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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.

Thursday, June 9, 2011

9 June - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

To Do

renewable recycling conservation
New Jersey and Pennsylvania Solar Renewable Energy Credit Markets Choking to Death
CleanTechnica
- Jun 09, 2011
- 7 hours ago
Solar Renewable Energy Credits (SRECs), existing in states that have Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS), represent the environmental attributes from a solar facility, and are produced each time a solar system produces one megawatt-hour (MWh) of ...
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Local officials applaud state action regarding renewable energy transmission
Imperial Valley Press
- Jun 09, 2011
- 3 hours ago
By ELIZABETH VARIN Imperial Valley Press Staff Writer The state policy that some worried would slow renewable energy development in Imperial County has been ruled in favor of Valley projects. A member of the California Public Utilities Commission ruled ...
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Vincent Carroll: Lamborn has it backward
Denver Post
- Jun 09, 2011
- 7 hours ago
Doug Lamborn believes energy efficiency and renewable energy programs "have failed to live up to their supposed potential," which is true enough. So the Colorado Springs Republican and eight other GOP lawmakers have signed a letter urging an end to ...
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First online MBA programme worldwide with focus on Renewable Energy
Business Wire (press release)
- Jun 09, 2011
- 2 hours ago
The “MBA Renewables” will be the first distance learning programme worldwide with the opportunity to obtain a Master of Business Administration degree with a focus on renewable energy and energy efficiency. The MBA Renewables has been developed for ...
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Human Habitat

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Ecology, Coast Guard assist grounded fishing vessel in San Juans
Access Washington
- Jun 08, 2011
- 20 hours ago
OLYMPIA – Responders from the state Department of Ecology (Ecology) and the US Coast Guard are overseeing the removal of fuel from a fishing vessel that ran aground early today (Tuesday, June 7) on Patos Island in the San Juan Islands. ...
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Ecology galas have Hollywood turning green
CBS News
- Jun 08, 2011
- 22 hours ago
Actors Bryce Dallas Howard, left, and Seth Gabel attend Chanel's benefit dinner for the Natural Resources Defense Council's Ocean Initiative at the home of Ron & Kelly Meyer on June 4, 2011, in Malibu, Calif. (CBS) Green was on the minds of a lot of ...
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Dept of Ecology Taking Comments On Landfill Projects
KGMI
- Jun 08, 2011
- Jun 08, 2011
The Department of Ecology will meet with Bellingham area residents tonight, to discuss plans to clean up a landfill on near Bellingham Bay. DOE, City of Bellingham, and the Port of Bellingham have entered into a legal agreement to reduce the amount of ...
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Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, UK, builds Information Gateway using sdi.suite
DirectionsMag.com (press release)
- Jun 09, 2011
- 1 hour ago
con terra GmbH, a market leader in GIS providing solutions for Spatial Data Infrastructures and INSPIRE, is pleased to announce that the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH), UK, is fulfilling its requirement to be compliant with both INSPIRE and ...
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Water Power

water floods pollution
Plattsmouth officials worry about drinking water
Albany Times Union
- Jun 09, 2011
- 7 minutes ago
(AP) — Officials in the Missouri River city of Plattsmouth are worried about good water, bad water and too much water. The rising Missouri River could damage the city's seven water wells and water treatment plant. The Lincoln Journal Star is reporting ...
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Analysts: Water industry poised for fast growth
BusinessWeek
- Jun 09, 2011
- 2 hours ago
By DANIEL WAGNER Analysts with Citigroup Global Markets see a future in which water is an asset and water-related securities are traded widely on global exchanges. Investors should focus on water-related companies that own high-end technologies, ...
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The whale tail may not be a fountain after all
TheDay.com
- Jun 09, 2011
- 6 hours ago
By Kathleen Edgecomb Whatever the state Department of Health decides on the whale tail sculpture at the foot of State Street will determine when and if the water will be turned back on. "It was built as a fountain, but it's being used as a pool,'' said ...
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Cities brace for summer of high water on Missouri River
Kansas City Star
- Jun 08, 2011
- 9 hours ago
In Weston and elsewhere in the region, preparations are being made for a long summer of high water. The Gavins Point Dam in South Dakota is preparing to release an unprecedented amount of water starting the middle of next week, which will bring a surge ...
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The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • MISREPRESENTING THE IRAN-AL-QA’IDA “CONNECTION”
    Summary: National Public Radio recently broadcast a piece, see here, asserting that Seif al-Adel, a likely candidate to head or be deputy leader of al-Qaida, owes his life to the Islamic Republic of Iran. This story is part of a small wave of “news reports” claiming extensive ties between T ...
  • RAND Researcher's Claim of Iranian Nuke Doesn' ...
    Summary: Natanz plantA five page article from RAND researcher Gregory S. Jones released late last week reaches a grim conclusion: that without an immediate US military occupation of Iran, the Islamic Republic will have a nuclear weapon in two months. source: Antiwar.comread more
  • Despite Intelligence Rejecting Iran as Nuclear ...
    Summary: Seymour Hersh"There is a large body of evidence, however, including some of America’s most highly classified intelligence assessments, suggesting that the United States could be in danger of repeating a mistake similar to the one made with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq eight years ago" so ...
  • Iran refutes IAEA military claims
    Summary: SoltaniehIran dismisses as “unfounded” military allegations leveled by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), saying there is no evidence that the country's nuclear activities pursue military aims. source: PressTVread more
  • US Spying Detects No Iranian Nukes
    Summary: El-BaradeiThe former Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA) said in a new published report that he had not seen “a shred of evidence” that Iran was “building nuclear-weapons facilities and using enriched materials.” source: Information Clearing Houseread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Black Holes Larger than Entire Galaxies? New T ...
    The largest known supermassive black hole described below, contains 18 billion solar masses of material. Although black holes are dark, their masses can be measured quite precisely from their gravitational influence on stars and other matter. Astronomers have done just...
  • EcoAlert: New Research Shows Global Warming St ...
    "Do organisms have the ability to adapt to climate change on a timescale of decades?" This is the question a unique lab study of the tidal pool copepod Tigriopus californicus which is found from Alaska to Baja California attempted to...
  • "Molecular Machines" --Proof of Evolution at ...
    "Our cells, and the cells of all organisms, are composed of molecular machines. These machines are built of component parts, each of which contributes a partial function or structural element to the machine. How such sophisticated, multi-component machines could evolve...
  • "The Daily Flash" -- Sci, Space, Tech (6/8)
    Kepler's Astounding Haul of Multiple-Planet Systems NASA's Kepler spacecraft has discovered 170 planetary systems containing between two and six transiting planets. This animation shows all the multiple-planet systems discovered by Kepler as of 2/2/2011; orbits go through the entire mission...
  • EcoAlert: Jellyfish Blooms Threaten Ocean Foo ...
    Scientists warn explosive growth of jellyfish populations in oceans and seas around the world are a sign of marine ecosystems being devastated by overfishing, nutrient pollution, global warming, and the introduction of non-native species. "Jellyfish are voracious predators," said lead...

Natural News

  • World entering era of permanent food crisis, w ...
    (NaturalNews) The average price of staple foods will more than double in the next 20 years, Oxfam warns. The world is entering an era of permanent food crisis, which is likely to be accompanied by political unrest, and the situation will lead to an unprecedented reversal in human development, it ...
  • Worse than meltdown, government report says de ...
    (NaturalNews) Recent reports confirming that Reactors 1, 2, and 3 of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility completely melted just hours after the devastating earthquake and tsunami hit the area on March 11 (http://www.naturalnews.com/032537_Fukushima_meltdown.html) have been trumped by even wor ...
  • To this day, Coca-Cola still imports coca leav ...
    (NaturalNews) Coca leaves have been chewed and consumed as tea for thousands of years in the high Andes. They are rich in many essential nutrients; they ease respiratory and digestive distress and are a natural stimulant and painkiller. Indigenous tradition and scientific studies have both confi ...
  • 25 Amazing Facts About Food revealed in free d ...
    (NaturalNews) Did you know that a common ingredient in commercial breads and pizza dough is made from human hair? Or that Chicken McNuggets are made with an ingredient that's also an industrial chemical?In cooperation with the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center (www.ConsumerWellness.org), Natur ...
  • US immigration officials treat innocent cruise ...
    (NaturalNews) Employees of American taxpayers (government officials) have once again been exposed for abusing their perceived authority by harassing and terrorizing innocent people in the name of security. At a recent stop in Los Angeles, Calif., a cruise ship carrying roughly 2,000 elderly Brit ...

Threat Level

  • Former Navy SEAL Helms CNN WikiLeaks Doc
    Yet another documentary about WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange is set to hit the airways this Sunday. CNN’s WikiWars – The Mission of Julian Assange does a good job of tying together all of the events of the last year and providing new behind-the-scenes footage of Assange in Europe and ...
  • Former Navy SEAL Helms CNN WikiLeaks Doc
    Yet another documentary about WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange is set to hit the airways this Sunday. CNN’s WikiWars – The Mission of Julian Assange does a good job of tying together all of the events of the last year and providing new behind-the-scenes footage of Assange in Europe and ...
  • School-Webcam Spy Scandal Resurfaces
    A suburban Philadelphia school district embroiled in a webcam spy scandal was hit Tuesday with new allegations that a student-issued laptop secretly recorded more than 8,000 images. The latest accusations, which were said to occur during a six-month period ending September 2008, has left the hi ...
  • School-Webcam Spy Scandal Resurfaces
    A suburban Philadelphia school district embroiled in a webcam spy scandal was hit Tuesday with new allegations that a student-issued laptop secretly recorded more than 8,000 images. The latest accusations, which were said to occur during a six-month period ending September 2008, has left the hi ...
  • Bank Not Responsible for Letting Hackers Steal ...
    A judge in Maine has ruled that a bank that allowed hackers to steal more than $300,000 from a customer’s online account isn’t responsible for the lost money, saying the customer should have done more to protect the account credentials. Magistrate Judge John Rich sided with Ocean Bank in recomme ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • 10 Years, 10 Failures for the Bush Tax Cuts
    Today's 10th anniversary of the Bush tax cuts arrives at a particularly ironic time. Ironic, that is, because even as talk of deficits dominates the debate in Washington, that windfall for the wealthy was the single-biggest driver of U.S national debt over the past decade and, if made permanent, ...
  • Cantor Defends Geithner on Debt Ceiling
    An interesting split is occurring within the ranks of the Republicans holding the American economy hostage over the debt ceiling. Led by Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Pat Toomey and Tim Pawlenty, the "Default Deniers" not only refuse the acknowledge the global economic calamity that would ensu ...
  • The Republicans' Medicare Bumper Sticker
    The growing backlash against their plan to end the Medicare guaranteed government insurance program for 46 million Americans is producing near-panic in Republican ranks. With polls showing overwhelming opposition to the Ryan rationing scheme, House GOP leaders begged President Obama to stop the ...
  • The Republicans' Medicare Bumper Sticker
    The growing backlash against their plan to end the Medicare guaranteed government insurance program for 46 million Americans is producing near-panic in Republican ranks. With polls showing overwhelming opposition to the Ryan rationing scheme, House GOP leaders begged President Obama to stop the ...
  • Boehner Fails Econ 101
    No doubt, Friday's disappointing jobs report was bad news for President Obama. But the Republican response augurs much worse for the American people. After all, while Obama was visiting a Chrysler plant in Ohio to tout his auto industry rescue which ultimately saved hundreds of thousands of jo ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Culture jamming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Culture jamming, coined in 1984,[1][2][3] denotes a tactic used by ... Culture jamming is usually employed in opposition to a perceived appropriation of public ...
  • Oregon Country Fair - Culture Jam Youth Camp - ...
    Culture Jam is the Oregon Country Fair's exciting 8-day, sleep away summer youth gathering located on a parcel of land at the site we call Alice's Wonderland. ...
  • behnke | culture jamming
    Culture Jamming and Advertising Techniques. The close-up of a lipstick ... The producers of culture jamming, if we think of actors such as those from the ...
  • How to Culture Jam - wikiHow
    Culture jamming is the art of hijacking the mainstream media, corporate advertisers, and the public domain to get across a message against one-way communication. ...
  • ccit300-f06 - Culture Jamming
    Culture jamming is manipulating existing mass media and changing its original message to ... Culture jamming communicates public awareness, such as environmental and human ...

Consortium News

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

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Clean Air Act Restrictions Pushed Aside in Wak ...
    Election season is imminent and advocates for environmental welfare and public health need not look very far for the hyper-political red tape and drawbacks to pollution legislation. Like many of her colleagues in the Democratic Party, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson ha ...
  • How Many Tar Sands Pipeline Spills Does Texas ...
    U.S. Stops Keystone I Line from Restarting After 12th Spill in 12 Months, Days Before Comment Period Ends on Keystone XL For over a year, TransCanada has been trying to get its hands on a Presidential Permit from the U.S. Department of State to extend its Keystone I tar sands pipeline with a pip ...
  • No title
    If you live in Austin, TX and put solar on your rooftop, you might be able to pay only about a quarter of the initial cost estimate, making this a viable option for many homeowners.  But for many Texans, there is still a good reason not to go with solar: the generous local incentives that Austin ...
  • Money and Politics Going Hand in Hand
    In a recent NPR show, former Labor Secretary and political commentator Robert Reich addressed the potential executive order by President Obama to require government contractors to disclose their political spending. Reich wants to take the executive order a step farther by eliminating all politic ...
  • Free trees for Texas!
    Odwalla is donating $100,000 to plant trees in the United States this year. You have a vote in where those trees will be planted! Visit Odawalla and  plant your tree in Texas. Each tree planted online equals $1 your state will receive to plant real trees in Texas State Parks. Last year more than ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Shroud of Turin created by famous artist ?
    The famous shroud believed to depict the image of Christ may have been made by medieval artist Giotto. Controversy has surrounded the authenticity of ...
  • Danish amateurs launch home made rocket
    Copenhagen Suborbitals have successfully launched their HEAT-1X rocket over the Baltic Sea. Perhaps the thought of a hair dryer being incorporated int...
  • New fingerprint analysis method developed
    A new use has been discovered in the ever-growing field of nanotechnology: fingerprint analysis. New technology will allow old, dry fingerprints to be...
  • Australian X-Files have gone missing
    Department of Defence documents detailing UFO reports in Australia have allegedly gone missing. Last year the British government released over 4,000 p...
  • Titanic II sinks on maiden voyage
    When Mark Wilkinson set sail on his new cruiser Titanic II was there any doubt over what would happen ? Setting sail off the British coast Mark enjoye...

Grassroots

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

Climate

  • Greenpeace Says Barbie Doll Is Forest Vandal
    Source:� AFP Greenpeace on Wednesday accused Mattel, the U.S. maker of Barbie dolls, of contributing to the wanton destruction of carbon-rich Indonesian forests and habitats of endangered species. �
  • Solar Bragging Rights Land On Facebook
    Source:� GigaOm Year old company SunReports has launched a Facebook app that shows how much solar power your home solar system is producing. The idea is to make solar "visual and easy to understand."
  • In Germany, A Different Kind of Electronic Rev ...
    Source:� Christian Science Monitor Germany aims to get visitors who arrive in the country by train to use a car sharing program that relies on electric cars to get to their final destination.
  • Report: 'Green' Buildings Could Harm Your Health
    Source:� The Hill The push to make buildings more energy efficient could have negative health effects, according to a report issued Tuesday.
  • Much of World's Tropical Forests Managed Poorly
    Source:� AP Large swaths of the world's tropical forests have been officially shielded from deforestation, but an international conservation group says that may not be enough to save them.

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

Booman Tribune

  • Know Your Lousy Democrats
    There are certain votes that I take more personally than others. I've never really gotten over or forgiven the Democrats who voted for the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (roll call). It comes down to votes that just flat-out screw the little guy. Democrats ca ...
  • This Will Not Be a Red/Blue Election
    I think it's smart for the Obama campaign to look at all possible ways of reaching the magical 270 electoral votes, but I don't think this election is going to be close. It is going to be a blowout. As of today, I'd place heavy odds on it being a blowout in Obama's favor, but things could take ...
  • Severe Drought Affects Texas and AZ
    We know it's hot and dry in Texas. Texas has suffered from unprecedented drought and wildfires this Spring, and the forecast for Summer doesn't look to be any better. What we didn't know was that the local county government of Guadalupe, Texas, in an effort to prevent wild fires, would impose ...
  • Let Mitt Romney Go Broke
    As I have said, and will continue to say, Michigan should be so grateful to the president for saving the automotive industry that they ought to name all their schools after him, name roads for him, and put statues of him up in all their county courthouses. I'm not kidding. John McCain would ha ...
  • Gov. Christie Says 'No We Can't'
    When it comes to creating alternative and renewable fuels, Governor Chris Christie is part of the Hell No We Can't contingent. New Jersey trails only California in its leadership on climate change, but a Republican governor can't tolerate anything that makes the oil and gas industry uncomfortab ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • The Casey Anthony Murder Trial: Are Mothers th ...
    By Jen Wilson, “Up, Down, and All Around…with Jen :-)” Blogger With my son home sick, the hands that should have been busily typing away on my laptop were otherwise occupied rubbing his back and holding a bucket. Because I was not able to get my daily fix of literary lamenting, I turned my atten ...
  • Knowledge about Mental Health Increases Likeli ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Understanding and awareness of mental health issues greatly influences a person’s choice to seek treatment. Researchers from Kings College in London, examined a survey from the United Kingdom Department of Health to determine if tolerance of and personal experienc ...
  • Do Clients with Mental Health Challenges Recei ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline New research from the University of Leicester in the UK, examines the high level of mortality after a coronary event in people with mental health issues. The University, in collaboration with the Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute in Australia, collected ...
  • Researchers Find Key Receptor that Influences ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline “Our focus in this study, like much of our lab’s research, was to examine the role of the brain’s stress system in compulsive alcohol drinking driven by the aversive aspects of alcohol withdrawal,” said Marisa Roberto, Ph.D., senior author of a new study and Scrip ...
  • Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
    A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up Happy weekend! We wish you a joyful weekend with your loved ones, and happy reading of this week’s news! Let us know your take :-) Letters from Home May Help Prevent Post-Traumatic Stress in Happily Married Soldiers Sense of Control Over LIfe ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Coal blasting chips away culture, film says - ...
    Coal blasting chips away culture, film says The Tennessean That's why music stars including Justin Townes Earle and Kathy Mattea will join Kennedy tonight at the local premiere of The Last Mountain, a documentary against mountaintop removal, at the Belcourt Theatre. Mountaintop removal, which i ...
  • Mountaintop Removal Threatens National Treasur ...
    Mountaintop Removal Threatens National Treasure Huffington Post (blog) At this meeting people who are concerned about the several new mining permits, proposed by Frasure Creek Mining LLC, will have an hour to voice their concerns and opinions regarding the proposed mountaintop removal (MTR) sit ...
  • NRDC in the News 6/7: Oceans benefit, mountain ...
    NRDC in the News 6/7: Oceans benefit, mountaintop removal mining, Keystone ... Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Bobby Kennedy was quoted in a Bloomberg article that described the serious impacts of mountaintop removal mining; also in the article were some of NRDC's findings about the la ...
  • The Last Mountain - Entertainment Weekly
    The Last Mountain Entertainment Weekly Bill Haney's convincingly angry activist doc bears witness to the despair of the residents of West Virginia's Coal River valley, where the Massey Energy Company's controversial mining technique of choice � mountaintop removal � has resulted in ... and mor ...
  • Commentary: At coal meeting, McConnell shows h ...
    Commentary: At coal meeting, McConnell shows his political stripes Kansas City Star The Senate minority leader stroked the crowd, never mentioning the divisive and destructive practice of mountaintop removal, instead lamenting the industry's plight as the put-upon target of the Environmental Pr ...

