1 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

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The Killing Train

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

treehugger

• The Future of Megacities: How Dense is Dense E ...
  Lloyd has looked at the correlation between urban density and driving habits before, but has also concluded that medium density cities are often more sustainable than the uber-dense. This debate seems to be heating up again, with George Monbiot arguing for strict planning laws, compact citie ...
• Best of Ecouterre: 7 Weird Edible Fashions
  + A Chanel handbag made from beef jerky? At least you can eat it when the Zombie Apocalypse comes. + This edible wedding dress, made from rhubarb paper, makes for a deliciously naughty honeymoon. + Emily Crane assembled her fashion collection not with fabric and needles but with gela ...
• Solar-Powered NASCAR Track Mows Grass With She ...
  Image credit: Infineon Raceway Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California, has already hit the pages of TreeHugger for hosting insanely fast electric motorbikes. But while the idea of "green" motor racing may still seem somewhat of an oxymoron, Infineon is working hard to prove otherwise. Not o ...
• The Annual Green Whine: It's Time To Lose The ...
  Oh No Mommy! Will the Greenies Take Fireworks Away From Us? They are shooting off fireworks for Canada Day tonight, and the Fourth of July is not far behind, so it's time to bring out our annual whine about how bad fireworks really are for the environment. It brings out the best in our comm ...
• 16 Goats, Sitting In A Tree (Video)
  Image via video screengrab Okay, it's Friday. It's a Friday right before a long holiday weekend. It think that calls for a little bit of silliness and we have the perfect video to fill that need. Have you ever seen a herd of TreeHugger goats? Well, after watching this video, you can say, "W ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• German weapons firm in Burma capital
  Chief of leading ammunitions manufacturer with an ignominious history in Burma in Naypyidaw for talks with top government figures
• Suu Kyi on China, war and peace
  Fighting has engulfed parts of Kachin state in northern Burma for nearly four weeks, forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes. Burmese democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi tells DVB of her sadness that fellow countrymen continue to turn against one another, and urges China to engage in mediation ...
• Mystery surrounds China border photo
  Image of plain-clothed Burmese men crossing into China sparks rumours of Chinese complicity in the fighting against Kachin rebels
• Suu Kyi to visit Bagan with son
  Opposition icon to make first trip outside of Rangoon since 2003 prior to announcing details of her first post-release political tour
• Shan upheaval as gas attack fears spread
  Locals in southern Shan state told to leave homes as impending assault is accompanied by rumours of chemical weapons

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Poland's EU budget commissioner in climate cha ...
  Poland's EU budget commissioner has been forced to recant after he claimed climate change was exaggerated and argued that overambitious EU CO2 emissions targets would hurt his country's economy.
• How clean energy can drive economic growth
  Britain must not lose out to countries like France in the race for a greener future, says Chris Huhne.
• Warming oceans cause largest movement of marin ...
  Swarms of venomous jelly fish and poisonous algae are migrating into British waters due to changes in the ocean temperatures, a major new study has revealed.
• Duck-billed platypus at risk from climate change
  The duck-billed platypus, one of Australia's most bizarre and beloved animals, is the latest native species to come under threat from climate change, scientists have warned.
• Outrage as Lord Monckton calls Australian clim ...
  Lord Monckton, the outspoken British politician, has prompted outrage in Australia after labelling the government's chief climate change adviser a fascist, likening him to Hitler

National Geographic | Environment

• Pictures We Love: Best of June
  NoneSo good we had to share—ten new images that gripped Nat Geo photo editors: "supertrees," an upside-down horse, a surfer on ice, and more.
• "Exceptional" Giant Squid Found Dying off Florida
  A stirring, intact giant squid gave a fishing party a shock this week—and could give researchers new insights, scientists say.
• Pictures: Six New Natural Landmarks Named
  NoneDinosaur footprints and a "hanging lake" are now preserved as part of six new U.S. National Natural Landmarks.
• Hold the Champagne: Highway to Split Serengeti ...
  Were the hopeful headlines—"Serengeti Highway Canned: Victory for Animals!"—premature? Wildlife is still at risk, some experts say.
• Pictures: "Pancake" Sea Slug Among New Philipp ...
  NoneAn "inflatable" shark and colorful sea slugs join hundreds of new species hauled up during a recent expedition to the Philippines.

Jurist - Legal Research

• UN rights chief says Middle East revolutions s ...
  [JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile] said Thursday that the recent wave of Middle East and North African protests and revolutions showed a basic need for human rights [text]. Pillay recounted [summary text] the efforts of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHR ...
• DOJ to investigate 2 overseas detainee deaths
  [JURIST] US Attorney General Eric Holder [official website] announced Thursday that he would continue investigating the deaths of two detainees [press release] who died during interrogations by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website]. Former attorney general Michael Mukasey had ...
• Federal judge upholds decision listing polar b ...
  [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Thursday upheld [opinion, PDF] a 2008 decision by the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) [official website] to list polar bears as "threatened" on the endangered species list because of melting polar ice c ...
• Federal judge allows Google Street View suit t ...
  [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California [official website] on Thursday rejected a motion by Google [corporate website; Bloomberg backgrounder] to dismiss class-action lawsuits under wiretapping laws. Judge James Ware denied [AP report] Google's argument ...
• USSC unanimously approves retroactive applicat ...
  [JURIST] The US Sentencing Commission (USSC) [official website] voted unanimously [press release, PDF] on Thursday to implement the retroactive application of the Fair Sentencing Act , which brings the sentences for crack cocaine more in line for those of powder cocaine. The retroactive sentenci ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• You Can't Go Home From Here: Why Strauss-Kahn ...
  (photo credit: Steve Clemons, The Washington Note) News is breaking that the prosecutor's case in the rape allegations against former IMF Director and French political kingpin Dominique Strauss-Kahn is collapsing. According to reports, the accuser who worked at New York's Hotel Sofitel has a ...
• Can Obama Ride Twitter Out of the Bubble?
  The company could get even more from a planned social media town hall than the White House No, Barack Obama was not gearing up to send his first real presidential tweet. White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer had something else in mind when he teased this morning in a tweet, "Big ...
• Why Obama's Team Is Worried
  Nerves show as the president's 2012 reelection prospects appear uncertain amid a lagging economy It's been a rough June for the White House. Instead of being able to run a campaign taking credit for economic improvement, President Obama will, according to the latest fo ...
• President Obama Leads Without Taking Charge
  At a time of uncertainty, do Americans want a more aggressive commander in chief? President Obama is turning out to be a successful war president who can't find his voice on the most pressing issue of his time, which happens to be domestic. Democrats took a lot of flack ...
• Colbert's 'SuperPAC' Pushes Boundaries of Elec ...
  Viacom can fund his new group without reporting anything to federal regulators -- as long as campaign ads air within his time slot Comedian Stephen Colbert now has a "SuperPAC" -- a political group that can legally accept unlimited contributions from people, corporations, and unions to ca ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] WikiLeaks on Canada in Iraq War - coat
• [COAT] CANSEC Arms Bazaar Protest, June 1, Ott ...
• [COAT] Put a SNAG in CANSEC: Spring Nuremberg ...
• [COAT] WikiWeapons Cda Exposes 18,888 Export C ...
• [COAT] Latest on Cda's Arms Exports & CANSEC r ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

• US and Vietnam sign nuclear energy agreement | ...
• SKorea on alert after ship hit by mysterious b ...
• Obama administration may send U.S.-Russia arms ...
• Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the nation's en ...
• More tritium found at Vt. Yankee, NRC plans cl ...

Tikun Olam

• Rabbi Dov Lior: Moral Munchkin from Oz
  With an Ah-Ha-Ha And an Oh-Ho-Ho And a couple of La-Dee-Das That’s how we laugh the day away In the merry old land of Judea. If I didn’t know better I might say that this high-hatted image of one of Israel’s leading racist settler rabbis was that of one of the Munchkins from the Land [...] Rel ...
• Flotilla Welcomes New Passenger, Fire-Breathin ...
  Israel claims that flotilla passengers have stockpiled chemicals and flamethrowers on the ships for use against Israeli forces dispatched to intercept them… –Haaretz Related posts:Gaza Flotilla Ships Depart Tuesday, U.S. Threatens American Flotilla Passengers With Prosecution The Turkish daily, ...
• Weiss’ Knickers in Knot Over Sheikh Salah
  Michael Weiss, that insufferable, braying pro-Israel zealot, has his knickers in a knot over Sheikh Salah’s visit to England.  The Telegraph blogger began his crusade before Salah arrived, with a shot across the bow on June 22nd, in which he crowed about alleged anti-Semitic statements made by ...
• Jewish Summer Camps: Nostalgia for Bygone Libe ...
  I am a product of the Jewish summer camp movement.  I attended Camp Ramahs in New England (Palmer, MA), American Seminar (Nyack, NY) and Glen Spey, NY between 1967 and 1970.  They played a formative role in the development of my Jewish, spiritual and intellectual identity.  My teachers and couns ...
• Brits, Bibi’s Poodles, Arrest Sheikh Salah Pre ...
  The Tory British government, ever Bibi’s loyal poodle, has arrested Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the Islamic Movement (Northern Branch) the day before he was to address the UK parliament at the invitation of an MK.  Doing Bibi’s bidding seems to be a trademark of the current government, which als ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

• USA PATRIOT Act: The Myth of a Secure European ...
  The U.S. is home to the world's largest technology companies, offering cloud services from simple storage to complex web applications to users across the world. But data held even in European datacenters, protected by strict European data laws, may still be vulnerable to inspection by U.S. autho ...
• FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PLEASE REPOST
  by David Gregory on Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 1:56pm For those who may not know, my name is David Gregory, I have Osteogenesis imperfecta (O.I.), a brittle bone disease. I use a Jazzy electric wheelchair and a 1993 Ford van. Both the chair and especially the van are on the last legs of years [...]
• My Predicament
  For those who may not know, my name is David Gregory, I have Osteogenesis imperfecta (O.I.), a brittle bone disease. I use a Jazzy electric wheelchair and a 1993 Ford van. Both the chair and especially the van are on the last legs of years of service. Unfortunately, because I work I do not quali ...
• High Time in the Old town TONIGHT, MAYBE/
  O.K., most of you have heard of all the doomsayers that have been around the last few years and all have heard in one form, or another, about the 2012 Mayan prophecy, so you put it all in a sack and shake it up. What do you get? Well, whether, or not, any of these [...]
• CHANGING SERVERS: EYEONCITRUS.COM
  EYEONCITRUS.COM IS CHANGING SERVERS AND MAY BE DOWN FOR UP TO 48 HOURS, PLEASE KEEP CHECKING, WE WILL BE BACK AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

Unsuitable Blog

• Lush’s Dirty Laundry [by Cory Morningstar]
  In an unlikely alliance, Lush Cosmetics joins the Indigenous Environmental Network against the Canadian tar sands. The Lush campaign targets the tar sands, yet the CEO of Lush fails to target his own family’s dynasty built on the continued exploration of oil, gas and mining. Today, the environme ...
• Dispatches: Conservation’s Dirty Secrets
  JUST-WATCH-THIS… http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/4od#3201652 Dispatches reporter Oliver Steeds travels the globe to investigate the conservation movement and its major organisations. Steeds finds that the movement, far from stemming the tide of extinction that’s engulfing the plane ...
• I’m On The Run
  Actually I’m not. It would have been quite exciting to have been writing a blog from an internet cafe somewhere, or hijacking a wireless connection outside an office building, but it seems I am safe and snug in my home completely bereft of law enforcement officers hammering at my door demanding ...
• Everyone Must Follow The Rules (Apart From Tho ...
  Enjoy the moment – the personification of Evil is dead. Take to the streets and express your sheer joy at the end of a symbol. Paint your banners and hold them high; unfurl your flags and wave them in the night sky; don your army surplus trousers and bare your chests: we have a winner [...]
• Scholastic U-Turn On Coal: Shame About Their O ...
  Well, that didn’t last long. From the first outrage to a “Move along, nothing to see here!” clean up of the website, Scholastic seem to have recovered relatively easily from what they claim was just a mistake. When Scholastic published a set of four worksheets and a printable map (see here for a ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

• When Moral Systems Miss the Point in Newsgames
  In "Newsgames: Journalism at Play," we argue that the news quiz "is an incredibly simple type of game, but one that nevertheless can transmit factual information in a refreshing way." Perhaps our favorite example is an op-ed suite from The New York Times called "Turning Points, 2008 Edition," wh ...
• MIT Lesson: Change Happens Everywhere; Activis ...
  I attended last Thursday's afternoon plenary "Civic Media Mobilization," at the 2011 Knight Civic Media conference, expecting to hear discussion about specific activist technologies and techniques. I was also anticipating some juicy political friction between the Tea Party consultant and the imm ...
• TileMill Opens Up a World of Mapping Possibili ...
  One of our favorite collaborative open data projects is OpenStreetMap. We've talked before about the project's goals, how its free and open nature is advantageous for non-profit and commercial applications alike, and how its open and near-real-time editing process is a major advantage in rapidly ...
• Knight Announces 2011 News Challenge Winners
  Not so long ago, journalists were playing catch-up in the digital media space. But at this year's MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference, it's become evident that journalism 2.0 is growing up. Alberto Ibargüen, CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, today announced the winners of the K ...
• Find the 'Big Carrot' in Your Mobile App
  In the past, I've talked about some of the nuances in creating a location-based mobile app. Now I'd like to share some techniques for how we decided what to include in version 1 of the CityCircles mobile app, and how we accomplished what we did, to help you narrow your focus for any future apps ...

Cutting Edge News

• Europe on Edge - No More United States of Europe
  Europe continues to be engulfed by economic crisis. The global focus returns to Athens on June 28 as Greek parliamentarians debate austerity measures imposed on them by eurozone partners. If the Greeks vote down these measures, Athens will not receive its second bailout, which could create an ev ...
• Senegal on Edge - Protests in Senegal Disrupt ...
  Violent protests and opposition from his own party late in June forced Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade to give up changes that would have made it easier for him to win re-election. The reversal also disrupts Wade’s plans for a vice presidency, which could have benefitted his son.Objections t ...
• After the Holocaust - Forever Changed: A Belar ...
  On a recent afternoon, Rosa Faitelson was sitting at her kitchen table eating cucumbers—a typical lunch on just another ordinary day. She didn’t seem at all surprised that strangers walked unannounced into her wooden cottage in northern Belarus bringing her oranges, a rare treat on a hot day. Ma ...
• Edge of Terrorism - Al-Qaida’s Business Savvy ...
  Osama bin Laden’s second-in-command has taken the helm of al-Qaida, following what many call a “corporate succession plan” charted out by the terrorist group’s late leader. This plan illustrates bin Laden’s business sense that he picked up long before he was the face of jihad, while working for ...
• The Afghan War - Obama’s Afghan Drawdown Could ...
  President Obama’s plan to remove 33,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan by next September could revitalize that nation’s opium industry, which has been a cash cow for the Taliban, says Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio).American and NATO commanders have for nearly a decade tried various tactics in the war o ...

High Country News

• The adolescent West
  Logan, Utah, needs to get over its adolescent angst and decide what it wants to be when it grows up.
• Bullies get their way in New Mexico's wolf rec ...
  The state backs out of work to help restore wolves to the Southwest after a new governor appoints anti-wolf advocates to the its Game and Fish Commission.
• Why the Southwest is burning
  This season’s wildfires are caused by three things: Climate change-induced drought, bureaucratic blindness and old-fashioned human folly.
• For steelhead, dirty water might be better tha ...
  A wastewater treatment plant provides nutrients that help endangered steelhead thrive in an Idaho stream.
• It's not just a job, it's an adventure: A revi ...
  The 20 essays in this collection take us into the wacky and wonderful lives of some of the many people who work in the country's national parks.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

• Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
  Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
• Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
  Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
• Practicing Peace in the New Year
  A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young people. ...
• Sharing the writing of another Stieber
  My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. � Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber � Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The main thing o ...
• Article in FOR
  The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out: http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement   Rhetoric and Re ...

Yid With Lid

• Obama Admin is Disguising Its Major Policy Shi ...
  By Barry Rubin Here’s the headline: “U.S. to resume formal Muslim Brotherhood contacts.” But that’s not true. In fact, as the Reuters article itself admits, there have never been “formal” contacts before but only informal ones. Let’s examine the language, which stems from a “senior U.S. ...
• Obama Yesterday: Congress Must Work Harder--Ob ...
  At yesterday's press conference President Obama criticized the Congress for not working hard enough to fix the deficit. And he should know, the president has been in Washington every day, well except all of his fundrasing trips,� and the trips he took overseas especially the ones he took that we ...
• Lid On The Radio: Won't Somebody Buy My Corpor ...
  Yesterday, I appeared on the radio twice, the first was a short appearance on the Dana Loesch Radio Show. That was followed by a midnight appearance on the Stage Right Radio show late last night. (If you cannot see the two videos below click here�) For those of you who are not familiar with ...
• UNBELIEVABLE! Obama Administration Puts Israel ...
  Only in the twisted world of the Obama Administration, where allies are trashed, and enemies are embraced, could the tiny nation of Israel, on the front lines of the war on terror for decades, be on a list of 36 nations which �have shown a tendency to promote, produce, or protect terrorist organ ...
• OH MY! President Obama is Having Short-Term Me ...
  Folks the President of the United States may be folding under the pressure, at the very least he is exhibiting a frightening short term memory problem.� Take for example what he said during his press conference today. �If everybody else is willing to take on their sacred cows and do tough thi ...

