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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 III

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Central Park Zoo's beloved Ida, 'the ambassado ...
    ShareThisCentral Park Zoo's beloved Ida, 'the ambassador for all polar bears', dies at 25 04 Jun 2011 One of the Central Park Zoo's beloved polar bears has died. Zoo officials in New York say Ida, 25, was put down on Friday after veterinarians determined she had liver disease brought on by cance ...
  • Doctors asked to identify potential terrorists ...
    ShareThisDoctors asked to identify potential terrorists under government plans --The final draft is believed to propose to "expand Prevent programmes to health bodies to draw on the expertise of medical professionals". 06 Jun 2011 Doctors and other health professionals will be asked to identify ...
  • Britain's 6m-pound a week bill for bombing Gad ...
    ShareThisBritain's £6m a week bill for bombing Gaddafi's military machine 07 Jun 2011 Britain is spending a staggering £6million a week dropping bombs and firing missiles during the war in Libya. UK forces have used around £66million of precision-guided ordnance, including 20 submarine-launched ...
  • 3 nuclear reactors melted down after quake, Ja ...
    ShareThis3 nuclear reactors melted down after quake, Japan confirms 06 Jun 2011 Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant experienced full meltdowns at three reactors in the wake of an earthquake and tsunami in March, the country's Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters said Monday. The nuc ...
  • US drone strikes kill 21 in NW Pakistan
    ShareThisUS drone strikes kill 21 in NW Pakistan 06 Jun 2011 A barrage of non-UN-sanctioned US drone strikes have killed at least 21 people and wounded several others in Pakistan's South Waziristan's tribal region near the Afghan border. In two consecutive assaults, US drones fired four missiles ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

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

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

  • 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 ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • ICTY prosecutor says Mladic arrest good step b ...
    [JURIST] International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] prosecutor Serge Brammertz [official profile] said that the arrest of accused Serbian war criminal Ratko Mladic [ICTY backgrounder, PDF; JURIST news archive] was "significant on many levels" but question ...
  • Supreme Court rejects California tuition appea ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Monday denied certiorari [order list, PDF] in Martinez v. Regents of the University of California [docket], thereby rejecting a challenge to California's policy of granting in-state tuition for state colleges and universiti ...
  • Nigeria anti-corruption agency arrests outgoin ...
    [JURIST] The Nigeria [JURIST news archive] Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) [official website] arrested [press release] outgoing speaker of the House of Representatives Dimeji Bankole Sunday on allegations of fraud. He is believed [AP report] to have secured a USD $ 66 million loa ...
  • Federal judge permits suits against Chiquita o ...
    [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida [official website] on Friday permitted [order, PDF] lawsuits against Chiquita Brand International [corporate website] to move forward. Family members of several thousand victims of paramilitary violence in Colombia f ...
  • Malaysia opposition leader Anwar fails to remo ...
    [JURIST] Malaysian opposition leader and former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim [official profile; JURIST news archive] failed a third time Monday to remove the judge in his sodomy case. The charges against Anwar allege that he sodomized a former male political aide. Anwar argued that Judge ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Palin Inspires Changes to Paul Revere Wikipedi ...
    her revisionist history of Paul Revere's ride from Boston to Lexington, in which Revere "warned the British." And her supporters similarly will not relent in revising the history of the event on Wikipedia in order to reflect Palin's version. Wikipedia editors are fed up with the flood of poorly ...
  • Anthony Weiner's Surreal Press Conference
    The strangest media appearance since Mark Sanford returned from "the Appalachian Trail" took place in New York today. It was supposed to begin at 4 p.m., but the reporters in attendance got a surprise. Before Queens, N.Y., Rep. Anthony Weiner even arrived, Andrew Breitbart took the stage inst ...
  • How Andrew Breitbart Is Feeling Right Now
    Like this, I'll bet:
  • Must Christian Voters Choose Between Ayn Rand ...
    An ad produced by the American Values Network cites the aggressive atheism of the author to discredit Republican politicians who've praised her Is Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand, compatible with Christianity? The short answer is, "Of course it isn't." As the novelist herself put ...
  • Today's Hawks Are Tearing the Right Apart
    Though perfectly suited to the Cold War, the conservative coalition is an uneasy fit for the War on Terror In the glory days of conservatism, President Reagan held the White House, the Cold War dominated American foreign policy, and the nature of that conflict made it especial ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Ukrainian Professors Deflate Israeli Charges A ...
    Today, brings news that Dirar Abusisi’s academic advisors in Ukraine have further dented the Israeli charges against him which claim that he led an undercover life as Hamas’ chief rocket designer in Gaza. The two professors who supervised his actual research on electrical power plants have both ...
  • Dagan, Ashkenazi, Diskin, Peres Likely Foiled ...
    Amir Oren is one of Haaretz’s most artful journalists when he addresses sensitive security-related matters.  In his current story (Hebrew, English here), if you read between the lines and put 2+2 together, you’ll understand that Oren is telling us with a wink and a nod that a few of Israel’s Wi ...
  • U.S. Blacklisted Ofer Brothers After Israel Wa ...
    A newly released Wikileaks cable (original here) indicates that the U.S. warned Israel as far back as 2008 not to do business with the very shipping company to which Ofer Brothers sold the Raffles Park, because the shipping line was an Iranian front.  The cable warned that IRISL was masking its ...
  • Israeli Naksa Day War Crimes at Majdal Shams
    Today and Nakba Day may go down in the recent history of the Israeli-Arab conflict as two days in which Israel massacred unarmed Arab civilians in cold blood thus meriting a war crime investigation.  Approximately 600 Palestinian supporters massed today at Quneitra and Majdal Shams on Israel’s ...
  • Yediot Achronot Profile Published
    Moshe Ronen has just published a profile of me in Yediot Achronot, one of Israel’s largest daily newspapers.  It conveys my ideas very clearly and treats my work and blog with respect, for which I’m grateful.  It’s important, for example, for people to know that I oppose terror, whether Israe ...

