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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Friday, July 1, 2011

1 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Geronimo Wind signs wind power deal with Xcel Energy
Reuters
July 1 (Reuters) - Geronimo Wind Energy said it would sell 200 megawatts (MW) of wind energy to Xcel Energy under a long-term deal as the power company looks to meet its state-mandated renewable energy goals. The project at the Prairie Rose wind farm ...
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Analysis: Gas, renewables to be future energy sources of choice
Reuters
By Henning Gloystein and Barbara Lewis LONDON (Reuters) - Natural gas will fast become the fossil fuel of choice to complement renewable energy for the foreseeable future, after long being regarded as merely a step on the way to a greener energy mix. ...
India Should Use Mixed Forms of Energy: Abdullah
Outlook
PTI | Chandigarh | Jul 01, 2011 The Union Minister of New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah today said India has to have mixed forms of energy and that use of renewable energy should be extended to towns, besides remote villages as this can provide ...
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First Take: Don't Write Off Smart Meters or Plastic Wine Bottles Just Yet
GreenBiz.com
A showcase of high-performance sustainable design, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's new research support facility in Golden, Colo., has won LEED-Platinum certification, the US Green Building Council's top rating. The H-shaped, net-zero energy ...
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Douthitt to step down as dean of School of Human Ecology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Douthitt says she will continue to serve until a new dean is appointed and the renovation and expansion of the Human Ecology Building is complete. Chancellor Biddy Martin praised Douthitt's leadership, creativity and innovation as dean. ...
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US Ecology Declares Quarterly Dividend of $0.18 per Share
MarketWatch (press release)
About US Ecology, Inc. US Ecology, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides radioactive, hazardous, PCB and non-hazardous industrial waste management and recycling services to commercial and government entities, such as refineries and chemical ...
Boeing fined $102000 for Duwamish fuel spill
Access Washington
OLYMPIA – The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) has fined The Boeing Company (Boeing) $102000 for spilling an estimated 300 gallons of jet fuel into the Duwamish Waterway in Seattle last year. The spill occurred May 28, 2010, at a Boeing fuel ...
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National Ecology Friendly Brand Comes to Utah
PR Newswire (press release)
SEATTLE, June 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - Residents of Utah can now enjoy the local services of a 25 year strong, national leader in Ecology Friendly Lawn Care services. With locations in Seattle, Colorado, Texas and Nation Wide in Canada, ...
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Sen. Cardin Hopes to Bridge Divide Over Water
New York Times
By PAUL QUINLAN of Greenwire The environmental challenge that weighs heaviest on the minds of the American public, polls show, also happens to be one over which every branch of government is arguably the most deeply divided: How to protect clean water. ...
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Crews Check Downtown Levees As River Rises
KMBC Kansas City
We do have water in the foreshore and to the toe of the levee systems," said Jud Kneuvean of the Army Corps of Engineers. This week airport crews began patrolling levees, looking for sand boils. River water reached the toe of the levee Thursday. ...
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All wet? SPU proposes big water bill hike
Seattle Post Intelligencer
COM STAFF Home water rates would go up a total of 25 percent over the next three years under a proposal from Seattle Public Utilities. The City Council will consider the rate increase in the coming months. Any rate hike would begin Jan. 1. ...
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Boil order causes rush on bottled water
KC Community News
Eric Arner, general counsel for the district, said the order was necessitated because water pressure temporarily dropped to zero. When that happens there is a chance that contaminants can be sucked into the system. The lines are equipped by backflow ...
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CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran calls for OIC resolution on total nuclear ...
    Summary: Israel's Dimona nuclear plantTEHRAN, June 28 (MNA) – Iran has proposed that nuclear weapons throughout the world should be dismantled, Ali Akbar Salehi said on Tuesday in the 38th meeting of Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). source: Mehr Newsread more
  • Maersk fears new U.S. sanctions may disrupt Ir ...
    Summary: The head of Maersk Line (MAERSKb.CO) on Wednesday raised concerns that U.S. sanctions against a major Iranian port operator could disrupt food shipments to the Islamic Republic. source: Reutersread more
  • Iran 'showed Russia downed US drones'
    Summary: IRAN has shown Russia US drones it shot down over the Gulf, Revolutionary Guards aerospace commander Brigadier General Amir Ali Hadjizadeh was quoted as saying. source: AFPread more
  • Iran blasts US, allies on WMD arsenal
    Summary: SalehiIran has blasted the US and its allies for continued production of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), vowing its own commitment to the global fight against chemical weapons. source: PressTVread more
  • Iran says to counter "inhuman" airline sanctions
    Summary: "Not supplying a passenger plane with fuel is an inhuman action that violates international norms," "The Iranian companies that have sustained losses due to such unilateral actions will definitely follow up the actions ... and will seek compensation." ministry spokesman Ramin Mehman ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • New Discoveries About the Early Galaxies of th ...
    "If you could visit a planet in one of these galaxies, the sky would be a crazy place, with tons of bright stars, and fairly frequent supernova explosions." Ranga-Ram Chary --NASA's Spitzer Science Center Astronomers have discovered that galaxies in...
  • Image of the Day: "Mystery Island" from the ISS
    NASA astronaut Douglas Wheelock who is currently aboard the International Space Station shares pictures of the Earth he snaps with the world through Twitter. Known to his nearly 68,000 Twitter followers as Astor_Wheels, Wheelock has been posting photos of the...
  • "Beyond Einstein": New Space Technologies Sear ...
    When the European Space Agency's Integral’s IBIS instrument captured the gamma-ray burst (GRB) of 19 December 2004, it was so bright that Integral could also measure its polarisation, allowing Philippe Laurent of CEA Saclay and his collaborators to look for...
  • Volcanic Gases Could be a Major Indicator of L ...
    Sulfurous molecules on alien worlds might be a way to reveal whether or not those distant planets host life, MIT researchers suggest. Jupiter's monn, Io, for example, has over 400 active volcanoes, and is the most geologically active object in...
  • Radio-Waves Near Milky Way Core May Hold the U ...
    Twenty years ago, astronomers discovered a number of enigmatic radio-emitting filaments concentrated near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. These features initially defied explanation, but a new study of radio images of the Galactic center may point to their...

Natural News

  • Texas TSA bill dies after House refuses to add ...
    (NaturalNews) The infamous US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) anti-groping bill that floundered around the halls of the Texas State Capitol for a while has officially died, according to a recent report in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. After getting introduced, then fading away, then ...
  • Fukushima in the US? Flood berms break around ...
    (NaturalNews) The American public is largely being kept in the dark about the escalating Midwest flood disaster, which has now been further intensified by reports that a major nuclear plant near Omaha, Neb., has been breached by flood waters.A few weeks ago, NaturalNews reported that an electric ...
  • Massive wildfires threaten to ignite 30000 bar ...
    (NaturalNews) Threats of radioactive disaster from what is shaping up to be the largest wildfire in the state's history are escalating, as heavy winds and plenty of dry brush have fueled flames to within 50 feet of New Mexico's Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), home of the first atomic bomb ...
  • BPA plastics chemical found to feminize males
    (NaturalNews) Don't worry, be happy. Just ignore the fact that countless researchers have warned time and time again that the chemical bisphenol A (BPA for short) is a major hormone disruptor and is a huge threat to human health. After all, we must all be safe because the U.S. Food and Drug Admi ...
  • Eating blueberries helps build strong bones, s ...
    (NaturalNews) Move over calcium, there is a new bone builder in town. Research published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research back in 2010 showed that blueberry compounds helped improve bone development in lab rats, and new research conducted by the same team of scientists is now investig ...

Threat Level

  • Lawyer to Judge: I Swear My Browser Ate My Hom ...
    A lawyer for copyright troll Righthaven is declaring under penalty of perjury that an update to his computer’s browser prohibited him from electronically submitting a legal filing by an angry judge’s deadline. And it was no ordinary filing U.S. District Judge Roger Hunt was demanding. Nevada’s c ...
  • Judge: Google Can Be Sued for Wiretapping in S ...
    A federal judge has found that Google can be held liable for damages for secretly intercepting data on open Wi-Fi routers, dealing the search giant a serious legal setback for activity it has engaged in across the United States for years. That ruling, the first of its kind, was handed down late ...
  • Newspaper Chain Fights for Copyright Troll’s S ...
    Stephens Media, the Las Vegas–based media chain, is fighting to keep its latest business model alive: copyright-trolling. After standing on the sidelines while professional content-troll Righthaven fights in court, the newspaper company that seeded the venture joined the fray late Tuesday, telli ...
  • FBI Raids Iowa Woman’s Home in Lulz Security H ...
    The hacking group Lulz Security ended its 50-day reign of terror this weekend, but the law enforcement hunt for its members will go on. Last week, FBI agents raided an Iowa woman's home because of her connections to the group.
  • Supreme Court Term in Review: It’s a Mixed Bag
    The U.S. Supreme Court ended its 2010-2011 term Monday, deciding a slew of technology and civil rights issues, some of which have far-reaching implications for the Freedom of Information Act, intellectual property, warrantless searches of private residences, the "state secrets" privilege and fre ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Default Deniers or How the GOP Learned to Lov ...
    When it comes to perpetuating the Bush tax cut windfall for the wealthy, Republicans have long been the party which cried "uncertainty." ""We're calling for an end to the threat of tax hikes," as Speaker John Boehner put it in one formulation, "to provide certainty to those in our country who c ...
  • GOP's Privatization Future is Indiana's Nightm ...
    At the heart of the Ryan budget plan backed by 98% of Republicans in Congress are two very bad ideas whose time has never come. Privatization of government services and the devolution of their federal funding to the states promise to dramatically raise costs and slash benefits for millions of M ...
  • McConnell and Kyl Peddle GOP Whopper on Taxes ...
    It is often said that historical events occur twice, first as tragedy, then as farce. But as the top two Senate Republicans showed once again on Sunday, when it comes to comes to the GOP and taxes, some episodes produce both. After successfully blackmailing President Obama in December into ext ...
  • The Serially Insincere Mitt Romney
    Last December, the conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat fretted that Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney is "serially insincere." His concern is well-founded. After all, Romney gymnastic flip-flops don't merely make it "awfully hard to figure out where he would actua ...
  • "Muddle Through" McCain Rewrites History on Af ...
    Say what you will about the President's Afghan strategy, but if nothing else, Barack Obama has been consistent. Having criticized the Bush administration for diverting badly needed resources to fight the wrong war in Iraq, candidate Obama promised to dramatically increase U.S. troop strength an ...

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Consortium News

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

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Rhino Crisis Round Up: Namibia Hit (Maybe) & R ...
    This week, Namibia checks out a suspicious incident, Swaziland receives a heartbreaking update, and a woman in Vietnam becomes ill after ingesting rhino horn.
  • Inexpensive Ways to Green Your Home
    While we all want to do our part to save the planet, some changes require more expense and effort than the average homeowner is willing to commit. Contrary to what you may think, you don’t have to make major changes in your home in order to green-up. Every little change you make will add up over ...
  • Wind Variability a Problem? Not Really, Just N ...
    Many wind energy haters (i.e. people in or funded by the fossil fuel industry) claim that wind power isn't practical because the wind is so variable. There are actually a ton of problems with this argument. But just tackling one today, this good guest post explains how simply adding more wind to ...
  • Costs vs True Value/Benefits of Solar Power
    The benefits of solar really do match the cost of solar, but many of the benefits, often important to society or rate-payers as a whole, are invisible to individuals. Government incentives to encourage solar power adoption, thus, make complete & practical sense. Truthfully, the incentives offere ...
  • Electronics Soon to be Powered by Typing?
    A team of researchers at Australia’s Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) have successfully demonstrated a new, “nano-scaled” piezoelectric film’s capacity for turning mechanical pressure into electricity — bringing the (admittedly geeky) dream of perpetually-charged laptop batteries o ...

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Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Sabotage of M.V. Saoirse in Turkey 'an act of ...
    (Two reports with videos and photos below) June 30, 2011 The Irish-owned ship, the MV Saoirse, that was meant to take part in Freedom Flotilla 2 has been sabotaged in a dangerous manner in the Turkish coastal town of Göcek, where it had been at berth for the past few...
  • 6 Ecuador Police convicted for their coup atte ...
    Editor's Comment In the report below, the BBC once again attempts to obfuscate by reporting, "He (Correa) described the events as an attempted coup," claiming that it was a protest about the government cutting their bonuses. Well, as in Honduras, what happened was nothing short of a ...
  • Exclusive: Venezuela sees $5.5 billion new Ori ...
    Exclusive: Venezuela sees $5.5 billion new Orinoco funds. Venezuela expects Chinese and Italian banks to provide new loans totaling $5.5 billion this year to develop joint venture projects in the vast Orinoco extra heavy oil belt, the energy minister said on Thursday. Venezuelan Energy Mi ...
  • Violent protests continue as Greece passes fir ...
    Greek MPs today imposed tax hikes and spending cuts to stave off bankruptcy amid a second day of rioting which left dozens injured. After voting through a new austerity package today, the Athens parliament will vote tomorrow on changing the law to implement the measures. But a 48-hour stri ...
  • Latin America and socialism of the 21st Centur ...
    The most advanced political struggles in the world today are taking place in Latin America, specifically in Cuba and Venezuela where forces representing the working class have conquered state power, broken with imperialism and continue to consolidate their own revolutions and assist the leftward ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • America's Original Sin
    It's probably too late to give the country back, even if they'd take it, but it's not too late to alleviate the lingering consequences of past crimes. Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money: One of the worst laws of the late 19th century was the 1887 Dawes Act. Allowing the government to gut the ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    And with that, the way we finance elections in this country is officially a joke, complete with FEC imprimatur. "The Federal Election Commission ruled Thursday that comedian Stephen Colbert's super PAC may raise and spend unlimited funds while also receiving airtime from his network, Comedy Cent ...
  • It's the Bases, Stupid
    And the question is: Why are we wasting $4.4 trillion we don't have on a bunch of rocks inhabited by barbarians who will always hate and kill us? David Dayen at Firedoglake: Walter Pincus was the guy at the Washington Post known for writing skeptical stories about the Iraq debacle that wound up ...
  • Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): Oops, who let those g ...
    Yesterday, in Butler, Missouri (via Joe.My.God. and Think Progress): Representative Vicky Hartzler (r): Okay, first of all, are you guys with the Democrats or the Republicans? Question: So, the, the, uh, two thousand four amendment [crosstalk]... Representative Hartzler (r): Am I gonna see you ...
  • Repugs' Fault We Can't Have Nice Things
    Once upon a time, not so long ago, America would pay any price to make sure the commies never got ahead of us on anything. Now, our own repugs are making sure the nation pays the price of ensuring we never get anything. Steve Benen: High-speed rail in China is not without challenges, including p ...

