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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.

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

7 June - RSS Snapshot! Pt II

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Center for a Livable Future

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

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 6, 2011
    ==== NATO’s Air War Against Libya: 9,917 Air Missions, 3,752 Combat Flights Libya: Bishop Decries NATO Bombing Of Church, Warns Of Partition NATO Bombing Paralyzes Libyan Capital Drive East And South: NATO Land Command To Be Shifted To Turkey NATO Soldier Killed In Southern Afghanistan U.S. Dron ...
  • Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 5, 2011
    ==== Libya: NATO’s War Of Aggression Against A Sovereign African State Russia Alarmed By NATO’s Escalating, Partisan Use Of Force In Libya NATO Warplanes Intensify Bombardment Of Libyan Cities Two NATO Soldiers Killed In Helicopter Crash In Afghanistan ==== Libya: NATO’s War Of Aggression Agains ...
  • Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: June 4, 2011
    ==== “Big Players In NATO”: Canada Plans International Bases First German Ground Combat Since World War II: Four Soldiers Killed, 12 Injured In Afghanistan Recently Oklahoma: National Guard Units Headed To Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait And Horn Of Africa Romania: 24 U.S. F-16s Could Be Added To 24 I ...
  • Herman Melville: Trophies of Peace
    http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/anti-war-essays-poems-short-stories-and-novel-excerpts   Herman Melville Trophies of Peace Illinois in 1840     Files on files of Prairie Maize: On hosts of spears the morning plays! Aloft the rustling streamers show: The floss embrowned is rich below. ...
  • Libyan war update/Stop NATO news: June 3, 2011
    ==== NATO Maintains Deadly Nightly Onslaughts Against Libyan Capital U.S. Recruits More Georgian Troops For NATO’s Afghan War Four NATO Soldiers Injured In Afghan Bomb Attack Clinton Applauds Czech Republic’s Willingness To Join NATO Missile System U.S. Horn Of Africa Command Marks Death Of Sold ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Death-Stars Appear Around the Earth
    The Intel Hub Shepard Ambellas June 6, 2011 Just as we have seen occult type artwork of the New World Order in the Denver International Airport (DIA) and the Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands, we now are seeing Death-Stars pop up worldwide. What could this occult art and these strange objects ...
  • With No Labeling, Few Realize They Are Eating ...
    Los Angeles Times May 24, 2011 Some consumers are concerned that such foods may pose health risks and say manufacturers should be required to identify them for consumers When a team of activists wearing white hazmat suits showed up at a Chicago grocery store to protest the sale of genetically mo ...
  • Mandatory Evacuation: Entire Town of Cario Ill ...
    The Intel Hub Shepard Ambellas June 6, 2011 According to local sources the city of Cario Illinois has been under massive threat and is currently being monitored closely by the Army Cops. of Engineers. Currently the sand boils acting as flood block are currently holding. A new mayor has been swor ...
  • Food Wars: How European Health Authorities Are ...
    Natural News June 6, 2011 (NaturalNews) Even as hospitals in Germany are now filling up with people sickened by a super-powerful drug-resistant “superbug” strain of e.coli that looks like it was bioengineered (http://www.naturalnews.com/032622_e…), European health authorities are leaping at the ...
  • Satire: Political Toadies and a Broken Down System
    The Intel Hub BATR June 5, 2011 Satire All the Statesmen are dead. The worst of society rise to the top of the food chain. Habitual liars run for civic office and the most skilled prevaricator gain seniority. The shyster class runs roughshod over the jurisprudences for the benefit of the enabler ...

FRS

  • India, The Telegraph: “Red terror hits L ...
    The Telegraph, Calcutta, India AMIT GUPTA, Sunday , June 5 , 2011   Ranchi, June 4: Mining, dispatch and transportation of bauxite from Pakhar mines in the Naxalite-hit Kisko police station area of Lohardaga district have come to a grinding halt since Wednesday evening after a group of rebels to ...
  • Revolutionary Front for the Defense of the Peo ...
    [This is an updated translation of an important analysis of the war in Libya, from the Revolutionary Front for the Defense of People's Rights of Brazil. -- Frontlines ed.] ——————————– Down with the imperialist aggression against Libya! Long live the war of resistance of the people of the world! ...
  • Bahrain: Government prosecutes doctors for tre ...
    Bahrain puts medical staff on trial for treating injured protesters Security court deals with 47 doctors and nurses accused of participating in efforts to remove monarchy Associated Press guardian.co.uk, Monday 6 June 2011 Doctors and nurses who treated injured anti-government protesters during ...
  • FT interview explores the path of Arundhati Ro ...
    Arundhati Roy By Amy Kazmin Financial Times, June 3 2011 As a young girl, Arundhati Roy once raided her teacher’s garden in her native village in Kerala, the lush tropical state in the south of India. She dug up the carrots, removed the edible orange roots, then carefully replanted the green top ...
  • Starvation politics fuels growing resistance: ...
                    By George Georgiopoulos June 5, 2011 ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou starts a campaign on Monday to secure a new international bailout by imposing years of austerity on a nation already seething over corruption and economic mismanagement. Unease is growi ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Announcing the Gaza to Ireland Youth Exchange
    am beyond excited to announce that we are formalising a partnership that will ensure one of my fondest goals shall be achieved, that of a youth exchange between the children of Gaza and those of Europe. I am even more excited because we are focusing on the youth of Gaza as well as Belfast and F ...
  • One for the Women
    It is said that behind every great man you will find a great woman. I do not look at myself as a great man per se, but I do see the greatness of the women in my life, and if I do indeed succeed in my ultimate goals, you can thank these women every bit as much as me. They have played the essent ...
  • Samouni Inter-Trade Palestine, Trade Not Aid
    Our Mission Samouni Inter-Trade Palestine (SIP) is a social enterprise international trade mission. We endeavour to catalyse the end of Gaza’s charitable dependency through import and export trade. We do not seek simply to alleviate the suffering of the people in Gaza. Our ultimate objective i ...
  • Slander vs. Sanity
    Lesson number one, the actual agents who direct slander campaigns, those working for MI6, CIA, Mossad and other so-called “intelligence” agencies, they and their tactics are rendered useless without the presence of the most important element for successful subversion, and that would be… the idio ...
  • NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE
    On Thursday April 21st we shall make a human chain with the children of Gaza to spell out NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE so as to tell the world that Israel’s bombings of Gaza must stop. We intend to remind the world how the children of Palestine are terrorized and murdered by Israeli air power [...]

StillSmallVoice

  • Throwing residents as online line in Monson, Mass.
    With a tornado bearing down on her hometown of Monson, Mass., last Wednesday, Laura Sauriol [pictured at right] was hunched over her laptop in the family basement. Immediately after the EF-3 storm hit, the worried conversations began bubbbling�up on Facebook. People wanted to know if any one ha ...
  • I haven't the heart to deconstruct the whole W ...
    But at one point during Rep. Anthony Weiner's over-long press conference/confession-on-acid about his posting questionable photos of himself on social media sites, the Democrat from New York admitted that he'd sent naughty photos to women-not-his-wife, but that he'd never had sex outside of his ...
  • Should dead men be fathers?
    Around the world, families of dead men have asked to use the sperm of the deceased for in-vitro fertilization. In at least one case, the family wants grandchildren, according to this Time magazine article. Is that ethical? Fair? Perfectly acceptable, considering we have the technology to do so? ...
  • The 30th anniversary of AIDS
    Read Susan Henking's perspective at Religion Dispatches, here. She writes: These are victories, of course. And yet, every year, we’re not sure if the anniversary is something to celebrate, commemorate, or mourn. We’re still here, still queer. And yet too many are not. And you can read about ...
  • If you're going to show off your mad Bible ski ...
    ...make sure you possess said skills first. This CNN piece explores the aphorisms we believe are in the Bible, but aren't -- like "Neither a borrower nor a lender be." That's not Jesus. That's Shakespeare, but it sounds Biblical, yes? And thanks, DickG., for the link. Flickr photo

Associated Content

  • Quote Roundup: Memorable D-Day Thoughts
    Monday marks the 67th anniversary of D-Day, the invasion of France, and the beginning of the end for the Third Reich. The courage shown by Allied soldiers on the beaches of Normandy June 6, 1944, proves that this generation was truly "great."Contributor: Giuseppe Giannet Published: Jun 06, 2011
  • Newsweek Cover Highlights Mitt Romney's Roman
    Newsweek, in its cover story on former Massachusetts Mitt Romney, is perhaps being just a little too cute in how it depicts Romney on its cover. The cover and apparently the story highlights Romney's Mormonism to a great degree.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Jun 05, 2011
  • MTV Movie Awards to Unveil 'Twilight' Wedding ...
    The MTV Movie Awards stand to be a big show for "Twilight" since "Eclipse" is up for several honors. However, fans may be more on edge for the first sneak peeks of "Breaking Dawn" instead- especially since they concern Bella and Edward's wedding.Contributor: Robert Dougherty Published: Jun 05, 2011
  • 'Foreskin Man' Comic Book Suggests Anti-Semiti ...
    In a new twist in the drive to ban circumcision in San Francisco, a San Diego group which is behind the move has produced a comic book that seems to hearken back to the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" in its vicious anti Semitism.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Jun 04, 2011
  • French Open Reflects Wide-Open Women's Circuit
    Men's tennis is dominated by three superstars right now, as the French Open has shown. Yet it has been easy to overlook the women in the meantime, since its top seeds keep getting eliminated, and the search to replace the Williams sisters goes on.Contributor: Robert Dougherty Published: Jun 04, 2011

Popsci - Science

  • Two New Super-Heavy Elements Added To The Peri ...
    The periodic table of the elements now officially has two new members, its heaviest ever. The new elements, 114 and 116 weigh 289 and 292 atomic mass units, respectively. By comparison, lead’s atomic weight is 207.2. These radioactive elements won’t remain that heavy for long: they exist for un ...
  • In A Quantum First, Light Is Created From A Vacuum
    In what may be a landmark experimental proof of quantum mechanics, a group of researchers from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden is claiming to have created sparks in a vacuum. According to quantum theory, empty space is, well, not that empty after all. Rather it is full of virtual pa ...
  • Witness Protection For Scientists: After Death ...
    As Australian lawmakers debate a national carbon tax, some of the country’s leading climate researchers have been moved to secure locations after receiving threats of physical violence and death. The Australian National University in Canberra, along with universities in Queensland and New South ...
  • How Fungi Launch Spores is No Longer a Mystery
    The case of the airborne spores, solved We know of at least 70,000 species of fungi, but we don’t know how most of them get their spores airborne. That’s what we’re trying to find out. Fungi are spectacularly mobile, especially when they’re launching spores, and that is a tremendous biomechanic ...
  • This Week in the Future, May 30-June 3, 2011
    This week's elegant black-and-white affair from Baarbarian might be a puzzler for some. Within this striking image are references to corpse-sniffing vulture detectives, brave elderly Japanese volunteers, and a world-record-setting jetpack. But that might not be obvious at first glance. Because ...

