9 June - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

• Some Much Needed Comic Relief from Lee Camp: F ...
  We are rife with conspiracies! & now, in the tradition of George Carlin, Lee Camp of W"T"F allows himself to be conspirited by anti-neo-feudalist David DeGraw who is conspiring to launch a non-violent revolution, no less.
• Walker Removes Painting of Homeless/Low-Income ...
  Scott Walker apparently hates EVERYTHING about the underlings he has been chosen to govern.
• THE GLOBAL DEBT CRISIS: HOW WE GOT IN IT AND H ...
  Contrary to popular belief, particularly amid the continuing financial crisis, most of our money today is not created by governments. It is created by private banks as loans. There are more sustainable ways to run a banking and credit system. It merely requires taxpayers to take back their money ...
• FDA sends US marshals to seize elderberry juic ...
  This tactic has become all too common in recent years. A company receives a warning letter from the FDA, makes the appropriate changes, never hears anything further from the FDA, and out of nowhere gets raided. Such actions on behalf of the FDA are ultimately unwarranted and illegal, and the off ...
• Is Ali Abdullah Saleh Number Three in the Fall ...
  Is Saleh now the 3rd despot to fall to the Arab Spring?

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 ...
• 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 ...
• Keystone Pipeline leaks and Corrective Action ...
  Elizabeth Shope, Advocate, Washington, D.C. Today, NRDC and over 30 groups wrote to Secretary of State Clinton requesting once again that the comment period for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement ( ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Most Prominent Politicians (IV): Georgia
  And now we get to the South. Between reelecting their legislators until they die and defending segregation, southern states have played a powerful role in American politics from the beginning of the republic to the present. Georgia is possibly above average compared to the region and certainly t ...
• Ru9d11y!!!!!!!!
  It’s too bad Kristol is wrong about everything, because we could really use the lulz. There’s something special about a candidate whose popularity has an almost perfectly inverse relationship with the amount of time he spends campaigning in a given state.
• For Sale!
  My recent comments notwithstanding, it should go without saying that my endorsement is most definitely for sale.  I, and indeed most of the other contributors to LGM, will happily shill for whatever you happen to be selling, provided you meet our very reasonable prices.  Of course, pricing depen ...
• Speaking of Media Malpractice
  Stephanie Mencimer reminds us that there are issues that are even more important — even scandalous! — than Anthony Weiner’s highly consequential penis. It’s the 10th Anniversary of the Bush tax cuts: Big debt: Between 2001 and 2010, the Bush tax cuts added $2.6 trillion to the public debt, 50 pe ...
• More “Character”
  Greenwald is definitive: Yes, Anthony Weiner lied — about something that is absolutely nobody’s business but his and his wife’s. If you’re not his wife, you have absolutely no legitimate reason to want to know about — let alone pass judgment on — what he does in his private sexual life with othe ...

Desert Research Institute

• Abnormal Spring
  If you're new to Northern Nevada, you've probably already asked yourself this question: is this a normal spring? The calendar says we're three weeks from the start of summer, but winter still holds us in its grip. It leads us to wonder if something bigger is a foot, Dr. Kelly Redmond explains.
• What effect do clouds have on climate?
  What is the climate effect of tiny particles such as aerosols, soot, and dust, in the atmosphere? Dr. Eric Wilcox, a world-class sailor and researcher, is exploring the answers to these questions linking the ever-changing composition of Earth’s atmosphere and climate change.
• Best Management Practices for Preserving the L ...
  Alan Heyvaert not only works at Lake Tahoe but that’s where he plays too. “My wife and I are often kayaking around the lake when we have some free time,” said Alan Heyvaert, Ph.D., DRI assistant research professor.
• DRI researchers work to boost consumer energy ...
  The patented software and hardware gives energy customers the power to realize energy savings. -- DRI scientists Hampden Kuhns, Ph.D. and Morien Roberts, Ph.D are empowering business owners and eventually residents to manage their energy consumption and adopt efficiency measures that will have ...
• DRI Scientist Featured in Changing Planet Series
  NBC Learn's latest "Changing Planet" video features DRI's Dr. Joe McConnell and black carbon. Black carbon –small soot-like particles that are produced whenever fossil fuels or other organic substances are incompletely burned– is one of the leading contributors to global warming.

Earth Techling

• Rainwater Irrigation System Solar Powered
  The Garden Sitter is a rain barrel system designed to water your garden while you're away--for weeks or even months--via solar power and traditional irrigation.
• Social Mapping Your Cleantech Idea, GE Style
  GE and Howcast Media have unveiled an interactive map on Facebook that lets one geotag and/or view green innovations around the country.
• Jersey Green Energy Goals Not Green Enough?
  New Jersey's governor and local environmentalists are in a squabble over a new energy plan that still supports, but dramatically cuts, clean energy goals.
• Fast EV Charging Stations Set For Oregon I-5
  The state of Oregon has chosen Aerovironment to install several Level 3 electric vehicle charging units along I-5 as part of the "West Coast Green Highway."
• LED Light Bulb Review: PIXI Lighting A19
  We take a look at a 40 watt-equivalent LED light bulb from PIXI Lighting and consider its place amongst energy efficient home lighting options.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• 'Therasense': the Federal Circuit overstepped
  The purpose of an appellate court is to apply the law set by Congress and the Supreme Court ? not to put a finger to the wind, assess the volume of litigation on an issue, such as inequitable conduct claims, and apply its judgment that it is a 'plague' because it gets raised too often.
• Duke launches LL.M. just for judges
  Duke Law School announced this week that it will launch a master of laws program in judicial studies geared specifically to judges. Duke is also launching a new Center for Judicial Studies, which will support research on the judiciary.
• 1st Circuit contemplates a First Amendment rig ...
  Whether there's a First Amendment right to videotape police officers conducting their public duties dominated an oral argument at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit on June 8.
• Shareholders insist BP is on the hook for assu ...
  Misleading and false statements made by BP PLC executives before the Deepwater Horizon oil spill were material to investors, not just a matter of corporate mismanagement, shareholders argued in court documents filed on June 6 in the securities multidistrict litigation against the company.
• Duquesne chancellor donates $1.2 million to la ...
  Duquesne University School of Law has received a $1.2 million donation from chancellor and law professor John Murray Jr. The money will be used to establish the Dr. John and Liz Murray Endowed Fund for Scholarly Development.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• UN Interagency Team Assesses Impact of Drought ...
  As grazing lands dwindle because of the drought ravaging northern and north-eastern Kenya, pastoralists in the arid regions have called for assistance to salvage their remaining herds, saying their livestock are in such physical poor condition that
• Ban Embarks on Four-Nation Latin America Visit ...
  Mr. Ban will meet with the leaders of each of the four Latin American countries, as well as senior Government officials and civil society representatives.
• Broad Partnership Vital to Combat HIV Epidemic
  This vision will become a reality, said Mr. Sidib�, if the world can revolutionize HIV prevention and mobilize young people as agents of change; scale up universal access to treatment and services; break the trajectory of treatment costs; promote
• UN Reaffirms Commitment to Help Myanmar on Roa ...
  In addition, the Government made an explicit commitment to keep the 'peace door' open to political forces that had not accepted the recently adopted constitution or political roadmap.
• NASA Offers Grants For 2012 Lunabotics Mining ...
  USLI challenges students to design, build and launch to an altitude of one mile a reusable rocket with a scientific or engineering payload.

environment 360

• Carbon Released 10 Times Faster Than in Past E ...
  Carbon is being released into the atmosphere 10 times faster today than during a previous geological era when the Earth experienced significant warming, a new study says. In the study, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, scientists used rock and sediment samples from a coal mining operat ...
• Two-Mile ‘Solar Tunnel’ Built on Belgian High- ...
  A European high-speed rail network has begun generating electricity from 16,000 solar panels installed atop a two-mile rail tunnel on the line running from Paris to Amsterdam. The panels, built by the Belgian EnfinityVIDEO: Belgium’s ‘solar tunnel’ renewable energy company Enfinity, will pr ...
• As Arctic Sea Ice Retreats, Storms Take Toll o ...
  For millennia, the blanket of ice covering the Arctic Ocean protected the shore from damaging storms. But as that ice buffer disappears, increasingly powerful storm surges are eroding the coastline and sending walls of seawater inland, devastating Arctic ecosystems that support abundant wildlife ...
• China Faces ‘Very Grave’ Environmental Situati ...
  Despite some progress in recent years, Chinese officials say that the nation still faces a “very grave” environmental situation, from industrial pollution that has triggered protests in numerous regions to a troubling decline in biodiversity. Speaking to reporters, officials from China’s Ministr ...
• Interactive Devices To Be Used to Spur Consume ...
  Stanford researchers are developing interactive software that they say will provide insight into the energy decisions consumers make each day and ultimately encourage them to significantly improve the energy efficiency of their homes and offices. The program aims to collect data from so-called “ ...

Red Ice Creations

• Footage of Western Troops Confirms Criminality ...
  Proof that armed western forces are on the ground in Libya advising rebels confirms that the entire legal premise behind the NATO-led intervention has been shattered and the campaign is now a criminal act of warfare that has nothing whatsoever to do with the original justification of protecting ...
• "Radiation-Eating" Fungi Finding Could Trigger ...
  Scientists have long assumed that fungi exist mainly to decompose matter into chemicals that other organisms can then use. But researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found evidence that fungi possess a previously undiscovered talent with profound implic ...
• Ex-CIA PR Firm Crafts Strauss-Kahn's Comeback ...
  Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn strongly denied the attempted rape charges filed against him, in an e-mail to his former Fund colleagues Sunday. Strauss-Kahn's missive came as his lawyer gave interviews to French and Israeli media outlets vowing that his client wo ...
• Kevin Annett Jailed, Barred From Re-Entering E ...
  On the verge of his addressing a major public rally in London against child trafficking by church and state, Rev. Kevin Annett was arrested and detained in an immigration prison at Stansted airport last night for over 12 hours, and then deported from England without due cause. Border officials d ...
• Cate & Co Carbon Idiots - Say Yes Australia
  Quick version Breaking down the lies version Going through line by line & scene by scene exposing the Cate Blanchett (Carbon Cate) say yes ( sayyes) propaganda tv ads. How will a Carbon tax help Australia? Here are the references mentioned in the second ...

Russia Today

• World diplomacy seeking to decide Libya’s fate
  Russia and China are intensifying their diplomatic efforts to find a peaceful solution to the Libyan conflict. Meanwhile, the US and its allies are to meet in Abu Dhabi to discuss the shaping of Libya in the...
• 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.
• France is not a democracy, stop telling fairyt ...
  Marine Le Pen is a potential candidate for France’s presidential election next year. She talked with RT about a possible revolution in France and the dying euro. Le Pen criticized French foreign policy saying Libya is...
• Death row inmates may face “torturous” end wit ...
  A drug designed as a cure is now being used to kill on America's death row. But human rights groups are alarmed that the powerful chemical may subject inmates to a lingering and painful death.
• Missile shield talks depend on US, not NATO – ...
  The US and NATO claim their proposed missile defense system would fend off any potential attack on Europe from Iran. But Russia has long been concerned about the threat to its national security – something the alliance...

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

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

Tippers News

• Three men helped starve kids, court tol
  Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
  The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
  Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a C ...
• Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
  Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �N ...
• Confused cat found wandering streets of of Lin ...
  This hungry kitty thought she was the cat that had got the cream when she found a half-full tin of pet food as she prowled for snacks in bins behind a supermarket.Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

• Capitalism as Art
  Both entrepreneurship and consumption are acts of creativity, imagination, and art.
• Interest Rates Could Rise without Fed Buying G ...
  “The U.S. Treasury next month will go back to relying on the kindness of strangers like never before to purchase the nationâs burgeoning debts — and taxpayers may have to pay higher interest rates to attract enough foreign investors, analysts say. Though a significant rise in interest rates coul ...
• Bernanke Says Fed No Panacea
  “The leaders of the Federal Reserve are talking like people ready to sit down and let others take the lead in addressing the nationâs economic problems. âMonetary policy cannot be a panacea,â the Fedâs chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, told an audience of bankers Tuesday in Atlanta.” (New York Times) N ...
• Public Lowers Its Opinion of President’s ...
  “The public opinion boost President Obama received after the killing of Osama bin Laden has dissipated, and Americansâ disapproval of how he is handling the nationâs economy and the deficit has reached new highs, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. The survey portrays a broadly pes ...
• Obama Touts Automakers’ Comeback
  “With some of the economic indicators looking a bit dicey, President Obama traveled to Ohio last week to tout what the administration considers a good-news story: the rescue of the domestic automobile industry. In fact, he also made it the subject of his weekly radio addressâ¦. What we found is ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

• Industry-funded climate crank becomes a media ...
  A new study examining TV news coverage of federal proposals to regulate global warming pollution has turned up evidence of journalistic malpractice when it comes to accurately informing viewers about one of the most critical issues of our time. It also shows how the mainstream media t ...
• Dispatch from Death Row: Saving Troy Davis
  "De'Jaun, come over here, I want to talk to you." De'Jaun Correia, a slender 13-year-old with thick corn-rows in his hair, sat down next to his uncle Troy Davis in the corner of the room. Troy described to De'Jaun what to expect now that he was approaching adolescence. "Your body' ...
• Dispatch from Death Row: Saving Troy Davis
  "De'Jaun, come over here, I want to talk to you." De'Jaun Correia, a slender 13-year-old with thick corn-rows in his hair, sat down next to his uncle Troy Davis in the corner of the room. Troy described to De'Jaun what to expect now that he was approaching adolescence. "Your body' ...
• Marchers seek to save historic West Virginia l ...
  Today marks the start of the March on Blair Mountain, an effort to save the site of a historic labor battle from destruction by coal companies and to bring an end to mountaintop removal mining. Expected to draw about 600 people, the march is organized by the Blair Mountain Coalition a ...
• Scientists confirm Gulf residents' claims abou ...
  Anyone who spent time talking to residents of coastal communities along the Gulf of Mexico following last year's BP oil disaster inevitably heard concerns about the widespread spraying of chemical dispersants to break up the oil slick. Residents worried that, rather than easing the ec ...

Worldpress - Africa

• Living in Chains: Sierra Leone's Mentally Ill
• Piracy and Pigeonholed Security in Somalia
  Somali pirates are a menace to local waters as well as international security. Outside assistance should be provided to bolster the country's coast guard.
• Piracy and Pigeonholed Security in Somalia
  Somali pirates are a menace to local waters as well as international security. Outside assistance should be provided to bolster the country's coast guard.
• Repression of the Press in Zimbabwe
  Although Zimbabwe has a more open press than in the past, journalists and news organizations that threaten the government still regularly feel the hand of the crackdown.
• Repression of the Press in Zimbabwe
  Although Zimbabwe has a more open press than in the past, journalists and news organizations that threaten the government still regularly feel the hand of the crackdown.