Care 2

  • Dog wants to attack Casey Anthony through TV
    This video is hilarious to me. If you don't know, Casey Anthony is on trial for killing her 2 year old daughter. We all know she is guilty. But what is funny is this dog hates her so much his owner has to hold him back from the TV!Submitted by Lindsey Williams to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �A ...
  • Hero Dog Alerts Family to Gas Leak
    Edmonton�s latest hero saved her family�s life with her own two paws, and a good nose. Luna, a six-year-old Husky, alerted her owner, Jenny Conarroe and her family to a gas leak at their home in Millwoods.Submitted by Lindsey Williams to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • ACTION ALERT: Say no to animal cruelty! ...
    Every animal is special! Every animal is exceptional! please sign this petition and show the world how wrong the animal cruelty is! Everyone can do something for it! Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Pacific Ocean study finds fish tainted by plastic
    Southern California researchers found plastic in nearly 1 in 10 small fish collected in the northern Pacific Ocean in the latest study to call attention to floating marine debris entering the food chain.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The Best AntiVirus Software Companies
    Good antivirus software is an invaluable tool for keeping your computer, your personal information, and the security of your friends and family safe from hackers, identity thieves, and spammers. The damage a single virus can do is astounding.Submitted by Veljko Veljkos to Science & Tech �|� �No ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • It is a Depression, Not a Recession
    Folks, it is all about the numbers. Before hitting you between the eyes with the hard facts let me give you a couple of anecdotal accounts. These I know first hand. I know of four small businesses–two in Florida and two in Maryland–that employed people and survived during the hard times of 2009 ...
  • Evening Open Thread
    This is a skinny-on-top open thread. Yes, this is Glenn Beck’s last day on FNC. Yes, Anthony Weiner’s wife, Huma Abedin, is taking “time off” from her job and her husband at an “undisclosed” location. Additionally, Pat Racimora sent this “breaking news” bulletin … … from the NY Times to the NoQu ...
  • Yes, Obama is a Total Dick
    Mark Halperin had it right earlier today on MSNBC–Obama is a dick. A flacid one at that. (I would never call him a “raging hard on.”) Here’s why Obama is a “dick.” At yesterday’s press conference he said this: Obama has the nerve to chide the Congress for not staying in town and working. So [...]
  • “Sarah Palin’s Unlikely Supporter”? **Updated**
    Update below the fold. Just from the title of this Sheila Marikar ABC report, you get a hint of a bias. The article doesn’t help to dispel that sensation, rather it escalates it: Thereâs the stereotype of the Sarah Palin supporter, and then thereâs Sonnie Johnson. The 30-year-old African-America ...
  • Wee Hours Open Thread
    Lately, while all my neighbors are fast asleep, I’m awake, but trying to straighten out my confoundingly disruptive sleep schedule (or, um, lack thereof). Early Wednesday morning (@ 3 a.m.), I tuned in to Morning Joe and hit my remote’s Pause button so that I could back it up and type up the fol ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Is Weed Bad for You?
    Harm from marijuana use remains a hotly debated and unsettled issue. Clearly there are respiratory risks and perhaps cancer risks from inhaling a substance with many of the same ingredients found in cigarettes. The most robust evidence against marijuana comes from numerous studies showing a stro ...
  • Helping Your Child with Anxiety
    If our children are experiencing anxiety, beginning to panic, to feel so sick they refuse school or activities we want to help them. Nevertheless, how can we help a child when they are so anxious all they can seem to think about is the stressor that is provoking their anxiety? As a parent, you d ...
  • Dr. Stuart Greenberg’s Ethical Misconduct Lead ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline A recent article brings the severely distorted ethical and psychological life of the late Stuart Greenberg, renowned psychologist, back into the spotlight. Although it has been nearly four years since the suicide of the expert witness, many of those whose lives he ...
  • Does Nature or Nurture Determine Mood?
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Psychologists believe that people tend to have a baseline, or resting point for their moods, based in part on life experience, not solely on genetics. New research reveals that these baselines tend to stay constant for long periods of time, especially in people wi ...
  • Stressful Environment May Increase Lung Damage ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline According to a new study from the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, children who are exposed to high stress environments experience higher levels of traffic-related pollution (TRP) resulting in increased risk for lung d ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • A journey to Appalachia finds exploitation and ...
    A journey to Appalachia finds exploitation and outsdourcing of Seacoast energy Foster's Daily Democrat Our goal was to make it to the March on Blair Mountain for a weekend rally and protest against mountain top removal (MTR) coal mining. Visiting an Appalachian community exposed me to things I ...
  • Birth defects study: More inconvenient facts a ...
    Charleston Gazette (blog) Birth defects study: More inconvenient facts about the impact of mountaintop ... Charleston Gazette (blog) Researchers found “significantly higher” rates of birth defects in areas with mountaintop removal mines than in non-mining regions in central Appalachia, accordin ...
  • The Last Mountain: Fighting Back Against Mount ...
    The Last Mountain: Fighting Back Against Mountaintop Removal The Nation. Massey's mountaintop removal operations have destroyed ecosystems throughout Appalachia, and those living in the shadows of the mountains suffer from disproportionate rates of brain and lung tumors. Until now, mining corpo ...
  • House Fast-Tracks Bill to Limit EPA Power Over ...
    House Fast-Tracks Bill to Limit EPA Power Over Mountaintop Coal Removal Reuters Next week, the full House is expected to vote on a fast-moving bipartisan bill that would elbow the federal government aside and elevate the power of state-level rules covering mountaintop-removal mining, waterways ...
  • Study notes spike in birth defects near mounta ...
    Study notes spike in birth defects near mountaintop mining sites The Keene Sentinel Birth defects are more likely to occur in Appalachian counties with mountaintop removal coal mining than in other counties in the region, according to a recent study. The study, published in the peer-reviewed jo ...

Memeorandum

  • N.C. Speaker defends staff salaries, talks abo ...
    The Asheville Citizen-Times: N.C. Speaker defends staff salaries, talks about gay marriage in Asheville interview  —  ASHEVILLE — State House Speaker Thom Tillis on Thursday defended increasing his staff salaries by as much as 27 percent in a year when teachers and other state workers face lay ...
  • Dems dig in: GOP trying to sabotage economy on ...
    Greg Sargent / Washington Post: Dems dig in: GOP trying to sabotage economy on purpose  —  In recent weeks, there's been some question as to how far Dems are willing to go in making the explosive charge that Republicans are deliberately trying to sabotage the economy in order to improve their c ...
  • Romney Repeatedly Said Obama 'Made The Recessi ...
    Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress: Romney Repeatedly Said Obama ‘Made The Recession Worse,’ Now Claims 'I Didn't Say That Things Are Worse'  —  ThinkProgress filed this report from Allentown, Pennsylvania.  —  From the onset of his presidential campaign, Mitt Romney has “bet his candidacy on the eco ...
  • Pawlenty: Minnesota shutdown could be a good t ...
    Stephanie Condon / CBS News: Pawlenty: Minnesota shutdown could be a good thing  —  Thousands of workers face layoffs, road construction is at a standstill and state parks have closed in Minnesota after the state shut down Thursday night because of a political stalemate over the budget.
  • Why Mark Halperin Is a D--k (Mark Halperin/The ...
    Mark Halperin / The Daily Beast: Why Mark Halperin Is a D—k  —  The political commentator erred in speaking disrespectfully of the president.  His far greater sin: being so cowed by conservatives that he's offended by Obama's mild poke at the GOP.  —  Here's why Mark Halperin is a disgrace.

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Limits to environmentalism (1)
    In his vision of a no-growth, non-GDP-focused world existing and flourishing within ecological limits, UK sustainability expert Tim Jackson dodges some fundamental issues, according to Andrew Pendleton.Editor’s note: Tim Jackson, who has been at the forefront of research and teaching in sustaina ...
  • Limits to environmentalism (2)
    Innovation leads to greater productivity, which leads to job losses – but that trend poses a dilemma for sustainability expert Tim Jackson’s no-growth argument and how a “steady state” economy works, Andrew Pendleton contends.Editor’s note: Tim Jackson, who has been at the forefront of research ...
  • China’s new wastelands
    In the middle ground between booming cities and rural villages, rubbish is causing friction. Yang Chuanmin visits a Shanghai family, who blame a plastics-recycling centre for the death of their child.Lu Junyi and Wang Qin’s second child, Wang Bole, was 15 months old when he was diagnosed with ac ...
  • Fatal failures on America’s rivers
    Thousands of dams are thought to be at risk of bursting in the United States – threatening to add to the country’s long list of tragic collapses. Joan Bien looks back 80 years to one of the worst.The 56-metre concrete gravity arch structure called St Francis Dam, located 70 kilometres north of L ...
  • How to prepare for crisis
    Margareta Wahlström is the United Nations’ risk-reduction chief. As China and America battle severe floods, she talks to Meng Si about preparing for natural disaster – and coping with the effects.In early June – against the backdrop of severe flooding in both the United States and China – delega ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • LIBYA UPDATE…FEATURING MEDIA AND CONGRE ...
    Obama calls for âPatience and Persistenceâ in Libya Article Summary: The why of the massive bombing of Libya continues to grow more nonsensical. Congress is baffled into paralysis, and our major media stick to the most honorable interpretation— despite evidence to the contrary. —————————— Are ...
  • Learning from the past: How to remake the seco ...
    By Philip Tegeler, Executive Director of Poverty & Race Research Action Center, The American dream of homeownership did not magically emerge after World War II from some invisible hand of the market.  The readily available, low downpayment, thirty-year mortgage that flooded the market with credi ...
  • The Truth About Women, Aging & Retirement
    Do you ever worry about ending up “a bag lady”? If so, you are not alone. And if current trends don’t change, that fear is not entirely irrational. Last week Merrill Lynch hosted an online presentation about the state of women & retirement. In our CrazyBusy 24/7 world it’s so easy to tune out wh ...
  • Why Prescription Ecstasy or LSD Could Happen M ...
    If a growing phalanx of scientists get their way, prescriptions for psychedelic drugs could be yours within 10 years.
  • Switch The Switch
    Reverend Billy’s brilliantly bombastic, boldly brief Earthalujah sermons — now available as a podcast! Watch more episodes and subscribe at revbilly.com/podcast.What if there is a switch in our brains that Bond-like villains can flip with impunity, sending us into spasms of shopping? Horribly, ...

Threat Level

  • Lawyer to Judge: I Swear My Browser Ate My Hom ...
    A lawyer for copyright troll Righthaven is declaring under penalty of perjury that an update to his computer’s browser prohibited him from electronically submitting a legal filing by an angry judge’s deadline. And it was no ordinary filing U.S. District Judge Roger Hunt was demanding. Nevada’s c ...
  • Judge: Google Can Be Sued for Wiretapping in S ...
    A federal judge has found that Google can be held liable for damages for secretly intercepting data on open Wi-Fi routers, dealing the search giant a serious legal setback for activity it has engaged in across the United States for years. That ruling, the first of its kind, was handed down late ...
  • Newspaper Chain Fights for Copyright Troll’s S ...
    Stephens Media, the Las Vegas–based media chain, is fighting to keep its latest business model alive: copyright-trolling. After standing on the sidelines while professional content-troll Righthaven fights in court, the newspaper company that seeded the venture joined the fray late Tuesday, telli ...
  • FBI Raids Iowa Woman’s Home in Lulz Security H ...
    The hacking group Lulz Security ended its 50-day reign of terror this weekend, but the law enforcement hunt for its members will go on. Last week, FBI agents raided an Iowa woman's home because of her connections to the group.
  • Supreme Court Term in Review: It’s a Mixed Bag
    The U.S. Supreme Court ended its 2010-2011 term Monday, deciding a slew of technology and civil rights issues, some of which have far-reaching implications for the Freedom of Information Act, intellectual property, warrantless searches of private residences, the "state secrets" privilege and fre ...

Equality Trust

  • We work in partnership with One Society
    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • FDA, will it or will in not use its mandatory ...
    On June 27, 2011 the CDC reported a total of 21 persons with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Enteritidis from 5 states: Idaho (3), Montana (7), North Dakota (1), New Jersey (1) and Washington (9). The CDC further said that investigative efforts of local, state, and federal public health and r ...
  • 21 confirmed E. coli cases in Northeast Tennes ...
    Mac McLean appears to be single-handedly covering a growing, deadly, and as yet unexplained, E. coli outbreak (of multiple strains) in Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. According to Mac, “with three new cases reported this week, the total number of E. coli cases affecting residents o ...
  • 50 Dead in Europe/United States E. coli O104:H ...
    The World Health Organization reported another death today in Germany and confirmed a death in the United Sates (CDC had previously suggested an Arizona death). The death toll now from the E. coli outbreak centered in Germany has risen to 50. In addition, the Institut de veille sanitaire, Fran ...
  • Are Egyptian Fenugreek Seeds Responsible for E ...
    AP Health reports this morning that European health experts warned Thursday there could be more E. coli cases across Europe and elsewhere after finding recent deadly outbreaks were probably linked to contaminated Egyptian fenugreek seeds. They say the fenugreek seeds are likely to blame for a m ...
  • Marler Clark Jet vs Food Safety - what would b ...
    Our President set out the choices today: if we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Official: Toyota issues recall for Highlander, ...
    Filed under: Recalls, Safety, Crossover, Lexus, Toyota Lexus RX 400h - Click above for high-res image There's a problem with some 2006 and 2007 model year Toyota Highlander Hybrid and Lexus RX 400h vehicles. Today, Toyota announced that it will voluntarily recall 45,500 Highlander Hybrid an ...
  • Video: New Prius rap video takes to cruising W ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Etc., Videos, Hatchback, Toyota, Humor Whole Foods Parking Lot - Click above to watch video after the jump Turns out, you can spin the whole "cashed up greenie" bit into a few minutes of enjoyable parody rap. Don't believe us? Check out "Whole Foods Parking Lot," the fi ...
  • Report: Glenn Beck goes off on GM's Akerson ov ...
    Filed under: GM, Electric Glenn Beck on the gas tax - Click above to watch video after the jump If there's one thing that is fast becoming true about the Chevy Volt, it's that right-wing political pundits really, really don't like it. So, we will admit up front that this story comes straigh ...
  • Official: Mitsubishi sets Canadian i-MiEV pric ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Budget, Hatchback, Mitsubishi, Canada, Electric $32,998. That's the price that Mitsubishi Motors has announced for the i-MiEV in Canada when the little space egg goes on sale there later this year. (That's $33,891 U.S. at today's exchange rate). Yes, Canada will ge ...
  • Official: New pictures of Tesla Model S Alpha ...
    Filed under: Sedan, Tesla, Design/Style Tesla Model S Alpha - Click above for high-res image gallery Tesla Motors has put up some new pictures of the Tesla Model S Alpha, and its gorgeous new model looks more production-ready than ever. The changes we can see are subtle, but compared to ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

  • No title
  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • Nuclear Hubris: Christian Parenti On What Japa ...
    In part two of our conversation with journalist Christian Parenti he discusses his recent article, Nuclear Hubris: Could Japan’s Disaster Happen Here?, about what the meltdown of three nuclear reactors in Japan means for the expansion of the nuclear power industry United States. "I think its ...
  • Book Excerpt: "Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change ...
    Read the first chapter of "Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence," by award-winning writer Christian Parenti, who will be interviewed tomorrow on Democracy Now! In the book he explores how, from Africa to Asia, extreme weather brought on by global warming is unleashi ...
  • ‘Food Terrorism’ Next Door to the Magic Kingdom
    Think of “food terrorism” and what do you see? Diabolical plots to taint items on grocery-store shelves? If you are Buddy Dyer, the mayor of Orlando, Fla., you might be thinking of a group feeding the homeless and hungry in one of your city parks. That is what Dyer is widely quoted as calling t ...
  • From the Vault: Democracy Now! Interview With ...
    The British peace activist Brian Haw has died at the age of 62. For the past decade Haw lived and slept outside the Houses of Parliament in London to protest against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He began his public demonstration in June 2001 to protest the Western sanctions against Iraq. P ...
  • Drones, Aid and CIA Contractor Raymond Davis: ...
    In part two of our interview with Human Rights Watch Asia senior researcher, Ali Dayan Hasan, he describes the work Asia Times reporter Syed Saleem Shahzad was doing when he was kidnapped, murdered and tortured in May, allegedly by state security forces. He also discusses the impact of drones, ...

Suzie-Q

  • A Note Of Bad News….
    To my blogging friends: I have some very bad news. My daughter-in-law was killed last night in an auto accident. It was her 30th birthday & she leaves behind my son & my two young grandchildren. I will be taking time away from posting for awhile. Please drive carefully over the holiday weekend! ...
  • Israel to Stop Flotilla “Without Physica ...
    Clinton: Gaza flotilla a bid to provoke Israel by Gaza Flotilla 101 June 23, 2011 Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday criticized activists planning to challenge Israel’s sea blockade of the Gaza Strip, saying their efforts are neither “necessary or useful” in helping the Palest ...
  • The Invisible Army
    The Invisible Army For foreign workers on U.S. bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, war can be hell. The New Yorker by Sarah Stillman June 6, 2011 It was lunchtime in Suva, Fiji, a slow day at the end of the tourist season in September of 2007, when four men appeared in the doorway of the [...]
  • Christ Rice: Ca$hing in on Hard Times
    Click pic to enlarge A coleague  just resently recieved this in the mail from the future CEO of this company. We’re excited about moving forward on this and anticipate putting food on the table on a global basis. and as far as promotion goes, all options will be on the table. When the times get ...
  • Supreme Court Sides With Wal-Mart In Sex Bias Case
    Supreme Court Sides With Wal-Mart In Sex Bias Case Huffington Post First Posted: 06/20/11 10:30 AM ET Updated: 06/20/11 02:16 PM ET WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday blocked a massive sex discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart on behalf of female employees in a decision that makes i ...

