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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Sunday, June 5, 2011

5 June - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • UN SG expresses concern over escalation of vio ...
    [JURIST] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official profile] on Friday expressed concern [statement text] regarding the escalation of violence in Syria and called for end to the repression by security and military forces. Ban cited 70 deaths in the last week, disturbing reports of the deaths of ...
  • UN Security Council demands removal of Sudan t ...
    [JURIST] The UN Security Council [official website] on Friday released a statement [text] demanding the removal of Sudanese troops from Abyei, the disputed oil-producing region between North and South Sudan. Sudanese troops invaded Abyei in May and have occupied the area since, causing an estima ...
  • Florida ACLU files suit challenging state elec ...
    [JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida (ACLU) [advocacy website] filed a lawsuit [text, PDF; press release] on Friday in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida [official website] challenging a new state voting law. The suit was filed by the ACLU in ...
  • US urges China to release Tiananmen Square pro ...
    [JURIST] The US State Department (DOS) [official website] urged the Chinese government on Friday to release protesters [press release] arrested for the peaceful protests in Tiananmen Square [BBC backgrounder] in June 1989. Friday marked the twenty-second anniversary of the suppression of the pro ...
  • UN warns Internet restrictions violate human r ...
    [JURIST] The UN warned [press release] in a report [text] Friday that government restrictions on the right to freedom of opinion and expression on the Internet impinge on human rights. Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights [text] outlines the types of restriction ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Why CNN Is Wrong to Exclude Gary Johnson From ...
    The cable network is substituting opinion polls for judgment, and preventing voters from getting to know the former two-term governor Asked to host a GOP primary debate, who would you invite? All declared candidates? The men and women doing best in the polls? The ones with the most compellin ...
  • 'Palin Makes Bachmann Look Like Longfellow'
    So observes Politico's Ben Smith after watching the below video, in which former GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin says that Paul Revere's ride warned the British: He who warned, uh, the British that they weren't going to be taking away our arms uh by ringing those bells and making sure ...
  • United States v. Johnny Reid Edwards: The Case ...
    The story laid out in the indictment of the former VP nominee reads like Watergate meets Lewinsky meets All The King's Men This summer's parlor game of "Beltway Chicken" has officially begun. Speeding in one direction is former presidential hopeful John Edwards, one of the most famous living tri ...
  • More Wild Tales as Rod Blagojevich Takes the S ...
    The former Illinois governor did not testify in his first trial but chose to do so this time, often rambling and straining to claim benign interpretations of damning wiretaps Reuters/Frank Polich CHICAGO -- Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, who is offering an enthralling and self ...
  • The John Edwards Arrest Warrant and Indictment
    John Edwards Arrest Warrant 57016626 Edwards Indictment

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Yediot Achronot Profile Published
    Moshe Ronen has just published a profile of me in Yediot Achronot, one of Israel’s largest daily newspapers.  It conveys my ideas very clearly and treats my work and blog with respect, for which I’m grateful.  It’s important, for example, for people to know that I oppose terror, whether Israe ...
  • Move Over Nakba, Naksa is Here
    Until a few  years ago, it seemed that the narrative of the Israeli-Arab conflict was determined mostly by Israel: there was the miraculous vote in the UN General Assembly recognizing the partition.  Then the even more miraculous 1948 War of Independence, which established the State of Israel. ...
  • Seymour Hersh’s ‘Iran and the Bomb’
    Seymour Hersh’s article in the New Yorker, Iran and the Bomb, is stirring up great interest, because he argues that the latest National Intelligence Estimate, released last February, says that essentially nothing has changed since the last (2007) NIE.  In other words, just as the earlier repor ...
  • Kate & Anna McGarrigle: French-Canadian Folk T ...
    From Folk & Blues: An Encyclopedia, St. Martin’s Press, 2001 KATE AND ANNA McGARRIGLE Vocal duo, songwriters, guitarists, pianists, accordionists, banjoists. Anna, born Montreal, Quebec, Canada, December 4, 1944. Kate, born Montreal, Quebec, Canada, February 6, 1946. Kate and Anna McGarrigle hav ...
  • Emmylou Harris Tribute to Kate McGarrigle, ‘Da ...
    And now for something completely different.  My I-P junkie friends ( I say that lovingly!) will hopefully bear with me as I delve into one of my passions, one which has been stilled over the past few years by all the murder and mayhem in the Middle East.  I know friends and enemies sometimes rem ...

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

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. ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Sunday Book Review: Area 51
    This is a guest post by Jonathan Gitlin of Ars Technica A couple of weeks ago, there was quite a bit of press about a new book, ‘Area 51 â An Uncensored History‘ by Annie Jacobsen. As a self-respecting plane nerd, especially one that grew up reading too many Dale Brown books, it wasn’t a [...]
  • Queen City 1848
    Check out this groovy photograph of Cincinnati from 1848. Taken from the Kentucky side of the Ohio.  Story here.
  • The Inevitable…
    Let me outsource my Hitchens commentary to Phil Nugent… For this, Hitchens gives Chomsky a sound, blunt bashing upside his pointy little head, which is what Chomsky deserves and what Hitchens is good for, The one problematic thing about the essay is that, when a man goes so far in damning anothe ...
  • In Defense of 17 Year Old Students
    I’m grading AP US History exams this week. It’s not a particularly fun process. Most of the tests are not very good. But it drives me INSANE that the other graders find it just so damn funny that students are confused and say ridiculous things in their essays. Oh, you confused the Gentlemen’s Ag ...
  • USA v Spain
    For something a bit lighter.  It’s good that the USMNT are playing Spain immediately before the Gold Cup campaign, which is of far greater importance.  As the ESPN article suggests, the US will be rotating and resting their key players in this friendly, thus do not expect a result similar to t ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • THE 2011 APPELLATE HOT LIST
    Our annual Appellate Hot List recognizes firms that made exemplary contributions to appellate practice during the past year. We asked our readers to nominate firms with at least one significant appellate victory since January 2010 and that had demonstrated an impressive track record overall.
  • WEST COAST REPORT
    Law firms with the largest offices on the West Coast were back in the black for the most part during 2010, with revenues edging up slightly or remaining flat. Many managed to boost profits per partner, largely due to their reduced headcounts.
  • INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: A SPECIAL REPORT
    From the courts to the halls of Congress, our latest special report delves deep into the latest developments in intellectual property law — including an examination of the controversial joint infringement rulings that have divided the Federal Circuit, a look at a case that could restore copyrigh ...
  • THE CONNECTED LAWYER: Learn good online habits
    Good social habits online should be automatic as well, but some of them simply aren't intuitive.
  • OPINION: Deck stacked against manufacturers
    In patent infringement litigation, nonpracticing entities have the upper hand against product manufacturers; it's up to Congress and the courts to remedy that situation.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

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

environment 360

  • China Faces ‘Very Grave’ Environmental Situati ...
    Despite some progress in recent years, Chinese officials say that the nation still faces a “very grave” environmental situation, from industrial pollution that has triggered protests in numerous regions to a troubling decline in biodiversity. Speaking to reporters, officials from China’s Ministr ...
  • Interactive Devices To Be Used to Spur Consume ...
    Stanford researchers are developing interactive software that they say will provide insight into the energy decisions consumers make each day and ultimately encourage them to significantly improve the energy efficiency of their homes and offices. The program aims to collect data from so-called “ ...
  • Deforestation Rate Has Decreased in World’s La ...
    The rate of deforestation in the world’s three largest tropical rainforest regions declined nearly 25 percent during the last decade compared with the net forest loss during the 1990s, according to a new report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. In the Amazon basin, the Congo basin, a ...
  • Impact of Warming Arctic Vastly Different for ...
    A new study details the impact of sharply rising temperatures on Arctic land and sea transportation in the next 50 years, with access to crucial ice roads dropping significantly while three new shipping routes Click to enlarge UCLAArctic shipping routes open up in an Arctic Ocean that will be la ...
  • Forum: Is Extreme Weather Linked to Global War ...
    In the past year, the world has seen a large number of extreme weather events, from the Russian heat wave last summer, to the severe flooding in Pakistan, to the recent tornadoes in the U.S. In a Yale Environment 360 forum, a panel of experts weighs in on whether the wild weather may be tied to ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Americas Prison Economy
    US judges tragic kickback greed exposes prison system profiteering With well over 2 million people in jail - the U.S. has the world's biggest prison population. But some are seeing the inside of a cell because dodgy judges are getting payback from the private sector. RT's Gayane Chichakyan repor ...
  • New house, by Nauhaus, in West Asheville - The ...
    Off a busy street in West Asheville full of traditional homes is what Jeff Buscher believes is a glimpse of the future. It’s his family’s home, an energy-smart, three-level house whose walls are made of hemp. The way the house is built, it uses very little energy – 85 percent less than a convent ...
  • Who Will Take the Radioactive Rods from Fukushima?
    The Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) has allocated 1 trillion yen ($12 billion) in funds for nuclear waste disposal. Areva, the French nuclear monopoly, has teamed up with Tepco to find an overseas storage site. So far, the Tepco-Areva team have quietly contacted three Asian countries - Kaza ...
  • Footage of Western Troops Confirms Criminality ...
    Proof that armed western forces are on the ground in Libya advising rebels confirms that the entire legal premise behind the NATO-led intervention has been shattered and the campaign is now a criminal act of warfare that has nothing whatsoever to do with the original justification of protecting ...
  • "Radiation-Eating" Fungi Finding Could Trigger ...
    Scientists have long assumed that fungi exist mainly to decompose matter into chemicals that other organisms can then use. But researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found evidence that fungi possess a previously undiscovered talent with profound implic ...

