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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 II

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Ten weeks to save the world: Nature does the S ...
    You’ve heard the rumors and read the hype – but what really goes on at the Singularity University, based at the NASA Ames campus in Silicon Valley?  Nature’s Nicola Jones recently went along to take a look, and her report has just been posted – it’s well worth reading. The Singularity Universit ...
  • Prepare and Inspire: The President’s Council o ...
    The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology – PCAST – has just released a new report on US K-12 education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (the STEM subjects).  The report provides, in the words of the Presidentâs Science Advisor John Holdren, “a strategy fo ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    This week I exchanged the maze of academia for an entirely different maze – I spent most of the week at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, China. World Economic Forum meetings are usually rather grand, complex, intimidating, stimulating and serendipitous aff ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    This week my life has been dominated by writing a new review of nanotoxicology.  Not that the world needs another review – far from it, as there are a number of excellent ones out there (I’ve even contributed to some).  But in a moment of abject weakness, I agreed to help a good colleague out ...
  • Realizing dreams of carbon nanotubes
    A guest blog by John Dorr, Vice President of Business Development Nanocomp Technologies Inc. Despite all the fuss over nanotechnology, it’s surprisingly difficult to get a clear sense of how the technology is contributing to new products.  So when the company Nanocomp Technologies Inc. approache ...

Reader Supported News

  • Olbermann's Exit: The Inside Story
    Marisa Guthrie writes: "Now with a bigger paycheck but a smaller network, the stand-up-to-management bad boy unloads for the first time about MSNBC, Jeff Zucker, why he's not talking to Rachel Maddow and his plan for Countdown 2.0 on Current TV." Keith Olbermann talks about leaving MSNBC and ...
  • Afghanistan: The War No One Wants
    Amanda Terkel reports: "The war in Afghanistan is increasingly becoming the war no one wants. Opposition to the conflict is now mainstream, with the vast majority of the American public favoring a substantial drawdown of US troops. With the death of bin Laden, the growing cost of operations and ...
  • Afghanistan: The War No One Wants
    Amanda Terkel reports: "The war in Afghanistan is increasingly becoming the war no one wants. Opposition to the conflict is now mainstream, with the vast majority of the American public favoring a substantial drawdown of US troops. With the death of bin Laden, the growing cost of operations and ...
  • Teachers Union Fights Massive Layoffs in Phila ...
    Ben Simmoneau reports: "A Philadelphia Common Pleas Court judge today granted a temporary restraining order against the School District of Philadelphia, putting a halt for now on the school district's plan to lay off 1,500 teachers." Jerry Jordan, President of the Philadelphia Federation of T ...
  • Teachers Union Fights Massive Layoffs in Phila ...
    Ben Simmoneau reports: "A Philadelphia Common Pleas Court judge today granted a temporary restraining order against the School District of Philadelphia, putting a halt for now on the school district's plan to lay off 1,500 teachers." Jerry Jordan, President of the Philadelphia Federation of T ...

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • Pfizer will voluntary suspend sale of roxarson ...
    The FDA announced today that Pfizer Inc., will voluntarily suspend the sale of 3-Nitro (better known as the arsenical drug roxarsone) following the results of an FDA study which found elevated levels of inorganic arsenic in the livers of chicken fed roxarsone compared to a control group. The ann ...
  • 100 years of artificial nitrogen - but how man ...
    I recently was asked in an interview to name the one thing I would change in the world if I had the power to do so. Surprising even myself, I replied quickly “the Haber-Bosch (H-B) process for industrial nitrogen fixation. Imagine - a world without synthetic N! One can imagine the blank look I g ...
  • Study finds new MRSA strain in European milk
    Researchers at Cambridge University say they have found a new strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in milk from England, Scotland and Denmark, which they are calling LGA251. The findings - published online by The Lancet Infectious Diseases - can be seen as a further sign ...
  • Nationwide Poll: 80% of America’s Moms are Con ...
    When moms talk you can bet lawmakers listen, not to mention food retailers. That is exactly what the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming is counting on following the release of a nationwide poll of 804 American moms, which found that 80 percent are concerned that food animals pro ...
  • India develops sound policy on antibiotic use ...
    India is the most recent country to address the public health concerns associated with the use of non-therapeutic antimicrobials in food animal production, and in doing so, may just leap-frog the United States. India’s Directorate General of Health Services recently released a policy docume ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 9, 2011
    ==== NATO Defense Chiefs Endorse Extension Of Libyan War To End Of September Pentagon Chief Pressures More NATO Allies For Libyan War Support 83-Day Air War: 10,290 NATO Sorties, Almost 4,000 Combat Flights Namibia: Call For Marches, Other Actions Against NATO’s Atrocities In Libya NATO Escalate ...
  • Arnold Zweig: Education Before Verdun
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Arnold Zweig From Education Before Verdun (1936) Translated by Eric Sutton Since the middle of May the battle had come to a deadlock. Now, half-way through July, its formless shape still rolled over the low ground between Fleury village ...
  • Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 8, 2011
    ==== NATO’s Libyan Air War: 10,177 Sorties, 3,860 Combat Missions Sixty Blasts Tear Through Tripoli As NATO Steps Up Bombing No NATO Operations In Syria And Yemen…Except With UN Resolutions Expanded Shanghai Cooperation Organization Can Offset U.S.-Dominated Unipolar World, Eastern NATO New Silk ...
  • Lucan: Over all the world you are victorious a ...
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Lucan Pharsalia (Civil War) Translated By J.D. Duff Caesar was returning triumphant over conquered Spain to carry into a new world his victorious eagles, when the flowing tide of his successes was almost turned aside by Heaven. For, uns ...
  • Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: June 7, 2011
    ==== 81-Day War Against Libya: Over 10,000 NATO Sorties Libya: A Deafening Silence Video And Text: NATO Intensifies Bombing Of Tripoli NATO Launches Record 30 Air Strikes On Libyan Capital In One Day Eurasian Heartland: U.S. Breathes Life Into New Cold War Russia Will Counter Any NATO Missile Th ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Breaking: GOING ROGUE: DOCUMENTED NATO War Cri ...
    The Intel Hub By Susan Lindauer June 8th, 2011 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 rush the women to gang bang p ...
  • NRC Investigation Yields “New” Fla ...
    Lucaswhitefieldhixson.com June 8th, 2011 Nuclear Power Plant Inspection Findings Released Today the NRC released the inspection results for all 104 operating United States nuclear power reactors, regarding their guidelines for continuing to protect the public from accidents. Severe Accident Mana ...
  • China Wants To Construct A 50 Square Mile Self ...
    The American Dream June 8, 2011 Thanks to the trillions of dollars that the Chinese have made flooding our shores with cheap products, China is now in a position of tremendous economic power. So what is China going to do with all of that money?  One thing that they have decided to do is to [...]
  • High Quality Bilderberg 2011 Video & Photos, S ...
    Infowars.com June 8th, 2011 Bilderberg Security Erect Veil to Hide Identity of Attendees at Entry Checkpoint Bilderberg Security Goons Mass, Prep for Elite Attendees Bilderberg re-enforce hideout with CCTV security layers St. Moritz 2011 Photos by Infowars.com – Published with permission. var ad ...
  • Breaking: Secret Bilderberg Agenda Leaked by Mole
    Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com June 8, 2011 Alex Jones and Infowars.com have received inside information regarding the Bilderberg agenda now unfolding in the idyllic Swiss countryside. According to AFP journalist and legendary Bilderberg sleuth Jim Tucker’s inside sources, the agenda now under review i ...

FRS

  • Statement exposing and opposing the World Econ ...
    [On the event of the meeting of the World Economic Forum in Austria, a number of European anti-imperialist and revolutionary organizations have released this joint statement, analyzing the present world economic crisis, the role of the WEF, and the growing revolutionary struggles against the imp ...
  • Indian Maoists on the Deployment of Army Troop ...
    [The recent announcement that the Indian Army is deploying troops, ostensibly for "training," into indigenous areas deemed "rebel" or "extremist" has drawn much attention and growing opposition from various sectors. (see the prior news report at http://revolutionaryfrontlines.wordpress.com/2011/ ...
  • India, The Telegraph: “Red terror hits L ...
    The Telegraph, Calcutta, India AMIT GUPTA, Sunday , June 5 , 2011   Ranchi, June 4: Mining, dispatch and transportation of bauxite from Pakhar mines in the Naxalite-hit Kisko police station area of Lohardaga district have come to a grinding halt since Wednesday evening after a group of rebels to ...
  • Revolutionary Front for the Defense of the Peo ...
    [This is an updated translation of an important analysis of the war in Libya, from the Revolutionary Front for the Defense of People's Rights of Brazil. -- Frontlines ed.] ——————————– Down with the imperialist aggression against Libya! Long live the war of resistance of the people of the world! ...
  • Bahrain: Government prosecutes doctors for tre ...
    Bahrain puts medical staff on trial for treating injured protesters Security court deals with 47 doctors and nurses accused of participating in efforts to remove monarchy Associated Press guardian.co.uk, Monday 6 June 2011 Doctors and nurses who treated injured anti-government protesters during ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

  • Reader, I am taking yet another day off
    In order to pay myself back for a wacky work schedule of the past month or so, I'm stepping away from the computer for a day off, and I suggest you do the same. But do check back here on Friday, when we'll be up and running -- or shuffling, because I don't run like I used to.
  • Headscarf ban trips up Iranian women's soccer team
    FIFA, the governing body of all things soccer, has�ruled that the Iranian women's soccer uniform -- which includes a headscarf -- violates the association's dress code. This raises all kinds of questions -- about religious freedom, about whether a woman can dress the way she feels her religion ...
  • Friends in motion
    This is a confession, and if you're not in the mood, there is no penalty if you stop reading now. I come from a family that talks better if we're tossing a ball around, and for years, I found my friends at the track, on the court, at the baseball field. Evidently, a lot of people come from fami ...
  • Race still matters
    Trot on over to Colorlines to see what some young people think about the rest of us saying we're in a post-racial world. And thanks, Feministing, for the link.
  • Support the Ronald Reagan Tax Reform Act of '11
    Michael B. Keegan, at Huffington Post, writes: A key element of the Reagan lore believed by today's GOP is that Reagan's embrace of "trickle-down economics" is what caused any and all economic growth since the 1980s. In fact, after Reagan implemented his initial tax-slashing plan in 1981, t ...