The Real Agenda

• Fed’s Massive Stimulus Had Little Impact ...
  CNBC June 30, 2011 The Federal Reserve’s massive stimulus program had little impact on the U.S. economy besides weakening the dollar and helping U.S. exports, Federal Reserve Governor Alan Greenspan told CNBC Thursday. In a blunt critique of his successor, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, Greenspan sa ...
• Información sobre Protección Solar para Combat ...
  Adaptación Luis R. Miranda NaturalNews.com 1 de julio 2011 Pregúntele a alguien sobre protección solar y es muy probable que reciba un oído lleno de desinformación de una persona que ha sido mal informada en repetidas ocasiones por las autoridades sanitarias y los medios de comunicación. Casi na ...
• Informações sobre Proteção Solar para combater ...
  Adaptação Luis R. Miranda NaturalNews.com 01 de julho de 2011 Se você pergunta às pessoas sobre proteção solar é muito provável que você obtenha uma montanha de desinformação de uma pessoa que foi mal informada pelas autoridades de saúde e os meios de comunicação. Quase tudo o que você ouve sobr ...
• First Traitor who wants out: Tim Geithner cons ...
  Bloomberg June 30, 2011 Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner has signaled to White House officials that he’s considering leaving the administration after President Barack Obama reaches an agreement with Congress to raise the federal debt limit, according to three people familiar with the matte ...
• Public Sector Strike to Save Pensions Starts i ...
  Riot police is prepared to face with large masses, beat them up if need be. Mail Online June 30, 2011 Thousands of people gathered in cities across the UK today to take part in mass demonstrations against pension reforms – with fears that the protests could turn violent. Pickets were formed outs ...

Wind Watch

• State takes jurisdiction over wind farm
  Instead of local officials, a state committee will decide whether a wind farm will be built in Antrim because the local process could have derailed the state’s energy goals. Earlier this year, Antrim selectmen, about 100 residents and Antrim Wind Energy LLC, part of Eolian Renewable Energy of De ...
• Umatilla County turbine rules OK’d
  A victory years in the making was handed down by Umatilla County Commissioners on Tuesday. Commissioners Dennis Doherty, Larry Givens and Bill Hansell, in a series of three separate votes, changed existing rules and creating new ones regarding where and how industrial wind turbines can be built. ...
• Minnesota wind farm drama may be entering fina ...
  Two fronts have collided before Minnesota utility regulators, and now, observers on both sides are waiting to see which way the wind will blow in what�s been the state�s highest-profile and hardest-fought battle over wind turbine placement. The proposed $179 million, 78-megawatt Goodhue Wind pro ...
• Area lawmakers split over state’s &#8216 ...
  BATAVIA — A measure increasing the state’s authority to site power plants received a split vote from area lawmakers. The “Power NY Act” was approved overwhelmingly Thursday. Tallies included 117-13 in the State Assembly, and 59-3 in the State Senate. Assemblyman Daniel Burling, R-Warsaw, and Sta ...
• Wind power’s effects on property values ...
  CAPE VINCENT â A Chicago-based appraiser has decided that wind turbines in the town will depress property values of homes within two miles of turbines by up to 40 percent. McCann Appraisal LLC reviewed the town’s wind economics committee’s report, outside sources, company research and the noise ...

Tippers News

• Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
  Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher Away C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Ad ...
• Confused cat found wandering streets of of Lin ...
  This hungry kitty thought she was the cat that had got the cream when she found a half-full tin of pet food as she prowled for snacks in bins behind a supermarket.Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Two week-old kitten left for dead in locked cl ...
  Thanks to a passerby and local animal shelter, a two week-old kitten left for dead in a bolted-shut clothes recycling bin was rescued and has made a full recovery. The kitten was rescued about a month ago when a passing person heard the cry Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
• Trip to India inspires Everson woman to help v ...
  EVERSON - Touched by her own memories of being adopted as an orphan, Sue Ann Heutink took her first overseas venture to help victims of human trafficking. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Two survivors of human trafficking share their ...
  She fiddles with her cell phone. In mid conversation, she holds it out, showing off who�s on the screen. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

• Default in the Future
  An economist makes a persuasive case that the powers that be will decide a default on the government's debt is the best available alternative.
• Feds Warn of Crackdown on Medical Marijuana
  “The U.S. Justice Department says that marijuana dispensaries and licensed growers in states with medical marijuana laws could face prosecution for violating federal drug and money-laundering laws.” (USA Today) Another broken promise. FEE Timely Classic “Taking Drug Laws Seriously” by Thomas Szasz
• Retailers Upset about Fed Switch on Swipe Fees
  “Angry retailers Thursday promised to fight a new Federal Reserve decision reversing its previous position and nearly doubling the maximum amount banks can charge on âswipe feesâ when customers make debit card purchases.” (Washington Times) Two factions of the business world fight over regulatio ...
• The Other Principle of Classical Liberalism
  If government grants certain privileges to those who are married, it must grant them equally to all its citizens who wish to marry.
• Obama Tilts toward Boeing in NLRB Fight
  “In his first public comments on a simmering labor-management battle, President Obama Wednesday appeared to sympathize with aerospace giant Boeing in its fight with labor unions and the National Labor Relations Board over a major new nonunion manufacturing plant in South Carolinaâ¦. In his White ...

Teaching Online Journalism

• Getting a journalism degree, getting a journal ...
  This is an endorsement I like to see: I have never once regretted studying journalism. And I am not alone. That comes from Elana Zak, writing at 10,000 Words on June 24. According to her post, she received a journalism degree in June 2007, got a job three months later, and has “been gainfully ...
• Journalists, take another look at Tumblr
  For a long time I had trouble appreciating Tumblr, but I think I finally understand its strengths — and I must not be the only one. Tumblr is now one of the top 25 websites in the U.S., according to data from Quancast, as reported in a new article at TechCrunch. It gets close to 5,000 pagevie ...
• Branding: Should journalists build a personal ...
  If you’re teaching journalism today, you must be aware of the discussion that surrounds branding. If you’re a young journalist, or someone planning to enter the field of journalism, you need to understand what personal branding means. On June 23, Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten wrote ...
• Journalists: How to get started with Twitter
  If you haven’t yet found any value in using Twitter, here’s what you should consider. On the topic of WHY to get started, John Robinson (the editor of the News & Record, in Greensboro, North Carolina) wrote a very good piece for ASNE this week. If youâre not on Twitter, youâre making your job ...
• Tune up your skills this summer
  Looking over my Google Analytics data today, I found that these are some of the most-visited pages on this blog: How to shoot video interviews Why does anyone major in journalism? A few words about digital audio recorders Recording phone calls: For reporters Now printable! Reporterâs Guid ...

Facing South

• New labor rules could help workers' organizing ...
  By Jenny Brown and Mischa Gaus, Labor Notes The IKEA furniture factory in Danville, Va., is hot in the summer, but workers can expect it to be even hotter this year. They filed a petition for representation on June 20, kicking off the arduous process that leads to a typical union election in ...
• Are teachers and police officers imaginary people?
  Growing up, some children have imaginary friends. Today, many politicians seem to live in a world of imaginary workers. Or at least they think they're imaginary: To most people, school teachers, police officers, librarians and other public servants are very real. The public sees them every ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: The politics of debt
  Date that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and other GOP leaders walked out of negotiations with the Obama administration on lifting the U.S. debt ceiling over their opposition to raising more revenue: 6/23/2011 Date that the U.S. is expected to run out of cash unless the deb ...
• List of state immigration laws blocked in fede ...
  By Marian Wang, ProPublica Last week, we noted that several states' tough, new immigration laws have been challenged in court. Arizona and Utah both recently had key parts of their laws blocked by federal judges. Now, add Georgia and Indiana to the list.� On Monday, a federal judge in Georgia ...
• Another legal action targets scofflaw Kentucky ...
  A coalition of environmental watchdog groups has put two Kentucky coal companies on notice -- for the second time in less than a year -- that they could face lawsuits over their failure to comply with clean water laws. Appalachian Voices, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, Kentucky Riv ...

Worldpress - Africa

• Nigeria: Ten Unavoidable Issues
  Over the next four years, Nigeria's leaders have an opportunity to address a host of issues that have plagued the country both domestically and in terms of foreign policy.
• Political Expediency May Forfeit Reform in Somalia
  The Kampala Accord aims to end Somalia's transitional government, removing its prime minister in the process. Is this the best thing for the people?
• Living in Chains: Sierra Leone's Mentally Ill
• Piracy and Pigeonholed Security in Somalia
  Somali pirates are a menace to local waters as well as international security. Outside assistance should be provided to bolster the country's coast guard.
• Piracy and Pigeonholed Security in Somalia
  Somali pirates are a menace to local waters as well as international security. Outside assistance should be provided to bolster the country's coast guard.

Telegraph UK - oil

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

Ian Welsh

• One more note on the New York Gay Marriage, Cu ...
  1) The left sells each other out for either small tactical gains, or nothing at all (hello national NARAL) all the time, so why shouldn’t the gays promise to help Cuomo in his next election for giving them gay marriage, even if it screws unions and helps an austerity governor? 2) The reason gays ...
• Basics: anyone who will sell you out is not on ...
  Look, if a special interest that is nominally on the left is willing to sell out other parts of the left in order to get its little item, they are not on your side.  Period.  End of sentence.  An alliance, coalition or ideological movement’s first and most important rule is solidarity: NEVER ...
• Less Cuomo Fellation please
  Como’s still busy destroying unions and crushing standards of living in New York. I’m so pro-gay marriage I once didn’t talk to my father for 6 months because of an argument over it, but it is not the only issue, and it does not make Cuomo a good governor any more than any other single [...]
• The Psychiatric Drug Industry
  The New York Review of Books looks into the question of why there is an epidemic of mental illness, and if the drugs used to treat problems like depression actually work. Short answer, no, the evidence for the drugs working is exceptionally weak. Longer answer, the drugs mess with the patient’s ...
• The Psychiatric Drug Industry
  The New York Review of Books looks into the question of why there is an epidemic of mental illness, and if the drugs used to treat problems like depression actually work. Short answer, no, the evidence for the drugs working is exceptionally weak. Longer answer, the drugs mess with the patient’s ...

Media Consortium

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

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• H1N1 vaccine linked to narcolepsy, finds Swedi ...
  An H1N1 pandemic flu vaccine may be linked to a severe form of narcolepsy in children and adolescents in Sweden, finds a new country-wide study by the country’s Medical Products Agency. The findings support a preliminary study of four regions of Sweden, released in March, as well as a Januar ...
• Deforestation rises in the Amazon
  For the third month in a row, Brazil’s early-warning system for monitoring deforestation in the Amazon has found higher-than-usual levels of cleared forest area (see the original report, in Spanish). The LANDSAT satellite data, from Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research's DETER program, ...
• Politicians decry forensic service closure
  Britain’s much-lambasted attempts to close its hugely respected state forensics body took another kicking today as MPs denounced the move as damaging to science and to justice. The House of Commons science select committee also put the boot into a senior government science advisor, saying his ...
• Stop-gap funds will support summer research on ...
  The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GRI) Research Board today awarded US$1.5 million in funds to 17 scientists doing research on the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Short term funding made available in these grants will allow researchers to collect crucial summer data, tiding t ...
• Dark matter claim draws scrutiny
  A high-profile claim to have seen a potential signal of dark matter passing through the Earth is encountering some skepticism as independent scientists get to grips with the published data. On 3 June, Juan Collar of the University of Chicago, and his colleagues on the CoGeNT experiment in th ...

new geography

• Drones on the Prairie
  When the Base Realignment and Closure Commission was drawing up its list of military installations to close back in 2005, consultants assured the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota, that its Air Force base would be spared. Days before the list was made public, though, word leaked out that ...
• The Evolving Urban Area: Seattle
  Lunching at Seattle's Space Needle, the casual observer might imagine that one of the nation's most dense urban areas is spread out below. To the immediate south of the Space Needle is one of the nation's premier downtown areas. In 2000 downtown Seattle had the seventh largest employment ba ...
• Will J.R. Recognize the New Dallas?
  In the sixties and seventies, Dallas’s prime tourist attraction was an assassination site. The town seriously needed a new image. It got one in a soap opera that revealed a city besieged by blonds, big  hair and big homes. “Dallas,” which premiered in 1978, did for Big D what “Sex in the Cit ...
• Can Florida Escape the Horse Latitudes?
  When it comes to the winds of change, Florida remains in the horse latitudes.  This zone of the Atlantic around 30 degrees latitude was so named by ship captains because their ships, becalmed in the water, seemed to move faster when they lightened their load by throwing off a few horses.  F ...
• The New State of Coastal California?
  In 2009, former California legislator Bill Maze proposed dividing his state, hiving off thirteen counties as Coastal (or Western) California (see map). Maze, a conservative from the agricultural Central Valley, objects to the domination of state politics by the left-leaning Los Angeles a ...

GM Watch

• Take action to round up glyphosate
• Take action to round up glyphosate
• Take action to round up glyphosate
• Greenpeace takes on Monsanto over 'pesticides ...
• Greenpeace takes on Monsanto over 'pesticides ...

spiked

• The death of the Tory Party is announced at Glasto
  Forget the conspiracy theories – the story should be the obituary for Conservatism Cameron’s ally wrote before he died in the Glastonbury toilets.
• How to prolong a conflict ICC-style
  The ICC warrant for Gaddafi may make Western powers feel good, but it will make things a whole lot worse in Libya.
• Free speech vs privacy? There’s only one ...
  Recent coverage of celebrities’ sexual antics has been puerile, but it should not be judges who decide what we read.
• Mission accomplished? What mission, exactly?
  It’s fitting that the aimless, pointless Afghan War is being wound down according to a timetable drawn up in a White House backroom.
• An eight-year-old cannot commit rape
  The Daily Mail report on the rise of ‘child criminals’ actually reveals that British adults have lost the plot.

Cryptogon

• Flood Berm Collapses at Nebraska Nuclear Plant
  Via: AP: A berm holding the flooded Missouri River back from a Nebraska nuclear power station collapsed early Sunday, but federal regulators said they were monitoring the situation and there was no danger. The Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station shut down in early April for refueling, and there is no w ...
• Greece: ‘A Sovereign Debt Crisis of Soph ...
  Via: Telegraph: The essence of ancient Greek tragedy is that the audience knows it will end in disaster, but feels compelled to watch the horror unfold. And so it is with the modern version, a sovereign debt crisis of Sophoclean dimensions. Themes of the great dramatist’s finer works are all the ...
• Threat of $100 Billion Hit if U.S. Top Rating Lost
  I definitely wouldn’t assume that the impact of a credit rating cut would be limited to $100 billion. I doubt there is any way to know what the impact will be because so many derivatives have been struck off the underlying debt. In other words, this $100 billion number may be just the tip of [...]
• Fukushima Residents’ Urine Now Radioactive
  Via: Japan Times: More than 3 millisieverts of radiation has been measured in the urine of 15 Fukushima residents of the village of Iitate and the town of Kawamata, confirming internal radiation exposure, it was learned Sunday. Both are about 30 to 40 km from the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, whi ...
• Friend of British Prime Minister Found Dead in ...
  Via: Belfast Telegraph: Detectives are hoping toxicology results will shed light on the death riddle of a senior Tory in a Glastonbury Festival VIP toilet. Christopher Shale, 56, a close friend of David Cameron, was discovered slumped in a cubicle in the backstage area on Sunday morning. The Pri ...

The Economic Collapse

• Will Barack Obama Use The 14th Amendment As A ...
  As the deadline to raise the debt ceiling draws closer, many are now wondering if Barack Obama will try to go around Congress if a deal is not reached by August 2nd.  In particular, a number of voices (including U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner) are now touting the 14th ...
• Shell Game
  The entire U.S. financial system has become a gigantic shell game.  While it is still in motion, a shell game can be mesmerizing to watch.  But when it ends the consequences can be painful.  So exactly what is a shell game?  According to Wikipedia, a shell game "is portrayed as ...
• 50 U.S. Health Care Statistics That Will Absol ...
  The U.S. health care system has become one gigantic money making scam, and you are about to see the statistics that prove it.  Today, the United States spends more on health care per person than any other country in the world by far.  The health insurance companies and the big p ...
• Economic Recovery?
  If this is supposed to be an "economic recovery" it sure is pathetic.  In fact, as you will read below, the numbers tell us that this is the worst economic recovery that the American economy has ever seen.  If what we had experienced was a "normal" recession and a "normal" recov ...
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Prepper Dad? Even Robert K ...
  Are you familiar with Robert Kiyosaki? He is best known for the "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" series of books.  Over 26 million books authored by Kiyosaki have been sold and he is recognized as a financial expert by millions of people across the globe.  Well, guess what?  Even Robert Ki ...