Ode Magazine

  • Oran Hesterman's vision of fair food
    By: EmilyAviles For the founder of the Fair Food Network, fixing our broken food system means going beyond eating local and organic foods. In Fair Food, Oran B. Hesterman firmly argues this vision: "It’s not unimportant to focus on what you’re doing in your kit ...
  • "We're not just another ape"
    By: Ode ‘Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.’ (‘I am human: nothinghuman is alien to me’) Terentius Lucanus, (ca.195BC–159BC) Today we are continually reminded about the damage done to our planet and its many living species by ‘selfish’, ‘greedy’ and ...
  • Bearing the message of peace
    By: PeaceCorso Sadako Sasaki (January 7, 1943 - October 25, 1955) was a Japanese girl who was two years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945, near her home by Misasa Bridge in Hiroshima, Japan. Sadako is remembered through the story of attempt ...
  • “Everybody can be a great leader”
    Deepak Chopra on the soul of leadership Photo: Bryan Adams/Trunkarchive.com In recent years, Deepak Chopra has made his way from New Age circles to the top of the corporate world, where he lectures to CEOs and business managers. He has written scores of books, including The Seven ...
  • People, planet, purchasing power
    How buying Ben & Jerry's ice cream made me a more conscious consumer. I hate to date myself, but I’m old enough to remember having three pairs of shoes. The Buster Browns were for all the time; these sturdy brown lace-ups were for school, play and most activities. Next in usefulness ...

OpEd News

  • Building Connections and Gaining International ...
    Amy C. Liu does a great job in defining on pages 84 & 85 of your book.In TAWAIN A TO Z: The Essential Cultural Guide, she writes that guanxi (-------) is "[f]undamental to doing business with the locals." i believe this to be a more universal case of building connections and relationships. The ...
  • Pick Your Poison
    The combination of weather and economic calamities is a double whammy that should disturb anyone who does not succumb to political propaganda and fights delusional thinking.
  • Liars, Thieves, Murderers!
    Why is leadership, and those in positions of power and with money, so often given to evil? Why does government consistently lie to the American people about so many different things? WHY has this been going on for 150 or more years? WHAT would lead such people to choose to do evil over choosi ...
  • Taiwan Health Issues: Growing concerns about ...
    Companies are "under fire for selling clouding agents --X additives that make processed foods and beverages appear more appealing or sophisticated --X containing the banned chemical di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate, or DEHP, to food ingredient makers nationwide."
  • Short Story: "Terrifying Vindication"
    Unscrupulous politicians use an arsenal of emotionally manipulative techniques to transform what should have been an informed citizenry into a directable mob. But they may have gotten more than they bargained for. Corwin Farragut was innocent of the terrorist act he'd been convicted of, but prov ...