Associated Content

  • Will Plaxico Burress Follow in Michael Vick's ...
    Will Plaxico Burress have a successful NFL comeback? Here I profile three athletes who have spent time in jail and went on to continue their careers.Contributor: K.C. Dermody Published: Jun 07, 2011
  • Media Machine Continues Assault on Palin for P ...
    The controversy surrounding Sarah Palin and what she said about Paul Revere "warning the British" continues to roil. In the face of incontrovertible evidence that Palin was correct, many people are still not prepared to concede the point.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Jun 07, 2011
  • Are School Yearbooks Going Extinct?
    School yearbooks are on the decline and, at some schools, simply not being offered anymore. But is this something to lament?Contributor: Jaclyn Berger Published: Jun 07, 2011
  • Timeline: Merkel's D.C. Visit Recalls Legacy o ...
    The recognition of Merkel's achievements as the first woman leader of a major continental European power by President Obama and the first lady recall a legacy of women's leadership:Contributor: T. Calvarese Published: Jun 07, 2011
  • Weiner Admits Tweet, Joins Ranks of Other Fall ...
    Rep. Anthony Weiner publicly announces that he lied about sending the now infamous lewd photo tweet. Will his honesty save his career?Contributor: Stephanie L. Baroni Published: Jun 07, 2011

Popsci - Science

  • Mars Science Lab Needs $44 Million More For It ...
    NASA’s newest Mars rover faces further hurdles and could require another $44 million in funds before it is ready for launch this fall, according to an agency audit announced today. The Mars Science Laboratory is supposed to launch in a window between Thanksgiving and Christmas, when the alignm ...
  • In Caylee Anthony Case, New Forensic Technique ...
    The high profile courtroom drama unfolding around Casey Anthony--the Florida mother accused of murdering her two-year-old daughter Caylee in 2008--has not been short on conflicts and legal confrontation. But one controversial aspect is stemming from an unexpected source: a can of air. A novel ...
  • First-Ever Photos of Space Shuttle Docked At S ...
  • First-Ever Photos of Space Shuttle Docked At S ...
    How the once-in-a-lifetime photo-op came to be After a 5-month stay at the International Space Station, Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli snapped one-of-a-kind photos of the Space Shuttle docked at the ISS, on his way back to Earth in a Soyuz craft. This is the very first time photos have capture ...
  • Super-Dense Forms of Carbon Could Out-Sparkle ...
    Girls might just have a new best friend. Diamonds are commonly known as one of the hardest (and shiniest) rocks on the planet, but new simulations show that three other stable forms of pure carbon would sparkle even more than diamonds. If we knew how to synthesize them, that is. Right now, thes ...

Veterans Today

  • “Body of Secrets” — Attack o ...
    On June 8, 1967, during the Six-Day War between Israel and the Arab States, Israeli fighter planes and torpedo boats attacked the U.S. Navy intelligence ship Liberty for 90 minutes in international waters, following several hours of low-level reconnaissance flights by Israeli aircraft.
  • VetLikeMe, May-June
    Service Disabled Business Owners, VetLikeMe is a monthly newsletter devoted solely to SDVOSB…   Click to dowload  in Microsoft Word…for pdf VetLikeMe (MayâJune 2011) -Volume 2, No. 3 A National News Publication for Service-Disabled Business Owners BUSTED! Guilty Verdict for SDVOSB Falsification ...
  • Remembering the USS LIBERTY
    It is with profound sadness that we remember the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, which took place 44 years ago today. We grieve for the families who lost their sons, brothers, husbands, and fathers, and the crew members who lost their shipmates. We grieve for a crew that was abandoned by its ...
  • Unemployed Should Network To Find Jobs
    It takes more than filling out an application or sending in a resume to land a job these days. In the down economy, U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier has made it a mission to give those out of work the tools they need to find success.
  • Cancer is a Business NOT a Disease
    American People Being Duped by Cancer Business [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] by Tom Valentine   Cut Poison Burn is a searing film that illuminates the grim truth about America’s so-called War on Cancer. This thought-provoking do ...

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Global temperature update for May
    The global temperature according to the UAH satellite measure was +0.13C above the 30 year running mean in May, showing virtually no change from April's anomaly. Global temperatures are slowly recovering as La Nina fades in the Pacific, but remain much cooler compared with May last year, ...
  • A truly memorable Spring
    Provisional figures released by the Met Office show that Spring 2011 (March 1st to May 31st inclusive) with a mean temperature 10.2C was the equal warmest in the Central England Temperature series which dates back to 1659. Only Spring 1893 was as warm as Spring 2011. Spring 2007 with a mean te ...
  • Is summer 2011 set to be a scorcher?
    There's been almost a frenzy of tabloid stories in the last few weeks about this summer. Many will recall how summer was supposed to begin last weekend with a heatwave that would lead to temperatures averaging 29C for a fortnight! So the tabloids and some private weather companies (I will ...
  • Possible disruption: Severe Gales & Volcanic ash
    SEVERE GALES An unusually deep area of low pressure for the time of year is battering parts of Northern Britain at the moment. The highest gust recorded so far is 90mph at Belmullet in Northern Ireland. The Met office have yellow and Amber warnings in force until midnight tonight, shown below ...
  • Leading climate scientist: IPCC forecasts coul ...
    UPADTE 9pm, Sat 21st May As always I read all comments on this blog with interest. Climate change science is a serious subject with the potential for far reaching consequences, and so I am more than happy to point out that on this occasion I think some of the criticisms of my article are valid, ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Christine Lagarde Answers Your Questions
    OK, let me get this out of the way: I hold French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde in high regard, but chafe at the notion of her becoming the next IMF managing director. Do we need another European head when international financial institutions are striving to be in touch with the times when ...
  • Junk Treasuries: Time for US 'Technical Default'
    In three simple points, let me explain the concept of subprime globalization before moving on to the enticing prospect of American securities being junked in 2011: 1. Free money policies have done America next to no good; 2. These free money policies are ultimately costly in adding to the burde ...
  • The Pinko Path: On Peru Joining Latin Left's Ranks
    It's somewhat odd that the whitebread commentariat hasn't made more of this event, especially since it's happening in their own backyard. While dependencia theory of Latin American countries becoming pliant and fertile grounds for Western exploitation may have gone out of fashion in academic cir ...
  • All Hail Sports Corruption: Euro 2012 in Ukraine
    There appears to be something which just brings the worst out in people while attempting to land marquee sporting events alike the Olympics, the World Cup, and Formula One grands prix. Once the events are finally landed, however, there are yet more layers for corruption to occur during contractu ...
  • Fiscal Studliness: IMF Lauds UK's Macho Austerity
    A few months ago, I commented on the little girlie man wussonomics emanating from America. If anything else, the free lunch economics that brought the joys of subprime crisis to the rest of the world was, er, magnified by even looser (the spellcheck suggests "loser"; it's pretty smart) fiscal an ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • The Coming Economic Hell For American Families
    Tens of millions of American families are about to go through economic hell and most of them don't even realize it. Most Americans don't spend a whole lot of time thinking about things like "monetary policy" or "economic cycles".  The vast majority of people just want to be able ...
  • 10 Tipping Points Which Could Potentially Plun ...
    The global economy has become so incredibly unstable at this point that it is not going to take much to plunge the world into a horrific economic nightmare.  The foundations of the world economic system are so decayed and so corrupted that even a stiff breeze could potentially t ...
  • Will The Banksters And The Corpocracy Eventual ...
    Today, average Americans have less power relative to the monolithic corporate and governmental institutions that dominate our society than at any other point in U.S. history.  Sadly, this is not what our founding fathers ever envisioned.  Our founding fathers established a gover ...
  • The Sky Is Falling, It Is Time To Panic And Th ...
    So many economists and financial pundits seem absolutely shocked that the U.S. economy is slowing down again.  It is as if this latest wave of bad economic data has caught them completely by surprise.  Now, in the mainstream media we are seeing all kinds of headlines declaring t ...
  • Global Financial Markets Tremble As Bad Econom ...
    As the U.S. economy starts to slow down once again, global financial markets are beginning to tremble.  Over the past couple of weeks, all kinds of bad economic news has been pouring in.  The ADP jobs report was a "disaster", the housing numbers are dismal, manufacturing has slo ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • 2011-06-09: Wikileaks: The Ireland Cables | Ro ...
    TweetThe Irish Independent doesn't publish on a Sunday, so Day Six of the Irish Cables series was Monday 6th of June. (See roundups of Days Five, Four, Three, Two and One.) There were markedly fewer stories in the Monday edition of the Independent, as, presumably, the newspaper began to wind dow ...
  • 2011-06-08 #Acampadasol ends and #Spanishrevol ...
    TweetPacking tents The M-15 movement in Madrid has decided tonight, after a four hour long general assembly that it will end its occupation of ‘La Puerta de Sol’ (main square in Madrid) on Sunday the 12th of June. The way in which this process will be carried out will continue to be debated and ...
  • 2011-06-08 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...
    TweetMentor and friend Greg Mitchell at TheNation.com will be back from vacation today. I've been pinch-hitting and blogging WikiLeaks updates here and will continue to do so until late tonight when he returns. All the times are EST. You can contact me at kgosztola@hotmail.com with any news tips ...
  • 2011-06-07 Poland, the CIA and the Abd al Nash ...
    TweetThe role of European countries in the rendition, detention and torture of alleged terrorists has been scrutinized numerous times. The most comprehensive overview was compiled by Swiss politician Dick Marty on behalf of the Council of Europe in 2006. This report is freely available on the in ...
  • 2011-06-07 Interview with Omar Deghayes #Guan ...
    TweetOmar Deghayes was born the son of a prominent Libyan lawyer, an "opponent of the increasingly totalitarian Gaddafi" later taken away by the Libyan authorities and killed. After his father's death, Omar Deghayes settled with his family in Saltdean, Great Britian. As a British resident and ...

U N News

  • UN chief to embark on four-nation Latin Americ ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will depart New York on Friday for a week-long trip that will take the United Nations chief to Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil, the world body announced today.
  • UN agency hails Panama's decision to join trea ...
    The United Nations refugee agency today hailed Panama's recent decision to accede to two major international treaties on statelessness, a problem which affects up to 12 million people worldwide.
  • UN provides help to relief efforts in flood-hi ...
    United Nations peacekeepers and humanitarian staff are helping with relief efforts in Haiti, where floods sparked by torrential rains earlier this week have killed at least 10 people in the capital, Port-au-Prince.
  • Ban re-appoints Edmond Mulet to senior UN peac ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has re-appointed Edmond Mulet as Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, a position the Guatemalan national held from 2007 to 2010 before he was deployed to Haiti in the wake of last year's devastating earthquake.
  • Haiti better prepared for hurricane season, UN ...
    Haiti is better prepared than it was last year to respond to the annual hurricane season, with emergency equipment and stocks pre-positioned in case of a disaster, a senior United Nations official says.

