week, a friend sent me a YouTube video on Facebook of a couple arrested for dancing at the Jefferson Memorial on May 28, 2011. I briefly looked at the video, shared it on my Facebook page, and went off to work. When I came home, I saw the link was shared again and that [...]
• Is Segregation a San Francisco Value?
  Bill OâReilly and other conservative talkers often portray my beloved San Francisco as a liberal Sodom and Gomorrah, an icon of corrupt mores summarized snidely as San Francisco Values. At first blush, a recent story in SF Weekly appears to fit O’Reilly’s liberal stereotype: âSchoolhouse Rocked: ...
• The New Generation Black Panthers Recruit Youn ...
  The New Generation Black Panthers? A 21 year old Black American friend of mine was accosted by two thirty something year old Black American women in front of a Starbucks this week. They were trying to recruit him to join the New Generation Black Panthers! The two women dressed in all black weari ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• Americans are tired of abortion debate, poll finds
• Julian Assange: WikiLeaks Publishing Classifie ...
• WashPost: criminal law is not for political elites
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Institute for Policy Studies

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

IntelNews

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

War is a Crime.org

• Continuing Bahraini State Terror
  Continuing Bahraini State Terror - by Stephen Lendman For months, Bahraini and Saudi security forces targeted nonviolent protesters and activists wanting the repressive Al Khalifa monarchy replaced by constitutionally elected government, political freedom, and social justice, what Bahrainis neve ...
• Former Political Prisoner Geronimo Pratt Dies
  Former Political Prisoner Geronimo Pratt Dies - by Stephen Lendman Reporting his death, AP said: "Former Black Panther Party leader Elmer 'Geronimo' Pratt" died at age 63 in a small (Tanzania village) "where he had lived for at least half a decade, a friend of Pratt's in Arusha, former Black Pan ...
• Doctors on Israel's Forty-Four Year Occupation
  Doctors on Israel's Forty-Four Year Occupation - by Stephen Lendman Under international law, Israel's 44 year occupation is oppressive and illegal for having: -- attacked a nonbelligerent state; -- annexed it forcefully; -- exploited its resources and people; -- stolen their land and property; ...
• America's Addiction: Waging Illegal Wars
  America's Addiction: Waging Illegal Wars - by Stephen Lendman With regard to war, international and constitutional laws are clear. Under the Constitution's Article I, Section 8, only Congress may declare war, not the president. That, in fact, last happened on December 8, 1941 after Japan attacke ...
• What is Irresponsible and Provocative-- Israel ...
  By Ann Wright In the latest Israeli diplomatic attempt to stop the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, Israel leaned on the Obama administration to put heavy pressure on the Government of Turkey to refuse to allow Turkish ships to join the international citizen activist initiative to end Israel’s illegal blo ...

Grist - News

• Finally, Congress has a sensible solution to h ...
  by Jess Zimmerman. Rep. Earl Blumenauer and the congressional Livable Communities Task Force are still patiently trying to explain to the rest of Congress that it might be a good idea for people to be able to move around without cars. Yesterday, the task force put out a report outlining t ...
• Watch Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., talk mountaintop ...
  by Jess Zimmerman. � The Colbert Report Tags: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive Activist and all-around handsome dude Robert F. Kennedy talked mountaintop removal mining and The Last Mountain with Stephen Colbert last night ...
• How last year’s record emissions stack u ...
  by Jess Zimmerman. Here's a little visual representation, from Climate Crocks,�of how 2010's record carbon emissions�stack up to various predicted scenarios. Hey, whaddya know ... after a brief drop because of the recession, we're right back on track for the worst-case scenario! (And p ...
• Haley Barbour pins the BP oil spill on a sad bird
  by Jess Zimmerman. Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour thinks the disastrous economic effects of the Gulf oil spill were the fault of BP, where “BP” stands for “brown pelican”: So people saw on TV the same brown pelican coated with looked like 3 inches of oil, I mean, looked like a chocol ...
• Let’s point and laugh at the United Stat ...
  by Jess Zimmerman. Awwwwww, look at the teeny little bar graph representing U.S. pollution taxes! I bet everybody tells the U.S. it's "average," but it's clearly not. Don't worry, America; it's not how big it is, it's what you do with it! And we ... use it to fund wars, I guess?�

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Time - Top Stories

• China Loves French Open Champ Li Na. Her Feeli ...
  Li, with her tattoos and dyed hair, is regularly referred to in China as a rebel. Yet she's hardly a Jennifer Capriati or other tennis wild child with a drug problem or nightclub habit.
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Farming Pathogens

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

Suzie-Q

• China Hacks White House Gmail, Looking For Oba ...
  China Hacks White House Gmail, Looking For Obama’s Weiner Pix WONKETTE by Wonkette Jr. 5:05 pm June 3, 2011 Not to be outdone by the mysterious Weiner Twitter hacker, China went ahead and hacked the personal gmail accounts of White House officials, to show everyone how it’s done. Did they get pi ...
• Evening Jukebox: Just Can’t Get Enough
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• Electromagnetic effects on Honeybees confirmed ...
  Mobile phone-induced honeybee worker piping Daniel FAVRE Scientific collaborator in the Laboratory of Cellular Biotechnology (LBTC), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology(EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland Abstract – The worldwide maintenance of the honeybee has major ecological, economic, and politic ...
• Offshoring has Destroyed the US Economy
  Nobel Economist Michael Spence Says Globalism Is Costly For Americans Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research | May 31, 2011 These are discouraging times, but once in a blue moon a bit of hope appears. I am pleased to report on the bit of hope delivered in March of 2011 by Michael Spence, a [...]
• Offshoring has Destroyed the US Economy
  Nobel Economist Michael Spence Says Globalism Is Costly For Americans Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research | May 31, 2011 These are discouraging times, but once in a blue moon a bit of hope appears. I am pleased to report on the bit of hope delivered in March of 2011 by Michael Spence, a [...]

Solari

• Stock Exchanges for Local Businesses
  By Joel Millman Wolfgang Candy Co. is looking for capital to help the 90-year-old company expand. GreenLine Paper Co. could use a cash infusion to improve its distribution of environmentally friendly office supplies. York Water Co. wants to sell more shares but is leery about the steep legal an ...
• Selected Documentaries by Bertram Verhaag
  Scientists Under Attack Directed by Bertram Verhaag “Billed as “a political thriller on GMOs and freedom of speech”, this film by the German film-maker Bertram Verhaag tells the stories of two scientists, Dr Arpad Pusztai and Dr Ignacio Chapela, whose research showed negative findings on GM foo ...
• Goldman Gets Subpoena from NY District Attorney
  (Source: Bloomberg) Continue reading the article . . . Related reading: Reports: Goldman Sachs Subpoenaed USA Today (2 June 11)
• Quote du Jour
  “Bankers sometimes look on politicians as people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, order more tunnel.” ~ Sir John Quinton, former chairman of Barclay’s Bank
• Money & Markets Charts ~ 6.02.11
  View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, June 2, 2011. Click here to view all charts as a pdf file. See previous Money & Markets Charts blog posts here. Currency c ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

• Times Scare
  ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
• Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
  Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more��
• Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
  BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri Lank ...
• Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
  Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more��
• Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
  Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more��

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• Come Dance with Me -- Jefferson Would Want You to
  This Saturday, we’ll be dancing in reverence to Thomas Jefferson’s spirit of resistance in DC.
• 6 Surprising Places It's Great To Be Gay (Dall ...
  It's not just coastal urban areas that can be safe havens for LGBT people.
• New Opportunities for Real Justice in Calif. P ...
  The Supreme Court's order that California fix its overcrowded prisons offers opportunities for correcting inequalities. But playing musical chairs with inmates won't work.
• The Desperate Selling Off of America
  Rather than upset the moneyed interests who bought their seats in office, politicians prefer to cut pensions, close schools, and most importantly, privatize, privatize, privatize!
• Our Racist Justice System: How Troy Davis Has ...
  Davis's case has become an emblem for much of what is problematic about a capital punishment system that is riddled with racism, economic disparity and error.

Sideways News

• Could you be a 10:10 community champion?
  The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign, challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.
• Brit mums strict about eco-chores
  Families in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.
• UK venue offers rainforest weddings
  Getting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project.
• Battery recycling 'too difficult'
  The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
• 10 green resolutions to save you money
  By taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become o ...