Veterans Today

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • A truly memorable Spring
    Provisional figures released by the Met Office show that Spring 2011 (March 1st to May 31st inclusive) with a mean temperature 10.2C was the equal warmest in the Central England Temperature series which dates back to 1659. Only Spring 1893 was as warm as Spring 2011. Spring 2007 with a mean te ...
  • Is summer 2011 set to be a scorcher?
    There's been almost a frenzy of tabloid stories in the last few weeks about this summer. Many will recall how summer was supposed to begin last weekend with a heatwave that would lead to temperatures averaging 29C for a fortnight! So the tabloids and some private weather companies (I will ...
  • Possible disruption: Severe Gales & Volcanic ash
    SEVERE GALES An unusually deep area of low pressure for the time of year is battering parts of Northern Britain at the moment. The highest gust recorded so far is 90mph at Belmullet in Northern Ireland. The Met office have yellow and Amber warnings in force until midnight tonight, shown below ...
  • Leading climate scientist: IPCC forecasts coul ...
    UPADTE 9pm, Sat 21st May As always I read all comments on this blog with interest. Climate change science is a serious subject with the potential for far reaching consequences, and so I am more than happy to point out that on this occasion I think some of the criticisms of my article are valid, ...
  • Political cracks appear on carbon reduction
    It's been one of the most remarkable things in British politics for many years: The political consensus, across all the main parties, on the need and the speed at which the UK is to cut its carbon emissions to avoid so called 'dangerous climate change'. And yet, lurking just beneath the surfac ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Fiscal Studliness: IMF Lauds UK's Macho Austerity
    A few months ago, I commented on the little girlie man wussonomics emanating from America. If anything else, the free lunch economics that brought the joys of subprime crisis to the rest of the world was, er, magnified by even looser (the spellcheck suggests "loser"; it's pretty smart) fiscal an ...
  • Only in America: God Gets a 33% Approval Rating
    I found this Yahoo! News article discussing a recent Newsweek survey rather amusing. So much so that I had to check the calendar to be sure that it wasn't April Fool's Day. While I may have some qualms over the small sample size (n=600) and probably some other technical details if they were disc ...
  • Divine Intervention? Pope Keen on Croatia in EU
    Here's some interesting "RPE" for you--religious political economy. Or mayhaps some international papal economy. While regional integration is usually concerned with mammon (money) instead of more sacred matters, here we have an interesting meeting of culture, religion, and integration. Looking ...
  • Integration 'On Pause' at the Caribbean Community
    To keep you up to date with other integration projects--this is the international political economy zone, after all--consider the fate of the Caribbean Community. If you think processes of Asian economic integration are going more slowly than ideal like yours truly, what more the Caribean Commun ...
  • Bahrain Brutality, But F1 Show Must Go On There
    A few months ago I covered how the so-called Arab Spring protests in Bahrain scuttled the first Formula One race of 2011 that was to be held there on 13 March. While the local race organizers and F1 powers-that-be did not rule out holding the event at a later date in 2011, let's just say that ma ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 10 Tipping Points Which Could Potentially Plun ...
    The global economy has become so incredibly unstable at this point that it is not going to take much to plunge the world into a horrific economic nightmare.  The foundations of the world economic system are so decayed and so corrupted that even a stiff breeze could potentially t ...
  • 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Venezuela cuts ties with US over Iran
    Venezuela has severed its relations with the US after Washington imposed sanctions against Venezuela’s state-owned oil company for supplying gasoline to Iran. According to examiner.com, Venezuela officially âfrozeâ relations with the United States on Sunday, a top diplomat from President Hugo Ch ...
  • Greek government faces revolt over second wave ...
    Greek prime minister outlines programme of state sell-offs and further belt-tightening. With protests dividing his own party and tens of thousands taking to the streets, Greece’s prime minister, George Papandreou, attempted on Monday to whip up support for a new wave of austerity. As Athens sold ...
  • UN Watchdog: Iran could produce a nuclear weap ...
    Iran is only a matter of months from being able to create a nuclear weapon, according to experts. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, 54, has long been pushing his country’s nuclear capabilities, and at the current rate of uranium enrichment the first bomb could be eight weeks away. Gregory S. Jones, ...
  • E. Coli Outbreak Across Europe is Now Believed ...
    German-grown bean sprouts could be the source of the deadly E.coli outbreak that has killed 22 people in Europe and infected at least four in US. The news came from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), as three new victims were confirmed dead, making the total number 22 ...
  • After France, Belgium approves ban on burqa
    Belgium will soon become the second country in Europe to ban the burqa in public places, after the parliament approved legislation forbidding full veils, the bill’s author said today. The legislation quietly cleared the Senate last week after it was overwhelmingly approved by the lower chamber o ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • 2011-06-07 Interview with Omar Deghayes #Guan ...
    TweetOmar Deghayes was born the son of a prominent Libyan lawyer, an "opponent of the increasingly totalitarian Gaddafi" later taken away by the Libyan authorities and killed. After his father's death, Omar Deghayes settled with his family in Saltdean, Great Britian. As a British resident and ...
  • 2011-06-07 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...
    TweetMentor and friend Greg Mitchell at TheNation.com is on vacation. While he is away, I am pinch-hitting and blogging WikiLeaks updates here. All the times are EST. You can contact me at kgosztola@hotmail.com with any news tips. Twitter username is @kgosztola. Also, if you are looking for some ...
  • 2011-06-07 The #Europeanrevolution consolidate ...
    TweetDespite the obfuscation of information by major outlets in traditional media and Internet, the movement born in Europe on the past 15th of May is spreading all across the continent, each day with more intensity and popular support. The repercussions, both in economic and political scenario ...
  • 2011-06-06: Wikileaks: The Ireland Cables | Ro ...
    TweetSaturday, 4th June was Day Five of the Irish Cablegate reports, published by the Irish Independent. (See roundups of Days Four, Three, Two and One.) Saturday's reports did not have novel focuses, but instead chose to look on distinct aspects of topics that had previously been explored in t ...
  • 2011-06-06: Wikileaks: The Ireland Cables | Ro ...
    TweetFriday 3rd June was Day 4 of the Irish Independent's Irish Wikileaks releases. (See roundups of Days Three, Two and One.) After three days of drive-by reportage on the Irish cables, during which - with exceptions - the documents were mined for unexceptional confidential opinions of Irish po ...

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

Tatumba 2.0

  • Access VBA Tip for programatically filling a m ...
    Ok I am taking a short New World Order break and a providing a quick programming tutorial for anyone who has not migrated to .NET and wants to program using VBA in Access. I was stuck on a job that I have been working on and judging by the lack of solutions on the net [...] Related posts:Th ...
  • 24K of the Zombie Bank Death Squad reports in ...
    24K of the Zombie Bank Death Squad reports in from the front lines today. I discovered ZBDS over at MaxKeiser.com and love the message that 24K brings in song. He reported in on on of my Greek Posts: Viva la Revolution! You have my video on your page! If itâs there for a day or [...] Relate ...
  • Breaking News: Max Keiser names Banksters invo ...
    Alex Jones, Infowars.com, talks with film-maker, broadcaster and former broker and options trader Max Keiser. Max reveals exactly who is responsible for the crime of Financial Terrorism in Greece. Max reveals the treasonous actions of the Prime Minister George Papandreou who stole over $27 billi ...
  • Breaking News: Max Keiser names Banksters invo ...
    Alex Jones, Infowars.com, talks with film-maker, broadcaster and former broker and options trader Max Keiser. Max reveals exactly who is responsible for the crime of Financial Terrorism in Greece. Max reveals the treasonous actions of the Prime Minister George Papandreou who stole over $27 billi ...
  • Greek Revoultion is now Live
    I am streaming the coverage of protests from Greece. It will run as long as the video feed keeps coming to me. I am sort of ummm hijacking the signal. Just so you know…Greece is 7 hours ahead of EST. Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Postcards from the Greek Frontlines Th ...

Truth About Our World

  • 6 Real Examples of Food Terrorism
    Recent food terror warnings hide reality Activist Post The latest warning coming from British intelligence that al-Qaeda and other political organizations could contaminate the food supply is part of a continuing plot line that hides the obvious: our food already has been poisoned under the ausp ...
  • Toronto Police Shoot Woman Point Blank To Inci ...
    ‘This is absolutely unacceptable behavior on behalf of the Toronto police department in Canada. We have seen this type provocateur behavior before from police, but this is point blank crazy. The defenseless woman gets pounded with a teargas shell. This premeditated police action seems to be more ...
  • Swiss Banker Unmasks Bilderberg Criminals
    “The Strauss-Kahn case … shows these people are corrupt, sick in their minds, so sick they are full of vices and those vices are kept under wraps on their orders. Some of them like Strauss-Kahn rape women, others are sado maso, or paedophile and many are into Satanism. When you go in some banks ...
  • Forensic evidence emerges that European e.coli ...
    June 06, 2011 by Mike Adams Even as the veggie blame game is now under way across the EU, where a super resistant strain of e.coli is sickening patients and filling hospitals in Germany, virtually no one is talking about how e.coli could have magically become resistant to eight different classes ...
  • Scientists push to implement edible RFID track ...
    June 03, 2011 by: Ethan A. Huff It will monitor your calorie intake, show from where your food was sourced, and even let you know when the food in your fridge is about to go bad — these are some of the enticing claims made by the developers of a new system that embeds edible radio frequency iden ...