Conspiracy Reality TV

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

Tatumba 2.0

  • Would you like a piece of Pi?
    Would you like a piece of Pi? Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels No related posts. No related posts.
  • Illuminati Reveals Global Agenda to Graduating ...
    I have heard Bob Chapman say many times that the Illuminati have a compelling obsession to tell the masses of their intentions. This is an example of one of these scumbags revealing their agenda. This is James Wolfensohn, former President of the World Bank, addressing graduate students at Stanfo ...
  • Access VBA Tip for programatically filling a m ...
    Ok I am taking a short New World Order break and a providing a quick programming tutorial for anyone who has not migrated to .NET and wants to program using VBA in Access. I was stuck on a job that I have been working on and judging by the lack of solutions on the net [...] Related posts:Th ...
  • 24K of the Zombie Bank Death Squad reports in ...
    24K of the Zombie Bank Death Squad reports in from the front lines today. I discovered ZBDS over at MaxKeiser.com and love the message that 24K brings in song. He reported in on on of my Greek Posts: Viva la Revolution! You have my video on your page! If itâs there for a day or [...] Relate ...
  • Breaking News: Max Keiser names Banksters invo ...
    Alex Jones, Infowars.com, talks with film-maker, broadcaster and former broker and options trader Max Keiser. Max reveals exactly who is responsible for the crime of Financial Terrorism in Greece. Max reveals the treasonous actions of the Prime Minister George Papandreou who stole over $27 billi ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

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  • A musical about terrible musicians makes the m ...
    This isn�t a tale of a great, undiscovered band that didn�t get the big break it deserved. This is a tale of a band that had no business being a band. Their tragedy wasn�t not making it to the big time; their tragedy was making it to the stage at all.�Ther ...
  • Is this really about whether Anthony Weiner sh ...
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
  • The funny thing about Anthony Weiner and redis ...
    We already knew what the story was with Anthony Weiner, right?He did something embarrassing, then he made up a story to go along with it and told it everywhere, and now he has admitted both to the embarrassing thing and the made-up story. More ...
  • The Queens Library looks to the Council to sta ...
    In front of the Central Library in Jamaica on Tuesday, unionized librarians and elected officials staged a protest against $25.3 million in cuts for the Queens Library system. The amount represents a loss of almost a third of the system's funding. More ...

Views & News from Norway

  • Union boss stirs emissions storm
    One of the most powerful men in Norway, union boss Roar FlÃ¥then, has set off uncertainty over the government’s commitment to cutting greenhouse gas emissions by stating that agreed cuts will be too expensive for Norwegian industry. Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg had to quickly step in and clai ...
  • Local farmers tap vineyard potential
    Norwegian farmers are branching out and dabbling in the production of wine grapes. According to newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (DN), some 10 farmers are now planting vines on plots along the coast of Norway, seeking out varieties that can withstand the long, cold winters and shorter growing seasons ...
  • Norway lucky to sink Lithuania
    A lacklustre Norwegian national football team (landslaget) managed a slender 1-0 win over Lithuania in Oslo on Tuesday evening – and needed a good deal of luck to sneak by their opponents, even though Lithuania is ranked 35 places below them in the FIFA World Rankings. Coming off the back of th ...
  • Stave church outshone by toilets
    Each year, around 100 000 tourists make a stop at Borgund stave church at Lærdal in the mountains of Norway, but not necessarily to see the historic national landmark. A lack of alternative rest stops along state highway 16 means that busloads of visitors are more interested in touring the bathr ...
  • Party leader released from hospital
    Siv Jensen, leader of Norway’s most conservative political party, was back on her feet and released from hospital by Wednesday. She’s still officially on sick leave, but told reporters she’ll be back at work soon. Jensen, who heads the Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiet, Frp), broke her back in ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • An Answer to the Meaning of Life
    The well-intentioned dolts putting a price on nature are delivering it into the hands of business. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom Love, economists have discovered, is depreciating rapidly. On current trends, it is expect ...
  • The Nature of Nature
    A central point of permaculture is to cooperate with nature, rather than fighting against it. But what does that mean exactly? And how to define what “nature” is? Life began some billions years ago. Since that time, life’s goals seems to survive and perpetuate itself, either at the gene or whole ...
  • When the Nile Runs Dry
    by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute Nile River Irrigation in Egypt A new scramble for Africa is under way. As global food prices rise and exporters reduce shipments of commodities, countries that rely on imported grain are panicking. Affluent countries like Saudi Arabia, South Korea, C ...
  • Martin Crawford’s Forest Garden
    Yesterday we were talking about the great need to transition our agriculture (and our culture for that matter) to be based in systems (or integrated) thinking, rather than the segregated, reductionist monoculture mind set we have today. There’s perhaps no better example of systems-based thinking ...
  • National Sustainable Food Summit Talks
    In Melbourne, on April 5th and 6th, was held the National Sustainable Food Summit, where key Australian food and agriculture players and academics met to discuss the challenges and possible solutions for Australia’s increasingly vulnerable food security situation. Some of the talks were quite in ...

Telecrap Urinal

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

Anna's News

  • EcoBoost: Ford's Smallest Engine Ever
    As gas prices climb over $4 a gallon and sales of full size SUV's continue to decline, the American auto industry is shifting its focus and looking to capitalize on a fundamental shift in the mind-set of consumers who are buying smaller, more fuel-.......Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech ...
  • 15 Shocking Statistics on Nursing Homes
    Many elderly people are in long term care facilities like nursing homes, and most families believe that their loved ones will receive excellent care there. Plenty of nursing home patients receive good care and live happy, healthy lives in the care of ....Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
  • Why Some People Eat Dirt
    Amid the countless edible plants and animals on Earth, there's little consideration for the ground beneath our feet. Intentionally eating dirt, also called geophagy, is a natural instinct and may serve a greater health purpose.Some humans' urge to .......Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Welln ...
  • Making light work of it: The world's first sol ...
    It looks like a giant art project. But this symmetrical, circular pattern of mirrored panels is the world's first solar power station that generates electricity at night.The Gemasolar Power Plant near Seville in southern Spain consists of an incredible...Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech ...
  • Greenhouse gas emissions hitting record highs
    Despite 20 years of effort, greenhouse gas emissions are going up instead of down, hitting record highs as climate negotiators gather to debate a new global warming accord. Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Medical Marijuana

  • 6/8/11 - John Edwards' 2007 statement on wheth ...
    2008election.procon.org - John Edwards' 2007 statement on whether infidelity should disqualify a candidate for public office. We found this quote for our 2008 presidential election website and, although the site has been archived, we wanted our readers to be able to read what John Edwards told K ...
  • 6/7/11 - 20 highest and lowest radiation cell ...
    cellphones.procon.org - UPDATED: 20 highest and lowest radiation cell phones in the US - All cell phones emit radiofrequency radiation, but not all phones emit the same amount. The FCC has set the limit (standard absorption rate: SAR) for cell phone radiation at a maximum of 1.6 watts. Our upd ...
  • 6/6/11 - International Guide to Minimum Legal ...
    drinkingage.procon.org - NEW: International Guide to Minimum Legal Drinking Ages (MLDAs) in 138 Countries - The United States along with five other countries (Fiji, Indonesia, Micronesia, Palau, and Sri Lanka) have an MLDA of 21 - the highest of any country where alcohol is legal. In Brunei, Ga ...
  • 6/3/11 - Did Jack Kevorkian ethically serve th ...
    euthanasia.procon.org - Dr. Jack Kevorkian dead at age 83. In light of his passing today, ProCon.org presents two questions about the man who polarized millions around the issues of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in the United States.
  • 6/3/11 - Who was Dr. Jack Kevorkian?
    euthanasia.procon.org - Dr. Jack Kevorkian dead at age 83. In light of his passing today, ProCon.org presents two questions about the man who polarized millions around the issues of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in the United States.

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Current carbon emissions dwarf those of past c ...
    Kyle Niemeyer One way climate scientists try to understand the consequences of increased atmospheric carbon is to study the relationship between greenhouse gas concentrations and temperature in previous periods of global warming. The most similar event to current and predicted warming took place ...
  • Spaser on a wire: tiniest lasers
    Chris Lee The laser is a very special light source: the spatial, temporal, and frequency aspects of laser light can be exquisitely controlled. This control has enabled much of modern life, and it has had a major impact on research itself. But even the smallest laser is rather large. And many of ...
  • Notes from a Literary Apprenticeship
    Jhumpa Lahiri The author, at around the age of three, with her parents, Amar and Tapati, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, circa 1970. Books, and the stories they contained, were the only things I felt I was able to possess as a child. Even then, the possession was not literal; my father is a librari ...
  • Creating Healthier Eggs for a Healthier You
    Kiyomi Deards When Omega Eggs (eggs containing Omega fatty acids) first appeared on the mass market in the early 2000s I had this bizarre image in my head of a semi-crazed scientist extracting the yolk with a giant syringe, swirling it about in a beaker with a neon blue solution to extract the b ...
  • Authorities Still Searching for Source of E. Coli
    Bacteria like E. coli can flourish on certain types of farms. Here’s a look at why By Jenny Marder BAD BUG: This colorized scanning electron micrograph (SEM) depicts a number of Escherichia coli bacteria Image: Janice Haney Carr, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The source of the deadl ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

  • Nadine Coyle doesn?t like over-confident men
    LONDON - Girls Aloud singer Nadine Coyle has revealed that she doesn’t like over-confident men and can’t stand it if they talk too much. “The worst thing a man can do on a date is talk too much. I think if someone has agreed to go on a date they like you anyway, so all ... Read : Nadine Coyle ...
  • Kristen Stewart offered stripper job
    LONDON - Hollywood actress Kristen Stewart was stunned when she was offered a job as a stripper while she was researching for her movie role. The 20-year-old actress visited several lap dancing bars in New Orleans to research for her role in new movie “Welcome to the Rileys” and was astonishe ...
  • Nelson Mandela inspires Naomi Campbell
    LONDON - Super model Naomi Campbell has revealed that she looks up to former South African president Nelson Mandela for inspiration when times get tough for her. The British beauty has formed a close bond with Mandela since their meeting in early 1990s and he fondly refers to her as his “honor ...
  • Tom Bosley Passes Away
    more images more images LOS ANGELES (GaeaTimes.com)- Tom Bosley, best remembered for his role as beloved and charming father in the flick “Happy Days” died yesterday of heart failure. His representative Sheryl Abrams said that the actor was diagnosed with lung cancer for a considerable period ...
  • Pakistan panel to review criminal case rulings ...
    ISLAMABAD - Pakistan is going to set up a commission that will allow people to file appeals on cases decided by courts since 1947, the year the country was born. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will announce the setting up of the commission which will review criminal cases and determine poss ...