Desertification

• Grow your own live tipi greenhouse or tunnel ( ...
  No more plastic greenhouses or tunnels needed : grow your own live greenhouse (a tipi or a tunnel) with branches of the drought-tolerant Navajo willow, also globe willow, or the Chinese willow (Salix matsudana). One can grow these willows with … Continue reading →
• Neem Tree at Permaculture Ideas (Facebook / Yo ...
  Facebook message received from Judit VERWEEN : http://permacultureideas.blogspot.com/2011/06/neem-tree.html Permaculture Ideas: The Neem Tree permacultureideas.blogspot.com http://youtu.be/b8MsIpkqZuI Neem (Azadirachta indica) has worldwide medicinal and agricultural applications as a non-toxic ...
• With containers you can turn a rooftop terrace ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://silverspring.patch.com/articles/challenges-with-urban-gardening-can-solved Challenges with Urban Gardening Can Be Solved Management relations is key in maintaining a garden in a building that you do not own. By Kathy Jentz Downtown Silver Spring, l ...
• Great green wall (Google / African Agriculture)
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.africanagricultureblog.com/2011/06/fighting-desertification-great-green.html Fighting desertification: The great green wall of the Sahara The rainy season has started in the rest of the country, but in Widou, in the heart of the Ferlo region in ...
• China’s success and failure in stopping desert ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6555524,00.html Approximately 2.6 million square meters of land in China consist of only sand or rock desert. That is an area about seven times the size of Germany. Efforts to stop the sand … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

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

backofthebook.ca

• RIM chaos overestimated, but . . .
  By Mark Evans With all the talk about Research in Motion’s financial and marketshare struggles, many people tend to overlook the fact that it is still a wireless behemoth, albeit one with intense and growing competition. But it's not just another “a Nortel.”. Nevertheless, RIM needs to mak ...
• The Conservatives’ Homegrown censorship
  By Frank Moher We can now begin to see how the Conservative government intends to use its majority to chop arts funding in Canada, particularly to any artistic expression it doesn't like or agree with. In the short term at least, it will be a death by a thousand cuts. This ...
• Bill Blair’s G20 alibi
  By Alison@Creekside An interview with Andre Marin, Ontario Ombudsman and author of the G20 report "Caught in the Act," sheds a little light on the blackout surrounding who was responsible for ordering kettling at the G20 a year ago. Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair, as we have previously he ...
• Potter too much
  By Rachel Krueger As though the tenterhooks weren’t tight enough for Harry Potter 7.2: The One Where It Actually Ends, the Rowling megalith taunted its fans last week with the mysterious offer of . . . Pottermore. Pottermore, the powers promised, was a Thing That Was Not A Book But Was Sti ...
• The lost art of imagining retribution
  By Jan Drabek Probably the most bizarre attempt to deal with the Stanley Cup riots to date was the announcement of a group getting together to sing O Canada at the corner of Georgia and Hamilton. But other unusual takes abound, among them that of the bicycle-loving mayor of Vancouver who ...

libcom

• Greece: 2nd Day of General Strike 29/6 - Unpre ...
  policestones4.jpg A timeline account of the day. Relentless riot police attacks with teargas, physical violence and even rocks. Hundreds of injured demonstrators. Square raided but not evacuated. ...
• The demolition of social housing?
  Pruitt-IgoeDemolish.jpg A look at far reaching changes in social housing policy being introduced by the UK government. Social housing in the UK provides homes for 8 million peo ...
• J30 strike - updates and accounts
  strike.jpg Today, hundreds of thousands of workers in the UK across several unions are taking strike action against the government's austerity measures, in particular the attack on public sector pens ...
• Bust the myths: six reasons to support the pen ...
  Freedom-J30website.png This week will see a wave of strikes across Manchester and the country as thousands of teachers, lecturers and civil servants take part in strikes called in opposition to pensi ...
• Updates from the Greek Squares and People's As ...
  Tenth-day-Greek-protests-Athens_714579.jpg There is a virtual blackout in international media about what is an escalation of popular resistance in Greece since May 25th. In Athens and numerous other ...

Free Range International

• FabFi on the front page of New York Times
  Here’s an update in an attempt to counteract the thoroughly depressing news of Tim going silent. (Anyone who knows Tim in person knows that you can’t actually silence him; he’s still ranting but we’ve turned off the blog-mike). With Kanani’s help, I’ve put this post in Babatim format. This wee ...
• There’s Fire
  Fighting season is now on. This year the villains strategy appears to involve deliberate attacks on aid projects and let me tell you something we (the outside the wire aid community) are getting hammered.  In the last week a majority of us have had to deal with murders, intimidation, shootings, ...
• Where There Is Smoke
  In the Helmand Province, this year’s fighting season has started off with a whimper.  On May Day (as predicted) the only action was in Paktika Province where a child suicide bomber violated the latest Taliban public announcement by blowing himself up in a police station.  The Taliban had just ...
• Leadership 101
  Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory is never pleasant to observe, especially when it is an American President doing the snatching.  President Obama was running strong:  1. He just announced The Dream Team taking over the Afghan campaign,  2. He launched a unilateral direct action mission d ...
• May Day
  The ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) has taken an unusual step by issuing a warning to all internationals, alerting of coordinated “spectacular attacks”,  kidnapping of internationals, suicide bombings, and all manner of general mayhem to kick off  Sunday, 1 May.  To the bes ...

The Story Behind the Story

• More From THE ZOMBIE Files —— A MU ...
  From the “X-Files” of Dr. Patricia M. Jordan, DVM comes this incredible snippet dateline 2009: ST-246 Used to Treat Complications From Exposure to Recombinant Vaccinia Virus Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:31am EDT http://ad.doubleclick.net/click;h=v8/38a9/0/0/%2a/v;44306;0-0;0;38919074;1627-170/40;0/0/0;;~o ...
• Jews Against Zionism and Zionists. (JAZZ)
      http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/antisemitism/holocaust/gedalyaliebermann.cfm   THE ROLE OF ZIONISM IN THE HOLOCAUST Article by Rabbi Gedalya Liebermann – Australia “Spiritually and Physically Responsible ” From its’ inception, many rabbis warned of the potential dangers of Zionism and open ...
• Zombie Watch Update
  Here we go.  The evidence continues to mount. Published on Deccan Chronicle (http://www.deccanchronicle.com) � Mutant rabies, flu viruses could lead to havoc June 25: The rabies season has just receded. And it�s time now for the human influenza or common cold to make our lives miserable. Rabies ...
• Khazarian Satanic Porn — Plumbing New Depths
  In this public You-tube clip, which is a digital recording of a VERY PUBLIC PRESENTATION at the 2011 Conspiracy Conference, “Investigative Reporter” and consort of Leonard Horowitz, Sherri Kane maliciously attacked ex-VietNam war veteran Timothy White by accusing him of being a felon, rapists, a ...
• Is A. True Ott a “Jew-Hating Man”, ...
  In an e-mail to me in August 2010, Khazarian Blue-Blood Jew Leonard G. Horowitz wrote: “How STUPID of you ——- to EXPOSE YOURSELF AS A JEW-HATING MAN!!!”   What exactly “exposed” me?  Merely using the term “Khazar” and “Goy” in an earlier post to his sweetie Sherri Kane in describing her and m ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Mellissa Fung, Kidnapped in Afghanistan (May 1 ...
  CBC Journalist and author of Under an Afghan Sky tells Peter about her kidnapping in Afghanistan.
• Bob McDonald Part 2 (Apr 9, 2011)
  Part two of our annual show where CBC's Science Correspondent answers your questions about the mysteries of the world that have always puzzled you.
• Milos Raonic, ATP Tennis Player (Apr 2, 2011)
  The Canadian tennis star and his power serve are making waves around the world. Peter talks with Raonic about childhood ambition, focus and the sport he loves.
• Bob McDonald - Part 1 (Mar 26, 2011)
  Time for our annual show where you ask CBC's Science Correspondent about the mysteries that have always puzzled you!
• Dan Bjarnason (March 19, 2011)
  Former CBC Correspondent and author of Triumph at Kapyong talks about the critical battle won by Canadians in the Korean War.

Scotts Contracting

• Petition to Stop Ameren UE-Coal Ash Utility Wa ...
  Petition: We, the undersigned, are opposed to placing a coal ash utility waste landfill in the Labadie Bottoms floodplain of the Missouri river as proposed by AmerenUE. The proposed landfill will store harmful quantities of toxic heavy metals and other contaminants. Despite Ameren’s assurances o ...
• six neighborhood factors that affect the envir ...
  The Greenest Building Is The One That’s Already Built ⦠Sometimes Posted June 20, 2011 by Kaid Benfield copied from: http://sustainablecitiescollective.com/kaidbenfield/26182/greenest-historic-building-one-thats-right-context?utm_source=scc_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter Iâ ...
• Estimating Tips for Spray Foam Window/Door Sealant
  While Working on an Material Estimate for Installing 10 Replacement Windows. I wanted to share this Information on from Dow Great Stuff. Sizes and Estimated Yields for GREAT STUFF PRO™ Window & Door Insulating Foam Sealant Can Size, oz (g) Delivery No. of Windows(1) 20 (567) Reusable Straw 6-9 2 ...
• Energy Efficiency Key to Reducing the Need to ...
  report says EERS policies are driving energy efficiency investments and energy cost savings to unprecedented levels national energy policy remains beyond the reach of Congress ((13 of the 19 states are achieving 100% or more of their goals)) U.S. states lead on energy efficiency, lower utility b ...
• Energy Plan Live-Chat-Senator Adviser N Brown ...
  First for Facebook, First for Energy Jun 22, 2011 Office of Senator Dick Lugar On Wednesday, June 22, 2010, we are extremely excited about a first for the Senate and a first for Facebook – the start of a rollout of legislation exclusively via Facebook. Beginning at 6:30 p.m. (Eastern) tomorrow w ...

The View From Abroad

• Western Imperialism Strikes Again
  The invasion of Libya is about imperialism not protection of civilians.
• What Obama Should Have Said
  As I was reading President Obama's speech last week, I dozed off into a glorious daydream.
• “Where’s the Beef”?
  After Osama bin Laden was killed, why wasn't his body displayed for verification.
• Bernanke is Still Clueless
  Ben Bernanke has been consistently wrong in the past. Why does anybody listen to him anymore?
• Dangers are Inherent in the War with Qaddafi
  Libya could become the next quagmire for American forces.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Burma's Ethnic Insurgencies Erupt in a Chain R ...
  Fighting by Burma's three largest ethnic minorities has flared up all at once.
• Saudi Arabia: Rolling Back the Arab Spring
  A chilly reception for the Arab Spring in the Persian Gulf shows the strength of the U.S.-Saudi "special relationship."
• As Taliban Tactics Grow More Sophisticated, Wh ...
  In the long run, the use of suicide bombing is self-defeating for the Taliban.
• Recreating Baghdad's Lost Literary Street
  Al-Mutanabbi Street was once the center of literary life in Baghdad. A new project brings the street back to life.
• Australian PM Gillard's Call for Abolition of ...
  Prime Minister Gillard's call for the abolition of nuclear weapons had its origins in a powerhouse international 2008 commission.

Law.com

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

Iranian.com

• رهبر ایران اعتراضات سوریه را حرکت انحرافی خواند
  آیت الله علی خامنه ای، رهبر جمهوری اسلامی، در اولین موضع گیری خود درباره ناآرامی های سوریه، اعتراضات مردم این کشور علیه حکومت بشار اسد را یک حرکت انحرافی توصیف کرده است. read more
• رابرت گیتس: ایران خیلی جسور شده است
  وزیر دفاع آمریکا حکومت ایران را متهم کرده که قصد دارد تا آستانه ساخت بمب هسته ای پیش برود و تهران را مسوول افزایش تلفات نیروهای کشورش در عراق دانسته است. read more
• Lawyer for jailed Baha'i leaders speaks out at ...
  BRUSSELS, Belgium — One of the lawyers who defended Iran's seven imprisoned Baha'i leaders has made an impassioned plea for justice during an extraordinary meeting held at the European Parliament. Mahnaz Parakand told the meeting that the expectation of the people of Iran is "not to be left a ...
• Death Sentence Upheld for Christian Citizen Yo ...
  The Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence for christian citizen Yousef Naderkhani. According to the Human Rights House of Iran, Naderkhani  who has converted to Christianity at the age of 19, has allegedly engaged in christian propaganda.  He has been sentenced to death for apostasy and ad ...
• Iran claims progress on gas pipeline
  TEHRAN, June 30 (UPI) -- More than 680 miles of a pipeline meant to carry natural gas from Iran to Pakistan is completed on the Iranian side of the border, Iran's state media claims. The official Islamic Republic News Agency in Iran claimed Thursday official sources told Pakistani Prime Minis ...

Most Revolutionary Act

• Can Human Nature be Repaired?
  Racehorse trainer Anti-capitalist John Strachey touches briefly on the Human Nature debate in his 1933 Coming Struggle for Power (see “Is Capitalism Doomed?” http://stuartbramhall.aegauthorblogs.com/2010/08/14/is-capitalism-doomed/). He makes the observation that despite unimaginable technologic ...
• The Biology of Human Behavior
  Brain synapses In my last blog, I discussed Marx and Engels response to the four specific character flaws that the ruling elite put forward in opposing alternative political/economic systems, such as socialism and participatory democracy. I look at contemporary research into human behavior and w ...
• Marx and Engels on Human Nature
  As I outlined in my last blog, the capitalist class (which has near absolute control over public education and the mainstream media) maintains that a ruling privileged elite is essential for the survival of civilization. In their view, this is due to innate flaws of human nature that allegedly m ...
• Is Human Nature Flawed?
  This is the first of a series of posts on the age-old Human Nature debate and the question of whether human beings are capable of achieving true participatory and economic democracy. The failure of the world’s great economic powers to solve the global debt crisis, coupled with growing politic ...
• Generation Z Activism: Alec Loorz
  Alec Loorz Approximate age ranges for Generation X,Y,Z and Baby Boomers: Generation Z: 13-18 Generation Y: 19–29 Generation X: 30-45 Baby Boomers: 46-65 Alec Loorz is a 16 year old from Ventura California who is suing the US government and three states for “allowing money to be more powerful ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

• How Athens' geography feeds unrest
  This week the Greek parliament voted through the harshest austerity measures to date -- a condition of another IMF/EU bailout aimed to avoid bankruptcy. In response, the Athens streets erupted in riots, tear gas filled Syntagma Square, the site of the parliament building; burning trash cans l ...
• Rick Perry, bigot evangelical friends throwing ...
  So we should point out that in addition to the fact that he's directly responsible for the state-sponsored murder of an innocent person (what a "gaffe"!), Texas Governor Rick Perry is also the sort of creepy end-times ultra-evangelical that creeps out everyone else, including the regular Chri ...
• Live-blog: Glenn Beck exits Fox
  Beginning at 5 p.m. ET, Glenn Beck is hosting his final Fox News show. We'll be watching it from Salon headquarters in New York and tweeting the highlights live in this post.
• Colbert gets conditional OK on campaign finance
  The Federal Election Commission said Thursday that comedian Stephen Colbert can use his TV show's resources to boost his political action committee, but he must disclose some major expenses as in-kind contributions from the show's corporate owners.
• Lessons from the swipe fee war
  For the average American, the most significant aspect of the recent congressional war over "swipe fees" (i.e. the money merchants pay banks when customers use debit cards) has little to do with the specific issue at hand. After all, while retailers managed to wage what Bloomberg News called a ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

• Walking for the cause
  Charities are under the gun to raise money but they shouldn’t lose touch with what they’re all about.
• Three cheers for Canada
  We’re more confidently Canadian than ever before, more united and more poised for economic success.
• Greece hits the wall
  Papandreou's austerity plan brings the Greek people close to the limit of what many can endure.
• Will and Kate test the waters
  The much-anticipated visit by Prince William and his new bride Catherine kicks off in Ottawa.
• The stakes in TMX deal
  The owner of the Toronto Stock Exchange has better choices than the deal with the British.

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.

EU Times

• Terrestrial bacteria can live on Mars
  Can there be life on Mars, at least in the form of micro-organisms? Scientists have not been able to answer this question clearly. What if they could do the opposite – simulate “Martian” conditions for terrestrial bacteria in a laboratory and see if they survive? Such an experiment was designed ...
• Iran plans to send monkey to space
  Head of Iran Space Agency (ISA) Hamid Fazeli says the country plans to send a live monkey into space onboard the country’s domestically-made Kavoshgar 5 (Explorer 5) satellite carrier. âKavoshgar 5, with a weight of 285 kg, will blast off into space with a living creature (a monkey) in the next ...
• Sarkozy knocked to ground in public
  French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been grabbed and almost knocked to the ground by a man in the southern French town of Brax. The attacker yanked Sarkozy’s suit by the shoulder and knocked him to the ground while he reached over a metal barricade to greet onlookers, AP reported on Thursday. T ...
• Asia to become one huge megacity
  By 2025, seven of ten largest metropolitan cities of the world will be located in Asia. China holds all chances to become one of the world leaders on the level of urbanization of the population. China is currently experiencing a peak of migration of the rural population in large cities. In gener ...
• China asks Nepal to curb Free Tibet movement
  China has once again asked Nepal to curb âFree Tibetâ movement from its soil, later strongly upholds One China policy and believes that Tibet and Taiwan are integral parts of China. China is Nepal’s northern neighbor and Tibet shares border with Nepal along its northern side. The newly appointed ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• Larwyn's Linx: Obama's New ACORN Grant; Did He ...
  Have a great link you'd like me to review? Drop me an email
• Rep. Thaddeus McCotter eyes White House run
  Michigan Congressman Thaddeus McCotter may become the latest 2012 GOP presidential candidate. The Associated Press reports that he is preparing to make an announcement on Saturday, throwing his hat in the ring. If so, Thad McCotter will be the third Republican member of the House of Representat ...
• Interview: Sam Calagione, President & Founder ...
  Photo Courtesy of Dogfish Head Beer Sam Calagione is a regular guy; heâs married, has two kids and loves beer. The catch, though, is that unlike many beer-loving dads, Sam actually gets to make and drink beer for a living. As the Founder and President of Dogfish Head Brewery , Sam is living the ...
• Why did Hugo Chavez leave Venezuela for Surgery?
  I wish I could recall where I first saw this question asked. Hugo Chavez says he was diagnosed with cancer, and so that was why he’s spent quite a bit of time in Cuba. He went there for surgery and recovery. Oh, and a few photographs with fellow socialist leader Fidel Castro. But why did Chavez ...
• Google redesigns Gmail and Google Calender
  How are you enjoying the new Google homepage and search results pages? We hope you’re not afraid of change because Google isn’t done with its redesigns. If you take a look at Google Calender right now, you may notice that it looks different as well. Google has given the page a crisper look with ...