Memeorandum

  • Another Rep. Weiner sexting partner emerges, r ...
    Karoun Demirjian / Las Vegas Sun: Another Rep. Weiner sexting partner emerges, reluctantly  —  WASHINGTON - The identity of another of Rep. Anthony Weiner's social media sexting partners is emerging, but this time, by accident.  —  Lisa Weiss, Ginger Lee, and Megan Broussard were all too eager ...
  • Fact Checking Breitbart's Statement on the Lea ...
    Charles Johnson / Little Green Footballs: Fact Checking Breitbart's Statement on the Leaked Photo  —  Here's Andrew Breitbart's statement on the photo that was leaked by radio shock jocks Opie and Anthony: … There are at least two big lies in this statement.  First: … In fact, two nights ago, ...
  • US judges seem receptive to health care challe ...
    Greg Bluestein / Associated Press: US judges seem receptive to health care challenge  —  ATLANTA - Judges on a federal appeals court panel on Wednesday repeatedly raised questions about President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, expressing unease with the requirement that virtually all Ame ...
  • Nevada: Mayor Succeeded by Wife (Associated Press)
    Associated Press: Nevada: Mayor Succeeded by Wife  —  Carolyn Goodman, the wife of Mayor Oscar Goodman of Las Vegas, has been elected to succeed him in a contest that affirmed the city's affection for Mr. Goodman, its leader for 12 years.  Ms. Goodman became mayor with 61 percent of the vote …
  • Obama Team Eyes Payroll Tax Break for Employer ...
    Bloomberg: Obama Team Eyes Payroll Tax Break for Employers  —  President Barack Obama's advisers have discussed seeking a temporary cut in the payroll taxes businesses pay on wages as they debate ways to spur hiring amid signs that the recovery is slowing, according to people familiar with the ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Between rail and road in Beijing
    China’s capital is restricting car numbers and pumping money into trains. Is it headed for a less congested future – or already a city beyond help? Liu Xuan reports.On December 30 last year, in a new subway station on Beijing’s Line 15 – Wangjing West – the two most senior members of the municip ...
  • Driven from the land
    As desertification and bitter winters increasingly destroy the livelihoods of Mongolia’s herders, hundreds of thousands are moving into Ulan Bator’s shantytowns from the dry, desolate countryside. Kit Gillet reports.It is a supreme irony in a country once known as the land without fences. Stretc ...
  • The great reformer of Brazil
    As mayor of Curitiba, Jaime Lerner revamped a grubby city into the envy of urban planners worldwide – without spending much money. How did he do it? And what is he up to now? Jared Green spoke to him.Jared Green: In a talk you gave at a recent conference organised by The Economist, you argued th ...
  • Pipeline pressures in north China
    A project to pump seawater across northern China is seen by some as a must to meet rising energy demand, by others as hubristic and impractical. In an edited excerpt for a series by Circle of Blue and the Woodrow Wilson Center, Keith Schneider reports.Editor’s note: Choke Point China is a series ...
  • Confronting China's industrial ghosts
    Former factory sites could help ease tensions between arable land and urban development – but first they need to be cleaned up. Robert Best reports on a nascent remediation industry.The Olympic Games in Beijing and World Expo in Shanghai drew attention to one of China’s biggest environmental pro ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • How Anger Can Improve Health, Enhance Intimacy ...
    In my small town, one of my friends was so angry about the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that she created a community ride-share board to lessen our dependence on oil.
  • Is Your Meat and Seafood Contaminated With The ...
    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 — ...
  • US Government Experiments on Americans— ...
    Readers have shown considerable interest in the trailer we ran recently for the video about unknown radiation experiments on African American children. Continuing our exploration of secret government experiments on American citizens, we now re-publish an article I wrote in 1999 about the CIA and ...
  • How the Ohio Court Decision on RU-486 Set Back ...
    Written for RHRealityCheck.org by Editor-in-Chief Jodi Jacobson. In 2004, the Ohio legislature passed a law barring use of RU-486, the combination drug used for early termination of pregnancy, unless it was prescribed strictly in accordance with official labeling by the Food and Drug Administrat ...
  • Will President Obama Screen “The Last Mo ...
    While The Last Mountain film exposé on mountaintop removal mining opens in theaters across the country on Friday, its most important screening should take place at the White House Family Theater. And when the lights turn on after President Obama has viewed the devastating film in the air-condit ...

Threat Level

  • Former Navy SEAL Helms CNN WikiLeaks Doc
    Yet another documentary about WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange is set to hit the airways this Sunday. CNN’s WikiWars – The Mission of Julian Assange does a good job of tying together all of the events of the last year and providing new behind-the-scenes footage of Assange in Europe and ...
  • Former Navy SEAL Helms CNN WikiLeaks Doc
    Yet another documentary about WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange is set to hit the airways this Sunday. CNN’s WikiWars – The Mission of Julian Assange does a good job of tying together all of the events of the last year and providing new behind-the-scenes footage of Assange in Europe and ...
  • School-Webcam Spy Scandal Resurfaces
    A suburban Philadelphia school district embroiled in a webcam spy scandal was hit Tuesday with new allegations that a student-issued laptop secretly recorded more than 8,000 images. The latest accusations, which were said to occur during a six-month period ending September 2008, has left the hi ...
  • School-Webcam Spy Scandal Resurfaces
    A suburban Philadelphia school district embroiled in a webcam spy scandal was hit Tuesday with new allegations that a student-issued laptop secretly recorded more than 8,000 images. The latest accusations, which were said to occur during a six-month period ending September 2008, has left the hi ...
  • Bank Not Responsible for Letting Hackers Steal ...
    A judge in Maine has ruled that a bank that allowed hackers to steal more than $300,000 from a customer’s online account isn’t responsible for the lost money, saying the customer should have done more to protect the account credentials. Magistrate Judge John Rich sided with Ocean Bank in recomme ...

Equality Trust

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    Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon.   They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future in ...
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    The False Economy website is an excellent and still-developing resource exploring the alternatives to cuts. False Economy includes: a discussion of why the cuts are not progressive details of campaign actions a comprehensive further reading list ... and this short film [youtube:ynUCYo ...

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Tennessee and Virginia See 16 E. coli Illnesse ...
    Today the Sullivan County Health Department confirmed a new case of E. coli raising the total number of cases to 11 among the 8 Northeast Tennessee counties. There are also three more possible cases the Northeast Tennessee Health Office is waiting on test results for. These cases are in additi ...
  • German E. coli O104:H4 Outbreak - $2.84 Billio ...
    The total sickened in the German E. coli O104:H4 outbreak as of a few moments ago stood at 26 dead with 674 with hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) and 1755 ill (total 2455). Illnesses have surfaced in another dozen countries in Europe and the United States in people who had recently visited Germa ...
  • German E. coli O104:H4 Outbreak - $2.84 Billio ...
    The total sickened in the German E. coli O104:H4 outbreak as of a few moments ago stood at 26 dead with 674 with hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) and 1755 ill (total 2455). Illnesses have surfaced in another dozen countries in Europe and the United States in people who had recently visited Germa ...
  • Petition Number 09-03: Petition for an Interpr ...
    I wrote (download letter) to FSIS today in response to the recent German E. coli O104:H4 (a enterohemorrhagic Shiga Toxin-producing Serotypes of Escherichia coli) outbreak that has to date sickened some 2,500, hospitalized 650 with Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome and killed 24 (six U.S. citizens are i ...
  • Germany, it is time to call in the A Team - Te ...
    First the Germans fingered cucumbers and then it was sprouts as the cause of the world's most deadly E. coli outbreak, and they still may well be, along with tomatoes and lettuce - all the ingredients of a salad.  Right now we do not know the actual vector for the E. coli O104:H4 outbreak that h ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Official: Mitsubishi sets Canadian i-MiEV pric ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Budget, Hatchback, Mitsubishi, Canada, Electric $32,998. That's the price that Mitsubishi Motors has announced for the i-MiEV in Canada when the little space egg goes on sale there later this year. (That's $33,891 U.S. at today's exchange rate). Yes, Canada will ge ...
  • Official: New pictures of Tesla Model S Alpha ...
    Filed under: Sedan, Tesla, Design/Style Tesla Model S Alpha - Click above for high-res image gallery Tesla Motors has put up some new pictures of the Tesla Model S Alpha, and its gorgeous new model looks more production-ready than ever. The changes we can see are subtle, but compared to ...
  • Official: New pictures of Tesla Model S Alpha ...
    Filed under: Sedan, Tesla, Design/Style Tesla Model S Alpha - Click above for high-res image gallery Tesla Motors has put up some new pictures of the Tesla Model S Alpha, and its gorgeous new model looks more production-ready than ever. The changes we can see are subtle, but compared to ...
  • Chevy Volt earns five-star NHTSA crash rating ...
    2011 Chevrolet Volt - Click above for high-res image gallery The 2011 Chevrolet Volt has earned "good" marks in crash tests before, and new tests by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's New Car Assessment Program prove that the earlier results were not a fluke. The Volt scor ...
  • Majority of Americans want 62 mpg CAFE standar ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal If you want to find examples of ways Americans disagree on politics, all you need to do is turn on any cable news channel right now. But here's a curious case of the majority agreeing on one important point: 62 percent of Americans support an increase in the aver ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Weiner’s No Longfellow
    “The troubled sky reveals The grief it feels.” These two lines were written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his poem “Snow-Flakes,” published in a volume in 1863 alongside his epic and better-known “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.” Much of the news chatter this week has been about Sarah ...
  • Two Reporters Taken Into Police Custody At Pro ...
    (Photo courtesy of Rebecca Kemble) More than a thousand Wisconsin workers marched through Madison, Wisconsin, today to protest Gov. Scott Walker’s "budget repair" bill that slashes collective bargaining rights and funding for education, health care, and seniors’ programs. During the mar ...
  • Dr. Gabor Maté: More Compassion, Less Violence ...
    In part two of our interview about a new report declaring the so-called "war on drugs" a failure, Dr. Gabor Maté notes that "where violent suppression of drug activity increases, so does killings and violence related to drug use." The Canadian physician and author also relates the study’s find ...
  • Geronimo Jijaga Pratt dies in Africa
    Former Black Panther Geronimo Jijaga Pratt died in Africa today. He was imprisoned for 27 years, until his case was overturned in 1997. Hear Democracy Now!’s Oct. 5, 2000 Inteview: http://ow.ly/594MV
  • Coming Up on Friday: Seymour Hersh on "Iran an ...
    Tune in Friday for an extensive interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh about his new article "Iran and the Bomb." Hersh writes: "There is a large body of evidence including some of America’s most highly classified intelligence assessments, suggesting that the United Stat ...

Digg Green

  • Risk, probability, and how our brains are ...
    The human brain is pretty good at detecting patterns and randomness. Why, then, is it so easy for us to get stuck when trying to work with probabilities? A panel at the World Science Festival attempted to tackle this question.
  • Lifelong gap in health between rich and p ...
    Canadians who are less educated and have a lower income start out less healthy than their wealthier and better-educated compatriots, and remain so over the course of their lives, according to a new study.
  • In Hunt for Alien Planets, Frustration Li ...
    Astronomers have found hundreds of planets orbiting far-distant stars, but the road to discovery has been rough, and often led to dead-ends. Geoff Marcy, a planet-hunting pioneer, stomped a few miles down this road at a recent exoplanet symposium.
  • First images from the VLT Survey Telescop ...
    The VLT Survey Telescope (VST), the latest addition to ESOs Paranal Observatory, has made its first release of impressive images of the southern sky. The VST is a state-of-the-art 2.6-meter telescope, with the huge 268-megapixel camera OmegaCAM at its heart, which is designed ...
  • Contraceptives Alter Scent and Partner Se ...
    Women consider scent as an important factor in their assessment of potential partners. Contraceptives change odor preference and influence partner choice.

Invisible Opportunity

  • One in four US hackers ‘is an FBI inform ...
    By Ed Pilkington The underground world of computer hackers has been so thoroughly infiltrated in the US by the FBI and secret service that it is now riddled with paranoia and mistrust, with an estimated one in four hackers secretly informing on their peers, a Guardian investigation has establish ...
  • BREAKING NEWS: Alarm on Gene GM Crops: A Previ ...
    Indian scientists have discovered that the genetic modification of plants with a gene already used in crops worldwide may severely damage the plants, a surprising finding that may stir a debate on current crop biotechnology science. The scientists at the University of Delhi have shown that inser ...
  • Global Warming Alarmist: Forcibly Tattoo Man-M ...
    Richard Glover Sydney Morning Herald June 6, 2011 Surely it’s time for climate-change deniers to have their opinions forcibly tattooed on their bodies. Not necessarily on the forehead; I’m a reasonable man. Just something along their arm or across their chest so their grandchildren could say, ”R ...
  • 9/11 – Black Eagle Trust Fund
    Few people are aware of the huge Black Eagle Trust fund, let alone its critical relation to the 9/11 attacks. A brilliant summary of excellent information regarding this covert fund compiled by meticulous researcher E.P. Heidner ties together many previously unexplained threads in the 9/11 myste ...
  • Whole Foods admits its organic foods contain g ...
    Tara Green (NaturalNews) Genetically modified foods have become so ubiquitous in the US that even the grocery store ‘Whole Foods’ now admits it cannot keep biotech foods off its shelves. A representative for the corporation acknowledged in May of 2011 that the realities of the marketplace have f ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Rijkswaterstaat: Dutch Public Works Bureau Unv ...
    Read the rest of Rijkswaterstaat: Dutch Public Works Bureau Unveils Groundbreaking Green Office Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 24h architecture, breeam excellent rating, concrete wall, dutch, eco design, green architecture, Green Building, green design, green roof terrace, Rijk ...
  • Versatile Hybrid Chair Turns into a Stool, Ben ...
    The Hybrid Chair is a versatile piece of transforming furniture that can be used as a dining chair, a stool/ottoman or a bench. It consists of 2 components – a base and a back – plus stainless steel hardware pieces to hold it together. With the back in place, the piece is in dining chair [...]
  • Whirling Flock Floor Lamp Crafted from FSC-Cer ...
    The Flock Floor Lamp is a coiled beauty set in bloom by the hands of dedicated and talented craftsman Tom Raffield. Delicately handcrafted out of steam bent FSC-Certified Sycamore wood, the shade is suspended atop a minimal, solid steel tripod base to create a dramatic and unique floor lamp. If ...
  • Glass ‘Odyssey Lamp’ Gives Recycled Bottles a ...
    Shortly after 9/11, designer Ismael Quintero spotted a fire hydrant lid on the sidewalk that gave him the inspiration for this poetic Odyssey lamp. Made from recycled green beer bottles and embossed with the phrase “Nostri Lumen Est Una” which means “our light is one,” the lamp was designed to h ...
  • ‘Shroom’ at Home With the Easy-to-Grow Mushroo ...
    Do you have an insatiable taste for mushrooms? Then why not start growing some of these out-of-this-world delights in your very own kitchen? With the potential to yield one pound of mushrooms per crop in 10 days (each box guarantees 2-4 yields), the Easy-to Grow-Mushroom Garden is a simple and s ...

Pogue's Posts

  • We're Here All Week, Folks...
    Sony's mishaps with users' security provides ample fodder for Tweeting jokesters.
  • Sorting Through Apple's Many Announcements
    Today, at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference, Steve Jobs took the stage to reveal what the company's been up to. Turns out the answer is: a lot.
  • Flipping to Grilled Cheese
    The creator of the late, great Flip videocamera is ready for his next venture--grilled cheese sandwiches. Meanwhile, he mused on the Flip's demise.
  • Flipping to Grilled Cheese
    The creator of the late, great Flip videocamera is ready for his next venture--grilled cheese sandwiches. Meanwhile, he mused on the Flip's demise.
  • Movie Watching Is a Scavenger Hunt
    It's surprising how many movies cannot be streamed or downloaded. And not just obscure art films, but popular movies, too.