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

  • Seafood Fraud on the CBS Early Show
    Today’s CBS Early Show featured a segment about seafood fraud, and they spoke with Oceana marine scientist Margot Stiles, one of the authors of our new “Bait and Switch” report. They even went on a field trip to the Washington, DC fish market, check it out:
  • How to Be an Ocean Hero this Summer
    © zeroXTE.com It's World Oceans Day, so what better time to take a moment to think about doing your part to help protect our water planet? Don’t worry, you don’t have to be a Peter Wallerstein or a Sophi Bromenshenkel to be an everyday ocean hero. This summer, we’re asking everyone to take ...
  • Announcing the 2011 Ocean Heroes
    Peter Wallerstein (left) releases a sea lion back into the wild. Happy World Oceans Day, everyone! Whether you’re on the coast today or not, we hope you pause to recognize the beauty and bounty of the oceans. Starting today, we're asking all of you to take a pledge to protect the world's o ...
  • Gulf Shrimpers to Blame for Record-High Sea Tu ...
    A loggerhead sea turtle hatchling in North Carolina. � Oceana/Cory Wilson Sea turtles have had a rough year. In 2010, more than 600 sea turtles were found either dead or injured on Gulf of Mexico shores, and 563 have already washed up just halfway into 2011. This sudden spike in sea turtl ...
  • New Google Tool Reveals Oil Spill Amnesia
    Just one year ago in early June 2010, tar balls began washing up on the beaches of Pensacola, Florida, and oily waves lapped the shores of the federally protected Gulf Islands National Seashore. Graphic images of oil- covered cormorants and pelicans emerged in the news. Over one-third of f ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Fighting On Two Fronts, The Wehrmacht Knew The ...
    Red Army Officers In Poland By the end of 1942, Hitler commanded an Empire that stretched East to West from the Pyrenees to the Ural Mountains. In two years time Germany was on the verge of defeat. Eisenhower realized that Germany was terribly attenuated and a second front in Normandy had put th ...
  • It’s Steven Segall Day. Here’s Som ...
    Click here to view the [...]
  • Curious World War I Technology
    WWI Sound Ranging Devices Brewster Body Armor German Messenger Dog With Gas Mask WWI
  • Signal Corps
    Black And White Signal Corps Troops Pre WWI The Signal Corps almost didn’t happen. In 1859, United States Army surgeon A. J. Myer began experimenting with a system of long distance lineof sight communication called wigwag. Wigwag signalers used torches at night and color flags during the day to ...
  • Corporal James Arness, Film Star, Decorated Wa ...
    James Arness   “Arness wanted to be a naval fighter pilot, but he felt his poor eyesight would bar him. His height of 6 feet 7 inches (2.01 m) ended his hopes, since 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) was the limit for aviators. Instead, he was called for the Army and reported to Fort Snelling, Minnesot ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Breitbart Leaks X-rated Shot to Opie and Anthony
    **UPDATED** After saying he was going to keep the X-rated photo as leverage, you know, (ahem) in case Rep. Anthony Weiner targeted him, Andrew Breitbart leaked the photo during an appearance with wingnut radio hosts Opie and Anthony. It was tweeted earlier by the radio hosts, which was posted on ...
  • Screw Austerity
    “This will be the largest economic campaign we have ever run,” Justin Ruben, MoveOn’s Executive Director said in an interview with The Huffington Post. “The goal here is to really change the debate and refocus it on the stuff that is necessary to create jobs and make the economy work for regular ...
  • Banks Lose A Big One, Thanks to Walmart (not k ...
    The Senate voted Wednesday to let the Federal Reserve slice the fees that stores must pay banks each time a customer swipes a debit card, handing merchants a victory over banks in a lobbying battle over billions in revenue. Senators supporting the financial institutions’ efforts to head off the ...
  • The GOP Unacceptability Index
    From Nate Silver, we find Rick Santorum is more acceptable to Republican primary voters than Jon Hunstman, with Michele Bachmann way ahead of Palin and tied with Herman Cain, both of them just behind Tim Pawlenty on “unacceptability.” In the impressive mover category, Herman Cain stands alone.
  • Daniel Levy on Assad Brutality, Israel and Pre ...
    Daniel Levy wrote a very important post for Foreign Policy yesterday, After Golan clashes, is Israel rethinking the Assad (or Palestine) file? Here’s a snippet: [...] And Israel is none-too-enamored of the alternatives in Damascus. One alternative to the Assad regime — a democratic Syria with gr ...

Hudson New York

  • Anti-Semitism on the Rise in Germany
    A highly-anticipated new report, "Anti-Semites as a Coalition Partner," which examines the increasing anti-Israel activism of politicians belonging to the German Left Party (Die Linke), has sparked a debate over the rise of anti-Semitism disguised as
  • CAIRing for Jihad
    Hussam Ayloush, the Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Los Angeles – one of CAIR's largest and most important local chapters -- claims the term "jihad" means something positive and noble. However, the organization he
  • Turkey: Historical Testimony from the Coup Lea ...
    Editors' Note: Turkey's Islamist Government Goes After the Generals Who Saved Turkey From Total Chaos in 1980. The Ankara prosecutor questioned the leader of Turkey's 1980 military coup to determine whether to bring him and another surviving coup leader
  • "AKP [Ruling Party] Trying to Write Its Own Co ...
    FOUR-GROUP PARLIAMENT AWAITS TURKEY ON JUNE 13, SAYS SPEAKER ŞAHIN Turkey will likely have a four-group Parliament following the general elections, Parliament Speaker Mehmet Ali Şahin said, projecting that the Nationalist Movement Party, or MHP, would
  • What They Don't Want You To Know About The Tur ...
    Brace yourselves: the Gaza flotilla is back for a repeat performance this summer. Political activists, led by Turkey's Islamist IHH, are in the midst of preparing "Freedom Flotilla 2," a convoy of ships intent on breaking through Israel's naval blockade

Urban Survival

  • A Global Crash Libretto
    With more than half the country thinking we’re heading into a Second Depression (we likely are…) I assume you would like an update to your libretto as to exactly when that might be?  Librettos being, of course, the little ‘cheat-sheet’ … Continue reading →
  • Coping: The Never-ending Climate Debate
    One of the remaining Global Warming believers sent me a note yesterday questioning my ancestry and character for not mentioning the recent heat wave up north and generally labeling me as a climate denier. Well, no.  Climate is always getting … Continue reading →
  • 12,000 to Fail: Social Trauma Ahead?
    Remember yesterday when I told you the Consumer Debt figures would be out from the Fed and my outlook for Tuesday’s session was “Rally this morning and we’ll talk tomorrow…“?    My comments on the lack of consumer pull-through as … Continue reading →
  • 12,000 to Fail: Social Trauma Ahead?
    Remember yesterday when I told you the Consumer Debt figures would be out from the Fed and my outlook for Tuesday’s session was “Rally this morning and we’ll talk tomorrow…“?    My comments on the lack of consumer pull-through as … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With the Vacation Slide Show
    Used to be a time in America when people joked about having to look at slides or pictures from other people’s vacations, so I will keep this short this morning.  Just a few to give you an idea of things … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

  • UMass prof takes the heat for global warming s ...
    We thought this story was about tonight's hockey game. The Globe op-ed page features a column on Raymond Bradley. The UMass climatologist is co-author of a graph known as "the hockey stick," which shows of the temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere shot up in the 20th century after 100 years ...
  • Supreme Court sides w/ prof, nixes university ...
    Memo to university tech transfer offices: Review contracts From The Washington Post: Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said that a 1980 federal statute allocating patent rights involving federally funded research did not change that basic tenet. And so Stanford University does not fully ow ...
  • Boston science events this week: Stem cells, c ...
    The college students are gone, the arboretum is in bloom and the museums are open late, Check out our new Google calendar for details on the consumer genetics meeting and other events.
  • Boston news: R & D -- at home or at school -- ...
    Worth checking out: WBUR's story on a DYI drug developement; This capital-efficient model is all the more essential now that the credit markets have dried up. Before, you needed to build a company so Wall Street would take you for real, so you could do an IPO. Today, the better way to go is to ...
  • Tornado science: Massachusetts weather data
    The local office of the National Weather Service offers information for the state, including: •Preliminary Climate Data for Other Locations in Southern New England •Miscellaneous Climate Records and Averages •Southern New England Snow Storms/Previous Event Calendar •Hydrologic Observations ...

NRDC Switchboard

  • World Oceans Day: Progress and Seafood for Thought
    Karen Garrison, Co-Director, Oceans Program, San Francisco Last Wednesday night, I attended the kick-off event for the Blue Mind Symposium in San Francisco, which brought neuroscientists, artists, architects, engineers, sailors and many others tog ...
  • NRDC in the News 6/8: New bulbs, Keystone pipe ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide In a New York Times Magazine feature on new lighting efficiency standards, Noah Horowitz explained how the standards give lighting manufacturers an unprecedented opportunity to take a stab at updat ...
  • NRDC in the News 6/7: Oceans benefit, mountain ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide In a Los Angeles Times “All the Rage” blog about last weekend’s NRDC Oceans Initiative benefit, Frances Beinecke discussed the Peace Paddle, which kicked off the evening, as an inspirational way to ...
  • Ida the polar bear, RIP
    Andrew Wetzler, Director, Land & Wildlife Program, Chicago I was on a plane over New York City last Friday when I read the news that the Central Park Zoo’s long-resident polar bear, Ida, had died.  I grew up in the City and some of my earliest an ...
  • Former Clinton Secretary of Interior Calls on ...
    Bobby McEnaney, Land Policy Analyst, DC The administration’s commitment to wilderness is diminished, but President Obama can still take decisive action to protect America's natural heritage - starting with the Grand Canyon. President Obama, in ma ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 19 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, June 7, 2011: Washington DC Metro cops investigated after video shows at least 2 cops repeatedly punching man on ground [0] http://bit.ly/mxDKFf Albuquerque NM police ordered to pay ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    After a good start with about five questions asked yesterday and one today, I had to shut down our Ask A Cop program due to some technical difficulties. So that feature is disabled until I have time to figure out what the problem is. Thank you for your patience. Here are the 13 reports [...]
  • Police Misconduct NewsFeed (Live) Weekend Reca ...
    I’m trying something new this weekend. Usually there are so few reports over the weekend, not because misconduct doesn’t happen over the weekend, but because news agencies have reduced staffs over weekends. So usually I combine all the reports from Saturday and Sunday into one “Weekend Report” i ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 20 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, June 3, 2011: A Washington DC narcotics officer has been charged with murder after the bodies of a woman and her 1-year-old daughter, a daughter that he allegedly fathered, were foun ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 16 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, June 2, 2011: One New Orleans LA police officer has resigned and another is on leave while under investigation on allegations that they planted durgs on a man they picked up and qu ...

Total Collapse

  • The Federal Reserve Cartel: The Eight Families
    by Dean Henderson Global Research, June 1, 2011 (Part one of a four-part series) The Four Horsemen of Banking (Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo) own the Four Horsemen of Oil (Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, BP and Chevron Texaco); in tandem with Deutsche Bank, BNP, Bar ...
  • Russia Warns American Police State Now Rivals ...
    A grim report prepared by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for President Medvedev warns that the ‘Deep State’ intelligence and security organizations in the United States have now grown larger than those same forces established under the fascist dictatorship of Nazi Germany in the 1920’s. ...
  • The Sky Is Falling, It Is Time To Panic And Th ...
    theeconomiccollapseblog - So many economists and financial pundits seem absolutely shocked that the U.S. economy is slowing down again.  It is as if this latest wave of bad economic data has caught them completely by surprise.  Now, in the mainstream media we are seeing all kinds of headlines de ...
  • United Nations Declares Internet Access a Basi ...
    The Atlantic – A lengthy report (PDF) released by the United Nations Friday argued that disconnecting individuals from the Internet is a violation of human rights and goes against international law. “The Special Rapporteur underscores the unique and transformative nature of the Internet not onl ...
  • Volcanologist warns of “super-volcano” threat
    Press TV – A prominent Cambridge volcanologist, Clive Oppenheimer, has warned about the possibility of a super-volcano before the end of this century. Talking during the 2011 Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts, Oppenheimer said he had evidence that there was a one-in-500 chance of the earth ...