Russia Today

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

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

Tippers News

  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a C ...
  • Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
    Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �N ...
  • Confused cat found wandering streets of of Lin ...
    This hungry kitty thought she was the cat that had got the cream when she found a half-full tin of pet food as she prowled for snacks in bins behind a supermarket.Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Two week-old kitten left for dead in locked cl ...
    Thanks to a passerby and local animal shelter, a two week-old kitten left for dead in a bolted-shut clothes recycling bin was rescued and has made a full recovery. The kitten was rescued about a month ago when a passing person heard the cry Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� ...

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

  • New WordPress theme for this blog
    Don’t be alarmed — I’ve changed to a new blog theme for Teaching Online Journalism. This is the free Fiver theme from WordPress.org. It uses HTML5 and CSS3, and the style sheet is nice and clean. I will be making some adjustments to it (especially the colors). All the content is still here, an ...
  • Is it stupid to major in journalism?
    A funny thing about writing a blog for a long time is that sometimes you want to write a post … and you discover that you have already written it. My original post (from two years ago) seems to be just as valid today: Why does anyone major in journalism? So I read it and thought about whether ...
  • Ideas for using Encyclo in journalism classes
    Have you looked at Encyclo, the new project from Nieman Journalism Lab? This is a really neat site for the present moment in journalism — when all kinds of new sites and apps are sprouting up like flowers in springtime. Entries include groundbreaking news sites such as the Texas Tribune, techno ...
  • Social media guidelines for journalists
    For the generation that came of age on Facebook, you might think there’s nothing they don’t already know about social media. Think again. Traditional ethics rules still apply online. Assume everything you write online will become public. Use social media to engage with readers, but profess ...
  • Meta research on online journalism
    Usually I do not write about research here, but a new publication prompts me to note that now — almost 20 years after the first “online newspapers” made their debut — some research is beginning to appear about the research that has been done to date. This is great news, because it lays a founda ...

Facing South

  • Scientists confirm Gulf residents' claims abou ...
    Anyone who spent time talking to residents of coastal communities along the Gulf of Mexico following last year's BP oil disaster inevitably heard concerns about the widespread spraying of chemical dispersants to break up the oil slick. Residents worried that, rather than easing the ec ...
  • Corporate lobby targets African-Americans for ...
    North Carolina has some of the most stringent consumer protection rules in the country against predatory lending. In 2010, lending groups ramped up campaign contributions [pdf] to elect lawmakers more hospitable to their interests, and are now pushing a bill that would allow lenders to raise the ...
  • VOICES: Race, immigrants and the 2012 presiden ...
    By Joe Atkins, Labor South Would-be president Newt Gingrich calls Barack Obama our "most successful food stamp president," Santana gets booed at the "Civil Rights" baseball game in Atlanta for criticizing Georgia's new immigration law, and politicians in Alabama forbid undocumented children ...
  • Fatal bus crash came days after regulators put ...
    By Marian Wang, ProPublica After a fatal bus crash�Tuesday�in Virginia -- at least the fourth such commercial bus accident in three months -- federal regulators immediately issued an order to shut down the company that was responsible. Four people died in the accident and more than 50 were s ...
  • Nuclear watchdog calls for probe into whistleb ...
    A nuclear watchdog group in North Carolina received two letters this year from an anonymous whistleblower warning of problems with the design and regulatory approval process for the Westinghouse AP1000, a new type of reactor that utilities are planning to build across the Southeast. A ...

Worldpress - Africa

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • The Depression and the future
    Ok, everyone’s talking about the oncoming recession.  What it is is the second downleg of the depression we’ve been in since the financial crisis. All of this has been baked in since 2009.  Since January 2009, when Barack Obama announced his stimulus, which was not just too small, but put toge ...
  • Moral Monster Test
    If you support this, you are one: 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. Jessica Cross, 24, Benjamin Markeson, 49, and Jonathan “Keith” McHenry, 54, were arrested at 6:10 p.m. on a charg ...
  • Use the D word
    It was never a recession, it was always a depression, and it still is.  Use the word.
  • Pain
    When I was a young man I spent a lot of time really sick, and in a pile of pain.  It’s not an exaggeration to say I’ve spent days screaming.  It’s one of the reasons I have so little tolerance for anyone who excuses torture, or for anyone who stands in the way of effective [...]
  • Virtually Speaking with Stirling Newberry and ...
    Last night, starting hour 2.  More Stirling than me, though as I was sick last night, I was even more straightforward than usual.  A lot of talk about political and cultural dysfunction.

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • NOAA science appointment: no end to the hold
    Earlier this week US Senator David Vitter released his hold on a senior administration official after his demands regarding offshore drilling were met, but the Louisiana Republican has no intention of lifting a similar hold on the White House's nominee for the position of chief scientist at the ...
  • Organic farmers expand lawsuit against Monsanto
    An ambitious lawsuit against the agricultural firm Monsanto got a little bigger this week, and a lawyer for the plaintiffs hopes that this is only the beginning. The case was initially filed in March by the Public Patent Foundation (PubPat), a non-profit legal services organization based at ...
  • Europe's E. coli outbreak: time for the antibi ...
    Posted on behalf of Marian Turner As enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli continues to cause an unprecedented number of life-threatening infections in Europe, American medics are questioning Germany's approach to the outbreak, according to the New York Times. It reports that “the accepte ...
  • Hotspots vulnerable to climate change and food ...
    People living in Africa and South Asia will be among the most vulnerable to food insecurity as the climate changes, new research shows. Growing seasons for staple crops such as maize will become shorter, hotter and drier in less than 40 years, severely limiting food production and imperillin ...
  • Sanofi splits up Genzyme
    Two months after it was bought out by French pharma giant Sanofi, changes are afoot at Genzyme. The Boston Globe broke the news yesterday that several divisions of the Cambridge, Massachusetts biotech – specifically its oncology, renal, and biosurgery operations – will now report directly to San ...

new geography

  • Inside Sydney's Central Business District: the ...
    World famous for its beautiful harbour setting, Sydney’s Central Business District is undergoing a resurgence. As the hub of Australia’s finance sector, it stumbled during the global crisis. Office vacancies jumped from 5.7 per cent in early 2008 to 8.8 per cent in mid 2009, despite ...
  • Listing the Best Places Lists: Perception Vers ...
    Often best places lists reflect as much on what’s being measured, and who is being measured as on the inherent advantages of any locale.  Some cities that have grown rapidly in jobs, for example, often do not do as well if the indicator has more to do with perceived “quality” of employment. ...
  • Orlando: Uncle Sam Meets Mickey Mouse
    Hawks and doves disagree on whether World War II ended the Great Depression.  Depending on which species of bird squawks louder, military spending may be the only way out of our current financial malaise.  In many ways it is already happening, although it is a surreptitious and quiet influe ...
  • The Katrina Effect: Renaissance On The Mississippi
    In this most insipid of recoveries, perhaps the most hopeful story comes from New Orleans. Today, its comeback story could serve as a model of regional recovery for other parts of the country � and even the world. You could call it the Katrina effect. A lovely city, rich in history, all�too com ...
  • The Evolving Urban Form: Jakarta (Jabotabek)
    There is probably no large urban area in the world that better illustrates the continuing dispersion of urban population and declining urban population density than Jakarta. Recently released 2010 census data indicates over the past decade that 84 percent of the metropolitan area (Jabotabek) ...

GM Watch

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Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

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

Desertification

  • Deforestation and desertification (You Tube)
    Video seen at : YOU TUBE http://youtu.be/bKi9hrGDvCo Deforestation and desertification �
  • A comprehensive regional desertification contr ...
    ———————————— Read at : Google Alert – desertification World Natural Heritage Site Management desertification led local farmers in Libo Xinhua News Agency, Guiyang, June 4 – (Reporter Wang Cheng Orange Recently, the introduction of the WorldNatural Heritage Libo new program, … Continue reading →
  • First Africa Drylands Week in Dakar, Senegal, ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://pressenza.com/npermalink/africa-addresses-desertification-and-biodiversity-loss Africa Addresses Desertification and Biodiversity Loss IDN InDepthNews An integrated approach to address Africa’s abiding challenges of desertification and biodiversity ...
  • Forest density is increasing across much of th ...
    Read at : Google Alert – Desertification http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/forests-fight-back-all-over-the-world-2293215.html Forests fight back all over the world Woodland density is going up after decades of decline, but concerns about deforestation remain. Andrew Marszal reports ...
  • 17 June : World Day to Combat Desertification ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.bmz.de/en/press/events/2011/june/jahrestag20110617_wuestenbildung.html World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought In 1994, the United Nations designated 17 June as the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, in order to raise awar ...