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

  • A story about data: Kirsten Gillibrand on the ...
    “I haven’t been in Washington very long, but the truth of the matter is that [the government] is broken,” said Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.She was speaking onstage at the New York University Skirball Center as part of the Personal Democracy Forum, the 8th a ...
  • Democrats leave self-promoting Anthony Weiner ...
    Anthony Weiner really could have used two specific types of friends last week: the kind who could have vouched for him publicly after the lewd picture that may or may not be his surfaced, and the kind who could provide him with smart, practical guidance fo ...
  • Weiner disappears, but the wiener jokes keep c ...
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
  • What 'La Dolce Vita' taught Sofia Coppola abou ...
    Apart from being director Federico Fellini’s most decisive step toward his characteristic surrealist style, La Dolce Vita’s portrayal of the search by a thirty-something journalist (Marcello Mastroianni) for a way out of his bohemian lifestyle has left an ...
  • Sabotage! Donnie Walsh, and the new Knicks, su ...
    Donnie Walsh said all the right things on Friday after the New York Knicks announced that he would not continue as team president when his contract ends on June 30. More

Views & News from Norway

  • Hospital boss quits after cuts
    Siri Hatlen confirmed on Monday that she’s quitting as managing director of Norway’s largest hospital, Oslo University Hospital, after the hospital’s board demanded cost cuts amounting to around NOK 500 million a year. Hatlen had claimed only half that amount could be tolerated without adverse e ...
  • Libyan targets revealed
    Norwegian defense officials have finally revealed more details about the targets bombed by Norwegian fighter jet pilots over Libya. One of four attacks has been directed at Libyan Colonel Moammar Gadhafi’s command and communications centers. Newspaper Aftenposten, which has been pressuring Norwe ...
  • Ivory Coast embassy to close
    Top Norwegian government officials have been urging the world not to forget the Ivory Coast, but they’re in the process of closing Norway’s own embassy in the embattled country. All embassy personnel are due to be moved out of the Ivory Coast by June 15. Erik Solheim, the government minister in ...
  • Workers lacking despite immigration
    Shortages in the Norwegian labour force have increased 20 percent in the last year, with Norwegian industry now lacking at least 61,000 workers, according to a survey of 14,300 companies by the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (Den norske arbeids- og velferdsforvaltningen, NAV). Meanw ...
  • Flying Sweden’s colors in Oslo’s f ...
    Swedes at home and abroad, including those who have settled in Norway, could celebrate Svenska flaggans dag – the Swedish flag’s day – on Monday.  The owners of a cabin in the hills above Oslo could not think of a better salute to all Swedes than this photo taken over the weekend of a feathere ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • National Sustainable Food Summit Talks
    In Melbourne, on April 5th and 6th, was held the National Sustainable Food Summit, where key Australian food and agriculture players and academics met to discuss the challenges and possible solutions for Australia’s increasingly vulnerable food security situation. Some of the talks were quite in ...
  • Nuclear Bunny
    This video spotlights a cute little bunny wabbit — but one with a difference…. Allegedly born just outside the Fukushima Nuclear Plant’s exclusion zone (I can’t confirm that anyone has verified this…), the bunny has no ears. It begs the question — what’s next for Japan’s human residents and thei ...
  • Inside Zone 0
    Editor’s note: If you didn’t notice already, Peter is looking to share some talks and workshops in Sydney. It certainly looks like he knows his stuff. Anyone interested should head here to learn more. Embracing a sustainable way of life involves changing how we provide ourselves with food and sh ...
  • Hidden Dangers in Tornado Debris
    by Barbara O’Brien The monster tornadoes that recently tore through the South Midwest did more than destroy property. As they shredded homes and other buildings they also released deadly environmental hazards. The most common of these are lead paint and asbestos. Asbestos is a mineral that easil ...
  • Living Architecture Talks and Workshops in Syd ...
    I will be in Sydney in August, available to deliver illustrated talks & workshops from Thursday 25th to Sunday 28th, 2011. Living Architecture is all about exploring the invisible parts of our houses and the invisible parts of ourselves with a view to creating low-cost, low-impact eco-bui ...

Telecrap Urinal

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

Anna's News

  • Deepest-living land animal found
    Worms have been found living at depths in the Earth where it was previously thought animals could not survive.Discovered in South African mines, the roundworms can survive in the stifling 48C (118F) water that seeps between cracks 1.3km beneath the Earth'Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� � ...
  • Bid to save sandpiper at risk of extinction in ...
    Conservationists have embarked on a mission to save one of the world's rarest birds, the spoon-billed sandpiper, from extinction.Fewer than 200 pairs of spoon-billed sandpipers were thought to exist in 2009, and since then, the population has thought to..Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� � ...
  • With Global Warming, Arctic Access Will Dimini ...
    Global warming over the next 40 years will cut through Arctic transportation networks like a double-edged sword, limiting access in certain areas and vastly increasing it in others, a new UCLA study predicts. Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Pa. girl aces 'cymotrichous' to win Spelling Bee
    It went on and on and on. Five spellers who seemingly had memorized the entire dictionary simply could not be stumped with any word tossed their way. It was getting late, way past bedtime and well beyond the time slot allotted by ESPN for its telecast. Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �Not ...
  • Can Cat Fur Color Shape Human Allergies?
    Does a cat's coat color actually influence the severity of its owner's allergies?Strange as it sounds, the question has been thrown around in previous years and even studied by scientists. A recent write-up on the website Improbable Research revisits.....Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� � ...

Medical Marijuana

  • 6/6/11 - International Guide to Minimum Legal ...
    drinkingage.procon.org - NEW: International Guide to Minimum Legal Drinking Ages (MLDAs) in 138 Countries - The United States along with five other countries (Fiji, Indonesia, Micronesia, Palau, and Sri Lanka) have an MLDA of 21 - the highest of any country where alcohol is legal. In Brunei, Ga ...
  • 6/3/11 - Did Jack Kevorkian ethically serve th ...
    euthanasia.procon.org - Dr. Jack Kevorkian dead at age 83. In light of his passing today, ProCon.org presents two questions about the man who polarized millions around the issues of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in the United States.
  • 6/3/11 - Who was Dr. Jack Kevorkian?
    euthanasia.procon.org - Dr. Jack Kevorkian dead at age 83. In light of his passing today, ProCon.org presents two questions about the man who polarized millions around the issues of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in the United States.
  • 6/3/11 - Are cellphones safe?
    cellphones.procon.org - Are cellphones safe? - On May 31, 2011, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the World Health Organization (WHO) announced it had added cell phone radiation to its list of physical agents that are "possibly carcinogenic to humans." Read the full docum ...
  • 6/3/11 - Should people become vegetarian?
    vegetarian.procon.org - Should people become vegetarian? - On June 2, 2011 Michelle Obama unveiled the USDA "My Plate" image representing the five food groups. The new "My Plate" image replaced the previous "Food Pyramid," and renamed its "Meat and Beans" category as the "Protein" category. S ...

Truth About Our World

  • 6 Real Examples of Food Terrorism
    Recent food terror warnings hide reality Activist Post The latest warning coming from British intelligence that al-Qaeda and other political organizations could contaminate the food supply is part of a continuing plot line that hides the obvious: our food already has been poisoned under the ausp ...
  • Toronto Police Shoot Woman Point Blank To Inci ...
    ‘This is absolutely unacceptable behavior on behalf of the Toronto police department in Canada. We have seen this type provocateur behavior before from police, but this is point blank crazy. The defenseless woman gets pounded with a teargas shell. This premeditated police action seems to be more ...
  • Swiss Banker Unmasks Bilderberg Criminals
    “The Strauss-Kahn case … shows these people are corrupt, sick in their minds, so sick they are full of vices and those vices are kept under wraps on their orders. Some of them like Strauss-Kahn rape women, others are sado maso, or paedophile and many are into Satanism. When you go in some banks ...
  • Forensic evidence emerges that European e.coli ...
    June 06, 2011 by Mike Adams Even as the veggie blame game is now under way across the EU, where a super resistant strain of e.coli is sickening patients and filling hospitals in Germany, virtually no one is talking about how e.coli could have magically become resistant to eight different classes ...
  • Scientists push to implement edible RFID track ...
    June 03, 2011 by: Ethan A. Huff It will monitor your calorie intake, show from where your food was sourced, and even let you know when the food in your fridge is about to go bad — these are some of the enticing claims made by the developers of a new system that embeds edible radio frequency iden ...

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Arundhati Roy
    Amy Kazmin As a young girl, Arundhati Roy once raided her teacherâs garden in her native village in Kerala, the lush tropical state in the south of India. She dug up the carrots, removed the edible orange roots, then carefully replanted the green tops in the soil. It took four days for the green ...
  • Arundhati Roy
    Amy Kazmin As a young girl, Arundhati Roy once raided her teacherâs garden in her native village in Kerala, the lush tropical state in the south of India. She dug up the carrots, removed the edible orange roots, then carefully replanted the green tops in the soil. It took four days for the green ...
  • From Abbottabad to Worse
    Hating the United Statesâwhich funds Islamabadâs army and nuclear program to the humiliating tune of $3 billion a yearâPakistan takes its twisted, cowardly revenge by harboring the likes of the late Osama bin Laden. But the hypocrisy is mutual, and the shame should be shared. By Christopher Hitc ...
  • From Abbottabad to Worse
    Hating the United Statesâwhich funds Islamabadâs army and nuclear program to the humiliating tune of $3 billion a yearâPakistan takes its twisted, cowardly revenge by harboring the likes of the late Osama bin Laden. But the hypocrisy is mutual, and the shame should be shared. By Christopher Hitc ...
  • Erase entangled memory to cool a computer
    Anil Ananthaswamy Hot stuff (Image: Bob Stefko/Riser/Getty) Imagine cooling a supercomputer not with fans or freezers, but by deleting some of its memory. New calculations show that this is possible, provided some of the bits that make up the computer’s memory are "entangled"â a spooky property ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