Solari

  • Catherine on Coast-to-Coast Tonight!
    Catherine will be on Coast-to-Coast tonight, 30 June 2011. She will elaborate on these “Ten Economic Trends You Want to Know About“: Trend # 1 - The Slow Burn Burns On Outsiders increasing expenses and decreasing income The economics of baby boomers retirement A need for war The economic compa ...
  • New Solari Report Podcast!
    Solari has produced a new free podcast—The Solari Report Digest #25. Listen to Solari Report Digest #25 The Solari Report Digest is a podcast featuring highlights from the live one-hour Solari Report briefings. In the rapidly changing political and economic landscape the Solari Report Digest ...
  • More on Smart Grids & Lockheed Martin
    Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 Hi Catherine . . . Wanted to share with you an issue that is unfolding in Burlington, Vermont. Our mayor Bob Kiss has sort of side-stepped the electorate in securing a partnership with Lockheed-Martin via the Carbon War Room (See: http://www.carbonwarroom.com/ ) for “gr ...
  • US Unemployment Plan: More “Free” ...
    By Jennifer Liberto The Senate will officially take up three trade deals and a scaled-back version of a jobs retraining program for laid-off workers on Thursday. Senate negotiators will have to start pounding out the details of the trade deals with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, as well as f ...
  • The “Hit” on Teachers Gets Help fr ...
    Cameron Diaz’s ‘Bad Teacher’ No. 2 at the Weekend Box Office The animated “Cars 2,” with the voices of Owen Wilson and Larry the Cable Guy, took the weekend box office’s No. 1 spot with $68 million in gross U.S. receipts. Continue reading the article . . .

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Times Scare
    ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
  • Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
    Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more��
  • Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
    BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri Lank ...
  • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
    Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more��
  • Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
    Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more��

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • Vatican kicks out Roma on Easter
    Press TV – About 150 Roma gypsies were barred from participating in the Easter vigil of the basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, after temporarily taking shelter there on Good Friday, The Telegraph reported.  Local and foreign pilgrims, who had gathered to attend the vigil, calle ...
  • Euro strikes 16-month high against dollar
    Breitbart – The euro struck a 16-month high against the dollar and the Swiss franc notched a record high versus the US unit Tuesday amid heightened investor nerves over this week’s busy economic calendar. The European single currency hit $1.4653 in morning trade, the highest point since mid-Dece ...
  • British pound devalues by 94% in 50yrs
    PressTV – A new survey shows that the value of money in the UK has dropped by 94 percent over the past 50 years, which means an 18-time increase in retail prices. The survey carried out by BM Savings has found that almost £1,800 is needed to match the buying power of £100 in 1960, [...]
  • Peru suffers an ‘environmental tragedy’
    IOL – The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years, a study published on Tuesday said. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of 7,000 ...
  • Next step humans? Every new pet dog in Britain ...
    Daily Mail – Every new pet dog will be microchipped under sweeping Government regulations to combat dangerous animals. Each puppy born and dog sold will have an electronic chip implanted under the skin. Details will then be placed on a national database accessible by police and the RSPCA. A conf ...

The Progressive Realist

  • What Can the US Do About Syria?
    Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty doesn’t want you to think he’s a neoconservative. But neoconservatives themselves — not exactly known for diverse views — roundly approved of his foreign policy speech this week. One line of Pawlenty’s talk dovetailed quite nicely with neoconservati ...
  • DoJ to Recommend Investigations in Two Detaine ...
    Marcy Wheeler reports that Assistant U.S. Attorney John Durham, assigned by Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate cases in which CIA interrogators may have gone beyond the "legalized" torture guidelines established by the Bush administration's office of Legal Counsel, has recommended inve ...
  • Obama Admin’s New Counterterror Strategy Disca ...
    President Obama's Top Counterterror Adviser John Brennan Yesterday at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, President Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser John Brennan formally laid out the Obama administration’s broad approach to combatting te ...
  • Hezbollah Members Indicted for Rafiq Hariri As ...
     The United Nations tribunal investigating the 2005 murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri has handed down indictments making official what has long been assumed: Hezbollah terrorists were the culprits. Roula Khalaf, Middle East editor for the FT: A United Nations-backed internat ...
  • Russia Dreams of a Nuclear Navy
    What are the odds of this actually happening. Russian officials on Thursday said that the country will be completing the construction of a new class nuclear-powered destroyer by 2016. Russian Navy Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky told RIA Novosti that the prototype of the new class destroyer, which is ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Romney Runs Away from his Campaign
    Essentially, Mitt Romney's pitch for the presidency rests on a single line, "He made it worse." In campaign ads, speeches and op-eds, Romney has attacked the president for lengthening the Great Recession. During last month's presidential debate, for example, Romney led with this: "He didn' ...
  • Today at The Prospect
    Robert Kuttner says goodbye to Timothy Geithner. Harold Meyerson suggests possible replacements for the Treasury secretary. Pema Levy explains how Kansas almost banned abortion, and what states are next. Yannis Palaiologos lays out the path forward for Greece. David Callahan writes that Con ...
  • The Kind of Religious Test We Could Use
    Well here's an interesting question, from Libby Copeland at Slate: In a speech at a mega-church in the Minneapolis area back in 2006, Michele Bachmann explained her decision to pursue tax law. It wasn't her choice, exactly. God had already told her to go to law school; God had also told her to ...
  • Cash Rules Everything Around Them
    The official deadline for Republican presidential candidates to report their second quarter fundraising totals isn't until next month, but several campaigns have offered preliminary numbers. Let's take a look. According to The New York Times, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has raised ...
  • The Fundamental Weakness of the Anti-ACA Case
    Ian Millhiser has a great post about the incoherent radicalism of James Graham's dissent in this week's Sixth Circuit ruling upholding the constitutionality of the ACA. The biggest problem for lower court judges who want to find the ACA unconstitutional is the Raich precedent, in which the Su ...

Buzzflash

  • US State Department Essentially Sanctions Poss ...
    Stereotyping groups and thus disregarding the opinions and characteristics of individuals within that group is what leads to wars and genocide. This is what happened in World War II and the Holocaust, what happened in Cambodia and what happened in Rwanda, to name but a few of the horrifying ...
  • Some Homegrown Muslim Terrorist Threats Have B ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT A new report from New York University's The Center for Human Rights and Global Justice focuses on "three high-profile terrorism prosecutions" where "government informants played a critical role in instigating and constructing the plots that were then pros ...
  • WikiLeaks and Anti-Corporate, Anti-Fascist Hac ...
    STEPHEN PIZZO FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT This year may well go down in history as the year non-violent revolutions broke out across the globe. While most attention has been directed at those erupting throughout the Middle East, much of the credit for all this ruckus goes to the power of viral soc ...
  • Fukushima Spews, Los Alamos Burns, Vermont Rag ...
    HARVEY WASSERMAN FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUTHumankind is now threatened by the simultaneous implosion, explosion, incineration, courtroom contempt and drowning of its most lethal industry.We know only two things for certain: worse is yet to come, and those in charge are lying about it - at least t ...
  • Republican Senator Mark Kirk Urges Pentagon to ...
    A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT   After reading about the horrifying proposal of US Senator Mark Kirk to have US military personnel involved in an attack on American citizens seeking to ship aid to Gaza civilians, BuzzFlash at Truthout called Kirk's suggested action a planned act of terrorism on Amer ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Scanning for juvenile delinquency
    Scanning for juvenile delinquency – Impulsiveness in youth is not a criminal offence, although if it reaches into the realm of delinquency it can quickly become so. Researchers in the US are using functional magnetic resonance imaging to see whether the brains of young offenders differ in some b ...
  • The real reason for pruney fingers
    The real reason for pruney fingers – Sit in a bath too long and your fingers will wrinkle up. Everyone from 5 to 95 knows that. The scientific explanation was always that the skin absorbs water and the underlying layer buckles. That’s as may be, but writing in Nature News, Ed Yong explains an ex ...
  • The Blind Spot: Science and the Crisis of Unce ...
    The Blind Spot: Science and the Crisis of Uncertainty – “In today’s unpredictable and chaotic world, we look to science to provide certainty and answers–and often blame it when things go wrong. The Blind Spot reveals why our faith in scientific certainty is a dangerous illusion, and how only by ...
  • Science goes mobile – SciMobileApps
    Science goes mobile #SciMobileApps – ChemConnector Tony Williams nudged me towards a relatively new initiative to help science "get" mobile. Mobile apps for science are expanding in scope and capability very quickly, yet there is no easy way to source information regarding what is available, wha ...
  • Negative science
    Negative science – Often the "eureka moment" occurs not in the sense of "I've found it", but more as a "WTF?" Indeed, it's been estimated that more than two-thirds of scientific experiments fail to produce the results anticipated and in one way might be considered failed experiments, or negative ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • US: Detainee Death Investigations Welcome But ...
    The US Attorney General's decision to conduct a full criminal investigation into the deaths of two detainees in US custody is a necessary but insufficient step towards justice, Human Rights Watch said today. The Obama administration should pursue the full scope of detainee torture and ill-treatm ...
  • Calls for Prosser Resignation More Than 10,000 ...
    More than 10,000 concerned citizens have signed One Wisconsin Now’s petition launched Monday calling for the resignation of Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser. One Wisconsin Now started the petition after Justice Ann Walsh Bradley said Prosser put her in a “chokehold” during an argume ...
  • ACLU Says DOJ Investigation into CIA Interroga ...
    Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that the Justice Department is launching a "full criminal investigation" into the deaths of two detainees in U.S. custody. In August 2009, Holder announced that Assistant U.S. Attorney John Durham would review whether federal laws were violated in con ...
  • FAMM Celebrates Sentencing Commission Approval ...
    Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM) president and founder Julie Stewart celebrated today’s unanimous vote by the U.S. Sentencing Commission to make crack guideline reductions retroactive.  “First, I am thrilled for our members and their families who suffered under a sentencing scheme that ...
  • Court Upholds Endangered Species Act Protectio ...
    A federal judge today upheld a May 2008 decision that polar bears throughout their range should be protected as a “threatened” species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. The listing was the result of a 2005 petition and litigation filed by the Center for Biological Diversity, Natural Resourc ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Las Conchas Fire Woke Us Up—Let Us Now Stop Th ...
    Subhankar Banerjee The Las Conchas Fire in New Mexico is still burning. It is rapidly growing by the day. On June 29, I did a phone interview with Jay Coghlan, executive director of Nuclear Watch New Mexico and his colleague Scott Kovac; a ...
  • So Who Really Stands to Benefit from AT&T’s T- ...
    Jenn Ettinger Last week, a group of 76 Democrats made a small splash inside the Beltway after they signed a letter touting the alleged benefits of the AT&T-T-Mobile merger for rural communities and workers. The problem with the letter, th ...
  • Non-Violent Protest Works – That's Why "The Au ...
    Mark Weisbrot One of the most important foreign policy statements of the year came from Ehud Barak, Israel’s Defense Minister, on May 16. Responding to non-violent protests at Israeli borders and military posts, he said, “The Palestinians' ...
  • Pesticides and Farm Labor Yield a Bitter Harvest
    Michelle Chen Shortly after the group of Mexican “guestworkers” arrived at a Tennessee tomato farm, they realized that their job was killing them, literally. In addition to being crowded into filthy trailers with no source of clean water, ...
  • Are Teachers and Police Officers Imaginary People?
    Chris Kromm Growing up, some children have imaginary friends. Today, many politicians seem to live in a world of imaginary workers.read more

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Flying kites before the tear gas
    Linah AlsaafinThe Electronic Intifada Every child has a right to a childhood. The Nabi Saleh children are denied this right. Linah Alsaafin describes one Friday afternoon in the occupied West Bank�village.
  • Student-built racing car shows Gaza ingenuity
    Rami AlmeghariThe Electronic IntifadaKhan Younis In the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, a team of vocational college students, with the help of two mechanical engineers, built a racing car — the first of its kind in the besieged coastal territory.
  • No Turkish boat to Gaza as Ankara, Tel Aviv me ...
    Barbara SlavinThe Electronic IntifadaWashington, DC WASHINGTON (IPS) - Turkey and Israel are close to resolving their dispute over last year’s flotilla attack, but the partnership that existed between them for more than a decade will almost certainly stay submerged.
  • Activists determined to sail despite sabotage, ...
    Apostolis FotiadisThe Electronic Intifada ATHENS (IPS) - Activists are being confronted by Israeli authorities days before the international “Freedom Flotilla II — Stay Human” sets sail towards the Gaza Strip in an attempt to break the naval blockade Israel has imposed since 2007.
  • French court decision on Jerusalem light rail ...
    Daniel Machover and Adri NieuwhofThe Electronic Intifada A French court ruling on the construction of a light rail network to service illegal Israeli settlements in occupied East Jerusalem betrays a lack of understanding about how the project abets the Israeli occupation. Daniel Machover and Adr ...

The Wonk Room

  • ‘Red Mars’ Book Club Part IV: The ...
    Spoilers through the first six parts of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars in this post; if you want to spoil beyond that, please label your comments accordingly. And for next week, let’s read the section called “Senzeni Na.” I. After the heavy science and economics of the previous sections, “Guns ...
  • Awesome Sauce
    I try not to spend my life consumed with envy for super-successful businessmen, but I like that if Mark Zuckerberg says he’ll make an “awesome” announcement next week not only will the announcement be covered but even the announcement of the announcement garners attention: Chief Executive and fo ...
  • If You Don’t Count Us, We Don’t Count
    Our guest bloggers are Kellan Baker, LGBT health care analyst at the Center for American Progress. A decade ago, the Department of Health and Human Services released a comprehensive plan to guide its role in addressing the health care needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans. O ...
  • CHART: Rate Of U.S. Troops Killed In Iraq Is A ...
    Last month marked the deadliest month for U.S. troops in Iraq since 2008. Fifteen American soldiers were reported killed there in June, 14 of them in hostile action. But not only are American deaths in Iraq this month at a three-year high, the number of U.S. troops killed as a percentage of the ...
  • 26 Percent Of Americans Don’t Know U.S. ...
    According to a new poll by Marist, more than a quarter of Americans couldn’t correctly identify the country from which the United States declared its independence. While 74 percent correctly named Great Britain, 20 percent said they weren’t sure and six percent named other countries. In the Sout ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • So What Happened?
    As I said in my last post, my conclusion that the harpercon government has no legitimate authority arose out of my support for Brigette DePape's violation of Parliamentary decorum during the Speech From the Throne. As I said, I actually have a great deal of reverence for our democratic instituti ...
  • "Tee-Hee"
    I've take some criticism for describing the harpercon majority government as "illegitimate." This criticism tends to come from empty-headed morons whose opinions I have as much regard for as I would a huge, steaming piece of dog-shit on my front steps. There seems to be some inexplicable confus ...
  • Hillary's Hypocrisy
    Here's another example of why Glenn Greenwald rocks. In his post "Plurality of Americans love Gadaffi" Greenwald quotes the abominable Hillary Clinton's yammerings about the need for support for the US-led mission of regime change in Libya: But the bottom line is, whose side are you on? Are you ...
  • Saturday Posting Duties
    Here's a tune: I've been busy over here.
  • Shorter TPS G20 Report ...
    "We were overwhelmed by the number of heads that threw themselves at our truncheons." Whatever. Jerks.