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • New Telescope Opens Big Eye to Southern Skies
    See Also: 570-Megapixel Camera Prepares to Hunt for Dark Energy The World’s Biggest, Iciest Particle Detector Huge CCD Could Give Real-Time View of Dark Energy Hunt New Infrared Telescope’s Awesome First Images Best Sun Images From Solar Space Telescope’s First Year New Telescope Captures Dazz ...
  • Ecologists: Time to End Invasive-Species Perse ...
    They’re treated as outsiders, as opportunity-stealing intruders who ought be greeted with government crackdowns rather than open arms. They’re immigrants â immigrant species, that is. And some ecologists say it’s time to declare amnesty, demilitarize our environmental borders and accept the ine ...
  • Next Mars Rover Faces Race Against Time, Funding
    Updated: 3:22 pm NASA’s next Mars rover faces looming technical, financial and scheduling challenges before its planned launch in November, according to an internal audit released June 8. The rover, called Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) and nicknamed Curiosity, has already seen several launch de ...
  • Risk, Probability and How Brains Are Easily Misled
    By John Timmer, Ars Technica The World Science Festival’s panel on Probability and Risk started out in an unusual manner: MIT’s Josh Tennenbaum strode onto a stage and flipped a coin five times, claiming he was psychically broadcasting each result to the audience. The audience dutifully wro ...
  • Rover Recon: Mars Images Track Changes and Lan ...
    Images: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona See Also: Best Mars Images From Orbiter’s First 5 Years Exotic New Mars Images From Orbiting Telephoto Studio New Animations Take You Flying Over Mars Strange Places on Mars: What Do You Want to See Next? Where Will Next Mars Rover Land?

PakAlert

  • Video: Libya invasion to lead to WWIII – Press TV
    If there are dictators that the West backs, then you see the West backing the dictators, but if there strongman at the west doesn't back, then we are told that they are Satan. So are we going to see NATO bombardment to enforce the UN resolution against Israel, because they are firing on peaceful ...
  • Russia Says IMF Chief Jailed For Discovering A ...
    A new report prepared for Prime Minister Putin by the Federal Security Service (FSB) says that former International Monetary Fund (IMF) Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was charged and jailed in the US for sex crimes on May 14th after his discovery that all of the gold held in the United States Bull ...
  • Lady Gaga’s “Judas” and the Age of Horus
    Lady Gaga’s “Judas” video is a modern retelling of biblical stories, where Jesus and his disciples are portrayed as a biker gang. But don’t mistake the video for a Bible lesson as it twists and turns important scenes to give them a very different meaning. In fact, it can be argued that the video ...
  • Video: 6 Principles of Global Manipulation
    In their arrogance, convinced that by 2012 Europe will have become that socialist-like superstate and the global NWO (European Union/North American Union (SPP)(EU/NAU) will be a fact, they will celebrate the historical Venus rising and transit on Solar Maximum 2012 with a Nazi-Germany style Olym ...
  • War Zones: As The Economy Dies, Murders, Shoot ...
    As the U.S. economy falls apart and millions of Americans descend into despair we are seeing some really shocking things start to happen all over America. The mainstream media keeps telling us that crime is under control, but they are also the ones that keep telling us that we are in the midst ...

Andy Worthington

  • Video: Andy Worthington Discusses the Omar Kha ...
    Last week, I was pleased to take part in a studio discussion at Press TV’s London studios of the documentary film, “You Don’t Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantánamo,” directed by Luc Cote and Patricio Hernandez, and focusing on the story of Guantánamo prisoner Omar Khadr, which will be offic ...
  • Bring Shaker Aamer Home: Parliamentary Screeni ...
    ââOutside the Lawâ is a powerful film that has helped ensure that Guantánamo and the men unlawfully held there have not been forgotten.â Kate Allen, Director, Amnesty International UK â[T]his is a strong movie examining the imprisonment and subsequent torture of those falsely accused of anti-Am ...
  • Quarterly Fundraiser Day Two: $1500 Still Need ...
    Please support my work! It’s Day Two of my quarterly fundraising appeal, in which I ask my readers and supporters — who made over 300,000 page visits to this site last month, and who have made it a regular feature in Technorati’s Top 100 World Politics Blogs — to support my research and w ...
  • Quarterly Fundraiser: Help Me Raise $2000 for ...
    Please support my work! As I celebrate four years of blogging about Guantánamo, 1300 blog posts and the updating of my four-part definitive Guantánamo prisoner list, it’s three months since I last reached out to you, my readers and my supporters, to ask you to provide some financial sup ...
  • Brutal Benefit Cuts for the Disabled Are Leadi ...
    When it comes to callousness, the supposedly caring veneer of David Cameron’s Tory party disintegrated almost as soon as the expedient governing coalition with the hapless Liberal Democrats was formed, when our new leaders announced, with evident relish, their intention of haranguing those witho ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Two Governors Turn Down Invitation to Hate Gro ...
    In the wake of revelations that Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s planned Aug. 6 prayer gathering in Houston is being funded by the anti-gay hate group American Family Association (AFA), at least two governors have declined an invitation to attend. Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels and Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal b ...
  • California Latino Gang is Latest Accused of Ta ...
    The Latino Azusa 13 gang conspired to rid a Southern California community of its black residents, according to a federal indictment unsealed yesterday. The indictment alleges that the gang engaged in a two-decades-long campaign involving intimidation, threats and violence to push black residents ...
  • Washington Post Says DHS Backed Off Domestic T ...
    The Washington Post today reported that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) “has stepped back for the past two years from conducting its own intelligence and analysis of home-grown extremism” despite what experts describe as a rising threat from domestic extremists. The Post story was spar ...
  • Black Supremacist Nation of Islam Pushes White ...
    Two of America’s better known UFO-friendly religions, Scientology and the black nationalist Nation of Islam (NOI), now have more in common than unusual theologies involving intergalactic spaceships. For about a year, NOI leader Louis Farrakhan has been telling his followers to embrace Scientolog ...
  • Anti-Gay Group to Sponsor Texas Gov. Perry’s N ...
    The American Family Association (AFA), a virulent anti-gay hate group based in Tupelo, Miss., has agreed to pay for a national day of prayer being organized later this summer in Houston by Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a longstanding ally to prominent figures in the anti-gay movement. Eric Bearse, a sp ...

change: org.

  • EU Bans BPA in Baby Bottles, but Oregon Lawmak ...
    Last week, Europe's ban on the sale of baby bottles containing the hormone-disrupting chemical bisphenol-A (BPA) went into effect. The chemical, commonly found in hard plastics and can linings,�has been linked to a�devastating list�of health problems. Studies have tied the substance to heart dis ...
  • Advocates Tell MN School District: You Can't B ...
    Current and former students at Minnesota's largest school district have two big allies in their fight against bullying and harassment: the Southern Poverty Law Center and the National Center for Lesbian Rights. The groups say Anoka-Hennepin School District's "neutrality" policy -- which bans any ...
  • More than 6,000 Fans ask Yankees to Respond to ...
    Brooklyn-born Luinne Elias D'Llard loves New York City and is passionate about the New York Yankees and what they mean to his city and country. And now -- after fans in San Francisco, Chicago, and Boston have successfully petitioned their favorite baseball teams to make “It Gets Better” videos ...
  • North Carolina House to Vote on Mandatory E-Ve ...
    Later today, North Carolina’s E-Verify bill, HB 36, will be voted on a second time in the state’s house after passing an initial reading. If made law, the bill would make it mandatory for local governments and government contractors and subcontractors to check new employees against the federal E ...
  • Progress! Los Angeles and Massachusetts Reject ...
    Following the recent path of Illinois and New York, more communities and organizations are rejecting the federal “Secure Communities” program, a flawed measure that was presented as a way to remove violent criminals from the United States but that has overwhelmingly resulted in the deportation o ...

Common Dreams -News

  • US Universities in Africa 'Land Grab'
    Harvard and other major American universities are working through British hedge funds and European financial speculators to buy or lease vast areas of African farmland in deals, some of which may force many thousands of people off their land, according to a new study. ...
  • WikiLeaks Haiti: Cable Depicts Fraudulent Hait ...
    The United States, the European Union and the United Nations decided to support Haiti’s recent presidential and parliamentary elections despite believing that the country’s electoral body, “almost certainly in conjunction with President Preval,” had “emasculated the opposition” by unwisely and u ...
  • MoveOn Uses Fox News Hoaxes, Van Jones And The ...
    WASHINGTON -- It seemed, at the time, too surreal to be true. In late May, a YouTube user named Hiropro999 posted a video to the site showing the ticker outside of News Corp.'s Manhattan headquarters being hacked and reprogrammed with an anti-FOX News script. The mysterious nature of the poster ...
  • Still Paying Through the Nose, Labor Campaigns ...
    A year after President Obama signed his health care reform with strong support from the labor movement, advocates of a single-payer system might be tempted to ask, “How’s that working out for you?” At last weekend’s conference of the Labor Campaign for Single Payer, a Plumbers and Pipe Fitters ...
  • 'Barbie, It's Over' says Ken: Greenpeace Accus ...
    LOS ANGELES - On Tuesday, Greenpeace activists dressed as Ken dolls rappelled down the side of Mattel headquarters near Los Angeles to unfurl a banner saying Barbie packaging contributes to rainforest destruction. The massive pink-and-blue sign on the Mattel building outside Los Angeles, feature ...

Lifehacker

  • New Fees to Watch Out For When Getting a Credi ...
    Whether you're looking for a new credit card or you've signed up for one sometime in the last year, you might be subject to a bunch of new fees. Here's what they are and how to avoid them. More��
  • You Can Now Keep Two Google Voice Numbers, for ...
    Plenty of people have been porting phone numbers to Google Voice lately, but part of that process has always been saying farewell to your old Voice number, and sending it back to Google for recycling. That process allowed 90 days more use ...
  • Use a Glass Coke Bottle to Automatically Water ...
    If you're a chronic neglecter of your watering duties, you may have looked into finding ways to have your plants watered automatically. Enter the glass bottle, or more specifically, the cool looking glass Coke bottle that we all love (unl ...
  • Todotxt.net Manages Your Plain Text To-Do List ...
    Windows only: Graphical to-do managers are great, but they often distract you from what's really important. Todotxt.net manages your tasks in a plain text file, so you can spend less time managing your tasks and more time working on them. ...
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    Readers offer their best tips for signing out of IM accounts remotely, getting more vertical space out of Firefox, and getting through long articles on the web. More��

Water Privatization

  • Letter - Ditches
    We live on an island. T he water we have here is all we’ve got. Surely toxic algae blooms in our drinking water and recreational lakes should be evidence enough!
  • Desperate Bid To Cut Deficit - Greek Privatiza ...
    Greece is scrimping and saving, but still failing to get its debt crisis under control. The government plans to raise 50 billion euros through a privatization program, but faces massive resistance from Greeks worried about selling off the nation's assets.
  • Investment Strategy Powered By Water Companies ...
    67 WALL STREET, New York - June 6, 2011 - The Wall Street Transcript has just published its Water, Waste & Environmental Services Report offering a timely review of the sector to serious investors and industry executives. This special feature contains expert industry commentary through in-depth ...
  • Sustainable Water Evolution Strategy Powers Po ...
    67 WALL STREET, New York - June 6, 2011 - The Wall Street Transcript has just published its Water, Waste & Environmental Services Report offering a timely review of the sector to serious investors and industry executives. This special feature contains expert industry commentary through in-depth ...
  • Water Industry Portfolio Focus Strategy Detail ...
    67 WALL STREET, New York - June 6, 2011 - The Wall Street Transcript has just published its Water, Waste & Environmental Services Report offering a timely review of the sector to serious investors and industry executives. This special feature contains expert industry commentary through in-depth ...

Guardian

  • Prison sentencing: Clarke faces further tussle ...
    Justice secretary set for bruising second round of negotiations with No 10 over plan to increase sentence discount for offenders who submit early guilty pleasThe justice secretary, Kenneth Clarke, faces a potentially bruising second round negotiation with Downing Street early next week over aban ...
  • Drastic cuts for large-scale solar power subsidies
    Feed-in tariff review confirms expectations of renewables industry as funding to large-scale installations is restrictedSubsidies for large-scale solar power installations are to be cut drastically, the government confirmed on Thursday morning, in its long-awaited review of feed-in tariffs (Fit) ...
  • High court refuses to lift Goodwin injunction
    Sun newspaper's latest bid to overturn injunction involving former bank boss Sir Fred Goodwin overturned by judgeA high court judge today refused to lift an order banning journalists naming a woman with whom former bank boss Sir Fred Goodwin had an "extra-marital affair".Mr Justice Tugendhat rej ...
  • Tony Blair says west needs wider plan for Midd ...
    Former PM's call for clearer strategic approach comes with warning to dictators that they must 'change or be changed'Tony Blair has warned the west that it urgently needs a wider plan to respond to the Arab spring, including a warning to autocratic leaders across the Middle East "to change or be ...
  • Morgan Spurlock at Sheffield Doc/Fest: How I s ...
    Morgan Spurlock discusses his latest film, Pom Wonderful Presents The Greatest Movie Ever Sold and the effects of product placementElliot SmithCatherine ShoardKen Macfarlane

McClatchey

  • California teen entrepreneur pushed UnCollege ...
    He calls it the UnCollege movement.
  • Zawahiri praises bin Laden, but al Qaida still ...
    LONDON — Egyptian radical Ayman al Zawahiri on Wednesday issued his first statement since U.S. special forces killed al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. In a video, Zawahiri promised to carry on the al Qaida founder's war against the West.
  • Pressure grows on Obama to rethink Afghan war ...
    WASHINGTON — As he mulls how many U.S. troops to pull out of Afghanistan starting next month, President Barack Obama is coming under increasing pressure from Democratic lawmakers and a growing number of Republicans to re-examine his war strategy following Osama bin Laden's death.
  • Senate panel OKs bill on first responder commu ...
    WASHINGTON — On Sept. 11, 2001, firefighters and police officers rushed to the World Trade Center's Twin Towers. When a collapse was imminent, emergency responders couldn't communicate that with one another because of their equipment, which had different bandwidths and frequencies. Those ...
  • Lawmakers learn power of social media, and the ...
    WASHINGTON — The scandal surrounding Rep. Anthony Weiner, a brash, camera-ready New York Democrat and outspoken liberal, has plunged his career into meltdown because of sex and social media.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

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

The Wonk Room

  • Part 2 Of ‘The Sissy Boy Experiment’: Ex-Gay P ...
    Tonight, CNN aired the second part of ‘The Sissy Boy Experiment,’ a series examining the effects of a government-funded gender-normalizing therapy on a five-year old gay boy named Kirk Murphy in 1970. Kirk’s family believes that the dangerous therapy, which required Kirk’s father to beat him for ...
  • Santorum Would Support Constitutional Amendmen ...
    During an appearance on CNN this evening, GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum (R-PA) hinted that he would push for a federal constitutional amendment outlawing same-sex marriage if he were elected president, arguing that gay or lesbian relationships could destabilize the culture, rob childr ...
  • “The Earth Is Full”: Tom Friedman ...
    Note:  At the end I post more of my exclusive interview with the author of The Great Disruption, Paul Gilding. First, here’s the opening of Friedman’s op-ed, “The Earth Is Full,” currently the most e-mailed piece on the NY Times website: You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now ...
  • Is It a Problem If Rich People Move To Florida?
    Progressive income taxation is apparently provoking some controversy in the state of Connecticut: âTheir solution is to tax the wealthy in Fairfield County, redistribute income and hope people in Greenwich and Darien donât move to Florida,â said Christopher Healy, the state Republican Party chai ...
  • VIDEO: ‘A link between climate change an ...
    Watch and share this powerful visualization of Bill McKibben’s scathing Washington Post op-ed on our dangerously polluted world, narrated by Stephen Thomson:

thwap's schoolyard

  • Talking About Bridgette DePape
    Over at EnMasse.
  • harpercon Complaints About Bridgette DePape
    You see harpercons, here is what you can't grasp. There are CONSEQUENCES for your actions. To whit: If you believe that Parliament is a joke, to be treated with contempt, you cannot then turn around and bitch and moan if some brave, principled individual like Bridgette DePape interrupts your co ...
  • The Beginning of the Resistance
    Bridgette Marcelle (aka Brigette DePape), a Senate page, was evicted from the Senate Chamber for holding up a sign saying "Stop Harper" during the Throne Speech of the witless, stupid, evil turds government. Hurrah for Bridgette! Let's make this the first sign of the successful resistance to th ...
  • The Loyal Extra-Parliamentary Opposition
    Yes, Liberal bloggers; we get it. In a majority government, the opposition is basically just a powerless debating society. (A state of affairs that a sizable unthinking, undemocratic minority evidently prefers!) So, yes, in this harpercon majority nightmare that we all find ourselves in, the NDP ...
  • The Liberals and the Centre
    I think it was in the Martin or the Dion years, when, on Canadian Cynic, I told Ti-Guy that I wanted the Liberal Party of Canada to die, because they deceived progressive-minded Canadians and made them believe that they could have their cake and eat it too. Ti-Guy replied something to the effec ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • All your base are lease to us?
    The Conservative government is negotiating to establish a series of military support bases around the world, Defence Minister Peter MacKay has confirmed (Tristin Hopper, Canada to expand military reach with new facilities across the globe, National Post, 2 June 2011): The plan, dubbed the Operat ...
  • Should Canada extend Libya mission?
    Last week the Conservative government let it be known that it intends to extend Canada’s military mission in Libya (Jordan Press, “Critics say future of Libyan mission requires clarity to avoid another Afghanistan,” Postmedia News, 1 June 2011): The federal government indicated Wednesday it will ...
  • More concerns over F-35
    There are increasing concerns about spiralling costs and prolonged delays for the F-35 (David Pugliese, Delivery of F-35s could be delayed beyond 2016, Ottawa Citizen, 28 May 2011). Pentagon officials have recently testified before Congress to address the questions surrounding the aircraft. Asht ...
  • Comments by Steven Staples to CANSEC arms show ...
    June 1, 2011. Thank you Diane and Jason for inviting me to join you today. And thank you all for making Canadians aware that arms shows like CANSEC happen right here in Ottawa. Military spending is out of control in this country. While our social programs are inadequate, we still have joblessnes ...
  • Victory in Afghanistan!
    Prime Minister Stephen Harper has in effect declared victory in Afghanistan, at least as far as the original reason for sending troops to that country goes. His comments were made during a “secret” visit to Afghanistan on Monday (Campbell Clark, “Afghanistan no longer terrorism threat to world, ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Dr. Ray Lala – Resolve Herpes/HPV
    Click the picture or link below to hear Kevin’s interview with Dr. Ray Lala and click here to learn more about how to eliminate herpes, HPV, and other viruses that may be lurking within your body! Dr. Ray Lala on The Kevin Trudeau Show 4/08/11 
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 4-9-11
    Today, the “all-seeing” Kevin Trudeau gives you his predictions for what will happen to the US economy & the US dollar within the next 2-5 years. Plus, Dr. Tom Morter stops by to explain why Trace Minerals are absolutely imperative to your health and why you should never leave home without it! S ...
  • Chicago School Bans Homemade Lunches, The Late ...
    April 12th, 2011 Yahoo! News By: Liz Goodwin Students who attend Chicago’s Little Village Academy public school get nothing but nutritional tough love during their lunch period each day. The students can either eat the cafeteria food–or go hungry. Only students with allergies are allowed to brin ...
  • You Are What You Eat
    Eating good quality food every single day makes a huge difference in how you feel, your energy, your sleep, your skin, and your digestion.  So, a lot of people come up to me and ask, “Kevin, what should I eat? What do YOU eat?”  The simplest answer is number one; always avoid high fructose corn ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 4-13-11
    Today, Blake Sawyer of Royal Velvet stops by the show to explain exactly how deer antler velvet can act as the fountain of youth and turn back the hands of time! Click here to find out why professional athletes buy this product in bulk! Self Help: Gluten Allergy Cure Protect Your Body Maximize Y ...