  • My Fellow Canadian and American Friends
    "It should be quite obvious to you by now that the national sovereignty of Canada and the United States is under threat. We as Canadians and you as Americans both have something equal to lose."
  • Canadian Government Extends Deadline For Publi ...
    The Canadian government has decided to extend the deadline for public input into the Harper governments "common security perimeter agenda" until June 3rd 2011
  • Canadian Government Extends Deadline For Publi ...
    The Canadian government has decided to extend the deadline for public input into the Harper governments "common security perimeter agenda" until June 3rd 2011
  • You’re Losing National Sovereignty- How Transp ...
    "As a matter of principle, we are currently fighting to make sure that Canadians are allowed to know what's being negotiated. We further believe that this deal needs to be reviewed by Parliament and we will fight to make sure that this happens."- Jack Layton
  • You’re Losing National Sovereignty- How Transp ...
    "As a matter of principle, we are currently fighting to make sure that Canadians are allowed to know what's being negotiated. We further believe that this deal needs to be reviewed by Parliament and we will fight to make sure that this happens."- Jack Layton

Gaea Times

  • Tylenol Recall Ghost Haunts Johnson & Johnson
    more images FORT WASHINGTON (GaeaTimes.com)- Johnson & Johnson the diversified pharmaceutical and health care company is back in news though for the wrong reasons. Tylenol is a product made by the company that is being recalled now in USA and Puerto Rico. This is not the first time that the co ...
  • VHP seers meet in Ayodhya to decide on road ahead
    AYODHYA - The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has convened a meeting of leading seers here Wednesday to decide on the road ahead after the verdict on the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute. The 41-member central committee of seers will assemble at the Karsewak Puram camp. Amongst those participat ...
  • Indian?s fight against child marriage in focus ...
    ABU DHABI - The spotlight was once again on India at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, courtesy a British filmmaker. Kim Longinotto in “Pink Saris” depicted the evils of child marriage and the caste conflict in the interiors of northern India - and a woman’s fight to bring about change. In her doc ...
  • Rebel JD-U MP warns against Nitish?s return to ...
    PATNA - A day ahead of the first round of the six-phase Bihar assembly elections, a rebel leader of the ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) Wednesday appealed to farmers not to vote for Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. In an appeal published in local Hindi dailies, Rajeev Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Sin ...
  • Agra offers world class recording studio to Bo ...
    AGRA - Studio Wave, a new recording studio here, is being endorsed by top names in Bollywood music but the sound engineer who set it up is also hoping it will help local talent thrive. Satish Gupta, who founded it, told IANS: “The main motive of this studio is to promote local talent in music ...

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

  • New Google Tool Reveals Oil Spill Amnesia
    Just one year ago in early June 2010, tar balls began washing up on the beaches of Pensacola, Florida, and oily waves lapped the shores of the federally protected Gulf Islands National Seashore. Graphic images of oil- covered cormorants and pelicans emerged in the news. Over one-third of f ...
  • California Assembly Protects Forage Fish
    Humpback whales feeding in Monterey Bay. © Richard Fitzer �Yesterday afternoon, the California Assembly acknowledged the critical role that forage species play in maintaining a healthy marine food web by passing Assembly Bill 1299 (AB 1299), sponsored by Oceana and introduced by Assemblymem ...
  • Q&A with Author Mark Kurlansky
    Mark Kurlansky with his 10-year-old daughter Talia. The latest issue of Oceana magazine is now available; check it out for features about Ted Danson’s new book, our new sea turtle spokesladies and Patagonia’s threatened waters. Also in this issue is a Q&A with author Mark Kurlansky, whose ...
  • Fish Fraud on ABC World News
    ABC World News spotlighted Oceana’s new seafood fraud report “Bait and Switch”, including a cameo by Dr. Mike Hirshfield, Oceana’s senior vice president and chief scientist:
  • Ending Shark Finning, One Wedding at a Time?
    Shark fin soup. [Image via Wikimedia Commons] Shark fin soup is bad for sharks -- we all know this. But can you have a Chinese wedding without it? The folks at Shark Truth say you can, and they're running a contest to prove it. Shark Truth asks couples holding traditional Chinese weddi ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Curious World War I Technology
    WWI Sound Ranging Devices Brewster Body Armor German Messenger Dog With Gas Mask WWI
  • Signal Corps
    Black And White Signal Corps Troops Pre WWI The Signal Corps almost didn’t happen. In 1859, United States Army surgeon A. J. Myer began experimenting with a system of long distance lineof sight communication called wigwag. Wigwag signalers used torches at night and color flags during the day to ...
  • Corporal James Arness, Film Star, Decorated Wa ...
    James Arness   “Arness wanted to be a naval fighter pilot, but he felt his poor eyesight would bar him. His height of 6 feet 7 inches (2.01 m) ended his hopes, since 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) was the limit for aviators. Instead, he was called for the Army and reported to Fort Snelling, Minnesot ...
  • Dramatic Footage Of Afghan Insurgents Planting ...
    Click here to view the [...]
  • Bando, Burmese Martial Art
    Click here to view the embedded video. Bando Association Logo. Notice Kukhri [...]

Taylor Marsh

  • Media Incompetence, Starring Chris Matthews & ...
    Rep. Weiner has failed the Jack Ryan politics 101 survival test: âGive them no place to go, nothing to report, no story.â It’s the art of political war. “Will you help to support Arnold’s love child?”, someone yelled from the crowd of press. “Were you fully erect…?” came next. A fitting finale f ...
  • Rep. Weiner: ‘The picture is of me and I sent it…’
    “I am not resigning.” – Rep. Anthony Weiner After admitting that he sent the “lewd” photo via private direct message via Twitter that ended up public, Rep. Weiner admitted he did what he’s been accused of doing, which is to engage and interact before and after his marriage with women, whom he sa ...
  • Bachmann Signs Ed Rollins
    While Sarah Palin continues her celebrity tour, Rep. Bachmann moves forward with a serious appointment to her team. From Jan Crawford CBS: As she prepares to enter the race in Iowa later this month, Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann has signed on high-profile political strategist Ed Rolli ...
  • In Case You Missed It
    Joyce Arnold tees up Texas Gov. Rick Perry. It’s “In the News” today. Read it. The picture is worth the click.
  • Tina Brown Features Dancing Mitt
    But there was one challengeâa challenge that could alienate the kind of Republicans who vote in early primary states such as Iowa and South Carolinaâthat Romney didnât address: his Mormon faith. – Mormons Rock! Considering that Republican primary voters in Iowa and South Carolina don’t think wom ...

Hudson New York

  • Syria Changes the Subject
    Syrian dictator Bashar Assad is now trying to direct the heat toward Israel. Like most of the Arab dictators, Assad wants Israel to be held responsible for instability and violence. Facing growing protests in his country, Assad has decided to send
  • Lessons for Libya
    The June 3, 2011 vote in the US House of Representatives, (268-145), demanding that President Obama explain his policy towards the Civil War in Libya, embarrassed the administration, but did little to clarify NATO or US political and military strategy.
  • Exonerating the Iranian People
    One aspect of the Iranian Revolution of 1979 that seems to have been overlooked is the history of Iranian-Jewish relations. Since the Khomeinist power grab, the Iranian people have been paying a great price for the continuing hard-line inhumane practices
  • Erdogan a "Fragile, Domineering and Authoritar ...
    Criticisms rain down on Erdoğan from abroad Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was criticized by the British newspaper The Observer after The Economist and Time magazines and the New York Times. The article in The Observer says Erdoğan's real problem is
  • Europeans Increase Boycotts Against Israel
    A provincial council in Scotland has announced a ban on Israeli books as part of a politically-motivated boycott on all goods and produce from Israel. The move is just the latest effort by pro-Palestinian activists in Europe to implement a fast-growing

Urban Survival

  • Can 12,000 Hold?
    (Magness, AR) The answer is only somewhat rhetorical, since there are 13.9 million Americans who are unemployed.  Then there are the disenfranchised who have huddled up with relatives or are just drifting around the country, some going from Wal-Mart to … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With the Nomadic Life
    If the coffee is hitting you hard this morning, you may have noticed that this morning’s report begins with a reference to Magness, Arkansas.  Elaine & I spent the night here with one of the boy’s – the one who … Continue reading →
  • Corporate Tax Breaks vs. Jobs
    As we roll out the monthly jobs report from the Labor Department (in a sec.) the main thing to be aware of is how corpgov is doing a “pully-wooly” on the whole notion of trading unemployment compensation funding for corporate … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With some kind of Holiday
    We gotta get out more often.  Getting ready to take a 2½ day weekend has been excruciating: Peoplenomics will be updated a bit later than usual Saturday morning.  Or not.  Depends on the internet connectivity issues at our hotel.  I’m … Continue reading →
  • Our Deteriorating Future
    Tuesday might as well have not even happened.  The Dow which popped 128 Tuesday promptly turned around and fell a stick of gum less than 280-points on Wednesday leaving the week down 152 (or so) net.  And it’s about to … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

  • MIND CONTROL 66: The Test
    Still on the issue of what type of people we are…… lets look at a different scenario with Jesus. Luke 19:11-28 11 While they were listening to this, he went on to tell them a parable, because he was near Jerusalem and the people thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear at [...]
  • DO GOVERNMENTS SECRETLY KILL WITH THE WEATHER ...
    It started off like one of those hypothetical questions you ask yourself when you are feeling in a particularly imaginative mood. You know what i mean. Lying down and wondering what it would be like to have super powers, or waiting for a bus and wishing you could hold back a storm that you can [...]
  • MIND CONTROL 65: He Who Has Ears, Let Him Hear
    In an effort to open our eyes……. It is important for us to take a look at more of the parables that Jesus spoke. Christians believe that the reason why Jesus spoke in parables was because he did not want anyone to understand. This is completely untrue. Jesus spoke in parables “precisely because ...
  • ARE WE THE AUTHORS OF OUR OWN THOUGHTS AND ACT ...
    In his recent book, “Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values”, Neuroscientist, Sam Harris discusses how science can provide the basis for morality. This piece is not a review of Harris’ diatribe on organized religion and his lengthy thesis on the science of morality. My focus her ...
  • MIND CONTROL 64: Pastoral Hypocrisy
    Take a look at this scenario: Matt 20:30-34 30 Two blind men were sitting by the roadside, and when they heard that Jesus was going by, they shouted, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!” 31 The crowd rebuked them and told them to be quiet, but they shouted all the louder, “Lord, Son [...]