The Paper Trail

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

backofthebook.ca

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

libcom

  • Canadian postal worker strike begins
    postalworkers.jpg Canadian postal workers begin rotating strikes last night, June 2, 2011. The Chronicle Herald reported that the union representing striking postal workers say ...
  • Clashes in Italian ports over job cuts
    italy.jpg Italian portworkers have clashed with police in a number of protests following the announcement of sweeping job cuts. The job cuts constitute part of the Berlusconi g ...
  • Clashes in Italian ports over job cuts
    italy.jpg Italian portworkers have clashed with police in a number of protests following the announcement of sweeping job cuts. The job cuts constitute part of the Berlusconi g ...
  • Hyundai strike hit with police repression in S ...
    hyundai.jpg Riot police have broken up a strike and occupation of Yoosung Enterprise factory in Asan, south of Seoul. Around 3000 riot police have attacked 500 strikers staging ...
  • Hyundai strike hit with police repression in S ...
    hyundai.jpg Riot police have broken up a strike and occupation of Yoosung Enterprise factory in Asan, south of Seoul. Around 3000 riot police have attacked 500 strikers staging ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • Germany Can Get Rid of Nuclear Power, Why Can& ...
    Germany Can Get Rid of Nuclear Power, Why Can’t the US? Facebook Join List Videos Twitter Website Donate If Germany Can Get Rid of Nuclear Power, Why Can’t the US? Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, will be in Washington DC next week to meet with President Obama. But she wonât be talking to h ...
  • Memorial Day Thank You
    Happy Memorial Day to all my fellow Veterans -- Scotty- My Best to you and yours and thank you .
  • Scotts Contracting Storm Damage Repair and Wat ...
    Storm Damage Repair- Roofing, Skylights, Waterproofing, and misc General Repairs. See Hail Storm Photos taken by Amateur Climatologist Sharon Wendel http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2126076955683.2123535.1358693673 and **Hail Storm Photos 5/25/2011 http://www.kmov.com/younews/122619894.h ...
  • Cut the St Louis Coal Electric Plant Emissions by
    Energy Efficient Homes use Less Coal Fired Electricity and Reduce Carbon Emissions-"if every home in America reduces their energy use by the average in this program, projected energy usage would drop by more than 26,000 GWh per year-equal to the emissions from three 500-MW coal-fired power plant ...
  • Rapture
    If for some reason I’m not wisked away in the upcoming Rapture on May 21st 2011. I’ll be available for your Green Building Needs in St Louis. email: scottscontracting about your project. With Cooling season is approaching- Proper Insulation Levels in your Attic coupled with Ventilation will save ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

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

Doug's Darkworld

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

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

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

Discovery Educator Network

  • #chirpstory is a tool for creating and sharing ...
    Comments:#chirpstory is a tool for creating and sharing stories from twitter using social media more https://twitter.com/#!/web20education - LUCIAN DUMATags: curation, edtech20, technology, social, media, projectby: LUCIAN DUMA
  • Teaching Geometry with Google SketchUp
    Tags: geometry, sketchup, math, google, resources, interactive, 3DSpaceby: Dean Mantz
  • Kansas storms and photography | Adventure Monkey
    Comments:Time captured images showing severe weather and tornado that hit Reading, KS same week as Joplin, MO. - Dean MantzTags: kansas, photography, storms, Reading, tornadoby: Dean Mantz
  • Podcasting Legal Guide - CC Wiki
    Comments:Very nice resource from Creative Commons regarding legal Podcasting. - Dean MantzTags: podcasting, copyright, creativecommons, legal, podcast, law, guide, music, picsby: Dean Mantz
  • More 21st Century Upgrades from the Classroom  ...
    Comments:Another great classroom reflection by Langwitches on 21st Century Learning and skills.  - Dean MantzTags: 21stcenturylearning, langwitches, education, curriculum, learning, projectsby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

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

big think

  • Are Science and Religion Compatible?
    What's the Big Idea? George Church, Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School argues that science relies on a certain kind of faith. "It’s kind of an act of faith that science is a good thing," he says. And yet, the moral underpinning of science is something we may not be able to rely u ...
  • Are Science and Religion Compatible?
    What's the Big Idea? George Church, Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School argues that science relies on a certain kind of faith. "It’s kind of an act of faith that science is a good thing," he says. And yet, the moral underpinning of science is something we may not be able to rely u ...
  • Is Medicare About to Run Out?
    Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) claims his recent budget proposal will “save Medicare.” Medicare, he says, will run out of money in the next ten years and is “headed for a painful collapse.” Ryan’s plan, as I have explained, doesn’t actually keep Medicare funded at the same level. Instead he proposes to c ...
  • Is Medicare About to Run Out?
    Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) claims his recent budget proposal will “save Medicare.” Medicare, he says, will run out of money in the next ten years and is “headed for a painful collapse.” Ryan’s plan, as I have explained, doesn’t actually keep Medicare funded at the same level. Instead he proposes to c ...
  • Would you confess to visiting a sex worker?
    I don’t think I have ever told you about the time that a man I was seeing felt the need to confess to me about many years of regular prostitute use. He called me, in the middle of the day, and admitted to having had visited with sex workers several times a month for nearly a decade. My advice to ...

Information Liberation

  • Yeah, That's It. They Need 'More Training.'
    One of the many myths to come from the ongoing Progressive Era is that *professional training* will turn bureaucrats into *wise professionals.* Thus, when we see a cop brutalize an innocent citizen or see bureaucrats incorrectly assert that certain l...
  • Miami Beach Police Ordered Videographer At Gun ...
    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 ...
  • Three arrested, accused of illegally feeding h ...
    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. Jessica Cross, 24, Benjamin Markeson, 49, and Jonathan "Keith" McHenry, 54, were arrested at 6:10 ...
  • He Didn't Say 'Infidels': Homeland Security Th ...
    The word has a very distinct connotation. There's nothing else that quite captures it.... Give me one word that captures the same image. One word. You name it, and I will use it. ~ Defense attorney Robin Weathers arguing for the admissi...
  • TSA molests mom, brings her to tears
    After a woman was allegedly sexually harassed by TSA agents at Sky Harbor International in Phoenix, AZ, her son documented the aftermath as the TSA, Southwest Airlines and Phoenix Police threaten him with arrest for filming the ordeal. Officials se...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • The Last Respectable Prejudice
    I can’t believe I’ve just read this in 2011. The Melbourne Herald-Sun’s Andrew Bolt picked up on this article in the Los Angeles Times, regarding a citizen-initiated referendum in the state of California seeking to outlaw male circumcision. Now, I’m not … Continue reading →
  • Free Speech, Gag Orders And Accountability
    I’m going to tackle this in more depth a little later. But the other day I was shown (Hat-tip Izen) the existence of something called super-injunctions, of which prior till now I’d been blissfully ignorant. It’s important enough to call … Continue reading →
  • Playing the Race Card
    I couldn’t let the current events at the DT pass by without a comment or two, and a chance for us to have a somewhat more sane discussion if at all possible. For those who haven’t seen it, James Delingpole … Continue reading →
  • Animal Welfare: A Good Cause Gone Bad
    Very few things burn me more than cruelty to animals. Every time I see a story in the news regarding the mistreatment of horses, dogs or other domestic or wild animals, it produces a visceral reaction in me not unlike … Continue reading →
  • The Sixty-Four Foot Cube
    As I write this, the United States of America today reached its statutory debt ceiling of 14.294 trillion dollars. Treasury has announced that, unless Congress grants the Obama administration an increase in the debt ceiling in the next few weeks, … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • 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 ...
  • Why the E. coli outbreak has people scared
    Why the E. coli outbreak has people scared – The E. coli EHEC 0101:H4 outbreak that originated in Germany is spreading and Christine Gorman, writing in Scientific American, says she's scared. At the time of writing, 10 countries had reported more than 1600 severe cases to World Health Organizati ...
  • Latest spectroscopy and crystallography
    Electric microbes – X-ray diffraction has been used to reveal the structure of proteins attached to the surface of the microbe Shewanella oneidensis, a species found in deep-sea anaerobic habitats. These proteins can transfer electrons making this micro-organism potentially rather interesting as ...
  • Latest spectroscopy and crystallography
    Electric microbes – X-ray diffraction has been used to reveal the structure of proteins attached to the surface of the microbe Shewanella oneidensis, a species found in deep-sea anaerobic habitats. These proteins can transfer electrons making this micro-organism potentially rather interesting as ...

RFF Library

  • Transportation Governance and Finance: A 50-St ...
    National Conference of State Legislatures http://www.ncsl.org/default.aspx?TabId=19117 On June 1, 2011, the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Center for Excellence in Project Finance released the r ...
  • The Great Eastern Japan Earthquake: Assessing ...
    Heritage Foundation http://bit.ly/jY3scK [From Executive Summary]   The massive earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in March 2011, and the following release of radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, represent one of the greatest disasters to strike the nation of Japan i ...
  • The Great Eastern Japan Earthquake: Assessing ...
    Heritage Foundation http://bit.ly/jY3scK [From Executive Summary]   The massive earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in March 2011, and the following release of radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, represent one of the greatest disasters to strike the nation of Japan i ...
  • Alternative Fuel Provisions in HR 909: The Roa ...
    Rand Corp. / Testimony of James R. Bartis presented before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on Energy and Power on June 3, 2011 http://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/CT363.html Discusses oil shale: “…My major concern is that the oil shale management rules published in 2008 co ...
  • Alternative Fuel Provisions in HR 909: The Roa ...
    Rand Corp. / Testimony of James R. Bartis presented before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on Energy and Power on June 3, 2011 http://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/CT363.html Discusses oil shale: “…My major concern is that the oil shale management rules published in 2008 co ...