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Celebrating Canada Day coast to coast with mus ...
    Music, fairs and the Royal Couple are all part of the Canada Day celebrations today, as Canadians take part in their annual federal statutory holiday. How are the country's major cities celebrating 144 years of Canada?
  • International Jazz Festival in Vancouver's Gastown
    Sponsored by Toronto Dominion Bank as the main sponsor for many years, 26th annual TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival organized by The Coastal Jazz & Blues Society started in Vancouver in last weekend.
  • Sun News TV interview with Gillis sets record ...
    When Sun News' Krista Erickson interviewed dancer Margie Gillis about the money she has received from Canada the atmosphere was combative. The attack has a record number of complaints by viewers to the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council.
  • Will humans come into contact with an alien ci ...
    Russian scientists believe that humanity will come into contact with an extraterrestrial civilization by the year 2031. Speaking at a conference, one Russian astronomer said it is inevitable that we contact aliens because many planets resemble ours.
  • Canada Post resumes delivery, what does that m ...
    Canada Post had their employees resuming their duties on Monday and Canadians should expect mail in their mailboxes today.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • “Crown jewel” of Canadian peacekeeping closing ...
    The Pearson Peacekeeping Centre (PPC) has announced that it is shutting down its operations in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia (David Pugliese, “Cash-strapped peacekeeping centre closing Nova Scotia office,” Ottawa Citizen, 10 June 2011). The organization is attempting to cut costs after having been adv ...
  • Layton, Harris criticize timing of document dump
    Opposition leader Jack Layton has accused the Harper government of taking a “very cynical” approach in its release of documents on the Afghan detainee file. The release of 4000 pages worth of documents came just as MPs are gearing down for summer recess. â[The Government] chose a date that will ...
  • Green Party’s Elizabeth May only dissenter to ...
    Elizabeth May stood alone in Parliament last week in opposing extension of the military mission in Libya, resulting in a vote of 294 in favour and 1 opposed (Jane Taber, Why Elizabeth May refuses to be a rubber stamp in the commons, Globe and Mail, 15 June 2011).  Defence Minister Peter MacKay a ...
  • Ceasefire.ca Members’ survey results on Libya ...
    I support Canada’s military mission in Libya and think it should be extended. (1806 responses)
  • Challenging Canada’s involvement in Libya: New ...
    As the House of Commons debated extending Canada’s military presence in Libya this week, the Rideau Institute garnered media attention by calling for clarity in the purpose and methods of the mission, and by providing an alternative estimate of the cost of the war that suggests the Conservative ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Apple Founder Steve Jobs Has 6 Weeks to Live?
    April 20th, 2011 The National Enquirer There’s been worldwide interest since we reported that Apple boss Steve Jobs – the mastermind behind the iPod, iPhone and iPad – could have only six weeks to live! Shocking photos obtained exclusively by The ENQUIRER show the 56-year-old cancer-stricken com ...
  • Plants ‘Can Think and Remember’
    April 20th, 2011 BBC News By: Victoria Gill Plants, scientists say, transmit information about light intensity and quality from leaf to leaf in a very similar way to our own nervous systems. These “electro-chemical signals” are carried by cells that act as “nerves” of the plants. In their experi ...
  • Chicken Samples Contaminated
    April 20th, 2011 AOL News By: Andrew Schneider This is a rough month for carnivores and others who like eating safe meat. Two studies, one released last week and the second made public today, have scientifically tested beef, chicken, pork and turkey purchased from groceries in six cities from Se ...
  • New Lawsuit Filed over GMO Alfalfa
    April 20th, 2011 SlashFood.com By: Jason Best The next skirmish over genetically modified foods is getting underway, pitting a coalition of environmental, consumer and food-safety groups against the federal government. Early this year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture approved unrestricted pla ...
  • Wendy’s Natural Cut Fries Aren’t So Natural
    April 21st, 2011 OrganicAuthority.com By: Jill Ettinger Last fall, the fast-food chain Wendy’s introduced its Natural Cut Fries With Sea Salt, promoting them with ads pointing to the more natural look (they leave the potato skins on) and the better tasting product. But, as it turns out, the prod ...

Pambazuka News

  • Venezuela: The Afrovenezuelan Network and the ...
    From its foundation in 2000, the Afrovenezuelan Network had systematically denounced first the threat from Plan Colombia, and second the so called Plan Patriotic as a threat to the stability of the Andean region, this plan is based on military aims w...
  • Haiti: Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine petition
    As women and men in the Caribbean Region, in the wider diaspora, and in many parts of the world, we are writing to urge you to make resources available without delay for the search for Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine, and to do everything in your power to se...
  • Haiti: Lula visit prompts protests in Brazil, ...
    Demonstrators in many Brazilian cities and San Francisco denounced Brazil's brutal 4-year military occupation of Haiti -- on the occasion of the May 28th visit to Haiti by Brazilian President Luiz Lula da Silva, marking the 4th anniversary of the arr...
  • Haiti: Women and girls require life-saving ass ...
    More than 800,000 people are in dire need of humanitarian assistance in Haiti in the wake of hurricanes Fay and Gustav and tropical storm Hanna. Houses, medical facilities, main roads and bridges have been destroyed, and an estimated 100,000 people h...
  • USA: Uhuru movement endorses McKinney/Clemente ...
    The International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) has endorsed the McKinney/Clemente ticket in the U.S. presidential race. The endorsement was based on the support that Green Party V.P. candidate Rosa Clemente’s expressed for InPDUM’s “Re...

War in Context

  • Torture crimes officially, permanently shielded
    Glenn Greenwald writes: In August, 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder — under continuous, aggressive prodding by the Obama White House — announced that three categories of individuals responsible for Bush-era torture crimes would be fully immunized from any form of criminal investigation and pr ...
  • Bahrain to citizens living abroad: Spy on coun ...
    MSNBC reports: Bahrainis living abroad have been ordered to spy on their countrymen in the wake of a deadly crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators. Documents containing “loyalty pledges” â which also require expats to promise they will not protest against the tiny Gulf state’s government â h ...
  • Just Do It – a tale of modern-day outlaws
  • Saudi Arabia worries about stability, security ...
    Jason Burke reports: It was a very discreet meeting deep in the English countryside. The main speaker was Prince Turki al-Faisal, one of Saudi Arabia’s best-known and best-connected royals. The audience was composed of senior American and British military officials. The location was RAF Moleswo ...
  • Iran: the next generation
    Reza Marashi and Jason Rezaian write: For several weeks now, observers and analysts of Iran have been referring to an emerging rift between the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the country’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The recent back-and-forth between Ahmadinejad and Khame ...

Watts Up With That?

  • George Monbiot’s denial fantasy tweet
    UPDATE: About an hour after this story was posted, Monbiot backs down, see below. – Anthony =========================================== Sheesh, can’t these people read? I find the timing of this more than coincidental. George Monbiot tweets: Secret funding of climate change deniers … Continue re ...
  • ICCC6 live feed again today
    Video link and agenda schedule follow. http://climateconference.heartland.org/watch-live/ We return for a half-day on Friday, with an 8:00 a.m. breakfast and keynote speaker followed by two morning panels. We adjourn at 12:30 p.m. ICCC6 Schedule (as of June 16)
  • Cleaner air may result in increased solar inso ...
    This makes me wonder if the temperature dip in the 1970′s where everyone was worried about global cooling wasn’t partially driven by atmospheric aerosols. With the advent of pollution controls, certainly we have cleaner (and more optically transparent) skies since … Continue reading →
  • Yet Even More Discussions About The Pacific De ...
    Guest post by Bob Tisdale INTRODUCTION Iâve written numerous posts that describe the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), what the PDO represents, and, just as important, what it does not represent. For those new to the PDO and for those needing … Continue reading →
  • Earth’s Climate System Is Ridiculously C ...
    By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” I am often amused by claims that we understand Earth’s climate system, are able to accurately measure its behavior, eliminate all potential variables except CO2 as the primary driver of Earth’s temperature and make … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • ‪Noam Chomsky: Free Market Fantasies: Capitali ...
    Dandelion Salad by Noam Chomsky www.chomsky.info Delivered at Harvard University, April 13, 1996 Transcription courtesy of William Greene For those who are interested in the real world, a look at the actual history suggests some adjustment — a modification of free market theory, to what we migh ...
  • John Nichols and Phil Gasper: Return of Socialism
    Dandelion Salad “In the U. S. the Democrats have become what the Republicans used to be  and the Republicans have become lunatics.”  – Phil Gasper “There’s only one party in America today, with two wings, the conservative wing, known as Democrats, and the reactionary wing, known as Republicans ...
  • Pakistan in Pieces, Part 2: Punishing Pakistan ...
    by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad June 30, 2011 This is Part 2 of “Pakistan in Pieces.” Part 1: Imperial Eye on Pakistan The AfPak War Theatre: Establishing the New Strategy As Senator Obama became the President-elect Obama, his foreign policy strategy on Afghanistan was ...
  • Drowning Fish? by Greg Palast
    by Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com June  30, 2011 July 3 would have been my parents’ 67th Anniversary. 67 years. Maybe it was the triumph of Hope over Reality (still have that Obama 2008 poster?). Or maybe something else, something that those of us who haven’t wa ...
  • ‪Noam Chomsky: The Clinton Vision – Old ...
    Dandelion Salad VoteABC2011 on Jun 27, 2011 In these times, with the Obama administration in office, it is greatly important to analyse the history of the United States. It is apparent to me that the Clinton Administration has many parallels with the current administration, thus this speech is b ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    Warner Bros. Loses Millions On Harry Potter 5, Ninth Biggest Grossing Movie Of All Time...Somehow To the outside world, this is known as 'Hollywood Accounting', but when I was in LA in 2001 it was called FuckYou Accounting by independent producers. I'm guessing it still is : According to the (W ...
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    The Tsunami Is Here, But Don't Forget To Close Your Car Door When You Run What can you say while watching this video of the Japanese tsunami, shot from inside a car, except Holy Fucking Shit! Just extraordinary, in a world filled with cameras, we are seeing the reality of natural disasters like ...
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    JK Rowling Will Be First Author To Earn $1 Billion From E-Books By Darryl Mason UPDATE : Since the story below was posted, JK Rowling has held a press conference and announced the following : * She won't be writing an eighth Harry Potter novel, saying, "I do have closure with Harry. I have no ...
  • No title
    Almost 1 million views on YouTube in a handful of days for a professor explaining in two minutes some of the biggest problems with the American economy? Who said there isn't an audience for the truth?
  • No title
    Nice slideshow of 30 years of front covers from UK hard rock/metal magazine Kerrang! The early covers are better. December 1993 : April 1994 : The Rest Of The Kerrang! Front Covers Are Here

Wired - Science

  • X-rays Reveal Colors of First Birds
    By Mark Brown, Wired UK Confuciusornis sanctus, a prehistoric beaked bird which co-existed with dinosaurs some 120 million years ago, had a dark body, neck and tail, and impressive patterns along its feathers. We know that, in remarkable detail, because a team of paleontologists from California ...
  • Summer Reading for Science Geeks
    With the Fourth of July upon us, it won’t be long before we’re headed to the nearest beach for some much-needed decompression. Most of us will bring a bit of page-turning light reading. But for those who want a little intellectual heft in their tote, Wired.com asked a few favorite scientists fo ...
  • Millions of Fishes: The Ultimate Marine Library
    See Also: The Man Who Swims With Coelacanths Old, Ignored Records Yield 200 Years of Fish Population Data Massive North Atlantic Garbage Patch Mapped Freaky New Ghostshark ID’d Off California Coast Hidden Blades, Glowing Scorpions and Bug Genitalia: Great Science Images From the American Museu ...
  • Dramatic Sunrise Over Moon’s Tycho Crater Moun ...
    A spacecraft circling the moon snapped this dramatic image of the sun rising on the mountains in the middle of Tycho crater. The 51-mile-wide depression is all that remains of a catastrophic asteroid impact 108 million years ago. Planetary scientists think the guilty asteroid was a fragment fro ...
  • How Airplanes Blow Snow-Making Holes in Clouds
    By John Timmer, Ars Technica We’ve seen recently that air travel can have an oversized impact on the atmosphere, at least relative to emission of things like greenhouse gasses, because they seed clouds that can persist for hours. Now, researchers have taken a detailed look at what happens when ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • BREAKING: Greek Coast Guard stops Gaza-bound U ...
    Less than one hour after leaving the Athens port, the American ship in the Gaza flotilla was stopped by the Greek Coast Guard, which demanded it return to the port. The boat, named the Audacity of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Netanyahu: Israel has every right to stop Gaza ...
    Activists say Israel is responsible for 'attempted murder' for allegedly sabotaging propeller shaft of an Irish ship, forcing it to pull out of the voyage. IOA Editor: Clearly, the implication is... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palesti ...
  • Amira Hass: With multiple ships disabled, flot ...
    "Israel is trying to outsource the siege on Gaza to Greece and the US," said Dror Feiler at the press conference. In other words, it turns other countries into collaborators in the imposition of the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Netanyahu: Israel has every right to stop Gaza ...
    Activists say Israel is responsible for 'attempted murder' for allegedly sabotaging propeller shaft of an Irish ship, forcing it to pull out of the voyage. IOA Editor: Clearly, the implication is... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palesti ...
  • Amira Hass: With multiple ships disabled, flot ...
    "Israel is trying to outsource the siege on Gaza to Greece and the US," said Dror Feiler at the press conference. In other words, it turns other countries into collaborators in the imposition of the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Group Seeks Alternative Uses for Marcellus Sha ...
    A new industry-led initiative to promote in-state utilization of Marcellus Shale natural gas by developing combined-heat-and-power (CHP) systems was announced Thursday at the Natural Gas Utilization Workshop at Penn State.
  • Environs Prompt Helpful Mutations as Plants Gr ...
    A Case Western Reserve University researcher has found that the environment not only weeds out harmful and useless mutations through natural selection, but actually influences helpful mutations, which are passed to the next generation. He challenges peers to repeat the controversial findings.
  • Darden School of Business Reports Summer Econo ...
    The results of a survey given to Washington D.C. area CFOs reveal a less than optimistic outlook on the U.S. economy.
  • Pediatric Urologist Develops Procedure to Elim ...
    Now a UT Southwestern Medical Center urologist has developed a new "hidden" minimally invasive procedure that makes scarring virtually invisible yet is just as effective as more common surgical methods.
  • Trinity Health and Loyola University Health Sy ...
    Loyola University Chicago (LUC) and Trinity Health, based in Novi, Mich., have announced that Loyola University Health System (LUHS), located in Maywood, Ill., has become a part of Trinity Health, effective today. LUHS was formerly a wholly owned subsidiary of the University.

Natural Health News

  • Late-Breaking U. S. Supreme Court Ruling Could ...
    Letter from Charlie Brown Supreme Court Throws Federalism Under the Bus In the spirit of our shared goal of keeping a federalist system federalist, I bring to your attention a troubling decision by the Supreme Court last week.�The Court ruled that states may not challenge utility pollution un ...
  • What's The Psychological Effect Of Violent Vid ...
    The United States Supreme Court recently overturned a California law banning the sale or rental of violent video games to minors. However, many psychological scientists still believe that a child's behavior be directly influenced by playing a violent video game. There have been 140 studies prov ...
  • Are Airport Scanners Giving Boston TSA Agents ...
    Transportation Security Administration union representatives in Boston say that radiation from full-body scanners be responsible for a "cancer cluster" among airport security workers. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) obtained documents from the Department of Homeland Security wh ...
  • Simple Acne Treatment Works by Helping Your Gu ...
    More than 70 years ago, dermatologists John Stokes and Donald Pillsbury proposed a gastrointestinal mechanism for the overlap between depression, anxiety and skin conditions such as acne. They hypothesized that emotional states might alter intestinal microflora and contribute to systemic inflamm ...
  • Shocking Animal Abuse on the Farm
    Video Depicts Pig Cruelty at Iowa Pork Farms from TIME on Vimeo.Consider yourself warned before you watch this -- a new undercover video shows the gruesome conditions in which pigs are kept at an Iowa factory farm. The pork producer in question has been linked to four major U.S. food retailers. ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Too Bad Administration’s WPR “Hostilities” Gam ...
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro So now we have the Administration’s full-dress treatment of its take on “hostilities” under the War Powers Resolution, with Harold Koh’s testimony yesterday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.  I think it sets out a good case, well worth a close read. ...
  • Catching up with the Senate on Detainee Matters
    by Deborah Pearlstein The past week has seen various developments in Congress� efforts to consider legislation regulating the detention of �unprivileged enemy belligerents� at Guantanamo and beyond.� Most notable, the Senate finally released the language of its version of the defense authoriza ...
  • Today: Peter Spiro Testifies before the SFRC o ...
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis Just a quick note for folks following the Congressional wrangling over U.S. military activity in Libya and the War Powers Resolution:  later this morning, Opinio Juris‘ own Peter Spiro will be testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. U.S. St ...
  • NMT Book Published!
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I am delighted to announce the publication of my book “The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law.”  The book can be ordered from Oxford University Press here; Amazon should have it (at a whopping $8.78 discount) in ...
  • The CMCR Invents the “War Crime” of Material S ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Earlier today, the U.S. Court of Military Commission Review (CMCR) held in U.S. v. Hamdan that material support for terrorism is a war crime and thus within the jurisdiction of the military commissions.  The decision represents the apotheosis of the US ...

Public News Service

  • Seniors “Outraged” By Budget Proposals
    Seniors “Outraged” By Budget Proposals Phoenix, AZ – Advocates for older Americans say seniors are furious at threats to cut Social Security and Medicare. More than one million Arizonans could be impacted. Comments from Ed Coyle, executive director of the Alliance For Retired Americans.
  • ACLU Report: AZ Police Often Too Quick to Use ...
    ACLU Report: AZ Police Often Too Quick to Use Tasers Phoenix, AZ – A study of 20 Arizona police agencies shows a lack of uniform policies and training on the appropriate use of Tasers, according to ACLU of Arizona. The study shows that equipping officers with Tasers does not appear to have reduc ...
  • HIV Testing Day Aims for Prevention, Treatment ...
    HIV Testing Day Aims for Prevention, Treatment and Longer Lives Phoenix, AZ – Today (Monday) is National HIV Testing Day. Knowing your HIV status can lead to a longer, healthier life and prevent others from becoming infected. Comments from Dr. DeShawn Taylor, medical director, Planned Parenthood ...
  • Media Watchdog says AT&T/T-Mobile Merger Could ...
    Media Watchdog says AT&T/T-Mobile Merger Could Hurt AZ Minorities Phoenix, AZ – A national media watchdog group is raising concerns over the proposed merger of AT&T and T-Mobile, warning it could stifle competition, with higher rates impacting consumers in general, and minorities in particular. ...
  • FCC Report: Broadband Needs Bigger Boost in Ru ...
    FCC Report: Broadband Needs Bigger Boost in Rural AZ Phoenix, AZ - In its annual checkup of the deployment of broadband across the nation, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) says despite progress, more needs to be done to get 26 million Americans, mostly in rural communities, access to ...