Pambazuka News

  • Extradition threat for Black Liberation activist
    As the US opens up political channels with Cuba, Black Liberation Army - http://www.thetalkingdrum.com/freedomfighters.html activist Assata Shakur faces extradition from the country where she has lived under political asylum since 1984, writes Paul Scott. While the mainstream media portrays Shak ...
  • Katrina victims face eviction
    Following reports of federal government plans to repossess temporary housing from Katrina victims, the US Human Rights Network - http://www.ushrnetwork.org has called for the Obama administration to reverse this decision and provide those affected with substantive directive support.
  • Guadeloupe: Demand for support for the indepen ...
    Felix Alain Flémin, secretary general of the Guadeloupe Communist Party (GCP) has called for international solidarity in support of the struggle for independence and self-determination of the people of those Caribbean islands under French colonial do...
  • Honduras: Implications of coup for Afro-descen ...
    Currently, the country of Honduras in Central America is experiencing its worst political crisis in decades. In the aftermath of the military coup that forcibly removed President Manuel Zelaya Rosales, there have been various developments that have r...
  • USA: Black coalition to protest expanding U.S. ...
    A newly-formed Black coalition has announced a rally and march on the White House to take place November 7, 2009 beginning in Washington, D.C.’s historic Malcolm X Park. The rally and march are to protest the expanding U.S. wars and other policy ini...

War in Context

  • Why the Jewish state now?
    Raef Zreik writes: During its peace negotiations with Egypt and Jordan, Israel did not ask for recognition for itself as a Jewish state, and such recognition does not appear in the peace treaties with either state. With regard to negotiations with the PLO for the final status of the Palestinian ...
  • Some of what’s wrong with the liberal Zionist ...
    The Magnes Zionist writes: Liberal Zionists in Israel and the diaspora have, for many years, put forth a vision of two states in historic Palestine, i.e., a Jewish state alongside a Palestinian state. The borders between the states would be the 49 armistice line (the “green line”), with land sw ...
  • Democrats launch major pro-Obama pushback amon ...
    JTA reports: President Obama is a stalwart friend of Israel. Thatâs the message some top Democratic Jewish figures are promoting to push back against the notion that Obama is out of step with the pro-Israel and Jewish communities. Within the next two weeks, two figures associated with the Ame ...
  • After Golan clashes, is Israel rethinking the ...
    Daniel Levy writes: To most observers witnessing events in Syria, the goal is clear-cut: end the killing, support democracy, and change the Assad regime — hoping it will be removed or reformed to an unrecognizable degree. State actors looking at the same reality will often bring a different set ...
  • Miko Peled: The General’s Son
    Alternate Focus: Miko Peled is a peace activist who dares to say in public what others still choose to deny. Born in Jerusalem in 1961 into a well known Zionist family, his grandfather, Dr. Avraham Katsnelson was a Zionist leader and signer of the Israeli Declaration of Independence. His Father ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Silly Nazi hijinks: let’s tattoo deniers ...
    Guest post by Alec Rawls Richard “bonehead” Glover, radio talker and 20 year columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald, dares to be outrageously conventional: Surely it’s time for climate-change deniers to have their opinions forcibly tattooed on their bodies. There … Continue reading →
  • Heat burst hits Wichita: 102 degrees at 1AM
    Weather post by Ryan Maue Wichita, Kansas was hit with a thunderstorm induced “heat burst” early Thursday morning, with the temperature jumping from the mid-80s up to 102F after midnight! Wichita, KS  NWS Observations Wichita has now experienced the earliest … Continue reading →
  • Huge auroral display tonight and tomorrow
    Submitted by Mike Hebb High speed particles in route- excuse the models. An event on the Sun occurred on the 7th of June. Prompt arrival of high speed particles has already affected the atmosphere. See video below: Our model indicates … Continue reading →
  • Alarmists refuse to take on skeptical geologists
    By Tom Harris Anyone not already familiar with the stance of geologists towards the global warming scare would have been shocked by the conference at the University of Ottawa at the end of May. In contrast to most environmental science … Continue reading →
  • June 10th is Hug a Climate Scientist Day
    Hal Jordan, via the Submit Story feature submits this brief entry: Apparently, Australian AGW advocates are not well liked. Aussie climate scientists need random hugs from strangers to reassure them that they aren’t universally hated.

Dandelion Salad

  • Dreams and Dignity by Hakim
    Hakim Guest Writer Dandelion Salad June 8, 2011 Dear friends, Gandhi had said, ‘Proneness to exaggerate, to suppress or modify the truth, wittingly or unwittingly, is a natural weakness of man and silence is necessary in order to surmount it.” Many apologies to you for our recent ‘silence’. Much ...
  • Art Katz: Israel, The Suffering Servant
    Dandelion Salad sermonindex on Jun 4, 2011 http://artkatzministries.org/online_bookstore/ Used By Permission Of Art Katz Ministries. DVD 03 – Israel, The Suffering Servant by Art Katz see The Jewish Foundation of Christianity The Time of Jacobâs Trouble by Art Katz Jewish Marxist Atheist has ...
  • Israel’s murderous violence by Eric Rude ...
    Dandelion Salad by Eric Ruder SocialistWorker.org June 8, 2011 Eric Ruder reports on the latest Israeli assault on unarmed protesters as the spirit of the Arab Spring spreads through Palestine and beyond. ISRAELI TROOPS killed 23 unarmed demonstrators and wounded 350 more on the border with Syri ...
  • Is the Media Catching Up with the Turkish Imam ...
    by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post June 8, 2011 For the last two years I have been pounding on Imam Fethullah Gulen’s web of organizations and his charter schools empire in the US. For years I have been marveling about the consistent media ...
  • Bill Moyers: Democracy Should Be a Brake on Un ...
    Dandelion Salad Democracy Now! June 8, 2011 In a Democracy Now! special broadcast, we are joined by legendary journalist Bill Moyers, a founding organizer of the Peace Corps, press secretary for President Lyndon Johnson, a publisher of Newsday, and senior correspondent for CBS News. Public telev ...

Your New Reality

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    A perfect example of what the human race can do when it embraces co-operation, instead of confrontation :
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    Join The Marines, Fight Balrog They're not really showing much reality in these US military recruiting ads, are they? Unless there are special Marines now fighting dragons in alternate universes : From Salon (excerpts) :"...the New York Times this week tells us that the Pentagon is -- shock ...
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    The Fake Knight Rises By Darryl Mason The new Christopher Nolan Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises, is still shooting but something of a teaser clip campaign has already begun on YouTube. An account called The Fire Rises has been posting short clips, with a focus on what appears to be the bur ...
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    Murdoch Media Blames 300,000 'Global Warming Deaths' A Year On Obese People By Darryl Mason Two headines from the UK Sun, proudly linked to by Rupert Murdoch's Corporate Green Agenda HQ, to show how hard they've been working to Sell The Fear : The stories themselves make exactly the ki ...
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    Nice to hear Weezer rocking out, on an 90s classic :

Wired - Science

  • New Telescope Opens Big Eye to Southern Skies
    See Also: 570-Megapixel Camera Prepares to Hunt for Dark Energy The World’s Biggest, Iciest Particle Detector Huge CCD Could Give Real-Time View of Dark Energy Hunt New Infrared Telescope’s Awesome First Images Best Sun Images From Solar Space Telescope’s First Year New Telescope Captures Dazz ...
  • Ecologists: Time to End Invasive-Species Perse ...
    They’re treated as outsiders, as opportunity-stealing intruders who ought be greeted with government crackdowns rather than open arms. They’re immigrants â immigrant species, that is. And some ecologists say it’s time to declare amnesty, demilitarize our environmental borders and accept the ine ...
  • Next Mars Rover Faces Race Against Time, Funding
    Updated: 3:22 pm NASA’s next Mars rover faces looming technical, financial and scheduling challenges before its planned launch in November, according to an internal audit released June 8. The rover, called Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) and nicknamed Curiosity, has already seen several launch de ...
  • Risk, Probability and How Brains Are Easily Misled
    By John Timmer, Ars Technica The World Science Festival’s panel on Probability and Risk started out in an unusual manner: MIT’s Josh Tennenbaum strode onto a stage and flipped a coin five times, claiming he was psychically broadcasting each result to the audience. The audience dutifully wro ...
  • Rover Recon: Mars Images Track Changes and Lan ...
    Images: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona See Also: Best Mars Images From Orbiter’s First 5 Years Exotic New Mars Images From Orbiting Telephoto Studio New Animations Take You Flying Over Mars Strange Places on Mars: What Do You Want to See Next? Where Will Next Mars Rover Land?

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Israeli activist Gideon Spiro, 76, arrested fo ...
    Despite a long career on the radical left, Spiro said that this is his first arrest. The cause is peculiar: an article he wrote ten months ago. In the article, Spiro wrote that when settlers carry... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Naksa Day 2011 – Qalandia
    Unarmed Naksa Day demonstration meets brutal Israeli repression. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
  • Lia Tarachansky: What does Zionism mean to you?
    Last Wednesday, hundreds of thousands of Israeli youth marched along the Green Line to celebrate Jerusalem Day, an annual commemoration of the Israeli occupation of the city in the 1967 war. The... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Jonathan Cook wins the Martha Gellhorn Special ...
    Jonathan Cook, whose work appears regularly on the pages of the IOA, was awarded the Martha Gellhorn Special Award for Journalism. The award citation for Jonathan Cook reads: "Jonathan Cook’s work on... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Amira Hass: Israel-Palestinian conflict is in ...
    Israel is fighting against the memory of the Nakba, whereas others are searching for ways to give the Nakba its rightful place in teaching and education. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA w ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • While Nail-Gun Neck Injury is Uncommon - Do-It ...
    The nail-gun neck injury and treatment incurred by a 25-year-old carpenter might read like an oddity, but nail guns are actually a common form of penetrating low-velocity injury. Along with nail guns, common and often seemingly harmless products found in backyards, gardens, garages, and home wor ...
  • Moderate to Intense Exercise May Protect the Brain
    Older people who regularly exercise at a moderate to intense level may be less likely to develop the small brain lesions, sometimes referred to as "silent strokes," that are the first sign of cerebrovascular disease, according to a new study published in the June 8, 2011, online issue of Neurolo ...
  • Eating a High-Fat Diet May Rapidly Injure Brai ...
    Obesity among people who eat a high-fat diet may involve injury to neurons, or nerve cells, in a key part of the brain that controls body weight, according to the authors of a new animal study. The results will be presented Tuesday at The Endocrine Society's 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston.
  • UAB First in U.S. with Cell-Processing Worksta ...
    The University of Alabama at Birmingham has taken a significant step toward making sophisticated cell therapy a part of patient care with its acquisition of the first cell-processing workstation (CPWS) from SANYO North America Corporation (SANYO) in the United States.
  • National Webinar Features USU Undergraduate Re ...
    National Webinar Features USU Undergraduate Research

Natural Health News

  • Are We Built to Run Barefoot?
    Barefoot running is a subject that is both popular and contentious. The question of whether it is better or worse for foot health cannot easily be answered.� Research shows that when you put young children in shoes, their steps become longer and they land with more force on their heels.� This wo ...
  • Just How Contaminated is the Fish and Meat Tha ...
    Over five years ago, the Chicago Tribune reported that tuna was contaminated with mercury. Two years ago, the New York Times found similar contamination in tuna sushi. Last year, Time Magazine found that tuna at the close to 70 restaurants and supermarkets they investigated exceeded recommended ...
  • The 5 Biggest Exercise Myths
    Many of today�s exercise guidelines originated in the 1940s and 1950s. Even though research has declared some of them counterproductive, fitness �experts� still follow the conventional wisdom. Yahoo Health lists 5 of the biggest exercise myths.� Here�s some of what they found: Do 8 To 12 Repeti ...
  • Regulators Knew World's Best-Selling Herbicide ...
    According to a new report, regulators have known for years that Monsanto’s Roundup, the world's best-selling herbicide, causes birth defects. Regulators were apparently aware as long ago as 1980 that glyphosate, the active chemical ingredient of Roundup, caused birth defects in lab animals. How ...
  • Yo-Yo Dieting is Healthier than Staying Obese
    New research indicates that yo-yo dieters may be healthier and live longer than people who simply stay obese.� Mice on such a diet lived about 25 percent longer and had better blood glucose levels than obese animals. Some experts have argued that constantly losing and regaining weight can be ha ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Scott Horton’s Six Questions for Laura Dickinson
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen Over at the Harper’s Magazine site Scott Horton interviews Laura Dickinson about her new book Outsourcing War and Peace: Preserving Public Values in a World of Privatized Foreign Affairs. Horton begins: Waging war and engaging in diplomacy would generally be re ...
  • Did You Hear? But for the ICC, the War in Lib ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller This according to the Washington Post’s Jackson Diehl, in Screed Number 1345 about how the evil ICC is preventing peace on earth and goodwill toward men: Libyans are stuck in a civil war in large part because of Gaddafiâs international prosecution. Dieh ...
  • Did You Hear? But for the ICC, the War in Lib ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller This according to the Washington Post’s Jackson Diehl, in Screed Number 1345 about how the evil ICC is preventing peace on earth and goodwill toward men: Libyans are stuck in a civil war in large part because of Gaddafiâs international prosecution. Dieh ...
  • CFR Study Advocates National Prosecutions for ...
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis My former State Department colleague, David Kaye, now the Executive Director of UCLA Law’s human rights program, has just authored a study under the auspices of the Council on Foreign Relations (John Bellinger and Matt Waxman also particiapted in the effor ...
  • CFR Study Advocates National Prosecutions for ...
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis My former State Department colleague, David Kaye, now the Executive Director of UCLA Law’s human rights program, has just authored a study under the auspices of the Council on Foreign Relations (John Bellinger and Matt Waxman also particiapted in the effor ...

Public News Service

  • Rescued Research Beagles Get New "Leash" on Life
    Rescued Research Beagles Get New "Leash" on Life San Jose, CA - Nine rescued research dogs came out of their cages - for the first time ever - yesterday (Wednesday). Some research facilities that use live animals in their testing are giving them a second chance by contacting rescue groups to pic ...
  • AARP & NASCAR Drive to End Hunger
    AARP & NASCAR Drive to End Hunger Phoenix, AZ - AARP and NASCAR's Hendricks Motorsports have paired-up on a nationwide campaign to end hunger among seniors. Comments from AARP national board member George Rowan.
  • Rescued Research Beagles Get New "Leash" on Life
    Rescued Research Beagles Get New "Leash" on Life San Jose, CA - Nine rescued research dogs came out of their cages - for the first time ever - yesterday (Wednesday). Some research facilities that use live animals in their testing are giving them a second chance by contacting rescue groups to pic ...
  • AARP & NASCAR Drive to End Hunger
    AARP & NASCAR Drive to End Hunger Phoenix, AZ - AARP and NASCAR's Hendricks Motorsports have paired-up on a nationwide campaign to end hunger among seniors. Comments from AARP national board member George Rowan.
  • Jobless Checks for 15,000 AZ Families Hang On ...
    Jobless Checks for 15,000 AZ Families Hang On a Single Word Phoenix, AZ – Extended unemployment benefits for 15,000 Arizona workers will end next week, unless the Legislature makes a one-word change in state law. Advocates say failing to act will cost the state’s economy $167 million. Comments f ...