Scientific American - News

  • New MRSA Strain Found In Dairy Cattle and Humans
    A new form of drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has been found in dairy cows and humans in the U.K. and Denmark, providing more evidence that animals could be passing this superbug on to people --not just the other way around. [More]
  • The Evolutionary Errors of X-Men
    In X-Men: First Class , the latest film about the popular comic book superheroes, one of the mutant characters goes by the nickname Darwin because he has the power of “reactive evolution.” He instantly adapts to any threat: toss him in water and he sprouts gills; hit him with a club and his ski ...
  • Newly Discovered Microscopic Worm Thrives in G ...
    Deep in South Africa's gold mines water can be found in rock fractures, hosting bacteria that off the stone itself and form biofilms on the hard surfaces. Now new samples pulled from these sunless pools show that nematodes--roundworms of varying size that are essentially tubes with a digestive t ...
  • Virus No Longer Thought to Be Cause of Chronic ...
    People who suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome were dealt another blow this week when it became clear that researchers still fail to understand the genesis of this disease. Perhaps most importantly, these patients are being advised to stop taking antiretroviral medications.Two new papers publ ...
  • String Theory: Violinist Taps Artificial Intel ...
    Halfway into a recent performance at New York City's Bohemian National Hall violinist Mari Kimura had already performed "Preludio" from Bach's Partita No. 3 in E Major followed by several pieces in which she deftly demonstrated her innovative "subharmonics" techniques for extending the ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Rallies in Ottawa and Gatineau showing support ...
    Unions, activists and students gather to show support for CUPW / Syndicats, militants et étudiants manifestent leur soutien envers le STTP -Le français suit- OTTAWA/GATINEAU - The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) began a 24 hour s ...
  • Mines basses: un reportage sur les enjeux de l ...
    Refusons toute complicité avec les abus de droits humains perpétrés aux 4 coins du monde par les minières canadiennes. Refusons le désastre écologique des néoconservateurs nord-américains. Le plan nord de Jean Charest, les sables b ...
  • Senate Page disrupts Throne Speech
    Harperâs disastrous agenda needs to be stopped with creative action and civil disobedience Ottawa/- During the reading of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s throne speech today, a young page was yanked from the Senate Chamber as she tried to ...
  • Postal Workers on Strike Across Canada
    Interview with a postal worker in Fredericton, NB Ruth Breen is a letter carrier and a member of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) in Fredericton, New Brunswick. I interviewed Ruth at the Fredericton CUPW local office the night b ...
  • Lest We Forget. One Year After the Mavi, and W ...
    On May 31st, the one-year anniversary of the massacre of nine peace activists aboard the MV Mavi Marmara, a group of Haligonians came to pay their tribute in front of the Library on Spring Garden Road. The gathering was close to spontaneo ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Memento Mori: In a hundred years we'll all be bald
    "It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up -- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kubler-RossDavid Seaton's News LinksA favorite subject ...
  • Better watch out for the cucumber that ate Ham ...
    The number of people hit by a massive European outbreak of foodborne bacterial infections is a third bigger than previously known and a stunningly high number of patients suffer from a potentially deadly complication than can shut down their kidneys, officials said Wednesday. Associated Press Y ...
  • The Bradley Manning Video
    David Seaton's News Links This video raises many, many issues... but the most significant thing is how somebody like this was ever kept in the army in the first place and then was sent to Iraq and then given the access to the classified information he was given access to. This is very, very s ...
  • The Middle East made simple(r)
    David Seaton's News LinksWhen very complex situations become very simple is when they become most dangerous. The situation that America finds itself in today's Middle East is such a situation: simple and potentially deadly for American prestige and power, two things which feed off each other, an ...
  • The Arab Spring, Israel, the dollar and gasoli ...
    Arm wrestling?In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning � along with China, Russia, Japan and France � to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • The "Healthful" Drink that Can Damage Your Health
    By The Fluoride Action Network According to the U.S. Surgeon General, "there are profound and consequential disparities in the oral health of our citizens..." that have resulted in a "silent epidemic" of dental and oral diseases that disproportionately affects low-income and minority popula ...
  • Perhaps the Most Toxic "Health" Drinks of the ...
    By Dr. Mercola By now you have probably seen the ads for MiO Liquid Water Enhancer, Kraft Foods' new gimmick aimed at young consumers seeking "cool" new ways to stand out among their peers. Leave it to the food and beverage industry to find a way to turn your perfectly healthful water into a ...
  • New Study Finds Major Toxins in Many Cosmetics
    Lead and arsenic aren’t listed among the ingredients of lip gloss and eyeliner. However, Environmental Defence, a Canadian environmental group tested dozens of common cosmetics products and found that virtually all of them were contaminated with heavy metals. Researchers purchased cosmetics in ...
  • This Vitamin Can Radically Reduce Damage from ...
    As understanding of Vitamin D increases, it is becoming apparent that its most active form, Vitamin D3 (calcitriol), may offer protection against a variety of radiation-induced damages. Vitamin D’s protective action is carried by a wide variety of mechanisms, including cell cycle regulation and ...
  • Is It Time to Re-Think EVERYTHING You've Ever ...
    Children in the U.S. are taught that a college education is the ticket to a good job. But the cost of a college education is rising, and the supposed benefits are more elusive than conventional wisdom would suppose. The National Inflation Association reveals the scam behind the myth of the colle ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

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

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

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

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

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

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Sunday Paper Review: 5th June 2011
    Here's our regular glance over the Sunday newspapers then... do try to forgive our incredible cynicism as we look over all of them, won't you? The Sunday Express leads with details of an investigation into "the £1billion industry that sucks taxpayers’ cash out of Britain’s asylum chaos." T ...
  • Quotes of the Day: 4th June 2011
    "Cameron has pledged to resist the creep of European powers. That’s good as far as it goes, but we didn’t resist the European Arrest Warrant, or the European Investigation Order, or European financial regulation, or the European External Action Service, or the new “Super-Observer Status” for th ...
  • Let's start FOI-ing the arses off British Bild ...
    While The Guardian chooses to maintain a slightly comedic approach to coverage of the Bilderberg Group and it's shady and sinister meetings, the newspaper is - at least - sending the doubtlessly brave Charlie Skelton out to Switzerland to find out what the Bilderberg Group are up to. Or at least ...
  • U.S. Congress fires constitutional warning at ...
    Could the tide of the political elite doing whatever the hell they like, irrespective of things like a constitution be on the turn? The U.S. Congress has broken with partisan divides to strongly rebuke Obama over U.S. involvement in the military action against Libya. Passing a motion by 26 ...
  • Know Your Politicians: Yet another one facing ...
    No doubt on the big news of the day. It's news that a high profile politician - yet another one - is facing the courts after being "...charged with six counts, including conspiracy, four counts of illegal campaign contributions and one count of false statements." And you know who it is, do ...

Facing South

  • Scientists confirm Gulf residents' claims abou ...
    Anyone who spent time talking to residents of coastal communities along the Gulf of Mexico following last year's BP oil disaster inevitably heard concerns about the widespread spraying of chemical dispersants to break up the oil slick. Residents worried that, rather than easing the ec ...
  • Corporate lobby targets African-Americans for ...
    North Carolina has some of the most stringent consumer protection rules in the country against predatory lending. In 2010, lending groups ramped up campaign contributions [pdf] to elect lawmakers more hospitable to their interests, and are now pushing a bill that would allow lenders to raise the ...
  • VOICES: Race, immigrants and the 2012 presiden ...
    By Joe Atkins, Labor South Would-be president Newt Gingrich calls Barack Obama our "most successful food stamp president," Santana gets booed at the "Civil Rights" baseball game in Atlanta for criticizing Georgia's new immigration law, and politicians in Alabama forbid undocumented children ...
  • Fatal bus crash came days after regulators put ...
    By Marian Wang, ProPublica After a fatal bus crash�Tuesday�in Virginia -- at least the fourth such commercial bus accident in three months -- federal regulators immediately issued an order to shut down the company that was responsible. Four people died in the accident and more than 50 were s ...
  • Nuclear watchdog calls for probe into whistleb ...
    A nuclear watchdog group in North Carolina received two letters this year from an anonymous whistleblower warning of problems with the design and regulatory approval process for the Westinghouse AP1000, a new type of reactor that utilities are planning to build across the Southeast. A ...