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • ECUADOR: Bishop Fasts for Reconciliation in Ju ...
    Catholic bishop emeritus Gonzalo L�pez Mara��n has been fasting since May 24 in a park in the Ecuadorian capital to call for peace and reconciliation in Sucumb�os, an Amazon province immersed in a conflict over the Vatican's decision to put the diocese in the hands of an ultra-conservative Cat ...
  • AFGHANISTAN: Debate Rages over U.S. Withdrawal
    With only three weeks left before U.S. military forces are scheduled to begin withdrawing from Afghanistan, the debate over the size and pace of that withdrawal has become increasingly intense.
  • U.S.: Military Attack on Iran Recedes, but Ten ...
    The likelihood of a U.S. or Israeli military attack on Iran's nuclear installations seems miniscule during the remaining months of the Barack Obama administration's first term.
  • OP-ED: The Great Land Grab: India's War on Farmers
    Land is life. It is the basis of livelihoods for peasants and indigenous people across the Third World and is also becoming the most vital asset in the global economy.
  • AFRICA: Eco-Labels "Greenwashing" Forest Explo ...
    "Eco-label fatigue" is setting in as green logging certification schemes are undermining proper government management of forest resources while "greenwashing" private ownership of these public resources, critics say.

Scoop - NZ

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

Independent - London

Rogue Government.com

  • Are Ridiculous Airport Security Measures Kill ...
    Over the past couple of years, the attitude of U.S. consumers towards flying has shifted dramatically.  Once upon a time most Americans looked forward to flying, but thanks to rising airfares, horrific fees and ridiculous airport security measures that has changed.
  • USA has record $61.6 TRILLION in unfunded obl ...
    The federal government's financial condition deteriorated rapidly last year, far beyond the $1.5 trillion in new debt taken on to finance the budget deficit, a USA TODAY analysis shows.
  • Airlines look to eye scanners and futuristic ...
    Eye scanners and futuristic security tunnels may be standard in airports soon as the airline industry seeks to maintain safety while reducing the hassles of boarding a plane that deter some people from flying. 
  • Sun Unleashes 'Spectacular' & Powerful Er ...
    The sun unleashed a massive solar storm today (June 7) in a dazzling eruption that kicked up a vast cloud of magnetic plasma that appeared to rain back down over half of the sun's entire surface, NASA scientists say.
  • Facebook quietly switches on facial recogniti ...
    Facebook has rolled out its facial recognition technology to countries outside of the US, but has switched the feature on by default without telling its users first. 

Innovation Canada

  • Living on the edge
    It’s not unusual for scientists to become excited when talking about their research. But Ken Storey is an explosion of exuberance, repeatedly interrupting his own discourse to head in new directions. Such frenetic energy is paradoxical for a man whose research deals with organisms that can delib ...
  • Giving thanks
    “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good,” Michael Douglas’s character famously declared in the movie Wall Street. “Greed is right. Greed works.” It was after filming last year’s sequel, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, that Douglas noticed a strain in his larynx and soreness in his jaw. His d ...
  • The people’s museum
    While the recent major renovations to the University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology (MOA) involved plenty of additions and upgrades to its infrastructure, it’s the way people can now use the space that’s really transformed it. When MOA moved from the basement of the UBC Library int ...
  • Opening up
    “It has truly been a partnership with reciprocal benefits,” says Kathy Hegadoren when asked about her work with immigrant women. And when the professor of nursing at the University of Alberta tells her story, it’s easy to see why. Holder of a Canada Research Chair in Stress-related Disorders in ...
  • Firing up a new social network
    The summer of 2003 was as hot and dry in Kelowna, B.C., as anyone could remember. On Aug. 16, lightning struck, sparking a forest fire in Okanagan Mountain Provincial Park that quickly blazed out of control. The Kelowna Fire Department, more familiar with fighting house fires, suddenly faced an ...

Signs of the times

  • BEST OF THE WEB: The Vegetarian Myth
    Before I get into a discussion of the absolutely phenomenal book you see pictured at the right, I've got a few disclosures to make. First, I'm not much of a believer in the notion of man-made global warming or climate change (as they now call it since temperatures have been constantly falling i ...
  • BEST OF THE WEB: US Police State: Memory card ...
    A police shooting of a man in Miami Beach on Memorial Day was terrifying, but when it was over, officers turned their attention to a man filming the violent scene with his cellphone. They demanded the device, smashed it and probably thought that was that; no video anymore. It was not: Narces Ben ...
  • Nubian Mummies Had 'Modern' Disease
    A "modern" disease of humans may have been what sickened ancient Nubian cultures, research on more than 200 mummies has found. The mummies were infected by a parasitic worm associated with irrigation ditches. The disease, called schistosomiasis, is contracted through the skin when a person co ...
  • It's not just Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The IMF ...
    Imagine a prominent figure was charged, not with raping a hotel maid, but with starving her, and her family, to death Sometimes, the most revealing aspect of the shrieking babble of the 24/7 news agenda is the silence. Often the most important facts are hiding beneath the noise, unmentioned and ...
  • New Type of Supernova Outshines The Rest
    A new type of supernova that shines up to 10 times brighter than any previously recorded has been discovered by an international team of astronomers. However, the team has yet to explain the exact mechanism that drives this new type of exploding star, with existing models failing to reproduce ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • The McKibben Op-ed
    Pay attention, Alberta. Text of McKibben's op-ed here.
  • Civil rights . . .
    ACCORDING TO THE CBC, Nova Scotia Registry of Motor Vehicles are in need of some oversight: "Man has licence revoked without driving conviction".Wilbur was never convicted. His case was dismissed, but he still can't get his licence back. Time to sue the NS Registry and the people he contacted, w ...
  • Dear Senator Tkachuk
    I quote you, “There are those who have characterized what she did as heroic,” Ontario Conservative Senator David Tkachuk told his colleagues in the red-carpeted chamber on Tuesday, according to a news release from his office. “No. Heroic are the men and women, many of them her age or younger ...
  • June 7, 1975
    ON THIS DAY, SONY released the first Betamax video recorder, and the video world changed forever, to the glee of the porn industry. According to WIRED,Revolutionary for its day, the Betamax format was on its way to becoming the industry standard until the appearance of JVC’s VHS a year later. Be ...
  • Revelations?
    WIRED has a very interesting report by David Axe, "China, Russia Could Make U.S. Stealth Tech Obsolete". It appears that advances in electronics may make US stealth aircraft unable to operate in airspace where next-generation surveillance electronics exist.It’s been a pillar of the U.S. military ...

Media Matters for America

  • Right-Wing Media Deceptively Attack Obama For ...
    Right-wing media have attacked President Obama for his decision to stop receiving daily in-person economic briefings. In fact, Obama still receives a daily economic briefing on paper and regularly meets with members of his economic team as well as outside economists and experts.The Hill Reports ...
  • Glenn Beck Uses Auschwitz To Promote His New M ...
    Despite repeated condemnations by Jewish groups for his history of using anti-Semitic stereotypes and trivializing the Holocaust, Glenn Beck is using a tour of Auschwitz to promote his new subscription-based online media platform.Beck To Use Tour Of Auschwitz To Sell GBTV Subscriptions ... Bec ...
  • Fox News Propagates Evidence-Free Attack Scap ...
    Fox News'�America Live�repeated the accusation that�undocumented�immigrants have increased crime rates in Hazleton, Pennsylvannia. However,�America Live�failed to report that the there is no evidence supporting the accusation, or that there is no evidence that�undocumented�immigrants have h ...
  • Right-Wing Media Hype Mosque Study Co-Written ...
    Right-wing media figures have recently promoted a study co-written by David Yerushalmi claiming in part that more than 80 percent of U.S. mosques feature texts that promote or support violence. However, as the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has noted, Yerushalmi has "a record of anti-Muslim, anti ...
  • Right-Wing Media Hype Pawlenty's Economic Plan ...
    Right-wing media figures have been hyping the economic plan that GOP presidential contender Tim Pawlenty presented in a June 7 speech. But economic experts, including prominent conservative economists, have called Pawlenty's plan unrealistic, "a joke," and "patently ridiculous."Pawlenty Present ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

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

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Vigilante NYC Bicyclist Gets Ticket for Not Ri ...
    This is totally awesome. The ridiculousness of this guy getting a ticket for not riding in the bike lane is made obvious when he decides to then ALWAYS ride in the bike lane, film it, and show the world who should really be getting the tickets.
  • Top 7 Things I Loved Living & Bicycling in Cha ...
    Top 7 things I loved about living & bicycling in Charlottesville, Virginia for one year or so. (Some might surprise you.)
  • Will Evolution Move Fast Enough to Outpace Cli ...
    According to a new research study conducted by scientists from the University of California – Davis, animals and plants may not be in a position to adapt to climate change quickly enough.
  • Colorful Solar Panels Now on the Market
    Qsolar, an innovative solar technology company based in Canada, recently announced the release of some pretty interesting solar panels, solar panels that come in a range of different colors (i.e. brown, green, red, blue). The Kristal and Kristal Rainbow range of semi-transparent and colored semi ...
  • Top 15 Things I Loved about Living & Bicycling ...
    My favorite things about living and bicycling in what may be the world's best bicycle city. + 25 photos from my times there.