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

  • Boston science events this week: Stem cells, c ...
    The college students are gone, the arboretum is in bloom and the museums are open late, Check out our new Google calendar for details on the consumer genetics meeting and other events.
  • Boston news: R & D -- at home or at school -- ...
    Worth checking out: WBUR's story on a DYI drug developement; This capital-efficient model is all the more essential now that the credit markets have dried up. Before, you needed to build a company so Wall Street would take you for real, so you could do an IPO. Today, the better way to go is to ...
  • Tornado science: Massachusetts weather data
    The local office of the National Weather Service offers information for the state, including: •Preliminary Climate Data for Other Locations in Southern New England •Miscellaneous Climate Records and Averages •Southern New England Snow Storms/Previous Event Calendar •Hydrologic Observations ...
  • June 2011: Boston area events for the science- ...
    Here's a list of what's up this week. Check out our new Google calendar for updates. Origins and Applications of Pluripotent Stem Cells Wed, June 1, 7pm - 8pm Pfizer Auditorium Hall at Harvard University (Mallinckrodt Building, 12 Oxford St, Cambridge) (map) Join Science in the News (SITN ...
  • Summer science for the kids: Harvard Natural H ...
    Summer Science Weeks 2011 Spend a week of your summer at the museum. Through games, activities, and observation in the galleries, students will learn while having fun. Time and Location Monday through Friday, 9:30 am to noon at the Harvard Museum of Natural History Fees $160 nonme ...

NRDC Switchboard

  • To Stop Plastic Pollution in the Ocean, Act Lo ...
    Leila Monroe, Staff Attorney, Oceans Program, San Francisco In one year, government, business, and citizen leaders from around the world will turn their attention to Rio de Janeiro for the Earth Summit 2012.  As we get ready for the Earth Summit, ...
  • Latin America: Racing to Rio+20 and Beyond
    Carolina Herrera, Latin America Advocate, Washington DC A year from now, in early June 2012, all eyes will be on Latin America when world leaders will convene in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the Rio+20 Earth Summit.  This is an opportunity for Latin ...
  • Will India Take the Lead in the Race to Rio?
    Shravya Reddy, India Analyst, New York This week, people the world over are celebrating World Environment Day (June 5). As an emerging global environmental leader, India officially hosted the UN’s World Environment Day celebrations this year, with ...
  • One Year to Earth Summit 2012: A New Generatio ...
    Michael Davidson, China Climate Fellow, Washington, DC One year from this week, government leaders, civil society members and representatives of the business community will meet in Rio de Janeiro to discuss the future of the planet. The Earth Summ ...
  • Key actions on climate & energy that world lea ...
    Jake Schmidt, International Climate Policy Director, Washington, DC Carbon pollution from fossil fuel use reached the highest level yet in 2010, according to the International Energy Agency.  So should we throw up our hands?  No, this is a wake-up ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • Police Misconduct NewsFeed (Live) Weekend Reca ...
    I’m trying something new this weekend. Usually there are so few reports over the weekend, not because misconduct doesn’t happen over the weekend, but because news agencies have reduced staffs over weekends. So usually I combine all the reports from Saturday and Sunday into one “Weekend Report” i ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 20 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, June 3, 2011: A Washington DC narcotics officer has been charged with murder after the bodies of a woman and her 1-year-old daughter, a daughter that he allegedly fathered, were foun ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 16 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, June 2, 2011: One New Orleans LA police officer has resigned and another is on leave while under investigation on allegations that they planted durgs on a man they picked up and qu ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 23 reports of police misconduct tracked by our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, June 1, 2011: Franklin Co VA deputy charged with murder for shooting his wife to death after chasing her to a gas station parking lot in his police car. He’s also under investigat ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    First I wanted to mention an article from Tulsa OK by This Land Press which discusses an excessive force incident that happened in 2000 but appeared to have slipped under the radar even though it resulted in the officer being disciplined with a 2-day suspension. The article cites our statistics

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Urban Transformation for Interethnic Cities
    Urban centres, marked by globalisation, migration and the intermingling of culturally and ethnically diverse communities were among the major topics of the International Conference on the Inter-ethnic City held in Rome last week on the eve of the celebrations of Italy's national day.
  • Governments and Powers-That-Be Fear the Internet
    The global reach of the internet, and its ability to transmit information in real time and mobilise populations, creates fear among governments and the powerful, says Frank La Rue, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expressi ...
  • PERU-US: Washington Urged to Cooperate with Humala
    The United States should seek cooperative relations with Peruvian President-elect Ollanta Humala, a number of Andean specialists urged here Monday.
  • Ahmadinejad's Subsidy Reductions Squeeze Iran' ...
    Owners of industrial and agricultural enterprises who initially welcomed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's plan to reduce subsidies by lifting the price-support system for basic goods have now become its chief critics.
  • ELECTIONS-PERU: Leftist Winner Promises "Growt ...
    For the first time in the democratic history of Peru, a left-wing candidate has won the presidency. With the support of an overwhelming majority of voters in the provinces, retired lieutenant colonel Ollanta Humala defeated his right-wing rival Keiko Fujimori, whose strongest backing was in th ...

Scoop - NZ

  • Religions, Banks and Power
    The following is offered as background to the forces at play in the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his resultant resignation from the IMF which was the subject of my previous post. I don't have any definitive answer as to who is doing what and why but I can offer some thoughts on some of t ...
  • US on the Verge of Another Credit Crisis?
    Late yesterday, the highly respected credit rating firm, Moody’s Investor Services, officially warned that if there is no imminent progress in Congress on the debt ceiling fight, the United States of America’s Aaa credit rating would be cut. Understanding that such a draconian event as a U.S. cr ...
  • YouTube: Goldman Sachs ripped off Gaddafi?
    Max Keiser explains 'Financial Terrorism' Video
  • The Fall of Merrill Lynch
    With one notable exception, the firms that make up what we know as Wall Street have always been part of an inbred, insular culture that most people only vaguely understand. The exception was Merrill Lynch, a firm that revolutionized the stock market by bringing Wall Street to Main Street, settin ...
  • Spain's Icelandic revolt
    After passively submitting to the crisis, young Spaniards have finally taken to the street. Breaking out on the eve of municipal elections, the protests of recent days have been inspired by those in Iceland that led to the fall of the government in Reykjavik.

Independent - London

  • EU to discuss E.coli compensation
    Plans to compensate farmers across Europe for losses triggered by the E.coli outbreak in Germany will be discussed by EU agriculture ministers at emergency talks this afternoon.
  • EU ministers to discuss E.coli compensation
    Plans to compensate farmers across Europe for losses triggered by the E.coli outbreak in Germany will be discussed by EU agriculture ministers at emergency talks this afternoon.
  • Syrian activists fear retaliation after 120 so ...
    Syrian activists said they feared a bloody escalation in violence last night after the Baathist regime claimed 120 members of the security forces had been gunned down by armed groups in a town near the Turkish border.
  • In praise of pragmatism
    You would think pragmatism needed no defenders. Tony Blair went to the country in 1997 declaring that New Labour was not a party of "outdated ideology. What counts is what works". Deng Xiaoping, the reformist Chinese leader who led his country from famine and chaos into a growth miracle, was fo ...
  • Heckled by New York's maids, Strauss-Kahn set ...
    Lawyers for the maid who has accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of criminal sexual assault in a New York hotel room served notice yesterday that she will testify at his trial and "tell the world" what he inflicted upon her, as the former IMF chief was met with a chorus of heckling from hotel worker ...

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • US: Evacuations Continue as Arizona Fire Spreads
    A massive wildfire continued to force evacuations Monday from towns in the eastern part of Arizona and threatened more communities as flames pushed toward New Mexico. The so-called Wallow Fire, burning across Arizona wilderness and the Apache National Forest, has grown to 233,000 acres since ...
  • Japan Finally Admits TOTAL Meltdown at 3 Nucle ...
    ... And More Than DOUBLES Estimate of Radiation Released After Accident For months, Tepco and Japanese officials refused to admit that there had been any meltdowns at Fukushima. Then they said there were meltdowns at reactors 1, 2 and 3 ... but they might have only been partial meltdowns. Fin ...
  • This Charming Psychopath: How to spot social p ...
    Jeffrey Dahmer. Ted Bundy. Hannibal Lecter. These are the psychopaths whose stunning lack of conscience we see in the movies and in tabloids. Yet, as this report makes abundantly clear, these predators, both male and female, haunt our everyday lives at work, at home, and in relationships. Here's ...
  • SOTT FOCUS: 'Foreskin Man' Takes On Genital Mu ...
    Even though they'd be a great medium for it, comic books aren't known for tackling sensitive social, religious or cultural topics in an overt way. People who read comic books are looking for fantasy and escapism rather than intellectual stimulation - just like people who read men's magazines. Ma ...
  • SOTT FOCUS: Hyperinflation, Nails in the Coffi ...
    In the past few years the world and the U.S. in particular has seen no shortage of economic near-collapses, boondoggles, scandals, ponzi schemes, and 'bail outs'. But before we examine the next disaster fast approaching and experience the ensuing nausea that is likely to come from knowing about ...