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • WinFF - GUI for FFmpeg to Convert File Formats ...
    WinFF is a nice and simple GUI for FFmpeg which has support for almost all major multimedia file formats that include AVI, FLV, MOV, WMV, MPEG among others. I have just tried to convert an FLV video file into AVI using WinFF and it worked flawlessly. WinFF - GUI for FFmpeg FFmpeg is an o ...
  • Watch Star Wars Right in Your Terminal
    We have featured several terminal related hacks before, but this one is different. This one is dedicated to all Star War fans out there. Star Wars in Terminal Open Terminal application and copy-paste the following line. telnet towel.blinkenlights.nlEnjoy the ride! Courtesy goes to Joest ...
  • Ubuntu Unity Skins for Android
    Yeah that's right, now you can easily turn your Android smartphone into Ubuntu, in terms of looks ie.�Ubuntu Unity Skins for Android is brought to you by�joesteiger. Ubuntu Unity Android�Skin Along with two 3D Unity skins (Ambiance and Radiance) and two 2D Unity skins,�joesteiger has also ...
  • Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal - More Reactions fr ...
    The debate is not over yet. Ever since we published the Ubuntu 11.04 review, feedbacks from readers have been pouring in. And I have to concede that a good majority of those responses are really critical of Canonical's Unity strategy. Though I really liked the new Unity approach to desktop, freq ...
  • 12 Paid Games for Linux Totally Worth the Price
    The response we got for our feature on rarely known commercial applications for Linux�was simply overwhelming and some of those who enjoyed the article wanted us to do a similar feature on commercial games available for Linux. So here is it, a very neat collection of paid games for Linux worth e ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • ECB, EU and IMF postpone Greek default at the ...
    *EU, IMF and ECB disburse bailout funds to Greece, postponing default *New package will drive Greece deeper into debt *Failure to acknowledge Greece is insolvent undermines credibility of EU, IMF and ECB * German and Greek lawmakers rebel amid growing social unrest in Athens, financial crisis tu ...
  • WHAT IS GOING ON WITH HAARP? CAROLYN DUNNING ...
    Read Carolyn Dunnings’s  reports on the little known but powerful weather modification technology of Haarp on her new blog: http://kunahu.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/us-senate-requested-to-turn-spotlight-on-haarp-high-frequency-active-auroral-research/
  • Greek Day of Reckoning Looms in Ponzi Europe: ...
    By Mario I. Blejer  May 31, 2011 1:00 AM GMT+0200 May 30 (Bloomberg) – One of the undeniable features of the European debt crisis is the tendency to obscure, verbally and politically, the real issues at play. Euphemisms, statistical gimmicks, meaningless institutional squabbling, undecipherable ...
  • German economist Hans Werner Sinn says Greece ...
    Excellent report on the ECB and Greece by Hans Werner Sinn in German at: http://www.wiwo.de/politik-weltwirtschaft/ifo-chef-hans-werner-sinn-dreht-griechenland-den-geldhahn-zu-468454/
  • Credit strategist hints at accountancy tricks ...
    S&P warns EU over Greek debt Credit-ratings agency Standard & Poor’s says it will regard any attempt by European Union to renegotiate debt as a default  Philip Inman, The Guardian “S&P said that…any hint of the word voluntary being used to disguise an imposed cut in loan valuations would also t ...

Invisible Opportunity

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

Veterans Today

  • Facebook and Mordechai Vanunu
    The "secret" story of the Vanunu security fiasco is what made it possible for Vanunu to do what he did, the cover-up, whitewashing and protection of senior figures in the defense establishment versus the power of the press and persistent people.
  • Of, by and for the people
    One of the most interesting stories in the history of the United States involved Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg address.
  • Former Political Prisoner Geronimo Pratt Dies
    "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 Panther Pete O'Neal, said."
  • Continuing Bahraini State Terror
    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 never had and don't now.
  • 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.

electric politics

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

PR News

The Story Behind the Story

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

k2p blog

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

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Ohio Woman Has Had Same Bank Account For 98 Years
    In January of 1913, a man in Ohio opened up a passbook savings account for his baby daughter with $6.11. And in probably the lengthiest example of customer loyalty, that girl -- now a 100-year-old woman -- has continued to use that same account ever since. According to the AP, the branch manag ...
  • Show Off Your Customer Relations Skills By Wor ...
    After all the stories you've read on Consumerist about god-awful customer service, you probably have a pretty good idea of what excellent service would be. But do you have what it takes to deliver it? If so, our lab coat-loving overlords at Consumer Reports have two openings in the Customer Rel ...
  • The Dangers Of Over-Caffeination
    It's tempting to gulp down coffee and energy drinks in order to snap out of a dreary funk, but there's a price to pay for your added energy and alertness. High levels of caffeine tend to come with side effects. MedicineNet, which notes that while coffee drinking may prevent type 2 diabetes, ca ...
  • Kodak Wants Your Old Cameras, Electronics
    If you've got a drawer full of old camera equipment, you can turn it into money by selling it to Kodak, which has introduced a trade-in program in which it's seeking digital and film cameras and accessories, digital video cameras, digital picture frames and printers. Kodak, which is entering ...
  • What Brands Do You Blindly Follow?
    Some people have near-unshakable allegiances to particular brands, and the commitment tends to have little to do with a product's quality or even a company's customer service. In a post on Fabulously Broke in the City, the author admits her devotion to Starbucks, despite what she sees as the s ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

  • How to Get Washington’s Attention
    Finally, it seems, the economic burdens of America’s vast middle class may be catching up with the Street. The Dow lost 2.22% Thursday; the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index was down 2.28%. Both marked their worst declines since August 11, 2010. The Nasdaq composite index fell 2.33%. We’re comin ...
  • How Do We Bring Obama Home?
    I care less about bringing President Barack Obama home than I care about having a government that exists to work for the common good – that enacts legislation and carries out policy that serves the people, not the corporate bottom line. To get that kind of government, we’ll need to do way more t ...
  • Jobs: An Angry Dissent
    On behalf of the 15.9% of Americans who compose the real jobless rate – and their moms, dads, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters who compose the 30% of Americans suffering misery from unemployment – I write this angry dissent against the culture of callousness of official Washington, which is ...
  • The Truth About the American Economy (II)
    The Stalled Recovery The U.S. economy was supposed to be in bloom by late spring but it’s hardly growing at all. Expectations for second quarter growth aren’t much better than the measly 1.8 percent annualized rate of the first quarter. That’s not nearly fast enough to reduce our ferociously-hig ...
  • Reverend Irene Monroe Asks: Are We Writers or ...
    The twenty-third annual Lambda Literary Awards (LLA â also known as the ‘Lammys’) took place at New Yorkâs School of the Visual Arts Theatre on May 26. This red carpet event brought out our finest in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) literature and publishing traditions. Celebrities ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

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

ReNew America

  • Bipartisan Congress rebuffs Obama on Libya mission
    (Washington Times) - Crossing party lines to deliver a stunning rebuke to the commander in chief, the vast majority of the House voted Friday for resolutions telling President Obama he has broken the constitutional chain of authority by committing U.S. troops to the international military missio ...
  • Geithner says debt ceiling must be raised, Sar ...
    (Third Age) - Timothy Geithner warns that if the U.S. doesn't raise the debt ceiling, it will fail to meet its financial obligations for the first time in history. The Treasury Secretary has written numerous letters to congress explaining that measures need to be taken to protect the full faith ...
  • Romney reaffirms stance that global warming is ...
    (Boston Herald) - In the first town hall of his freshly announced presidential campaign, Mitt Romney yesterday reaffirmed his view that global warming is occurring and that humans are contributing to it, a position that has been rejected in recent years by many Republicans as the issue has taken ...
  • Did a pork-coated bullet kill Bin Laden?
    (London Daily Mail) - Was Osama bin Laden shot with a bullet soaked in pork fat, denying him a place in paradise? Yes, if one rather shady website, that peddles gun oil containing liquefied pig fat, is to be believed...
  • The problems of Mitt Romney
    (Ramesh Ponnuru & Rich Lowry) - In the least surprising political news of the season, Mitt Romney is announcing his candidacy for president. This is essentially a formality since he never stopped running after 2008. He comes into the race with what has traditionally been the enormous advantage i ...

Truth Offering

  • Levi's: All-American or Neo-Communist
    It seems that everywhere I go recently, I see these massive Levi's billboards along the side of the road. At first, I thought nothing of them. After all, they're just billboards, right? Plus Levi's is an all-American company, right? Visually, these ads are quite striking; mostly black and white, ...
  • US Falls In Level of Overall Economic Freedom ...
    The Heritage Foundation just released its annual Economic Freedom List. The list "measures ten components of economic freedom, assigning a grade in each using a scale from 0 to 100, where 100 represents the maximum freedom. The ten component scores are then averaged to give an overall economic f ...
  • Did J.P. Morgan Sink the Titanic!?
    1st Row: JP Morgan, Joseph Bruce Ismay, John Jacob Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim. 2nd Row: The Federal Reserve and the TitanicAs youngsters, we're all told the infamous story of the Titanic, the supposedly indestructible ship that sunk on its maiden voyage. We're all familiar with the story: the ...
  • Our Diet Is Killing Our DNA!
    Few people are aware of this simple fact: what you eat directly impacts your DNA. This likely seems like a strange new concept to most, considering we're all brought up with such an incorrect understanding of human health and wellness. Five years back, I was no different -- well, I always cared ...
  • Chemtrails: Scars in the Sky
    Geoengineering is a relatively new idea to the world. According to�Wikipedia,�"The modern concept of�geoengineering�(or�climate engineering) is usually taken to mean proposals to deliberately manipulate the�Earth's�climate�to counteract the effects of�global warming�from�greenhouse gas�emissions ...