Groklaw

• Microsoft Says It Will Give Your Data to the U ...
  The admission came during the Office 365 launch. According to Whittaker, Managing Director of Microsoft UK fielded a question about whether Microsoft could guarantee that data stored in the European Union would stay in the EU, even if it was requested by the U.S. government under the Patriot Act ...
• Kodak patent claim against Apple, RIM goes bac ...
  The U.S. International Trade Commission handed down a split decision in Kodak's high-stakes patent dispute with Apple and Research In Motion over the built-in cameras in smartphones late Thursday. The commission's latest ruling sends the case back to an administrative law judge, with a final dec ...
• Google Is No Microsoft
  Third, who is being handicapped, if anyone? There is a fundamental difference between the evidence of anticompetitive harm in Microsoft and Google's alleged exclusionary conduct. In Microsoft, there was a mountain of evidence that Microsoft's conduct led to significant rivals being severely hand ...
• Audio: Microsofts Ballmer gives a bellowing r ...
  The question drew some nervous laughs from the crowd, but Ballmer responded in his typical boisterous fashion. "YOU TELL ME if I lack energy or conviction, or we're not driving all the change we need to drive." Here's an audio clip of the question and answer. - John Cook, Geekwire
• Danish police proposal: Ban anonymous Internet ...
  Thus, a working group at the Ministry of Justice started with a recommendation to parliament that would require all persons on the open Internet connections from such libraries and the café's wireless network, identify with a personal code for being able to get online. The idea is that the poli ...

WideShut

• EDL Officially Announce Ties To Zionist State ...
  EDL revealed as New World Order tool, as Tommy Robinson calls Israel a shining star of democracy.
• Government Concern Over Bail Ruling Is Smokesc ...
  Bail ruling will prevent innocent being re-arrested with no evidence, but government spread fear that it will release dangerous people on to the streets.
• June 28, 2011, WideShut Webcast
  Keelan discusses cuts to elderly care, and news that private security have been given police powers.
• Even Miliband Opposes Strikes; It’s A On ...
  Ed Miliband is not a member of the Labour Party, he's a member of the Banking & Globalization party
• Privately Run Security To Do Police Work In Br ...
  Private Security Guards given only one week of training to get police powers in controversial austerity scheme.

Politics in the Zeros

• Strauss-Kahn setup or was the money for someth ...
  Yet his semen was found on her clothes. So she was paid $100,000 over two years prior to the incident, got a job at the hotel, managed to be the maid in his room, and let him attack her? That seems a bit of a stretch. The money in the bank account could be entirely [...]
• You’ve done a heck of a job, Timmy
  Zero Hedge Lets be brutally frank shall we. From the day he first set foot in the Department of Treasury, this useless piece of garbage called Timothy Geithner has been good for one thing and one thing only: To protect and serve his Wall Street masters. As the President of the NY Fed he saved [...]
• ‘The Matrix’ Lobby Scene with A capella multitrack
• Strauss-Kahn case near collapse
  Apparently the maid has lied repeatedly to investigators According to the two law enforcement officials, the woman had a phone conversation with an incarcerated man within a day of her encounter with Mr. Strauss Kahn in which she discussed the possible benefits of pursuing the charges against hi ...
• WikiLeaks’ brilliant Mastercard commercial parody

TVNZ - Top Stories

• One dead in truck crash in Hawke's Bay
  One person is dead and another is in a serious condition after a truck accident tonight.
• Power cut to thousands in Christchurch after s ...
  Around 12,000 Christchurch households were plunged into darkness tonight.
• Gun held to employee's head in Wellington arme ...
  Wellington police are hunting two men who robbed an Indian restaurant and held a gun to an employee's head
• Aussies outraged after Kiwi tourist throws bri ...
  A New Zealand tourist almost killed a crocodile after he threw bricks into its enclosure at an Alice Springs reptile centre, the centre's owner says
• Dozens evacuated in Hawke's Bay as wild weathe ...
  Dozens of people have been evacuated as the North Island continues to be battered by strong winds and rain.

Just World News

• Reactions to Gaza Flotilla 2
  Nine boats of siege-busting 'Freedom Rider' activists are now gathering in the Mediterranean, preparing to challenge the longrunning siege that is one of the main tools through which Israel continues to stifle the lives and livelihoods of all of Gaza's 1.6 million people. An act of collective p ...
• Sally Sockpuppet and her friends
  Well, just as I thought. Commenter "Sally J" who was trying to argue that she'd "visited Gaza with a volunteer church group" just in April and that nearly everything there is fine... turns out to be one of the multiple-personality sock-puppets who visit the blog from time to time. Here is a s ...
• Eyes Open in Gaza, June 2011
  The Gaza Strip is a heavily urbanized sliver of land, some 30 miles long, that nestles against the southeast corner of the Mediterranean and that for many reasons-- including the fact that more than 75% of its 1.6 million are refugees from within what is now Israel-- has always been a crucible f ...
• Chirpstory on Egypt
  Okay I get it. Some of you don't like my Chirpstories. But I do not have time to blog about everything I might want to, so tweeting is a good, quick substitute. And actually, I rather enjoy the speedy interactions on Twitter and other aspects of the system like hashtags. So for those f you inte ...
• In Gaza
  From Monday through Thursday, Bill the spouse and I were in Gaza. The time there was really great: We got to talk to some really interesting people. It is so important to be able to hear from them firsthand and see the conditions in which they're living-- not least because of the terrible isolat ...

frogblog

• Big ups to Air New Zealand for standing up aga ...
  Eighteen months ago, Air New Zealand was copping a lot of flack over its misogynist "cougar" advertising. Today, Air New Zealand has redeemed itself. It has taken a stand against EMA Northern Chief Executive Alasdair Thompson's appallingly misogynist comments attempting to justify women being ...
• Lobbyist breaches ramparts of NZ Broadcasting
  Barrie Saunders of lobbyists Saunders and Unsworth has assured the Government his firm will forgo other media clients after being appointed to TVNZ’s board of directors for three years.
• What Taliban hotel attack says about NZ milita ...
  It will be a difficult time for the families of NZSAS soldiers injured in Afghanistan and my sympathy goes out to them as the wait for updates on the medical situation of their loved ones. On the political level, the Taliban raid on the Intercontinental Hotel underlines the failure of the US-led ...
• Nick Smith lost for words on lignite mining
  It seems Environment Minister Nick Smith still doesn’t get it that “best practice” as far as lignite is concerned is to leave it in the ground. He was lost for words when challenged on this in Southland on Tuesday evening.
• NetHui
  Today I’m back again at the Nethui conference, which is bringing together a wide variety of people involved with internet issues. It’s the only conference I’ve been at where I feel comfortable tapping away at my laptop and Blackberry, because everyone else seems to be. I just feel left out not h ...

Patronus Analytical

• Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
• Aid worker killed in Iraq
• Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
• NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
• Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Ed Miliband Demonstrates How to Stay on Message
  Via Time's Adam Sorensen, this is pretty entertaining. It's Ed Miliband, leader of Britain's Labor Party, who's obviously memorized the talking point he wants to make and then proceeds to make it in precisely the same words five times in a row to every question asked. One gets the impression ...
• Fixing the Deficit By Doing Nothing
  Via Ezra Klein, here's an interesting chart. CRFB's Marc Goldwein shows us graphically the difference between the CBO's "Extended Baseline Scenario" — which assumes current law just goes on forever — and its "Alternative Fiscal Scenario," which is supposed to be a somewhat more realistic loo ...
• What if You Held a Class War and No One Showed Up?
  National Review's Robert Costa interviews rising right-wing attack dog Marco Rubio: Rubio tells us that he will respond to Obama’s recent press conference, where the president reveled in class-warfare bluster....“Talking about corporate jets and oil companies,” Rubio says, missed the poin ...
• Is DSK Innocent?
  The New York Times is reporting that the prosecution's rape case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn is "on the verge of collapse" because the hotel housekeeper at the center of the case has lied repeatedly and now has some very serious credibility problems. Serious enough that, if true, this wou ...
• How Much Oil Can Saudi Arabia Produce?
  There's a fair amount of guesswork involved in this, but Stuart Staniford takes a look at Saudi oil production over the past decade, compares it to the number of active rigs in the Kingdom, and comes to a gloomy pair of conclusions: Saudi Arabia currently is producing at capacity, which h ...

Insanity Report

• IC 255: Gay Pride
  Topics: Texas close to getting Confederate flag license plates The Throat punch Gay marriage passes in NY David Tyree and others made about gays getting married Protecting the sanctity of marriage by marrying a 16 year old Chris Brown’s back to whining Share with your friends:
• IC 254: Father’s Day Controversy
  Topics: Why is Father’s Day so complicated? Can men get 1 day please? PETA goes overboard…again Amy Winehouse is on drugs…again…why are we shocked? Weiner resigns and progressives are pissed at the President Share with your friends:
• IC 253: The Great Weiner Debate
  Topics: McDonald’s is racist? The Alamo Drafthouse shows why the customer isn’t always right The great circumcision debate Anthony Weiner and liberals turn an anthill into the Alps… Share with your friends:
• Lupe and the Blissful Ignorance of Not Voting
  So yesterday evening Ryce and I did a podcast, IC 252:  Pedophile Insurance (Cheap Plug) and one of the topics we talked about was Lupe Fiasco’s comments about President Obama being the world’s biggest terrorist. I had a few comments about that issue then but felt the need to write this follow ...
• IC 252: Pedophile Insurance
  Topics: Lupe acts like Lupe Is Obama a terrorist? How important is voting? A 2 vehicle, 1 bear accident Creflo Dollar defends Eddie Long Herman Cain…the gift that keeps giving…. Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

• Shrinking Arctic ice area is just the tip of t ...
  Old, thicker, ice cover has suffered extreme losses, says the University of Colorado's James Maslanik, providing more evidence of how humans are changing the planet.
• Climate rhythm shift brings early calving
  Chillingham cattle, which are able to breed all year round, are having more calves in winter due to earlier springs, reducing their chances of surviving a year, find Sarah Burthe of the UK's Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and colleagues, showing that even mammals with breeding flexibility are ...
• History warns of civilisation-crushing climate ...
  After giant sandworms cause an argument between me and my girlfriend about whether climate-related civilisation-wide disasters are possible, reviewing scientific evidence of such events through history force me to concede that they are.
• Vikings’ Greenland demise tells climate tale
  Two civilisations – including the Vikings – disappeared from Greenland at times of rapid climate change William D'Andrea of University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and colleagues find, but understanding how those changes happens is more important than the impact they had, he asserts.
• Greenland melt studies need greater accuracy
  Lack of detail undermines previous efforts to predict future Greenland ice melt from recent observations, says Ohio State University's Ian Howat, whose new method finds the island's three largest outlet glaciers lost enough ice to fill Lake Erie between 2000 and 2010

e!Science News

• The loudest animal is recorded for the first time
  Scientists have shown for the first time that the loudest animal on earth, relative to its body size, is the tiny water boatman, Micronecta scholtzi. At 99.2 decibels, this represents the equivalent of listening to an orchestra play loudly while sitting in the front row. read more
• Earlier exit from hospital after hip operation
  Discharged from the hospital within two days of a total hip replacement operation? It's possible, thanks to the new 'Fast Track' protocol that underwent testing in the U.S., in response to both patient requests for shorter hospital stays and economic realities of providing medical care. Accordin ...
• Karlsruhe Institute of Technology: Nature uses ...
  A musculoskeletal system so far unknown in the animal world was recently discovered in weevils. The hip of Trigonopterus oblongus does not consist of the usual hinges, but of joints based on a screw-and-nut system. This first biological screw thread is about half a millimeter in size and was stu ...
• Researchers map the physics of Tibetan singing ...
  Researchers have been investigating the connection between fifth century Himalayan instruments used in religious ceremonies and modern physics. read more
• Variation in susceptibility to a virus is the ...
  A new study shows that differences in the vulnerability of animals to a virus are crucial to understanding patterns of infection, and that variation in susceptibility to two marginally different viruses increases the number of infections when the two virus variants are present in the same animal ...

unEarthed

• Obama to Science: See Ya After the Elections!
  Under mounting political pressure, administration dumps science-based policy “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster tha ...
• Clean Power to the People
  Good air quality shouldn�t be a fairy tale Once upon a time, a valley known for being so fertile that it could grow much of America's produce came to be know ...
• Tr-Ash Talk: Coal Ash Making Headlines
  From Kentucky to Tennessee and West Virginia... Coal ash A round-up of coal ash in headlines this week: As we wait for the mark-up to begin on Rep. David M ...
• Persuasion by Coloring Book
  An energy company puts its fate into the hands of the kiddies Fracosaurus There is a curious technique employed by some companies involved in the resource- ...
• Unwanted Green Tourism Slimes Florida
  Algae season peaks with warm sun and abundant nutrients Green slime on Caloosahatchee River As I write this, half of the 75-mile long Caloosahatchee River i ...

Brave New Climate

• Open Thread 17
  The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting rules of courtesy apply, and at the very least your chat should relate to the general content of this ...
• Sustainable energy choices for the 21st Centur ...
  Climate change and sustainability of the global human enterprise are two of the most critical issues of the 21st Century. If we are to tackle these problems effectively, we need to make prudent, evidence-based choices about energy. This is the story told by this short (2 min, 35 sec) animated vi ...
• Clearing up the climate debate
  The Conversation is a recently established website set up to provide an independent source of information, analysis and commentary from the Australian university and research sector. Over the last few weeks, a group of climate scientists and academics from other relevant disciplines, have been ...
• Golf balls and elephants – energy densit ...
  I’m currently developing a short (2 minute, 30 second) animated video on nuclear power and climate change, with help from friend Ben Heard and the skills of Ron Furner and his team at Fury Films. Near the end of the vid, we talk about the vast amount of energy embodied in so-called ‘nuclear wast ...
• Greenpeace’s plan for India
  Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. This article follows on from his previous: What price of Indian independence? Greenpeace under the spotlight —————— In my previous ...

Indigenist Opinion

• 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 ...

Republicans are a Disease

• Jim DeMint – Fuck You
  Fuck you Jim. You want to slam the poor, the sick, and the elderly to “balance the budget” and won’t even consider cutting corporate welfare, or having the billionaires, or the companies they own stock in pay their fair share. I pray that there is justice in this world and some day you will be [...]
• Van Jones = Reboot the American Dream
  “We’re not broke, we’ve been robbed. Someone has our money”
• Exxon Gets 20 Billion a Year in Corporate Welfare
  The amount of taxes we don’t collect from Exxon plus their handouts equals around 20 billion dollars a year. And this is just one company. Spending isn’t the problem. Corporate welfare, and billionaire welfare is the problem.
• Politifact – Jon Stewart Was Right
  How hard did your dishonest organization have to twist  into a pretzel to name Stewart’s factual statement about Fox News viewers as false? Misinformed, uninformed, and lied to. Fox lemmings.
• Jobs Boehner?
  When will Boehner and the Republicans in the House stop attacking women, and seniors long enough to pass a bill to create jobs? No Ayn Rand voodoo economics fantasy tax cuts for billionaires trickle down crap. I mean real job creating legislation.

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

• Let’s Buy Our Government Back From Speci ...
  By Charles Hugh Smith The goal in buying our Congress back from the banking cartel et al. would not be to compete with the special interests for congressional favors — it would be to elect a Congress which would eradicate their power and influence altogether. [Read More]
• A99 #OpESR RICO Class Action Lawsuit Against t ...
  By David DeGraw Have Anonymous Operations against the Federal Reserve uncovered secret information? It appears so. A99 OpESR has just released a new video seeking legal counsel pertaining to a RICO Class Action Lawsuit against the Federal Reserve and it's shareholders. [Read More]
• Banana Republic Watch: The Supreme Court Vs Th ...
  By AmpedStatus Editor Recent rulings provide clear evidence that the Supreme Court has devolved into a kangaroo court which serves the interests of the global financial elite at the expense of the rights of the American people. [Read More]
• Bernanke Plunders the US Economy Then Says He ...
  The Federal Reserve's polices are destroying the real economy to enrich the "Too Big to Fail" banks. This is obvious to everyone, except Ben Bernanke.
• Don’t Believe The Hype: Obama’s Af ...
  Here's another perfect example of how the Obama Administration and the mainstream media manipulates public opinion and deceives the American public.

+972

• BREAKING: U.S. flotilla boat stopped by Greek ...
  The ship’s organizers had decided to sail without permission from the Greek authorities, claiming delays in its departure were politically motivated. Earlier, Greece issued a blanket ban on all ships sailing to Gaza from its ports. The Greek Coast Guard intercepted the Gaza flotilla’s American ...
• Letter to Israeli left: Choose one state, not ...
  The solution to this conflict will not be the separation of both people into two different states, but rather, it is living together and coexisting with equal rights that will bring an end to this conflict. By Jalal Abukhater Over the last few years, I’ve seen increasing numbers of Israelis join ...
• Photo Essay: Rush hour at Bethlehem Checkpoint
  by Porter Speakman, Jr. Bethlehem, West Bank – Thursday, June 30, 2011. I set my alarm for 4:45 AM and headed out of Jerusalem to take some video at the Bethlehem checkpoint for an upcoming project. Jerusalem was still very quite, a stark difference for what was awaiting in the nearby Palest ...
• WATCH: Extremists harass Justice Minister whil ...
  Right-wing extremists Noam Federman and Itamar Ben-Gvir aren’t known for their good manners, to say the least. Which is why it isn’t much of a surprise to see these two heckle Israeli Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman while praying at one of the holiest (and controversial) Jewish (and Muslim) sites ...
• Flotilla organizers: Greece complicit with Isr ...
  Athens — At a press conference held at 3pm local time on Thursday, organizers of the US boat to Gaza, The Audacity of Hope, unveiled their ship to international press corps. Roughly 70 journalists , including a news crew from Israel’s Channel 10 as well as other Israeli journalists, were in atte ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• $100 million for stormwater harvesting and re ...
  Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water, Senator Don Farrell, today announced the opening of a third stormwater grants round to ease pressure on drinking water supplies and improve the quality of our urban waterways.
• $118 million for Coorong and Lower Lakes reco ...
  The Gillard Government will provide an additional $118 million to ensure a healthy and sustainable future for South Australia's Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth region.
• Nominations open for Prime Minister's Water W ...
  Commercial and industrial companies that can demonstrate recent water savings are encouraged to nominate for the 2011 Prime Minister's Water Wise Award.
• Gillard Government delivers first sustainable ...
  The Gillard Government today released the nation's first ever dedicated sustainable population strategy which sets out the framework, backed by new funding for a sustainable Australia.
• New National Housing Supply Council Appointments
  Minister for Sustainability, Population and Communities, Tony Burke, today announced the new membership of the National Housing Supply Council to support housing affordability by providing essential information and analysis on housing supply across Australia.