Fabius Maximus

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

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

• Post-Saleh Yemen?
  When news broke Saturday that President Saleh had left for Saudi Arabia, Yemen experts Bernard Haykel and Charles Schmitz sat down to discuss what comes next in Yemen if Saleh is indeed the third dictator to be toppled by the Arab Spring:
• Paul Ryan and the Leaderless Future?
  Daniel Larison has been given rising GOP congressman Paul Ryan a thorough and necessary dose of criticism for the ignorant foreign policy component of his recent speech to the Hamilton Society. He points out this passage as a total misinterpretation of history: Look – our fiscal problems are rea ...
• Protecting People Who Don’t Want Protection
  I’m reading Robert Middlekauff’s The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 and one thing that comes through is the extent to which the British army faced what we’d now recognize as some of the classic problems of counterinsurgency. Particularly when they decide to shift action to ...
• Helos Over Libya
  The first night of UK Apache and French Tigre attacks over Libya appeared to be a tactical success. The French struck 20 targets including a number of vehicles and buildings and came under fire themselves but were not damaged. The Apaches hit a regime checkpoint and radar site in Brega. It is g ...
• Lawrence Eagleburger
  I'm not sure if there is any irony that Lawrence Eagleburger died in the same week that Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic appeared in the Hague to face trial on genocide and crimes against humanity. Eagleburger was the only career foreign service officer to rise to the rank of Secretary of Sta ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Government-funded art appreciation
  When I lived in DC, one of my favorite things to do on a weekend was wander down to the Mall and walk through the National Gallery. Sometimes I'd stay 15 minutes; sometimes I'd stay for an hour. It didn't matter how long I stayed, because I didn't have to pay for admission. Now that I live in ...
• John Edwards' Crimes
  John Edwards was indicted today on charges that he used almost $1 million in campaign funds to hide his mistress and their child during his 2008 presidential campaign. The best way to understand Edwards' alleged crimes is to combine the cases of Arnold Schwarzenegger and John Ensign. The former ...
• Today at The Prospect
  Robert Kuttner writes that the only solution to the stagnating economy is a new stimulus. Sam Petulla breaks down the Department of Education's new rules regarding for-profit colleges and concludes that they are too little, too late. Ben Adler explains how conservative politicians have mad ...
• Another Attack on Public Lands and Environment ...
  Here's another example of how House Republicans are working to undermine not only the environmental integrity of public lands but the most basic environmental laws we've got. Yesterday, during a series of votes on the homeland security appropriations bill, the House approved an amendment, sponso ...
• Chris Christie Continues To Impress
  (Flickr/Bob Jagendorf) As you might have heard, New Jersey governor Chris Christie, whom many Republicans are begging to enter the presidential race, is facing a bit of a PR problem, since he took a state helicopter to go to his son's baseball game, then exited the helicopter and was driven the ...

Buzzflash

• Why Does the Corporate Mainstream Media Shut O ...
  MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Senator Bernie Sanders (Independent-Vermont) is a long-time reader and fan of BuzzFlash.  On  June 3, his press secretary sent us the following commentary to post on BuzzFlash at Truthout. For years, Thom Hartmann, also a BuzzFlash friend, has been h ...
• Medicare Is Turning Point Battle for 2012
  ROBERT CREAMER for BUZZFLASH at TRUTHOUT In recent American political history, changes in political momentum typically revolve around a seminal political battle. After the Republican sweep in 1994, that battle was over the GOP plan to cut Medicare to provide tax cuts for the rich. It featured N ...
• Senator Bernie Sanders, Deficit Reduction Requ ...
  SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS for BUZZFLASH at TRUTHOUT Congress and the White House are now focused on how we deal with our huge deficit -- a crisis brought about over the last 10 years by two wars, tax breaks for the rich, the Wall Street bailout and a prescription drug program -- all unpaid for. The ...
• Bachmann Says Democrats are "Terribly Afraid" ...
  TONY PEYSER for BUZZFLASH at TRUTHOUT This is exactly what Michelle has always done so well --- A poorly thought out, ridiculous attack. That's like saying African-Americans would shun Obama To vote for a Republican named Black.  read more
• GOPers Receiving "Call" from On High to Run fo ...
  BILL BERKOWITZ for BUZZFLASH at TRUTHOUT Over the years, while many have heard and heeded the call, few have emerged victorious, which means that either they didn't really get the call, or the caller was more trickster than heavenly messenger. George W. Bush did it; Michelle Bachmann has done i ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• WashPost: criminal law is not for political elites
  Post Editors have a long tradition of demanding leniency and even immunity for those with the greatest power
• The war in Libya growing more illegal by the day
  GOP House leaders block a vote on a bipartisan bill to end the President's unilaterally commenced war
• The WH/Politico attack on Seymour Hersh
  Two administration officials bash the Pulitzer Prize winner over Iran while hiding their identity
• Criminalizing free speech
  The War on Terror now justifies punishing or even killing citizens because of the ideas they advocate
• Afghanistan "sovereignty"
  The Afghan President's decision to bar NATO air attacks on homes is deemed "merely symbolic"