Center for Food Safety

  • U.S. House Of Representatives Passes Amendment ...
    Sixty-Seven Organizations and Businesses Endorse Amendment;  CFS Calls upon FDA to Reject Approval of GE Salmon The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauds the U.S. House of Representatives for its decision yesterday to prohibit the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from approving genetically eng ...
  • FDA temporarily suspends use of some arsenic i ...
    Center for Food Safety and Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy urge continued action to remove all arsenic from animal feeds permanently The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced that Alpharma, a division of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, has agreed to stop sellin ...
  • Family Farmers Amplify Complaint Against Monsa ...
    Monsanto’s Failure to Provide Binding Legal Covenant To Protect Family Farmers Threatened by GMO Contamination Necessitates Amended Complaint New threats by Monsanto have led to the filing of an amended complaint by the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) in its suit on behalf of family farmers, s ...
  • Environmental Groups Petition Federal Governme ...
    FDA poised to take action on the first-ever application to market a genetically engineered salmon without adequate consideration of environmental risks and public input Earthjustice, on behalf of Ocean Conservancy, Friends of the Earth, Center for Food Safety, Food & Water Watch, the Center for ...
  • CA GE Fish Labeling Bill Held
    Today, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) was informed by Assemblymember Huffman’s office that they have decided to hold AB 88—the California bill which would require that all genetically engineered (GE) fish sold in California contain clear and prominent labeling—as a 2-year bill. This means it w ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • American Indian "Jimbo" Simmons Gaza Flotilla ...
    Gilad Atzmon - Writings - American Indian "Jimbo" Simmons Gaza Flotilla Interview 
  • Two weeks ahead of release, jailed editor sudd ...
    Two weeks ahead of release, jailed editor suddenly facing possible death penalty or life imprisonment - Reporters Without Borders Reporters Without Borders is extremely disturbed by the Sudanese justice system’s decision to keep Abuzar Ali Al-Amin, the deputy editor of the opposition daily Rai A ...
  • Repressing Support For Palestine’s Basic Human ...
    By TheAngryindian -�06.30.2011 Editor's Note: As a supplement to the material raised in this editorial, please review,�Google Warns of Escalating Web Censorship - Mobiledia,�How Israeli hasbara�works - Blog - The Arabist�and,�Spying On Juan Cole | ThinkProgress �Be nice to the whites, ...
  • A Memo For Zionists
    A Memo For Zionists: To: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu From: Jackie Muhammad Re: Your Washington, D.C. Meeting With President Obama (FinalCall.com) - Twenty seven years ago the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan said, “Now that nation called Israel never has had any peace in 40 years and y ...
  • Is Greece Being Blackmailed to Put the Brakes ...
    Is Greece Being Blackmailed to Put the Brakes on Gaza Flotilla? | Common Dreams by Medea Benjamin The 50 passengers and crew on the U.S. boat to Gaza have converged in Athens, Greece, ready to head out to sea to join an international fleet of ships that will challenge the Israeli-imposed naval ...

Pensieve

  • For Everyone Else…there’s Wikileaks
    What Does it Cost to Change the World? from WikiLeaks on Vimeo. The ingenious ad above highlights the plight of Wikileaks after the US Government either directly, or indirectly, pressured businesses like PayPal and MasterCard to block all their donations. The US and other secretive nations despi ...
  • Mountains of Santa Catarina
    I am working at a factory well outside of Monterrey, which is backed by some of the most amazing mountains I have ever seen. Devoid of trees because of lack of moisture, they show the tortured formations of the earth that thrust them up. Lit by a setting sun after a summer shower, they were [... ...
  • TS Arlene Threatens Mexico
    A year after Hurricane Alex slammed into Monterrey, bringing torrential rains in its wake, Tropical Storm Arlene, the first Atlantic tropical storm of 2011, threatens to do the same. We are currently in drought conditions, so a bit of rain will do us good. But, too much could be very damaging to ...
  • A tree in a stone
    This is a video I took last saturday at La Estanzuela natural park, my favorite park in Monterrey. I figured that with all the negative publicity lately about violence in La Estanzuela, we might need something peaceful to counteract it. Related posts:La Estanzuela Peaceful Violence and Mel’s Sai ...
  • Pine Cones [Flickr]
    aaronernestoortizlopez posted a photo:

Green Times

  • The Freedom Tower
    The Freedom Tower, an example of ecology After the September 11 disaster, New York and its ambassadors wanted to create new buildings with sustainable architecture (glossary/categories/housing-building/sustainable-architecture.html). A beautiful way to pay tribute to the victims, these building ...
  • Environmental News 29/06/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Environmental News 28/06/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • You and yourself
      Just like your body, your soul needs to be fed. You can train your mind and cultivate an calm state internal just by practicing some activities like yoga, martial arts or just by doing a retreat in an amazingly wild environment. Moreover, meditation (lifestyle/meditation.html ) develops hu ...
  • Give Earth a Hand
    Watch. Be Aware. And Lend a Hand. Such a beautiful illustration of what many hands can do – and NO WORK involved! :) Watch. Be Aware. And Lend a Hand. In order to ensure environmental preservation, check out the Non Profit Organisations in the Green Times Business Directory.

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Following Barrier’s Rerouting, Residents ...
    From the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee VIdeo of the victory celebrations, warning contains LOTS of car honking! This Friday, as part of the weekly demonstration, residents of Bil’in will commence the construction of a new neighborhood of the village, ‘Bil’in West”, on lands returned to ...
  • Susya Creative and Learning Center: 1st Annive ...
    On Saturday, May 28th, 2011, a celebration was held at the Palestinian village of Susya to mark the frist anniversary of the Susya Creative and Learning Center’s activity. Four hundred guests took part in the festivities – half of them Palestinians from Susya and the area, and the others – Israe ...
  • A bad day for Israeli democracy
    Coalition of Women for Peace, whose campaign we have featured before on this site, have a new video, and sadly, a new update on the progress of the “Boycott Bill” working its way through the Israeli Knesset. H/t to ACRI for the blog title, it came from the subject line of their email alerting us ...
  • Schivone: A Moment Before Boarding the Next Fl ...
    Crossposted from Ha’aretz A moment before boarding the next flotilla Iâd rather use my influence and power, in concert with other members of American civil society, to actively and nonviolently resist policies I consider abominable. By Gabriel Matthew Schivone You might wonder what would ...
  • Bil’in VIllagers to move the wall themselves
    After the Israeli military finally began to move the wall after a Supreme Court decision and 2 years of protest, the village of Bil’in will take matters into their own hands again tomorrow. Popular Struggle has the information on the protest here. Bil’in Demonstrators to Take Down the Wall ...

Politics in the Zeros

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • U.S. caught China buying more debt than disclosed
    NEW YORK (Reuters) – The rules of Treasury auctions may not sound like the stuff of high-stakes diplomacy. But a little-noticed 2009 change in how Washington sells its debt sheds new light on America’s delicate balancing act with its biggest creditor, China. When the Treasury Department revamped ...
  • Bahrain to citizens living abroad: Spy on coun ...
    LONDON â Bahrainis living abroad have been ordered to spy on their countrymen in the wake of a deadly crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators. Documents containing “loyalty pledges” â which also require expats to promise they will not protest against the tiny Gulf state’s government â have been ...
  • Minnesota government shuts down
    MINNEAPOLIS – Minnesotaâs state government began a broad shut down Friday going into the July 4 holiday after Democratic Governor Mark Dayton and Republican legislative leaders failed to reach a budget deal. Parts of the government had already begun to shut down on Thursday ahead of the midnight ...
  • SWAT Team Honored For Raiding Wrong House?
  • Zombie Americans have forgotten why 4th of Jul ...
    Mark Dice talks with beachgoers in San Diego, California to ask them why the 4th of July holiday was started. Many of them have no clue at all and simply agree with him when he insinuates blatantly false explanations. Check out Mark’s new book Big Brother: The Orwellian Nightmare Come True on Am ...

The Air Vent

  • Skeptics are the Educated
    An interesting post at Judith Curry’s blog links to a paper by Dan Kahan and an article at DeSmog blog.   Sadly, skeptics actually are rational people, who actually understand science.  What’s worse, the more people understand, the more likely they are to be skeptical!  Apparently the reader ...
  • Roy Spencer, Missing Heat
    This is a very interesting post by Dr. Roy Spencer on the failure of the ocean to warm according to models, more misleading by the IPCC of that failure, and a simple powerful demonstration which shows where models likely go wrong. It definitely deserves more attention. The result – a greatly red ...
  • What I learned
    I doubt I will spend much time on this paper life is short and you have to pick and chose what you will spend your time on.  The thing is complete bunk in my opinion and I can’t believe it was published, but that is what some of the dark corners of climatology bring us [...]
  • Silly Money, Green Stew
    The mindless will do anything to go green.  It doesn’t matter one bit how little financial sense it makes.  It doesn’t matter that peoples lives are destroyed, its for the better, because they say it is.  The article linked is actually about destroying farmers in favor of disrupting birds, bu ...
  • The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
    Lubos Motl has an interesting and well written post on the recent supreme court CO2 decision.  He looks at it from the angle of how a government should function and the constant pressures faced to hold the outside influence of groups with an agenda  from corrupting it to a narrow minded advantage.

Focal Point

  • Thankfully, Self-Immolater Thomas Ball Didn't ...
    Immolating yourself on the courthouse steps to underscore your belief that you were wrongfully separated from your wife and denied custody of your children is the ultimate self-refutation. Especially if your posthumously published terrorist manifesto incites others to torch police stations and ...
  • Photos of Historic NYC Pride March
    The 31st annual New York City Pride March was held just two days after Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill making New York the sixth and largest state to achieve equal marriage. The firs marriage licenses for same-sex couples will be available on July 24. Sex advice columnist Dan Savage and husban ...
  • New York Gay Rights Disco Rock Mash-Up
    Last night, an equal marriage bill passed the New York State Senate and was signed into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo. New York has become the sixth, and largest, state to achieve equal marriage. This is the first time in U.S. history that equal marriage has been ratified by a Republican-contro ...
  • Jack Shafer, Jose Antonio Vargas, and Terrible ...
    In his recent essay, "My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant," star reporter Jose Antonio Vargas recalls being sent to the U.S. at the age of 12 to live with his grandparents, naturalized American citizens. He says he thought he was a legal immigrant until the DMV rejected his application for a ...
  • The Twisted Logic of the John Edwards Prosecution
    If the prosecution of John Edwards for campaign finance violations were to succeed, it would set a bizarre precedent. [Photo credit: IowaPolitics.com, Creative Commons.]Read More

Inside Facebook

  • Dating, Photos, Chat and More on This Week’s T ...
    Applications on our list of the fastest growing emerging apps by monthly active users this week revolved mostly around photos, although there was also a video, chat and Page admin app. The apps on our list grew from between 119,600 and 551,900 MAU, based on AppData, our data tracking service cov ...
  • How Top Brands Conduct Ecommerce on Facebook: ...
    Brands can use ecommerce storefront apps to sell products directly from their Facebook Pages. Some apps allow customers to checkout without having to leave Facebook, while others let them complete the transaction on a brand’s website. Brands can direct users away from their Page to a dedicated F ...
  • Facebook for iPhone 3.4.3 Can Display Menu in ...
    Facebook released v3.4.3 of its Facebook for iPhone native mobile app yesterday. Though the release notes only list “Various bug fixes” and “Improved security”, we’ve discovered the update permits users to view the navigation menu in landscape mode. As many of the app’s features could already r ...
  • Facebook Careers Postings: Finance, Communicat ...
    Facebook began a search for a Head of Finance in its Brazil office, as well as a Head of Marketing Communications for Norther America. Other jobs posted to the company’s Careers Page and LinkedIn feed include account management, technical positions, business jobs, and attorneys across its Unit ...
  • Facebook Hires and Departures: Hong Kong, Recr ...
    Facebook continued to hire its interns this week, as we saw from the company’s LinkedIn feed, and according to its Careers Page, recruiting, sales, business and analyst operations were being hired, along with data center staff. New hires per LinkedIn and Other Sources: Dereck Quock, Application ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • A "responsible end" in Afghanistan?
    As the USA begins its gradual troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, Lawrence Davidson reflects on how the failure to learn the lessons of history, and an absence of executive and legislative accountability rooted in the American public's disinterest in politics and foreign policy, have led to more ...
  • The great bank giveaway bribe: Britain’s deput ...
    Christopher King condemns UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg’s proposal to give away nationalized bank shares for free and argues that the two banks in question, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds, "should form the core of a new mutually-owned banking system designed to support British domes ...
  • Israel's contempt for Law of the Seas - and EU ...
    Stuart Littlewood highlights the European Union's willful failure to protect the citizens of its member states in the face of Israel's explicit threat to murder humanitarian workers planning to take part in the upcoming aid flotilla to Gaza.
  • Archbishop of Canterbury reprimanded by angry ...
    Stuart Littlewood views Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams's failure to acknowledge the role played by Israel's occupation in the haemorrhaging of Christian populations from the Holy Land and recalls previous occasions where the archbishop behaved as if he were "a closet Zionist like so man ...
  • The Palestinian Authority’s historic mistake - ...
    Jeff Halper calls on Palestinian Authority leaders, foremost Mahmoud Abbas, to honour their historic national responsibility, mobilize the immense resources of Palestinian and world civil society and push for UN recognition of Palestinian independence in September "as the head of a national unit ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • The Tentacles of Megas: Reaching from the Gove ...
    Who Controls Who with What The mega billionaires of the mega corporations directly influence and control the mega public servants – think from presidents down to presidentsâ appointees. Some aptly refer to these âmegasâ collectively as the shadow government. The mega billionaires of the mega cor ...
  • Tax-Free Corporate- Foundations: Vehicles for ...
    Author, researcher and Global Research associate Andrew Gavin Marshall joins James Corbett to discuss the American robber barons of the 19th century and how they used tax-free foundations as a vehicle for transforming their vast fortunes into political and social control. You can listen to this ...
  • A New Documentary: The Terror Within
    A new documentary film regarding whistleblower Julia Davis, who worked as a federal officer with the Department of Homeland Security: The Terror Within “The Terror Within” details the unprecedented magnitude of retaliation and abuses of the PATRIOT Act in the case of Julia Davis. The documentary ...
  • The Centralized- Controlled Dissent & Grassroo ...
    The Upcoming Corporate-Foundations & Watch-Dogs Turned Lapdogs Series In 2006 I made and announced a decision. I was not going to expand and institutionalize my National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC); we were not going to raise a single dollar from foundations, that is, corporate fou ...
  • Jamiol Presents

Afro Spear

  • the Lupe Fiasco fiasco
    “My fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama in the United States of America. I’m trying to fight the terrorism that’s actually causing the other forms of terrorism. You know, the root cause of terrorism is the stuff the U.S. government allows to happen. The foreign policie ...
  • A Sunday Sermon
  • sat’day riddymz
    WOW!! It’s hard to fathom that it’s been 2 years ago today already that MJ died. I for one have come to appreciate his music more and more.
  • Voodoo and Vaccines in Benin, Africa
    One.org: Save 4 million children’s lives in 5 years
  • Father’s Day Medley
    1. Far Better Men Than I: My Vision for My Sons  2. My Contribution to Society 3. We Were Once Kings 4. Sunday Chat with Dad 5. Call to Fatherhood 6. Rebirth of a Cool Dad 7. The Trials of Single Fatherhood

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

  • How language connects and resolves conflict
    By: JohnKinyon Dear Ode readers, I want to share with you a language of connection for resolving conflicts. I have found it leads to clarity, ease and effectiveness, in work and personal life. It is not a foreign language, but a human language. It helps u ...
  • Radiant health and peace in São Paulo, Brazil
    By: PeaceCorso Ernest Holmes, the founder of Religious Science, wrote in his seminal book, The Science of Mind, "If we wish to come to the Spirit for the healing of our wounds, let us come in peace and with spontaneous joy, for the Spirit is joy." It is wi ...
  • How loss relates to success and happiness
    By: Charlie_Badenhop I was sitting around having dinner with a few friends, about a month after the big earthquake and tsunami up north of Tokyo. "Now is the time for the Japanese people to show their true spirit," Suzuki-san said. "You never really know t ...
  • Creating work that feeds the planet
    By: greentarra "Our calling is where our deepest gladness and the world’s hunger meet." Frederick Buechner, theologian Do you feel a calling to create meaningful work that feeds your soul and the planet? There is no greater legacy than sharing your unique ...
  • Choosing happiness over unhappiness
    By: ruchiraa The other day I came across the quotation, "Happiness is a state of mind." Though I agree, I think it is a state of mind that needs to be fed and nurtured regularly. After all, we are human beings and thus have feelings that tend to fluctuate. Some ...