Matt Weidner Blog

• The $8.5 Billion Bank of America Deal Will Hur ...
  The institutional players in one act of Fraudclosuregate are cashing in on an enormous payofff….$8.5 Billion! And guess who gets sacrificed in all this?  YOU….the American people! Did you need one more example of two sets of rules? Of fundamental unfairness…. The light grows more dim every day. ...
• The US, A Nation in Foreclosure
  Sometimes we need pictures to help tell the story.  I have suggested that everyone involved in the process, attorneys, judges, legislators, policymakers ask themselves a very simple question: “What will we do with all the foreclosed homes?” Our economy is bad and it keeps getting worse.  Jobs ...
• THE Next Mortgage Bombshelll….
  The private insurers that cover $700 billion of U.S. mortgages are facing an onslaught of foreclosures. The big three—MGIC, Radian, PMI—are at risk. The housing market has been a cruel goddess, destroying the finances of millions of Americans and driving the economy and financial system to near ...
• A World Wide Credit Catastrophe….
  I remember reading a little book a while ago, a book that talked about universal human truths, principles and a set of guidelines that should be followed by people and the institutions that govern them. The book pushed hard on things like working hard, very hard and looking out for those around ...
• Florida’s Governor Rick Scott- Throw Hom ...
  Rick Scott, Florida popular governor made a special surprise appearance at the Florida Bar Annual Meeting where he urged attorneys and Bar leadership to GET THEM FORECLOSURES MOVING….IF COURTS CAN’T SPEED THINGS THOUGH….TAKE EM OUT OF COURT AND LET’S GO NON-JUDICIAL Now we all need to be very, v ...

abelard - news

• watching tdf broadcasts | the Tour de France a ...
  To help your final preparations for the watching greatest show on Earth.
• Cathedrals 8 : Senlis - how a typical cathedr ...
  From donations, greater funds and fashion, to fires and whitewash brush-wielding Italians, this cathedral is repeatedly renewed and refreshed.
• socialist planning - your council | fun news a ...
  "A real own goal."
• for those who don't understand the uk to irish ...
  When you hold the debts of a very large creditor, you really do not want them to default.
• obama's keynesian stimulus has failed | politi ...
  Graphic illustration, usinhg unemployment as the indicator, of how the idea of throwing money at a problem does not work.

The Parallel Parliament

• My Graduation
  He just turned 14 this past week and last night was his Grade 8 graduation – high school now beckons. LIke every other parent present, I watched as my son Ater strode across the stage to accept his diploma to the cheering of his classmates. Closing in on six feet in height, he beamed from [...]
• Strawberry Fields
  What does a riding association do when its chosen member lost in a recent election? Historically there have been numerous answers – hold fundraisers, find a leader to follow, begin organizing immediately for the next campaign. This list is correct, as far as it goes. Perhaps Liberals, and others ...
• Strawberry Fields
  What does a riding association do when its chosen member lost in a recent election? Historically there have been numerous answers – hold fundraisers, find a leader to follow, begin organizing immediately for the next campaign. This list is correct, as far as it goes. Perhaps Liberals, and others ...
• Speciation
  Even for someone as brilliant as Charles Darwin, it took a while to figure it out. He had chafed at the iron rules of scientific societies, feeling that they were populated by elite patrons who would only verify certain scientific advancements and discoveries that came through established channe ...
• Not What, But Why
  The flourishing of grassroots activity taking place around the rebuilding of the Liberal Party has produced a multitude of ideas coming from numerous regions of the country. I’ve enjoyed the perspectives and the zeal with which they are brought forth. It seems to me though that we might have the ...

Vaccine Awakening

• Vaccines & Liberty: Let Freedom Ring
  by Barbara Loe Fisher My country, ’tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing:
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
From every mountain side,
Let freedom ring.[1] What is liberty? Webster’s Dictionary defines Liberty as “the quality or state of being free,” ...
• In Memoriam: Infant Deaths & Vaccination
  by Barbara Loe Fisher Memorial Day is for remembering those, who have fought and died to defend America and preserve our civil liberties, including freedom of thought, speech, religious belief and conscience. So every Memorial Day I remember the children, who have died after receiving state ma ...
• Whooping Cough Outbreaks & Vaccine Failures
  UPDATE: CLICK HERE TO VIEW NVIC'S PERTUSSIS VACCINE & DISEASE PAGE by Barbara Loe Fisher Reports of whooping cough outbreaks in California1,2 and in other states this summer are nothing new. Every four to five years – no matter how high the vaccination rate is - there are reports of w ...
• Using Fear & Prejudice to Attack Vaccine Exemp ...
  by Barbara Loe Fisher This summer, inaccurate and misleading information about B. pertussis whooping cough and the pertussis vaccine is being put out there by medical doctors, who should know better. Media campaigns designed to create fear about infectious disease are nothing new. This ...
• Amy Wallace & Yellow Journalism
  by Barbara Loe Fisher On October 17, 2009 I was at the Atlanta airport on my way back to Washington, D.C. when I stopped at a newsstand. Like most weary travelers waiting for a plane, I was looking for something to read that would give me a break from my work, which included, two weeks earl ...

2020 Science

• Lost in the Maize
  My son Alex’s school puts on a highly prestigious musical each year. Competition for the lead roles is tough. Closed-door auditions are held to ensure the most talented kids get the leading roles â reward-through-merit in action you might say. Apart from the fact that some parents involved in th ...
• The geopolitics of nanotechnology – an ideaolo ...
  Getting an unbiased perspective on nanotechnology is probably as close to impossible as you can get.  Governments invest in nanotech because they believe in its ability to inspire new research and stimulate economies and social change.  Corporations invest in nanotech because they think it will ...
• Lost in the Maize
  Hegswarm – what a great word!  Far more elegant and versatile than the “Gray Goo” that has nibbled at the heels of nanotechnology for the past decade. Over the holiday break, I’ve escaped academia for the relative sanity of family reunions and mince pies, and have been catching up on some readi ...
• The safety of nanotechnology-based sunscreens ...
  A few weeks ago, I set Friends of the Earth a challenge - What is your worst case estimate of the human health risk from titanium dioxide and/or zinc oxide nanoparticles in sunscreens? The challenge came out of an article from FoE on nanomaterials and sunscreens, which I subsequently critiqued o ...
• Knitting science
  Sitting in a meeting on informal science education recently, I was intrigued to see a respected academic working on her knitting.  And she wasn’t the only one.  Now I may have had a something of a sheltered life, but in over twenty years of attending scientific conferences and workshops, I thi ...

Reader Supported News

• Second Gaza Flotilla Ship Allegedly Sabotaged
  Excerpt: "The sabotage claims against Israel Wednesday succeeded similar claims made by the operators of the Juliano vessel, a Greek flotilla ship which also requires repair. Twenty activists that had intended to sail with the Saorise from Gocek port, in Turkey, will have to seek a new mode of t ...
• What Happened on the Danziger Bridge During Ka ...
  Summary: "The shootings by police on Danziger Bridge on Sept. 4, 2005 have become one of the most infamous moments in the post-Katrina history of New Orleans. Five NOPD officers are now on trial in federal court facing charges stemming from an incident that left two people dead and four seriousl ...
• Bank Errors Continue to Cause Wrongful Foreclo ...
  Paul Kiel writes: "Four years into the foreclosure crisis, banks say they've made major improvements in how they handle struggling homeowners. They've promised, for example, not to foreclose on homeowners who are being considered for mortgage modifications. But that's still happening." Jason ...
• Blagojevich Found Guilty on 17 Counts
  Bob Secter and Jeff Coen report: "A federal jury today convicted former Gov. Rod Blagojevich on 17 of 20 counts, finding he brazenly abused the powers of his office in a series of attempted shakedowns captured on undercover government recordings." Former Governor of Illinois Rod R. Blagojevic ...
• Blagojevich Found Guilty on 17 Counts
  Bob Secter and Jeff Coen report: "A federal jury today convicted former Gov. Rod Blagojevich on 17 of 20 counts, finding he brazenly abused the powers of his office in a series of attempted shakedowns captured on undercover government recordings." Former Governor of Illinois Rod R. Blagojevic ...

War Resisters League

• No Surprises from the War-Makers!
  Well, Obama made it clear on Wednesday. His war in Afghanistan will go on through 2014 and probably far beyond. While some may have hoped for a shift in his approach, many of us didn’t expect much, and we certainly didn’t get much. The change in Afghanistan that he spoke about, meant to be heard ...
• In Afghanistan Speech, Obama Offers Token Troo ...
  President Obama passed up an opportunity to recognize our democracy and respect the views of the vast majority of the American people. June 22, 2011 President Obama’s speech tonight violated one of his most important campaign promises: to “end the mind-set that leads to war.” To the contrary, hi ...
• Money for Our Communities, Not for War!
  Take Action! It’s very encouraging that the US Conference of Mayors just passed a strong resolution initiated by CODEPINK for bringing our “war dollars home” (read press release or NY Times article on this). Unfortunately, later this week the House of Representatives is poised to pass the Defens ...
• Not Justice, Not Victory: Just Another Murder ...
  “I keep thinking of how awful it was to hear that there were people actually celebrating on 9-11. Now I look at the TV and see the same thing.” -Family member of a man killed in the World Trade Center of September 11, 2001. The reported killing of Osama bin Laden by a CIA operation [...]
• The Broken Rifle in Kabul
  The above photograph, of Scott Schaeffer-Duffy from the Catholic Worker in Worcester, Massachusetts standing beside street art made by local Afghan youth, was taken in Kabul by WRL National Committee and Organizing Task Force member Jim Haber when he was on a recent delegation with Voices for Cr ...

Center for a Livable Future

• Puget Sound Food Network Connects Locally Grow ...
  June 9-12, Amanda Behrens and I journeyed to Missoula, Montana for the joint annual meetings of the Agriculture Food and Human Values Society (AFHVS), Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) and the Society for Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN). The conference, entitled Food ...
• Now in the Senate, PAMTA Pushes Forward
  Last week, Senators Diane Feinstein (D-CA) and Susan Collins (R-ME) took an important stand in support of America’s health by reintroducing the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (S. 1211). The bill aims to prevent the misuse of antibiotics in agriculture to ensure their conti ...
• New USDA Report Stresses Regulations on Antibi ...
  A new technical review by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, “A Focus on Antimicrobial Resistance,” calls the issue a growing public health concern worldwide, stating the misuse of antimicrobial drugs in food animal production and human medicine is the main factor accelerating antimicrobial res ...
• CLF opposes Rehberg amendment, antibiotic-resi ...
  The FY 2012 Agriculture appropriations bill, voted out of the House Appropriations Committee last week, includes an amendment that would severely limit the authority of FDA to regulate the use of antimicrobials, including antibiotics, in food animal production-a key concern of public health rese ...
• Food and Farm Policy: this is not the image an ...
  Recently, my boyfriend offered to give me a dollar for every blog I started with, “Stop what you’re doing, ’cause I’m about to ruin the image and the style that you’re used to.” I responded to his idea with a barrage of reasons why it was ridiculous and certainly not appropriate in my line of [. ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

• Leaving Afghanistan
  Seven Afghanistan experts review the president's plans for ending the war.
• Raging at Rawalpindi
  American leaders are furious with Pakistan’s military in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing. But twisting arms will only backfire.
• The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest War
  An FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
• Crazy Like a Fox
  In a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
• Addicted to Contractors
  The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• RCEN e-Bulletin: June 29, 2011 Edition
  Canadian Environmental Network (RCEN) The June 29, 2011 edition of the RCEN e-Bulletin is now available on the Canadian Environmental Network website. Contents Network�News What is Rio+20�Anyway? Call for Delegates: 11 You ...
• Pembina reacts to Government of Alberta decisi ...
  Pembina Institute 24 Jun 2011 CALGARY — The Pembina Institute's Chris Severson-Baker made the following statement in response to today's announcement of bonus credits in the provin ...
• Volunteer Opportunity: Wildflower Seed and Sow
  Position:  Volunteer Organization:  Nature Conservancy of Canada Conservation Volunteers ...
• Volunteer Opportunity: Antelope-friendly Fences
  Position:� Volunteer Organization:� Nature Conservancy of Canada Conservation Volunteers ...
• Woodland caribou battle goes to Federal Court
  Ecojustice Alberta Wilderness Association Pembina Institute 22 Jun 2011 EDMONTON — Environment ...

Stop NATO

• Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: July 1, 2011
  ==== Libya: 13,324 NATO Sorties, 5,005 Strike Missions NATO Preparing Ground Operation In Libya: Russian Envoy NATO Chief: Main Objective Is To Topple Libyan Government Russia: NATO Breaches International Law In Libya Saudis Tell NATO Of “Untold, Dramatic Consequences” Regarding Iran Singapore T ...
• Nathaniel Hawthorne on war: Drinking out of sk ...
  Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Nathaniel Hawthorne From Chiefly About War Matters By a Peaceable Man (1862) Will the time ever come again, in America, when we may live half a score of years without once seeing the likeness of a soldier, except it be in the festal mar ...
• Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 30, 2011
  ==== Killing Of Libyan Civilians Weakens NATO’s War Stance Canadian Warship Deploys To Mediterranean For NATO’s Libyan War Quarter Million Displaced: NATO Air Strikes, Raids Fuel Afghan Refugee Crisis U.S. Building Alliance To Effect Regime Change In Syria Serbia Submits Kosovo Organ Trafficking ...
• Plutarch: On war and its opponents
  Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Plutarch Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Translated by John Dryden From Tiberius Gracchus …Tiberius, maintaining an honourable and just cause, and possessed of eloquence sufficient to have made a less creditable action appear pla ...
• Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 29, 2011
  ==== Afghanistan: NATO Loses Three Drones In As Many Days Two NATO Soldiers Killed In Southern Afghanistan Next U.S./NATO Afghan War Commander: 100,000 Foreign Troops To Stay NATO Chief, North Atlantic Council To Visit Georgia Germany: Fighter Jets Scream Overhead As NATO Rehearses Next War Saud ...

Before It's News

• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: American ...
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• Eats on Feets
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Intel Hub

• British Government Devised Propaganda Campaign ...
  Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com July 1, 2011 Just 48 hours after the onset of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, the British government devised a propaganda campaign to downplay the severity of the crisis, a talking point that was hastily parroted by leading global warming alarmist George ...
• What Will Fracking Do To Your Food Supply?
  The controversial gas-drilling practice is tainting water. Your food might be next. Fracking Pollution GiltTaste By Barry Estabrook June 30th, 2011 There’s a stunning moment in the Academy Award-nominated documentary Gasland, where a man touches a match to his running faucet—to have it explode i ...
• Police Taser, Beat, Pepper Spray Mentally Hand ...
  By Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com June 30, 2011 Dayton police tasered, pepper-sprayed and beat a mentally handicapped teen and then charged him with assault. What did the disabled boy do to deserve this onslaught? The police officer “mistook” his speech impediment for a sign of “disrespect”. Si ...
• Radiation in Our Food
  Fox News By Chris Kilham June 30th, 2011 Though the horrendous tsunami that hit Japan on March 12, 2011 seems like old news in the midst of today’s headlines, the crippled nuclear power plants at Fukishima Daichi continue to spew radiation into water, air and soil, with no end in sight. Even as ...
• Smart Meters: Privacy Issues, Radiation, Elect ...
  By Aaron McCollum Truth Survival June 30th, 2011 Smart Meters are yet another tool of Command & Control by those who have their tentacles of power over those of us trying to live a life free of corruption, pollution and elitist rule. These devices are infesting the homes and businesses of Americ ...

FRS

• Kuala Lumpur: Putting a nice face on state rep ...
  [The Inspector General of Police in Kuala Lumpur is instructing cops that, no matter what they do, do it with a smiley face; put the iron fists in velvet gloves. -- Frontlines ed.] Be good to look good KL: A more approachable police force Wednesday, June 29th, 2011 10:50:00 INSPECTOR-GENERAL of ...
• Kuala Lumpur: Police To Detain Instigators, an ...
  June 29, 2011 KUALA LUMPUR, June 29 (Bernama) — The police will detain anyone who uses words or displays symbols to instigate the people to join the illegal rallies planned by several groups in the city on July 9, Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar said today. “Not only attire, but ...
• Greece: ‘We don’t owe! We don&#821 ...
  More video of Greek riots, 18 detained, 4 police injured
• Egypt: Nearly 600 injured in violent Egyptian ...
  NEARLY 600 people were injured in violent clashes between protesters and security forces in the Egyptian capital that flared last night and were still raging today, Al Jazeera reported. Protesters frustrated by the slow pace of reform under the interim military rulers since the fall of Hosni Mub ...
• Nepal: Maoist Party factions negotiating terms ...
  Tuesday, June 28, 2011 UCPN (Maoist) struggles to resume Central Committee meeting POST B BASNET/KIRAN PUN KATHMANDU, June 28: As factionalism and disputes over the tactical line deepen the internal crisis in the party, Chairman of the UCPN (Maoist) Pushpa Kamal Dahal struggles to maintain his h ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

• Reader, I am off to hold the grandbabies
  I wrote my Sunday column about the lil' shavers -- which, upon reflection, is completely uncool and I strive so mightily to be cool. As I write this, the babies are still in the NICU, but only because they're super-cute and the nurses can't stand the thought of turning loose of them and I don' ...
• Today in Courtroom 3B
  It was deju vu all over again at Waterbury Superior Court in testimony at the second St. Francis Hospital child sexual abuse trial. Today, the court watched videotaped testimony of Dr. Paul Stagg, of Vermont, a former intern at Saint Francis Hospital, and they listened to live testimony from Dr ...
• Being green
  Sarah Laskow at Grist says what you buy matters more than where you live. You can read more here, or here.
• And while we're on the subject of worker safet ...
  ...check out what ProPublica has to say about nuclear safety. (A hint? It isn't pretty. Nor is it safe.) Reuters photo
• How committed are you to not seeing your taxes ...
  Pres. Obama said yesterday we should accept that our taxes will rise. Can you live with that? Can you see an alternative?