The BiPartisan Report

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

Sciencebase

• Seven steps to cure healthcare privacy problems
  If we have learned anything from the recent hackings – Sony, Google Mail, PBS – in which vast amounts of data for millions of users have been compromised, it is that precious data is rarely entirely secure and certainly barely private. It is time to tighten up. Nowhere is this more important tha ...
• Seven steps to cure healthcare privacy problems
  If we have learned anything from the recent hackings – Sony, Google Mail, PBS – in which vast amounts of data for millions of users have been compromised, it is that precious data is rarely entirely secure and certainly barely private. It is time to tighten up. Nowhere is this more important tha ...
• Why the E. coli outbreak has people scared
  Why the E. coli outbreak has people scared – The E. coli EHEC 0101:H4 outbreak that originated in Germany is spreading and Christine Gorman, writing in Scientific American, says she's scared. At the time of writing, 10 countries had reported more than 1600 severe cases to World Health Organizati ...
• Latest spectroscopy and crystallography
  Electric microbes – X-ray diffraction has been used to reveal the structure of proteins attached to the surface of the microbe Shewanella oneidensis, a species found in deep-sea anaerobic habitats. These proteins can transfer electrons making this micro-organism potentially rather interesting as ...
• This week’s happenings on The Alchemist
  This weel’s happenings on The Alchemist – This week, The Alchemist is looking to the sun for record-breaking power and sniffing the air to catch a whiff of blackcurrant. Testing times ahead for heavy metal in the pharmaceutical industry we learn, and logical molecules come to the for in potentia ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• 6 Reform Groups Support the Letter of 25 Repre ...
  Reps. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.), Michael Capuano (D-Mass.) and 25 others�wrote a letter yesterday to President Barack Obama�expressing their strong support for his April 13 draft executive order to require full disclosure of campaign spending and contributions by business entities that seek federal ...
• Statement: Chad Stone, Chief Economist, on the ...
  Today’s employment report should be a wake-up call to policymakers who continue to say the budget deficit is a more immediate threat to the economy than the jobs deficit.  Nearly two years after the economy technically turned the corner from recession to recovery, job growth was disappointing in ...
• Common Cause Statement on the Indictment of Fo ...
  John Edwards appears to have raised nearly $1 million from a pair of political supporters to finance an elaborate coverup of his affair with a former consultant to his presidential campaign. A multimillionaire himself, Mr. Edwards surely had sufficient resources to care for his mistress and thei ...
• Yemen: “Crafted Chaos”
  The Christian Science Monitor is reporting: “Yemen slipped closer to a full-blown civil war today as opposition tribesmen attacked the compound of President Ali Abdullah Saleh for the first time. While the president appears to have narrowly escaped serious injury, the escalating fighting represe ...
• Unemployment and “Debt Distraction”
  CHRISTINE OWENS, via Timothy Bradley, tim at berlinrosen.com11 Million Jobsread more

Common Dreams-Views

• Silence Is Deadly: I’m Speaking Out Against Ca ...
  James Hansen The U.S. Department of State seems likely to approve a huge pipeline, known as Keystone XL to carry tar sands oil (about 830,000 barrels per day) to Texas refineries unless sufficient objections are raised. The scientific comm ...
• One If By Misstatement, Two If By Ignorant: Pa ...
  John Nichols Why is Sarah Palin touring American historical sites? Apparently to because she has decided to try and learn some basic details of the country’s founding story. Unfortunately, the endeavor is not going well. Even with conse ...
• US Targeting Cuba’s Health-Care System
  William Blum In January, the government of the United States of America saw fit to seize $4.207 million in funds allocated to Cuba by the United Nations Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria for the first quarter of 2011, Cub ...
• WashPost: Criminal Law is Not for Political Elites
  Glenn Greenwald The Washington Post Editors work in a city and live in a nation in which huge numbers of poor and minority residents are consigned to cages for petty and trivial transgressions of the criminal law -- typically involving dru ...
• Secret Cash: The Worst Political Scandal of All
  Michael Winship Sometimes I feel like Gus, the father in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" -- you know, the guy who thinks you can cure all maladies with a spritz of Windex and declares, "Give me a word, any word, and I show you that the root of ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