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Canada mines African discontent - Canada
    Tanzanian uprising against Barrick Gold leaves seven villagers shot dead. While Canadians may think of ourselves as best known for owning the Olympic podium, among Africans we may actually be better known — and not particularly liked — for owning their natural resources. Once beloved o ...
  • This article is worth reposting just for the o ...
    Disgusted Democrats letting Weiner shrivel By S.A. MILLER in Washington and SALLY GOLDENBERG and BOB FREDERICKS in NY Top Senate Democrat Harry Reid cut off disgraced Rep. Anthony Weiner yesterday, saying he wouldn't even take a call from the onetime political up-and-comer. ...
  • Uncivilized Relations: Israel confronts its ne ...
    The turmoil that has beleaguered the Middle East for decades has been described many ways. On the 5th of June, however, the terminology turned vulgar. This enduring conflict was publically characterised as a ‘war between the civilized man and the savage'. Boldly announced with a plea to ‘support ...
  • Gaddafi's daughter sues over deadly Nato air s ...
    Editor's Comment: Of course it's a war crime. Aisha Qadaffi's legal action against NATO in Brussels follows another criminal complaint filed against President Nikolas Sarkozy in France by former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas and lawyer Jacques Verges. Of course we hope these legal actions ...
  • Supreme Court Takes the “Radical” Stance That ...
    Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, in his dissenting opinion to last week’s Brown v. Plata decision, called the ruling “perhaps the most radical injunction issued by a court in our nation’s history.” Since Scalia is the ultimate legal literalist, we presumably ought to take his written opinio ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Yes, the Rethuglicans Are, Too, Reinstating Ji ...
    Debbie Wasserman-Shultz, the member of Congress in charge of electing Democratic candidates to the House of Representatives next year, is a corporate cock-sucking Blue Dog DINO only slightly less reprehensible than Evan Bayh. In 2010, as second-in-command of the DCCC, she caused the Democrats to ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    American Taliban hatewatch The "Christian anti-defamation League" has their white cotton panties in quite a twist over Old Navy selling "It Gets Better" t-shirts to celebrate Pride Month. The right-wing hate group considers homosexuality "complete rebellion against God" and they want the store b ...
  • Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): stop being mean by qu ...
    Representative Vicky Hartzler (r) in Blue Springs, Missouri, listening to a question from a constituent at a town hall on April 28, 2011 (file photo). Via Eli Yokley at PoliticMo: ...Speaking to PoliticMo Monday, Hartzler clarified, saying she said - or meant to say - 13 year old, not three year ...
  • WikiDick Of The Week
    This week's WikiDick Golden Dog Turd award for political hypocrisy goes to none other than our 61st Speaker of the House of Representatives and well known amateur golfer, crybaby, corporate whore and all around dick, John Andrew Boehner (R-Hypocrisy), whose Ferengi ancestry is obvious for all to ...
  • Social Security privatization and the War on Women
    Good grief, this nonsense is just exhausting. Nothing is ever settled with these people, they have been coming after Social Security for 75 years, and they just don't quit, no matter how many times they get chased down with walkers and eaten alive by gray panthers. It's like they are programmed ...

Care 2

  • POLL: Should temporary Live Export suspension ...
    The hideous live animal export trade to Indonesia has been TEMPORARILY suspended - please vote YES that it be made permanent. Incredibly, the NO votes are ahead ! PLEASE VOTE!Submitted by Pam F. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • One man killed as elephants run amok in Indian ...
    TWO wild elephants trampled one person to death in a three-hour rampage in the southern Indian city of Mysore today, causing widespread panic, local officials said. Karnataka state higher education minister S.A. Ramdas said the elephants entered the Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �No ...
  • ACTION ALERT: Speak Up Against New York Bill ...
    Senate Bill 5172, which is currently making its way through the New York State Senate, could subject whistleblowers to criminal prosecution for their efforts to expose animal abuse on factory farms. This legislation is a desperate attempt by agriculture Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �No ...
  • Urge Oakland, California To Reject Backyard Sl ...
    Please sign this important petition and help stop the legalization of backyard slaughter in the city of Oakland, California. The city of Oakland is currently considering changing zoning codes related to urban agriculture Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • City Of Angels Bans Puppy Mills
    For those of you who�ve been following the story of Los Angeles� attempt to ban puppy mills � rejoice! The motion to draft a law banning the mills, introduced by Councilman Paul Koretz, was approved with a few bonus features that are guaranteed to helpSubmitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

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

Environmental Graffiti

  • What Do Skunk and Badger Stripes Mean?
    A new study shows how predators may be given advanced warning of ferocious fighters and stinky anal glands among would-be prey species. Stay clear of that skunk! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • The Baiji Dolphin: The Functionally Extinct Sp ...
    The tragic story of a dolphin that is likely extinct due to the actions of man... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Critically Endangered Hawaiian Monk Seals to R ...
    With only 1,000 of this beautiful species left in the wild, new habitat protections have been proposed... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Cliff Face Tombs of Indonesia's Toraja Tribe
    Bodies hanging in coffins from cliff faces, with wooden effigies guarding bodies placed in caves, and trees as the resting place of children... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Introducing Fragaria: The Three Varieties of S ...
    Three of the varieties of fragaria are the well-known garden strawberry, the common strawberry and the woodland strawberry. Where does each thrive? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • F.A.O. Sees Stubbornly High Food Prices
    On the supply side, global rice production is outstripping demand, but the situation is less hopeful for other cereals, particularly wheat.
  • Answering Questions About the World's Food Supply
    Responding to an article on the world's future food security, readers pose questions about the potential for future grain shortages, price spikes, the use of water, chemicals, and energy to produce meat and dairy products, and overpopulation. Justin Gillis replies.
  • A Voice From (and for) the Wilderness
    Bruce Babbitt, who served as interior secretary in the Clinton administration, speaks out against moves by the Republican majority in the House to dismantle environmental protections. And he accuses President Obama of failing to push back.
  • From a Special-Ed Class, Solar Evangelists
    A group of autistic students at a California high school are happily proselytizing for solar power in local elementary schools.
  • A Hybrid Power Plant Takes Shape in Turkey
    Solar and wind power will supplement natural gas at optimal points during the day at the plant, which will be built in Karaman, Turkey.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • CIA Whistleblower on the latest American War - ...
    Susan Lindauer sent us over another article, this one turning to the chaotic Western intervention in Libya. It's nice to get a little praise for the post earlier this week: Dashing Wartime Philosopher Bernard Henri Lévy ties Libyan rebels & Netanyahu, lolz at teh Bilderberg conspiracy - and your ...
  • CIA Whistleblower Lindauer: Warning: This Mess ...
    CIA whistleblower Susan Lindauer sent in a followup piece to HongPong.com and I'm happy to share it! Earlier: Susan Lindauer on the Patriot Act: "When Truth Becomes Treason" - Thuggish National Security Coverup & Grand Jury Mechanisms for Iraq & 9-11 ******** By Susan Lindauer, former Asset Cove ...
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  • EPA critics are hogging the air time
    by Jess Zimmerman. According to a Media Matters report, cable news channels are flooding the airwaves with people who oppose the EPA's rules regulating greenhouse gases: They get four times as much airtime as supporters. Of 199 guests discussing EPA rules on cable news shows between Decem ...

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Suzie-Q

  • Trump Roasts the Weiner: If only Hedda Hopper ...
    By G: June 8, 2011 If only Hedda Hopper were around to see this one. Here we are at war with the whole Middle East while in the middle of another great depression, and the most important news on main stream media is about a weiner roast. TMZ, who is noted for their coverage of [...]
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  • Urban Roots
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    By Kim Zetter 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 ...
  • Iceland’s Former Premier Denies Criminal ...
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  • Bad News For The Economy In A New Poll
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  • Catherine: We Need Rising Incomes
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  • Times Scare
    ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
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  • Could you be a 10:10 community champion?
    The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign, challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.
  • Brit mums strict about eco-chores
    Families in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.
  • UK venue offers rainforest weddings
    Getting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project.
  • Battery recycling 'too difficult'
    The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
  • 10 green resolutions to save you money
    By taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become o ...

Fabius Maximus

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • Vatican kicks out Roma on Easter
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  • Euro strikes 16-month high against dollar
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  • British pound devalues by 94% in 50yrs
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  • Peru suffers an ‘environmental tragedy’
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The Progressive Realist

  • Wikileaks Cables: US Companies, Diplomats Foug ...
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  • George Kennan’s Advice on Afghanistan
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  • Chen Bingde Talks Aircraft Carriers in China
    Chen Bingde, the chief of China's military general staff, has publicly discussed the ex-Varyag aircraft carrier in public for the first time in a Hong Kong daily. The Guardian has a story here, and the BBC already has two stories here and here. You can also see the Global Times report here. The ...
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TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Today at the Prospect
    Robert Kuttner explains how debt politics pit the claims of the past against the productive potential of the future. Marie O'Reilly writes on a legal loophole that allows kids to work in agriculture. Harold Meyerson answers the question: What happens when your base is crazy?
  • Climate Confusion
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  • Jack Donaghy...er...Alec Baldwin for Mayor?
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  • Tax the Rich: They'll Stay Put
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Water Wars

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

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Electronic Intifada

  • Interview: Antony Loewenstein on Palestine's s ...
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  • Life in Jordan Valley strangled by Israeli mil ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'AmoursThe Electronic IntifadaJerusalem For Abd al-Rahim Bisharat, Israel’s goal of taking full and permanent control of the Jordan Valley is clear. “Their goal is that they want us [to] get tired of our land and leave it so that they can expand the settlements,”
  • Traveling to the other part of home
    Rana BakerThe Electronic IntifadaGaza Strip For Palestinians in Gaza, the answer to “Have you ever been to Jerusalem?” is usually a complicated one.
  • On Naksa Day, Palestinians carry on popular st ...
    Eva BartlettThe Electronic IntifadaBeit Hanoun While Lebanon’s Naksa Day demonstrations were prevented by Lebanese security, demonstrations went on throughout the occupied West Bank as well as by Palestine supporters worldwide.
  • Eyewitness interview: Israel's "blood harvest" ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'AmoursThe Electronic Intifada Hundreds of Palestinian and Syrian refugees marched yesterday from Syrian-controlled territory to the occupied Golan Heights to mark Naksa Day. Jillian Kestler-D’Amours interviews Salman Fakhreddin, a rights activist in the Golan Heights, on the si ...

Afghanistan Sun

  • no US 'rush for the exits' in Afghan ...
    BRUSSELS (AP) - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says there will be no "rush for the exits" by the United States in Afghanistan when President Barack Obama announces details of cuts in ...
  • Kerry pans U.S. handling of aid to Afghanistan
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  • Obama expresses sorrow to Karzai over civilian ...
    In a video teleconference with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday expressed his sorrow over recent civilian casualties in Afghanistan."The two leaders spoke ...
  • Camp Lejeune Marine killed in Afghanistan combat
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  • Obama ‘no longer has any support’
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Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Los Angeles May Dump Red Light Cameras
    We've been hearing more and more stories of late about cities with red light cameras deciding that they're just not worth it. A lot of these have been smaller cities, however, so it's interesting to hear (via btr1701) that Los Angeles is now considering dumping its red light cameras. Apparentl ...
  • Judge Reconsiders Allowing US Copyright Group ...
    We recently noted that a judge in one of the biggest mass copyright infringement lawsuits ever filed, representing 23,322 potential infringers of the movie The Expendables, had allowed the lawyers at US Copyright Group to issue subpoenas on those people in order to properly serve them with the l ...
  • Status Quo
    Every argument I ever hear anymore Goes just like this one Permalink | Comments | Email This Story
  • Judge: Not Having The Best Security Not Illega ...
    An interesting ruling coming out of Maine. A judge has sided with a bank, in a case in which a company tried to blame its bank for not having better security, after it was hit by a trojan horse password stealer on one of its computers and subsequently had scammers transfer about $600k out of it ...
  • WIPO Commissioned Study On Intellectual Proper ...
    Eric Goldman points us to an interesting new study, put together by the Center on Law and Information Policy at Fordham Law School, done at the request of WIPO to look through all of the research on how intellectual property acts as a "barrier to entry," (pdf) within specific markets. The repor ...