Associated Content

• NBA Lockout Begins with Failure to Reach Colle ...
  The NBA has locked out its players, creating a new work stoppage that could undermine the 2011-12 season.Contributor: Ryan Christopher DeVault Published: Jun 30, 2011
• Diana at 50 Cover is Disturbing, Distasteful
  My reaction was immediate to the feature about Princess Diana in the latest Newsweek magazine: it's distasteful.Contributor: Hobson Lopes Published: Jun 30, 2011
• The Land of Lincoln Heads for the Poor House
  Illinois' financial irresponsibility has a negative effect on the state's everyday citizens.Contributor: Gregory Schmidt Published: Jun 30, 2011
• Frontrunner Javier Colon Crowned Winner of 'Th ...
  Two months of paring down some really talented young singers and then, on Wednesday evening, NBC's hit reality singing competition "The Voice" crowned a winner...Contributor: Saul Relative Published: Jun 30, 2011
• Mind-Boggling Political Gaffes that Have Ended ...
  From "standing with our North Korean allies" to overhauling our Constitution, here are some of the worst gaffes political candidates have made during their campaigns in recent years.Contributor: K.C. Dermody Published: Jun 29, 2011

Popsci - Science

• Fireworks + Explodables + Ultra-High Speed Pha ...
  The Phantom line of ultra-high-speed video cameras have held PopSci's rapt attention even before the v12 model won our Best of What's New Award in 2008. So what better way to celebrate our nation's independence than aiming a Phantom v641 from New Jersey's Vision Research at all manner of explo ...
• Are We Prepared for a Catastrophic Solar Storm?
  A solar disaster isn't a question of if, but when--and it looks like soon One of the biggest disasters we face would begin about 18 hours after the sun spit out a 10-billion-ton ball of plasma--something it has done before and is sure to do again. When the ball, a charged cloud of particles cal ...
• Sherlock the German Corpse-Sniffing Vulture Is ...
  Sherlock the cadaver sniffing vulture isn’t working out so well for police in Germany. Authorities there have spent the last few months trying to train a team of three vultures to work like cadaver dogs in the air, covering wide swaths of territory while using their keen sense of smell to lead ...
• Spiders Fleeing Pakistan's Floodwater Take to ...
  Giant webs give the landscape an eerie feel Last summer’s floods in Pakistan displaced millions of people--and millions of spiders. Although spiders rarely migrate to trees during natural disasters, the flooding was so heavy and prolonged, they had to climb trees and remain there. According to ...
• After Thousands of Years of Research, We're St ...
  Today in the Things We Thought We Understood But Really Don’t file, a Northwestern University researcher has upended what was previously thought to be a pretty good understanding of how static electricity works. Static electricity goes beyond the usual theory that it's a simple imbalance of cha ...

Veterans Today

• Germany False Flag Forecast, Summer 2011
  Informed sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, tell us that two years ago the Angela Merkle government was helping to arrange a WMD attack in Western Europe. Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb, a contrived French-Algerian-Israelis front organization, was to be blamed.
• US Knesset Resolution 185 Reconsidered: To be ...
  This week the United States Senate unanimously adopted a resolution drafted by its masters, the State of Israel and AIPAC
• Universal Healthcare Impossible Without Health ...
  The biggest, and least informative, political issue of this new century has been the insane push to establish “Universal healthcare.”
• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...
  United Launch Services, Littleton, Colo., is being awarded a $1,130,820,000 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for launch capability.
• Gilad Atzmon: Gaza Flotilla vs. Diaspora Jewry
  If the Israelis themselves clearly regard Diaspora Jews as their ‘foreign brigades’, surely we should also be allowed to look into the issue, and examine the lethal continuum between the Jewish State and its vile supporters around the world.

War is Business

• China-Pakistan Port Deal Another Sign Of Wanin ...
  Buy Baluchistan Buy Baluchistan • Read more at WSJ.com: World News
• Temptations Of The Flesh: GOP Freshmen Can&#82 ...
  Sell promises Sell promises • Read more at National Security on iWatch News
• CJ Chivers Examines Libyan Rebels’ Seabo ...
  Buy scarcity Buy scarcity • Read more at NYT > Home Page
• Afghan Soldier Says ‘The Quality Of Ever ...
  Buy bad apples Buy bad apples • Read more at The Killid Group website - News on Afghanistan reports analysis pictures cartoon
• Louis Berger Group Fudges The Numbers In $343 ...
  Buy superfood Buy superfood • Read more at Accountability on iWatch News

Hudson's Weather & Climate

• Storms follow hottest day since July 2006
  Thunderstorms have continued to affect parts of East Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, East Anglia and the Southeast of England this afternoon, following yesterday's heat. Temperatures across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Monday reached 32C (90F) for the first time since July 2006. Both Robin Hood ai ...
• A sleeping sun could have a big impact on the ...
  News from scientists in America claiming that the sun is about to enter a prolonged quiet period in its history has caught the headlines this week. Whether this particular prediction comes true remains to be seen, as some scientists, including those at NASA, have consistently been proved wron ...
• Deluge follows drought order
  Sunday saw the heaviest rainfall of the year across parts of Lincolnshire, only 48 hours on from the drought order issued by the Environment Agency for parts of Eastern England. 14.4mm of rain was recorded at Coningsby yesterday. This brings the total since Friday to 28mm of rain, more than hal ...
• Flaming June could end up a washout
  June's weather looks set to deteriorate further as low pressure intensifies its grip across the UK. The timing couldn't be more awkward for the Environment Agency who this morning issued a drought order for parts of Eastern England. Only hours later, the Met Office issued yellow warnings in ...
• Global temperature update for May
  The global temperature according to the UAH satellite measure was +0.13C above the 30 year running mean in May, showing virtually no change from April's anomaly. Global temperatures are slowly recovering as La Nina fades in the Pacific, but remain much cooler compared with May last year, ...

Internat'l Political Economy

• If EMU is Muddled, What More EU Migration Policy?
  If you think discord in economic coordination and monitoring are rife in the EU--Greece, Ireland and Portugal are really forcing these issues--what more migration? A side effect of the various uprisings in the Middle East is a steady stream of migrants heading northward to find better lives. Thi ...
• Fondly Recalling Thatcher's Handbag of IPE Doom
  It is one of the most famous incidences in European integration history: Although the exact wording is still being debated to this day, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher famously went before her European Community colleagues in 1984 demanding that the UK not pay so much into the in ...
• The PRC@LSE, Niall Ferguson and Me
  From left to right: your humble IPE blogger (in need of a haircut), Li Fan who is Deputy Director of the Department of Policy Planning at the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Niall Ferguson who is Philippe Roman Chair for 2010-2011 "Emmanuel, let's take a photo with Professor Ferguson b ...
• Countering Rising Food Prices at the G-20 (Sor ...
  In case you missed it, the G-20 recently held a meeting of agricultural ministers in gay (as in happy) Paris. Given the wide range of global governance problems, focusing on things other than finance is welcome even if they ultimately return to matters of Mammon. France being the current head of ...
• Perhaps We Should Cheer the Rising 'China Price'
  Uh-oh, here we go again with another one of these "China is pricing itself out of the cheap labour market" stories. Having recently made a mini-roundup of these, let me stick with what's supposedly new in this latest TIME story. At the national level, things are undeniably on the way up: In what ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• Will Barack Obama Use The 14th Amendment As A ...
  As the deadline to raise the debt ceiling draws closer, many are now wondering if Barack Obama will try to go around Congress if a deal is not reached by August 2nd.  In particular, a number of voices (including U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner) are now touting the 14th ...
• Shell Game
  The entire U.S. financial system has become a gigantic shell game.  While it is still in motion, a shell game can be mesmerizing to watch.  But when it ends the consequences can be painful.  So exactly what is a shell game?  According to Wikipedia, a shell game "is portrayed as ...
• 50 U.S. Health Care Statistics That Will Absol ...
  The U.S. health care system has become one gigantic money making scam, and you are about to see the statistics that prove it.  Today, the United States spends more on health care per person than any other country in the world by far.  The health insurance companies and the big p ...
• Economic Recovery?
  If this is supposed to be an "economic recovery" it sure is pathetic.  In fact, as you will read below, the numbers tell us that this is the worst economic recovery that the American economy has ever seen.  If what we had experienced was a "normal" recession and a "normal" recov ...
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Prepper Dad? Even Robert K ...
  Are you familiar with Robert Kiyosaki? He is best known for the "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" series of books.  Over 26 million books authored by Kiyosaki have been sold and he is recognized as a financial expert by millions of people across the globe.  Well, guess what?  Even Robert Ki ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

• “If a Tree Falls”: New Documentary on Daniel M ...
  A new documentary, “If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front,” tells the story of environmental activist Daniel McGowa...
• Iron Rail Infoshop Re-Opens It's Doors in New ...
  ...
• Announcing the Re-release of Flaming Arrows by ...
  After falling out of print some time ago, the re-release of Flaming Arrows by Rod Coronado is back from the printer. This edition has 17 additio...
• Free Radio Berkeley Summer Radio Camps
  Free Radio Berkeley is pleased to announce the 2011 schedule of the Summer Radio Camp program. In the fifth year of being offered, these Su...
• North Eastern Anarchist #15, 2011
  The Northeastern Anarchist is the English-language magazine of the Northeastern Federation of Anarchist-Communists (NEFAC), covering class strug...

E U Times

• Terrestrial bacteria can live on Mars
  Can there be life on Mars, at least in the form of micro-organisms? Scientists have not been able to answer this question clearly. What if they could do the opposite – simulate “Martian” conditions for terrestrial bacteria in a laboratory and see if they survive? Such an experiment was designed ...
• Iran plans to send monkey to space
  Head of Iran Space Agency (ISA) Hamid Fazeli says the country plans to send a live monkey into space onboard the country’s domestically-made Kavoshgar 5 (Explorer 5) satellite carrier. âKavoshgar 5, with a weight of 285 kg, will blast off into space with a living creature (a monkey) in the next ...
• Sarkozy knocked to ground in public
  French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been grabbed and almost knocked to the ground by a man in the southern French town of Brax. The attacker yanked Sarkozy’s suit by the shoulder and knocked him to the ground while he reached over a metal barricade to greet onlookers, AP reported on Thursday. T ...
• Asia to become one huge megacity
  By 2025, seven of ten largest metropolitan cities of the world will be located in Asia. China holds all chances to become one of the world leaders on the level of urbanization of the population. China is currently experiencing a peak of migration of the rural population in large cities. In gener ...
• China asks Nepal to curb Free Tibet movement
  China has once again asked Nepal to curb âFree Tibetâ movement from its soil, later strongly upholds One China policy and believes that Tibet and Taiwan are integral parts of China. China is Nepal’s northern neighbor and Tibet shares border with Nepal along its northern side. The newly appointed ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

• 2011-07-01 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...
  Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update," constantly updated throughout each day. The blog tracks stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks but also follows stories related to freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. All the times are GMT. 02:15 PM The ...
• 2011-07-01 Cables reveal hidden sides of Nicar ...
  TweetHambre Cero (“Zero Hunger”) has been an ambitious social welfare program that president Ortega’s FSLN(Sandanista National Liberation Front) party declared in 2007. More than 3 years after that, cables released by WikiLeaks reveal hidden mechanisms and progression of the programs throughout ...
• 2011-06-30 Big bank censorship of Wikileaks, " ...
  TweetSince December 2011, five major US financial institutions: VISA, MasterCard, PayPal, Western Union, and the Bank of America have been trying to economically strangle WikiLeaks as a result of political pressure from Washington. The attack has blocked over 90% of the non-profit organization’ ...
• 2011-06-30 UK Police Stop & Search Citizens Du ...
  Tweet (photo: David King) Public workers, up to seven hundred and fifty thousand teachers and civil servants, are alleged to have participated in a June 30 general strike called for in the United Kingdom after UK Parliament passed changes to pensions and retirement, specifically, increasing the ...
• 2011-06-30 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...
  Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update," constantly updated throughout each day. The blog tracks stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks but also follows stories related to freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. All the times are GMT. 02:40 AM Con ...

U N News

• Promising UN help, Ban calls for Caribbean reg ...
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged Caribbean nations to combat organized crime on a regional level and promised United Nations assistance in the fight.
• Cholera cases increasing in Haiti and Dominica ...
  Cases of cholera are on the rise in Haiti and neighbouring Dominican Republic, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) reported today, saying more than 18,000 new cases in Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital, have been recorded recently.
• Guatemala: UN envoy against sexual violence ha ...
  A United Nations envoy today welcomed the arrest of a former top Guatemalan military figure accused of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, saying the arrest sends a strong signal that justice can prevail in the Central American country.
• Give aid directly to Haitian institutions to b ...
  A new United Nations report says that the international community can help create jobs and support the Haitian Government in ensuring basic services by investing directly in the country's people and institutions.
• Haiti: UN mission urges formation of a governm ...
  The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti today urged the country's authorities to immediately form a government that will serve the people and fulfil their expectations after Parliament rejected the man nominated by President Michel Martelly to serve as prime minister.

Conspiracy Reality TV

• Geneticists Reveal E. Coli Super Bug O104 Was ...
  Their scientists broke down the genetics of this E. coli strain it's call O104, and if you look at it you can read the history, and the history doesn't lie. This strain was exposed repeatedly to all the 8 major classes of antibiotics that are sold by the drug companies today. This practically gu ...
• The Big Brother State and Global Surveillance
  But this also allows the secret services to gather explicit information about the nationality of every traveler. Explicit information such as your fingerprints, the color of your eyes, and a high resolution picture of your face. Information you would usually expect to be taken from suspected cri ...
• State Officials Privates Left Sore by TSA for ...
  "And finally I said you're punishing me for opting out, aren't you?". And to her credit she said 'Yes we are'.
• The Age of Transitions – Eugenics and Transhum ...
  In 1921, the American Eugenics Society was formed and began propaganda campaigns which included the promotion of eugenics in churches, schools, and state fair exhibitions. Funding for American eugenics came from the Carnegie, Harriman, and Rockefeller families among others. Eugenics was being ac ...
• CNN News Crew Threatened By Police in Joplin M ...
  We can tell you about some strange things going on here. The morgue, where these bodies are right now, is a secret morgue. And it literally is secret. You call up officials that can tell us where the morgue is an they say it's a secret we can't tell you. Families don't know where the morgue is. ...

Rewilding Institute

• Trekking for Rewilding – Exploring Strands of ...
  Text and photos by John Davis Wildlands Network/TrekEast Dave Foreman summarized brilliantly in his latest Around the Campfire why we need an Eastern Wildway and what basic steps need to be taken to achieve it.  As a Rewilding Fellow, and co-founder of the Wildlands Project with Dave and other s ...
• Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Rewildin ...
  Part One For nigh onto fifteen years, I’ve been talking and writing about a North American Wildlands Network anchored by four Continental Wildways (at first named MegaLinkages).  The North American Wildlands Network is rooted in the conservation pathway of Rewilding, an offshoot of the scientifi ...
• Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Rewildin ...
  Part One For nigh onto fifteen years, I’ve been talking and writing about a North American Wildlands Network anchored by four Continental Wildways (at first named MegaLinkages).  The North American Wildlands Network is rooted in the conservation pathway of Rewilding, an offshoot of the scientifi ...
• Record Big Game Die-offs in Northern Rockies
  Winter die-offs are always characteristic of ungulate populations that have exceeded natural carrying capacity, usually because of management efforts to increase numbers for the benefit of hunters. In areas where wolves and other large predators are well established, ungulates seldom perish from ...
• Record Big Game Die-offs in Northern Rockies
  Winter die-offs are always characteristic of ungulate populations that have exceeded natural carrying capacity, usually because of management efforts to increase numbers for the benefit of hunters. In areas where wolves and other large predators are well established, ungulates seldom perish from ...

Asia Sentinel

• "Fixing" Homosexuality in Hong Kong
  Social Welfare Department Invites Christian ‘Gay Conversion Therapist’ to Train Staff
• Asia and International Law
  Law of the sea, law of the jungle
• Japan's Power Crunch
  A still-crippled country enters a period of high energy use
• Hong Kong's Autonomy Crumbles
  Government sounds the retreat on major policy issues
• Bombings Pick up in Burma
  Some hit close to home, in the government's new capital of Naypyidaw

We Know the Lies

• Congress To Vote On Declaration of World War l ...
• Congress To Vote On Declaration of World War l ...
• HAARP... Government MANDATED! Floods Being C ...
• HAARP... Government MANDATED! Floods Being C ...
• POTENTAL Fukushima Fallout Forecast ... May 7- ...