OpEd News

Switchboard

  • ARB Announces Plans to Require Major Industria ...
    Devra Wang, Director, California Energy Program, San Francisco At a California Senate oversight hearing yesterday called by Senator Pavley, a joint author of the state’s landmark Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32), Air Resources Board Chairman N ...
  • A sign that walkers and cyclists need more respect
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities & Smart Growth, Washington, DC �� (Since the first person I showed this to failed to get the point, I'll add that this is a swampy part of Florida where certain kinds of critters do abound.) Thank ...
  • Hold your horses: fracking in NYS is still und ...
    Kate Sinding, Senior Attorney, New York City Rumors have been swirling today that New York is lifting its moratorium on new fracking in the Marcellus Shale.  Here’s the reality: the de facto moratorium that has been in place since the summer of 20 ...
  • Fight to Block San Diego Riverfront Landfill C ...
    Damon Nagami, Staff Attorney, Santa Monica The fight to stop the proposed Gregory Canyon Landfill in northern San Diego County continued Monday night with a raucous public meeting in Fallbrook held by California’s Department of Resources Recycling ...
  • Plans to Repeal the Clean Water Act
    Scott Slesinger, Legislative Director, Washington, DC As a young EPA staffer, I worked with the congressional committee staffs on what is properly entitled the “Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1977 [Commonly Referred to as the Clean Water A ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Ce N’est Pas Duke
    Col. Mustard — in a post entitled “How do you say âDuke Lacrosseâ in French? âDominique Strauss-Kahnâ” — claims vindication for views he previously expressed with silence: If you noticed, when Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested for the alleged sexual assault on a maid at a hotel in New York, I ...
  • We Can’t Look Weak in Front of the Frenc ...
    DSK case collapses, apparently. See Jeralyn and Emptywheel. Some thoughts: When the news broke last night there was a brief spasm of NYT blaming, comparing the linked article to a similar article about William Kennedy Smith’s accuser. However, the NYT article in this case relies mostly on leaks ...
  • The Mixteca and Romanticizing Rural Poverty
    The photographer Matt Black has a gallery up at Guernica featuring his photos of the Mixteca, an indigenous region of Oaxaca in southern Mexico. I’d place an example or two up here but copying the photos is seemingly not allowed. Black says this about his photos: Over the past decade, I have tra ...
  • Andrew Cuomo is Horrible
    Despite Andrew Cuomo’s admirable push for gay marriage, he is a horrible governor. As a “Democrat,” Cuomo has declared war on unions, on the environment, and on everything Democrats theoretically stand for, outside of gay marriage. And again, while his stance on that single issue is to his signi ...
  • Short-Sighted Energy Companies
    I have long had tremendous difficulty understanding the opposition of fossil fuel companies to new fuel technologies. For instance: The oil and gas industry gave astrophysicist Willie Soon more than $1 million over the past decade to fund publications that challenge man-made climate change, acco ...

Desert Research Institute

  • In Memoriam: DRI President Dr. James V. Taranik
    President of DRI in 1987, Dr. James V. Taranik was internationally known for his research in aerospace remote sensing, and his professional career had already included senior positions with NASA, the U.S. Department of the Interior, the Iowa Geological Survey, and the University of Iowa.
  • DRI Researcher Earns Grant to Study the Season ...
    A DRI researcher will lead a team that is heading to Antarctica to study the molecular biology, and evolution of microscopic organisms.
  • 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.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Prosecutor in notable FCPA case moves to Paul ...
    Bruce Searby, the lead federal prosecutor in Los Angeles who obtained a conviction against a Hollywood film producer and his wife in a closely watched Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case, has joined Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison's Washington office as a litigation partner.
  • Alarm over ABA study of online advertising pro ...
    The ABA's Commission on Ethics 20/20 caused a minor stir last fall when it launched a study into the ethics of online client development tools including Facebook.
  • 1st Circuit allows inmate's case against physi ...
    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit has issued a split ruling in a case brought by a Maine jail inmate claiming an Eighth Amendment violation over being denied HIV drugs for 22 months.
  • Toyota enlists Boutrous in its appeal of class ...
    Theodore Boutrous, coming off a significant U.S. Supreme Court victory for Wal-Mart, has joined the legal team of Toyota Motor Corp., which simultaneously announced plans to pursue the appeal of a ruling affecting class actions in the sudden acceleration litigation.
  • Sentencing Commission approves retroactive cra ...
    Tens of thousands of federal prisoners could be released early from custody following a decision Thursday to retroactively apply crack cocaine sentencing guidelines that would reduce sentences for certain offenders.

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

  • Critically Acclaimed Local News Receives 8 Emm ...
    The 63rd Annual Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards will be held August 6, 2011 at The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in North Hollywood. SoCal Connected previously won six Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards during its first season in 2009.
  • Cantaloupe and Garlic Featured as Fruit and Ve ...
    Fruits & Veggies-More Matters Offers Recipes and Tips to Show Moms it's Easy to Include More
  • Astronomers Discover Distant Galaxies Grazed O ...
    Chary is the principal investigator of the research appearing in the Aug. 1 issue of the Astrophysical Journal. According to his findings, these grazing galaxies fed steadily over periods of hundreds of millions of years and created an unusual amoun
  • Women Continue to Drive Democratic Change and ...
    She said the United States is elevating civilian security-and the role of women in security- in their own foreign policy. She said women figure largely in the equation to peace and security.
  • Secretary Clinton To Honor 37 TechWomen From M ...
    TechWomen, which Secretary Clinton first announced during the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship in the spring of 2010, brought 37 women from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, and the Palestinian Territories to the United States for a f

environment 360

  • New Database of Plant Traits Emerges as Tool i ...
    A consortium of scientists has compiled a database that categorizes millions of traits for nearly a quarter of the world’s plant species, a resource they say will help researchers more accurately model the effects of climate change in different environments. The project, known as TRY, has so far ...
  • Nearly 10 Percent of Fish Caught for Study Con ...
    Nearly 1 in 10 fish collected in the Pacific Ocean during a recent study contained plastic debris, in what researchers call troubling evidence of the significant amount of plastic entering the food chain. The study, Scripps InstitutionTwo lanternfish and plastic debris collected in study condu ...
  • Major Fuel Economy Boost Envisioned by Obama A ...
    The Obama administration is considering a new fuel economy standard that would require cars and light trucks to achieve an average of 56.2 miles per gallon by 2025, an ambitious target that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions but drive up the cost of automobiles. While still a starting point i ...
  • Tasmanian Devil Epidemic Linked to Human Distu ...
    A mysterious cancer epidemic that is wiping out populations of the Tasmanian devil is largely the result of low genetic diversity caused by human interference, according to a new study. Using genetic sequencing, View photos DPIW/TasmaniaTasmanian devils’ facial tumor epidemic researchers determ ...
  • A World Centered on Sea Ice Is Changing Swiftl ...
    For eons, the polar marine food chain has been closely linked to the seasonal formation and retreat of sea ice. Now, as that ice rapidly melts in the Arctic and along the Antarctic Peninsula, this intricate web of life is undergoing major shifts, benefiting some creatures and putting others at r ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Mirage "City" Mysteriously Appears in China - ...
    ITN, a broadcast network in Britain, posted video last week of a stunning mirage in East China that features a city skyline, replete with what appear to be buildings and trees.Video-curation site Devour.com writes the mirage appeared over the Xin'an River in East China. ITN is the only news netw ...
  • Psychopaths Run The World
    Although Sigmund Freud introduced the world to the word psychopath in his book Psychopathology of Everyday Life, published in 1901, it wouldn't be until forty years later that a true definition of psychopathology was developed to include the personality type of psychopath: a scientific understan ...
  • Humans May Have ’Magnetic’ Sixth Sense
    Humans may have a sixth sense after all, suggests a new study finding that a protein in the human retina, when placed into fruit flies, has the ability to detect magnetic fields. The researchers caution that the results suggest this human protein has the capability to work as a magnetosensor; ho ...
  • Second HongKong child dies of mutated scarlet ...
    A mutated strain of scarlet fever more resistant to antibiotics has killed a second child in Hong Kong, the first deaths from the illness in the southern Chinese city in at least a decade. Certain characteristics of the new strain likely make it more contagious, and it may be responsible for an ...
  • Magnitude-6.7 quake hits Japan (June 23, 2011)
    A magnitude-6.7 earthquake rattled northeast Japan on Thursday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. It was the same area of the Pacific where a massive magnitude 9 quake hit on March 11, triggering a deadly tsunami. At least 23,000 people were killed or left missing in those disasters, ...

Russia Today

  • Strauss-Kahn released as case collapses
    Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s bail arrangement has been reviewed by the New York court as the witnesses’ credibility was ruined over her alleged involvement with organized crime. Strauss-Kahn was released on his own...
  • Dozens of militants find way into Russia
    Dozens of militants have reportedly crossed Russia's border with Georgia into the North Caucasus. This comes as Russian officials warn of an ongoing terrorist surge in the country.
  • France sees nothing wrong in supplying weapons ...
    France's foreign minister has defended the decision to supply arms to the Libyan rebels, saying they were for civilian “self-defense”. Meanwhile, Moscow has raised concerns over the ambiguity of the UN Security Council...
  • Birthday party for world’s largest party
    China is celebrating the 90th birthday of its ruling Communist Party. President Hu Jintao praised the party's achievements while in power, turning the nation it rules from a backward, mistreated regional also-ran into a...
  • US: inspiring attacks from within
    Three men convicted of trying to blow up synagogues in New York have each been sentenced to 25 years in prison. But the case has raised allegations of entrapment, after they were actually incited by the FBI, and handed...

Not My Tribe

  • Banner day for IMF: enslaves Greece, blocks Fl ...
    JULY 1, 2011- US Boat THE AUDACITY OF HOPE defies Greek Authorities, immediately blocked. Shortly after this photo was taken, the Audacity of Hope was surrounded by Greek coast guard ships, blocked by the same government that just voted twice against the will of its own people.
  • Irish MV Saoirse becomes 2nd victim of sabotag ...
    So how do nonviolent, unarmed humanitarian activists protect themselves from weapons-wielding attackers? Not very well.   But they don’t have to. Afterward, they don’t even point a finger. And it’s working. Via too many flat screens to stop, the world audience sees that Israel will stop at nothi ...
  • ACLU and Shepard Fairey drape Lady Liberty in ...
    Is “Freedom” the same thing as Liberty? Let’s see, ACFU? It has a different ring to it.   The American Civil Liberties Union commissioned this fundraising magnet from one-note, halftone-deaf Obamartist Shepard Fairey, but somebody confused this for a Department Of Defense contract. “Leading Free ...
  • First look! US Boat to Gaza, Flotilla II block ...
    Democracy Now Producer Aaron Maté took a quick photo of the American boat scheduled shortly to sail with the upcoming aid flotilla to Gaza. How will President Obama respond to an effort named after his presidential campaign bestseller Audacity Of Hope? I’d suggest, by renaming his book, which h ...
  • IDF’s Old Testament Anarchist Bible: sul ...
    FOR HOW-TO FANS: Israel’s IDF says sulfur can be poured unto its soldiers to immobilize them, even used “to light them up like human torches” supposedly. Uh, sounds promising. References please? The Old Testament of course, nothing less than the old fire and brimstone, I kid you not. The IDF is ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • JFK 1991 - Jim Garrison's Closing Argument
    Nothing has changed. The JFK assassination, like other exposed Government conspiracies, has two aspects to it that should (but doesn't) wake up even the most hardcore cool-aid drinkers. The first is the highly improbable and/or physical impossibility of the official story while the second i ...
  • RIBA, AIA and Aaronovitch attack Gage
    It seems the heads of the Britain and America's top architectural organizations are annoyed that Gage got to talk at the Royal Institute of British Architects, accusing him of using RIBA's name to give credibility to a 'bonkers' conspiracy theory. The Randi-crowd are of course using this fact to ...
  • A Peer-Reviewed Deception
    It's been ages since I last made one of my trademark compilation videos. Work and shit has been getting in the way. For months I was working on a video that was kind of a general scientific truth video that had a section on 9/11 forensics, a section on climate change, a section on vaccines, a ...
  • It Ain't No White Paper Because It's Been Debu ...
    In a post entitled "Hell No I Ain't Reading No White Paper!," James Bennett of the Screw Loose Change blog writes: Most of this interview that Richard Gage does for Skeptical Inquirer magazine isn't that interesting, and good deal is completely unintelligible, but I found the bit in the middle ...
  • Debunking Jonathan Kay, his book Among the Tru ...
    Updated 6-16-11 Thanks to James Hufferd of 911grassroots.org for assisting me with some research for this article. James recently responded to Kay's book, to which Kay retorted, and this is my end-all be-all response to Kay. In Frank Moher's review of National Post writer Jonathan Kay's new ...

Fooducate

  • Third-Party Verifiers: Your Grocery Shopping S ...
    This is a guest blog post by Kirsten L. Grieshaber. You are in the grocery store getting the goods for this weekendâs backyard barby and its time to pick up the ground beef.  As a careful shopper, you know the wise move is to go for the brand with the lowest price, right?  Oooh…time out. [...]
  • Sweet Corn is a Stellar Snack
    This is a guest post by Lisa Cain, PhD, a.k.a Snack-Girl Don’t tell me you haven’t noticed the piles of corn at the front of your local grocery store. The stacks of 10 ears for $2 are calling Snack Girl. Sweet corn, sometimes called a vegetable (and always called a grain) is a great source [...]
  • Over 25% of Our Daily Calories Come from Snacks
    This is not surprising. The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) released a report last week depicting America’s snacking habits. Between 1977 and 2006, snacking in the American diet has grown to constitute “a full eating event,” or a fourth meal, averaging about 580 calories each day, said Ric ...
  • Fooducate iPhone App v 1.6: Browse Top Rating ...
    Weâve just released version 1.4 of the Fooducate iPhone App, and weâre really excited. Most of the features here are based on your requests: Browse products by category – you can now browse for products by categories (cereal, yogurt, pickles, etc..). Tap “browse” at the bottom of the scan screen ...
  • Jack in the Box Drops Toys from Kiddie Menu
    Something good is happening in the fast food industry. (That doesn’t happen very often, as followers of the Fooducate blog know.) Jack in the Box, the 5th largest burger chain in the country, announced that it has stopped packing toys with their kiddie meals. What you need to know: If you recall ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Nharo Bushman face eviction tomorrow
    Bushman woman, CKGR, Botswana 2004 © Stephen Corry/Survival Nharo Bushmen in south-west Botswana will be forcefully evicted from their land tomorrow, according to national newspaper The Voice. The Bushmen have vowed to resist eviction from their homes in Xanagas, Kgalagadi District. One ...
  • Case against Amazon Indian leader ‘closed’
    Indigenous rights leader and AIDESEP president, Alberto Pizango. © AIDESEP A two-year legal case against the leader of Peru’s Amazon Indian organisation has been shelved. Alberto Pizango was forced into exile following violent clashes between indigenous protesters and police in June 2 ...
  • Bushmen boycott census
    Bushman, Molathwe Mokalake in the New Xade, Botswana. © Dominick Tyler/Survival Bushmen in Botswana have announced plans to boycott the national census in protest against the governmentâs refusal to provide them with a polling station during the last elections. More than 400 Bushman were ...
  • Sonia Gandhi stands up for endangered Andaman ...
    Jarawa woman returning to her forest after gathering food on the edges of the Jarawa reserve. © Survival Sonia Gandhi, President of India’s ruling Congress party, has strongly backed the right of the isolated Jarawa tribe not to be forced into the ‘mainstream’. Mrs Gandhi, named by Forbes ...
  • Epidemic strikes Amazon nomads
    Nukak woman in refugee camp near San José, Colombia. © David Hill/Survival An outbreak of respiratory disease has struck one of the Amazon’s last nomadic tribes â whose numbers have already been decimated by flu and malaria. Around 35 Nukak-Maku, including nine children, have been admitt ...