Telegraph UK - oil

• Oil refinery blast: Chevron site has excellent ...
  The safety record at the Chevron oil refinery in Pembroke has been praised following the fire and explosion which killed four contractors.
• Petrol retailers told to help motorists as oil ...
  Petrol retailers are under pressure to cut the cost of motoring after oil prices plummeted on the world market.
• Chris Huhne needs a lesson in economics
  Plundering the profits from North Sea oil will only hold back Britain's recovery, argues Jeremy Warner.
• The Gulf of Mexico is not as clean as they say
  Assessing the true toll of the Deepwater Horizon blow-out is only starting, says Geoffrey Lean.
• BP oil spill: 30 pictures of the Deepwater Hor ...
  30 pictures of the oil spill on the first anniversary of the disaster.

Ian Welsh

• Stephen Ross tells us the powerful do as they ...
  So, here’s Stephen Ross interviewing Arundhati Roy: I want to talk more about Mary Roy â and eventually we do â but there’s one important point to clear up first. Guerrillas use violence, generally directed against the police and army, but sometimes causing injury and death to civilians caught i ...
• Portugal votes for austerity
  Yet another nation: Portugal’s opposition Social Democrats (PSD) won a conclusive victory in a general election on Sunday, paving the way for a new centre-right government coalition to implement the country’s €78bn bail-out programme. The PSD had gained 39 per cent of the vote, against 28 per ce ...
• The Depression and the future
  Ok, everyone’s talking about the oncoming recession.  What it is is the second downleg of the depression we’ve been in since the financial crisis. All of this has been baked in since 2009.  Since January 2009, when Barack Obama announced his stimulus, which was not just too small, but put toge ...
• Moral Monster Test
  If you support this, you are one: Members of Orlando Food Not Bombs were arrested Wednesday when police said they violated a city ordinance by feeding the homeless in Lake Eola Park. Jessica Cross, 24, Benjamin Markeson, 49, and Jonathan “Keith” McHenry, 54, were arrested at 6:10 p.m. on a charg ...
• Use the D word
  It was never a recession, it was always a depression, and it still is.  Use the word.

Media Consortium

• Top 6 Mistakes to Avoid in Mobile Usability | ...
  Mobile applications are important for providing users with an alternate means of accessing your web page, as well as keeping connected anywhere and at any time. The programs are an integral part of staying competitive within your market, so they should be created wisely.
• 1.4 million fans can’t be wrong: NPR’s Faceboo ...
  But Carvin also emphasized the importance of audience expectations. “They still see our site as mainly dedicated to consuming news,” he said. Facebook, on the other hand, is a web venue in which people are used to chatting with their family and friends. ..NPR’s Facebook page is a complement to, ...
• The Newsonomics of 2011 news metrics to watch ...
• Gallery: 15 iPad news apps
  Thinking about creating an iPad app for your newsroom? Want to see what other news media have come up with? Below are screengrabs of several news apps from newspapers, magazines radio, television, and online-only news websites.
• Five Months on Tumblr as Seen Through Pummelvi ...

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• ‘Virtual’ trial brings clinical research home
  A new clinical trial will allow participants to receive medication, video-conference with clinicians, and report symptoms in the comfort of their own homes. The trial, aptly named REMOTE (Research on Electronic Monitoring of Overactive bladder Treatment Experience) and sponsored by New York- ...
• Agriculture omitted from deforestation plans
  Many developing countries’ plans for curbing deforestation in return for payments from richer nations don’t tackle the key reason for cutting down forests – agriculture, the climate change conference in Bonn, Germany heard. A new analysis presented at the conference says very few strategies ...
• UK Treasury science adviser is an internal app ...
  HM Treasury has finally appointed a chief scientific adviser: James Richardson, until now director of public spending in the department's public services and growth directorate. The Treasury was the only government department without a CSA, and the issue became something of a cause celebre am ...
• Mars rover faces contamination issues
  Managers for NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory must resolve three serious issues before the rover can launch this autumn, according to a NASA Inspector General report released on Wednesday. The report states that the $2.5 billion rover’s rock and soil sample gathering system has potential contam ...
• Middle East light source moves forward
  Despite upheavals, assassinations, and a global recession, the Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME), appears to be making progress in securing much-needed funding. SESAME is a US$110 million project to build a third-generation synchrotron lig ...

new geography

• California’s Green Jihad
  Ideas matter, particularly when colored by religious fanaticism, wreaking havoc even in the most favored of places. Take, for instance, Iran, a country blessed with a rich heritage and enormous physical and human resources, but which, thanks to its theocratic regime, is largely an economic baske ...
• Orlando’s Sunrail: Blank Checks Induced by Was ...
  We are supposedly living in an age of austerity, but many federal programs are leading many states into overspending and potential fiscal insolvency.  Transit spending is a case in point, as is indicated by the proposed Orlando Sunrail commuter rail project. How Washington Induces Higher Sta ...
• UN Celebrates Seven Billion People a Year Too ...
  The UN has decided to announce that on October 31, 2011 the Earth’s human population will pass the seven billion mark, up from the six billion that was designated on December 5, 1998. The United Nations Population Division Agency is the main organization that estimates global population. Every ...
• Inside Sydney's Central Business District: the ...
  World famous for its beautiful harbour setting, Sydney’s Central Business District is undergoing a resurgence. As the hub of Australia’s finance sector, it stumbled during the global crisis. Office vacancies jumped from 5.7 per cent in early 2008 to 8.8 per cent in mid 2009, despite ...
• Listing the Best Places Lists: Perception Vers ...
  Often best places lists reflect as much on what’s being measured, and who is being measured as on the inherent advantages of any locale.  Some cities that have grown rapidly in jobs, for example, often do not do as well if the indicator has more to do with perceived “quality” of employment. ...

GM Watch

• Peru approves 10 year ban on GM crops
• Peru approves 10 year ban on GM crops
• URGENTE: Por una Bolivia Libre de Transgénicos
• URGENTE: Por una Bolivia Libre de Transgénicos
• Urgent: for a GM free Bolivia

spiked

• Killer cucumbers and evil bean sprou ...
  Yes, the E. coli outbreak in Germany is serious, but the panic-fuelled overreaction to it has ended up making things even worse.
• How dare you set up a new university!?
  The intolerant response to AC Grayling’s New College is driven by hostility towards educational experimentation.
• The sad life of ‘Doctor Death’
  The assisted suicide entrepreneur may be dead, but the misanthropic culture on which he thrived survives him.
• Trying to rein in the Arab Spring
  Saudi Arabia’s physical and financial war on the uprisings reveals the shakiness of the House of Saud and the impotence of American power.
• It shouldn’t be treason to criticise the NHS
  Until we stop treating the NHS with reverence, we'll never have an honest discussion about improving healthcare.

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

• The 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 ...

Desertification

• The UNCCD will gather in Changwon, South Gyeon ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.arirang.co.kr/News/News_View.asp?nseq=116774&code=Ne2&category=2 Korea Active in Anti-desertification Park Jong-hong, Arirang News. During spring in Korea, the yellow dust has become like an annual ritual. In recent years, the pesky and hazardo ...
• ASPA : a tool for establishing closer ties bet ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www2.anba.com.br/noticia_desenvolvimento.kmf?cod=11959008 Aspa: joint work with UN in desertification Isaura Daniel As a result of the meeting on technologies for coexisting with arid and semiarid regions, Arabs and South Americans commit to workin ...
• Iraq is in danger of desertification on a larg ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://memrieconomicblog.org/bin/content.cgi?news=4666 Iraq’s Desertification Expanding; Agriculture, Fishery Declined With Turkey ignoring appeals from Iraq for more water and with Iran diverting most of the effluents into its own territory, water is bec ...
• All about desertification (Google / Scienceray)
  ———————————————– Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://scienceray.com/biology/ecology/desertification/ Desertification Published by M A Bhanpurwala June 7, 2011, Category: Ecology Desertification is taking place much faster in the present world as compared to the past due to the increa ...
• Chad: Eco-Conscious But a Failed State (Google ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/37317 Jack Dini Chad is as geographically isolated as places come in Africa. It is also among the continentâs poorest and least stable countries, the scene of recurrent civil wars and foreign invasions … Contin ...

The Paper Trail

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

backofthebook.ca

• Wikileaks on Harper, America, and the “t ...
  By Alison@Creekside An embassy cable written by US Ambassador David Wilkins the day the Cons were first elected in 2006 suggests Harper would be useful in advancing the US agenda for Canada and that giving him " a success story" like the softwood lumber deal would "shore up" his ability to st ...
• Antimatter contained for 17 minutes; hello Vulcans
  by Eric Pettifor Canadian researchers (and others, but we'll focus on lauding our countrypersons) at CERN near North Battleford, Saskatchewan (ok, CERN is really in Switzerland, but it should be in Saskatchewan) have managed to capture and contain antimatter for a whopping 17 minutes (layper ...
• Why Michael Moore isn’t the only Brigett ...
  By Montreal Simon Well I see the legend of Brigette DePape continues to grow, like a red rose of hope in the darkness of Harperland. Quoted in The Globe: "I have been really inspired because there have been thousands of people who have sent messages or commented on the Internet. People kn ...
• Young Adult fiction: the poison is the antidote
  by Rachel Krueger Meghan Cox Gurdon’s Wall Street Journal article on the ‘explicit abuse, violence and depravity’ grown rife in YA fiction must come either from a place of willful blindness or an actual dark rock, under which she has been living.  Granted, YA has gotten much more violent sin ...
• Conservative caucus meets, bleats
  By Montreal Simon Well I see it was Glorious Majority Day at the Con caucus today. From The Star: "A buoyant Prime Minister Stephen Harper, fresh off a majority election win, returned to Parliament Hill Wednesday declaring that the 'Conservative party is Canada’s party.'" And there was ...

libcom

• Dale Farm eviction funding confirmed
  Basildon MP John Baron has announced that eviction of part of Britain's biggest traveller site will go ahead after "worst case" funding of £9.5m was found to evict around 500 people, including around 100 children, from their homes. B ...
• Canadian postal worker strike begins
  postalworkers.jpg Canadian postal workers begin rotating strikes last night, June 2, 2011. The Chronicle Herald reported that the union representing striking postal workers say ...
• Clashes in Italian ports over job cuts
  italy.jpg Italian portworkers have clashed with police in a number of protests following the announcement of sweeping job cuts. The job cuts constitute part of the Berlusconi g ...
• Clashes in Italian ports over job cuts
  italy.jpg Italian portworkers have clashed with police in a number of protests following the announcement of sweeping job cuts. The job cuts constitute part of the Berlusconi g ...
• Hyundai strike hit with police repression in S ...
  hyundai.jpg Riot police have broken up a strike and occupation of Yoosung Enterprise factory in Asan, south of Seoul. Around 3000 riot police have attacked 500 strikers staging ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

• Public Letter to “Sherri” Kane and ...
  AN OPEN LETTER TO SHERRI KANE AND LEONARD HOROWITZ DDS This public letter is being written and openly posted on my ONLY personal web blog, www.atrueott.com in rebuttal to the baseless, inherently false and libelous allegations posted by Ms. Kane “on behalf of”  Mr. Leonard Horowitz. I do not wis ...
• Jeru-Salem Underground!!!!
  Talk about being “undermined”.   The Rats Run The Sewer – Especially in Jeru-Salem. Check it out: Beneath Jerusalem, an underground city takes shape AP â In this May 17, 2011 photo, a view of Zedekiah’s Cave is seen in Jerusalem’s Old City. Underneath the ⦠Slideshow:Underground Jerusalem B ...
• McKinney Bombshell
  Cynthia McKinney Drops Bombshell: Candidates to sign pledges of support for “Israel” by Richard Edmondson, source In an interview which aired on Press TV on Saturday–one day before the AIPAC conference got under way in Washington–former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney revealed what amount ...
• Sometimes It’s Nice to be Proven RIGHT!!
  During the years 2005-2008, I spent hundreds of hours on radio and TV talk shows, and gave dozens of PowerPoint presentations on what I labeled the “BIRD FLU SCAM”.  This, of course, evolved into the “SWINE FLU SCAM” – a non-existent “pandemic” which I at that time declared was designed primari ...
• Sometimes It’s Nice to be Proven RIGHT!!
  During the years 2005-2008, I spent hundreds of hours on radio and TV talk shows, and gave dozens of PowerPoint presentations on what I labeled the “BIRD FLU SCAM”.  This, of course, evolved into the “SWINE FLU SCAM” – a non-existent “pandemic” which I at that time declared was designed primari ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Bob McDonald Part 2 (Apr 9, 2011)
  Part two of our annual show where CBC's Science Correspondent answers your questions about the mysteries of the world that have always puzzled you.
• Milos Raonic, ATP Tennis Player (Apr 2, 2011)
  The Canadian tennis star and his power serve are making waves around the world. Peter talks with Raonic about childhood ambition, focus and the sport he loves.
• Almas Jiwani, Women's Rights Advocate
  President of National Committee of UN Women in Canada on the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day and the state of women around the world.
• Don Tapscott
  Best-selling author Don Tapscott on the "wiki-revolutions" in the Middle East and how mass collaboration is changing our world.
• Roberta Jamieson
  Roberta Jamieson, head of the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation talks about her commitment to the education and success of aboriginal youth.

Scotts Contracting

• Residential Solar Electric Systems for $132/month
  My Solar Supplier is offering Residential Financing with monthly payments lower than your current electricity bill from Ameren. Payments as low as $132/month for a 5Kw system. No down payment required. Not a leasing program. Email me for the specifics at: scottscontracting@gmail.com or use the F ...
• USA Energy Savings Bill Targets Net-Zero by 2030
  On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Scotts Contracting wrote: What’s Happening from Environmental Building News â Paula Melton Senators Jeanne Shaheen (center) and Rob Portman (right) recently introduced the Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act, a massive energy bil ...
• Politicians Return BP Re-Election Donations
  On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Scotts Contracting wrote: Politicians are finally listening to their Constituents and turning away Oil Company Donations. BP Back in Politics, T-Paw Makes it Official and More in Capital Eye Opener: May 24 By Tarini Parti and Kathleen Ronayne ...
• Climate change: Heat wave a reminder
  EDITORIAL: Climate change: Heat wave a reminder of the urgency of climate change and the need for Maryland — and the nation — to take action now May 31, 2011 The Baltimore Sun, Maryland By The Baltimore Sun May 31–Organizers could scarcely have chosen a more appropriate day to call attention to ...
• Germany Can Get Rid of Nuclear Power, Why Can& ...
  Germany Can Get Rid of Nuclear Power, Why Can’t the US? Facebook Join List Videos Twitter Website Donate If Germany Can Get Rid of Nuclear Power, Why Can’t the US? Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, will be in Washington DC next week to meet with President Obama. But she wonât be talking to h ...