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

Water Wars

• Water Wars Cooling Down Blue Plum Festival
  Despite the heat, families spent the day in downtown Johnson City for the 12th Annual Blue Plum Festival.
• Water wars threaten credit of metro governments
  Credit rating agency Fitch Ratings issued a report this week warning that it may downgrade the credit scores of metro Atlanta governments if a federal court does not side with Georgia on access to drinking water from Lake Lanier.
• Nature Photography By Alison Jones Highlights ...
  As water wars loom locally and globally, No Water No Life ® is dedicated to combining the powers of photography, science and stakeholder knowledge to raise awareness of the values of freshwater, consequences of watershed degradation and opportunities for sustainable water-resource management.
• Water wars
  River guide Sam Cook of Mild to Wild River Rafting & Jeep Tours allows himself a quick chuckle Thursday afternoon before helping employees of The Palace Restaurant back into the raft after it “dump trucked” and deposited them at Corner Pocket Rapid during the Battle of the Animas.
• Water wars
  River guide Sam Cook of Mild to Wild River Rafting & Jeep Tours allows himself a quick chuckle Thursday afternoon before helping employees of The Palace Restaurant back into the raft after it “dump trucked” and deposited them at Corner Pocket Rapid during the Battle of the Animas.

WordPress | Economics

• Building Things In America: Notes on Manufactu ...
  At Ezra’s place I talked a little about what a big story deal manufacturing has been over the last d
• Imagine Ron Paul As President In 2013!--Marxis ...
  Imagine – John Lennon   Ron Paul 2012: “Imagine….”   Ron Paul 2012: Ron Paul
• What do Economic Models Tell Us about Elections?
  Nate Silver’s article explains the relationship between GDP, inflation, and the election of th
• Glass City wallpaper - Republican Medicare Lie ...
  Glass City wallpaper Republicans demand TV station yank ad claiming GOP plan would `end Medicare’ At
• Second Interview on The Invisible Handcuffs
  Richard Estes, “Speaking in Tongues.” KDVS, Davis, CA invited me on his program to discu

Electronic Intifada

• Move Over AIPAC challenges business-as-usual i ...
  Linda KhouryThe Electronic IntifadaWashington, DC Late last month AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, held its 2011 annual policy conference in Washington, DC. Just across the street hundreds of social justice activists from all corners of the United States, in addition to a han ...
• Provocation against Palestinians on "Jerusalem ...
  Jillian Kestler-D'AmoursThe Electronic IntifadaJerusalem As thousands of right-wing Israeli settlers descended on Jerusalem to celebrate the so-called unification of the city this week, Palestinian residents of occupied East Jerusalem were confronted by extreme provocations and the stark reality ...
• Rafah crossing open, but restrictions remain
  The Electronic IntifadaRafah The opening of Rafah on 28 May, the only official border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, has created a lifeline for Palestinians living in Gaza. But some, mostly refugees, will still be restricted to their localities because they lack identification�papers ...
• Second flotilla set to sail one year after mas ...
  Eva BartlettThe Electronic IntifadaGaza City A gleaming new memorial towers over the center of Gaza City’s battered port, bearing the names of the Turkish solidarity activists who died one year ago when Israeli commandos firing machine guns air-dropped onto the Freedom Flotilla.
• British prime minister steps down as JNF patron
  Asa WinstanleyThe Electronic IntifadaLondon The British prime minister has stepped down from his position as honorary patron of the Jewish National Fund (JNF). The move comes as pressure on the JNF steps up in Britain, and is being hailed by activists as a big victory in the boycott, divestment ...

Afghanistan Sun

• In Afghanistan, Gates Stresses U.S. Is Committ ...
  Afghanistan at least through this year, even as American forces begin a drawdown in July and some in Congress argue that the current mission is too expensive to ...
• Dead soldier honoured in Afghanistan
  LIEUTENANT Marcus Case, who died when an Australian Army helicopter crashed in Afghanistan, has been honoured in a ceremony in the war-torn ...
• Air Force bomb tech killed in Afghanistan reme ...
  HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Tributes, a 21-gun salute and explosive detonations customary among bomb disposal technicians were part of a memorial service Friday for Tech Sgt. Kristoffer M. Solesbee, ...
• Afghan Taliban deny hand in Pak border attack, ...
  The Afghan Taliban have disowned the recent militant attacks in Pakistan's Upper Dir district, and declared that their operations were restricted to Afghanistan.
• Most Aussies want their troops out of Afghanis ...
  Around two-thirds of Australians want the government to pull their troops out of Afghanistan, according to a poll.