2012 Blog

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

Facing South

  • Scientists confirm Gulf residents' claims abou ...
    Anyone who spent time talking to residents of coastal communities along the Gulf of Mexico following last year's BP oil disaster inevitably heard concerns about the widespread spraying of chemical dispersants to break up the oil slick. Residents worried that, rather than easing the ec ...
  • Corporate lobby targets African-Americans for ...
    North Carolina has some of the most stringent consumer protection rules in the country against predatory lending. In 2010, lending groups ramped up campaign contributions [pdf] to elect lawmakers more hospitable to their interests, and are now pushing a bill that would allow lenders to raise the ...
  • VOICES: Race, immigrants and the 2012 presiden ...
    By Joe Atkins, Labor South Would-be president Newt Gingrich calls Barack Obama our "most successful food stamp president," Santana gets booed at the "Civil Rights" baseball game in Atlanta for criticizing Georgia's new immigration law, and politicians in Alabama forbid undocumented children ...
  • Fatal bus crash came days after regulators put ...
    By Marian Wang, ProPublica After a fatal bus crash�Tuesday�in Virginia -- at least the fourth such commercial bus accident in three months -- federal regulators immediately issued an order to shut down the company that was responsible. Four people died in the accident and more than 50 were s ...
  • Nuclear watchdog calls for probe into whistleb ...
    A nuclear watchdog group in North Carolina received two letters this year from an anonymous whistleblower warning of problems with the design and regulatory approval process for the Westinghouse AP1000, a new type of reactor that utilities are planning to build across the Southeast. A ...

One News Page

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • US Planing to Grab Venezuela’s Oil
    There is a growing impression that Venezuela with its oil riches is the next country on the US hit list. One would have to be a hopeless idealist to believe that – after US crusades swept across Asian and African oil-producing countries – the Venezuelan oil deposits so far remaining beyond the U ...
  • Failure of the Nation-States in Islamic World
    We are publishing exclusive translation of an article by Sergey Israpilov, a Russian expert based in Dagestan (North Caucasus), on the threatening sociopolitical trends in Islamic world. Originally issued in Russian almost a year ago, the article has acquired new reading and complimentary ground ...
  • The European Diplomacy, Energy Security and Ce ...
    The events in Central Asian countries very rarely attract massive international media attention. It does not means that nothing happens here. In the last decade of May, the third annual meeting of deputy foreign ministers of Central Asian states (an event organized by the United Nations Regional ...
  • NATO’s Routine in Afghanistan
    Speaking May 31 at a press conference in Kabul, Afghan President Hamid Karzai told NATO to stop bombing Afghan villages. He said if NATO continues airstrikes on Afghan homes, its presence in Afghanistan will be regarded as occupation, which is not what the Afghan people want; and he stressed tha ...
  • Operation Enduring Freedom Could Bring Civil W ...
    The world began forgetting about Afghanistan against the backdrop of this year’s Great Arab Revolution. The same thing happened after Soviet forces withdrew from the country in February 1989 and in April 2003 while the whole world held its breath during Operation Iraqi Freedom, wondering how lon ...

BlogHer

  • Stunt Burger Saturday: The Homemade Shake Shac ...
    Ever since I saw it on America's Test Kitchen, I've been dying to try food engineer Kenji Lopez-Alt's Shake Shack-inspired burger recipe. I'm a West Coaster who's never been to Shake Shack. (Can it really be better than In-N-Out? Heresy!) But I figured Lopez-Alt, who's affiliated with test-it-a ...
  • (Interview) Wendy McClure on Living 'The Wilde ...
    When I first discovered blogs in the olden days of 2004, one of my standby reads was Wendy McClure's late, lamented Poundy�(That�link that will now take you to her eponymous website, but do you remember those old recipe cards?)�Wendy's words were so smart and funny that it made me jealous, and ...
  • No More Flipping Landscape to Portrait View on ...
    Editor's Note: Does your iPad or iPhone switch from portrait to landscape view when you move just a bit. Miraz Jordan tells you how to make it stay the way you want it. -Virginia How to stop your iPad screen from flipping while you read The iPad and iPhone work slightly differently on this, a ...
  • Great Father's Day Gifts for Sporty Dads
    Father�s Day is coming up and everyone knows what that means. If your dad (or children's dad) is a sporty guy, there are lots of creative gift choices. And you still have plenty of time - the big Sunday is June 19th this year.Some dads never grow up, especially when it comes to their childhood ...
  • Splitting Expenses With Your Live-in Love
    Whether you live with your love-in-life under the legal bounds of marriage or not, money is bound to be a source of friction. If you're not married, is it ever "our" money? Britney Hope gives five tips I totally agree with -- and I've been there. My husband and I lived together for fifteen mont ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • New Food Plate – $2 Mill For Colored Pre ...
    Yesterday, the government replaced the longstanding Food Pyramid eating guides with a simple plate and colored shapes to easily remind Americans about portions and different food group servings. The new design was unveiled by Michelle ...
  • Routine Treatment for Shock Kills 3 Out of 100 ...
    Outcomes from routine measures often go unnoticed and methods go unchanged because, it’s what’s always been done before. Routine shock treatments include intravenous fluids for extremely ill children, but have never actually been tested. Such standard ...
  • Despite Salt Friendly Studies – Stick Wi ...
    A recent article HFA posted about the JAMA study that lower salt intake leads to more heart disease and death drew in some interesting reader comments. One wondered why there was no distinguishing between table ...
  • BPA-Free Products Could Be Just As Unsafe
    There are more reasons than ever to switch to safe, non-plastic containers and products. Although tiring, we must be ever-vigilant of newer alternatives that claim to be safe just because they now lack a known ...
  • High Suicide-Violence Rates From Chantix Left ...
    An alarming amount of suicides and violent incidents are traced directly to Pfizer’s quit-smoking drug Chantix, but were omitted from important government safety reviews. A drug already responsible for needless deaths and anguish floods the ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, June 3, 2011
    Pakistani Ghull Mohammed, 68, looks on while breaking coal in a brick factory on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, May 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) I’ve pretty terribly busy with Upper Big Branch and Alpha-Massey merger stuff this week, so I haven’t done many other posts … ...
  • Friday roundup, June 3, 2011
    Pakistani Ghull Mohammed, 68, looks on while breaking coal in a brick factory on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, May 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) I’ve pretty terribly busy with Upper Big Branch and Alpha-Massey merger stuff this week, so I haven’t done many other posts … ...
  • Alpha: Massey UBB report release ‘inappr ...
    Here’s a press release just issued by Alpha Natural Resources: Abingdon, VAâ June 3, 2011– Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.today confirmed its understanding that the former Chairman of the Board of Directors of Massey Energy Company, Admiral Bobby R. Inman, has issued publicly a letter dated June 2 ...
  • Alpha: Massey UBB report release ‘inappr ...
    Here’s a press release just issued by Alpha Natural Resources: Abingdon, VAâ June 3, 2011– Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.today confirmed its understanding that the former Chairman of the Board of Directors of Massey Energy Company, Admiral Bobby R. Inman, has issued publicly a letter dated June 2 ...
  • Will Alpha CEO Kevin Crutchfield endorse Masse ...
    I just got off the phone with Davitt McAteer, who led the independent team investigating the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster, producing a landmark report released last month. Davitt had an opportunity to review the new report that former Massey board chairman Bobby Inman (right)  is promoting, re ...

Daniel Miessler

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

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • Wikileaks: Children under care of Irish govern ...
    By CATHY HAYES , IrishCentral.com Staff Writer – Government agency admits they didnât keep track of numbers US embassy cables, revealed via Wikileaks, show that children who have gone missing from Irish state care over the last three years have ended up working as sex slaves in brothels. During ...
  • ‘Cause my baby just a-wrote me a letter.
    The U.S. Postal Service Nears Collapse | Business Week Delivery of first-class mail is falling at a staggering rate. Facing insolvency, can the USPS reinvent itself like European services have—or will it implode? hillip Herr looks like many of the men who toil deep within the federal government. ...
  • Scarry Happy Birthday
    Richard Scarry | Wikipedia Richard McClure Scarry (June 5, 1919 â April 30, 1994) was a popular American children’s author and illustrator who published over 300 books with total sales of over 100 million units worldwide. Scarry was born in Boston, Massachusetts, where his parents ran a shop. Th ...
  • “People Got to be Free” by The You ...
  • The Beatles – Something

reference frame

  • Indian SUSY island barely survived ATLAS' visi ...
    On their conference notes page at CERN, the ATLAS Collaboration began to produce many new papers that use the 2011 data. At this moment, the fifth one is Search for squarks and gluinos using final states with jets and missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS detector in sqrt(s) = 7 TeV ...
  • Italian seismologists on trial as killers beca ...
    Another example of the insane witch hunts that are gradually returning our world back to Salem 1692. Vitalik sent me a link to a stunning article at the Fox News server, Italian Seismologists Charged With Manslaughter for Not Predicting 2009 Quake; Google NewsSix earthquake sci ...
  • ATLAS: Standard Model passes two tests even at ...
    A rather remarkable triplet of similar events with the dijet energy near 3.33 TeV is the most spectacular hint of a new particle Phil Gibbs was the first man who spotted two radically new ATLAS preprints on a CERN page that at least two of us constantly watch. ;-) Update of the ...
  • Density matrix and its classical counterpart
    I decided that a reason contributing to the people's misunderstanding of the meaning and validity of quantum mechanics is the prevailing focus on Schrödinger's equation as the basic dynamical law. Felix Bloch (picture) is, together with Lev Landau and perhaps also John von Neuman ...
  • Windows 8 PCs will be like iPad 2.8
    Microsoft is catching up. The video looks pretty impressive and the inspiration from iOS in particular is hard to hide. Available in late 2012.