The View From Abroad

• What Obama Should Have Said
  As I was reading President Obama's speech last week, I dozed off into a glorious daydream.
• “Where’s the Beef”?
  After Osama bin Laden was killed, why wasn't his body displayed for verification.
• Bernanke is Still Clueless
  Ben Bernanke has been consistently wrong in the past. Why does anybody listen to him anymore?
• Dangers are Inherent in the War with Qaddafi
  Libya could become the next quagmire for American forces.
• Abraham Lincoln: Biggest Fraud in American Hi ...
  The 150th anniversary of Lincoln's first inaugural is a good time to re-evaluate the Great Emancipator's record.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Stockholm Institute Peels Back the Veneer of N ...
  New START's token disarmament is canceled out by the vast amount of money the administration throws at the nuclear-weapons industry.
• Bigger than Blackwater: Arming the UAE
  The global arms race is booming in the Middle East, and no country has been a bigger buyer in recent years than the United Arab Emirates.
• Can the Genie of Nuclear Knowledge Ever Be Put ...
  Whether or not nuclear weapons are ever abolished, mankind will still know how to make them, right?
• Deception and Diplomacy: The US, Japan, and Ok ...
  For the student of contemporary Japan, these are sad times...because of the growing sense that Japan lacks a truly responsible democratic government to address these issues, and because its people deserve better.
• Israel's Atonal September Song
  A UN vote to grant Palestine statehood may provoke an irrational reaction from Israel.

Law.com

• Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'
  Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
• Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Po ...
  In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
• MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight W ...
  A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
• Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Di ...
  Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ...
• IRS Throws In Towel on Closely Watched Interna ...

Iranian.com

• Iran's 'Blogfather' Loses Appeal Against Priso ...
  An Iranian appeals court has upheld a 19 1/2-year jail term for Iranian Canadian blogger Hossein Derakhshan, his family has told RFE/RL's Radio Farda. Derakhshan has also been banned from being a member of a journalistic or political organization for five years. Derakhshan, known as Iran's "Blog ...
• Oscar-Winner Haggis Leads Protest to Free Iran ...
  June 8 (Bloomberg) -- Oscar-winning screenwriter Paul Haggis and human-rights activist Trudie Styler delivered petitions this morning to the Iranian Mission to the United Nations, demanding freedom for acclaimed filmmaker Jafar Panahi and his artistic collaborator, Mohammad Rasoulof.read more
• Actors go to UN demanding Iran release jailed ...
  Hollywood stars including read more
• Iran to move its most sensitive nuclear equipm ...
  TEHRAN— Iran is moving its production of higher-enriched uranium to a mountain bunker where it plans to triple output by using more advanced centrifuges, state television reported Wednesday. Iran says the announcement is a response to a letter Friday from Yukiya Amano, director general of the In ...
• Iran devalues rial by 11 percent to spur domes ...
  TEHRAN, Iran — The Iranian currency, the rial, was devalued by 11 percent on Wednesday as the government tries to liberalize its economy and curb imports. The official exchange rate was 10,570 rials per U.S. dollar on Tuesday, and on Wednesday the Central Bank announced it would be 11,750 to the ...

Most Revolutionary Act

• Medicare for All: The Only Solution to Big Pharma
  Don’t Chop It – Expand It to Everyone for Real Cost Savings! www.healthcare-now.org/ In my view, the only solution to the mess “corporatization” has made of the US health care system is to follow the example of other industrialized countries and establish a single, nationally funded health progr ...
• The Economic Cost of “Me-Too” Drugs
  http://scienceblogs.com The drug companies and pharmaceutical industry analysts that pimp them claim that me-too drugs (see May 30 blog) are beneficial for the US health care system in two ways. First they allegedly lower prescription costs by increasing competition. Secondly they provide doctor ...
• Osama bin Laden: Dead or Alive
  Book Review 2009 Olive Branch Press by David Ray Griffin (author of The New Pearl Harbor) Osama bin Laden: Dead or Alive attempts to explain how America’s favorite terrorist came to release 19 video and audiotapes following his death and funeral – duly reported by ...
• The “Me-Too” Drug Rip-Off
  www.oldthinkernews.com In addition to the billions of health care dollars drug companies waste on disease mongering – convincing the public that everyday human problems are  illnesses requiring treatment – billions more are wasted on developing and marketing hundreds of “me-too” drugs. By defini ...
• Childhood Bipolar Disorder – the Role o ...
  Dr Peter Parry (see 5/21 blog) puts the blame for the dangerous fad of prescribing unapproved antipsychotic drugs for children squarely where it belongs: on drug and insurance companies. While internal memos (see http://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/docs/Paediatricbipolardisorderacontroversyfromt ...

Doug's Darkworld

• D-Day, Dishonouring Their Memory
  Today, well yesterday, was the 67th anniversary of the D-Day Invasion. This was a salient event in American history, glorified in such movies as “The Longest Day” or “Saving Private Ryan.” And, unlike certain recent minor military operations involving a few dozen commandos and a few helicopters, ...
• Socialism for the Rich Illustrated
  This is the former site of Black Oak Books, a once thriving book store in North Berkeley. To say it was an anchor store in the neighbourhood would be an understatement, it as an important part of the community and a serious business draw for its local little business district. It thrived till th ...
• The Carrington Event
  Early in the morning of September 2nd 1859 the sky brightened and gold miners in Colorado got up and started cooking their breakfast. Gold miners get up with the Sun of course, at least the gold miners of that era. It wasn’t long before they noticed that while the sky was amazingly bright and co ...
• Netanyahu Makes Israel’s Position Clear: ...
  Netanyahu gave  a speech to Congress where he clarified Israel’s position on a negotiated settlement with the Palestinians, and his opinion of Obama’s recent policy speech on the Middle East. The title of the post pretty much sums it up. And how did our elected leaders respond to this man? He g ...
• Through Thick and Thin
  Well, no rapture. No surprise. It really is dismaying how people can believe prima facie nonsense in this day and age. It’s especially galling because so many Americans, especially the ones who fall for this kind of crap, have an especially high opinion of America and Americans. A country where ...

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• Roundtable on China’s Energy Future
  Join the forum discussion on this post Just a note that this weekend I leave for an extended business trip, with visits to Seattle, Washington D.C., Germany, Massachusetts, Vermont, and California. I will be on the road for about four weeks, but will try to keep to my schedule of posting new co ...
• Taking Care of the Topsoil
  Following my inclusion in the Top 10 list of ethanol enemies, I sought to Set the Ethanol Record Straight on my actual views on ethanol. I set out three broad tenets that shape my views. They are: Tenet One: We must transition from fossil fuels with a sense of urgency. Tenet Two: We need to ...
• Book Review: Power Trip
  Join the forum discussion on this post Introduction I tend to accumulate a lot of books – sent to me by publishers and publicists – and they pile up on my desk until I have to make a trip somewhere. Because it takes a long time to get from Hawaii to anywhere else, [...]
• Scientists Create Ethanol From Hydrogen They C ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post Alas, today I had intended to put up my book review of Amanda Littleâs book Power Trip, but I left the book on my desk in the office and I need to review some notes first. So that should be posted for my Thursday column. If you haven’t [...]
• Scientists Create Ethanol From Hydrogen They C ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post Alas, today I had intended to put up my book review of Amanda Littleâs book Power Trip, but I left the book on my desk in the office and I need to review some notes first. So that should be posted for my Thursday column. If you haven’t [...]

Discovery Educator Network

• Technology: figuring out how the pieces fit: L ...
  Comments:Nice collection of science resources. - Dean MantzTags: technology, science, wikis, mwedwards, blogspotby: Dean Mantz
• How to make searchable, Web-based Google chart ...
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• TweetGrid Search - by jazzychad
  Comments:Visualize Tweets in real time. - Dean MantzTags: twitter, search, tools, tweetgridby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

• Modern Farmer's Market Innovations Make Health ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—There's often a throwback feel to farmer's markets. It's a place where you can seek out the same heirloom vegetable varieties your great-grandmother adored. Old-school, heritage breed chicken eggs? Yep, a true farmer's market probably offers them. And while the farmer's ...
• The Nickel Pincher: DIY Wedding Favor Ideas
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—At the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the guests all left with luxurious wool scarves, sporting the Union Jack in various colorful prints, that cost about $75 each. Chances are you haven't budgeted that amount of money into your next soiree. And do y ...
• Have the Best Memorial Day Ever!
  It's almost here...the three-day weekend that marks the beginning of the sunny season of summer. But are you ready? read more
• Report: Popular Pesticide-Birth Defect Link Hi ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Environmental health, plant, and food experts have been sounding the alarm about health risks associated with the popular weed-killer Roundup for years, saying it leads to hormone disruption and more than three dozen plant diseases. One study even found its main ingredie ...
• Major Doughnut Maker Vows to Use Cage-Free Eggs
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—There's already enough guilt involved in gorging yourself with high-calorie doughnuts, so one major doughnut maker has decided to make enjoying a doughnut, well, a little mor read more

big think

• Focus on People, Not Stones
  What's the Big Idea?� Larry Coben, Executive Director of the Sustainable Preservation Initiative, recognized an opportunity for the local population that lived around an archeological site called Inca Yocta--located in the mountains about 100 miles east of Cochabamba, Bolivia, at an altitude ...
• Everyone's aflutter about Salman Khan
  Salman Khan and his Khan Academy evoke strong feelings. Although Khan has many influential supporters, his detractors are beginning to emerge… [Side note: We are going to have a FUN webinar on June 15! ] Yesterday David Clemens wrote at the National Academy of Scholars web site that ...
• Lesson 14: Children’s Literature; The Genius o ...
  It’s not Dr. Seuss. But Go the F*** to Sleep is extremely powerful, and it’s extremely powerful for an audience who has supported and stomached and loved and memorized-to-the-point-of-loving-slightly-less the canon of (small) children’s literature. After board books, after McSweeney’s Baby Be of ...
• Exploring the Fuzzy Notion of the "True Self"
  "Resist what resists in you," the god Krishna tells heroic Arjuna in Peter Brook's epic theatrical version of The Mahabharata . "Become yourself!" This is, as the experimental philosopher Joshua Knobe remarks in this intriguing post at The Stone, "one of the distinctive ideals of modern lif ...
• As Economy Continues to Struggle, New Survey R ...
  Colleagues Tony Leiserowitz and Ed Maibach have released their latest survey report in the Global Warming Six Americas series. Below is the email summary from Tony describing the results from the May 2011 survey showing that public opinion and perceptions have held relatively stable since 2010 ...

Information Liberation

• Montreal police shoot up homeless man, stray b ...
  From CBC: A second man has died from his injuries after shots were fired by police early Tuesday morning in Montreal's downtown core, near the corner of St-Denis and Ste-Catherine streets. The 36-year-old was on his way to work at the Saint-Luc H...
• Clarence Dupnik's Death Squad
  Why did they use a SWAT team? If Tucson resident Jose Guerena was plausibly suspected of narcotics trafficking, why wasn't he arrested on his way to or from his job at the nearby Asarco Mission copper mine? What justified a military assault on h...
• Florida Police Harass Man for Videotaping Thei ...
  This happened at the Shell Station on Normandy Blvd next to 295 in Jacksonville Florida.I had just finished filling up my van (over 70$!!!) and going through the car wash.I noticed the big mobile command center pull up and decided to get some video...
• Chicago State's Attorney Lets Bad Cops Slide, ...
  When Chicago police answered a domestic disturbance call at the home of Tiawanda Moore and her boyfriend in July 2010, the officers separated the couple to question them individually. Moore was interviewed privately in her bedroom. According to Moore...
• Cops arrest journalists in Wisconsin
  Wisconsin police are filmed arresting members of the press that were covering a demonstration at the state's Capitol Building this week. A cuffed reporter is dragged to the ground as an irate cop goes after another journalist....

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• My Favourite Pom
  Sorry folks: that’s it for penises and Jews for me for a while. I thought I’d pay brief homage to one of the century’s greatest philosophers, connoisseurs, insanely fast drivers and all-round bon vivants. Every Monday evening, the house stops for … Continue reading →
• The Last Respectable Prejudice
  I can’t believe I’ve just read this in 2011. The Melbourne Herald-Sun’s Andrew Bolt picked up on this article in the Los Angeles Times, regarding a citizen-initiated referendum in the state of California seeking to outlaw male circumcision. Now, I’m not … Continue reading →
• Free Speech, Gag Orders And Accountability
  I’m going to tackle this in more depth a little later. But the other day I was shown (Hat-tip Izen) the existence of something called super-injunctions, of which prior till now I’d been blissfully ignorant. It’s important enough to call … Continue reading →
• Playing the Race Card
  I couldn’t let the current events at the DT pass by without a comment or two, and a chance for us to have a somewhat more sane discussion if at all possible. For those who haven’t seen it, James Delingpole … Continue reading →
• Animal Welfare: A Good Cause Gone Bad
  Very few things burn me more than cruelty to animals. Every time I see a story in the news regarding the mistreatment of horses, dogs or other domestic or wild animals, it produces a visceral reaction in me not unlike … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• Listening to digitized vinyl
  Listening to digitized vinyl – I'm currently writing a piece for sciencetext about the price of digital goods, including mp3s and CDs etc. While researching the article, I discovered this interesting item on being an audiophile in the modern age and listening to digital recordings of vinyl recor ...
• Gossip, grooming, and your Dunbar number
  Gossip, grooming, and your Dunbar number – David Dobbs waxes lyrical in Wired this week on the subject of the Dunbar number, that fairly well-known social science icon that says that our brains are powerful enough to handle only 150 friends (+/-50 or so). It's a bit of a truism, I think. Some pe ...
• Safety in the nano sphere
  Safety in the nano sphere – The safety of nanotechnology is high on the scientific and political agenda. Qualifying and quantifying the issues remains difficult. An Italia team has now devised and tested what they describe as a "systematic and reproducible evaluation of nanoparticle toxicology i ...
• Updating the Periodic Table
  Updating the Periodic Table – IUPAC and IUPAP have officially added elements 114 and 116 to the Periodic Table. The elements with atomic weights of 289 and 292, respectively, were first sighted more than a decade ago. However, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)and the ...
• The Sky’s Dark Labyrinth
  The Sky’s Dark Labyrinth – If you’re looking for a gripping summer read, check out my friend Stu Clark’s latest book: The Sky’s Dark Labyrinth. It’s part 1 of an intriguing trilogy concept that tells the tale of how God-driven scientists, such as Kepler and Galileo (yes, they were), unravelled t ...