Center for Food Safety

  • FDA temporarily suspends use of some arsenic i ...
    Center for Food Safety and Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy urge continued action to remove all arsenic from animal feeds permanently The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced that Alpharma, a division of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, has agreed to stop sellin ...
  • Family Farmers Amplify Complaint Against Monsa ...
    Monsanto’s Failure to Provide Binding Legal Covenant To Protect Family Farmers Threatened by GMO Contamination Necessitates Amended Complaint New threats by Monsanto have led to the filing of an amended complaint by the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) in its suit on behalf of family farmers, s ...
  • Environmental Groups Petition Federal Governme ...
    FDA poised to take action on the first-ever application to market a genetically engineered salmon without adequate consideration of environmental risks and public input Earthjustice, on behalf of Ocean Conservancy, Friends of the Earth, Center for Food Safety, Food & Water Watch, the Center for ...
  • CA GE Fish Labeling Bill Held
    Today, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) was informed by Assemblymember Huffman’s office that they have decided to hold AB 88—the California bill which would require that all genetically engineered (GE) fish sold in California contain clear and prominent labeling—as a 2-year bill. This means it w ...
  • Court of Appeals Dismisses Monsanto’s Appeal o ...
    Upholds Lower Court’s Rulings Requiring New USDA Approval Decision And Rigorous Review of the Crop’s Impacts Litigation Over USDA’s Interim Approval of Planting Continues Today the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a summary order concluding a long-standing laws ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Naksa Day 2011 when Non-Violent Protests were ...
    Naksa Day 2011 when Non-Violent Protests were answered with Violence & Manslaughter – in pictures | Occupied Palestine | فلسطين: UDHR 20(1) states: “Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.”(Universal Declaration of Human Rights)Not in Palestine and as it seems not ...
  • Settlers Set Fire to Palestinian Crops Near He ...
    Settlers Set Fire to Palestinian Crops Near Hebron | Occupied Palestine | فلسطين: "Hebron – PNN Exclusive – As part of the daily attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinian villages, on Wednesday afternoon settlers set fire to crops owned by Palestinian farmers from the village of Bani Naim, near ...
  • UNDERNEWS: America's lonely disrespect for Pal ...
    UNDERNEWS: America's lonely disrespect for Palestine: Francis A. Boyle - On November 15, 1988 the Palestine National Council meeting in Algiers proclaimed the Palestinian Declaration of Independence that created the independent state of Palestine. Today the State of Palestine is bilaterally reco ...
  • In defence of Dr. Cornel West and all other co ...
    Editorial: The Fine Art of Stepping Back: Why I have decided to stop writing about race. By TheAngryindian -�04.06.2008 Editor's Note: This editorial is a re-print of a older article I wrote during the electoral run-up to the historical Obama presidency on my (not defunct) decision t ...
  • TheAngryindian: Why I have decided to stop wri ...
    Editorial: The Fine Art of Stepping Back: Why I have decided to stop writing about race. | APNS Why I have decided to stop writing about race. By TheAngryindian 04.06.2008 *Editor's Note: This editorial is a re-print of a older article I wrote during the electoral run-up to the his ...

Pensieve

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

Green Times

  • Herbicide
    1. DEFINITION Herbicide refers to the chemical which is used in farming to get rid of unwanted weeds. The term herbicide is derived from the prefix herb- which means plant, and the suffix �cide which means killer, so herbicide literally means plant-killer. Herbicides can have nega ...
  • Organic Fertiliser
    1. DEFINITION A natural fertiliser, which uses natural matter to fertilise soil, is referred to as an organic fertiliser. The term organic (http://www.greentimes.com.au/lifestyle/organic.html) is used because its process wholly relies on natural matter and imitates nature. Natural ...
  • Lazy panda
    The giant panda is becoming an endangered species (wildlife/endangered-species.html) because of deforestation (glossary/categories/climate-change/deforestation.html). In fact, Chinese bamboo forests which are the giant panda's habitat (glossary/wildlife/habitat.html) are being destroyed. Furt ...
  • Jellyfish in electric blue sea
    It’s summer! Time to go to the beach! Summer is a nice season to have fun under the sun with your friends and family. On a beach day out, watch out for jellyfish! Most jellyfish are equipped with stingers to get food and protect themselves. While jellyfish do not actively attack humans, the ...
  • Environmental News 14/02/2011
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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Restrooms and Sanitation at Umm-Al-Kheir (a st ...
    Mohammed Salem is about 30 years old. He lives in Umm-Al-Kheir, in a home inherited from his late father right next to the fence of the Carmel settlement (sometimes spelled “Karmel”; see picture). In 2005, when Carmel built an expansion neighborhood, Mohammed was beaten by settlers involved in t ...
  • Gaza not un-besieged after all
    When I was arguing with AIPAC attendees in Washington D.C., the one thing they didn’t seem to have an answer for was if the occupation of Gaza was supposedly over, why was Israel controlling all its borders? Well, with the seemingly heartening news that Egypt’s military government was opening th ...
  • Why do protesters only count in Syria?
    Mitchell Plitnick has an argument here about why Syria should stay out of Palestinian protests. It’s an interesting case though I am happy to see the larger issue of the Palestinian refugee diaspora raised, I agree that Syria is a deeply flawed messenger, given its current brutal crackdown on i ...
  • Bassem Tamimi speaks out in Israeli Court at t ...
    from the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Bassem Tamimi, the subject of an action alert by Jewish Voice for Peace, speaks up for freedom on the 44th anniversary of Israel’s Occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza, June 5th, 2011. Tamimi’s full statement: Your Honor, I hol ...
  • Ras al-Amud
    May 27, 2011 We gather at 4:00 outside the settlers’ multi-story stone building opposite the old police station at Ras al-Amud, on the Mount of Olives. This was the week of Netanyahu’s speech before Congress; if,  utterly  unlikely as this  may be, there is anyone in the  world who failed to no ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Innovative tidal turbine to be tested in London
    The turbine has two sets of rotors, one revolves clockwsie, the other counter-clockwise. Torque is eliminated, allowing the turbines to be moored rather than attached to the seabed. The turbine has the capacity to directly drive a flooded, permanent magnet, and contra-rotating generator, without ...
  • We’re Messing Up The Land. Manfred Mann
    Right now the world ain’t looking too hot Unless you’re dead you must know what I mean There’s a [...] They say they’ve got an answer but I think it’s all a dream Well it’s easy to forget about it, just get high Live up in your castle in the sky But you still breathe [...]
  • Wind turbine history in San Gorgonio Pass
    GreenTechMedia attends a wind energy conference in Palm Springs, then explores nearly San Gorgonia Pass, home of hundreds of wind turbines. Some are thirty years old. This was one of the birthplaces of US wind power and you can see the history everywhere, modern turbines next to antiquated ones. ...
  • March of Tyranny aided by both parties continues
    The banking and corporate masters (crony capitalist fascists) control both major parties behind the scenes. They keep us distracted with left vs. right while giving us the illusion that voting for one of the other parties will solve things. It won’t. Dept of Education orders SWAT team against so ...
  • Renewable energy can have adverse environmenta ...
    Renewable energy requires massive installations, usually in remote or desert areas, of wind and solar farms. Such projects often spread over thousands of acres and invariably will have at least some adverse environmental impact. Deserts are fragile places. Ecosystems can be easily upset. Species ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Walmart Loves Unions…Outside The U.S.
    Walmart workers are unionized in several other countries despite the fact that the corporation spends a good amount of money to fight labor in the United States. Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
  • Breaking: GOING ROGUE: DOCUMENTED NATO War Cri ...
    The Intel Hub By Susan Lindauer June 8th, 2011 Globalist Attack On Libya It’s a story CNN won’t report. Late at night there’s a pounding on the door in Misurata. Armed soldiers force young Libyan women out of their beds at gun-point. Hustling the women and teenagers into trucks, the soldiers rus ...
  • DEADLINE LIVE EXCLUSIVE: Los Zetas ‘Teenage Sp ...
    By Mario Andrade Deadlinelive.info June 8, 2011 Today at around 9:40 AM, members of the Gulf Drug Cartel were seen hanging three teenage boys from a bridge in Monterrey, Mexico. The young men were allegedly members of Los Zetas. Apparently, they served as ‘scouts’ or spies for the notorious crim ...
  • 3 Reasons Not to Fund Art with Taxes (& Yes, T ...
    A few weeks back, Hollywood movie stars and groups such as the Creative Coalition stormed Washington, D.C. to lobby for increased taxpayer funding of the arts. Most memorably, Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey told Hardball’s Chris Matthew that Abraham Lincoln was a huge theater fan who “understo ...
  • Breaking News – Audio from Elaine Brown& ...
    Jack Blood deadlinelive.info June 9 2011 To Download the audio click here Both Elaine Brown and supporter Danny Riley are appealing the Unfair, massive sentences given to them by the U.S. Injustice System. Riley had at least one witness (a US Marshal allegedly) used by the state to convict him, ...

The Air Vent

  • We’re the Echo Chamber Crowd?
    Ben Lawson? at Wotts up with that, the believer site attacks Pat Frank’s Air Vent post where he found some interesting details in various surface temperature datasets. What’s really funny is he referred to this blog as the ‘echo chamber’, for WUWT! Anthony helpfully offers a new example of his e ...
  • Carbon Reduction
    Guest post by Tony Brown Two weeks ago I started a thread over at Climate Etc. entitled ‘The futility of Carbon reduction?’ (note the important question mark.) It came about when I received some calculations on likely temperature reductions from carbon mitigation policies, from a colleague, Ed H ...
  • Lightsabers and Thermodynamics
    Sometimes I’m too short with people.  It comes from some of the pressures of the rest of life, I really should show more patience though, after all we’re all just trying to understand. There are a group of people on who have published articles on global warming (on the internet only) who claim ...
  • More Venus Discussion
    On the previous thread, I made the point that the reason for Venus surface temeprature being so high was the pressure and that any gas would create a huge warming effect.   Chris Colose had made the contention that CO2 is a strong gas and it is responsible for Venus having a surface temperature ...
  • CO2 on the Brain
    I was sitting here this morning and from memory just realized that I forgot the best part of Chris Colose’s post ‘Even Princeton Makes Mistakes”.   I was going to add this at the end and just tired myself right out – or bored myself to death.  Here’s the best quote I’ve read in a  long [...]

Focal Point

  • Fruits, Fingerprints, and Forensics
    Every so often, I find a paper with a title that's too good not to share. Here's today's edition: Trapecar M, Vinkovic MK. Techniques for fingerprint recovery on vegetable and fruit surfaces used in Slovenia--a preliminary study. Sci Justice. 2008 Dec;48(4):192-5. The upshot is that if you w ...
  • "Use-By" Date Fundamentalism Wastes Tons of Fo ...
    Americans waste 14% of all the food we buy, and rote adherence to "use-by" dates is part of the problem, explains an Iowa food scientist: But, it turns out, in going strictly by use-by dates — the great drivers of waste — we throw out a lot of perfectly good food. Use-by dates aren't enti ...
  • Dairy Industry Milks New "MyPlate"
    This week, the USDA unveiled a new icon for healthy eating, MyPlate, a successor to the Food Pyramid and MyPyramid. There's a lot to like about the new visual. The share-of-plate metaphor is easier to grok at a glance than the multi-layered pyramid. You can tell by looking that about half your ...
  • "Psychology Today" Cans Satoshi Kanazawa
    75,000 ColorofChange Members, 1; Santoshi Kanazawa, 0. [Photo credit: proligde, Creative Commons.]Read More
  • Manhattan Housekeepers Get Panic Buttons
    Housekeepers at the Pierre Hotel will get panic buttons in the wake of two highly publicized attacks on Manhattan hotel cleaners. The buttons are part of a deal hashed out between the management and the union. The Sofitel Hotel, where form IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn allegedly attacked a . ...

Inside Facebook

  • Relevvant and Constant Contact Bring TextualAd ...
    Relevvant is the developer of the Facebook Page tab application TextualAds, which allows Page admins to collect phone numbers from fans and publish targeted SMS updates to them. And the company has made an interesting move today, partnering with Constant Contact to bring its app to the Facebook ...
  • CrowdMob’s Mafia Location Game Harnesses Faceb ...
    Even though Facebook likely has around 700 million users now, it actually isn’t often that we hear the social network is a major driver for user acquisition in mobile gaming — at least compared to FreeAppADay or having an inside connection to Apple. But a veteran team from the social gaming worl ...
  • Musicians Test Charging Facebook Credits for P ...
    Musicians have begun allowing fans to exchange Facebook Credits for access to pay-per-view streams of concerts, and the standard price seems to be 50 Credits per show, the equivalent of $5. American jam band Widespread Panic has launched a Facebook app in partnership with ecommerce platform Mily ...
  • New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this weekâs highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Acquinity Interactive, A Bit Lucky, King.com, Kixeye,  ...
  • European Privacy Authorities to Investigate Fa ...
    The European Union has taken issue with the worldwide rollout of Facebook’s opt out facial recognition feature that suggests friends to tag in photos upon upload, as we predicted yesterday. Bloomberg Businessweek reports that Facebook will be the subject of a probe by the Article 29 Data Prote ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Muddle and mixed messages precede Palestinian ...
    With the date for the purported Palestinian bid for UN recognition fast approaching, Stuart Littlewood views the mixed messages emanating from the Palestinian Authority, the inept messengers and the absence of a competent and credible public relations campaign ahead of the bid.
  • Breaches of international law lay behind unres ...
    While much of the Western media have ignored the recent bloodshed on the Golan Heights, the limited reports that have been released appear to misunderstand the background to the present confrontation. Richard Lightbown explains the history.
  • Barack Obama's betrayal of Abraham Lincoln's i ...
    Paul J. Balles argues that US President Barack Obama has defiled the ideals of his idol, Abraham Lincoln, and instead of working to bring about government "of the people, by the people, for the people", he has presided over government "controlled by corporate barons, lobbies and Wall Street". " ...
  • International law and the problem of enforcement
    Lawrence Davidson traces the flaws built into the International Criminal Court that allow some states to get away with crimes to the exceptionalism and superiority complexes afflicting countries such as Russia, China and the US, which is "tied so closely to the criminal behaviour of the Israelis ...
  • Palestinians must mobilize world civil society ...
    Stuart Littlewood shares the concern of pro-Palestinian activists worldwide at the failure so far of the Palestinian Authority, including its lacklustre and PR-inept London "embassy", to start mobilizing world public opinion for the planned bid this September for UN membership and recognition of ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • New York Times’ Exposé: Imam Gulen’s Charter S ...
    Is the Media Catching Up with the Turkish Imam’s US Operations? For the last two years I have been pounding on Imam Fethullah Gulen’s web of organizations and his charter schools empire in the US. For years I have been marveling about the consistent media blackout on the Turkish Imam Fethullah G ...
  • Coming Up Soon: Boiling Frogs Video
    Boiling Frogs Post Site Update & Upcoming Subscription Program We have a few updates on Boiling Frogs Post and our soon to be launched subscription program. I am excited to announce our upcoming Boiling Frogs Video series to be produced by our new partner James Corbett, an independent journalist ...
  • Podcast Show #45
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Paul Craig Roberts Paul Craig Roberts joins us to discuss the September 11 terrorist attacks as the defining event of our time, which has launched our nation on interminable wars of aggression, a domestic police state where the American President is a Caesar and comp ...
  • Paul Craig Roberts: “American Presidents Are D ...
    Coming Up Tomorrow at Boiling Frogs Show: Paul Craig Roberts Tomorrow morning we’ll publish our interview with Paul Craig Roberts. We had a sobering interview session on the rise of the police state, the US media’s role in ever-declining liberties, the never-investigated September 11 terrorist a ...
  • Government Contractor Galore A La UK: Serco
    The Private-Government-Private Mega Corporations Phenomena This site depends exclusively on readers’ support. Please help us continue by contributing directly and or purchasing Boiling Frogs showcased products.

Afro Spear

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

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

  • High Time in the Old town TONIGHT, MAYBE/
    O.K., most of you have heard of all the doomsayers that have been around the last few years and all have heard in one form, or another, about the 2012 Mayan prophecy, so you put it all in a sack and shake it up. What do you get? Well, whether, or not, any of these [...]
  • CHANGING SERVERS: EYEONCITRUS.COM
    EYEONCITRUS.COM IS CHANGING SERVERS AND MAY BE DOWN FOR UP TO 48 HOURS, PLEASE KEEP CHECKING, WE WILL BE BACK AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
  • Pentagon Whistleblower Franz Gayl Saved Our Tr ...
    For virtually his entire adult life, Franz Gayl has served his country. Enlisting in the United States Marine Corps from an early age, he moved over to become a civilian Science and Technology Advisor at the Pentagon after retiring from his position as officer. While he was deployed in Iraq, Mr. ...
  • LONE GUNMEN PILOT EPISODE COMPLETE IN IT&#8217 ...
    This is the spin-off from the X-files, first shown on March 4, 2001, six months before 911. Apparently someone was trying to get the word out, they are probably no longer around, this video is out there on torrent downloads, yet as with all the other videos that help shed light on dispecable act ...
  • THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT, THE LONE GUNMEN WARNINGS
    These two presentations each gave warnings of dire events to come, specifically 911. The Long Kiss Goodnight was produce in 1996 and described the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and the circumstances that led up to it. The Pilot Episode of The Lone Gunmen gave the exact scenario of what ...