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

• Gwiz's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
  This week's favorites post comes courtesy of Gwiz. I have to admit that when I first said I would give the Favorite Posts a shot, I didn't realize how hard it would be to pick a few favorites from so many interesting articles. I happened to luck into a shorter week due to the holiday and I ...
• Record Labels, Once Again, Freak Out About Any ...
  Another day, another story of the major labels freaking out that someone (for free!) has helped make their content more useful and valuable. About a week ago, I was one of the folks who passed along the news (via Twitter) of a new service called Youtify, which took the YouTube API and built a n ...
• How Important Is It To Preserve Our Digital He ...
  Having recently been part of an effort to preserve videos on Google Video, in light of its announced shutdown, it's made me more aware how brittle our current culture is, with many many artifacts available only in digital form. There are conservation efforts such as the aforementioned one, part ...
• Activity Is Not Influence
  I recently wrote about my concerns with the rise of services that try to measure "social media influence" by giving it a number. I had a few concerns about this, including the fact that trying to put a number of something that is not quantifiable inevitably leads to problems, but also in that t ...
• DailyDirt: Biodegradable Materials Are Good Fo ...
  Lots of folks are working on projects to make car parts out of biodegradable materials. Growing car parts sounds like a cool idea, but there are still some bugs to be worked out (sometimes literally). Here are just a few examples of green materials that might make it into cars someday. Latex ...

VacTruth

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

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• Obama Basking in Osama Demise
  EIR News Service press release.
• The Real Authors of 9/11 Are Still at Large
  EIR News Service press release.
• Tiergarten 4 Remains Obama’s Fiscal Priority
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 29, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 17
• Doppio Croce: Il Giornale
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 29, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 17
• Levin Report for Bank Prosecutions: Senate Pro ...
  By Paul Gallagher Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 29, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 17

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

• Quote of the Day: Robert Thurman on Finding Pe ...
  Photo: kudumomo/Flickr Once we find inner peace, any small bit of it, baby step by baby step, we feel much better, even joyful and energized. Then whatever activist work we do to achieve outer peace in any situation comes from an effective place and does not create more turbulence and count ...
• Agritourism Big on Big Island with Farm-to-Tab ...
  Not the oil-soaked Gulf Coast - it's Hawaiian lava black sands. Photo by Steve Cadman via Flickr Salamanders zip by, wild flowers grow along the mountainside and a misty marine layer floats up from the Pacific. Sounds like it could be Hawai'i but it was Will Rogers State Park near Topanga ...
• Ontario Reacts to Live Asian Carp Spilled in River
  Photo by Robert Taylor This was an actual test. But only a test. Like those emergency tones you hear on your TV when a storm is approaching. Officials in Ontario, Canada, think the possibility of a live Asian carp invasion via truck is real. People have been caught trying to bring the invas ...
• Cool Camping Hotel: Guests at Berlin's Hüttenp ...
  Photos: Hüttenpalast website Here's a great concept for a hotel: convert an old, unused vacuum factory space into a budget boutique hotel -- and even better, use refurbished mobile campers for rooms. That's what Berlin's new and attractive Hüttenpalast (that's German for "hut palace") is doin ...
• Whither Ecological Limits? Jairam Ramesh, Econ ...
  Photo: Mat McDermott India's environment minister Jairam Ramesh (above, talking with students at one of the opening events of World Environment Day 2011) has a lot to be praised for. So much so that we awarded him a Best of Green award last year, mostly for his statements and...Read the ful ...