The Galloping Beaver

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

Media Matters for America

  • Beck Falsely Claims Obama Says Americans Shoul ...
    Glenn Beck falsely claimed that President Obama "is telling Americans that we need to side with the governments like Syria." In fact, Obama and his administration have repeatedly criticized the Assad regime in Syria for violently suppressing protests and said that Syrian President Bashar al-Ass ...
  • NYC Investigation Provides More Evidence That ...
    After a blizzard struck New York City last year, right-wing media were quick to smear unions, using a bogus allegation that a planned union slowdown delayed cleanup efforts. Even then, New York City officials took responsibility for the slow response. Now, a report by the New York City Departme ...
  • Beck's Position On Palestine Is Out Of Step Wi ...
    During the June 3 edition of his radio show, Glenn Beck suggested that a Palestinian state on Palestinian territory should not be created because such a state would be controlled by "revolutionaries in the Islamic world." In fact, Israeli prime ministers from three different parties support the ...
  • Conservative Media Establish Climate Science D ...
    Conservative media outlets are reprimanding three prominent Republicans who recently acknowledged what scientists have been saying for years -- that human activities are contributing to global climate change.Romney, Huntsman, Christie Acknowledge Climate Change Problem Mitt Romney: "I Believe ...
  • Can't Add It Up: Fox Still Misleading On Econo ...
    Fox & Friends repeatedly attacked comments made by Democratic officials and legislators to suggest that the 2009 stimulus failed and that the Obama administration is primarily to blame for the nation's debt. In fact, economists have agreed that the stimulus promoted job growth and had positive ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Sderot: Nostalgia For The Future
    You would think Prime Minister's Netanyahu's insistence that Israel could never go back to the "indefensible" borders of 1967 would play at least as well in bombarded Sderot as it did in the Congress. He certainly thought it would, or that Congresspeople could be suckered into thinking it would. ...
  • AIPAC's Unrivalled Power
    Not surprisingly, my recent column on an ugly 1988 experience with AIPAC, the Israeli government, and late New York Times columnist William Safire elicited some controversy. I knew it would. There aren't that many first-person accounts of encounters with the lobby (for obvious reasons) so my ...
  • Health Care Reform: Preserving Judicial Indepe ...
    Judicial independence depends upon the public's confidence that the federal judiciary is something more than a third political branch. Correspondingly, judicial independence has never been more imperiled than it is today, for at least two reasons. One is that for the first time in the modern ...
  • Bernie Sanders Tries Some Clear Thinking on Pr ...
    Drugs are cheap. There are few drugs that would sell for more than $5-$10 a prescription in a free market. However, many drugs in the United States sell for hundreds of dollars per prescription and, sometimes, several thousand dollars per prescription. There is a simple reason for this fact: ...
  • Don't Strangle New START
    As I have noted elsewhere, the New START agreement between the United States and Russia is an important but modest step down the road towards getting rid of nuclear weapons. It cuts deployed U.S. and Russian nuclear warheads by about one-third, and it sets up a monitoring system that can be used ...

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Stink Bugs Now Invading 33 U.S. States, USDA S ...
    Native to China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan, the stink bug (Halyomorpha halys) has actually been in the U.S. since 1998 where it was first discovered in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Since then, evidence of these non-native stink bugs already had been documented in 15 states. What brings the bugs back ...
  • Greenpeace Arctic Activists in Court Today aft ...
    I've got a lot of updates for you on the Greenpeace Arctic activists who have been trying to stop Arctic oil drilling. On Saturday at 5:00 am, 18 Greenpeace activists in 5 inflatable speedboats made their way past a Danish navy warship, scaled Cairn Energy's 53,000-ton Leiv Eiriksson oil rig, an ...
  • Greenpeace Arctic Activists in Court Today aft ...
    I've got a lot of updates for you on the Greenpeace Arctic activists who have been trying to stop Arctic oil drilling. On Saturday at 5:00 am, 18 Greenpeace activists in 5 inflatable speedboats made their way past a Danish navy warship, scaled Cairn Energy's 53,000-ton Leiv Eiriksson oil rig, an ...
  • Whale Wars’ Paul Watson Video Interview — “Arr ...
    From his earlier days at Greenpeace to his current efforts with the show "Whale Wars" in Libyan waters, Paul Watson has focused on direct action that not only attracts eyes but gets results. In this short interview with NYTimes' Andy Revkin, Watson speaks about his strategy compared to current-d ...
  • Whale Wars’ Paul Watson Video Interview ...
    From his earlier days at Greenpeace to his current efforts with the show "Whale Wars" in Libyan waters, Paul Watson has focused on direct action that not only attracts eyes but gets results. In this short interview with NYTimes' Andy Revkin, Watson speaks about his strategy compared to current-d ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Humala beats Fujimori in Peru’s presidential v ...
    7 June 2011 With nearly 90 percent of the vote counted in the presidential election held in Peru Sunday, the ex-army officer Ollanta Humala emerged as the clear winner. According to Peru’s national election office, Humala, the candidate of the Gana Peru electoral bloc, had recei ...
  • Zelaya is back - but the human rights crisis i ...
    The Organization of American States has readmitted Honduras to the association, two years after the military coup that led to widely disputed elections and deteriorating human rights conditions. The vote came just three days after deposed president Mel Zelaya's return to the count ...
  • Right-wing Unleashes Campaign Against Democrac ...
    US Latin Americanist Cold Warriors and their far-right allies in the region kicked off a propaganda campaign in May to influence Congress and US citizens against Venezuela and fellow ALBA (Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our Americas) countries. With declining attention being paid to the ...
  • Empire or Republic: from Joplin, Missouri to K ...
    Introduction On May 29, 2011, President Obama visited Joplin, Missouri, the site of a devastating tornado that killed 140 and pronounced it a terrible “tragedy”. But were the deaths the inevitable result of ‘natural events’ beyond the human intervention? Coincidentally the same week Afghan ...
  • Seymour Hersh on the Arab Spring, "Disaster" ...
    U.S. Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the Looming Crisis in Iraq Veteran investigative reporter Seymour Hersh assesses the popular uprisings sweeping the Middle East and North Africa amidst ongoing U.S. wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. Despite touted gains and an upcoming U. ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Congressman Weenie And Damage Control
    This kind of thing seems to go full circle in politics. John Edwards. John Ensign. David Vitter, etc., etc. ... And now, Congressman Weenie. I don't know what it is about politicians that, at some point, makes them think that they are bulletproof, especially in these times. Many used to be able ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    What's the difference? They're both parodies. Fox News, that bastion of journalistic integrity, used a photo of Tina Fey doing her spot-on impersonation of Sister Sarah in a segment about the Talibunny. The GOP has narrowed their strategy for dealing with poverty down to two options. The battle ...
  • Class War: What the Billionaires Hide Behind
    Professional hell-raiser and national treasure Jim Hightower has been denouncing, documenting and dissecting the Class War of the filthy rich against the rest of us since the latest attacks started in the late '70s. In the June issue of his invaluable Hightower Lowdown, he exposes the front grou ...
  • Romney commits propaganda as he launches presi ...
    That gentle and gentlemanly liberal, E.J. Dionne, flags Mitt Romney in his Washington Post column today for committing propaganda, specifically foul Number Three on the list of seven most common propaganda infractions -- Glittering Generalities. Glittering Generalities are a particular favorite ...
  • More of this, please
    -- by Blue Girl I love it when wingnuttery gets scoffed at and told to fuck off and die. And that is pretty much what Home Depot told the bible-bleating jerkoffs at the American Family Association, which has been running a (largely unnotices) boycott against the giant home improvement retailer. ...

Care 2

  • South Sudans tropical forests fast disappearing
    South Sudan�s tropical montane forests are fast disappearing according to new analysis by PRINS Engineering.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Historically Accurate Disney Princesses Look
    Everyone know that Disney have some od Best Movies. This is why Guys from The Uniblog has been working on a set of Disney Princesses with modified, more historically accurate apparel. Submitted by Past Member to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Forensic evidence emerges that European e.coli ...
    Even as the veggie blame game is now under way across the EU, where a super resisitant strain of e.coli is sickening patients and filling hospitals in Germany, virtually no one is talking about hoe e.coli could have magically become resistant to eight Submitted by Judith Kwoba to Health & Wellne ...
  • Why eating dirt can be good for you... and act ...
    Parents who have watched in horror as their young children stuff a handful of mud into their mouths while playing in the garden can relax. Submitted by Nancy Bridget to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Could a Birth Control Pill for Men Be on the H ...
    Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center are honing in on the development of what may be the first non-steroidal, oral contraceptive for men. Submitted by Nancy Bridget to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

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

Environmental Graffiti

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

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Under Stricter Rules, Dredges Return to Hudson
    Under the more stringent rules, General Electric is allowed to cap only 11 to perhaps 20 percent of the pollution on the riverbed as opposed to removing it totally. In the first phase, it capped 37 percent.
  • Oil Drilling Off Cuba Raises Specter of What-If
    The prospect of a blowout in Cuban waters may give the Obama administration an incentive to open the way for emergency assistance from the United States.
  • Reverend Malthus and the Future of Food
    By raising the rewards for innovation, won't higher food prices prompt creative efforts by companies and farmers to break the barriers and produce more? Even a passing familiarity with history suggests that the answer must be yes. And yet...
  • A 'Golden Age' for Gas? 2 Caveats
    Uncertainty about nuclear power after the Japanese disaster, an anticipated boom in demand from China and, most important, the wide development of gas fields from unconventional sources like shale rock are driving the fuel's popularity. But environmental concerns or a rise in prices could stand ...
  • Questions on Climate Change and the Food Future
    Justin Gillis, an environmental science reporter for The Times, is taking reader questions on climate change and the world's future food security.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

  • Response to President Obama’s Official S ...
    By Deppen Webber Dated May 19, 2011, President Obama released this statement on the White House’s official website. (http://www.whitehouse.gov/advancing-israels-security) âFor the Palestinians, efforts to delegitimize Israel will end in failure. Symbolic actions to isolate Israel at the United N ...
  • Me and Mister Brown.
    I think Jerry Brown helped me get a reputation as a conservative radio commentator. That didn’t last long.
  • Freeing South African Political Prisoners&#821 ...
    http://www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news/2011/06/05/freeing-south-african-political-prisoners–17-years-later This episode we were joined by Dr. Mosotho Pheko of South Africa’s Pan African Congress. He discussed the situation regarding Azanian People’s Liberation Army guerrillas who are still ...
  • When sharing is illegal
    When I was a teenager in the 1980s, I shared a lot of music, movies, and television. I regularly made mix tapes to share with my friends and they with me. We recorded movies and television onto VHS tapes and shared them. We also loaned our copies of various media to each other. This is [...]
  • You Tube Pulls Down Controversial Rihanna Vide ...
    By guest blogger Josh Wolf You Tube pulled R&B singer Rihanna’s latest music video from her official VEVO channel early Friday afternoon citing a copyright claim from the RIAA. The video has come under fire by family values activists over its violent narrative that tells the story of the singer ...

