- 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 ...
- 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. Â 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. Â Doing Bibi’s bidding seems to be a trademark of the current government, which als ...
- 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 ...
- 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
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- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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:Â http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement Rhetoric and Re ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ‘ ...
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 ...
- 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
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 →
- 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 ...
- 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. Â 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 here̵ ...
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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Larwyn's Linx: Obama's New ACORN Grant; Did He ...
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- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 [. ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 don̵ ...
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 ...
- 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 [...]
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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, ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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. ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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). Â 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. Â The Industry and media tried to destroy him with their lies and manipulations because he had a different message then what they wanted portrayed. Â Â 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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), ...
- 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 ...
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- Houston Police Caught on Tape Beating People C ...
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- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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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