Biosingularity

• Vegetarians May Have Lower Risk of Cataracts
  People who eat meat may be at increased risk of developing cataracts compared to vegetarians, a new study shows. Researchers at the University of Oxford in England say vegetarians and vegans are 30% to 40% less likely to develop cataracts than people who eat a lot of meat. Other factors, such as ...
• FDA Approves Roche’s HPV Test for Identi ...
  US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the cobas HPV (Human Papillomavirus) Test which identifies women at highest risk for developing cervical cancer. This test will help physicians make early, more accurate decisions about patient care, which may prevent many women from developing ...
• Can Hobbyists and Hackers Transform Biotechnology?
  For most of us, managing our health means visiting a doctor. The more serious our concerns, the more specialized a medical expert we seek. Our bodies often feel like foreign and frightening lands, and we are happy to let someone with an MD serve as our tour guide. For most of us, our own DNA [...]
• Seaweed Fiber in Liquid Meals May Cut Hunger
  Adding a dietary fiber derived from seaweed to a meal-replacement drink may reduce feelings of hunger by 30%, a team of industry researchers reports. Researchers from Unilever’s Research and Development in the Netherlands compared the effects on hunger after drinking a meal-replacement drink wit ...
• Learning to tolerate our microbial self
  The human gut is filled with 100 trillion symbiotic bacteriaâten times more microbial cells than our own cellsârepresenting close to one thousand different species. “And yet, if you were to eat a piece of chicken with just a few Salmonella, your immune system would mount a potent inflammatory r ...

CFACT

• Biotech grows in popularity down on the farm
  Economic, environmental benefits keep biotech on the upswing
• Of turtles and Teamsters
  Labor unions are finding themselves at odds with environmentatlists on many policies
• Angtela Logomasini on EU's chemicals policy
• Monica Gonzales on food distribution at WTO
• Could hazy summer keep planet cool?

Ria Novosti Online News

• Russia, Ukraine reach breakthrough in sea bord ...
  Russia and Ukraine have reached a breakthrough in their talks on maritime border delimitation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday.
• Russia, Ukraine reach breakthrough in sea bord ...
  Russia and Ukraine have reached a breakthrough in their talks on maritime border delimitation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday.
• Middle East settlement
• Jerusalem status can be defined after border d ...
  The status of Jerusalem can be defined only after the borders between Israel and Palestine are demarcated and the refugee issue is resolved, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday.
• Middle East settlement

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• New chemical elements synthesized by Russian t ...
  Physicists at Russia's Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) have been officially credited with synthesizing the heaviest elements yet to be included in the periodic table.
• European ATV-2 space freighter readjusts ISS orbit
  Russia's Mission Control raised the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) by 3.74 km (2.3 miles), to 346,4 km (215.2 miles).
• EU urges Russia to end ban on vegetable imports
  The European Commission urged Russia on Thursday to lift its ban on the import of raw vegetables from EU nations over a deadly E.coli outbreak.
• Space shuttle Endeavour returns to Earth after ...
  The space shuttle Endeavour has landed at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, bringing its 25th and final spaceflight to a close.
• German scientists take pause in efforts to mak ...
  German scientists said they will suspend their efforts to synthesize element 120 on Wednesday morning, the project's chief scientist Sigurd Hofmann told RIA Novosti.

Pruning Shears

• 'No On SB 5': Petition signing event in Ravenna
  The citizen veto effort continues to be energetically supported. A couple of weeks ago it had received 93% of the signatures required to get it on the ballot, and that was in only a third of the time allotted. Thursday evening I attended a petition signing event at a local restaurant. State r ...
• Mansfield Frazier: Inclusion is the only answe ...
  Guest post by Mansfield Frazier“White people got more in common with colored people then they do with rich people” - Fictional character Sen. Jay Billington BulworthDuring the 50’s, 60’s and much of the 70’s Blacks literally owned the Civil Rights Movement in America. We went from the back of th ...
• Mansfield Frazier: Inclusion is the only answe ...
  Guest post by Mansfield Frazier“White people got more in common with colored people then they do with rich people” - Fictional character Sen. Jay Billington BulworthDuring the 50’s, 60’s and much of the 70’s Blacks literally owned the Civil Rights Movement in America. We went from the back of th ...
• Fracking Mobilization - Saturday, June 4 in Solon
  Saturday, June 43:00 PMPlanning Meeting of Cuyahoga County citizens concerned about slick water hydrofracing in our county.Where: Panera at 6130 Kruse Drive, Solon, OH 44139This meeting is being planned by a coalition of enviornmental and civic groups, among them NE Ohio Sierra Club, Enviornment ...
• Weekend wrapup
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. As in:Hundreds of civilians have been killed in the US-led airstrikes and ground operations in various parts of Afghanistan over the past ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Three Generations of Agent Orange
  Click here to read this article
• Down with Healthy School Lunches, Says House GOP
  Click here to read this article
• States Along the Mississippi Battle Over Farm ...
  As the surging waters of the Mississippi pass downstream, they leave behind flooded towns and inundated lives and carry forward a brew of farm chemicals and waste that this year - given record flooding - is expected to result in the largest dead zone ever in the Gulf of Mexico. Click here to rea ...
• Corporate Dictatorship: Citizens United 2.0
  Campaign fundraisers are already at work on the upcoming presidential election-Obama 2012 is soliciting donations, and Republican candidates like Tim Pawlenty are spending more time meeting donors than voters.Click here to read this article
• Three Strikes and You're Hot: Time for Obama t ...
  In our globalized world, old-fashioned geography is not supposed to count for much: mountain ranges, deep-water ports, railroad grades -- those seem so nineteenth century. The earth is flat, or so I remember somebody saying.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