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IntelNews

  • Former Mossad chief calls Israeli leadership ‘ ...
    The man who headed for eight years Israelâs most powerful spy agency has launched a new round of serious criticisms against the countryâs political leadership. Meir Dagan, who led the Mossad from 2002 until January of this year, told Israeli newspapers that Israelâs current government is led by ...
  • News you may have missed #515
    US spies tracked suspected terrorists in Sweden. Aussie spy agency reported on WikiLeaks. Former Taiwanese general accused of spying. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #514
    Israel sells spy camera to Turkey despite concerns. Listening bug found in NZ MP's home. The story of Nathaniel James Nicholson. Continue reading →
  • US SEALs ‘pocket guide’ left behind in bin Lad ...
    A document provided to members of the US Navy SEALs who assassinated Osama bin Laden, was left behind in bin Ladenâs compound by mistake, and has reportedly been accessed by The London Times. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #513 (Pakistan edition)
    Pakistan spy chief tells US to end drone strikes. CIA-ISI back in business. Leaked cables reveal joint US-Pakistan missions. Continue reading →

War is a Crime.org

  • If Killing Were As Evil As Flirting
    I, Robert Gates, resign my position as Secretary of Defense of the United States of America with deep regret for actions that do not reflect my true values. For decades I have experienced a steady lapse of judgment for which I accept full responsibility. I lied about the strength of the Soviet ...
  • What Does Resisting Military Recruiting Look ...
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    This week saw continuing violence in both Afghanistan and Pakistan, including the killing of top Pakistani militant Ilyas Kashmiri in a drone strike. American officials, including Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (touring Afghanistan before his retirement), and Afghan officials warned against p ...
  • Support Antiwar.com
    They're libertarian, I'm leftist. They want to close all public schools, I want to create a massive jobs program in green energy. And yet I tell you this: Support http://antiwar.com because I need it to turn to for news on our wars Go there right now and tell me if you've ever seen a more con ...

Grist - News

  • Solar-powered bikini lets you charge gadgets w ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. Everybody knows you're not supposed to get a tan anymore. So what's the point of lying out on the beach, if you're just going to wear SPF 800 sunscreen? Well, if you're sporting designer Andrew Schneider's solar bikini, you can at least be charging your iPod while yo ...
  • How climate change is starving the world
    by Jess Zimmerman. It was supposed to take until 2080 for food prices to double. Sure, climate change can make arable land into irrigation-hungry desert, and increase the likelihood of crop-destroying severe weather (and wildfires). But ironically, increased carbon dioxide also helps plan ...
  • Natural gas ‘golden age’ requires ...
    by Sarah Laskow. Natural gas will provide 25 percent of global energy by 2035, up from 21 percent now, according to a report from the International Energy Agency (IEA), a Paris-based organization that studies and advises on energy issues. The IEA's report asks if the world is enterin ...
  • What’s the relationship between climate ...
    by Christopher Mims. A crazy-big forest fire is raging through Arizona, battled by 2,300 firefighters and covering 287 square miles. It's the third largest forest fire in the state's history. But is it a product of climate change? The short answer is that we have no idea until someon ...
  • Take a look at what we’ve done to fish p ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. This image (click to embiggen) shows the biomass of popularly-eaten fish (bluefin tuna, striped bass, all the ones you normally see in restaurants) in the northern Atlantic. On the left is 1900 -- look at all that blue! Blue means 11 or more tons of fish in a given a ...

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

Suzie-Q

  • Walkerville Tent City Up And Running (VIDEO)
    Walkerville tent city up and running Crooks and Liars By scarce June 06, 2011 05:13 AM MADISON (WKOW) — The makeshift community of protesters against Governor Scott Walker’s biennium budget is up and running. The two-week long “Walkerville” tent city began Saturday with a kickoff event at 7 pm. ...
  • China Hacks White House Gmail, Looking For Oba ...
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  • Offshoring has Destroyed the US Economy
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Solari

  • Hackerspaces
    Hackerspaces are community-operated physical places, where people can meet and work on their projects. This website is for ‘Anyone and Everyone’,who wants to share their hackerspace with international hacker’s’paces. Hacker Spaces Places Continue reading the article . . . Related Reading: Hacke ...
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Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Times Scare
    ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
  • Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
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    BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri Lank ...
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Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • Vatican kicks out Roma on Easter
    Press TV – About 150 Roma gypsies were barred from participating in the Easter vigil of the basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, after temporarily taking shelter there on Good Friday, The Telegraph reported.  Local and foreign pilgrims, who had gathered to attend the vigil, calle ...
  • Euro strikes 16-month high against dollar
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  • British pound devalues by 94% in 50yrs
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  • Peru suffers an ‘environmental tragedy’
    IOL – The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years, a study published on Tuesday said. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of 7,000 ...
  • Next step humans? Every new pet dog in Britain ...
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The Progressive Realist

  • Goldstein: The World Has Never Been More Peaceful
    Joshua Goldstein has a must-read book in press entitled Winning the War on War. I've seen the advance version and like many things about it, not least of which is the easy-reading style pitched at an informed lay audience, the way he begins with a thought experiment rather than with a bunch of s ...
  • Despite Khamenei’s Call for Calm, Infighting R ...
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  • New Cyberwar Doctrine: Looking for War in All ...
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  • The Mystery of Bob Gates, aka "America's Best ...
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  • Israeli Defense Minister Pushes to Keep "Milit ...
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TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Media Takes Time Out of Its Day to Shame Antho ...
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  • What Keeps Poor People Poor?
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Buzzflash

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  • The Sky’s Dark Labyrinth
    The Sky’s Dark Labyrinth – If you’re looking for a gripping summer read, check out my friend Stu Clark’s latest book: The Sky’s Dark Labyrinth. It’s part 1 of an intriguing trilogy concept that tells the tale of how God-driven scientists, such as Kepler and Galileo (yes, they were), unravelled t ...
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    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 ...
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Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

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Water Wars

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    Despite the heat, families spent the day in downtown Johnson City for the 12th Annual Blue Plum Festival.
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  • Water wars
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  • Water wars
    River guide Sam Cook of Mild to Wild River Rafting & Jeep Tours allows himself a quick chuckle Thursday afternoon before helping employees of The Palace Restaurant back into the raft after it “dump trucked” and deposited them at Corner Pocket Rapid during the Battle of the Animas.

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Electronic Intifada

  • On Naksa Day, Palestinians carry on popular st ...
    Eva BartlettThe Electronic IntifadaBeit Hanoun While Lebanon’s Naksa Day demonstrations were prevented by Lebanese security, demonstrations went on throughout the occupied West Bank as well as by Palestine supporters worldwide.
  • Eyewitness interview: Israel's "blood harvest" ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'AmoursThe Electronic Intifada Hundreds of Palestinian and Syrian refugees marched yesterday from Syrian-controlled territory to the occupied Golan Heights to mark Naksa Day. Jillian Kestler-D’Amours interviews Salman Fakhreddin, a rights activist in the Golan Heights, on the si ...
  • Interview: Planning the Nakba Day movement in ...
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  • Move Over AIPAC challenges business-as-usual i ...
    Linda KhouryThe Electronic IntifadaWashington, DC Late last month AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, held its 2011 annual policy conference in Washington, DC. Just across the street hundreds of social justice activists from all corners of the United States, in addition to a han ...
  • Provocation against Palestinians on "Jerusalem ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'AmoursThe Electronic IntifadaJerusalem As thousands of right-wing Israeli settlers descended on Jerusalem to celebrate the so-called unification of the city this week, Palestinian residents of occupied East Jerusalem were confronted by extreme provocations and the stark reality ...

Afghanistan Sun

  • 10 injured as bomb blast rocks Afghan town
    A roadside bomb blast rocked a town in Afghanistan's Khost province Tuesday and left 10 people injured, Xinhua reported.
  • UN weighs splitting Taliban, al-Qaida black list
    KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The United Nations is considering whether to split its terrorism blacklist in two- one for al-Qaida figures and one for the Taliban. The move could be seen as a political ...
  • Afghan's poor in tax squeeze
    the operating and development budgets. While the latter is funded almost entirely by international donors, the operating budget - for wages and running costs - comes partly from domestic ...
  • Australian Air Chief rejects calls for withdra ...
    Australian Defense Force chief on Tuesday hit back at growing calls for the withdrawal of Australian troops from Afghanistan, after announcing the fourth death of an Australian in the past two ...
  • 1-Obama meets advisers to discuss Afghanistan ...
    WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama convened his national security team Monday to weigh in on the war in Afghanistan, as he mulls a long-term plan that could see more US troops withdraw ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Forever 21, Famous For Copying Clothing Design ...
    For years, in the discussions on fashion copyright, we've defended the right of companies such as Forever 21 to copy fashion designs, make cheaper versions and sell them in their stores. Actually, Forever 21 is often the poster child of examples from those who want a brand new fashion copyright ...
  • Why The Golan Case Matters: Pulling Works From ...
    We've been covering the "Golan" case through the courts for quite some time now. This is an important case concerning the contours of copyright law and the locking up of the public domain. If you don't recall, the case involved whether or not it violates the Constitution to pull content out of ...
  • Vodafone India Threatens Upset Customer With D ...
    You would think, by now, that companies (especially big companies) would recognize that attacking customers who complain about service online is a strategy destined to backfire in a big bad way. And yet, it continues to happen. Vodafone India has apparently sent a legal nastygram to a customer ...
  • More People Realizing That Infringement Can't ...
    Mitch Wagner points us to a blog post by a fellow blogger at the CMO site, Scott Kinoshita, who explains why fighting against infringement is a losing and wasteful battle. Basically, Kinoshita comes to the same conclusion many of us have: that you simply can't stop what the technology allows an ...
  • DailyDirt: Studying Gray Matter Before We Hack ...
    Our brains are pretty complex bundles of nerves -- that aren't actually like CPUs at all (even though lots of folks make the brain-CPU analogy). We're still trying to figure these wrinkled organs out with fairly primitive methods, but at least some progress is being made. Here are just a few qui ...