RFF Library

• Climate Change, the Indoor Environment, and Health
  National Research Council (download pre-pub version with free registration) http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13115 Despite the considerable research on how climate change may affect public health, the impact of climate change on indoor environments has received relatively little attentio ...
• Consumer Attitudes About Renewable Energy: Tre ...
  Natural Marketing Institute for the US DOE National Renewable Energy Laboratory http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy11osti/50988.pdf The majority of consumers (80%) indicated that they care about the use of renewable energy. However, concern has diminished slightly over time, which is consistent with oth ...
• Universal Ownership: Why Environmental Externa ...
  UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative http://www.unpri.org/files/6728_ES_report_environmental_externalities.pdf Many indicators regarding the health of the world’s environment remain firmly in the red. Trends such as climate change, water scarcity, air pollution, biodiversity loss and ecos ...
• A National and International Analysis of Chang ...
  PLOS One / by Aapo Rautiainen, Iddo Wernick, Paul E. Waggoner, Jesse H. Ausubel and Pekka E. Kauppi http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0019577 [Abstract] Like cities, forests grow by spreading out or by growing denser. Both inventories taken steadily by a single n ...
• The Status of Tropical Forest Management 2011
  International Tropical Timber Organization http://www.itto.int/technical_report/ [Yale Environment 360]  A new report finds that the area of sustainably managed forest in the world’s tropical regions increased from 36 million hectares (89 million acres) to 53 million hectares from 2005 to 2010, ...

Scientific American - News

• Autism's Tangled Genetics Full of Rare and Var ...
  The underpinnings of autism are turning out to be even more varied than the disease's diverse manifestations. In four new studies and an analysis published June 8 researchers have added some major landmarks in the complex landscape of the disease, uncovering clues as to why the disease is so m ...
• Shattered Expectations: Ultrabright Supernovae ...
  From the outlook of a planet that resides next to a quiet, relatively predictable star, the circumstances that lead to dramatic stellar explosions elsewhere in the universe can sound somewhat improbable. Some such blasts, known as type Ia supernovae, occur when a small, dense star known as a whi ...
• Computer Crash Test: Will Your Internet Access ...
  Every computer, modem, server and smart phone that connects to the Internet has a unique Internet protocol (IP) address, so users can find it. The address format, known as IPv4, was standardized in 1977 as a 32-digit binary number, making a then-seemingly unlimited 4.3 billion addresses (2^32) a ...
• Nearly 200 Poor Communities Awarded $76 Millio ...
  In Augusta, Maine, an old paper mill that operated for more than a century will be turned into a new hotel and conference center.In Chicago, soil and ground water polluted with dry-cleaning solvents will be cleaned up to make room for a new library in a poor neighborhood. [More] ...
• Sprouts? Cucumbers? Authorities Still Searchin ...
  The source of the deadly E. coli outbreak in Europe that has infected more than 2,100 and killed at least 22, is still a mystery. First, German authorities said it could be cucumbers. Then, sprouts. But as of Monday, preliminary tests from a sprout farm in Northern Germany had come back negat ...

First Truths

• David Goodway on American Individualist Anarchism
  This passage from David Goodway's Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow: Left-Libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward�contains an amusing bit of trivia about James Joyce: The individualist current was influential in the USA, where its adherents, although as opposed t ...
• Charles A. Beard on the "real origin of the state"
  The following is a notable passage from Beard's lecture,�Politics, first delivered at Columbia University in February of 1908: The real origin of the state . . . is to be found in conquest, although it must be admitted that power-bearing individuals were previously rising within the older patria ...
• More on Primitive Accumulation and Today's "Fr ...
  Excerpted from Karl Polanyi in Vienna: The Contemporary Significance of The Great Transformation, edited by Kenneth McRobbie and Kari Polanyi Levitt: What prior conditions must pertain in order for capitalist activity to occur and be profitable and how are these conditions brought about? Marx's ...
• The "Dull Compulsion" of State Capitalism
  Libertarians, especially those setting about to make regular apologies for sweatshops, etc., would do well to observe the distinction between “direct force” (through, say, taxation) and “the dull compulsion of economic relations” carried out through the state. It is easy enough not to give due r ...
• Free Market Anarchism and Democracy
  In a footnote in his Democracy, Markets, and the Legal Order: Notes on the Nature of Politics in a Radically Liberal Society, Don Lavoie addresses the relationship between a stateless, free market society and democracy:It persuades me that a free-market anarchist society would be workable, at le ...

Media Co-Op

• Residential Schools and My Journey to the Down ...
  âIn Our Own Voices,â Week I I was 6 years old when I was taken away from my parents and grandparents in Ahousat BC and forced into a residential school. The Department of Indian Affairs came to our reserve every year in the 1950’s, taking ...
• Residential Schools and My Journey to the Down ...
  âIn Our Own Voices,â Week I I was 6 years old when I was taken away from my parents and grandparents in Ahousat BC and forced into a residential school. The Department of Indian Affairs came to our reserve every year in the 1950’s, taking ...
• CKUT radio: Salim Vally on Palestine solidarit ...
  interview on the recent move at the University of Johannesburg to sever links with Ben Gurion university in Israel. Listen/download an interview recorded live on CKUT radio's community news program Off the Hour with South African academic ...
• CKUT radio: Salim Vally on Palestine solidarit ...
  interview on the recent move at the University of Johannesburg to sever links with Ben Gurion university in Israel. Listen/download an interview recorded live on CKUT radio's community news program Off the Hour with South African academic ...
• Need 100 bucks?
  The Halifax Media Co-op is seeking pitches for our next paid feature. We are looking for pitches on underreported topics from a grassroots perspective that are relevant to Halifax and the surrounding community. To pitch an article, send u ...

David Seaton's News Links

• Times Change
  David Seaton's News LinksI happened on this clip and I began to wonder about how something that was once so mainstream, so top of the line, so wholesome, so American "family" entertainment, now looks so painfully like a charter flight full of scummy, leering, pedophile, sex tourists setting of ...
• Memento Mori: In a hundred years we'll all be bald
  "It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up -- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kubler-RossDavid Seaton's News LinksA favorite subject ...
• Better watch out for the cucumber that ate Ham ...
  The number of people hit by a massive European outbreak of foodborne bacterial infections is a third bigger than previously known and a stunningly high number of patients suffer from a potentially deadly complication than can shut down their kidneys, officials said Wednesday. Associated Press Y ...
• The Bradley Manning Video
  David Seaton's News Links This video raises many, many issues... but the most significant thing is how somebody like this was ever kept in the army in the first place and then was sent to Iraq and then given the access to the classified information he was given access to. This is very, very s ...
• The Middle East made simple(r)
  David Seaton's News LinksWhen very complex situations become very simple is when they become most dangerous. The situation that America finds itself in today's Middle East is such a situation: simple and potentially deadly for American prestige and power, two things which feed off each other, an ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• Average Drug Label Lists Over Whopping 70 Side ...
  Using a computer program, scientists analyzed 5,600 drug labels and more than 500,000 labeled effects. They found that the average drug comes with a list of 70 potential reactions, according to researchers. In fact, the more commonly prescribed drugs averaged around 100 side effects each, with ...
• Be Aware: this "Food" Radically Increases Your ...
  Tom Philpott got much more of a reaction to his February 10, 2011, aspartame article than he expected. He reports, "I guess in the back of my mind, I was thinking, people still drink that stuff?" Well, they do—by the bucketful. Overall, U.S. soda consumption is declining slowly, but Americans s ...
• 7 'Healthy' Foods That Are Making You Fat
  Many foods that are advertised as being healthy are actually not healthy at all. MSNBC has collected a few examples: Splenda (and other artificial sweeteners) Artificial sweeteners may actually make people more prone to overindulge and crave sweet foods. They can also cause damage to benef ...
• 7 Tips for Cleaning Fruits, Vegetables
  Nearly 48 million people are sickened by contaminated food each year in the United States. Many people don't realize that even produce can sometimes be the culprit in outbreaks of food-borne illness. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) offers the following tips for protecting yourself: ...
• The 10 Best Places to Watch the Sunset Around ...
  Planet Green has assembled a list of the 10 best spots to watch the sun drop below the horizon. Here are some of their picks: Ayers Rock in Northern Territory, Australia The clouds here reflect the rock's blood-orange hues into the sky. Academia Bridge in Venice, Italy Here, you can se ...

JAMA

• Quality Improvement [Capitol Health Call]
• Measuring Countermeasures [Capitol Health Call]
• VA Oversight Questioned [Capitol Health Call]
• Bullying Among Middle School and High School S ...
• Cancer Survivors--United States, 2007 [From th ...

Survival - tribal peoples

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

Montreal Gazette

• Anti-SLAPP law: Good idea, poor execution
  The Quebec government admirably took the lead in legislating against so-called SLAPP suits. The law to counter them was passed two years ago this month, the first such in this country. But as a Gazette report this week noted, the law in practice has been less than an unqualified success.
• Real budget surprise comes when program cuts hit
  The Conservative government's post-election budget purposely did not differ all that greatly from its pre-election budget.
• Despite its failings, Canada Post is worth saving
  Back then the federal government, responding to public pressure, legislated the posties back to work after two weeks. This time, as the postal union launched strike action late last week that includes disruption of service in Montreal today, the question was not so much how the country would cop ...
• Despite its failings, Canada Post is worth saving
  The last time we had a postal strike was 14 years ago. It was another century. Times and technology have greatly changed since then.
• Afghanistan: the troops depart, the work goes on
  Last week Prime Minister Stephen Harper made a surprise visit there and said the time had come to go home. Afghanistan was no longer a "geostrategic risk to the world," he said, or "a source of global terrorism."

Food World Order

• e.coli won't have 'significant impact' on orga ...
  from bloomberg: A deadly E.coli outbreak that is being blamed on sprouts grown without chemicals probably won’t dent people’s support for the organic food industry in the long term, according to London-based analyst Organic Monitor. The outbreak has killed 22 and made 2,263 people ill, accordin ...
• coffee scandal brewing: did portland's stumpto ...
  from gothamist: Coffee crisis! Maybe! Flatiron's favorite cuppa, Stumptown, is at the center of a highly caffeinated brouhaha over whether or not it's been sold. Here's what's going on: Esquire's "Eat Like A Man" blog published an article today written by high-end roaster La Colombe Torrefa ...
• food pyramid being replaced with plate-shaped logo
  from ibtimes: The US federal government will stop using the food pyramid it first introduced in 1992. The 20 year old food pyramid was a basis for nutritional guideline throughout the United States. However, there were many shortcomings to the old Food Pyramid. For instance, it never advised how ...
• 5/26 binge & purge: declarations, doomsday & m ...
  a modern declaration of independence: a real revolution starting in our own backyards* keepers of the seeds: how seed-saving native farmers preserve agricultural heritage* fitnessgoop.com's top 12 food films* factory farms produce 100x more waste than all people in US combined - a ...
• global food inflation hits hemp seed, coconut ...
  from natural news: Food inflation is hitting the superfood industry right where it hurts - in the wallet. Thanks to several factors you'll read about here, prices on hemp seeds, hemp oils, coconut oil and other superfoods are set to skyrocket beginning in just a few days. One of the largest supe ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

• The 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 ...

CASSE

• What Should We Tax?
  Herman Daly suggests a simple rule: tax what we want less of, not what we want more of.
• The Role of Religious Congregations in Promoti ...
  Stewardship of creation requires people to accept the limits to growth and manage the economy accordingly. Religious congregations can help spread this idea.
• Mountebank Wins Nobel for Infinite Planet Theory
  Infinite planet theory gets a well-deserved nod from the establishment.
• Two Schools and the Path to the Steady State
  Concerned about the fate of civilization? Maybe there's some good news from an unlikely source.
• Game Changer: National Wildlife Federation Ado ...
  The National Wildlife Federation Earns the Support of the Common Sense Club.

The Talking Clock

• After Dangerous Duff... meet the Lib Dem MEP w ...
  After dangerous Andrew Duff (Lib Dem MEP) was outed plotting behind the backs of the British in Brussels... an issue over which Her Majesty The Queen still hasn't dignified us with a response to, despite the treason laws... ...here comes the Lib Dem MEP who voted for you to have to hand over ...
• It's started... free speech on the internet to ...
  So... you know those alleged 'terrorists'..? The useful idiots who rant nonsense with a perverse religious fervour but somehow, suspiciously, never get arrested? Well, because of those people, they're now wanting to censor the internet. See here and here. Now, I know... you're cynical. ...
• "Bilderberg members used Swiss banks to pay fo ...
  So, as the countdown to Bilderberg-Watch continues... We've noticed that we've had a few new faces (to us) linking over the last week - so welcome to new friends. We've also noticed a few hits coming from the comments under an article on a site not encountered before. Now then, the arti ...
• Greek protesters emulate some of the more open ...
  There's a delightful post over on Open Europe's blog. They are focusing on the Greek protests. We quite like Open Europe - even though they do not advocate withdrawal from the corrupt and undemocratic EU. Anyway, they cover some of what's being said... but it's the pictures they've chosen ...
• No War for Banksters: Is this what the Libya a ...
  Food for thought, not available on the BBC...

Facing South

• Industry-funded climate crank becomes a media ...
  A new study examining TV news coverage of federal proposals to regulate global warming pollution has turned up evidence of journalistic malpractice when it comes to accurately informing viewers about one of the most critical issues of our time. It also shows how the mainstream media t ...
• Dispatch from Death Row: Saving Troy Davis
  "De'Jaun, come over here, I want to talk to you." De'Jaun Correia, a slender 13-year-old with thick corn-rows in his hair, sat down next to his uncle Troy Davis in the corner of the room. Troy described to De'Jaun what to expect now that he was approaching adolescence. "Your body' ...
• Dispatch from Death Row: Saving Troy Davis
  "De'Jaun, come over here, I want to talk to you." De'Jaun Correia, a slender 13-year-old with thick corn-rows in his hair, sat down next to his uncle Troy Davis in the corner of the room. Troy described to De'Jaun what to expect now that he was approaching adolescence. "Your body' ...
• Marchers seek to save historic West Virginia l ...
  Today marks the start of the March on Blair Mountain, an effort to save the site of a historic labor battle from destruction by coal companies and to bring an end to mountaintop removal mining. Expected to draw about 600 people, the march is organized by the Blair Mountain Coalition a ...
• Scientists confirm Gulf residents' claims abou ...
  Anyone who spent time talking to residents of coastal communities along the Gulf of Mexico following last year's BP oil disaster inevitably heard concerns about the widespread spraying of chemical dispersants to break up the oil slick. Residents worried that, rather than easing the ec ...