Tatumba 2.0

• Darwin was right: Arrival of the Post-Petroleu ...
  Peak Moment 196: “Petroleum Man is dead. Infinite Growth Man is dead. Post Petroleum Human is alive,” announced Michael C. Ruppert on May 22, 2011. Members of this emerging “species” know they must live in balance with the Earth, while remembering the lessons of industrial civilization. The star ...
• Burzynski Cures Cancer – The Magic of Antineop ...
  THIS VIDEO WILL BE TAKEN DOWN BY THE OWNER ON JUNE 20 2011 Curing cancer is frowned upon big government and BIG PHARMA, especially when the patent for the cure is owned by a single doctor, and they can’t have a taste of the pie. So what do they do? They sick their hound dog, [...] Related p ...
• French Whistleblowers reaveal the set up of Do ...
  I saw this over at SGTReport.com and it is worth repeating here. French insiders reveal the reason why DSK had to be taken out. It was all about the missing gold baby. Watch this one explode before summer is out. Gold, The Real Reason for the Fall of Dominique Strauss-Kahn Commodities / Gold and ...
• Greece Yesterday – Largest Uprising Todate
  This was the center of Athens yesterday, June 12, 2011. Any questions? More Postcards From A Pre-Revolutionary Greece; Presenting “Goldman’s Employee Of The Decade” Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/13/2011 11:05 -0400 Ben Bernanke Goldman Sachs Greece Testimony Last night’s major anti-IMF rally a ...
• Flag Worship and Voting Ensures Slavery
  Many times I have tried to explain to Charles Leblanc, a local Fredericton Blogger, that voting ensures a continuation of our slavery. To further drive this home here is a video from Stefan Molyneux of Feedomain Radio that eloquently explains how we are nothing more than cattle to our leaders. W ...

Truth About Our World

• Massive wildfires threaten to ignite 30000 bar ...
  If nothing else, just question the “coincidence ” of various nuclear facilities being threatened now, either by earthquakes (Fukushima), fire (New Mexico), or water (Nebraska).  Mother nature having it’s revenge , or… planned??? July 01, 2011 by: Jonathan Benson Threats of radioactive disaster ...
• Look who’s buying up flood ravaged farm land
  Double Red Alert Posted by Ann Barnhardt Missouri River Flooding Cattle commodities broker Ann writes: Two HUGE intel leads in my email box this morning from way-back contacts that I�ve had for years, that are actually somewhat connected concepts. 1. File this one under �Now It All Makes Sense�. ...
• The Olgacom Scandal Explained: the connection ...
• Michael Jackson—Your message lives on…
  I could not let June 25th come and go without mention of one of this world’s greatest humanitarians and entertainers—Michael Jackson.  The Industry and media tried to destroy him with their lies and manipulations because he had a different message then what they wanted portrayed.    But LOVE ...
• Health Canada Refuses to Test for Radiation
  The Beacon Farmers in Central Newfoundland who were open to having their land tested for radiation contamination, will not have this work done by government agencies and private companies in Newfoundland and Labrador. In the June 2 edition of, The Beacon, it was discussed how the release of radi ...

Bloomberg

• Can't Stop the Big Mo
  Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
• Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
  The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
• No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
  The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
• Grading Back-to-School Stocks
  Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
• IGN Entertainment: Where the Boys Are
  The Web outfit has drawn a huge, male-dominated following and has an IPO in the works. But will a big Net player come calling?

Enviroblog

• Cosmetics Industry To Disavow Hair Straighteners
  By David Andrews, Ph.D., EWG senior scientist Most people are - by now - well aware that overexposure to formaldehyde is unsafe. From the FEMA trailer fiasco (remember Katrina?) to the Obama administration's recent decision to classify formaldehyde as... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
• On Propaganda: Fracking Fun for the Very Young
  By Alex Formuzis, Father of Two and EWG V-P for Media Relations The natural gas industry has lost much support among adults who live in communities where fracking has left the water undrinkable and home values plummeting, but all is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ...
• Fracking Hearing: Standing room only and plent ...
  By Leeann Brown, Shannon Morgan and Alex Rindler, EWG Staff Following up on last week's contentious hearing in Washington, Pa., the U.S. Energy department has scheduled two all-day sessions for Tuesday, June 28, and Wednesday, July 13, to listen to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
• Half-Baked: FDA's New Sunscreen Regulations Fa ...
  By: Thomas Cluderay, EWG staff attorney and David Andrews, Ph.D., EWG senior scientist Imagine grabbing a cookbook to find the perfect recipe for key lime pie to present at your summer barbeque. Thumbing through the pages, you locate an... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website ...
• U.S. (finally) Labels Formaldehyde "Known Huma ...
  By Paul Pestano, Research Analyst After decades of debate, the Obama administration last week classified formaldehyde as a known human carcinogen, a label that is likely to advance regulatory steps to restrict this widely used hazardous chemical. The... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• D.S.K. swallows a bird, but the tabs won't eat ...
  Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
• 'News' dominates dog days as 'Post' chases And ...
  Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
• Tragedy in the Bronx faces off against comedy ...
  Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
• Weiner and Blago square off against Beyonce an ...
  Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
• The rainbow governor: Now, Andrew Cuomo has a ...
  Let's just stipulate that the past six months could not possibly have gone any better for Andrew Cuomo. Actually, that's true for the entire last five years. More

Views & News from Norway

• Youngster wins scholarship to write
  Last fall, Eline Johnsen Helledal, 19, wrote an article about her relationship with her substance-abusing brother and submitted it to a reporting competition held by newsmagazine A-magasinet. Helledal’s story was strong enough to take first place in the competition, but the story does not end th ...
• Ancient coin confirms saga
  A rare German coin – a silver pfenning from the Harz mountains – was found during an excavation at Avaldsnes on Karmøy, close to Stavanger on the south west coast. The coin confirms references in Snorre Sturlason’s ancient norse king saga to a royal estate during the time of Harald I of Norway, ...
• Crown couple arrive in Monaco
  Crown Prince Håkon Magnus and Crown Princess Mette-Marit arrived in Monaco this afternoon. They will attend the royal wedding of Prince Albert of Monaco to Charlene Wittstock, scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. Friday. The crown couple traveled by car to the principality, after arriving at the airport ...
• Kidnapped girl out of reach
  A nine year old girl of Polish origin was abducted while in the care of the state child protection services (Barnevernet) Tuesday evening. Celebrity private detective Krysztof Rutkowski has taken responsibility for the kidnapping, explaining that he has returned the girl to her parents in Poland ...
• Paternity leave is overrated
  When extended paternity leave was introduced by the labor party in 1993, it was argued that fathers spending six weeks at home with newborns would have a slew of socioeconomic benefits; it would help dad become an equal caregiver to mom, strengthen women’s standing in the job market and balance ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Strong Support for National Water Audit
  by Ian Douglas In welcoming the call by Federal Greens Senator, Sarah Hanson-Young, for a national audit of water licence holdings, national coordinator of Fair Water Use, Ian Douglas, commented today, “We have longstanding concerns about the sale of water licences to overseas interests, as ther ...
• Atro-City
  As Sydney residents are being paid to leave the city, the case for compact, high-density settlement becomes clearer than ever. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom For at least a century, governments have tried to urbanise the ...
• Greenpeace Takes on Monsanto Over ‘Pesticides ...
  Editor’s Note: In addition to the post below, check out this, this and this. It seems that Monsanto, and even industry regulators, have known for decades that glyphosate (the main ingredient of Roundup) causes birth defects, even in very low doses "comparable to levels of pesticide residues foun ...
• A Greek Island PDC With Rhamis Kent and Nicola ...
  Join internationally-renowned PRI permaculture designer and teacher, Rhamis Kent on the beautiful Island of Lefkas, Greece, for an internationally recognised permaculture design course. Over 15 days you will learn the basic theory of permaculture ethics, principles, design processes and implemen ...
• City Kids Move to the Country (and One Moves B ...
  Pit-falls, projects and laughs from our Permaculture journey. Ah… Autumn… beautiful! “It’s just too hard!” the voice in my head said. “How am I going to cope with the house, garden, turbo-charged grass and eroding drive-way on my own, now that Chris has moved back to Brisbane for work?” Then ...

Pointman's

• Another body floats by.
  The Japanese have a proverb; if you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by. In the year and a half since climategate, itâs been happening with increasing frequency. The latest one is a main stream media (MSM) journalist called Johann Hari who works at the Inde ...
• The death of journalism and the irresistible r ...
  The IPCC has screwed up again. They published a claim last month in their renewables report saying that renewable technologies could supply 80% of world-wide energy needs by the mid-century. What they actually published was an executive summary of the report, not the report itself. That was publ ...
• Line of Descent Chapter 26
  Chapter 26 Krupmeyer stared through the smoke at the black indistinct figure rising up through the hole in the floor in front of him. His eyes watered from the acrid smoke and his ears were filled with a high-pitched ringing from the effects of the explosion. The figure seemed to unbend slowly u ...
• Love is simply not an option.
  Love is a word in every language. It has a lot of meanings and covers a lot of ground. Itâs a universal. We make love but what weâre actually doing is expressing our love by giving mutual physical pleasure to each other and of course, itâs the best fun. Where thereâs no emotional love there, … R ...
• The power of dreams and the power of nightmares.
  There are patterns in politics which are hardy perennials. Theyâve been there for as long as politics has been around, which is to say forever. Politicians need you to vote for them and the way they do this is to sell you something. The thing they sell you of course is a promise but to … Read more

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• Displaced Women Demand Justice in Port au Prince
  By Bill Quigley and Jocelyn Brooks “We women demand!…” sang out a hundred plus voices “…Justice for Marie!” Marie, a 25 year old pregnant mother, was injured by government agents when they slammed a wooden door into her stomach during an early morning invasion of an earthquake displacement ...
• Project Transparency Posts New Financial Discl ...
  Project Transparency, a program run by Louisiana Justice Institute, has posted 2009 and 2010 financial disclosure forms for many members of our city government, including the mayor, city council members, city attorney, police superintendent, and several key mayoral staff. The documents are avail ...
• Sex Offender Registration for Sex Workers Ends ...
  Louisiana's era of forcing certain convicted sex workers to register as sex offenders appears to be over. Governor Jindall's office announced today that he had signed into law a bill, sponsored by Louisiana State Representative Charmaine Marchand Stiaes, that effectively moves prostitution convi ...
• Amnesty International Launches Campaign to Fre ...
  From our friends at Amnesty International and International Coalition to Free the Angola 3: The US state of Louisiana must immediately remove two inmates from the solitary confinement they were placed in almost 40 years ago, Amnesty International said today. Albert Woodfox, 64, and Herman ...
• NOPD Continues to Target Sex Workers and Other ...
  The Times-Picayune reported today on two large busts of sex workers under Louisiana's archaic "Crime Against Nature" law. These arrests come just as the Louisiana legislature has passed a bill that would do away with the law, which the US Justice Department has said unfairly targets LGBT indivi ...

Information Underground

• Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
  Michael K. wrote: I wouldn't be in such a hurry to judge him. Nobody sees all angles, but Finklestein sees well enough what the problem with Jewry is. No, Finkelstein chooses not to see such angles and snides great Holocaust revisionists like Arthur Butz and Zundel. Finkelstein is no Benjami ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  They discriminated against GAY SEAMEN.Statistics: Posted by Michael K. — Fri Jul 01, 2011 6:03 am
• Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
  I wouldn't be in such a hurry to judge him. Nobody sees all angles, but Finklestein sees well enough what the problem with Jewry is. The thing is, he also loves his own people, and why shouldn't he? He is a human being with a mother who is a Jew. I don't know what happened in the Nazi camps ...
• Social Engineering • Re: Unmasking the Shills ...
  Dear Timothy Fitzpatrick, Yes, this is my essay. And if I may say, you will not find anything like it anywhere on the internet for me to plagiarize. It is the biggest secret and yet so obvious for those who have eyes to see. Thanks for your support, it means a lot to me that somebody hears ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  You're still a hoot! Statistics: Posted by Wimpy — Fri Jul 01, 2011 12:37 am

TVNZ

• Case against Strauss-Kahn near collapse: sources
  The case against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is near collapse.
• Syria running out of time to reform: Hillary C ...
  Syria is running out of time to reform, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said.
• Case against Strauss-Kahn near collapse, NYT says
  The case against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is near collapse.
• Queen faces funding squeeze with government's ...
  Queen Elizabeth became the latest Briton to face a funding squeeze.
• Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez treated for ...
  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he had undergone a successful operation in Cuba to extract cancerous cells and was on the road to full recovery

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 ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• Pubget: the search engine for life-science PDFs
  Tags: life-science PDFs search search engine
• www.parliament.uk Home page - UK Parliament
  Tags: uk parliament legislation law News politics
• Fasting Connection
  Tags: fasting health cleansing
• Sharecare - Expert Health Information - Questi ...
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• Quick Care's Self-Care Advisory
  Tags: Self-Care quick advisory health

backofthebook

• RIM chaos overestimated, but . . .
  By Mark Evans With all the talk about Research in Motion’s financial and marketshare struggles, many people tend to overlook the fact that it is still a wireless behemoth, albeit one with intense and growing competition. But it's not just another “a Nortel.”. Nevertheless, RIM needs to mak ...
• The Conservatives’ Homegrown censorship
  By Frank Moher We can now begin to see how the Conservative government intends to use its majority to chop arts funding in Canada, particularly to any artistic expression it doesn't like or agree with. In the short term at least, it will be a death by a thousand cuts. This ...
• Bill Blair’s G20 alibi
  By Alison@Creekside An interview with Andre Marin, Ontario Ombudsman and author of the G20 report "Caught in the Act," sheds a little light on the blackout surrounding who was responsible for ordering kettling at the G20 a year ago. Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair, as we have previously he ...
• Potter too much
  By Rachel Krueger As though the tenterhooks weren’t tight enough for Harry Potter 7.2: The One Where It Actually Ends, the Rowling megalith taunted its fans last week with the mysterious offer of . . . Pottermore. Pottermore, the powers promised, was a Thing That Was Not A Book But Was Sti ...
• The lost art of imagining retribution
  By Jan Drabek Probably the most bizarre attempt to deal with the Stanley Cup riots to date was the announcement of a group getting together to sing O Canada at the corner of Georgia and Hamilton. But other unusual takes abound, among them that of the bicycle-loving mayor of Vancouver who ...

Daily Beast

• Has the Third Party's Moment Arrived?
  How technology and gridlock could spell an end to the curse of Ross Perot.
• Why the GOP Loves the Debt
  The GOP loves to attack the debt. But the debt allows them to push through their radical agenda.
• How Taliban’s Hostages Were Freed
  The inside story of the negotiations and the deadly threats the hostages faced.
• DSK Accuser’s African Connection
  The DSK sexual assault case is crumbling. Clues as to what really happened may come from New York’s West African community.
• Reactions to Strauss-Kahn Shocker
  France awoke Friday to the stunning news that the case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn has unraveled.

Loonwatch

• Creeping Shariah: Stealth Threat or Conspiracy ...
  Is Creeping Shariah a stealth threat quietly overtaking the USA, or is it a conspiracy theory? You decide.
• Al-Azhar’s Grand Imam Declares Support f ...
  Al-Azhar's wants Egypt to shine a path towards Democracy.
• LGF: British Branch of the ‘Anti-Jihad&# ...
  Full Blown anti-Semitism is pushing the meltdown of the Islamophobic EDL.
• Frontpage Muslim-bashing Authority Can’t Do a ...
  Frontpage spreads misinformation and lies about the supposed "kidnapping" of two Christian girls.
• Dutch MPs Vote to Ban Religious Slaughter
  Religious individuals are concerned about their future in Holland.

Energy News

• Corps stopping releases at Big Bend Dam upstre ...
  Nuke query: What if dam breaks?, Omaha World Herald, July 1, ...Read More
• NBC: Photo of barrels with plutonium-contamina ...
  Fire continues to threaten nuclear lab, NBC Nightly News, June 30, ...Read More
• Radioactive waste was dumped in trenches along ...
  Los Alamos Radiation Threat ‘Limited’ in N.M. Fire, Associated Press, July ...Read More
• Kaku on ABC: Ft. Calhoun nuke plant “lik ...
  Interview with Michio Kaku, ABC, June 29, 2011: At 1:20 in ...Read More
• Orwellian: “Radiation was being released ...
  Fukushima spin was Orwellian, Guardian by John Vidal, July 1, 2011: ...Read More

Japan Times

• 'The Hangover Part II'
  Any serious drinker knows that feeling of waking up in the morning so desperately hungover you feel like a reanimated corpse, and the groaning, quivering vow to never touch the stuff again. That resolve usually only lasts until your dehydrated brain has forgotten the sensation of slamming up aga ...
• Festival season hits Japan
• Rogge wants Madrid to bid for 2020
  Spain's sports minister said Wednesday that IOC President Jacques Rogge wants Madrid to bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics. Albert Soler said the International Olympic Committee head told him Madrid's project is "strong" since little investment was necessary.
• Police OK with partial taping of confessions
  Most police investigators welcome partial audiovisual recordings of interrogations and say they are "effective in demonstrating that a suspect confessed voluntarily," the National Police Agency said Thursday. The announcement is based on a two-year trial of partial recordings that the NPA laun ...
• 'Love and Other Impossible Pursuits'
  One of the disconcerting aspects of movie-going is how — on more occasions than you're prepared for — you have to endure the sight of a favorite actor playing someone despicable. For me, that happens sometimes with Natalie Portman. Gorgeous and sizzling and talented, she's always lovely to watch ...

Alexander Higgins

• Video shows shocking police abuse amid Greek p ...
  A video published to YouTube by someone who was in the midst of the riots rocking Athens this week shows police in full body armor beating protesters with clubs as they attempt to clear a public area.
• Let’s Torture the Truth Out of Suicide B ...
  General David Petraeus, new CIA Director, says we should try to torture the truth out enemy combatants even though research shows torture usually leads to false confessions.
• Rioters Turn Athens Greece Into A War Zone &#8 ...
  After Greek politicians sold out an 80% majority opposed to the banker bailout and passed draconian austerity measures, using the excuse they were blackmailed, the rioters in Athens responded by turning Greece into a war zone and setting banks, cars, and the Finance Ministry on fire.
• EPA Monitoring Smoke From Wildfire At Los Alam ...
  The EPA is now monitoring smoke from the wildfire near the Los Alamos nuclear weapons facility for radiation after a whistleblower revealed that up to 30,000 barrels of plutonium contaminated waste is being stored on site inside of highly flammable fabric tents.
• Bankers Laugh As Athens Burns. Wall Street Lic ...
  Greedy Bankers Are Literally Laughing As Athens Greece Burns. Wall Street Investors Are Licking Their Chops As Stock Markets Soar On Bets Austerity Measures Will Be Passed As Protestors Being Raped By The Bankers Are Beaten.