VacTruth

  • Part 1 of 3: An Interview About Vaccines with ...
    Part 1 of 3: Catherine J. Frompovich interviews Helen V. Ratajczak, PhD, who worked in the field of immunology and toxicology. She answers questions on immunological and hypersensitivity issues currently surrounding mandatory vaccinations for infants, toddlers, and teens in the United States.Vac ...
  • Top 5 Vaccine Stories for May
    We have scoured the web to bring you the top news headlines from around the world. Stay current in the latest affairs surrounding vaccines, Pharma, and the authorities who support them.Vactruth.com
  • Vaccines Alternative to Thimerosal
    There’s an adage that goes something like this: “Jumping from the frying pan into the fire.” Perhaps that can apply to what’s been happening in vaccine manufacture since the trend is to replace Thimerosal (49.6% mercury) with this ‘safer’ and ‘less toxic’ substitute...Vactruth.com
  • Rise In Childhood Food Allergies Being Linked ...
    UK newspapers played down the subject of food allergies, blaming anything from faddy eating to mental illness and stating that the incidence of true allergies were actually very low. I found many professionals are saying food allergies in children are on the increase. They are attributing this t ...
  • Aluminum in Vaccines: Where Are the Safety Stu ...
    Since the 1930s vaccine makers have been using aluminum as an adjuvant in vaccines. As a matter of fact, when Congressman Dan Burton held his vaccine-autism link hearings from 1999-2004, the question that FDA was asked repeatedly was, Where are your [safety] studies? Vactruth.com

BroadSnark

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

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Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

  • 73 Million Sharks Killed Annually to Make Soup ...
    Image: Jeff Rotman, Washington Post In a testament to the power of the consumer, the tastes of the growing Chinese middle class could be the single-largest threat to sharks worldwide. In an excerpt in The Washington Post from her upcoming books, Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World ...
  • A Record-Making Design Challenge That's Made i ...
    Photo: madeinpeckham First spotted at the Clerkenwell Design Festival, Made in Peckham turns out to be a creative group of designers who take an experimental approach to their furniture design. They make all of their tables, cabinets and chairs out of wood found in their little 'hood i ...
  • Tiny Bird Dances Like it's 'Been Shot Out of a ...
    Original photo: Wikipedia Commons Often when biologists are charged with detailing the newly recorded behavior of some exotic species, the language can get pretty science-y -- but dusty old descriptors can't suffice when talking about a particularly tiny bird's incredible courtship ritual. R ...
  • Site Makes Sharing Your Boat, Plane or 2nd Hom ...
    Image credit: Britt Reints, used under Creative Commons license. Second homes, boats and planes don't generally rank up there as "must have" items for your average TreeHugger—although Lloyd did launch a spirited defense of his own "sinful" second home a little while back. But what if folks ...
  • Global Warming to Disrupt Food Supply in Asia, ...
    The Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), which is part of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR -- watch out for those acronyms), has release a new report that shows which areas could be badly affected by global warming whe ...

Biosingularity

  • Scientists engineer patch a heart
    Researchers at Columbia Engineering have established a new method to patch a damaged heart using a tissue-engineering platform that enables heart tissue to repair itself. This breakthrough, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is an important step forward in ...
  • Study takes closer look at calorie restrictors
    Trent Arsenault has eaten the same breakfast, lunch and dinner almost every day for the past four or five years: a fruit smoothie in the morning, a spinach salad at noon and another fruit smoothie after work. Every now and then he’ll add a snack to his day. Maybe a spoonful of almond butter or [...]
  • Bioprinting
  • FDA Panel Urges Approval of Hepatitis C Drug
    In an18-0 vote, an FDA advisory panel recommended approval of the drug boceprevir to treat hepatitis C. Panel members called boceprevir, manufactured by Merck & Co., a weapon in the fight against chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 1 infection. Chronic HCV genotype 1 infection is the most c ...
  • Out-of-Africa migration selected novelty-seeki ...
    AS HUMANS migrated out of Africa around 50,000 years ago and moved across the planet, evolution may have latched onto a gene linked to risk-taking and adventurousness. The idea, first put forward by Chuansheng Chen at the University of California, Irvine, more than a decade ago, was originally m ...

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Pruning Shears

  • Weekend wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Sgt. Jeffrey C. S. Sherer, 29, of Four Oaks, NC.Army Spc. Richard C. Emmons III, 22, of North Gra ...
  • 'No On SB 5': Petition signing event in Ravenna
    The citizen veto effort continues to be energetically supported. A couple of weeks ago it had received 93% of the signatures required to get it on the ballot, and that was in only a third of the time allotted. Thursday evening I attended a petition signing event at a local restaurant. State r ...
  • Mansfield Frazier: Inclusion is the only answe ...
    Guest post by Mansfield Frazier“White people got more in common with colored people then they do with rich people” - Fictional character Sen. Jay Billington BulworthDuring the 50’s, 60’s and much of the 70’s Blacks literally owned the Civil Rights Movement in America. We went from the back of th ...
  • Mansfield Frazier: Inclusion is the only answe ...
    Guest post by Mansfield Frazier“White people got more in common with colored people then they do with rich people” - Fictional character Sen. Jay Billington BulworthDuring the 50’s, 60’s and much of the 70’s Blacks literally owned the Civil Rights Movement in America. We went from the back of th ...
  • Fracking Mobilization - Saturday, June 4 in Solon
    Saturday, June 43:00 PMPlanning Meeting of Cuyahoga County citizens concerned about slick water hydrofracing in our county.Where: Panera at 6130 Kruse Drive, Solon, OH 44139This meeting is being planned by a coalition of enviornmental and civic groups, among them NE Ohio Sierra Club, Enviornment ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Organic Expert Receives Chilly Reception at "C ...
    The outlook for peaceful coexistence between organic and genetically modified agriculture looks bleak if the chilly reception given to an organic industry expert at a recent conference is any indication. Lowell Rheinheimer, farm resource manager at Organic Valley was one of several organic indu ...
  • Gates Foundation Donates $18 Million to Suppor ...
    Nearly $20 million in grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will support genetically modified rice and cassava to grown in low income countries. A grant of $10.3 million will go to the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) for Golden Rice development; the GM rice contains beta ...
  • Industry Financing Interferes with Studies on ...
    Research published in a leading scientific journal found strong indications that commercial interests interfere with peer reviewed articles on health risks of genetically modified plants. The study, published in Food Policy, found a strong association between author affiliation to the GM indust ...
  • Just How Contaminated Is the Fish and Meat Tha ...
    Over five years ago the Chicago Tribune reported that tuna was unequivocally contaminated with mercury. "The tuna industry has failed to adequately warn consumers about the risks of eating canned tuna, while federal regulators have been reluctant to include the fish in their mercury advisories - ...
  • Energy and Climate Crisis: Three Massive World ...
    Here's the good news about energy: thanks to rising oil prices and deteriorating economic conditions worldwide, the International Energy Agency (IEA) reports that global oil demand will not grow this year as much as once assumed, which may provide some temporary price relief at the gas pump.Clic ...

Center for a Livable Future

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

Investigate - Breaking News

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

My Care2 Picks

  • Homeland Security demands Mozilla take down MA ...
    Firefox extension MAFIAAfire negates ICE's domain seizures, by automatically rerouting users to alternate domains. DHS demanded that Mozilla take the extension down from its listing of Firefox extensions claiming the add-on "circumvented" DHS's seizuresSubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics & ...
  • Exposure Of Western Mainstream Media Censorshi ...
    There is horrendous Mainstream media (MSM) censorship in the pro-US, pro-Zionist, democratic fascist Western Murdochracies and Lobbyocracies. But how can one begin to expose the nature and extent of this egregious censorship that variously threatens Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to World �| ...
  • Global Carbon Market's Dirty Secret
    Chemplast receives lucrative carbon credits for halting its release of an especially potent greenhouse gas.Many of the villagers that live in Mettur blame Chemplast for a slew of health problems. Pollution causes breathing problems, rashes and stillbirthsSubmitted by John Farnham to Environment ...
  • Tracing corruption in the national army
    ANA/MoD largely acts as a recipient of U.S./NATO aid and military equipments Wardak told a parliamentary session his son was receiving contracts from U.S. agencies w/o his involvement MoD has no knowledge of quality or detailsSubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...
  • Disregarding law,Redefining Justice
    Killing of bin Laden exists in legal limbo.If a military operation it violated a slew of restrictions on the use of military force in a country that is not a formal enemy of the United States If a political assassination illegal.( play the video ! )Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture ...

Angry Indian News

  • Democratic change in Bahrain does not serve US ...
    thenakedfacts: "Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger emphasized that a democratic change in Bahrain did not serve the interests of his country, highlighting once again the western double... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • IOF commits massacre against peaceful proteste ...
    IOF commits massacre against peaceful protesters near the Golan, kills 23: "DAMASCUS, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) used lethal force to disperse a peaceful demonstration marching toward... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • French lawyers to sue Sarkozy over crimes in Libya
    French lawyers to sue Sarkozy over crimes in Libya: "Two French lawyers said they planned to initiate legal proceedings against French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday for crimes against humanity... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • French lawyers to sue Sarkozy over crimes in Libya
    French lawyers to sue Sarkozy over crimes in Libya: "Two French lawyers said they planned to initiate legal proceedings against French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday for crimes against humanity... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Syed Saleem Shahzad, RIP — Registan.net
    Syed Saleem Shahzad, RIP — Registan.net: "Syed Saleem Shahzad, the Pakistan Bureau Chief of the Asia Times Online, has been found dead near his car in Sarai Alamgir, about 200 kilometres from... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • You might be a tenderfoot if….
    "Son, ridin' em's one thing. It's the stayin' on that's tough."
  • Organic Spies Find Lies – Organic Trade Associ ...
    Why The Organic Trade Association and Corporate Organic Food Brands do NOT want Labeling of Genetically Engineered and Genetically Modified Foods.
  • In the Grip of Mad Scientists: Business as Usu ...
    Imagine, if you will, a world in which health sciences, disease control, cancer research, bio-weapons research, vaccine development, biotechnology, food and agriculture, national defense, and chemical companies all work together under the military.
  • In the Grip of Mad Scientists: Business as Usu ...
    Imagine, if you will, a world in which health sciences, disease control, cancer research, bio-weapons research, vaccine development, biotechnology, food and agriculture, national defense, and chemical companies all work together under the military.
  • Chemtrail Investigators Wanted
    Here is what I am asking you to do. If this project interests you, please go on the Internet and become familiar with a program called Plane Finder: http://planefinder.net/. Play with it a while to see how you can track aircraft anywhere in the world, provided there are receiving stations in tha ...

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