CenterLine

• Today’s Terrorism News
  Mumbai Terror Case Goes to Jury Jurors in the case against Tahawwur Rana, accused in connection with the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, will begin deliberating Wednesday morning after attorneys completed their closing arguments Tuesday. Prosecutors walked the jury through the … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Closing Arguments Expected in Chicago Terror Trial After calling two witnesses, defense attorneys for Tahawwur Rana, who is on trial in Chicago and accused in connection with the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, rested their case Monday, with closing arguments expected … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Militant Leader in Pakistan Reported Killed Ilyas Kashmiri, one of Pakistanâs most wanted militant leaders, was reportedly killed on Friday by a U.S. drone strike in Pakistanâs South Waziristan. Suspected of being involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks and in … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Al Shabab Says Mogadishu Suicide Bomber Was American The Somali militant group al Shabab has announced online that a suicide bomber who attacked an African Union base in Mogadishu on Monday, killing three soldiers, was an American from Minnesota, according … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Judge in Portland Bomb Plot Case Orders Govt. to Hand Over Evidence to Defense The judge overseeing the case against a Somali-born teenager accused of plotting to bomb a Portland tree-lighting ceremony last November ruled on Wednesday that prosecutors must … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

• Next Mars rover faces bumpy ride to launch
  Hundreds of unsolved problems could delay the Mars Science Laboratory's upcoming launch by two years, a report warns
• Today on New Scientist: 8 June 2011
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: A new way to fight superbugs, the league of extraordinary supernovae, and a fire-breathing dragon
• Imaging sight cells for first time
  Tiny light-sensitive rod and cone cells have been clearly imaged in a living human eye for the first time
• Scar of destruction left by Massachusetts tornado
  A NASA satellite image shows the path of devastation left by the storm, one of 875 tornadoes to have hit the US this year
• Today on New Scientist: 7 June 2011
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: A million-dollar mathematics puzzle, why the end is always nigh, and unpacking a Scottish elephant

Tech Drive In

• Google Chrome Growing at Breakneck Speed, Fire ...
  Browser wars were supposed to be over years ago. Arrival of Google Chrome changed all that. And with the passage of time, Google Chrome growth story is gaining some serious momentum. Google Chrome might have already breached the magic 20% market share and there are no signs of a slow down. Goo ...
• Bleeding Edge - Install Major Apps Not Availab ...
  Bleeding Edge is a simple script for Ubuntu that lets you install a multitude of applications not available in official Ubuntu repositories. Using Bleeding Edge, you don't need to manually add repositories and update PPAs to install a new application, instead you just need to select the applicat ...
• Bleeding Edge - Install Major Apps Not Availab ...
  Bleeding Edge is a simple script for Ubuntu that lets you install a multitude of applications not available in official Ubuntu repositories. Using Bleeding Edge, you don't need to manually add repositories and update PPAs to install a new application, instead you just need to select the applicat ...
• NeverNote - Open Source Evernote Clone Ubuntu PPA
  NeverNote is an open source replacement for Evernote. Evernote is a very popular note taking and archiving application that can run on Android, BlackBerry OS, iOS, Mac OS X, WebOS, Microsoft Windows and Windows Mobile. Linux is not supported unfortunately at the moment and NeverNote can be a per ...
• Install Google Earth in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal
  'How to install Google Earth in Ubuntu' is one of the most commonly asked questions by our readers. Most of them tries to search for Google Earth in Ubuntu Software Center and gets the googleearth-package. Obviously, its not what you are looking for. Here is how you install Google Earth in Ubunt ...

Case About Bird Flu

• ECB ENDGAME: German government insists on Gree ...
  Berlin Warns of Possible Greek Insolvency German Finance Minister Calls for Athens Debt Restructuring By Sven Böll and Philipp Wittrock, Der Spiegel In a letter sent to the European Commission, the European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund and euro-zone countries, Germany’s financ ...
• European Central Bank risks being ‘wiped ...
  [The ECB has lent  about 440 billion to insolvent banks in Greece, Portugal, Ireland and Spain against collateral that has been highly inflated. These banks have, in turn, lent the money they have gotten from the ECB at low interest rates at punitive interest rates arranged by the ECB, EU and IM ...
• Eurozone collapse threatens global currency ag ...
  Top Bilderberger: Eurozone Collapse Threatens Global Currency Agenda Harvard Professor reveals globalists are panic-stricken about Greece debt default threat to survival of single currency Paul Joseph Watson Infowars Tuesday, June 7, 2011 A top Bilderberg member has revealed that globalists are ...
• CONFRONTATION BETWEEN GREEK PEOPLE AND EU ...
  *Greece at historical crossroads; make or break week for country, faces economic and political obliteration *500,000 people attend protests in Athens over new EU, IMF and ECB austerity measures; these will destroy what remains of Greece’s economic base and plunge millions of Greeks into life ...
• Top EU anti-corruption official says Europe&#8 ...
  Wolfgang Hetzer, one of the top anti-corruption officials in OLAF, the EU’s anti-fraud office, has written an acclaimed book analysing how organised white collar criminals engineered the current financial crisis for their profit. In remarkably frank interviews in the German media, Hetzer says ...

Invisible Opportunity

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

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 ...

electric politics

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

PR News

• Feinstein Kean Healthcare hires Castaldi as EVP
  CAMBRIDGE, MA: Feinstein Kean Healthcare (FKH), an Ogilvy firm that specializes in the health and life sciences sectors, hired Marilyn Castaldi as EVP of its healthcare practice.
• Groupon hires Williams to lead global communic ...
  CHICAGO: Groupon hired Bradford Williams as VP of global communications, the company confirms.
• Quaker launches talent search campaign
  NEW YORK: Quaker Chewy Granola Bars, with the help of Edelman Public Relations, is launching the Quaker Chewy Superstar Search today, a nationwide singing competition designed to provide parents with a platform to showcase their kids' vocal talents.
• SoundBite acquires SmartReply
  BEDFORD, MA: SoundBite Communications, a provider of cloud-based customer communications solutions, recently acquired SmartReply in an effort to become a disruptive force in the expanding mobile marketing industry.
• US consumers interest in green brands continue ...
  MONTEREY, CA: Seventh Generation, Whole Foods, and Tom's of Maine topped the list of most popular green brands among US consumers this year, according to the ImagePower Global Green Brands Study, which also found that more than 60% of people want to buy from environmentally responsible companies ...

The Story Behind the Story

• Public Letter to “Sherri” Kane and ...
  AN OPEN LETTER TO SHERRI KANE AND LEONARD HOROWITZ DDS This public letter is being written and openly posted on my ONLY personal web blog, www.atrueott.com in rebuttal to the baseless, inherently false and libelous allegations posted by Ms. Kane “on behalf of”  Mr. Leonard Horowitz. I do not wis ...
• Jeru-Salem Underground!!!!
  Talk about being “undermined”.   The Rats Run The Sewer – Especially in Jeru-Salem. Check it out: Beneath Jerusalem, an underground city takes shape AP â In this May 17, 2011 photo, a view of Zedekiah’s Cave is seen in Jerusalem’s Old City. Underneath the ⦠Slideshow:Underground Jerusalem B ...
• McKinney Bombshell
  Cynthia McKinney Drops Bombshell: Candidates to sign pledges of support for “Israel” by Richard Edmondson, source In an interview which aired on Press TV on Saturday–one day before the AIPAC conference got under way in Washington–former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney revealed what amount ...
• Sometimes It’s Nice to be Proven RIGHT!!
  During the years 2005-2008, I spent hundreds of hours on radio and TV talk shows, and gave dozens of PowerPoint presentations on what I labeled the “BIRD FLU SCAM”.  This, of course, evolved into the “SWINE FLU SCAM” – a non-existent “pandemic” which I at that time declared was designed primari ...
• Sometimes It’s Nice to be Proven RIGHT!!
  During the years 2005-2008, I spent hundreds of hours on radio and TV talk shows, and gave dozens of PowerPoint presentations on what I labeled the “BIRD FLU SCAM”.  This, of course, evolved into the “SWINE FLU SCAM” – a non-existent “pandemic” which I at that time declared was designed primari ...

k2p blog

• Ununquadium = Flerovium and Ununhexium = Mosco ...
  The IUPAC/IUPAP Joint Working Party (JWP) has determined that the Dubna-Livermore collaborations have led to fulfillment of criteria for the inclusion of elements Z = 114 and 116 in the Periodic table.
• Skin cells made to behave like nerve cells wit ...
  Researchers have managed to develop nerve cells from human skin cells without using stem cells - a development described as an ethical and medical breakthrough.
• Deforestation? Carbon sequestered in forests i ...
  The density of forests and woodland across much of the world is actually increasing.
• Royal Wedding Indian Style
  Where did they find all the very agile lookalikes? Impressive and amusing. � �
• The Age of Fossil Fuel may be just beginning
  In the meantime, it appears that the prophets of an age of renewable energy following Peak Oil got things backwards. We may be living in the era of Peak Renewables, which will be followed by a very long Age of Fossil Fuels that has only just begun.

Left Foot Forward

• Woolly terminology undermines new ‘Preve ...
  For the Home Office, its recently relaunched Prevent strategy was its third attempt at creating an effective counter-extremism strategy.
• Archbishop “right to speak out” says spin doct ...
  Those within the coalition are not concerned about the principle of the Archbishop Rowan Williams speaking out, but that his remarks make uncomfortable reading.
• Government’s latest u-turn puts politica ...
  The coalition government’s considered approach to justice was welcomed by penal reformers, who considered it a once in a generation opportunity for change.
• Progressive council points the way to fairness
  The Islington Fairness Commission shows there are concrete things we can do on our own patch to try to close the gap between the rich and poor.
• City Hall Tories accused of jeopardising cycli ...
  City Hall Tories were accused of "playing games" with cyclists' safety today after walking out of a meeting on maintaining the 20mph speed limit on Blackfriars Bridge.

Consumerist

• Even Sears Doesn't Know What It Sells Anymore
  Sears might be doing an okay job with adjusting to doing business in the 21st century if they weren't stuck with a pesky brick-and-mortar store network. Maybe. When John returned a malfunctioning dehumidifier to his local store, he wanted to exchange it for a working one. He couldn't, though, b ...
• Get Expert Legal Advice From JustAnswer
  Not sure what that odd clause in your new lease really means? Stumped by an employment law question? Tired of seeing sentences that end with question marks? We are too, so we've partnered with JustAnswer, a company that, for a fee, connects people with verified experts--lawyers, doctors, mechan ...
• Morning Deals
  ClothingDickies: [Men's Apparel] Dickies men's and women's shorts from $3 after rebate + free shippingFinish Line: [Men's Shoes] adidas Men's Mega Soft Cell LP Tennis Shoes for $28 + $8 s&hKohl's: [Clothing & Accessories] Extra 15% Off w/Kohl's Card use coupon code GIFTS4DAD.Puma: [Apparel] [40 ...
• Top 10 Dying US Industries Revealed
  If you work in one of these fields, it might be time to start buffing your resume and taking night classes. According to a report by IbisWorld, these are the top 10 US industries in the "decline" phase of their life cycle. 1. Manufactured Home Dealers 2. Record Stores 3. Photofinishing 4. ...
• Obama: Personal Finances And The Nation's Fina ...
  Earlier today, President Obama popped into the White House Online Personal Finance Summit, where our own Meg Marco was in attendance. Speaking to the small group of writers, the president offered up his advice on person finance. "Don't spend all your money," he joked. He did share some advice ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

• Jamie Dimon’s Bizarre Idea About Why The Recov ...
  According to JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, the recovery has stalled because of strict banking regulation. I’m not making this up. At a financial conference today, Dimon told Fed chief Ben Bernanke there’s no longer any reason to crack down on Wall Street. “Most of the bad actors are gone,” he ...
• World’s Population Forced To Succumb To GMOs!
  Monsanto, whose executives have publicly said that they want Monsanto to become the only producer of genetically modified (GM) seeds in the world, is now joined by a smaller company, in California, who has the same hope. That company is Epicyte, whose president, Mitch Hein, announced at a press ...
• How Your Home Fills with Carbon
  We reported here several months ago that the world’s leading scientific body on global warming issued its latest report confirming what many of us have suspected: either we do something profound about greenhouse emissions or we will make our planet uninhabitable, if not for ourselves and our chi ...
• As New Food Safety Threat Emerges, US Regulato ...
  The E. coli outbreak in Germany—identified by scientists as a new deadly strain of the bacteria—has by now killed at least 17 people and spread to 10 countries. And while it hasn’t yet hit United States, the outbreak has highlighted longstanding gaps in the U.S. system for identifying such threa ...
• Sarah Palin’s Enemy List
  (Tina Dupuy is a regular contributor and hosts segments on the web’s The Young Turks. If we could see The daily Show in the UK, Jon Stewart described last night: “Sarah Palin’s not a presidential bid, nothing to see other than this giant technicolor bus family vacation, whistle stop, gunball ral ...

NewsAlert

• Newsalert Fundraising Drive: Help By Donating ...
  We need your help to keep this website going. It's our semi-annual fundraising drive here at Newsalert. If you value the site, please contribute down below. Your contributions help make this site possible. All size donations are much appreciated, the bigger the better. The quicker we reach our ...
• Obama Administration Instructs Schools On Form ...
  CNS News
• Sen. Kerry sees progress on his bill for an in ...
  The Hill reports:Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) is hopeful that his bill to create a National Infrastructure Bank will move through the Senate this year. The bill could be the best shot for those seeking to boost transportation, energy and water infrastructure investment in a Congress focused on “ ...
• Elizabeth Edwards’ revenge from the grave: She ...
  The Daily Mail
• U.S. can't justify its drug war spending, repo ...
  The L.A. Times reports:As drug cartels wreak murderous havoc from Mexico to Panama, the Obama administration is unable to show that the billions of dollars spent in the war on drugs have significantly stemmed the flow of illegal narcotics into the United States, according to two government repor ...

JoNova

• Study finds global warming over past 400 years ...
  Apparently previous studies of the sun-climate connection looked at the equatorial polar magnetic field which produces sun spots, but they did not consider the polar magnetic component of the solar dynamo. The polar fields are less strong than the equatorial fields, but it is claimed that the to ...
• To a climate scientist, *swearing* equals a De ...
  Wait for it, some death threat emails have been released. Number eight is positively sinister with intent (shield your children): Now several of the abusive emails have been published on a blog by environmental writer Graham Readfearn, after the scientists agreed to release the poison pen letter ...
• The Repairman: I’m here to fix your climate
  Guest Post by Speedy “Speedy” in comments on this site has done a better than excellent job of satirizing the satirists, so I’m reposting one of his comments here for those who missed it. See the bottom of the post for the background on the duo he is satirizing and a youtube of them. Speedy [...]
• Breaking: Thompsons lose right to sue DEC; but ...
  From Matt and Janet Thompson, a Federal Court judge has just ruled that they can’t sue the Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) of Western Australia on behalf of their family-owned company, Narrogin Beef Producers. After Matt  spoke out as a climate skeptic at a greenhouse gas repor ...
• Skeptics rule online polls
  Either there are a lot more skeptics than believers, or the skeptics are more likely to be on the net. Some polls you may want to take part in (which are registering around 3 out 4 votes for skeptics): The Herald: Do you support a carbon tax? 277 votes and 68% say NO. The Greens: [...]