Switchboard

  • One Year to the Earth Summit: How China Can Ad ...
    Barbara Finamore, China Program Director, Beijing Nearly two decades ago, I helped advise China on a blueprint for national sustainability in the 21st century.  The blueprint – known as Agenda 21 – was prepared jointly by more than fifty different ...
  • 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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Shhhhhiiiiiiiiii…….
    For people who need additional reasons to loathe Michael Bay and Shia LeBeouf: Given that Michael Bay auditioned Megan Fox for the Transformers franchise by making her wash his Ferrari, it’s not particularly shocking that Fox got sick of working for the guy. And honestly, it’s not particularly s ...
  • Wanker of the Day
    Andrew Klavan. Or maybe Chris Mathews. I have no idea what’s wrong with these people.
  • Most Prominent Politicians From Each State, II ...
    A couple of notes as we go forward in this series: 1. I am doing the states in order of joining the union. 2. Some of you are bringing up state-level politicians. That was really interesting to me. I hope you keep doing that. But understand that outside of some western states, I just don’t [...]
  • Impulsive habitat
    Given that our only apparent alternatives are to consider Anthony Weiner’s dick or Sarah Palin’s application of the Barnum Effect to the history of American Revolution, allow me to remind everyone that today also happens to be the International Day of Slayer. Bludgeon yourselves accordingly.
  • As Erik Was Saying Earlier…
    I’m so old I remember when Mitch Daniels was the moderate, thinking-woman’s Republican who was going to end the culture wars. This case also presents us with the classic “I’ll take your money, but I won’t plow your driveway” theory of “states’ rights”: The law, which, among other things, bars Pl ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Judge inclined to toss some Toyota shareholder ...
    A federal judge said Monday that she was inclined to dismiss some of the claims filed by shareholders who allege that the Toyota Motor Corp.'s sudden acceleration problems caused a drop in the stock price.
  • Cash infusion for Pennsylvania's public-intere ...
    On Monday, the University of Pennsylvania Law School announced that construction mogul Robert Toll and his wife pledged $2.5 million to expand its public-interest programs.
  • High court hands victory to Roche in case over ...
    In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Bayh-Dole Act does not give federal contractors automatic ownership of inventions that spring from their federally funded research.
  • Investors win again at the high court — ...
    Removing a significant hurdle for plaintiffs in securities class actions, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that investors need not prove at the class certification stage that a company's deceptive conduct caused their economic losses.
  • THE 2011 APPELLATE HOT LIST
    Our annual Appellate Hot List recognizes firms that made exemplary contributions to appellate practice during the past year. We asked our readers to nominate firms with at least one significant appellate victory since January 2010 and that had demonstrated an impressive track record overall.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

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

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

  • Car bomb blast in Moldovan capital
    A car, believed to have been packed with explosives, blew up in Moldova's capital city of Chisinau on Tuesday.
  • Russia may partially lift ban on EU vegetables
    Russia may lift the ban on vegetables produced in Denmark as the two countries have made significant progress on alleviating Moscow’s concerns over the E.Coli outbreak in Europe. The source of the infection remains...
  • Russian envoy in Libya on peace mission
    Mikhail Margelov is starting his peace mission in Libya, in the latest attempt to bring both sides of the conflict to negotiations. The Russian mediator is in Benghazi for talks with the opposition and a visit to...
  • US government knows there are no weapons in Ir ...
    Washington is ignoring its own intelligence because it is hell-bent on finding nuclear weapons that do not exist, Pulitzer-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh told RT.
  • From sorrow to surrogacy: Grandmother fights f ...
    A Russian woman is keeping her late son's legacy alive by using his frozen sperm and surrogate mothers. But she is battling the courts and society's attitude to be recognized as the guardian of her four baby...

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

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

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
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    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a C ...
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The Freeman

  • Dumbing Down the Charge of Rape
    The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has instructed every college and university that accepts federal funds directly or through student loans to use the “preponderance of the evidence” standard when adjudicating on-campus accusations of sexual harassment and sexual as ...
  • Lawrence W. Reed on the Importance of Liberty
    Here’s the video of FEE President Lawrence W. Reed speaking at the Americans for Prosperity’s 2011 Defending the American Dream Summit in Jasper, Ga.
  • Some Dead Retirees Collect Federal Pensions
    “Federal retirees often enjoy generous pensions, but some manage to keep getting paid even after theyâre dead and buried.” (Washington Times) Nice âworkâ if you can get it. FEE Timely Classic “Government Workers Are Americaâs New Elite” by Steven Greenhut
  • Signs of Recovery Tough to Come by in Swing States
    “Past economic troughs may have been characterized by old cities with idled assembly lines and abandoned factories. This one is defined by places such as Flagler where half-built subdivisions have little hope of ever being filled and thousands of carpenters, landscapers, mortgage brokers, furnit ...
  • Slave Labor and Intellectual Property
    If one favors property rights in tangible things, why would one not favor them in intangibles?

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Updating Reporter’s Guide to Multimedia Profic ...
    It’s been two years since I wrote this free guide. Do you think it’s worth my while to update it? I’ve been thinking it might be good to put it on Wikia and allow others to edit and add to it. Then it could be updated any time, and translations could be contributed too. Please comment.   It’ ...
  • New WordPress theme for this blog
    Don’t be alarmed — I’ve changed to a new blog theme for Teaching Online Journalism. This is the free Fiver theme from WordPress.org. It uses HTML5 and CSS3, and the style sheet is nice and clean. I will be making some adjustments to it (especially the colors). All the content is still here, an ...
  • Is it stupid to major in journalism?
    A funny thing about writing a blog for a long time is that sometimes you want to write a post … and you discover that you have already written it. My original post (from two years ago) seems to be just as valid today: Why does anyone major in journalism? So I read it and thought about whether ...
  • Ideas for using Encyclo in journalism classes
    Have you looked at Encyclo, the new project from Nieman Journalism Lab? This is a really neat site for the present moment in journalism — when all kinds of new sites and apps are sprouting up like flowers in springtime. Entries include groundbreaking news sites such as the Texas Tribune, techno ...
  • Social media guidelines for journalists
    For the generation that came of age on Facebook, you might think there’s nothing they don’t already know about social media. Think again. Traditional ethics rules still apply online. Assume everything you write online will become public. Use social media to engage with readers, but profess ...

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