Unsuitable Blog

  • I’m On The Run
    Actually I’m not. It would have been quite exciting to have been writing a blog from an internet cafe somewhere, or hijacking a wireless connection outside an office building, but it seems I am safe and snug in my home completely bereft of law enforcement officers hammering at my door demanding ...
  • Everyone Must Follow The Rules (Apart From Tho ...
    Enjoy the moment – the personification of Evil is dead. Take to the streets and express your sheer joy at the end of a symbol. Paint your banners and hold them high; unfurl your flags and wave them in the night sky; don your army surplus trousers and bare your chests: we have a winner [...]
  • Scholastic U-Turn On Coal: Shame About Their O ...
    Well, that didn’t last long. From the first outrage to a “Move along, nothing to see here!” clean up of the website, Scholastic seem to have recovered relatively easily from what they claim was just a mistake. When Scholastic published a set of four worksheets and a printable map (see here for a ...
  • Los Alamitos School Board Member Makes U-Turn ...
    I’ve just had a very interesting and productive email discussion with Dr Jeffrey Barke. Some of you may be familiar with his position on the teaching of climate science. Here’s some background information, from MSNBC: LOS ALAMITOS — A new high school advanced placement class that addresses globa ...
  • A Billion Acts of Greenwash
    Tomorrow is Earth Day – whoopee doo! It’s that time of year that all the environmental NGOs and countless businesses work towards in order to bring about a sudden upsurge in pointless symbolic actions and purchases of “green” things like (I’ll just have a look in my Deleted Items folder) LED can ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Reporters Bring Sources Right Into the Story W ...
    Embedding notes makes it even easier for reporters to bring source documents right into the story. One of DocumentCloud's primary goals is to make it simpler for news organizations to show their work -- to invite readers to review the very same documents the journalists used to draw the conclusi ...
  • Time to Bake Smart Correction Tools Into New P ...
    A window of opportunity is open right now for online journalists to build accuracy and accountability into the publishing systems we use every day. To understand why this is such a big deal, first hop with me for a minute into the Wayback Machine. It's the mid-1990s. Journalists have just a ...
  • CityCircles Explains How to Make a Killer Mobi ...
    What a difference a year makes. Last year, the CityCircles team was solely focused on building an audience for our unique, web-based publishing platform for the Phoenix light rail community. CityCircles has one of the slickest, easiest experiences for posting geo-tagged content (at least we lik ...
  • Stroome Reels Filmmakers Into Online Collabora ...
    While speaking in Tribeca a couple of months ago in front of a packed theater of New York independent fiction and documentary filmmakers, I introduced Stroome, a collaborative online video editing community, and was astonished to receive a standing ovation. One filmmaker explained to me that she ...
  • Stroome Reels Filmmakers Into Online Collabora ...
    While speaking in Tribeca a couple of months ago in front of a packed theater of New York independent fiction and documentary filmmakers, I introduced Stroome, a collaborative online video editing community, and was astonished to receive a standing ovation. One filmmaker explained to me that she ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Edge on Environment - Freshwater Snail Survive ...
    Think "mass extinction" and you probably envision dinosaurs dropping dead in the long-ago past or exotic tropical creatures being wiped out when their rainforest habitats are decimated. But a major mass extinction took place right here in North America in the first half of the 20th century, when ...
  • The 2012 Vote - Candidate Ron Paul Drops "the ...
    GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul took in more than $1 million Sunday using an online "money bomb" that hit at the Republican field's front-runner, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. As of 11:22 a.m. on June 6, donors contributed more than $1.1 million to Paul's presidential campaign, acco ...
  • Book Review - An Unfinished Revolution: Marx a ...
    An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln. Robin Blackburn. Verso. 2011. 272 pages.One was the founder of communism, the other a pillar of American democracy. That, along with many other things, made them as different as night and day. Yet they occupied the same historic period and ...
  • Destination Edge - Tel Aviv: The White City
    If you peer out of the window as your plane makes its final approach to Ben Gurion Airport, you will be astounded by a string of ultra-modern high rise buildings stretching along the 14 km coastline of Tel Aviv, Israel’s largest and most cosmopolitan city.Considering that Tel Aviv is only a litt ...
  • Inside and Palestine - The Arab-Muslim Propaga ...
    The propaganda war by the Palestinian Arabs that began as soon as the Oslo agreements were signed has recently expanded to include an all-out assault on the idea that there has ever been any real Jewish connection to Jerusalem. Like the “revisionist” historians who claim that the Holocaust never ...

High Country News

  • It's time for Maximum Trashing Utilization
    When we have to disturb the environment, let's get the most we can out of it.
  • Local food, local loans
    One way to support the local economy is to do so literally -- offering loans as well as customer patronage to your local small businesses.
  • Local food, local loans
    One way to support the local economy is to do so literally -- offering loans as well as customer patronage to your local small businesses.
  • Saving the salmon, saving ourselves
    Salmon, Idaho's, Riverfest 2011 is designed to promote both the local economy and the
  • Extreme Green
    Uncompromising environmental groups like the Center for Biological Diversity do more harm than good with their lawsuits, according to some critics.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Major New Oil Find In Gulf-But McConnell Says ...
    Today is a good news/bad news day for those who believe that the United States should be exploiting our natural resources in an attempt to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. Exxon Mobil announced a major oil find in the Gulf, but if Senate Minority Leader Mich McConnell is correct that should ...
  • Breaking News! Anthony Weiner's Wife is Pregnant!
    This Weiner Story gets weirder and weirder. On the same day that the most explicit of Congressman Anthony Weiner's pictures was released to the internet by Greg Hughes (Opie of Opie and Anthony) after he stole a screen shot from Andrew Brietbart's� phone, the NY Times posts an item informing the ...
  • G.M. Asks Congress, Please Screw The Public To ...
    Clare Boothe Luce is credited with the quote, "No good deed goes unpunished."� If she were alive today, Ms Luce might revise her quite to "No good deed goes unpunished, by General Motors." Only a short few years ago the United States treasury used public funds to rescue the beleaguer ...
  • Mainstream Media Glorifies The Openly Anti-Ame ...
    By Barry Rubin Why is it that Anthony Shadid, the same New York Times reporter who has constantly whitewashed Syria and Hizballah now writing a glowing portrait of Turkey's Islamist Prime Minister Recep Erdogan on the verge of Turkey's June 12 election? Shadid frequently quotes onl ...
  • The Lid Visits The Right Wing Nut House
    Last night I had the absolute joy of joining Jazz Shaw of Hot Air and Richard Baehr of American Thinker on the Rick Moran Show.� We were supposed to spend only 15 minutes on Weinergate and then spend the rest of the show on other issues including health care, Obama's latest lousy polls and the G ...

The Real Agenda

  • GM Food – Poisoning Our People?
    Glenn Ashton allAfrica.com June 8, 2011 One of the most massive unregulated experiments on humans ever is being carried out right here in South Africa. South Africans are the first people in the world to consume a genetically modified (GM) food as a staple. According to industry sources more tha ...
  • Genetically engineered salmon’s fishy pr ...
    Paul Greenberg June 5, 2011 For those who follow the theater of food politics, particularly the underwater portion of the drama, AquaBounty’s AquAdvantage genetically engineered salmon has played something of leading role for two decades, dating back to the 1990s when the fish was first conceive ...
  • Obamacare has its day in Court
    Judges sharply challenge healthcare law Washington Post June 8, 2011 Skeptical questions from three federal judges in Atlanta suggest they may be ready to declare unconstitutional all or part of the healthcare law promoted by the Obama administration and passed last year by Congress. A top Obama ...
  • Green Buildings Hazardous, says Institute of M ...
    Fox News June 8, 2011 The buildings commonly referred to as “green” could actually be hazardous to your health, according to a new report. That’s one of many warnings out of a new report from the Institute of Medicine, which tracked the potential impact of climate change on indoor environments. ...
  • Facebook in new privacy row over facial recogn ...
    Social network turns on new feature to automatically identify people in photos, raising questions about privacy implications of the service. UK Guardian June 8, 2011 Facebook has come under fire for quietly expanding the availability of technology to automatically identify people in photos, rene ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind groups spend big on lobbying
    ST. PAUL � Two wind companies with plans to build wind farm projects in Goodhue County shelled out $480,000 in lobbying expenditures in 2010, according to a new report. AWA Goodhue, which has proposed a 78-megawatt project, spent $380,000 on lobbying. That company ranked 17th highest when it cam ...
  • Turbine talk: New state panel to study health ...
    Falmouth selectmen organized a Monday night forum to discuss the issue of wind turbines and received a standing-room-only crowd of state and local officials, expert consultants and mostly angry residents. Discussions of noise, low frequency noise, shadow flicker, proper setback distances and pos ...
  • Wind power turbines in Altamont Pass threaten ...
    Scores of protected golden eagles have been dying each year after colliding with the blades of about 5,000 wind turbines along the ridgelines of the Bay Area’s Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area, raising troubling questions about the state’s push for alternative power sources. The death count, ave ...
  • Opponents rail against Siting Council’s ...
    Regulators approved the state’s first commercial wind farm Thursday, but the announcement drew a swift response from opponents Friday who said the Connecticut Siting Council ignored testimony from Colebrook residents concerned about health and wildlife issues and the turbines proximity to local ...
  • New wind farm opponents emerge from Fort Willi ...
    Horizon Wind Inc. may have won over Thunder Bay city council, but selling their proposed wind farm to members of the Fort William First Nation could prove to be a more difficult challenge. The First Nation held a discussion panel with company spokespeople at the Fort William First Nation Communi ...

Not My Tribe

  • State Dept ties Haitian Aid to acceptance of W ...
    When the outgoing Haitian Govt insisted on the whopping huge $5 a DAY minimum wage instead of the three dollars a day being offered by the Corporate-owned U.S.A.I.D., their pet sellouts at State Dept, which has been trying to put a stranglehold on who does or does not do business with Haiti sinc ...
  • “Psychic Tip” is enough to get a N ...
    So the AP headline was “Texas farmhouse searched on Psychic Tip, no bodies found”. WHAT? I’m not in the least concerned that there wasn’t any evidence found, I myself can “psycho-ly” predict that particular outcome. Not one single Scientifically Empirically Verified psychic prediction of ANY of ...
  • Israel murders 14 protesters in Syria, claims ...
    Shooting through the border fence at a memorial protest in the Golan Heights. The number of dead outnumbers the original IDF account number of injured, the injured outnumbered the IDF account by tenfold. So once again the IDF story is very suspect. IDF usually reserves a different fate for Israe ...
  • Pressure Points Radio on Homelessness.
    Which is radio show in New York City. Todays broadcast, which unfortunately I missed, included Our Little Slice of Hell errr Parrot Dice damn that was a bad joke. Ed hasn’t posted it to youtube yet, his youtube channel is PikesPeakOcean. So, a quick run-through of the basics, for those who just ...
  • Banana Republic Redux
    Like the infamous Case Law which decided over a century ago that Guatemala, Costa Rica and El Salvador to be, while still “sovereign” nations, the property of American Banana Companies      And Cocaine, which was legal at the time, and Coffee, and other “strategic resources”. Only this time ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Fake al-Qaeda: Adam Gadahn & Yousef Al Khattab ...
    The following videos are posted in light of recent media claims about the threat of "Al Qaeda" in Yemen: In relation to the Al Awlaki video, one would have to guess that the reason he made an "FBI authorised" visit to the US in October 2002 is because this man is an intelligence asset. Indi ...
  • David Aaronovitch's Deep Denialism
    Of all the pseudointellectuals who are rolled out to debunk us, one who annoys me more than any other is David Aaronovitch. He was on the UK radio station talkSPORT a few weeks ago, minutes before Alex Jones was due to come on, and he and the host were basically making fun of him and 9/11 truth ...
  • 9/11 Truth Movement R.I.P.?
    Youtube debunker Ryan Owens recently uploaded his new film titled 9/11 Truth Movement: R.I.P. As one might expect from a common debunker video, the film is riddled with insults and taunting sound effects. However, within this jumble of silliness and insults there are some actual attempts at ...
  • Other Collapses in Perspective
    (PDF Version) Other Collapses in Perspective: An Examination of Other Steel Structures Collapsing due to Fire and their Relation to the WTC by Adam Taylor, contributor for Debunking the Debunkers blog One of the arguments that have been raised over the years by members of the 9/11 Truth Mov ...
  • Not a Deather, but a Doubter; Still a Truther
    The following is a fairly detailed and nuanced argument, so before going any further please read this short statement by Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth and this short statement by physicist David Chandler and civil engineer Jonathan Cole, regarding the death of Osama bin Laden. Also con ...

Fooducate

  • Salmonella Posioning Won’t Go Away
    Sources of Salmonella Poisoning The CDC has just published a report on food safety, zooming in on Salmonella. In the past 15 years, the government and food industry have NOT been able to reduce the number of incidents of poisoning from this germ. Compare that to a 50% reduction in e-Coli infecti ...
  • The Anatomy of a Milkshake
    One of the best parts of hot summers is an ice cold milkshake. You’d think a milkshake was a simple thing. Milk and Ice cream. And what’s in the ice cream? A simple vanilla ice cream has milk, cream, sugar, egg yolks, and vanilla. Milkshake ingredient total = 6. While shakes are high in fat, [...]
  • If You Need to Ask, It’s Probably Genetically ...
    Many Fooducate community members and app users email us asking why we don’t focus more on the issue of genetically modified foods. More specifically, they’d like to see our mobile app notify them if a product is GM or not. Unfortunately, product labeling laws in the US do not require disclosure ...
  • Wow Your BBQ Guests With Salad Sticks
    This is a guest post by Lisa Cain, PhD, a.k.a Snack-Girl Now that grilling season is here, I have created the BEST grilled treat on the planet for your outdoor party. I call them – “Salad Sticks” and am currently trying to get a trademark for the concept You see, we love food on a [...]
  • Our Fat Future [Eye Opening Infographic]
    Here’s a visually impactful infographic from a website called Healthy Meal Experts. The most telling of all these stats is the 1700% percent growth in fast food spending in the US. In 1970, Americans spent $6 billion of burgers pizza and shakes. By 2000, the spend was up to $110 billion! Let’s h ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle little pudding pots?
    We’ve had an email from Debbie: Any ideas what we can do with individual microwave pudding pots from the supermarket? They’re plastic. First up, as always, reduce if you can – I know those puddings are convenient but it doesn’t take that much longer to make your own with a microwave (for example ...
  • Any advice for making a mosiac out of broken c ...
    Leo emailed to ask: Hi, your website is great. I’m interested in reusing broken ceramics, terracotta tiles, stone etc. to do a floor mosaic. Do you have any advice about installing this, e.g. cheap or recyclable adhesive, mortar etc.? The only time I’ve make a “crazy” tile mosiac, I had some nor ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle plastic cat biscuit ...
    Shar left us a message on our “Suggest An Item” page: I have increasing numbers of empty Purina one cat food bags. Because they are plastic foil they are not accepted by my local council for recycling. Bag has a zip lock. Sturdy item. Not sure what to do with them. I [...]
  • Composting teabags
    Over on the Really Good Life the other day, I listed all the consumables I used in one day and their packaging. I think it’s easy to become blind to things you routinely use and listing them helped me realise where I was creating unnecessary waste/exposing myself to unnecessary synthetic chemica ...
  • How can I use up too sweet ginger wine?
    I spotted this question on the Money Saving Expert forums earlier today: I bought some ginger wine from sainsburys to try but it is far too sweet. I don’t want to waste it, but I can’t stand to drink it. Any ideas what else I can do with it? Other forum posters suggested using a [...]

Age of Autism

  • Best of AofA: Autism Road To Recovery (Paved w ...
    Managing Editor's Note: I saw Cody at Autism One last month. We're running a series of "Best of" posts and this one came to mind from last August. By Cody Jordan October 20, 2004 was the day my son came...
  • Summertime isn't Always a V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N with ...
    Summertime is here for many of us. (Don't hate me, but my kids are in school until June 23rd.) What does your summer programming look like for your child on the spectrum? Do you have ESY, craft a custom program,...
  • An Honorary Medical Degree for Autism Parents
    Autism Speaks Co-Founders Suzanne and Bob Wright to Receive Honorary Degrees from the University of Massachusetts Medical School An honorary degree is a nod of approval for philanthropic efforts, and is feather in the Wright's caps, to add to the...
  • Best of AofA: In Plain Sight: Freud, Face Blin ...
    This post ran in January. We'll be bringing back "best of posts" throughout the summer. By Dan Olmsted Consider this description: “She complained that she could not recognize people; that she used to be able to recognize faces without having...
  • Vaccines and Neonatal Immune Development
    Managing Editor's Note: Please visit Beyond Conformity to read the full post. Thank you to Hilary Butler for permission to link. Hilary Butler - Monday, May 23, 2011 (Series, Part 1 of 3) The Scientist recently published an article about...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

  • 6 Real Examples of Food Terrorism
    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 auspices of oversight agencies who have been complicit in t ...
  • 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.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Emerging Markets Must Accelerate Interest-Rate ...
    Bloomberg – Emerging-market economies, growing almost three times faster than their developed counterparts, need to speed spending cuts and interest-rate increases as they fight inflation and overheating, the World Bank said. The Washington-based institution lowered its growth forecast for the w ...
  • UK: Council cuts leads to boom in rat population
    Telegraph – It is estimated the number of rodents has rocketed by over 40 per cent in the last decade putting the population in excess of 80 million. Much of the rise is being put down to the reduction in council pest control departments as local government budgets are being squeezed. But other ...
  • Germany defends E.coli response as death toll ...
    Reuters – German ministers on Wednesday defended their response to the E.coli outbreak that has killed 27 people and signaled possible changes in the way the country handles health crises in the future. About a quarter of E.coli patients in the latest outbreak have developed a severe complicatio ...
  • E. coli talks, and tests, rumble on
    Deutsche Welle – Germany, Spain, the European Union and Russia are all set to concentrate on the E. coli outbreak Thursday, the source of which still remains a mystery. The German and Spanish governments were set to meet in Berlin on Thursday morning, after a false accusation against Spanish cuc ...
  • Bio-prospectors probe Australian Aboriginal lore
    PhysOrg – When Aboriginal elder John Watson was bitten by a crocodile while fishing in the remote Australian Kimberley region, there was no doctor he could call, no medical kit on hand to stem the blood. So he relied on the traditional knowledge of his people, passed down over the centuries from ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Greenpeace versus Mattel: A social media battl ...
    The battle between Mattel, the world’s biggest toy company, and Greenpeace, one of the world’s largest environmental groups, moved into a social media combat phase Wednesday as more than 180,000 people viewed a spoof video of Ken breaking up with...
  • Latino groups push Obama on ozone standards
    On the heels of a scathing critique by former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt on Wednesday, President Obama faced pressure from a burgeoning environmental justice coalition demanding stronger action on ozone, a component of smog, in predominantly Latino communities. Fourteen groups...
  • San Bernardino rail yard communities targeted ...
    Southern California air quality regulators are sponsoring an in-depth study to determine if the San Bernardino rail yard, a major inland hub of goods shipped across the U.S., has caused a rise in cancer and asthma in the neighboring low-income...
  • Environmentalists want slower ship speeds to p ...
    A coalition of environmental groups is asking the Obama administration to establish a 10-knot speed limit for ships traveling through California’s marine sanctuaries to avoid fatal collisions with whales, a problem they say has climbed to “unsustainable levels.” In a...
  • Newhall Ranch developers must not harm Califor ...
    The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday said it would not tolerate the harm or killing of an endangered California condor during construction of a proposed Newhall Ranch community of 60,000 residents along the Santa Clara River. In a...