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

Investigate - Breaking News

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

My Care2 Picks

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

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

• 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 ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - ...
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• How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and ex ...
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• ‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Kandahar University bomb blasts kill 2
  ShareThisBlackwater is a busy little bee! Kandahar University bomb blasts kill 2 04 Jun 2011 At least two Afghan students have been killed and three others have been injured in two successive bomb explosions in Kandahar University, officials say. Afghan police officials say the first blast rocke ...
• US forces open fire on Afghan students
  ShareThisUS forces open fire on Afghan students 04 Jun 2011 US forces in Afghanistan have reportedly opened fire on school children in the troubled eastern Nangarhar Province, witnesses and residents say. Witnesses told Press TV on Saturday that the Americans shot at students who were leaving th ...
• 7 NATO tankers torched in NW Pakistan
  ShareThis7 NATO tankers torched in NW Pakistan 01 Jun 2011 Militants in northwest Pakistan have torched at least seven oil tankers carrying fuel for US-led foreign troops in Afghanistan, Pakistani authorities say. Pakistani authorities say that the trucks went up in flames after a bomb was deton ...
• 1000s attend anti-US demo in Karachi
  ShareThis1000s attend anti-US demo in Karachi 04 Jun 2011 Thousands of Pakistanis have staged an anti-US demonstration in Karachi to call for an end to US meddling in the region. The Jamaat-e-Islami party organized the sit-in demonstration in the country's largest city on Saturday, the Associate ...
• NATO airstrikes rock Tripoli again
  ShareThisNATO airstrikes rock Tripoli again 05 Jun 2011 NATO airstrikes have rocked Tripoli and its eastern suburbs as clashes intensify between 'revolutionaries' and forces loyal to Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi. Witnesses said several blasts were heard in the capital at around 2:30 am (0030 GMT ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

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

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

• Quote of the Day: Robert Thurman on Finding Pe ...
  Photo: kudumomo/Flickr Once we find inner peace, any small bit of it, baby step by baby step, we feel much better, even joyful and energized. Then whatever activist work we do to achieve outer peace in any situation comes from an effective place and does not create more turbulence and count ...
• Agritourism Big on Big Island with Farm-to-Tab ...
  Not the oil-soaked Gulf Coast - it's Hawaiian lava black sands. Photo by Steve Cadman via Flickr Salamanders zip by, wild flowers grow along the mountainside and a misty marine layer floats up from the Pacific. Sounds like it could be Hawai'i but it was Will Rogers State Park near Topanga ...
• Ontario Reacts to Live Asian Carp Spilled in River
  Photo by Robert Taylor This was an actual test. But only a test. Like those emergency tones you hear on your TV when a storm is approaching. Officials in Ontario, Canada, think the possibility of a live Asian carp invasion via truck is real. People have been caught trying to bring the invas ...
• Cool Camping Hotel: Guests at Berlin's Hüttenp ...
  Photos: Hüttenpalast website Here's a great concept for a hotel: convert an old, unused vacuum factory space into a budget boutique hotel -- and even better, use refurbished mobile campers for rooms. That's what Berlin's new and attractive Hüttenpalast (that's German for "hut palace") is doin ...
• Whither Ecological Limits? Jairam Ramesh, Econ ...
  Photo: Mat McDermott India's environment minister Jairam Ramesh (above, talking with students at one of the opening events of World Environment Day 2011) has a lot to be praised for. So much so that we awarded him a Best of Green award last year, mostly for his statements and...Read the ful ...