Greg Palast

  • Drowning Fish?
    by Greg Palast June 30th, 2011 July 3 would have been my parents' 67th Anniversary. 67 years. Maybe it was the triumph of Hope over Reality (still have that Obama 2008 poster?). Or maybe something else, something that those of us who haven't walked that far down the path can't imagine. My D ...
  • Ce soir ! Achtung! BP en eaux troubles + Die B ...
    Tonight! 28 June. On ARTE, in French and German — in France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Holland and (check listing for French Canada) … BP: In Deep Water — The first of Greg Palast’s investigative reports on BP, the Bribery & Pollution company masquerading as an oil company. La M ...
  • Strauss-Kahn Screws Africa
    by Greg Palast for The Guardian Now that I've dispensed with the obvious and obnoxious teaser headline, let's drop the towel and expose Dominique Strauss-Kahn's history of arrogant abuse. The truth is, the grandee of the IMF has molested Africans for years. On Wednesday, the New York Times r ...
  • So, Osama walks into this bar...
    by Greg Palast from Armed Madhouse: just so we don't forget... So, Osama walks into this bar, see? And Bush says, “Whad’l’ya have, pardner?” and Osama says... ...But wait a minute. I’d better shut my mouth. The sign here in the airport says, “Security is no joking matter.” But if security’ ...
  • BP's Secret Deepwater Blowout
    by Greg Palast exclusive for Truthout/Buzzflash Greg Palast investigating BP's blowout in the Caspian, Baku, Azerbaijan 2010. Only 17 months before BP's Deepwater Horizon rig suffered a deadly blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, another BP deepwater oil platform also blew out. You've heard and se ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle door handles/door k ...
    We’ve had an email from Jill: The last people who lived in our house were obsessed with those naff fake gold handles. We’ve just changed them all out but now have a stash of really ugly handles. Can they be recycled? They probably can be recycled with normal metal scrap – I’m not sure what [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle personalised weddin ...
    We’ve had an email from Rosey: We just got married (yay!) and while we tried to keep the waste to a minimum, we have ended up with about 100 personalised wedding cake boxes leftover. Not sure how that happened! They’re just card but I’d like to reuse them anyway but didn’t know what to do [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle a chicken carcass a ...
    We’ve started getting a meat box delivery from Swillington Farm – a local organic farm. All the meat is organic, the animals have been treated well during their lives and the food miles are very low — in fact for the chicken we had over the weekend, the only food miles were the ones delivering [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle plastic shipping/ma ...
    Kayci has emailed: First off, I absolutely love your website and all the nifty and creative ideas your community finds. Now for a confession: I am a bookworm. I typically go through 100+ novels a year without breaking a sweat. In an effort to try and green up my hobbies I’ve stopped going to the ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle big plastic (animal ...
    Over on the Suggest an Item page, Emily asked: Would anybody have any ideas for reusing the bags that stock feed comes in? They are some sort of plastic and not recycleable. Funnily enough, I had this on my to-do list already as I’m starting to be overrun with the things too – and I’ve [...]

Age of Autism

  • Hilary Butler on Unanswered Questions about He ...
    Part 1 of 3. Unanswered questions about the Hepatitis B vaccine Hilary Butler - Monday, June 27, 2011 In the early 1990s, the American National Institute of Medicine (IOM) was mandated to enquire into the safety of childhood vaccines. At...
  • Cleveland Autism Conference 7/22 - 23 Just $75 ...
    Kim here. I'll be speaking in Cleveland, Ohio on Friday July 22nd. Our wonderful sponsor Lee Silsby Compounding Pharmacy is sponsoring this conference from AMAB on July 22 and 23 in Independence, Ohio, just minutes from downtown Cleveland. Speakers include...
  • “Dirty Medicine: The Handbook”: Martin J Walke ...
    By John Stone Order Dirty Medicine: The Handbook Today! This is Martin Walker at his best: an indispensible, witty, idiosyncratic guide to the dirty world of the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, and an anatomy of how their tentacles reach into...
  • Canadian Government Takes Girl with Autism Awa ...
    By Kent Heckenlively, Esq. It's a nightmare many autism parents fear. Not only do you live with the daily challenge of a child with autism, but you wonder what might happen if the government wanted to take your child away....
  • Autism Linked to IT Regions?
    By Dr Lorene Amet DEA, DipBiotechnol, D Phil, MEd Simon Baron-Cohen from Cambridge University has a long-standing interest in demonstrating that Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC) are more prevalent in populations presenting with high systemizing skills. These are people who like...

Global BDS Movement

  • Map test
    View Global BDS Day of Action 2011 in a larger map
  • BDS campaigners force Ahava shop to move
      The central London flagship store of Ahava, an Israeli cosmetics company whose products come from stolen Palestinian natural resources in the occupied West Bank, and are produced in the illegal settlement of Mitzpe Shalem, has been forced to move … Continue reading →
  • Rawabi remains settler-colonial sub-contractor
    Uri Davis writes on the ongoing links between the Rawabi project and the Jewish National Fund.
  • Stop the Wall release new report on Brazil’s m ...
    Notwithstanding its recent recognition of the Palestinian State and its long tradition of supporting Palestinian rights and upholding international law, the Brazilian government has signed contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars with Israel’s arms industry.
  • Trade Unions
    The global trade union movement has consistently demonstrated its courage and commitment to human rights by adopting concrete, ground-breaking labour-led sanctions against oppressive regimes in a show of effective solidarity with oppressed peoples around the world. Adopting BDS measures has … Co ...

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Greeks protest new austerity measures
    PressTV – On the second day of the 48-hour general strike by the Greek unions, demonstrators have gathered outside the parliament in Athens to protest approval of a second austerity bill. Read article
  • Saudi forces to pull out of Bahrain
    PressTV – Around 1,000 Saudi military and police forces were deployed in Bahrain together with forces from the United Arab Emirates in mid-March. The deployment took place upon Bahrain’s request to help Manama crush the popular revolution it has been facing since mid-February. Read article
  • Iraq rocket attack kills three American soldiers
    Guardian - A rocket attack on a US base near Iraq’s border with Iran has killed three American soldiers, according to an official who blamed the strike on a Shia militia linked to Tehran. The deaths came at the end of the bloodiest month for US troops in Iraq in two years, and with six months [...]
  • Nato reviews Libya campaign after France admit ...
    Guardian - Nato is reviewing the conduct of its military campaign in Libya after France admitted arming rebel fighters in apparent defiance of the UN mandate. The revelation surprised officials in Nato’s headquarters in Brussels and raised awkward questions about whether the French had broken i ...
  • Fire menacing Los Alamos lab nears record size
    Reuters – Firefighters inside a nuclear weapons complex in New Mexico scrambled on Thursday to clear brush near barrels of plutonium-contaminated waste stored just a few miles from a monster blaze roaring through surrounding forests. The so-called Las Conchas Fire has charred nearly 93,000 acres ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Warmer temperatures threaten Northern Californ ...
    In the next 30 years, high-value vineyards in Northern California could shrink by 50% because of global warming, according to a new Stanford University study released Thursday. Applying scenarios from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, scientists used a climate...
  • Pacific Ocean study finds fish tainted by plastic
    Southern California researchers found plastic in nearly 1 in 10 small fish collected in the northern Pacific Ocean in the latest study to call attention to floating marine debris entering the food chain. The study published this week by scientists...
  • Judge rules polar bears still 'threatened'
    A U.S. District Court on Thursday upheld a Bush-era decision that polar bears are a threatened species, despite challenges by the state of Alaska and others seeking to strip the bear of its protection. Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled that the...
  • Van Nuys facility agrees to $100,000 fine
    A Van Nuys metal-plating business has agreed to pay a $100,000 fine to settle charges that it mishandled hazardous waste. Inspectors from the Environmental Protection Agency and Los Angeles County Fire Department found that Crown Chrome Plating, a division of...
  • California delays its carbon trading program f ...
    Facing continued litigation, California officials will delay enforcement of the state's complex carbon trading program until 2013, state Air Resources Board Chairwoman Mary Nichols announced Wednesday. The delay in the cap-and-trade program, which was slated to take effect in January,...

water.org

  • Matt Damon’s bold yet sane plan (Fast Co ...
    Can Matt Damon Bring Clean Water To Africa? (Fast Company) – The inside story of Matt Damon’s bold yet sane plan to use his celebrity and smarts to help attack one of the globe’s great crises. Once upon a time, Matt Damon went for a long walk in rural Zambia. The devoted family man and method [...]
  • Interview with Water.org’s April Rinne (GGT)
    INTERVIEW: Water.Org’s April Rinne (Green Global Travel) – While other charities may have similar goals, Water.org’s WaterCredit program is unique in that it is works in partnership with microfinance institutions to establish markets in which there is fair access to affordable loans for everyone ...
  • You’re Invited: June 1st Conference Call
      Wednesday, June 1 The 45-minute call begins at 9 p.m. ET Call in number: 978-964-0049
 Participant code: 449749# Not everyone who needs water should have to wait for charity to find them. Learn how Water.org is putting microfinance tools and partnerships to use in helping people get safe water ...
  • Brightest students solving the water crisis
    Hult International Business School Global Case Challenge crowd sources solutions to the water crisis with help from the Clinton Global Initiative. Team from Cambridge University wins Case Challenge.
  • Student group Project RightChoice (Dartmouth)
    Student org. hosts fundraising gala (The Dartmouth) – By selling raffle tickets for a $2,500 cash reward and hosting games with prizes from over 50 local business, members of the student group Project RightChoice raised over $20,000 to support the charity organization Water.Org at a Cinco de May ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Israeli Army canât provide me evidence of fl ...
    Despite an apparent lack of evidence, the army's disinformation found its way into top Israeli newspapers through a select group of military correspondents including the Jerusalem Post's Yaakov Katz.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • French senator calls MKs 'colonialists' - Isra ...
    But when French Senator Monique Cerisier Ben Guiga took the stand, later on, she expressed harsh criticism against Israel. She claimed the state was practicing "colonialism" and preventing Gazans from leading normal lives. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Obama Beats Palin In Alaska, Poll Shows
    A new poll shows President Obama beating Mama Grizzly in her homestate. When asked if they preferred Obama or Palin, 42% of responders leaned towards Obama, while only 36% chose Palin. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Joe Stagni, Kenner City Councilman, Apologizes ...
    "I had an inappropriate but consensual relation (sic) with an adult female and we exchanged improper electronic communications which ended (in) 2009," La. City Councilman Joe Stagni said in a statement. What is wrong with these frigging people!Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov' ...
  • Demand Humane Treatment for Gilad Shalit
    This past Saturday marked the fifth year since Gilad was first held in secret detention. As time passes, it's getting more difficult to believe that Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier who was 19 years old when he was captured by armed Palestinian groups...Submitted by Nancy C. to World �|� �Note- ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • Critically Acclaimed Local News Receives 8 Emm ...
    The 63rd Annual Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards will be held August 6, 2011 at The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in North Hollywood. SoCal Connected previously won six Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards during its first season in 2009.
  • Cantaloupe and Garlic Featured as Fruit and Ve ...
    Fruits & Veggies-More Matters Offers Recipes and Tips to Show Moms it's Easy to Include More
  • Astronomers Discover Distant Galaxies Grazed O ...
    Chary is the principal investigator of the research appearing in the Aug. 1 issue of the Astrophysical Journal. According to his findings, these grazing galaxies fed steadily over periods of hundreds of millions of years and created an unusual amoun
  • Women Continue to Drive Democratic Change and ...
    She said the United States is elevating civilian security-and the role of women in security- in their own foreign policy. She said women figure largely in the equation to peace and security.
  • Secretary Clinton To Honor 37 TechWomen From M ...
    TechWomen, which Secretary Clinton first announced during the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship in the spring of 2010, brought 37 women from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, and the Palestinian Territories to the United States for a f

Worldnews

  • Stocks: Investors pause after 4-day rally
    By CNNMoney staff July 1, 2011: 8:29 AM ET Click chart for more premarket data. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- U.S. stocks were set to open the new month on a quiet note Friday, following a week of strong gains, as investors await reports on manufacturing and consumer sentiment. Dow Jones industria ...
  • Chinaâs Hu Warns of Risks as Communist ...
    Beijing. Chinese President Hu Jintao warned the ruling Communist Party faced severe âgrowing painsâ as it turned 90 on Friday and said corruption, and alienation from Chinaâs masses, could erode public support. But in a speech on the anniversary of its 1921 founding, Hu gave no sign that th ...
  • Simple July 4th essential guide: menu, re ...
    July 4th is days away and now is your time to gather up your friends and loved ones for a stress free weekend! No need for hauling out the pots and pans, Independence Day should be grab and go fare. �Pick up foods and beverages that will stay fresh over time and out of your refrigerator. �I ...
  • National Cherry Festival part 1: celebrat ...
    It's National Cherry Festival time and Metro Detroit Whole Foods Market stores are celebrating with their own Cherry Festival event tomorrow, July 2nd at the Ann Arbor and Cranbrook stores. The event runs from 2pm to 6pm and customers can enjoy lots of free samples. On July 8th there will b ...
  • Sharapova's shaky serves reach Wimbledon ...
    WIMBLEDON, England - Maria Sharapova whacked some serves long and blasted others straight into the net, and all too often she did it one after another. It didn't matter much, though, because the fifth-seeded Russian overcame 13 double-faults in a woeful serving display to reach her first Wi ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • Extreme Weather Link 'Can No Longer Be Ignored'
    Scientists are to end their 20-year reluctance to link climate change with extreme weather – the heavy storms, floods and droughts which often fill news bulletins – as part of a radical departure from a previous equivocal position that many now see as increasingly untenable. Climate researchers ...
  • AG Eric Holder Opens CIA Detainee Death Inquiry
    The US is to open criminal inquiries into the deaths of two CIA detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2002 and 2003. Gul Rahman died in November 2002 at a CIA prison in Afghanistan and Manadel al-Jamadi died at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2003, according to reports. Attorney General Eric Holder ...
  • U.S. Floods and Wildfires Trigger New Fears ov ...
    NEW YORK - Just 100 days after a deadly earthquake and tsunami devastated the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, concerns are being raised about several U.S. nuclear stations that are facing natural disasters of their own. rea ...
  • Blocked: US to Gaza Boat Detained After Greek ...
    _________________________________________________ 2:23 PM EDT UPDATE: US Boat to Gaza now detained within barbed wire lined Greek Coast Guard base. "They are letting press off the boat but passengers are kept on board" _________________________________________________ ...
  • Revealed: British Government's PR Campaign to ...
    British government officials approached nuclear companies to draw up a co-ordinated public relations strategy to play down the Fukushima nuclear accident just two days after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and before the extent of the radiation leak was known. ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • UMW: Messaging A Clean-Energy Future
    When it comes to discussing the value and power of a clean-energy future, in a way that touches core values and life-experiences of a good share of Americans, perhaps it is time to think and speak UMW.� No �� not the United Mine Workers.� Instead,� when we think UMW and energy, we should tur ...
  • Study: Miami Has Best C02 Practices, Denver Be ...
    Yesterday, the results of a study conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and commissioned by Siemens was released that assesses and compares 27 major U.S. and Canadian cities on environmental performance and policies across nine categories � CO2 emissions, energy, land use, buildings ...
  • T. Boone Terrorism: Droughts Pit Natural Gas I ...
    Speaking of less water, Travis Waldron has a fine observation on irresponsible action by fossil fuel companies, specifically drillers using Billions of Gallons of Potable Water for fracking. Where? In Drought-Stricken Texas, of course.
  • Innovation through Coordination: DOE Should Cr ...
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  • A Shale Gas Bubble?
    Last weekend the New York Times published a front-page article raising serious questions about the true scale and economics of the production of natural gas from shale, invoking the specter of another asset bubble. To say that this created a buzz would be an understatement.