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • China Floods Kill 52, Force Over 100,000 To Ev ...
    Heavy rain drenched a drought-ravaged swathe of southern and eastern China, killing 52 people and forcing more than 100,000 to evacuate, state media reported on Wednesday.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Delta Airlines charges soldiers returning to F ...
    Soldiers returning from Afghanistan are complaining that they had to pay Delta Air Lines $2,800 out of pocket to check extra bags, including at least one case carrying a grenade launcher. In a video posted on YouTube, the soldiers say their Army orderSubmitted by Barbara W. to US Politics & G ...
  • A PUBLIC RELATIONS DISGRACE: Soldiers' $2,800 ...
    Stung by online comments calling it "disgusting" and "un-American," Delta Air Lines on Wednesday announced it will allow U.S. military personnel traveling on orders to check more bags for free. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 4-Year-Old Girl Takes NYC Art World By Storm
    Australian 4 year old Aelita Andre has a solo exhibition that opened last weekend at the Agora Gallery in Chelsea, but she's already sold paintings worth upwards of $30,000 a pop on the side. Submitted by David Buchan to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • CANADA--BRITISH COLUMBIA--Taseko Mines willing ...
    Only a few months after its planned Prosperity open-pit mine in the Chilcotin was rejected by a federal review panel, B.C.-based Taseko Mines Ltd. is back with a new proposal that it says would save Fish Lake at a cost of $300 million. Read more: hSubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Business ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • 'Hair' today, gone tomorrow
    Stress is one of the major reasons for the increase in baldness among young people today, finds Lisa Antao It's a fact anything that's different certainly stands out from the crowd and not necessarily always in a good way, for example baldness. People who suffer from baldness are ridiculed, ...
  • Group of blood pressure drugs not linked ...
    NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Despite concerns that blood pressure drugs may increase the risk of cancer, a new study suggests that a particular such drug may not be linked to that risk. Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, usually referred to as ACE inhibitors, are not associated with a ...
  • FDA says some chicken meat may contain sm ...
    WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration says some chicken meat may contain small amounts of arsenic, though the agency is stressing that the amount is too tiny to be dangerous to people who eat it. The FDA said Wednesday that a new study developed by the agency shows that an ingredien ...
  • Wayne Rooney Blackburn penalty spot sold ...
    A piece of turf from which Wayne Rooney scored the goal which clinched Manchester United's record 19th league title has sold for more than £6,000. The penalty spot was cut from Blackburn Rovers' pitch by fan...
  • Patrice Evra admits he must improve his f ...
    The former Monaco left-back says he needs to raise his performance for the Premier League champions next season and has explained his recent dip in form By Will Jardine Share Share Find the best odds and bet on the Premier League....

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • US Universities in Africa 'Land Grab'
    Harvard and other major American universities are working through British hedge funds and European financial speculators to buy or lease vast areas of African farmland in deals, some of which may force many thousands of people off their land, according to a new study. ...
  • WikiLeaks Haiti: Cable Depicts Fraudulent Hait ...
    The United States, the European Union and the United Nations decided to support Haiti’s recent presidential and parliamentary elections despite believing that the country’s electoral body, “almost certainly in conjunction with President Preval,” had “emasculated the opposition” by unwisely and u ...
  • MoveOn Uses Fox News Hoaxes, Van Jones And The ...
    WASHINGTON -- It seemed, at the time, too surreal to be true. In late May, a YouTube user named Hiropro999 posted a video to the site showing the ticker outside of News Corp.'s Manhattan headquarters being hacked and reprogrammed with an anti-FOX News script. The mysterious nature of the poster ...
  • Still Paying Through the Nose, Labor Campaigns ...
    A year after President Obama signed his health care reform with strong support from the labor movement, advocates of a single-payer system might be tempted to ask, “How’s that working out for you?” At last weekend’s conference of the Labor Campaign for Single Payer, a Plumbers and Pipe Fitters ...
  • 'Barbie, It's Over' says Ken: Greenpeace Accus ...
    LOS ANGELES - On Tuesday, Greenpeace activists dressed as Ken dolls rappelled down the side of Mattel headquarters near Los Angeles to unfurl a banner saying Barbie packaging contributes to rainforest destruction. The massive pink-and-blue sign on the Mattel building outside Los Angeles, feature ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Ted Roosevelt: A Republican Fights Climate Change
    �I was headed out for a run one morning in April during FORTUNE�s Brainstorm Green conference in Laguna Niguel, CA, when I spotted Theodore Roosevelt IV jogging on the beach. Having a good run? I asked him. Yes, he told me, and he�d been swimming, too, in the big waves that crash onto the beach ...
  • How China Can Advance Sustainable Development ...
    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 government agencies, state-owned enterprises and other organizations, led by the then-State Planni ...
  • Film Tells the Story of Mountaintop Removal Co ...
    A couple of years ago, I flew over mountaintop removal coal operations in Kentucky, and I saw the enormous scale of the destruction wrought by this kind of mining. Last week, I saw an amazing film that showed again the scale of this needless and heedless environmental devastation and revealed th ...
  • Will Utilities Thrive as Trusted Advisors or S ...
    The Smart Grid delivers disruptive technologies and services that will impact the entire electricity value chain of generation, transmission, distribution and consumption- meaning utilities and consumers.� Utility operations in generation, transmission, and distribution will be disrupted as work ...
  • 90F Average- Coming To A Summer Near You
    When the Lovin’ Spoonful released Summer in the City in 1966, they weren’t thinking about climate change. But, it turns out, city dwellers can expect a lot more hot days than country folk, climate models tell us. As the Spoonful put it:

Green House - USA Today

  • Survey: Fewer states have 'Code Red' smog this ...
    Fewer U.S. states have had dangerous smog levels so far this year than during the same period last year, but the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has yet to update its ozone standard, an environmental group reports Wednesday.
  • EPA bans toxic rat poisons, citing risks to kids
    To protect children, pets and wildlife, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is moving to ban residential sales of the most toxic rat and mouse poisons as well as most loose bait and pellet products. It's also requiring all new such poisons be enclosed in bait stations.
  • U.S.-Canada Keystone pipeline leaks, fuels outrage
    A 1,661-mile extension of a U.S.-Canadian pipeline carrying a controversial form of heavy crude oil is facing intensifying opposition and public hearings as recent leaks prompted a one-week shutdown.
  • Study: BPA chemical exposure is underestimated
    Exposure to the hormone-disrupting chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) has been underestimated, because prior lab tests have looked at single exposures rather than daily diets, the University of Missouri reports.
  • HUD's Donovan sees market rebound, touts green ...
    He doesn't just talk about green building. Housing Secretary Shaun Donovan once gutted a 1780 farmhouse and renovated it with reclaimed materials, soy-based insulation and ground-source heat pumps.

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Afghanistan: Why Civilians are Killed
    James Petras Introduction: The recent rash of civilian killings by NATO forces in occupied Afghanistan raises several basic questions: Why do US – NATO air and ground forces kill so many civilians, so persistently, over such long stretches of time, in regions throughout the country? Why ha ...
  • Kevorkian's call to defeat the cacocracy
    By Rady Ananda Dr. Jack Kevorkian passed away on June 3, at the age of 83. His “compassionate and common sense approach to ending human suffering is but one facet of his decades-long advocacy of the Ninth Amendment.” So I wrote in 2009 after hearing him speak in a gymnasium packed with 2,500 p ...
  • Humala Wins Peru's Presidential Runoff
    by Stephen Lendman On April 10, Ollanta Humala received most support among five presidential candidates, but not a majority. Eliminated were former neoliberal President Alejandro Toledo, his former economic minister and Lima mayor Luis Castaneda Lossio, and former Prime Minister Pedro Pablo Kuc ...
  • America's Imperial War on Libya
    by Stephen Lendman Obama's claimed humanitarian intervention, if fact, is lawless imperialism by any standard, America's latest target to be conquered, colonized, controlled and pillaged for greater power and profit. As a result, daily NATO atrocities continue, a shocking display of imperi ...
  • Would You Sleep In Your Microwave Oven?
    by Chantal Boccaccio Imagine you’re living in your apartment for fifteen years, and one day the city comes knocking on your door with orders to put NINE Cellular Antennas and a GPS Satellite on your roof! That’s the nightmare facing the residents of 7100 Hillside Avenue in Hollywood. On Wedn ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • CCPA's new blog: Behind The Numbers
    We had such a positive response to our federal election blog, we've decided to continue blogging. We've just launched Behind the Numbers, which will deliver timely, progressive commentary and analysis from CCPA staff and research associates across the country on issues that affect Canadians, in ...
  • Prairie Strong No Longer? Harper's Renewed Att ...
    � Just one day after the May 2nd federal election, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz made it clear that the Conservative government would move to eliminate the Canadian Wheat Board's single-desk marketing power with legislation as soon as this fall. As Canada's largest farm marketing board, the ...
  • Creeping Privatization
    SImon Enoch, Director of the Saskatchewan Office, comments on the creeping privatization of the provincial crowns. View the editorial in the Regina Leader-Post here.�
  • What's the key to the 'good society'?
    Imagine a country that puts the well-being of the majority ahead of the profits of a tiny minority. They do it in Denmark. In this short video, Affluenza author Oliver James talks about how prosperity has very little to do with wealth — it has everything to do with meeting basic needs. "The rich ...
  • CCPA-NS Director talks women's rights under Ha ...
    What's the future of women under a Harper majority government? Christine Saulnier talks about that, and more, in this CTV interview.

World Wide Hippies

  • Happy Birthday To Les Paul
    Lester William Polsfuss (June 9, 1915 â August 12, 2009)âknown as Les Paulâwas an American jazz and country guitarist, songwriter and inventor. He was a pioneer in the development of the solid-body electric guitar which “made the sound of rock and roll possible”. He is credited with many recordi ...
  • The Rapper – Jaggerz
    The Jaggerz are a pop/rock band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, often considered a one-hit wonder because their only major success was the single “The Rapper”, written by Donnie Iris (who was then billed by his birth name, Dominic Ierace). Released on the Kama Sutra label in 1970, “The Rapper”, r ...
  • Wake’N'Bake 101: Doubly Bound
    The vast, overwhelming, silent, ignorant majority of the “good people” of the USofA don’t realize it–they’ve been trained since birth to ignore it, they are almost all in total ignorance of it–but they are the uninformed, naive, involuntary, test/experimental subjects in the biggest, most comple ...
  • Psych Rockers Hit a Chord
    By Kameela Din | southsanfrancisco.patch - Psych throwback trio Electric Shepherd will open this weekend’s Haight Street festival, with South City resident Mark Nelsen playing guitar and providing vocals. Amidst Americana bands, a Latin jazz youth ensemble and hip-hop acts, one band will help op ...
  • R. Dean Taylor – Indiana Wants Me 1971
    R. Dean Taylor (born Richard Dean Taylor, 11 May 1939, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)[1] is a Canadian singer, most famous as a recording artist, songwriter and record producer for Motown Records company during the 1960s and 1970s. According to Jason Ankeny, Taylor “remains one of the most underrated ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Glenn Beck on Muslims, Obama and Michael Moore ...
    From Glenn Beck's radio show, June 2, 2011: ... PAT GRAY: How does a guy who immigrated here from -- was it India? I think India. He's got Muslim parenthood and he comes here and he enjoys incredible success. The guy's a national television host and a best-selling author. He probably makes ...
  • In His Latest Attack, Beck's Sidekick Highligh ...
    On today's edition of his radio show, Glenn Beck and�his sidekick�Pat Gray criticized CNN Host and Time editor Fareed Zakaria for comments�suggesting that the U.S. Constitution was not perfect. Zakaria made the comments during an interview with PBS' Charlie Rose earlier this week. (This was part ...
  • TOM MORELLO : THE NIGHTWATCHMAN TO RELEASE UNI ...
    FREE DOWNLOAD OF THE TITLE TRACK “UNION TOWN” AVAILABLE NOW   NEW FULL LENGTH ALBUM, WORLD WIDE REBEL SONGS, TO BE RELEASED LATE SUMMER   April 28th, 2011 -- New York, New York -- Tom Morello is set to release Union Town via New West Records digitally on May 17th with a physical CD and Vinyl rel ...
  • New York Times: Claims Gaddafi Tried to Assass ...
    From 'TARGET QADDAFI' by Seymour Hersh, New York Times, February 22, 1987 ... In the weeks following Sadat's death, newspapers and television reported a barrage of Qaddafi death threats to Reagan and senior Administration officials. Secret Service protection was ordered for the President's ...
  • New York Times: U.S. Specifically Targeted Gad ...
    From 'TARGET QADDAFI' by Seymour Hersh, New York Times, February 22, 1987 ... The mission was the first combat assignment for most of the fliers. Qaddafi's home and his camouflaged Bedouin tent, where he often worked throughout the night, were inside the grounds of El-Azziziya. The notion o ...

Salon

  • How to sabotage a recovery
    Having recently praised President Barack Obama's skills as a political counterpuncher, it's worth noting that in politics, as in boxing, it's risky to let your opponent take the initiative.
  • A pregnancy changes everything
    (Updated below)
  • The four ways this can end for Anthony Weiner
    The calls from his fellow Democrats for Anthony Weiner to resign his House seat are only increasing, but the New York congressman still seems intent on riding out the storm.
  • Herman Cain will veto bills longer than three ...
    Herman Cain, the next president of the United States, had a brilliant idea the other day: He will only sign bills that are three pages long. If the bill is longer than three pages, Herman Cain will veto it, and your pizza is free.
  • Joe Lieberman will help Glenn Beck restore som ...
    Outgoing Sen. Joe Lieberman (Connecticut for Lieberman-Conn.) is joining forces with outgoing Fox televangelist/huckster/prophet Glenn Beck to sabotage the Middle East peace process and annoy liberals everywhere.

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Ted Roosevelt: A Republican Fights Climate Change
    �I was headed out for a run one morning in April during FORTUNE�s Brainstorm Green conference in Laguna Niguel, CA, when I spotted Theodore Roosevelt IV jogging on the beach. Having a good run? I asked him. Yes, he told me, and he�d been swimming, too, in the big waves that crash onto the beach ...
  • How China Can Advance Sustainable Development ...
    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 government agencies, state-owned enterprises and other organizations, led by the then-State Planni ...
  • Film Tells the Story of Mountaintop Removal Co ...
    A couple of years ago, I flew over mountaintop removal coal operations in Kentucky, and I saw the enormous scale of the destruction wrought by this kind of mining. Last week, I saw an amazing film that showed again the scale of this needless and heedless environmental devastation and revealed th ...
  • Will Utilities Thrive as Trusted Advisors or S ...
    The Smart Grid delivers disruptive technologies and services that will impact the entire electricity value chain of generation, transmission, distribution and consumption- meaning utilities and consumers.� Utility operations in generation, transmission, and distribution will be disrupted as work ...
  • 90F Average- Coming To A Summer Near You
    When the Lovin’ Spoonful released Summer in the City in 1966, they weren’t thinking about climate change. But, it turns out, city dwellers can expect a lot more hot days than country folk, climate models tell us. As the Spoonful put it:

EU Times

  • Belarusians turn to mass protests as governmen ...
    As Minsk struggles to deal with the ongoing economic turmoil, rapid inflation is brewing unrest. The government had to lower fuel prices two days after a sharp increase, due to mass protests. ­On Thursday, Belarusian gas prices have dropped by almost a quarter, after President Lukashenko’s order ...
  • Switzerland Creates and Stores Antimatter Atom ...
    Some 309 antihydrogen atoms have been created by ALPHA Collaboration in Switzerland and stored in a magnified cylinder up to about 17 minutes for the first time in the history of science. The Geneva-based international team of scientists working in CERN announced on Tuesday that storing the anti ...
  • Denmark’s far right gains influence
    Border controls set to return amid concerns over link between foreigners and crime. European Union ministers are discussing new measures which could restrict people’s movement across the continent. Much of the debate has been prompted by an influx of migrants from North Africa. The far right has ...
  • Federal Reserve Admits Having No Gold At All
    Thats right. The Fed owns NO gold. Zero, zip, ziltch. For those of you who did not watch yesterday’s monetary policy hearing in the house of representatives, you most likely missed this bombshell exchange between Federal Reserve lawyer Scott Alvarez and committee chairman Dr. Ron Paul. My jaw li ...
  • Syria’s Assad becomes hellspawn for Western media
    The situation around Syria continues to be in the spotlight of the politicians and the media. In recent days the situation in the country has sharply deteriorated. The tone of the comments in various western media outlets is nearly the same: they are blaming President Bashar Assad. At some point ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Allyson Schwartz to Weiner: Resign
    It's bad news for Anthony Weiner when members of his own party begin asking him to step down.  The list is still fairly short, but among them is Philadelphia suburbs' congresswoman and recruitment chairwoman at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Rep. Allyson Schwartz . Politico re ...
  • Paramount Pictures and Twitter to Offer Super ...
    Have a Twitter account? Excited about J.J. Abrams' Super 8 (review here) ? Then get ready to take notice, my horror lovin' brothers and sisters! The powers that be have cooked up something pretty neat for you! From the Press Release Paramount Pictures and Twitter jointly announced today sneak p ...
  • Texas Instruments Cuts Guidance, Shares Drop
    AP Texas Instruments cut its second-quarter guidance, saying it’s taking longer than expected to recover from supply chain disruptions in Japan. Its shares are down 4.85% to $31.09 in after-hours trading. Dow Jones Newswires reports: TI — which makes chips for products as varying as cellphones ...
  • Bill Kristol: Rudy Giuliani Is Running For Pre ...
    The Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol says that Rudy Giuliani is running for President: I’m told by two reliable sources that Rudy Giuliani intends to run for the GOP nomination for president in 2012. He may throw his hat in the ring soon. Rudy’s theory of the race: In the fall of 2007, he decided ...
  • Introducing The Nintendo Wii U
    This past week, what with the WWD and E3 events, has seen some major announcements in the world of technology. We have already brought to you announcements from Apple and we have previously shown  you the new PSP 2 portable gaming device that was this week confirmed by Sony and named the PSP Vi ...