ReNew America

• More Republicans consider brief U.S. default
  (Reuters) - An idea once confined to the fringe of the Republican party is seeping into its mainstream -- that a brief U.S. default might be an acceptable price to pay if it forces the White House to deal with runaway spending...
• The media ride of Sarah Palin
  (Washington Times) - Sarah Palin's impromptu, slightly rambling statement about Paul Revere last week set off volleys of verbal musket fire from her many left-wing critics in the media...
• Expert: Obama doc is 'proof' -- of fraud
  (WorldNetDaily) - The online image of a Hawaiian "Certificate of Live Birth" was trumpeted by the White House when it was released on April 27 as "proof positive" that Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. Now an expert in typefaces and typography says it sure was "proof," but not of what the White H ...
• Researcher: Iran can produce nuke within 2 months
  (YNetNews) - The Iranian regime is closer than ever before to creating a nuclear bomb, according to RAND Corporation researcher Gregory S. Jones. At its current rate of uranium enrichment, Tehran could have enough for its first bomb within eight weeks, Jones said in a report published this week...
• Palin, Bachmann taking GOP race by storm
  (NewsMax) - Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin are taking the Republican presidential race by storm -- even though neither has formally announced they will run...

Truth Offering

• It's Official: GMO Foods Alter Our Digestive S ...
  As if we needed more proof, can we finally state -- without any asterisks or disclaimers saying we're still not sure -- that genetically modified foods of all types are harmful when eaten by humans!? In my opinion, yes, we can. Check out this article by the Alliance for Natural Health: SOURCE: A ...
• The Federal Reserve Cartel
  The men who control the world, and their puppets.One of the main focuses at TruthOffering.com is central banking. And just in case you're new to this site, let me explain why. In short, central banking is like allowing the wolves to watch over the hen house. Men who are unaccountable to the voti ...
• Who Owns the TV Networks?: A Compilation
  The two articles on TruthOffering.com that garner the most attention, both ask the exact same question: Who owns the TV networks? And it's a great question; one you should know the answer to. The first article I posted on this topic was written by Eustace Mullins. It's a great piece that examin ...
• Poll: Is Dominique Strauss-Kahn Guilty or Was ...
  Do you remember last year when a plane carrying Poland's President and the Governor of Poland's central bank went down in western Russia? It briefly made news headlines and then fizzled out without making much of a stir. When the plane went down, my immediate reaction was "does it seem plausible ...
• HAARP: Is It to Blame?
  With all the crazy, extreme weather we've had lately -- not just near the Mississippi where we've had Biblical flooding, or in Missouri where an unearthly number of powerful tornados have destroyed thousands of lives, but also all along the Pacific rim where strong earthquakes have rocked the re ...

2012 Blog

• The Winged Warriors of Ek’ Balam
  I came across this image on Facebook via Korinna and others… at Wikipedia they are described as “winged warriors“.The wall is found at the ancient Mayan site Ek’ Balam. A huge version of the image is here. Winged beings were regularly depicted in the past, and a recent episode of Ancient Aliens ...
• Amazing Solar Flare Photo
  It was only a medium-sized flare, but still the biggest we’ve seen since 2006. It wasn’t aimed directly at us, but will be near enough to perhaps create some nice auroras in the next day or so. The video is even more dramatic: Related posts:Solar Flare Update Solar Flare ‘Could Paralyse Earth’ S ...
• Prophet Will Profit
  As it happened, Doris Schmitt, the NY widow who left $250K to Harold Camping got her timing all screwed up. If her intention was for the preacher to use her bequeathment to advertise his doomsday, it would have arrived too late. Yes she died a few weeks prior to May 21, but the money takes [...] ...
• Geoff Stray: 13-Baktun vs 20-Baktun
  There are more than a few 2012 experts out there who will tell you that the end of the Long Count calendar is actually in 4772 AD and there is nothing to worry about meanwhile. This is based on a handful of inscriptions that show dates beyond the end of the 13th baktun. Geoff Stray [...] Relat ...
• A Few Doomsday Updates…
  CDC on the Zombie Apocalypse You heard right, the US Govt Centre for Disease Control now has a page devoted to surviving a zombie outbreak. Word quickly spread and the servers crashed! …a typical CDC blog post might get between 1,000 and 3,000 hits. The most traffic on record had been a post tha ...

Facing South

• Industry-funded climate crank becomes a media ...
  A new study examining TV news coverage of federal proposals to regulate global warming pollution has turned up evidence of journalistic malpractice when it comes to accurately informing viewers about one of the most critical issues of our time. It also shows how the mainstream media t ...
• Dispatch from Death Row: Saving Troy Davis
  "De'Jaun, come over here, I want to talk to you." De'Jaun Correia, a slender 13-year-old with thick corn-rows in his hair, sat down next to his uncle Troy Davis in the corner of the room. Troy described to De'Jaun what to expect now that he was approaching adolescence. "Your body' ...
• Dispatch from Death Row: Saving Troy Davis
  "De'Jaun, come over here, I want to talk to you." De'Jaun Correia, a slender 13-year-old with thick corn-rows in his hair, sat down next to his uncle Troy Davis in the corner of the room. Troy described to De'Jaun what to expect now that he was approaching adolescence. "Your body' ...
• Marchers seek to save historic West Virginia l ...
  Today marks the start of the March on Blair Mountain, an effort to save the site of a historic labor battle from destruction by coal companies and to bring an end to mountaintop removal mining. Expected to draw about 600 people, the march is organized by the Blair Mountain Coalition a ...
• Scientists confirm Gulf residents' claims abou ...
  Anyone who spent time talking to residents of coastal communities along the Gulf of Mexico following last year's BP oil disaster inevitably heard concerns about the widespread spraying of chemical dispersants to break up the oil slick. Residents worried that, rather than easing the ec ...

One News Page

• Swine flu vaccine for pregnant women
  One dose of swine flu vaccine protects pregnant women against the flu, but children under 10 still need two doses, U.S. officials said Monday, announcing further results of clinical trials of the vaccine.
• Black money committee to meet on Jun 9
  New Delhi, Jun 9: The government is trying hard to reestablished its tarnished image after it is under pressure on the issues of black money from both the members of civil society and opposition parties showing people their seriousness about the
• Britain will be most populated European countr ...
• After Leh, Cloudburst strikes Jammu; 4 dead, m ...
  Jammu, Jun 9: Jammu experienced the aftermath of cloudburst once again on Thursday, Jun 9. Four people are feared dead. Many people have been stranded in the Doda-Batote highway, which is 135 km from Jammu, sources infirmed. Army, police have rushed
• Lindsay Lohan granted two-year restraining ord ...

Global Research TV

• Bosnia: Exposing Media Disinformation and Anti ...
• Bosnia: Exposing Media Disinformation and Anti ...
• Fukushima Predicted: Regulatory Commission was ...
• G8: Just a PR Stunt?
• Israel and "Defense" Spending: Mounting Hypocrisy

Daily Tech

• Gartner Predicts PC Market Growth to Slow in 2011
  Tablet market will continue to grow at the same time
• Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1" Reviews: We Have a Winner
  Tablet is Android's long awaited (true) answer to the iPad 2
• Hack-Proof Webpage "Pwnt" by LulzSec, Group Re ...
  They just did it for the "lulz"
• Wii U Announcement Actually Featured Xbox 360/ ...
  Reggie Fils-Aime doesn't see a problem with it, insisting that Wii U games will look similar when it launches
• Report: Mazda Targets 700-pound Weight Reducti ...
  Mazda's tiny sports car to go on a massive diet

Oriental Review

• Missile Defense: America Wants Russia to Take ...
  The United States does not believe it has to give Russia a legal guarantee that the developmental American missile defense system is not directed against them. “We have given legally binding guarantees on offensive weapons against Russia. And that is really what they need,” said Patrick Leahy, C ...
• Caveats in the Yemeni Narrative
  The Arab Spring has finally become beastly, marching stealthily and devouring a third dictator in the Middle East when it all but seemed that the region was lapsing back to its bad old ways of autocratic rule. In the event, President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s exit turned out to be even more dramatic ...
• US Planing to Grab Venezuela’s Oil
  There is a growing impression that Venezuela with its oil riches is the next country on the US hit list. One would have to be a hopeless idealist to believe that – after US crusades swept across Asian and African oil-producing countries – the Venezuelan oil deposits so far remaining beyond the U ...
• Failure of the Nation-States in Islamic World
  We are publishing exclusive translation of an article by Sergey Israpilov, a Russian expert based in Dagestan (North Caucasus), on the threatening sociopolitical trends in Islamic world. Originally issued in Russian almost a year ago, the article has acquired new reading and complimentary ground ...
• The European Diplomacy, Energy Security and Ce ...
  The events in Central Asian countries very rarely attract massive international media attention. It does not means that nothing happens here. In the last decade of May, the third annual meeting of deputy foreign ministers of Central Asian states (an event organized by the United Nations Regional ...

BlogHer

• Are Bloggers Journalists? Should They Get to U ...
  UPDATE: The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that blogger Shellee Hale's comments on a message board are not protected under shield laws and she must reveal her sources. From the Star-Ledger: "To ensure that the privilege does not apply to every self-appointed newsperson, the legislature ...
• Epsom Derby: Kate's Look for Less
  Over the weekend, Kate, Wills and Harry joined all the other royals at the Epsom Derby. Who cares what horse won! All eyes were on what Kate would wear in her first public appearance since The Wedding. Once again, she stepped out in a Reiss dress and LK Bennet shoes. Can someone please st ...
• It's Exam Time and That Means It's Cheating Se ...
  Many moons ago, as I preparing for finals in college, I met a friend for a last minute cram session. I was pretty well prepared, but he said he needed help. He brought copies of what he explained were �last year�s test.� Using old exams was not uncommon practice in my classes. Professors even o ...
• McDreamy McDeparting? What's This Mean for Gr ...
  [Editor's Note: Stupid Celebrtities always has just the tidbit I'm looking for.� So fast on those keys, SC writers!! --Morgan]Actor Patrick Dempsey is set to leave �Grey�s Anatomy� at the end of this season.But why? The actor says this season will be �his last� playing Dr. Derek �McDreamy� She ...
• FIFA Bans Iran's Women's Soccer Team for Weari ...
  In the same week that U.S.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced her Women's World Cup initiative, aimed at empowering girls and women around the world through sports, comes news that FIFA, the world governing body for soccer, has disqualified the Iranian women's team from their Olympic q ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• 6 Real Examples of Food Terrorism
  Lately there have been some aggressive, smear campaigns involving supplements and food. FDA attacks on Amish farmers and supplement companies and attempting to trace the European E. coli outbreak to organic sprouts. Then came a warning ...
• Whatever Happened to The Farm Photo Bills? NY ...
  HFA wrote extensively about the “ag-gag” bills surfacing in multiple states, seeking to silence and punish any potential whistle blowers who may record or possess information about big ag operations. The Florida and Minnesota bills died ...
• Cancerous Sunscreen Ingredients to Avoid
  With every passing summer we endure the same harsh accusations towards the sun as though it is solely responsible for the rise in skin cancer for the last 50 years. Sunscreen is considered the only ...
• Half US Kids With Chronic Disease, 21% Develop ...
  When parents receive a troublesome diagnosis for their child, they might think, “The unthinkable happened to my kid? why our child?” Sadly, it’s not so unthinkable that their child becomes a part of an ever ...
• Undetected MRSA In Cow’s Milk
  MRSA is cropping up everywhere including bedbugs, meat, and now cow’s milk. Human samples of the MRSA were traced back to animal sources.This new variant is able to elude tests that are the typical ways ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Blair Mountain march continues, despite some snags
  Gazette photos by Lawrence Pierce The Blair Mountain marchers entered their third day today on their trek through Boone and Logan counties, and apparently their effort has run into some problems — and some not-so unexpected opposition to their cause. The Gazette’s Dr. Paul Nyden reports in today ...
• Alpha opposes effort to toughen safety check rules
  In full-page newspaper ads and television commercials, Alpha Natural Resources is telling coalfield communities that its takeover of Massey Energy will bring a new day — that Alpha’s “Running Right” program is different from the Massey culture. But according to the latest Associated Press report ...
• Coal compliance dropping in Kentucky
  My friend Jim Bruggers over at the Courier-Journal in Louisville had an interesting piece over the weekend, reporting that: The Kentucky coal industry’s compliance with U.S. surface mining regulations dropped sharply from 2008 to 2010, while the environmental impact of the violations has worsene ...
• Bad news from Virginia: Another coal miner killed
  We’ve got a little bit of information in on this from the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration: At about 10:10, this morning, a contract truck coal driver ran up on a roadway berm and overturned the truck, injuring the truck driver, who died later. Rescuers had to cut the cab area of the t ...
• Alpha gets 3 danger orders at former Massey mines
  This just in, from a Securities and Exchange Commission filing by Alpha Natural Resources: On July 21, 2010, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street and Consumer Protection Act (the “Dodd-Frank Act”) was enacted. Section 1503 of the Dodd-Frank Act contains new reporting requirements regarding mine safety, in ...

Daniel Miessler

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

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

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

reference frame

• RSS AMSU: all cooling and warming trends throu ...
  There is still a lot of confusion and misinformation concerning the question whether there has been a cooling trend or a warming trend between some moment XY and the most recent months. To lift the confusion, I (and Wolfram Mathematica 7.0.1) have calculated 3500 linear regressions an ...
• Is Iran two months away from a nuclear bomb?
  Iran is going to install centrifuges into its heavily fortified Fordo facility inside the mountains near Qom, it announced today. The ultimate purpose of this move is to triple the enrichment capacity. They also say that they could eventually abolish the Natanz side which doesn't have ...
• World IPv6 day tomorrow
  The (nearly) 256^4 = 4+ billion IPv4 addresses identifying the computers on the Internet are gone and this system of identification has therefore entered the cap-and-trade system. ;-) Microsoft has already bought some allowances. One IP address is about 11 dollars, much like a ton of C ...
• Klaus: Germany's giving up is irrational, populist
  On the picture, Czech President Václav Klaus is unveiling a giant Czech-made bucket wheel excavator KK1300; click the picture to zoom in. The Czech ministry of trade has decided to help Czech companies to secure strategic raw materials by helping them to buy up the mines in Germany, Poland, ...
• CMS at 191/pb: no SUSY seen in Z + jets + MET
  The CMS Collaboration has joined ATLAS and it began to release new papers with a significant amount of new data from the 2011 LHC run. The first paper is Search for Physics Beyond the Standard Model in Z + jets + E^miss_T events at the LHC (PDF)To process events where a Z-boson, missing t ...