No Frakking Consensus

  • David Suzuki is a Drama Queen
    While the rest of us approach challenges with determination, optimism, and faith in ourselves as problem solvers, drama queens see only worst-case scenarios. They exaggerate. They emotionalize.
  • Peer-Reviewed Medical Research Critiqued
    An opinion piece in Scientific America alleges that, over the long term, a great deal of scientific research turns out not to be true. Independent replication of research findings is apparently far less common than we think.
  • That Wobbly Foundation: Peer-Reviewed Research
    Climate activists have long argued that scientific research that has been peer-reviewed is reliable, trustworthy & true.
  • A Story about a Farmer, a Flood & Fish
    A flooded-out farmer is fighting for his economic survival. Rather than assisting him, environmental bureaucrats are contributing to his nightmare.
  • Lord Turnbull Trashes the IPCC
    A prominent UK civil servant has issued a plea for climate sanity that is less-than-kind to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Tarpley

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

Modern Survivalism

  • Huge Spinning Storm off California… in June!
    Having lived in California for 14 years, I have never seen a storm like this during June. It is unheard of. Typically the rainy season has ended long ago, by this time of year. The size of this monster storm is nearly 1,000 miles in diameter and is nearly perfectly symmetrical! Parts of Californ ...
  • Carbon Monoxide Detector Law in California
    A new law in California, Senate Bill 183, will require all single family homes to have a carbon monoxide detector installed in their homes by July 1. No, there won’t be a new carbon monoxide police force created to check homes (our freedoms haven’t degraded that far yet…), but, you won’t be able ...
  • Something is Wrong – Volcano Eruption in ...
    What appears to be an enormous ash cloud rising from the eruption of a long dormant volcano in southern Chile on June 4, 2011, isn’t quite matching up with the location of the recorded earthquakes today in the immediate area. “The Cordon Caulle (volcanic range) has entered an eruptive process, w ...
  • Suggestions How To Survive A Health Scare
    Guest Post: by ‘Be Informed’ These ideas have come from what I have seen, and from others around me, to help someone that is trying to recover from an illness, injury, or whatever that has incapacitated them. The following are suggestions for the people trying to help someone recover from âa hea ...
  • Untold Thousands of Dead Worms Plague Ohio
    From Louisville to Cincinnati to Dayton to Cleveland, beginning yesterday afternoon there have been thousands upon untold thousands of earthworms coming out of the ground which have subsequently ‘fried’ on the surface from the rays of the sun. Some local mainstream media outlets are reporting th ...

Fast Company

  • 5 Ways "X-Men First Class" Is Like A Startup B ...
    How do you reboot the concept of a reboot? With a director who values originality, leadership, a strong team, and the power of rabid fans to say whatever the hell they want (as long as they're saying something). Sound like any successful entrepreneurs you know? By the time a film series gets to ...
  • Is The Chemical Industry Hiding Information Ab ...
    If you have to ask...Companies are required to submit to the EPA all studies about substantial risk that their chemicals pose to humans. And one of the bests way to study how bad a chemical is for people is to examine exposed pregnant women and their umbilical cord blood. If it can be passed on ...
  • This Week In Bots: Juggling, Pool-playing, Tin ...
    It has been written that: "At bottom, robotics is about us. It is the discipline of emulating our lives, of wondering how we work." So what can this week's crop of mechanistic marvels tell us about ourselves?Juggling robotsJuggling is surely a human-only art. Elephants may pull off clever tricks ...
  • Tron Guy Rejoice: Disney, Microsoft Unveil HTM ...
    "We were blown away by the potential of this technology for the graphic novel," Disney creative director Nashie Castro tells us. The roughly $680 million comic book and graphic novel industry is still heavily reliant on sales and advertising from print--unlike its fellow publishers in the n ...
  • The Greenest Skyscrapers In The World
    Sunday, June 05 .p { float:left; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, serif; height:225px; margin-right:25px; margin-top:10px; width:178px; } #wrapper p { line-height:15px !important; font-size:14px !important; } #wrapper { position:; } The reputation of s ...

Jadaliyya

  • Essential Readings: Iran
    In recent years, there has been a deluge of popular English-language writings by Iranians in exile, as well as hand-wringing public policy books by U.S.-based think tank pundits, all insisting on the same basic message: Iran represents a geo-political problem of unparalleled importance. ...
  • Letter from Tehran
    [This interview was conducted in Tehran by Manijeh Nasrabadi of the Raha Iranian Feminist Collective one year after the green uprising. For more from the Raha Iranian Feminist Collective, see their "Essential Readings: Iran"] On June 12, 2010, the tense one-year anniversary of the post ...
  • UCLA Uncut Interview with James Gelvin on Obam ...
    This is an 11-minute edited video of an interview conducted with James L. Gelvin after President Barack Obama's "Middle East Speech" that was delivered on May 19, 2011. In it, Gelvin discusses the lukewarm reaction throughout the Middle East to Obama's speech, outlining the ways in which ...
  • Crafting Chaos: Presidential Games and Yemen's ...
    I am sitting in the dark, having enjoyed a remarkable 6 consecutive hours of electricity today in our house near the �Square of Fear�, a roundabout in an affluent neighborhood of Sana�a that sits between the houses of General Ali Mohsen and Hamid al-Ahmar. The sounds of mortars, missiles ...
  • The Stunting Role of the Supreme Council of th ...
    During our trip to Egypt we had the fortune of meeting and interviewing a number of distinguished journalists, bloggers, and activists, as well as a host of other Egyptians from all walks of life. Our coverage of Friday, May 27, protests can be found here and here. Today, we begin publis ...

mediagazer

  • Will the iPad tablet really be the cure for ne ...
    Peter Preston / Guardian: Will the iPad tablet really be the cure for newspapers' ills?  —  Murdoch backed the Daily on iPad with $30m, but no one knows how this page-turner will end  —  Only a few months ago they seemed to offer salvation.  As print newspapers and magazines faded, so tablets ( ...
  • As Web Returns, Syrians Post More Video of Fri ...
    Elizabeth A. Harris / The Lede: As Web Returns, Syrians Post More Video of Friday's Protests and Clashes  —  On Saturday, after Syria's government restored the Internet access it had cut off on Friday, in an attempt to disrupt the communications of protest organizers, Syrian activists were able ...
  • MTV trying a Twitter TV first for Movie Awards ...
    Cory Bergman / Lost Remote: MTV trying a Twitter TV first for Movie Awards  —  MTV has led the way with social TV integration during live events, and this Sunday's Movie Awards will be no different.  In fact, MTV believes its Twitter trend use will be a first for TV.  —  “Twitter's allowing us ...
  • US writer among journalists missing in Libya ( ...
    Sarah Brumfield / Associated Press: US writer among journalists missing in Libya  —  BALTIMORE (AP) — As the uprisings of the “Arab Spring” began to unfold, writer Matthew VanDyke was at home in Baltimore, editing a book and film about his trips across the Middle East by motorcycle.  An email ...
  • What Media Companies Need to Learn From Startu ...
    Mathew Ingram / gigaom.com: What Media Companies Need to Learn From Startups  —  By now, there are plenty of examples of mainstream media companies pumping out newspaper and magazine iPad apps that look exactly like their printed product — the San Francisco Chronicle just joined the crowd — as ...

Chemtrail News

  • Some More Chemtrail/Contrail/Cloud Pics ...
    I forgot to emphasize that I am a believer in "chemtrails" but do not let my bias blind my judgment. I keep an open mind on all topics. ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread710884/pg1
  • What is your definition of a chemtrail? ...
    When I think of a chemtrail- I refer to it as a stream or line cloud emitted from a jet that does not dissipate within 10 or so seconds. ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread711588/pg1
  • Chemtrail Health and Eco Impacts Prompt ...
    [9] Morgellons patients now reside in all 50 states and in several Western nations, where chemtrails are reported. In 2001, Patient Zero, Drew Leitao, ...
  • Chemtrails are real and they are damagi ...
    Chemtrails linger, often from horizon to horizon, sometimes widening to form streaky clouds. ... A site devoted to chemtrail exposure (text and videos) ...www.naturalnews.com/032572_chemtrails_health.html
  • China admits to dumping chemtrails for ...
    chemtrail believers simply are wrong every time See if you can tell why ... The issue commonly referred to aschemtrails is seen by many as nothing more than ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread710466/pg1

World News - Top Stories

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

no frakking consensus

  • David Suzuki is a Drama Queen
    While the rest of us approach challenges with determination, optimism, and faith in ourselves as problem solvers, drama queens see only worst-case scenarios. They exaggerate. They emotionalize.
  • Peer-Reviewed Medical Research Critiqued
    An opinion piece in Scientific America alleges that, over the long term, a great deal of scientific research turns out not to be true. Independent replication of research findings is apparently far less common than we think.
  • That Wobbly Foundation: Peer-Reviewed Research
    Climate activists have long argued that scientific research that has been peer-reviewed is reliable, trustworthy & true.
  • A Story about a Farmer, a Flood & Fish
    A flooded-out farmer is fighting for his economic survival. Rather than assisting him, environmental bureaucrats are contributing to his nightmare.
  • Lord Turnbull Trashes the IPCC
    A prominent UK civil servant has issued a plea for climate sanity that is less-than-kind to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    iframe http://www.vimeo.com/17929740Statistics: Posted by MikeWB — Sun Jun 05, 2011 10:01 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    "The need for restitution does outweigh the need for prison," Broward Circuit Judge Barbara McCarthy said. Let's deconstruct this statement a little. What I see is a judge rationalizing taking bribe money. I mean, seriously, while the jewboy's parents were spreading their money around, you ...
  • Social Engineering • whowhatwhy.com: US Govern ...
    http://whowhatwhy.com/2011/06/02/us-gov ... d-mkultra/ Readers have shown considerable interest in the trailer we ran recently for the video about unknown radiation experiments on African American children. Continuing our exploration of secret government experiments on American citizens, we n ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Rather than agree to a deal with Florida prosecutors, who wanted him to serve 10 years in prison, LeVin took an open plea that placed his fate in the judge's hands. His lawyer argued that the need for LeVin to pay restitution to the men's widows and children outweighed the need for LeVin to se ...
  • Philosophy • Re: Possible troll thread: Atheis ...
    ̆Banana, The Atheist's Nightmare! iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z-OLG0KyR4 ̆Peanut Butter, The Atheist's Nightmare! iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZFG5PKw504Statistics: Posted by MikeWB — Sun Jun 05, 2011 1:20 am