Groklaw

  • The patent balance
    My sense is that most programmers would now argue against software patents, just as Marco has. We're 30 years into the software patent system and seeing its downsides: the patent term is way too long for software; too many patents have been issued; and patent extortion is rewarded instead of pun ...
  • Lodsys Hunts For Bigger Game, But Gets Slapped ...
    Here's what this new lawsuit shows us about Lodsys: » The company believes it "owns" a huge array of basic online practices, and its wild claims aren't limited to the mobile space. It's saying that Adidas, Best Buy, and WE Energies all owe it money simply because they send out customer satisfa ...
  • Help the Unhosted Web Become a Reality!
    We are raising 42,000 euros to realise our dream of the unhosted web. With this money, we will be able to pay for one full-time developer until March 2013....Unhosted is an open web standard for decentralizing user data. On the unhosted web, data is stored per-user, wherever the user decides.Tha ...
  • Is McDermott Will app developers' (accidental) ...
    The tech world, you'll recall, is so exercised about the suits against small app developers that the crowd-source patent research group Article One Partners has offered a $5000 bounty to anyone who can come up with evidence to invalidate the Macrosolve's patent at issue. The other patent holdi ...
  • New "ShaperProbe" tool detects ISP traffic shaping
    Two researchers at Georgia Tech can tell you exactly how American ISPs shape Internet traffic, and which ones do so. Bottom line: of the five largest Internet providers in the country, the three cable companies (Comcast, Time Warner, Cox) employ shaping while the telephone companies (AT&T, Veriz ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Innovative tidal turbine to be tested in London
    The turbine has two sets of rotors, one revolves clockwsie, the other counter-clockwise. Torque is eliminated, allowing the turbines to be moored rather than attached to the seabed. The turbine has the capacity to directly drive a flooded, permanent magnet, and contra-rotating generator, without ...
  • We’re Messing Up The Land. Manfred Mann
    Right now the world ain’t looking too hot Unless you’re dead you must know what I mean There’s a [...] They say they’ve got an answer but I think it’s all a dream Well it’s easy to forget about it, just get high Live up in your castle in the sky But you still breathe [...]
  • Wind turbine history in San Gorgonio Pass
    GreenTechMedia attends a wind energy conference in Palm Springs, then explores nearly San Gorgonia Pass, home of hundreds of wind turbines. Some are thirty years old. This was one of the birthplaces of US wind power and you can see the history everywhere, modern turbines next to antiquated ones. ...
  • March of Tyranny aided by both parties continues
    The banking and corporate masters (crony capitalist fascists) control both major parties behind the scenes. They keep us distracted with left vs. right while giving us the illusion that voting for one of the other parties will solve things. It won’t. Dept of Education orders SWAT team against so ...
  • Renewable energy can have adverse environmenta ...
    Renewable energy requires massive installations, usually in remote or desert areas, of wind and solar farms. Such projects often spread over thousands of acres and invariably will have at least some adverse environmental impact. Deserts are fragile places. Ecosystems can be easily upset. Species ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • Dalai Lama raises spirits in Christchurch
    Realising Cantabrians could do with a moral boost the Dalai Lama altered his schedule and fitted in a talk in Christchurch before his Australian tour. The Canterbury Arena was packed for the event. The only sour note was from the Chinese Embassy, which approached our government after they heard ...
  • General debate, June 9, 2011
  • World Oceans Day
    I recently learned to scuba dive at the Taputeranga Marine Reserve on Wellington’s wild South coast which has given me a whole new appreciation of our marine environment. In contrast to outside the marine reserve, life is flourishing with an abundance of fish, crabs and crayfish. We are so lucky ...
  • Growing in a way that makes us happy
    According to a piece in the Herald today, people with longer commutes are less likely to be healthy, happy or stay married. The study found that if you commute for 45 minutes plus then your chance of getting divorced is 40% higher than for those with shorter journeys. This is good news for me (a ...
  • Nats planning more attacks on workers’ rights
    Not content with its 90 day fire at will legislation, effective nil increases to the minimum wage, undermining workers’ rights to four weeks’ annual leave, and restricting union access to workplaces, John Key has revealed National is planning more attacks on workers’ rights.  Radio New Zealand r ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Humanity at the Crossroads: Business and Jobs
    What's known as the economy has not only had horrid consequences, it is ultimately unsustainable. In two centuries, it has turned human beings into beasts of burden and their rulers into mere teamsters, it has polluted the Earth, extinguished uncounted species and exterminated millions of people ...
  • (Land of the Fee and the Home of the Knave) Mo ...
    President Obama has said that he will not allow people-programs to be cut so that the wealthy can receive tax cuts because our nation is "better than that." But what America is cannot be distinguished from its economy which exists merely to accumulate money. It's why the maxim is let the buy ...
  • The Supreme Court, the Constitution and the Fi ...
    The Supreme Court's First Amendment opinions result not from interpreting the First Amendment but from deliberately and insidiously changing its diction in ways that make the Amendment unrecognizable. The Court's arguments in these opinions are pure cant and do nothing but turn the Justice ...
  • Liberty's Easy Slide into Tyranny
    Huge conspiracies aren't what destroys people's freedom, the accumulation of errors, failed policies, and little and big unfairnesses do. It happens because The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men/ Gang aft agley,/ An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain. The FED, CIA, Executive Privilege, The ...
  • What should be done with illegal immigrants?
    That this question is even being asked reveals something about ourselves. How would you answer it if you were an illegal immigrant? Perhaps you've never heard of the Golden Rule. The rule may not be the best guide to moral behavior but asking yourself how you'd answer the question if you wer ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • America the Fanciful
    Welcome to America: A large majority of Americans say the U.S. economy would probably suffer serious harm if Congress fails to give the federal government more borrowing authority. But barely half support raising the government’s debt limit, even if lawmakers also sharply cut spending. ...
  • The Decline and Fall of the Wall Street Journal
    Ryan Chittum takes a look at two stories about delays in writing new financial regulations, and concludes that the Murdochization of the Wall Street Journal's news pages is proceeding apace: The Journal’s frame is that Wall Street is upset over the delay of derivatives rules and that it’s ...
  • Why Trying Everything is Good for Healthcare
    Matt Steinglass: David Brooks had an op-ed in the New York Times yesterday that proclaimed the near impossibility of restraining costs in health care through centralised government efficiency evaluations, which is being justly ridiculed by people (Jon Chait, Jonathan Cohn, Ezra Klein) who ...
  • Why Do Lefties Hate Tax Cuts on the Rich?
    Reading Tim Pawlenty's paean to double plus supply-side-ism yesterday made me wonder, once again, why conservatives think we liberals are opposed to it. I mean, if it actually worked, why would we be? It's politically popular, and by their accounts it would generate trillions of dollars in e ...
  • The Truth Will Out (And It Should)
    Karl Smith: To my mind there are few things that tax intellectual ethics more profoundly than whether the psychotropic debate should be had in public. It is my general feeling that it should not. My blog is not read by the general public but I will make no attempt to be transparent. Thos ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 252: Pedophile Insurance
    Topics: Lupe acts like Lupe Is Obama a terrorist? How important is voting? A 2 vehicle, 1 bear accident Creflo Dollar defends Eddie Long Herman Cain…the gift that keeps giving…. Share with your friends:
  • Anthony’s Weiner and How Democrats Always Fuck Up
    You’ve probably noticed that writing on the Insanity Report has dropped off a bit.  It’s not that I’ve gotten done blogging.  I’m actually spending more time at my other site MovieTrailerReviews.Net (cheap plug).  But every now and then I’ll still pop in and drop an article here cause some th ...
  • IC 251: It’s Too Damn Hot
    Topics: It’s too hot in the DMV The Eddie Long saga Rep. Anthony Weiner has his “twitter hacked” Sarah Palin leads the media on a goose chase Herman Cain for President Share with your friends:
  • IC 250: The Mini-4LOKO Podcast Party
    Topics: The last 4Loko podcast party was so successful we decided to do it again. This time in studio. Fuckery ensues… Share with your friends:
  • What to Pack for the Rapture Tomorrow
    So you might have heard that the Rapture is happening tomorrow.  Yup.  Some random white guy who looks like he’s old, wears depends and smells is telling everyone that May 21, 2011 is when Jesus is coming back.  Yeah I know.  It’s 2011 and people are still falling for the “Yeah I spoke to Je ...

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • Can evolution outpace climate change?
    Animals and plants may not be able to evolve their way out of the threat posed by climate change, according to a UC Davis study of a tiny seashore animal. The work was published today (June 8) in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. read more
  • Ecology biased against non-native species?
    The recent field of invasion biology faces a new challenge as 19 eminent ecologists issue a call to "end the bias against non-native species" in the journal Nature. read more
  • Saving wildlife with forensic genetics
    Wildlife face many threats with spreading urbanization, including habitat loss and inbreeding when populations become fragmented and isolated. It doesn't help that there is a billion-dollar international industry dedicated to the illegal trafficking of wild animals or wild animal parts. read more
  • Researchers discover superatoms with magnetic ...
    A team of Virginia Commonwealth University scientists has discovered a new class of 'superatoms' – a stable cluster of atoms that can mimic different elements of the periodic table – with unusual magnetic characteristics. read more
  • Study: Stark differences in media use between ...
    Minority youth aged 8 to 18 consume an average of 13 hours of media content a day -- about 4-1/2 hours more than their white counterparts, according to a Northwestern University report, the first national study to focus exclusively on children's media use by race and ethnicity. read more

unEarthed

  • Can I Get a Witness Who Cares About Kids' Health?
    Health professionals square off with industry mouthpieces at senate hearing The hearing room on the 4th floor of the Dirksen Senate Office building was packed— ...
  • A Domino Falls
    Fresno Board of Supervisors rejects a nuclear-power proposal The Fresno, California, Board of Supervisors has decided not to endorse a proposal by the Fresno N ...
  • Tr-Ash Talk: In the Back Pocket of Polluters
    44 senators urge Obama to back off coal ash regulation Coal ash Okay, so we’ve established the hazards of coal ash. There is no doubt that arsenic, cadmium, ...
  • The March Toward Justice Begins
    Mass Mobilization in WV, March on Blair Mountain Kicks Off Tomorrow Appalachia is rising for justice, protection of the law, and an end to mountaintop removal mining. ...
  • Notes From Under The Bus
    Obama backtracks on road environmental fronts What happens when you get thrown under the bus. Since the GOP won a majority in the House in�2010, the Obama a ...

Brave New Climate

  • Open Thread 16
    The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting rules of courtesy apply, and at the very least your chat should relate to the general content of this ...
  • Disposal of UK plutonium stocks with a climate ...
    In the 1950s, following World War II, the United Kingdom and a handful of other nations developed a nuclear weapons arsenal. This required the production of plutonium metal (or highly enriched uranium) purpose-built facilities. ‘Civil’ plutonium was also produced, since the facilities for separa ...
  • Critique of MIT future of nuclear fuel cycle study
    MIT (energy initiative) recently released a controversial and well-publicized report on the future of the nuclear fuel cycle. In it, they argue that there is sufficient uranium to allow ongoing deployment of water-cooled reactors for many decades; they recommend that no far-reaching decision be ...
  • Nuclear power and climate change – what now?
    I’m currently on a 3-week trip to North America, and will be returning to Australia in mid-June. At the end of my travels I’ll be attending an energy futures conference in Waterloo, Canada (and will write more about that in an upcoming blog). But at present, I’m in Davis, California, and have be ...
  • What price of Indian independence? Greenpeace ...
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. To see a list of other BNC posts by Geoff, click here. —————— India declared itself a republic in 1950 after more than a century of ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • Naksa Day 2011 when Non-Violent Protests were ...
    Naksa Day 2011 when Non-Violent Protests were answered with Violence & Manslaughter – in pictures | Occupied Palestine | فلسطين: UDHR 20(1) states: “Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.”(Universal Declaration of Human Rights)Not in Palestine and as it seems not ...
  • Settlers Set Fire to Palestinian Crops Near He ...
    Settlers Set Fire to Palestinian Crops Near Hebron | Occupied Palestine | فلسطين: "Hebron – PNN Exclusive – As part of the daily attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinian villages, on Wednesday afternoon settlers set fire to crops owned by Palestinian farmers from the village of Bani Naim, near ...
  • UNDERNEWS: America's lonely disrespect for Pal ...
    UNDERNEWS: America's lonely disrespect for Palestine: Francis A. Boyle - On November 15, 1988 the Palestine National Council meeting in Algiers proclaimed the Palestinian Declaration of Independence that created the independent state of Palestine. Today the State of Palestine is bilaterally reco ...
  • In defence of Dr. Cornel West and all other co ...
    Editorial: The Fine Art of Stepping Back: Why I have decided to stop writing about race. By TheAngryindian -�04.06.2008 Editor's Note: This editorial is a re-print of a older article I wrote during the electoral run-up to the historical Obama presidency on my (not defunct) decision t ...
  • TheAngryindian: Why I have decided to stop wri ...
    Editorial: The Fine Art of Stepping Back: Why I have decided to stop writing about race. | APNS Why I have decided to stop writing about race. By TheAngryindian 04.06.2008 *Editor's Note: This editorial is a re-print of a older article I wrote during the electoral run-up to the his ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Jobs Boehner?
    When will Boehner and the Republicans in the House stop attacking women, and seniors long enough to pass a bill to create jobs? No Ayn Rand voodoo economics fantasy tax cuts for billionaires trickle down crap. I mean real job creating legislation.
  • Grandma Isn’t Dead Yet Mr. Ryan
    I know how hard you have worked to steal the last few dollars grandma has left to buy her pills. Once she runs out of money and she dies, problem solved right? One less parasite living on government “entitlements” right Mr. Ryan? Gotta pay for them tax breaks for billionaires now don’t we….
  • Boehner Ready to Cut a Deal on Raising the Deb ...
    If President Obama would agree to cut “entitlements” and put thousands of Americans to death from lack of food, or proper medical attention John Boehner guarantees he will put raising the debt ceiling to a vote! What a deal? I think the CBO should “score” how many Americans will die needlessly f ...
  • Let Me Get This Straight Mitch
    So the Republicans are threatening to “not” raise the debt ceiling. They want to “work together” with Dems slashing spending on “entitlements” (helping poor and old people survive) and not raise taxes on anyone anywhere regardless how much money they are making. Sound like a bargain? Hey Mitch. ...
  • Congratulations Senator McCain – Telling ...
    I would personally like to commend Mr. McCain for telling the world the truth about torture. Most of the time when a Republican does anything it could be considered an act of sabotage, but in this case one Republican actually did something good for our nation. Congratulations. Now let’s talk abo ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

+972

  • Arraf, Daskal, Katz: unmasking the logic of we ...
    The search for the true identity of Amina Arraf, the Damascus blogger who captured thousends worldwide with her courageous writing, brought back a memory. Arraf, author of the inspiring blog “A Gay Girl in Damascus” was reportedly abducted on Monday by Syrian security forces. The story of her ar ...
  • Africa’s less-known business ventures of ...
    As Israelis look for solutions to deal with some of the country’s growing economic and social problems, they could stand to sometimes take a few less lessons from America and a few more from Africa. Finance ministers and bank officials from Africa and investing countries are heading to the Portu ...
  • Aziz Abu Sarah asks readers to help him choose ...
    In continuing efforts to replace what’s left of Jerusalem’s Palestinian identity with a Jewish one, MK Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) has introduced a Knesset bill that would change the Arabic names of neighborhoods in Jerusalem to Hebrew names. According to the Jerusalem Post, MK Hotovely quoted I ...
  • Israeli settlers set fire to mosque in West Ba ...
    West Bank settlers are suspected of attempting to set fire on Tuesday morning to a mosque in the West Bank village of Maghayer, breaking through a window and rolling burning tires into the mosque in order to maximize damage. The attackers left a message in Hebrew scrawled on the mosque’s walls, ...
  • +972 Magazine celebrates its first birthday!
    It’s been a bit more than a year since we started working on +972 Magazine, and the site was officially launched last summer. To mark this event, we gathered for a toast in the presence of friends and colleagues on the rooftop of the space belonging to the HaYarkon 70 collective in Tel Aviv (o ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

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

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Progressives On A Pin
    There were a good number of messages from the last post about a Conservative MP bemoaning the lack of institution building in this country. The preoccupation was on the identity of the MP when it should have been on the cause of his disillusionment. In the broader Canadian political context we a ...
  • A Knight’s Tale
    “I miss you in this place. I so badly wanted a better form of politics, but now it’s all about power, and who has it, and not participation.” This email popped up on my iPhone a couple of days ago from a Conservative MP who’s tired of the same-old, same-old. We shouldn’t be surprised at [...]
  • The Rough Beast
                                                                                                                   [...]
  • Grassroots Elitism
    We decided to have a final get-together for all those who assisted during the last campaign, just as a way of saying thank you and for me to express my commitment to our local riding association. I was surprised by how many showed up. My wife Jane and I mingled among them, encouraging them to [...]
  • Grassroots Elitism
    We decided to have a final get-together for all those who assisted during the last campaign, just as a way of saying thank you and for me to express my commitment to our local riding association. I was surprised by how many showed up. My wife Jane and I mingled among them, encouraging them to [...]
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