No Frakking Consensus

• The IPCC as UN Funding Mechanism
  You gotta love the UN. The 31-member IPCC bureau includes representatives from undemocratic and unsavoury countries such as Sudan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Malaysia, Madagascar and the Maldives. Soon, these countries may be deciding the fate of billions of UN-administered climate change funds.
• Climate Change & Violent Fantasies
  When did it become acceptable to pen violent fantasies about people with whom you disagree? When did it become OK to talk - luridly and out loud - about their death?
• David Suzuki is a Drama Queen
  While the rest of us approach challenges with determination, optimism, and faith in ourselves as problem solvers, drama queens see only worst-case scenarios. They exaggerate. They emotionalize.
• Peer-Reviewed Medical Research Critiqued
  An opinion piece in Scientific America alleges that, over the long term, a great deal of scientific research turns out not to be true. Independent replication of research findings is apparently far less common than we think.
• That Wobbly Foundation: Peer-Reviewed Research
  Climate activists have long argued that scientific research that has been peer-reviewed is reliable, trustworthy & true.

Tarpley

• US Wages Irregular War on Pakistan Beneath Nuc ...
  Moslem Brotherhood in Worldwide Alliance with CIA Against Nation-States Webster G. Tarpley on the Kevin Barrett Show The Kevin Barrett Show June 6, 2011 [download audio]
• NATO Aggressors in Flight Forward over Libya S ...
  Obama will be Impeachment Bait on June 20 for Flagrant Violation of War Powers Act Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV June 5, 2011 [
• La Chine apporte son soutien militaire au Paki ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net | traduction de Voltairenet.org 29 mai 2011 Venu à Beijing le 18 mai 2011 appeler la Chine au secours, le Premier ministre pakistanais s’est vu offrir 50 avions de chasse JF-17 pour défendre son pays en cas d’attaque états-unienne ou indienne. La Chine a ...
• EUA, Paquistão, perto de guerra aberta; Ultima ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net 20 de maio de 2011 A China colocou oficialmente os Estados Unidos sob o aviso que o ataque planeado de Washington sobre o Paquistão será interpretado como um ato de agressão contra Pequim. Este aviso frontal representa o primeiro ultimato estratégico conheci ...
• Italiano
  International Main Menu Arabic Ceské Deutsch Español Français Italiano Greek Nippon Polski Português Russki Svenska Türk Zhongwén            1 2  >  >| page: 1 of 2   total items: 13 Gli Stati Uniti e il Pakistan vicini a una guerra aperta, un ultimatum cinese avverte gli Stati U ...

Modern Survivalism

• 21 Things Your Burglar Won’t Tell You
  1. Of course I look familiar. I was here just last week cleaning your carpets, painting your shutters, or delivering your new refrigerator. 2. Hey, thanks for letting me use the bathroom when I was working in your yard last week. While I was in there, I unlatched the back window to make my retur ...
• The Sun Explodes – But Not Worry…
  The title is purposefully sarcastic to highlight the ‘just’ of what the pros are saying regarding today’s never before seen explosion on the sun. Not that the sun has never released huge solar flares or coronal-mass-ejections, it does it quite frequently… it’s that this one in particular very ef ...
• Living in a Tiny Home – With No Mortgage
  Here is an interesting video about a family that downsized in a major way.  This is not from a “prep” perspective, but it could be.  This idea could be used for a disaster retreat.  It could also help people to get ready for the coming economic collapse. Two years ago, Debra and her family lived ...
• The Modern Day Survivalist
  Being a ‘survivalist’ these days, does not necessarily or automatically conjure up visions of Rambo trekking through the wilderness with shoulders slung with automatic weapons and belts laden with bullets all the while surviving by eating bugs and edible wild plants… Instead, there has been a no ...
• Huge Spinning Storm off California… in June!
  Having lived in California for 14 years, I have never seen a storm like this during June. It is unheard of. Typically the rainy season has ended long ago, by this time of year. The size of this monster storm is nearly 1,000 miles in diameter and is nearly perfectly symmetrical! Parts of Californ ...

Fast Company

• Google Explains How New Live Transit Updates W ...
  Google will keep you from sprinting to the bus every morning by telling you when it's actually coming, not just when it's supposed to come. Veteran public transit users know that scheduled departure times rarely match up to actual departures. Google's announcement this week that it is providing ...
• Recollection: A Collaborative Tool For Sharing ...
  A new service from the Library of Congress lets you build maps, graphs, timelines, and trees from the collective digital and digitized history of an entire nation.As digital tools move on, standards change, and interoperability fails, we lose access to older information. As our history becomes h ...
• iTunes Match Not Laundering Pirated Music, It' ...
  Music industry execs tell us how Apple's new syncing service might help them--and everyone from Rhapsody to Rapidshare.One of the interesting things about the new iTunes in the Cloud service Apple announced Monday is that it doesn't only include the music that you buy through iTunes. Through an ...
• 3 Ways Intel Is Changing The Energy Landscape
  At this week's Research@Intel event, Fast Company had the chance to see some of the tech giant's freshest research-stage projects--from cheap power for the developing world to simple plug-and-play home energy monitoring. When a computing giant like Intel decides to get into the energy managemen ...
• Best Of Both Worlds: Geothermal Energy That Su ...
  Clean power from the Earth used to use a lot of water. But a new discovery means that water can be replaced with CO2, which gets left in the ground and doesn't alter the climate.Work by scientists at the University of Minnesota could result in a new way to capture heat from underground geotherma ...

Jadaliyya

• Revisiting Arna's Children
  Arna�s Children. Directed by Juliano Mer Khamis and Danniel Danniel. Israel-Palestine, 2004. It has now been two months since the murder of Juliano Mer Khamis. I have not yet found the words to follow that statement. For me, as for many, the horror of this assasination has compelled a r ...
• Following the Torture Trail through the Arab S ...
  Torture and anti-torture are everywhere. Are the revolutions sweeping through the Arab world, and being confronted with violent counter-revolutions, in part a battle over the use of torture? It is, perhaps, too early to know how significant or central torture is to the protest movements ...
• Opportunities and Challenges Facing the Egypti ...
  This is our second in our series of interviews we conducted in Cairo recently. We had the pleasure of catching blogger Wael Khalil on May 30th between tweets and blogging the post-revolution phase. Wael discussed the opportunities and concerns that many Egyptians have as the post-revolut ...
• The Lebanese Left Fails in Syria
  [This article is written in Arabic by Khalil Issa and translated into English by Hanna Petro] When the left loses all the material elements of its steadfastness, as a result of its mistakes on the one hand and because of surrounding local pressures on the other, it is usually left with ...
• Democracy Now! Interview with Abdul-Ghani Al-I ...
  This is an interview conducted with Abdul-Ghani Al-Iryani on Monday, June 6, in regards to President Ali Abdallah Saleh's departure from Yemen. The interview addresses the events surrounding his departure to Saudi Arabia, highlighting the possibilities of regime change and the role US fo ...

mediagazer

• Online Advertising Market Poised to Grow 20% i ...
  Clark Fredricksen / eMarketer: Online Advertising Market Poised to Grow 20% in 2011  —  New Forecast Shows Display on Trajectory to Overtake Search  —  The US online advertising market is poised for rapid growth this year, with spending expected to exceed $31 billion, according to a new foreca ...
• YouTube Expects Half of Ad Spending to be Cost ...
  Andy Plesser / Beet.TV: YouTube Expects Half of Ad Spending to be Cost Per View by 2015  —  The conventional means of charging for online video on a cost per thousand impressions (CPM) for video ad is quickly changing.  —  By 2015, half of video ads will be charged on a cost per view basis, mea ...
• Confessions Of Patch Salesperson: "It's Been A ...
  Nicholas Carlson / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider: Confessions Of Patch Salesperson: “It's Been A Disaster”  —  AOL is betting $120 million this year on a network of local news Websites called Patch.  —  It's overseen by Arianna Huffington.  —  Clayton Moran of the Benchmark Group says AOL's fate ...
• Kids Today: How the Class of 2011 Engages with ...
  Nielsen Wire: Kids Today: How the Class of 2011 Engages with Media  —  1993 was a big year.  The Mosaic Internet Web browser was launched, NAFTA was signed, Seinfeld won an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series and the high school class of 2011 was born.  Nielsen congratulates the class of 2011 an ...
• Jemima Khan joins Indy as new associate editor ...
  Jon Slattery: Jemima Khan joins Indy as new associate editor  —  Independent editor-in-chief Simon Kelner announced on Twitter today that Jemima Khan is joining the Independent and i as associate editor.  —  Khan generated masses of publicity when she guest editied the New Statesman earlier thi ...

Chemtrail News

• Chemtrails in my backyard_0001.wmv -
  25th May 2011. The chemtrails over my house in the UK. I pointed all this out to a lady I know at the bus stop and she still didn't believe me...chemtruth.ning.com/video/chemtrails-in-my
• YouTube military Chemtrail
  Thunderf00t where is your science? Are you too busy drawing cartoons and setting your hard drive full holy books on fire to look up and see what is going on ...www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_6Dn6HY_xE
• Chemtrail with a circle | We Are Change
  I was amazed to see the video by Federal Jack of the circle with Chemtrails. The reason being, I just return from Northern California and viewed the same thing. This was a photograph that I took while the skies were being sprayed. ...We Are Change
• YouTube KOLD13 Tucson Reports The ContrailC ...
  Featuring the footage from my pal and fellow youtuber @ Hazkellfilmz , tho they didn't bother to reach him for an interview, perhaps they will do a ...www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdPj3Lm4dME
• YouTube KOLD13 Tucson Reports The ContrailC ...
  Featuring the footage from my pal and fellow youtuber @ Hazkellfilmz , tho they didn't bother to reach him for an interview, perhaps they will do a ...www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdPj3Lm4dME

World News - Top Stories

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

no frakking consensus

• The IPCC as UN Funding Mechanism
  You gotta love the UN. The 31-member IPCC bureau includes representatives from undemocratic and unsavoury countries such as Sudan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Malaysia, Madagascar and the Maldives. Soon, these countries may be deciding the fate of billions of UN-administered climate change funds.
• Climate Change & Violent Fantasies
  When did it become acceptable to pen violent fantasies about people with whom you disagree? When did it become OK to talk - luridly and out loud - about their death?
• David Suzuki is a Drama Queen
  While the rest of us approach challenges with determination, optimism, and faith in ourselves as problem solvers, drama queens see only worst-case scenarios. They exaggerate. They emotionalize.
• Peer-Reviewed Medical Research Critiqued
  An opinion piece in Scientific America alleges that, over the long term, a great deal of scientific research turns out not to be true. Independent replication of research findings is apparently far less common than we think.
• That Wobbly Foundation: Peer-Reviewed Research
  Climate activists have long argued that scientific research that has been peer-reviewed is reliable, trustworthy & true.

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• Jena Six Activist Sentenced to Fifteen Years i ...
  Last week, one week past her 31st birthday, civil rights activist Catrina Wallace was sentenced to fifteen years in prison. This was first arrest for Wallace, a single mother who became politically active when her brother was arrested in the case that later became known as the "Jena Six." On Ma ...
• Muslim Woman in Lafayette Parish Forced by She ...
  From our friends at ACLU of Louisiana: When a Muslim woman was incarcerated in the Lafayette Parish Jail last year, she was forced by the Sheriff to remove her religiously mandated head covering, known as a hijab, because jail policies do not provide for head coverings of any kind. Today the ...
• Cracking, Stovepipes and Gerrymandering: Redis ...
  Nearly six years ago, the African American community in Greater New Orleans suffered a devastating and disproportionate blow from Hurricane Katrina, as the storm's wrath and subsequent failures of relief and recovery programs drove thousands of minority residents from their neighborhoods an ...
• More Investigations Needed into New Orleans Po ...
  The US Department of Justice has shown a real determination to challenge New Orleans police violence and corruption. Their report on the NOPD, released in March, confirmed what community members had been saying about the department for decades. In addition, their investigations led to conviction ...
• Over Two Thousand Six Hundred Activists Arrest ...
  By Bill Quigley Since President Obama was inaugurated, there have been over two thousand six hundred arrests of activists protesting in the US. Research shows over 670 people have been arrested in protests inside the US already in 2011, over 1290 were arrested in 2010, and 665 arrested in 2009 ...

Information Underground

• Historical Events • Re: The Seeds of Hitler's ...
  Hey, how about a letter from Hitler ordering someone to kill Jews? How about a letter from anyone in Hitler's government ordering someone to kill Jews? They can't find that, so they come up with BS letters. Genocide letters. Fuuuuu.......Statistics: Posted by Christopher Marlowe — Thu Jun 09, ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Michael K. wrote: Dear Brandon Dean, I work outside, and four years ago I started wondering what the heck was going on with all of these flights in my area, leaving these grids of contrails, which invariably turn the sky a dull, steely grey, and eventually form an even blanket of clouds... No ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  MikeWB wrote: He seems to be obsessed with light bulbs. I'm sure it's just a build up to his next marketing ploy: spy-proof light bulbs! "buy these and they'll never be able to give you cancer viruses through your lamp!" Statistics: Posted by brandon dean — Thu Jun 09, 2011 12:12 am
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Honestly, I'm starting to believe all those rumors that Jones is on cocaine or something similar. The man is acting really weirdly and he has mini-meldowns during pretty much every radio broadcast. His energy levels are off the charts and he has to have a downer soon after the show... right? Is ...
• Historical Events • The Seeds of Hitler's Hatr ...
  Another Rabbi with the discovered Gemlich "letter" ... the discovery of this letter apparently found by a J-Triber in 1945 looks typically "miraculous" and therefore probably "Jew-Scamish" --CSR -------- The Seeds of Hitler's Hatred: Infamous 1919 Genocide Letter Unveiled to the Public By Na ...