Macleans - Central

• Talk shops
  So there’s this thing called the Community of Democracies. It’s truth in labelling: it’s a
• The watcher
  Tabatha Southey questions the Internet surveillance portion of the government’s promised omnibus crime bill. Imagine
• We’re totally cool, really
  The Conservative Party of Canada would like to assure you that they’re the total opposite
• How to celebrate our 150th?
  We could build a couple NHL arenas. Or we could lower the voting age, institute
• The political profession
  Kyle Crawford considers Parliament, cabinet, politics and professionalism. While Canadian cabinets must always be composed

Making It Count - CCPA

• Omnibus Crime Bill an Injustice
  This fall the Harper government will pass an omnibus crime bill that will imprison thousands more Canadians and cost billions of dollars. It will not do as advertised by the Conservatives and drive the crime rate down. It will simply incarcerate for longer the many citizens who fall afoul of the ...
• BC’s Regressive Tax Shift
  With much of the talk on taxes in BC about the HST, we issued a new report today that looks at the bigger context for BC’s tax system (Vancouver Sun oped here, CTV News story here). Iglika Ivanova, Seth Klein and I compare and contrast BC’s tax system after a decade where tax cuts were [...]
• Not allowed to talk about poverty
  BC Stats put out a release yesterday with the headline “Low Income Cut-Offs (LICOs) are a Poor Measure of Poverty” and author Dan Schrier gets in a dirty hit right in first paragraph: Despite protestations from Statistics Canada that LICOs are not meant to be used as a measure of poverty, there ...
• Fossil fuel expansion as a crime against humanity
  After at 2010 that was one of the warmest years on record, 2011 has shown us astonishing patterns of extreme weather worldwide. It would take a long time to make the full list, but you know what I mean: tornadoes, floods, drought, record cold in some parts, record heat in others, hailstorms (Al ...
• The Attack on Workers: Back(sliding) (in)to th ...
  The public response to recent labour disputes has been a disturbing sideshow to the return of Parliament. What’s remarkable is the level of nastiness that gets tossed around, littered with references to “union stooges” and the ubiquitous “socialist dinosaurs.” Perhaps the most obvious line of at ...

ReDress

• 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 ...

Physics Today

• Self-driving cars get the go-ahead in Nevada
  PC Magazine: Earlier this month Nevada passed a bill that will require its Department of Motor Vehicles to draw up rules for autonomous vehicles, which the state defines as motor vehicles that use artificial intelligence, sensors, and GPS coordinates to drive themselves without the active interv ...
• Baseball superstitions put to the test
  PhysOrg: Lloyd Smith, an associate professor at Washington State University's School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, recently investigated three questions of relevance to major league baseball: Can a baseball be hit farther with a corked bat? Is there evidence that the baseball is livel ...
• Working toward a nuclear clock
  New Scientist: Atomic clocks, the most accurate clocks to date, use the visible light or microwave signals that atoms predictably emit when one of their electrons drops from a high-energy state to a lower-energy state. The signals are so regular that atomic clocks are used to define the length o ...
• Dark matter may explain radio filaments at gal ...
  BBC: Unexplained "filaments" of radio-wave emission close to our galaxy's center may hold proof of the existence of dark matter, writes Jason Palmer for the BBC. First discovered in the 1980s, the filaments are known to be regions of high magnetic fields, and they emit high-frequency radio wave ...
• New Okinawa institute launches global recruiti ...
  Nature: In 2001 the Japanese government launched an ambitious plan to build a world-class international research institute and graduate university in science and technology on Okinawa, one of the most southerly and remote islands in Japan. The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), ...

Revolutionary Politics

• Technology Transfer to Israel
  by Rev333 (Posted Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:17:58 GMT) The tendency of Jews to collaborate in occult schemes to transfer money out of Gentiles's pockets may have been the reason for their persecution throughout history. http://www.ishitech.co.il/From.HTML
• Fiesta Solar, the green festival
  by Terrence (Posted Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:58:35 GMT) The main purpose of the Belgian organization ‘Solar zonder Grenzen’ which organized the Fiesta Solar was to arrange a festival that would run completely on solar energy. A mobile energy supplier was developed especially for this green event: the ...
• Houston Police Caught on Tape Beating People C ...
  by Karolina (Posted Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:30:21 GMT) Hi all. It's great to know you are still so positive mobile booster i sense a little sarcasm ithaca college fitness center, Take Care,
• Houston Police Caught on Tape Beating People C ...
  by Jolanta (Posted Thu, 30 Jun 2011 03:52:16 GMT) All greetings! I like it and the background and colors make it easy to read. adult game online strip More or less nothing seems worth bothering with. popular products in japan close, the most cigarettes, I love it Respect !
• Technology Transfer to Israel
  by Rev333 (Posted Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:14:31 GMT) Israeli innovators build new 'Silicon Valley'. … Israel is becoming the new standard for high-tech … From Microsoft to Intel through Google, IBM and Philips, almost all the giants of the Internet and technology have set up important research a ...

Peakwater

• Cuomo Will Seek to Lift Ban on Hydraulic Fract ...
  “The Cuomo administration is seeking to lift what has effectively been a moratorium in New York State on hydraulic fracturing, a controversial technique used to extract natural gas from shale, state environmental regulators said on Thursday. The process would be allowed on private lands, openin ...
• Ravi Water Flow: India, Pak Engineers Battle I ...
  “AMRITSAR: Every year the banks of river Ravi becomes the battle field for the engineers of both India and Pakistan during rainy the season. Indian engineers are at war of wits with their Pakistani counterparts in not only preventing the erosion of strategically important land on banks of Ravi ...
• California Coalition Seeks Suit Over Water Pol ...
  “The district, located in San Joaquin Valley, receives an estimated five inches of rain per year, according to the Columbia University blog State of the Planet. Such little rainfall would not be adequate to transport noxious levels of selenium, boron, and chromium, which are found naturally i ...
• House Fast-Tracks Bill to Limit EPA Power Over ...
  “WASHINGTONâConservationists knew that new GOP anti-regulatory muscle in the 112th Congress would be intent on debilitating landmark legislation such as the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act. But they’re still taken aback by an attempt to incapacitate the latter in one fell swoop. Next week, ...
• Lake Erie Water-Use Bill Deserves A Veto
  “The legislation — pushed by Cleveland-area State Sen. Tim Grendell, of Chesterland, and by a Northwest Ohio lawmaker who heads a bottling company — would discard current safeguards and let any business withdraw up to 5 million gallons of water a day from Lake Erie and up to 2 million gallons da ...

D. Kucinich

• Kucinich Cautions Media: Diplomacy Works
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today issued the following remarks: �How the U.S. and the international community, including the media, assess the crisis in Syria will affect whether Syria experiences a transformation to democracy, or whether it becomes the flash point for a new war in t ...
• Response to an Article by Syrian Arab News Age ...
  Today, the Syrian Arab News Agency published an article that contained a number of mistranslations and mischaracterized statements that I made during a news conference in Damascus. While on fact-finding mission in Syria, I was asked to share my initial reactions with some journalists, which I ...
• Kucinich on Fact-Finding Mission to Syria and ...
  At the request of many of his constituents, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is currently on a fact-finding mission to Syria and Lebanon. He is accompanied by a small delegation which includes his wife, Elizabeth. Congressman Kucinich, who represents a district that includes many Arab-America ...
• Kucinich: Congress Votes Overwhelmingly Agains ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement after the House of Representatives rejected a measure offered by Representative Rooney that would have limited the U.S. involvement in the war in Libya. The Rooney bill was defeated after a bill authorizing the war in Libya wa ...
• Kucinich: Defeat the Authorization for the War
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who has led bipartisan opposition to the war in Libya, today addressed the House, urging his colleagues to take a two-step approach to ending the U.S. involvement in the war in Libya. Congressman Kucinich will also be sending messages encouraging his colle ...

Authentically Wired

• Dr. Vandana Shiva
  �� if you� have never heard her or heard of her this is a great opportunity to get acquainted with her �� she is truly brilliant �� �Dr. Vandana Shiva expresses her strong views about the problems of hunger in the developing world; the struggle of farmers in India; biotechnology, and her prescri ...
• … HFCS … Mon$anto … your hea ...
  ⦠HFCS ⦠Mon$anto ⦠your health ⦠If you live in the United States long enough, most of the carbon atoms in your body will be derived from corn, as demonstrated in the first scene of this clip.   As University of Virginia professor, Steve Macko explains, this carbon doesn’t come from eating ...
• do not want you to know…
  ��NRC and the �nuke� power industry do not want you to know�� 75% of all nuclear reactors in the US are leaking one or more toxic substances. That bit of news quietly squeaked its way across news screens recently and disappeared quickly. In case you missed it, here are the details. Video:� ��htt ...
• … Simply amazing …
  �� Simply amazing �� The Captain of this German U-boat brags that it can maneuver "like a dolphin." �It uses a quiet Diesel engine during routine runs but when it wants to be very quiet, it uses a silent, cold fusion engine. � � Video:� ��http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/page/1695.html � � P. ...
• actual source of this magic purified elixir
  � �� Yet in many cases the actual source of this magic purified elixir is tap water ⦠� You gotta love their ability to misdirect �� to create a mirage �� and so skillfully �we� believe �� Purified Bottled Water Is Not Tap Water, Industry Argues � �The�International Bottled Water Association�on W ...

Popular Technology

• Correcting misinformation about the journal En ...
  A frequent source of contention in the global warming debate is the existence of skeptical peer-reviewed papers. These have been overwhelmingly proven to exist. Once confronted with this inconvenient truth, alarmists have desperately tried to discredit the journals that dare publish these papers ...
• Origin of the Popular Technology.net Peer-Revi ...
  There are various myths floating around online about where the Popular Technology.net peer-reviewed paper list originated, falsely giving credit to people who copied earlier versions of my list and published it as their own. The following is a brief history,Back in February 2007 I began compilin ...
• 900+ Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skepticis ...
  WARNING: Do not accept any criticisms of this list without reading the notes or emailing, populartechnology (at) gmail (dot) comRead: The following papers support skepticism of AGW or AGW Alarm defined as, "concern relating to a negative environmental or socio-economic effect of AGW, usually exa ...
• Who is Deep Climate?
  A new climate alarmist blog appeared on October 18, 2008 from an "unknown" Canadian setting out to both "follow the money" and "follow the science" of the "climate science 'skeptic' movement in Canada". Who in the great Northwest of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada would undertake such a daunt ...
• Are Skeptical Scientists funded by ExxonMobil?
  In an article titled, "Analysing the ‘900 papers supporting climate scepticism’: 9 out of top 10 authors linked to ExxonMobil" from the environmental activist website The Carbon Brief, former Greenpeace "researcher" Christian Hunt failed to do basic research. He made no attempt to contact the sc ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

• FSC mulls controversial motion to certify plan ...
  Members of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), meeting in Malaysia this week for its General Assembly, will consider various changes to the organization, including a vote on a controversial motion that would open the door—slightly at first—to sustainable-certification of companies that have be ...
• Arctic on the line: oil industry versus Greenp ...
  At the top of the world sits a lone region of shifting sea ice, bare islands, and strange creatures. For most of human history the Arctic remained inaccessible to all but the hardiest of peoples, keeping it relatively pristine and untouched. But today, the Arctic is arguably changing faster than ...
• Barbie, Legos, other toys linked to destructio ...
  Some of the world's largest and most prominent toy-makers are sourcing their packaging materials from companies linked to large-scale destruction of Indonesia's rainforests, alleges a new report from Greenpeace. The report, How APP is Toying with Extinction, is based on forensic analysis of toy ...
• How do we save the Sumatran rhino?
  Some conservation challenges are more daunting than others. For example, how do you save a species that has been whittled down to just a couple hundred individuals; still faces threats such as deforestation, poaching and trapping; is notoriously difficult to breed in captivity; and is losing pre ...
• Interview with Indonesian climate official on ...
  In May, Indonesia President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono issued a presidential instruction laying out the specifications for a two-year moratorium on new concessions in primary forests and peatlands. The moratorium aims to create a window for Indonesia to enact reforms needed to slow deforestation a ...

Science - NZ Herald

• Sir Peter Blake awards: Sam Johnson
  Special Leadership Award As the general of his own army at the tender age of 22, Sam Johnson is using a new style to rally his troops.Gone are the structured lines of command, the barked orders and the regimented structure....
• 4.1 quake strikes West Coast
  Westland was shaken by a 4.1 magnitude earthquake tonight.The 7.43pm tremor was centred 30km south of Whataroa, 114km south-west of Hokitika, at a depth of 5km, GNS Science reported.- NZPA
• The Swedish preschool where gender is ignored
  At the Egalia preschool, staff avoid using words like "him" or "her" and address the 33 youngsters as "friends" rather than girls and boys.From the colour and placement of toys to the choice of books, every detail has been carefully...
• Insurance industry facing a climate of fear
  This month, as the US reeled from some very nasty weather - floods in Mississippi, drought in Texas, tornadoes in the Midwest - the New York Times got right down to brass tacks: given damage to property, crops and lost business,...
• Emperor penguin on the mend, still critical
  Happy Feet seems to be on the mend, despite still being in a critical condition.The Emperor Penguin was taken to Wellington Zoo on Friday after eating sand at Peka Peka Beach on the Kapiti Coast.Its stomach was flushed out...

Truth Survival + RSS

• SMART METERS: PRIVACY ISSUES, RADIATION, ELECT ...
    Smart Meters are yet another tool of Command & Control by those who have their tentacles of power over those of us trying to live a life free of corruption, pollution and elitist rule. These devices are infesting the … Continue reading →
• BIG SOCIETY, COMMON PURPOSE & AGENDA 21
  Report written by Roma AKA A2B *Special Note from Aaron- For those who have wondered what A2B means. It stands for Allergic to Bullshit. Thanks Roma for telling it like it is.           Thereâs an ever … Continue reading →
• THE SCHUMANN RESONANCE: THE HEART BEAT OF EART ...
  Earlier today Meredith and I were looking over the recent news which is normal for us. We almost everyday find something unusual that gets little recognition by even the Truth Movement community. Today we found two stories that have sparked … Continue reading →
• BASIC FOOD DEHYDRATION WITH MEREDITH
  This is the first in a series of videos we will be making covering Food Dehydration. In this first video Meredith discusses the basics of dehydration and also provides some helpful tips. Future videos will cover dehydrating vegetables, making MREs … Continue reading →
• AGENDA 21: THE GLOBAL POLICE STATE AGENDA OF T ...
    By now most who read Truth Survival or any other website that reports on the truth should be aware of a global plan to take control of land, food, water, cities and more under the United Nation’s comprehension plan … Continue reading →

Hit & Run | Reason

• Reason Writers Around Town: Shikha Dalmia on O ...
  According to President Barack Obama, if his administration hadn’t infused $80 billion into GM and Chrysler, the companies would have hemorrhaged to death. Financial markets, themselves in panic mode, would not have given the car giants the funds necessary to restructure through Chapte ...
• Reason Morning Links: Minnesota Shuts Down, Ti ...
  The Minnesota government shut down this morning after an impasse during budget talks between Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton and GOP lawmakers.  "Dayton police 'mistook' a mentally handicapped teenager's speech impediment for 'disrespect,' so they Tasered, pepper-sprayed, and beat h ...
• New at Reason: Friday Funnies
  In the latest edition of Friday Funnies, Henry Payne looks at the success of Obama’s economic policies. View this article.
• DOJ Says Prosecuting State-Authorized Medical ...
  As Mike Riggs noted on Thursday night, the Justice Department's new medical marijuana memo (PDF) confirms that President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder are reneging on their promises to respect state law. Under the policy described by Deputy Attorney General James Cole on ...
• Obama Administration Overrides 2009 Ogden Memo ...
  The Department of Justice sent out a memo Wednesday instructing the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration and leading officials in the U.S. Attorneys Office to treat medical marijuana shops as top priorities for prosecutors and drug investigators. "Persons who are in the busines ...

Mercury Rising

• The Maculate Conception of FOXNoise
  John Cook, Gawker (via Ritholtz): Republican media strategist Roger Ailes launched Fox News Channel in 1996, ostensibly as a “fair and balanced” counterpoint to what he regarded as the liberal establishment media. But according to a remarkable document buried deep within the Richard Nixon Presid ...
• Friday Cat Blogging
• Wonder what Morton Halperin is saying now
  Probably everyone except me has forgotten this post, even PhoenixWoman, and she wrote it. Look in the comments. Now that Mark Halperin has outed himself as a juvenile and, I think, a partisan masquerading as a journalist, I wonder whether his father, Morton Halperin, still thinks that Mark is el ...
• Moral Incoherence, Cognitive Dissonance
  “Evil deeds do not make an evil person. Otherwise we would all be evil. If evil people cannot be defined by the illegality of their deeds or the magnitude of their sins, then how are we to define them? The answer is by the consistency of their sins. While usually subtle, their destructiveness is ...
• Robert Samuelson Wants You to Starve, Unless Y ...
  Hard to draw any other conclusion when he absolutely refuses to consider raising taxes on the rich as a way to deal with the deficit and blatantly sides with the Republicans: >> The truth is that most liberals have no stomach for cutting spending, especially on the Social Security and Medicare p ...

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