TVNZ

environment 360

  • China Faces ‘Very Grave’ Environmental Situati ...
    Despite some progress in recent years, Chinese officials say that the nation still faces a “very grave” environmental situation, from industrial pollution that has triggered protests in numerous regions to a troubling decline in biodiversity. Speaking to reporters, officials from China’s Ministr ...
  • Interactive Devices To Be Used to Spur Consume ...
    Stanford researchers are developing interactive software that they say will provide insight into the energy decisions consumers make each day and ultimately encourage them to significantly improve the energy efficiency of their homes and offices. The program aims to collect data from so-called “ ...
  • Deforestation Rate Has Decreased in World’s La ...
    The rate of deforestation in the world’s three largest tropical rainforest regions declined nearly 25 percent during the last decade compared with the net forest loss during the 1990s, according to a new report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. In the Amazon basin, the Congo basin, a ...
  • Impact of Warming Arctic Vastly Different for ...
    A new study details the impact of sharply rising temperatures on Arctic land and sea transportation in the next 50 years, with access to crucial ice roads dropping significantly while three new shipping routes Click to enlarge UCLAArctic shipping routes open up in an Arctic Ocean that will be la ...
  • Forum: Is Extreme Weather Linked to Global War ...
    In the past year, the world has seen a large number of extreme weather events, from the Russian heat wave last summer, to the severe flooding in Pakistan, to the recent tornadoes in the U.S. In a Yale Environment 360 forum, a panel of experts weighs in on whether the wild weather may be tied to ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

  • Al Qaeda's Latest Loss
    The reported death of Muhammad Ilyas Kashmiri deals a huge hit to the terror cell, still reeling from bin Laden's killing. Ex-CIA analyst Bruce Riedel on the impact on U.S.-Pakistan relations. Pakistani sources are reporting the death in a drone...
  • Syrian Protesters Get Smart
    Their movement against Bashar al-Assad's regime began in the daylight, but four months and 1,000 deaths later, Syrian demonstrators have taken a page from other insurrections and taken their organizing to the shadows, reports Dan Ephron. They operate...
  • Celebrity Man Cleavage
    Simon Cowell has no problem flaunting his chest, joining the company of stars from Mickey Rourke and Adrien Brody to Tyson Beckford and Joey Lawrence who show off their torsos. View photos. Gallery: Celebrity Man Cleavage Plus: Check out more of...
  • Michael Fassbender: The X-Men Star Taking Holl ...
    Michael Fassbender's not yet a household name, but with a blockbuster about to drop and serious projects with Soderbergh, Cronenberg, and Scott in the works, he's on his way. The actor talks to Chris Lee about crying in X-Men: First Class and...
  • America the Angry
    Is the Arab Spring headed stateside? A Newsweek/Daily Beast polls finds Americans are more fed up with the economy than ever-and that last jobs report didn't help. Plus, great thinkers from Cornel West to Robert Reich tell us what they're angry about....

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Doomed self-obsessive remains iconic to some i ...
    "It's not that I'm weak, it's that the suffering weighs down on me too heavily." This was said, in 1938, by a writer whose life and death bring together crowds all around the country every year on June 19 in rituals of celebration and mourning — the two being difficult to separate given the na ...
  • A nation of geothermal slackers
    Regarding the May 29 article "Memo emblematic of disaster plan flaws": Rather than criticize, which is way too easy, I would like to suggest an alternative. As an engineer I like to look at things from many angles to find a practical solution. My main concern is that the alternative energy sugge ...
  • Can we all just get along?
    CHINA, JAPAN AND REGIONAL LEADERSHIP IN EAST ASIA, by Christopher M. Dent. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010, 311 pp., $50 (paper) Will East Asia ever get its own tightknit regional grouping worthy of the name? As Japan and China approach next year's 40th anniversary of normalized diplomatic ties, ...
  • Poor wheelchair access killed many
    At least one person in a wheelchair was washed away by the March 11 tsunami in the coastal town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, because the path to the designated evacuation shelter didn't have a ramp despite repeated requests by residents to create one. Following the incident, the municipal gov ...
  • Walsh donewith Knicks
    Donnie Walsh dedicated three years to fixing the New York Knicks, all the while knowing the job would take much longer. At first he wanted to stay on as the guy who finished it, to see them really contend for a title. But at age 70, Walsh realized he wasn't up for the task. So when Madison Squ ...

Alexander Higgins

  • Alexander Higgins Blog Back Online — But ...
    After being offline for the last week The Alexander Higgins Blog is now back online and immediately became a target of a UDP flood denial of service attack.
  • 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 ...
  • Are Nuclear Reactions Still Occurring at Fukus ...
    You know that Fukushima reactors 1, 2 and 3 all melted down within hours of the Japanese earthquake.You also know that at least some of the subsequent explosions could have been caused by small-scale nuclear reactions called "prompt moderated criticali...
  • Well, There’s Your Problem Right There & ...
    Well, there's your problem right there ...I've repeatedly pointed out that Wall Street executives are incentivized to lie, cheat and steal. So - of course - they will continue to lie, cheat and steal.I've repeatedly noted that Wall Street owns the poli...
  • DOW Dropping As America Officially Reaches 9.1 ...
    The Intel Hub Shepard Ambellas June 3, 2011 Echos of the same are circling the corporate media with one headlines such as  ‘Payrolls in U.S. Rise 54,000; Jobless Rate Climbs to 9.1%’ while newscasters puppet the information on the television. The official admitted unemployment number is now 9.1 ...

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Jack Mintz is Right on “Small” Business Tax
    One of my main undertakings over at Relentlessly Progressive Economics has been to debunk Jack Mintz’s relentless advocacy of tax cuts for large corporations. However, I also give him credit when he proposes good policy, such as raising potash royalties and the small-business corporate tax rate. ...
  • Thrown Speech: Jobs Rhetoric, Not Jobs Creation
    Perhaps the government’s new mantra for the budget and the throne speech is telling in its ordering.  First priority is low tax, and then if jobs and growth also happen, well that’s a happy coincidence. It was interesting to hear the throne speech acknowledging that government spending like that ...
  • Does Capitalism Save Lives?
    I was watching CNBC and happened to see this panel about how the number of Americans killed by natural disasters has declined over time. It was also noted that, in early 2010, fewer people died in Chile’s earthquake than in Haiti’s earthquake. The discussion quite reasonably outlined how improv ...
  • When Politics is Personal
    Lately I wonder if there hasn’t been a modification to the feminist adage “the personal is political”. In the aftermath of the recent federal election — a decision that left so many of us cringing in anticipation of the onslaught we know will follow — it became clear that for some, politics is p ...
  • UK Conservatives Put Canada’s to Shame o ...
    Across the pond, the UK Conservative coalition government has taken a very different approach to tackling climate change than the Harper Conservatives. The Canadian government’s “commitment” to addressing climate change makes us a global pariah. Our government says it is committed to reducing Ca ...

ReDress

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

Physics Today

  • Antarctic ice sheet built "bottom-up"
    BBC: Survey data collected from the Gamburtsev mountain range shows liquid water is being frozen to the bottom of the Antarctic ice sheet. In some places, it makes up about half of the entire ice column, writes Jonathan Amos for the BBC. The Gamburtsevs are similar to the European Alps in scale, ...
  • Tevatron's mystery signal grows stronger with ...
    New Scientist: In April, Fermilab’s CDF experiment team announced that an unexpected bump in the data showing a W boson and two jets of quarks might indicate the presence of a particle not predicted by the standard model. At that point the result was at a three–sigma level of certainty; there w ...
  • Who needs a moon?
    Science: There may be 10 times as many extrasolar planets suitable for advanced life as previously thought, writes Govert Schilling for Science. A new study by Jack Lissauer of NASA’s Ames Research Center in California and colleagues contradicts the notion that a terrestrial planet needs a larg ...
  • Quantum computing gets an error boost
    Nature News: Three years ago, Australian quantum physicist Andrew White built a quantum computing machine that shouldn't have worked. A quantum computer relies on exploiting subatomic physics, and despite requiring immaculate laboratory conditions to work, the quantum systems behind the machine ...
  • The state of science in Africa
    SciDev.Net: The 'Africa Innovation Outlook 2010', prepared by the African Science and Technology Indicators Initiative (ASTII) covers 19 countries from across the continent and aims to plug an information gap on the state of science in Africa. The report says that Africa's share of global scien ...
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