TVNZ

• Sister contradicts Fergie's family abuse story
  Sarah Fergusson's sister says she does not share memories of abuse.
• Archbishop criticises Britain's coalition gove ...
  Archbishop Rowan Williams has openly criticised Britain's coalition government policies.
• Nine killed in Afghan wedding massacre
  Nine people including the groom were shot in their sleep following a wedding party.
• Kiwis could fill cattle export gap to Indonesia
  An export suspension to Indonesia has Australian farmers stuck with thousands of cattle.
• US looks to use Libya's frozen assets for aid
  The US is considering unfreezing Libya's assets to pay for humanitarian aid.

environment 360

• Carbon Released 10 Times Faster Than in Past E ...
  Carbon is being released into the atmosphere 10 times faster today than during a previous geological era when the Earth experienced significant warming, a new study says. In the study, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, scientists used rock and sediment samples from a coal mining operat ...
• Two-Mile ‘Solar Tunnel’ Built on Belgian High- ...
  A European high-speed rail network has begun generating electricity from 16,000 solar panels installed atop a two-mile rail tunnel on the line running from Paris to Amsterdam. The panels, built by the Belgian EnfinityVIDEO: Belgium’s ‘solar tunnel’ renewable energy company Enfinity, will pr ...
• As Arctic Sea Ice Retreats, Storms Take Toll o ...
  For millennia, the blanket of ice covering the Arctic Ocean protected the shore from damaging storms. But as that ice buffer disappears, increasingly powerful storm surges are eroding the coastline and sending walls of seawater inland, devastating Arctic ecosystems that support abundant wildlife ...
• China Faces ‘Very Grave’ Environmental Situati ...
  Despite some progress in recent years, Chinese officials say that the nation still faces a “very grave” environmental situation, from industrial pollution that has triggered protests in numerous regions to a troubling decline in biodiversity. Speaking to reporters, officials from China’s Ministr ...
• Interactive Devices To Be Used to Spur Consume ...
  Stanford researchers are developing interactive software that they say will provide insight into the energy decisions consumers make each day and ultimately encourage them to significantly improve the energy efficiency of their homes and offices. The program aims to collect data from so-called “ ...

oldephartte/Diigo

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backofthebook

• Wikileaks on Harper, America, and the “t ...
  By Alison@Creekside An embassy cable written by US Ambassador David Wilkins the day the Cons were first elected in 2006 suggests Harper would be useful in advancing the US agenda for Canada and that giving him " a success story" like the softwood lumber deal would "shore up" his ability to st ...
• Antimatter contained for 17 minutes; hello Vulcans
  by Eric Pettifor Canadian researchers (and others, but we'll focus on lauding our countrypersons) at CERN near North Battleford, Saskatchewan (ok, CERN is really in Switzerland, but it should be in Saskatchewan) have managed to capture and contain antimatter for a whopping 17 minutes (layper ...
• Why Michael Moore isn’t the only Brigett ...
  By Montreal Simon Well I see the legend of Brigette DePape continues to grow, like a red rose of hope in the darkness of Harperland. Quoted in The Globe: "I have been really inspired because there have been thousands of people who have sent messages or commented on the Internet. People kn ...
• Young Adult fiction: the poison is the antidote
  by Rachel Krueger Meghan Cox Gurdon’s Wall Street Journal article on the ‘explicit abuse, violence and depravity’ grown rife in YA fiction must come either from a place of willful blindness or an actual dark rock, under which she has been living.  Granted, YA has gotten much more violent sin ...
• Conservative caucus meets, bleats
  By Montreal Simon Well I see it was Glorious Majority Day at the Con caucus today. From The Star: "A buoyant Prime Minister Stephen Harper, fresh off a majority election win, returned to Parliament Hill Wednesday declaring that the 'Conservative party is Canada’s party.'" And there was ...

Daily Beast

• David Carr Goes Hollywood in Page One
  New York Times media reporter David Carr may joke about "looking homeless," but he's the breakout star of Page One, the new documentary about the paper. He tells Lloyd Grove about his one stab at acting, troubles downloading The Daily, and new boss...
• Is Monogamy Obsolete? New Books Challenge Our ...
  Anthony Weiner may insist his marriage isn't over, but we've seen this situation play out before. Wives leave husbands, the public condemns the cheating-and, inevitably, six months later, we learn about another scandal. Jessica Bennett on why we need...
• The Tea Party Witch Hunt
  Conservative champions like Orrin Hatch are running for their political lives in the Tea Party era. Jill Lawrence on the senators being targeted and their chances of survival. Orrin Hatch is conservative by almost any measure, but these days that's...
• Anthony Weiner Would Face a Frosty Ethics Panel
  Rapidly running out of goodwill among his Democratic peers as more X-rated details emerge, Rep. Anthony Weiner faces an ethics investigation led by a committee stacked with Southern conservatives and liberal Democrats fighting for women's rights....
• Michelle Obama's State Dinner Hair, and More C ...
  At the state dinner Tuesday night, the first lady styled her hair into deliberately messy curls to greet German Chancellor Angela Merkel. From Blake Lively to Robert Pattinson, The Daily Beast rates which stars pulled off the tousled look-and who...

Loonwatch

• Herman Cain Would Require Muslim Appointees To ...
  Is an identity card and crescent badge far behind?
• MEQ Report Claims 81 Per Cent of US Mosques Pr ...
  The report is filled with methodological flaws.
• Thousands Protest Robert Spencer in Germany: & ...
  Robert Spencer and his freedom hating friends were defeated by anti-Fascists.
• Lady Gaga’s ‘Born This Way’ ...
  Should Christianity be blamed for censoring Lady Gaga?
• Jamie Knowlson: Man who Stuffed Ham in Muslims ...
  Man puts ham in worshippers shoes.

Energy News

• “Nuclear fuel has melted through base of ...
  Nuclear fuel has melted through base of Fukushima plant, Telegraph, June ...Read More
• Researchers: Kuroshio Current “could rap ...
  Scientists Study Ocean Impacts of Radioactive Contamination from Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear ...Read More
• Blackouts hit Reactors No. 1 and 2 — Nit ...
  Japan’s Tepco hit by power outages at Fukushima-1 nuclear plant, Platts, ...Read More
• Nowhere to Run: Hot radioactive particles in S ...
  Japan’s radiation twice as bad, CNN, June 7, 2011: Nuclear expert ...Read More
• Gov’t report suggests situation “f ...
  ‘Melt-through’ at Fukushima? / Govt report to IAEA suggests situation worse ...Read More

Japan Times

• Man. U told to give up on Kagawa
  German soccer franchise Borussia Dortmund have no intention of letting Shinji Kagawa go to Manchester United should the Premier League giant swoop in with a lucrative offer, as is being reported in Japan. Dortmund's sports director Michael Zorc went so far as to tell German tabloid Bild on Tue ...
• Myth of nuclear safety sets back robotic resea ...
  On March 17, six days after the crisis erupted at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, a list was presented to Washington through diplomatic channels seeking U.S. assistance. Headlining the list was a request for robots — specifically, ones that could remove wreckage and measure radioactiv ...
• Sanrio settles copyright suit over Miffy
  Sanrio Co. said Tuesday it has reached a settlement in a copyright suit launched by Mercis BV of the Netherlands over rabbit characters. Mercis claimed Sanrio's Cathy character was too much like its Miffy.
• Besieged Kan marks milestone: one year
  The first anniversary of Naoto Kan's prime ministership arrived Wednesday amid a whirlwind of political maneuvering and speculation over when he would step down and whether the ruling and opposition parties can form a grand coalition. Even as the nation struggles in the aftermath of the deadly ...
• Goldman Sachs: Japan stocks to beat Asian peers
  Goldman Sachs Group Inc. says most investors are betting Japanese stocks will outperform their Asian peers as a weaker yen and the prospect of policy stimulus in the wake of the March earthquake and tsunami boost confidence. Investors see continued inflation and tight monetary policy condition ...

Alexander Higgins

• 10 Signs That Wall Street Is About To Go Into ...
  Can you smell the fear? Right now world financial markets are visibly nervous and many are worried that Wall Street is about to go into panic mode. It really is eerie how 2011 is shaping up to be so similar to 2008. Major Wall Street banks are laying off workers in droves, oil prices are at v ...
• CNN: 48% believe a Great Depression is coming ...
  CNN reveals the latest polls show that 48% of Americans believe a Great Depression is coming within a year.
• CNN Poll: Obama approval rating drops as fears ...
  CNN Poll: Obama approval rating drops as fears of depression rise
• I’d Rather Die Than Give You Control
  Head Like A Hole Black As Your Soul I'd Rather Die Than Give You Control.
• Massive Government Cover Up: For 30 Years Offi ...
  A just released report reveals that Government officials and regulators have known since the 1980's that Monsanto's Roundup causes birth defects and have covered it up.

Macleans - Central

• ‘Actions like these provide the answer t ...
  Brigette DePape explains herself. Media and politicians have argued that I tarnished the throne speech,
• Bestsellers – Week of June 6th, 2011
  Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles (week of June 6th, 2011)
• The Commons: Five rounds
  How one defines essentiality is at the root of the discussion of spending cuts
• Strategic Review: the answer is, we can’ ...
  You think hide and seek is easy?
• Idea alert
  From Peter Milliken’s conversation with John Geddes, the former Speaker suggests a possible punishment for

Making It Count - CCPA

• Brigitte DePape: Silently Speaking Truth to Power
  Most Canadians will now have seen the striking image of Brigette DePape. The determined solitary young woman, surrounded by the highest ranking public officials in the land, stood in silence holding her crumpled ‘Stop Harper’ sign, as the Governor General read the Conservative government’s thron ...
• CETA: A Hot Topic at Gathering of Municipal Le ...
  The Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) was a hot topic of debate at the recent Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) annual conference, held in Halifax. Leading up to the June 3-6 conference, the Union of BC Municipalities called on the FCM to seek a “clear, perman ...
• Budget 2011: Don’t look behind the curtain
  Definitely nothing new to see here.  The boutique tax cuts are still there, so are the small programs from the failed March 22nd budget.  The government was even good enough to put on track changes to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that this is the same budget and little has changed.  The only ...
• Jack Mintz is Right on “Small” Business Tax
  One of my main undertakings over at Relentlessly Progressive Economics has been to debunk Jack Mintz’s relentless advocacy of tax cuts for large corporations. However, I also give him credit when he proposes good policy, such as raising potash royalties and the small-business corporate tax rate. ...
• Thrown Speech: Jobs Rhetoric, Not Jobs Creation
  Perhaps the government’s new mantra for the budget and the throne speech is telling in its ordering.  First priority is low tax, and then if jobs and growth also happen, well that’s a happy coincidence. It was interesting to hear the throne speech acknowledging that government spending like that ...

ReDress

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

Physics Today

• US research facilities anticipate budget gloom
  Nature: Several centralized research centers supported by NSF are facing the possibility of significant loss of funds, writes Eugenie Samuel Reich for Nature. Cornell's High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS), for example, could experience a 25% budget cut. CHESS is used by approximately 1000 res ...
• Using magnets as blood thinners
  CNET: Currently the only method for thinning blood, and thus reducing the risk of heart attacks and strokes, is through drugs such as aspirin. But physicists at Temple University in Philadelphia have been working on a procedure that uses magnets. Rongjia Tao and coworkers were able to use a magn ...
• New super-dense forms of carbon could outshine ...
  New Scientist: Three new stable carbon allotropes have been revealed by simulation, writes MacGregor Campbell for New Scientist. To find out whether forms of carbon denser than diamond might be possible, Artem Oganov of Stony Brook University in New York and colleagues simulated different config ...
• Former Interior secretary criticizes Obama on ...
  Los Angeles Times: Yesterday Bruce Babbitt, former secretary of the Department of the Interior, charged that President Obama has failed to answer “forcefully and persuasively” Republican attacks on environmental safeguards, writes Neela Banerjee for the Los Angeles Times. According to an Interio ...
• Japan 'unprepared' for Fukushima nuclear disaster
  BBC: A report from Japan's nuclear emergency task force asserts that Japan was insufficiently prepared for a nuclear accident on the scale of the one at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, and states that poor oversight may have been a factor. Authorities have pledged to make NISA, the country's ...

Revolutionary Politics

• IMF Strauss-Kahn jailed for Sex Assault
  by Rev333 (Posted Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:46:46 GMT) U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner acknowledged inappropriate Internet relationships with at least six women but said he would not resign or split up with his wife. http://tiny.cc/92lni Weiner’s downfall a reminder of perils of Jewish pride. http:/ ...
• FF News: 'Personality of the year 2011,'
  by footprints (Posted Tue, 07 Jun 2011 03:24:22 GMT) Since 1881 The Footprints Filmworks 'family,' tree.... This website, F I L M , book, newspaper and CD is filmed, p r i n t e d, 'marketed,' and distributed by Footprints Filmworks, Footprints Investments LTD, FF News and The Footprint ...
• IMF Strauss-Kahn jailed for Sex Assault
  by katsung47 (Posted Mon, 06 Jun 2011 22:01:50 GMT) Quote, "IMF chief held hostage by the US government Posted by PC Wednesday, May 18th, 2011 ...... On the weekend (May 14 and 15, 2011) prior to this historic event the US government and the IMF chief were engaged in behind closed doors negotiat ...
• More Holocausting
  by Rev333 (Posted Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:42:10 GMT) Israel Lobby Portal: http://www.spinprofiles.org/index.php/I ... bby_Portal Mearsheimer Article: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/print/mear01_.html Mearsheimer 4/2010: http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/ht/d/sp/i/223/pid/223 ...
• America on the Ropes
  by Rev333 (Posted Sun, 05 Jun 2011 20:39:49 GMT) Our Goose is Cooked. This must be what it was like in Russia before the Soviet Union collapsed. The government's so crooked that nothing works right, the infrastructure's in a shambles, millions of people are scraping by on government handouts, a ...

Peakwater

• Ogeechee Fish Kill Prompts Lawsuit
  “Filed in Fulton County on Tuesday, the complaint alleges that landowners and swimmers along the Ogeechee River were harmed by the release of chemicals from King America Finishing Inc., a textile factory on the river in Screven County. The company âeither knowingly and purposefully, or unknowing ...
• Water shaped Michigan’s past: Now it&#82 ...
  “Michigan has more water than Saudi Arabia has oil. In an ever-thirstier world, it’s a priceless resource. But can all that blue be turned into new green? Is water the asset that can return Michigan to national, even global, economic leadership? “The Great Lakes are our economic ace in the hole, ...
• Controversial Drilling Technique Prompts CA Bill
  “Now, this little one-road town of Los Alamos is drawing attention to what many say is a largely unmonitored practice in California, the country’s second-largest oil producer. The discovery that fracking has quietly been going on for years in California has galvanized oil foes and led to propose ...
• Plan B Updates: When The Nile Runs Dry
  “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, China and India have descended on fertile plains across the African continent ...
• Hangzhou acid spill sparks panic water buying
  “A round of panic buying of mineral water swept the city of Hangzhou on Monday after a highway accident saw 20 tons of a toxic chemical flood a nearby river, affecting the drinking water supply of hundreds of thousands of residents. “The accident happened at 11 pm Saturday when a truck carrying ...

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 ...