VacTruth

  • Part 2 of 3: An Interview About Vaccines with ...
    Part 2 of 3: Catherine J. Frompovich interviews Helen V. Ratajczak, PhD, who worked in the field of immunology and toxicology. She answers questions addressing the toxicity of vaccine adjuvants.Vactruth.com
  • GlaxoSmithKline Schemes with GAVI to Offer Rot ...
    Is GlaxoSmithKline dumping their Rotarix Vaccine on Third World countries because it was discovered it was contaminated with DNA from this animal?Vactruth.com
  • Part 1 of 3: An Interview About Vaccines with ...
    Part 1 of 3: Catherine J. Frompovich interviews Helen V. Ratajczak, PhD, who worked in the field of immunology and toxicology. She answers questions on immunological and hypersensitivity issues currently surrounding mandatory vaccinations for infants, toddlers, and teens in the United States.Vac ...
  • Top 5 Vaccine Stories for May
    We have scoured the web to bring you the top news headlines from around the world. Stay current in the latest affairs surrounding vaccines, Pharma, and the authorities who support them.Vactruth.com
  • Vaccines Alternative to Thimerosal
    There’s an adage that goes something like this: “Jumping from the frying pan into the fire.” Perhaps that can apply to what’s been happening in vaccine manufacture since the trend is to replace Thimerosal (49.6% mercury) with this ‘safer’ and ‘less toxic’ substitute...Vactruth.com

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Hello everyone. We’re leaving tomorrow for vacation in Portlandia and Alta California. I have some almost finished posts that I should be able to get up, but I might be a little slow responding to comments and whatnot between now and the 18th. Please check out this amazing new project from my fr ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Hello everyone. We’re leaving tomorrow for vacation in Portlandia and Alta California. I have some almost finished posts that I should be able to get up, but I might be a little slow responding to comments and whatnot between now and the 18th. Please check out this amazing new project from my fr ...
  • The Bad Actor Objection
    Have you ever seen the movie The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance?  My friend @JamesTulsaALL recommended it. He thought the movie addressed some important issues. He was right. For those of you who have not seen it. Jimmy Stewart is an attorney who heads out to the wild west to carve out his future. ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Apparently, a bunch of activists have been killed in Brazil. Any of you know the details behind this? I’ve always been really annoyed that my mother didn’t teach me the other two languages she knows. Lots of my friends were in the same situation. In the sixties and early seventies, they were tel ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Apparently, a bunch of activists have been killed in Brazil. Any of you know the details behind this? I’ve always been really annoyed that my mother didn’t teach me the other two languages she knows. Lots of my friends were in the same situation. In the sixties and early seventies, they were tel ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

  • Invasive Wasps Released to Battle Invasive Beetles
    Photos: David Cappaert - Michigan State University, guano / cc To the untrained eye, all may appear tranquil and calm in Wisconsin's forests, but the truth is that a war of sorts is underway -- between two foreign species on U.S. soil. For the last several years, a particularly nasty invasiv ...
  • Global Growth is Currently Using Up 1.5 Earths
    Tom Friedman's latest column in the New York Times makes a pretty good, if not exactly revolutionary, point. We humanfolk -- especially those of us in the West -- are consuming far, far beyond the planet's means. He cites Paul Gilding and the Global Footprint Network, noting that "On the who ...
  • Remixing McKibben: Op Ed Combines With Video t ...
    photo via sierra club A few weeks ago, after the deadly and catastrophic tornadoes touched down in Joplin, Missouri, Bill McKibben penned a satirical op ed for the Washington Post that brought renewed attention to the connection between global warming and extreme weather. McKibben, tongue f ...
  • Tea Partiers Protest Cap and Trade in NYC (Video)
    The Americans for Prosperity, the group credited with bringing the Tea Party to life, staged a small but noisy protest in downtown Manhattan today. Their target? The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), an emissions trading system operated in 10 northeast states, from Maine to New Jers ...
  • Dueling Keystone Kops: USEPA, State Department ...
    "The Keystone Kops are an incompetent group of policemen that featured in silent film comedies in the early 20th century." Image credit:Wikipedia According to an article in yesterday's Lincoln Journal Star, "The EPA announced Tuesday that it had placed the TransCanada project in a catego ...

Biosingularity

  • Susan Lim: Transplant cells, not organs
  • Scientists recreate brain cells from skin cell ...
    A team of scientists at Penn State University, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and other institutions have developed a method for recreating a schizophrenic patient’s own brain cells, which then can be studied safely and effectively in a Petri dish. The method brings researchers a ste ...
  • ‘Artificial Pancreas’ May Treat Type 1 Diabetes
    New research raises hopes that a so-called “artificial pancreas” can help patients with type 1 diabetes better control their disease. Adults with type 1 diabetes in a newly published study showed improvements in overnight blood sugar control when an experimental computer-assisted device was used ...
  • Scientists find that normal breast cells help ...
    It is well known that the human body has a highly developed immune system to detect and destroy invading pathogens and tumor cells. Now, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have shown that the body has a second line of defense again ...
  • New Test Spots Infections in Hours, Rather tha ...
    A startup called T2 Biosystems is developing a test that uses magnetic nanoparticles to detect blood-borne infections in hoursâcompared to the days it now takes using conventional lab methods. The company’s first deviceâabout the size of a printerâwill target Candida, a fungus that is the third- ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Uncertain World: Epilogue on joint missile defense
    This week’s meeting of the NATO-Russia Council draws a line under an interesting and revealing discussion on joint missile defense that has been running for six months, since the council’s Lisbon summit.
  • Kyrgyzstan tightens security in southwest
    Kyrgyztan's authorities have increased security in the southwest of the country to prevent a repeat of a deadly ethnic conflict that broke out in the region last year, AKIpress said on Thursday.
  • Police convoy for a goose and her goslings
    Seattle-bound commuters got some unexpected company when a Canada goose and her goslings decided to walk down a section of highway that links the city to its suburbs.
  • US residents evacuate towns as giant forest fi ...
    The remaining residents of two eastern Arizona towns in the path of a massive wildfire have been ordered to evacuate. The 607-square-mile (977-square-kilometre) blaze has already made about 2,700 people flee mountain towns in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest. It became the second-largest in ...
  • Russia, China to maintain ESPO pipeline oil pr ...
    Russia and China have agreed to leave unchanged the price formula for oil supplies via the East Siberia-Pacific Ocean oil pipeline, which exports Russian crude oil to the Asia-Pacific markets, a source at the Energy Ministry said on Thursday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • Which Garden Model Should We be Showering with ...
    Thanks to Roger Doiron of Kitchen Gardeners International, a Maine-based nonprofit, for putting together these great visual aids. He writes: "In a nutshell, I was really inspired by the diversity and nutritiousness of the crops planted in the White House kitchen garden this spring and thought i ...
  • Organic Spies Documentary Details Systemic Cor ...
    Press Release: June 1, 2011 Organic Spies launches Short Documentary detailing systemic corruption by the Board of Director's of the Organic Trade Association (OTA). The OTA has 6,500 members and is the largest policy and lobbying organization of the entire organic industryClick here to read thi ...
  • Monsanto Asks Argentine Farmers to Sign Seed C ...
    Argentina is one of the world's biggest soybean exporters and production is growing, making it a huge potential market for Monsanto's new genetically modified (GM) Roundup Ready 2 Yield soy variety.Click here to read this article
  • It's Official: Monsanto's Roundup Herbicide Ca ...
    A new report by some top scientists has nailed it down, and Monsanto isn't going to be happy. The Agri-giant has built it's entire business model, including genetically modified (GMO) crops that dominate the US market, around its Roundup brand herbicide.Click here to read this article
  • Hillary Clinton Hosts Iraq Opportunities Party ...
    As Congress launches a bipartisan PR campaign to stay in Iraq forever, the White House throws a corporate looting partyClick here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • Pfizer will voluntary suspend sale of roxarson ...
    The FDA announced today that Pfizer Inc., will voluntarily suspend the sale of 3-Nitro (better known as the arsenical drug roxarsone) following the results of an FDA study which found elevated levels of inorganic arsenic in the livers of chicken fed roxarsone compared to a control group. The ann ...
  • 100 years of artificial nitrogen - but how man ...
    I recently was asked in an interview to name the one thing I would change in the world if I had the power to do so. Surprising even myself, I replied quickly “the Haber-Bosch (H-B) process for industrial nitrogen fixation. Imagine - a world without synthetic N! One can imagine the blank look I g ...
  • Study finds new MRSA strain in European milk
    Researchers at Cambridge University say they have found a new strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in milk from England, Scotland and Denmark, which they are calling LGA251. The findings - published online by The Lancet Infectious Diseases - can be seen as a further sign ...
  • Nationwide Poll: 80% of America’s Moms are Con ...
    When moms talk you can bet lawmakers listen, not to mention food retailers. That is exactly what the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming is counting on following the release of a nationwide poll of 804 American moms, which found that 80 percent are concerned that food animals pro ...
  • India develops sound policy on antibiotic use ...
    India is the most recent country to address the public health concerns associated with the use of non-therapeutic antimicrobials in food animal production, and in doing so, may just leap-frog the United States. India’s Directorate General of Health Services recently released a policy docume ...

Investigate - Breaking News

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

My Care2 Picks

  • Climate change: evidence from the geological r ...
    The Council of the Society is issuing this statement as part of the Society�s work �to promote all forms of education, awareness and understanding of the Earth and their practical applications for the benefit of the public globally�.Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Ad ...
  • No Excuse - Our global food system is broken
    There is no good reason why anyone should go hungry. The world can feed every single one of us. The problem is the way we grow and share food. Submitted by Michael O. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Senate panel approves ban on oil spill dispersants
    A Senate committee has approved a Slidell lawmaker�s proposal to ban the use of dispersants in responding to an oil spill in Louisiana waters, which extend three miles into the Gulf.Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Homeland Security demands Mozilla take down MA ...
    Firefox extension MAFIAAfire negates ICE's domain seizures, by automatically rerouting users to alternate domains. DHS demanded that Mozilla take the extension down from its listing of Firefox extensions claiming the add-on "circumvented" DHS's seizuresSubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics & ...
  • Exposure Of Western Mainstream Media Censorshi ...
    There is horrendous Mainstream media (MSM) censorship in the pro-US, pro-Zionist, democratic fascist Western Murdochracies and Lobbyocracies. But how can one begin to expose the nature and extent of this egregious censorship that variously threatens Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to World �| ...