Green House - USA Today

  • Green House takes brief hiatus
    This Green House community will take a hiatus until August, because its moderator, Wendy Koch, is on medical leave. Please check back in a few weeks for environmental news and updates on her journey in green living.
  • My green house is finally, almost, done
    "It's surreal," my husband Alex said about living in our new home a few days after moving in last month. Indeed, it is. We've nurtured the project so long on paper that actually being inside it felt odd or dream-like.
  • U.S. national parks suffer from climate change ...
    America's national parks are suffering as wildlife such as gray wolves disappears, air quality deteriorates and many waterways are polluted, an upcoming report will reveal.
  • Fastest sea-level rise in 2,100 years linked t ...
    The sea-level is now rising faster along the U.S. Atlantic coast than at any time in the past 2,100 years, and this surge is linked to increasing global temperatures, an international research team reports.
  • Supreme Court backs EPA over states on climate ...
    The Supreme Court unanimously rejected Monday a lawsuit by six states that were suing five major power companies for emitting greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change.

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Gilad Atzmon: Gaza Flotilla vs. Diaspora Jewry
    Gilad Atzmon The Israelis are preparing themselves for another massacre on the high seas. This should not take us by surprise: after all, people who are detached from a true notion of history, and driven by a continuous fantasy of destruction, would be the last to draw a lesson from their past ...
  • Uncle Sam Food History Exhibit Promotes Food C ...
    By Rady Ananda Oh, gag me with a bowl of propaganda. The National Archives is hosting an historical exhibit on government say in what we eat and grow and how to cook it: “What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam: The Government's Effect on the American Diet.” From the opening lines of the website, you know ou ...
  • Afghanistan: Victory in defeat
    Eric Walberg There are many parallels between Vietnam and Afghanistan. The recent American mayors’ resolution to “bring our war $$ home” and Obama’s announcement that troops are now being withdrawn are fresh reminders, but the story they tell is grim. In Baltimore, the nation’s mayors debated ...
  • Israel must stop imprisoning Palestinians with ...
    By Khalid Amayreh For many years now, Israel has been dumping Palestinians behind bars, or sending them to agonize in open-ended detainment in desert detention camps, purely for political reasons. In hundreds of cases, there is absolutely no legal ground, even according to the Israeli mil ...
  • Meaner Tougher IMF with Lagarde
    by Stephen Lendman On June 28, New York Times writer Liz Alderman headlined, "France's Lagarde Named New Head of IMF," saying: She'll assume "one of the most powerful positions in global finance as a worsening crisis in Greece threatens the euro currency union and rattles financial marke ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • BC's unfair tax system means wealthy pay lower ...
    Today the CCPA-BC released a new report that reveals how ten years of tax cuts and changes have created an unfair system in which the wealthy pay lower taxes and the public treasury is starved for funds. Not only are BC's wealthiest 20% of households paying the lowest tax rate, tax cuts have led ...
  • Job posting: Online Communications Officer
    The CCPA National office is seeking an Online Communications Officer to join our communications team in Ottawa to support and expand the CCPA’s ongoing communications and outreach efforts. The deadline for applications is August 19, 2011. Click here for the full job posting.
  • Linda McQuaig in Regina and Saskatoon!
    � Award-winning journalist and best-selling author Linda McQuaig will speak in both�Regina and Saskatoon on Wednesday October 19th and�Thursday October 20th. Linda will discuss her new book, The Trouble with Billionaires, �which critically examines how extremes of wealth undermine both our qua ...
  • Cashing in: Canada’s CEO salary surge
    Maclean's magazine focuses on Canada's highest paid 50 CEOs and finds their take-home pay increases to be "astronomical". Macleans writes: "In the past 12 years, there’s been a 444 per cent salary increase for Canada’s top CEOs." Read more here.
  • Where the millionaires live
    The Globe and Mail created an interesting infographic that breaks down millionaires by where they live in the world. It shows Canada as home to 282,000 millionaires. See it here.

World Wide Hippies

  • All Work and No Pay: The Great Speedup
    By Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery | motherjones.com - You: doing more with less. Corporate profits: up 22 percent. The dirty secret of the jobless recovery. ON A BRIGHT SPRING DAY in a wisteria-bedecked courtyard full of earnest, if half-drunk, conference attendees, we were commiserating wit ...
  • Who’s afraid of the debt? Everyone excep ...
    By John Waggoner, USA TODAY – Every night — sometimes late into the night — worried men and women are talking about how to handle their debts. Those people would be your Congressmen. If Congress doesn’t raise the debt ceiling by August 2, the United States could default on its debt for the first ...
  • Sunrise with Woody: Whale Poop
    Clarence (“Cunt-Hair Clancy”) Thomas’ ethical problems have become quite a fixture in the blog-o-verse, occasioning much comment, and a fair amount of outrage. Most folks (those with brains larger than field-mice) read the catalogue of offenses and demand that this venal, decadent, corrupt, comp ...
  • Summer Re-Runs: A Hippies Guide To The Law of ...
    WWH – Joe will be excerpting his book in this space every Thursday at 12:00 pm (EST). Tune in, turn on, and enjoy the vibes! “If the Law of Attraction, took no Action. We would all be trees.” The Law of Attraction (LOA) has attracted a great deal of controversy. Competing “experts” views have pr ...
  • Aaahhh, the smell of Activism in the morning! ...
    by Martin Moore | PBS – The smell of public activism wafted across this year’s Knight Civic Media conference at MIT. Mohammed Nanabhay from Al Jazeera English (AJE) spoke about how Al Jazeera covered the Egyptian revolution. Political consultant Chris Faulkner spoke about Tea Party activism; Yes ...

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

  • Worldwide Nuclear Industry Woes Deepen
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest post is from OilPrice.com. ——————————– The year 2011 will go down for the nuclear industry worldwide as an annus horribilis. First came the March Fukushima nuclear disaster, with operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) belatedly ...
  • Tapping the SPR: The Root of Dysfunctional Ene ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Falling Into the Trap of Influencing the Crude Oil Markets It seems that nothing quite brings out the silliness in politicians like the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). As you undoubtedly have now heard, the United States and the International Energy Ag ...
  • US, Other Countries Battle OPEC With Release F ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post While Robert continues his trip to Europe and across the Continental U.S., a significant piece of news has been dominating the headlines. Although we’ve been closely monitoring the release of 60 million barrels of crude on our Energy Ticker page, we also w ...
  • Highlights of BP’s 2011 Statistical Review of ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Global Energy Growth BP recently released their highly respected annual Statistical Review of World Energy for 2011. Most of the news stories on the report have focused on the exceptionally strong growth in global energy consumption. While that is without ...
  • Media Misinformation Promotes Dysfunctional En ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Over the years I have had some enlightening interactions with the news media. I have gradually developed the view that many in the media believe their role is more to entertain than to inform. My naive younger self believed that the media generally present ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • Animaps
    Tags: education, resources, maps, socialstudies, googlemapsby: Jackie Gerstein
  • Reading and Writing Transmedia | Digital Is ...
    Comments:"Reading and Writing Transmedia" - Jackie GersteinTags: transmedia, writing, learning, digital_storytellingby: Jackie Gerstein
  • Best content in ISTE 2011 | Diigo Groups
    Comments:Twitter and backchanneling sessions only capture information for finite periods of time. This site will be used to store all of the great links and resources discovered through ISTE 2011 (Jun 26-29, 2011) so you can retrieve them at home. Please join with me and share your favorite link ...
  • Session Description - ISTE 2011 Infographics
    Comments:"Diana Laufenberg " - Jackie GersteinTags: infographics, digitalcitizenship, all_teachersby: Jackie Gerstein
  • Movietools.info - Free Loops Menu
    Comments:Greenscreen background options.  - Dean MantzTags: Movietools.info, free, loops, backgroundsby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

  • Farmer's Markets Innovations Make Healthy Food ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—There's often a throwback feel to farmer's markets, 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 market is a p ...
  • 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 ...
  • Nation's Doctors Want BPA Labeled, and No More ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—As the country's most influential medical society, the American Medical Association (AMA) holds a lot of sway with government officials who decide what is and isn't important when it comes to public health. Last week, the agency concluded its annual House of Delegates me ...
  • Protect Your Pets from Fireworks Phobia and Ot ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PAâFourth of July is one of those holidays that's especially loud and boisterous, thanks in large part to the thundering cracks, booms, and pops of fireworks displays showering over community parks and backyards. While it might be fun for families to watch, enduring a firew ...
  • New Jersey Moves to Ban Fracking, NY Might All ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—The New Jersey legislature this week passed a bill that would ban the natural gas process of hydraulic fracturing, also known as read more

big think

  • Flirting With Default
    As the August 2 deadline approaches, Congress continues to fight over whether and under what conditions to raise the federal debt ceiling. Both Standard and Poor’s and Moody’s have warned that they might reduce the nation’s credit rating—with potentially catastrophic effects—unless progress is m ...
  • Welcome to Book Think!
    A book, any book, is for us a sacred object. Cervantes, who probably did not listen to everything that everyone said, read even “the torn scraps of paper in the streets.” —Jorge Luis Borges, “On the Cult of Books” This blog is for fellow members of the Cult of Books, which I joined as a litt ...
  • Stephen Colbert's Parody PAC Could Have Real I ...
    Comedian Stephen Colbert is satirizing the impact of money in politics by applying to form his very own Super PAC. The comedian submitted a real application and testified before the Federal Elections Commission. Unfortunately, some campaign finance reform activists worry that the joke will get o ...
  • Dissecting the Nabro lava flow from space
    We've been getting bits and pieces of the lava flow from Nabro for the past few weeks, but some images from earlier this week reveal the full reach of the flow from vent to snout. It appeared yesterday that the eruption might have ended, but today small plumes can still be seen on the Aqua/MODIS ...
  • How old school is "old school?"
    My friend Tom Wayne, co-owner of Prospero's Books in Kansas City, recently mentioned that he had come across the phrase "old school" in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House, written and published serially from 1852-1853.   Curious, I looked it up. Dickens actually uses the phrase four times through ...

Information Liberation

  • Patriot Act Debate: Is the FBI Collecting Your ...
    The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee is weighing fresh concerns about the sweeping nature of domestic spying using one controversial section of the Patriot Act. This particular part of that law is notable because it has been divisive for years * an...
  • Marc Faber on 21st Century Investing, Why It's ...
    Daily Bell: What has been your position on gold and silver? Do you expect the purchasing power of either or both to go higher? Marc Faber: Well I basically focus more on gold than silver, although I am on the board of a company, Sprott Inc., that ...
  • File-Hoster Returns With Guns Blazing After Po ...
    Two weeks ago raids and arrests in several European countries took out several prominent websites. Aside from the main target, movie streaming links portal Kino.to, the raids also affected several file-hosting sites including Duckload.com. Despite ta...
  • 95-yr-old woman dying of leukemia asked to rem ...
    Jean Weber of Destin filed a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security after her 95-year-old mother was detained and extensively searched last Saturday while trying to board a plane to fly to Michigan to be with family members during the fin...
  • Former cop says his lies sent people to prison
    A former undercover police officer has confessed his lies in court more than 30 years ago may have sent 150 people wrongfully to prison. Police said they had started a criminal investigation into the activities of Patrick O'Brien after he wrote to...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Beware Of Greeks Demanding Gifts
    I’ve just been reading what I regard as the most comprehensible article (to a non-economist) I’ve read covering the causes of the current PIIGS financial crisis in Europe. Have a look and let me know what you think. One paragraph … Continue reading →
  • Give ‘Em Hell, James
    It would be remiss of me not to wish our God-Emperor all the best on his current American promotional tour of his new book, Watermelons. I just heard him being interviewed here (H/T FergalR) on Ron Smith’s WBAL Radio show. I’m … Continue reading →
  • What’s Your Poison?
    In a very thinly-veiled effort to give this chronicler a few days’ breathing space, I thought I’d throw open the bar and pose the question close to everyone’s heart at 6pm. What’s everyone’s most desired drink, loved libation, needed nepenthe? … Continue reading →
  • So: Impending Ice Age Or Not?
    I thought I’d follow up the current JD thread as it seems to have worried the warmists enough to send a few new trolls over; some of the new crop even appear to be scientifically literate. The thing was sparked … Continue reading →
  • Not A Good Time To Visit Tasmania
    But before Tourism Tasmania sends a hit man out after me, let me tell you why. It’s Chile’s fault. Well, the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcano, anyway. It started up again the other day and ash has been blown eastwards two-thirds of … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Scanning for juvenile delinquency
    Scanning for juvenile delinquency – Impulsiveness in youth is not a criminal offence, although if it reaches into the realm of delinquency it can quickly become so. Researchers in the US are using functional magnetic resonance imaging to see whether the brains of young offenders differ in some b ...
  • The real reason for pruney fingers
    The real reason for pruney fingers – Sit in a bath too long and your fingers will wrinkle up. Everyone from 5 to 95 knows that. The scientific explanation was always that the skin absorbs water and the underlying layer buckles. That’s as may be, but writing in Nature News, Ed Yong explains an ex ...
  • The Blind Spot: Science and the Crisis of Unce ...
    The Blind Spot: Science and the Crisis of Uncertainty – “In today’s unpredictable and chaotic world, we look to science to provide certainty and answers–and often blame it when things go wrong. The Blind Spot reveals why our faith in scientific certainty is a dangerous illusion, and how only by ...
  • Science goes mobile – SciMobileApps
    Science goes mobile #SciMobileApps – ChemConnector Tony Williams nudged me towards a relatively new initiative to help science "get" mobile. Mobile apps for science are expanding in scope and capability very quickly, yet there is no easy way to source information regarding what is available, wha ...
  • Negative science
    Negative science – Often the "eureka moment" occurs not in the sense of "I've found it", but more as a "WTF?" Indeed, it's been estimated that more than two-thirds of scientific experiments fail to produce the results anticipated and in one way might be considered failed experiments, or negative ...

RFF Library

  • Global Warming’s Six Americas in May 2011
    Yale and George Mason Universities http://environment.yale.edu/climate/files/SixAmericasMay2011.pdf [From Website]  Nearly 40 percent of American adults are in the two groups most concerned about climate change – the Alarmed and the Concerned – while 25 percent of Americans are in the two groups ...
  • Extreme Weather and Climate Change: Understand ...
    Pew Center on Global Climate Change / by Daniel G. Huber and Jay Gulledge http://bit.ly/kt4zQs [From Introduction]  …The fact that 2010 was one of the warmest years on record as well as one of the most disastrous, begs the question: Is global warming causing more extreme weather? The short and ...
  • State of the Climate in 2010
    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/bams-state-of-the-climate/2010.php [From the Washington Post Weather Gang] Earlier today, NOAA released its annual “2010 State of the Climate” report, describing trends in more than 40 climate ...
  • Scientific Assessment of Two Dam Removal Alter ...
    Klamath River Expert Panel (“prepared by Dr. Daniel Goodman, Dr. Mike Harvey, Dr. Robert Hughes, Dr. Wim Kimmerer, Dr. Kenneth Rose, Dr. Greg Ruggerone with the assistance of Atkins”) for the US Fish and Wildlife Service http://1.usa.gov/mysr7z [From an LA Times article by Bettina Boxall]  A $1 ...
  • Effectiveness of Safety and Environmental Mana ...
    Transportation Research Board http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/sr/srSEMSInterimReport.pdf [From a Greenwire article by Katie Howell]   The Interior Department should use a wide variety of tools like independent audits and whistleblower programs to beef up its regulation of offshore drilling, ...

Scientific American - News

  • Terrorists Get Better with Practice: New Mathe ...
    War fatalities--and especially those from terrorist or insurgent attacks--seem particularly and cruelly random. But some scientists think they have found the key to predicting just when these deadly assaults will come. [More]
  • Social Climber: Google Challenges Facebook for ...
    As Friendster , MySpace and many other social-networking sites have discovered, a successful business finds a niche that draws in a large number of users and offers intriguing, easy-to-use services that keep those users interested. Whereas Facebook , LinkedIn and Twitter have excelled at ...
  • Flake Effect: Airplanes Can Trigger Snowfall a ...
    Anyone who has ever seen a streaky line of vapor, known as a contrail, behind a high-flying aircraft knows that airplanes can produce their own clouds. But in rarer cases aircraft can also punch round holes or carve long channels through existing, natural clouds. [More]
  • Nuke Plant Inspections Find Flaws in Disaster ...
    A special inspection of U.S. nuclear plants after the Fukushima disaster in Japan revealed problems with emergency equipment and disaster procedures that are far more pervasive than publicly described by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a review of inspection reports by ProPublica shows.While ...
  • Brilliant, but Distant: Most Far-Flung Known Q ...
    Peering far across space and time, astronomers have located a luminous beacon aglow when the universe was still in its infancy. That beacon, a bright astrophysical object known as a quasar, shines with the luminosity of 63 trillion suns as gas falling into a supermassive black holes compresses, ...
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