Angry Indian News

  • Filep Karma | Amnesty International USA
    Filep Karma | Amnesty International USA: "Filep Karma is serving 15 years in prison for raising a flag. A prominent advocate for the rights of Indonesia's Papuan population, Filep Karma was arrested... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Leaked evidence implicates Bainimarama in May ...
    : "Evidence has emerged that the incriminating files against Frank Bainimarama gathered by former police commissioner, Andrew Hughes, are indeed safe and being kept by the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • SPLC Urges DHS to Reassess Resources After Key ...
    SPLC Urges DHS to Reassess Resources After Key Analyst Reveals Unit on Domestic Terror was Scaled Back in Wake of Right-Wing Criticism | Southern Poverty Law Center: "The Southern Poverty Law Center... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • ICE Response to States’ Rejection of Secure Co ...
    ICE Response to States’ Rejection of Secure Communities Characteristic of Agency’s Dishonesty and Lack of Transparency | Center for Constitutional Rights: "Vague Unsupported Statements by Anonymous... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Maan News Agency: 750 public doctors resign
    Maan News Agency: 750 public doctors resign: "RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Angry by the Palestinian High Court's decision mandating a return to work for striking public sector doctors, 750 union members... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

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.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Germany's superbug is weaponized with Bubonic ...
    ShareThisGermany's superbug is weaponized with Bubonic Plague DNA 09 Jun 2011 "On Tuesday [May 31], the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that [leading German E. coli researcher Helge] Karch had discovered that the O104:H4 bacteria responsible for the current outbreak is a so-called ...
  • Dem study sounds Afghanistan alarm
    ShareThisDem study sounds Afghanistan alarm --U.S. has spent $18.8 billion on aid to Afghanistan since Bush invasion --State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development are spending $320 million a month with a 'strategy' to redevelop areas 08 Jun 2011 Costly nation-building efforts ...
  • US wants 'joint bases' in Afghanistan, Gates says
    ShareThisUS wants 'joint bases' in Afghanistan, Gates says --Unspecified number of U.S. troops expected to remain 08 Jun 2011 The United States should maintain a long-term military presence in Afghanistan as a "tenant" on bases jointly occupied with Afghan forces, rather than on permanent U.S. b ...
  • Report: US $19bn Afghan aid inefficient
    ShareThisReport: US $19bn Afghan aid inefficient 09 Jun 2011 A US Senate report indicates that American troop withdrawal from Afghanistan could trigger a financial crisis in the war-torn country despite the $19 billion the US has already spent there since 2001. The report by the Democratic major ...
  • Two explosions rattle Libyan capital
    ShareThisTwo explosions rattle Libyan capital 08 Jun 2011 Two heavy explosions have shaken central Tripoli near the residence of Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi following a NATO pledge to continue the airstrikes. The first blast took place in central Tripoli at 2 a.m. on Thursday (2000 GMT), follow ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Biogas Comes to Afghanistan
    08 Jun 2011 Thanks to a Gurkha Soldier, biogas has come to Afghanistan.� In a nutshell, during a British Army tracking school in Borneo, a Gurkha named Lalit convinced me to research biogas for Afghanistan.� More accurately, Lalit kind of bugged me into it.� I travelled to Afghanistan, Nepal (t ...
  • Top Secret Report: Jews in Palestine
    Please click to view or download pdf.
  • Ranger to be awarded the Medal of Honor
    The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release May 31, 2011 ADVISORY: President Obama to Award Medal of Honor On July 12th, President Barack Obama will award Sergeant First Class Leroy Arthur Petry, U.S. Army, the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry.� Sergeant First ...
  • Memorial Day - 2011
    Ben and Elaina 29 May 2011 Ben Morton answered America�s call from Kansas.� He joined the Army and served in Korea, then reenlisted and served as an infantry Sergeant in Mosul, Iraq.� On the night of 22 May 2005, intelligence was received that high value targets were in a certain large house.� ...
  • Embed Approval
    23 May 2011 The US military in Afghanistan has approved my return with US forces.� Embed should start roughly 02 June with no particular end date in mind.� The plan is to start down South, head to Kabul, then elsewhere.� There will be much fighting this summer.� The Taliban appear to be taking ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

  • Invasive Wasps Released to Battle Invasive Beetles
    Photos: David Cappaert - Michigan State University, guano / cc To the untrained eye, all may appear tranquil and calm in Wisconsin's forests, but the truth is that a war of sorts is underway -- between two foreign species on U.S. soil. For the last several years, a particularly nasty invasiv ...
  • Global Growth is Currently Using Up 1.5 Earths
    Tom Friedman's latest column in the New York Times makes a pretty good, if not exactly revolutionary, point. We humanfolk -- especially those of us in the West -- are consuming far, far beyond the planet's means. He cites Paul Gilding and the Global Footprint Network, noting that "On the who ...
  • Remixing McKibben: Op Ed Combines With Video t ...
    photo via sierra club A few weeks ago, after the deadly and catastrophic tornadoes touched down in Joplin, Missouri, Bill McKibben penned a satirical op ed for the Washington Post that brought renewed attention to the connection between global warming and extreme weather. McKibben, tongue f ...
  • Tea Partiers Protest Cap and Trade in NYC (Video)
    The Americans for Prosperity, the group credited with bringing the Tea Party to life, staged a small but noisy protest in downtown Manhattan today. Their target? The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), an emissions trading system operated in 10 northeast states, from Maine to New Jers ...
  • Dueling Keystone Kops: USEPA, State Department ...
    "The Keystone Kops are an incompetent group of policemen that featured in silent film comedies in the early 20th century." Image credit:Wikipedia According to an article in yesterday's Lincoln Journal Star, "The EPA announced Tuesday that it had placed the TransCanada project in a catego ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Clinic of heroes
    The Mae Tao clinic in the Thai border town of Mae Sot each year treats thousands of victims of Burma’s civil war. Many arrive there from deep inside the Karen jungle where Burmese troops and ethnic armies have littered the ground with landmines; others there simply reflect the woeful state of Bu ...
  • Burma prepares to ease censorship
    Editors anxious about amendment to media laws that will place the onus of censorship on them rather than the censor board
  • Dhaka says West fuelling Rohingya crisis
    Bangladesh's food minister tells US official that pressure by western nations to register Rohingya refugees is 'keeping the problem alive'
  • Thai-backed port to displace 10,000
    Company behind the Tavoy megaproject in southern Burma acknowledges human cost of plans to build port and huge industrial estate
  • Fears mount over chemical weapons use
    Shelling of Shan army base leaves soldiers vomiting and struggling to breathe as speculation of chemical weapons use mounts

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Federal judge allows environmental groups' law ...
    [JURIST] A federal judge on Tuesday permitted two environmental groups to sue a Texas refinery owned by ExxonMobil Corp. [corporate website] for failing to enforce federal environmental standards. The Sierra Club and Environment Texas [advocacy websites] filed the lawsuit [Reuters report] in Dec ...
  • UN rights body demands China report on missing ...
    [JURIST] The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention [official website] called Wednesday for China to address its practice of "enforced disappearances" [press release] and reveal the location of 355 detained Tibetan monks [Free Tibet report]. In April, Chinese authorities took the monks from the ...
  • ICC prosecutor: Sudan president continues crim ...
    [JURIST] Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official websites] issued a statement [PDF] Wednesday that Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir [case materials; JURIST news archive] has continued to commit crimes against humanity in Darfur [JURIST news a ...
  • Eleventh Circuit hears arguments on constituti ...
    [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit [official website] heard oral arguments Wednesday over the constitutionality of the new health care reform law [text; JURIST news archive] and its individual mandate requiring citizens to purchase health insurance. The Department of Justi ...
  • Sierra Leone war crimes court indicts five for ...
    [JURIST] The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) [official website; JURIST news archive] on Wednesday indicted [UN News Centre report] five men for contempt over allegations of witness tampering. Two indictees include former leaders of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC), Ibrahim Baz ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Weiner's Wife Is Pregnant; Democrats Call for ...
    The New York congressman will soon have a family to spend more time with, should he bow to pressure to step down The steady drip of fresh revelations about Rep. Anthony Weiner's (D-N.Y.) personal life came with a stunning twist today: His wife, Huma Abedin, a close aide and friend of Hillary ...
  • The Heroic Story of How Congress First Confron ...
    As we mark the 30th anniversary of the deadly epidemic, it's worth remembering that, contrary to the headlines, lawmakers do brave and important work Three victims of AIDS are sworn in before a House Governmental Relations subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill to study strategies for dealing wit ...
  • The Fairness Doctrine Is Dead
    Long opposed by the talk-radio right as a First-Amendment violation, the policy officially meets its end Looks like Rush Limbaugh can breathe a sigh of relief. The Federal Communications Commission has agreed to comply with a House GOP request to once and for all kill the fairne ...
  • Private Lives
    Andrew Sullivan joins the large group who think it's offensive to even discuss what Weiner did: The key thing here is that we have dispensed with even the pretense of any over-arching justification for this attack on Weiner. He hasn't been accused of adultery or hypocrisy; he has committed no cr ...
  • Bachmann Adviser Ed Rollins Pushes Palin Rivalry
    "She's pretty, but you're pretty and smart" is a line more typically used by boyfriends to calm jealous girlfriends or women's magazines editors. But here is Ed Rollins, the top adviser to Michele Bachmann's nascent 2012 campaign, comparing his boss's qualifications to be president to Sarah Pali ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Annals of Israeli Judicial Racism
    James Joyce wrote A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.  Tonight I’m writing a portrait of a judge as an old racist. Some readers develop an allergic reaction when I write posts like the one I’m about to.  All I can say is if Israel’s highest professional leadership didn’t believe these thi ...
  • Palestinian Report Alleges Abusisi Tortured, S ...
    Hamas sources have published an account of Dirar Abusisi’s condition (Arabic) which alleges that he has been tortured by the Shabak in Eshel Prison and that he suffers from untreated kidney stones.  Among the claims made in the online article, which was published after visits to him in prison b ...
  • Barak Clamors for War on Iran, Bibi’s His Poodle
    Maariv’s Ben Caspit is not someone I ever quote.  In fact, normally if Caspit says something, I believe the opposite.  That goes back to the nasty smears he levelled against Shammai Leibowitz when he was a human rights fellow of the New Israel Fund and studying law at Georgetown.  Caspit orch ...
  • Yediot Publishes Profile in English
    The Yediot profile of Tikun Olam (and me) written by Moshe Ronen has been translated into English and published at Ynetnews.  I’m grateful to Moshe for his interest in the blog and the values it represents and also for his careful characterization of my ideas. I’d be grateful to readers if you’ ...
  • Ukrainian Professors Deflate Israeli Charges A ...
    Today, brings news that Dirar Abusisi’s academic advisors in Ukraine have further dented the Israeli charges against him which claim that he led an undercover life as Hamas’ chief rocket designer in Gaza. The two professors who supervised his actual research on electrical power plants have both ...
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